Wednesday, August 13, 2014

The Southern Fairy Tale

In the deep south,   a  fairy land grows.  It is also connected to human land,  but mostly, the fairies run it.   The land has cabins, red dirt, and  popular electronic rides that humans use to fly as  high as they can in the sky.  There is even a one that looks like a spider, a creature the humans fear but fairies use to travel on. The fairies live here all year round,  but the humans come once a week, in the biggest in between week of July.  The week before August and school starts, to end the summer with games, fun, and talent. One fairy in particular likes to watch the silliness happen,  but she also guards the Fairground Gate her name is Mary Beth.


"Oy! Mary Beth!"  called Moss from a distance,  he was almost out of breath.

"What? Can't you see I'm trying to keep the trolls away from the fire?!" Mary Beth shouted, "Try to keep your mouth shut!"

Moss  flew forward and listened, he rarely did as he was told, but he knew about the Hot Air Balloons that would be put up for Monday night's beauty pageant.

"'Srry, Ma'am.  But Zandabar is just so stupid,  he wouldn't know to listen for the fire." Moss mumbled.

"Still,  we have to keep guard, because the in-betweeners are dumb and use the fire for pleasure, and will carry it with them into the Philadelphia Kutzu. " Mary Beth sighed.

   The two smiled at the thought,  but also feared for a battle at the beauty pageant that was to be held.  The pageant fairies were in a hurry all this week trying to get the contestants ready. Some of those constants didn't have any activities to put on their resume, so the fairies  made them up.     Though the contestants were dull, they were very pretty and Mary Beth always wanted to be one.

So, she decided despite inter-human  and fairy rules, she would join the pageant.  As Moss took his post,  Mary Beth flew off to the Hospitality cabin on Founder's square.


Here she signed up,  and hoped that her named would be announced over founder's square and the Grand stand this Monday night.

In prepartion, she went to the glamour fairies and asked to be made up.   On her way, she ran into a human. Her wings brushed up against him  and sparks flew.   When a Fairy and a human interact, it can go either very badly, or  romance can happen. In Mary Beth's case,    the spark meant  love.

The boy looked down on her, and said, "Well, hello, ma'am. It is pleasure to meet you!"  He had beautiful blue eyes and curly brown hair.


Unable to speak,  Mary Beth's wings fluttered for her.   He smiled back, and took her small hand.  Their eyes had finally met,  and they ended up talking for days and nights.  Until the pageant Monday, when he came out to support her and watch her win in her gorgeous Southern Dress.

Moss, in the mean time had been guarding and watching Mary Beth follow the human around like a dog on a leash.  For some reason, this particular human didn't feel right to Moss.   So on Monday night,  Mary Beth's biggest night,  Moss left the  Neshoba County Gate to watch. Not remembering about Zandabar and his gang of trolls,   they came in to the Neshoba County Fair grounds.

As soon as evening hit and the hot air balloons were lit,  the trolls charged the Grandstand not caring about which Pagent contestant they were about to hurt.

The boy who fell in love with Mary Beth was outraged, the Pageant was a traditon, and Mary Beth had ruined it by forgetting her duties to the human and the fairgrounds. Mary Beth  feeling  ashamed, went to join the fight.

"Mary Beth!" As  the southern boy shouted,  she turned around and shouted back,
"Not now!"  That may  have been the end of  her summer romance with a human if,  she had not just saved his life from the King Troll and was being burned by the hot air balloon fire.

Mary Beth threw her water glass and the other pagent contestans water glasses onto the air balloons, and that ended the King Troll's war against the humans. Here the southern boy thanked her and they both apoligized, and as all fairy tales go,
said "Happily Ever After," with a kiss. 

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