Legacy

My name is Mariola, I’m the Queen of The Fairy‘s.  This is a story of my kidnapping, captivity, and eventual release.  A few months ago I was kidnapped in the middle of the night right out of the Tulip I was sleeping in.  When I regained my senses from having had a bag over my head, I could see I was in a cage near the entrance to a cave.  I had no idea why this had happened.

As the days passed I was fed by bats. I appreciated that, but at first didn’t realize it was the bat’s who had kidnapped and caged me.  But for what purpose, ransom?  As it turns out, that was the case, but a most unusual type of ransom.  The Queen of the Bats explained to me (boy was she an old bat) that I was being held captive to insure the cooperation of the other two hundred Fairy’s in my Fairy Clan.  I was being held to ensure they did the bats will.

The bats will was a rather singular requirement.  The other Fairy’s were to with their wee brooms keep the floor of the cave swept up and the sweepings removed. Those sweepings were bat droppings.  You see during the day, bats slept,  hanging upside down from the roof of the cave.  They (I can’t think of a delicate way to put It), so to put it bluntly, they defecated all over the cave floor.  That material got ripe pretty quickly and the noxious fumes would rise and offend the noses of the bats greatly. Therefore, that was the reason for it being removed.

Well it was obvious the bats were pleased with the results.  Equally obvious was the fact they had no intention of ever releasing me.  Escape would be the only solution. Now it’s a known fact we Fairy’s are excellent locksmiths.  But to pick the lock on my cage which should   be simple except for the fact that no other fairy could get near the cage without being seen by the bats, and they were mean.

The Fairy Council met and spent hours trying to find a solution, when one Elder said, I have an idea.  We must ask the Elves for help.  That got everyone’s attention, because Elves and Fairy’s do not really care much for each other.  Relationships are strained and each tolerates the other.  Not to cozy.  Especially, if you need a favor from an Elf.

However, circumstance in desperate times made for taking desperate chances.  An emissary was sent to the King of The Elves.  The emissary was politely greeted, not warmly, but politely.

As it turns out Elves really have a very severe dislike of bats, therefore they agreed to help if they could.  More meeting were held and an Elf from the Poltergeist Division said I have a solution.  We Poltergeist as you know are very mischievous and have great fun making it obvious that we are about, while remaining unseen.  We do this by swallowing a special fluid that makes us invisible for two hours.  Just a wee drop should do the same for a Fairy.

So the special fluid was given to the emissary who took it back to the Fairy Council.  They were pleased with the idea and enlisted the aid of one male Fairy by the name of Wartensniger, to swallow the fluid and while unseen, pick the lock on the Queen Fairy’s cage thus releasing her.  Wartensniger was the best lock picker in the whole Fairy Clan.

The entire operation went off without a flaw. The Queen was released. Two minutes later over one hundred Fairy’s grabbed the Bat Queen and took her to Fairy Land where they put her in a cage to ensure there would be no further problems from the Bat Clan.

Alls well that ends well, and turn about is fair play.