Peregrination- Chapter 13

Serena returned to the faerie world in a bang. She got up looking around seeing she had entered a collessium of some sort. Thats when she spied he friends cornered by a group of tall faeries surrounding them, looking intimadating with long spears with poison tips.

"Hey guys!" She started but she soon realized that that was not a good idea. The faeries turned around and started charging after her. "Guys-? Whats going on?" She started racing toward the other end of the stadium where she saw an exit when she tripped. "Ugh,". She would have thought that this was her end, if she had not just gone throught death its self earlier. But still being human she sheilded heself with her limbs as she curled up into a circle. However, there was no need for that, her mother came out of nowhere talking fiercely in an ancient tongue to the other faeries. The warrior faeries slowly backed away bowing to her as Serena got off the ground with the help from her mother.

"What was that all about?" Serena asked as she and the faerie walked to her friends, as the closed the gap between each other.

"They are warrior faeries, they were questioning your human friends. Deeming them worther or not to live. Luckily we have come just in time to keep them alive." She replied.

Eric raced ahead of the others heading toward Serena,

"This boy, does he like you?"

"What-?" Serena said surprised. "Oh come on mom." She groaned, with a hint of laughter.

"Stay away from her! Serena are you hurt? What has happened, what is happening right now?" Eric asked out of breath from his andrenaline burst of speed.

"I'm fine." Serena started. "Eric, I would like you to meet.. my mother." She introducing him.

"Your what?!" Eric said startled. "I knew you had faerie blood in you after what we heard what the nature magician said, but I figured it was like a distant relative, cousin maybe... But your mom?" He finished stunned.

He looked at the tall elegant, yet highly scary faerie that stood in front of him. She looked nothing like Serena. However, there were some similarities. But what? This is not the time to think about that right now. He said shaking the thought away.

"Serena! We were so worried about you!" Anneliese said as she ran in huggin Serena.

"Yeah, when we weren't to busy worrying about ourselves. Man those guys are scary." Bard said, as he stepped back running into Serena's mother. "Oh geez! You guys are everywhere."

"Annelise, Bard, I'd like you to meet my mother. She is a faerie, as one can easily see. When the stones disappeared all those years ago, she came back here to live with the faeries where it was easier to live.." Serena said.. but she faded off.

"Mom, the stones weren't there." She said looking up into the bright red eyes.

"I know."

"WHAT? You knew this whole time? "

"Of course, we knew that the stones had no impact on Tarigot. They were just another thing for humans to put belief in for them. We should have disposed of them long ago." She said he face hung.

"But when they disappeared all the faeries came back here, but the world portal said that they had no affect whatsoever. Why did you leave?"

"It has no affect over Tarigot, and the creatures that had come to be born there and live there for the rest of their lives. We are not from here." She said, as all the groups jaws dropped.

Thats when it all hit Eric, "So the stones don't mean anything? They are simply just there for us to believe in?"

"No. They weren't made for us to idolize, we made them our idols." Serena said. "They wre just there, we just thought they kept the peace in Tarigot, when really we were the ones the whole time. With the stones not there everybody figured that everybodys quibbling was the cause of the stones disappearance."

They stood there quietly, allowing it all to sink in. So the stones were there for no reason? They were just simply there? We justed wanted something to protect us, because we were to lazy to do it ourselves.

"So this peregrination was useless?" Anneliese asked.

"No, I don't believe it was useless." Serena's mother cut in. The group looked up at her with a quizzical look on their faces.

"You guys would have never learned anything from this, if you had not came on this expedition, or peregrination if you will."

"True," Serena started. "But what are we tell all of Tarigot, when we come back with no stones?"

"If they believe in something other than the worldy stones, they will believe you."

"So this is the end?" Eric asked.

"I guess so, we should probably head back soon. Mom is there anyway you can come with us?" She asked.

"No, because of the disapperance of the stones our kind does suffer. So I will hafta stay here. So you guys won't hafta go through the forest again I will prepare you a way home in a different means of transportation." She said. "However, you will not leave now. YOu shall depart tomorrow morning." That was all that was said. Everybody was shocked. It was over, that was it. They didn't even realize how they got to chambers where they took rest that night. They slept for more than 14 hours, gaining much needed rest. It had been a long time since they could sleep at ease. However, Serena didn't sleep with quite such an ease as the rest. She had a thought that had been bothering her the whole night. When it was a decent time to get up, she looked around for a long time until she found her mothers chambers where she talked with her until her peers awoke.

The morning was dark, but still brighter than the evenings there. When everyone was awake and moving they took their breakfast and gathered there few belongings together to prepare for their journey back.

There was a surprise in store for them when they were about to leave.




"Guys," Serena started.. choking back tears in her eyes. "I'm not coming back with you."




"WHAT?" The threesome said in unison. "You hafta come back though! Who is going to take over the kingdom? You are the Dauphiness!" Anneliese protested.




"Why are you not coming back with us in the first place?" Eric asked slowly.




"I have decided to live here with my mother for awhile, to learn about who I truly am. And when Tarigot needs me I will come back." Serena asked as tears streamed down her face. She grabbed Eric hugging him, as he heald her back. Annelise came in, who had also started crying. "But we will miss you," She said..





"Who will I bother now, since your not going to be here?" Bard asked coming into the circle.




"Anneliese," She replied with a hint a humour in her wavering voice.




"Hey!" Annelise replied back.




They stood for a moment, all close. It seemed like it came to an end to short, especially when they were interrupted when a faerie came in and told them that their ride was ready.





"Are you sure you don't wanna come back now?" Anneliese asked one more time.




"Yes, I believe this is what I need to do right now, but i promise I will return." Serena said as they finished their farewells.




"I'll take that to word," Said Eric, winking, as they got on to their ride, a Wyrm. The wyrms had generously offered to fly them back.




Serena stood there watching her friends fly off into the distance, her mom coming up behind her putting an arm around her shoulder.




"You did the right thing." She said. Her red eyes looking down on her daughter.




"I know," Serena said smiling up. "When will my questions be answered?"




"Ask a way,"




"If your people came from the same place the stones came from, where are you exactly from? And are you faeries or not?" She asked quizzically.




"The Sophia Stones had came from another galaxy itself, we are not from here.."




"What are you then? No lies, I know you are not what you say you are." Serena said as they started walking back to their chambers.




"How do you know we aren't faeries?"




"Faerie's aren't affected by anything."




"Have you ever heard of the term extra terristrial?"

THE END