"What are you talking about? The Dark Faerie, your mother? Do you even know
who the Dark Faerie is? She is a very evil person. You're not like her," Elilah
tried to explain.
"It's almost night. We should go," Dilsen said. "Go where?" Elilah asked in
a hysterical tone. Her brother handed her the note, and she read it.
"But what about our parents?" Elilah kept asking.
"Don't you see? She has our parents, I mean your parents, because she knows
I wouldn't go unless she has something of mine, I mean, yours, I don't know,
just something that I love." Dilsen went to his father's closet. Elilah followed
him curiously. He took out some weapons.
"What are you doing?" his sister just wouldn't stop asking questions.
"I want to protect myself from the Dark Faerie." Dilsen put a gun into a holster
he tied around his waist.
"Right... I'm definitely sure that weapon, which we by the way bought at a
second-hand items flea market, will help you defeat the Dark Faerie." Elilah
laughed, then suddenly stopped to think. "Wait a minute. If she is doing all
this to get to you, then she must love you."
"Please, yeah, right." Dilsen wouldn't accept Elilah's statement.
"I'm serious. She's your mother, she looked for you for so long, you don't
need any weapons," Elilah continued. "Your love is your weapon. You yourself
are your weapon."
"I don't know. I'll wait until I meet her. Let's go."
Dilsen was ready to leave their house, and with a laughable little weapon,
he and his sister were off to the Dark Tower. It was a long walk, and a scary
one, too, especially when you have to go through the Haunted Woods at night.
Finally, they saw the big tower, as dark as a shadow, built on a hill. It was
so big, it covered the full moon. The siblings got closer. They walked up the
hill, frightened, and knocked on the big door.
Someone opened the door. It was a creature of big stature, so dark, one could
not distinguish between its facial lines.
"Good evening... I'm..." Dilsen could barely speak.
"I know. Come in... alone..."
The creature spoke in a very low pitched tone. Elilah stayed outside to wait,
but Dilsen went in. He was brought to a big, empty room, where he sat down.
After a long time of waiting, he saw light coming from the hallway. A tall
and slim woman came up to him, surrounded by light so bright, it blinded him.
"I know, it's a little bit bright. Even Dark Faeries need light." The woman
smiled.
"Are you the REAL Dark Faerie?" Dilsen asked courageously.
"Yes..." she said, looking at him, and admiring his looks.
"I have a beautiful son." She smiled.
"If I am your son, why did you leave me?" he asked.
"Faeries cannot have children. There is a rule that says that if a faerie
has a child, she will not be able to concentrate on protecting Neopia, or destroying
it, in my case, so unfortunately, I had to let go of you. But now, that I am
the leader of all Dark Faeries, I can make up my own rules, and now I want you
to be the son you should have been, and I will be the mother I should have been,"
she explained.
Dilsen looked at her, and she looked back. His look was frightened, even though
she was smiling.
"You are a wonderful boy. Very beautiful. Just like me. I bet you could be
a great leader and rule all of Neopia with me."
"Rule Neopia? How?" he asked.
"Well, first, we would have to get rid of all the other faeries that are in
my way, and then it would be just you and me, and son, you and I will have everything
we want!!! Ha ha ha!" she laughed viciously while it was lightning outside.
Dilsen backed up a little bit.
"What's wrong, son?" she asked him.
"Nothing...It's just, what happens to my family?" He was scared to ask this
question, but he did.
"You mean those people that raised you?" the Dark Faerie asked Dilsen.
"Well, yeah."
"Don't you want to rule Neopia with me?" The Dark Faerie was beginning to
be impatient.
"I want my parents back," he said courageously.
"You don't want me? Nobody refuses the Dark Faerie! Nobody!" she was furious.
"Come! Come with me, silly boy!" she ran to another room and Dilsen followed
her.
He saw his parents tied to the wall, suffering.
"You refused me. Watch! I will obliterate them immediately, because you love
them more than me!" the Dark Faerie was ready to give the order. "But since
YOU refused me, maybe you should suffer, too. Ha ha ha!"
Dilsen was scared. He thought she would destroy him, too, but she said: "I
want you to go to the Faerie Queen's chambers, and when you do, bring me the
EVERLASTING POTION. It is to be found at the very last floor of the Hidden Tower."
"What is the EVERLASTING POTION?" Dilsen asked.
"My face is kind of wrinkled, I need that, it's a little big hard finding
a future husband when you look like that," she whispered, and suddenly laughed
aloud, "Ha ha ha, you shall suffer if you don't bring me the EVERLASTING POTION
by midnight! Go, if you want your parents back!"
Dilsen ran out of the tower as soon as possible. When he saw his sister, he
signaled her to follow him.
"And?" she asked.
"I met my mother."
"And?" she asked again.
"She's crazy!"
"And?" she asked for a third time.
"Will you stop it?!" he shouted.
"It looks like you went through hell in there." She smiled.
"It's not funny, Elilah. Our parents are tied to a wall, and if I don't get
something called an EVERLASTING POTION by midnight, she will DESTROY them,"
he spoke hysterically.
To be continued... | 
