Flora And Woodland Adventures

Submitted into Contest #86 in response to: Write a fairy tale about someone who can communicate with woodland creatures.... view prompt

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Fantasy Adventure Fiction

That was the time when spring season was about to come. There's a 5 years old girl named“ Flora” who truly loves flowers. She does gardening and growing flowers in her garden. At one morning she goes to her school where she can learn about that in her class. His teacher gives assignments about two topics: spring and flowers. She was happy because she loves flowers but doesn't know about spring. She prayed that her teacher would give her an assignment about flowers. Her teacher recalled the names of every student after sometime she said: “ Flora come here..” she gulped and got up from her desk and went towards her teacher

“yes teacher”. she said.

“ Flora as I know you are very familiar with flowers but you know school is the place where your character was polished so I gave you a challenge to grow yourself and submit assignments about spring” Teacher said.

“ But teacher...I.. didn’t..” she was trying to complete her sentence but her teacher interrupted her. 

“No no I didn’t need your explanation you have done it. Ok! Teacher said.

She comes home upset and directly goes into her room. 

“What happened to her, why is she upset?” her mom said.

“ Her dad sighed…let’s go and talk to her” her dad said.

They both went to her room and knocked on the door. They enter in her room 

“What happened to our princess, why is she upset?” her dad said.

“Nothing today in school my teacher gave me assignment about spring but I didn’t know anything about spring” she said with an upset face.

“Oh just that I will give you a book of spring fairy who lives in flowers” her dad said.

Her dad got up and went to his library and found a book and gave it to her. After this her parents left her room. She changed and started reading a book and fell asleep. She woke up and saw she was in a jungle she said to herself “why I'm here… what is this jungle about”. She was scared and started to explore the jungle where she saw the big flowers type houses but all are dark. She tries to understand what’s going on. When she explored the jungle she saw a water lake. She was thirsty and went towards the lake but saw that the lake water was dirty. She is just thinking about what’s going on and suddenly someone whispers in her ears. She was shocked. And see here and there but no one showed up. Then again she hears noises. She ran towards noises and saw a lot of fairies flying in the sky. She was scared and went near them where someone knocked on her back.

“Hey…! Who are you?” a stranger said.

She startled and turned back .

“I… I…Ii am …” she was just about to say. He interrupted. 

“Hey…! See a new fairy” a stranger said.

She was shocked and saw herself and faint. She woke up and saw she was in the flower's petal bed. And she was surrounded by fairies. 

“Hey…! See she woke up!” a fairy said.

“Hey..! My name is Linda and I am the leader of fairies. What's your name?”. She said.

A fairy who came to her excitedly and in excitement introduced herself .

“My name is Rosella and I'm a fairy who gives flowers color”. She said.

“Hi…! I'm Flora and I am not a fairy. I don't know how I managed to come here… she sighed..!” she said.

“Oh poor girl you are in a fairy world we are fairies who work for nature. Here are many fairies like water fairy, flower fairy, rainbow fairy, flower blossom fairies, summer fairies, winter fairies, autumn fairies and spring fairies. I am the leader of all fairies units”. Linda said.

One by one fairies came and introduced herself to Flora. Linda took Flora and said: “ I can do some magic to see which unit you are capable of”. Flora goes along with Linda and all fairies gather to see in which unit she is coming. There's a fairy who is an egoistic fairy and winter fairies leader named “ Idora '' said: “I didn’t think she was a very honorable fairy. She is just a normal fairy who came in the spring unit” and laughed with her fellows.

Other fairies were just angry with her in this conversation. Linda did magic and everyone saw that Flora was chosen in the spring unit. All spring fairies came to congratulate her but she isn't happy because she wants to be in the flower department because she learned from male spring fairy named “Gabriel” that the spring unit is not very famous. They didn't have a chance to see spring festivals; they were just minor in the fairies world. And all fairies of the winter and summer section bully them and their spring fairy leader is just cruel; they have to do a lot of hard work but all the credit is given to other fairies. That’s why Flora didn't want to be in the spring unit. Spring male fairies named “Gabriel” and “Cole” took her to their unit and showed her the room. When she saw a spring unit there were a lot of trees and greenery but not flowers. The all spring fairies work for making baskets, wooden toys and every wood decorating things for spring festivals. She enters her room and starts crying because she misses her parents. The next morning a loud big bell rang. She woke up terrified.

“Who the hell rang the bell so early in the morning?” she said. 

She got up from her wooden bed and looked out the window. Everyone was busy with their work and the leader “Magaret” kept shouting about work. She came to Gabriel and said: “ where's the new fairy?”. Gabriel came into her house and knocked on the door. She opened the door and said: “ Come inside”. He entered her house and said:

 “ why aren't you getting ready? We have to work and because of you I am about to fire because it was my responsibility to explain to you the rules of this unit and I do”. 

“Ok… ok… I’m sorry I’m ready, tell me what I should do” she said.

“Here come with me. I will take you to the leader and first apologize to her” Gabriel said.

They both came to Magaret and Gabriel pushed Flora towards her.

“Hi! I'm sorry I woke up late telling me what work I have to do” Flora said.

“Go and cut woods… she angrily sees her” Margaret said.

“Just cutting wood, I am a creative person. I would be better in decorating baskets or making baskets” Flora said.

“Hey…! Who are you to tell me which job should I give to whom?” Margaret shouted.

“B… but… I'm just telling you what I am able to.. d…” before she completed the sentence Magaret interrupted and said: “just go or else i will complain about you to Linda the leader”.

Gabriel took her and Cole and went to the jungle.

“What the hell is wrong with her, everyone's free to choose what they have to do. She didn't have the right to yell at us. I don't want to be in this unit. I'm going” she said and ran towards the flower area.

She cries in the corner when someone places his hand on her shoulder “ why are you crying?”. 

She turned back and said: “who are you?”.

“My name is Sophie and I'm the fairy who water the flowers” she said.

When she introduced herself to Flora three more fairies came and said: “What's going on here?”

“Nothing she is crying in the corner so I came to see if she's okay or not!” Sophie said.

“Hi..! I just want some alone time that's why I ran here” Flora said.

“Hi… I'm a rainbow fairy named violet” she said.

 and pointed to a fairy and said: “She is summer fairy sunshine, and she is flower blossom fairy Florida”. 

Sunshine and Florida says hi to her and Violet asks her why she is crying?.

“Because I don't want to be in the spring unit, I want to do more like the rainbow or color the flowers…” Flora said.

All fairies laughed and said: “why? Magic isn't wrong. If the magic chooses you for spring then you are a spring fairy”. 

“No…! I… I don't know you all have to teach me how you do it. I have to go to the spring festival” Flora said.

“Ok..! we helped you but we warned you the rest is up to you” Violet said.

“You came to us after you finished all your work” Sophie said.

Flora seems very happy and goes for her work. She cut the woods along Gabriel and Cole and rested for the day. The next morning, she finished her work and went to the flower unit. The four fairies say hello to her. One by one fairies taught her about powers but she failed again and again. Two weeks passed but she wasn't successful. There's just one week left in the spring festival. One day she was exploring the jungle and she remembered and asked Gabriel why the front land of flower houses had darkened. He said: “Because of winter fairy Idora she just hates spring and its her region. She didn't obey Linda and she didn't like spring fairies”. 

She is going towards that region and doing magic which she learned from flower unit fairies. She is finally successful and flowers are blooming. Which are darkened by Idora. When Idora sees this she comes to confront Flora and takes her to the leader of all fairies Linda. When they reached Linda’s place.. Idora said: “Your highness..! I said this to everyone that no one dares to blooming flowers in my region but she dares to do this. I want you to imprison her for the rest of her life”.

 “What's happened?” Linda turned towards Flora and said.

“It's wrong that one part of greenery which was the spring fairies area was darkened just because of Idora’s ego. Its flower world area has to be as bright as the whole fairy world” Flora said.

It was heard that Idora had become firestorm. 

“Oh..! so you think that your power is greater than mine fine..! Let’s fight to see who is great. Who will win the area was whose”.

They fought and Flora won because of her willpower. And she is successfully bright in the darkened area and becomes spring queen of honor. Then she realized that spring fairies are the main factor of flower blooming and rainbow and all the colors that we see in the world. She matches glances with leader Linda.

“Now you know that if we didn't have spring fairies or spring season this world would be darkened, cold, hot and desolated. Spring is the season when people are surrounded by negativity. They see flowers in the spring season and the colors, the greenery, the rainbows and the scent of flowers fill positivity in their heart”.

Flora seemed like she understood that if she flowers she has to understand that if there isn't the spring season she wasn't able to see those beautiful flowers.

After this her mom called her: “Flora come have dinner”.

She opened her eyes and realized that was her dream. The next day she represented spring and won first prize and her assignment was pinned to white board of school. All teachers are very proud of her.


...The end...

March 22, 2021 11:58

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Laurentz Baker
08:16 Mar 29, 2021

Good job building this storyworld/setting, Birjees. Enjoyed the conflict and positive interaction between the characters.

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Birjees Fatima
12:59 Apr 01, 2021

Thanks 😊

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