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QUEST OF THE FAES

Quest of the Faes
Book Title: Quest of the Faes
Book author: Catherine Geenen
Number of pages: 145
Genre: Fantasy
A long time ago the elves and the faeries lived together in the beautiful city of Volvey.
It was odd that the two races lived together in the same city considering that each had
their own king, but they lived and worked together nicely. They were very skillful artist
and spent many years perfecting and even surpassing their crafts. The elven people and
the faes wrote down their spells and magic, and how they obtained and perfected all of
their skills in a book they called the Keeper. The Keeper was aloud to be looked upon by
any of the city's people. Though occasionally a squabble would arise over which race
should keep and protect the book, but the fae king said that he would see no problem with
allowing the elves to guard it so longs as all were still free to look upon it for
wisdom. 
Goria (as she was called then) was a dragon who was allowed to come and go as she pleased
from Volvey. She was beautiful, gold-mailed and jewel eyed. Often times she would share
her wisdom with the faes and elves. But when she saw that their wisdom and skill
surpassed her own she became jealous and soon hatred started to boil with in her. So she
went to each king and told him that the other was planning to steal the Keeper and hoard
it for his own people. After she had caused the faes and elves to doubt each other she
swooped down one night killed the elven guards and took off with the Keeper. 
Thus a war broke out between the faes and the elves. But the faes realized that they and
the elves were an even match and neither side was going to win. Everyone was simply going
to kill each other. So the faes slipped off into the night and traveled for months until
they found where they wanted to build their new home, far from Volvey. 
They built a new tree top village and named it Trinolus. Which was named for the three
prophecies that their leader had seen in a dream and told to his Viro Master while on his
deathbed. The people of the village didn't know that it had been named for the
prophecies, they thought it was named for the three stages in a fae's life. But the Viro
Masters knew, and it was then the job of the village's Viro Master to learn the
prophecies and hope that they did not come true in his life time, for then he would have
to find the chosen ones and send them to battle.
The prophecies predicted that darkness would some day destroy all that was good and light
and that the faes would grow sick and die off. The only way to stop this from happening
would be to send the two chosen ones to recover the Keeper and slay the dragon, now known
as Gorgatha, large and black with eyes that burned red with hatred. The prophecies said:
Created to serve, it sunders now/ Wielded by she who learneth how/ To defile beauty, to
destroy light/ To steal the graceful fairy flight/ To silence the call of the elven horn/
To mock the white of Unicorn/ Guarded by many, stolen by one/ Shall be regained by two or
none * Choseth thy champions by virtue fair/ He with wisdom, she without care/ Infants
send to do warriors deeds/ Lambs to follow where lion leads/ Strength will be forfeit,
meekness prevail/ Sharpest lance, the heart of the frail/ These winged babes thy
champions be/ Armed only with love and strength of three.
So when the faes started to lose their power of flight the Viro Master chose Chrysalis
and Arrogon to find the Unicorn Questa and tell him that the lose of flight had begun.
The two young faes had no knowledge of the prophecies and wondered why they were chosen
to go to the Unicorn and give in such a message. They knew that they must be important
but they didn't know why. When they found the Unicorn he told them of the prophecy and
the part that they had to play in it. Chrysalis found it hard to believe that she had
been chosen to battle the dragon because she wasn't skilled like the other faes. Faes
could bend light, turn invisible, shoot sparks and move things with their minds like
Arron could. Arron was the best in his class and quite full of himself. But Chrys, all
she could do was open flowers by cupping her hands around them. The two faes, though a
bit reluctant excepted the challenge and set out on their long hard journey.
They went through forests, rolling green hills, the Stretch (a huge barren stretch of
desert), and finally another forest but this one was dying because it was so close to the
darkness and evil. It was ridden with the dragon's slaves who were all former elves,
faes, and humans. The dragon had probed their minds with her own, found their weakness or
fear, and expanded it inside them until they grew hideous and evil. Whenever a slave of
the dragon's grew near Chrysalis always doubled over in pain because she sensed the
feelings of pure hate behind her good heart and it hurt her deeply. Arron didn't
understand this because he felt nothing. But Questa seemed to understand that Chrys was a
child of light and she felt things differently then he did. 
Questa took Chrys and Arron to the evlen home of Lowenly and Avantia. There the three of
them rested and feasted. They prepared for the battle. Even the elves knew of the
prophecies and were happy to welcome the two of them to stay with them. While there Chrys
opened the flower of light which was the pride of the elven garden. It only budded once
every five years but they hadn't ever seen it bloom since the darkness started looming
years and years ago. Because it would not open the rest of the gardens were not healthy.
The gardens had always been the pride and joy of the elves but ever since the Keeper had
been stolen and the dragon started reversing the magic in the great book to destroy it's
people they hadn't been healthy. The flower of light grew on a crystalline bush and Chrys
had to concentrate very hard to open it but after a while she started to get a sensation
behind her heart and her heart bathed the flower with love and warmth. The petals started
to unfold one by one until a gem was reveled in the center of the flower. The gem shown
from within and then shot off a beam of light into the sky. After this all the elves
stared in wonder because the gardens were restored.
But Chrys was uneasy at the home because they were holding a slave of the dragon's
prisoner. Avantia had said there was no way to cure the former elf but after her
experience in the garden and the loving words of Avantia, Where there is life there is
hope. Chrys thought she should see if there really was no hope. She sneaked into the
slave's holding place and stared at him while he slept. Soon he turned into an outline
and Chrys was wandering through his mind and heart. It was black, red, and green with
anger, fury, and envy. All the colors squeezed her and suffocated her. They were so heavy
and thick, sticky and hot. She almost gave up hope until she found one spark of hope left
in his heart. She got that sensation again and started to feed his spark with love and
warmth of her own heart. The light in him grew until it was able to over come the
darkness on it's own and the misshapen deformed slave turned back into an elf. She had
brought him back from the evil side. 
After nights of rest and numerous feasts the two faes set off again to find the lair of
the dragon. Questa had gone off to pursue his own mischief and promised to meet up with
them at the mountain.
Once inside the mountain and in the dragon's lair Chrys and Arron found Questa but not
how they wished to find him. Gorgatha had him and was killing him slowly by taking away
all that was good in him. Chrysalis exploded in rage and flew at the dragon. But went
skidding to the ground as Gorgatha spouted the magic words that took away a fae's flight.

Chrys now injured lay on the ground but refused to let the dragon hurt her friend Questa.
She tried to distract the dragon from probing the Unicorn's mind. But unfortunately she
began to probe Chrysalis's. Chrysalis was able to fight back mentally and push the dragon
from her mind. Arron however got scared and charged the dragon whom simply through him to
the wall. And returned her attention to Chrysalis. Chrys had now upset the dragon because
she was able to block her out. So when Gorgatha was distracted with Arron Chrys ran into
the small entrance tunnel to the cavern of the dragon. There she started to look into the
dragon's mind. She could find no shred of hope within Gorgatha but she remember that
where there is life there is hope so she went back to the beginnings of Gorgatha's rage
and bathed the beginnings in love and warmth. It took much energy and strenght for Chrys
but slowly the dragon was filling with light. 
The dragon, suffering from the inside, was becoming violent and started trashing the rock
wall of the tunnel. The tunnel caved in on itself and Chrys and she was crushed by a
bolder. The dragon was now only half cured and neither the dark nor light was winning, so
frustrated, she flew away and killed herself. 
Eventually Arron came to and dug Chrys out of the rubble. She was badly injured but not
yet dead. He moved her next to the Unicorn. He too was near death. Arron was helpless but
Chrys stared at the unicorn and healed him from within by bathing him with love and
light. She gave back to him what Gorgatha had stolen. Arron was crying and sobbing
because he thought both of his friends were dead but then he saw Questa wake up. Questa
told him that Chrys had just saved his life and it was time to return the favor. He went
to Chrysalis and touched her with his horn. Magically her injuries healed and her crushed
bones mended and she woke up too. The three of them rejoiced and returned to the elven
village to tell their tale before returning to the land of the faes.
I love this book. I'm not so sure that it is that relevant, or important, for teenagers
to read, but it is enjoyable. It's the best book I've ever read in my life, which is why
I found it hard to write a shorter report about it, so sorry about the length. This book
was meaningful to me because Chrysalis reminded me a lot of myself. She was so carefree
and she loved everything that was beautiful and good. And in the end the good always
wins. It's a story of the struggle between good and evil and it's a good cry. And I feel
as though this book would have meaning for any others of my age who love beauty and
believe in magic and fairy tales as I do.