A Short Story #1; A Fairy Tale - A Moment of Joy in a Previous Life

A Moment of Joy in a Previous Life

          One day, there was a village that was under the leadership of the Ephemeral Kingdom. The kingdom is led by a king and a fairy queen, the people are very obedient and respect their leader because the king and queen are wise and care about the people. In the village, there lived a woman, a fairy who had a very kind heart and beautiful beauty, the girl named Elletta Emberly. Elletta is the youngest of four children. He has two older sisters and one older brother.

          Elletta always fills her daily activities by learning about magic potions or spells and she likes to experiment with the knowledge she gets. She is a creative woman, she also often makes something that might be useful for her. Although many of her works have not been successful, Elletta does not give up and always learns to become an engineer in her area. Then, one day. The royal party makes a race that the fairies can enter to create an extraordinary discovery. Elletta is interested in participating in the event, but she is also pessimistic because she knows that in the ephemeral realm many other fairies are gifted in inventions.

       Elletta also learns that in the village there are fairies who are already famous for their stunning inventions. But in the end, Elletta still took part in the royal race with enthusiasm because she had prepared everything all this time. She also came to the kingdom and said to herself "I wish I luck and can become a talented engineer in this village", she smiled and entered a competition hall. Many fairies had already taken their place and the fairy king and queen were also in the hall.

           The competition began, Elletta only focused on the works that would be her inventions, she tried her best for this competition. But without realizing it, when all the fairies and the kingdom were focused on the race, a goblin managed to enter the kingdom without permission and no one had noticed the goblin's presence. Time flies so fast that finally, the time for making inventions runs out. The fairies were ordered to put their inventions in a special room for the discovery competition and after that, the fairies had to go straight back into the hall. Then, inside the hall, the Fairy King and Queen were doing speeches and conversing with the fairies.

    The championship announcement will be announced the day after tomorrow. And that day has come, the fairies are looking forward to this day and they have gathered again in the kingdom. But at the time of the announcement, one of the royal officials informed the king that the fairy finds had been lost, the fairies were very sad and confused. The king gave directions to calm the fairies. The royal party did not know how the finds could be lost and not from a safe place.

          But at the same time, Elletta remembered that she met a goblin at the royal gate, at that time I don't know what the goblin was doing Eletta didn't care because she was in a hurry to enter the royal courtyard. And after that, she didn't see if the goblins entered the kingdom or not. But what Elletta noticed was that the goblin was carrying a cloak that he had not yet worn. (a robe that has been given a spell when worn, the wearer and the robe will not be seen by anyone).

           After that, all the royal guards tightened security and were looking for who took all the discoveries of the fairies. Many strategies are made to catch the thief. But no one has been able to find the thief. Finally, something crossed Elletta's mind. Elletta tried to find the goblin, she continued to search all the rooms and hallways in the kingdom accompanied by a bodyguard. She felt that there was something odd about the goblin from the start that the goblin was at the royal gate.

          Elletta was already tired because of the size of the palace she had not found a goblin either. But then Elletta went behind the palace to take a breath of air, and she saw not far from the garden there was a hut not too big. Elletta went to the hut and how surprised she was to see the discoveries of the fairies in the hut. Without thinking Elletta cast a body freezing spell aimed at the goblin, someone who was in the hut with the discoveries of the fairies. "Petrificus Totalus!"and in an instant, the goblin fell to the floor of his house. After this incident, Elletta asked for help to inform the king that the thief had been caught and asked the king to go to the hut behind the palace.

        After that, the goblins were brought into the palace prison to secure it and at the same time, the fairy discovery championship was announced. And how happy Elletta was when she found out that she came in second for greatest invention. In addition, she was also appreciated for having succeeded in catching the thief so that the situation and atmosphere of the palace became calmer. And actually, Elletta is a half-witch fairy. She still has the blood of wizards from his grandparents, no wonder she can easily and happily learn magic potions and spells besides making great discoveries. And finally, the kingdom and the people know the reason the goblins took the find of the fairies. because the goblins don't want the ephemeral kingdoms and villages to be more advanced and more modern, and the goblins stealing the invention will also be used for their benefit.

         After her victory in the invention competition held by the Ephemeral Kingdom, Elletta became more and more fond of her and continued to hone her skills to gain experience to increase her quality and as a provider of knowledge for the following days. After winning the competition, Elletta became increasingly known to the public, a lot of people have used her inventions so that Elletta feels happy and proud because she has succeeded and her work has been used for the benefit of the community. It is well known that Elletta is a competent artist and has a lot of talent in other fields as well. Since childhood, she has been pursuing the field of art and what she really likes is painting. She always paints on the sidelines of her busy life, so far Elletta has always made time for the things she likes. In the past, she was only interested in and finally fell in love with very beautiful and beautiful paintings that made her pursue that field to always be able to work. During painting, she believed that painting was a form of expression of feelings and thoughts, whatever she had thought and felt, whatever had happened in her life, she put it into painting. Or in other words, painting is a form of expression of feelings that have been or are being buried. Whatever works Elletta has made are of very high quality, both in appearance and in the manufacturing process. She never wants to disappoint herself or others after her works have been successfully produced. During this time until she was 22 years old, every day Elletta always tried to be someone who was useful and did good to others and she had succeeded in making it all happen.

             One time in the morning but the sun had not yet appeared and the light breeze that had accompanied her walking into the forest made her a little nervous. In the forest there must have only been one path used as a path, she had never felt this anxiety before, but somehow on that day, her little heart felt a little afraid. She walked towards a beautiful place, Elletta often painted there. A place with towering trees and flowers growing evenly beneath them. At that time seemed to fly by, she had been in the forest for half a day and finished her painting. Unbeknownst to her, since she had arrived in the forest and was painting until she left to go home, a man had been watching her silently. The man had been fascinated and fell in love with a woman who had succeeded in making him believe in a feeling of love. After leaving the forest and arriving at the palace, the man felt more and more convinced that the woman he had met in the forest was the best destination to harbor his feelings. That man was the Crown Prince of the Ephemeral Kingdom, Elio Lucian Lucesco.

           One day, Elletta accidentally meets Elio at a social event. They talked a little, Elletta was amazed by the prince's attitude and wisdom but she tried to get rid of her thoughts because she thought she should not think such things about the prince. They have gone through their usual fast-paced days and the good interaction between the two at each event has brought them closer to each other. After their closeness, the prince finally got up the courage to confess his feelings and asked permission from Elletta's parents to marry Elletta. But before that news of their closeness had been heard in the royal environment which made the King angry with Prince Elio. The next day the King warns Elio to stay away from Elletta with the alibi that Elio has been betrothed to his cousin and the wedding will take place as soon as possible. Elio felt that he had never accepted the matchmaking so far and he never knew who the woman he was betrothed to was, this made him feel disappointed but he could still control his anger. The king warned Elio about this because long ago in their predecessors there was never a marriage between a noble and a commoner and that history would never exist.

              Elio continued to see Elletta as usual, until one-day Elletta's parents forbade him to be close to the Prince. Elletta's parents had forbidden their closeness because they would never be together. It is known that there are so many royal rules that distinguish the caste of each society so that it is very impossible for Prince and Elletta to be together. The day has passed, unexpectedly the royal party agreed to their relationship. This news had been heard throughout the territory of the Ephemeral Kingdom and had shocked the entire community. At that time the King just said that whatever makes the Crown Prince happy he will give it. And no one knows for sure why marriage between noble families and commoners is not allowed, for years it has been kept very tightly as a royal secret and if anyone has leaked the secret then he will be punished.

          Elio and Elletta were very happy when they heard the news. At that time, pleasure had taken over them until they did not realize that it was the beginning of suffering and sacrifice from a feeling called love. After they got married they lived happily and felt that nothing unusual had happened. They think that it is their destiny to be together to keep their love until the end of their life. Every day has been passed with so many memories and joys, they also look very happy and every day they have become the talk of the entire Ephemeral Kingdom. Every day, once the people always guessed and thought about what the King's real plan was to make his children unaware of all the signs of strangeness until finally making history with a marriage that had previously been strictly forbidden to do.

         Day after day had passed, after 6 months of marriage until finally, an oddity began to be felt by the couple. At that time, Elletta felt that the welfare of her community was decreasing day by day, so that even food items had to be frugal as a form of self-defense in the future. This happened with various factors, the kingdom had tried and tried to maintain the fertility of the plant but the results were still to no avail. Then, in some areas, even the land they live in is not fertile. Not only that, at the same time many criminal things are very detrimental to many parties. Elletta was confused about what had happened and why all of it could happen continuously and continuously to cause anxiety in every citizen at that time. Elletta feels sorry, she has tried many things but everything is the same and things haven't changed. Until finally there was a big debate in the palace involving the entire royal family and all members such as servants and soldiers. The debate was not over even though it had taken quite a long time until finally without warning and without realizing someone had fallen holding an arrow stabbed in his stomach. A cousin of the King had succeeded in paralyzing and finally, the cousin breathed his last in the room. The cousin is the one who has always protected Elio and his wife.

             Then the atmosphere had become very chaotic and full of anger. Everyone just wanted to save themselves before a big war broke out that could destroy them. Then, Elletta and Elio took weapons as quickly as possible, Elletta took arrows because since childhood she was good at archery and used to hunt in the forest often. Until they finally found out that the one who had stabbed the King's cousin's stomach was an Elf who was under the king's orders to do so, not only the cousin but the king also ordered the Elf to stab Elletta as she is still the wife of the crown prince. Hearing that Elio's anger increased and he couldn't control it. Then without thinking at that time Elio had immediately released his arrows all over the room to stab all those who would hurt his wife. At that time, many royal parties managed to save themselves from the attack that had been done by Elio, until finally, the Elf had gone to the forest to save herself from Elio's pursuit.

          Seeing that Elletta was not silent, she then chased after her husband and hoped that he would listen to her and not continue his actions. But Elio did not realize that his wife had followed him into the forest. Elio still wanted to stab the Elf so that the Elf wouldn't be able to stab Elio's wife then or in the future, Elio thought at the time. Until he arrived in the middle of the forest where he first saw a woman who had become his wife. Elio always remembered Elletta with a very sincere feeling, until finally at that moment a voice broke Elio's memory of Elletta. Without thinking Elio immediately shot an arrow towards the voice without seeing who had called him. The voice belonged to Elletta, wife of Elio's wife of the Crown Prince of the Ephemeral Kingdom. The speed of Elletta's arrows and steps were so fast that Elletta didn't realize that every step she took had brought her closer to the arrow that could stab her into her body. Elio, who was still very angry, had fired several arrows until finally, one arrow stabbed Elletta in her stomach.

Elletta had noticed something was in her stomach but she remained strong and kept walking towards and calling for Elio. As she got closer and Elio realized that the one who called him was his wife, seeing Elletta who was already very weak made him even more devastated because what he had done was very evil. And finally, Elletta fell and lay on the flowers that had grown flat under the towering trees in the rainy season at that time. At that time, the Elf who had managed to escape used magic to trick Elletta's voice into a voice like hers and had influenced Elio until he finally stabbed his wife. Until finally Elletta can be saved after months of treatment and struggles to accept the pain she has felt. Until finally the King had explained everything to Elio that a marriage between a noble and a commoner could have a bad impact with the highest risk of being a curse. 

        Elio should have realized that from the very beginning of the food crisis was the beginning of the bad effects and the greatest crime occurred when he stabbed his wife. However, the King did not explain that Elletta and Elio were already under the influence of the magic that had been created by the King so they did not feel any signs, and after all that the King had erased the memories of everyone who had been involved in the incident so that everything seemed to start life from the start. And Elletta and Elio have returned to living their lives as ordinary people under the leadership of the Ephemeral Kingdom.

         At the end of the story, a Princess has told all these things to her mother very clearly and in detail as if she had lived that life. Her mother was very amazed because her child was very good at telling a fairy tale well, and without realizing it the Princess was an Elletta in her previous life and the Princess had told a moment in her previous life.