Who are the Butterfly Fairies?
In a bookshop one day, there was a caged bird trying to stretch out its wings. A passerby walked in, noticed the bird wearing a jewel, and fell in love with her instantly. "What a beautiful bird!" he exclaimed. “I wonder how much the owner would sell her for?” The man asked about her when the shopkeeper came out from behind the back room.
“The bird is not for sale!” he said sternly while glancing with a glare at the cage. “Everything has a price!” said the passerby Edwin, who was no more than the richest man in the village.
“No deal!” said the shopkeeper with arms crossed putting himself between him, the birdcage and the man. Edwin left, but not without a plan. “That bird will be mine!” he exclaimed to himself.
One day, the bird looked extra unhappy. Edwin came in looking around the shop as if he was interested in a particular book on the shelf, then looked over at the bird. He wondered to himself, "Why is this bird so unhappy?" When the shopkeeper wasn't present she said, "Because I'm not free, and spend most of my time stuck in this cage that's too small for my wings to stretch. When I'm out, it's only for a moment under the protective eye of my master. Would you help me?"
Struck oddly by this talking bird, Edwin first said nothing. How could such a feathered friend know the language of men? This really is a special bird! Edwin replied slowly, "How would I go about that?" still in a bit of shock, wondering if he was being tricked or bewitched. "When night falls," said the bird, "my master puts me in a room all to myself to fall asleep, as you've seen when observing my window. Climb up the ivy, open my cage and let me fly away!"
Now struck again that she noticed him observing her window, Edwin said puzzled, “Where's the ivy? I see no ivy growing upside the walls! And even then, how would I get beyond your master's protective eye?"
"Pluck one of my feathers, burn it near the gate, and you will become invisible. The smoke will cause the ivy to grow along the walls to the window. Climb up the ivy. I will sing my master his favorite lullaby which will put him in a deep trance as he falls fast asleep," said the bird. Edwin thought not about setting the bird free, but how he could capture the bird for himself. What luck!
That night, when the sun fell and the stars came out shining, all this was done. When he burned the feather, the ivy grew and he could feel his body grow warmer in the nights chill. Now that he was invisible the wind could not even find him. When Edwin got to the window and opened the cage, she sang him a beautiful lullaby, putting him in a very deep sleep along with the shopkeeper.
She flew away, landed on a grandfather oak tree, and suddenly fell dead. In its place, a princess called Pearl came back to life. Her first task was to find her beloved dragon, Alfred, who was cast as an iron statue and hidden in the forest of mortal men.
The shopkeeper, who was really an evil sorcerer, became outraged finding that the bird was gone, and in her place was only another sleeping bird! The lullaby Princess Pearl sang to Edwin not only put him to sleep, but turned him into a bird as well. When Edwin heard Slyrum the sorcerer walking in, he woke up and flew away.
What Edwin didn't know was that the beautiful caged bird was actually the princess from the kingdom Majesca. Slyrum kidnapped her when she refused to be his bride and turned her into his feathered friend.
Since the sorcerer could no longer possess the princess, he watched her through his jeweled staff and put another spell on her in hopes that she would continue wandering and never find another suitor. Every 30 days, she would be thrown into some other land, place, and time. The only way Princess Pearl could break the spell was to find her true love. This was more difficult than one would think. Because of her beauty, there are many men who would fall in love with her, but only one who's destined for her heart.
And what no one knows is, the sorceress Keltra is keeping an eye on the jeweled necklace worn by the princess. The jewel, which sees far into the future, is the living eye of the Butterfly Fairies keeping watch over Princess Pearl.
Now that the princess is no longer caged, the Butterfly Fairies are watching and waiting for her to return to her own time. As long as she continues to wander, peace will slowly fade in their land as war breaks out with the Flying Foes of Fittra. Will she be able to find her way home in time? As they say, “Once upon a time...” the adventures of Princess Pearl and the Butterfly Fairies begins!
