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A Mystical Direction
Dear reader, here's a fairy tale that is a mixture of so many fairy tales! Enjoy your journey into this magical world I created as a birthday gift for my sister!
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It was a usual Sunday, it started like any other weekend does. Sukriti got out of the bed lazily and made a coffee for herself. She dresses in her gym wear and stepped out of her apartment and inside the elevator of her building to go down to the park. Everything was normal until the doors of the elevator opened. Suddenly, she was in a whole other place.
Shanaya saw distant mountains ranges and an immediate rocky, hilly path in front of her when the doors of the elevator opened. Unsure of what to do and where she had come, she tried to close the elevator or the other floors but none of the buttons were working. She panicked as she realised that she either had to go out and see where she really was or remain trapped inside this claustrophobic little steel room for who knows how long. She decided to go out and explore.
She was on a mountain trail but it curved she couldn't see where it led to. But should she go up or down? After a little thought, Shanaya figured that going down would be her safest choice. There was greenery all around her, and at some points one side of her trail opened to a majestic view of snow-covered mountains. If all her focus hadn't been on stepping carefully on the rocks, she would have spent more time looking at her serene surrounding and might have fallen in love with the place.
Shanaya had been walking for a long time but she had reached nowhere and found no-one. Just as she was about to cry, she saw the outlines of a structure a little way down the road. She started to walk faster with excitement and finally came upon a small rocky hut in a pitiful condition. The front door was open so she went inside to see if anyone lived there. The hut was very dirty and messy, everything was where it shouldn't be and there was no one in there for now. But certainly the owners of the hut would come back soon? She didn't know when she would find another trace of civilization so she decided to remain there and wait. The dirt and the mess were a little too much for her though, so she took a filled water bucket and a rag and started mopping, after which she made the beds (there were seven), then she did the dishes in the sink and she even arranged the little stuff like books and clothes that were thrown here and there. She finally rested after she had cleaned the entire hut.
"Eh- excuse me, lady, but you are in my bed!" Shanaya's eyes opened from a long sleep to see a smiling little face. She came back to her senses and sat up. She didn't realise that she had slept in one of the little beds after tiring herself out from the cleaning. She looked here and there and saw that seven little figures stood around her in the clean hut. Something about this seemed very familiar to her, almost like she had read about this somewhere.
"So, Madame, care to tell us who you are?" One of the dwarfs spoke in a very fake French accent.
"Oh, my apologies for not introducing myself, I am Shanaya and I-" her voice broke for a moment, "have no idea where I am. All I know is that I came out of my apartment and then went down in the elevator and suddenly I was here, but I have absolutely no idea where here is! Can you help me to get back to my actual home?" She was holding back the tears in her eyes but the seven dwarfs could hear the desperation for help in her voice.
"Hello, Shanaya! My name is Doc and there are my six brothers. I think you might have heard about us, I think we are pretty famous in your world. You are in a mystical place right now, how do I explain it? I have heard that people come here when they need it the most and they this place always helps them in some way. While you can't control when or how to get here, you will have to find a way to get out of here yourself. There lives an all-knowing sorceress deep inside the forest, she will help you to get out."
Shanaya was in shock, first dwarfs and now a sorceress? This place couldn't get any weirder. It appeared to her that she was in a dream, but you can't stand by even in your dreams. "Okay, tell me where to find her. I guess she's my only hope."
"Doc, um..why don't we go along with her? Show her the way? After all, she helped us by cleaning our little house too, now we won't have to clean it for another year! I think we should help her in return." The dwarf who had woken Shanaya spoke with excitement.
"I couldn't agree with you more, Happy. The forest can be a bit tricky when you're alone, but it can open new paths when you're in a group. Also, Shanaya, you remind me of another certain white beauty that came to us for help once and we couldn't turn her away either." Doc spoke.
Shanaya expressed her gratitude and they all sat together to eat a meal that had been prepared from the materials the dwarfs had gone out to collect. After the...
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It was a usual Sunday, it started like any other weekend does. Sukriti got out of the bed lazily and made a coffee for herself. She dresses in her gym wear and stepped out of her apartment and inside the elevator of her building to go down to the park. Everything was normal until the doors of the elevator opened. Suddenly, she was in a whole other place.
Shanaya saw distant mountains ranges and an immediate rocky, hilly path in front of her when the doors of the elevator opened. Unsure of what to do and where she had come, she tried to close the elevator or the other floors but none of the buttons were working. She panicked as she realised that she either had to go out and see where she really was or remain trapped inside this claustrophobic little steel room for who knows how long. She decided to go out and explore.
She was on a mountain trail but it curved she couldn't see where it led to. But should she go up or down? After a little thought, Shanaya figured that going down would be her safest choice. There was greenery all around her, and at some points one side of her trail opened to a majestic view of snow-covered mountains. If all her focus hadn't been on stepping carefully on the rocks, she would have spent more time looking at her serene surrounding and might have fallen in love with the place.
Shanaya had been walking for a long time but she had reached nowhere and found no-one. Just as she was about to cry, she saw the outlines of a structure a little way down the road. She started to walk faster with excitement and finally came upon a small rocky hut in a pitiful condition. The front door was open so she went inside to see if anyone lived there. The hut was very dirty and messy, everything was where it shouldn't be and there was no one in there for now. But certainly the owners of the hut would come back soon? She didn't know when she would find another trace of civilization so she decided to remain there and wait. The dirt and the mess were a little too much for her though, so she took a filled water bucket and a rag and started mopping, after which she made the beds (there were seven), then she did the dishes in the sink and she even arranged the little stuff like books and clothes that were thrown here and there. She finally rested after she had cleaned the entire hut.
"Eh- excuse me, lady, but you are in my bed!" Shanaya's eyes opened from a long sleep to see a smiling little face. She came back to her senses and sat up. She didn't realise that she had slept in one of the little beds after tiring herself out from the cleaning. She looked here and there and saw that seven little figures stood around her in the clean hut. Something about this seemed very familiar to her, almost like she had read about this somewhere.
"So, Madame, care to tell us who you are?" One of the dwarfs spoke in a very fake French accent.
"Oh, my apologies for not introducing myself, I am Shanaya and I-" her voice broke for a moment, "have no idea where I am. All I know is that I came out of my apartment and then went down in the elevator and suddenly I was here, but I have absolutely no idea where here is! Can you help me to get back to my actual home?" She was holding back the tears in her eyes but the seven dwarfs could hear the desperation for help in her voice.
"Hello, Shanaya! My name is Doc and there are my six brothers. I think you might have heard about us, I think we are pretty famous in your world. You are in a mystical place right now, how do I explain it? I have heard that people come here when they need it the most and they this place always helps them in some way. While you can't control when or how to get here, you will have to find a way to get out of here yourself. There lives an all-knowing sorceress deep inside the forest, she will help you to get out."
Shanaya was in shock, first dwarfs and now a sorceress? This place couldn't get any weirder. It appeared to her that she was in a dream, but you can't stand by even in your dreams. "Okay, tell me where to find her. I guess she's my only hope."
"Doc, um..why don't we go along with her? Show her the way? After all, she helped us by cleaning our little house too, now we won't have to clean it for another year! I think we should help her in return." The dwarf who had woken Shanaya spoke with excitement.
"I couldn't agree with you more, Happy. The forest can be a bit tricky when you're alone, but it can open new paths when you're in a group. Also, Shanaya, you remind me of another certain white beauty that came to us for help once and we couldn't turn her away either." Doc spoke.
Shanaya expressed her gratitude and they all sat together to eat a meal that had been prepared from the materials the dwarfs had gone out to collect. After the...
