In front of us there was a beautiful waterfall. The water was coming from a nearby river and flowing all the way through the entire forest. We had been slowly walking down, as if the entire area where the fairies lived in was a crater that was slowly covered in healthy plants over eons. The waterfalls were crystalline and the water looked to be the same as spring water as well. Meanwhile, the flowers were colorful, wide open even in the night. It seems that they were bathing in the moonlight, I had no idea there were plants that could do that!
"These flowers bathe in the moonlight and close at day." Said Florie. "They're called Moonlight Droplets, and are high quality alchemy materials, we harvest them to make medicine and sometimes tasty food, we love sweet things!"
"I see… They look very pretty. I never thought I would find flowers that bathed in moonlight." I said.
"Yes, they're special as they can absorb the magical power of the moonlight. While other plants fight for the sunlight in the day, they wait for the night to come to absorb moonlight instead." Florie said with an innocent smile, she liked her flowers. "Come with us, through here!"
The girl quickly guided us around the waterfall, as we climbed some rocks and finally reached the cave behind the waterfall, which led to a secret garden deep inside this "crater" within the forest. When we went through the cave, we found a beautiful sight like I could only find in my fairytale books.
Enormous flowers as big as trees were decorating the place, alongside beautiful trees whose only leaves were all even more colorful flowers, and tons of fruits laying around everywhere! There were small creatures lurking around as if this were their home, including dozens of horned rabbits.
The houses of the fairies were made around the trees, and were not as big as those of humans, but in a similar size to the houses of the squirrel-kin, tight and packed, but I think I can still fit inside barely.
"Woow, this place is beautiful!" I said with eyes wide open. I couldn't help but feel excited about the whole exploration of a new area I had never seen before, especially one that included meeting tons of fairies.
Because it was night, not many were awake, but there were around five of them acting as guards, the moment the magic barrier protecting this area let us pass, they immediately flew to see what was happening. Five adorable fairies greeted my sight, four of them were cute girls and the last was a teenager-looking boy.
A beautiful blue-haired fairy greeted us with a rather furious and annoyed expression, reaching Florie while flying at a fast speed.
"There you are- Wha…?! Who are these people now, Florie?! And why did you went off in the night?! I told you that it was dangerous! Who are these people anyways?! Mushroom-kin? Wait… she's an elf or something?" Wondered the blue-haired fairy, who had a single ponytail in her hair and was wearing magic armor of the blue color. Her blue and transparent butterfly wings had the shape of snowflakes, making her a beautiful and wondrous-looking fairy girl from the snow.
"Nieve, don't get mad with me!" Cried Florie, as she was hiding behind me.
"G-Get here! I am going to smack some sense into you, you reckless child! As your big sister it's the least I can do!" Nieve, the adorable blue-haired fairy couldn't help but grow madder as her little sister hid behind me.
"P-Please, calm down a bit, there's no point in violence, we can resole things through talking." I said, trying to calm down Nieve as she squinted her eyes and suddenly began to analyze my entire body.
"And you are…? You know that it is strictly prohibited to enter this area, right? It is not a place that the big people can enter!" Nieve said, as a guard her duty was to protect the land of the fairies, I completely understood her motive to get suspicious about me. I had to quickly tell her I had no ill intentions.
"Don't be rude with Lady Planta!" Roared Sporegon.
"Insolent fairy, pay respects to our lady." Said Magius.
"Don't look down on her!" Said Hunter.
"Y-You guys are not making things better!!!" I cried, calming down the three Mushroom-kins from ruining things even more.
"Hoh? You think you can be insolent against the Fairy Royal Guard?!"
"Are those Mushroom-kin?!"
"Didn't they go extinct hundreds of years ago?"
"No matter, don't let them insult us!"
The fairies quickly seemed to point their weapons at us, all while Florie and her fairies were all trembling in fear over what was happening. It seems they were all children incapable of resolving problems when they became as terrible as this. I had to quickly clear misunderstandings before-
"Apprehend them and bring them to prison!" Nieve ordered, unleashing a gust of icy winds that quickly attacked me! Wow! Is this alright?! She's attacking me out of nowhere! I didn't thought NPC could damage Players, but my body is currently being frozen!
"Nieve STOP!" Florie cried, as she unleashed an aura of pink color, as countless flower petals emerged out of her magical aura, clashing against the icy aura of Nieve.
"You shut it! We are in a dire situation and you brought dangerous strangers here! Ice Cage!" Nieve suddenly unleashed an Ice Magic Spell, suddenly create a large cage of ice where she trapped Florie and the other fairies!
"Wawawawaahhh! Stop! Please, we don't have any ill intentions!" I cried, quickly protecting myself from the ice by creating a spiritual shield.
"How dare you hurt our lady! This is death sentence for you fairy folk!" Roared Sporegon.
"Apologize!" Said Hunter.
"We'll burn you!" Said Magius.
"Stop, don't fight them!" I cried, stopping them by walking in front of the Mushroom-kin. Belle, Silver, Loki, and Mimy were all in fighting stance, but I stopped them all from doing something stupid.
"If you're really someone that harbors no ill intentions, then I assume you wouldn't stop us from apprehending you and interrogating you?" Asked Nieve.
"Sigh… Okay, if that's needed…" I said.
This fairy was a real problem!
