Chapter 1
P e n s t e l v y n

In a place called Penstelvyn, there was an enchanted forest called Scalfer Forest. Many people feared that forest. It was believed that the forest contained dangerous creatures that roamed around the forest. No one dared to go inside from fear of being eaten by monsters, cursed, starved to death, or even got lost and die. No one--not even the bravest person in history that done so many brave things and earned a lot of great gifts from the king and queens because of his courage--has ever entered the forest before. The forest was too dangerous to be explored, they said.

Some said and believed--especially those who was ancient and old and have the power to see the futures like a holy person--that there were something other than the monstrous creatures that lived in the forest, that is . . . spirits. The spirits were the ones that had a power to control some of the earth's elements. some villagers made a certain ceremonies to keep the spirits from getting mad and destroying the world.

These spirits were in hiding and always on the move to run away and keep themselves from the hands of humans. They know the human's mind and personalities. Humans have evil minds; they are never satisfied eventhough they have recieved many things that other people doesn't have. If humans took charge on the spirits, they will surely use the power to take over the world.

What they didn't know was, another enchanted creature--or more likely enchanted "people"--also lived there, deep inside the forest where they keep hidden from all the things that may endangered their habitats. These people were known as the Fairel. Fairels looked a lot like human except for their pointy ears.

Fairels were the friend of spirits. They share their living space and cultures. The fairels earn their powers from the help of the spirits. Fairels can fly, they can talk to the trees, the winds, the animals, the water, basically everything that has spirits.

Since fairels didn't like war and violence, sometimes the fairels went away from their hiding place and traveled far to another fairels' home that were hidden also. They brought some offering as an offering of peace to keep a good relationship and to keep a peace between them. When they arrived, the guest will receive a celebration as a sign of gratitude for coming there.

Not always for the forest fairel go away and visit the valley fairels, sometimes the valley fairels were the one to come there and brought something as an offering.

The fairel can fight, mind you, but they didn't think it would be a great site for any of them, and for the humans. Because fairel fought with their special powers, the world might be in danger also. Fire would be dancing around, burning all the living things. Water flooded all the parts of the land and washed everything that was on it's way. Lightning bolts jumping around, striking humans, trees, animals with their electric power. None of it was a very good thing indeed.

Because fairel was a very kind, caring, understanding creature that cares about people (not like humans) so they tried to keep a peace relationship to prevent the war from happening. They did not want humans to suffer.

Beside the Scalfer Forest, there was a rived named Shawn river that divides the forest with a village called Sidewood Village. The river was the only place near the forest that the people in the village dared to go to. But still, there were some that thought that the river was cursed or dangerous or filled with weird looking fishes that could eat your feet with one bite if you put your feet inside (but it was just a folk story to scare the kids from going across the river and into the river).

The village had a weird tradition, and kinda annoying one, because all the children from the day they were born were not allowed to go outside their houses until the age of 16. It was told since the first generation that had founded the village.

If you look carefully--I mean "if" you CAN look--there would be no small children playing outside their houses like the kids at our place--which is sometimes annoying with their high-pitched voices and their whining and their cries and their silly jokes and their silly pranks and their--anyway, the only people that was seen were grownups and young adults and sometimes a really old ones . . . ancient people.

In one of the houses, lived a little girl--although she was not so little anymore since she was turning 16 that very day--with her father, a great carpenter.

The father was named Caliber, a 29 year old man. He had a beautiful pair of blue crystal eyes and a dark hair long enough to cover his eyes and made him look mysterious. When he worked, he tied his hair so he revealed his focused blue eyes looking sharply at the furniture he was making. His tanned muscular arms were moving elegantly and forceful while he tapped, saw, cut, carved, polished, and painted the furniture he was working on. He had no facial hair and part of his body was perfect except for a long scar that marked his back. No one knew why it was there and Caliber himself never wanted to talk about it. Other than that, he was the most handsome man in the village.

Meanwhile, his daughter, Maybelle was a beautiful back-lengthed brown hair with brown eyes. Her peach colored lips match her round shaped face. Her white-skin shone compared to her father's tanned skin. She has an elegant posture for a 16 year old girl.

Although they seemed to be a very happy and lovable family (they never fought each other), something was about to change Maybelle's entire life and all the lies that were hidden from her would be revealed as her father sat down at the dinning table, looking sad as if he knew what that Maybelle would leave him.

But everything started when the sun rose at that very day, where Maybelle was walking towards the river to get water for making breakfast.