Imp: Little,
mischievous, troublesome creature.
Fairy: Little,
beautiful, winged creature with magical powers.
Impairy:
Little, beautiful, magical, winged but a mischievous and troublesome creature.
the Impairy Story: Prologue
Impairies became
to be centuries ago, when a young, rebellious group of fairies sneaked out of the
forest one Halloween night against their queen’s commands to dance underneath
the full moon in a cemetery with a coven of witches called the Veiled Women.
The fairies’ queen, Ryannon was very strict and she didn’t want them to be
influenced by humans. When she found out that these young fairies had danced
with witches, she cursed them and tried to turn them into imps. She expected
them to be ugly, useless, creatures, but she was wrong. Except for the purple
pigment to the skin, their sharp horns on their heads, their yellow, cat-like
eyes, their lust for causing trouble, and their hypersensitivity towards light
and bright colors, they still had the magic and beauty of fairies. Even though
Queen Ryannon was very displeased and they scared the other fairies, the
impairies were still allowed to be in contact with the fairy clan, but they had
to live deeper in the woods, in an underground dwelling. The group of impairies
then reproduced over time and gradually began their own clan.
The impairies’
wings were very dragon-like, pointed, flexible, and large. The outside of their
wings were black and scaly but the inside of them had a gray tint and were so
see through that you could see their pumping veins. They could fly quicker than
fairies and were rarely caught if chased. They weren’t bad but weren’t always
good either. Impairies were known for being deceitful and provocative,
flirting, playing mind games with humans at night. Adding to their alluring
charm, the females also wore low-cut black dresses with their mid-drift showing
and the males didn’t wear any shirts, only wore black pants.
The impairies
remained allies with the Veiled Women as well. The Veiled Women were a free
spirited, caring, skillful, and open-minded coven but they always had their
faces covered with red veils. They believed that one didn’t need a face as long
as their soul showed beautiful kindness towards others; towards the sinners and
the pure alike. The Veiled Women helped impairies greatly by sewing them dark
colored clothing. The Veiled Women also gave them something of a great power.
They gave a very potent potion called the Daé Nít Potion that made an impairy
human-size and made them able to be in sunlight for a short time but the potion
was only made once a year and only three bottles were made, enough for three
months for one impairy. Each year, a different impairy was randomly chosen.
Now, time had
passed and one particular young impairy couldn’t wait to have it and join the
outside world. Her name was Shadow and she was ironically known as the misfit
among outcasts. She enjoyed causing trouble like the others, but unlike the
others, she wanted to find a true companion in a human besides the Veiled Women. The others laughed
and ridiculed her for this hope but she didn’t care. She knew that humans were
forthcoming and elegant, not just naïve beings that fell for the impairies’
pranks. In search of this human comrade, she and her black cat named Moonlight,
began to roam the sleeping town beyond the woods every night.
Finally, after
months of looking, they found someone one night. It was an adolescent girl with
long brunette hair. They observed her for many nights afterwards. They didn’t
know much about her but Shadow was drawn to her for some odd reason. When she
wasn’t sleeping like the other humans, the girl would be reading, becoming
totally absorbed in the words of a book. She also would sneak out to the
cemetery or meet some eccentric, introverted humans that dressed like
impairies, wearing dark clothes, hair, and make-up. The girl looked out of
place among this group. She wore the same clothes and hair but she had a
positive aura about her, a type of light that wouldn’t hurt. Shadow had to meet
her…she just had to!
To be continued…
(c)Lena Holdman, all rights reserved
I'm going to re-visit this story series and finally finish it.
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