Zifhono Fno and the Release of the Fairies: A Fantasy Upon Noland

By Adlin Joe G.M

No one knows about Noland. In Noland Good Fairies have been arrested inside a wall of fire by the maggos. Minelon, the king of Noland wants to release the fairies. Will he concentrate in that while Lotta's evilness overwhelms him? Or his son Zifhono Fno will do that? Zifhono has to find out his missing heart within eighty-eight days. If he fails, he will surely die. Will he find out his powerful heart at least? If someone captures it and crashes it at the Castle Tomb of the Evil Fairies, they will be released and death will take Zifhono away. Will he prevent the release of the Evil Fairies? If released, who will put an end to the Evil Fairies?

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Apr 7, 2014
• ISBN: 9781496976840

Adlin Joe G.M

Adlin Joe ([e-mail]) is a young writer from Mathapuram, Tholayavattam, Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu India(629157). His father is Mr.George and his mother is Mrs.Rita. He has two brothers Ashlin, the elder and Arsath Allan, the younger. He has completed his schooling at St.John's School, Karungal; Carmel School, Mathapuram; M.P.A.M.S Puthukkadai and at Good Shepherd School, Marthandam. He is presently doing his under graduate study in English Literature at Annai Velankanni College, Tholayavattam. This is the first book he has written. He is a good entertainer with singing, dancing, playing musical instruments, oration and enacting. He loves writing Odes in his own style. Send me your suggestions at [e-mail]

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An Unexpected Loss

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I am horrified when I think of my past.

‘NANA TUA XAXORA TI,’ bawled Sacro. She was serious and wanted not to do what Minelon asked for.

‘XAXORA? Perhaps it may be.’ Vero supposed Sacro was right.

‘It must not be dangerous. I hope,’ Dero supported Minelon.

‘Let’s not discuss on it any more. Better setting out to action,’ Minelon protested.

Minelon is the king of Noland which is the western part a large island- divided into two countries: Noland in the west and Cyphermy in the east. This island situates at the centre of the Pacific Ocean and is a floating island. No other continent knows about this continent and Noland. In Noland there are maggos and ordinary humans. Maggos are humans with some magical power who live in Noland. These maggos are always dressed in orange. These people move closely with ordinary humans. There is no discrimination based on racism. Their main occupation is cultivating fruit trees. They were the ones who provide fruits to the palace of the king. The king is not a maggo but an ordinary human. The normal beings as the king wear clothes of different colours. On Monday, white; on Tuesday, red; on Wednesday, purple and so on…

Sacro, Vero and Dero are sisters… shortly called as Ro sisters or Ros who were thought to be maggos. These Ro sisters were the friends of Minelon. They were too close to him and they guided him in ruling the land peacefully. The people of Noland and Cyphermy have peculiar names which are different from the people of other countries. But some possess names that are embraced from other countries.

Noland is a country with beautiful orchards, grasslands, fields and here and there stands beautiful mountains that are blue in colour. The palace in Noland is the most beautiful palace ever built in the world. It is a biggest palace. The specialty about the palace is that it had a mystical room. No one enters in it.

In the southern part of the island there was a wall of fire that encircled a small land named Lockoland because many Good fairies had been locked by magical spells in that Lockoland. The maggos who lived before hundred and fifty years did sacrifice their lives in order to give power to their fellow ones to bring all the fairies under their control and created a wall of fire around that land and arrested the fairies inside it.

I was said that they had done so because they were envious upon the good fairies for they were more powerful than the maggos. But it was not the complete detail. Only later I came to know the truth which I will disclose it to you later.

Minelon wanted to go to that Lockoland to release the fairies with the support of his Ro friends. The Ro sisters wanted to help him but Sacro thought that it was XAXORA which means dangerous.

Sacro was a young woman of foreseeing things. She was serious in everything. As she was very close with Minelon, she did not deny anything to him. She was very lovely with her sisters too. But not as she was with the king. While saying about the younger sister, Dero, she is very playful. She enjoys doing magic upon others and gets entertained with that. Vero is both serious and playful… half like her elder sister and half like her younger sister. Three of them were always in simple clothes.

Minelon is quite different from these three. He behaves friendly with his friends but not with his people. He behaves majestically before his subjects. He wants what he thinks to do should be done. He is little bit romantic too. He was kind to his people. No tone of command comes from his mouth when he orders others to do their assigned job though his appears before them majestically. Instead his tone is friendly and everone wants to do what he orders. He is a brave man who can fight ten persons a time. He is playful. But not as Dero. Whatever he does is with the hope that he has in his own strength. He is always dressed royally. But he is a man of simplicity. His face is completely shaved and it wears within it the look of power and courage.

‘NANA TUA XAXORA TI,’ said Sacro again in Nolan language, the mother tongue of the people of Noland. It means ‘Don’t go. It’s dangerous.’

Minelon was not ready to accept the words of Sacro. He was very curious to see the wall of fire and to let the fairies out. He drifted his eyes away from with frustration.

As her close friend was continuously insisting on his point, Sacro promised to take him near the wall of fire.

‘We risk our lives,’ she said impatiently. She foresaw something dangerous. Her face never had with it a peaceful look.

‘Get the chariot ready,’ ordered the king to one of his servants.

‘Don’t bother him,’ Dero told him. ‘LEto CAriOTy BOonO,’ she uttered. It was a spell. As soon as she uttered the spell, the sound of a chariot was heard outside the palace.

Four of them set out from the dining room and got out of the palace. Minelon was surprised to see a white chariot drawn by a two legged big rabbit… a golden one. It had one leg at the front and the other at the back. He overjoyed in happiness. ‘The fairies are going to be released.’

Even though the night was brightened by the moon… Who was on the sky with her little beauty and little brightness, the rabbit’s brightness brought light to that night. There was no one on it to ride it.

There had been no rabbit rider in the world ever heard of. Minelon called a horse man. He was a highly talented rider of horse. He tried to mount the rabbit. The rabbit stumbled and the man fell down at its feet. He got angry and he blamed the rabbit. Again he fell down while trying to mount on it once more.

His anger increased and he tried to beat the rabbit with a whip. Before he could open his eyes after a blink, the rabbit caught him around in its curled tail and swung him in the air for some time. He cried in pain. His condition was pitiful. It also provoked laughter.

Dero ordered the rabbit to stop disobeying and let the man down. The creature obeyed her. The man bent infront of it and thanked it with folding hands and ran away from the sight crying.

‘I will get someone else,’ the king was disappointed.

‘No need friend. The rabbit knows the way,’ said Vero.

‘Come in,’ invited the king after getting into the chariot.

‘Again I say, we risk our lives,’ Sacro warned him.

‘No friend. Do not worry. Nothing wrong will happen. We will be safe,’ playfully said the king for he was a young man of twenty eight with a trust on his own bravery and the magical powers of his three friends.

‘Start two legged elf,’ ordered Dero. The rabbit flew towards south… to Lockoland in a lightning speed. It ran very fast with its two legs.

Vero held the hands of Minelon tightly to avoid him fall out of the chariot as that riding was completely a new one for him. He had seen many magical performances of these sisters but not such a mysterious chariot with a strange creature.

‘How happy I am to undertake such an adventure!’ were the words of Minelon when he was on his travel to Lockoland. But Sacro was moody that day because she dreaded that something wrong might happen.

Within few minutes the creature reached the place but it stopped some metres away from the fire wall. There was a sign of fear in its eyes.

All got out of it and were surprised by the fire of wall. It was very high. They lifted their heads above and saw it. It was so long and was not about to have an end.

‘You all be here. Let me go first.’ Minelon spoke enthusiastically. If any of his subjects were there, he would not expose that enthusiasm.

‘No, no! You should not. I think only maggos should go near it. But you should not, my dear friend,’ Sacro said to Minelon.

‘Alright. You go.’ Minelon sighed in despair.

Sacro kissed Minelon on his right cheek and other two Ro sisters also kissed him for it was a practice in Noland to express their friendship. The Ro sisters moved towards the fire of wall leaving Minelon near the rabbit.

‘I am a man of action. Do they want to be passive here?’ Minelon had to obey sacro. He could only think this but not expose.

‘How can we release the fairies?’ asked Vero.

‘I do not know. Do you know it Sacro?’ Dero asked Sacro.

‘No, my dear sister, I’ll go first in to this fire using my magical powers.’ Sacro made a decision. ‘TIra TEerARavO Ni,’ uttered she and was about to enter the wall of fire.

Suddenly a woman of fire came out of the wall with half of her body below the waist immersed in the wall of fire. She bowed to the Ro sisters. Hiding their shock inside their mind, they bowed in turn.

On seeing this from a distance, Minelon thought that the woman was there to kill his friends.

‘The servant of maggos, I, Fyragua, warn you not to get inside this wall of fire for that will put an end to your life,’ the fire woman spoke out.

‘Servant of maggos? What do you say?’ Dero bit her lips. She could not understand what Fyragua said.

‘Dear lady, after arresting the fairies inside this fire wall, your ancestors created me to guard this wall. It is my duty to warn the maggos who try to enter it and to kill people with my sword who belong to ordinary human race.’

‘To kill people who belong to ordinary human race? It’s injustice.’ Vero glared at Fyragua as if she were to eat her up.

‘My dear maggo lady! If three people of other race sacrifice their lives in this wall of fire, it will be destroyed and the fairies will be free. It is my responsibility not to let the fairies free,’ said Fyragua being faithful to the creators of her.

‘Fairies do no harm to maggos. They were friendly to our ancestors. But our ancestors were jealous upon the fairies and did such cruel thing to them.’ Vero reminded.

‘I don’t mind that madam. I will do my duty,’ Fyragua said firmly. Her sincere service was amazing.

‘Do not you understand what I say? I am here to do a good thing… to let the fairies free, Fyragua.’ Sacro became furious because she thought that Fyragua was lying perhaps.

Vero and Dero took a decision to fight. They uttered a spell and immediately a sword was found in each of their hands.

Fyragua rolled her eyes. ‘Ladies, this may not work out. I have told you already that maggos cannot open this wall.’

Minelon could not stand watching all these scenes for he was a man of action. He drove out his sword out of the sheath and ran towards Fyragua.

‘Killing her will pay a way for the freedom of fairies,’ he said.

‘I think so,’ said Dero.

‘Let’s fight and kill this worst Fyragua,’ said Vero angrily.

‘Don’t do it. I dread of some danger. It may put an end to our lives,’ said Sacro.

Others did not mind what Sacro said and they were ready to fight against Fyragua with their swords.

‘A non maggo! He must be killed,’ cried Fyragua driving out her matrol sword… it can kill anyone though they are more powerful.

‘No, Fyragua, stop it. He is my friend. Please don’t harm him,’ pleaded Sacro.

‘No, he must be killed,’ again Fyragua said adamantly. She tried to stab him but that was carefully stopped by Minelon using his technique in sword fighting.

‘Blood!’ said Fyragua, ‘This sword needs your blood, you my new guest.’ The fire woman stood on her plan.

Sacro found that Fyragua was not ready to yield. So she joined the fight to protect her friend. Four of them were fighting with her. The fire woman managed to fight with all the four. The sword fight extended more than half an hour. The friends became very tired. They did not think of magic then for they were busily engaged in fighting.

‘Go away, Minelon. Run to the Chariot!’ shouted Sacro.

As Minelon could not fight anymore, he did as she said.

Fyragua tried to kill him but all in vain. She could not come out of the fire wall because she had been created in such a way that the part of her body below the waist would not come out of the wall. Sacro hoped that Fyragua would not harm her and her sisters. ‘We are maggos and she will not harm us.’

On the contrary Fyragua cried, ‘Blood!’ and stabbed Sacro with her sword and said, ‘You let him escape. So, you must die.’ Sacro groaned in pain. Blood oozed out from the cut and gushed out from her mouth. Dero and Vero caught her in their hands. Their hearts stilled in shock. They got angry upon Fyragua.

Fyragua turned her eyes towards Dero and Vero to kill them as well. Understanding her intention Sacro uttered, ‘VEerONus,’ and vanished from the place with her sisters and came to sight infront of Minelon who was near the chariot.

Minelon was speechless while he saw the pitiable condition of his close friend. Dero and vero wept bitterly. The fire woman got herself back into the wall of fire, coolly.

‘It is all because of me. I compelled you to take me here,’ Minelon shed tears, ‘You are stabbed for