Zeeta and the Wizarding World
Peri

Mentari still feels a little sleepiness despite his task to illuminate the Earth. At that time, Zeeta who was with Danny and Recko had left for the forest to hunt according to the promise that Recko gave.

On the back of Recko there is his flagship rifle that he always carries when he will hunt as a daily. While Danny, he carried a large woven basket on his back and a catapult accompanied by a stone bullet in a special pouch that he slipped on his waist. Then there was Zeeta who was wearing a plain light blue dress. He only carried his body, nothing more and nothing less.

Danny has been accustomed to carrying heavy loads for children his age due to his daily life that helped Recko hunt. The road is not smooth in the forest, as well as the conditions are always uncertain make Danny more amazed the figure of his father who has the nickname "Recko the Hunter", the", because only his father could go further into the forest than anyone else who did not dare because of a fairy tale from the locals.

The forest they were heading to was not too far from the gardens belonging to the villagers. But in truth, the forest they were heading to was no ordinary forest. According to folklore, this forest is inhabited by creatures that are said to exist only in fairy books, namely Elves. Unfortunately, almost none of them have ever seen that the figure is real.

In plain view, the forest is like an ordinary forest. It is tall, dense, and cool, and has plenty of animal life in it. But according to the story, the forest was far from the usual word. This natural appearance has a very beautiful view because of the Elves who live there. Although the villagers had never seen the fairy figure that was always mentioned in the fairy tale, they still carried out what was forbidden in the fairy tale, which was to stay away from the forest when the sun had set.

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Recko leads the way while Zeeta is held by Danny with his left hand. A steep road with tree roots towering over the ground, as well as moss that makes slipping if not careful make Zeeta a little overwhelmed.

Moments after they had walked through the forest, Recko came to a halt and immediately turned his face down and prepared a rifle from his back. Zeeta and Danny wait for Recko a little bit away from him. They could see there was a deer he was aiming at, and....

'CWH!'

The deer fell down immediately. Without making a sound from the rifle, Recko managed to shoot his prey.

“Hey, did Uncle Recko use magic? Why didn't the gun go off?” zeeta whispered.

“No. It was purely the prowess of Father and his rifle was indeed silent,” replied Danny who also whispered in a proud tone.

“Hmm... Uncle Recko is great, yes!” Zeeta smiles naturally. At his smile, Danny glared red.

“A-I'm great too! I'll prove it to you!” Danny saw a rabbit on his right. He uses catapults to try to bring down his prey. There was also a desire to show off from within his mind in order for Zeeta to be impressed.

“Hee...? Can you hunt with catapults?” The hesitant Zeeta shows her slanted eyebrows next to her.

“Of course you can!” shortly thereafter Danny shoots a rock from his catapult at the rabbit and is on target.

“Wah, great!” Zeeta was amazed along with her sparkling eyes. He also gave a small applause.

“Hahah, this is still easy for me!” Danny departed the waist and his nose looked gaping sign he paved with his ability as well as happy Zeeta managed to be amazed.

“Hmm...” Zeeta looked left and right. He seems to want to do something. After finding what he was looking for, he saw something small and had four strands of wings. The creature was on top of the tree on the left with its range quite high.

“Hey, help me try something, dong!” exclaim Zeeta asking.

“What?”

“I want to try using my magic here.”

“Eh?! Isn't that dangerous?!” Danny was shocked until his face looked terrified.

“Why is your face like seeing a ghost?”

“No no no no, did your father not tell that story?!” ask Danny who's panicking.

“News? What story?” Zeeta tilted her head.

“This forest will anger you and then eliminate your existence if you use magic here, the story of the Fairy Forest!”

“Oh... hmm. My father told me once, but no one has ever seen them, ‘kan?”

“Ya that's right, anyway..” Danny calms himself down.

“So, no one knows the story is true or not! Then quickly help me, you want to get my father's honey sandwich and milk, right?”

“You have a point.... All right, what should I do?” with a little sweet encouragement from Zeeta, Danny wants to help Zeeta.

After getting okay from Danny, Zeeta immediately helps Danny steer his catapult towards the tree he is heading towards.

“Stay like that!” Zeeta closed her eyes and tried to bring out the mana grains. After succeeding, the mana that came out of him was colorful, Danny was fixated on this view. He thought the color was beautiful.

Zeeta collects his mana in his right hand and puts it on a stone that is ready to be shot. “Release!” Zeeta slightly shouted as she said it.

‘FWOOOOSSH!’

With lightning fast, the stone is fired at the target by issuing a kind of blue line and colorful grains. Later then....

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“ADUH!” someone sounded groaning.

“Eh?!” Zeeta was surprised at his voice.

“Zee? What exactly are you shooting at?” ask Danny who's confused about the direction they're shooting.

“You didn't see the bird? The bird had four...” when Zeeta pointed to the tree, he did not see what he had seen before. “Loohh? Where is he?” Zeeta doesn't understand what just happened.

“Kids, did you guys get anything?” Recko returns to his children along with the deer he had pocked on his shoulder.

“Y-yah.. I got one rabbit, anyway.., but it was Zeeta....” Danny told me what happened.

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"So yes...” Recko closed his eyes, he understood what was happening and what he had to say at a time like this. “Zeeta, quickly apologize!” continue with a firm tone.

“Ha... hahh? Why?!” Zeeta is confused.

“What did you shoot with that catapult was Fairy, and you put that stone in your magic? He must be in a lot of pain. Quickly apologize!”

“Peri...? B-but, hasn't anyone seen her yet? Why is Uncle sure that it was Peri?”

“Think about it. In this forest there are only animals and plants, who else can we talk if not Fairy?”

Now Zeeta's face looks like a ghost.

“Ma-pardon me, tuan—eh, anu... madam... The fairy! I didn't mean to hurt you, I guess your four wings belong to birds, I'm sorry!” pekik Zeeta the storm.

“Good. If you make a mistake, apologize. Do you understand?” Recko patted Zeeta's head.

“Uuh... Uncle Recko is like my father only.. fierce!” Zeeta puffed her cheeks.

“Hey, hey. I AM INDEED a father.”

“Lagian Zee," lead Danny, "in this world where there are birds that have four wings, ‘kan?”

“Oh... true too...”.

“Haaahhh .. Then let's move on. We don't want to get out of the forest when the sun has set.” Rekso led the way back. Meanwhile, a figure that had been talked about peered out from the trunk of the tree earlier.

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Zeeta, Danny, and Recko have been on the hunt with quite satisfactory results. They will soon return to the village with three deer and seven rabbits. Later, some of the meat will be sold by the Recko family, and some will be given to Arthur. Normally Recko would only sell his own produce, but this time because there was Zeeta, he would share.

The sun will soon take turns with the moon, Danny and Zeeta continue to follow Recko who leads the way. They left the streets adjacent to the river that will bring the calm flow to the village. Hearing the calm roar of the current, made Zeeta feel thirsty. He immediately asked Recko's permission to drink for a while and immediately got okay from him. Zeeta goes to the river and drinks.

“Haaah .. fresh...” Zeeta, who has relieved his thirst, intends to return to where Recko and Danny are waiting. But unfortunately, he came to a halt when he heard some sounds around him.

“Kihihi, so he has hurt you?” the first voice.

“Yes, whereas he was only a human,” responded a second voice.

“Then, no harm, ‘kan, if we reply him?” ask for the first voice.

“Y-ya.. I guess..” reply second voice again.

Zeeta immediately turned to the source of the voice, which was a large tree trunk above him. “Peri?!” he immediately looked up after seeing more than two fairies on the trunk.

“Oh? What'sthis...? She can see Peri?” the first voice, which was sourced from a fairy, looked slightly stunned.

“Relax, Sylva. We just can't believe it, a little kid like him can hurt you..” Now, a third voice was heard, which of course came from a fairy.

Zeeta who heard their conversation immediately knew that she was the one being talked about. “A-anu .. I'm sorry for being so presumptuous... I don't know if my shot was Fairy... I thought the wings belonged to a bird, so...” He apologized for his actions. He looks sorry.

“So, suppose what you see is indeed a bird, you will still use your mana to hunt? Didn't you think anyone knew the bird had a family and you took everything from them?” the voice of the first fairy was heard rising.

“E-eh..?” Zeeta. Meanwhile, the sun began to sink in half. What the villagers have always avoided will soon happen to Zeeta.

“Because that's why humans are stupid! They only think of their own desires!” The elf who had ascended the apoplexy still continued his words.

“I didn't mean it!” Zeeta tries to defend herself.

“No no no .. Even if you don't mean to, you have to take responsibility. You've hurt Peri, am I wrong?”

“Responsible...? What ... should I do..?” zeeta's legs started to tremble.

“Of course with... finish your time here!” The first elf appeared and lifted Zeeta from the ground.

Shortly before Zeeta was lifted from the ground, he remembered the ban from the village's hereditary fairy tale and he had broken it. Afraid of what will happen next, Zeeta yells, “Tidaaaaak..!”

Danny and Recko who began to worry because Zeeta did not come back, immediately panicked not playing when he heard the cry of Zeeta's helpline. They immediately followed where Zeeta had gone before. Even so, along with the setting of the sun, there was no one there.

“Cannot...” Recko's eyes were wide.

The panicked Hunter then tried to find his relatives' daughters around him even though the visibility was limited because it was dark. However, the rice had become porridge.

They're late.

“This is impossible...! Danny ... You heard Zeeta's voice from here, ‘right?!” The panicked Recko also made Danny panic.

“Y-yes. I heard it clearly!”

“Sial ... Danny, go back to the village and tell me what happened! Ask them to help find Zeeta, I'll keep looking for her!”

“Ba-good!” Danny immediately put the basket with his quarry, turned on the flashlight, and ran as fast as he could.

“What happened?! It all happened so fast! We're not far from Zeeta but suddenly she's gone?! Don't-don't...” murmured Danny in the middle of his run. He also remembered the ban from the fairy tale of the villagers.

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Danny has been driving around from house to house to enlist the help of the villagers in search of the suddenly lost Zeeta. Meanwhile, Arthur who first found out, without speaking much immediately took out a flashlight and launched mana at his feet to dart into the forest.

Arthur immediately asks what happened to Recko after meeting on the spot.

“Peri, yes," said Arthur, "watered, I've never seen Fairy before either. I didn't expect that Zeeta could actually see them.

“I'm sorry. This is all because I left Zeeta alone.” Recko replied.

“No. None of us can predict what Zeeta can do, so you don't have to feel guilty. Rather than that, help me look for signs of where she is before she goes missing. You're good at this, ‘kan?”

“Ah, yes... if that...” Recko explains Zeeta's movements in great detail, down to the part of Zeeta that shakes in fear, due to her hunting and magic talent.

“Fear? Are Elves indeed such a creature.?” Arthur's confused.

“Not only that, he suddenly lifted up and disappeared just like that. As if ...he was taken away from here by teleportation or something,” Recko replied.

“Hmmm Arthur was lost in his thoughts. Shortly afterwards, dozens of villagers including the village chief also came to help find Zeeta with many lighting aids such as flashlights and torches.

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Meanwhile, the three figures of the previous Elves were looking from afar on top of a large tree trunk. “This is all because of you, Sylva!” said the first Fairy who previously scared Zeeta.

“I?! No no, none of this would have happened if you hadn't scared that human, Falmus!” answer the voice of the second fairy.

“Cih. I just wanted to make him not repeat his actions, but he instead shouted and so excited like this....what if the Queen knows?!” Falmus was upset.

Falmus has pointed ears like fairies in general, unique hair that is brown, his eyes like a very sleepy person with black eyeballs.

“The Queen certainly already knows if this is a scene.. we are definitely punished!” tukas Sylva the resigned.

Just like Falmus' ears, Sylva also had pointed ears. His hair was short straight and green in color, his eyes were bright yellow.

“Hey you guys.. Come here for a minute. Have you ever seen this..?” Yuuvi, the voice of the third Fairy, had long dark blue hair that covered her eyes. He brought a stick with him.

Sylva and Falmus immediately approached Yuuvi, they watched Zeeta sleeping on a tree trunk that was twice as large as her body give rise to a moon-shaped blue light from the earrings in her left ear.

“Hei... isn't this..” Falmus was familiar with the sign. So too with Sylva.

“See... Even his nature tries to make him safe!” said Yuuvi who saw the twigs growing around Zeeta so that she would not fall.

“You guys wait here, I'll call the Queen!” Sylva immediately flew away.

“As long as I live, I have never seen a human being loved by nature.”, said Falmus, who sat propped his chin on his knee.

“I too...,” Yuuvi agreed and glued to Zeeta.

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Shortly thereafter the Queen mentioned they had come with Sylva. “Yeah..," he said shortly after he saw the earrings on Zeeta's left ear.

“What's up, Queen?” ask Sylva.

“Hahahah... no.. it's okay." The queen immediately stroked the sleeping Zeeta.

“Falmus, Yuuvi, Sylva, I look forward to the details of what happens from your mouth later. Understand?” with a gentle yet piercing tone, the Queen was like she was going to punish the three fairies.

“Y-yes, Queen!” answer the three Elves simultaneously.

“For you, son.. It's not time you were here yet. So, forget what happened and come back with your family.” The queen rotated her right index finger several times and slid the pink mana grains to her. Before long, Zeeta lifted up from the trunk and descended slowly to the ground.

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Arthur and the other villagers are already about to give up looking for Zeeta for tonight and plan to continue tomorrow. Yet....

“Dad..?” zeeta's voice immediately made the entire village fall towards him. Zeeta stood among the trees without any injuries.

Arthur immediately runs to pick up Zeeta and immediately holds her. “Zeeta! You all right?! Are there no wounds?! Didn't you meet the bear?!” Arthur examined each side of his body, whether or not his body was injured.

“Ehehe... Uncle Recko and Danny have taught me a lot. Besides... Why are you here? Do we want to have a party..?” ask Zeeta.

Seeing that Zeeta is fine, everyone who came looking for her, including the children, was relieved. How not, the sweet daughter who is always cheerful with her father suddenly lost in the forest, will make anyone panic.

“Son, don't you remember that you disappeared in the woods?” ask Arthur.

“Eh? Disappear? I don't think..” Zeeta is in a daze.

Village Chief pats Arthur's right shoulder, “Already. We continue the conversation tomorrow, the important thing is that Zeeta is safe. Let's go home and rest,” he said.

“Ba-good...” Arthur saw everyone showing a smile to himself and Zeeta, he quickly thanked them, “all, thank you for helping me find Zeeta. I was really relieved when she was able to go home unharmed, once again, thank you!”

“Take it easy, Arthur! After all, all the people in this village are family. Help each other is common here!” someone said.

“Ya, right!” the other sahut.

Recko and Danny get close to Arthur. “Then, what are you waiting for? The day is late and the children should rest,”, Recko said.

“Ya, alright.” After Arthur answered him, the group of people dispersed towards their homes.

Meanwhile, from the depths of the forest, on top of a tall tree trunk, was the Fairy Queen observing from there. “I don't think three hundred years have passed, yes. Is this what you call destiny?” muttered alone.