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=Lila Of Ryle=

The Gift
Once upon a time, there was a girl with the name of Lila. She lived in the town of Ryle filled with fairies and wizards. Lila's father, however, was not an immortal. Also, he did not know of his daughter's magic powers. He did not know about the magic in his village either!

Lila was a beautiful girl with dark chocolate hair and big green eyes with a hint of turquoise. She always loved to tie her hair into a French braid. Her silky long hair could touch her hips! Lila was very adventurous but yet gentle. She wasn't very interested in men at this age, but she may just fall in love...

This is how the story begins of a place with fairies and elves and ogres. When Lila was born she got a gift from the fairy Sarina. She had the gift of kindness and could not resist from being so nice.

Lila had a family of fairies, but they were not as professional as could be. Only the mother knew of her gift. Her dad gave her an amulet and it was not a normal amulet it was made out of her birthstone. When her father gave her the stone he did not know of the powers within it.

Lila was not fond of her gift but she never stopped believing in herself. She always had the hope of getting a new gift.

“Lila, please go pick some blackberries in the forest. Please be back by dinner.” Her mother said.

“Sure mother I will be back by dinner,” said Lila.

“ You must be back!” said the mother.

Lila walked away saying goodbye to her mother. As she was walking on a narrow path in the forest, she heard someone screaming for help.

A Stranger
“Heeeelp!” someone shrieked. Lila could not resist from helping so she walked towards the scream. Soon, she saw an old lady struggling to get her foot out from between two rocks.

Lila came near the old lady and said, “ Ma'am, are you alright?”

“ Oh thank goodness someone came!!!” yelled the old lady in happiness.”

Lila looked in her bag and took out some moisturizer and rubbed in between the two rocks and her leg. With success, the lady slipped her foot out of the rocks. “ Thank you sweet child you shall be blessed!!” said the old lady.

“ You’re welcome, “ said Lila with pride. “Come with me, sweet child, I shall reward you,” the old lady said.

“I am sorry kind lady, but I have to pick berries for my mother.”

“Child, you are strange to back away from me, you must stay. I have cookies straight out of the oven dear, you must stay.”

Lila foolishly agreed with the old lady and followed her into her house.

The Deal
Moments later, Lila was gobbling up the cookies as fast as a lightning bolt. “I shall grant you a wish for your kindness,” said the old lady. “What shall you need, my dear?”

“Oh, you are but only too kind,” Lila said. The lady grinned with pleasure.

“Anything for you my dear, but we have to make a deal,” said the old lady. “I will take away your gift and you must not fall in love with anyone in your life, if you do, at the stroke of midnight,when you are together, you kill him with a potion that will poison him for life. You must tell no one of this plan or you will be turned into dust.” Lila started crying. As she had to agree to this offer with no choice at all!! THe lady dissapeared and something was happening, but what?

Suddenly there was a cackle, Lila turned around and saw the lady was not herself anymore. She was a black figure floating on a broom in the middle of the room. Lila cried with despair. She dashed out of the witch's house and ran deep into the forest.

Meeting A Friend
That night, Lila was walking for hours and finally she came to a stop at a meadow that was filled with blueberry bushes. As she had promised her mother to come back with berries she started to do so. Then she heard a rustling sound in the bushes and came to a stop. She thought it was wind so did not pay much attention.Moments later it came back. Then it ran out of the bushes as fast as a cheetah running for life. When it stopped again Lila could see that it was a centaur.

Lila took one step back away from the creature. “Who… Wha.... What are you o… or better yet, who are you?” Lila stammered.

“I’m Sheldon, the centaur!” he said proudly.

“Then what are you doing here?” said Lila.

“Uh… I don’t really know,” he replied. “Wait, then what are you doing here?”

Lila cleared her throat. “I was picking berries for my mother.”

“Well, this is a great place to pick them, but in the middle of the night?”

"Were you here because of something? Did you lose something? Are you lost?" Lila asked.

"Like I said, I don't really know. But I was just walking when I found myself here," Sheldon said while trying to remember what he was doing before. However, from his face, Lila could tell he had no idea what he was doing here. Sheldon sighed. The clouds above started to get dark and heavier. "I knew it was going to rain!" Sheldon muttered.

**Sheldon's Secret**
Lila got surprised. "How did you know it was going to rain?"Lila asked.

"Promise that you'll keep it a secret, alright?" Sheldon whispered.

"Alright. I promise from the hearts of my bottom."

"Don't you mean the bottom of you're heart?"

"Oh, yeah."

"I am phycic ," he whispered softly into Lila's ears.

"You are?" Lila exclaimed.

"I shouldn't have told you that," Sheldon regretted.

"I'm really going to keep a secret, because, I have magic too," Lila said cheerfully but soon sadly. "I mean I used to..."

"I'm so terribly sorry. By the way, what is your name? I didn't get that,"

"Lila, Lila Jane Springer," Lila replied happily. Droplets of rain drizzled upon them. The rain started to get heavier. Soon, the rain started to sound like people applauding after an excellent performance. "I guess you were right about the rain!" Lila said as she ran underneath a tall tree. Sheldon nudged Lila to a shorter tree. "What did you do that for?

"Are you dumb?" Sheldon asked angrily. "You could have gotten yourself killed! Lightning targets to the closets and tallest object!"

"Sorry," Lila said softly, "I forgot."

What on Earth Were You Talking About?
"Wake up, Lila! Wake up!" Sheldon shouted while shaking Lila until she bumped into a tree. Lila dreamingly muttered something that Sheldon could not make out. "What on earth were you talking about?" Sheldon demanded.

She continued to say something mysterious and then suddenly, she got up and said casually, "rise and shine!" Lila stretched and yawned. Sheldon looked confused. "What's that face for?" Lila wandered.

"You just said... then you... but then... huh?" Sheldon stammered, still confused, he tried to explain again clearly. "I was trying to wake you up but then you, said something that I didn't understand. Your were scaring me to death!"

Lila took a long sigh. "Sheldon, I think you're imagining things."

"I was not!" there was a long pause. "Never mind!" Sheldon had a strong British accent, so every time he talked, Lila giggled.

Lila rode on Sheldon as they took a walk, they reached a village. There was a restaurant near by. Lila's and Sheldon's stomach rumbled with hunger.Sheldon's nose sniffed at the scrumptious food from the restaurant. "Want to eat?" Lila asked.

"Mmm... sure, but what about money?" Sheldon replied hungrily.

They slowly walked around in circles trying to think of something. A moment later Sheldon stumbles on something, it turned out to be a bag of coins. Lila quickly dismounted Sheldon and snatched the bag before anyone could see it. "I got that settled, today's our lucky day!" Lila walked towards the restaurant, she turned around to see Sheldon still standing there confused.

"Come on Sheldon, aren't you hungry?" asked Lila. There was a long pause before Sheldon spoke.

"Right, sorry, I was just wondering that....." Sheldon slowly said.

"What, what .....please tell me!!!" Lila said.

"Fine but you have to promise me not to laugh! You might think it's stupid. Don't panic, alright?" Sheldon answered.

"I was thinking that maybe....well.. don't you think it was sort of strange that we were so lucky to get a bag of coins that easily?" " I mean, I think that we are getting this luck from someone. For example, someone that wants something from us."Sheldon said. Lila was thinking it was a good prediction but who would want to follow them or HER?"

**The Mystery unravels**
The conversation ended and they ran to the restaurant.They ordered everything from the soups to the steak, (which was practically the entire menu.) An hour after sitting in the restaurant gobbling everything up, Lila finally says: "we should get going, we have a mystery to solve!"Sheldon finishes his Turkey leg and pays the bill. One moment later the waitress stops them saying "You are not going anywhere, because you still need three more coins to pay the bill."

Lila and Sheldon turn around to conversate." What are we going to do!?" cried Lila.

"Lets search our pockets....quickly because the waitress scares me!" Lila agrees and they start to do so.They were so busy they did not notice that a hand was crawling up to the table to give the coins. The hand quickly disappears and Sheldon looks up.

"Hey! Look on the table! There are coins!"yells Sheldon. The waitress counts the coins and quietly walks away. At That moment Lila bends over to find a lucky penny but instead she sees a man under the table!

" What are you doing here!!' Lila quickly reacts. "Uh.. I was cleaning the.. gu..gum off your .. table" he said. He got up from the ground and removed a dust bunny off his shoulder.Lila lets him speak and listens to his story.

"My name is Maxwell and I come here for your luck. I seek from you something in return."

" What do you need from us?" asked Sheldon.

" I'll tell you on the way, it's sort of a long story." Maxwell said.

**The real story**
"So why are you being so kind to us?" asked Lila. " I gave you the coins because I was to make you secretly follow me to Demet without you noticing it.. But because of the centaur- "You mean Sheldon!' interrupted Sheldon angrily.

"Right, whatever. But because of //Sheldon,// I cant complete my task....."said Maxwell. Maxwell mumbled something that Lila could not understand.

" What?" said Lila. " Oh!....sorry I was just talking to myself." said Maxwell. "Can you not tell anyone that you found out that I was your source of luck? said Maxwell. "Why not?"asked Sheldon. "Because the king sent me to find a gifted, nice girl so he could... he could..." "He could what?"asked Lila. " Well, actually, I don't really know, he never really told me. " Who is this king anyway?" " Have you ever Heard of Dore the king of Demet?"asked Maxwell "No, never." replied Lila Lila motioned Sheldon to a stop and said "Look!" There was village almost a mile away. They walked to it silently and Sheldon tried to start a conversation but Lila and Maxwell were to tired to speak. Maxwell was staring at Lila the entire time and they did not even notice it. They got to the village and were now close enough to see a sign saying:

Lila, Maxwell and Sheldon walked through Goreville for six hours until they found a medow right near a river.Sheldon suggested that they should camp out right their since they did not have enough money for the hotel.The next thing they knew they were sleeping like they haven't slept in one hundred years.

At about seven a.m. they woke up realizing they were tied to a tree and ogres were surrounding them.Since Sheldon was the most afraid of them he screamed like crazy.

"Aaaaaaahhhh" Sheldon screamed. "Quiet down Sheldon you're giving me a headache" said Maxwell. "How do we get out of here?" asked Lila in a panic. " These are ogres we are dealing with, I know that they always test new comers just to make sure they are safe enough to be in thier village." said Maxwell. " How do yuo know so much?" asked Sheldon. "Well, I have been here before so i know how to handle this. Follow my lead." replied Maxwell