Writer Unblocked

Fairy Azura danced in the rain, pirouetting through the garden puddle with glee abandon. It was such fun being a fairy. Her job was just that: to play! An angel of the rain, the healing power of water lit up her heart.

Azura spent her days protecting the waters of the earth, from the majestic oceans themselves to this, a simple garden puddle. Water held within it the gateway to a fourth dimensional paradise, an ocean world, the waters broken up by small islands of flowers, all colours of the rainbow lighting up the sea. This was her real home, and where she returned at night to rest.

However this small puddle was fun. Because water was a master healer, even this tiny pocket of water held a magic vibration.

Slowly she finished her dance. It was time to fly away to the next pool of water requiring help. But she could not, her wings would not work. Desperately she tried to lift them up, but they were heavy and would not move. This water she was in must be cursed, it had placed some vicious chains around her.

Instinctively, she knew what it was. Weedkiller had been sprayed on the paving stones beneath the puddle. She could feel the chemical trying to erode her lungs, and pulling down her wings.

Weedkiller was toxic to all nature fairies, damping down their light. Azura tried again to lift her wings, but could not. So she closed her eyes, and began a sacred chant. With every word she murmured, she could feel the weedkiller changing, its chemistry rearranging itself so that the poison was neutralised. Her wings began to flap with a new life. She flew away, and the whole fairy kingdom became protected, as one, from weedkiller.

Azura flew high in the sky, and then circled above the sea. It was time to play again, this time with the dolphins.

Across the world, fairies began to fly with joy, enjoying a new freedom, in a world where pollutants could no longer harm them.