Darkstar and the Rubin Heart by Anita Horvat (red white royal blue .TXT) 📕

knew that he was looking in the Fairy.
A fairy so simply shy that Darkstar smilled to him and made a movement to see what the fairy would do.
– Yes of course...I will. I would...-said the small, shy person. His brown eyes were filled with trouble. - I am looking for my sister Aspunee. I was tied up there on that tree and a villan looked at me with a knife. I was self guilty, master. I belived a villan would help me find my sister Apunee but he tricked me to lead him to the river. Give me the money and the gold you have, Colrado! Then I will let you go. Said the villain. As like every fairy caries gold! No, sir. I am not that kind of fairy, master. I am just a guide. Master. Thank you, for saving me. – A fairy sat on the cold river bank and he was trying to find his slippers, when he didin't find them he took flowers and put them on his feet as slippers and he started to say silently. - The knife was sharp. And I said I don't know what you are talking about, Zatho, I have no money. And he said to me you know I am going to find mermaids, and sell them the dear poition you made called Fastgert. The magic poison. Fastgert? Zatho, that's for barking. You don't want marmaids to bark or?, I lied. Master. I lied. But the villain was terrible and he said Shut. Shut. Give me the money I am losing patients...- Fairy Colrado that was the fairy's name Darkstar understood stopped there and whatched the river for stones and lilies. He picked them up and started to count them fast. Then he looked in Darkstar who was sitting on his horse only a meter beyond the river bank.
And he was listining what Colrado said because he didn't like what he was hearing, the magic poison made him ill. How was that villains always find the way to destroy small creatures? And mermaids he Halthars prince never saw.
Mermaids are beatiful ocean people.
Darkstar waited for Colrado to count the stones and lilies and bowed his shoulders to Colrado.
-Don't take them, master. This is my treasure. My.
- Treasure. The stones and lilies are... I don't understand, Colrado? How can this be your treasure, that are only stones and lilies.
- To you, Colrado wants it. – Said Colrado with golden eyes. – It is mine. But sometimes I share it with you you like music? I enjoy in it. Listen...- Colrado put the stones and lilies and a strange music made a river flow go faster to the forest.
- Great, magic. Say, and then what happend? How did you get in the water? – Darkstar watched him. – Where did that Zatho go? We must stop him.
- Well, you see, I had something with me. A stone with turning colours. You, know magic stone. A present from Karoline. You surely have heard of her, master Darkstar. She is a magician, a power source of my kind. Well, you know when I showed it to Zatho something changed. – Colrado was closer and his eyes were darker. His clothes were dry. He took the stones and lilies and the music stopped.
- Suddenly Zatho stopped as he was frozen in place. The knife stood in the air and it waited for me. Colrado heard a voice in the magic coloured stone and he knew the stone must have belong to his hero, he knew that that man can use magic cause in this wind and dark forest only the magic is so fast. So Colrado ran from Zatho to the river with the stone and the stone told him to jump in the river cause the hero will flew beyond him and save him. - You! I saw you in the stone. So I jumped. – Then he smilled and his clothes made him smaller. He said to Darkstar. -
Colrado saw a tall man dressed in a hard clothes, coat and a cape with a sign of Halthar on it, a yellow blue lionfalcon with a rose in his claws. His eyes were dark, his dark hair flew havily on the cold wind. He was a warrior. Darkstar...
Darkstar felt like someone was with them near the river and was watching them but it was only the rain that slowly started to pour on the water. Or not?
Darkstar smilled and his face turned pale suddenly.
–Stop!-said Darkstar.-What have you done that this man attacked you, are you a bad person? You did say...
Colrado smilled inside himself.
- In the Tower Hill. I was a businessman. Till yesterday it was a very good job. I would buy magic stones and sell them to magicians. But Zatho made me his servant. I stole for him, master. Everything I stole to be with him and not to be punished. And...I am a shamed. Dear sir, I don't know what to say. I am confused. The magic stone tells me to stay with you, so I will stay. But do not judge me. I am what I am. A fairy.
–You don't know what the magic stone wants from you Colrado I would need a guide cause I travel to kingdom of Alisen. I am going to find the Athra Dragon.
Darkstar put his horse down on the river bank and the flying horse started to drink the water and the water turned pitch black. The magic was alarming Darkstar that enemy is near.
Darkstar took his sword out and he put it in front of Colrado.
– Kingdom of Alisen, sir? But there are dragons! You can't go there, sir. We must go to the Tower Hill. The magic stone told me to go there and I must guide you till there, sir. You saved me. Listen. I do not like dragons. I will not go there, Kingdom of Alisen... Aich.
Darkstar smilled and he put his sword down, Colrado was not the enemy he hoped he would find. But he shook his hand and they were partners.
Suddenly someone jumped on the back of the flying horse and he had a big knife. It was a tall thin man with golden hair but eyes like a spider. Darkstar made a move, he knew a little magic, the protection.
He put his hand on the river and the blackness came to him.
He shined. And the dark glow was around him. It covered him all over.
- Agathaeha! – said Colrado. – You returned? Why? Where is Zatho? I know he knows where is my sister...Agathaeha, tell me. Tell me, where is she?
- Stop the magic! – said the thief with a knife in his hand slowly coming down from the horse. – What are you doing? Here the magic turns a good man in the animal or in the stone. Stop before Gulstar sees you. I returned because Colrado took the magic stone. I need it. NoW! Something is happening to me. Your poison ruined me, Colrado. Look I am a little by little a stone statue...- the thief's eyes were grey and small.
Darkstar watched him through magic protection and he saw that the man was really turning in the stone and he was in great pain.
Darkstar put his hand down and the magic from his hand stopped. But the yellow glow was around him with black stripes stayed.
- Stop, give me the knife. We need the stone. – Darkstar said.
The trees and the river were like waves when Darkstar moved and the yellow glow made him like a Moon under a star. The trees were trembling and the night was dark as him. It glowed.
The man smilled like a dragon.
- Never. Give me the stone. Do not move. I am not scared of you.
But Colrado did the same thing as Darkstar and the river colour made him glow too. He said the magic. hopped
The man opened his eyes widely.
–What happend? Colrado you used your magic on me, I'll...Who's this? I thought that we would hunt dragons alone us two. -said the man turning his knife in the hand. Darkstar looked carefully and he jumped and kicked the knife out of his hand.
–Stop! I said stop! Sadly, my magic is short to use.-Darkstar opened his hand and saw that the yellow circle aroud him vanished.-You know about the Dragons? Where is your master going to give the poison? Talk!
But the man trembled and his face turned to stone when he looked straight in the river. His eyes were yellow. – NOOOO! – he screamed.
He was turning in the animal. But not the real animal, the stone animal.
Animal made of stone. A stone bear, the cold animal. He was vanishing.
-I know. I know. – Said Colrado. – Zatho... Where is Karoline? Aspunneee.....
- Karoline? Colrado what is happening to me? Colrado?!!! – but the man didn't say anything. He was gone, turned to stone. Forever.
–Sadly...-said Colrado watching the man turning into a statue.- He didn't say were is Karoline! I can go with you, master. I am trying to find my sister. And I am afraid of dragons... But Zatho knew where they taken her, now I don't know where she is, never I find her.- Colrado sounded hurt..
– I need you. I saved you.- Darkstar said. – We will find her... Come with me, nothing is over, let's go.
– I didin't ask you!-Colrado took the mans knife and he put it in his bag which was near the statue.-Well...There are treasures there...The dragons are big and strange, I don't like them but Aspunee waits for me.
–Where?
–In mermaidland. Are there? IS she there, tell me you?- Colrado started to clap around stone statue. – Where is she Zatho? Is she in mermaid land? You know...Zatho knew the treasures. I was his confident. Till he tried to get rid of me because I stold the map to Mathars from him... That's the truth why he turned back to find... Me.
– Mathars doesn't exist. It is the legend. My sword is the only treasure from Mathars.
– Yes it exists.-Colrado said strangely with a deep voice.-There is a poison. It could destroy the Dragon King and all of us. I know Gulstar is searching for it...I'll help you, master, if you promise to give me half of the Mountain.
–What?
–The Mountain is the treasure in Mathars.
–Of course. Half of...the Treasure... But you said Zatho had the poison.
– Yes but I do not know to whom he sold the bottle. Now, let's run. Zatho's friends will be very mad when they see what happend to him... They will hunt us, they will find us.-Colrado took everything that he could find from the mans stuff and Darkstar took Colrado to his flying horse who was eating the lilies. Colrado didnt like flying but Darkstar told him it would be nice. Then they flew. During the flight Colrado spoke of master Thozaro, the magician who saw Dragons years ago, that he lives in a town called Darft near the downside of the river and he did visit marmaids. It would be of great thing to visit that mafician. Darkstar was very pleased with Colrado now. The light he saw in Colrado's eyes was bright. That meant Colrado was honest, Colrado was the right person to follow to the goal. Darkstar was glad but still worried that Colrado would stop him in the search so he didn't belive everything Colrado said to him. But to the town they did go and then something happend.
- What the town where mygician lives vanished?
The storm didin't stop through the night. I fell