Fern’s life had always been in that cold, silent castle. To Fern that castle had always been like that even on the hottest and loudest of days. He quickly learned that the only way to survive was to prove your worth, even though being in that castle felt like slowly drowning.

But one day Sky, who had been Fern’s best friend since birth and Fern’s light through all the hard times. Decided that Fern needed a break, so he thought, “Fern’s always busy, I should convince him to come to the human world with me!”. So he clumsily ran to Fern to ask him to go with him to the human world. Fern could hear Sky stomping like a toddler running up stairs, full of excitement to Fern. Fern turned around to look at Sky with a smile as warm as the sun and full of care.

Sky asked Fern with a smile full of childlike joy, “You should come to the human world with me!”.

Fern looks at him, but his smile no longer meets his eyes. Then he replied in an ambivalent voice, “My schedule does not allow for it, unfortunately… Please accept my sincerest apologies, I have documentation and documents to do.”.

Sky scowled playfully and then loudly muttered, “ Why do you always have to use such erudite words all the time?”.

Fern looked at him and tried to hide his soft teasing laugh. Then Fern gently pat Sky’s soft white hair and bantered as he quietly and quickly glided away “At least I’m not an obsequious person.”.

As Fern slowly vanished to his room, Asmo silently promenaded behind him and quickly grabbed his arm softly. Fern whipped around like a tornado, then breathed a sigh of relief when he saw it was just Asmo. Then Asmo falsely claimed “Fern, I heard that Sky asked you to go to the human world, and you refused. Fern didn’t you know that all good kings have gone to the human world, plus you’ve been lugubrious lately. It will be a good break for you.”.

Fern was shocked into silence before he quietly queried “Are you sure all good kings… go to the human world?”.

Asmo put on a convincing smile and encouraged Fern by saying “Yes, you better go catch up with Sky before he leaves!”.

Fern quickly turned on his heel and sashayed away. Fern found Sky slowly getting ready to leave and yelled out “WAIT,” Sky quickly turned his head as Fern continued “I want to go to the human world with you!”

Sky shockingly smiled before quickly choked out “You can come with you just get ready.”. Fern ambulated away and got quickly and efficiently packed up, before meeting Sky behind the castle and opening a glassly purple looking portal into the human world. The portal seemed to want Fern to go through it, it called to him.

Fern then inquired Sky “Is the human world safe?”.

Sky responded “Of course it is,” and as Fern walked through the portal he hesitated, “I think.”.

Fern looks around in amazement at the exquisiteness of everything. From the healthy mint to dark green grass, to the blossoming flowers of all colors, to the trees that seemed to reach out to him, to the garrulous animals, to the wind that felt comforting on his skin, and finally to the sky that seemed to carry the world’s problems. Then Sky appeared next to him before clumsily falling on his face.

“I’ve been here before, this is the way to the Ice Kingdom.", Sky said as he pointed to a small dirt path. Fern turns to Sky with a childlike joy in his eyes and a smile that could light up the world. He then silently followed Sky down the path, his eyes scanning everything they passed by.

When they got to the Ice Kingdom children pointed at Fern and parents held their children away as people screamed in fear, ran clumsily in terror, and petrified in fear.

As Fern looked around to see what they were scared of, he realized it was him as scientists pulled up. They pulled Sky away from him since he was hiding his horns and tail while Fern wasn’t, they started to shoot sleeping darts at Fern.

Fern screams out as he gets shot with a sleeping dart “SKY, WHERE ARE YOU???”. Sky watches as Fern is loaded into a white jeep without windows and the car zooms away, to Sky it felt like time had slowed as they took Fern away from him and his heart felt like it was getting faster. He knew he had to get Fern out of the scientist’s grasp.

Sky muttered to himself “I have to follow that car.”. He then started to track the car and before anyone knew he had vanished into the crowd to save Fern.

Fern woke up in a dark room with tight chains holding him captive against the wall. He saw Sky outside of a small window in his small, dark holding cell.

Sky started to break open a hole in the wall with a tall, thick metal bar he found leaning against a tall, giant tree covered in pointy vines. Soon before Sky or Fern knows it, Fern is out of the holding cell as they were darting through the dark, but calming forest.

As they start getting closer to the city they see Luci, Fern’s father, burning down the Kingdom. Luci sees them from far away and flies over as fast as an arrow.

Luci smirked while whispering loudly to Fern “If you had never left, none of this would have ever happened. This destruction is all your fault.” Luci then went to continue the chaos.

Fern looked at Sky and faltered, “Why do I always destroy everything?”. Then Ferns eyes started to water before he started to sob, body moving sobs that could break hearts.

Sky then acknowledged “It was never your fault, it was always Luci’s fault.”. That’s when Fern realized he was only a child, he shouldn’t be blamed for the things adults did. He is only a sixteen year old in such a big world, he was always just an innocent child.

Even though Fern was a child, he knew people would suffer if he didn’t stop his father. So Fern fought his father trying to keep them safe, Fern fought for seven whole nights and days. Fern realized while fighting that he might be able to seal his father in a mountain, but it would take a big sacrifice.

With no other way, Fern knew he had to seal his dad, but he had no sacrifice. Soon Fern realized he could be the sacrifice, but he was terrified of it. But he knew it was the only way, so Fern tricked his father into walking on the mountain where he used all the rest of his lifeforce to seal Luci into the mountain.

As Fern quickly fell on the mountain side. Then, he whispered to Sky, and Asmo who had just arrived “Thank you for everything, and I’m sorry for being a bother.” Sky held Fern’s hand as Asmo held Fern in a death grip and sobbed body shaking tears.

As soon as Fern left, Sky hoped and prayed that it wouldn’t lose Fern. That Fern would survive, but Sky knew Fern would always be gone. No matter how much Sky or Asmo prayed.

Asmo and Sky carried Fern home in a casket, they never had planned to lose him forever. Asmo planted Fern’s favorite flowers everywhere on the mountain where they buried him, and then Sky planted a cherry blossom tree right next to Fern and his grave. As Asmo and Sky wished him “Good night, we love you, Fern.”, They knew they and no one would ever forget him or his sacrifice.

Fern had saved everyone and sealed his father in that mountain. People praised him and saw his kind as beautiful, peaceful, and free creatures. Although Fern wasn’t there any more, he had done what he had wanted. Fern made his kind no longer feared and saved people. He and his body were home, where no one would ever hurt or overwork him again. Fern was truly a dreamer, and he had left the world in hopes that no one would suffer like he did again. People started to call Fern The Dove With Wings That Never Failed, The Shield With Thorns, and The Kid With No Childhood And No Bounds. Fern was called The Dove With Wings That Never Failed for the freedom he never got, The Shield With Thorns because he protected the world, and The Kid With No Childhood And No Bounds for the childhood he never got.