Take Me to the Sky✔️

Chapter - 6

At that moment, the director's voice was heard through the loudspeakers, asking the students and teachers in charge to go to the auditorium.

Once there, the students took their seats while whispering, excited by the talk, and pointing from time to time towards the stage. In that place was the group that Jungkook had seen at the entrance of the institute; On the left were several people already seated, on the right side there were several empty chairs and in the centre of the stage the director was speaking with two other men, probably the ones who were going to make the presentation. When they finished speaking, the principal turned to the students as the two men completed the last details of their presentation.

"Good morning to all." The director got everyone's attention. Once the murmurs stopped and the room fell silent, he resumed his speech. "Today is a very special and important day for you, so I hope you pay attention to this. I don't want to hear a single murmur, whisper, or any other sound coming out of your mouths. Obviously, you may breathe, I am not that cruel." This got a few giggles under her breath. "This is a wonderful opportunity for you to learn about something that will accompany you all your life. If you have a question or a doubt, you just have to raise your hand. And don't be afraid to do it, you are here to learn. After the talk, you will return to your classrooms to fill in the questionnaire and, once this is done, you will be free until Monday."

The director came down from the stage and sat in one chair arranged at the side of the room, where the rest of the teachers were. On stage, the two men introduced themselves. Jungkook didn't bother learning their names. He associated the man wearing a blue tie with the historian, and the man wearing a black tie with the gemologist.

To make the presentation more enjoyable, they put on a video that told the story of the origin of the stones of destiny. From there they would answer any doubts they had and delve into concepts that had not been clear in the video.

Using illustrations from ancient times and images of scrolls and sculptures, the video showed the contact between humans and fairies and the exchange of their knowledge. Then he continued with the narration of the origin of the tree, which was related in the video by the historian who gave the lecture.

When humans were still unaware of the existence of fairies, they were dedicated to caring for forests, specifically those that had a tree large and powerful enough to nurture a small ecosystem.

Within each ecosystem, the forest fairies carried out different jobs depending on their speciality, the nature of their parents determined which. For this reason, those that were to nourish the roots could not contact those that kept the trunk in moral condition, or those that collected the fruits, and vice versa.

Therefore, when the fairies found out about the relationship between two fairies of different, the first thing they did was keep them apart. They were afraid that their union would endanger their species, or worse, the entire ecosystem. But despite being apart, those closest to them realized that nothing could against the love they felt for each other.

From that moment on, the fairies took sides: those who wanted to allow the couple to be together versus those who wanted to remain apart. Faced with the impossibility of agreeing, quarrels and fights between the two sides were more and more frequent, affecting their work and the tree.

Over time, the tree ended up falling ill, which affected the entire ecosystem and its inhabitants, including some fairies. Those who once protected the tree, turned into dark fairies, carried away by resentment and grief at the progressive loss of their home.

In the last moments of the life of the ecosystem, the two lovers found themselves hidden in the roots of the tree, while at the top the forest fairies fought against the dark fairies. During the fall of the tree, the couple remained together, promising to meet in another life and love each other the same as in this one.

The forest fairies drove out the dark fairies, although it was a bittersweet victory, as the tree had died. Despite this, they stayed and try to rebuild what was once their home.

Someday later, in the place that the tree used to occupy, a sprout grew, which the fairies took care of until they saw it grow. Through its leaves, the tree spoke to the fairies. He had been reborn thanks to the love that the lovers professed, to their promise to remain together in the next lives. From that moment on, it would be the tree of destiny, whose fruits would be gems that would help to find the soul mate of each individual.

The presentation ended with credits, in which we thanked all those who had taken part in the project, including entities such as libraries and museums, who had given exclusive content images only to a few.

This story belongs to @nometoloko on AO3. I'm just her translator.