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Truth or Dare

“Truth or Dare?” The Question can put of nowhere and caused Bracken to look over at the young shadow charmer chained next to him. “ We’re in a dungeon. ” He replied slightly confused as to what possessed his friend to start this game now. “ Yes, very observant of you. That still doesn’t change my question, Truth or Dare. ” Seth pushed again. Bracken sighed knowing he wouldn’t stop until he got his way and he was in no mood to deal with Lawyer Seth. “Truth.” He replied not even sure what date you could do with you wrists chained to a wall. Though knowing Seth, he’d find a way. “ What are your intentions with my sister. ” “Dare.” Bracken immediately replied, willing to do anything else than have this conversation with Seth. “I dare you to tell me what your intentions with my sister are.” Seth shot back with a massive eye roll. “ you want to talk about this now? ” “ Yeah because now you can’t run away as you’ve been not so subtly doing every time I mention it. Besides what else are we supposed to talk about? ” “Oh I don’t know, escape plans? ” Bracken replied sarcastically, desperately trying to get out of having this conversation. He loved Seth, he was like the little brother he never had but that didn’t make any of it any less awkward. “Just answer the question.” Seth said with yet another eye roll. “ I don’t know what to say Seth. Kendra is amazing, I love her with all of my heart and I can’t imagine life without her. ” “That’s super sappy.” Now it was Bracken’s turn to roll his eyes at the reply. “ Now I do believe it’s my turn, Truth or Dare? ” “Oh so now you want to play? You didn’t seem so eager two minutes ago.” “ Just answer the question. ” Bracken mocked earning a chuckle from the Shadow charmer. “ Dare. ” “ I dare you to tell me why your so invested in your sisters love life. ” Bracken replied turning the boys own trick against him. Seth sighed heavily and looked away, the chains jingling  as he attempted to run his hand through his hair out of habit. “I just, really don’t want Kendra to get hurt.” He replied after several minutes of silence,  " She’s been hurt before and it took her a really long time to trust people again, to open up and talk to people. “ I guess I just want to make sure you know this isn’t a game. Kendra loves you and I don’t want anyone to play with her heart. I don’t want anyone to take advantage of that again. ” “ Seth, I will never ever take advantage of Kendra. She means the world to me, she is my world. And yeah I know sappy but it’s true. I promise you the very last thing in the entire world that I want to do is hurt Kendra. ” Bracken perfectly understood where Seth was coming from, having been there himself on several occasions, but he couldn’t find a way to make sure Seth believed him anymore that he had when he first head similar words. “ I hope for your sake that’s true, because I promise you if you ever hurt her I will make Zzyzx look like the best place on earth. ” “ I believe you, but you won’t have to” Bracken told him and he could help the shiver that shook him at the boys words, the temperature in the room seeming to drop as he made the threat. “I hope not. Now Truth or Dare?” Seth asked again returning to his usual lighthearted and mischievous tone. “ You know what Seth, Dare. Just because I’m curious. ” “ I dare you to make a high pitched scream and act like your scared of a spider. ” “What? Why?” Bracken questioned wondering where the idea had even come from. “ I want to see what the guards do. ” Seth replied with a shrug as if it was the most logical answer in the world.  Yeah this was going to be interesting .

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I am soooooooo sorry I haven’t updated in forever, but I kind of ran out of ideas. Anyways I’m back and I hope to update soon. Let me know what you want to read next!!!!!

Not that Kendra pt 2

Hello! This is adopted and continued from @fairyprincessofthedragons, and all credit goes to them. You can find pt 1 here: https://fairyprincessofthedragons.tumblr.com/post/616946763056726016/not-that-kendra.

After the coffee shop incident, the day went smoothly for Bracken and Kendra. They visited the gardens like they had planned, and ended up saving a small dragonfly fairy who had flown too close to a spiders web and been caught up, too flustered to use magic.

After a million and one thank-yous, she eventually flew off, presumably to brag to her friends that the Queen’s son and handmaiden had freed her.

Kendra watched the fairy fly off, and wondered where her fairy guards had gone when Bracken had dismissed them for the day. They had ended up becoming quite close, and taken to having ‘girl evenings’ every night when they could.

“Kendra, there’s something else I want you to see!” Bracken grinned at her.

“And what would that be?”

“A picnic!” he looked so excited Kendra couldn’t help but laugh. Sometimes her boyfriend acted like such a little kid.

“All right! Show me where it is, Your Majesty!” Kendra pretended to bow down, stopping in a shriek as Bracken tickled her mercilessly. In the end, an all-out tickle war made Kendra not only forget about the picnic, but also about Alyssa and her old friends. Bracken smiled. His plan had worked.

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“All right girls. I finally got the information we needed! Kendra is in room 12, on the 8th floor.” Brittany sat down.

“How did you do it!? I’ve been trying for months!”  Alyssa shrieked.

“I told the old lady who tidies the dorms that I was a late entry, and was trying to find where a friend was staying.” Alyssa only huffed, looking disgruntled.

“Anyways, Lyss, do you have a plan yet?” Trina interrupted the brewing argument. Bad feelings forgotten, Alyssa stood up, nodding enthusiastically.

“Yes! I finally do! What if we sneak in there tonight, and take her to my house! We all know she could sleep through a bomb going off next to her head.”

“Wouldn’t that be kidnapping?”

“Not if she’s our friend. Besides, it’s totally worth it!” the other two girls looked at each other and shrugged.

“Sure.”

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“Thanks Bracken, I really enjoyed our date today.”

“It was no problem.”

“How are you going to get home again? It’s a three hour drive, one if you go at Vanessa-speed. But you don’t even have a car.” Bracken hugged her.

“Raxtus dropped me off. He’s waiting for me in the parking lot now. See you later, Princess.”

“Bye!” Kendra’s fairy guards flew off the top of her wardrobe when Bracken left.

“You should get some sleep. You have classes tomorrow, and you need to study for that Calc test next week.” Kendra smiled at them gratefully.

“Thanks, girls.”

She was snoring within minutes.

“Perfect.” Alyssa grinned at Trina and Brittany. “I think she’s asleep.”

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Kendra woke up being jostled around in the back seat of a slightly old and beaten up-looking car, head resting next to Trina, one of her old friends.

“She’s awake!”

“Yes, I am, and WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU DOING!?” Trina winced and covered her ears. Kendra felt no remorse.

“DID YOU SERIOUSLY JUST KIDNAP ME?”

“It’s not kidnapping if it’s our friend.” Alyssa maintained. Kendra glared daggers at her.

“I beg your pardon, you have literally duct-taped by hands together, and chucked me in this car. That is kidnapping in my books!”

“Then the books you’ve been reading are too cliché. It’s more... taking someone against their will or knowledge, but definitely not kidnapping. Also, I child-locked the doors.”

Kendra growled, glaring at each and every one of her friends. She would have to wait for escape.

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Bracken was halfway home on Raxtus when he got the distress signal. Two of Kendra’s fairies were flying towards him at top speed. When fairies flew, they could go FAST.

“My lord! We are so sorry! We have failed in our duty!” The two girls were clearly in distress, frantic and worried.

“Okay. Raxtus, can you please take us down? Thanks. When we touch down, can you please explain what happened?”

The second the dragon’s claws thumped down on the grass somewhere in the wilderness of Connecticut, the fairies swarmed Bracken again. How they managed to swarm him when there were only tow, he didn’t know, but they managed.

“It’s those girls- the ones that think Kendra is dead. They’ve kidnapped her!”

Bracken began muttering some very unprince-like things under his breath. It was a good thing the fairies had never learned to curse.

“Thank you girls. Do you know where they’re going?”

“They mentioned something about the leader, Alyssa. I think they were talking about going to her house.” Bracken whipped out his first horn. Its added power would help him reach out to Seth’s coin, even if the boy hadn’t begun the conversation.

“Seth, if, hypothetically, Kendra’s old friends had kidnapped her, where exactly is Alyssa’s house?” Seth’s groan reached the long distance.

“Seriously!? You do realize that you are TERRIBLE at keeping secrets, right Bracken?” The unicorn winced.

“Oops.” as Seth rattled off an address, Bracken was already rummaging through his bag. Thank goodness he had brought some walrus butter.

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Kendra was locked in the laundry as her friends whispered what to do with her on the other side of the door. Apparently they’d forgotten that she could hear every word.

“We can’t just keep her here!”

“Well, it’s not like we can take her back now, either.”

As the hurried conversation reached the hundreds in decibels, Kendra sighed and retreated to the tiny window.

And looked straight into one of her fairies’ eyes. Biting off a startled scream, Kendra took a few deep breaths.

“What are you doing here? You do realize that Brittany is terrified of bees, right? If she see you, you’re doomed.”

“Backup is coming. Prince Bracken says to tell you that he’s on his way. Make sure that you don’t leave, and try yo not be locked up. It’ll make his job easier that way. He says he brought butter. He lands in two minutes.” Kendra nodded her understanding, and walked to the door again.

“SHUT UP!” There was a startled silence, as Kendra broke up her friends’ argument. “Let me out of here, and let’s go sit down. I will make you some hot chocolate, and you can talk to me like civilized human beings, not imps.” The hot chocolate part must have worked, because soon Kendra was standing in the middle of the living room, her friends on couches, looking guilty.

Right on time, the doorbell rung, and Kendra strolled over to open it for Bracken. Raxtus was an invisible indent on the lawn. As she reached up to kiss her boyfriend, she heard Alyssa muttering to Brittany.

“What’s HE doing here?”

“I don’t know.”

“Did he follow us?”

“I didn’t see anything.”

Kendra grinned at him. “Come in. I was about to make some hot chocolate. Do you want to help?”

“Sure.”

They walked into the kitchen, and began to make five cups, plus a little saucer for the Fairies and a bowl for Raxtus. Bracken winked at Kendra, slipping out the door to deliver the bowl and saucer, before strolling back in to sit next to Kendra on the only available couch.

“Well? Drink up. It’s the truth you wanted, so it’s the truth you’ll get.” Kendra glanced at Bracken, who had his arm around her. “Did you tell Raxtus??

“He’s out there, fully visible, right now.” Trina shot a suspicious look at them.

“Who’s Raxtus?”

“A... friend. Have you had any hot chocolate yet?” Three nods. Kendra grinned evilly. “Well, go look outside the window.” The girls looked at each other curiously, and went to look. Brittany shrieked.

“THERE IS A DRAGON ON YOUR LAWN, LYSSA! A DRAGON! AND FIVE FAIRIES!” They turned to look at Kendra, who was laughing her head off on the couch.

“That was an even better reaction than I was expecting. Now, do you want to hear about why you all believed I was dead, buried a fruit, and what I’ve been up to the last few years?”

Their chat reached well into the morning, but Kendra was just glad that she didn’t have to hide from her friends anymore.

That is it! Hope you enjoyed it! Thanks again to @fairyprincessofthedragons!

Fablehaven Secret Santa

Hello! It is finally the 19th, so I can release my gift for @imasorenson! Hope you like it.

While the line would normally snake from the entrance all the way back to the end of the carefully placed markers and beyond, today there were only about twenty people in front of Kendra and Bracken, who were waiting to be admitted into the amusement park.

Kendra had insisted they they come, seeing as Bracken had never been to one, and the fact that Christmas was only a few days away was just an added bonus. Warren had pounced on the two of them earlier in the week, practically holding them at sword point after Kendra had mentioned they were planning to visit the park, telling the two that they should go while school was still in to avoid the madness. It had taken a day or two of planning, but they had finally arrived.

Warren had been right. Since there were so few people, it only took about ten minutes for the couple to be admitted.

“What do you want to do first, Bracken?” Kendra grinned at him, already bouncing up and down, even if she wasn’t on a sugar high. Yet.

“What is there?” Bracken asked.

“More like what isn’t there! We could go on a rollercoaster, or another ride, eat food, go to the arcade-style games, or one of the stalls like throwing darts.”

“What is a rollercoaster?” Bracken’s confusion was all it took. He eyed Kendra’s evil smile nervously, as she took his hand and practically dragged him to the ride. Once again, the few people around made for a short queue, and the safety bar was being lowered in no time.

“Oh, before I forget, when we go down, you need to scream.” Bracken looked at his girlfriend, horrified.

“Do you know what happened the last time I screamed!? Seth and I were in a tickle fight, and the fairies and Astrids thought I was in trouble! It took ages to turn Seth back into something vaguely recognizable, and that was only a tiny whinny! And don’t even get me started how they managed to fit inside the house, because I don’t know, there were that many of th-AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!”

The last part was because, while Bracken was rambling, the rollercoaster had made it up to the top of the ‘hill,’ and gone over. He had begun screaming in shock, while Kendra laughed so had she could barely breathe. As they began climbing the next ‘hill,’ Kendra leaned over and kissed Bracken.

“It’s a good thing I cleared it with your mother first, then.” Her giggles made a comeback when she saw Bracken’s shell-shocked face.

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The rest of the day was amazing. Bracken and Kendra went around to everything, and soon Bracken redeemed himself with a prefect aim, and a large fluffy Unicorn toy. (Insert Despicable Me ‘It’s so fluffy I’m going to die scene’ here, lol.)

Lunch was spent sitting down at a picnic table with a tub of hot chips, churros, and soft drinks, after which Kendra took Bracken to get his face painted as a rainbow.

By the time the two made it home, the sky was dark and the house’s lights were all on, waiting for them. Seth, Vanessa, Tanu, Grandma and Grandpa, Dale, and Warren were all sitting around the table, phones and cameras at the ready. After Kendra had told the Fairy Queen about the park the previous day, she’d told everyone else about it. In the end, Kendra had agreed to make sure Bracken got his face painted, and everyone else would be there to take pictures.

Bracken didn’t speak to anyone else for a week after he found out the photoshoot was planned, though he secretly kept a picture to remember the day by.

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And that’s the end! Hope you liked it, and Merry Christmas, @imasorenson and anyone else reading!

Warren: I mean, small creatures are way more vicious. It’s because their anger has less space to be bottled up in.

Vanessa: Ridiculous. Give me one example of that.

Seth: Imps

Stan: Fire ants

Tanu: Leprechauns

Ruth: Drumants

Bracken: Kendra

Brackendra is life

Brackendra Day 2k20

Reminder - Brackendra day will be upon us shortly! :)

Winter solstice: December 21, 2020

Words: Inspire, Gondola, Dance, Statuesque

Colors: Pink, Sky Blue, Silver, Mint Green

“What have I told you about listening to your instincts more? It’s smart. Do it.”

“How have you possibly survived this long?”

“I won’t stay long. I just had to see you.”

Have fun! As always, let me know if you have any questions! :)

Warren, to Vanessa: Your smile? It makes my day.

Bracken, to Kendra: Your happiness? I live for that

Seth: Hotel? Trivago