Chapter 5: The Truth

 Mia P.O.V.

 I wake up feeling exhausted and in a bunch of pain, I sit up in bed and look around to see no one in the room. I get up and walk over to the mirror and lift up my shirt to see my back is red and bruised. I walk to the door to hear faint whispering, and I open it holding my back to see Ashley, Lee, and Han standing there looking at me. "What happened? My back is red and bruised plus I feel extremely exhausted." I ask. Lee and Ashley look at Han and so I look at Han waiting for an answer. "You went through something we can't explain right now Mia." Han explains. I look at Ashley and she looks down, I walk back into the room and shut the door. I lay down in bed so confused with what is going on. My phone goes off and I see a message from my brother, where are you? I shut off my phone and close my eyes. I hear the door open and keep my eyes closed, it shuts then I feel someone sit on the bed. "I'm so sorry Mia." Han says. I keep my eyes closed and he moves a piece of my hair out of my face. I open my eyes and look at Han, he immediately pulls his hand away. I sit up in bed carefully and wince at the pain, he helps me, and I ask, "Do we have any medicine?" He nods and goes to the other room and comes back with some medicine, he looks at me because he would have to apply it to my back. I nod and turn to lay on my stomach lifting the back of my shirt. He applies the medicine gently to my back and I close my eyes, when he is done, he helps me sit up and puts the medicine on the side table. My back pain and headaches come back; my phone starts ringing so I hold my head hoping it would stop. Han picks it up and walks out of the room, Ashley walks in closing the door behind her while I start crying. She walks to me and helps me stand up, but I get super weak, so she has me sit. My back pain gets worse, and I feel like cuts are forming in my back, my arm starts hurting where I got scratched by the animal, so I take off the wrapping. I see it's black around the wound, I scream at the immense pain going through my entire body. Ashley tries calming me as much as she can. All of a sudden, the door opens, and I see Han, Lee, and my brother walk in. "She's infected too much so she is fighting it." Lee says. I continue crying and my brother walks over to me and holds my hand not knowing what's going on. Han walks over to me and holds my hand with one hand and the other caressing my cheek. Lee walks over to me as well and rubs my back gently, it helped with the pain, so I stopped crying and screaming. I felt so tired; I looked at my arm and saw it was healing by itself. The black was fading away and the skin was growing back, it looked like I wasn't even hurt. I looked at everyone and then back at the wound. My head begins to hurt making me have pain and so I black out. I wake up seeing everyone around me waiting, I sit up and see I'm in a white dress. I get up quickly and walk over to the mirror to see me in a white dress with...Wings?! I look at my head and see a tiara as well, I look at everyone and they all just stare at me. The white dress was short with a long lace sleeve, and my wings were a purple color, the tiara was silver but had a blue gem in the middle. I look at my old clothes on the bed and look at my brother who walked up to me. He smiled and said, "So this is why mom and dad told me to keep you safe." I look at him with a confused look and he then says, "You look beautiful." I smile and look at myself in the mirror again. I move my wings to spread them out and look at them, so what am I exactly? I turn around and ask, "So what am I, if I'm not human?" Ashley walks over to me and makes me sit on the bed beside Han and Lee. Ashley shows me a book with fairies in it and starts a story, "Once upon a time there was a king who was human and a queen who was a fairy who ruled over all fairies. They lived happily, but their secret was they had a fairy daughter, but a human son. The son was older, so he always looked out for his younger sister. One day the parents, king and queen, were chased from the kingdom that was overtaken with the dark fairies. The queen and king died fighting for their realm, and their children were never found." I look at Oliver and he looks at me, my head starts hurting and I remember hiding under the floor with my brother as I watched my parents die. I stand up and say, "I remember my brother hiding me from something as we hid under the floor watching our parents die. Which he is human and I'm....a fairy?" Ashley nods her head and says, "But there are people, humans, called fairy hunters. They hunt both good and bad fairies for their magical essence. Lee and I are known as those hunters I told you about." I step back quickly, and Lee quickly says, "But we wouldn't hurt you Mia, you're our friend." I keep my distance from them, and I look at Han who hasn't said a word. "Are you human?" I ask. He looks up at me and he stands up and looks down, he closes his eyes, and he shrinks down into the orange cat who I became attached to. My eyes widen and I pick the cat up and look into his eyes. He was a cat?! "He's a transformer, but we give him the fairy essence because he is hurt very badly." Ashley says. I hug the cat, and I say, "So you guys' hunt fairies for their essence to give to Han so he won't be as hurt?" They nod their heads yes and I put the cat...I mean Han down. He transforms back into his human self and stumbles; I catch him and sit him on the bed. Ashley almost left when I said, "Can I take care of him?" Ashley turns back and says, "Mia, it's dangerous plus you don't even know how without hurting yourself." I look at Ashley and Lee just pushes everyone out, so we are alone. Han looks into my eyes, and I try thinking of how to help him without hurting myself in the process. There is no way without hurting myself, so that's what I'll have to do. I look around for something sharp and just as I'm about to get up Han stops me by pulling me back. "You can't Mia." Han says. I look at his pleading eyes and sit beside him, he looks into my eyes and then he looks at my lips. I get an idea in my head hoping this would work and lean close to his face. He looks into my eyes confused and so I gently press my lips against his, he is shocked at the moment, but he kisses me back. I feel him gaining energy, but I feel me getting weaker. I go limp a little bit and he pulls away and holds me in his arms while I close my eyes feeling weak and sleepy. I think about everything that has happened and realize this was the truth of everything. Yes, it was true I'm a fairy, but it's also true that I help anyone I could.