Azkaal and Pixie's Far-flung Adventures

He was a small boy with a big heart.

He was a small boy who was not alone anymore.

His name was Azkaal, he was nine years old, and he lived on a farm in the middle of nowhere, in Europe, in the 17th century. His parents had died from sickness when he was only four, and so he lived alone with his uncle and aunt. He didn’t mind it much though; after all, this was how things should be. It was what everyone did. Everyone had their mothers and fathers die when they were just kids. Everyone then had to live with their uncles or aunts or grandparents or siblings or whatever they could find to help them run the household. That said, Azkaal wasn’t very good at running the household yet. Neither did his uncles or aunt, for that matter. So many things kept breaking down here and there; there were so many animals that needed tending to, so many tools that needed fixing, it seemed like they could never catch up to their chores, no matter how hard they worked.

There were also some people who would stop by every now and then to try and buy some of their stuff from them - either food from their fields or tools from their craft shop - but nobody ever seemed to have enough money to buy anything from them, so none of it really mattered anyway.

But then one day something happened…

Azkaal had been out in the fields all morning trying to get the chickens back into their coop for the morning feeding, but none of them would listen to him! They just kept running around everywhere as if they didn’t understand him at all! Finally, after chasing one last chicken around the field and cornering her against a tree at the edge of the forest - which is where she finally ran straight into - he just stopped and sighed in exasperation as he put his hands on his hips. He looked back down at her laying on the ground in front of him with both feet broken through her fall against the tree as she looked up at him pitifully whilst cackling away clumsily with her crooked beak about to break off any moment now. After taking a few moments to recover from his frustration, Azkaal got down on one knee beside her and tried talking to her softly as she looked up at him again:

“Poor girl…” He whispered under his breath as he stroked her head tenderly whilst looking down at her sadly before continuing: “I know you don’t want to listen me... I know you want to be free out here in this field all day long… But please… Please just go back inside your coop now? You can stay out here later tonight when we’re done feeding you alright? I promise I won’t lock you up too long today… Just please go back inside now? I promise I won’t chase after you again if you do… Okay?”

“Okay?” He asked again softly whilst looking down affectionately at her before suddenly noticing something strange happening: The chicken suddenly started trembling all over and turning bright blue before bursting apart into thousands of tiny little blue lights that floated off into the fields all around him. He stood up slowly and stared around himself confusedly in amazement as he couldn’t believe what he was seeing before suddenly a loud rumbling noise began filling his ears as everything around him started shaking violently until suddenly everything went pitch black for a couple of moments before light returned again and everything went quiet once more as he found himself sitting down right back on the ground where he had been standing before staring up at where the chicken used to be laying there motionless with both feet broken until just a moment ago.

What happened? Hadn’t she just been lying there like that just a moment ago? Hadn’t she just been bleeding all over with both feet broken through her fall against the tree behind her? Why did she suddenly disappear like that? Where did she even go? And most importantly: How did she even do it?! Was this some kind of magic trick? Was this some kind of illusion act being played out for him by someone?! Or perhaps… Was it real!? Could it be possible for something like that really happen? So many questions going through his young mind as he stared confusedly at where she used to be laying there stunned by what had just happened before finally standing back up onto his feet again without believing it himself even if it really did happen!

But then as he began walking away towards what remained of his chickens still locked away inside their coop where they belonged to begin feeding them - figuring it was all probably an illusion act being played out for him by someone - all of a sudden another thunderous rumbling sound began filling his ears as everything around him started shaking again violently until suddenly light returned again once more only this time instead of finding himself sitting down on the ground where the chicken used to be laying motionless with both feet broken like nothing had ever happened instead what happened next made Azkaal stop dead right in his tracks right there in his tracks!

Before he knew it there was instead suddenly this beautiful woman standing right there in front of him dressed in shimmering blue clothes covered by flawless silvery skin holding two glowing spheres filled with millions upon millions of tiny lights floating within them looking deep into each other's eyes whilst quietly whispering sweet nothings into each other's ears; she looked almost angelic! She turned around slowly towards Azkaal standing behind her wide-eyed with disbelief staring speechlessly up towards her face whilst smiling pleasantly down towards him before saying quietly: “Oh hello young man. My name is Pixie; who are you?”