Story of the seven fairies

Fairy dust

Once upon a time, there were seven little fairies living in the sky. They were color fairies. By that, I mean, each of them wore clothes of each of the seven colors of the rainbow and carried wands from with colorful sparkles would sprinkle everywhere. They were not just ordinary tiny fairies that pottered about looking pretty and doing a few magical stuff at times, they had a very big responsibility.

Lavenders

That responsibility was this - they imparted color on ALL things big and small. The red pen on your desk is red because Red Fairy sprinkled some of her red-fairy-dust there, Zebra has black and white stripes because the fairies calculated RGB proportions correctly while the first zebra was getting painted by the angels...like that.

 Overlapped Indigo

The fairies were doing great, everyone was happy. Green fairy would color the foliage bright green in spring, in fall again Red and Yellow fairies would mix up different proportions of their fairy dust and create the beautiful shades of fall-colors...during sunrise and sunset, they would get so creative, Blue Fairy would turn the sky into cornflower blue....and right after a spell of rain, when the earth and sky get washed and clean, all seven of them would wave their wands to create a RAINBOW!!

 

Blue

One day, there was a great thunderstorm. While the storm was raging and lightning bolts were striking the earth, the seven fairies were sitting inside their crystal house huddled together, waiting for the storm to pass. "How all the earthlings would want to see a rainbow now" said Yellow Fairy as she cleaned her wand with magic-bubbles. "Yes", Blue Fairy replied, "I am thinking if I should save some of my bright blue for the rainbow today". Indigo Fairy was very quiet, she didn't say anything but looked very sad. "What's the matter with you, Indigo?" asked Violet Fairy. Indigo started sobbing and after a while said, "with all the grey bad smokes coming out of tall chimneys, people can hardly see my color in the rainbow nowadays, I try so hard, but indigo hardly shows!" While all the fairies were thinking about Indigo Fairy's prolem, Orange Fairy was the one to see the afternoon sun in the west, almost ready to call it a day. She got up with her wand as usual, but then something struck her..."Girls!" she said in a commanding voice, "let's take out all the colors from the earth and sky".

Green leaves

"What?" exclaimed the others. "Yes," Orange Fairy went on in a determined voice. "Let's not color anything, anywhere from now on and then the humans would see what they are doing to the earth and sky. I am NOT going to color the sunset today. That's final!"

"Yay for Orange!!!" shouted all the fairies as they shook their magic wands on Orange Fairy, drizzling her with sparkly fairy dust!

Yellow Sun

Down below on the earth, chaos reigned as the sunset that evening was pale and grey. Scientists started thinking what could have happened, some people said the aliens are coming to attack, smartphone developers started creating apps to find out when the aliens are coming... From the next day, EVERYTHING was bleak and pale and gloomy...and GREY...!!! When people woke up and saw that, they  were so scared, they didn't understand what was happening and so couldn't figure out what they could do to help. For seven days, the Fairies continued this. They locked up their magic wands and spent time inside the crystal dome (which was bright, warm and colorful). On the seventh day, Indigo Fairy was looking down at the great grey ocean splashing grey waves on the grey beach when she felt very bad. "Poor humans", she thought and went back to her friends to see if they had any news. Violet Fairy was knitting a bright violet shawl out of yarn coming out from her violet magic pillow. "I have saved too much color over the last seven days, I need to do something with those, " she said. Blue and Yellow Fairies were stirring blocks of color and in a tub and splashing it on Red Fairy. "We will neutralize you... you will disappear if we color you green!!" "These girls have too much color to waste" sighed Indigo Fairy!

Oranges

Later that evening, when the moon rose, a little moon fairy came sliding down a moon beam. "They have got your point" she said. "Who?" asked the color fairies, together. "The humans down there" moon fairy replied pointing down below. "See what they have done..." The fairies looked down and saw the Earth glistening in the moonlight. Still wan, but bright. "What did they do?" asked Blue Fairy. "And how did they know this?" asked Violet. Moon Fairy sat down on a cushion and said, "well, they turned to an old sage in a village, who told them about you all. This old lady told them that the humans have got the Earth on a lease from their forefathers on a condition to leave it in the same way for their children. What they have been doing all around, killing animals, poisoning the air and water, wouldn't leave much for their children....The humans probably wouldn't have listened to her, but the fact that you DID take out all the colors, made a lot of impact..."

Rose Red

So there they went....the next morning all the colors everywhere were restored. The sun came up with a bright yellow smile, the green leaves dancing in joy in the golden sunlight. A sweet breeze blew fluffy white clouds on the blue backdrop of a clear sky...blue-green waves lashed on yellow sandy beaches and yes, the traffic lights were functioning properly too :-)

The next time a rainbow came, indigo was looking bright and snug sitting between violet and blue!!!

Can you imagine a world without colors? That's why we need to save the place we call "home".


Note: There are some stories about rainbow fairies, but this one is written based on some fairies I created when I was five. The violet one was my favorite at that time :-)