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Almost the whole story about The Scarecrow
  almost from the beginning...
(Actually the real beginning is below...)

We once had a new student in our Academy of Arts...
She looked so bad, she got dressed so badly and she even behaved so badly...that we all called her simply "The Scarecrow"...

But once... It was just when daylight was gone, in just beginning of the night...
Nice, a bit misty one, quiet, with something magic feeling coming from inside... or from aroma of the flowers wafting from the gardens around homes,... or maybe from the moonlight... And on the street you met that one, this ugly girl - "The Scarecrow".

What happened then? ... only you know!... Smile!
You had a friend... a little green, devil-like creature, that always popped up, even when you didn't call him and well, was always trying to help, whether you wanted him to, or not...
Who was now that one!?!
Hehehe... maybe he is the one, who is always sitting in your mind, sometimes making you happy about nothing and sometimes getting you into trouble. Didn't you know that???

Well, maybe nothing extraordinary was happened...
But maybe because of that magic night, or of what your little friend had done... there came Love... The most powerful magic in that world! And that ugly girl just bloomed, because of you, and transformed into the most beautiful creature you have ever met!...
(At least I thought so...)
That nice white magic made you be a wizard and made a fairy from her... Your kisses made miracles... her tender hands transformed common things into magic ones, and probably if all the magic items were used, as they would have to be... she took you into the Magic Garden, faraway, somewhere in Dream Land. And there she would be yours and you would.... Hey! Were you really there???...

OK... If so... then perhaps she invited you to her birthday, to see her at her home and to celebrate together... just you and she alone... Oh, and that green one, boring creature! How to escape from him!
There was a cake and candles, as it is proper. She showed you her designs and you tried to teach her to play guitar...
Did you ever know how to play guitar??? Never mind... There everything is possible....
If you had played the right melody together... she would probably ask you to stay for the night and the next day... to keep on lessons, you know.
Eh...The magic never ends! A book became a magic box and magic door... The globe was a teleport... And you had found....
Geeeeee... only infinite happiness? Ha! Is there something like that in real life!?! No!

Evil saw you and her together and was jealous... Black envy decided to destroy that nice magic... It took her and transformed her into a real scarecrow, situated in a corn field, property of the Three Nasty Gnomes...

If you are a man, was your love for her, so strong, enough to save her?...
If you are a woman, did you imagine, you were that scarecrow girl waiting for her Brave Beloved Knight... He will come for you, I promise... There are so much magic in the internet... so strange... unbelievable miracles could happen...

Someday, maybe I'll write some of those Internet Legends here for you...

Well, have you already played "The Scarecrow" game? So you know what's happened in the Gnomes corn field...:)

What did you do then? Did you find her watch and put it on the scarecrows wrist, her tender arm appeared and when a green bird came to bring you something what will help to break bad magic... Or you took off sack from scarecrow and what did you find??? Did you discover again your Love, or you met a person you never knew? A heartless, cruel Devil Woman, born to make you suffer???...

Well, in every case three nasty gnomes would try to take her from you and turn her back into a scarecrow...
You fought with them and even won, but every time they came back again and again... I hope, you did your best... and your love had such beautiful magic to remake even a Devil Woman into a nice angelic creation... If she had a heart, of course...:).

At last, did she come into your sweet dreams last night? The magic is... if you have seen her in a dream, the Dream may become the Truth... and you may meet that girl in real life sometime... :)

Hmm... many of you have asked me what's her name.... She has pretended, her name was April... but her fairy name means something like Rose's Pearl, or to be more exact, "An Angel Tear Fallen On The Rose Bud Just Beginning To Blossom..." Oh, well, I usually just called her Pearl...
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OK, my friends, for you who are not lazy to read, here is
Really The Beginning
of this story. :)

Somewhere in Nowhere, at the time of No time, there lands The Dream Land...
...and there lived an old mighty wizard, who had a power to create almost everything, from almost nothing...
Some citizens of Dreamland were his friends, some were not... He used to fly with dragons, and have long philosophy discussions with the Sphinx. He was scaring the gnomes and was driving the harpies away, but the Fairy Queen, who rules there, always kept some distance of him. Probably because she was afraid of him a bit, or was jealous a bit, since he had a magic power, more powerful, than she had... Who knows... There were some rumors, the reason was in some more delicate matter, but you can't believe much rumors, can you? :)

Anyway, one of the fairies was his friend, and was always around him. She was so nice, so kind, so funny and very very curious, that always was making the wizard smiling. And she had so beautiful name - 'An Angel Tear Fallen On The Rose Bud Just Becoming To Blossom'. "Gee.." you'll say, "How to call her with that so long name?!?". Well, it isn't problem for the fairies, because they do not talk. Yes! They just send images, feelings, concepts directly from mind to mind. No words, different languages, grammar rules etc. Any of human languages seams to be very poor and primitive to express the right impression of all what a fairy can say... And what she say for time you blink with eyes, you'll talk one hour about and around to explain... Actually, the fairies can make some sounds as 'oh', 'ah', 'ih', etc., just to underline the expression, they send. They laugh very sweet, and  even they can cry...
Haven't you met some woman, who can only make such sounds? :))))

Just not to forget... There were another creature, that was always around that wizard. Greedy the imp. He was called 'Greedy', because he was always hungry and thirsty. The wizard enjoyed to have such buddy, with good appetite on his table, not to eat and drink alone. Greedy was very glad, and in appreciation of this, he always brought some magic items, imps had, or had stolen from someone... Also he always... 'He'?... Hmmm... actually imps have no gender. How they make their generation then? Easy. When it's time and there is need for that, simply a new imp jumps out from the mouth of his 'parent'. Believe me, I've seen that so many times...
Well, since Greedy always behaved as a 'man', I always thought about that imp, as 'He'. :)

One day/night (I couldn't say exactly, because the light and darkness in Dream Land do not depends of some 'Sun', but of the mood of Dream Land inhabitants) the fairy asked the wizard:
"You were so kind to show me so much of your magic, and teach me so much of it. Oh, you can do everything! You know everything! Can you tell me, please, which is The Gre-e-e-e-e-atest Magic in the World???"
The wizard smiled deep in his white big beard, and reply:
"The Greatest Magic in all worlds is called Love, but it belongs to human beings only. And to use it are needed two persons, a man and a woman, to be as one together ..."
"Wonderful!!! You are a man, and I'm a woman! So we could..."
"Ha-ha-ha... You are not a woman! You just look like a woman, my fairy... The women have no your beautiful wings, but they can give the wings to men who love them... Even if they haven't your other po..."
"I'd like to give you all! My wings, and everything you wish!", she interrupted him, "I can transform myself!!! You've taught me, remember? Now see...what about like this?"
"Oh no! Women are not so hairy! And why you make that tail??? He-he... though a woman can make a man to go after her, as he is  her tail...indeed..."
"Not hairy?...but looking at you...well, then like this???..."
"My dear, 'not hairy' doesn't mean like a reptile or like a fish!... And what these fangs are for? Well, sometimes a woman can be more dangerous, than a snake is, and even more venomous..."
"You'll like me more, if I was like this???..."
"As a pink devil? Ha-ha-ha-ha... Oh, you'll make me die from laughing!...The women show their devil horns, sometimes... Ha-ha-ha..., but they use to put horns on men's heads mostly! Well, enough kidding each-other, my friend. Stay quiet for a while, and let us see, if I can make from you a real human being..."

As the wizard said this, he raised his hands, his dark eyes flashed, and everything around illuminated in the strange magic light, just coming from everything's inside... The fairy froze in the air...then under his tender touches she began to change, till the wizard murmured to himself under his moustaches:
"Hmmm... a bit more of this... and less of that... and if I change colors a bit... and if I add... but not to leave..."
And there was a young woman, standing in front of him. Her long hair with color of old gold, covering her only... Her eyes were like mountain lakes, reflecting  a clear summer sky at noon. Her skin was as a pink pearl, you couldn't say, if it was like transparent a bit, or it was shining with its own light. Her lips were as two leaves of rose bud, semi-opened in expectation of a tender kiss, a wish of something unrealized yet, so anxious ...
She's standing there so beautiful, so full of life, so ready just to fall in love... With you? With me? With some other, more lucky guy??? Eh!... Well, you have already seen that Pearl... :))))

But why the wizard's face became so grim, as he was looking at his last creating?... Why his eyes became so sad?... With deep sigh, so full of suffering, he waved with his hand and broke the magic. Poor fairy just fell unexpected on the ground and said: "Ouch!!!"
"Sorry, my friend," he said "I have to do something important, I didn't do for so long time. Please, now leave me alone, would you?"
"Hey! Why!?! Did I?...Oh, well,... as you wish... But you have to know, I've remembered your last magi-i-i-c!!!... He-he-he..." and she flew away.

The wizard sat behind his table, his hands covered his face, his long white hair streamed down to his shoulders... "I had to make this hard decision long time ago..., not to forget, I'm just a human being. I should be back in Human's world, where was my place, where was my home, and where I really belong..."
He stood up and take in hands a strange thing, containing spheres and spirals, looking like if it was made of green glass. That object become to fill of light, and all around fell in darkness... And there was a big portal. Behind it, the Sun was shining in the smiling sky with fluffy clouds over peaceful green land. Some forest near here, some river serpent far behind it, and over there some houses, and yes, some people were moving there around.
He stepped ahead..., and being deep in his blue thoughts, he didn't notice the blue transparent trembling wings flashing above his head, neither the green ball with a thin tail creeping between his legs...

So, that was the way,  Pearl (the girl, who was pretending, her name was April), and Greedy appeared in our world...

When the Fairy Queen heard about this, she was mad. You'll ask: "But why???". Eh, the queens has their right, never to tell you, the reason why they are angry or they are glad...
"Oh, wizard, you left us that way!", she cried, " All right! Better you'd never be back again! I ban you, wizard!!! My gates are closed now for you forever!!!"
"Your Majesty,"-said the imp, who has brought her that  news, "one of us is missing too... I can understand about that fairy. She was beautiful and had a good heart, but..."
"Shut up, you stupid imp! First, the fairies have NO hearts! Beautiful?!? She?!? Ha-ha! She was beautiful like... like... like the SCARECROW in the gnome's corn field!!! Oh,... he could not prefer her... He just could not!!!... Oh, no-o-o-o...", she covered her flashing face.
"Hmm...Hmm...Your Majesty, you needed me?...." the darkness dimmed more dark around two eyes of flames...
"The Shadow Demon! Yes! Yes-s-s-s!!! I have a job for you..."

You already know the rest. :) 

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Don't ask me, if that story will become a KiSS set... or if it will be really the end of The Scarecrow story. Still Pearl and Greedy are in our world, and you'll see Pearl's next adventures soon, I hope..

"The Scarecrow" is a CKiSS, FKiSS 2.1 set. It took many years of hard work and still takes much of my time. What I have shown here is just a little part of what I already have and what is on my mind about The Scarecrow. Any support, sponsoring, or donation that will help me to keep that work FREE in the net, will be very appreciated!