Ayaan Arroyo was a common guy. He grew up in a common neighborhood, went to common schools, and got common grades. Not bad grades. Just common ones.
Through Colledge, he sailed on with his common ways. In the end, he received a common diploma to help him for the rest of his life. He saw a fantastic future of common delights. He would get a job at a bank and be a teller for all his life.
Or so he thought...
Ayaan was so common there was not a task he could not do. He knew just enough about everything there was to do. This set well with him and his little common house that kept him warm and cool at night.
He slowly, because he was common after all, raised in rank at his branch of The Bank. He went from Teller to Drive-thru, to loan officer, and more until he found himself right at the top of them all.
Now one would think Ayaan's position would go to his head. A bigger house and car must have been on the list. Yet, no, he still loved his common home in his common neighborhood, driving his common vehicle. He was content in his life and just rolled along in his job and life.
Until...
On Monday morning, Ayaan walked into his office and was blinded by a light. He reached for the door to walk back out, but he could not find the handle in the bright, bright light. He didn't panic, making his way towards his desk because he was common after all.
One step, two steps, three and four. Ayaan's office was not this big to still be walking, yet that is what he kept doing. If you can not go backward, then forward it is. Any common person knows about this!
Soon he found himself feeling trees? Huh, he said to himself.
POP!!!
Ayaan was sucked into the light. Adjusting his eyes to a little less glow, he took in the surroundings he now found himself in. Before Ayaan stood a beautiful white Unicorn with a dainty gold crown on her head. Next to her, Ayaan took two sidesteps right because three would not have been common and saw the biggest, meanest-looking black stallion anyone could ever encounter.
The stallion, Elgar, nodded his head at Ayaan Arroyo, which helped him relax just a teeny tiny bit. Behind him, he heard a squeak and turned to see a young girl dressed in a long black veil over her head secured by flowers in her hair. Huh, he said to himself once again.
Before he could look any further, his head was filled with an exquisite voice. The voice explained to him why he was called. She told him they required a banker to help take care of them all.
Like all his life, Ayaan looked at the situation he found himself in and studied it a bit inside his common head. He asked common questions anyone would want to know. Why him? Why Now? Why Brown Cow? Errr Queen of, of? And he trailed off. For the first time ever, Ayaan Arroyo could not finish a sentence.
The Queen Isla, in charge of Earth, took pity on Mr. Ayaan and filled him in on all the plans she and her husband had for him and why it was to be him.
She told him they had to start looking to the Earth's future. How they needed to start slowly interacting with humans out in the wild west. She explained a road needed to be built and supplies to be had. How they needed him to set up a trust that would last seven thousand fairy years in all.
He would have help from the fairy called Bricky Blu. She was as wonderful as him.
A rustle to his right had Ayaan glancing at the little girl covered in her black veil, fluttering her wings? that sent up sparks into the night.
Running his hands over his commonly shaped dome of a head, Ayaan deducted the little girl wasn't so little after all. He bowed her way to show he saw her and turned back to the Queen of Earth to tell her no.
With his head slowly swinging back around, he saw the most beautiful person on Earth. His breath caught in his throat. His eyes widened, his mouth dropping open. She was defiantly not common!
Elgar could be heard chuckling as his wife hit him with her rump. In a blink of the stallion's eye, Ayaan found himself encased in stunning robes of green and gold. The colors from his new robes reflected the light from the fire. Green sparkles filled the air.
Across the room, Princess Iris, Protector of Flowers, lifted her head. She stared straight into Ayaan's eyes. Iris nodded her head while butterflies danced around her in the light.
Ayaan felt a nudge on his back that sent him flying across the room into Princess Iris's waiting arms. Her laughter filled the air as she caught him before he hit the wall. This was not common at all!
Ayaan turned to Princess Iris, soon to be his wife if you did not catch on to that part yet. She held his hands and told him he must stay, or she would wither and die if he didn't. You see, flower princesses only love once in their lives. If he left, she would slowly wilt and die.
Ayaan being the common man he was, did not want to be responsible for anyone's death. He just didn't know if he would survive being around Princess Iris because he was having difficulty catching his breath.
The Queen Isla, in charge of Earth, cleared her throat and proclaimed all was settled. Ayaan Arroyo would stay and be the head Banker. Princess Iris took Ayaan's hand and led him down the hallway, butterflies following all the way.
The End
I saw @TheMarkyMark's post Punk Backstories a few days ago. I took a look at my HivePunk once again and put him up on my second screen. Slowly over the last two days, I had two stories mixing in my head. I wanted the stories to stand alone, but I had plans for good old Ayaan Arroyo that didn't involve being common.
Thank you for the inspiration, MarkyMark!! I never would have come up with the beginning of my larger story if not for your post and prompt!
If you own a HivePunk, check out @TheMarkyMark's post Punk Backstories post for all the rules and such!
Help someone smile today. It can not hurt you.
Snook
All photos are mine unless otherwise stated.
