H20 Realm of the Fairy Folk

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**Realm of the Fairy Folk**, the 20th book of The Golden Age of Adventures series, was published in May 2018. It is the English language edition of the original Chinese comic, **妖精森林**, which was published in November 2017.

## Synopsis

AIMING FOR THE TOP! PROTECTING THE FAIRY KINGDOM!

On their mission to France to return the bodies, Alex and his comrades enter a legendary haunted forest and end up climbing down a narrow hole. Suddenly, as if by magic, they begin to shrink and find themselves face-to-face with a flight of furious and ferocious fairies. Why are the fairies hostile? And how will they take on an evil "dark adventurer" in their shrunken state?

## Cast

* Alex
* Lulu
* Axe
* "Bone Saw" Jeff
* Jackal
* The Fairy King - Jade Star

## Plot

***Spoiler warning!** Plot and/or ending details follow.*

### Chapter 1: Haunted Forest

Yujiro escorts the World Adventure Union with sending the kappa back to its home in Japan while Alex, Lulu, Jackal and Axe take the fairy back to her home in France by helicopter. Bo is with his mate because it's mating season. In France, they find Quak Hotel because the logo matches the logo on a matchbox back at the Ferocious Four's base. Alex and Jackal recon the hotel while Axe and Lulu pretend to be tourists.

Axe talks to the receptionist. Alex and Jackal search for suspicious things on the second floor, they find nothing. Axe asks the receptionist if there is a forest nearby. There is, but the haunted forest is out of bounds. Long ago, there was a castle by the lake. During the Great Revolution, the occupants were murdered by thugs. The castle burned down and ghost stories began circulating. People and things would disappear without a trace. Recently, there were adventurers who went there and never returned.

The team arrive at a place with what looks like a castle's ruins. Alex has a bag of breadcrumbs in case fairies attack. Lulu's ears don't sense anything other than crows.

### Chapter 2: Illusions

It has been three hours and the team has not found anything. Axe decides to put more dry ice into the fairy's coffin. Lulu hears something in the bushes, but there is nothing. There is only a wall. Alex spreads a pinch of his breadcrumbs, and the wall disappears. Breadcrumbs can also break fairy spells.

They enter an undergrounds lake. Alex accidentally steps on a pressure plate, activating a crystal wall to rise, separating him and Lulu from Axe and Jackal. Lulu and Axe can't break through, so they go their separate ways. They both encounter a puzzle at their ends. Alex and Lulu's is to cut out four pieces from the grid. They must be of the same shape and have three letters each. Axe and Jackal's is to put the right price into the image.

### Chapter 3: Shrinking

Lulu feels someone is watching. Vines reveal a tunnel after Alex solves the puzzle. At the end, Axe jump scares them, and Lulu punches him, thinking he was an enemy. He descend into a big hole, it has many glyphs. Jackal's boot falls out of his legs and Lulu's clothes are loosening. Fairy magic is shrinking them! They are encased in web balls. The fairies imprison them. The prison also holds the missing adventurers. One of them is a dark adventurer: "Bone Saw" Jeff.

### Chapter 4: Enter the Arena

Dark adventurers disobey the adventurer code and commit crimes, damaging the Union's reputation. Axe is sent by them to capture and incarcerate them in the Adventurer Prison, Grand Canyon, USA.

Fairies have come and Jeff hides. The general orders his men to take Alex to the arena. Before Alex and co. arrived, there were 26 people. The fairies take people to the arena twice a day. They never returned. Now there are only six of them.

In the arena, a fairy cuts the web ball so that Alex can move and use it as clothing. Fairy King Jade Star salutes his people. A praying mantis enters the arena. Alex punches its eye, but it is too hard to crack. He then covers it eyes using the web. Jade Star orders two to handle him. One throws her rope, but Alex catches it. Alex dodges the other's attempt to stab him, but mantis is stabbed instead. The mantis flies away while Alex rides it.

### Chapter 5: Escape

Jeff beats Axe's face. Axe asks how Jeff freed himself. A man says he used fairy weapons. Jeff beats his face for answering him. Lulu turns into her cat form and find a fairy weapon. She finds two fairies eating. She takes their knife. She runs back and cuts Axe free. The two fairies have come. Axe and Jeff beat them up. Jeff escapes.

Alex has hid himself from the fairies. He crawls through a tunnel. The room he enters is filled with fairy runes on the walls. There is also a puzzle. It shows triangles above are cut in two triangles. From them, Alex cuts the bottom triangles into two triangles. The runes show Alex the fairies' memories.

Jeff has found the place for everyone's belongings. He finds his saw and Alex's breadcrumbs.

### Chapter 6: Hatred for Humans

One memory is an injured fairy spotted by a farmer. He nursed her back to health, then sold her to the circus. The next memory is a fairy watching the French and British soldiers fighting during the French Revolution. The next is people collecting and displaying fairies, then people eating them for meals.

The fairies chase Axe, Lulu, Jackal and the other adventurers. Axe throws stones at them. Jade Star captures the other adventurers by controlling roots. He shoots leaves to Axe, Lulu and Jackal. Jeff, in his normal size, appears. Jade Star shoots leaves at him, but he uses breadcrumbs. Alex pushes Jade Star away from Jeff's saw. Axe will occupy Jeff while Alex, Jackal and Lulu will revert to their normal size and use their weapons to defeat Jeff.

### Chapter 7: Fight

While searching for a solution, a fairy falls near Alex, Lulu and Jackal. Jeff stomps on Jade Star and squeezes Axe. Jackal plans to aim his jet pack to Jeff and let it fly at maximum speed. The fairy throws rocks at Alex. Alex tells him to help push Jackal's jet pack by drawing. They both push the jet pack towards Jeff. Lulu and Jackal have found the controller. They put it at max speed and the jet pack slams Jeff's face.

### Chapter 8: Resurrection

Everyone reverts back to their normal size. Jeff is now tied up. Alex thanks the fairies for understanding he and his comrades mean no harm. The fairies leave with disdainful faces. One fairy, the one who helped Alex, gives Alex a bracelet, then leaves.

In the Neo-Nazi base, Dr. Ming orders to get rid of the Wee Folk. He has mastered the technique of using soul ore to forge Lar's metal. He activates his Soul Transfer Machine, transferring Adolf Hitler's soul into the female IBYon body. The Holy Leader awakens. In the hall, he announces to his army he will lead them to victory. He'll conquer the world through Shambhala. Lieutenant Red Snake starts chanting "all hail the Holy Leader." The soldiers chant as well. Adolf's first move is to destroy his two biggest obstacles: the World Adventure Union and the Global Alliance for Humanity.

## Trivia

* Adolf's resurrected IBYon body actually belongs to Akhator's sister.