"It's a pixie" I heard, circling in the crowd around me, I frowned and looked around and stiffened as I heard one say "what should we do?" "Tell the queen duh" said a some what snobby voice then a gentler voice said "it's sad, an unwanted Childs first tear, makes an unwanted…thing, and it's so young to"
I growled deeply, that's when I found out I don't like being called a 'thing' and the fairies, hearing my growl, backed up a bit.
In a flash of bright light, a fairy woman stood in front of me and in a gentle yet firm voice said "I am sorry pixie, but we don't need you, and thus you do not need to be here."
I snarled at them, "You think that I am I 'thing' that you can dismiss me, throw me away because you don't need me, ha you are a pathetic breed" I was shocked by my voice, it was slightly deep and scratchy, I grinned madly as a thought crossed my mind.
"Well, since you don't want me I'll leave with a poem, a song of sorts" I said
"People are so naïve
Not believing in the thing,
Those who are not seen
Forgotten, you see the fairies around me
Shall surly grieve
Because everyday children are muttering
'I don't believe in fairies
I don't believe'
Every time I hear that
You want to know what I see.
I see the coffins of the fairy in whom
Humans don't believe"
The fairies were silent for a bit, and then they started yelling in outrage, I bowed and laughed then flew off to find a different world
I went around from world to world, hoping to find something unknown at the time and learnt I could grow to human size and back to my normal size at will.
I walked into hell, or the underworld as it's known here. bored and curious, after wandering for a bit I found a large pool, with a rock ledge, I looked over the edge seeing a green pool, with human shape…people swimming through it, I lent further.
"What are you doing?" a cool feminine voice asked.
I 'eeped' and fell forward and hit the surface on my back, making my wings useless. I sunk down, clawing trying to get to the surface, but the 'people' around me grabbed me pulling me down. I saw the 'water' around the surface go inward but it was to far away. I pulled out my two unnamed knives and started slashing the people. They started to ignore me and went for the female who had dived in after me. I pointed my body to where I thought was the surface, where the people were heading. I swam as fast as I could, cursing my wings for holding me back. I reached the female and saw she was scratched and bleeding. I grabbed her waist and started swimming the up. We soon reached the shore and I dragged us on to it, I placed the blades on the ground and looked at the female. She had long black hair with blood red tips, I could see fangs from her mouth and her skin was pale.
"Hey wakeup, would ya?" I asked/shouted and she opened her eyes, they were blood red
"You…saved…me?" she asked shakily. I nodded hard and fast hearing a dull hitting noise, then pain, so much pain. I screamed as I felt my wet wings being stretched and thickening, my upper arm was burning into a pattern and then a pounding sound which turned into whispering then into screaming then…nothing, I was floating then falling.
"She's waking up" I heard the red eyed female say.
"How do you know it's a 'she' because 'SHE' has no chest" then snickering, then I felt tugging at me jeans, I caught the wrist of the man who owned the sleazy voice.
"Touch me, and I will rip off your fingers and shove them up your- oh hey you're the girl from before" I said and dropped the man as I opened my eyes.
"…you have a short attention span" was all she said before she reached for my arm, to help me up.
I giggled and jumped on to the floor, and started to look around, we were in a large cave, and there were to little demon like things, a skinny pink one and a fat blue one and I titled my head towards them, eyes wide, mouth curved into a wicked smile.
"Hey miss, where's my knives?" I asked eyes still on the demons.
"Yeah about them" she said and pulled out a pair of blades, they were long and curved in wards, aiming to decapitate the opponent in a fight, and the handle was an inwards curve, one had blue and the other green, I picked them up.
"Envy…sloth" I muttered and I heard them, envy's voice was male and charming while sloths was deep and slow speaking.
"Um…okay so now what, I don't mind about them two but what happened to me? And just what?" I asked looking at the woman; well she shrugged and made a gesture for me to follow her, which I did. We walked to a large cave with a throne in the back wall and on the throne was a blue skin man with blue flame hair.
The woman bowed and pushed my head forwards making me do the same. I winced as my hair stayed in that weird position til I patted it down.
"So who's this bozo?" I asked the woman and she scowled but her eyes sparkled a little bit.
"This is Lord Hades" she said and I nodded til the dull noise started again.
"So yeah, what happened to me?" I asked them and the woman sighed and Hades chuckled a bit.
"Well you are now a creature of the underworld" Hades said and I grinned then winced.
"Their screaming, a man yellin' about something" I said to them, and Hades looked a bit taken back but then nodded a bit.
"Congrats kid, you can now hear the dead, and are gonna work for me now" he said and the woman, jeez I really got to find out her name, coughed.
"Yeah-wait, what I never" I started but was cut off.
"Nikushimi take her to your room and fill her in" Hades announced and Nikushimi was taken back but nodded and grabbed my wrist and dragged me away. I was screaming bloody murder and something about kicking arses.
That night we talked for hours. Nikushimi or Nik as I call her was fun loving but was more, much more mature then me. She told me about her past, how she was a tree nymph with Ker blood then turned into a Ker when she turned 18, we had lived in an orphanage til she turned. She tolme about Ker's they were the goddesses of violent deaths, a sort of 'Greek Vampire' They have large feathery wings and drank the blood of any human, dead or alive.
I told her that I was a pixie and that I was kicked out of never land and been travelling from one world to the next, through the darkness, taking jobs every now and then. We talked about how Hades wanted to hire me, I accepted but with a price…or two.
Next morning we went to Hades and told him I'll take the job and told him the prices, first Nik was to work with me and second I was to be paid. He agreed and after about a week of training he sent us to a large Greek city not to far from the underworld.
When we found the target, a greasy man around 45 in age, he had a potbelly. We went to a mask stall, not wanting anyone to walk in and see our faces. Nik chose a full face one with small red lips and a white face with heavy eye makeup and patterns and I choose a simple black one that covered my forehead to my nose and it had spikes stick from both sides and stitching along the middle.
At midnight that night, after a full day of stalking him, we snuck into his room, he was drunk and look at us and in a drunken slur started walking and talking to us.
"Hello sweeties, are you here to give daddy some suuugaarrr?"
He reached out and grabbed Nik's boob and I let out a growl as she squeaked, I had grown attached the Ker.
"Don't worry, I like girls of colour too" and to prove his 'point' he tried to unbuckle my jeans.
Nik muttered some thing along the lines of 'Duck' and I stabbed envy through his forearm and twisted it and grinned insanely as he screamed.
On a whim I said "Je suis le moissonneur de votre âme, il m'appartient" 'I am the reaper of your soul, It belongs to me' in French and I stabbed his heart and felt a sudden jolt through my blade, envy, and he slurped up the soul and grinned at me through the blade. Nik didn't seem to notice.
"You alright?" I asked her and she nodded shakily
"that was a shock, it hasn't happened since I was a N-nymph" I heard her mutter
"Nik?"
She looked dazed and out of places
"As a nymph, even as a half nymph, I attracted the attention of gods, and it was always being chased by sytrs, which was fun but with gods it was the real deal, and Zeus took a fancy of me, and I was scared of H-Hera's wrath and that's why I ran soon as I turned eighteen and turned, scaring Zues away but it was r-really close" after she said that she started shacking, stuck in the past.
"Nik" I said gently and shook her shoulders gently, she didn't reply
"NIK" I yelled quietly and shook her violently and my reward, a good punch to the face "owww that's going to bruise"
She gasped and I laughed a bit and knelt to her level and whispered "If you ever need anything remember I'm here for you…okay that was random but its true" and I hugged her then I remembered where we were and started laughing, she looked at me funny for a moment then realised what I did and we both started cracking up laughing before leaving, still laughing.
Nik left last and as I got out I looked back to see her looking back and then she climbed out of the window with a smile on her face.
"Don't bother Kux, just no" and she started laughing again and I shook my head before laughing with her.
"So you speak French?" she asked and nodded "and Italian" and continued to laugh and flew off with Nik not to far behind…
That was 3 years ago.
We haven't aged; we travelled together, leaving Hades, after getting a better deal. Now we work free lance, who ever is the highest bidder.
"So… our job is to go to this strict, sexist boarding school and spy on these people?" I asked as we looked at the gothic building
"yep pretty much, the man wants to make that the members of his 'organization' aren't cheating him and such" she shrugged and started walking ahead, with her bag, I stood staring at the building and when I heard her yell my name, I sighed and growled, "it's all ways me isn't it?"
When we got to the 'front office' it looked like a brick fish bowl, it had been painted blue and had children's drawings, which was…weird, the deformed shapes and multicoloured pictures stood out. We saw a lady with dyed red hair; she was young, a year or two out of school herself.
"Hey miss; we're the new students, Nikushimi Roberts"
"Kuxri Smith" I said, grinning slightly.
She looked at both of us, noticing our 'strange' appearance.
Nik's hair was black with red tips, her eyes were the colour of fresh blood, and she had a stud ear brow piercing and nose piercing and angle piercings on her lips.
My hair was a short pixie style (mostly out of amusement) with the colours ranging from bleach blonde to black with a bit of blue and purple here and there, I had a stud eyebrow piercing, nose ring and spider bite rings on my lower lip.
She then typed something into the computer after a few moments she opened her mouth to tell us something, but a cute redhead boy, real redhead, came in.
"Hello Sophia" he flirted and she giggled and again was going to say something about an old gray haired man came in.
"Axel! What are you doing here?" he looked and sounded like a drill sergeant.
"Just going to escort the new girls to their rooms, just waiting for their timetables, sir" he, Axel, said mockingly, but the man didn't notice.
"Sophia gets these girls timetables" and she sat there for a moment then he yelled "NOW!" "yes Mr White" and she scrambled to the computer and string printing them off and then grabbed one, mine I think, and scribbled something on the back and then handed both timetables to Axel.
The man, Mr White, nodded and said "give them to the first girls you see or else" then looked at us "No piercing, besides earrings are allowed and cover that disgusting tattoo" he left, Axel winked at Sophia and left again I was left behind thinking, then ran after Axel, whom Nik had followed.
When I reached there, Nik had just introduced herself, I ran in front of then, jogging back wards, laughing and started to say "I'm-" and collapsed as I tripped over something, I heard them laugh and looked over what I had tripped over, and then laughed at the blushing boy, I had 'flew' over him and my ankle were on his left shoulder and my right leg was at his waist.
"Good going, Demyx" Axel said "if you wanted to get 'personal' you could have at least waited for us to leave" he said slyly and winked at us.
I laughed and got up with a bit of trouble but then helped the boy 'Demyx' up.
"Here mate, but next time wait til the fifth date" I said and winked and then cracked up laughing they joined in leaving Demyx blushing. "I'm joking mate"