AN: Hmm…something twisted… Yay! I'm glad someone got something interesting! Just for that…I'll add a twist! ^^ hee, hee, hee!


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Liniel looked at the wood just ahead of them. They had traveled for three days, and this Halfwit just happened to ask about Death Woods.

Death Woods belongs strictly to all Frays. Frays are not happy beings in Death Woods, whoever thinks Frays are, did not meet the ones who belonged in these woods. The Fray has long since hated humans for tearing down their beloved forests, and has plotted vengeance. They were vanished, long since, to Death Woods, and anyone who passes without asking for their judgment died the most gruesome death- especially if one just so happened to be a human. One was never to walk into Death Wood at night, where they could put loopholes in their agreement, and then slay without a single passing thought. The very path was a violent warning- made up of human bones, and fresh blood of any human stupid enough to travel without asking.

"Great, there's no doubt the Kingdom isn't through these woods!" Halfwit grinned.

"Are you sure? I'm not going into those woods on some foolish whim, any trespasser dies. All know this of Death Woods."

"That's just like saying the Red Wolves still roam in sky villages."

"Do not joke about Red Wolves." Red Wolves were vicious, cruel, and most deadly. However, not as deadly as an angered Fray.

"Don't be so upset, Low Class. The Fray will allow a Prince to go through."

"They'll laugh at you before killing you with a twig."

"A Prince is highly respectable, and no one would be that upset with one." He glared. Liniel rolled her eyes.

"Frays hate all humans, one must learn to barter correctly in order to go through the maze- bartering takes time."

"Ha! Those Frays won't mind someone slipping through."

Liniel was sure a fool would not be as stupid to just waltz into the Frays' beloved Death Wood, but she was proven wrong. She watched with widened eyes, as the foolish prince jumped off his horse, took out his sword, and walked right on the forest path swishing his sword back and forth. This was the most stupid- for all should know Frays were invisible- Blood dripped on the bone path.

It was not Halfwit's.

A Fray's blood had been spilled. Halfwit fell backwards onto the ground, as a Fray became visible. The Fray man stood looking highly annoyed at having been slashed across the chest. Liniel jumped off her horse, and walked closer, but only to see how scared Halfwit would look like. The Fray man noticed her, smirking, and suddenly the trees in Death Woods began to shake. Leaves flew off; Liniel began backing up, as a huge swarm of leaves washed over them. She could only watch as the leaves swallowed her up, and tried not to open her mouth. She managed to shut her eyes…

~ Meanwhile a Killing Apprentice arguing over Dark Unicorns~

Red eyes watched from the sky, as the two fools were taken by a Fray. The fools just happened to be the ones he was to kill. Now he couldn't make it look like they died in Death Wood.

"Dark Unicorns," A voice behind him said. He sighed.

The girl grinned, part Elf and part Dwarf made her one of a kind. She had her elfin features, but a Dwarf's short statue. She had been sharpening the only weapon she was allowed to use- a Dwarf's Knife, one she, herself, had managed to create with the help of blacksmith tools. She was the new apprentice for a Killer in the Assignation of Dark Magic. The Killer was nicknamed Red Wolf for how he killed his victims.

"We are not choosing a team name." Red Wolf sighed.

"Aw, but Team Names are fun! I like Dark Unicorns, they are evil, yet all everyone sees is its beauty. Isn't that a great name?"

"No. We're going into Death Woods-"Cool, I heard they have Dark Unicorns! Ironic-"to the Frays' Lair." He moved from his seat.

"Aw, that's no fun! They don't even act nice to you." She grumbled as she put her knife back in its sheath in her belt.

"Assigns are not nice people." He spoke coldly as he waited for her to cover her silver hair up with the hood from her cloak- hiding her long elfin ears.

"Yeah, I guess not." She sighed. "I really need to find a good talent. Hey, you think they'll be nice if we have our own name?"

He turned on his heel and stalked off, she rushed after him.

"Gees, you could just say you don't like unicorns! Slow down!"

~The Fray's Court~

The very presence of the Higher Fray gave the room a chill, Liniel decided as she stood before them. She did not understand why she was chained as well. The Halfwit was the foolish one who had sliced a Fray- One who just so happened to be a Prince. Liniel was sure Karma was laughing her head off.

"You stand in High Treason for trespassing, and assault to our Prince, many humans would simply be executed any way we choose it. However, an assault is a higher matter. You will only have one person who may negotiate for terms- before we execute you." A Fray Woman wearing a crown spoke solemnly. There was only six Frays in the room, five seated in chairs before them- four in front and the fifth behind them in a higher chair, while the last being the Prince whom Halfwit had harmed.

"May I speak for myself?" Liniel spoke up. The woman gave a nod. Halfwit looked at her.

"You may, human, what is your negotiation."

"I have done no harm to your Prince. I am only here for witnessing the crime this Foolish Halfwit for a Prince has done. Besides, a Fray Prince who cannot even stop a sword, yet he heals himself easily, is a fool for getting cut in the chest, when he could have gotten a much smaller cut on his very hand. Your prince seems as foolish as the Halfwit, I was forced to babysit." Liniel watched for the reaction. The Frays appeared as though they had been slapped in the face, except for the fifth seated high above them, he looked like he was trying not to laugh.

"I am no fool, human. One who walks swinging a sword into a forest is beyond foolish. I was merely attacked." The Prince looked at her annoyed, his hair standing on edge.

"Attacked? A Fray Prince who is supposed to be higher than a human, harmed by a fool who only swung a sword and just happened to nick you with it. Your skills must be far lower than theirs." Liniel scoffed. The Frays seated watched her, each beginning to smirk.

"My skills are far superior then any fool human! You dare insult a Fray?"

"I have seen no skills shown to me, to prove of your statement. All I see is a fool, pretending to be great. If you have skills, then prove them on my terms along. For one, who has true skills, knows they must not only have skill in fighting alone."

"I can take any challenge you have offered."

"If that is so, then take a Journey with this Fool and me- to find the Kingdom in Thorns."

"I re-"He accepts your terms."

She looked to the one who spoke. The fifth Fray stood.

"Instead of killing you, this challenge seems more efficient. You are a wise human. However, if this be a trick- there will be a new tale of gruesome death." The fifth spoke darkly.

"It will be no trick." She promised the Fray. The Frays looked at her, Halfwit looked pale, and the Fray Prince sighed.

"Goodbye."

With a wave of his hand, Liniel felt herself falling. As she fell she watched the room go up above her. She closed her eyes. When she opened them, she was lying on the ground. She sat up. Liniel and Halfwit were in the middle of a circle of mushrooms- these were blood red with black spots.

"Ahem," A voice spoke darkly.

She looked to see the Fray Prince standing just outside of the circle. Now he was dressed in human clothes, only boots, pants, a shirt, and no weapon. Up close, she noted he was close to the fool's age, he glared down at her. Halfwit jumped up off the ground and looked at the Fray Prince.

"Great, Lower Class," Halfwit glared at her, "this one will surely ruin my chance with the Princess if she sees him."

"Next time we are near a Dark Wood, I will throw you in it, and not see how you fared." She spoke coldly. Halfwit just rolled his eyes.

"This is still my Journey, and I shall lead it. Understand Fray," Halfwit looked at the Fray Prince.

The Fray Prince only looked at her.

"This is a fool, he has not realized the danger he was in?"

"Yes, didn't I just call him a Halfwit?" She stood, brushed herself off, and walked out of the circle careful not to step on any of the poisonous mushrooms.

"I am no Halfwit, I am Prince," Halfwit scoffed, as he also stepped out of the circle, "I will lead the way."

"Do you even know where the Fray dropped us at?" Liniel looked at him.

"It does not matter, I know the way." Halfwit turned on his heel, and walked forward.

"Great, now I have to follow this fool." She sighed and looked to the Fray Prince. "What is your name? I only need one Halfwit."

"Human, my name is Snow-gaze." Snow-gaze answered. He looked to where the Halfwit was walking. "He really is a fool."

"Yes, he is, come on. I don't want him to get killed."

"You don't?"

"Not unless it is by my hand." She grumbled, as she followed. Snow-gaze shook his head.

He couldn't believe he was following a Halfwit and the first human girl to negotiate for terms. Surely a mad fairy had to be watching this.

~Meanwhile, watching a new Series involving Cooking~

The Fairy Woman sneezed.

"Oh is something bothering you? Besides her idiotic story," The Snow Princess glared at Daffodil. Daffodil rolled her eyes.

"No, it appears a Fray was talking about me. Isn't that lovely?" The Insane Fairy Woman smiled cheerfully. The Snow Princess stared at the woman weirdly, Daffodil looked annoyed.

"What! How dare he?! I'll give him a piece of my mind." Daffodil looked like she would boil, her hair changing to a flame. The Snow Princess just rolled her eyes.

~Back to Liniel~

Snow-gaze shuddered. He wondered if someone was planning to kill him, and hoped it wasn't that Crazy Fairy Woman.

Liniel did not notice she was busy trying not to strangle the Halfwit.

The Halfwit had just happened to fall into a Spinster's Web…

'That idiot.' Both Snow-gaze and Liniel thought.