Chapter Three: An Ogre in Court
(AUTHOR'S NOTE: Okay, since it's getting kind of confusing, I'm suggestion you read one or two of my other fanfics, otherwise you will totally not understand who Shikira, or Nanashi is ~_^ Hope you enjoy it)
Trumpets sounded and footsteps were heard walking down the stone coridore of the massive castle, the pristine figure of the ruler of the city moved silently, a cruel smirk twisting at his thin lips and marring his features. Not that that really took much to do anyway, but that's besides the point. He stopped and waited for his guards to open the doors to the torture chamber, his men had caputred one of those filthy fairy tail creatures, and now, he would find the others.
He stepped into the room and looked around grinning, so many ways to torture someone, some of his favorites, the rack, a simple cage, or...a glass of milk. He turned to look at his expert in torture dunking a gingerbread cookie into a glass of milk, though odd, the cookie was squirming. He snapped his fingers and held up his hand to the torturer.
"That's enough. He's ready to talk" he stated. When the Gingerbread man was placed on the cookie tray he grinned and walked over, snapping his fingers to lower the table to his height.
"Run, run, run, as fast as you can. You can't catch me. I'm the gingerbread man!" he stated grabbing the poor cookie's legs and crushing one with his fingers.
"You're a monster," he said glaring at him.
"I'm not the monster here. You are. You and the rest of that fairy tale trash, poisoning my perfect world. Now, tell me! Where are the others?" he commanded the cookie glaring down at him. (Author's Note: Have you guessed who the cookie is yet?)
"Eat me!" the gingerbread man (AKA our favorite blond Quatre ~_^) yelled spitting in Lord Trieze's face.
"I've tried to be fair to you creatures. Now my patience has reached its end! Tell me or I'll-" he stated threateningly as his fingers closed over a purple gumdrop.
"No, no, not the buttons. Not my gumdrop buttons," he wailed squiming, for that was really all that he could do.
"All right then. Who's hiding them?" Trieze asked him one more time his patience drawing thin.
"Okay, I'll tell you. Do you know the muffin man?" Quatre asked him.
"The muffin man?"
"The muffin man."
"Yes, I know the muffin man, who lives on Drury Lane?" Trieze asked for confirmation to make sure that they were speaking about the same muffin man.
"Well, she's married to the muffin man."
"The muffin man?"
"The muffin man!" Quatre yelled out sobbing.
"She's married to the muffin man." Trieze asked, pondering what it was they were even talking about anymore then his gaze was turned towards the door as it opened.
"My lord! We found it." Quinze (AKA Thelonious) stated looking down at his master.
"Then what are you waiting for? Bring it in" Trieze ordered and two of the men brought down an object covered with a black cloth. For a moment Trieze forgot about Quatre who lay on the cookie tray and he walked over as they uncovered the mirror that had been found.
"Magic mirror-" Trieze started to say, but the phrase was interrupted by Quatre.
"Don't tell him anything!" Quatre yelled out, then yelled once more as he was tossed needlessly into a garbage can over the side of the table. With a sigh he turned his attention back towards the mirror that had been brought into the torture chamber.
"Evening" he said almost smirking before he continues, "mirror, mirror on the wall is this not the most perfect kingdom of them all?" he asked it waiting for an answer. And for the mirror's well being, he hoped that it would be an answer that he'd like.
"Well, technically you're not a king" he replied (Just for laughs the Mirror is Wufei-chan ^_^ aint he cute?).
"Uh, Quinze..." Trieze said motioning for his 'hired thug', whom promptly held up a small hand mirror, smashing it into pieces. Then his gaze rested on Wufei and he grinned cruelly, he always got what he wanted, one way or another, and bullying usually worked. "You were saying?"
"What I mean is, you're not a king yet" he stammered looking around, with the lack of arms and legs, or a body, he lacked the ability to defend himself, he would seriously like to flick this guy in the nose, but that just could be done, but he could dream right? Seeing the look of satisfaction on Trieze's face he continued, "but you can become one. All you have to do is marry a princess" he stated watching him carefully.
"Go on" Trieze said and rubbed his chin, this was becoming interesting, why hadn't he thought of that before? Marry a princess, become a king, it was so simple...it was stupid. Like him.
"So, just sit back and relax My Lord, because it's time for you to meet today's eligible bachelorettes. And here they are! Bachelorette number one is a mentally abused shut-in from a kingdom far, faraway. She likes sushi and hot tubbing any time. Her hobbies include cooking and cleaning for her two evil sisters. Please welcome Noin" he said in his game show host voice. At least this little fascade seemed to be working, Trieze was watching the screen intently now and he sighed, taking a deep breath before he continued.
"Bachelorette number two is a cape-wearing girl from the land of fancy. Although she lives with seven other men, she's not easy. Just kiss her dead, frozen lips and find out what a live wire she is. Come on. Give it up for Lady Une!" applause from somewhere were heard and he sighed, hopefully he'd pick the last one and he'd be rid of this new 'master'.
"And last, but certainly not least, bachelorette number three is a fiery red head... from a dragon-guarded castle surrounded by hot boiling lava! But don't let that cool you off. She's a loaded pistol who likes pina coladas and getting caught in the rain. Yours for the rescuing, Princess Nanashi! So will it be bachelorette number one, bachelorette number two or bachelorette number three?" Wufei finished as he started the clock on the Lord's choices.
"Pick number three, my lord!" Quinze said holding up his fingers with two of them up, what an idiot, Wufei thought than turned his gaze back to Lord Trieze.
"Okay, okay, uh, number three!" Trieze finally said and Wufei grinned his face disappearing to reveal the image of Princess Nanashi, a lovely young looking woman with long brown hair, braided, and deep crystal blue eyes.
"Lord Farquaad, you've chosen Princess Nanashi" Wufei stated and started to play some kind of music, just for the hell of it, what could he say, he was bored.
"Princess Fiona," Trieze murmurred and smiled, "she's perfect. All I have to do is just find someone who can go" he started to say but he was interrupted by Wufei.
"But I probably should mention the little thing that happens at night" he said, not really caring if he heard him or not. What did he care, it was his problem, so he just rambled on, knowing that Lord Trieze probably wasn't listening to him.
"I'll do it," Trieze stated with triumph at his discision.
"Yes, but after sunset" he started to say again, though if he didn't take his warning to heart this time, he would not try a third time to disuade him from what he 'thought' he wanted.
"Silence! I will make this Princess Nanashi my queen, and Duloc will finally have the perfect king! Captain, assemble your finest men. We're going to have a tournament," Trieze stated as he walked out of the torture chamber to prepare for a tournament of his finest warriors, leaving Wufei, and Quatre who had just started to climb out of the garbage can, to wonder what a tournament had to do with finding Princess Nanashi and rescuing her.
***
"But that's it. That's it right there. That's Duloc. I told ya I'd find it" Duo said as he and Trowa emmerged on the far side of a parking lot of some sort, apparently they had taken the senic route to get to Duloc. And of course, it had been Duo who had led them, why doesn't that surprise anyone. Trowa sighed as he braced his hands on his hips and looked up at the massive building in front of him.
"So, that must be Lord Trieze's castle" Trowa asked and looked down at Duo who was looking in the same direction that he was.
"Uh-huh. That's the place" Duo said and went to take a step froward but waited for Trowa to do so.
"Do you think maybe he's compensating for something?" Trowa said with a laugh and started walking towards the castle. Duo tilted his head and looked at it sideways for a moment and looked at it hard, concentrating. Trying to figure out just what Trowa meant exacktly by that comment.
"Hey, wait. Wait up, Trowa!" Duo yelled as he ran to catch up to him. Trowa had walked up to the front gate, it was so much like an ammusment park. And for some odd reason there was a man with a n extremely large head running from him, screaming, but he was running back and forth between two blue ropes. Trowa didn't get it, he could easily catch him.
"Hey, you! Wait a second. Look, I'm not gonna eat ya. I just-- I just" Trowa said with a sigh and pushed forward through the blue ropes just as the man went to run through the entrance way, unfortunately his head was just a little bit too big to go through the space and he fell backwards, obviously out cold since he didn't move to get up. Trowa sighed as he knelt beside him for a moment then stepped through the gate way.
He looked around silently, there were no people, no noises. Though he heard one noise coming from behind him and he turned around only to find that Duo had gotten stuck in the entrance gate. He sighed and turned when Duo gave him a sheepish grin, then fell forward onto his face.
"It's quiet. Too quiet. Where is everybody?" Trowa asked looking around once more at the seemingly empty streets of Duloc.
"Hey, look at this!" Duo statred and ran over to a pretty painted box with a big red button on the front of it. Now lets see, pushing buttons usually brings bad things...(AKA Self distruct button), but Duo, being...well Duo, pushed it anyway. He jumped back when the two doors began to swing open and their were some lifeless puppets there, then they sprang into action, and song.
"Welcome to Duloc such a perfect town. Here we have some rules. Let us lay them down. Don't make waves, stay in line and we'll get along fine. Duloc is a perfect place. Please keep off of the grass. Shine your shoes, wipe your... face. Duloc is, Duloc is, Duloc is a perfect place" with the closing of the doors their was a flash of bright white light, and a picture appeared in front of them. There was a moment of hesitation before either of them could speak.
"Wow! Let's do that again!" Duo yelled and went to go push the button again, but was held back by Trowa.
"No. No. No, no, no! No" Trowa said then his gaze lifted, he heard, cheering? He motioned for Duo to follow behind him as he started to walk towards what looked like a make shift arena of some sorts, he suppoed it was as good a place as any to begin looking for this Lord Trieze.
(AUTHOR'S NOTE: Well, how are you liking it so far? I know, I have far too much time on my hands v.v. But, I've decided since you've made it this far I'm going to give you a heads up on who's who here.
Shrek = Trowa Barton
Donkey = Duo Maxwell
Lord Farquaad = Trieze Kushrenada
Thelonius = Quinze
Cinderella = Noin
Snow White = Lady Une
Gingerbread Man = Quatre Reberba Winner
Magic Mirror = Wufei Chang
Princess Fiona = Nanashi (eh...if you've read any of my other fan fics you'll know who she is)
That's all I could think of for now o.O I'm starting to loose track myself, I promise you another chapter really soon!
Diamond Wing Pegasus )
(AUTHOR'S NOTE: Okay, since it's getting kind of confusing, I'm suggestion you read one or two of my other fanfics, otherwise you will totally not understand who Shikira, or Nanashi is ~_^ Hope you enjoy it)
Trumpets sounded and footsteps were heard walking down the stone coridore of the massive castle, the pristine figure of the ruler of the city moved silently, a cruel smirk twisting at his thin lips and marring his features. Not that that really took much to do anyway, but that's besides the point. He stopped and waited for his guards to open the doors to the torture chamber, his men had caputred one of those filthy fairy tail creatures, and now, he would find the others.
He stepped into the room and looked around grinning, so many ways to torture someone, some of his favorites, the rack, a simple cage, or...a glass of milk. He turned to look at his expert in torture dunking a gingerbread cookie into a glass of milk, though odd, the cookie was squirming. He snapped his fingers and held up his hand to the torturer.
"That's enough. He's ready to talk" he stated. When the Gingerbread man was placed on the cookie tray he grinned and walked over, snapping his fingers to lower the table to his height.
"Run, run, run, as fast as you can. You can't catch me. I'm the gingerbread man!" he stated grabbing the poor cookie's legs and crushing one with his fingers.
"You're a monster," he said glaring at him.
"I'm not the monster here. You are. You and the rest of that fairy tale trash, poisoning my perfect world. Now, tell me! Where are the others?" he commanded the cookie glaring down at him. (Author's Note: Have you guessed who the cookie is yet?)
"Eat me!" the gingerbread man (AKA our favorite blond Quatre ~_^) yelled spitting in Lord Trieze's face.
"I've tried to be fair to you creatures. Now my patience has reached its end! Tell me or I'll-" he stated threateningly as his fingers closed over a purple gumdrop.
"No, no, not the buttons. Not my gumdrop buttons," he wailed squiming, for that was really all that he could do.
"All right then. Who's hiding them?" Trieze asked him one more time his patience drawing thin.
"Okay, I'll tell you. Do you know the muffin man?" Quatre asked him.
"The muffin man?"
"The muffin man."
"Yes, I know the muffin man, who lives on Drury Lane?" Trieze asked for confirmation to make sure that they were speaking about the same muffin man.
"Well, she's married to the muffin man."
"The muffin man?"
"The muffin man!" Quatre yelled out sobbing.
"She's married to the muffin man." Trieze asked, pondering what it was they were even talking about anymore then his gaze was turned towards the door as it opened.
"My lord! We found it." Quinze (AKA Thelonious) stated looking down at his master.
"Then what are you waiting for? Bring it in" Trieze ordered and two of the men brought down an object covered with a black cloth. For a moment Trieze forgot about Quatre who lay on the cookie tray and he walked over as they uncovered the mirror that had been found.
"Magic mirror-" Trieze started to say, but the phrase was interrupted by Quatre.
"Don't tell him anything!" Quatre yelled out, then yelled once more as he was tossed needlessly into a garbage can over the side of the table. With a sigh he turned his attention back towards the mirror that had been brought into the torture chamber.
"Evening" he said almost smirking before he continues, "mirror, mirror on the wall is this not the most perfect kingdom of them all?" he asked it waiting for an answer. And for the mirror's well being, he hoped that it would be an answer that he'd like.
"Well, technically you're not a king" he replied (Just for laughs the Mirror is Wufei-chan ^_^ aint he cute?).
"Uh, Quinze..." Trieze said motioning for his 'hired thug', whom promptly held up a small hand mirror, smashing it into pieces. Then his gaze rested on Wufei and he grinned cruelly, he always got what he wanted, one way or another, and bullying usually worked. "You were saying?"
"What I mean is, you're not a king yet" he stammered looking around, with the lack of arms and legs, or a body, he lacked the ability to defend himself, he would seriously like to flick this guy in the nose, but that just could be done, but he could dream right? Seeing the look of satisfaction on Trieze's face he continued, "but you can become one. All you have to do is marry a princess" he stated watching him carefully.
"Go on" Trieze said and rubbed his chin, this was becoming interesting, why hadn't he thought of that before? Marry a princess, become a king, it was so simple...it was stupid. Like him.
"So, just sit back and relax My Lord, because it's time for you to meet today's eligible bachelorettes. And here they are! Bachelorette number one is a mentally abused shut-in from a kingdom far, faraway. She likes sushi and hot tubbing any time. Her hobbies include cooking and cleaning for her two evil sisters. Please welcome Noin" he said in his game show host voice. At least this little fascade seemed to be working, Trieze was watching the screen intently now and he sighed, taking a deep breath before he continued.
"Bachelorette number two is a cape-wearing girl from the land of fancy. Although she lives with seven other men, she's not easy. Just kiss her dead, frozen lips and find out what a live wire she is. Come on. Give it up for Lady Une!" applause from somewhere were heard and he sighed, hopefully he'd pick the last one and he'd be rid of this new 'master'.
"And last, but certainly not least, bachelorette number three is a fiery red head... from a dragon-guarded castle surrounded by hot boiling lava! But don't let that cool you off. She's a loaded pistol who likes pina coladas and getting caught in the rain. Yours for the rescuing, Princess Nanashi! So will it be bachelorette number one, bachelorette number two or bachelorette number three?" Wufei finished as he started the clock on the Lord's choices.
"Pick number three, my lord!" Quinze said holding up his fingers with two of them up, what an idiot, Wufei thought than turned his gaze back to Lord Trieze.
"Okay, okay, uh, number three!" Trieze finally said and Wufei grinned his face disappearing to reveal the image of Princess Nanashi, a lovely young looking woman with long brown hair, braided, and deep crystal blue eyes.
"Lord Farquaad, you've chosen Princess Nanashi" Wufei stated and started to play some kind of music, just for the hell of it, what could he say, he was bored.
"Princess Fiona," Trieze murmurred and smiled, "she's perfect. All I have to do is just find someone who can go" he started to say but he was interrupted by Wufei.
"But I probably should mention the little thing that happens at night" he said, not really caring if he heard him or not. What did he care, it was his problem, so he just rambled on, knowing that Lord Trieze probably wasn't listening to him.
"I'll do it," Trieze stated with triumph at his discision.
"Yes, but after sunset" he started to say again, though if he didn't take his warning to heart this time, he would not try a third time to disuade him from what he 'thought' he wanted.
"Silence! I will make this Princess Nanashi my queen, and Duloc will finally have the perfect king! Captain, assemble your finest men. We're going to have a tournament," Trieze stated as he walked out of the torture chamber to prepare for a tournament of his finest warriors, leaving Wufei, and Quatre who had just started to climb out of the garbage can, to wonder what a tournament had to do with finding Princess Nanashi and rescuing her.
***
"But that's it. That's it right there. That's Duloc. I told ya I'd find it" Duo said as he and Trowa emmerged on the far side of a parking lot of some sort, apparently they had taken the senic route to get to Duloc. And of course, it had been Duo who had led them, why doesn't that surprise anyone. Trowa sighed as he braced his hands on his hips and looked up at the massive building in front of him.
"So, that must be Lord Trieze's castle" Trowa asked and looked down at Duo who was looking in the same direction that he was.
"Uh-huh. That's the place" Duo said and went to take a step froward but waited for Trowa to do so.
"Do you think maybe he's compensating for something?" Trowa said with a laugh and started walking towards the castle. Duo tilted his head and looked at it sideways for a moment and looked at it hard, concentrating. Trying to figure out just what Trowa meant exacktly by that comment.
"Hey, wait. Wait up, Trowa!" Duo yelled as he ran to catch up to him. Trowa had walked up to the front gate, it was so much like an ammusment park. And for some odd reason there was a man with a n extremely large head running from him, screaming, but he was running back and forth between two blue ropes. Trowa didn't get it, he could easily catch him.
"Hey, you! Wait a second. Look, I'm not gonna eat ya. I just-- I just" Trowa said with a sigh and pushed forward through the blue ropes just as the man went to run through the entrance way, unfortunately his head was just a little bit too big to go through the space and he fell backwards, obviously out cold since he didn't move to get up. Trowa sighed as he knelt beside him for a moment then stepped through the gate way.
He looked around silently, there were no people, no noises. Though he heard one noise coming from behind him and he turned around only to find that Duo had gotten stuck in the entrance gate. He sighed and turned when Duo gave him a sheepish grin, then fell forward onto his face.
"It's quiet. Too quiet. Where is everybody?" Trowa asked looking around once more at the seemingly empty streets of Duloc.
"Hey, look at this!" Duo statred and ran over to a pretty painted box with a big red button on the front of it. Now lets see, pushing buttons usually brings bad things...(AKA Self distruct button), but Duo, being...well Duo, pushed it anyway. He jumped back when the two doors began to swing open and their were some lifeless puppets there, then they sprang into action, and song.
"Welcome to Duloc such a perfect town. Here we have some rules. Let us lay them down. Don't make waves, stay in line and we'll get along fine. Duloc is a perfect place. Please keep off of the grass. Shine your shoes, wipe your... face. Duloc is, Duloc is, Duloc is a perfect place" with the closing of the doors their was a flash of bright white light, and a picture appeared in front of them. There was a moment of hesitation before either of them could speak.
"Wow! Let's do that again!" Duo yelled and went to go push the button again, but was held back by Trowa.
"No. No. No, no, no! No" Trowa said then his gaze lifted, he heard, cheering? He motioned for Duo to follow behind him as he started to walk towards what looked like a make shift arena of some sorts, he suppoed it was as good a place as any to begin looking for this Lord Trieze.
(AUTHOR'S NOTE: Well, how are you liking it so far? I know, I have far too much time on my hands v.v. But, I've decided since you've made it this far I'm going to give you a heads up on who's who here.
Shrek = Trowa Barton
Donkey = Duo Maxwell
Lord Farquaad = Trieze Kushrenada
Thelonius = Quinze
Cinderella = Noin
Snow White = Lady Une
Gingerbread Man = Quatre Reberba Winner
Magic Mirror = Wufei Chang
Princess Fiona = Nanashi (eh...if you've read any of my other fan fics you'll know who she is)
That's all I could think of for now o.O I'm starting to loose track myself, I promise you another chapter really soon!
Diamond Wing Pegasus )