Blessedly Cursed
Chapter 2
The Saviours
hey every one who has read this all ready just want to give a heads up that a rivition has been made to chapter 2. I have changed one of the gifts for practical resons.
After the death of the ogre queen, the fairies spent the next few days regrouping, recounting their numbers and assessing the damage done to their kingdom. Now an interesting fact about fairies is that they are a democracy. When they actually have to decide on anything it is always done in committees and the like. In this regard they were a people ahead of their time. Now a new committee was being formed on what to do with the issue of the debt they owed these humans. There were seven fairies on the committee, each "elected" by short straw and none of them actually wanted this so called honor.
The Head Chair person was a fairy of great renown famous for her great pranks and beauty alike. This meant she was possibly the silliest fairy of them all, which is saying quite a lot. Her name was Gildy and for some reason she actually decided to make a real go of this. The committee really could not have asked for a worse outcome than that. She spent the night before the meeting trying to decide what would be the best way to pay off the debt and decided to do a bit of investigation.
Flying over to the Peppers she took a good look. "Sniff, boy is she fat!" said Gildy in disgust. "I could easily repay our debt right now and teach her how to diet. At the very least she could get herself a better looking husband," she sighed. "The hardships I have to put up with! Ugly men and fat women." A sudden scream shattered Gildy's musings.
She took a good look at Tilly, who was in the process of going into labor and screaming "the baby's coming the baby's coming, Quiny get your ass over here and give me a hand" and it finally dawned on her.
"That woman's not fat, she is having a baby! Ooohhh how perfect! I have just figured out the perfect way to repay these people back!" Gildy then quickly flew home and partied for the rest of the night.
The next morning saw the first and only meeting of this particular council. Gildy fluttered in late and with her usual air of superiority. This did not endear her to the rest of the council. It is considered good sport for a fairy to torment or prank or act superior to other races, but it is not good form for any fairy to carry this toward other fairies, and Gildy's great tendency towards this made her quite unpopular among her own people.
Her late arrival and condescending air made her hated at this committee. Gildy of course did not notice and started the meeting with the statement "There will be no need to discuss what to do, for I have all ready figured it all out!"
For this she received simultaneous glares from six pairs of eyes and the sarcastic remark from from the second chair, a life long rival of Gildy's named Cissy who always seemed to fall in her shadow,
"Really? Oh great one please enlighten us!" A few snickers followed. Gildy still completely clueless very happily complied.
"The mortals are in the middle of having a baby," Gildy gushed. "And this leaves us with the perfect opportunity." She paused for dramatic effect. "We will give them the perfect child!" Smiling at her own brilliance she finished. "We will play fairy godmother to this child and gift it, one gift from each council member."
The room sat stunned in to silence the idea was actually a good one as far as they were all concerned. Cissy even saw the opportunity to get rid of a certain problem fairy in this as well and spoke up.
"That is a perfect idea but I think we should take it a step further. After all these people are the saviors of the fairy kingdom and just giving them a few measly blessing is almost insulting." Gildy began to frown
"Well what else to you have in mind?" she asked. The other fairy smiled a small smile out of the corner of her mouth.
"Well, that on top of the seven gifts the council gives the child, we also bind a true fairy godmother to her. No playing around, but the actual thing...and I nominate you, Gildy, for this great honor."
Gildy looked like she was about to faint "Ohhh that is to great an honor and I am not worthy of it," Gildy said quickly to try and get herself out of this mess. But to no use, the other fairy had her and knew it
"The idea is yours, and so should be your honor to fulfill it! Now who here seconds the motion of Gildy being bound as fairy godmother to the child of our savorous?" Every hand in the room raised. "Well then I guess we don't actually need to vote. Congratulations, Gildy, on the great, great honor you have just received."
Gildy did not reply. She could not believe what had just been done to her. She, Gildy, the most beautiful and clever of all the fairies, had just been sold in to slavery to a baby not yet born. She wanted to cry, but instead lifted her chin in the air with a showing of great dignity.
"I thank you all for this gift you have given me. Now I will adjourn the meeting for 2 hours to give you all time to figure out what your gift to the child will be. At the end of the two hours we will then come together and decide on the final seven. You are all dismissed."
It was around 4 hours after Gildy dismissed the council that Sunny Pepper finally decided to put an appearance into the world. Her mother had been in labor for over 24 hours when she was born, and from that day on, could commonly be heard saying, with great pride, that the first thing she knew abut her daughter was that she was stubborn as a mule. Sunny came in to the world like all babies do; kicking and screaming, red and with a great resemblance to a prune. The seven fairies arrived on the scene at the last push and upon seeing the baby girl they were very happy indeed with what they were about to do. That baby sure looked like it could use all the help it could get.
Quinton looked at his loudly crying newborn daughter laying in his arm's with pride. She was obviously of his and Tilly's stock being a big baby with bright red hair covering her head and her mothers blazing green eyes. She was an almost perfect mix of mother and father. He was so enamored with her that he did not notice the fairies enlarging themselves to human size and removing the glamour spells that hid their presence. It was not until his wife snapped at him to pay "attention to his surroundings, cause they were under attack," that he actually lifted his eye's away from the face of the little girl.
Seeing seven of the most beautiful women he had ever seen standing in front of him, seemingly coming out of nowhere, surprisingly did not really faze him. He smiled at the fairies and to his wife's disgust and disbelief invited them to come and look at the baby. The interplay between the couple and their very different reaction to the fairies arrival, made the fairies twitter with delight. Making both Quinton and Tilly stare at them in complete bewilderment. It was a minute or two before Gildy regained her composure enough to finely speak and explain what they were doing there.
"Oh great saviors of the fairy people, we have come today to repay our debt to you." The Peppers just stared blankly
"I think we are dreaming Qinny hurry and pinch me please I want to wake up," whispered Tilly. But Quinton was to busy pinching himself to pay her much heed.
The fairies who were expecting a completely different reaction then the one they got were even more at a loss of words. And so total silence ensued for the next five minutes with the Peppers pinching themselves and not taking there eye's off the fairies and the fairies waiting for the Peppers to come to their senses and start acting awed, grateful and beholden to the fairies for the honor they were about to receive.
The silence was finally broken by the youngest of the seven fairies "Why are they not kissing our feet in gratitude and excitement yet?"
This statement then started a chain reaction. Quinton practically threw the baby at Tilly and grabbed a big stick near him. The fairies then jumped back and started to whisper furiously among themselves. Tilly who had finally had enough of all of this shouted.
"What the hell is going on and what is this saviors nonsense? Who are you really and do we have to kill you?" this last part uttered by Tilly had all the fairies quickly jump behind Gildy in fright, leaving, a more then little nervous but as always arrogant, Gildy to clear things up with the mortal couple.
"Yes I suppose that you being ugly and ignorant mortals you would have no idea what has been transpiring here the last few day's. How naive of us to not realize this before. Your kind really should make yourselves more aware of the creatures outside your own world. It would save us wasting time coming here and having to look on your less than plain faces while explaining everything. I must say it is very selfish of your kind."
This small speech of indignantly by Gildy had of course only upset and bewildered the Peppers more. Gildy then heard a soft sigh behind her and Cissy the second chair of the committee stepped forward.
"We are fairies. Magical creatures that rarely, if ever, have contact with your kind on any direct level." Then to stop any muttering's of disbelief she opened her wings, efficiently stopping the word's in Tilly's mouth before the sound left her lips. Cissy then continued
"Four day's ago the fairy kingdom was attacked by the ogres. We still do not know why and my guess is we never will. Sufficient to say we were losing. Till you showed up that is. See that big hole you dug up over there, well that is where the ogres had their hive. When you were digging you killed their queen and ended the war saving the fairy kingdom from complete annihilation." Cissy was about to continue when she was interrupted by Gildy, who was not about to let anyone steal her limelight.
"We the fairy nation is now indebted to you for saving us and is here to repay that debt." Tilly always fast on the uptake quickly replied.
"Well I guess I will have to believe this incredulous story considering the proof is a little overwhelming but I will have to ask what do you mean by repay your debt?"
Gildy smiled and with great dramatic flair declared "We are going to bless your child with seven gifts as well as bound her to her very own fairy godmother. Your child will have a life unlike any other mortal the world will be hers or his for the taking by the time we are through with the child. By the way what is the name and gender of the baby?"
With great pride Quinton, still holding his stick replied. "She is a girl and her name is Sunny" He then looked down at his daughter laying in his wives arms and said "look at her, is she truly not the most beautiful thing you have ever seen?"
The fairies snickered and Gildy, trying hard to not scrunch up her face in disgust, answered "Not yet but she will be." Tilly still trying to get to the hart of the matter asked another question
"So what are these seven gifts you wish to give my daughter?" Tilly had always been something of a cynic.
With this question one of the fairies stepped forward and spoke "I will bless Sunny Pepper with great and incomparable beauty. No one before her time or after will ever come close to her." She was then followed by another fairy
"I will bless Sunny Pepper with small stature, but in particular small feet, for there is nothing more unattractive then a very beautiful and delicate woman with big feet." She was followed by another fairy in a pattern that would continue till all seven of the fairies spoke.
"I will bless Sunny Pepper with curves, not fat mind you, never that, but for as a small woman we would not want her to ever be mistaken as a man from behind. In particular the umm breast area let's say a double D cup."
"I will bless Sunny Pepper with happy of face, for no one like to look at a sour puss face or deal with the ugliness of splotchy tears. Sunny will always look happy with sparkling eyes and both her mouth and eye's in an upward slant not a constant smile or grin but always just suggesting one on the horizon. And when she does smile the world will fall at her feet."
"I will bless Sunny Pepper with a light and lyrical voice for what is the point of great beauty if you sound like a shrew. Never will she yell or screech but always sound peaceful. She will be able to charm the birds from the trees with just a word or even a sigh."
"I will bless Sunny Pepper with the love of all animals. They will guard and protect her, cherish her and love her. Look after her in sickness and health in richness and poorness till death do them part"
Finally the last fairy stepped forward "I will bless Sunny Pepper with the ability to control magic. Making her one of the finest witches ever borne"
Tilly, never a woman to sugar coat anything up until that moment, did not start on this day
"Are you people stupid? Those have to be the most useless and frivolous gifts a person could ever receive. Incomparable beauty...small of statue but big of boob? Those are more likely to make her spoilt and arrogant. Happy of face and light of voice? How stupid is that! People need to cry and show their anger. And you." Tilly said turning to the fairy who blessed Sunny with the gift of magic "You! Do you know what they do to witches in the mortal world hmm do you? Pausing for dramatic effect "They burn them or drown them that so called gift is death sentence. And the animal thing what the hell was that about? It sounded more like a wedding ceremony then a blessing! I have to say it actually creped me out. No I do not accept them! They are horrible, stupid gifts and there is just no way I will not let you curse my daughter with them!" Tilly then glared at the fairies menacingly.
Gildy who had never been so insulted in her life, took great pleasure in what she was about to tell this ungrateful and rude wretch of a being. "Well it is too late," she said haughtily. Tilly focused her stare on Gildy.
"What do you mean too late?" she said with a gasp of fear.
"We have all ready blessed her. What did you think that was all about? Don't you mortals know anything? Once a blessing is spoken it is done. That is the way magic works. Hmmph and you called us stupid!" Gildy finished with relish.
That announcement made both parents quickly look at their newborn girl. The thatch of red hair was still there and Tilly could see that her eyes were still the same green as her own, but that was all that remained the same, for her features now more resemble the fairies then them.
The baby once a large hardy farming baby was now smaller and delicate. Both parents could not help but notice that she was also now the most beautiful thing they had ever seen outshining even the seven fairies standing in front of them. Sunny then began to coo and the sound floated over them like the sound of a bubbling brook. Tilly then opened the baby blanket with great fear and looked at her feet. She closed her eyes and sighed taking her anger in and putting it under control. In a strong and determined voice she then made a demand.
"Take them back! We do not want them. We want nothing to do with you or your kind and we regret greatly the death of the ogre queen. If only she had lived to win the war."
The fairies gasped in horror and Gildy who was really taken aback stuttered. "W-
we can't! What is done is done. There is no changing it or taking it back it is binding and forever."
Tilly was tightly holding and looking at the baby when something finally occurred to her head snapping up "Wait a minute you did not know if she was a girl when you came up with that ridicules list. What if the baby you just blessed had been a boy?" The fairies all looked at the ground shuffling their feet and looking extremely guilty. " Big of boob and soft of voice indeed could you imagine a boy like that. You people are so irresponsible and just plane careless. Leave all of you. NOW" She finished with a roar.
Cissy then spoke up "Well then I think our job is done here. Our debt is repaid even if the humans are too stupid to realize what was just given to them." she then turned to Gildy "Have a nice life, Gildy, and good luck, I sure you are going to need it," and with that six of the fairies disappeared in a poof.
Tilly gave Gildy a hard look. "And what are you still doing here? I am sure I have had enough of your kind for one day, hell for an entire lifetime. Leave now I don't want to see you or another fairy again as long as I live!"
Gildy looked at Tilly and stubbornly set her chin. "Well I am sorry to hear that, considering I am bound as fairy godmother to your daughter and then to every first born daughter of your line until it is broken. So I assume we will be seeing much of each other, for a very long time," and with that Gildy returned to her normal size but stayed visible to the Peppers.
Tilly then turned her attention to her husband "So Quinton what are you going to do about all of this?" she demanded.
Quinton gave one simple reply. "Love my daughter." And Tilly knew that was all that was going to be said and done about this whole farce.