Disclaimer: It's not my mess. Go pick it up yourself. O.o;
AN: Hey, guess what? I just realized how hard it is to say W.U.S.S. Hence, the title of this chapter. I've always called him the "wuss" fairy. Gosh.
i happy- Sorry for not answering back in chp. 1. Right after I updated, your review came in. Anywoo, thanks. I will! 8)
Petalwing- Yes! That's what I meant... not entirely slapstick. There's actually a plot... lol. Oh, and your wrong about Dalamar, he's one of my favorite characters! It's just that he's so easy to make fun of and I guess it's sort of like how little kids tease the person they have a crush on, I guess. That kind of relationship. Hmm.. RaistlinXkender? I'll have to check that out. :0
Dalamar Nightson- I pick on Dalamar because I like him, lol. I'm glad you like WUSS. Originally, he wasn't suppose to play a big part and appear at the end of the fic, but everything went along much smoother with him introduced early. I've read some of ESGAME, it's really great! XD (I'd read it all, but I have an undignified tedency to pluck ideas from other places, so I have to play it safe and not read any fanfics while I'm writing Simply Love.)
Evenstar02- Of course I'll update! I've worked pretty hard on this fanfic. I'll try to update at least once every three to six days, dear. :P Sorry, but there's no Dalamar in this chapter. He'll come up in the next one though!
Eeyore- Er.. Drug enhanced... plot...? I... see... -Hides pill wrappers- Um. Yah. I was in perfect mental condition when I wrote this. -Twitch- I've never read ella enchanted or seen the movie, but I'll take your word for it! Thanks for the heads up. 8)
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Chapter 2 "Dubble-yoo, yoo, es, es."
The god of black magic, Nuitari, sat on his tuffet, eating his curds and whey. Along came a spider and sat down beside-
Squish.
Nuitari lifted his bowl to inspect the devastating results. He had spilled his wheys, but there was nothing wrong with the curds. No. Wait… A limp spider leg twitched in his bowl.
"Well damn me to the Abyss," he said sullenly, throwing away his bowl and food. It landed on the floor with a crash. The food splattered, the bowl shattered… then picked itself up and walked away, hurt. "That's right, go put yourself in the trash," he snapped. It was foolish, he knew. They were designed to do just exactly that.
Now his dinner was ruined. The god obviously didn't require food, but that's just the point. Eating was something fun to do on occasions. It was something special. He had cooked it himself too. All those… seconds… of uh… hard labor… was… um, wasted. Okay, so it wasn't really that hard. However, he did gather the best ingredients on Krynn… and then did the rest with his god-awesome powers. I mean, could you do that with your god-awesome powers? Well? HA! Got ya there, didn't I! DIDN'T I?
Nuitari stood up, mulling over the thought of asking Lunitari for some brown sugar. He had used up all his. Although he hated to admit it, if you wanted the best curds with a side of whey, you'd be asking for Solunari's brown sugar.
But Nuitari would rather give up his godhood than ask Solunari for help. Lunitari was no better, but at least she wasn't as annoying.
The young god (he was one of the Children of Magic…), left his home and traveled through the vast emptiness of space to his cousin's moon.
"Vast emptiness, my ass," Nuitari muttered after an asteroid ran smacked into him. It veered off course and later destroyed a nearby planet that was inhabited by red tailed snails with purple shells that ate nails and lived in bucket pails. Nobody really gave a damn. Or a care.
Nuitari landed lightly on the red surface of Lunitari (the moon, not the actual goddess, mind you). He located the door after a few moments of searching through the craters. The door was the front entrance to Lunitari's home. A long time ago, the two gods and goddess of magic had built their houses on top of their moon's surface. This resulted in mass confusion and disbelief with the mortals. Elves were particularly the most nosy ones. Their elven sight had been a discomfort and when their curiosity was too much, they developed high powered telescopes. That was awful. Lunitari, who liked taking bubble baths, and Solunari, who liked walking around his house in the nude for reasons not said here, was very uncomfortable. Nuiatri didn't care at all until one of his black robed mages caught him reading an issue of Playboy.
And when the Night of the Eye came, it whole effect of the three moons being in the shape of an eye had been ruined with the three houses sitting there. You couldn't have houses in eyes. Think of all the eye drops you'd have to take.
With a silent agreement, they had moved their homes underground and destroyed all the high-powered telescopes on Kyrnn. But that was ancient history, before Huma and junk. The matter was long forgotten. Or ignored, for all those who have been caught running around naked in the comforts of your own home.
The dark god paused, staring mutely. Lunitari's door was slightly a jar. Nuitari glitched.
Whoops.
…Lunitari's door was slightly ajar. (Geez, look how funny that word looks.) Nuitari listened intently. He heard three voices. The one that was highly squealish was undoubtedly Solunari's, he could sense his light counterpart a mile away. The other voice was a female, hushed and indistinct. Possibly Lunitari's. As for the third… Nuitari could barely hear it.
He pushed open the door and silently crept in. The interior of Lunitari's house was definitely an eyesore. Imagine seeing nothing but all shades of red. Yeah. Ouch. The goddess was careful not to let Sargonnas in after the mistake of having him for tea once. Stupid bull.
Walking briskly and following the voices through a scarlet colored hallway, Nuitari found himself in a large room known as the room of Scrying. Normally the room was a deep rich red, but due to Solunari's presence, the walls gave off a pink glow. He heard the hushed giggles of both his cousins. The third voice belonged to a small fairy with purple and pink wings wearing a familiar puffy dress. It was currently hovering over Lunitari's shoulder, whispering a joke of some sort.
The room turned a ghastly shade of dark mahogany as Nuitari angrily stalked in. "What in the name of my mother's home are you scrying at?" he demanded. The giggles stopped. Lunitari was the first to take her hands of the scrying globe. She smiled vaguely and tilted her head. Solunari was having a harder time trying to stifle his laughter, but a nudge from Lunitari sobered him up.
"And what are you doing here, W.U.S.S.?" Nuitari said with a hint of murder in his voice.
The fairy flinched and shifted uncomfortably. He recovered though and frowned, swaying back and forth. "On business, lord." he said, "I required your assistance."
"Oh, and so you went to my cousins for that." Nuitari snapped.
"Well, you wouldn't like it anyway," Solunari spoke up, grinning happily, "It has something to do with one of your mages."
"Raistlin Majere," Lunitari said, her voice floating gently above Nuitari's enraged curses and Solunari's innocent teasing.
"WHAT?" Nuitari sprang up and made a grab for The Fairy with both hands. Nimbly dodging the first, but getting caught in the second, W.U.S.S. struggled against the crushing grip. Nuitari glanced at the globe. It featured Bupu cheerfully trying to catch some minnows with her patched up sandals. "What has the gully dwarf got to do with him?" he shook The Fairy in the most unhealthy way.
"Stop it! Stop it!" Solunari started swatting Nuitari's hand.
"Other one." Lunitari said helpfully.
Solunari swatted the right hand this time. The Fairy was released. It hovered dizzily.
"Bupu made a wish categorized as Impossible. Level ninety-seven wish. It would affect reality and time," W.U.S.S. explained as best as he could, "According to the manual, we can't grant it. However, Bupu hit the Jackpot, so her wish has to be done. No questions asked."
Nuitari fumed, "So why do you need our help?"
"Level ninety or higher wishes require god intervention," sniffed the Fairy, tugging idly on the tassels of his dress. Demigods at best, fairies could only do so much, "But I've already done the rest, all you need to do is get Bupu to Raistlin."
"That seems simple, why can't you do it?" Nuitari glanced suspiciously at the Fairy.
"I'm the Wish Upon a Shooting Star Fairy," came the strained reply, "not some 'oh-go-do-whatever-you-want' Fairy. My powers don't cover all the traveling."
"That would be The O.G.D.W.Y.W. Fairy!" Exclaimed Solunari for all the lack of dialogue he was getting. Lunitari absently patted her dim-witted cousin fondly.
"Other one," said Nuitari, backing away from Lunitari's touch and pointing to the grinning Solunari.
"No…" she said vacantly and continued patting, "I was right…" Nuitari ignored her as the Fairy and Solunari giggled.
"I'm not gonna sacrifice one of my best mages for some stupid wish that a gully dwarf made," he said resolutely.
The Fairy looked uneasy. Convincing Sol and Luni (nicknames) had been easy. Nuitari was expected to cause problems, particularly because it was one of his mages. Not only do the three represented the Magic on Kyrnn, but also the children. Solunari was the innocence, gullibility, and happiness of a child while Lunitari was the optimistic, but noncommittal dreamer and Nuitari was impudent and stubborn in his beliefs, but with the right choice of words, could become swayed to whatever side.
Apparently Lunitari saw this too. She gave Nuitari a sly smile.
"I'll tell your mommy how much of a bad little boy you are…" she taunted.
Nuitari twitched, "I don't know what you're talking about."
Lunitari sighed mournfully, "Oh dear… Auntie Takhisis would be so angry to find that her son has been keeping secrets…" She placed her hands on her cheeks in mock despair, "Bad lil' Nui didn't mention anything that one of his lil' mages is plotting against his own mother…"
Nuitari nervously looked around, "Okay, okay, I get it! Just shut up!" Lunitari grinned. The Fairy breathed a sigh of relief. "I'll get Bupu into that tower and I'm done, alright? Then I get to do something crazy to one of your mages too!" he hissed.
"Mine too?" Solunari asked.
"Yours especially." Nuitari gave a cruel and hollow laugh.
"Oh goodie!" Solunari clapped his hands together.
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Bupu marched determinedly through a swampy swamp that was infested by numerous types of insects. All were perfectly edible. So far the journey was making good progressed after thirty-ten days (which was really a little over thirteen days for all you non-gully dwarves). Bupu was pleased.
A juicy looking butterfly with pink and purple wings caught her attention and she plucked it from the air and was about to put it in her mouth, but with the amazing dexterity of a kender, the butterfly slipped free. It fluttered enticingly in front of her face. Bupu reached out. The butterfly flew up high out of her reach, then down again. After a few more tries with her hands, Bupu rummaged through her bag and drew out a formidable looking stick and waved it wildly. The butterfly seemed to reconsider teasing the gully dwarf and fluttered desperately away. Bupu followed it.
"You no get'way!" She yelled, her short legs wadded furiously through the soupy mud. The stick was getting to be alethal weapon.
The butterfly led the gully dwarf to a looming figure, dressed in robes so black, it didn't seem like black at all. It was hard to explain, so I'll leave it at that. Complicated designs were stitched on so delicately with so much detail, no mortal could have done it. A hazy dark aurora surrounded the mysterious person. The figure drew out a very pale hand with one finger extended out. The butterfly perched daintily on it. Two midnight eyes stared ominously from the hood.
"Bupu…" the figure whispered softly. The essence of evil resounded loudly, "I've been searching for y-"
Bupu let out a cry of victory and without another thought, slapped the stick down hard upon Nuitari's finger.
"Ow, dammit!" Nuitari said, drawing back and clutched his injured fingered. The Fairy snickered even though the stick had narrowly grazed his own wings. He hovered over Nuitari's head. The fairy was only visible as a butterfly in the mortal plane or sometimes not at all. However… there was one exception… but that's not important right now.
The thrill of triumph ended abruptly for the gully dwarf. She dropped the stick. It sunk into the swamp with a nasty 'bloop' sound. Bupu stood in awe, jaw hanging. Next to the young man in black was another younger looking man dressed in clean white robes. Mud did not have any affect on his clothes. His robes offered no hood unlike his opposite and his facial expression was almost like a kender. He would have looked quite majestic if he wasn't bent over, laughing his lungs out. However, what really caught Bupu's eye was the lady in the velvet red robe. She was extremely pretty in a childlike way. Her face had a day-dreamish look to it, as if she was always distracted or thinking of something. Not only that, but the red robes reminded Bupu of Raistlin.
"That's it, I'm going to blow her up into a million pieces…!" Nuitari was saying hotly. The Fairy yelped in alarm.
Solunari prodded the day-dreaming Lunitari with Bupu's stick, knowing that she was the only one who could stop Nuitari from spontaneously combusting the gully dwarf. The goddess was about to wander off somewhere, the silly little thing. She was thinking about rocks. And how that one over there was shaped oddly like a tree. It would have been funny if there were squirrels living in that tree shaped rock. But now that she thought about it, she worried about the squirrels who chipped there teeth trying to bore through it.
"I don't know…" she said, eyeing the rock, "but I think you should hurry up, Nuitari. I've got some squirrels to save." Her tone was curt and sharp. She was determined to warn every woodland creature that lived in this swamp of the treacherous fake tree that wasn't.
The gods and W.U.S.S. Fairy glanced at each other, lost. They shrugged.
"Alright! Alright! Let's get this over with." Nuitari grumbled, slightly wary of Lunitari's anger. He looked at Bupu, disgusted, "Okay, you, I'm going to teleport you the entrance of Majere's tower. You needn't go through the cursed grove. The tower gates will be opened for you, so just go in and locate Raistlin."
Bupu stared at him blankly.
Solunari rolled his eyes and gave Nuitari a kick on the shins. "Good grief, man! She's a gully dwarf! Be considerate, she's not like us!" He gave Bupu a nodding glance as if Nuitari was the real idiot. Kneeling down, Solunari smiled.
"You want pretty man?" He asked.
Bupu's face brightened. She nodded.
"This dummy will take you to pretty man," Solunari continued, pointing to his male cousin. Lunitari and Nuitari exchanged private glances at each other. The goddess smiled with amusement and the chaotic god smirked. The W.U.S.S. Fairy was still there, just not talking or doing anything worth mentioning.
Bupu nodded gravely, "Any more?"
"Go into tower when you there," Sol said.
The gully dwarf nodded once again and then tugged on Nuitari's robe, "Me want go now."
Nuitari edged away, snarling, "Yes, yes. Don't touch me!" He raised his hands, closed his eyes, and started to chant.
The W.U.S.S. Fairy flew in front of Nuitari's face and punched his nose. The god did not noticed. "Go, go…" he mouthed to Lunitari, then poked her diligently until she was paying attention.
The goddess wasted no time, drawing out a square-ish object out of nowhere, she handed it to Bupu. Bupu took it questioningly. It was white, with a long black tail. Lunitari smiled.
"Give this to the dark elf named Dalamar, little one," she said soothingly, "he lives with Raistlin. Give it to him as soon as you get there." She held Bupu with a mesmerizing stare, "Do you understand?"
The gully dwarf nodded solemnly, wrapping her arms around the smooth object. It rattled. She had understood completely. With a tiny flash, Bupu disappeared.
"Can we go now?" Nuitari said impatiently, coming out of his trance. He was concerned to find that his two cousins were grinning to themselves in the most unreassuringly fashion. He also noticed that his nose felt funny. As if something tiny had attempted to throw a decent punch…
The Fairy was currently standing on Solunari's shoulder, staring up at the sky and rocking back and forth on his heels.
"Yea!" Solunari said happily.
"Our job is done," Lunitari said mildly, "is it not?" She turned to the Fairy.
The Fairy grinned, "Sure is, now the wish will take affect soon."
Nuitari kicked up muddy waves gloomily, "A damn waste of a good mage. Raistlin wasn't meant to end up like this." He glowered at the Fairy, "Just you watch, I'll get him back. This isn't reality."
"Time will soon tell." The Fairy said, sticking out his tongue at Nuitari. "Farewell Lords and Mistress of Magic." With that, he waved his wave and twinkled out of sight in a shower of sparkly yellow stars. Lunitari shrugged her shoulders and disappeared too, followed by Solunari. Nuitari stood alone. He smiled mirthlessly and looked at his closed hand. In his palm was a tiny book call 'The W.U.S.S. Manual'.
"We will see about that." He chuckled. A sudden thought occurred to him.
"Dammit, I'm going to have to get some sort of special reading glasses for this," he muttered and then whisked himself away, back into his lunar home.
End Chapter Two.
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