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Trapped

Sakura wrote a letter to her brother to explain the situation. She was in the middle of it when she remembered something.

"Fay-san, can I ask you something?"

"Of course, dear", answered the mage while trying (failing) to beat Shaolan at chest again.

"Why is Shaolan awake?"

"Ah, but because I lifted the curse, of course!" exclaimed the mage. "Check mat!"

"I hadn't see that coming Fay-san", said Shaolan without telling he had moved his peons wrong again.

Kurogane was sitting in a corner and getting impatient.

"Do you mean you…" Sakura didn't dare to finish the question.

"Of course not, dear", smiled Fay. "It was a simple curse to lift. I mean, it involved knitting!"

"Oh", said Sakura, reassured. "All right then."

Fay stopped looking at the chest board for a moment.

"Say, Sakura-chan?"

"Yes, Fay-san?"

"Why did you put a curse on Shaolan-kun? I mean, it seems like you care enough for him to come here and fight evil little Mokona. So why did you cursed him?"

"She didn't cursed me!" exclaimed Shaolan. "I just thought she was going to touch the knitting set so I took it, and then… Well, I woke up here. But it's not the princess's fault."

"Ah", said Fay, "so you took the curse on you because you love her."

Shaolan blushed senseless, and Sakura took the colour of roses.

"T-That's…" muttered Shaolan.

"Not true?" wondered Fay.

"No! I mean… I…"

For a moment, Kurogane thought the young lad was going to pass out.

"It's okay", said Fay. "At least I know who's gonna sleep in the spare room tonight."

One could have baked an egg on both royal heads.

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The children eventually fall asleep, after a very confusing amount of blush was provided by both parts. Fay even kissed them goodnight, which gave Kurogane the creeps. Then the mage went out the guest room to fall on his own bed.

"Hey" said the fairyman. "I know you can see me. Tell me what's going on."

"So you must be Kurogane, right?" said the blond staring right at him. "The fairy godfather."

"Yeah, that's me. And I'm kind of trapped there. So tell me, what do I do?"

"Nothing" said Fay. "No-one could ever break the spell."

Kurogane frowned. "Well, I'm going to. So tell me what's to do."

Fay sighed. Then he smiled gently. "You see, it seems quite simple. All you would have to do would be to give me a true love's kiss, or something approaching I guess."

Kurogane grunted. "I don't even know you."

"Of course", said the mage happily. "And that's not the main issue. You see, there's no food nor water in the dimension you're in. So you'll be dead very soon."

Now Kurogane just couldn't figure how he could get to even like the damn wizard.

"See the corpses all around you?" said Fay. "Those are the one who failed. There're dead. Everyone of them!" He seemed almost amused.

Kurogane gave a look around him. Lots of corpses.

"Why don't you remove them?" he asked. "That's not quite welcoming in a house."

"I can't" said the mage. "I can't touch them, just as you can't touch me, or anything else than the souls of the things here."

"Do you mean I can't touch but the soul of the objects?" Kurogane asked. It seemed weird. He had not problem sitting on chairs or… well, he had actually picked up a book earlier, which had split in two, as if duplicated.

Suddenly, he noticed something even weirder.

There was another Fay in this room, which looked like a broken puppet laying on the floor in an indecent posture.

"This one looks like you", Kurogane said, startled.

"Ah, you found it already…" the actual Fay seemed a bit saddened.

"This one is my own soul. My duplicate, my twin. That's a quite long story."

Kurogane grunted. He was not a fan of long stories.

"Tell it to me the same", he said. "'might help me to get out."

"It might or might not", smiled the mage. "See, I was on the verge of death some day, and the one who loved me tried to save my life. So they put me in this tower and cast the usual "true love's kiss" spell on me."

Kurogane grunted again. Silly magicians.

"However, as they did not want people to take advantage of it, they only allowed people in the tower once."

"That's stupid", said Kurogane. "People change."

Fay smiled. "My whole story is a stupid mistake. I should have died, and I didn't. But the ones who loved me eventually deceased. I was left alone."

"Waiting for the charming prince. Again, stupid story."

Fay laughed. A tiny, clear laugh, something that reminded Kurogane of crystal.

"Well that is what I though, so I tried to put an end to it. But the spell was too strong, so I didn't die."

Kurogane cleared his throat. He wasn't sure he condemned this attempt. Yet.

"However, Mokona was sending someone where you are when I tried to kill myself, and my soul was swallowed in there too."

"I guess that makes it even more difficult to rescue you, then", the fairyman said.

"Yes it does!" smiled the mage, happy to see how understanding the fairyman was.

Kurogane stopped to think for an instant.

"So, would it work if we somehow glued your soul back to your body?"

Fay smiled. "I guess we could try once more."

Kurogane was about to lift the mage' soul in the air when he realised something.

"Hey, how would that help me to get out of here?"

The mage smiled brightly.

"I don't know, Kurogane-san! I guess you'll have to care for me enough by the time you decide to kiss me!"

Kurogane was kinda sure that would not happen out of the blue.

"Actually", added Fay gently, "I don't think you actually have to love me. I think really wanting me to live would be enough. I guess."

Kurogane pondered a bit more. He had to help the damn mage. That was a proof that he cared, was it? Not helping would… not help, right? He was stuck with no other option (than starving to death, that is). Grunting at his bad luck, he lifted the guy' soul in the air. It was kinda heavy for a soul, but very light for a body. Kurogane looked at it for a moment. It really looked like the mage. But it seemed to glow slightly with a sad, sad light and crying innocence.

The actual Fay shivered.

"Hum, I assume you're trying to glue us back", he said.

Kurogane noticed there was something wrong with the mage. As if he was fighting to remain calm and composed. Then the fairyman thought of something.

"Is someone touching your soul uncomfortable?" he asked.

"A bit", the mage answered.

Kurogane guessed he lied. Then he remembered the posture he had found the mage' soul in.

"Had people tried to take advantage of it?" he wondered.

"You'll do that to", Fay said. Kurogane was a bit surprised. He hadn't realised he was speaking aloud. "When you'll be starving and maddened by the lack of water. You'll hurt me too. You'll try to get out of where you are by all means, or you'll try to get revenge, or anything. That's what always happens. Even the nice ones get crazy."

Something was wrong.

"The Mokona thing said he did that to avoid you getting hurt", he said.

"He doesn't know my soul is in there", Fay answered.

"And why don't you tell him?" asked Kurogane with a bit of anger. "You know, throwing him a message like Sakura did?"

"My, Kuro-miu is quite hot-tempered, is he now?" smiled Fay amused.

Kurogane paused. "How did you call me?"

Fay looked at him innocently. "Kuro-puuu?..."

"Shut up! My name is Kurogane! Ku-ro-ga-ne you freak! I might not be much of a godfather fairy, but I'm a fearless warrior and knights kneel when they hear my name. Show some respect!"

Fay burst into laughing. "Kuro-rin doesn't like me calling him Kuro-chuu!"

A vein pulsed on Kurogane's temple. He threw the mage' soul on the bed and try to find something to hit the actual mage on the head. "You're not getting away with that!" he shouted.

"No I'm not!" Fay laughed. "I'm such a naughty mage, and you're a fierce fairy godfather!"

Angry, Kurogane came back to the bed and started arranging Fay' soul on the bed. "Now let's get rid of this!" he shouted. "Lay down!"

The mage frowned slightly when Kurogane took his soul's ankle a bit harshly. "My, Kuro-piu, that hurts", he complained.

The fairyman sighed. "Why are you provoking me?"

Fay looked at him, sapphire eyes in crimson ones.

"I don't know, Kuro-san. I guess I'm just lonely."

But you're here, his eyes said.

"Right", said the fairyman. "Now, I'll tell you how to fit your soul's position, so concentrate."

"All right!" the mage smiled. "That seems like fun!"

Kurogane tried his best to make both mages fit one another. "You've done this before, right?" he asked after a while. "And it never worked."

"Never", said the mage. "And soon you'll be dead and that'll be my fault."

"That's the fault of the one that cursed you."

"They loved me", Fay corrected.

"Right", said Kurogane. "Tche."

They spent the night in the same bed, both in a different dimension.