Human Queen of Fae

I trod on the wet pavement, my hair matted and my mouth bloody..... i walked slow at first, then, i ran. My feet smacked hard against the roadway, as i cringed at every step i took, i remembered the screams of all the people i had once known. I found a wooded area and ran through the thistles without any heed to the sharp pains my feet felt. I had to get rid of my tormentors.... so i ran as hard and fast as i could. Adrenalin rushing through my entire body and my brain, all thoughts were irrational and sparatic. I felt the cold January air on my arms and legs and feet, and all of my body shuddered.... I didnt know where i was going or what i was doing but i knew that all i needed was to be free even if i did die in the wilderness of Kentucky.... I stopped running and fell to my knees..... i quivered as i stopped breathing to hear around me, the moon was high in the midnight black sky..... I heard the faintest of noises and cringed, but then heard footfalls on the pavement not so far behind me. I lay there motionless as if i were about to shatter into a million pieces. I looked to my right and saw a small cave-like opening and slowly crept over to it so as not to make even the slightest sound to give myself away.\par

I heard them behind me, so i crawled a little bit faster to get to the entrance of the cave. My heart raced as i flung myself into the mouth of the black hole. I fell far and deep into a pit of nothingness and felt every piece of roots hit me on the way down into the obyss. I hit the bottom with a splash, and felt the warmth of the murky liquid that i had fallen in, strangly i could tell it was red and i tasted it. I touched my hand to my mouth and felt the soothing calm of the sweet liquid. It was something I couldnt even begin to discribe. The taste danced on my tounge as if to flirt with my tastebuds and to torment my mouth all at once. Something held out its hand to me and i touched it feeling the warmth of its skin against the frighteningly freezing skin of mine. The thing came close to me and held me at its heart and tried to warm me, but I felt as if this illusion was just here to mock my needyness. It picked me up and sloshed out of the liquid onto a solid earth and held me stil close to its body. I felt hair as soft as silk and as thick as the musky fur of a bear, and it began to lay me in a bed like object and layed a heavy quilt of flowers that warmed me quickly. Before it covered me it cleaned my feet and undressed me so that i lay there helpless and naked in its arms, it cleaned my cuts on my belly and breasts and it then covered itself and me with the blanket of flowers that kept me warmer than any blanket i had ever owned.....

My eyes drooped as I fell into a deep sleep and clutched the thing as if it were a once lost lover, and it clung to me too kepping me feeling safe and warm through the undieing night.

chapter two-

I woke under a candle lit sky of earth and a room that was lavishly lined with old books and beautiful bounty of pillows. I looked under the blankets and blushed a horrible pale pink. I covered my head with the quilt of flowers and began to shake uncontrolably. I felt so scared that they would come back to make me be their sex-slave and waltz naked as if clothing never mattered. When i was able to wear clothing I was able to run outside and to try to feel free in the little caged room that was outside. Something the size and weight pawed at the quilt's exterior, so i let the quilt fall and there sat a beautiful black cat that meowed and purred at my hands and face. I cuddled it so close that i am sure that I almost strangled it twice. It pulled away finally to fall to the floor but when i went to look at the floor from the platform i had been laying on the cat was not there, but instead there was a man that looked to be in his twenties laying there with black beautiful hair like the cat's and with tattoos on his arms, his ears were slightly pointed and his mouth curved in a beautiful smile. His face curved perfectly and his eyes like ice, he got up off the floor and meowed at me happily. I remembered that i was uncovered on my top half blushed that horrid shade of pink again and then hid my face beneath the flower blanket. I felt his hands upon the outside of the blanket and tugging at it. I screamed lightly as I was uncovered, his smile turned into a look of concern when i let tears fall from my eyes, his warm hands lightly wiped them away gracefully. He cradled me and for the first time i heard him speak.

"You are ok here in my cave, i saw them and what they did to you and I led you here... your predators will never find you again as long as you stay here with me and my kind," His smile lightly returned as he spoke, he held me close as i clutched at him tightly as he spoke of my tormentors. I found courage within me to respond after a long silence.\tab\par

"What are your kind and why cant we live in the city where i belong?" I replying trying to sound steady. \par

"We will see my little one, but first we must get you dressed for your welcome party, not many humans live as long as you do when they come here in such a frenzie, but i liked you because you are special.... not that such talents as yours not be recognized to you, you must get this all of the time," he paused seeing my puzzled look then began to explain, " your voice sounds like the faeries of the water worlds and your graceful dancing is like no other muse i have ever laid eyes upon," he smiled as he finished. then handed me a robe and ushered me into a bathing room where he drew me a bath and began cleaning me with care, i tried to push him away but he insisted that i be cleaned by his careful hands. His touch was so alien on every inch of my body, I blushed as he delacately touched parts on my body that my tormentors had been the only ones to touch. He caressed my skin and washed my hair as if he were careing for something that were so valuable. I was so used to being kicked by men and being forced to do things that i had not wanted to do, that i felt like i was being cared for as if i were all too precious of an item.... an item, that is what i had been, all that i had ever amounted to. \par

He brushed out my red brown hair and then he ushered me into yet another room where my name was on the door, he opened the door and pushed me inside with only my robe on. He wispered to me through the door.\par

"this is a room of all of the dresses i had made just for you, as i have said before i have seen everything, because i know you, please find something that you think is best for a formal ball and then come back to the hallway, i will take you from there," he smiled and then he shut the door quietly behind me. I gazed about the candle lit room, and gazed at all the beautiful gowns that had been made for me. I sat down on the floor and began to sob, i had no idea why this creature had been so kind to me and what i had done to deserve such a quick rescue, but i could not resist the temptation to take a gown from a hook and hold it to my skin... it felt as soft as the fairy dust that i used to get when i was a small child at the mall in my favorite store. I looked about the room and began to ponder what i should wear for such an occasion, i was so swept up in happiness when suddenly i saw a dress far in the back of the room that i had dremt of once a long time ago. It was a light colored green like what i thought faerie wings would be colored, and it was like a silk that could never be snagged and it was a simple dress that was still so extravagent, one that i always thought belonged on the pirates of the carribean on the body of the beautiful miss Swan.\par

I felt so wierd that i was putting something on that seemed so perfect for a perfectly fucked up human being. I had it on and then began to walk towards the door and opened it to find the young man with a handsome deep, dragon green suit on and black sash with medals covering it. He bowed low to me and then offered me his arm and he led me into another room, his arm left mine and i was left standing there as he opened a box with something that shimmered in it. He put a sparking necklace about my throat and then wound his fingers into my short scraggly dry hair and massaged my head, my hair was suddenly longer and healthier looking. He put his fingers into my hair agian and made it curl at the ends and then put it up partially and pinned it with something that looked like a real faerie person that i could have seriously thought that he had just told to behave and be nice. He pinned some more sparkling things to my hair and then reached into a huge wooden chest that lay in a corner. \par

He reached into the chest and drew out a short sparkling silver dagger with a light green stone on the center on its hilt. It reminded me of a miniature version of the broadsword that lionell from thunder cats had. He reached in yet again to retreave a set of velvet cloaks thet had two glistening silver crowns, one which looked like it were of silver leaves with little green dew drops on the tips of its ends of its drooping leaves and the other of thick thorns and thick brambles with the same dew-like drops of green on it as well. I watched as he unfolded the cloaks carefully and then gracefully draped one about my shoulders then fixed the clasps shut. He then placed the crown of delecate silver leaves upon my head and then settled his own cloak around his shoulders. He placed the bramble-like masculine crown upon his own brow and then held his arm out for me to hold, so i took it and we walked into the next room which was a great stair with a huge ball room filled with the people of the fae, some with fish-bowls over thier heads to keep water about them, others with fire for hair and some with ice on thier brow. some were dressed in leaves while others were dressed in other fineries of the forrest. \par

They quieted and then gazed at our entry into the cavern-like room. Then a roar of cheers were sent up in hollers and many whoops of joyful glee. I was unsure of what was happening but i would soon find out that there was more to me being his date to the ball of the wonderous fae folk and an accessorie. I watched as the cheers died down and he began to speak.\par

"My fellow folk of magic and wonder, i have at last found my queen and now will wage war with the titans of the human relm, I have succeeded in finding a pure human soul who will fight by my side and be my lover and the bearer of a new begining. Let the ceromonies begin!" he finished his announcement as i began to feel ice-like again. So this is what i was ment to be? his little doxy? I wouldnt dare be treated as so. So i began to cry as if i were about to die, i had no strength in me to try and fight my way away from him. He frowned and then held me close again like he had the evening before and he wispered into my ear.\par

"I will fight these disgraceful titans to secure your dignity once again, for i am naught but your lover, and i swear that by the light of the moon and stars that i will make them all pay for ruining your beauty...." he trailed off and then kissed my lips for the fisrt time, and then said, " I, Spike, King of the Fae will solemnly swear to love and to protect the until the day that my last breathe be swallowed up whole by the depths of the angel fae of the heavens, will you trust me? My dear sweet Alice, please say that you will," he looked into my eyes meaning every word that had ever been of his utterance into, and for my ears to hear. I kissed him deeply to say that it was a "yes," reply and i smiled giddy with excitement. He and i walked gracefully down the steps into the main hall of Fae who were pleases with us and then the band of musical tiny creatures began to play and to sing as if thier life were worth nothing more and nothing less.\par

\tab I fell into the mood of dancing and gleeful excitement and wonderful things were dancing in my head, i felt so alive and able to be happy and yet so free to do as i please. We danced half into the next three nights and then we feasted for one evening and then danced for another three or four evenings, each in a new room, never once getting exhausted in our giddy excitement of future fulfillment. I laughed and was merry for several days over and over we danced the waltz of the Fae and we trod upon the floor of flowers that smelled so beautiful as we stamped upon them. We ended the dance on the tenth day and slumbered for at least another week. I was so afraid to fall asleep, for it was as if i would miss something marvelous, but i slumbered so deep that i think i could have been dead. I woke on the night of the seventeenth day we all awoke to take council in the forrest. I was to sit in on the councils for spike because he had to have soldiers fitted with all manner of things that were needed for war. \par

\tab I sat in the council taking countless amounts of notes on parchment like paper. I thought that my arm would fall off as i wrote down every last detail like the courtroom stenographer... it was quite amusing to most of the Fae that i took so many notes at my leasure and read everything that i could about what i needed to know about the lineage of the Fae royalty and then spending listless nights trying to map out evey square inch of the forrest and the rest of the united sates and most of europe. The fae all over the world would disable the power connections, throw off military connections and destroy all intelligence, leaving me as the last human alive on earth, which would make me a hot commodity, which is something that i shudder to think of.\par

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Chapter three-\par

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\tab I fell asleep at a desk in the large study room of spike's palace, whislt i had been taking all types of notes on war tactics and planning out what would be most effective... i decided to make a proposal to save at least one girl and one boy child of each culture to keep safe from the fighting and starvation. I thought it cruel to try and force every single child to perish with the rotten of the rest of the world. Spike saw my notes and had already approved my plan to save a boy and girl child of each nation before i even had time to present my notion to the council members. He carried me off to a bed and laid a note for my eyes to read on the desk in the corner of the room. I lay there so drugged with sleep that i was in final peace after weeks of trying to wrack my brain for a way to make my reasonings seem concrete. I woke the next morning to find the note to read,\par

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\tab Alice,\par

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\tab please join me in the garden of the south side of the castle so that we may discuss the matters of our future and why i signed off on your notes before you presented them, \par

\tab love your dearest\par

\tab Spike \par

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\tab I sighed and then tucked the paper into a pair of boots that i had fallen asleep in, I went to the nearst kitchen to retrieve a biscuit so that i could have just a little bit of added energy. I went out on my jaunt to the south side of the castle to get to the garden. I couldnt wait to get the explanation of why he would put my bills into motion without me even asking him to. It's not as if i needed an extra bost to overrule the council, i could do it all on my own, not that it hurt me that my future husband takes the same side as i do on saving children who are innocent. I felt better having something on my stamache and happily trotting along the long corridors to try and stay up in spirits. I found Spike standing in the garden with a bundle of wonderful flowers, tons of honey suckle and roses and all types of things that seemed magnificent and wild. I found myself showered with gifts and baubles that sparkled and shined as if they were made of the very stars in the sky. I simply put them aside because they were meaningless unless given with love, and i knew naught if they were given with love or in hopes of being impressed by such coin needed to perchase them. I cared for Spike as he cared for me, but i would not toyle over simple tresures that were so valuable to a material world. \par

\tab I sat in the midst of a patch of fire Fae as they played with my hair and toyed with a simple necklace that i had on. I taught them how to hum in a harmony as they made thier little fires and played with others. I sat on the ground with my dear Spike and began to drift to sleep when i heard the aweful screaches of a young girl nearby. I bolted upright and ran to the aid of the young child. The tormentors that i had just been rid of had just kidnapped a new toy. I refused to sit by and watch this one, so i dashed to her aid and broke down the door to the grimey house and held my dagger at the first brute's throat. and he released the girl's hair, as the other clutched at the bedside for his gun i felt Spike turn up behind me and point his broadsword at the other brute's throat. I slit the man's throat and reached for the girl. The young girl was frightened by everything around her, and her mind like a moth flittering in the light of an outdoor lamp. I held her close and ran back to the garden and let her play with the fae until she fell to sleep with her little fingers curled in my hair. \par

\tab I soon fell asleep there too under the tree of the fire fae, letting Spike and his guardsman carry us into my rooms to let us lay in silent peaceful slumber. I drempt that i could save the children so that i could have a perfect world, but i was only allowed two children from each region. I woke with the child clinging to me as it played with a black cat, the cat that was Spike, my dearest tiny Spike. He playfully nipped at her fingers careful not to hurt her in any way. \par

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