Chapter 9 Confrontation

Ice fairy's Pov

In the palace's library

The red demon looks me directly into the eyes without winking. Both of us don't move. She slowly raises a hand. It holds a pipe. The wood moves to her lips and she takes a big breath. Smoke flows out of her mouth. The eyes don't break contact.

A quiet *hic* fills the room.

My lungs fill with air and a storm breaks lose.

I go with firm steps into the direction of the robber. My eyes burn.

*hic* *hic* *hic*

My hand grabs her shoulder and pulls her out of the lap. She isn't able to do anything. I retake my sacred place. She sits dump folded on her bottom before the king's feet. Some meters beside her is her pipe. The content is spilled over the floor.

(Ginger fairy)

"What's your problem? You could have asked me to get out!"

I ignore her and kiss my treasure on the cheek. The villain looks shocked in my direction.

Why are you shocked? Haven't you ever seen a woman kiss a man?

*hic* *hic*

(Ginger fairy)

"Do you *hic* know who you are *hic* kissing?"

(I, Ice fairy)

"This is my king. Look for your own! Don't steal the men of other women! You red, cursed succubus!"

*hic*

The red head stares at me with an unbelieving look. *hic* The eyes slowly begin to look through me.

She stands up, smoothes her coat and picks up her pipe. She begins stuffing it again.

(Ginger fairy)

"Anyways now is not the time for this sort of discussion."

She puts the mouth piece between her teeth and tries lightening the pipe while speaking only with her lips.

(Ginger fairy)

"We have to go back to the crazy geezer to think about our next steps. While you were gone the red queen and the phone fairy had quite an interesting conversation."

I hesitate for a moment but then firm eyes look at the occupied face.

(I, ice fairy)

"Yeah right and when I leave my place you will be all over my man! As if I would be such an idiot!"

A sigh leaves her mouth. She looks at me.

(Ginger fairy)

"I am not interested in the king."

(I, ice fairy)

"What I saw before tells me otherwise. You want to steal him! Who would believe a red demon like you?!"

*hic* *hic*

(Ginger fairy)

"I just wanted to listen what the underground fairies talked about while you were gone."

(I, Ice fairy)

“Yeah, right while playing with him!”

I produce headphones from ice and put them on.

The ginger fairy says something. I point at my headphones and move my lips noiselessly saying:

(I, ice fairy)

"I can't understand you."

I see her hicing. She is definitely angry.

She cries and I understand her faintly

(Ginger fairy)

"Put your headphones *hic* down! You, *hic* brute!"

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I smile at her.

She stops crying and puffs her pipe in big breaths.

Why doesn't she have to hic up while puffing her pipe? It should be quite difficult....

After a while a calm expression spreads over her face. Like being in the delirium she looks at me. Then she leaves.

Finally! This nuisance disappeared. I stay in the lap while flirting with the owner.

Snuggling to his chest I close my eyes.

These headphones are quite uncomfortable. I put them off. Quiet voices cry at me:

(phone fairy)

"Ice fairy! Are you there? Ice fairy!"

(Red queen)

"Did she leave too? Now I won't ever be able to go home. 500 years of hoping for salvation from this dump and I suffocate the only spark of hope"

(Phone fairy)

"My queen!?"

(Red queen)

"Oh did I say it out loud? I don't mean you, my loyal subject. Only the nobles....only the nobles...

Besides you don't have to question your queen!"

I try putting the sparkeling headphones on again, but they slip off my head and fall to the wooden floor.

They splinter into thousand pieces on the smooth surface.

(I, Ice fairy, whispering voice)

"Damn!"

(Phone fairy)

"Ice fairy! Ice fairy! I know you are here. I heard you."

(I, Ice fairy)

"Yes, yes you are right.... Jeez, can't I have a moment for myself."

(Phone fairy)

"My queen, we established contact."

(Red queen)

"Good! It took long enough! Why isn't the portal activated? Our door is covered in pixie dust since half a millennium!"

(I, Ice fairy)

"I don't have enough pixie dust to activate it."

The phone fairy repeats what I said.

(Red queen)

"Then she should get it from the tree. There should be plenty.

(I, ice dairy)

"This won't be possible. Nearly all the dust is frozen. The crazy geezer's drone looked for 500 years and found only enough dust for my birth."

The phone fairy repeats it.

(Red queen)

"hmmmm, What to do?

I have no choice.

I, as queen order you to come to underground Pixie hollow and get enough pixie dust to warp me there and save everybody to pixie holow.

Don't talk about this to anyone."

When you manage this, I personally will give you everything your heart desires."

(I, Ice fairy)

"Everything?"

Phone fairy repeats it.

(Red queen)

"Everything, what is in my might."

Honks run up and down in my head.. They only wear shorts and let their muscles play.

A war cry resounded in my mind: For the men, for the unfrozen testosterone! For my womanhood!

What is a woman without minimum one man? What is a man without a woman? She wouldn't be a woman. He wouldn't be a man. Only a neutral something.

The queen spoke while this kind of thinking filled my head.

(Red queen)

"For this mission I will give you the combination for the vault. You can take everything you need. It's deep under the palace and under the root tower."

We talked after this for some time about the details of my quest.