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Beggar Queen

by amandaluan

A red usul threw her bright red ball in the air. As the usul attempted to pick it up it rolled away. The usul ran into the alley without another thought and went to retrieve her ball. Giggling, she bounded after it. The ball rolled into an alley her arm. A paw grasped her arm. The usul screamed in fright and whimpered as the paw reeled her deeper in the alley. A smile appeared faintly in the darkness as she saw a blue lupe. A green ixe appeared holding her ball. The lupe cackled, “ Look what we have here, Goldith! A usul……. Look’ in for something?” the ixe smiled happily at the thought of something to do as he bounced the ball with his paw. “ I’ll say we got ourselves a little girl, Gaizer.” the ixe paused, “ Do you think she’ll be good enough for ransom?” Gaizer chuckled at Goldith’s joke. “ I’ll say.” said the lupe, playing along with the joke. Gaizer reeled the usul closer. The usul squeaked in terror as she struggled to get away. “ Don‘t hurt me please!” the usul shouted. “ Do you think we’d do that?” Gaizer smiled slyly, Goldith asked the same question smiling, “ Do you think we’d do that?” Gaizer drew her Iron Lupe Sword mockingly and raised it. The usul shrank down shivering waiting for her end as a shrill voice rang out, “ Stop!! Let her go! We don’t hurt children!! Put it down Gaizer! Give her back her ball!!” Gaizer still held the usul’s paw but slung her sword back in her belt as Goldith dropped the ball, “ We were just having some fun!” the ixe said earnestly. A cloaked figure gently stepped out from the darkness. The usul struggled to get away as the figure drew it’s hand to the cloaks hood. Long black hair fell to the figures waist. It slowly turned it’s head towards the usul. A beautiful woman was there. She smiled thinly as the usul whispered, “ It’s, it’s the Beggar Queen.” the usul glanced at the woman and saw a pair of light purple wings, “ Why, you’re a faerie!”, “ Yes. Yes I am.” the Beggar Queen looked at Gaizer and Goldith harshly as they shrank down to the ground moaning in terror. “ You knew the rules Gaizer and Goldith but you turned them away. You know the consequences don’t you?” Goldith grimly nodded his head, “ Anyone who attempts or hurts a child will be exiled onto the streets of the place we are in currently. Which right now is Faerieland.” Gaizer moaned again. “ This is a warning Gaizer, Goldith! Next time you’ll be exiled.” Gaizer and Goldith sighed in relief as they shouted, “ Thank you Beggar Queen! Thank you!” the Beggar Queen’s head shook in disgust, “ Now, usul……….” the Beggar Queen said turning her head towards Gaizer’s paw, “ Where… where is she Gaizer?” the Beggar Queen asked looking at Gaizer’s grip on air, “ Milady! You told me to let her go. She left her ball too.” reasoned Gaizer, “ I suppose I did. I was just hoping to do a mind-wipe on her before she spreads the word that…… well……… WE HAVE ARRIVED”

“Mitzy! Oh my, Mitzy! What happened?” shouted a faerie usul as a red usul ran out from an alley and into her mother’s arms, “ Oh Momma!” Mitzy sobbed, “ I just saw the Beggar Queen! I lost my ball! Oh! I was so scared!” the faerie usul’s eyes laughed, “ Oh my dearie me! Everyone knows that that the Beggar Queen is just an old blumaroos tale!” the faerie usul picked up Mitzy and gently folded her into her arms, “Besides, they don’t call me Meredith Crackle Bones for nothing!” the faerie usul laughed at her joke, “ Don’t worry Mitzy! If you lost your ball we’ll get you another one.” Mitzy tried to smile and only ended up with a sad face trying to believe what her mother had said, “ Yeah….. I guess I was just seeing things….. I hope.”

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