Knavish

Dedication:

I hat u T

HAT!

If i had never met you i wouldn't be

8/7/05

The sky was pitch green, the darkest shade a green could go. Like a deep forest. If you stared too long you'd go senile no matter how old or young you were.

A dragon lay on a island, it's enormous body almost covering the entire sandy surfice from snout to butt. But it was not a live dragon. This dragon was made of the most beautiful pearly steel and went by the name Knavish Castle. The dragon-castle appeared to be resting on it's belly, chin down in gold sand, it's tail hoovering above it's resting head.

It's tail formed something of a tower, at the tip of the extensive tail-tower was a not very special balcony made of rotting drift-wood.

Also it wasn't really a island, it was a slave-made moat around the castle, with average mermaids and lazy mermans guarding and attacking every once and a while.

Now, there is a make-shift dragoncastle now we just need a King....and you can guess the rest....

Headache inducing noise pierced the night. A cry. The noise coming from the wood balcony of the tower where the princess lived and sat, plotted and got bored.

"No, wait, Lackafay don't!" cried a dark hooded figure as she was shoved out of the tower and onto the balcony.

"Fay, shut the underworld up..." ordered Lackafay (Lack-uh-Fay) in a low confidentual tone, as she took a step and joined the other girl on the balcony.

Both girls were wearing matching velvet mohogany cloaks that suspended down to their knees, save for the girl being pushed around, her cloak was different because it's sleeves were cut off at the elbows and sewn back on with gold threads, yet still left her elbows exposed, because Fay could not stand to wear anything that didn't show at least a little skin.

"We won't get away with this!" cried back Fay, covering the dark shadow where her mouth was hidden with both her hands.

"We won't get away with it if you keep shouting..." replied Lackafay gently but not patiently, clamping her hands on the girls shoulders then violently thrusting her backwards.

The force slammed the girl's lower back against the weak wood railing and made her upper body jerk back and with flailing arms she fell backwards over the railing.

Down a thousand feet she dropped, till she landed on the castle's huge dragon head, her cloaked body was motionless with limbs spread out to her sides, but she was still in one peace.

Lackafay placed her hands securely on the rough wood railing and glanced down at where she had shoved her better-half, her feet soon joined her hands on the rotting wood railing and she pounced off like a cat. Landing feet first with a thud next to her cloaked partner who was still laying.

Lackafay's legs buckled under her weight and she fell back on to her butt and she sat for a moment, until the lifeless cloaked body of Fay raised up chest first with her head hanging lifeless like a hood. Eventually Fay's body slowly raised itself into a sitting pose, her hood slipping off her head as she did so. They both sat in the middle of the dragon shaped head like a couple of flees for a few silent moments.

the first thing to come to Fay's face was a broad smile "hey, brain damage is funny..." she giggled loudly.

Lackafay let out a exasperated his of breath as she stood back up and stuck her hand in her cloak pocket.

"what's the next chapter in the leave Knavish Castle forever dime store novel?" asked Fay earnestly, her tongue sticking out between her pearly white jaws as her smile broadened in Lackafay's direction.

"this chapter's called, shut up and eat this." replied Lackafay curtly, bring her hand out of her pocket and in her palm sat two plump, pink cherries.

Fay's smile drained from her face but her tongue remained sticking out of her head, as she eyed the little pink fruits as if they would bite her. "I may have been born about four days ago, but I know how bad a Cherry Toenail tastes." she picked one up between two fingers and looked down her nose at it some more.

"They will give us temporary swift speed, we won't be able to get anywhere at normal pace, so eat it or just stay here." stated Lackafay simply, popping a Cherry Toenail in her mouth and swiftly ran to the snout of the castle overlooking the moat.

"wait for me, please." called Fay as she swallowed her Cherry Toenail and ran after Lackafay equally swift.

Fay came to a almost complete stop a bit too close to the edge, losing her gaze to the beautiful swirling blue colors that made up the moat she forgot to straighten herself up and nearly dived face first into the moat, but luckily Fay's lion tail was pertruding out the back of her cloak, and Lackafay's swift hand managed to take hold of her long, light, gold tail and hauled her back in place.

Fay glanced over her shoulder at Lackafay and pouted her gold lips out, "You didn't have to pull my tail..." she whimpered, holding her light gold lion tail in one hand and stroking it with the other hand.

The shadow continued to conceal Lackafay's face as she stood silent and stiff.

Pouting gold lips soon smoothing back out into a grin. "so are we going to lower the draw bridge, or swim across de moat?" asked Fay

"It would be easy to knock out the bridge guy and lower the bridge, but the bridge going down will make way too much noise, and i will not get in that water, its the merpeople's toilet...." explained Lackafay grimly.

"What did you just say?!" roared a pine-green haired mermaid, rising from the crystal waters in a whirlpool that wrapped around her red scaley tail like a see through dress.

"You obviously heard me." answered Lackafay curtly

"Vile, little, vindictive, rotten, brat!" spat the forest-pine haired mermaid her red eyes burning.

"Yes, yes, we all know that, now let us pass through the moat." ordered Lackafay unamused.

"What in all this kingdom makes you think I'll let you cross my people's waters?" demanded the mermaid, her red eyes now drilling into Fay who responded by giving her a grin and a wink.

"What's going down up here?" demanded a second mermaid, rising high up with a handful of other mermaids each suspended within a individual clear whirlpool. All of them hissing as soon as they laid eyes on the two girls in hoods, causing Fay to go pale and hide behind Lackafay's stern unshakeable stance.

Slipping a hand back in her cloak pocket Lackafay slowly brough out a glimmering blue object. "This is why I will pass through your moat."

All the mermaids gasped and their whirpools swung backwards in shock, then the whirlpools snaked forward so the mermaids could inspect the object further.

"Oh goddess! Is that a Baddy-Spider? The kind that when it spits in a person's eyes it makes the said person french-kiss the nearest person to them?" questioned the pine haired mermaid, her eyes round and bright as silver dollars.

"Yes, yes it is. Now you freaks of the water let us both pass and you will get the spider, deal?"

"Yeah, yeah! Just give it up already!" demanded the pine mermaid impatiently, her red eyes and the gawking gazes of all the other mermaid's fixed on the little blue spider.

"First you take us to the other side of the moat, then you can have it." countered Lackafay

"Err, fine, we'll lug your lazy butts to the other side." muttered back the mermaid rolling her red eyes, and folding her arms across her naked chest.

Suddenly the whirlpool twirling around the mermaid's red tail swooped down and engolfed both the girls, and swiftly spat them back out in a tangled heap on the opposite beach.

"Now give us the spider!"

"Yes, give it to us!" ordered the mermaids, waving their arms in the air.

With a jerk of her wrist Lackafay flung a small blue object into the moat. "Here you go." with that Lackafay dusted her self off then swiftly sped off with Fay at her tail.

"Quick! Grab it before it drowns!!" shouted the pine haired mermaid urgently, as the mermaids dove back into the moat. "Quick! its sinking like a stone!" she shouted as she dived in after them.

"I got it!" proclaimed a navy hair mermaid, springing to the surface with her prize held high in triumph. "I can't wait to get this Baddy Spider to spit in Ben's eyes..." giggled the mermaid, but as soon as she opened the palm of her hand her naughty grin dissolved.

"Let me see it!" demanded the pine mermaid, shoving the other mermaids aside and swimming next to the navy haired mermaid. But in her hand was only a blue pebble.

"Those filthy, sneaky, skunks have fooled us...." whimpered the navy haired mermaid as she continued gazing at the blue rock in her palm.

"It doesn't matter that much. If those filthy humans plan to leave the Sabador Kingdom they'll have to pass through the Ryu Mountains, which everyone knows is polluted with flesh eating zombies!" comforted the pine haired mermaid with a satisfied smirk. "Yes, those little brats will get what is coming to them soon enough...." she snickered.

chapter 2

Hiking up one of the large Ryu mountain slopes with the moon as their only source of ligh Lackafay and Fay trudge with their extra speed beginning to fade and leave them.

Keeping a steady pace Lackafay trudges onward. "Stay alert, I've heard these mountains have zombies in them." explained Lackafay to Fay whom was fallowing a few feet behind.

"Lackafay, why did we leave the castle anyways?" questioned Fay curiously.

Lackafay took a quick glance back at Sabador Kingdom and the enormous Knavish castle in the middle of it all with the pretty string of water circling it.

$Flash Back$

"The prince is on his way here, are you excited, you're going to get married!" exclaimed a women with rich milky tan skin contrasting against her overly bright yellow straightened waist long hair, her cloudy blue dress floating along as she glided over and sat at the end of Lackafay's enormous bed made up of thousands of tiny pink bubbles netted together with gold lace. From her light as rain hair to her cloudy dress, everything about the women seemed as if it rebeled against the gravitational pull of the earth, save for the enormous gold crown shaped like a furious dragon on her head.

A grin graced the women's lips as her hazel eyes placed themselves on Lackafay as she lay sprawled across her bed with a bear skin blanket over her self.

"what, are you dead under there?" asked the women with a small giggle.

"you wish, evil step mother." answered Lackafay impassively

The step mother's grin dissolved as she straightened her crown with two skilled hands, with the same concentration a women uses to apply make up with out a mirror, "His name is Prince Charming, and he's damn hot, at least that's what i've come to believe."continued the Queen while still figiting with her heavy gold crown.

"Where's my club? I need to go off and avenge my mother's death...and stuff..." muttered Lackafay, slipping one hand out from under the bear skin covers and groped around blindly on her pink bubbly bed.

"Your father." there was a pause as the Queen let out a husky exhale. "King Knavish...." there was more silence fallowed as the Queen's hazel eyes became hazy with a impish grin curling her small poofy lips.

She blinked and brought herself promptly out of her trance. "Yes, well, he through it out the window yesturday because you pissed him off, don't you remember?" she finally finished. "Besides, you never even knew your mother, don't dwell on stuff or you'll give yourself wrinkles." the Queen placed a hand on her smooth cheek and a satisfied smirk formed again on her lips.

"I need to kill something or else there will be dire consequences...." she retorted contrairly.

The Queen began fixing up her crown yet again, "Your mother's name was Shadow, I don't know much else....go to Shadow Forest, it's named after her so you'll most likely find someone to kill there...." explained the queen curtly

"Your bloody crown looks exacly like it always does so stop screwing with it!" shouted Lackafay even from under her heavy covers the irritation in her voice rang clear.

A frown wrinkled the Queen's forhead as she glared down at Lackafay and removed her hands from the corners of her crown. "I'll be great to see you gone..."

end flash back

"Lackafaaaayy!" cried Fay in alarm, her fingers digging into Lackafay's arms as she ducked down behind her.

Lackafay glared back at Fay. "What? What is it?" she demanded, then out the corner of her eyes she saw the dirt part and out sprout gray skinned zombies.

"Be gone!" ordered Lackafay, high-kicking her black boot into the face of the nearest zombie and the zombie's hollow undead body was consumed by a electric shock that thrusted it backwards into the air.

With her black buckle boots still sparking Lackafay's shadow consumed face looked in the direction of the other zombies, "Anything else wants to fry tonight...." she threatened

The electricuted zombie promptly raised it's boney gray body back up, his fleshy hand dusted off his skull and he sprang back to his feet. "Oh, we are frightfully apologetic for startling you young ladies, we just are not usually graced with visitors, especially not at this late hour."

"We are all so lonely, no one comes to party with us ever since the Breeze spread rumors that we like to eat living flesh and crave fatty foods at night." sighed a zombie.

"But we are all terribly sorry, take this as a sign of our contrition." continued the electricuted Zombie reaching into his rib cage and taking out a small white snake.

"It is the Icky Snake, it will lick your tongue which will give you a sugar rush like none you have ever dreamed of, it is a deadly substance if taken too frequently, this is pure uncut sugar, and you shall have a splitting head once the effect wears off." explained the Zombie all in one breath.

Fay began to come out from behind Lackafay with her wide unblinking eyes still glued to the zombie hord. "Um, Mr. Zombie guy, you have a worm digging into your eyeball..." informed Fay

"Oh, thank you darling." replied the zombie tugging the worm out of his eye and placing it in his mouth.

"So you gentle zombie-men will let us pass through these mountains then?" questioned Lackafay

"Oh yes, by all means." answered the zombie taking a step back so the girls could pass through.

Lackafay ran her tongue down the snake's tiny rough tongue then offered it to Fay, Fay began to shake her head slowly when the Icky Snake suddenly thrusted itself into Fay's mouth. Fay began to gag and spat the thing back out. "Ah! wow, oh...let's come on! let's ride bikes. Why does it stink like rotting flesh? I think i have A.D.....Lackafay why are we just standing here????" spat out Fay with her eyes growing round, pink and puffy. "Thanks..." said Lackafay, turning on her heels and running after Fay who had taken off with the small ice white snake in one hand.

the end?....