"Fairy Tale Island?" Chibiusa wondered.
"Sure," the mermaid smiled. "The only place in the world where beings from fairy tales exist. Or have you ever seen a mermaid like me?"
"No, I don't think so..." Setsuna muttered. She was getting a headache.
"See?" the mermaid giggled. "Oh, this is so exciting... it has been such a long time since we had human visitors. But you have to be careful, most of us don't really trust your kind..."
"What do you mean?" Hotaru asked, but before the mermaid could answer, the little dwarf came back. But this time, he was not alone: He was accompanied by six dwarves that had similar hats to the one he was wearing.
"Seven Dwarves..." Setsuna murmured.
"See? I told ya!" the first dwarf shouted. "They came through the mist!"
"Nonono, that can't be," another one proclaimed. "Only fairy tales are allowed here."
The Senshi then noticed that the dwarves were all carrying the same clay pots. "Surrender, or we'll shoot!" said one of the dwarves in a menacing voice while holding up his pot. The others did the same.
"Please don't!" Diana yelped as she hid behind Chibiusa's legs.
"You don't have anything to shoot," Hotaru snickered.
"Sure we have!" the dwarf said while making a grim face. "We're just using porridge. We have way too many porridge, our boss doesn't eat anything else, always porridge. Monday it's..."
"Porridge!" the other dwarves shouted.
"Tuesday it's..."
"Porridge!"
"Wednesday it's..."
"Porridge!"
"Stop it already!" Setsuna grimaced as she clutched her hears. "I'm believing you."
"You guys really shouldn't let Snow White push you around like this," the mermaid frowned. "She's just using you."
"It is a great honor to serve the boss," the leading dwarf exclaimed and glared at the mermaid. "Without her, our lives would have no meaning."
"Well, whatever..." the mermaid huffed. "I think she's just a selfish bitch who..."
"WHERE'S MY PORRIDGE!" a shrill voice screamed.
"We've got to return," a dwarf said in a worried tone of voice. "The boss is hungry."
They quickly picked up their pots and ran back across the beach. "We're coming, we're coming!"
Setsuna had sat down on a rock. "Girls... please pinch me... I think I'm dreaming..."
Chibiusa blinked, then she shrugged and pinched Setsuna's arm.
"OW! Not so hard!" Setsuna yelped.
"See, I told you not everyone here likes humans," the mermaid sighed. "Damn, I wish I could be a human as well..."
"What's your name?" Hotaru asked.
The mermaid shrugged. "Nobody ever bothered giving me a name. Most just call me 'Little Mermaid' or 'Princess of the Sea'. Yeah, it sucks, I know... Stupid Andersen..."
Suddenly, another loud voice echoed over the beach. "Apples, delicious apples! Barely poisoned! Come, people, and buy! Apples!"
"Oh no, not her!" the mermaid groaned. "I can't stand that woman... see you later!" And with a dive, she dove under water.
An old woman with a wide coat came walking across the beach. In her hand, she was carrying a small basket.
"Excuse me," Hotaru shouted as she walked towards the woman. "Can you please tell us..."
"Humans!" the woman shouted with surprise. "By all poisoned apples, not those creatures!"
"We won't do anything to you," Hotaru assured the old woman. "Say, what are you doing with those... poisoned apples?" She looked into the basket.
"Sell them, of course!" the woman said. It seemed like she had calmed down a bit. "Like I always do. It's not like I have anything better to do... Well, sometimes, I also clean the mirror. But lately, it has giving me those weird answers."
She sighed. "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all, I ask."
"And... what's its answer?" Chibiusa asked.
"That's just it, there's something wrong with it. It says: 'Puss-in-Boots is the most fairest of them all.' What a nonsense..."
Hotaru gulped and leaned over to her friend. "The evil queen?" she whispered.
"Looks like it," Chibiusa whispered back. "But she doesn't seem so evil, I think..."
Just then, someone else was arriving at the beach. It was another small man with a beard, but he somehow had a more sly look than the dwarves they met earlier. In his hands, he carried a big mirror.
"Curses..." Snow White's stepmother grumbled. "Rumpelstiltskin... and he has my mirror!"
The little dwarf skipped down the beach happily, looking into the mirror and sang: "Little knows my royal dame, my name is... my name is..."
He stopped, scratching his head in confusion, then he snapped his fingers. "Damn! I forgot my name!"
"It's Rumpelstiltskin! You fool!" the old woman shouted.
"Ah, right, I remember!" Rumpelstiltskin groaned. "Damn, that's a complicated name. I wish I could just have the name Bob, or Steven... just like any other guy!"
He then gasped when he saw the three Senshi and their cat. "Who... who... who are those people? Three girls and a... a... a whatsitsnameagain..."
"What do you mean, a 'whatsitsnameagain'?" Diana hissed. "I'm a moon cat, thank you very much!"
"And you... you came through the mist?" Rumpelstiltskin asked with awe, looking at the Pluto Cruiser. "Just like that? Or... did you use... magic?"
"Magic?" a raspy voice shouted. "Who uses magic? What are you talking about, you old fool?"
"Damn, the beach's crowded today..." the queen murmured.
An even older woman was coming down the dunes. She was really ugly, had a gap in her teeth and a wart on her crooked nose.
Hotaru held her nose. "Uuuuh, she smells like rotten eggs..."
"I'm talking about those human girls!" Rumpelstiltskin said accusingly and gestured at the Senshi. "They came through the mist!"
"What?" the ugly hag screeched. "That can't be! That can't be! In thousand years nobody ever came to our island... we have to tell the king! Where's that blasted cat?"
Someone tugged at the hag's sleeve. "Meow, I'm here," a soft voice purred. "Puss-in-Boots, main messenger of our beloved king. What seems to be the problem?"
Diana stared at the orange-striped cat with the black, shiny boots and the feathered hat adoringly. "He's soooo handsome..." she murmured.
"Oh? What do my surprised eyes see?" Puss-in-Boots said in a charming voice as he slinked over to Diana. "My lady, I must say, you are as beautiful as the moon at night."
"B-b-beautiful?" Diana stammered. "M-m-me?"
"My dear, please allow me to kiss your paw..." And he reached for her paw. Diana nearly swooned.
"Stop that foolishness, cat!" the hag screeched. "She's with the enemy! The HUMANS! Don't you see?"
Puss-in-Boots gasped as he stumbled back. He really looked like he hadn't seen the three Senshi before. "My, what a cat-astrophe!" he said. "I shall the king at once! A good thing I just polished my boots today..." And he ran away.
"What a vain idiot..." Rumpelstiltskin grumbled.
"Vain?" the evil stepmother laughed. "Him? I know somebody who has painted his lips..." She grabbed the little dwarf's head and turned it around forcefully. "With MY lipstick!"
"Stop that!" the hag shouted. "We can't start a fight now. These creatures are..."
"Say, you're the evil witch, aren't you?" Hotaru asked.
"Well, of course I am!" the witch grinned, revealing her ugly toothgap. "And my favorite food are little girls, so watch out!"
"We're not afraid of you," Chibiusa shouted. "We have our Sailor magic."
"Magic?" the evil witch wondered. "You? Impossible! I'm the only witch on Fairy Tale Island! So you better not try to escape!"
Hotaru looked at Setsuna, who was still sitting on the rock, clutching her head. "This must be a dream... it HAS to be a dream..." she murmured again and again.
Then Hotaru looked over to Diana, who was lying in the warm sand, with a wide grin on her face. "He almost kissed me..." she murmured. "He said I was beautiful and he almost kissed me..."
"Well, I don't think we'll be going anywhere in a while..." she finally said.
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(Posted Sat, 22 Dec 2007 12:35)
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