To Kill A Queen

The Beginning of the End

Eli's POV

We had spent all of our money. We had no food. Only clothes. And liquor. 

Pandora had a new purple robe with her staff by her side. Red had new black boots with red pants and a red and black shirt, her weapons hidden on her belt. Diana had a blue shirt with green pants and black boots. Naomi had a new green tunic with a brown skirt and a knife hidden on her belt. Erin had black pants with gray boots and a matching shirt. Bronze had a gold tunic with matching boots and black pants. I had a dark green tunic with black pants and boots. Together we looked like we were about to rob a bank in style.

We walked out of the market and into the forest to start going to the Feary Queen's castle. And I was stuck carrying the booze.

I turned towards Red. 

"Can't you carry this? It's heavy!"

Red laughed.

 "You spent your money on it Eli. Either drink it and you don't have to carry it, or lug it to have a drink with the queen that wants to kill you."

I fake pouted. "Fine."

Bronze handed Pandora a few dollars.

"Did you guys make a bet?" Erin asked.

"Ooooh. What was it about?" Naomi asked.

Bronze was about to shake her head when Diana pulled out her bow. Bronze's eyes widened and  she glared at Erin. Naomi and Diana traded grins.

"I bet that Red would take the case to shut Eli up." Bronze said.

"And I bet that Eli would loose and just carry or drink the case."

I smiled at Pandora. "Why is this something I would do?"

"Why haven't you done it?"

Diana put her bow back and raised her hand. 

"This is interesting and all, but where are we going? We just learned that Eli has a connection to the Feary Queen, and then we came here. Do we have a plan?"

Pandora was about to answer when I interrupted. 

"Yes actually. We need to go to the Faery plane anyway to confront Ginny, so let's go to the Fountain of Youth and make ourselves immortal. We can't be beat in battle if we can't die. And there's no more Saint."

Everybody looked at me weird and I realized I never told them about what had happened there.

Red laughed. "Why would we drink? When you did, some random person dropped dead!"

"But still, you all wouldn't die."

Pandora sighed. "No Eli, you shall be lonely when we all die."

I gave Pandora a weird look. "Damn, fine, then lets go off to our first campsite to spend the night."

We walked through the sea of green. Naomi and Diana in front, Pandora and Bronze behind them, Red and Erin behind them, and me in the back. We made it to a clearing with some help from Pandora's magic. I set down the beer case and Vodka. Bronze looked around.

"There's something weird about this place. I feel like I'm being watched."

Red looked around with her. "Me too. Someone doesn't us to be here."

I handed Red a beer. "Less talking. More drinking."

Bronze shook her head and walked back over to Pandora. It looked like they were making another bet.

I took a sip. "Do we have any makeshift beds for tonight? Or are we sleeping on the ground?" Nobody heard me.

Red turned to address the group. "Do we have any beds?"

"No!" Naomi shouted out. "We had no money to buy any!" 

Her and Diana laughed. I wondered if they were somehow drunk.

I sighed and took another sip of my beer. "Dang. So, the ground it is!"

Fast forward to dinner because I'm lazy

We were all eating dinner around a campfire. Red and I were drinking and Pandora and Bronze kept eyeing the other.

I took another swig. "Hey, Red. I just realized. Red can't be your real name."

She had almost finished her bottle. "Oh yeah? Why can't it?"

I giggled for no reason. "Hehe. Cause Red is a color!"

Red thought for a moment. Everyone was looking at her. We all wanted to know what this girls identity was. 

"I guess you're right." She hiccuped. "My real name is-" 

She hiccuped again and fell over off the log and passed out. I thought that this was incredibly funny and picked up her bottle. I finished hers and my own and looked over to see Pandora giving Bronze money.

Naomi stood up. "It's late guys. Shouldn't we go to bed?"

Pandora stood too. "Yes. We have two drunk girls, one of which is passed out. They're going to have a hangover tomorrow and we still have to travel."

I hiccuped and got up to drag Red over to her designated spot on the clearing. I walked over to mine and layed down and fell asleep immediately.

That night I didn't dream, but I was very rudely awakened by the sensation of being burned. I leapt up and drew my knife only to come face-to-face with a fire pixie.

"Hi!" I giggled since I was still drunk. "What are you doing here?"

"I'm robbing you!" The little pixie said with a smile.