Fairy Rock

Chapter 47: Queen Vanessa's Castle

Selena, Mitch, and Benny arrive at Queen Vanessa's newly expanded courtyard.

The elder fairy instructs them to keep their heads down as they pass by hundreds of prisoners wearing purple tuxedos with glowing purple chains around their ankles and wrists.

Many mammoth-sized ogres, fancying purple Armani suits, growl and swing their spiked horsewhips, forcing them to work harder. The prisoners pull thorn bushes out of the wet ground with their bloody bare hands and plant grass seeds on the freshly grown, purple lawn across the five-mile campus.

Selena guides Mitch and Benny to the front door of the queen's thirty-story purple brick castle with one-thousand rooms.

"Queen Vanessa made the prisoners remodel this whole establishment," Selena mentions.

Benny bows again. "It is an honor for me to serve the queen."

He keeps his composure as Selena examines him and Mitch. She appears disgusted at the short swim trunks he's wearing, and Mitch's raggedy black t-shirt, and the severely torn black khakis.

"Both of you are not in proper attire. Queen Vanessa now requires everyone to dress in purple suits. She desires everything in this castle to be purple. It is her favorite color," she says.

The elder fairy blows her transformation pixie dust around the two. The particles stick to them and explode into magical threads that wrap around their bodies, transforming their clothing into purple tuxedos.

Benny stands up straight with his back arched, adjusting the tight bowtie on his thick neck. I'm the great Benny the Destroyer, and here I am, bowing down to some tiny fairies. I'm not too fond of the fact that I am a snitch. I had to do it to stay alive and live comfortably here. It isn't wrong because my family and friends that I ratted on would die anyway, right? This fairy lady here thinks she's my master, but no way. I will kill this broad and that queen when I get an opening. Then get out of this place. I, Benny the Destroyer, will make these fairies pay for all of this.

Benny listens to Mitch mumbling to himself as he rubs on his plumped belly, feeling his fashioned garments.

"I was a fight promoter for almost thirty years. I negotiated multimillion-dollar deals my whole career. I know I have the skills to get on Queen Vanessa's good side and convince her to free me from this Fairy World. Maybe when I get home, I can get the Army to jump off Fairy Rock and rescue these enslaved people. For now, I'll pretend to be this stupid queen's servant boy," Mitch whispers.

Luckily, Selena isn't paying attention as she's using her transformation pixie dust to change her dress into a purple a new evening gown.

A fifty-feet-tall, triangle-shaped door opens, shining purple light.

Benny and Mitch cover their faces and turn away from the bright view.

"You two back on your knees," Selena commands.

Benny and Mitch crawl inside the entrance on the living room's soft carpet, listening to a group of Fairyville citizens dressed in tuxedos play violins, the viola, the cello, and the piano for Queen Vanessa's Orchestra.

"They are rehearsing Mozart's symphony Old Lambach," Selena says.

Bernard, the great, little fairy composer, waves his baton back and forth, prepping them for their performance.

"We better get this right. Our lives depend on it," a woman from the group says.

As Benny and Mitch continue down the one-mile hallway toward Queen Vanessa's quarters, they pass hundreds of crystal chandeliers, making a clinging noise above them.

Many of their fellow Fairyville citizens use ladders to apply purple paint to giant gold statues of Queen Vanessa near the long staircase.

Benny pats Mitch on his back as he wheezes at the smell of wet fur from a dark wolf chained to a wall barking at a prisoner, attempting to bathe it. The poor man trembles as he pleads with the Armani Suit wearing fairies guarding him for help.

"You will clean the animal, boy," one of the fairies commands.

"This thing will kill me," the man replies.

The dark wolf barks loudly at him, dripping its putrid drool on his face. The man screams and accidentally kicks the soap bucket over on one of the queen's Persian Rugs.

The fairy removes the chain from the evil beast's neck. "How dare you spill that water, boy?"

Mitch and Benny try not to cringe as the dark wolf devours the man.

The two travel down the hallway, passing by a painting of Queen Vanessa in a Renaissance dress and another portrait of the queen dressed as an Egyptian Pharaoh.

After a quarter of a mile, Mitch stops to rest.

Benny witnesses shadowy black creatures fly across the room. Was that a ghost? I'm so scared that I feel like I will soil my pants. I am Benny the Destroyer, the greatest martial artist in the world, but I'm not signing up to fight any ghost.

"Keep moving, boy," Selena directs.

Benny and Mitch continue to crawl down the hallway, and it gets darker and darker. Demonic spirits are flying sideways through the walls and boo at them. Mitch and Benny yell as they get up to run away, but Selena quickly sedates them with purple pixie dust.

Mitch's chubby face becomes droopy, and fatigue starts to consume him.

Benny's well-conditioned, feeling no fatigue, and the pixie dust is making his goosebumps disappear.

They come to a mega-sized door larger than anything in the castle. In the center is a face with a big nose, lips, and eyes. The creepy purple eyeballs light up, staring at the three. Swiftly, the mouth opens, showing its razor-sharp fangs.

"Who dares disturb Queen Vanessa?" the door questions.

The elder fairy raises her hands in the air. "Linus, it's me, Selena. Let us in. Queen Vanessa is expecting us."

Linus opens its mouth wider, exposing a ray of purple aura that fills the long hallway. Selena, Benny, and Mitch enter Queen Vanessa's room.