Tale of the Fairy Tales - Chapter 2

As they headed out of the house, Diki realised that the door looks just like a pet door and the "house" is like nothing but an isolated prison cell, just without the iron bars. And there are rows and rows of them along a dirt path which Diki construed as roads. Cats were all walking on their hind feet and behaved just like humans, just with more meowing. He made a note to himself: What a strange world.

Not just the buildings, the sun as well. It's already high up in the sky, yet it glows a shining pink, giving everything a sheepish blush. He asked:

"Why is the, err, Nus? Is it? Yeah, your light giver, pink? I thought stars give out white light."

"Oh, because today's Thursday. Its the pink day. Like Monday is blue, Tuesday yellow, Wednesday green, Friday purple, Saturday and Sunday would be random. Sometimes gold, occasionally white, sometimes black even."

"Black? How is that even possible? That means..."

"That means total darkness for the whole day. Can't even see my paws even tough they are right in front of my eyes. Very rare though, about once every decade. The last one was about eleven years ago. So, we are kind of expecting it to happen again soon."

"Why don't you all just turn on the lights?"

"They won't work! Black light remember? The black covers the light, like stars during the day. There's nothing we can do about it."

The world just got stranger, Diki thought.

Soon, a three-storey building was in front of their eyes, ostentatiously lit by blown-up neon lights. The pink light made the appearance worse. The word "HANIBUCKS" blinked silently amongst the rainbow of neon lights, and under the shop name is a picture of a gorgeous looking female milking a cow. Diki squinted his eyes from the painfully bright shop front.

Ajin, apparently used to the grotesqueness of the shop front, pointed joyfully to that building and purred: "Here we are! Can you smell the high quality milk? So sophisticated."

Sophisticated? The signs are so tacky. The milk smells good though.

Together, they pushed through the glass door, and a gush of warm, sweet air greeted them.

"Good morning Ajin! How's your day?" greeted the waiter, also a cat, dressed in a reddish long laced dress with floral pattern. She looked at Diki with questioning eyes and added: "I see you've brought a rather unusual guest today?"

"I'm fine, Teera. This is Diki. Diki, Teera."

Diki and Teera gave each other a curt nod.

"So, is the FFGS still here? I need to see her."

"You are lucky, she was just about to leave. She's right there, in her usual seat."

"Thanks," and she turned to Diki and said: "You stay here," and she pranced across the room into another room. A few minutes had passed with awkward silence between Teera and Diki before Ajin signalled Diki to go in.

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The room was circular and mildly scented with roses. Everything in that room looks authentic. The ceiling is three-storey high with an exuberant chandelier hanging extravagantly down. The walls are painted peach pink, with floral vines painted carefully at the top and the bottom of the walls. The furniture are all the replicas of Loius XVI. Heavy tapestry hanged from the walls together with potraits of several royal-looking cats. Roses, lilies and irises filled the room in boughs of pink, purple and white. And at the center of the room, a woman is sitting on a pink armchair with more flowers intricately carved on its oak. Two servants were standing beside her, looking ready to serve her anytime.

She looked like she is in her mid-twenties, dark, velvet hair cropped to her her shoulder with a twist of the latest hairstyle. She was wearing a red Valentino which shows off her flawless curves. She looked at Diki with her eyes, a liquid coal, while lifting a delicate china and sipped gracefully. Ajin is now lying on the carpet beside the chair.

"So, you are from the Earth? That's a whole different dimension. I know why you are here and who you are. Somebody sent you here."

"Can you tell me why am I here and who I am?"

"No," she replied as she sipped from the cup.

"Why would anyone want to send me to this creepy world?"

"I can't answer that right now," and she took another sip from the cup.

"At least tell me how do I get back."

"I can't," and she sipped again.

"Look Missy, I don't who you are, acting oh-so-your-highnessly. But you are not the only one who can help me here. I can and will find somebody else! Nice meeting you, by the way," and he stormed out of the room.

The woman took one big gulp, and said: "Fine, I will see how you can find somebody else who can travel through different dimensions. By the by, I am from the Earth too."

With that, Diki stopped halfway through the door, and turned around:

"What?"

"I said, I am from the Earth too."

Diki stared at her with astonishment. Indeed, she is the only human being he had seen so far, but something about her tells him that she is not to be trusted.

"How do I know that you are from the Earth?"

"You have a crescent-shaped scar on the left of your belly button, am I right?"

Diki stared in surprise. His clothes is obviously covering the scar, and it was not very obvious. Normal people could not really see it unless they touch the scar. He had forgotten how he got that, but it seemed like it is with him since he was born.

"How...how on Earth did you know that?" he looked at the woman, then at Ajin.

Ajin smiled and said: "She knows you very well, I believe."

"How are you so sure? I thought you don't know who I am!"

"I don't, but she does."

"Who is she anyway?"

"We call her FFGS, Faef the Fairy Godsister. She is your Fairy Godsister, Diki."

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