12 Jul 2004, 12:00 · edited
#2436
Heigh Ho
The mining coal was dark and awfully damped. There was only just slight sunlight that could penetrate it. Most of the criminals in Algoria had to serve couple of years sentences to do social work but the worst part was to work as a coal miner, regardless the gender be it from the royal criminals or commoners they all treated equally.
The Queen and her minions have to face the fact that to work there. She also had to put up for having the face of one hundred years old witch, pointy, wrinkly and sagging skin all over her body. Too bad, there was no cure for that if only she’d known that it was not a magic book that she’d been copying the spell of, it was some old fairy tales book. Ayu, also suffered no worse than the queen. She was a little annoying puffy dragon that flew like mosquito buzzing and could not shut her mouth as well. The guards in the mining coal jail often asked her to give a light for their lighting their cigarettes. Most likely they called her like “Hey, Power Puff! Got any Light?” Ayu had no power to disobey or she might be caged with some rats which she really hated, because the rat started to chase her around in the cage. She might just go around and around aimlessly until she got dizzy and fainted there. Britney had a night shift job; the guards harassed her to do belly dancing plus the boa constrictor every night. She had always been who looked tired but then again she obtained some extra cash from that. The Heigh-Ho was actually, their wake up call each morning sang by the lovely seven dwarfs who were in charge in the main facility of the mining coal jail.
The Queen was locked up at night with her minions in the same jail. Not only they had to suffer to work for laborious hour, they also had to face up beauty disaster as well, such as crack heels, big pores, rough skin, zits, split ends and other monstrosity that any beautician would probably faint to see it. Once, Maki and three other momusus were looking at themselves in front of a small mirror in the room, it just cracked. Now, everybody in the jail knew how awful they looked, even the mirror could not face them. The guards and every residence in the jail had been calling with name, “The Zits Sisters”. Poor them, but there was nothing they could do. Until one day, the Queen received a visitor which made her came up to work for other plan.
The guards opened the door for the visitors to come in and they had made sure that the Queen and her minions had been properly chained to avoid any dangerous gestures.
“Hello mother.” Aka came once the guard opened the door widely for her to come in with her two other sisters, Angel and Rinrin. “I come just to see how are you doing these days? It’s been a month, so I decided to visit you with my sisters.”
“OH..spare me for being two goody shoes!” shouted Iida at the corner, curling up and hiding her face.
“Is that you Iida?” asked Rinrin and walked toward her to make sure that it was really her. She found a girl with crumple clothes and zits all over her face.
“Are you satisfied? See I’m ugly!” Iida showed her face and stood up to face Rinrin closely. By reflect Rinrin jerked in bewilderment at the same time. She did not expect to see her face almost covered with zits.
“What are you looking at? I’m no monster!!”
“Yeah! What are you looking at? As if we’re abnormal or something?” Maki barged in.
“Er..Um..I mean, you’re perfectly normal?” said Rinrin trying to calm them down. In fact those two girls were so envious at Rinrin’s skin, glowing like being kissed by the sun, pink lips and healthy hair. “No fence but..” Rinrin looked to Pati and Aka for back up.
“Oh, live with it?!” said Pati. “I’m sure you’ll get used to it!”
Aka and Rinrin were so amazed to hear Pati’s cruel comment. Perhaps she was so upset, especially to Maki who wanted her prince.
“Why you little..” Maki wanted to teach her a lesson but she was chained down, hence when she was about to kick Pati, she ended up slipping up and fell down. “Ouch!!”
“Hahah..that’ll teach you for trying to steal my husband!” Pati pointed to her. Aka quickly calmed both of them as she coughed to draw attention as well as to remind Pati that she had to control her temper.
“Mother, I brought you something. I know life had been treating you unkind lately but I thought I just dropped by to brighten up things.” Said Aka offering her a basket.
“I don’t need your gift! I don’t need your mercy! You just kill me, I don’t want anything from you!” she slapped the basket from Aka’s hand and every thing fell off the floor.
“Mother! You just rejected a life time saver of beauty kit!” Cried Ai who began to collect them one by one and put it in one basket. They were so desperate to be beautiful again even a spill of a moisturizer was immediately applied on their face. Pati and Rinrin watched them with disgust. It was like watching “call of the wild”.
“Aka!” The former queen.
“How dare you speak to her highness like that!” said one of the guards pointing his spear at her. Aka only shook her head to halt him hurting her.
“I’m listening mother.” Said Aka calmly.
“ You just beware, one of these days, I shall get you once I’m free from here!”
“Eh? Didn’t you hear the sentences? It’s for lifetime! You and your witches.” said Pati cynically to her. “You’ll just rotten here! And as for you zit sisters! You’ll be her for 20 years, so by the time you get out you’ll just be old hack!”
The momusus fainted all of a sudden as soon as they heard that. It was not official yet, not until over lunch time but it seemed that the guard had no need to announce it to make official since Pati had blurted out the horrible news for them.
They were in a state of shock. Aka and her sisters need not to prolong their stay there but leave.
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The jail was quiet again. The Queen was in shock. She breathed hastily trying to cope for the news. Ayu flapped her ugly wings to be near her. She puffed in and out letting all strength to make her calm down.
“Stop that breathing! You’ve an awful breath!” The Queen slapped her body from her shoulder, Ayu slammed herself onto the walls and she felt dizzy.
“Oh, my head.” Ayu cried inaudibly as she rubbed her head.
“We really need to escape from here and get revenge.” Britney sat herself next to the queen
“Do you have any idea on how to?” asked the queen inquisitively.
“Well, there is a chance that I could steal the key while I’m doing my boa constrictor belly dancing.” She started to release one of quite clever idea.
The queen replied her with an evil grin anticipating to hearing more from her. “Hmm, I’m beginning to like the sound of it. As you know, it’s my night shift for serving supper too tonight. Maybe I can help you with that.”
“Count me in!” Ayu the power puff dragon joined in. They looked at her from head to toe thinking of something, what could they use for an ugly bad breath little dragon like her could be used? Then again, Britney started to whisper to the Queen about the plan.