Fairy Tale Wars

Fairy Tale Wars.
A story unlike any other
Filled with trust, deception, & bloodlust
Created by a bunch of children
There's nothing more dangerous that an imagination...
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"A turf war? Are you mad?!" A feminine voice barked in the dead of night as a group of teenagers were huddled about on an elementary school's playground. The group of teenagers all had these shocked and confused looks on their face as the one that gathered them there was leaning back on the children's slide, with his hands behind his head in a calm manner and a wicked grin that flashed onto his face.

"Oh come on now you guys. Did you really think that our little war was going to be a boring, non-existent game?" He asked the group before him cooly as another voice shouted out from the crowd, "But Irving, you know that most of us can't fight, and what makes you think that we'll even stick around for your stupid little turf war?"
The boy named Irving has a small frown on his face as he pulled himself up and sat on the bottom of the slide looking at all of his former classmates and friends with dull brown eyes. "Look, I know that you guys were really excited for this game when we were kids. And I-"

"You what Irving? Did you really expect that we would be willing to participate in a game where it's a blood turf war which involves killing our friends?!" The feminine voice from earlier rang out again in the dead air as Irving put his hands on his knees before chuckling a little bit before getting up on his feet before speaking, "Well, that's where you're wrong. You're all going to participate, but not willingly."

The looks on the small group's faces looked more puzzled than before as Irving flashed a grin at the crowd as he continued to speak.
"You will all participate in Fairy Tale Wars because if any of you try to back out of here now, then I will tell your deepest, and darkest secrets to everyone here. Right here, right now," Irving growled with a smirk on his face as the look in his eyes look a little... menacing.

There was a few whispers throughout the crowd as the tension of fear swept through the air. Until someone else had barked from the back of their little group, "Are you crazy Irving? Are you really planning to blackmail us with things that you probably don't know about each and every one of us."

Irving chuckled as he held his hands out the group before running his hand back through his hair, "Well, I'll let you all in on a little secret. Not all of you might have noticed until now, but I was the one person that kept in contact with all of you, and being your shoulder of comfort during your challenging, yet interesting childhoods. In other words, some of you had told me things that would cause some shock within our closely knitted class."

Everyone had stopped talking and stayed silent once he said that. No one moved at all, everyone was now frozen in fear as to what secrets that their deranged classmate Irving would spill from his lips. Everyone snapped out of their daydreams as Irving spoke up again, "As much as I would like for us to start our Fairy Tale Wars, I do think that it would be too easy if most of you went down without a fight because of you lacking fighting skills."

"I have decided that we will start our little war within one month. This one-month wait will give you all the time that you will need to start learning or sharpening your skills because this is becoming more than a game of survival," Irving had explained to the group as he looked at the group of classmates from where he stood, "And to not forget our 'fairy tale' part of our little war, you will pick out a character from the old fairy tales Miss Em read to us and you will use that name as your identity. I'll give out the rest of the rules to you all when we are closer to the start of our game."

Irving looked at the watch on his wrist seeing that it said 10:59pm and grinned widely as he looked at the crowd of his classmates, that just looked at him in slight horror and disbelief from what was happening, as he said the last thing that haunted them for days afterwords: "I'll see you all in a month, and let's make this a damn good run."

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Kitt sat up from her bed in a cold sweat, her eyes were completely bloodshot and looked like they would of popped out of her head at any given moment. She was breathing heavily, as if she had just ran in a marathon. She put her shaking hands on her face, neck and grabbed onto her shoulders as if she was hugging herself as she looked up at the ceiling. Damn it, to think that I would be over this dream by now, Kitt thought to herself as she looked at the small analog clock on the dirt stained walls on the other side of the room.

The clock read that it was only 7:24 in the morning, which Kitt sighed a little in relief that she didn't wake up in the middle of the night again like she had done a few nights ago. She stretched her back before she shuffled her legs out of bed and carefully stood up to look around her tiny yet unkempt apartment.
There was a pile of messy laundry, a list of food she needed to get at the store today, an umbrella lying against the wall by the door, and a deep red hoodie lying on the edge of her bed, untouched and unmoved.
Kitt made her way over to her tiny kitchen to see the small calendar she posted on the wall and bit her tongue as she saw the date. Tonight was the first night when Fairy Tale Wars was going to officially start. She shifted her eyes away from the gruesome reminder on her wall to look around for a small bottle of medication that she had left on the counter.

She cursed under her breath not seeing the bottle anywhere before she noticed a small sticky note taped to the kitchen cabinet in front of her nose. She snatched the note off and growled a little before she went back to her bedside to grab her nearly broken cellphone off of its charger and punching in a phone number that was on the sticky note she read.

"If it wasn't for him being in charge with my medication or being the only one to know my secret, i'd beat his ass into a p-" Kitt stopped her sentence forth as the phone line was finally picked up as a cocky voiced answered on the other line, "Oh hey Ripper, guess you saw my note I left you? Well if you want me to give back your medication, come down to Buttercup park and-"
Kitt didn't hear the last part of the sentence as she threw on a light grey sweater, and a pair of faded jeans before shoving her feet into some old slippers and left her apartment as she slammed the door behind her with her house keys in hand and an annoyed look on her face as she made her way down the apartment floors muttering under her breath.

 

"Lets make this a damn good run." those words played over and over again in Kinji's mind as he sat in his bed trying to make sense of the chain of events that occured not too long ago. Many would hold a face of obvious fear and regret but not him, he had the face of a robot. Seemingly emotionless and unconcerned Kinji got up and slowly put on his clothes before going into the kitchen area of his small one room appartment. He steamed some rice and made some eggs. As he ate he looked at the time on his cellphone "...7:30..." he said in a monotone voice as he finished his food.

He washed his dishes and refrigerated the leftover rice before going back into his room, he quickly closed all windows and checked for any ways that another person could spy on him with, "Nothing... all clear." he said in the same robotic tone. He opened his closet and took out a key and opened up a secret compartment which held a modified police model Barreta and his Katana as well as a shoulder holster and golf bag. After he was done with the shoulder holster he put on his coat and buttoned it almost all the way up, concealing the small pistol and shoulder holster completely. He slung the golf bag over his shouler and left making sure that the door was locked.

While many would think he was preparing to kill someone or rob a bank this was definitely not the case seeing as it was an everyday ritual for him after Irving's announcement of the Fairy Take Wars. While he deeply cared for his friends he didn't exactly trust them, he sighed before passing Kitt's house. He waved his hand at her trying to get her attention, she was the only one whom he reallly trusted at this point but he would still remain cautious around her.

 

Joshua woke in a anoyed mood. un like most of the others he didn't care if he was in a war or not...if he died for not being in it then he was fine...it was the fact that he was gona get his secret told that truly scared him. "... ... ...I didn't need to tell him anything...and for all I know he could be bluffing everything else but...if he isn't...my relationship with Kitt could go straight down hill..." he didn't like that fact. he may not have had a serious relationship with Kitt but they were close friends. "You arn't the only one who has kept in touch with other Class mates...Irving..." with that he looked at his clock. he walked out of his house dressed for winter. not that it mattered. he knew Kitt lived a little bit close to here. ...guess I could cheak on her...hope she isn't in a bad mood... Josh got out his door and walked over to Kitts house before seeing her walk out the door with Kinji. "KITT! KINJI!" he yelled waving to them hoping they would see him. they both were good friends to him and he knew he could trust them both. secrets or not he said to himself I am never gona abandon Kitt...

 

Kitt was in a bit of a dark place in her mind that when she looked up, she didn't realize that Kinji was waving at her vaguely as she was walking towards him. She flashed a small and weak smile before waving back to him about to say hello before she heard someone calling out "KITT! KINJI!" from behind her.

She turned around and felt the smile on her face starting to weaken as she felt her brain having trouble remembering his name before she snapped her fingers in some realization and smiled as she waved back, remembering that it was Joshua.
And to think that I am going to be able to keep my condition a secret for so long, Kitt thought to herself, not looking forward to the day when she can barely remember the names and faces of her classmates, well... if she even lives for that long with the War going to start.

"Hey Kinji, Joshy. Are... How are you two holding up? W-well, I mean are you guys ready for tonight?" Kitt asked her two former classmates as they stood out on the sidewalk before hearing a small static noise coming from her pocket. Curiously, she pulled out her cellphone to see that she had a call in progress.
Kitt tried her best to not show any type of reaction to her good friends as she mentally slapped her forehead, forgetting that she had to run all the way to Buttercup Park to get her so-called medication.

 

Joshua walked over to her and smiled. "Well your up early. you trying to be somewhere without us knowing?" he said with a joking tone in his voice. "Anyways about tonight...if I don't make it...well..." he stood there for a moment trying to find the right words to say this without hurting her feelings.

 

"I'm all set... of course..." said Kinji in the same robotic tone that he had spoke in since he was three, ever since his brain surgery. "By the way, Kitt why are you up so early ?... you often sleep in." he said curious as to what changed his former-classmate's sleeping pattern. "Also, Joshua what's wrong with you... are you worried about Kitt ?" he said trying to show emotion with a very faint smile. He kept up the false smile until he heard a crash as a shadow came from behind a trash can, his hand was immediately upon his Barreta and pointed at the shadow. "...Stupid..." he said as a small black cat crept out from behind the trash can, it hissed and ran away. "I usually don't believe in superstitions, but judging by our current situation it's fair to say that that it's going to be... tough... from this point on." he holstered his Barreta and turned back to his friends. "About the gun... it's purely for protection... just in case someone wants to start Fairy Tale Wars a little bit early that what that fox Irving has set up." Kinji said, hopefully reassuring his friends and former classmates.

 

"r-right..." Joshua said as je blushed and turned his head away. "your not the only one who was worried about others in our class you know...I have been friends with Kitt sence we first meet...its a...formality I guess you could say..." even though he was lieing and he secretly liked Kitt more then a friend he didn't want Kinji to know that.

 

"Oh, well I'm just trying to get out and maybe take a jog together to... well, the other side of town this morning," Kitt laughs a little nervous as they asked her about her being up earlier than usual. She usually didn't come out of her apartment until like 11 in the morning since she was usually practicing some freestyle running moves so she kept herself up and flexible to a point.

But she wasn't entirely lying about getting out and taking a jog to the other side of town, she needed to get her medication back from her psychotic classmate. She jumped a little as she saw Kinji take out his Barreta and point it to the black cat that had caused the sudden scare for the three of them. She could understand that with everyone need to be armed, and someone could just come out of nowhere and kill them off at any given moment.

She was a little lost in the conversation between Joshua and Kinji as she put her cellphone to her ear to hear the cocky voice from earlier being more of a cheery, singing tone "Tick Tock little Red! You can't be late like your little imaginary boyfriend the Mad Hatter who might come out of nowhere at any given moment to take you to Wonderland!"

"Oh that's just a cruel word play," Kitt muttered under her breath before she looked at the two boys that were not talking to her at the moment before putting the cellphone to her chest and kind of spoke up for a moment and smiling, "Uh, sorry Kinji, Josh. Although I'd love to stay with you two and make sure that no one tries to jump us out in broad daylight, I really have to get going. So, uh.. Bye guys, I'll catch you both later!"

And before either of them tried to say anything else, Kitt took a bolt down of the sidewalk and started jogging down a little bit as she took her time heading down to Buttercup Park, one of the most relaxing places to do in the city. And yet it also sparks the mind with the bizarre pieces of modern statues that seem to be spread throughout the park.

 

Joshua tried to stop Kitt but she was already gone. he sighed and then looked at Kijin. "So...you kpt in touch with Kit too?" he asked with an emotionlessface and tone. he may not have been a bad guy but every now and then his dark side, the one he was in the past, seemed to come out.

 

"Yes... it seems that you have too." Kinji said, holstering his baretta and scanning the area, "Bad word play is Irving's specialties, I'm following her." he said using his parkour skills to easily scale the wall and began running towards where he thought Kitt would be. "Buttercup part... Irving's ideal location for a private meeting..." he said jumping over a fence. "I private meeting I'll personally crash." Kinji said his robotic tone making the phrase even more sinister.

 

Joshua wouldn't let this happen. ...sorry Kinji... thought Joshua but ever sence this started I can't trust you...or anyone...around Kitt alone... ... ...sorry old friend... then he looked around and jaked a car that was close by then drove it in the direction of where Kitt ran. he didn't want his anger to get over him but it could cause problems if Kinji got to Kitt first. "KINJI!!!" he yelled when he caught up to his friend. "How about some sparing at first?!" he had to figure out a way to destract Kinji while Kitt got away.

 

Kitt came to a sudden stop as she came across a dirt field out on the edge of Buttercup Park as there was a small bench sitting in the middle of a field of sifted dirt piles and white cardboard X's that were all laid out on the dirt. And sitting on that said bench that sat in the middle of this odd layout was Irving, his legs crosses as he had a cigarette to his lip as he had a small brown satchel just lying on the bench. Sitting there casually as if it didn't see strange for an 18 year old boy sitting in an awkward setting in a pair of slacks and a dirty, white collared shirt.

"Irving! What... What type of construction were you trying to do here?" Kitt asked trying to speak out loudly as she wasn't sure if he was to hear her. He looked at her from where he sat before he grinned, pulling out his cell from his pocket and was pushing buttons unknown to her knowledge.
She was about to shout at him again before her phone started ringing in her hands. She answered the phone as she looked at him as he spoke on the line, "Hey Ripper. Be extra careful when you're making your way over here. I placed some modified dynamite land mines under the piles of sifted dirt. Your best bet it making your way over here by stepping on the areas where those X's are placed. Got it Kitt?"

Kitt just looked at him like he was insane before she shook her head and replying, "Yeah, ok. Shut up Newt. Do you really have to do this?" "Yeah, just make your way over, grab your medicine and you can be on your way. Hell, I can give you a ride back to your place after making you run all the way here," Irving commented with a smile on his face as he placed his cig to his lips.
Kitt raised her eyebrows at the blonde a little alarmed before she saw him scowl and bark, "Just get your ass over here since I want to chat, or I'll toss your medication onto one of these mines!"

Kitt shook her head and grinned as she ended the call and held onto her cellphone as she backed away carefully from the dirt field to get a good look as where she could take a leap onto an X and make her way to the center of this minefield. Kitt's eyes moved the corner of her eyes before she took a running start and leaped onto a cardboard X that seemed to be within the inner ring of the dirt field.

Her eyes were suddenly blinded by a cloud of dirt as she landed on the X, which came up into the air from impact. "For the love of god Newt, you have the most messed up idea on meeting people for a chat! Irving, being a lot closer to her now without needing cellphones to talk, shouted over to her as he tried his best to not snicker, "Oh don't be hard on me and don't get yourself blown back! These land mines won't kill you, but the injuries could still get you into the ER."

"Will you quit your blabbering and just get over-" Irving was cut short as Kitt took another few leaps forward on some X's and crashed into the bench with her hands getting all scratched up from the old wooden bench. "Oh hey Ripper. Well, congraduations. Here's your medication and some water," Irving said with a goofy grin on his face as he pulled out a bottle of pills and water for the girl from the satchel that was sitting on the bench.
Kitt pulled herself onto the bench, on the farther end of the small wooden block as she snatched her medication and water away from him before taking a few pills and chugging some water down.

Coughing a little from a trickle of water going down the wrong pipe, Kitt looked over at the blonde before asking Irving what the time was. He glanced at the watch on his wrist and yawned, "Not telling you since we still have time to chat before taking you back to your apartment to get ready for tonight."
Kitt rolled her eyes before she leaned back on the bench and glanced over at him as she asked, "Whatever Newt. As long as you aren't keeping me out here just so you can kill me with your little... fox pack or whatever, why did you bring me all the way over here?"

Irving chuckled a little bit as he bit on the butt of his cigarette as he looked at the girl sitting on the opposite side of the bench from him, "Well, I have to ask because you being the more... "mad as a hatter" one from our classmates, and I'm a little curious as how you are thinking at the moment... How scared are you Kitt?"

 

Joshua made his way past Kinji and stopped at the park where Kitt was. he couldn't believe his eyes as he saw Kitt sitting next to their "old pal" Ivringhell... he thought without a gun I am as good as... then he saw a gun on the floor of the car. what the! well perfect time as any... he said grabing the gun and getting out on the other side of the car. he amied for Ivring but he was to far away. he tried to get closer but stopped seeing the the mounds of dirt. ...he can't be that Crasy can he!? inocent people could get hurt!! not wanting to test them himself he tried to find a rock or something and readied to throw before he saw the X's. so thats where he put them? he said tossing a rock to an X' before it bounced. nothing...he must be bluf- then a loud boom could be heard from the park, Joshua got lunched into the car getting glass into his back and debrie falling on him, he fell to the ground, everything went black.

 

Kinji finally arrived and saw a fallen Joshua, he simply walked past Joshua's unconscious body knowing he wasn't dead. "...Irving...you rat..." he said easily jumping from X to X and before he knew it he was two feet away from Irving with a gun in front of his face. "I'm assuming those mines won't kill off Joshua... what's your scheme ?"

 

Kitt was about to answer Irving's question before an explosion went off. Confused and alarmed, she jumped up from her seat before she saw Kenji jumping over the X's and pointing a gun at the blonde 18 year old.

"Oh Kinji, always asking questions. What's my scheme you ask? Oh please, if I said anything, Kitt wouldn't-" Irving was cut off by the sudden sound of gunfire and explosions as all of Irving's homemade land mines were off, setting all of the dust into the air like a type of cover. Kitt coughed and closed her eyes tightly to make sure no dust got into her eyes again as it hurts like hell to have specks of rock hitting your eye.

When the dust cleared, Irving and Kitt had Laurel standing in front of them with a gun pointed directly at the blonde. "One good reason? Oh, geeze. First Kinji, now you-" Irving was cut off as Kitt shuffled beside Laurel while the pink haired girl was still screaming.
Kitt clutched the small bottle of pills in her hand, shaking a little uncontrollably as she was frightened and worried that everything was just getting out of control.

And then within the next moment, another shot went off as Irving tried to move his leg quickly out of the way, but the bullet had pierced through his skin and muscles. He ground his teeth and cursed under his breath at Laurel knowing that if he had moved his leg an inch faster to the right, the bullet would probably graze his leg. What caught him off guard was when Laurel jumped him while he was dealing with the pain in his leg.

Kitt just stood there a little frozen, not sure if she should help Laurel or Irving out, or if she should be with Kinji and making sure that Joshua doesn't get hurt. She closed her eyes tightly closing her eyes before she felt someone touch her shoulder lightly.
She opened her eyes and glanced to her side seeing a familiar red hair fellow, with brown rabbit ears sticking out of the top of his head, that snickered lightly before it hit Kitt and she whipped her attention to Laurel and Irving's little scuffle.

"L-Laurel, cut it out for a moment!" Kitt shouted nervously as she trotted over trying to pull her back as she stomped her foot into Irving's wounded leg. He cursed out in agony as he looked up at Kitt with a pissed off look on his face.
"The hell was that fo-" Irving stopped as Kitt grabbed him by the collar and brought him up to look down at his eyes growling in a threatening tone, "No one messes with my medicine Irving, you know better than to make me go crazy about shit like this."

Irving looked up at Kitt for a moment before a twisted grin creeped onto his face, "Oh, I take it that you noticed that they're not your real pills and they're just sugar tablets?"
"GIVE. ME. MY. FUCKING. PILLS. YOU. DAMN. FOX!!!" Kitt snapped as she suddenly turned about on her heels and threw Irving over her shoulder and having him fall back into the dirt on his face and hit his leg on the nearby wooden bench.

 

Kinji stood between the others and Irving, "While a hate this man's guts killing is something that I will not have happen in front of me." Kinji said, sounding emotionless and robotic once more just as he shot Laurel's gun out of her hand. "Now Irving, make this a little bit easier and give Kitt her pills back or I'll shoot you in your other leg." he said with his Barreta ready.

 

Kinji sighed, and shot the knife out of her hand as well, "Now must we go through this ?" Kinji said drawing a second sword he had stored in his bag, this one was constructed entirely of wood. "Do you forget... he knows things about us which he could spill at any given moment." Kinji said going into a stance.