Solomon' Daughters

Chapter 37

"No prolem at all I find I enjoy helping beautiful damsels in distress," he said down to her. He grinned when her face pinkened noticably. The fairy was saved from further embarassment as a waist high green man appeared at the edge of the woods drawing all of their attention. He had a flat face and a large pointy nose with ears that were eight inches long and the pointy tips stuck well above the top of his bald green head. A pair of fangs protruded from his upper faw to over hang his lower lip even though his mouth was closed and none of his other teeth were visible. He watched them with hate filled yellow eyes. He was dressed in brown pants and a small white shirt. Gently handing the fairies to Mina Anthony rose and arrouched the diminuative creature.

"What do you want human," the goblin asked gruffly before Anthony had a chancce to speak.

"I wish to make a bargain with your clan. So I want to speak with your queen," Anthony told the goblin.

"Wait here and I will deliver your request to the queen."

Anthony moved back to the lip of the fountain as the goblin disappeared once more into the trees.

"What is your aspect anyway? I meant to ask you earlier but it slipped my mind," he asked Mina.

"It is of non-living creation. That means I can summon up any substance in the world but it cant be alive. I could even summon up another you which would be an exact copy of you but it would be completely dead. Plants and animals would be the same," Mina told him. He smiled at her in happiness.

"That is the perfect ability for my current needs," he told her. The goblin reappeared at the edge of the forest and motioned Anthony to him.

"The queen as agreed to grant you an audience. If you are polite and do not cause any trouble in our realm you and all those with you will be free to depart unharmed, by decree of the queen," the goblin said to him as soon as he was within hearing distance. Anthony motioned to the others to join him. When they were all there the goblin turned back into the woods with Anthony and the others following behind him. The goblin lead the to a cave and then in side. They followed a tunnel that desecded grudually into the earth as it snaked back and forth. After what felt like hour bur Anthony's watch said was only half an hour they began to see bright lights ahead. They passed by rooms filled with goblins that looked so much like their guide Anthony would not have been able to tell them apart. They passed forges were goblin hammered away at red hot metal and rooms were the goblins inside sang indiscordant voices while drinking from hammer metal cups. They continued on until they came to a set of massive metal doors blocking the tunnel. In front of the doors stood eight goblins decked our in plate armor. Their guide stopped in front of the guards.

"Those who have been granted an audience with the Queen," the guide said motioning back at them. The guard looked them each over and nodded to the others. They all turned and began to open the doors it took all of them to open the doors four goblins to a door. When the doors where opened the guard that the messenger, who had vanished the way they had come while the doors were opened, had spoken to motioned for them to proceed. One of the gaurds went before them and antother followed behind leaving six at the door. They walked down a hall, that had obviously been carved from the rock, for a few minures before entering a large throne room. At the far end from their entrance sat a golden throne atop a diaz.

"Wow," Anthony said as he continued forward following the guard. He scratched at the back of his hand were the Troll's weapon had punctured his skin as it was starting to burn now. His gaze fell on to the figure on the throne. He had expected the queen to look like the other goblins they had seen so far but she did not. She lounged on the throne a silver goblet in her hand as she watched them approach. Her eyes were yellow and her skin green and she was only about waist high on him but other then those three similarities she looked nothing like the other goblins, she was quite lovely in an exotic way. Her short hair was fire engine red and shimmered in the torched light that lit the room. Her small delicate hands had black finger nails. She grinned at Anthony's appraisal of her and he noticed another similarity between her on the other goblins, she had fangs in both her upper and lower jaw were her canine teeth should have been.

"Welcome to my realm humans. My messanger said you had a deal to offer me. What is it," she asked.

"Thank you for allowing me to put forth my proposal. But first why do you keep calling us human," Anthony asked her. She narrowed her eyes at him before studying them closer.

"Your not human," she asked unable to sense anything from him to say he wasn't.

"Well as for me that is a little comlicated," he said scratching at the back of his hand," however Mina here is a genie and the fairies don't even come close to looking human."

"What do you mean it's complicated," she said narrowing her glittering yellow eyes at him. He had back his first impulse to be flippant.

"Well tanks to a spell after a number of events happen I will be a High Djinn and since two of those events have occured I am at the moment two sevenths of a High Djinn to technically I am human but I'm not completely human."

"Let's here your proposal," the queen said leaning back in her throne.

"Yes, well it is...," Anthony's words trailed off as he became dizzy and the room spun around in his vision. He couldn't hear anything and his vision began to dim. The last thing he felt before he slipped into the blackness was his knees slamming into the floor.