Alyd in Tantra's Fairy Tales by ADALBERTO ATONDO SAINZ - HTML preview

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Crimson Death: Innocent Alyd. A Beauty and the Beast Adaptation.

Never been outside, al I know is my life inside my crimson room.

Daddy runs the casinos. My room is on the top floor of the palace. In the tower aside from al the other towers and rooms. We own one of the few flying complexes around Blue City. Ours is in the shape of a donut. The casino is underneath us so I watch people going in and out like going 26

in and out of my own house. Goblins are not al owed inside the city’s wal s but mommy doesn't care. Our main butler is a goblin. An ugly goblin named Dopka. So ugly, so short but so gentlemanly mannered. Always in a black and white suit. My room is decorated with long crimson curtains that fal from the ceiling, a big round bed next to the window, where a hundred versions of me could sleep at the same time, and a wood clock next to it. Crimson bed, crimson rug, crimson wal s, crimson me, but yel ow dress for tonight. Dopka left it for me outside my not crimson, but beiged, door. Beautiful dress for daddy's big, big night.

Daddy promised me this night wil be one of the happiest of our lives. I don't think I wil be happier than the day he gave me a unicorn. Tamis i named him, and Tamis is gorgeous. I painted his horn in crimson color, of course. I have asked him for a pegasus but he says I'm not ready for it. He says they are respectful creatures. I only want to ride them to be like the players who ride them in the pegasus league. Alyd is my favorite. She looks awesome and she’s always the winner. Last year, Blue City won the world championship. I have a poster of them on my crimson wal . Wel , someday I wil ride one. In the meantime, Tamis make me happy..

Werewolves, vampires, goblins and elves are also not al owed inside the wal s but daddy doesn't care, as long as it brings money into the casinos. Daddy buys the NO out for parties. So our underground gathering today wil consist of al god’s creatures laughing and drinking together. Families from casinos outside the wal s, where werewolves, vampires, or any fairy creature for the matter, run them. Creme de la creme casinos, like ours. Some other creme de la creme casinos families from different cities as wel , and the main event which consists of shareholders from across Tantra but from Coin city mainly are here to celebrate the construction of the new moon casino. I’ve never been to the moon but my best friend Laura actual y lives there and she wil be here tonight. I’m not nervous, I'm daddy's princess and that means everyone bows to me. I wil sit next to mom and enjoy the party while some brave men come speak to me (not before asking my daddy permission to do so) and I wil laugh with them. I wil eat with them and listen to their successful stories, but I won't go to bed with them. Not because they lack handsomeness for they al would be obese and grotesque, which i don’t mind. But because my heart belongs to Mommy’s personal butler. He is handsome as fuck and i want to fuck him, but mommy won’t let me. So I wait. Wait forever in the crimson room in the tower aside from al the other rooms. Tonight I wil look for him across the room while daddy’s friends hit on me. He won’t be jealous. He has a wife (they live in the south house of the palace across the patio with the crimson fountain) . She is not ugly but neither is that pretty. She is just .. his 27

wife. He can have both of us. I don't care. Laura wants to fuck him too. We have talked about approaching him unnoticed and taunting him. Losing my virginity to him. But those are only crazy ideas me, Laura and red wine share under the late night stars. Platonic love, platonic sex.

You cannot have everything you want. You are not a god, not in this life. Not if you have never been to the moon. Why have I never been there? Need to ask mommy about it. Our palace isn't only a palace. Al our butlers live there. I mean, in the smal er palace aside from the main palace. Also the flying complex is ours. Gigantic in the shape of a donut. looks like a spaceship.

above the city, above the smog, above regular people which i don't hate nor despise, but have never met. It would take one hour to make a complete turn around if you would want to walk the complete donut. I have left the donut, just once on a school tripl. The flying complex has schools, houses, shopping mal s, restaurants, nightclubs, everything you need. You can spend your whole life here and never need anything from the world underneath us, but people come and go al the time. We live inside the city’s wal s and we must obey stupid NO rules. But mommy has a goblin so NO can go fuck themselves. They think they’re so clever. Mommy rules.

Besides we make so much money we pay them to look the other way. Casino life attracts al kinds of dirty money people, gangsters, government officials, they al launder their money with us but that is none of my business, I'm limited to look pretty and smile, along with Laura and any daddy’s friend who wants to hit on me.

I received a message from Laura showing me her dress for tonight. I must be prettier than her so Dopka better do his job and get me the most beautiful not crimson, but yel ow dress ever. I open my (beige) door of my (crimson) room and there it is. Long, tight beautiful yel ow dress with provocative, but not so revealing cleavage. Open back and long yel ow gloves. They won’t dare to look at a girl’s boobs who’s a teenager and whose daddy’s respected as fuck, but they wil be tempted. Besides, it’s a holo-dress, when I move, flowers wil reveal in the air around me.

That’s al I want. Good job Dopka.

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I’m getting ready. Mirror speak to me, do I look pretty? Mirror says I'm gorgeous. Cherry lipstick.

Won't be kissing anyone, is for daddy’s delight. Tight crimson dress with cleavage. Won't’ be taking it off for anyone, is for mommy’s delight. Perfect col ected hair with curly drops. No one wil rough it up, it’s for Laura’s delight. Lady’s perfume, a lot of it, for my own delight. Lady is the most famous singer ever in the republic and its annexed territories. She is perfect and Daddy gave me her perfume and best of al , she wil be here tonight. I'm ready. I feel ready. Everything 28

is perfect. Watching people arrive at the big saloon from my window waiting for Dopka to pick me up. I love Dopka because he is il egal. NO does not know about him. He is off the books and that makes me feel special. There’s the knock, but it is not Dopka, it is mommy.

“Where is Dopka?” i asked

“He’s not feeling wel , dear” She says as she takes my hand leading me into the hal way and into the family’s elevator. Elevator’s blue. I asked for it to be crimson but I was told everyone is using it, not only me. I don't care, I cover it up in crimson with my E-Eyes.

We went into the saloon. Everything was arranged so nicely. Dance floor in the middle. Big red and black curtains fal from the ceiling into the floor, almost like my room but ten times bigger (the NO colors since getting their love is top priority). The Saloon's view is amazing. Almost as amazing as my room. For now, the view we have gives us a whole view of our city and the val ey’s beyond. Which I've never been. Round tables for 20 people each with big silver centerpieces with holo waterfal s. Silver cutlery. Holo birds come and go through the saloon you can actual y feel the wind from their fluttering. People were starting to gather. Whispers and speech echoed. Mommy took me to our table. Laura was waiting for me. Haven’t seen her in at least some lifetimes. She showed me her dress. Mine has revealing flowers with movement, she has adorable dolphins. We make a scene with our dresses. She is happy to see me, so am i.

Social gathering’s start to pick up and soon people make dramatic entrances. Al kinds of beautiful dresses for our eyes. Yel ow, pink, orange, red, blue but never black or white. There is this fat lady, who is in charge of decorating the saloon and also a mommy’s friend, in a pink dress with the hippos fol owing her behind. I think it is funny, she says - I know I'm fat but I’m fine-. His husband walks by her side, but men usual y don’t use holographic wear but his suit is showing a rain of money when walking. They are one of the few moon military mining contractors. They have a private army up there to protect the city and mining from elf nation attacks. They are absurdly rich, even more than us. I don’t know their names, mommy’s tel ing me al of this, I don't know why.

Everything is perfect, even mom and dad made a place for holo grandpa and grandma to sit with us since they passed away some years ago.

“How are you doing darling? You look so big now "says grandma. I don't need to answer since she is a hologram but something feels odd about it so i answer back. “Thanks grandma,” I said.

“Good girl” she says back.

Here comes Mr. Dee, he is a werewolf from a powerful family running the outskirts casinos. He wears a flashy red suit with black tie. His wife by his side with a white dress. Holo doves fly around her and place a beautiful crown made out of leaves on her head as they walk into the 29

saloon. Holo crown of course. She's not a real queen. outskirts queen maybe. Not a competence for Mommy.

Behind them comes Testo, there is no evidence but we al know he is a vampire. His pale skin doesn’t lie. We don’t care anyway. Obviously he lies to be accepted more and more into NO’s businesses. Since he has money, NO looks the other way. Just keep bringing the money, Testo.

His wife comes by his side, wearing a matching red dress with impressive lava flowing from it.

Wow! she is cool, i liked her.

Laura’s mommy comes in with Laura’s Daddy. They look amazing. Laura’s daddy is handsome but Laura’s mommy is gorgeous. White skin and deep, deep black hair. Almost like you can jump inside the black void of her hair and get lost in space. She is wearing a fuchsia dress with holo glitter al over her. I love it! pink glitter, blue glitter, white glitter, black, yel ow, red, al the colors i have seen in my life are in Laura’s mommy holo glitter. Her daddy’s got a nice blue suit with big diamond shapes on it, mixed with a black tie.

Final y, what I've been waiting for al night. Lady comes in along with his boyfriend. She has one for every Tantra province she visits. She comes in wearing a gorgeous and impressive black and red dress with beautiful holo flaming around her. She shines on her own. She does not sit at our table though. Mommy says i can meet her later. I bet she came in her luxurious limo, the only one that can reach the stratosphere where the sight takes your breath away. She also owns many pegasus back home. I know everything about her because I want to be like her.

And of course, exaggerated NO and private Bee security droids and drones. Not around us, but hiding in the shadows in the corners and in the ceilings. War in the East has been picking up a lot and terrorism is in everyone’s mouth.

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Chatting across the room becomes more intense and goblins run around serving drinks and appetizers. i don’t see Dopka, maybe he’s dead and mommy lied to me. People tend to disappear if they do something the NO doesn’t like, it is normal and no one is scared about it.

Maybe they discovered Dopka’s in love with a human outside our donut complex. I know this because he told me. Fal ing in love is il egal unless you are approved by the NO, but goblins wil never be approved, so they need to live in the outskirts along with werewolves, vampires and al other god’s creatures which aren’t human, if they want to love. If they don’t want to fal in love they can live here as “under citizens", along with al the other non human creatures.