Acadia is......The Good Cajun Fairy

Excerpt from Cajun Fairies

Queen Faustina woke up with a strange feeling, and she was right. Everything was going haywire!

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"Where in the name of Sha Bebe is everyone? What is going on here? This is not good!" Queen Faustina was flustered.

All the while she walked, she stomped her feet down in frustration, thinking of where Madame Plume and Madame Poulette were, along with why the one hundred dolls wouldn't wake up. And, what was up with the sugar mill ladies? Her mind was pounding with unanswered questions. She walked faster to go back and help Betty Lou with that turban wrapped around her head.

All of a sudden, a gust of wind rushed along the braided rug road, and something lifted her into the air. Whooooosh. What looked like the small buzzards that she had seen earlier, picked her up by her two hands and her two feet, and they were flying away with her. She tried to have a look at what lifted her into the air, but she couldn't see anything except dark clouds overhead. Dupre squatted down in an attempt to attack, but they were too fast for him to catch.

Coming to a stop, she saw that she was in a dark gray area that had some type of brownish vines surrounding her. There was no color at all in this place that she had never seen before. She was put down into a rickety, old wooden chair. As she sat in the chair trying to see what these creatures were who took her from her land, a deep male voice asked her a question.

"Are you the Queen who is ruler of the land of Sha Bebe?" His deep voice was cackling and sounded spooky.

"Yes I am," she answered in a stern voice, squinting to see who was speaking. My name is Queen Faustina, and I want to know where I am? And, who are all of you?" she pointed to all of the dark shadows that she could see, but not clearly. "You have no business entering the land of Sha Bebe," she told them with a demanding voice trying extremely hard not to show her fear as she stayed sitting in her rickety, old chair.

"And you, Queen Faustina, have no right to stop us from entering your land. We have gone into many places all over the world to wreck havoc. Since the beginning of time, we have brought chaos to places where peace resided," answered the voice.

"I have every right to say what I want about the land...."

"My name is Robes Pierre," he interrupted the Queen. "I am the most wicked ruler you know, and I go wherever I please. No one stops me. I always have others who want to follow me," he said loudly, and then laughed with his cackling ha ha ha, that echoed in all the areas of the gray place.

"Show yourself!" demanded Faustina stomping her foot, as she stood up from her chair in her blue night robe. That blue night robe was the only color that she saw in the dingy, gray place. "You say you are a wicked ruler. A wicked ruler of what? If so, then show yourself!" she said with a stern voice. "A ruler doesn't hide in the darkness like a coward."

"You DARE to call me a coward?" asked the wicked one as gray smoke started filling the gray place on the floor area. The gray smoke had a piquant smell.

"I DARE to call you a coward! Show yourself I say," she demanded again. Her fear deepened, but she wouldnt let it show.

"Turn on your beams, my fellow companions," Robes Pierre demanded.

Suddenly, beams of gray light were shining from the fingertips of each hand of the other wicked ones. Faustina had never seen any of this before. She strained once again to see what the dark creatures were, but now with the beams of light shining at her, she was blinded by all of the lights. It seemed by the glare, that there were dozens of them.

Placing her hands over her eyes, she told Robes Pierre, "You don't know how to be a ruler. If you want me to see who you are, show yourself. You're blinding me with the beams of gray light. How can I see you when you blind me?"

"Beams UP!" Robes Pierre immediately gave his order to his followers.

Stepping out from the darkest area in the gray place, Robes Pierre came into view of Faustina. With the beams of light shining upwards, she could now see who was speaking to her. And, what a sight he was. She stood in awe, with her mouth open, slid her hands down from her eyes and rested them on her cheeks.

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Taking another look at Robes Pierre from head to foot, she was totally bewildered at the site of this creature-doll thing standing there in the midst of all the vines that surrounded him also. He looked ragged with age. She had to ask. "And, now that I see you, what are you?" she said softly, trying to let the site of this creature sink in.

"Have you not heard of the Fee Folay?" asked Robes Pierre as he threw his cane to the floor. He was enraged that the Queen didn't know who he was. How could she forget him?

Still, quietly taking all of this in, she answered softly, "Yes, I have heard of the Fee Folay, but you're the first one I've ever seen. Why are you here?" she asked with one hand on her chin, wondering what he wanted, while the other hand was impatiently tapping on the arm of that rickety old chair.

Robes Pierre continued, "We have been around since the beginning of time spreading chaos in every land, all over the world. Our kind come from The Wicked Cajun Fairy Realm, he said proudly. And I, Robes Pierre, am the ruler of all in The Wicked Realm. Does that spark a memory?" he boasted again as he bowed and tipped his tiny top hat to the Queen.

"I am here with twenty other fiendish companions, he said placing the tiny hat back on top of his feathered head. "I am here to take your land away from you." He paused and made a clicking sound with his aqua colored tongue, "And, after I take the land, I'll make the dolls extinct."

"WHAT?" the Queen screamed in anger. She didnt know that she had anger inside of her. She was always gentle, kind and loving. There was never a need to be angry in the land of Sha Bebe.

"You most certainly will not take my land away from me," she huffed. "Humans need the dolls in their life! What have you done to the dolls? I demand to know. And where are Madame Plume and Madame Poulette? I am Queen Faustina," she boasted proudly, shaking her head and gesturing wildly with her hands, "and as ruler of the land of Sha Bebe, you can take yourself and your entourage and get the heck OUT of my..."

Suddenly, she was lifted out of the rickety old chair by six of the other wicked fairies and brought to another place. This place was surrounding her with more vines, and it felt like she was in prison. She looked around and saw no opening to escape, so this had to be a prison. Never had she been so restricted in such a manner. Never.

She sat on the floor of the prison, because there was nothing in there to sit on. The wicked ones were no where in the gray area, and she didn't hear any of them speaking. She was alone.

Queen Faustina wept openly.

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The Residents of The Land of Sha Bebe

Queen Faustina -- Rules the doll Land of Sha Bebe

Madame Plume -- Pops the dolls to life

Madame Poulette -- Zaps up the magic flying quilts

Miss Betty Lou -- Teaches the dolls their lessons

Marie La Vie -- Healer in the swamp lands

The Sugar Mill Ladies -- Cook and cater for all of the dolls

The Cajun Angels -- Always help in every land

The Sha Bebe are the boy and girl dolls in the Land of Sha Bebe

Bagasse Man -- A nuisance who stinks up the land

The Bebe Land Band

Dupre the Cat -- plays the silver tub drum

T-Roux Raccoon -- plays the box guitar and the harmonica

Angelina Alligator -- plays the scrub board