Phantasia: The Princess Knight

The Cat Sith Squinted his beady feline eyes before pulling on his whiskers and clearing his throat. "My name is Meowskins! I am the Purrr Minister to Queen Mittens. This here is the Kingdom of Felinenia. Queen Mittens asked me to find out who had passed through our barrier since you are indeed the first visitor from the outside since the barrier was put up thousands of years ago." 

"I see... Pfft..." Alicia was doing her best to not laugh at the naming sense of these Cat Sith. They really stuck to their feline nature with their naming huh?. "I have a question... Where is King Whiskers?" 

"Hmm? You know King Whiskers? He is currently having his catnip right now. But that's strange... How do you know King Whiskers? Huh? Why are you laughing?" Meowskins was looking at Alicia curiously because she was literally rolling back and forth in the sky laughing her head off. Frey had no idea what was so funny but since her mother was laughing she laughed and rolled in the sky as well. 

"Ahah… Sorry, I didn't mean to laugh and I actually do not know the King. I was just making a wild guess on the King's name." Alicia explained. As she stood up and wiped the tears from her eyes. She couldn't help but find the kingdom cute. 

"I see… Well, follow me I will take you to see the Queen. She had asked me to bring the visitors to the Castle if I found them to not have malicious intentions." Meowskins explained as he turned his aircraft around and slowly began flying towards the castle.

"Meowskins… Have your people been hiding within this barrier for all this time? Do any of you venture out past the barrier?" Alicia had to ask these questions since she was wondering if they had had any contact with any other closed off tribes.

"We do as we are masters of invisibility magic, so we are able to move around without detection. That was until recently when those damn demon spawn began appearing in this world once again. For the past few years, they have been gathering in this forest." Meowskins face scrunched up as he twitched his nose. He was not happy about the appearance of the demon spawn.

"Yes, I have detected quite a few in this region. Is there a reason for this?" Alicia asked.

"Yes… They are trying to find what is sealed under the forest. But the entrances to these places are well hidden and have many guards. We also have one of these entrances. Which is why we have a barrier up at this time. There are six entrances total each with a group of Fey who have gone into hiding within these barriers." Meowskins explained. 

Alicia wondered if it was okay for him to be telling her all this stuff. "Meowskins, are you sure you should be telling me all of this?"

"Hmmm? Why wouldn't I? You are not even human and a celestial at that. Plus you have one of the fairy race with you that calls you mother. How could you be someone who colludes with the devils? Do not underestimate the Cat Sith as we are able to tell good from bad just with a simple glance. Otherwise, would I have been so nice to your daughter when she was pulling on my ears and tail?" Meowskins replied. His gaze falling on Frey who was sitting on Alicia's shoulder.

Alicia looked at Meowskins in amazement. She had never thought the little cat would figure out what race she was in such a short amount of time. "How did you know I was a Celestial?"

"In this world besides the evil races such as the devils and the undead any barrier created has one rule. It is that it will block any race not deemed by the caster as allowed to pass through it with the exception of one race. The celestial race. They would need to be celestial bodies and souls. Your body has the blood of a celestial running through it as well as your soul being the soul of a celestial. It can not be one and not the other, it needs to be both or they will not be allowed to pass through. As for the fairy, if I am right she must have been born from your blood right?" Meowskins asked.

"Yes, she was born from my blood. Well, she was awoken from my blood." Alicia replied honestly. She felt like hiding anything at this point from Meowskins was like trying to hide behind a crystal clear pane of glass. contemporary romance

"Yes, this is how Fairies are born. Fairies were first brought into this world by the gods race. Although they were very powerful, They still lacked in comparison to the Celestial race. Fairies were first born when the gods race gathered a large amount of magicules and then dripped a drop of their blood into it. This gave life to the first fairy. The mother of all fairies Adorla.

" From there she created more fairies and this continued on until there were millions of fairies at one point and time. They lived in all areas of Phantasia. They flourished and had many fairy cities but then the war between the devils and gods happened. The fairies although strong in magic were easily wiped out due to how small they were and their lack of experience in fighting. They had always been a peaceful race that never fought and always stayed out of any wars. But because the devils did not care about whether someone was peaceful and neutral or not they were also targeted and killed. 

"The war between devils and gods was a war of ruthlessness. I hope Phantasia never sees a war like that again. Many races were wiped out during this time." Meowskins lowered his head. His eyes showed a hint of regret and sadness.

"How do you know so much about the fairies?" Alicia found his story very interesting but she wondered why he knew so much about a different race.

"The kingdom's libraries are full of ancient texts that date back before the war of devils and gods. I happen to enjoy reading about history. You are free to read them as well." Meowskins politely explained.

Alicia frowned. She was hoping Meiowskins had talked with other fairies recently. "Meowskins do you know if there are any fairy tribes that might have survived?" 

"There may be some. I can not promise this. But if your daughter was able to be born then there is sure to be other races out there as well. Just remember one thing. Although this continent is huge it is not the only one." Meowskins's reply stunned Alicia. 

"Wait, that can't be true. I have already scanned this planet, there is only one continent!" Alicia had indeed scanned this world and even looked at it from the outside, and there was only one supermassive continent floating on a massive ocean, and even then the continent was small compared to the size of the ocean. Phantasia was like a water world. It was a huge planet and was ninety percent covered in water.

"Just because you can not detect it or see it does not mean it does not exist. What lies in wait in these hidden places even I do not know. " Meowskin smiled as he replied. He then adjusted his rutters and released the air from his balloon slowly. "We are about to land!" 

Alicia looked before her to find a massive castle made of stone and a large city with many flying vehicles like Meowskins. This confused Alicia because the city was not built in the trees but at the base of a tall mountain with many tall buildings and a large castle carved out of the side of the mountain itself. "This…? Illusion magic!?" 

"That it is indeed. What you saw from above is what we wanted you to see while the true form of our city is much more advanced as you would have thought right? Our entire city is run on steam although the buildings are large they have many many floors. That is because our ceilings do not need to be as high as you humans. The only place that can comfortably accommodate humans is the castle." Moewskins smiled at Alicia's shock and amazement. He felt proud of his race's abilities. 

"This is truly amazing. To be able to use illusion magic on such a scale and make it undetectable on top of it all is truly amazing. I had really thought that the city was nothing more than a small tree top city. I mean I could even see Cat Sith moving about on the connection bridges!" Alicia wished she knew how to use illusion magic so well. Just the thought process for illusion magic was difficult. Never mind actually being able to cast it on a grand scale. It was not that she couldn't pull it off but she would need to practice for a long time until she was actually good at it.

"It is the second line of defense that my race's elders created just in case. The Devil race is very powerful but there are many more powerful beings in this world, ones that could kill the entire devil race with a single thought. Why they are here even I don't know." Mewoskins finally landed his aircraft and hopped out. He took off his helmet and goggles and put them on the seat. "Follow me the queen is waiting."

Alicia nodded as she looked at the large white pillars that stood on each side of the massive door. The area she was in seemed to be a landing port for the castle itself. There were many other aircraft around her that were just like the one Meowskins was flying in earlier. The large doors in front of her opened and Alicia, along with Frey, and Meowskins all walked through it. There was a line of Cat Sith guards all wearing armor and had swords at their side. Alicia couldn't help but be reminded of the movie she had seen on Earth called Kitty In Boots seeing so many Cat Sith dressed in this fashion. Well, these Cat Sith were not as naked as the one in the movie.

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