Fairy Bunking Chapter 1: Bunking the Dragon

"I certainly wouldn't follow her," he admitted.

"Maybe the ones that do aren't that dumb," she said, then stopped, and pulled down a tall blade of grass that stood near her shoulder. "That tree is gorgeous."

Ubermensch's peered at a cluster of trees, one of which being pampered with the sun's golden radiance. "Isn't that the Demon Tree? Where Demon's enter and exit this world?"

"Dragon Tree," she corrected. "There is no 'Demon Tree'. That's just a myth," her words were drawn and scholary, her voice respectful. "Demons, I mean."

Ubermensch faced her and looked perplexed. "Demon's used to torment me as a child. Surely they bothered you."

"I've never met a Demon," she admitted, peering at him, not entirely sure she understood the implication of his statement. "They aren't really an aspect of our mythos."

"Mythos," he repeated, then made a tight laugh. "That doesn't mean they don't exist. Besides, I've never met Dragon."

"You're saying you don't believe in Dragons?" she asked incredulously, "Or are you teasing me?"

"I'm just saying I never met one," Ubermensch said coolly, adjusting the rifle on his shoulder.

Alacrity's jaw dropped. "You are! You are perturbed that I am not claiming to have seen a Demon, which I haven't, so are teasing me by claiming to have not seen a Dragon."

He shook his head, his face bland and dispassionate. "Demons may be close to extinction, but it is factual that they existed."

"Dragons, too," she added, though not too smartly, and snapped her mouth shut. She felt her tone was too childish, and now worried her response cum lip-smack sounded too brash. "Factual indeed," she added, letting intellectual whimsy carry her words. "Claptrap used to carry on conversations with a young, green scaled Dragon years ago. That little Dragon, little by Dragon standards, would get her going and they wouldn't stop until one of them could no longer speak."

"Claptrap carries on conversations with herself for days," Ubermensch said with some disdain.

"You're incredible," she said excitedly, and swung her hips too much as she turned around to face him, sending her rifle towards the ground.

Ubermensch caught the rifle and smirked. "Look," a bit more softly, "Dinosaurs once lived, but are now extinct. That fact is proven by the discovery of their fossils. When humans die and all their worldly constructions along with them, the next civilization will learn about them by studying their immortal garbage; Styrofoam and the what-not."

Ubermensch sounded quite sure of himself, and it annoyed Alacrity. "And Dragons?" she prompted.

"I've never seen a Dragon fossil," he said matter-of-factly.

"Nor I a Demon fossil," she added hastily.

"Demons exist as manifestations in the living. Diseases, like those that plague the once enchanted forest, are indications that Demons have and do still exist."

Alacrity laughed and took her rifle back from Ubermensch, holding it tightly against her chest. "That's not a dispelled enchantment, it was human waste; a chemical spill."

"Bad example. What about the fairies that lose control of themselves? Surely that is a possession."

"You don't think it's a neurological condition, do you?"

"We're fairies, Alacrity. We don't have neurological conditions." He appeared somewhat flustered. "Besides, you're just making any Dragon argument harder to prove."

"Oh? How so?"

"I can just as easily make a case against any physical evidence you may offer that Dragons exist."

"Then offer some reasonable argument on why I should think Demons exist that isn't tied to a questionable source." Her mouth pursed into a cute smile and she traced a fine scroll on her armored forearm. "Well?" she asked when he offered no reply.

"We exist, and we're only myth to humans."

"Fine, so fairies exist."

"Demons exist as a part of our myth."

"What kind of argument is that?" Alacrity took a few steps past Ubermensch, shaking her head. "Demons exist because they happen to be lumped into some absurd human classification of non-existent beings? Besides, I believe Dragons are a part of that classification of human lore. Demons belong to their religion."