[Fiction[Whimsy/Fantasy] Paper, Clean That Room!

A short story for a friend, and it turned out to be weird and sorted and why 6 pages? I do not know.

“PAPER, THIS ROOM IS A MESS, I thought I told you to clean it?” Her mom scolds her as she walks in and sees her fondling Kitty.

“You did?”

“No excuses, clean it, NOW!” She exclaims and slams the door.

Paper frowns largely at the slammed door and gets up in a huff trying to think of all the fun things she could possibly doing instead of cleaning her dirty ass room. People generally told Paper that she has an ass amount of stuff, and that she should consider an overhaul of her room's contents.

Paper groaned as she picked up a shoe and then noticed a ball of crumpled paper behind it. The wind picked up and the paper ball was blown off down a path of mounds of toys and clothes. She didn't look for a window that was open, she started to run as the paper ball began to float faster away on a wisp of air.

Paper began to sprint after the ball as fast as she could and the second she got a little bit closer, the paper ball suddenly unfolded in the air into a origami bird. The spectacle was amazing and it made Paper go whoaaa under her breath. Then as the origami bird flew away she shouted and cursed shaking her fist at the little chicken shit.

It's at this particular moment that Paper notices she's not in her same old room anymore, this place was a strange jungle with sand all over the ground. As she spins around in her place she can see some sort of monolith that closely resembles a pinata from her room.

“This place is really, really dirty....”

Paper and Kitty would continue walking along through the jungle like setting of her room, marveling at how terrible everything looked. For some reason there are shoes all over the ground, littering it like normal places would have rocks and other stone debris.

As Kitty and Paper continued to walk about, they suddenly heard the sound of someone pacing amongst the sandy surface possibly behind some of the jungle canopy. Paper brought a finger to her mouth letting Kitty know to be quiet, they then skulked up to a larger tree and peered around it to see another person looking somewhat out of sorts.

Without a second thought Paper reaches down and grabs Kitty, and every so slowly she cocks her arm taking careful aim at the person and not be seen.

“YAAAGGHHH!”

She screams and launches Kitty from her arm cannon, with Kitty landing square on the young man's head and instantly digging her claws into his scalp.

The young man freaks out naturally from the sudden attack and Paper comes flying out of nowhere tackling him hard in the ribs. He falls to the ground gasping for air having just had the wind knocked out of him, and a cat latched to his head.

Paper was ready to pursue the attack but the young man looked so frazzled that she instead got up and dusted herself off over him.

“Who are you?”

“I, I, I'm R, Remi....”

The young man appears to be on the verge of some sort of break down with Kitty still stuck on his head.

Paper pulls Kitty off making sure she retracted her claws before she did, and sets her ammunition/friend on the ground next to her. She then looked down with a cocked eyebrow at this particularly frail person, who seems to be quite wound up. In a moment of charity she decides to reach down and offer him a help up back onto his feet.

“I'm Paper.”

“Hhhhh hi.”

“What are you doing out here all alone?”

“I was just trying to hide.”

Paper found this information odd, as she can't say she's seen anything else or anyone else besides him since she'd gotten out to this part of her room.

“Who're you hiding from?” She asks as she walks over and sits down on a rock formation that looks like a chair to the side of her.

“I'm not sure, I just assumed people were looking for me.”

“Well that's pretty strange.”

“Well, I'm not like everyone else, so people always target me. I think.”

“What about you is different?” Paper asks quizzically as this young man seemed as normal to her as anyone else.

“I'm a cyclops?”

“You're a cyclops?”

“Yeah, it's just I was born very short, and with two eyes.”

“You don't look that ugly.”

“Ugly?”

“You don't look that short.”

The young Cyclops' eyes got all bright and receptive, the puppy dog eyes or wonder and genuine love. “I'm really not that short???” He was beginning to get clingy.

“Yeah, whatever.”

“OH THANK GOD.”

“Do you know your way around here at all?”

“Yeah, I've been everywhere and all over.”

“Good, lets go somewhere.” Paper responds and begins to walk off in just a random direction expecting Remi to follow her, however he just stands back watching her.

She gives him a stink eye and simply asks, “What?” with a clearly annoyed expression.

“I haven't been there before.”

Paper gave him a cold look and then walked over promptly grabbing him by the arm and dragging him along with her into the darkness of the jungle.

Paper, Kitty and Remi would be walking for a good while until they came to a clearing with just sand and shoes about the ground. Then of course there was a huge ass tower sticking out of the ground. It seemed to stretch upwards forever, made of stone, and a very slippery stone at that.

“That is one huge ass tower.”

“I wonder if there's anything in it.”

Paper gives it a quick once over from their spot just at the brink of the clearing, she didn't see any way up or in. So they walked a little closer up to the base of the huge ass tower, however all of a sudden a voice called out from the tower.

“HEY, GET AWAY FROM MY TOWER.”

“It's a nice tower.” Remi responds.

“SHUT UP.” The voice shouts back crippling his stance.

“What're you doan up there?” Paper says in a softer voice, to test a theory she has in her head.

“I'M HAVING A GREAT TIME, YOU'RE NOT INVITED.”

Suddenly a wooden door to a shed behind the tower is pulled open revealing a young woman cowering against the sunlight.

“Aha!” Paper stands triumphant in the doorway to the shed behind the tower, with the young woman looking all the bit pissed off against the glaring brightness which has invaded.

“Doesn't look very fun in there.” Remi remarks as he peers around the doorway.

The young woman roars and leaps at Remi who proceeds to scream like a little girl as she stands over him almost pitying his cowardice. However she gives him a good kick to the ribs, “What's a girl and an ugly cyclops doing walking around here?” The young woman asks Paper..

Paper was taken back for a moment, she couldn't understand how this person could see Remi as an actual cyclops.

“We're cleaning my room.”

“These are your shoes?”

“Yeah, I never knew I had so many.”

“There's a big cluster of shoes over on top of that one hill over there.”

“Why do you have so many shoes?” Remi asks from his spot cowering on the ground next to the two women.

Paper gives a light kick to the torso, “C'mon, we're going to climb that one hill over there.”

Remi flinches and stands up right next to the new person, looking over at her he notices he's just barely taller than her. The woman sees him looking at her and raises her hand as if she was going to back hand him, which sends Remi scurrying over to Paper.

“Why don't you come along?” Paper asks.

“I dunno, I'm a severely ugly troll, I was born short and without tusks.”

“You people have a lot of hang ups.” Paper remarks as her left eye twitches.

“I'll go with you, if I can have those.”

“These?” Paper asks but then notices the troll wanting to wear her glasses. “But I can't see without them....”

“I have an idea.”

The group continues along with their new friend Slaren, and her fancy new glasses. However since Slaren could barely walk straight with the glasses, and Paper couldn't walk straight without her glasses there came to be only one solution: a 3 man totem-pole.

Remi was on the bottom providing the walking ability and eyes, Slaren was in the middle as she had the next largest amount of mass, and Paper was at the top seeing things that people generally see when they get high on LSD.

“What's that?” Paper asks.

“It's a shoe.” Remi said.

“What's that?” Slaren asks.

“It's another shoe.” Remi said.

“What's that?”

“It's a hill.”

“Ooo, we're here!” Paper waves excitedly however she starts to lose some balance and then grabs onto Slaren's face.

The incredible discomfort causes Slaren to grab onto Remi's face compromising their only vision and means of transportation. As Remi begins to lose control of the whole situation he screams abandon ship!! to which Slaren and Paper both blind have no idea how to react.

In the coming seconds they came tumbling down except for Paper who had miraculously grabbed onto an over leaning tree branch that was near her head at a moment a clarity. Even more so incredible was that with her other hand she was able to get back her glasses before they would surely be broken by the collapse.

Slaren got to her feet first leaving Remi to lay on the ground clearly still out of it, a dizzy mess complaining of double vision and sore joints.

“Where's Paper?” Slaren asks beginning to realize she lost her magic vision. “Hey I can see, what gives!?”

The trio climbs up the hill all the while encroaching on one of the last large clusters of shoes. Remi was dwindling behind the group and becoming faint from probably his non-stop complaining and whining. Paper took the initiative and postured up behind him and began pushing him up like a rolling sort of object.

Until they got to the top where all of a sudden his body collapses to the ground at the top of the hill. Slaren and Paper are almost overwhelmed and awestruck by the sheer volume of shoes that seems to be scattered about the hill top.

Remi on the other hand begins to make some awkward noises and they notice that he has begun to sleep, the top of this hill had a very comfortable feeling, a familiar feeling, one they could all agree felt just right.

After they realized he was sleeping, the other two cleared away the shoes to make a small space of which to lay down as well.

Time would pass and the morning sun would slip into the early afternoon twilight. Paper's mom decided she'd given Paper enough time to get some progress done on her room, so she wanted to check in on her again.

She instead opened the door to see Paper sleeping on her bed, next to Kitty under a mass of blankets and stray items and shoes. However suddenly Slaren sat up in the bed, and Paper's mom was taken back in a state of fear and shock.

Before she could form the feeling she had in her mind into a clear and concise statement, Remi then sat up. This caused her mother to let out a very sincere scream, loud and vociferous.

Remi then screamed, Slaren screamed, Paper started to freak out.

Slaren jumped up and tried to run however she ran into a chair and banged her head on the desk, which caused Remi to try to do the same however his legs weren't full awake and he tipped off the bed and crashed into a closet.

Paper groaned and rolled back over, under the covers, she didn't have time for this.

THE END.