-Break-
Walking past the circular barrier towards Skydust, Atalanta says, “You didn’t have to hit me so hard.”
“And you didn’t have to be so annoying. How the hell am I ever going to live this down.”
“Don’t talk as if aren’t ecstatic to have those rights now.”
“That’s not the point, wait no, I hate you!!”
“Orb do you really like those?” Suzuka asks.
“No Suzuka, it really isn’t like that.”
“There is nothing wrong with you Orb,” Cyrus says.
“Yeah, Orb if you like woman’s legwear we won’t judge you for it.”
The innocence of those two is almost blinding. “You’re both too precious for this world, I need you guys to be safe today.”
“Promise we will,” Suzuka says.
“Atalanta go with them to make sure they function.”
“I refuse.”
“I thought you said you didn’t want to be involved with Dush?”
“Yesterday she had the upper hand against me, but today I plan to pay that hag back.”
Letting out a sigh, I mumble, “Grow up.”
Atalanta swings at me, but I move my body out of the way and run off saying, “Have a nice time guys.”
Φ After Orb and Atalanta runoff, the silence around me and Cyrus weighs more than gravity. I can’t do this, I can’t do this.
“S-S-Suzaka let us g-g-go.”
“Y-Y-YEAH!!” I shouted by accident. While we walk into the city I let out a little prayer, please god help me!
“Hahaha Suzuka you’re a funny one, god helps humans not monsters like you.”
“Your right Gozy.”
-Break-
Φ “Lady Dush is really going to love all these fabrics, we have some from Avram's home country, all of Elia's stuff, and even some clothes from Elpída.”
“I don’t see why you had to go so far for this old lady.”
“You still don’t get it, how childish of you.”
“Insulting someone’s intelligence because they don’t agree with you is idiotic behaviour. But I guess telling an idiot not to be idiotic would be unfair.”
“What did you just say to me!”
“Did I stutter!”
As me and Atalanta begin to fight in front of the gate to Dush’s mansion, a man walks out and breaks up our fight.
While on our knees the man dressed like a butler says, “Picking fights in front of someone else’s home, how uncouth.”
“Sorry,” we say with our heads hanging low in shame.
“Wait, aren’t you two the foreigners who our lady brought back?”
“We are, and I came to deliver the fabric for her scarf,” I say still ashamed because of my action
“I see, I am sorry to ask this, but would I be able to ask you both for help? An incident took place last night.”
“What happened?”
Leading us into the house, we take a look at the giant mansion and see how big it is, but one thing I immediately notice is that it looks a bit messy with stuff missing, “Where you robbed?”
“Yes, last night a small amount of stuff was taken. We have no idea how they got in and out, but we were robbed. But among all the things they took it involved our lady's most prized possession, her scarf.”
“Is she ok?”
“Ever since hearing the news she locked herself in her room, the staff are keeping a close eye on her to make sure nothing happens to her. But you see we could use every extra pair of hands we can get, so if it would be possible could you help us find the Thieves.”
“Of course, we can.”
Atalanta says, “Wait a second Orb, this doesn’t make sense. Why are you asking us? We are not that familiar with Skydust, if you want to find someone you would be better off asking actually citizens for help.”
“We can’t do that, after the announcement yesterday everyone is looking for an escapee.”
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“Then couldn’t this escapee have been the one to do this?”
“Items from around the house were stolen at random, like the person didn’t have much concept of the value of things and just grabbed them.
The criminal who the city is looking for would have stolen the more expensive items. But it was mostly worthless items that were stolen.”
“So, on top of a criminal loose in the city, you have some random thieves. This still sounds like not only a bother but a pointless activity.”
Bowing his head in front of us he says, “Our lady lost her husband when she was young, and it has been 30 years since she has even seen her son. Due to this every day she had been sad as if she had fallen into complete despair.
To the dismay of all us servants, all we could do is watch as she slowly deteriorated like a corpse.
But one day she decided to build a house at the back of the mansion and start making a scarf. Ever since that day a smile reappeared on her face. That scarf is equivalent to her life, so I ask you; please reclaim it.”
“I already said I will, so I will reclaim it.”
“Orb, you know we're only here for one more day?”
“Then I guess we better hurry. Do you guys know any places where their scent might be?”
“Why do you ask?”
“I just have a good noise, so knowing that will help out.”
“Ok, well these vases were broken so they must have touched them.”
When I get a good sniff of the vase I say, “I think I got it. Atalanta let’s go.”
As we walk out the butler says, “God bless you.”
“No problem.”
Under her breath, I hear Atalanta mumble, “What I drag this is going to be.”
-Break-
Φ Upon entering the town, a kid points at me and shouts, “Mommy, fox girl is back.”
When he says this, all the people in the surrounding area run over to me and start talking to me.
“Thank god you’re ok.”
“Do you have any more fun stories to tell us about?”
“Did you get a good nights rest, sleep is the only need you can't go long without off.”
Upon hearing all this praise, I can feel my arrogance meter filling. “You better get a grip of yourself you dumb bitch.”
“Right Gozy, I should.”
“Suzuka are you alright you, just started talking to yourself?”
“I am fine, but more importantly why do you all seem so panicked.”
“I thought I was hiding it, but it seems you saw through me.”
“No, you really did hide it well.” I can’t tell her that all of their emotions are going crazy.
Sitting down someone says, to me, “Well we will give you the rundown.”
-Break-
“So if you don’t find the man named Percy and hand him over, you’re going to go to war with Gevurah.”
“Not war, slaughter.”
“If our small country got into a fight with Gevurah, I would be surprised if we could last for a day.”
“This is too much for my heart.”
“To think Percy would put us in all this trouble. I knew he could be irrational, but I never knew it was that bad.”
“Well to think his weaponry was actually able to put up a fight against Gevurah, I am honestly sort of impressed.”
“I get what you mean, who would have thought mister peed his pants till he was 11 could get the holy nation to be this pissed off.”
“Don’t talk as if he just peed his pants, he used to sleep with his mother until he was 10. Eventually, his mother told him he needed to grow up, and he cried for 3 weeks straight.”
“I remember that his crying kept Lisa's baby up all night as well. Baby Rebecca used to cry like a lion.”
“Hey, stop remembering things before I even was cognitive.”
“Why should we, I for one had to plug my ears every night to even get a wink of sleep.”
“Well if we’re bringing up people's pasts, Radum once fed all the munchnunchers the wrong materials and they all got poisoned; we lost the ability to make fresh air up here, and everyone also suffocated.”
“I apologized for that multiple times, and earlier that day I had to taste test for Meeca. Her food was so bad that it made my mental health deteriorate. I wasn’t in the right mind.”
“I was trying to improve my cooking cause my husband said he would rather eat Buffanoa shit than of my cooking.”
“What a heartless husband.”
“How could you say that to her.”
“Looks like divorce is in your future.”
“She cooked me chicken and it was blue, it was blue, Meeca how did you make it blue.”
With tears forming in her, Meeca says, “I put all my love into it.”
“But why was it BLUE!”
People form around Meeca and say, “Happy wife, happy life.”
“If you have to eat poison every day to keep your wife happy you do it.”
“What’s so hard about this to understand?”
“Mecca you can marry me instead.”
“HEY WHO SAID THAT LAST ONE!”
“I stand with Robert, only those who have eaten blue meat will understand his sorrow.”
Someone claps their hands together and says, “Let’s stop commenting on other people's marriages and get back to the topic on hand.”
“Finally, someone with some sense,” Robert says.
“Why cats are better than dogs, especially black cats.”
The lady who says this gets hit on the back of the head by Rebecca who says, “Don’t derail the conversation any longer, especially when the answer is obviously cats.”
“Wait a second, I object to that.”
“Me too, dogs are better.”
“Dogs are obviously the master race.”
“You're all delusional, dogs are dumb pieces of meat.”
“And cats are bullies.”
“I love dogs, dogs love me. I love cats, cats hate me. Cats suck!”
As everyone continues to smile and have fun as they talk with each other, all I can feel is amazement. Despite all the fear I can feel from them they all still choose to try and smile.
“I WON’T EVER FORGIVE PERCY!” I scream.
Hearing my declaration everyone stops what they're doing and looks at me. “Suzuka you shouldn’t say that.”
“Everyone is so nice and caring to even someone like me, yet that man decided to spit in all your faces with his actions, and now his sole life is what has put you all in danger. So I will never forgive him, and I promise you all I will catch him.” After I say this I run away.
Realizing I forgot Cyrus I run back and grab him, then as I run off again, I scream, “Cats are better than dogs.”
While I move away my anger boils even more. If I had people like these guys around me all the time, there is no way I would never do anything to make them sad. I will never forgive you, Percy.”
Name: Munchnunchers
Height: 212 cm
Type: Wonderbeast, omnivore
Description: A bipedal rectangular-shaped wonderbeast covered in fur, that feeds on every single type of material. It is capable of opening it mouth the entire length of its body so it can eat food. It has the ability to convert certain materials into different substances; this is usually denoted by the colour of the wonderbeast. Do to its mouth always being full it breaths through its skin.
Fact: Due to being domestic by the people of Skydust the Munchnunchers have adapted to only eat, and convert they have lost all other survival abilities.
Name: Buffanoa
Height: 170-350 cm
Type: Wonderbeast, omnivore
Description: A large armoured wonderbeast that is closely related to buffalos. It is incredibly muscly which grants immense physical strength. Its most notable characteristic is its giant shovel-shaped horns. Its horns can be used for transport, cleaning debris and for digging holes.
Fact: It is a wonderbeast that was specifically bread for use in Skydust, it is unknown whether it could possibly survive in the wild.