Suddenly, in the middle of the day, I woke up. Something was trying to speak to me. I can't remember what the thing was, or what it was trying to tell me, but whatever it was, it terrified me. I didn’t get back to sleep until around 1:00, but whatever, I’m fine~. I’m kidding, I didn’t get back to sleep at all. I’m too busy being startled by the fact that there is a small, grey and white cat hovering in the center of the room with her eyes closed, glowing. Glowing. This tiny cat, smaller than even me, is glowing. So I just sit here, looking stupid probably, and just staring. She soon notices that someone is awake, and bounds with fluid grace from the room. It didn’t even look as though she touches the ground. She’s also so cute! And she looks so fluffy! But that's off topic, I can hear Snowfall’s soft voice echoing of the hall walls, then someone else speaks. They have a softer, sort-of Mones sounding voice. Actually, all the royals sound slightly Mones. So do their subjects. Maybe it's the cat? I don’t much care, and I have no time to think on it, ‘cause at that moment, a tiny version of Raven bursts into the room. She’s pure black with Raven’s slanted eyes. Only difference is, tiny Raven has a dragon-wolf’s build and wings, with the slightest hint of orange in her dark red eyes.
“Hoi! I’m Blazing Star! But my friends call me Blaze!”, She squeaks, “And since you’re all my friends now, you can also call me Blaze!”
Even her squeaky voice sounds british.
“OI! Blaze! Mum wants you!”
“O, I gotta go, see ya!”, she squeals.
“Whatzat?”, Violetta mumbles from the ceiling.
“What? Why are you…..? Nevermind, it was just Blaze, my little cousin.”, says Snowfall, apologetically, and ruefully.
“CAN YOU MAKE HER SHUT UP!? I WAS TRYING TO READ!!”, shouts Acacia from the other room.
“SORRY, SHE WON’T LISTEN TO ME UNLESS MUM OR AUNT RAVEN WANT HER!”, shouts Snowfall.
“OH!”
“Do we get a chance to go back to bed? And why are you guys up anyway?”, asks Violetta.
“We sleep on and off at night and during the day, kinda like a cat should.”
“Well now that we’re all awake, what should we do?”, I ask, cause I’m already bored of this conversation.
“Well, what do you want to do?”, asks Snowfall.
“What is there to do?”
“Decorate for tomorrow evening.”
“What's special about tomorrow evening?”
“Our Summerfest.”
“Sounds cool. Count me in. ACACIA!”
“WHAT!?”
“DO YOU WANNA HELP DECORATE FOR THE SUMMERFEST TOMORROW EVENING!?”
“SURE!”
“How about you Violetta?”
“Nah I’m busy.”
“Mk.”
Snowfall, Acacia, and I head out and grab decorations from a huge storage room. While we work on decorating, the desert heat starts turning the decor from pretty and cool colors, to beautiful and warm colors. The green going to red, the blue to orange, and the purple to yellow. I think it's cool, being less vibrant colors in the dark and extremely vibrant in the light.
“Hey Snowfall?”, Acacia asks.
“Yea?”
“Why do the decorations do that?”
“It won’t burn out our eyes this way, and it'll blend in better.”
“But how?”
“How what.”
“How do they do that?”
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“It's made from a mixture of ant skin, flamingo feathers, and palm leaves. Mix it together with the lake water here, and it makes this fabric. Cool right?”
“Yah think?”
“Yea.”
That could go on forever. I can’t wait forever. We need to cover this entire castle. And that would not be helpful. I’ll just do it all myself. As I do all the work their arguing is getting further and further away. Oh well… I don’t need their help. I can do it all myself! Heh. Yep.
*~*~*~*~*
“So. I’ve just finished putting up all the decorations. Neither of you helped.”
And now they shut up. “Sorry”, they say, “We're so sorry.”
“Why don’t we go back inside?”, I say, “It's really hot out.”
“This is the desert! What else would you expect?”, asks Snowfall.
“A smaller oasis.”, says Acacia.
“The oasis size depends on the volcano size.”, Snowfall tells her, “ It's all relative.”
“But why would there be such a massive volcano in the middle of the desert anyway?”
“The rest of the places where to cold, or too small even at the right heat. Since we hail originally from your star, which I think you call the Sun, we need extreme heats.”
“That's not answering my question Snowfall.”
“Two words. Hot spot.”
“Oh.”
*~*~*~*~*
“I never said Violetta of all creatures stole my money!”, I hear Snowfall shout.
“Then who did?”, I thinks that's Lola.
“Acacia!”
“I did not!”, Acacia yells, “What’s even the point of non-digital money? All of ours was digital!”
Honestly I don't know what's going on. But I’d like to, if they’d all shut up. I can’t tell them that of course, since two of them are royalty. And if I listen then maybe I can figure out how to fix it.
“I don’t even know what digital means!”, S.
“Most of your stuff is digital, or holographic, how can you not know what that means?!”, A.
“Oh, you mean magical, right?”, S.
“Uh, no? Why in the name of Luna would I mean magical?!”, A.
“Because that's what everything is! Magic games, magic meetings, magic lessons in school, the list goes on.”, S.
“Where we’re from, our stuff is digital, some is holographic, but those need a holoport to work.”, A.
“We don’t need holoports, we have magic.”, S.
“We don’t have enough magiks in our society for that.”, A.
“What's a magik?”, S.
“A magik is a person, creature, or animal who can use magic. Hence the name, magik.”, A.
“That’s a dumb name, we call them Lunars.”, S.
“Yeah well that wouldn’t be allowed in our society.”, A.
“Why not?”, S.
“Because Luna is a name that was banned from objects or children by one of our past leaders.”, A.
“And why was that?”, S.
“Something to do with his religion, it had been suppressed ever since the Seclusion. They practically worshiped the moon. They called it Luna.”, A.
“Didn’t you use it in one of your sentences earlier?”, S.
“We got him out of power after he outlawed the name, renamed every object we’d named Luna, and had every person and creature named Luna in our society killed in a public event. He said it would protect us from the Secobies and Yupends if they ever returned. He was a radicalist, and the other people of his religion denounced him and had him exiled. They left us to make their own society soon after, fearing they might bring another like him into power. We began using it as an insult when they left, since we couldn’t get the ban on the name taken down. It started as just the families of the killed, but it spread to friends, then to others across the society. And here we are today.”, A.
“That was the longest explanation of something I’ve ever heard. Wait, who are the Secobies and Yupends?”, S.
“The alien races who fought against the Dove. The Secobies wanted to take over earth and make all of humanity their slaves, they could summon anything they wanted from the Void. The Yupends wanted to colonize earth and change it to be more like their ruined planet, they were telempaths, and they also were the reason for the Seclusion. If you don’t know who the Dove are, which I highly doubt, then you need to go back to grade preschool.”, A.
“I know who the Dove are, everyone does.”, S.
“I don’t!”, says Blaze.
“I know Blaze.”, S.
“Could you tell me?”, B.
Snowfall sighs loudly, loud enough to rattle my ear drums.
“FIIIIINE. The Dove are the aliens who fought against the Secobies and Yupends. They stood for keeping earth as it was, and leaving it as a nature reserve planet, which they have a lot of already. They are also seers.”, S.
“Ohhhh… Oke.”, B.
“Yozav, ru R svzi blf hzb ‘Lpv’ lmv nliv grnv R hdvzi R’oo grv blf gl z givv zmw uob blf rmgl hkzxv!!”, I hear Raven shout from another room.
“Hliib nfn…”, B.
“Blf wlm’g hlfmw orpv blf nvzm rg!”, R.
“Hliib nfn!”, B.
“Gszg’h yvggvi.”, R.
“Sooo…. I heard your whole conversation starting after, ‘I never said Violetta of all creatures stole my money!’”, I say getting myself a piece of cheese from the Void.
“Why do you have cheese?”, asks Snowfall.
“So I can do this!”, I say as I throw it onto Acacia’s face. When the cheese hit her face, she just sat down and fell over without a sound. That’s gotta be the funniest thing I’ve ever seen to be honest!
“Créme, I don’t care that it’s the funniest thing ever to you,” Acacia says as she gets up, “But it’s not funny to put cheese of all things on someone’s face!”
Oh did I mention she can read minds?