"I asked my watery sister if she had seen my writing pen.

And she had! She did not only see it, she took it! She did not have any bad intentions thought!

In her worldly travels and some planar travels too, she found a new practice that was spreading through the Elementals, both Pure and Hybrid.

It's something called 'cosplay' and if I understood it correctly, and I'm never wrong. I'm the faery of knowledge!

The 'cosplay' happens if someone dresses up as a member of a story.

So a 'cosplayer' is an Elemental being that dresses up as someone famous to live its glories for a little while.

It's actually a really interesting idea for us, we faery know a lot of stories!

My watery sister is trying to make a pirate 'cosplay', she already found a ship, she got the dress ready too, the only thing she was missing was a feather for her pirate captain's hat.

She did find some good feathers while traveling around, she even got a white phoenix feather and an rainbow crystal feather from a daco-phoenix.

Apparently the Flaming Goddess of Fiery Righteousness came to see mother because a faery was bothering her pets, now I know that it was for a good reason!

I mean the Goddess need to relax some times and tends to vent her anger in an... Explosive way. But this time someone was really bothering her pets! And my sister was right too, their feathers are really beautiful!

There was a little problem, a sister of ours... The faery of feathers, she just loves feathers and HOARDS them, she takes even our pillows if they are made of feathers.

My watery sister had many of her beautiful feathers liberated from her possession, so when she found the most beautiful one yet. My writing pen, she took it and hid it on her 'cosplay' room. She even put multiple dimensional lock on it so that our sister could not feel the presence of the feather!"

-Bee May, the faery of knowledge

"I have my writing pen back! Now I might need to hide it from my sisters..."

The female dropper was sitting on the ground, Fianna was next to her, combing her beautiful brown fur with her fingers. They were watching Little Wolf and the two male droppers fooling around. The two droppers were running shoulder to shoulder and Little Wolf was standing on top of them with a foot on each dropper back. Little Wolf was laughing and whooping, the droppers were running, then stopping, then running and jumping, Little Wolf was standing on top of them without anything to grip on. He was analyzing the perfect way to keep his center of mass to not move from the spot he was in. Apparently Mira's training of breaking the earth under his feet and moving it around while fighing worked wonders.

"Whoooo! Mom watch me! Hahahaha! I'm the best dropper rider! I'm riding two at the same time!"

Laughed Little Wolf.

"Did I not say that you needed to gain energy? Why are you wasting it like this? Safe said that most Demon's body have five hearts by your age! You are eleven years behind!"

Yelled Mira.

"But you taught me how to fight with less energy to overcome that!"

Yelled Little Wolf back, still 'riding' the droppers.

"You can overcome the energy usage with experience, you cannot overcome two extra brains!"

Mira stomped her foot, a ramp of earth appeared under the droppers legs, they jumped, used their clawed front paws to scale a tree and watched the ground with curiosity and apprehension. Little Wolf was surprised by the improvvise change and fell off them but, he landed on the ground on his feet without problems.

"Stop playing and tell us what you learned, so we can go on and find something that can give you some of that energy that you keep wasting."

Admonished Mira.

"Ok! So, I saw and smelled some of the hunters and the scouts, both in the forest and inside the fort. Oh the fort was really cool! The soldiers are not really attentive, the hunters were harder to sneak by! Inside I smelled some of the caretakers and children. For the important people I saw Alfonse fight the fire and I smelled Todd deep inside the fort. I have not smelled anyone else..." Little Wolf grimaced. "They were not many, maybe thirty? Are we the only one left? What about Annabelle? Kitty? Micah? Brielle? Mary? What about all the others?"

"The village was destroyed. When it happens usually the villagers don't want to stay there, too many memories, good and bad. They go somewhere else, they are still alive."

Said Sidon with steel in his voice.

"We go back to the village."

Said Fianna.

"Village? There is no village, only the fort, the soldiers and our friends live there now."

Answered Little Wolf.

"The girl, she was an Arthus princess, they are our soldiers too."

Said Sidon.

"You knew she was a princess and you threw her!?"

Half yelled Fianna.

Sidon just shrugged.

"Are you sure that she was telling you the truth?"

Asked Mira.

"Yes, she was strong."

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"Is being strong the same as being truthful?"

"Well... She had that sword too..."

"OH!" Yelled Fianna. "I felt like I knew that greatsword! How did I not think about it?"

"What sword?"

Asked Little Wolf.

"Your first sword!"

Smiled Fianna.

"Can we get going to the fort? So that we can finally get this over and move again?"

Asked Mira.

"Yes, we will speak with Todd, he always knows what goes on."

Answered Sidon.

"What about the boar?"

Asked Fianna.

"What about it?"

Asked Mira.

"We can't leave it there! Let's bring it to the fort!"

Answered Fianna.

"Ok, bring it to the fort, let's just go." Said Mira, then she noticed they were all looking at her. "What?"

"Can you bring the moss boar to the fort?"

Asked Fianna.

"No, you do it."

Said Mira.

"I'm not strong enough."

Said Fianna.

"Too tired."

Said Sidon.

"Awe "LITTLE WOLF" should not waste energy."

Said Safe.

"What Safe said!"

Said Little Wolf with a smile.

"Can't you just eat the boar? It will give you some of the energy you wasted moving around."

Pleaded Mira.

"It would not be a bad idea, the boar is big and it was full of vitality."

Agreed Safe.

"But its meat could feed many people!"

Argued Little Wolf.

"Fine!" Mira groaned, the big boar started to levitate. "Just shut up and get going now."

"The blood will attract other animals."

Said Sidon.

"Good, Little Wolf can eat them."

Said Mira.

"We should not waste time."

Said Sidon.

"The blood is filled with vitality, it could help Awe's "LITTLE WOLF" growth."

Argued Safe.

The blood of the boar fled its body, it became a sphere of blood and it was dropped on top of Little Wolf. Little Wolf inhaled the blood and made it disappear almost istantly, when he could see again, all he was was his parents and the three dropper that were looking behind him. He turned and saw Mira far ahead with the moss boar levitating near her.

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Inside the fort - Thaddeus study.

"The fire is under control, Sir." Thaddeus assistant said. "There were some members hurt but no deaths. The princess protected us by bringing the moss boar away."

"What about the idiots that bothered it?."

"I sent someone to check their quarters, they found some Monia's fire flowers in the forest and made some mead out of them."

"Monia's? Where those flower's petals yellow on the outside then orange and then red inside?"

"No Sir, they are red on the outside then orange with the inside yellow."

"Those are not Monia's! Those are the wild dreams flowers. The roots can be boiled into a soothing concoction, useful for bodily pains. The roots then can be grinded to make some sleep powder. The flower is too strong, it can be used to give nightmarish visions, it can be boiled and used as a liquid but the effects are poor unless an idiot drinks it. But it can be ground into a paste and be used to poison weapons, mostly arrows and daggers usually. If those soldiers drank a concentrated wild dreams flower soup, they will be a danger for the others and themselves. Have them put under surveillance after you have arrested them."

"About that Sir... I feel like it won't be necessary."

"How so? Are they dead?"

"Two of them got crushed by the moss boar when they woke it up, we round up most of the body parts we could find and were not merged with the ground. One got gored by the moss boar tusk, we found the two sides of the body... His bowels were stuck on the moss boar tusk and he was dragged around until they broke, it was quite a messy. The other three drinking buddies were found in the forest and put under arrest only... Alfonse found them, he yelled at them about the security of the persons living in the fort and skewered them..."

"Alfonse, the First Hunter?"

"Yes, no... I think? I have written here that he is Alfonse the temporary First Hunter."

"Yeah him, he is still waiting for Sidon uh? Well, anyone that knows him is waiting for his return."

"Is the First Hunter so important? I mean he disappeared for over a year and there were seven, SEVEN months of heavy snowstorms."

"He survived."

Thaddeus glared at his assistant.

"Y-y-yes, Sir." The assistant almost fell on his ass. "B-b-but Sir, Alfonse did not skewer the three prisoners freely, he had to knock down the men escorting them too, the soldiers are not happy, they think the villagers are too arrogant, there might be heavy consequences if this continues."

"Eh, I know... But what can we do? The villagers are important, they know the forest better than anyone else, the soldiers will take more time to learn, they need to forget their training first, or part of it."

"Is the forest so different from any other places?"

"No, not really, only extremely dangerous, the hardwood forest is considered a danger zone of the same grade of the hellfire desert for a reason. If they think they know how to move in a forest, they need to think of the worse that could happen and it would be an every day occurrence in the hardwood forest and that is in the normal days, the moss boar is one exceptional case but it could be worse, the soldiers are not prepared for the hardwood forest."

"And the villagers are?"

"Nah, not all of them, that's why there are scouts and there are hunters. They guide the villagers when there is danger, that's how the village survived."

"But now it's not needed, Sir."

"Yes, the army will help but, we still need both scouts and hunters to keep them safe until they can adapt."

"Sir, I think Alfonse should be punished for the killing of three soldiers in cold blood. It would help to both please the soldiers and to teach the villagers that there are rules."

"Alfonse, Alfonse, what should I do with you? You are not Sidon, you cannot act like him, you need to act like yourself. Sidon would have solved the problem differently."

"Nah, I would not. The soldiers are not villagers, they can't put the village in danger. Killing them for unleashing a moss boar on the village sounds just right, maybe not on the spot, I would have executed them near Bob's house for everyone to see."

Answered Sidon.

"Yeah... You are right, thats exactly what you would have done Si-." Started Thaddeus then froze, he turned slowly. "Sidon?"

"Hi Todd, we are back."

Smiled Sidon.