Saria felt her consciousness slowly return to her in a bright blue light. She quickly stepped down and felt her sense of balance return to her. Her head felt like she had just woken up from an intense dream. Slowly, she felt the overwhelming heat that surrounded her at all times form around her body again. She centered and encased the energy in a golden pendant she wore on her neck, shaped like a flat pyramid with every other segment cut off, centered into a spine that ran through the center of the whole shape. The pendant radiated with a deep with a glistening orange that still gave off a slight heat to it.
Apparently awaiting Saria was Navi who had her lavender hair cut short today. A set of goggles were stuck to her face, so opaque that Saria couldn’t make out her eyes. She held and elated stare at her sister and lightly giggled,
“Ehe...Welcome back Saria” She waved. Saria rolled her eyes and stepped off a glowing blue platform with various bits of machinery surrounding it.
“Alright. What’d I miss?” She sighed, throwing off her jacket in a corner and continuing to walk towards the doorway. The floor was made of a haphazard mix of cobblestone and wood, almost in a pattern but not quite. The walls were made of stone with the supports made of wood. Various windows lined the hallways, none of them having any actual glass.
Saria picked up a lone sheet of paper labeled report. And read parts of it out loud,
“Guild expenses met. Lexa and Bianca, smiley face. Edward, frowny face. Moonlight and Spencer, mild face. No quests were completed while I was gone…Alright, nothing caught on fire”
Navi nodded, “Happy with what you see, or did you want something a little more?”
Saria set down the report and looked back at Navi, “Yes actually, file a request to see Moonlight, I need her for something”
Navi nodded, “Yeppy! On it, misses!”. Immediately Navi’s body sparked with a violent charge of a pastel green and purple. She quickly jolted off and back again in a few moments, the only difference being that she was carrying a large rabbit-like creature in her hands. It was a deep shade of silver, with a small bushel of fur on her stomach. It had a clear mouth, and a slight amount of styled hair on her head. She wore a small pair of glasses that were currently dangling on her sleeping figure, and her mouth still dribbled with saliva.
“HA! Made it in 3.5 seconds, that’s my 35st fastest time so far...” Navi cheered. Her body twitched with a few more jolts, sending electricity through Moonlight’s body. Instantly Moonlight was launched up, sparks paralyzing her for a few seconds. She was awake, though a bit more fried than she could’ve hoped for.
“Goodness gracious! Is it Wednesday night already?” Moonlight woofed off, she shook her fur about for a moment, getting all the fuzz and dirt off before she continued, “What are we working on today dearest? The mech or the…” Moonlight slowly trailed off, looking at Saria. She blushed immediately and bowed her head down,
“Forgive me, miss Saria. Is there something you need of me?” She asked with a low and quiet tone of voice. Saria looked down at the creature with an imperious stare,
“Yes. I need you to do a reading for me” She commanded
“But, m-misses...I thought you d-didn’t want to know the outcome at this moment” Moonlight stuttered but immediately regretted, she quickly bowed her head further to avoid looking at Saria’s face.
“Don’t make assumptions!” Saria barked. Moonlight darted down further and whimpered.
“Simply look ahead around a few hours in the future and tell me where the children are” she ordered.
Moonlight nodded, shaking. She hopped off of Navi’s hands and plopped onto the floor. Her nervousness slowly began to fade away as she focused her mind and body in the present. Everything around her began to fade. The air, her emotions, Saria’s heat; All began to fade away into the blackness of the deepest void, an endless never ending trench in a sea of forward motion. Hypnotizing, Moonlight found her mind slowly melt away at the seems, sinking in the abyss of the night. Particles of dreams, memories long lost, and entire universes passed by her, only fragments of a larger puzzle. She fell through an endless space until she reached what she was looking for. The ocean of time passed over her, and she drowned herself across the waves as she sunk deeper and deeper. Within the darkest parts of the lake she glimpsed a small vision of fate itself, she saw Jake, Aerith, Nadene, Layalli, Stephanie and others all in a jail cell. Nadene was in the center of the room thinking, with everyone else around them. Just as she got close she felt her lungs tighten, she needed to go back up for air, but she was already so deep there was no way she’d be able to get up. Still, she swam up slowly but surely until she felt her last wisps of energy fade. Her consciousness slipped back and she shook her head until her eyes came back to normal and she slipped out of her trance.
“Well? What happened when you went in?” Navi asked, kneeling down.
Moonlight wiped her mouth of water, though she found nothing there. Her memory was a strange mix of her time underwater and her time walking around in the castle. She shook her head a bit more before she answered, “I...I saw them in the jail, one of them was in the center and everyone was looking at them”
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“Jail? Can’t Jake just draw himself out of there? I mean, I’ve let myself be captured before, but it was never that tame. Normally the conditions are a bit more...restrictive” Navi cooed
“Dearest, I wish you would lower the bedroom talking, it’s screwing my memory” Moonlight sighed, still unable to get the sensation that she was wet off of her.
“Screwing your memory...that reminds me of a time I was imprisoned. Wait, didn’t you do that Saria?”
Moonlight began to ring her fur now, her face twisting in discomfort, “Wait, while that’s all my memory has to offer. I’d like to indulge Navi her a bit more about this…’screwing’ if I may”
Navi’s head titled, “Well it’s not like she did all that much, honestly it was quite disappointing” Navi sighed nostalgically, “She sat me down in this bed and put this thing in me and then after a while my brain felt funny. I was tied down too, I could’ve even reach to take it out myself. Though I don’t think it was a screw though, it was more of a plug really”
“Don’t make her think I do lewd things to you. That sounds like those cartoons Bianca and you watch!” Saria puffed up with her arms crossed, “I only asked you if you wanted me to upgrade your OS last week, and I tied you down because A, you kept squirming, and B, because you asked me to, idiot!”
“Well duh, Saria! That’s why I was so vague, my memories’ been screwed”
Saria let out a surprised stutter, she wasn’t exactly prepared for her to say something like that. She grunted in annoyance and shook the conversation away,
“You and Moonlight go get the kids and bring them back here, I’ll be doing paperwork and checking on Lexa and Bianca”
Navi picked Moonlight up, letting her softly relax on her shoulder. She ran off normally this time, making sure Moonlight could balance herself properly. She darted away out of Saria’s sight. And Saria waited until Navi was out of earshot to go back towards her jacket and rummage through her pockets until she found her phone.
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She rushed her fingers to quickly scroll down to Lexa and Bianca with a small heart to the far right of the contact name. She calmly pushed the call button and held the phone up to her ear, instantly the phone was picked up before the first ring was even completed, Bianca was on the phone
“UGHH...Lexa could you please quiet down? *sigh* Sorry about this, but we’re out for a cibious right now, we’ve received reports right here in cobblestone about one nearby. We’re gonna be out for a while”
“It’s really urgent though, I really need someone to do something” Saria said
“Then get Spencer to do it or something, Lexa keeps bugging me and we’re on watch right now”
“Okay, Listen, Jake will create a cibous out of thin air for you to eat, just go get them”
“All right. But you’re ruining the hunt right now, hope you know that”
Bianca hung up the phone.
Saria lowered her phone down and began shifting through contacts,
“I’m sorry about this, old friend” She murmured to herself, “But you’ve outlived your purpose. I’m afraid it’s time for you all to die”
She pushed the down key until she reached Vector and pushed the call button. Vector was a bandit leader that plagued the outskirts of Saria’s small province of land, Sin!City. The master of one of the largest bandit gangs, Dusk Gambit. If you needed someone to do something illegal around these parts it’d be through these guys. Saria had used them quite a few times to get work done that she didn’t want associated with her, they were clever enough to not get caught and wise enough to not double cross their employers. In short, they were perfect for Saria.
When the person on the other end answered they remained completely silent, only the faint wind making any noise. Saria waited for some time for them to say something before her, but they didn’t utter a word. Finally Saria gave in and spoke first,
“I need you to do a job, Vector. Cobblestone county jail, I need 2 kids dead by like...midnight, maybe...Yeah, midnight. You’ll know them when you see them, if their clothes don’t give it away then their behavior will. The money gets in your pocket as soon as I get your word”
“Two kids huh? And Cobblestone county jail no less, ain’t that were Saria put all those weird guards? Heh, I think I have a few of my guys there” Vector replied, his voice was rough and haughty, emanating a constant sense of danger around him, “But what about the parents, won’t they go lookin’ for em?” He mocked.
“Heh...Well you’ll probably be happy to hear that you don’t have to kill anyone’s parents this time. There shouldn’t be anyone looking for them”
Vector fell silent in his laughing and let the wind take over. Looping the phone cord in thought while he sulked in the darkness. His entire body did not move besides the one basic motion until he rather suddenly stopped,
“Say, Spektra, you wouldn’t be ratting me out to anyone here now would you? Cause that’d be bad now, wouldn’t it? I ain’t got no problem with killing a phony queen” He threatened as his eyes narrowed
Saria smirked, Phony Queen and Spektra, both names I’ve given myself after my exile. He thinks he can kill me here because I’m not the real one, but that couldn’t be further from the truth…I get to make it out like a secret weakness while it’s my greatest advantage…
“Of course, we’re bound by blood, same as always…The pain you feel is mine and vice versa”
“Glad ya’ remember that. I’ll be sending word off to everyone I’ll need, how much room do I got here?” Vector replied with a terrifying grin
“I only want them dead, and I don’t want anyone seeing it. I need no information from them, so torture is unnecessary. Use as much magic as you want”
“Alright then, sounds good. Cya’”
With that Saria hung up the phone and melted it in her hands with a proud but erie grin. She felt the metal expand out and pop, then churn into a soft soup that was only released within sparks and smoke. With the phone gone she went back to the doorway and picked up the various reports Navi had left aside. She read over them carefully and hugged them close to her person while she left the room and walked a few rooms down into hers.
Saria’s office was a cramped space, ironically nearly everything was made of wood with traces of stone. Several bookshelves outlined the room, polished with a slide curved shape, filled with various books, documents and artifacts. Cabinets and folders were lined against the wall, with a desk in the center, and a single golden flame lightened the whole room. A calendar was just behind a grand throne with red velvet comforting. A table was to the left of the throne, having other various papers and folders tossed along it. Saria made her way into her chair and took a feather and ink quill from the further reaches of her table. She placed the reports on the table carefully and began to write out on them, covering expenses and logging various behaviors of several members that worked for her guild, castle and hotel, The Silver Rune.