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Wonderland by GleefullyCaptainSwan

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Chapter 2: Emma Swan

Emma sat on the plane with her arms crossed and a scowl on her face. She had never felt so trapped in her entire life. She bit the inside of her cheek and her knee began to bounce nervously.

“Emma, everything is going to be alright.”

Emma glared at her mother. “Easy for you to say, you aren’t about to be a prisoner in the middle of the fucking ocean.”

“Don’t you dare talk to your mother with that language.”

Emma narrowed her eyes in her father’s direction. “Apologizes Mother.” The woman smiled sadly. “Happy now, Dave?” She added icily.

“Emma Grace Nolan!” She smirked; her father hated that she had begun calling him by his first name. A fact she took great pleasure in.

The pilot announced that they would be landing, and she turned toward the window, avoiding further conversation with her parents.

Growing up the heiress to the Nolan empire would have been a gift to anyone else, but Emma had always considered it a curse. Her entire life she had been expected to dress to perfection, act like royalty, and most importantly, never soil the family name.

“What’s your name?” “Wouldn’t you like to know!” “Girl, you are in a lot of trouble right now. You can tell me your name or not, either way I’m going to find out.” “Go to hell, officer.” “Have it your way.”

The jolt of the wheels touching down tore her from her thoughts. She closed her eyes, wishing she were anywhere but here.

“I can do this on my own.” She said defiantly as her parents followed her to the waiting limo.

“Not happening.” Her father nodded at the driver and opened the door, waiting for Emma to enter the car before sitting down beside her.

“This is ridiculous, I’m not a child.”

“Then stop acting like one.”

“David.” Her mother scolded.

They rode the rest of the way in awkward silence. When Emma stepped out of the limo, she grabbed her mother by the arm. “If I have to do this the least you can do is let me go in alone.”

Her mother stared at her, and her face softened.

“Emma we just want you to get better. You’re sick.”

“Yeah, well I’m here right? I’m on an island I can’t escape from. What is the harm in letting me walk in there on my own?”

Her father grabbed her bags and started walking up the path to the center. “David.” He turned around, making his annoyance clear. “I think Emma can do the rest on her own.” He paused, looking between them both and then setting her bag down.

“Fine.”

She bent down and slung her bag over her shoulder. “Well, I’m off to prison.”

“Don’t think of it that way, Emma.” Her mother pleaded.

“Whatever.” She turned and walked away, not bothering to look back, choosing to ignore the pain on her mother’s face or the anger on her father’s that she knew was the mask he used to hide his concern.

She swung open the door to the center and walked up to the front desk. The man dressed in a security uniform looked up at her. He was gorgeous, but not the type of gorgeous she was used to seeing. Men in her circle knew they were good looking and with that brought the attitude and money to get any woman they wanted. He had a more down to earth sexy look that she didn’t see in the men she knew.

“Name, please.” He didn’t even bother to hold her gaze, he looked away and frowned.

“Emma Swan.”

“Say’s Nolan in my logbook.” He glanced at her and shrugged.

Emma groaned, ok gorgeous but annoying.

“Listen asshole, it’s Emma Swan. Update your damn records.”

She looked around anxiously as the man typed into his computer. Across the hall her gaze landed on the bluest eyes she had ever seen, staring holes into her. The corner of his lip turned upward into a cocky smirk. “Take a picture, it will last longer.” She cursed under her breath.

He strolled across the room toward her, her breath catching in her throat at the intensity of his stare. “Haven’t met Regina yet, have you lass? No phones allowed; thus, I am forced to burn every naughty detail of you into my brain so that I may use it later...” He leaned closer to her ear; his breath hot against her skin. “for personal reasons.”

The guard at the desk cleared his throat. “Jones, I know it’s your first day, but rule #3 makes this entire exchange completely pointless.”

“Aye, but I still have one hand left to take care of matters myself.” He held up his hand, gesturing with his middle finger toward the guard. Only then did Emma notice the missing appendage on his left side, forcing her eyes to return to man who was drawing her ire.

“What’s rule #3?”

The man smirked and walked away from her. “Good luck, Miss Swan.”

The guard stood, “Ignore him, he’s still adjusting to his first day.” He walked out from behind the desk, Emma was quick to notice that this man obviously worked out. Wonderland certainly didn’t seem to be short on attractive men, no matter how aggravating they were, at least it had great scenery. “Let me take you to Regina, this way.”

“Regina?”

“She’s the manager of WRC. She’ll go over the rules with you.”

“Like rule #3?”

“Ah yes, the no sex rule.”

Emma’s eyes widened, before she was ushered into the large office.

“Regina, I have a new patient. Emma Nolan.”

“Swan. Emma Swan.” She corrected. At least the annoying jerk with the amazing blue eyes and sexy swagger got her name right, even if he was mocking her while using it correctly.

“Please sit.” The woman spoke, gesturing her to the seat across from her. “Thank you, Graham.” The guard left the room and closed the door behind him.

“Miss Nolan, welcome to Wonderland.”

“Look, I prefer Swan, but just call me Emma, since no one seems to listen to my requests around here.”

“I don’t care what you want to be called. Honestly, my job is to ensure your recovery, Emma. That’s all.” She opened her file and began reading. “Born Emma Nolan.” She looked up at her and smiled. “Daughter of David and Mary Margaret Nolan of the Nolan Empire.” She sat down the binder. “Your father owns all those hotels across the world, is that correct?”

Emma rolled her eyes. “Yeah, boring.”

“Ah, not impressed with daddy’s money but more than happy to spend it, I’m sure.”

“Don’t pretend you know me.”

“Oh Emma, I don’t have to know you, I know your type. Born with more luxury than most people could ever dream to afford yet so deeply afflicted that you are afraid you’ll never get the one thing you desire the most.”

“And what would that be?”

“Being worthy of the family name.”

“I already told you, I don’t even want that name. I don’t give a fuck about being a Nolan.” The woman smiled and Emma looked away angrily. “Aren’t you supposed to give me the rules or some bullshit, or are we done now?”

“Of course, lets talk rules. You will have individual sessions with Dr. Hopper three times a week as well as group therapy once a week.”

“Can’t wait.” She mumbled and the woman grunted angrily before continuing.

“You’re to be in you room with lights out at 10pm each night.”

“I’m 20, not 12”

“You’re also not in a hotel and you will obey my rules or there will be consequences. There will also be no sex on these grounds.”

“So, I’ve heard. This place is a real downer.”

“Dr. Whale will provide you all of your mediation.” She picked up her file again and glanced through it until she found the information she needed. “Anxiety medication, as needed, as well as Birth Control medication, it appears.”

“Not sure why I need that here.” She scoffed.

“We allow our female patients to continue with their usual regimen since most have plans to leave and return to their lives. If you have plans to stay longer, I can let your Dr. know you won’t be needing it.”

“I never said that.”

“In that case, let me continue, there is a gym on site, as well as a registered dietician to use as needed. So now that we got that out of the way, we just need to sign the paperwork and I’ll need your cell phone.”

Emma yanked her phone out of her pocket and tossed it on the table. “Just give me the papers.”

She passed them toward her, “Please sign, Emma Nolan, that is your legal name.”

Emma grumbled as she took pen to paper, signing her name.

“You can make a phone call to mom and dad after you complete the first 14 days of your treatment.”

“Yeah right.”

“In any case, it will be available if you have changed your mind by then. Now let’s go meet your roommate before your first session with Dr. Hopper.”

“So much excitement, I can hardly contain myself.”

The woman did not hide her contempt toward her as they walked out of the office. Emma knew Regina’s type. She had seen it plenty of times before from the women who looked down their noses at Emma even as they attended her parent’s fancy parties. Those were the women who thought Emma was undeserving of her life. She hated women like Regina Mills. Eventually she would have to find a way to convince this lady to let her go home. She studied her cautiously as they walked. She would do what she always did, find a crack, and expose it.

“Ruby, I have your new roommate, Emma.”

Emma eyed the girl lying on her bed, engrossed in a magazine. “Bed’s over there.” The girl pointed to the other side of the room and the empty bed.

“Dr. Hopper should be ready to see you as soon as you unpack.” Regina nodded to the women and exited quickly.

“She’s a real piece of work.” Emma whispered under her breath.

“The word you’re looking for is bitch.” The tall dark-haired girl added.

“Glad it wasn’t just me thinking that.”

“You won’t have to deal with her much unless you break the rules, so obviously I see her at least once or twice a week.” She grinned.

Maybe she might actually like her roommate.

“I don’t know how you could even walk around here without breaking rule #3 at least once or twice a day.”

“You mean the eye candy?” Ruby mused. “It’s like they’re asking us to break that rule.”

Emma laughed heartily. “That security guard sure is nice to look at.”

“Graham, yeah he’s a bit of a straight arrow. He’ll flirt but I’ve never so much as even been able to convince him of a blow job. And he reports everything back to Regina, so I would tread lightly there.”

“Shame, he’s easy on the eyes.”

“Trust me, wait til you meet the men in our group session. They’ll have you wet and ready before you even leave your seat, I spend most of the session squirming in my chair, but then I’m also a sex addict so maybe it’s just me.”

“You can actually be addicted to sex?”

Ruby shrugged, “Yeah it’s a thing. Hop says I spend too much time worrying about my other vices and not enough looking at the reasons behind why I feel like I need sex all the time.”

Emma had never really enjoyed sex. But then she’d only ever been with Neal, so she didn’t have a lot of experience to compare it to. “So, what’s this Dr. Hopper like? Anything I should know?”

“He’s a nice guy, but not much gets by him. He asks more questions than you’ll be ready for. Best just to answer and move on.”

“We’ll see about that.”

Twenty minutes later, seated across from the curly haired doc and Emma understood what Ruby meant about his number of intrusive questions.

“So why do you think you are here?”

“Isn’t it obvious? My dad is pissed at me and sent me here for punishment.”

“Why do you think your dad is mad at you?”

“Embarrassment, not obeying him, and three thousand other stupid reasons he gets mad at me every day.”

“Why do you think he would be embarrassed?

“Why would you do this Emma?” “Why do you care?” “Emma, I’m your father, I just want to understand why you would get involved in any of this? You knew how bad this would look if you got caught.” “Ah yes, what you actually mean is how bad it would look for you.” “Drugs, breaking and entering, stealing…Emma? Why? Why didn’t you talk to us?” “Don’t start acting like you give a damn now. This is the first time I’ve seen you in three months.”

“He’s David fucking Nolan. Do you know how much money he paid just to keep my arrest out of the news?”

“Do you think he might have been protecting you?”

She laughed loudly, thinking about how absurd it sounded to her. “His business is his number one priority. Trust me, he doesn’t want anyone to find out about my…” She stiffened. “My uh, arrest.”

“You were arrested for breaking and entering, as well as possession of a schedule 2 substance, is that correct?”

She laughed. “It was a joke. We broke into a hotel of one of my dad’s competitors. Stole some cash.”

“We?”

“Um, a friend.”

“Were you also doing drugs with this friend?”

“Well, he wouldn’t be a friend if he didn’t share his drugs.” The joke fell flat as the man stared at her, making a note in his book. “Look it wasn’t a big deal.”

He flipped through the pages of her file. “You were high on cocaine the night you were arrested, is that correct?”

“I know, what a cliché, rich kid arrested doing coke.”

“It says in the report that you were the only one arrested. Where was your friend?”

“Took off. Gotta look out for yourself, right?” Emma chewed on her nails uncomfortably.

He paused and she braced for more questions about her friend but was surprised when he moved on. “How long had you been doing cocaine?”

“I dunno, a few years. Everyone was doing it at parties, its not a big deal.”

“You spent 11 months in jail, isn’t that correct?”

“I don’t want to talk about that.”

“Did something bad happen in jail?”

Emma flinched.

“Emma you can do it. One more push.”

“I said I don’t want to talk about it.” She yelled, crossing her arms, and staring out the window. “Actually, I’m done talking at all today.”

When he became resigned to the fact that she had no intention of answering any more of his questions, he released her from the session. She stormed back to her room, unsure how she was going to survive this place. She hated being drilled and questioned by someone she didn’t even know.

God, she needed a drink.

She threw herself on her bed and groaned loudly.

“Told you the questions were brutal.”

Emma looked over at her new roommate. “What do you do around here for fun?”

The girl grinned. “Wanna get your heart rate up?”

She leaned onto her side, propping herself up on her elbow, her head cradling into her hand. “Somehow I don’t think you mean that in a way that is actually interesting or fun.”

“Come on. Trust me.”

She begrudgingly followed the girl through the hallways until she yanked open the double doors and paraded into the large gym.

“Ok you definitely lost me at physical exertion.”

“I said to trust me.”

She grumbled as they both walked over to the treadmills. “I don’t understand how exercise equates to…”

She gestured toward the opposite corner of the gym. “Nothing beats a good work out when you have something like that to look at.”

Emma watched the man remove his shirt and she grinned in the direction of her roommate. “Ok I’ve learned to trust you. You do know where all the fun is around here.”

“That’s Jefferson. Hot as hell, great in bed.” Emma stared at her, mouth standing open.

“You’ve had sex with him? Here?”

“Oh yeah, got a week of solitary for it but it was worth it.”

Emma increased the speed on her treadmill when two other men entered the room. The one Graham had called Jones with the blue eyes and smug attitude and a shorter man striding beside him.

“Oh, he’s new.” The girl sang beside her.

“Apparently it’s his first day. Graham called him Jones. Real asshole though.”

“Oh, even better, those are the best ones in bed.” She pointed to the guy next to him. “That’s Will. He’s hilarious, only got him to kiss me once, he has a fiancé waiting for him at home. Boring. Just don’t listen to a thing he says.” She laughs. “Compulsive liar.”

Emma watched as Jefferson greeted the two men. He lifted his shirt above his head and Emma felt her mouth go dry staring at his chest, a patch of dark hair trailing down into the waistband of his sweats.

“One hand, never done anyone in that situation before.” Ruby whispered.

The man stood in the corner, lifting one of the weights with his right arm, glancing in their direction. Emma increased the speed on her bike again, feeling the sweat starting to roll down her back. She swore she saw him smirk in her direction and she felt the fire between her legs start to burn. She broke eye contact with him, focusing on the numbers moving in front of her.

“Hello ladies.” She turned to see the one Ruby called Will approaching them.

“William. Fancy seeing you here.”

“Ruby Red, baby, glad to see you are back in general. Who’s your friend?”

“Will, Emma. Emma, Will.” Ruby introduced them, her voice coming out in strained breathes as she ran next to her.

“Lovely to meet you, I’m Will. Though you may have seen me on television.”

“Sorry, don’t watch a lot of television.”

He frowned and Jones approached them. “We meet again, Swan.”

“How unlucky for me.” She punched the stop button on her treadmill and slowed her pace as the machine came to a crawl.

“Was it something I said?” He laughed as she grabbed a towel and slung it over her neck.

“You breathed.” She groaned.

“I don’t believe we’ve met.” Her roommate stepped off her treadmill and held out her hand to Jones. “Ruby.”

“Pleasure is all mine, lass. Killian Jones.” He greeted.

“Aren’t you that pirate?”

“Aye, busted.”

“I knew it! Did you know that was him, Emma?” She squealed.

Emma stared at the two of them. Pirate? She squinted her eyes, staring at the man. She had no idea who he was. “Sorry, no idea, don’t care, honestly.”

He sauntered up beside her, dropping an arm around her shoulder. “Perhaps you know me by my more colorful moniker, Hook. Captain Hook?”

She grabbed his hand and plucked it off her shoulder. “Delightful and also ridiculous, but Sorry haven’t a clue who you are, don’t care for fairytales.”

“Never wanted to be a princess then, love?” His arm now sliding down around her waist.

She grabbed him by the hand, twisted in his grasp and pushed him to the ground, whipping his wrist behind his back. “I told you, I’m not interested.”

He laughed. “You sure about that, love.”

She leaned closer to his ear. “You couldn’t handle it.” With one sweep he wrapped his leg around her and flipped them over, his body pressing into hers.

“Perhaps you’re the one who couldn’t handle it.” His tongue clicking in her ear. In an instant her body caught fire at the tone of his voice, and the feel of his body on hers.

Asshole.

Her knee met his groin in a fury, and she felt him tense above her, rolling to his side with a loud groan. “Bloody minx.”

She stood up and peered down at him. “You deserved that.” She looked back at Ruby who was in the midst of a giggling fit. “Let’s get out of here.”

The girl wrapped her arm around Emma’s waist. “You are going to be so fun to hang around.” She laughed. “I bet you are amazing in bed.” Emma glanced sideways at her, not sure if she was hitting on her or just making a remark. “Would be worth a week in solitary to find out.”

Yep, definitely flirting with her. This place was going to be interesting.

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jess-the-vampire · 5 years

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Sky And The Forces Of The Multiverse, Chapter 19

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"She....what?". "Judas, galexia just....predicted the future, with her drawings... do you have any idea what this means?!", Sky was pulling at her hair, her monster hat of the day lying on the bed, sunny was sitting next to lexi in the corner and judas seemed a little more then startled. "Sky, are you sure she's not just drawing things she knows about or sees? It's not that i don't believe you but if you're sure about this it's uh..well it's quite the thing to to confirm you know?". "Judas, you have no idea! Lexi once drew kelly, before she met her! And now this! Think about it, do you remember her drawing anything that is kinda suspicious now?", the demon child bit his lip and thought back, "Well, there was a time where she used shampoo to draw a.....plant...". The gears clicked in his head and he looked right at galexia, "But that was...that was almost forever ago, it's not like with the teacups...that was something that only happened a few hours ago!."

"Then maybe this stuff could happen at any time! Weeks, days, months! Judas, we have a seerer! And not like one of those ones Melaine likes to play as, like, a REAL seerer!!", she looked excited but also incredibly panicked, "I mean, maybe she can help us! Tell us who is responsible, predict all the things we might run into! Imagine all the things we can do if galexia can predict the future!". She was pacing and sunny and judas shared a worried expression. "We could find out whose behind the mask, how to fix everything! If galexia can predict stupid cups then imagine what else she could predict?!". But judas still didn't seem to share her excitement, looking more and more concerned. "Sky, remember when i told you you were freaking out too much about well...the other worlds? Letting them get to you? Well, i feel like you might just be....well, freaking out too much about this?", he stood up, "If galexia can predict the future, well, we don't know if it works, how accurate it is, nothing. You might be...well, getting too.....excited and i uh......i'm getting a bit worried ....about you.". Sky looked over the drawings around the room, "You sure you're not just worried about all the drawings she did of you? C'mon judas, it'll be fine, with this we could stop you from having issues before they happen!". "Sky....well, yeah, of course that makes me anxious but....you know, stuff like this.....you shouldn't let it take you over or anything. I mean, the plant drawing happened forever ago, events could happen in a day, or a year from now from what we know. W-we don't even know if she can control it.", Sky looked a bit frustrated, turning away and eyeing the green-eyed princess in the corner ."Galexia, How do you do it? Any of this?", Lexi just blinked at her, he face never wavering from her normal dreamy expression, "I just draw my dreams, my parents always wanted me to keep a dream journal and eclipsa said i should keep up using it! Said i had a real talent for drawing all kinds of cool stuff! You like?". "Lexi, you just predicted the future! Don't you know that!?" "I just draw my dreams, that's it. I like draw the things i see in my dreams and they come out looking really pretty!" Sky scratched at her face, and felt a hand on her shoulder, looking up to see judas with a sad smile. "Sky look, it's.....Galexia has drawn a ton of stuff, stuff that's never happened yet, look around you....Can you really ever see-", he picked one of the drawings out of the pile, "Eclipsa riding around on a giant pizza? We don't know how this works sky....even if she can tell the future, what if....what if most of this stuff never actually ends up being true? Look Sky we can't focus on the future.....we have to look out for what happens now...". "C'mon judas! You just told me today you just want to know who it is! ". "We have no control over what lexi draws sky!", he raised his voice, before softening it,"Please sky, let's not....let's not look too deep into this. You know that this stuff might make me and you more anxious about an already scary situation. And you know what can happen when...I panic....", Sky's eyes looked towards his arm, and she sighed. "Fine, but i'm just saying jude, what if we can use this to help! If we had known before....we could've stopped the plant...". "Sky, please...", sunny stood up now, eyeing between the two, "Lexi's my friend, i can tell you if she draws anything funny? Is that ok?". There was a moment of silence but the boy signed and gave in, "That's just fine, you better get going anyway, after the plant attack, my family would panic knowing you're here. We'll catch up later, ok?". Sunny nodded, Lexi gathering up all her drawings to head to her own room, sunny hugged the girl happily as they parted, both waving to the other teens as lexi ran out the door and sunny teleported. "And one last thing......", he turned away from sky, staring at the door, "We can't tell luna about this, you know as well as i if she finds out that lexi might be able to tell the future, she won't use it for the right reasons and we can't risk it. I don't trust her knowing about something like this.....". Her turned back to face his friend, "Sky, c'mon, tell me something. Please don't stand there and give me that look, i want you to tell me your answer, we're a team....". "Why don't you tell nora then....", sky grumbled under her breath. "Pardon?". Sky went back to being quiet, not really looking at her friend in the face and turning her back to him. Judas looked depressed, eyeing at the floor and sighing, "Sky, we're best friends, we need to talk to each other about this. Nora is cool and i want to help her and befriend her but you're still my best friend, that hasn't changed. I-I'm not mad, i just think...we can't rush into this....and we need to be careful is all....we can't dig too deep into something like time...it's dangerous..and I don't want you or anyone getting hurt...". Sky still didn't answer and the prince sighed and turned around, "I'll see you later sky, and...I hope to see you when we visit nora in a few days....just....please don't do anything irrational...ok?". Sky heard him teleport and sighed, falling face first into her mattress and forcing back weak tears. - Dinner that night was rather quiet, judas wasn't exactly sure if he and sky just had some sort of fight, but he knew they didn't seem to leave on the best of terms. He kinda wanted to call her back and maybe apologize but it felt too soon, it had only been a couple hours ago after all. His surroundings were not better, even though they got grounded at least what felt like a week ago, everyone still seemed in a sour mood. Even his parents weren't their usual flirty selves at dinner. Celeste had always been kinda bitter but Sunny seemed oddly quiet, her normal radiance wasn't getting to anyone tonight, she ate in silence, perhaps the galexia talk had gotten to her a bit too. The only reason judas could think to explain his grandparents being in a downer mood was because everyone else seemed to be, and weren't even talking that much. Though out of the corner of his third eye judas could tell landon was glaring at him angrily. As he had been for a bit of time now in fact, the whole castle felt sour and even when their parents suggested game nights or movie nights no one seemed to say anything. Judas could've sworn he saw mason holding a funeral for his plant in his room at one point. He just wanted the funk to end, he actually missed seeing his parents flirt in front of him, or mason's little announcements, or his grandparents fussing about his condition. He needed something to take his mind off his sadness and worry about sky and this really wasn't helping. "Jackie's back..", Marco said, trying to smile and lighten up the room a bit more, "I haven't gotten a chance to see her but i'm glad she's finally back, it feels like it's been forever...". There was a bit of silence before the former king sighed and his teal eyes looked towards the couple. "Good, perhaps with her around we can resolve all this much sooner, she's caught quite a few powerful crooks hasn't she?", his wife next to him grumbled in approval. "Yeah, she's one of the best, she can totally catch this guy, the commission will be helping her, well, whoever among them that can help." Judas took another bite of his vegetables, and listened in, his purple ears twitching. "I can't believe they haven't caught them by NOW, they're more powerful then any of us.". "Toffee evaded them", Marco pointed out, "Even they can't catch everyone, especially those with great knowledge about magic and how to evade them.". "Hmm, wonder if toffee may be behind this once again....", He took a sip of his drink, thinking about it as his son shook her head. "Dad, toffee's deader then dead at this point, we can't rule him out but we'd much rather not deal with him again...". But the king persisted, "That's exactly what they said last time before he came back and wrecked the underworld, regardless, you both should update me and your mother....we're on off time, we might be of help.". "Guys, no offence, but we're in charge, this is our responsibility.". "Thomas, you're never too old to ask your parents for help. You're still our little boy..". The use of his full name and the little boy comment made the king slightly pink, marco laughing next to him. Hearing the queen laugh seemed to get the attention of all the kids in the room, sunny cracking a smile and even mason's wings flickered a bit more then they had been. "Ok ok, don't.....dad, don't do that again....", the queen's hand slinked up and intertwined with the half-demon's. They then kissed the king's cheek and whispered some words in spanish to them, making the king blush more. "God marco...not at the dinner table.....c'mon now...". The moment seemed to lighten up the room a bit, but then landon stood up, finished his meal, and without a word he headed out. The king and queen watched him leave sadly and then judas stood up, "Mom, dad, uh....give me a minute...". He followed after his younger brother and luckily he hadn't seemed to have gotten very far. Landon grumbling as he heard judas approach and normally Judas would say something about that but this time he decided maybe it was best not to pick a fight . "And what do you want?". The question caught judas off guard, why did he want to follow landon out anyway when he was clearly in no mood to talk? But then he brushed those thoughts off, he needed to talk to his brother, nothing more then that, if anything so they could break the tension between them and try and get things back to normal. He thought for a moment and crossed his arms, trying to cool down and focus on what he wanted to say. "Landon, hey, i.....i want to check up on you, you've been kinda distant lately...well, more distant, and-". Landon turned around, "Go away jude.....can't a guy go mope in peace instead of hearing their goody two shoes brother annoy them?". He put his hood up, trying to cover up his face as much as he possible could despite his little horns making it difficult. "Landon...". "Just go spend time with mom and dad, you're their favorite anyway....". "What?". "A week to just take care of our dog as punishment? Protecting your hide every chance they can? worrying about your stupid arm more then anything! Stop trying to act like you don't notice how they treat you, you're their angel son who makes no mistakes and doesn't need to get punished like everyone else. I had to spend hours digging through the garden to uproot giant killer plants and what do you get? A slap on the wrist because of course you do!.", he snorted at his brother, eyes practically glowing. "Landon, you gave mason dangerous seeds, not me.". "And you knew about it, and said nothing, and yet? They let you off easy!". "But you did it knowing mom and dad weren't cool with it!", judas argued back, "This entire thing was on you, landon! Where did you even get seeds like that anyway?!". Landon shook his head, "You're missing the point jude, yeah, it was stupid, whatever.....but that's not what i'm talking about. I'm talking about you being left off the hook once again, when you knew about it....you never told them yourself beforehand, and now that they know you hid it as much as i did you just get more chores?". "I didn't say anything because i didn't want you to get hurt! You'd be even more mad if i just told on you! There's no win-win situation here for me!!", then judas toned down his voice, "Look, I just...I know we have never always gotten along, and i didn't want to well....make things worse between us. It was stupid to not say anything about something i knew would lead to trouble but i didn't want to make things...well, tougher between us, i don't like fighting with you. Ok? I'm sorry.". "Sorry isn't enough, you're their precious son judas! and i'm just the middle child no one cares about....don't lie to me jude. I finally get a friend i can talk to and i'm grounded from seeing him, but you? Yeah, you can go wherever you want...it's stupid....it's not fair.", Landon turned around and judas was about to say something but to his horror, his arm transformed. The creepy purple tentacle lying down on the ground in front of him, even starling his younger brother. It had probably intended to reach for the boy but instead it now weakly wiggled on the floor, and landon made a face at it before turning his back to his brother. "Ugh, just leave me alone judas...". He shoved his hands into his hoodie and moved along, leaving judas behind who looked at his transformed arm and sighed. - "At ease everyone!", luna looked up as Kelly walked in, "As i assume you all know by now, our fearless captain has returned to us on important matters, i need you all on your best behavior in her presence. You'll be trained by her at least once a week, when she's not busy. But don't be ashamed if you can't match her, no one ever really does...", then the woman eyed luna, "Though considering this batch some of you might manage to at least get a hit on her....who knows.". Luna's eyes returned to her weapon at hand, she hadn't managed to get a glimpse of her mother yet but she had been mentally preparing for it ever since she found out she was coming back. What kinda person would her mom even be in this environment, as a knight? She was quite tough as a queen but what about a knight? Is she tough as nails or as silly as her mom turned out to be in this dimension? What if she saw right through luna and her lies? "She'll be here in a few minutes, i suggest getting to fighting and looking busy, want her to come here and be impressed to see you all, so no lollygagging. Who knows, she might take a liking to some of you, and if you wanna be as high ranked as her, you'll want to catch her attention.". She stepped out and as soon as the door closed the room scrambled, monster and mewman both immediately cleaning up the area and heading out to train . She sighed, grabbing her helmet and following them. She needed to keep her cover. Her hair tied up, her posture straight, and her armor on correctly as she took a seat on one of the benches, watching two of her current cadets fighting each other. Most of everyone was already in combat practice, though she could spot a few doing some exercises off to the side. She pulled out a sketchpad, taking some notes of the room, and of the skills of her fellow cadets. Once she was able, she was going to get another look at Janna's office. By breaking into it. She didn't hide the fact she found janna suspicious at all, and that hadn't changed much. The woman's office was full of tricks and if luna was finally gonna get down to things, she needed to play dirty and get a closer look at all of these adults. Judas and Sky were too busy with their own problems to prioritize any actual action, so once again it was up to her to take leadership and handle the situation all on her own. It was almost like being back home one again. Eclipsa coming through that painting gave her the perfect way to enter, as long as she found where she came in. Turns out having janna make them do chores didn't come all in vain after all. She'd have to simply get back into her office and take a detailed and thorough run of the place and hopefully she'd find everything she was looking for, and see if she could be cut out. The biggest thing standing in her way was that janna didn't appear to be a heavy magic user if she was one at all, but luna would be a fool to cross her out in case she had power from other sources though. Working with celeste had the potential to be messy but having a partner was probably for the best. Tonight she needed the girl to check out the woods on some of the locations she already tracked down, at least then they could get an idea of if the culprit was even in them to begin with. At the very least, it was nice of the locals to happily talk about some of the hidden locations in the woods. What mattered now was if Celeste actually succeeded tonight with gathering anything. "What'cha drawing cadet?". Luna looked up, away from her work, "It's nothing of your concern-". Then she froze. Her eyes met the brilliant turquoise ones of a woman,she had short blonde hair with a teal streak, tanish skin, freckles, and was covered in armor of silver and blue. Luna froze where she sat, putting away the sketchbook and almost about to fall to pieces if the woman hadn't begun laughing, "You're new, i can tell, ah it's ok. I get the feeling you're probably not too familiar enough with me, you seem like you're not from around here, are you?". Luna still didn't speak, looking over her mother strangely, as though she was a stranger. And in a way, she was. The entire room behind her was even frozen, it appeared jackie came in without so much as a peep. Catching most everyone entirely off guard as they scrambled to get themselves together before her. She seemed amused, even despite the circumstances in which brought her here, "It's ok miss, you'll get used to everything around here real fast, but i must say, if you're taking notes on your opponents, that's rather smart of you. Just keep in mind you won't be able to do much of that when in combat, people are unpredictable.". She sounded.....oddly sweet, and luna was caught thinking to what she was like back home. She didn't seem to let things get to her, made her mother's life easier and supported her all the time, was always trying to avoid violence whenever possible. But here, she was literally a knight, someone who usually ended up in violent situations whether they wanted to or not. And yet, she didn't seem nearly as hard-edged as luna had kinda been expecting. She crossed her arms and watched the other cadets scramble to present themselves to her, so much for showing off their best. But she didn't seem to mind, and luna got in line with the rest of them, her back straight and her eyes faced forward. "So you're all the cadets kelly has been telling me about huh? I'm hearing good things all the time from her, i trust her imput. Now, allow me to make a guess among the bunch of you...". She then turned to face luna, looking her over. "You're luna, i hear you're quite the fighter.....even star tells me she finds you impressive.". "How-". "How did i know it was you? Warrior's instinct....that and, well, again, queen wouldn't stop talking about you, of course she'd have at least a couple pictures.", she nodded to her," I suppose we'll see how you do under my supervision, hope to see you work the most.". Then she returned to addressing the rest of the cadets as a whole, "Now, with the current situation at hand, i cannot be nearly as frequent to teach you as i would be under better circumstances, you will be trained by Kelly more often.". "However-", she unshiethed her sword, swinging it against the ground, "We'll make the very most out of any lesson i have with you, we need more warriors now then ever to hunt down this guy and the more of you that graduate the better, some of you have already been on patrol, some of you have even been asked to be squires already. You're on your way to heading up a higher rank, that's a good sign.....hopefully you all get to that within the next month.". "Now, I want to see some action, no more talk, let's test out some of these skills and see where you all land and what needs to be worked on.". She clapped her hands and everyone got moving, grabbing their items and forming two lines on the opposite ends of the "One on One" room, a rather large training arena in the center that was fit for large scale fighting for knights. It had obstacles and dummies, and was perfect for training in a semi-realistic setting. If luna wasn't trying to blend it she would have some criticisms on how cluttered and potentially unhelpful this arena seemed to be but she kept her mouth shut. Being centered out so much was doing little for her blending in, all eyes tended to be on her. Some who seemed to find her impressive, others who seemed a tad jealous of her spotlight, and others who just plain found her strange or suspicious. Hopefully they didn't look too into the fact she looked a lot like jackie to say anything about it, at least her covered up marks did some favors to her though, but not much she could do about the rest of her without serious consequences. And of course, as she expected, guess who was selected to fight first by being pushed to the front of the line? "Luna, you're up, against....what's your name miss?", she nodded to a rather large monster woman who was the front of her line, "Dana...". She growled and grabbed her weapons, already ready for combat, and luna sighed. Yeah, put her up against the clearly larger and clearly stronger then her monster, thanks jackie. If she was using her wand she'd win this in a landslide, but she grabbed her blade and put on her helmet, in her mind already calculating the best way about this. Jackie watched closely as the girls bowed before resuming their places and waiting. And then a whistle blew. Dana rushing at her from her side only for luna to flip right over her easily, landing right on her feet to everyone's amazement. Her opponent turned around, lunging once again at her and their swords clinked together, luna was at a bit of a disadvantage as far as strength went here, so she had to rely on her other instincts if she were to win this. Though for a brief moment she considered losing, strategically, just to not put herself in the spotlight as much. Only for her eyes to match her mother's, and before she really considered it, her leg swept out and tripped her opponent, allowing her to climb on top of one of the large obstacles just as the monster recovered and went right after her with a powerful leap. Luna blocked, she was fending her off rather well, Her agile body leaping to safer locations so she could have the upper ground. Training back home had been necessary in case her wand was lost and she only used it on rare occasions. Never thought she'd be putting those skills to the test the way she was now but here she was, and showing them off to one of her moms of all people. Even if technically it wasn't exactly her, back home she'd never seen her like this. She narrowly avoided another hit from the sword before ramming her opponent down, the monster falling to the floor. She quickly was on her way back up only for luna to jump down and swing at her, the monster blocked and the two swords pushed against each other. Luna felt her strength fading but as she almost fell apart, she remembered who was watching and pushed back hard enough to knock the sword of her opponent away. She won. The whistle blew and there was clapping and applause, jackie look intrigued, though luna herself knew she may of made things worse for herself by remaining in her mother's spotlight. She got off the arena and took off her helmet, Dana doing the same so the next players to go. She could hear people whispering about her and she sighed, she had the gulls to compalin about judas and sky, and here she was making it almost impossible to belnd in because she was a perfectionist. She hoped her mother would simply fade her interest with her as time went on, and when she did get out of here, her thoughts on her faded. Luckily the woman was focused on the other students as they all went, though their fights were clearly not nearly as interesting as luna's had been to the class. One match lasted less then a minute, Jackie calling instructions to some cadets on some of their mistakes or if they got too rough in the arena then was allowed. Now that she thought about it, was her mother married in this dimension? She never asked judas or sky and she seemed to be on her own so- Luna shook her head, she was getting too distracted about her mother. After this was over she needed to talk to celeste about any searching she had been doing on the outside. That should be where her mind was at, not at her mother, not to mention she was planning a break in that could ruin everything if it failed. She took a deep breath and pulled out her pad again, back to her original planning and work. She was at it for what she supposed had been almost half an hour before someone tapped her on the shoulder. "Training for today is over, you may want to head out, i think all of you deserve a beak." It was her mom, because of course it was. Luna stood up, "Right, pardon me then....", she adverted her eyes and started heading out as the woman called to her, "You did well, keep up the good work, though, maybe go a tad easier on your fellow students, ok?". Luna stood in her tracks, not even looking at her, "Alright.", Then she proceeded to head out. She needed to empty her clouded mind and get back on track and as she left through the room, the weight left and her head felt much clearer. A glance to Janna's office as she made her way back to her room, pulling out her compact and dialing. "Hey celeste, how soon can you be ready to go on a little hike?" - "Sky, dear, is everything alright?", eclipsa's words snapped sky out of her trance, her focus shifting back to the woman and she caught a glimpse of angel watching as she realized they had both stopped debating over the logistics of acid tears to wonder why sky wasn't saying anything. Sky crossed her arms, "Yeah, i'm fine, just....bored....", eclipsa didn't seem to be entirely buying it though. She put down her teacup and rested her head on her hands. "Sky, you've been distant since we started.....did something happen...?" "No...",she said rather quickly. The prince eyed her suspiciously. "Judas hasn't been around her recently, i don't smell him anywhere on her....", angel noted, making sky turn to him and point her finger right in between all his eyes. "And YOU stay out of this! You have nothing to do with any of this!". The boy huffed, "Whatever, i was just saying....", and eclipsa's gaze reverted back to sky, "Well, is it to do with your prince friend or is something else going on that you want to talk about? It's not your mother again is it?". "No...not this time.....but i'm not talking about it, and especially not in front of him....", she nodded to the prince next to her and angel turned away from her. "Look, let's just get back to...whatever exactly we were talking about...?", Eclipsa sighed and bit her lip, thinking for a moment before standing up. "Actually, let's do something else, perhaps something a bit more physical might get your attention just a tad more, make sure you have your wand...c'mon.". Confused, sky checked her pockets before heading out behind angel and her sorta grandmother. "Wait, we're doing what now? Cause i don't want to do anything with him.", sky grumbled, angel stopped dead in his tracks, to look at her, "You're not making things better by insulting me every single time we're in the same room together, i have ears, i can hear you...". He moved forward, "I'm not even doing anything wrong, and you're STILL mad at me...look, no webs, i'm not bothering people, haven't mentioned your mother once since we started classes....and your still complaining.". "Your're just doing it so you don't get in more trouble or get kicked out, you're not doing it to be nice and you know it....if my mom kicked you out right now you'd go right back to before and i'm not fooled. Don't even try to deny it angel....but then again, you speak your mind pretty well..", angel kept his mouth quiet as eclipsa shushed both of them, sky had been so distracted by angel she hadn't even noticed eclipsa was taking them both to the other side of the castle. "Wait, where are we going here?" "You'll see...." Sky sighed as she followed behind, hoping eclipsa wasn't taking her to do chores or something.. Only to find as they finally stopped, Eclipsa had taken them all the way to the ballroom. The new chandelier above them gleamed brightly and all of angel's eyes diverted around it. "Wait, you took us all the way to the ballroom, why? What does this place have to do with us....being good rulers?". Eclipsa turned to her two students and smiled,"Because you both are going to play active rulers, him the king and you the queen.". "What?", they both said in unison. Eclipsa clapped her hands and in an instant two servants set some chairs up and off to the side for the kids to sit it. " You're going to take a seat and i'll pretend to be a civilian asking for your assistance, and you'll respond accordingly. And i'll show you what happens from there....now c'mon, this'll be fun.". The kids gave her a disgruntled look but she ushered them forward and they took their respective seats, looking less then pleased to be forced to be pretend rulers together. Eclipsa laughed at them before removing her hat and holding it to her chest, changing her body movements to pretend to be a poor peasant. She gave the two royals puppy dog eyes and they exchanged awkward glances as she kneeled to them, even though it was all pretend, it still made them feel weird. "My king and Queen, we've been hit with a terrible drought, could you please help us? Our home was swept away and i don't know what we'll do for food." There was silence, what did her mom normally do in these situations? Well, normally she was super happy and seemed to accept fixing everything and perfecting it. At least, that's what sky knew, she was never really present at these things and when she was she normally fell asleep. "Uh well, i can do magic and make some food for you to eat and then well.....i can donate some money, get your house rebuilt and uh....you can start fresh, we can give you like....a place to sleep in the meantime....". The former queen then nodded to her wand and Sky got the hint and attempted to magic up some food, all that came out was a small fish but at the very least it didn't seem to bother the woman too much that she didn't do it perfectly. The prince didn't seem to give it much thought himself, just sitting on the throne and looking as though he weren't paying a ton of attention to the situation until he noticed the dead silence in the room meant he was supposed to do something. Eclipsa smiled, then nodded to angel, who sky elbowed to get to finally speak. "What she said...". And sky elbowed him again. He hissed, "What was THAT for? I answered your request!". "You're supposed to be a king, don't you have anything better to say then just agreeing with me?". "Well, if i were king of mewni, that would pretty much be all i would have to do, wouldn't i?" Sky gave him a dirty look. "Haven't you even remotely learned how to do anything in your own kingdom? Or were you expecting when you got married that your partner would do everything? Like, if you want to be a good king, that kinda requires being a king to begin with.", the boy blushed and grumbled and eclipsa dropped the act and stood up, "Well, that was somewhat of a start, sky you're doing good but...well, work on not tripping over yourself and angel...well, your queen over there makes a fair point." "I'm not his queen." "Well for the sake of this lesson, you're pretending to be. Now, let's try another, this is kinda fun.", she giggled and parted her hat, changing her position to one of a possible limping mewman with a hunched back. Eclipsa might've been having fun with this game of pretend but sky was more then frustrated by this point. The stuff with judas was bad enough, dealing with the pressures of being queen combined with being forced to work with angel. She wasn't even paying attention to eclipsa's acting, just knowing she said something about being a sea captain trying to get fish or something. She could feel angel glancing at her to give an answer, but instead he forced himself to speak. "Uh, well, if you're having a tough fishing season you could uh....well i supposed we could share some of our food. We've not running out of grubs and overally large insects anytime soon, so that might be able to make up for the loss of fish..I'll send my men out to help and everything.". Sky, still saying nothing this time, lead him to speak further, "And uh.....i guess my queen can oversee about some locals who might...help?". Sky was looking off into the distance now and even though eclipsa had finally broke character to give angel praise for trying to sound like a proper diplomat, angel's focus seemed to be more on sky. He almost looked tempted to say something or ask her if she was alright but resisted and crossed his arms. But then eclipsa's own compact started to ring, "Oh pardon me a second, i need to check something. She took a look at her screen and sky turned her head to see eclipsa's smile turn to a frown, and there seemed to be a bit of panic in her eyes. "um, sorry it seems i have an emergency to get to, uh, stay right here, i'll be right back! Don't kill each other in the meantime ok?". And before sky could say anything, eclipsa had already grabbed some scissors and portaled out. "Uh....what just happened...?". Angel returned to his usual self, crossing his arms, "i don't know eclipsa very well, so you tell me.". The room was silent, and sky was almost just about to ditch it, but then again if she was spotted outside of classes and her mother found out, that wouldn't be a good sign. And leaving angel all along by himself in the castle was also not very high on her list either. She simply turned her head away from him and got lost in her thoughts, angel fixing his messy ponytail and his long light pink hair covering his face. Sky snorted at this and her turned red, grumbling and tying his hair back up the best he could. "Queen Eclipsa seems....interesting.". "Well considering you haven't had an uproar since being in her class i assume you probably do find her interesting. At least enough to keep you from being a pain.", her companion looked away from her, "You don't understand princess butterfly, nothing about what my people went through, nothing about your own kingdom and what it does, and you certainly don't know anything about me.". His spider legs stretched out a bit, trying to make himself comfortable. Was he insulting her? He was wasn't he? "You should talk, you have no idea how our magic even works and don't care about the consequences of anything. You're asking to fix old issues only to make new issues! That's the problem angel, you don't THINK! Nor do you try and learn either, you're too stubborn. You don't remotely care about what else could happen or the issues that come along with doing all the things you ask. You're like, you're still just a kid, I don't even get respect in my family all the time, how the heck were you supposed to?". "Pardon? You're the princess, of course you're respected! Everyone, including my parents look up to YOUR family. Your next in line here, everyone here has to listen to everything you say!", Sky scoffed at him, "No they don't! My mom is considered the greatest queen to ever live! And i'm her disappointing daughter! I can barely use my wand, i procrastinate, i can't even form proper friendships with anyone outside of judas.....and...and....ugh no one listens to me....most of my ideas suck.". "Such as....? Sounds like something happened...". "Nothing happened angel....". "You don't think I've been frustrated like this? I know something had to have happened for you to be this upset..." Sky side-eyed him, she really shouldn't be talking to angel about any of her issues, she didn't like him and she sure didn't need his opinion on anything going on in her life. But she felt so mad and she felt like ranting and she let it all out of her system. "Ugh, it's just, i know something, something that could really help me and everyone else, and judas said no! He thinks it's too reckless and i might be getting way too obsessed with this and ugh it's just.....he's right but...what if...what if we need to do this to help?!". Not in her lifetime would she ever flat out tell the prince she had a magical half-sister from another dimension that could predict the future, and without that context it probably made what she said rather confusing, but angel didn't seem to find it strange. Perhaps his long spree of protesting and doing "Reckless" things in the eyes of sky made this whole thing less foreign to him. "Well prince lucitor always seems to mean well, he doesn't like anyone being hurt....especially to something he could've fixed himself.". "Yeah i know and he's saved me a lot and been a big help but it's just, what if this were MY thing? Like, imagine if i could fix this all on my own? If i could figure out a way to do this, no one could be hurt and i could just...i could really prove myself to everyone, judas, my mom. It's just...UGH.". She pulled on her hair, before readjusting her hat, "I don't even know what i'm supposed to do...I-I..ugh.....i really should talk to judas again and say something but i'm so upset...". "Wait, what exactly are you trying to fix?". "It's none of your concern....I have my own problems, you stick to yours, i'll stick to mine...", she was breathing rather heavy now, leaning and resting her arms on her legs. "I should call judas, apologize.....i just miss talking to him...we don't fight often...". She twiddled her fingers and sighed, "I don't have a ton of friends outside of him, we've been hanging out since we were very little because of our parents....and if i screw that up..I don't know what i'll do...". "Make new friends?", he mumbled. "You don't know anything about making friends angel, a little bird told me you don't even want them." "She told you?", angel's eyes diverted to the floor, "I don't need friendships princess butterfly, i have to put my focus where it matters. But, if you want friends and you want to have them, then you should go and find some new ones.". But his companion shook her head, "Don't tell me how to handle my relationships angel, you don't understand what something like this feels like, making your best friend upset with you and then not speaking to each other for so long....you're used to being alone...i'm used to having judas around.". "You shouldn't have to listen to him....if you trust your instincts...". "No, he's right.....i was wrong...". "There's nothing wrong about doing whatever it takes to try and save people you care about...", he was almost mumbling that last bit, his hands clasping together and his eyes closing. "Why do you think I keep trying so hard? I don't want....anyone to suffer...no one....". Sky heard him snort, "If you would do anything to save the people you care about, what's so wrong about me feeling the same way?". For a moment sky was wordless, she was getting way too sentimental about this, and with angel of all people, she needed to regain her composure....she was falling apart. "What's wrong is you don't think angel! You don't think....about the consequences...you don't know as much as you think you do..". "And how is that any different judging by what judas said? In terms of your little...conflict?". He had a point. "You webbed people to walls! You kept people from getting to their jobs! You literally scare the heck out of our citizens!", the prince's pointed ears flickered, "Fine, maybe I did, but i never hurt anyone....can't say the same for you.". He was talking about the tazing, wasn't he? Man, no one was ever going to let that go. Worst part was sky could feel the tazer still in her jacket pocket, simply in case the masked creep snuck up on her, as that was what her earth wand was for. Geez, when did today she start becoming so sympathetic to her least favorite royal? "I don't enjoy fighting you.....just so you know, never have....". The boy glanced at her, before he stood up, stretching out all his legs, "You claim you're not very talented with that wand but i can't recall a time you haven't beaten me with it.". He turned around to face her, "If you're really as pathetic with it as you said you were, then show me.....let's fight...". Sky's expression was one of confusion and shock, she hadn't fought angel in a while, at least since the tazing incident, but that was only because after everything else happened, she had put him off. Though he had been mysteriously cutting back on his usual schemes... Regardless, she didn't seem to entirely like this proposal," Wait, you're asking for me to literally attack you? Dude, the last time i used a wand in here an expensive chandelier broke and the mewni people assumed i was trying to attack my mother. They're still not entirely cool with me for that, i'm not fighting you, my mom would freak out if i broke something or she found out i attacked you....ugh, and who knows what your dad would say about it...". "I'm just saying, if you're so weak as you claim, then i'm testing it." "Why?". "Just try.....i'll tell you after..". "No, why do you care so much about testing my magic?". "Because i do, now c'mon....fight me.....throw a spell at me....you said you're useless and weak, and i'm seeing if that's true...". Sky got up and off her seat, "Dude, i'm not going to attack you for no reason, if you end up seriously hurt my family is gonna be SUPER mad with me. How do you expect me to explain it if you end up injured?!". Annoyed, one of angel's hand started glowing, a web spell shot at her from his hands and on instinct sky shot a spell at him. A narhwal blast of all things, hitting angel square in the stomach and making him fall against the wall, "This time....i attacked first....". "DUDE!!". He moved the narwhal aside, and stood up, holding his stomach, "See? I told you....not useless...you're good with magic when you're focused and you know what you're trying to go for.....". Sky put the wand down, freaking out, she ran over and as much as she didn't enjoy angel, she looked him over for any injuries. "Are you ok?", God she hoped eclipsa didn't walk in any second now cause she had no idea how she'd react to something like this if she did. "I'm fine, just need to catch my breath....", He slowly stood up, catching his breath and watching the narwhal get summoned back into sky's wand. "Don't do that again, i really could've ended up hurting you....", sky grumbled, turning away from him. "Look, don't injure yourself trying to make me feel better, judas already freaks out enough when he finds out i might of seriously hurt you.....this is ten times worse then doing it to you because of the usual reasons...". "Well, this is supposed to be a lesson isn't it? Well, now you learned you can fight when you really set your mind to it.....", Sky looked at him, then looked at the wand in her hand. "Well, thanks....i guess....don't do it again...". She headed back over to the seats, taking her place as angel joined here, neither looking at each other until ecipsa re-entered the room minutes later. She looked a tad...dirty, like she had been involved with something outside or even dangerous. But she seemed fine, fixing her hat and making a face as she re-entered the room. "Sorry i was gone for so long, important business....but you both seem just fine, so that's good. Now, where were we again? Ah yes, you two were working on presenting yourself and solving issues as rulers...now let's see about-". But angel interrupted her, "seems as though time's almost up actually, my father will be here any minute...". Eclipsa glanced at her compact and sighed, "Sorry i was gone for so long, but you both seem fine and we'll work things out tomorrow..". Sky glanced at angel, sighing, and for once she wasn't acting like a brat about sitting next to him. "Yeah, can do...". - Out in the mud under the moon in a dark forest, clearly a ton of fun for someone like celeste. She had to ditch her guards once again to go out into the woods, alone mind you, and dig up stuff out here for luna. Was she kinda desperate to go home? Sure. Was she desperate enough to go wandering out in the middle of the night with a threat on the loose to find out where they may be hiding? Heck no. This two person alliance was already falling apart and it had barely started, she might as well have gone back to the underworld and told judas everything. But then again, luna wasn't wrong that judas and sky were dong little to help, avoiding risky moves and trying to keep out of the spotlight. And at this rate, Celeste would be freakishly old by the time she got back home. She looked at the wand in her hands, she had agreed to hiding it before, but the longer she went without it the more she wanted to use it. it was practically all she had left from home not to mention what she could solve with it. Though she had to admit maybe having a loud wand like hers being carried around when she was trying to be sneaky was kinda stupid. Of course she had to be unlucky enough to get a wand with beans on the inside, she might as well wear a raincoat with a big red target on it at this rate. "Go patrol and find some of these locations she said, it won't be THAT hard she said....ugh.." Luna's handmade map was doing her no good and she couldn't help but be anxious about the sounds of creatures all around her. Is something jumped out at her and she had to attack it there was no way she was going to stay much longer out here. Her wand provided some light but it was not enough to help her navigate. She was getting lost in here and she probably should just dump this crazy idea and get back in her warm bed before anyone noticed she was gone. Luna would be pissed, but at least celeste wouldn't be dead. A few more minutes later and she could hear a howl in the distance, yeah, that was it, she wasn't sticking around much longer. Luna was just going to have to deal with another night of no real progress into finding what she needed. She reached in her pockets for her scissors, only to find they weren't there. She grumbled, she must have dropped them on the trial by accident, she was going to have to retrace her steps and find them. Fantastic, just what she needed. She spit on the ground and started walking back to...wherever she came from. Being lost in the forest was not what she had in mind tonight and she was gonna have to magically scrub her clothes so no one go suspicious of her when she returned. If the lucitors saw her filthy clothing, they'd know she had probably escaped and that was a recipe for disaster. She just needed the light to show her a glint, then she could pick us the scissors and get out of here. She could hear whispering and she was sure someone was watching her. She turned around, paranoid, but saw only darkness. she gripped her wand tighter, knowing if anyone attacked they'd be met with a rather powerful lightning bolt. Her brown eyes took another good look around, hopefully it was just a deer or something harmless that was just resting if anything. She kept walking, she couldn't see anything out here and she wouldn't admit it but she hated doing this all by herself, even at home she at least had one friend that would help her with stuff like this. But being on her own clearly sucked. Was luna doing any better? She didn't even tell her anything about seeing her mom today apparently. She brushed it all off like it was nothing, did this girl have any actual emotions or thoughts or was it all just some emotionless machine focused on it's task? God, what happened if luna got caught trying to find what she was looking for and they both got sent to the dungeons or something? Maybe have their wands taken away by their inter dimensional mom. Well at least then her bringing her nothing wouldn't mean much...would it?". Celeste saw something glint out of the corner of her eyes, the scissors! Good, she could finally get out of here and into a warm bed. Luna might chew her out for it, but honestly it wasn't worth it right now. She reached to grab it only for a shadow to pass by, startling her. She held her wand out in front of her, looking around before grabbing the scissors. The shadow flew by her again, and she couldn't even see well enough to make out what it was either. She just hoped it was an animal. But then it brushed by her hand and she was pushed back and onto the ground forcefully. That was NO animal. She shot a bolt at it and it scattered into the woods, her breath getting faster as she made a portal to get out. She could hear growling and she dived for the portal exit, making it just in time. And this was another time she wished the underworld has carpeting because landing on the ground like that was painful. She didn't know what was just happening back there but it seemed almost like whoever or whatever that was was making a dive for her wand. And missed. And boy was it quick too, what could possible move as fast as that? She was still stuck watching where the portal closed, yeah she owned luna a punch in the gut for making her go out there to do something like THAT. Celeste was rarely this freaked out but as she rehid her wand she was still processing the event. Maybe she really should report that to judas, if the thing really had been going for her wand or all that? Unless she was overreacting about an animal. "Uh...". Celeste froze in place, turning her head around to see she had company. Landon. He stood there, confused and looking over to where her portal had been. At first his look was one of confusion, then he looked slightly bemused. "Um, where in the heck where you going in the middle of the night, oh and before you ask, i just came in here to hide from judas....I think he's been trying to talk to me all day.". Celeste was still a bit shocked, not entirely sure how to react to the situation, landon was quiet the one for barging into her room wasn't he? "It's investigation stuff, isn't it? Did my brother put you up to this?". Celeste still didn't answer and landon stared and looked at her face curiously. "He doesn't know....". Landon's eyebrows furrowed. "Celeste, what's going on?".

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