149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJPoDpyKgg8
Princess, Princess
Over here, to the Epiclese
Remember to always cascade your graces
Fill in the past with ever remnant traces
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsHTzLOwriO
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6EJVUA428C
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr8YxV8CnB6
Peacock “COCK!?” himself awake. The cloak he wears is all damp on his poor feathers, but he looks up and a gentle sun watches over him—watches over everyone who slowly shake themselves awake. Where the mist was a ceiling now a clear blue sky, where there was supposed to be mud slowly chewing at their feet now a rich and mild soils in healthy greens. Pools of water are scattered all over the plains, surrounded by beautiful rows of plethora of rainbow flowers. Tall grass waves them good morning and the children—now aged up around in their twenties in proper attire. Not any more at the same height as Isaac, and certainly not any barer.
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR4Y8uHvkKX
Except for Ipos, who still has his stuttering, “W-where, w-w-w-why am I—covere-d in fur!?” He looks down at himself and see goat legs, rising up to his waist, and another leg—wait no, it just looks like one. “H—How do—I?” tuck it in, which he takes a bit of a minute before realizing that he cannot. Thank yes biology at the same time, embarrassingly no. He runs up to a pool to see his reflection and good gracious does his hair looks like it is holding an egg. His brown eyes are as rich as the soil and he freckles! A beautiful curly mess—a handsome faun. “Z-ZEPHYR!” Noticing his sister hanging like damp cloth on a tree branch
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡldlJfWaC9p
Zephyr slowly opens her eyes, feeling a throbbing headache as she massages her right temple. A sunspot glowing on her cheeks with a gentle breeze flowing and playing with her white dress. A golden laurel on her verdant hair. Down is where the faun who is telling her to stay still as he will get to her. But then, Zephyr suddenly screams at this strange creature, “Stay away!” She shouts and the roots of the trees around her kicks poor Ipos away. She does not even realize it is him. “Where am I?” Muttering to herself and looking at the forest greeting her morning. “Why am I on a tree branch?” Good question, how did she even get up on a tree branch and why does she feel taller? The pool of water just below her blooms her youthful appeal. An appearance that still retains her bubbly cheeks but, now with plump lips, plump chest, plump behind, if not for the beautiful white dress she is wearing, everything about her is chubby sexy and she definitely screams “Kyaaaaa!” at herself.
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpmrlTM0gRm
Peacock flies down to where Isaac is sleeping, still having trouble waking up even if Peacock picks up a nearby pale and pours a bucketful of water on his face. Slap, slap, slap, with his feathers of literally thin feathers. “Wake up! Wake up! We have to find everyone! Where are we!?”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdSAXitMmzo
And Isaac awakens after hearing Peacock’s screaming. He sits up, wondering why there is a vast plain of tall grass. Then to his side where—a lean leg, wait what? Panning his head up and a man in shorts and a royal coat over his shoulder looks down at him. His ashy hair, thick furrowed brows and snake like eyes, Isaac recognizes him. Not even a bit scared at the way how angry this bulked up man looks, “Haures?”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXIoDaqrqTE
And the man nods, before he reaches out to offer his large hands. Isaac takes it without hesitation with a dizzy head, and he looks around again, indeed he is not seeing things, once there was a mist and marsh here, now a vast plain like the great Cyndoryll plains. “Where are we…”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx3km0knK0I
“Same question” Haures says in a crazily deep voice, resonating almost from the ground by how low it is, “Ipos is over there and Zephyr is over there.” He points and Isaac runs up for Ipos first. The poor faun has spirals in his eyes.
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCJqwqwldmL
“Ipos, wake up” Isaac pulls on his goat horns but nothing. He pulls on the third leg and Ipos totally sit up, and wide awake.
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxFv0bxGJ1K
“Y-Y-YES!? OH!!!” The faun stands, and immediately erect himself in salute at the military looking commander, “B-Brother Haures!?”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDxKhmPYeMn
“Stand down and at ease” Haures salutes back as if by instinct, “Did you wake Zephyr?”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN3cAmjpfF6
“S-sis kicked a tree at me!”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzwjMcbbXiG
“A tree kicked you” correcting him before seeing Isaac has already run off to get Zephyr
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZHa1Eq5LtY
“Zephyrr! Heyy!” He calls out to the narcissus but lady version, “Let down yourself already.”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzznKiNQVwX
“My person requires no calling from anyone. I can very well get down on my own!” She says, taking an additional minute to look at herself on the water before a pebble dropped in, ruining the reflection “GRAAA!”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkKKWqnaiaj
“AAAH!” It is Ipos again, now with Haures who look largely different than when he was cute, now he just looks like your typical commander, “Everyone, feast your eyes on me!” She says, letting down a vine before she swings down like tarzan. She drops, barrel rolling herself to a tree before she repeats herself, “AHEM! Everyone, FEAST!” Pak—a leg forward, “Your eyes” Pak—her hips towards her audience, “ON ME!” Chak--- pouting her lips like a duck. Her white floral dress flowing by her ankles. And the audience does not seem to be impressed by it.
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP5afOAkOOS
“Come on now, Zephyr” Isaac says in worry, “first of all, where are we, and second is why do you three look aged!?”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9WURPLlTB8
“Aged!? HAA!” flicking her hair, and the flowers by her ear, “My body could take on any form but this by far is the youngest!”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWfKphXgkbR
“We need Real” Haures says the obvious,
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVihAHladS5
“Right! We need Real, but then where are we and where can we find her?”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB9i3ymu3Tz
“U-uhm, m-maybe at t-tha-t tower?”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGKBd6zZ3zx
They all look at a granite and cobble tower. Walking up to it and they see that the mortar looks bright with the blocks perfectly still aligned on top of each other. Weird translucent leaves grow from the tower base and the fire ants on them are bouncing! Ipos tries to set his foot on a flower that is not translucent and it suddenly closes down on its leg. Once again, the goat screams and the group are in utter mess with how the flower is not releasing his leg. “It—It eat-eating m-e-eeeh, ea-t, ea-ting me-he-ee-ee” Zephyr tries to do some flinging with her fingers but nothing happens at the flower, bewildering the plant expert as well as trying to push Ipos further in just because she is curious.
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJUZfV5W4NN
“What are we to do with them!?” Peacock faints, talking with the sky, “These children, aged, yet still are children!”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSxyj6fTNN1
Haures unsheathes a greatsword strapped to his back which Isaac raises his hands and stops him.
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdRHhffwNDW
“I can cut it”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNpfGCbbXDQ
“No! You will cut Ipos’s legs.”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNLCAkVClIQ
Would be both legs with how Zephyr is still trying to push her poor little brother into its slimy liquids, down until his head, body and all is all in. Bulging full of the goat. Everyone retreats except Zephyr. It pulses, Ipos still being heard from its insides until, the goat bursts himself out of the flower. Sending disgusting slime all over around him and most to Zephyr whose smile turn to a frown.
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVB1XF2wSkm
“I—I—I got out.”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhoVpuJjcEr
“How HORRIblE! Preposterous of how vulgar you are!” the slimed-up sister scolding the goat,
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcLrrqjcTKY
“B-but you pushed me in!”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVd1S1EEars
“How much do you think this dress values for? This beautiful and youthful feel that is beyond your faunic traits. I feel awful! AWFUL!”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ105Ehu25xn
“Come on, you guys” Isaac once again tries to gather everyone, at least he is able to but with one sulking and demands for a bath. “We still do not know where we are.”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfZFNrov5rq
“Uhm? Hello? Are we not around the marsh without the fog?” Zephyr says and gesturing as if she is saying a logical answer after how they all saw a bright flash of light in the foggy marsh and woke up here on a completely different terrain. “Or maybe not, but wait, I know when I know.”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq7PsKTCSde
“Go take a bath, you smell bad.”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ50dLYAb6iH
“And I will!” She heads for a pool with Ipos following her slimy trail.
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ5xGMaL6An
“What of we?” Haures ask to the boy and Peacock,
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE0dPUhgUty
“Well…we,”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdB3ZKHfDpC
“I can check the tower!” Peacock raises his hand in suggestion, “Praise me for that!”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjINWBVIYB7
“Ooooh yes you can Peacock! You can absolutely go to the tower!”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBJKJA8HOJp
“Yes, Isaac, and where is my praise?” Side-eyeing the bulky Haures, “Where?”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL8B09coeno
“Get your ass there first” Haures growls and the bird quickly flies himself for the tower.
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ53JjPIV1Qz
In it is not the same as the tower in the marsh, a purple tiger fur carpet lays on the floor. A ticking machinery with numbers on the wall, a cupboard, and a bed with someone peacefully asleep. Her dark green hair hides in the shadows but her fair skin and cotton soft face stands out. Almost how the Peacock remembers what subjects in chiaroscuro paintings would look like back at Kinguin castle portraits
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7AgqcfVzaO
“Peacock! What do you see in there?” Isaac asks from the grass below,
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWTYhqWXL5k
Over yonder are two mountains symmetrically cut apart with a great river beyond it. A scene like nothing he has ever seen before by how crystal shimmering the waters are and clear the sky is. He turns back to the woman on the bud—huh? She is gone.
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMtomS1NB3N
“Boo! Looking for me!?”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXhIKtqNCV8
Peacock screams, falling backwards and off the tower. Bouncing his pathetic feathers and wings that forgot how to fly, without knowing how he bounce back before Isaac catches the bird.
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Lvw5yIY7D
“Hehe~ I’ve got company!” The girl at the tower says, jumping out the window like fish flopping itself off land and onto the water---bouncing herself from the translucent leaves, “Wooohoo!” She yells out loud before Ipos tries to catch her and gets absolutely squashed, and once again spiraling eyes. “Oops, sorry little fella”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiKICh9PSLf
“And Here I thought my hair is special” says Zephyr who starts leaning in and closely inspecting—comparing her face and looks with this tower girl.
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5B2V4fMZSh
“You’re ugly” Haures mutters which everybody clearly heard and know that it attacks Zephyr.
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvpMLc22QoW
“Hahaha, now, now everyone” The girl sits up, pressing against the poor faun’s third leg and saying, “It feels so great to have you three visiting me again! Kyaaaa” Hugging Zephyr, then to Haures and finally to Ipos who is still on the ground. “You’ve brought visitors two too! How exciting!” walking up to Isaac and Peacock, her thin arms yet beautifully figured hands holding up her dress before she bows, curtsy towards her guest as if they are royals. Her pink irises glistening purely and innocently like raw diamond, “My name is Amerie Noir, seventh princess of the Noirs. I am very pleased to meet you two! What are your names?”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK5hsn8UuSI
“A—I,” Isaac stutters, not used to being bowed and wondering if he should bow back or not and he ends up bowing the same way as Amerie which cracks a smile at Haures and a laughter at Zephyr, “I am Isaac, Princess Amerie…and,” he gestures towards the Peacock, “This is my pet”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX2KyYDF8h2
“WHAT!?” Peacock revolts, “I am no pet!”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlSQO7SULuz
“It is what lord Ober usually says when he brings weird animals with him.”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJBTvAJEG0U
“WEIRD!?”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKAwNItEXcZ
“Kyaaaaa, that bird is funny” Amerie chuckles, heartily with butterflies gathering around her straight hair, the squirrels greeting her with their nuts which everyone gets pulled into wonder around how the animals around the plains are seemingly attracted to her, “As my guests brought by my most loyal friends, please. It is only right for us to settle down on a flat land and chit chat!” She turns, gesturing with her fingers in telling Isaac and the others to go with her, “Come, come, I know just the hill for this fine early afternoon.”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn8mgUYPNQ2
Bark, bark, followed by Zephyr screaming and almost tripping herself from a little Pomeranian that run from under her dress. “Why have I got a dog under my dress!? Where did it come from!?”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3TSeJqtWbv
“Lochness!” Amerie calls out, kneeling before the dog receiving its pecks and licks. Its button tail wagging with its fluffy fluffy fur. “How’s my little Lochness?”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd6msDw73iw
Bark
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHVvC7hIya9
Bark!
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMQZlksnt5a
“Good huh! Here, smile at brother Haures, Little Ipos, Sister Zephyr and our two guests! Isaac and Peacock~”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW7jmvmBfIY
Bark!
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZrhT6VEXLO
Bark! Smiling widely and panting,
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVyHqdfEPGs
Which all five of them cannot believe that the familiar Lochness name comes from a little dog. “How Wild!” Peacock says, “This is a revelation Isaac, the Lochness is just a dog!”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW2gIuw0ph4
“Oh? Do you guys know lochness?” Amerie asks, before gesturing everyone to follow her uphill,
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaEUn14Deso
“Kind off?” Isaac says unsurely,
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5HF33mS3Xu
“Huh? Then how sure are you that you saw Lochness? Maybe you just saw another pomeranian!”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMxnHRXdVLc
Now all five look unsure whether the giant shadow they saw at the fog was Lochness or something else.
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIu8ugr5fx9
They all round on top of a hill, sitting in a circle where everyone can see each other and feel like something should be in the middle. Zephyr takes care of it with a dandelion, but then Ipos adds gentle winds around the flower, having its seeds hovering around it ang going round and round like a circle. Haures looks at them and wonders if he can pitch in but he holds himself, knowing that he will just turn it to ash.
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2GOeeyYSVE
Amerie sits cross-legged, her dress flowing gracefully around her as she takes in the sight of her friends and new acquaintances with Lochness curling up contentedly in Amerie's lap, its fluffy fur tickling her skin.
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyxZsBeSwAR
"I am curious," Amerie begins, her eyes sparkling with curiosity, "These three don’t bring visitors often and when they do, they are special people” looking at Ipos, Zephyr and Haures who manage to say,
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg4KOs4BcbZ
“Ahaha, well of course!” Zephyr saving the boys, “I am of great connection and bond with many people across the land. Princess Amerie knows full well that we always bring in those who pleases her.”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOzeMPIPTB1
“Not at all though”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡizcSMDlsid
“Wait—not?”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡItue068DGW
“mmm” Amerie nods, recounting her experiences, “You brought with me a botanist who wanted to experiment if he can but these two,”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoy3WwtvM08
“They’re not from around here,”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX6BmtxCNnq
“Nice to meet y—”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdvSHiZo22D
“NOT HERE! NOT YET, Let us all head up for the tower first!!! I need to prepare some things.” And the princess rush down first, running down on full speed like a horse before jumping enthusiastically on the translucent trampoline leaves.
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe2XAZkeyVM
“What even are those plants!?” Zephyr asks and Oby says,
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu8BICbPAkA
“They’re Rauplumba’s Ms. Zephyr” Oby says, “Come, we should not keep the princess waiting. I do not want her to keep calling and yelling me, Oby”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ305Su2fObl
“W-what? W-why? It-it’s cute”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW6GwQfpelV
“No, it is not at all! I would rather have her call me the uncool name my parents gave me.”
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSBzM2lKMTR
And the friends tilt their heads, wondering what his name is which he discloses,
149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYgQfyxKIUf
“Ober A. Vanderhawk, or Avanhawk, I do not even know why I have two houses for a surname. But I definitely would not want to be called that cutesy Oby!”
ns 15.158.61.54da2
