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Princess, Princess
Over here, to the Epiclese
Remember to always cascade your graces
Fill in the past with ever remnant traces
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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.
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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
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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.
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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!?”
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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?”
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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…”
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“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.
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“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.
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“Y-Y-YES!? OH!!!” The faun stands, and immediately erect himself in salute at the military looking commander, “B-Brother Haures!?”
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“Stand down and at ease” Haures salutes back as if by instinct, “Did you wake Zephyr?”
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“S-sis kicked a tree at me!”
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“A tree kicked you” correcting him before seeing Isaac has already run off to get Zephyr
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“Zephyrr! Heyy!” He calls out to the narcissus but lady version, “Let down yourself already.”
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“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!”
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“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.
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“Come on now, Zephyr” Isaac says in worry, “first of all, where are we, and second is why do you three look aged!?”
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“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!”
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“We need Real” Haures says the obvious,
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“Right! We need Real, but then where are we and where can we find her?”
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“U-uhm, m-maybe at t-tha-t tower?”
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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.
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“What are we to do with them!?” Peacock faints, talking with the sky, “These children, aged, yet still are children!”
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Haures unsheathes a greatsword strapped to his back which Isaac raises his hands and stops him.
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“I can cut it”
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“No! You will cut Ipos’s legs.”
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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.
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“I—I—I got out.”
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“How HORRIblE! Preposterous of how vulgar you are!” the slimed-up sister scolding the goat,
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“B-but you pushed me in!”
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“How much do you think this dress values for? This beautiful and youthful feel that is beyond your faunic traits. I feel awful! AWFUL!”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Go take a bath, you smell bad.”
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“And I will!” She heads for a pool with Ipos following her slimy trail.
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“What of we?” Haures ask to the boy and Peacock,
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“Well…we,”
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“I can check the tower!” Peacock raises his hand in suggestion, “Praise me for that!”
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“Ooooh yes you can Peacock! You can absolutely go to the tower!”
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“Yes, Isaac, and where is my praise?” Side-eyeing the bulky Haures, “Where?”
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“Get your ass there first” Haures growls and the bird quickly flies himself for the tower.
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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
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“Peacock! What do you see in there?” Isaac asks from the grass below,
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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.
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“Boo! Looking for me!?”
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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.
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“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”
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“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.
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“You’re ugly” Haures mutters which everybody clearly heard and know that it attacks Zephyr.
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“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?”
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“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”
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“WHAT!?” Peacock revolts, “I am no pet!”
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“It is what lord Ober usually says when he brings weird animals with him.”
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“WEIRD!?”
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“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.”
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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!?”
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“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?”
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Bark
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Bark!
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“Good huh! Here, smile at brother Haures, Little Ipos, Sister Zephyr and our two guests! Isaac and Peacock~”
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Bark!
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Bark! Smiling widely and panting,
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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!”
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“Oh? Do you guys know lochness?” Amerie asks, before gesturing everyone to follow her uphill,
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“Kind off?” Isaac says unsurely,
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“Huh? Then how sure are you that you saw Lochness? Maybe you just saw another pomeranian!”
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Now all five look unsure whether the giant shadow they saw at the fog was Lochness or something else.
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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.
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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.
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"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,
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“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.”
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“Not at all though”
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“Wait—not?”
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“mmm” Amerie nods, recounting her experiences, “You brought with me a botanist who wanted to experiment if he can but these two,”
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“They’re not from around here,”
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“Nice to meet y—”
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“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.
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“What even are those plants!?” Zephyr asks and Oby says,
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“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”
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“W-what? W-why? It-it’s cute”
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“No, it is not at all! I would rather have her call me the uncool name my parents gave me.”
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And the friends tilt their heads, wondering what his name is which he discloses,
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“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!”
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