Hello everyone! This is a sort of...Spirits extra? Here you go ig.... ⩤⩥⩤⩥⩤⩥⩤⩥⩤⩥⩤⩥⩤⩥⩤⩥ I could see the moon... why........ It started moons ago... A fox. She runs through the marketplace, peering over her shoulder in fear every so often. I run up to her. "Are you okay? I know somewhere you can hide if you are in danger." "Um" she pants. "S-sure." I lead her through the marketplace towards a clump of birches by the palace gates. "Through here!" I say, passing through the birches and into the palace courtyard. She collapses in the grass. "IONDE!!!!!" I scream. A small amethyst fox runs from the guard's quarters. "Who's this young one you've picked up?" Ionde inquires. "Cuz whoever she is, she's passed out. Stress maybe?" "I think someone was chasing her." "Whatever it was, she's coming with us. Maybe the Queen'll let us keep her. We could always use more guards and this one looks strong." ⩤⩥⩤⩥⩤⩥⩤⩥ The fox wakes up on a bed of moss in the Guard's quarters surrounded by us. "Is she chasing me?" she asks "Who, and no." I reply. "Brightfall. My sister. She's gone mad. She whispers to someone all day 'I am pretty. I AM pretty.'" "Don't worry. You'll be safe and welcome here in Kazznarr." a mint colored fox says. Queen Sarene! Everyone bows. Except our newly dubbed "mystery fox". "Now, now. I get overwhelmed when you all bow. I'm only a fox with a shiny crown you know. Well, moving on, hello there miss "mystery fox". If you don't mind, what is your name?" Queen Sarene continues. "Oh. Um, Sunmist." "Well then Oh Um Sunmist, since you have showed up on the "Queen's super important palace" and my guard seems to have taken a liking to you, would you like to join the royal guard?" "Yes your Majesty." "Call me Sarene. All of you. Seriously. I want you to feel like friends, not underlings." ⩤⩥⩤⩥⩤⩥⩤⩥ The next day Sunmist is dubbed 'looking better' so I invite her on a walk out on the grounds. "Um. Thanks for randomly saving me back there. Even if your reward was some random girl fainting at your feet." "No problem. Randomly helping people is kinda my thing." "Anyways. You know my name, Sunmist-" "The whole palace is buzzing with it." "-yes, but I never caught your name." "Olive. You can call me little one though. At least that's what Ionde calls me." "I'll stick with Olive" We laughed our faces off. That's only where it started... ⩤⩥⩤⩥⩤⩥⩤⩥ 3 moons-or something like that (i don't have a calendar)- later and we are bestestest friends. Girlfriends actually. Sunmist is my world, and I'm hers. And the rest of the guard of course. We go together for all of the random investigations the royal guard does. We do everything together. Laugh, cry, just stare at flowers. We did... Sun rises. Normal day. The Royal Guard gets ready together. Normal day. We all gang up on the baker and end up getting a discount on bread because we're friends with him. Normal. Day. but it was anything but... ⩤⩥⩤⩥⩤⩥⩤⩥ We were sent out on a new kind of investigation. Sunmist and I set off, Sunmist flying ahead, bragging about her new wings. Lucky. I don't have any magic yet. Ionde tells us not to get to far ahead. we all regroup at the site we are to investigate. "There's been a report of mist from around here. Funny thing, the wolf that reported it swears that the mist was black... Oh well. We set up camp and stay here a day, that's Queen Sarene's orders." our leader reports. Mist. Black mist. An hour later and that's all we can see. Nothing else. Sunmist writes a letter to her penpal in Eastpack. Wildberry I think? I wander around. I try not to go to far but... The moon? I could see it finally! I wander towards it... Black. Something-no, someONE- grabs me. I scream at the top of my lungs. My claws singe. I strike at the thing that has me. Good news: I found my power, FireSlash Bad news: The thing I attacked was made of the mist. It swipes at me. I feel my blood spilling down my chest. Probably won't die. The thing chains me. "The forgotten pack will be pleased. A powerful young one captured and soon to be repurposed." I black out. ⩤⩥⩤⩥⩤⩥⩤⩥ I'm caged. ⩤⩥⩤⩥⩤⩥⩤⩥⩤⩥⩤⩥⩤⩥⩤⩥
