A/N: Based on an RP with thunder pony, we only own our OC's, everyone else belongs to their respective owners. Read & Review!
Forte was talking with an old friend of his, then he went to look for Cherry and Atticus after he finished communicating with her and decided to see if he could invite them along to get them to go somewhere with him.
"Hello, Forte." Atticus said.
"I just wanted to tell you two that I'm going to visit an old friend of mine," Forte explained. "Her school is in need of a music teacher along with gym teachers. And obviously, I'll be the music instructor."
"Obviously..." Cherry repeated a little darkly. "When you coming back?"
"After the students' break," Forte said to them. "Though they're mostly going to be needing their physical education for a school competition against the one next door."
"Can we come with you?" Atticus asked.
"Who's 'we'?" Cherry glanced at him.
Forte blinked to them. "Only if you want to... Cerise, would you like to come too?"
Cherry sighed with a shrug. "Nothing else to do... But if there's uniforms, I'm not wearing one."
"Don't worry, the girls don't wear uniforms, I'm getting a ride later tonight, I'll fetch you both once it's time to get going." Forte said to the two.
"Yay!" Atticus cheered.
"You might as well pack now," Forte said to the younger ones. "And Cerise, you better tell your mother you need to pack up..."
Cherry blinked, then walked off to do that. Atticus ran off so then he could get started on packing. Forte went back to the church and Witherspoon the pigeon was at his perch as he wrote another note to inform his friend that he was going to be bringing guests with him.
Cherry leaned on the door-frame. "This school we're going to... Is it boring?"
"No, Cerise, I think you'll find it quite interesting..." Forte said as he finished the note, rolled it up and tied it to Witherspoon's leg, sending the bird off.
Witherspoon then flies off to deliver the message to Forte's friend.
"Shouldn't that bird be dead by now?" Cherry pointed out the pigeon she recognized from the Beast's castle.
"The Master decided he didn't need him anymore after the spell broke and he ran off with Belle," Forte looked back at her, crossing his legs. "So, he's become like a pet to me."
"I see..." Cherry shrugged. "Well... I'm going back home..." she said, seeming to be in a rush to get away from him.
"Okay." Forte said.
"Who is this old friend anyway?" Cherry asked on her way out.
Forte pulled her back to make her stay to listen. "Glynis Grimwood... She's a good friend of mine, I think you'd really like her."
"Uh-huh..." Cherry doubted it, but she went to her home to see if her mother finished her packing. And where her mother had finished packing Cherry's bags. "Thanks, Mom..."
"Sure, dear... I hear it's a bit chilly and cool over there, so be sure to dress warm." Michelle told her daughter.
"Yeah, Mom..." Cherry said softly with a nod.
Meanwhile at the Fudo house...
"You're spending your vacation from school at a school?" Jessica asked Atticus, a little surprised with the news he had.
"Yep." Atticus said.
Jessica shrugged with a small smile. "If you want... I just wouldn't really do it myself, but I hope you enjoy it... Do you know what school it is?"
"Oops, I guess I forgot to ask about the name of the school." Atticus said.
"Guess you'll find out when you get there..." Jessica shrugged as she went off, playing with her phone.
"Yeah, guess I will." Atticus said.
"I'm coming too." Patch said.
"Dogs don't go to school..." Jessica said softly to Patch.
"Well, I'm sure I can talk to Forte's friend into letting Patch into the school." Atticus said.
"Good luck with that..." Jessica said as she went to her room, playing with her phone.
Patch saw her go with the device, then looked up to Atticus. "I don't get you humans and those phone things... What do they do anyway?"
"Text and call different people." Atticus explained.
"Is it like a Twilight Bark?" Patch wondered since he mentioned calling and the bark was the dog's form of communicating with others, after all, it's what saved him, his brothers, and sisters from Cruella de Vil.
"Yeah." Atticus said.
Cherry was pondering about the school and she was lying to think in her favorite spot: the local cemetery. She wasn't sure what to make of the school she would be visiting, but just hoped it would all be worth it once they got there and where she would get all her answers the next day. "I wish some of you were alive..." Cherry murmured to the tombstones as she relaxed in a place people found too creepy and disgusting to be among. "Then we could trade places..." she scoffed, moving her hair out of her face.
The next day, Cherry and Atticus's parents said goodbye to them and let them go off. Forte waited for them to come so he could take them to meet his friend at her school. And where he didn't have to wait long as Cherry and Atticus began to make their way towards him.
"There you two are... What took you so long?"
"I was contemplating whether I should still live or die..." Cherry muttered.
Forte blinked to her, then sighed as he turned his back. "Just come with me..." he told them, walking with them following behind him. "It's going to rain tonight, so we might be a little delayed..."
"Goody..." Cherry mumbled, but she allowed herself to follow him.
"I hope it's not a thunderstorm." Atticus said.
"Same here." Patch's voice said from with in Atticus's coat.
"We should be fine..." Forte assured them.
Cherry yawned, still very drained and tired.
"You can sleep on the way..." Forte said to her after helping Atticus into the ride, then held his hand out for her.
Cherry took his hand, shaking a chill down her spine, then joining Atticus. Forte climbed in after her, then stroked Witherspoon's feathers, he really grew attached to the carrying pigeon, even if messages that way were a thing in the very distant past.
"It's getting stuffy in here, Atticus." Patch's voice said in his coat.
"Just a little longer, Patch." Atticus whispered.
Cherry tossed and turned during the ride, but leaned against Forte in her sleep, making him smile briefly.
"Almost there..." Forte assured them.
Patch then popped out of Atticus's coat, panting. "I thought I was gonna die in there." he said.
"Sorry, Patch, I didn't have many options." Atticus said apologetically.
Forte looked shocked slightly, not expecting to see a dog on this journey. "Sacre bleu, a chein!"
"He wanted to come and besides I'm sure your friend won't mind." Atticus said.
"She shouldnt'... You should see her pet." Forte chuckled a little.
Cherry snorted in her sleep, still zoned out. Forte gently stroked some of Cherry's hair behind her ear and smiled as she slept.
"What kind of pet does she have?" Patch asked.
"You'll see..." Forte didn't want to give it away, he wanted the kids to see it for themselves.
"I hope it's another dog..." Patch smiled as his tail wagged a little in excitement.
Cherry snorted a little, then mumbled in her sleep, but it was audible. "Second star to the right...~"
"She must be dreaming about Neverland." Atticus said.
"She hasn't been in a while..." Forte winked to the boy, he had heard of her 'dream' she shared with her cousin Wendy about going to Neverland with her, John, and Michael. "I knew Petal Pan though myself."
"What was she like?" Patch asked.
"She was a very ambitious girl," Forte smiled as he remembered Petal before Peter even existed. "She always dreamed of becoming a mother... She always had baby dolls, wanting to play with them, bathe them, change them... Just anything to do with being a mother..." he sighed a little. "I just wish she could've met Peter again before her passing..."
"What happened to her?" Atticus asked.
"She died of old age, she was 115 years old and she never saw her firstborn again..." Forte said, his voice turning very soft as he shared the tender subject of death. "When Petal and her new husband got too strict with rules, Peter decided to run away... I tried to advise him not to, but he did and found Neverland and Tinkerbell somehow... Though, when they came back to his home, Petal had her second child, a son, Peter got the idea that they replaced him, so he went back to Neverland... Petal was happy with her new other son, but she really missed her own son who was born from her first husband, but he had died of a suicide... I told Petal I knew where her son was, but neither one of us had a way to get there, so Petal waited the rest of her life until her son would come back... But, unfortunately... Petal grew older unlike her son..."
"That's terrible." Atticus and Patch said.
"It really is... I just hope someday Peter does leave Neverland and come back home where he truly belongs..." Forte agreed gravely.
The ride stopped as it was raining a bit.
"Well, we're here..." Forte said, then shook Cherry to try to wake her up.
"No..." Cherry groaned, wanting to still sleep.
"Come along, Cerise, Glynis is expecting us..." Forte said.
Cherry groaned, then woke up, looking annoyed. "Why do people always do this when I'm having good dreams?"
"Who knows?" Atticus and Patch shrugged.