Blizzard's POV
Our group strolled down the cobblestone path that wrapped around the whole town. The group contained just Rex, a sort-of-new-but-not-really girl named Cloudy, and him. The rest of the town members were preparing for war with the other settlement, but most of them didn't actually know. Mystery had adjusted the town while they were gone, creating more chests in the storage room and saving more supplies they would normally sell. She had told the townspeople that with our rich food supply and with animal populations decreasing, some towns might take our food by force. The purple-haired girl said some were shocked, as our town was generally peaceful, but they went along with it. Only a few of them had been suspicious of the other settlement being the cause. One of them was evidently Cloudy.
"So why are new spawns the craze now? I thought we just offered homes to whoever was lucky enough to get here." Cloudy wondered.
"As Mystery said, with food going short, people are getting desperate. And they'll be looking to steal new spawn's food, since they usually don't have any armor or weapons yet. None of the new spawns are going to survive long alone."
"Not our problem." Cloudy pointed out, flipping her hair. Blizzard realized he could imagine Shadow saying the exact same thing. And flicking her hair over her shoulder as Cloudy just did with her pale gray hair. Focus, Blizzard he chided mentally. But he could still hear Shadow's voice in his head. Wait, that wasn't in his head.
"Oh look, there's Shadow." Rex pointed out, skipping beside them. Blizzard looked up to where Shadow was speaking with a boy in a black jacket. They exchanged a few words that he couldn't make out, then Shadow rushed off, her face red.
"What just happened there?" Rex wondered. "Wait, where are you going?" She called as Blizzard rushed up to the boy.
The boy turned around. "Oh hello, nice to-" He caught Lightning's cold look and stopped. "Did I do something wrong?"
"I just want to know what you and Shadow were talking about." Blizzard said smoothly.
The boy's blue eyes widened with innocence. "So sorry, are you two a thing?"
Before Blizzard could say anything, Cloudy interjected, "Shadow and Blizzard? Oh nooo, Shadow would bite your head off if you suggested that. They're like siblings. Blizzard and I, however,..." She flashed Blizzard an adoring smile as he stared in shock.
"Okay, well sorry for whatever I did, my name is Thrush, hope we can be friends!" Thrush gave them a look like how could we not be friends? Like could you even imagine? before walking away.
Blizzard blinked at Cloudy, still astonished. "What was that?"
"Saving you from an awkward conversation." Cloudy explained, the smile slipping off her face and her usual collected look appearing.
"But..."
"Now are we going looking for new spawns or naw?"
"Uh... sure but-"
"Then let's go!" Blizzard watched as Cloudy began sauntering down the path.
"What was that?"
Rex gave a mock bow. "That, my friend, was typical Cloudy. She's my neighbor." She added proudly. When Blizzard just continued to gape, she sighed and grabbed his arm, then began following Cloudy. "Some people." She muttered.
Shadow's POV
She stopped at the entrance to the mine. "It should be somewhere here..." She turned around and was met with a house matching Mystery's description. "Oh." There were two little shacks, a spruce one and birch one. She walked up to the closest one, the birch one, and knocked on the door.
There was the sound of footsteps thudding against a wooden floor, then a girl appeared. "Oh hey." She said. "I'm Galaxy."
"Shadow. I just wanted to say hi to the new arrivals."
The girl blinked her two lime green eyes. "Copper's not in right now, he went looking for something. Er, where are my manners? Come in." Galaxy stepped back, and she walked into the house. It was an absolute mess. Banners in every shade of the rainbow lay on the floor, slumped against the walls, and lying in crumpled heaps on tables. Dye stains were splattered on the walls. Shadow swept a banner off of a chair and sat down.
"Nice house you got here."
"It's Copper's little hobby." Galaxy apologized, rubbing her forest green shoe against the floor. The other shoe was a pale blue. "He has a small obsession with banners."
"Not very small." She noted, brushing some dye off of her black jacket.
"Copper is unique." She said, slightly hostile.
"Did someone say my name?" Boomed an oddly familiar voice. Shadow couldn't quite place where she had heard it from before.
The door was flung open, bringing her thoughts to an abrupt halt. A red and white blur burst into the room, stumbling over the banners and stepping in some dye. Puffs of dye dust exploded into the air, sending both Shadow and Galaxy into a coughing fit. "Whoops." The blur stopped, and the boy sheepishly ran a hand through his red, almost metallic hair.
"You figured you would learn to more careful, living in this house for almost a week Copper." Galaxy wiped some dust off of her bright blue hair.
"Not my house, not my problem. In case you forgot, I live in that beautiful palace," the boy,Copper, gestured in the direction Shadow remembered the spruce house being, "and you live in this shack."
"Shack?" Galaxy reached down and grabbed a handful of blue dye. In one quick moment, Copper's checkered red and white hoodie had a sky-colored stain. Shadow barely restrained her laughter as she went unnoticed.
"Oh you did not go there." Copper snatched some yellow dye off the floor, and threw it at Galaxy's black sweater, the bright dye contrasting the blue-green-red dots on her sweater.
"Yuck!" Galaxy hastily wiped at the dye. "Truce!" She yelped.
Copper smirked. "First say Copper is awesome."
"Copper is terrible." She flung some of the dandelion colored dye at him, and soon they were madly throwing dye at each other.
Shadow coughed, then squealed as a glob of purple dye sailed less then a block over her head. Both Copper and Galaxy froze.
"Oh. We have a guest." Copper brushed some red dye off of his carrot colored leggings.
She smiled. "I just came to see how you're settling in. Everything is good?"
"Other then us needing to clean this all up, yeah everything is fine."
"Then I'll just leave you to your flirting." A blush as red as Copper's hair grew on the boy's face, and Galaxy suddenly became interested in wiping off the dye that was dripping off her sweater and onto her matching pants.
Shadow smirked, then felt the smile fade as she wondered how the upcoming war would affect the couple.
Everything is about to change, she thought.
Awwww... would be a shame if something happened to them. *Insert evil laugh here*
Raiden the OC: Well this should be long and complex and hopefully not anti-climatic.
StressofWriting: What do you think of Thrush now?
Two review replies, yay! Well, see you later awesome people!
