A/N I OWN NOTHING!
Pecker was standing at the entrance of the tent with his wing/hands on his hip. I exhale through my mouth and inhaled deeply through my nose.
"I need Onin's help." I pleaded to him. He squawked then flew to a perch right beside Onin. She still had that happy smile on her face. She clapped her hands sending what I knew to be blue glitter flying two inches from her hands in every direction. Except it looked a white color since I still had my strange purple heat seeing vison. Which had its advantages but was starting to get annoying. I hope this wasn't permit. Onin began to do a series of hand signals.
"Onin says she is happy to meet you. She hopes you are faring well yaddy yadda. She says you should not be here yet you belong here." Pecker said watching Onin's hands.
"Wait? That doesn't make sense? I belong but I'm not supposed to be here? Can you break that down for me please? I think being in prison has rotted my brain." I interjected. I was desperate to get any information I could get. I needed an explanation for everything.
"Yes yes. She says that you belong here now because of the changes your body went through coming here. The second you came to our world you have become the key to saving it."
"Wait? Are you saying I can never go back home." I said as my chest filled with lead.
"Yes. She..." He didn't get to finish his sentence because I covered my mouth as I began sobbing loudly. I clasped to the ground and curled into a ball. 'I'm never going to see them again. I'll never graduate from high school or go to college!'
The tent was silent except for the sounds of my sobs. Pecker flew down from his perch and landed beside my head. He put a hand on my head but said nothing. Gradually I regain control over my emotions and sit up on my knees. My sobs reduced to small hics and then after a couple of deep breaths I stopped crying.
"I'm sorry." I said wiping my tear streaked cheeks and sniffling.
"It's okay. Things will be difficult but in the end it will make you stronger. Onin says that you have strange powers that she herself can't fully help you with. For that you must seek the Oracle." He said seriously.
"Okay what can you teach me? I kind of want to learn as fast as possible." I said crawling to her on my hands and knees till I was two feet away. I got into my familiar gaming position, which was criss cross.
"Well, first you must clear your mind of all thoughts. Let yourself relax as much as you can. Find your inner peace. Once you have done this your senses should heighten." Pecker said without Onin giving any hand signs but I guess he already knew about this stuff too. After all he does hang out with her basically twenty four-seven.
I allowed myself to relax. Slowly the muscles in my legs, arms and neck relaxed. My back soon relaxed making me slump over. Next I fought to clear my mind, which was almost insanely hard to do. Thoughts of my home family and friends didn't want to leave.
A few tears spilled down my face as I fought to forget. 'I'll forget it for now but I promised to never forget them completely.' And with that, all thoughts dispersed from my mind. I could hear the breathing of Pecker, Onin and myself. I could even hear the crunch of dirt coming from walking people outside. It was so peaceful there was no fear or worries.
I could live the rest of my life like this. Slowly I opened my eyes and saw Onin smiling at me. Only she was no longer a violet white color but now she was in color. I inwardly sighed in relief.' Thank god it wasn't forever!'
"Good now that you have gone back to normal Onin can now get a better sense of you." Pecker translated. Onin touched a finger to the middle of my forehead. A tingling sensation washed over me as she did so and it wasn't very pleasant. Don't get me wrong it didn't hurt. It just felt like I was being stripped naked, which I've got used to in prison. This though, this was more intrusive.
None the less I held still and tried not to fidget from discomfort. She held her finger there for a minute then closed her eyes and raised her head. Slowly her smile grew wider and wider. Until an almost toothless grin was on full display on her face. Her smile soothed my nerves.
Finally she opened her eyes and she removed her finger from my persons. She started rapidly began weaving signs sending her blue dust flying everywhere. The whole time I reviled in the sight of the blue glitter. It really was a huge comfort seeing normally again. How would I draw again if all I could see where shades of purple? Pecker watched with intense concentration at her hands.
"Rrraaahhhh! Slow down woman your starting to not make sense!" He scolded. She just frowned and paused for a second before continuing a little slower this time. I feel like I should have a derp face (0_0) taped to my face the whole time. Cause all this shit was flying over my head.
Pecker watched on as Onin did her version of ranting. I was kinda anxious to know what she was saying. 'Better not be talking shit!' I thought humorously. Eventually she stopped and Pecker turned to look at me. He rubbed his chin and examined me before shaking his head. 'What? Why you shaking your head?' I thought as a stab of anxiety and self-consciousness hit my chest.
"You should go to the Oracle as soon as possible, but you can't continue walking around in your prison cloths. You'll be noticed, it was a wonder you didn't. I will take you to someone that can hook you up with cloths and even a place to sleep at night. You may have to work for him though." Pecker said finally.
'I wonder who it is. Oh well I'll find out soon. Most likely the Underground.' Pecker flied up and landed on my right shoulder. I looked up at him and raised an eyebrow.
"Go on! I don't have all day!" He snapped. I frowned at him but began walking out of the tent. The sun was just shy from the middle of the sky but I wasn't sure if it was afternoon or not. I decided to once again take to the roof tops, which got me a compliment from Pecker. I hopped, tip toed and climbed my way over the city towards where Pecker was directing me. I was at 'L' shaped building when he told me to get down. I complied with his wishes using a pole and a barrel to get down.
When I touched ground Pecker pointed somewhere. I followed his feather errrr...finger. He was pointing to a wooden little shop. In big neon purple lights was strange symbols. It had five wooden stools around its counters. Fish was stringed up behind the counters. 'Brutter's shop?' I thought as I walked closer to it. Sure enough the big loveable lurker popped out of what seemed like nowhere.
"Customers yes? Brutter has finest fishs in town! You try you like Brutter promise." He said from behind his stand. He gave me the biggest smile I had ever seen. I couldn't help but to beam at him. He was just so cute even his speech patterns were cute!
"No!" Pecker retorted rather rudely. "Onin has sent her here in order to get a job. Also she needs a new set of cloths and a place to sleep." I frowned at Pecker about to ask him who pissed in his cheerios but was cut off by Brutter.
"I's can give you jobs and cloths and a place to sleep! Brutter has couch but it's not very comfortable! Brutter will be back with pretty cloths for you! You see you like!" And with that he was running off to god knows where. 'He doesn't even know my size!'
"Well this is where I leave you. Once you have gone to the Oracle come back and speak with Onin again." He said before he flew off my shoulder and over the roof tops back. Great I was alone...again! I sighed and decided to sit up in the counters and swing my legs over the other side. I jumped down and snooped around.
'Something smells fishy.' Hahahaha get it because I'm surrounded by fish. There was also seasonings and vegetables in barrels around the back and a barrel of, I'm guessing by the spout, liquid. 'Actually I wouldn't mind some fish.' I though as my mouth watered. All I had for the last two some odd years was prison food, of you could call it that. I was snooping through the selves under the counters when a loud voice caused me to bang my head on the counter as I jumped up, or tried to.
"Pretty lady! Brutter found some pretty clothing for you. You like Brutter promises." He said opening a hatch door on his counter and stepping through. He was smiling as he stepped up to me presenting the bundle of cloths.
