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"Wait up guys!" Snow White called behind us rushing to catch up. None of us said anything but I could tell we were sharing mutual feelings of uneasiness about her joining our group.
"So where are we going now?" Snow White asked eagerly.
"To the space police," Mokka answered as we all marched in a row towards the tall chunky building.
"Yeah that way the space police can send out a search party for Miss Madeleine," Lassi said.
We all were so emotionless to Snow White that I think she finally got the hint as we were as dry to her as stale old crackers.
Snow White said nothing but we walked inside the space police building and all four of us looked up at the space trooper behind the front counter.
"Yes kids, how may I help you today?" He asked as if he was asking what we would like to order off a menu instead of have them send a search party for our teacher.
"Um… someone we know is missing. She's our teacher and-" Lassi started explaining.
"Go to the counter to the left you need to talk to the residential trouble shooting," He explained going back to sipping his coffee.
We ignored this rude officer and brushed past him to the next counter.
"Hey this is residential trouble shooting, what can I do for you?" The officer asked in the same non-caring tone as the first.
"Hi, we were wondering if you could help us. Our teacher is missing-" Lassi tried explaining again.
"Are you a resident?" The police man asked.
"No but-" Lassi tried talking again.
"Go to the tourist counter to my right," He said going back to his newspaper. Ok… so were all the officers rude here? We brushed off both him and the first one's manners.
We came to a stop in front of the next counter but this time Snow White tried talking.
"Hello this is the Tourist Center how may I help you?"
"Hello, their teacher we believe is missing-" Snow White started.
"You need to go to the missing persons center upstairs to the left," The cop waved us goodbye rudely.
"Enough with the red tape!" Lassi said, "Do you have someone who can help us or don't you?"
"What we mean," Snow White said stepping in front of Lassi, "Is if we could meet your supervisor, the chief?"
"Oh why didn't you say so? The Chief is the top floor on the far left." The officer said going back to playing his word game or whatever.
"Thanks," Mokka said as we turned around and headed up to the third floor of the building and found the chief's office in the far back. When we got to the chief's office it was empty.
"What the hell?" I commented under my breath.
"Where is he?" Lassi stomped her foot.
"Maybe he has someone filling in for him?" Mokka suggested.
"Sure, let's check with his secretary," Snow White led us to the uniform clad secretary just outside his office.
"Hello," The secretary greeted us.
"We were wondering if anyone was in for the chief today?" Mokka asked.
"Oh yes, Lieutenant Mugwort is taking his place today, he should be right along you can just hang tight in his office for a bit," The secretary told us.
"Thank you," Snow White smiled.
We headed back into the chief's office and all took our places in his comfy classic office chairs.
It took a good ten minutes of waiting before someone entered the office.
He was short and had green skin like a reptile, he had a wacky purple afro and he even had a tail. What the hell? Seriously could things get weirder?
"Hello?" Lassi asked unsure.
"I heard you kids were waiting for me, I'm Lieutenant Mugwort of the space police force," He took his chair behind the big desk, we were uncertain on whether to take him serious or not. When no one said anything Mugwort spoke up again.
"So what seems to be the problem kids?" He asked. This time Mokka talked.
"Well we are having a problem because our teacher is missing, no one has made contact with her for three months and we find that worrisome." Mokka explained our situation.
"Well that is a problem and I would love to help but you see the problem is that for everyone's continued safety we have a strict paperwork policy. The space police have families and many fine pasties to munch on. We can't just bravely send a search party, are you insane? I'm sure you can understand. I'll file a report for you. Have a nice day," Mugwort finished and we all headed out of his office confused, pissed off and frustrated. Something was messed up with the space police.
"Well that was annoying," Mokka stated.
"Ya think!" Lassi said, "They didn't have to put us through all that crap!"
We stopped as a short person stopped in front of us. She had a dark hood on but her face was pale, she had very cat like features on her face and she had white triangular ears sticking out of her head. She even had a tail.
"Hi, are you guys magicians from Will-o-Wisp academy?" The cat girl asked.
"Yes why do you ask?" Lassi answered.
"I just knew it," the cat girl smiled, "Come this way I need you guys to see something."
I got an odd feeling in my gut that something was fishy but we all followed the cat girl anyways. She led us to the outskirts of the big city on Puffoon. She got us to where there was no one in sight and that gave me an icky feeling.
She stopping in front of a dark building and turned to us.
"This is… This is my house, I need you to help me find something, ok?" The cat girl said.
"Ok, we'll help," Snow White said.
"Thanks I appreciate it, By the way, name's Parfait."
We followed Parfait inside the dark house and asked her what she was searching for.
"I'm looking for an old book titled The Book of the Darned." Parfait explained.
We all nodded and split up taking up different parts of her house. Her house was creepy weird, there was oddly mechanical furniture and a bunch of insects hung on the wall that you could view through glass.
I shifted through a pile of old looking books carefully reading their titles when I came across a dark brown worn one with a silver title that read The Book of the Darned; Death and Rebirth of the sun.
I flipped it open to read.
Parfait ripped it out of my hands.
"Don't read that! That book is cursed! Most people die from skimming a line in that book!" Parfait glanced at all of us before she clutched her book tightly and said, "Thanks for your help you can take anything you want from my house."
Parfait kicked open the front door and ran away leaving us in her dust.
In an instant about a bazillion alarms went off scaring me out of my skin.
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