The queen was seen looking out the view from the balcony before heading inside the kitchen to make some tea for herself. While stirring the small porcelain cup with a spoon, she heard a jingle and appeared in front of her was a black cat with a skull covering its face and a fishtail.
"Hello, slinky kitty. How are you?" Juliet asked the adorable cat while scratching its chin with her manicured nails.
"I'm sorry, I'm just not in the mood to play with you at this moment. But do not worry. It's not your fault. It's just... I feel as if I'm making my Bloom push away from me... no matter how much I try. It seems like I'm doing a bad job.." The black cat leaned against the queen's hand, closing its eyes for a moment just to love the feeling of being scratched right under the chin.
"What's your name? Do you even have one?" Juliet asked and looked at its collar tag.
"Wednesday? What an unusual name, but it'll suit an unusual cat like you." She playfully poked the cat's nose, making Wednesday's fishtail move side to side. As she looked at the kitchen, she admitted how cleaned and organized it was. Everything was labeled and assembled according to size. In the kitchen counter, there was a picture framed of Aisha along with the Mayans, battered but smiling brightly. She remembered this being taken right after the reunion back in Fuego was restored, but before entering the castle, she notices her daughter at the cliff by herself; wind blowing her long raven hair as she smiled upon the sun setting for the first time. The very planet she never knew that existed all her entire life... has risen. That memory was halted when she heard a thump on the kitchen floor, making both cat and queen turn their attention to Jimmy Jones, groaning on the floor after accidentally slipping what looked like chocolate syrup on the floor.
"Are you alright?" Juliet asked and came to help the boy.
"Y-yeah, I'll be fiiiiiyyynnnn..." Jimmy stopped his sentence for a moment to see a beautiful woman in Aisha's kitchen, but.. she looked familiar.
"Hello there." Juliet smiles and waved at him.
"Hi.. how did you get inside the house? Usually, the security system would go off by now."
"Oh don't worry, I mean no harm. I particularly live here with my daughter but I live in another world. If you understand?"
Another world? Daughter? Jimmy's eyes widened.
"QUEEN JULIET?!"
"Meow..." Wednesday responded as she sat down on the kitchen island, tail moving while a three-fingered hand was scratching her scalp affectionately.
As Aisha told the Mayans about the voice she heard yesterday (and due to not sleeping properly due to it disturbing her sleep, making her words most likely misunderstood because of how she was talking too fast).
"And that's what happened. Any questions?" Aisha asked her friends with her left eye twitching and some of their expressions were a bit off.
"And you didn't tell us?!" TK shouted but Ke-inno calmed him down with his powers.
"I'm sorry, but I didn't want you to think I was crazy," Aisha admitted. "Listen, I don't know if this will help me find my mom or it could possibly be a trap, but you gotta believe me, this could help me find my mom." Aisha turned her attention toward the forest. "And if you guys don't wanna join. You can go back to the hotel and leave me.." Her hair was in a ponytail and sighing for a moment, concentrating as she tried to hear the voice.
It was quiet until...
"AHH-AHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOHHHAHHHHHH!" Kevin sang along in a very horrible singing. Everyone covered their ears due to the horrible singing.
"Dude what was that about?!" Lance growled at him.
"What, I'm trying to improvise the voice that Black heard." Kevin mocked and did the horrible singing again until Miranda placed duct tape on his mouth with her mana, making him muffle.
"Seriously Kevin? You better zip it or else you'll know me better than as the Purple Mayan!" Miranda growled with her fist glowing next to his face due to her hands grabbing his navy vest.
With that settled, they turned their attention to Aisha, but she was gone in an instant.
"Princess Aisha?!" Rokai called out and took a step forward, but no response.
"Cousin Aisha!" Her cousins called out.
"Hey, Cuz! Where are ya?!" Nova shouted out in worry.
"Thanks a lot, Kevin! You made Aisha run off!" Albedo glared at him, arms crossed and walked away from a moment.
Kevin muffled his apology until Helia heard a scream.
"The princess!" He immediately ran.
"Oh, man!" Ben followed Helia and everyone followed along with the pixies and pets.
"Cuz you better not be dead or I'll be dead by your mom!" Nova shouted.
"That makes all of us." Lance ran by Nova. "Along with her dad!"
As the Mayans ran and pixies flew, they were stopped suddenly by Aisha, who stood in front of a horse, but it wasn't just a horse.
It was a legendary horse that thought was suppose to be extinct known as the Teihan. Brown cracked skin that resembles the earth's ground along with green grass mane-like hair, a tail, and his hooves were covered by the same grass-like hair as well. It was like reliving a fairy tail from a book. It was to guard the forest for all eternity; No matter what and when it means by standing guard for all eternity, it means for all eternity.
"What a beautiful horse..." Miranda whispered as she held Kaprosca close to him, believing she was dreaming. Everyone was just amazed by how a mythical creature stayed for so long here on earth.
"It won't let me go through the mountain..." Aisha whispered.
"What should we do?" Harper asked.
Aisha's mind paused when she heard muffling from Kevin, supposedly trying to distract the horse but it was no use.
I'm not gonna ask. Aisha thought and turned her attention to the horse. Staring at her with its green eyes. In front of the horse was the moss cover mountain. It looked like it was protecting it of some sort.
"Please... I need to go inside the mountain... my mother was here." Aisha pulled out the photo and showed it to the horse.
"My mother..."
The horse looked at the photo for a moment then it walked away for a moment, only to reveal some tracks from a person.
"Bestie, those are tracks from a human.. not an animal..." Miranda whispered and Aisha kneels down and inspects it closely.
Some of the others bent or kneel down to see the tracks themselves then a thought came to the princess with a shocked look upon her face.
"Cousin Aisha?" Kanou-a looked at his cousin.
Aisha immediately got up. "Mom wasn't living in Mexico. She was away from it.."
The Mayans all shared a look at one another. Now that Amber's secrets were being revealed more and more, it'll be too much for the princess to handle the truth. Zoc was right, the truth will hurt more. Just as she was about to break down, the horse came to nuzzle her cheek with its snot. Wiping the tears off her cheek.
Soon a hug was formed around the girl and she returned the gesture. Sniffles were heard as well. The horse looked at Aisha like it was asking her for something and she nodded. Pulling her hand toward, forming her palm into a cup.
The earth horse dropped something into Aisha's hand from its mouth. She looked at it closely, only to reveal a silver two diamond ring that she knew who this belonged to. A few moments later, the horse walked away from the group of heroes and pixies.
"Thank you..." she whispered and put the ring in her jean pocket for safekeeping and soon the group walked toward the moss mountain without any problem whatsoever.
As Aisha pulled the moss away, she found a passageway to get inside.
"Well, that was- AH!" Aisha stopped her sentence just as she slipped when the earth below her broke between her black combat boots and was about to fall but she grabbed the nearest hand next to her and soon the gang falls down... in a slide.
"Bestie!"
"Cousin Aisha!"
"Babe!
"Princess Aisha!"
"Cuz!"
Kevin muffled screams were heard.
And all was heard was 'Craznocks' from Aisha as they descended down the slide down below.
TBC
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