Early the next morning, I found that Sage wasn't in the house. Quietly I left through the window to find her. Azurite slept so deeply that I couldn't bring myself to wake him up.
The weather was chilly, as was normal in this region especially in the early morning. I flew above the town seeking Sage's location. It seemed the streets were quiet, so I was glad she'd chosen this date to go out. But where was she?
A few minutes later, I found her in the cave again staring at the painting in deep thought. As I flew closer, I noticed her eyes were open, brightening the painting with a yellow glow, in the same way she had read in the library.
It's really cool honestly. Glowing eyes. I smiled before I approached from behind and touched her shoulders.
"Morning Sage, what are you thinking?"
She jumped a little in surprise, and the light went out leaving us in darkness. Or, it wasn't completely dark, as a few rays of sunlight shone from the entrance.
She turned back to me, her calm face turned serious. "I meant to tell you in the library before, but I would appreciate if you didn't sneak up behind me and talk so suddenly while my eyes are open. I don't want to cause an accident out of surprise."
"Oh, sure, sure. I'm sorry," I apologized awkwardly. She was right, I had to be more careful at such times.
She had grown so much, from a very shy girl, to a still shy but confident and mature girl. I was sure she would be a really great Uxie in the future,
Sage returned to her calm smiling self and looked back at the painting. "You know, I really want to know more about the connection between us and the dragons, and why Cyrus wanted to use you so much to control the dragons of time and space. I remember you and Giratina talked about this but I would like to know more details. I also want to know, can we do that with Giratina as well?"
I flew next to her and looked at the painting too. "We can't control Giratina, only Dialga and Palkia. Therefore Dawn and her team were needed to stop Giratina's anger, which that man caused by messing with time and space."
"And for that he needed the chain that is our crystals." Sage said, taking hold of her two tails, looking at the two small red crystals set into them.
"Yes. But naturally that chain is invisible. When I and my brothers..." I abruptly stopped from the sudden pain that came from thinking of my brothers. Sage patted my back trying to comfort me. I thanked her with a smile before I continued, "When we sense that Dialga and Palkia are unstable, we go to them to fix Dialga or Palkia's mental state. We do that by circling in a triangle shape, which is supposed to be the chain pose, then we unite our powers, and share it with one of them. With this, the problem is fixed, and nothing threatens the balance anymore."
Sage looked at me in awe. "Wow.. sound cool. Honestly, I don't want anything to happen to the balance, but I really would like to experience that."
I laughed. "Yeah, maybe someday," I joked.
Suddenly Sage's expression became more excited. For this, I didn't need to be a mind reader to see what was coming...
"You know...I was also thinking, you and Azurite really should go on a date somewhere."
"On a date?!" I cried in shock then looked down awkwardly with a little blush. "Well..."
"You two like each other a lot. So why do you hesitate?" Sage asked curiously. I could tell that she was examining me. Since when had she started to do that with everything?
"Well..I never thought about going on a date honestly... I don't even know where we should go," I said, still avoiding her gaze.
"What's your favorite place? What do you think would fit for a date?" Sage tried to help me and I started thinking.
"Hmm well I think the beach would be good for that. And the sunset and the starry sky." I started imagining how this date would turn out, visiting the city, playing at the beach, watching the sky... together, holding hands...
I heard Sage start laughing, seeing my daydreaming face. "It seems you've gotten an idea for how to handle that."
I blushed hard at the laugh, then hugged her. "Yes. Thank you for your help. You've started to get really good at it. Did you know that?" I asked as I let go of her.
"Well...I am trying my best." She answered with another laugh.
Seeing her so open and confident was something I was glad to see. I felt she was like a little sister to me, not just a friend. I wondered if my father knew that I didn't hate the new Uxie and Azelf anymore, but saw them as, in Sage's case, my little sister and in Azurite's case... a friend and mate maybe? Yeah, definitely that.
I blushed at the word, mate. I never imagined I would get one someday.
"Hey girls, what are you doing here?" A sudden male voice surprised both of us and turned us back to the entrance. We saw Azurite floating there, with a really curious face.
"I found Sage, is what I did." I laughed, echoed by Sage's laugh and making Azurite really confused and excited about what we were hiding from him.
I told him everything that had been discussed between me and Sage, though managing to leave out the date topic somehow.
"Awesome. It's really cool what we can do isn't it?" He said excitedly.
Suddenly Sage moved between us. She grabbed both of our hands, then put one on top of the other, then put hers on ours. Azurite turned to her curiously while I looked away with a blush.
"Mesprit would really like to ask you out on a date to the beach at sunset, " she said, making me as red as a tamato berry.
Azurite looked back at me then happily said, "Sure. Everything that makes Mesprit happy, is okay with me."
Sage nodded like she'd expected that answer. Meanwhile I finally looked at him in annoyance. "You know, you should care for yourself too. Like, do you also want this date, or do you just want to do it because I want it?"
Sage gave me a stare like I'd said something stupid. At the same time, Azurite gave me a very determined look. "Of course I would like to. I don't know what a date is, but if it means spending time with you, I am in. If you are thinking I wouldn't care if it was Sage, then you are wrong. Both of you are very important to me. If she wanted to be with me, then I would happily join her company too."
Both Sage and I looked at each other, then shook our heads with a sigh realizing Azurite couldn't separate the idea of a 'love' date from a 'friend' one. Well, as the embodiment of emotions, it was my job to let know him the difference.
When the sun rose higher, and people started to come out of their houses, we went back to the old lady's house and thanked her for everything. Cynthia asked Sage if she would spend time with her again since Cynthia was free today. Sage happily accepted.
But when we prepared to leave the house, the old lady stepped into the living room calling us for breakfast. We looked at each other.
"Well since we are already here it's no problem if we eat something," I said, both of us nodding in agreement.
While we ate our food, I started planning out in my head how the date would look later in the day.