Got a few more follows so thanks for that!
Just putting it out there that this is probably going to be the last chapter im able to post until i get surgery on my arms which will be sometime in the spring if it happens. Everything written after this chapter needs heavy editing and additions and im just in too much pain to be able to work on it anymore. I might be able to get ONE more out before but I think id prefer just to wait. but thanks for still keeping up with my story all these years 3
As practice for the day ended the locker rooms began to fill up with a hoard of teenage boys. All shouting, running around and ready to go home. Jake walked over to his locker and opened it up to get his bag silently as everyone else walked past him, glancing over and watching Will at his own locker in the corner. Jake took his bag out, threw on his jacket and slammed his locker shut causing a few other boys next to him to jump.
He began storming over towards Will, but managed to stop and compose himself and continued his strut calmly.
"What do you want, Jake?" Will sighed not even looked away from his things.
"Look, dude. It's been a month. Can you please talk to me?"
Will shut his locked and looked back at Jake finally, swinging his bag over his shoulder, "Fine. What is it?"
Jake shuffled in place, looking genuinely awkward- and almost sincere, "in case you decided to forget it's my birthday this weekend… it is. My parents are leaving the house for me to have a party… and I'm still gonna invite you. Vii's going too if it makes you feel better. Everyone on the teams going, and some other people from school so... Look, we don't have to hang out or talk! But having you just come over would mean a lot. You never missed it before, so..."
"I don't know," Will muttered a response, starting to walk away. Jake grabbed his arm and pulled him back rather forcibly.
"Dude can you please just… think about it?"
The two looked at each other for a while before Will finally shrugged, "Fine. Just for a little bit. My dad freaks out if I'm out too late alone anyway."
Jake smiled and nodded, "I get it, dude. Thanks for thinking about it."
Will passed Jake and headed outside, now leaving the other alone in the locker room. Everyone else had deserted the locker room rather quickly.
"Well that certainly went well," Jake heard a familiar feminine voice behind him.
"Jesus Christ-!" He whipped around to see Mary sitting on one of the benches, "don't freaking do that creep! How did you get in here? This is the freaking boys room!"
"I'm sure there's more important things than me letting myself where I please."
"I already told you last time I'm not joining your creepy group! Seriously. Go away." Jake stared the girl down.
Mary sighed, "I knew you were going to say it. I just wish you'd understand how much better you'd feel with us. You already know you're above everyone else, but you could show them, too. They'll never appreciate what you do," she looked up at him grinning.
"Again with that talk. I know I've messed up. Can't you let me fix things on my own? I don't need any creepy other-wordly shit messing with my life, especially from some witch like you."
"That's a new one," Mary laughed, "but you really think you can do this? Fine. How about I visit again this weekend? If you really don't want to be part of us then, I'll leave you alone. Assuming I'm invited to the party, that is."
"You're not invited to anything," Jake grunted as he walked passed her to finally go home for the night.
Music was blasting from every window, that's how Jake liked it. You couldn't hear everyone else's annoying conversations, but it was fun to eavesdrop sometimes. That's the only way you get to catch up on what ever school drama was going on.
He carried two large cans of coke in his hands, sliding one over to Vii as he jumped up on the counter seat next to her, "I remembered your favorite," he grinned.
Vii took the coke casually, "my favorite's cherry, actually."
"Oh, uh. I knew that I just meant that-"
"It's fine," she laughed to herself, "I really don't care. Your music taste is garbage, by the way."
"You always thought it was garbage. Why'd you even come if you hate everything I do."
Vii slammed the empty can of coke down after chugging it while Jake complained, "Why'd you invite me if you know I hate everything you do?"
Jake went silent.
"You know I'm just here cause Will wouldn't bother coming if I wasn't here. I'm tired of you two fighting, just try to get over it tonight?" Vii hopped off the counter seat and went to talk to another group of kids leaving Jake alone again.
Jake sat still for a moment then grunted, shoving his can of soda away. He doesn't even like coke.
Normally with all the music, he wouldn't notice a sound a vague as knocking on a door. But his attention was so hyper focused on it he nearly booked it the second the first knock hit the front door.
Jake opened the door to see Will standing there, but he didn't look happy.
"Hey dude! Thanks so much I promise I'll-"
"I get it, don't overdo it." Will walked past him and already began looking around to see where Vii was.
"I'm surprised you're actually here," he muttered as he walking up to the chattering teen.
"Makes both of us," Vii laughed, turning around to face him, "I know hanging out with your ex is weird but he's still a friend… plus nothing needs to be more awkward than it already is." She winked. Vii peered over Will's shoulder to see Jake frantically scrambling through a circle of classmates over to them, "incoming," she whispered.
Jake nervously slid over to the two, interrupting their conversation, and held out at a can of sprite to Will.
"Thanks…" he replied. "Uh… it means a lot you made the effort to invite me, I mean it! And I'm sorry I haven-"
"We're still friends, right? Don't act so weird," Jake chuckled, swinging an arm around him, "and it's my birthday. Tonight's about me, not you."
"Right…" Will responded as Jake removed himself.
Vii rolled her eyes and went back to chugging her third can of soda when she glanced outside to the backyard, her eyes went wide and she spat out what was in her mouth. "Are you kidding me, Jake?" she pointed towards the large sliding door.
There were a ton of kids outside around the pool, and from the fence around it Vii saw a familiar girl enter through, all dressed up and looking around. It was the girl from the video Jake showed everyone.
"What?" Jake's jaw dropped.
"Are you serious right now?" Will's anger was directed towards Jake as he stepped over to Vii's side, "weren't you over this?"
"I swear I don't know why she's here! I never-" At that moment Jake's eyes glanced over the window of his front door. Mary was sitting on the front porch ledge grinning at him. He froze.
"Whatever, I'm leaving," he put down the can and started to walk past Jake, who grabbed his arm in a tight grip.
"Wait, dont worry about it!" Jake pleaded, "I'll go and tell her to leave!"
Will tried to escape Jake's grip, but he kept pulling him back, "I don't care! Do whatever you want. I'm done pretending to be your friend when I can't even trust you to throw a normal party. I'm over this, and I'm over you and your stupid drama."
He ripped Jake's hand off and was about to storm away, when Jake stared down a laughing Mary through the window. He kept his gaze on her as he clenched his fist, faced Will, and decked his friend in the nose. When he realized what he just did, he looked back towards the window in panic, but Mary was gone.
Will held his now bleeding nose, glaring at Jake for a moment before turning back towards the door and sprinting out.
"Wait a second-!" Jake shouted , chasing after Will in blind anger as the other rushed out the door. He couldn't keep up, but stopped dead in his tracks as the familiar white haired girl sat back up on top of the ledge of his porch grinning down at him.
"I said you weren't invited! " Jake gritted his teeth.
"You also said you could handle things on your own… look how that turned out for you," Mary simply continued grinning down, knowing she had already won.
"I was doing fine until you interfered. Why'd you send your friend to piss me off?"
Mary clicked her heels together, "I told her I was going to a party and gave her the address. I thought the front door was too much so I said I'd meet her in the back… I suppose I should go fetch her now and tell her I've had a change of plans and go see a movie or something."
"So you told her to come to piss me off still, right?"
"All I wanted to do was show you how wrong you were. Your friends don't trust you, and they never will." She chuckled, "you can't win your friend back by just talking. He doesn't trust you, he doesn't trust anyone! A lost cause, really. The only way you'll get what you want is by taking direct action yourself."
Jake folded his arms, avoiding Mary's devils gaze. He didn't want to be part of whatever Mary was trying to sell him, he hated her just as much as he hated everyone else that's wronged him in his life. The only thing he wanted of her was to go away.
The front door was shut, but you could still hear the music blaring from behind. Vii had taken over during the drama to play her own music. Jake hated her music. Everyone was oblivious, continuing on with the party, they didn't even care about him. No one did. He didn't care about any of them, either. He hated them. He hated everyone. The only thing he wanted of everyone was to go away.
He looked back up at Mary and he could tell her patience was now running low. She jumped off the porch ledge, her heels clanking loudly against the porch. Jake watched her, but still avoided looking in her eyes.
"Fine I'll help you. But one condition, I get to decide when I show up and what I wanna do. None of you guys are bossing me around."
"Alright," Mary replied, blinking slowly, "I'll come back later after your little party to talk you through it. However, I cannot be held responsible for consequences of not following your lords orders. He can get very… angry."
"Whatever," he already turned to go back inside, slamming the front door behind him in Mary's face. He just wanted this night to be over.
Mary stood on his porch a bit longer, watching him head back inside and shout at Vii, snatching her phone away and throwing it across the room. She rolled her eyes grinning and turned away towards the porch steps to leave.
Juliet tiredly entered the Dream Plaza. It was strange how the feeling of exhaustion even followed her into her own sleep. Hopefully, tonight would be refreshing enough to not fall asleep in her math lesson tomorrow morning.
Expecting to meet up with NiGHTS to continue their exploration through her Nightopia, Juliet was surprised to run into Twylight waiting for her as well.
"Hey Jules!" NiGHTS beamed, "glad you came back, Twylight says we're gonna have to hold off on Nightopia for tonight."
"There's time for that later. I figured you two would be meeting up here like usual. I was a little distant last night, but I want to come clean and explain everything I know!" They nodded to the visitor reassuringly.
NiGHTS crossed his arms, a little cautious of where this would lead, but he eventually gave in and signaled Twylight with a nod, "get to it then! Let's get going!"
Twylight immediately flew over and poked the air to summon one of their portals upon NiGHTS' request, "this will be a lot faster than walking there." Twylight stepped out of the way from their portal and motioned the two to go sent them back in the clearing in front of the large castle, but Juliet was positive she would never get used to the feeling of going through one of Twylight's portals. Is this how nightmaren feel when she and NiGHTS paraloop them?
Helen had already been sitting up on the the top of the 3 steps up to the building, while Will was just under her on the first step. His leg seemed to be bouncing with nervousness, but Helen seemed to be pretty unaware of anything else. As for Jolten, he already placed himself against the side of the castle away from the congregation as usual.
Will perked his head up from him glum posture upon seeing NiGHTS, but he wasn't perked up in excitement. He pulled himself up and nervously began walking in the nightmarens direction, Helen just watched with a confused expression.
"NiGHTS can I… talk to you about something?" He muttered, but was loud enough for the other to hear still.
"Twylight wanted to talk to all of us first," NiGHTS looked over to Twylight who was beginning to trail off alongside Juliet, then beamed as he looked back down to Will "after that we can talk!"
"No…" he followed NiGHTS' gaze over to Twylight, "I want to talk to you now."
"I don't think Twylight wants to wait…"
"I just-"
"But I promise if you want to go to Pure Valley or something after we can-!"
"Did you know Maria?" He finally blurted out loudly, silencing NiGHTS.
NiGHTS stared down blankly at him for a while, a little caught off guard from the way he yelled it. It almost took a while to process the question, but he finally responded, "Your… sister? Well, she was a little familiar I guess…-"
"I knew her." Twylight's voice seemed to echo in the silence. They didn't turn away from Juliet as she said it, they barely moved their posture. "I need to… explain a lot. Just bare with me through tonight!"
Will slowly looked over to Twylight, now just as confused as Helen seemed before. Helen had already left her spot on the steps to join where the crowd now was, but Jolten obviously hadn't moved, although more intrigued than before.
"I'm sorry if I've been… dodgy. I wasn't sure if I should say certain things yet or not," Twylight began, looking rather sorrowful.
"What do you mean not sure?" Juliet looked towards Twylight, "You probably know more about what's going on than any of us."
Twylight took a deep sigh and gave a nervous smile, "Well, to be honest I'm not quite sure where I should even start with everything!"
"Maybe a proper introduction," Helen smiled, "you did show up rather suddenly…"
Twylight smiled back, "Well then, my name is Twylight. As everyone is aware already, I'm a nightmaren, and one of Fryght's lost parts. Any questions so far?" They opened up, looking around in anticipation.
"Well… it would be nice to know more about… Fryght. From an actual… well, from Fryght..." Juliet shrugged.
"We know Fryght was a large nightmaren created by Wizeman with uncontainable power," NiGHTS frowned, "that's why it split up, correct? Do you… have memories as Fryght?" NiGHTS recapped, adding a bit of his own inquiry from the stories he's heard in the past. It was almost like talking to a celebrity, as the visitors say.
"That's all foggy…" Twylight admitted. "Fryght is an entirely separate being, not three personalities into one body. Fryght was a bit overpowered for a nightmaren, and when it split up it created my siblings and I! Each of us all received a different part of its power."
"So that's like your portals, right?" Helen beamed, "and I'm guessing Nightmayr has those weird shadow things? Aren't those just like Wizeman's, though?"
"I don't think those belong to him," Jolten finally chimed in, a lot sooner than the others had anticipated.
Twylight gave a furrowed look, "Well, he definitely has a hold of Fryght's brute strength. I doubt even Reala is a match for him in an arm wrestle competition."
NiGHTS looked down at the small light scratch on his gem where Nightmayr had attacked. No other nightmaren, even Reala, would ever be strong enough to even chip it. Their durability was only able to be overpowered by Wizeman. NiGHTS had seen many Nightmaren fully demolished in front of him during his time of loyalty. The thought of it caused him to shudder, luckily he wouldn't have to see it again. Even more so now that Wizeman was gone himself.
The sound of Helen's voice brought NiGHTS' thoughts back to reality, "What about the other one? There's three of you aren't there?"
"She… isn't important right now." The cool toned nightmaren dipped their head down in regret, "I promise she is safe, and because of that I don't want to involve her in all of this."
Twylight swayed around, "I guess I should explain a bit more about where we all came from. When Wizeman hid all of us, it was before he understood the power of a visitors ideya. Only a visitor would've been able to free us," she looked over to Will with a big smile, happy to be reminiscing about her old friend "that's where Maria comes into the story."
Will didn't say anything, but crossed his arms feeling a bit uncomfortable.
Twylight gave another nervous grin, but began their ramble rather suddenly, "So, the story started... I think a few years ago when Maria awoke me from a cave here in the Dream Plaza. I didn't really know anything besides my own name and my purpose, and that wasn't really clear to me either. After that, Owl taught me about the Night Dimension, and convinced me to not serve Wizeman." Twylight closed their eyes with a nervous sigh. "By that point, NiGHTS came flying over, and I had to hide, so I followed my first instinct, and transformed."
Twylight paused for a few seconds to calm their nerves. They were excited to share, but a little nervous at how their revelation would be received by their new friends. A bright light emitted from Twylight, Juliet recognized it as the same light from when NiGHTS transformed during their time together in Lilac Plains. As the light faded, where Twylight once floated stood a young teen. Their silver hair shined against the light of the moon.
Both Helen and Will immediately tensed up, Helen stepped back a little. "That was you!" She shouted. Her hands were brought in closer to her chest and her leg posture became almost defensive.
"I was just following what Owl told me. He said NiGHTS and other Visitors didn't like other Nightmaren so I should stay disguised." Twylight, now as a young human, gave a sheepish look to the flying nightmaren.
"So that's why you couldn't dualize with me!" NiGHTS frowned, "and Owl lied that you were a Visitor without ideya? I thought Owl was the most honest friend I had!"
"...Really?" Juliet glanced up at NiGHTS.
He shrugged, "Not really, but I still can't believe he would pull something like this on me."
"With my discovery of Nightmayr, I found him while exploring the castle without NiGHTS around, and found him trapped in an orb, just like I was. Unlike me, he was slightly conscious in that form already, and he wanted help getting out, so I gullibly followed his requests to find Visitors to free him."
"So you're the one to sent us here before," Will sighed in defeat from his earlier conversation.
"I told you I had suspicions," Helen commented in defense.
"Nightmayr holds a lot of anger inside of him," Twylight sighed, "his prison leaked that aura of anger and I believe is what caused a lot of your unknown aggression."
"When I found your orb in my Nightopia, I felt really calm… is that what you mean, Twylight?" Julied inquired.
Twylight nodded, "I'm sorry, I wanted to set Nightmayr free. If I knew I would have ruined your friendships, I wouldn't have had you free him. I'm so sorry."
NiGHTS remained silent through the rest of this conversation, not being able to find the words to fire back. He was both frustrated with Twylight, but also forgiving. In the end, it wasn't anyone's fault but Wizeman's once again.
Despite NiGHTS' silent treatment, Twylight continued, "I found my other sibling not long after that. She desperately wanted to be released. We learned more about Fryght's creation, and after we defeated Wizeman," the two purple colored nightmaren exchanged glances, NiGHTS looked surprised, "we found out that Nightmayr wanted to reform Fryght and we had to put a stop to that. I sent my sibling to a place he would never find her, and returned to my own prison."
Juliet tried to follow along the rest of the story, "So I found you after, then when I threw my bag off your orb cracked… and you were set free? That's kind of…"
"Anticlimactic?" Helen finished Juliet's conclusion, "so Juliet accidentally freed Twylight again, so that makes us all even." She smiled a bit fakely, just trying to make the rest feel better about the previous revelation.
"So," Will finally stepped up closer to the now closely mingled group, "all we have to do is stop your other sibling from being found, right? That's the only problem we have to deal with? Wizeman isn't behind all of this?"
"There's still those other visitors he's manipulated into dreaming in Nightmare," NiGHTS pointed out, "I've managed to conclude the reason why Nightopia hasn't had any visitors for a while is because he's been stealing them all before they reach the Dream Gate. Nightopia isn't as strong as it once was but… Juliet is doing a good job already bringing it back to life."
Juliet turned red, "It's fine, really! I mean, were all working, right?"
"One thing I want to jump back to," NiGHTS swiveled around to face the still human Twylight, "you mentioned you defeated Wizeman?" The nightmaren appeared almost offended.
Twylight gave an unsure head nod in response, "we overpowered him too much, and it helps that he was a bit weak already from your fights together. In the end, Wizeman destroyed himself so none of us could have the final victory, but we may as well have been the ones to finish him."
NiGHTS pouted, while glad Wizeman was gone he felt a bit frustrated that he couldn't have been the one to finally end it himself. Was the circumstances of his destruction the reason Nightmaren weren't destroyed as well?
Twylight glanced down at their own torn up blue bottoms, "We all kept a piece of Wizeman after the battle. While I may have disagreements, he's still my creator. There's a lot I still don't understand about him, but it was Nightmayr's idea."
"Nightmayr's cape right? That was part of Wizeman?" Juliet asked, she wasn't sure what Wizeman had looked like, but the torn up cape that rested on Nightmayr's shoulders looked similar to the bottoms Twylight had alluded to.
Twylight nodded, "Unfortunately that wasn't the only thing Nightmayr took from Wizeman." The grey-skinned nightmaren pulled out the small red gem from the other night, everyone creeped in closer to them to the point that they were huddled together, all curious over what the deal over it was.
"So… what is it?" Helen was eager to hear this story more than anything else so far. Something about the gem sparked interest in her.
"It's called an Ideya Shard, specifically this is the Shard of Courage. It may be small, but there's only one of each within the world, and it holds great power for the one it bonds with."
"Bonds… with?" Juliet questioned once again.
"Each Ideya Shard, when bonded with a visitor of a strong heart, can give that visitor incredible abilities." Twylight nodded.
All the visitors stared with excitement into the glittering gem in Twylight's hand, while NiGHTS remained silent.
"We've never heard of that before," Will joined in awe, "did Owl know about these?"
"Wizeman kept them hidden from everyone… I don't know too much about their history myself. My other sibling, Nyght, is the one who first discovered them. I've never actually seen their power be used before, either." Twylight admitted sheepishly.
"Ok, so we get what they are now," Will interrupted the reminiscing nightmaren, his voice was a little sharp "but what did any of this have to do with Maria before?"
Twylight continued, "The nightmaren Maria and I encountered together all were made with the remaining four shards to protect them. We managed to take them all back and hide them except for the Shard of Courage which Wizeman must have still held onto. I'm assuming he must have thought Maria would be able to tell him where we hid the other four, or even that she might bond to the Shard of Courage. Unfortunately for him… Maria doesn't remember anything about her adventure…" The nightmarens voice trailed off sorrowfully. They had missed their friend dearly, and it hurt them that they wouldn't be able to see her face to face again. The other night was a wonderful one-sided reunion.
"But… why would he be trying to make it bond with a visitor? Didn't you just say it has extreme power? That would just make the odds against him worse." Helen pointed out. It did seem weird for Nightmayr to be trying to force the shard to bond when Wizeman was trying so hard to make sure they never did.
"Well… I don't know." Twylight finally admitted they've reached a dead end in their discussion, "my other sibling had told me what the shards were, and what they were used for. They are how Wizeman was able to destroy Fryght upon creation. My only theory is maybe he wants to steal their final power so it can't be used against Fryght after… if it reforms?"
"That makes… no sense." Helen gave a weary expression.
"Nightmayr did not… get the intelligence of Fryght. Only it's brashness."
"Well it's comforting to know at least we're dealing with an idiot," Jolten smirked, "now that we have all of the shards we could be unstoppable, right? So where are they, Twy?"
Twylight nervously looked away from Jolten, who now pouted in return, "Actually," Twylight began explaining, "I don't know… where any of the other shards are anymore."
"What?" Everyone exclaimed in unison.
"They're hidden in the Waking World… I know it was probably not the best idea to bring a Night Dimension item into the Waking World but I'm the only nightmaren who can travel between the two! There would be no way for any nightmaren to find them and since Ideya only exists within the dream world, their powers would never be able to be awakened there."
"They could be anywhere!" Will shouted, "the real world is huge! What if we actually need them?"
"Well… I suppose it is a smart hiding place. But I feel like hiding them like that is exactly what Wizeman wanted to do. Isn't that just helping out the nightmarens were trying to stop?" Helen seemed worried.
Juliet stood awkwardly, she knew Twylight was just in hiding them all over the Waking World, but Helen also had a good counter point. They just helped out Nightmayr more by doing that. "I mean…" she sheepishly cut into the bickering, "we're assuming any of us would be able to even use that power anyway. Even if we had them, there's no saying in if we could use them, because Twylight mentioned them having to bond to a visitor, so..." The others began to calm down, realizing Juliet's point was more clear than their own. Twylight did mention they would only awaken to a visitor of a strong heart… how strong did it mean?
"For now it's best we keep the Shard of Courage safe," Twylight opened their palm back up to reveal the small red stone, then glanced up at NiGHTS, both of their bright aqua eyes locking, "NiGHTS, I believe it will be the safest in your care."
"With… me?" NiGHTS repeated in awe, "why? Shouldn't we just keep it in Juliet's bag or something?"
Twylight shook their head doubtfully, "I think it'll be best with you. Maybe it's just because it reminds me of the one on your chest," they chuckled. NiGHTS looked down embarrassingly at the large red diamond protruding out of their torso. They both did have an uncanny similarity.
"I guess I can't argue there," he chuckled back. As he took the shard from Twylight's hand a small light burst from his vest. On the lapel of his vest he formed himself a small pin where the shard easily snapped in, "fancy," he remarked to himself.
"So I guess that's that?" Will concluded for the group, "anyone else have anything they wanna admit?"
The group glanced around from one person to the next, but no one else seemed to have anything else to say.
"Well then," NiGHTS shot up, "there's still some time left before you guys have to wake up. Juliet," he turned excitedly towards the visitor, "what do you say to some more 'forest venturing'?"
"Alright!" Juliet bounced. She hiked her bag back up, holding onto both straps around her shoulder as she NiGHTS began heading off from the group.
"Well," Jolten hovered upside down above the remaining two visitors, "you never did get to show me that obnoxious Nightopia of yours before, you still wanted to anyway."
Will laughed, "sure, Jolten. May as well find something to do to kill some time." The yellow nightmaren felt a bit insulted.
"What about you, Twylight?" Helen asked the lilac nightmaren as they were left alone, "Do you have any plans for tonight?"
"No," they sighed, "but I suppose I should accompany you the rest of the night in case anything happens. Did you have any plans?"
"I suppose any Nightopia would do…"
"Well…" the nightmaren muttered quietly, blushing a bit, "that one Nightopia of yours I saw those years ago was rather nice… I would like to see more of it!"
"Memory Forest it is, then!" Helen beamed, "That one's always been my favorite anyway… I haven't been able to visit it yet. I wonder if it's changed at all? Crystal Castle certainly seemed brighter than before."
"As you grow your heart will begin to change, it is only logical your Nightopia would change and grow with you," a familiar old voice cooed from above. Owl was flapping down to greet the two, "hoo dear, it seems I've missed the crowd. The Nightopian's in Lilac Plains were causing quite the havoc."
Helen laughed, "hello, Owl!"
"Hello, Visitor! And it is wonderful to see you again too, Twylight! I do hope you both have been enjoying your return to Nightopia. I only wish it was in a better circumstance."
"It's been beautiful, Owl," she curtsied slightly, "you've missed quite a lot!"
"Hoo! Perhaps you two could fill me in on our way to Nightopia, hm? That is if I'm invited along to your night out."
Twylight chuckled, "We'll do our best to fill you in," they began to slowly flutter away, still making sure it was a pace the other two could keep up with. They smiled as they glanced back, listening to Helen as she began to explain to Owl with such amazement in her tone.
