"Well I'm certainly not here to talk to riff raff like you," she snorted picking her way through flowers.
"Well look here not red Cherry, seriously who names their daughter cherry when they aren't red, your PINK for crying out loud!" I said back.
She stared at me stunned for a moment for saying without her sophisticated accent, "Hey genius ever think of it, I dunno… maybe just maybe she named me after a CHERRY TREE or the CHERRY BLOSSOMS! Mother said peasants were not very intelligent, but she never said they were complete imbeciles!"
"Lemme guess, you're a Princess!" I said with a theatrical roll of my eyes playing along though I just wanted her out of my hair as quickly as possible.
"Oh heavens no, I'm just Cherry, and not all Cherries are red you know… and I am going to leave before I end up in another perplexing situation," she said in a half bored voice, with her sophisticated way of saying words back.
"Yeah go run home, go cry to Queen Mommy!" I snarked behind her as she left.
She pointedly ignored me, before swinging around, "Oh and… you might want to keep that little electric trick under raps, never know when someone might see it,"
"Is that a threat," I growled.
"No, it was a helpful piece of advice, no need to get all defensive," she said coolly.
"Whatever you say, sista," I scowled as she walked away.
She came back many times, with more questions, though half of it ended up with us bickering and me telling her to get the hell out of here.
"So Princess, if you're not a Princess then who the bloody hell are you?" I asked reproachfully.
"My mother is a High Priestess, see that tree?" she asked while pointing to some tree, "That's where we live,"
"Yeah sorry sister… there are a million trees!" I snapped with a snort.
"No… the Giant Tree," she said simply as my eyes widened with awe, it was one of the most spiritual places here minus the dragon's maze and the temple. Though to be fair out of those trees it was the most stunning.
"Your kidding," I snorted.
"Not,"
"Are too!"
"I am not dipping my tongue into silver right now,"
"You don't know what that means to us "peasants" but what does it mean to you royals?" I asked.
"Lying," she said swiftly before grabbing another flower, what was she doing around here and why was she always picking so much stuff.
"Well for us a silver tongue means sharp,"
"Your tongue becomes sharp? I did not know this, it reminded me never to engage in a tongue battle with someone," she said flatly but I didn't think she was joking.
"What? No! Not Literally! We don't have tongue battles!? That's weird!" I protested in shock, she was an idiot.
"From what I hear you fight over everything, it gives the gods a headache trying to keep up," she said back in a bored disbelieving voice.
I used my paw to smack my head, or at least Tried to smack my head, my paw was much too short to reach my head, so it hit my cheek instead.
She blinked at me, "Punching, case in point,"
"No, it's called exasperation!" I said in exasperation repeating it.
"And Everyone does this?"
"Yep,"
"You sure?"
"100 percent,"
"Ok then,"
"So… you're a magic teleporter?" I asked.
"Yep pretty much,"
"Cool,"
Finally I couldn't resist it anymore, "Tell me about your magic!"
She blinked at me curiously, and I could see in her eyes she was debating, "What is there to know?"
"Everything!"
"You're a kit-fox, how can you teleport? That's a different move than your criteria," I said bluntly, this wasn't possible, the notes said they weren't possible…
"They aren't magic, magic is the ability to cast spells to do whatever you want, they are used by wizards, witches, sorcerers, sorceresses, mages, warlocks-"
"Ok I get the ide-" I started.
"I wasn't finished! Druids, magicians, magus, enchantress, and wielders to name a few," she said without a care in the world while I looked at her in faint annoyance.
"Oh really… a few…" I said dryly, "What's the difference? They can use magic, got it, they aren't confined to a element,"
She looked at me in shock, "What's the difference!? All the difference in the world! For one it tells you how to defeat them, another is how they use their magic!"
"Spare me the lecture please?" I pleaded not wanting to know the tons of stuff piled in her head.
"Fine, we are most commonly known as Elementalists, though we have many other names, I heard in some other dimension we are called, hmm what was it… oh yes! Benders, which funnily enough is where humans got their silly names too but that comes later and we have many other names as do what they call our powers such as-" she cut off seeing my expression of wide eyes, "Sorry too much?"
"OTHER DIMENSIONS!?" I babbled out happy to learn things, but other dimensions? Was she serious?
"Yes yes yes, other dimensions!" she yipped.
"Wow! This is unbelievable! Which means it probably is! But do continue," I said, she only looked mildly hurt by the comment but continued.
"Ok lets start with the basics, in the old days we got our powers from ancient arcams, dragons ruled the skies, there we tons and tons of breeds! They ruled everything with us, as they referred to us then, monsters, coming up with so many creative names like… trolls, goblins, mongrels, I think the last one was just a general insult but they did call us that! " She said drawing illustrations in the ground as I watched transfixed.
"Woah… what does this have to do with weird powers though?"
"Shhh! We are getting to that part,"
"As I was saying…. There were dragons everywhere, some were called Sandwings, and others were Night wings with their close cousins the Night Furies! And Night Terrors! There was even some potential Sorcerers from back then, they called it Anumis Magic though… which is where Sorcery comes from probably, then there were great elements released into the world, spirits finally wanted to get involved seeing how much fun we had, creating arcanums giving many of our kind potential, such as being able to transform into others, we called those Boneseekers back then, and others the powers to shrink themselves! These would later evolve into our rad abilities! Though those are mostly only for powerful monsters, most only got power over an element, things were going well, but Humans as always are power hungry!" she continued, "They started making things to take us down, villainous, and Humans aren't linked to an element arcanum so they aren't born with it! Luckily we got some heroes!"
"Can't bad ever win?" I whined.
"Why would we want bad to win?" she asked curiously, twitching her tail.
"Because good Always wins,"
"Pfft! Nobody Ever Wins! We can get like 100 years of darkness and then 100 years of light, it never lasts is the point," she responded back.
"Anyways, our big hero was a Flesh-bag! Named Callum and with his friends, learned the arcanum of the storm! Plus gave everyone else understanding, it is a lot more complicated than that but i'm trying to be brief, so people having to bow down to the demands of some war confiscations went their way in the world trying to learn arcanum powers!"
"How long is this?"
"It is very prolonged, but way less extended if I gave you every detail!" she chirped back.
"They eventually found help with the Lion Turtles! Sadly, the human population wasn't doing so well, a series of becoming more primitive didn't help… but they bounced back fast! And this time they had Powers! Wondrous powers! They called it bending, there was only so many Lion Turtles though, and even they don't know all of the elements, oooh side note, just thought this was cool, there was some journey about some Avatar, just so you know Avatars are ones helped by a spirit named Raava that help them open up more of their potential easily giving them more power of the elements, but in our group of heros we had someone named Sokka and he was a descendant of Callum! Ain't that cool? Anyways, the flesh-bags kept dominating the Earth, even the Avatars were failing to maintain balance, then people started harnessing spirit energy! This girl named Kuvira especially! Lets just say the spirits weren't happy and struck humanity down to its rightful place… which is kind of devastating because humanity had never gotten this far, but let's just say what kills you only makes you stronger but we will get into that later,"
"Woah… this is the best history lesson I have ever had, and the only one, but still!" I admitted getting a grin from Cherry.
"With humanity gone there was a gap of power, the monsters, or as they prefer it trolls, which still live today actually! Took over the earth! Or at least the underground since they were so used to living underground, but now buildings were not constantly being constructed over their heads, Until humanity rose up again, this time they lived in peace with the monsters though, and with a new set of abilities called Quirks, powers not confined to one element, though many still were confined to one, but humans can only go so far until their genes get canceled out, plus with the Rise of Gunmar the Black many of the brave soldiers who still had bending and quirks came to fight against them, though they were no match for the OG users,"
"Did you just say a non official sounding word?" I joked.
"Of course, we have to make sure you understand, otherwise I would have said Primordial Users," she sassed back.
"Nope, all i'm getting is that everyone is getting powers and that flesh-bags get way over there head too much and become dead before we click the repeat button," I snorted.
"Yeah that does seem to happen allot, anyways, there was a tiny problem for most of our monsters and humans, they were all losing their abilities, there was no need for them in a time of flourishing plus back then everyone was considering people with powers freaks so there goes that power line for everybody, and the spirits, still shocked by what they had done to keep balance resulting in giant brutes taking over the world wanted no part in this, so the monsters clashed with the humans, and the magnificent Dragons that rule the skies already cut in more than a half from the cruelties of humans of the Fire Nation centuries earlier were basically wiped out again! Without powers and with the monsters weakness to daylight the Humans got another chance in the sun,"
"This is getting Very repetitive…"
"The monsters numbers were cut in half, barely staying alive, while some of us yes were monsters not all of us were, luckily not all humans thought that and someone named Hiccup-"
I burst out laughing, "Hiccup!?" I said between laughs, "Who names their child that?"
"Vikings that's who," the pink fox said with a smile and a giggle.
"Anyways, he led all of us to hide underground, which most of the monsters back then already did because no immunity to light ha! Though many monsters were able to be out in daylight, such as Stalkings, underground the creatures flourished, many were Still Very resentful and followed Gummar the Black! They broke off from everything refusing to admit defeat… determined on wiping out humanity-"
"And let me guess they succeeded and here we are," I said in a bored voice, this was seriously getting repetitive, not exactly boring, but repetitive.
"Nope! That won't happen for at least another 20 million years," she stated laughing.
"Anyways… the point is they failed, causing tons of bad trolls to be teleported through a Bridge?" she said.
"How does someone teleport through a bridge?" I asked curiously.
"Beats me… half of this is probably made up honestly," she said with a laugh, "Imagine, someone teleporting through a bridge…. Like where would a portal form? Half way through?"
We shared a laugh as we noticed it was getting dark, "Hey umm… shouldn't you be getting back home?"
"Oh… well I guess… I don't think my mom is going to be too mad I stayed out a little late,"
