A/N: Welcome back.
I own nothing like usual except for my OCs.
Here is the second chapter.
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Chapter 2: Peace to Insanity
The Raposa Village, despite the tragedy that fell its counterpart retained its prosperity, laziness and happiness, as mentioned before. And as said, the prosperity meant somewhat brutal torture for the heroes.
At some point during their work (At the moment, they were helping Isaac), the anger finally got to Roselyynn and she just stopped, dropping everything she was holding when nobody but Thunder and Penelope were around. "I'm done."
Thunder and Penelope looked at each other. "With what? Isaac is going to be mad if we aren't…" Roselyynn harshly retaliated. "I don't care about him. Nor do I care about any of the other Raposa anymore!" Penelope and Thunder gasped (Penelope seemed to be taking it with total sarcasm though, not that it was obvious, really).
"It doesn't matter if we're those manipulative little foxes so called "heroes". And Thunder, please quit looking at me with astonishment like that, you know it's the truth." The blonde frowned before laughing nervously and smiling somewhat sheepishly, though he said absolutely nothing with the guilt on his face.
"But won't Mari be…" Penelope began, trying to point out the problems with her statement.
"Mari is too busy with Jowee to care. We're taking a permanent vacation and those Raposa in that time can learn what it means to actually do their own damned work!" Penelope and Thunder looked at each other, back at Roselyynn and then back at each other again. Its not that they didn't have any objections or anything, but they were afraid of something happening where the Raposa really needed them.
"Roselyynn, if we leave, they'll be defenseless. They need us to protect them." Thunder explained to her.
And of course, she had a comeback. "Look. Watersong, Galactic Jungle AND Lavasteam have all managed just fine without heroes, and they only needed us when the color was drained out. Heck, they're pretty much able to defend themselves? And us? Heck no." She took a deep breath before continuing to point out the truth in the matter.
"The point is, the villagers here are way too dependent on the Creator and us. Dependent to the point where they're too lazy to do anything themselves. Right, Creator?"
If Roselyynn was going to drag the Creator into this madness, then there really was a problem. Normally, she didn't even go to the point of doing that. But, the Creator could say nothing.
"See? Even the Creator knows there's a problem!"
"…Roselyynn, I'm getting a bad feeling about what'll happen if we leave the Raposa here. I'm getting this feeling that if we leave…" Penelope tried to explain to Roselyynn, but she didn't listen. Her heart was set on leaving now, and she only encouraged the other two to do the same. It got to the point where they compromised, and decided to leave, though Penelope really didn't want to.
A while after abandoning what Isaac told them to deliver to him (They were actually pretty close to his shop at the time), he noticed how the three heroes were taking unusually long. So, when he checked outside, upon walking around a bit, he noticed the items the three were supposed to deliver, abandoned on the ground from what appeared to be quite a while ago. Upon retrieving the things and going back in his shop to set them in the storeroom, afterwards, in his infuriation and annoyance, he set out to find Mari to inform her of what happened.
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Upon their exit of the Raposa Village, the three heroes set through the forest in hopes of going elsewhere. However, from about a quarter of the way through, Penelope fell over from exhaustion. "Ugh… can we please just stop and take a break? My small, stubby legs are tired." She asked the other two.
Roselyynn stopped and put her hands on her hips, swiftly turned around and staring down at the rabbit, lilac eyes meeting small brown ones. All Thunder hopes was that he could tune this out, because he knew that there was going to be a girl fight soon, and he wasn't going to put up with any of this. "Well, sorry for being drawn with short, stubby legs. We can't stop moving yet."
Penelope didn't seem to approve, and as Roselyynn turned around, Penelope took her off guard with her ear acting almost like a tentacle, stretching out like a spread of darkness before in wrapped around one of the taller heroine's legs and pulled her down.
"Um, no, we're taking a break. Who's the leader here, pinky?" Thunder watched them begin to fight before staring at an imaginary watch, but suddenly stopped and froze upon hearing a rustle in the trees. He looked up and stared in the direction he heard it. He saw a dark figure rush through, and another. It couldn't have been Wilfre's work- Wilfre hadn't appeared or stirred up trouble for a while now. In fact, he was likely dead from his knowledge.
"Did you guys see that? Or hear that just now?" He asked the two. The blonde saw them preparing to kill each other with their weapons. So, he raised his sword up to the sky, keeping a bored look on his face, before pulling back down and rain began to fall from the sky, and quickly after, a lightning bolt struck the two of them and took off a health piece for both of them, much to their anger. "THUNDER! WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT?" Roselyynn shouted at him.
He said nothing as he pointed over to the trees, as the wind caused the branches and leaves to rustle. "Thunder, those are just trees. What's so special about them?"
"I saw two dark shadow-like figures heading towards the village. I think something bad is about to happen, and we need to go back." Roselyynn assumed it was just a trick of his so they'd go back to the village. And Penelope, as she didn't see the shadows either, agreed. She thought it looked like that because of the rain Thunder started.
"That's ridiculous, Thunder. Why would we need to go back because of that? It was probably a squirrel or something. Unless there was an explosion of something, then we'd go back."
As if on cue, lightning crashed and rippled, and they heard the sound of a somewhat attack as the rain pelted down on them, the wind howling for them to go back. "…Touché. We need to go back, now!"
The heroes immediately began to make their way back to the village in a sudden hurry.
Meanwhile, Mari found herself in the brief chaos she had heard outside before leaving the Town Hall. Before her, she saw rampant destruction and chaos from a cat-like species suddenly terrorizing the Raposa there.
However, she was unaware of the heroes' departure, despite Isaac told her that they seemingly neglected their duties. She called out for the heroes, only to hear no reply, much to her confusion as they'd immediately be there if something like this had happened. She heard a chuckle behind her, and she turned around to see no one.
"My. The one time you needed your heroes was the time they abandoned you." A somewhat calm voice told Mari. She turned around again to meet a figure whom at first she thought was a ghost in the rain. However, it came to her that the figure was a Raposa, but that Raposa seemed unfamiliar.
"Who are you? And what do you mean?" Mari demanded, hoping to herself that this mysterious Raposa, adorned in white, was only attempting to deceive her.
"Me? Does my name matter? My name is simply a title that one knows me by." He stated before slightly adjusting his top hat and then his bowtie. "As to your other question… Isn't it obvious? Nothing has been done about the madness that now ails you."
Mari seemed taken aback, but then angered. "What do you know? Besides, you haven't answered my question yet!" She shouted at the odd Raposa. He chuckled at her yet again.
"For such a delicate flower, you're awfully demanding. However, my name is still of no importance." However, now the village was unusually quiet, and Mari saw nobody else now, except for her and this Raposa, who was now smirking.
"What's going on? First, everyone is here with those odd cat creatures and now… this…this is madness!" White Tuxedo chuckled, and suddenly, it began to darken around Mari.
"…Is it madness, or is it insanity?" It all went black for Mari as she suddenly fell.
Finally, when the heroes arrived later, the rain still pouring and the sky grey, it appeared to be absolutely empty except for a single Raposa with snow white fur, in a white and silvery tuxedo, with an overly large white top hat with a walking stick. Half of his face was darkened by his top hat, making the only side of his face visible to be the side where he was wearing a monocle.
Penelope was getting this slight feeling that this single Raposa was likely the reason everyone was gone. She knew him to be unfamiliar, and yet, he seemed to be awaiting their arrival. This particular Raposa noticed their presence and chuckled.
"Ah, the heroes of whom the villagers here honor, yet you arrived too late to save them." He began, twirling his walking stick before firmly placing it on the ground again.
Roselyynn seemed to be in disbelief. "Too…late? We can't be… we just can't…"
The Raposa got a bit closer. "It's a shame, really. I was expecting more of a challenge as I expected to see you here. And yet… you come now."
Thunder narrowed his eyes. Lightning cracked and boomed. "Okay. Then who are you, and where are the villagers?"
Another chuckle. "I find it amusing how your little Mayor asked me a similar question. Though my name isn't important, I'll just tell you the obvious. I'm the villain." So, this Raposa in this white tux was the villain. A classy villain, wasn't he?
"So, White Tuxedo guy. Considering you're the villain you won't tell us where the villagers are, right?" He nodded.
"Good. You have a sharp eye and ear, original hero. Now, if you excuse me, I'll be taking my leave." Roselyynn seemed alarmed. "B-but wait, you can't just…"
And with a snap, he vanished. The rain still continued, much to Roselyynn and Penelope's annoyance, but a question arose. "Creator… where do we go now?"
"The other village to the east of the village to the forest, past the hills of where it ends." She said to them. They didn't understand at first.
"What?"
"The second village you likely were never told about. This village's counterpart. It's to the east. I'll guide you there."
Despite they still didn't quite understand where the Creator was getting at; she began to draw an arrow in the direction to the east, which they began to follow in hopes of getting on track with her words.
Because now, the village needed them more than ever.
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A/N: Whoop! I finally finished this chapter. It didn't take as long as I thought it would take to finish it, which I find fortunate as I likely would've flipped out if it did so.
Regardless, now the heroes need to follow the Creator to this "other village". Though you probably have an idea of what this "other village" the Creator was talking about is.
Please review if you'd like, I'd prefer if you didn't flame and please tell me how I can improve as an author.
I will see you all in the next chapter.
Ciao!