"Jackie told me Soul showed up yesterday," Liz mentioned to her sister as they walked along the territory border.

"Pssh," Patty laughed. "About time."

The Draconis-Aerlialis territory divide ran down the center of the small valley, curving around the lines of a sparkling crystal lake on the Draconis side and a forest that often seemed to glow in the sunlight on the other.

Every week the Thompson sisters would start at the forest in the south end of the territory and make their way up to the lake in the north. Sometimes they'd find small trinkets to collect,sometimes Tsubaki or Jackie would join them, sometimes they'd just talk.

They neared the lake; crystal blue, backed by misty peaks, large enough to mask the lochness monster.

Liz sighed. She'd always thought the Draconis lake was incredibly beautiful. When she and Patty were little kids they used to dream of sneaking out at night and going for a swim.

Maybe if they'd been born a hundred years earlier, they would've been able to. Liz remembered vaguely the history lessons in school. About the feud between Allister Death and Cornelius Evans that split the two clans into permanent distaste for each other.

More clearly Liz remembered the images of naive children jokingly dancing back and forth over the divide then disappearing for weeks, only to return with a little less shine in their eyes. Though only an imaginary line on the ground, the divide was strict law.

"I wish-"

"Don't, Patty."

A pause. "Please?"

Liz bit her lip, willing herself not to look at her little sister.

Patty nudged Liz's arm. "Just real quick. Just our feet. No one will know."

...Damn it. Liz didn't have to look to know her sister was staring at her with those sweet blue eyes. She fidgeted nervously. "You've got five seconds."

"WHOO HOO."

"Patty shhh!"

But her sister was already waist deep in the sparkling lake water, big blue eyes practically glowing.

Liz groaned in dragged her hands down her face. "Pattyyyyyy, you said just feet!"

But her little sister wasn't listening. Patty dunked her head beneath the surface, emerging with a laugh that Liz could only describe as pure joy.

"C'mon, big sis! It's so nice! I-"

They were interrupted with the most startling battle cry Liz had ever heard followed immediately by a massive splash and wave.

Patty shot into the air. "What the-"

Liz curled her hands into fists, summoning small tornados of air in her palms.

For a few seconds, nothing happened.

Liz and Patty exchanged confused glances.

"So uh… didn't something just…"

"THE HELL ARE YOU FLUFF BRAINS DOING IN MY LAKE?" The figure bellowed as it reemerged from the water.

Liz and Patty flinched.

The Draconis boy was young, more likely closer to Patty's age, with oddly bright blue hair. Navy blue and dark green scales covered his tanned skin in streaks along his thighs, shoulders, lower back, and face. Hovering at least twenty feet in the air his huge, well muscled wings stretched out against the backdrop of the sun.

The most horrifying part though, was the fact that he was 100% completely nude.

After recovering from the initial shock of the new fairy's entrance, Liz and Patty cringed.

"Oh my god," Liz screeched. "Where the hell are your clothes?"

Patty yelped and practically slammed her face in the water. "Put that thing away!"

"DO YOU KNOW YOU'RE TRESPASSING ON THE TERRITORY OF A GOD?!" the fairy continued, completely disregarding the sisters' protests.

A pause, then Patty snickered.

"A god? Really?" She looked him up and down. "All I see is a slimy lizard."

"OH YEAH?!"

"Yup."

The fairy tucked in his wings and dropped into the water in front of Patty. "Aw, baby bird," he crooned as he ran a hand through his wet blue hair, "You've got so many feathers up in the head you don't know a god when you see one."

He laughed obnoxiously and clapped his hand on Patty's shoulder.

Liz bristled. Patty's eyes flared.

"Patty…" Liz warned through gritted teeth. "C'mon let's just leave."

"Nah this guy's asking for it." Patty cracked her knuckles. As she rose her hands above her head, a large sphere of wind formed above her head.

"Patty, don't!"

Patty squeezed her eyes shut, honing her focus to control the orb of swirling air with only one hand while using the other to gather electricity from the sky.

"No one calls me baby bird," she growled.

The ball of wind touched the lake surface and water sprayed into the air.

Patty smirked, eyes snapping open. "I'm a mother fucking hurricane."