*Spect's POV, The next day...*
"Lest?" I repeated after the Blonde-haired prince.
"Yeah, and who're you?" He asked, his violet eyes looking into mine.
"I'm Specter." I said as we shook hands.
"Excuse me, but have you met my sister, Frey, yet?" He asked.
"Oh, Frey? Yeah, she's really nic-wait, YOUR SISTER?!"
Lest just smiled.
After he told us a story about him and Frey and how in the hey they ended up here in Selphia. And as soon as that was done, I saw that Iris was trying to sneak out of our little group.
"Iris, where do you think you're going?"
"N-nowhere that you need to follow me..."
"Yeah right, we're coming with's." Marine said.
"No, you can't come."
"Why not, I-chan?" Morpho asked.
"Just...because..." She said as she ran away from us.
"Iris," I whispered to myself. "what are you hiding?"
*Iris' POV, somewhere else...*
"Where are your friends, Iris?" Leon asked as he perked his ears up a bit.
"Um, they didn't want to come." I said as I curled my tail next to my legs.
"Oh, well that's too bad," He said as he poured a glass of tea for me.
It smelled a little odd, to be honest. I took a sip, and it tasted pretty good.
"It's Charm Blue Tea, pretty good, huh?"
"Yeah, who knew a poisonous flower could taste so good?"
He smiled at me, and then, he dangled the oricalcum earrings that hung from my ears.
"Oricalcum, they really bring out your eyes, you know?" He said as I saw his tail wagging happily.
Then, he started to move my hair behind my ears to get a glance of my marks.
"Just like mine, huh?" Leon said.
"Well, you're my otou-san," I said. "By the way, where's Ka-san?"
He stayed silent, then there was a knock at the door.
"Leon, are you there? It's Lest." A young man's voice said from behind the door of Leon's door.
"Excuse me, Iris, I need to get this." Leon said as he answered the door, and standing there was Lest.
"Oh, who's this nice young lady here, Leo?" He asked.
"I'm Iris, I was just talking to Leon." I said.
"Iris, did you drink the tea?" Lest whispered to me.
I nodded.
"Well, here's a welcoming gift from Frey and I, hope you'll like it." Lest said as he pulled out a bag of chocolate cookies.
My ears perked up and my tail wagged joyfully at the smell of the sweets.
"Thank you very much, Prince Lest," I said as he gave me the cookies. "Well, I hope to talk to you soon, Leon."
"As do I, Miss Iris." He said as he moved his ears and winked at me, I copied him and then made my way to my room, wondering if my comrades had come home yet.
*Somewhere else, Marine's POV...*
"'Porcoline's Kitchen'?" I said as I read the sign on a giant building that looked like a mansion.
"I heard it's the best place to grab some grub in Selphia," Spect said as his stomach growled.
"Mari-chan, Spect-nii's stomach's getting angry." Morpho said as his own stomach roared with hunger.
"I think your tummy-chan want's to eat, Morpho." I said.
"Let's go already, Mari, I'm so hungry I could eat a hundred woolies right now." Spect said as he walked towards the doors of the restaurant.
We were just walking in when I heard someone yelling.
"PORCO, WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT EATING THE CUSTOMER'S FOOD?!" A woman's vioce said.
"I'm sorry, Meg," Another voice apologized. "But I was soooo hungry..."
"Excuse me," I heard Morpho's soft voice start as my eyes frantically started to look for him, and I saw that he was talking to a woman that was wearing a light blue dress with a navy blue belt that was dotted with small yellow flowers, snow white leggings, ice-blue shoes that had feather accessories on them, and she had long blond hair that had an unusual headband, light blue flower decorations, and had brown strings that were tangled up in her hair, and were even wrapped around her pointed elf ears.
"But, can me and my friends eat here?"
"Oh, of course, cutie," The lady said as she led him to a table. "And welcome to Porcoline's Kitchen. I'm Margaret, by the way."
"Nice to meet you, Margaret, I'm Marine, and this is Morpho and Specter." I introduced my friends, and suddenly, out of nowhere, I felt someone mess with my ears.
I looked back and came face-to-face with guess who?
Iris.
"So, what's on the menu, Mari?" She asked as she sat next to me.
"Why should I tell you, you glutton?"
"H-hey! I'm not fat! am I?" She asked as Morpho shook his head.
"Keep telling yourself that, Gluttonette."
*That night, at the Inn, Morpho's POV...*
"PILLOW FIGHT!" I yelled as I grabbed my pillow and hit Specter on the back of the head with it.
"Hey, I wasn't prepared!" Spect said as he grabbed his own pillow and struck me with it, sending me crashing down to the bed.
"Guys, can you be a teeny, tiny bit quieter," I-chan said from her bed. "I'm trying to read here."
"Gomen ne, Onii-chan," I said as I dodged another blow to the face.
"Hey, t's not fair you two get all the fun! Let me join you in your little Feather War~!" I sang as I grabbed two pillows and joined the fight.
"PILLOW POWA!" Mari yelled as she hurled a pillow towards Spect, and hit him right in the face.
"Take this!" Spect said as he used his magic to gather all the pillows in the room...and hurl them at Mari.
This continued on for quite some time until Iris had enough and told us to go to bed.
"Hey, guys?" Spect asked when we were all in bed.
"Yeah?" The rest of us responded.
"Do any of you feel...almost like...we've been here before?"
There was a moment of silence while all of us thought about that question.
"Well," Iris started. "I felt like I'd eaten Porcoline's amazing cooking before."
"And I felt like I'd smelled the sweet aroma of Pink Cats before we'd come here." I admitted.
"I thought I'd felt like I'd been on the Airship, with the occasional bumps here and there." Marine said.
"I seem to remember the bright colors of this place," Spect said. "Even though we've never been here, weird, huh?"
"Yeah," We said in unison.
"'Night guys," Spect said.
"Good night." Everyone else yawned.
/It feels like there's something important that I forgot,/ I thought to myself. /Well, there's no sense dwelling on it, right? I should be asleep now, it's past midnight already, and tomorrow's another day,/ I thought as I closed my eyes. /Another day free from them.../