Chapter Sixteen: What Now?
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I hope you all have a Jesus filled New Years. : D
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Previously:
Adam looked at Neptunia, "You like riddles tell me the answer."
"Shut up, I said I like riddles not that I can figure them out in seconds." The princess tapped her chin, "Besides I like more complicated ones with a complicate answer. This one seems like a simple answer. I can't figure them out as fast as complicated ones."
The bull faunus sighed and sat down, "Well next time specify."
"Shh, I'm thinking." Neptunia started to pace as she thought about what the answer could be, "Damn it, I hate simple riddles."
Now:
Jaune ran up, "The moon is sinking fast." His blue eyes tried to look into Cardin's own, "Can we please move a whole lot faster?"
Scarlet nodded in agreement, "Yes please, I don't wish to be in your company more than necessary."
Dove looked at him, "Hey, show some respect."
"How about you keep your mouth shut. I could easily take that potion from him and save Princess Sun with Pyrrah as my only helper. All he asked for was the potion not an army coming his direction." The red haired male replied looking unamused into Dove's blue as Cardin's henchman attempted to intimidate him. "By the way watch who you are talking to, I am leagues above you and your skill level. Why do you think I am one of the king's personal guard's? Pyrrah and I are the only ones able to keep up with Princess Neptunia and Queen Azure when she was alive."
The brown winged fairy bit his tongue and looked away. He knew Scarlet was right. The red haired male was faster than he was and he had more skill than he himself had with his sword.
"Halt!"
Scarlet rolled his eyes, 'What now?' He looked over at what Cardin was looking at. It was a lone dark fairy looking like a deer caught in bright light.
The brown haired 'leader' jumped off the squirrel and pulled out his mace but had his hand pulled back by Pyrrah, "What are you doing?"
"King Ironwood told us to get Princess Sun back not fight them. We've been at relative peace with them for some time. Right now this is a simple matter." She walked away, "We are not here to start a war."
The dark fairy ran off keeping in mind the two light fairies that seemed fed up with the one that tired to attack him. He looked at a mushroom, "An army approaches, a handful is peaceful."
The message was passed on down the line till it got to Mercury, "Right." The grey haired male stopped and looked back as he pulled out a note pad, "Tell me again." The mushroom shook his head and told him again as he wrote it down.
Meanwhile Neptunia and Adam were still trying to figure out the riddle, "Something more powerful than the potion." Flare was watching this from behind the statue that the princess had knocked down earlier with the knives.
The female sighed, "The only thing I can come up with is hate and we both agreed that was not the answer."
"We said is was too easy of an answer." The bull faunus stated as he leaned on the table, "Are you sure you can't think of anything else?"
"No and it is irritating me. I wish she had made it more complicated." The princess complained with a drawn out sigh.
"Sir news from the mushrooms." Both looked at the grey haired dark fairy as he ran in. He searched his pockets and seemed to pale, "Um…" He searched again, "Oh no." Emerald smacked a hand over her face, "Uh,…ants are arming up." Seeing the look on Adam's face he ran out, "Sorry."
The green haired female gave him a blank look, "You lost your note pad? Are you serious? This was supposed to be fool proof." Her partner gave her an apologetic look.
"Oh my goodness I am so bored." Nora complained, "I will just tell you." This got both of royalty's attention, "But only if you set me free."
"No…" Adam looked into Neptunia's pleading eyes, "…okay?"
"YAY!" The Sugar Plum Fairy did a dance, "I will revile the answer in a story."
"No!" Adam panicked and tried to grab Nora's cage but the blue eyed female beat him to it and held it away from him. "One fateful day." She made herself look like Adam. "When the dark king was young and perspicuous." Neptunia jumped out of his reach when the bull tried to grab for the cage again. "He fell in love…" She turned into a cat faunus, "…with a sweet young thing." The woman had long black hair, golden eyes, a sword in her sheath, and black fairy wings with gold designs.
The blue haired princess smiled, "Wow, she's so pretty."
"She was the prettiest female I had ever seen." Adam said in awe after seeing her for the first time in years. She had moved to a different dark kingdom some time ago. The bull faunus was now standing next to Neptunia.
Nora turned back into Adam, "He was so in love. But he had no patience."
"Stop." The red haired king said missing when the princess moved the cage away again.
Plum looked like herself again, "So he came to me for my love potion. I tried to tell him how it worked." She flew around her cage and dusted a version of the black haired female, "He dusted the unsuspecting female."
"Please don't." Adam begged.
"As she was gazing into the eyes of a love sick Adam." The black haired female screamed before she disappeared entirely.
Neptunia's jaw dropped as she looked at Adam walking away and saying, "Even with a love potion…" He sat down, "…I'm still not lovable."
The princess felt her heart go out to him, "You're not unlovable."
"Loveable, not lovable whatever. That is not why the potion didn't work." Both looked at Nora, "She was already in love with someone else."
It clicked in Neptunia's head, "Then the answer is true love."
"Bingo."
Adam snatched the cage from the princess, "Why didn't you tell me?!"
The orange lighted fairy glared at him, "You never listened to me! That's why. And now Flare blames me for no love in the dark forest."
"Tense moment." The mother popped out, "There are no shortcuts to love." Adam gave her a look so she hid behind the statue she was behind, "I'm just saying my dear."
"Emerald." The dark green winged female took the cage, "Put her back."
Mercury groaned when it was handed to him, "Oh come on, I had to carry her here."