Cherry shrugged hopelessness settling into her eyes once we had seemingly lost her mother, she was after Swamp! "Now that you two are safe I need to find my best friend. Don't underestimate my mother and stay out of the way."
Heather wasn't pleased with this answer, I knew she wasn't trying to sound rude, she was just as scared and stressed as I was. "No. We are coming with you, half pint." Okay maybe she didn't need to say that last bit, Cherry didn't seem to even notice the insult.
"I don't have any need for this chat." she said brusquely stopping in her tracks, sounding very much like her "best friend." "Come, don't. It's your funeral."
I did not like the sound of that. "Your Mom is awfully powerful." I commented, Cherry gazed up at me curiously probably wondering where I was going with such an obvious statement, "We're just kids we can't match her power your right. My Mom always talked about having a plan, we need to come up with some clever way to trick her."
Cherry nodded along before replying once more in her strange accent, "Yes, let's ponder this along the way, time is of the essence." I glanced around the enviorment, could we lay some sort of trap? Her Mom got angry a lot, maybe she wouldn't notice if we angered her enough, she seemed content to only chase after Swamp when he taunted her.
My sister beside me was doing the same, "The waterfall! I heard you can teleport Cherry!" My sister's fur fluffed with excitement that didn't reach her eyes. "What if we trapped her in the gutters? We could run through to the other side and run into town and hide in someone's home!"
The kitsune hummed for a second. The ground had turned from the nice soft grass to cold and barren stone, "I don't know. She is very fast… and I haven't teleported anything that large before," she replied nervously.
We fell into silence before I remebered something. "Where's the other one?"
"Other one?"
"The one that looked like you, she's your sister right?"
"Affirmative. We've always squabbled though, plus once she's gone she is gone like the wind that caresses the mountains ahead, she won't be coming back." I gazed sympathetically at her, me and Heather never got along either always finding something to butt heads over still I knew she'd always have my back. Afterall she was my sister.
"I know this is a lot of back and forth but if we are going to pull this off you have to be there waiting to try to shrink your mother, use the time to
Cherry looked like she was about to disagree before muttering something incoherent and chuckling in a way too similar to her Mother I internally winced at the noise, "Haha, to think just a few minutes ago I was trying to convince you to stay back… Hmph, how the tables have turned."
She wished us luck though and I tried to calm myself down, Cherry was good. Cherry was younger than me, I shouldn't be feeling this way. My sister's concerned eyes bored into my skull. "We have to go." I said not allowing her to question this.