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She didn't know how she ended up in this situation...Something didn't feel right. It felt like the world did a reset. What was happening? Where was she? Who were these people? And who was she...
She found herself sitting in a library with these random people...then it hit her in the head as she hissed softly...everything was fuzzy yet vivid. She remembers...but it didn't feel right...it felt like altered memories.
"Hey, are you okay?" A voice broke her line of thoughts, she looked up and saw the clumsy guy who walked in, he had brown milk chocolate skin, black fluffy hair, and honey-brown eyes, and he had a stubble. He was kneeling down and looking at her, with a dorky grin.
"It's okay, we are the good guys here! No need to be scared! Oh, my name is Sirius Blackwing! What's your name?" He asked after introducing himself.
She squinted at him and held her head, a sudden pain pierced through her head like a knife as she hissed softly.
"She's not from here and she doesn't have any recollection of how she ended up here," Vincent explained as he stood in the back watching with his arms folded.
"Yeah, but apparently she's being hunted down by some shapeshifter who pretended to be her relative," Harvey added.
Sirius looking concerned tried to reach out for the little girl but she hissed and smacked his hand away.
"Back off!" she growled. It took him by surprise by how aggressive she was, for a tiny little thing.
"Don't mind her, she was also ordered to be killed by Silas, and well..." Vincent said but didn't finish that sentence.
"You couldn't do it 'cause you can't kill a child," Lucian said as he was sitting on a chair sipping tea. Vincent, side glared at Lucian. "Could you?"
"If I really have to, yes," Lucian said as he glanced at the two twin princes; Crius and Erebus, who were playing a board game, they seemed distracted and out of earshot.
Lucian's sentence earned a glare from his older brother; Vincent. Meanwhile, Sirius and Harvey gave a look. "Not funny, kid," Harvey said as he smacked the back of Lucian which made him almost spill his tea. Lucian glared at Harvey but didn't say anything.
The little girl was glaring at the floor as she tried to remember what was going on...and why she couldn't remember anything, all she remembered was that she was currently living in an inn owned by two lovely couples who were helping her whenever they could.
To the others, she seemed zoned out, but she was acutely aware of everyone, she could hear them and the two princes.
"Do you think she's a human?"
"She looks the part..."
"I can get that tested...I just need a blood sample"
"Speaking of...we can't leave her here."
That seemed to catch her attention. "What? Why not?" Sirius asked, he was now sitting in one of the empty chairs as he was pouring a cup of tea for everyone.
"Did you see her brooch?" Vincent motioned towards the little girl with his head. Sirius raised an eyebrow and then glanced at her cape, and there was indeed a brooch that held the cape.
"What about it? Beside it looking weird?" Sirius asked.
Vincent smacked the back of Sirius's head.
"Ow! What was that for?!"
"Dumbass, that's the sigil of the celestial of chaos's champion!"
"You say that like I'm supposed to know that!"
A disappointed sigh came from Lucian and a laugh from Harvey, while Vincent just facepalmed. "Did you even pay attention to the history classes?"
Sirius avoided his eyes and chuckled nervously rubbing the back of his head where he was smacked.
"Aight, I'm no historic kind of guy but, I know a bit of those celestials' beings, but those are the guys who act like they are the 'creators' and 'gods' but somehow higher in ranks than 'gods' which is such a hassle to even try to understand..." Harvey explained, mumbling the last part.
Sirius rolled his eyes, "I know who the celestials are...I just, never heard of a duvukir one before..."
"Not the point, we need to hide her away from Silas, yet we can't leave her since she's being hunted down..." Vincent pointed out.
"And prey tell, how are you gonna do that?" Lucian asked.
Sirius then got an idea which somehow ended up bringing two new additional newcomers...Agro the half-crow half raven, Sirius's spirit companion, and some half-and-half jester who had too many bells attached to his attire.
Everyone looked at Sirius as if he lost his marbles, except Crius who seemed excited and happy to see the jester, who announced himself as Slinky.
Vincent rubbed his face as he tried not to give up hope on his apprentice...
"Okay so...why did you summon Slinky?" Vincent asked as he tried so hard not to facepalm again cause at this rate he'd leave a hand mark on his face.
"Duh! Slinky is one of the people who can identify any creature by touching them, and he knows stuff!" Sirius said. Lucian shuddered remembering the first time he encountered Slinky, let's just say he was not a fan.
The little girl glared at the jester, he was half black and half purple, he wore a white porcelain mask, and it was smiling. She can sense his stare. He knew something...
"Oh! Hohoho! What do we have here!" He appeared from behind her as he circled her, he was inhumanly tall, like everyone else around here, but he was slouching to make himself smaller but that didn't help.
"Ohhh, you're not from around here are you...hmm..." He chuckled darkly.
The little glared and turned around to face him but he wasn't there.
"Right here girly!" He laughed as she harshly turned around, he was now sitting criss-cross on the floor while slouching, his elbow on his knee, his chin on his hand with his head tilted. The little girl blinked as she looked at him confused; how did he move so quickly without making a noise.
"Hmm, not a fan of jesters are we? Why I am hurt! I live to make people laugh!" Slinky said cheerfully, he was obviously using a fake voice. "No need to be so hostile! I'm only here to help the tiny gentleman!"
"Yeah-What hey!" Sirius said until he realized Slinky called him tiny. "Alright, games aside, can you tell us what you know?"
"Hmm...hmmmmm" Slinky hummed as he rubbed his chin. "Oh! Hahahaha!" He laughed as his head popped off his head like spring. Crius was now standing next to the little girl as he laughed.
"See he's harmless! Slinky is one of the best people you'll ever meet!" Crius grinned as he looked down at the little girl. Who gave him a nasty side-eye.
"Woomp woomp, aren't you too young to be crushing, my prince?" Slinky chuckled, watching Crius's attempt to comfort the little girl fail. Crius flushed as he rolled his eyes, and puffed his cheeks.
"Slinky focus," Vincent called.
"Yes of course!" Slinky giggled as he looked over the girl. "She's obviously not from around here, for starters she's very small for her age, probably around 6 years old...She looks human. Hmm," Slinky went on as he slowly pulled his glove off, revealing what she assumed was his skin. He had claws instead, his skin was pitch black but if she squinted hard enough, she could see tiny little stars like.
"woah..." her eyes twinkled in surprise; it looked like he was made from space.
"would shake a poor sinner's hand?" Slinky grinned behind his mask since he caught her attention, but she didn't want to shake his hand. "Ah, a smart one...hm, but you know...you don't have your memories...this will help you; I promise."
'This will help you; I promise.' His words...that voice...why did that sound so familiar?
She didn't realize it but she extended her hand out and put it on top of Slinky's his hand was cold, despite being hidden behind a glove.
Everyone watched in anticipation waiting for Slinky to say or do something. The little girl flinched a little and pulled her hand away. "ow..." she mumbled as she checked her hand with a frown, but she didn't see anything...
Thud
And she fainted.
Everyone tensed up in their spot as they watched the little girl faint, Crius was the first to check on her, while Sirius looked at Slinky in shock. "What the hell man?!" he exclaimed.
"Don't worry, I just put her to sleep," Slinky said, this time he wasn't using his usual jester voice.
"What did you find?" Vincent asked, noticing the change in tone of the jester who was now putting his glove back on.
"My prince, why don't you put her in a beanbag, hm?" Slinky asked as he watched Crius worrying over the little girl.
Crius was frowning and looking at Slinky. "Why did you put her to sleep? Is she a bad person?"
"Oh! Hahaha! Noooo, I just needed to talk with the others in private." Slinky said as he ruffled the young prince's hair as he got up.
Crius nodded and picked the passed-out girl up and did as he was told.
Slinky was now slouching in front of Sirius, Vincent and the two agents.
"She's not human...she's not from this dimension, she has no memories of who she is but she goes by many different names, the current one is called April. Since she's using a human form." Slinky explained.
"So? What is she then if not human?" Vincent asked.
"Oh, she's a Cellmorf!" Slinky grinned.
Everyone looked dumbfounded, "Excuse me, what?" Sirius asked.
"Pure blood too! She's probably a royalty, maybe a runaway princess? Who knows! The possibilities are unimaginable!" He laughed, as he bent backward looking at the guys upside down.
"Okay that doesn't make sense...how is she not from THIS dimension and is a be pure blood?" Vincent asked.
"The only pure-blood Cellmorfs that are left here are...Silas and the twin twins..." Sirius said as he glanced at the two princes.
"Is she somehow related to them?"
"No, I mean even if Silas had a secret child, I would know."
Harvey then butted it. "So let me get this straight, this girly over there, isn't from around here, yet she's one of those Cellmorf people, some kind of pure blood, which are apparently royalty only kind of thing, and she has no memories of who she is and she goes by the name of April?"
"To sum it up, yes," Slinky nodded.
"What are other names she goes by?" Lucian asked.
"April Diane, Scarlet, Jacky, Asphodel, Aisling-" Slinky replied.
"Wait back up-"
"Asphodel-"
"Aisling-"
Both Vincent and Sirius looked at each other. Both those names belonged to two different celestials. Asphodel is celestial of the underworld. Aisling celestial of Dreams and Visions. Everyone looked at the unconscious girl who was now resting on a beanbag.
"So what? Did two celestials secretly have a child and somehow ended up here?" Harvey asked.
"I wouldn't rule it out, she is made from pure chaos after all." He tilted his head. Everyone was now concerned about that.
"She's pure chaos? That's not good...we can't have anyone know that..." Vincent looked at Sirius.
"Fine, if they ask, we'll just tell them that she's uh...um...unmarked?" Sirius asked, shrugging.
"Yeah, that sure won't get too much attention," Vincent replied sarcastically.
"Do you have any better idea?"
"Yeah, just say she's a dark element, done!"
Sirius was about to protest but was cut off by Vincent. "Wait, that reminds me, Silas saw her is there a way you can...you know, change her form?"
"hmm, well she is using one of her forms, I can untap one of her other forms that she has that can blend in with the others." Slinky shrugged. "But if she gets mad and starts rampaging, I'll use you two as a fleshling shield!" He laughed as he walked towards the unconscious girl.
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By the time Slinky was done, April woke up with a jolt headbutting Crius on accident, they both groaned and grabbed their head in pain.
"Ow ow ow!" Crius cried out in pain. While Erebus laughed at his brother's pain.
"What is wrong with you?!" April hissed at Crius.
"I'm sorry! I just saw you stirring in your sleep and thought you were having a nightmare," Crius said and then mumbled something to himself at the end, that April didn't catch. She looked around and noticed that the grumpy pale guy and the guy with the funny accent weren't around, it was just the clumsy one, the vampire-looking one, and of course the jester.
The trio were mumbling to themselves as they observed April from afar. Which didn't sit right with her so she looked at them studying their faces.
"What?" She finally addressed them.
"How are you feeling?" Sirius asked trying not to make it obvious that something was strange.
Raising an eyebrow at the question. "What do you mean?" She asked back, Sirius gave her a weird look, "What do you mean what do I mean? I'm asking you how are you feeling..."April glared at him with furrowed brows. "The hell is your problem?" she asked, which made Vincent snort and cover his mouth coughing it off. Sirius looked at Vincent then at April then back at Vincent with an expression that read 'Are you seeing this?!'
"Okay don't freak out but...We're doing this for your safety...and it is our duty to protect a possible celestial...let alone a chaos bearer." Vincent explained, as he nodded towards Slinky who summoned a mirror out of thin air.
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