2012-11-27, 03:12 PM
AHRI'S POV
What a shame, i was getting REALLY attatched to little sparky, but i knew it would be alot of trouble, i already have too many mouths to feed... but avi loved him more. she didnt have to take care of him, he was going to be her best friend! I thought about my priorities. Avi crying, James standing there, Alice running up the stairs, and pure being dragged away by chives. i choode pure, and i gave emma a look suggesting she had better come with me. I strode over and grabbed pure's hand, as emma grabbed chive's shoulder.
"Excuse me chives, but where do you think you are going with MY child?" I said protectively
"YOUR child? YOU didnt give birth to her. YOU didnt take care of her until our city in the sky fell" he replied angrily.
"But I TOOK CARE of her when she was cast out of the world. abandoned by her own kind, not even going out of their way to find her!" my tails whipped around angrilly, and my orb summoned by my other hand. it was glowing deep red, angry. and looking for blood.
"Oh, so you want to scrap MUTT?" he sneered at me
"I Dont think you want to take your chances with me, CHIVES. and i dont think Emma wants to either." I gave a glance at emma, waving her off. She grabbed pure, who looked conflicted, and walked away. Poor pure, she is mature but its hard for anybody to go through this.
"So what do you want to do BOTTOMFEEDER?" his stance looking ready to fight. i stayed calm, and i replied.
"If you want to fight, you are sealing your own fate. but can we not do this in here? if the house gets messed up i am using your insurance money to pay for it." he sneered and walked outside, ready to fight. i wondered how i would do this, both pure AND Emma would be heartbroken if i killed him, i will have to leave him alive enough to get back to his home. I walked out with my orb floating behind me.
"Would you like to make the first move chives? i want you to have a bit of an advantage against me, dont want it being too easy do we?" he was holding a greatsword. it was quite big and impressive, a fine weapon! probably cost alot of money to make, and to buy, its a shame he wont get to use it in this fight.
My orb turned pink, and formed a heart shape, i threw it at him. when it hit, he staggered back a bit, and started walking twords me, entranced with deep love for me. I Made my fox fires rotate around me and rushed to his side, one of my fox fires hit him, and he got hit by my dash magic. He got out of the trance as i dashed above him, another fox fire hit him, and the dash magic hit him once more. i threw my orb at him from above, and dashed to the ground behind him. my last fox fire and dash magic hit him, and he fell as the orb hit him on its way back. This all happened in about 5 seconds. i DID warn him of my power... he was on the ground, still alive, but alive enough to speak. I looked over, and i saw colli. looking breath taken at the show of skill i displayed.
"Colli? can you please help me patch him up? i need him to get back to his tribe and tell the rest of his kind that pure is OURS. and we wont give her up without a fight." Colli took a second to get over to us, and my orb turned green as it healed him. i let her perform the medical treatments that magic could not. snapping his bones back into place so they didnt mend crooked and such.
"Why..are you healing me?..." he rasped in a hoarse voice.
"Because if i killed you pure would NEVER forgive me." i replied. and added emma in my own head with a hint of smugness
"And we also need you to tell your tribe that pure will only come back on her free will, and that we will not give her up without a fight, and that was just ME alone, you are very lucky i didnt kill you, i have always wanted to taste a bit of siren soul..." When he was fully healed, he got up and gave me a look of trepidation,
"You are allowed to visit" colli said, "We do not mean war with your people" she gave him a smile, no flirtatiousness intended. even SHE knew that he was emma's. I Gave him a little hug, to tell him that no hard feelings were intended. and to my suprise, he returned it too. after he left i looked over at the house, and i saw emma's furious jealousy burning through the window and giggled to myself.
"Colli, can you please tell her that i did not mean to flirt with him?" i said smiling.
"why cant you tell her?" Colli asked.
"I dont think i can go near her without risking my life, i dont think even I can take down emma when shes mad..."
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PURE'S POV
I woke up in a cold sweat.
"Chives, could yo-" I started.
"Chives?! Where are you?!?" I shouted. He LEFT me. Alone. At this point, I realized leaving was a mistake. I started to run back home to find Chives, and James.
I arrived at the front door, exhausted. After I caught my breath, I saw blood on the ground. Chives' blood.
"No. NO!" I cried, starting to cry.
A heard footsteps, and the door unlock and open. Then, standing in the doorway, guess who i saw?
James.
He had a pack with supplies in it. I was filled with relief.
Without hesitating, I walked over and put my head on his shoulder.
"Pure... Pure, its ok. You are ok. Chives is here. He had a fight with Ahri, but he is fine. I was just going to go look for you. Shhh... Everything is ok..." he whispered soothingly.
With his arm wrapped tightly around me, he walked me up to Chives. He was in my room, on my bed.
"Pure!" Ahri, Emma, and Coli called. Then ran over for a hug, but I didn't even look at them.
"I'm... I'm sorry, Pure. I didn't mean harm..." Ahri stuttered.
"It's ok Ahri. As long as Chives is ok, it is ok" I said.
But... It wasn't ok. I doubt Ahri and I would be the same.
I realized something. I LIED. I just lied. Being with James is depleting my pureness, but I don't care. He is my True One.
Chives sat up, and I shook my head. I sat next to him, and wrapped my arms around his neck.
"You need to stop getting yourself into trouble." I said to him while laugh-crying.
"Ok, everyone. I need to tell you some things." I told my family.
I told them about me, about my kingdom, how it fell, and about my True One. And that my True One was James.
They all seemed accepting.
"We have something to say too." Coli said to me.
She told me about everything. Alice, the dragon, Talon. Everything.
I was shocked.
"I... I need a moment." I stuttered.
I ran outside. James was close behind me.
I sat down on the ground, and fought back tears.
I have been crying a lot lately...
Suddenly, two tall men wearing animal skin clothing walked over.
"Hello, Purity." one of them said.
The other picked me out, and hoisted me over his shoulder. I kicked and punched them, but it was like they were made of iron. I couldn't hurt them.
"You are coming with us." the one not carrying me said. "We can't kill you, or permanently damage you, but you still feel pain."
"NO!" James screamed, turning into a lion.
The whole family was outside in no time, trying to stop the men.
The last thing I remember is the men running away, faster then humanly possible, and James' blue eyes. Then they knocked me out.
Always his eyes.
Always.
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AHRI'S POV
I Watched, as they carried away purity, and i heard their intentions to cause pain to her with my sensitive fox ears.
"DAMNIT!! DAMNIT, DAMNIT, DAMMNIT DAMNIT DAMNIT!!!!!!!" I yelled out in anger, stamping my foot down and almost vibrating with frustration
"I JUST got her back! i almost killed her brother to get her back! DAMNIT!!!" angry tears were streaming down their face as i started to run, i had to catch up with james. i will N0T let them take one of my children away. my mother turtle instincts triggered, and i pushed past everyone else as they tried to stop me. My form changed, my hair turned a deep crimson color, my eyes glowed orange, my tails seemed to be made of fire. i was suddenly not just ahri, i was a fireball, burning hot, determined to save pure.
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ALICE'S POV
WE'RE HERE!
FantasyLand!
I'm so excited to be home!!!
Home.
Hmm. That word pings a bell in me...no matter.
It's odd how with time passing, the memories faded into the dust...
Oh, did I mention I'm the overseer, ruler, and Princess of FantasyLand? Hah, must have forgotten.
Cho flew up beside me.
"Feels great to be home, doesn't it! Come back to the den, we're all going to celebrate."
"Dangit, I can't. I have to wrap up some work..." I muttered.
Cho scrunched up her long, elegant snout. "Well come quick, we'll wait."
"Thanks." I beamed at her and flew to my castle in the clouds.
I talked to my castle assistants, reviewing what happened while I was gone. There were new twinkling lights set up in the town square. Down in Dreamy Street there was a new statue of me erected. All the subjects were living happily and peacefully, just the way I liked it.
My good friend and right hand assistant, Vi, called to me, "You've been missed, your highness." And gave me a light punch on my front right leg.
I jetted out of the castle, not forgetting the others back in the den. But as I was flying, I noticed a pink ribbon on my leg. Spinning to untie it, I pulled it off and unrolled it. Much to my surprise, a familiar cursive scrawl began appearing on the ribbon, like a scroll.
Don't forget about us, Alice. ~Ahri
Alice.
Alice.
It hit me like a brick, knocking the wind out of me...and again, memories came. But they vanished as soon as I thought about them. I felt my mind stretch, my thoughts contort from all the memories floating away into the vast void of never to be seen again.
And as soon as I was drained, the pink ribbon exploded into...into...
A cute white bunny.
Gasping in shock, I let the bunny fall.
Two thousand feet.
Grappling for the bunny, I saw that it disappeared. In a cloud of pink, glittery smoke. I felt the bunny leave, teleport to another place. I felt it leave FantasyLand and go somewhere safe.
Somewhere home.
I felt a girl pick up the bunny, and hope that it was Alice...but cry and let it go.
Who was that girl?
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COLI'S POV
As I watched the fireball-Ahri- speed away after Purity, I knew I needed to do something. And I think Sparky could help. "Avi!" I yell, diverting her attention from the running figures on the distant snowy hill. She hopped over to me, Sparky trrrrrring all the time. Almost like he was talking, I thought, smiling. "What's up Colli?" Wrenching myself from my thoughts, I say, "I need you to help me-and I'll need Sparky." I explain to her how I need her to help me perform a spell, and how it would help us get Purity back. A few seconds later I prepare the spell. Avi, even though she was a novice at magic-so am I-, I had her help. "Soooo." I had said. "Can Sparks make fire yet? Breathe it on command?" Avi didn't really know what to do when I asked that. So I carried on with the spell. "One. Two. Three." I start muttering magical incantations and so did AVi. Soon we said it louder, so people who hadn't chased after Purity joined in.
"Ignite, ignite, shoot out fire.
Aim it at our mark.
Hit it at the two black men,
Go make a spark!"
I know, I know, really weird. I thought so too, even though I slightly made it up. But it was working, and I could see Sparky letting out some fire, straight for the two men with Purity. Soon a flame thrower shot out, straight across the trail the men had left while melting snow. We all saw it race across the hills, until we heard a "OWCH!" We were walking along the trail the fire left behind, when we saw Ahri coming back with a tired-looking Purity. She smiled weakly, and was leaning against Ahri. Emma quickly helped her, and we were soon at the house, accompanied by a now sleepy dragon. Avi put him on her shoulders, and raced to her room to put him to sleep. Everyone's eyes were shaded with worry, no matter how happy they let on. Purity wouldn't answer any questions about what had happened, no matter how stupid or trivial. I was leaning on the mossy table, playing with some moss. After the men had appeared, I had felt very odd. I couldn't feel my ears, my tail, arms, nothing. I didn't feel as if I was there. Felt like a ghost. I knew I wasn't though, but something strange was going on. If Purity couldn't tell what happened publicly, maybe she could tell it secretly. To me, at least. I needed to know what happened. Purity would know what was happening to me, I know it. When we had all settled down to sleep, I whispered, "Purity?
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ALICE'S POV
I arrived at our shared den, still shaky from the pink ribbon incident moments ago.
We were all supposed to be in human form in the den, so at the mouth of the cave, I transformed into my familiar bunny girl.
Everyone was laughing and chatting when I came in, and cheers erupted from everyone as I came into the room.
"What did I miss?" I smiled happily, trying to erase the memories of that pink ribbon...and bunny.
"Nothing much." Jack came close and swung his arm over my shoulders. This was odd, like we were lovers. I don't know, I liked it.
Coolly, almost nonchalantly, Jack asked me to be his girlfriend, on the spot. It was shocking, to hear him say that so abruptly. So out of the blue. But I was thrilled, and said yes, of course.
Jack was overwhelmingly attractive in his human form. Heck, he was hot. He was cool not only in behavior but in looks. He had a tall, slim build, perfect for a little short girl like me. His hair was white-blond and he hated haircuts, so he kept it long, swooping just over his eyes. Speaking of eyes, his were blue. Pale, icy blue. His lips were thin and pale, but curled up in a seductive, impish smirk. He was so cocky, but that's what made him Jack.
I conformed to his hold, slipping my hand around his waist. Cho and Ariana raised their eyebrows at me and Jack, after squealing about our new relationship. Skeeter blushed red. We were all half-human half-animal when we turned into human form. For instance, I was a bunny girl. It so happened to be that Jack was a bunny as well...more so a rabbit with long, pale gray ears. He wasn't cute at all, though...he was hotter, his eyes half-closed in a lazy eye smile.
Jack began playing with one of my curled black pigtails, but frowned.
"Who was that guy you kissed earlier?"
A web of confusion coated my expression.
"What?"
"That guy. You know. I almost killed him because I thought he was a poacher, but you said stop. And you swooped down, turned into a girl, and kissed him."
None of this was in my memory.
I bopped Jack's nose. "Are you sure this happened?"
"Positive. The others saw it too."
Just to be sure, I hummed a small tune. At the sound of it, my handheld mirror came to me. I asked it to show me what Jack was talking about, and there I was, a look of worry across my eyes. I leaned down and kissed a guy. What the?! Who was this guy?!
My mouth formed a tiny "o" in surprise.
"I don't remember any of this. I don't know who that guy is..."
I wrinkled my nose and touched my lip. "It's weird, not remembering kissing someone."
Jack smiled down at me. He said, "Well you'll remember this one." And kissed me there. Cho and Ariana about died...my cheeks burned pink, Skeeter awkwardly stood there, as if he was a piece of furniture.
I tried to forget about the mysterious kiss.
My heart beat for Jack now. But something told me to remember that guy...
I couldn't remember his name.
But something told me to remember him.
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What a shame, i was getting REALLY attatched to little sparky, but i knew it would be alot of trouble, i already have too many mouths to feed... but avi loved him more. she didnt have to take care of him, he was going to be her best friend! I thought about my priorities. Avi crying, James standing there, Alice running up the stairs, and pure being dragged away by chives. i choode pure, and i gave emma a look suggesting she had better come with me. I strode over and grabbed pure's hand, as emma grabbed chive's shoulder.
"Excuse me chives, but where do you think you are going with MY child?" I said protectively
"YOUR child? YOU didnt give birth to her. YOU didnt take care of her until our city in the sky fell" he replied angrily.
"But I TOOK CARE of her when she was cast out of the world. abandoned by her own kind, not even going out of their way to find her!" my tails whipped around angrilly, and my orb summoned by my other hand. it was glowing deep red, angry. and looking for blood.
"Oh, so you want to scrap MUTT?" he sneered at me
"I Dont think you want to take your chances with me, CHIVES. and i dont think Emma wants to either." I gave a glance at emma, waving her off. She grabbed pure, who looked conflicted, and walked away. Poor pure, she is mature but its hard for anybody to go through this.
"So what do you want to do BOTTOMFEEDER?" his stance looking ready to fight. i stayed calm, and i replied.
"If you want to fight, you are sealing your own fate. but can we not do this in here? if the house gets messed up i am using your insurance money to pay for it." he sneered and walked outside, ready to fight. i wondered how i would do this, both pure AND Emma would be heartbroken if i killed him, i will have to leave him alive enough to get back to his home. I walked out with my orb floating behind me.
"Would you like to make the first move chives? i want you to have a bit of an advantage against me, dont want it being too easy do we?" he was holding a greatsword. it was quite big and impressive, a fine weapon! probably cost alot of money to make, and to buy, its a shame he wont get to use it in this fight.
My orb turned pink, and formed a heart shape, i threw it at him. when it hit, he staggered back a bit, and started walking twords me, entranced with deep love for me. I Made my fox fires rotate around me and rushed to his side, one of my fox fires hit him, and he got hit by my dash magic. He got out of the trance as i dashed above him, another fox fire hit him, and the dash magic hit him once more. i threw my orb at him from above, and dashed to the ground behind him. my last fox fire and dash magic hit him, and he fell as the orb hit him on its way back. This all happened in about 5 seconds. i DID warn him of my power... he was on the ground, still alive, but alive enough to speak. I looked over, and i saw colli. looking breath taken at the show of skill i displayed.
"Colli? can you please help me patch him up? i need him to get back to his tribe and tell the rest of his kind that pure is OURS. and we wont give her up without a fight." Colli took a second to get over to us, and my orb turned green as it healed him. i let her perform the medical treatments that magic could not. snapping his bones back into place so they didnt mend crooked and such.
"Why..are you healing me?..." he rasped in a hoarse voice.
"Because if i killed you pure would NEVER forgive me." i replied. and added emma in my own head with a hint of smugness
"And we also need you to tell your tribe that pure will only come back on her free will, and that we will not give her up without a fight, and that was just ME alone, you are very lucky i didnt kill you, i have always wanted to taste a bit of siren soul..." When he was fully healed, he got up and gave me a look of trepidation,
"You are allowed to visit" colli said, "We do not mean war with your people" she gave him a smile, no flirtatiousness intended. even SHE knew that he was emma's. I Gave him a little hug, to tell him that no hard feelings were intended. and to my suprise, he returned it too. after he left i looked over at the house, and i saw emma's furious jealousy burning through the window and giggled to myself.
"Colli, can you please tell her that i did not mean to flirt with him?" i said smiling.
"why cant you tell her?" Colli asked.
"I dont think i can go near her without risking my life, i dont think even I can take down emma when shes mad..."
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PURE'S POV
I woke up in a cold sweat.
"Chives, could yo-" I started.
"Chives?! Where are you?!?" I shouted. He LEFT me. Alone. At this point, I realized leaving was a mistake. I started to run back home to find Chives, and James.
I arrived at the front door, exhausted. After I caught my breath, I saw blood on the ground. Chives' blood.
"No. NO!" I cried, starting to cry.
A heard footsteps, and the door unlock and open. Then, standing in the doorway, guess who i saw?
James.
He had a pack with supplies in it. I was filled with relief.
Without hesitating, I walked over and put my head on his shoulder.
"Pure... Pure, its ok. You are ok. Chives is here. He had a fight with Ahri, but he is fine. I was just going to go look for you. Shhh... Everything is ok..." he whispered soothingly.
With his arm wrapped tightly around me, he walked me up to Chives. He was in my room, on my bed.
"Pure!" Ahri, Emma, and Coli called. Then ran over for a hug, but I didn't even look at them.
"I'm... I'm sorry, Pure. I didn't mean harm..." Ahri stuttered.
"It's ok Ahri. As long as Chives is ok, it is ok" I said.
But... It wasn't ok. I doubt Ahri and I would be the same.
I realized something. I LIED. I just lied. Being with James is depleting my pureness, but I don't care. He is my True One.
Chives sat up, and I shook my head. I sat next to him, and wrapped my arms around his neck.
"You need to stop getting yourself into trouble." I said to him while laugh-crying.
"Ok, everyone. I need to tell you some things." I told my family.
I told them about me, about my kingdom, how it fell, and about my True One. And that my True One was James.
They all seemed accepting.
"We have something to say too." Coli said to me.
She told me about everything. Alice, the dragon, Talon. Everything.
I was shocked.
"I... I need a moment." I stuttered.
I ran outside. James was close behind me.
I sat down on the ground, and fought back tears.
I have been crying a lot lately...
Suddenly, two tall men wearing animal skin clothing walked over.
"Hello, Purity." one of them said.
The other picked me out, and hoisted me over his shoulder. I kicked and punched them, but it was like they were made of iron. I couldn't hurt them.
"You are coming with us." the one not carrying me said. "We can't kill you, or permanently damage you, but you still feel pain."
"NO!" James screamed, turning into a lion.
The whole family was outside in no time, trying to stop the men.
The last thing I remember is the men running away, faster then humanly possible, and James' blue eyes. Then they knocked me out.
Always his eyes.
Always.
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AHRI'S POV
I Watched, as they carried away purity, and i heard their intentions to cause pain to her with my sensitive fox ears.
"DAMNIT!! DAMNIT, DAMNIT, DAMMNIT DAMNIT DAMNIT!!!!!!!" I yelled out in anger, stamping my foot down and almost vibrating with frustration
"I JUST got her back! i almost killed her brother to get her back! DAMNIT!!!" angry tears were streaming down their face as i started to run, i had to catch up with james. i will N0T let them take one of my children away. my mother turtle instincts triggered, and i pushed past everyone else as they tried to stop me. My form changed, my hair turned a deep crimson color, my eyes glowed orange, my tails seemed to be made of fire. i was suddenly not just ahri, i was a fireball, burning hot, determined to save pure.
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ALICE'S POV
WE'RE HERE!
FantasyLand!
I'm so excited to be home!!!
Home.
Hmm. That word pings a bell in me...no matter.
It's odd how with time passing, the memories faded into the dust...
Oh, did I mention I'm the overseer, ruler, and Princess of FantasyLand? Hah, must have forgotten.
Cho flew up beside me.
"Feels great to be home, doesn't it! Come back to the den, we're all going to celebrate."
"Dangit, I can't. I have to wrap up some work..." I muttered.
Cho scrunched up her long, elegant snout. "Well come quick, we'll wait."
"Thanks." I beamed at her and flew to my castle in the clouds.
I talked to my castle assistants, reviewing what happened while I was gone. There were new twinkling lights set up in the town square. Down in Dreamy Street there was a new statue of me erected. All the subjects were living happily and peacefully, just the way I liked it.
My good friend and right hand assistant, Vi, called to me, "You've been missed, your highness." And gave me a light punch on my front right leg.
I jetted out of the castle, not forgetting the others back in the den. But as I was flying, I noticed a pink ribbon on my leg. Spinning to untie it, I pulled it off and unrolled it. Much to my surprise, a familiar cursive scrawl began appearing on the ribbon, like a scroll.
Don't forget about us, Alice. ~Ahri
Alice.
Alice.
It hit me like a brick, knocking the wind out of me...and again, memories came. But they vanished as soon as I thought about them. I felt my mind stretch, my thoughts contort from all the memories floating away into the vast void of never to be seen again.
And as soon as I was drained, the pink ribbon exploded into...into...
A cute white bunny.
Gasping in shock, I let the bunny fall.
Two thousand feet.
Grappling for the bunny, I saw that it disappeared. In a cloud of pink, glittery smoke. I felt the bunny leave, teleport to another place. I felt it leave FantasyLand and go somewhere safe.
Somewhere home.
I felt a girl pick up the bunny, and hope that it was Alice...but cry and let it go.
Who was that girl?
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COLI'S POV
As I watched the fireball-Ahri- speed away after Purity, I knew I needed to do something. And I think Sparky could help. "Avi!" I yell, diverting her attention from the running figures on the distant snowy hill. She hopped over to me, Sparky trrrrrring all the time. Almost like he was talking, I thought, smiling. "What's up Colli?" Wrenching myself from my thoughts, I say, "I need you to help me-and I'll need Sparky." I explain to her how I need her to help me perform a spell, and how it would help us get Purity back. A few seconds later I prepare the spell. Avi, even though she was a novice at magic-so am I-, I had her help. "Soooo." I had said. "Can Sparks make fire yet? Breathe it on command?" Avi didn't really know what to do when I asked that. So I carried on with the spell. "One. Two. Three." I start muttering magical incantations and so did AVi. Soon we said it louder, so people who hadn't chased after Purity joined in.
"Ignite, ignite, shoot out fire.
Aim it at our mark.
Hit it at the two black men,
Go make a spark!"
I know, I know, really weird. I thought so too, even though I slightly made it up. But it was working, and I could see Sparky letting out some fire, straight for the two men with Purity. Soon a flame thrower shot out, straight across the trail the men had left while melting snow. We all saw it race across the hills, until we heard a "OWCH!" We were walking along the trail the fire left behind, when we saw Ahri coming back with a tired-looking Purity. She smiled weakly, and was leaning against Ahri. Emma quickly helped her, and we were soon at the house, accompanied by a now sleepy dragon. Avi put him on her shoulders, and raced to her room to put him to sleep. Everyone's eyes were shaded with worry, no matter how happy they let on. Purity wouldn't answer any questions about what had happened, no matter how stupid or trivial. I was leaning on the mossy table, playing with some moss. After the men had appeared, I had felt very odd. I couldn't feel my ears, my tail, arms, nothing. I didn't feel as if I was there. Felt like a ghost. I knew I wasn't though, but something strange was going on. If Purity couldn't tell what happened publicly, maybe she could tell it secretly. To me, at least. I needed to know what happened. Purity would know what was happening to me, I know it. When we had all settled down to sleep, I whispered, "Purity?
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ALICE'S POV
I arrived at our shared den, still shaky from the pink ribbon incident moments ago.
We were all supposed to be in human form in the den, so at the mouth of the cave, I transformed into my familiar bunny girl.
Everyone was laughing and chatting when I came in, and cheers erupted from everyone as I came into the room.
"What did I miss?" I smiled happily, trying to erase the memories of that pink ribbon...and bunny.
"Nothing much." Jack came close and swung his arm over my shoulders. This was odd, like we were lovers. I don't know, I liked it.
Coolly, almost nonchalantly, Jack asked me to be his girlfriend, on the spot. It was shocking, to hear him say that so abruptly. So out of the blue. But I was thrilled, and said yes, of course.
Jack was overwhelmingly attractive in his human form. Heck, he was hot. He was cool not only in behavior but in looks. He had a tall, slim build, perfect for a little short girl like me. His hair was white-blond and he hated haircuts, so he kept it long, swooping just over his eyes. Speaking of eyes, his were blue. Pale, icy blue. His lips were thin and pale, but curled up in a seductive, impish smirk. He was so cocky, but that's what made him Jack.
I conformed to his hold, slipping my hand around his waist. Cho and Ariana raised their eyebrows at me and Jack, after squealing about our new relationship. Skeeter blushed red. We were all half-human half-animal when we turned into human form. For instance, I was a bunny girl. It so happened to be that Jack was a bunny as well...more so a rabbit with long, pale gray ears. He wasn't cute at all, though...he was hotter, his eyes half-closed in a lazy eye smile.
Jack began playing with one of my curled black pigtails, but frowned.
"Who was that guy you kissed earlier?"
A web of confusion coated my expression.
"What?"
"That guy. You know. I almost killed him because I thought he was a poacher, but you said stop. And you swooped down, turned into a girl, and kissed him."
None of this was in my memory.
I bopped Jack's nose. "Are you sure this happened?"
"Positive. The others saw it too."
Just to be sure, I hummed a small tune. At the sound of it, my handheld mirror came to me. I asked it to show me what Jack was talking about, and there I was, a look of worry across my eyes. I leaned down and kissed a guy. What the?! Who was this guy?!
My mouth formed a tiny "o" in surprise.
"I don't remember any of this. I don't know who that guy is..."
I wrinkled my nose and touched my lip. "It's weird, not remembering kissing someone."
Jack smiled down at me. He said, "Well you'll remember this one." And kissed me there. Cho and Ariana about died...my cheeks burned pink, Skeeter awkwardly stood there, as if he was a piece of furniture.
I tried to forget about the mysterious kiss.
My heart beat for Jack now. But something told me to remember that guy...
I couldn't remember his name.
But something told me to remember him.
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GOODBYE