Dreamcatcher leaned forward as he looked back on things to, the past year was a mess, and the Dreamer prince was just one more mystery to the list.
" well, for starters Faithful Dream is actually Malice not Faolan dream... it's a big mess " he sigh and took his fingers though his hair " Apparently Soledormir wanted to slander both brothers and pit them against one other.... "
" maybe you should start from the beginning? "Anna place herself next to her friend.
Catch made a face, that was easier said than done or he's going to give it a shot " Faithful and Faolan were twins, they were known as the Dreamer prince of Dawn and Dusk... apparently Dreamers back then had a lot more abilities then we do now, the dream walking and sharing emotions were just some of them... but I'm sure that get brought up tomorrow with Hagatha... "
" a interesting thing Is that the Dreamer king married a human so" she looked up at her partner and grinned " Cat great, great, great, great who knows how many great grandpa has half human, maybe that explains why you're family tends to favor a human form?~ "
"Yeah... Huh," Dreameater murmurs as he listens to Catch. He glances down at Anna when she makes her comment, and then he repeats, "It was the Dreamer King who married a human? Their father? So both the Princes were half-human, huh?"
"Yep, that's what that means," Glory replies, smiling up at Eater.
Crystal took a moment to think about what was said, that something good had come out of something as bad as Crimson loosing his eyes.. And while thinking about it, she wondered if it hadn’t of been for that, would she and Crimson have even became friends in the first place? Slowly a couple more similar thoughts surfaced, but she pushed them aside to focus on Fiona when she began to talk again.
She listened quietly, studying the Elemental as she spoke. She noted the way Fiona’s expression changed after mentioning Terra and Sparky, and a small sympathetic look crossed her own face. But, it quickly turned to one of surprise with the next bit of information, “You.. you got challenged by Demise, and you won the city?” She asked, obviously unsure of how to even begin to understand, then soon added, “Oh but great job for chasing her off though, I imagine it wasn’t easy..”
She paused and thought about the last couple questions “I- I have no idea what to do with a /whole/ city.. And maybe you’d have to sign ownership documents or something to actually claim it? I’m not sure how those kinds of things work.. Did she own the city to begin with? Surely you can't bet off something like that if it isn't yours.. Especially to that kind of degree.”
Once again without a glance, Fiona grabbed her nearby napkin and scrunched it up, "/I bet she doesn't even own the city/--or if she /thinks/ she does, we gotta get those papers... Aahh, she's gonna regret taking Boo, too!"
The Elemental paused with a huff before she got too far into that mystery tangent."...That's something we should bring up to everybody later. I gotta wonder what she was really after... Something always felt off about it... But... Thanks! We worked together great, and I'm sure we'd /all/ be even tougher, now!"
Crystal simply nodded at first, “Regardless, I’m sure the city would be better off in your hands than in hers anyway.”
The girl then worriedly thought to herself with that last part, ‘I can’t believe Boo was taken..’ Her eyes glanced around as she thought about it, but she soon settled her gaze back on Fiona with the next things she said.
“That’s a good point.. There must have been some sort reason behind it, I can’t see how anyone would just offer or relinquish something as important as an entire city. Even if won fairly, and especially the bad guys,” she mentioned, then ate the last bite of her sandwich, dusting some crumbs off her hands with a napkin.
Fiona slowly nodded as well, "It's weird... And we know for sure the bad guys are in /way/ more places than just Howaito. We've gotta figure them out--especially for Boo." She took an aggressive bite out of her steak.
"Don't forget your team is still on break." Kyle lightly reminded, able to sense a faint tension starting to build, "We have groups out there now looking into these cases--Boo, the Forsaken Lords, and more."
Fiona paused, the last chunk of her food halfway into her mouth. After taking a moment to finish that, she spoke again, "Yeah... It's awesome to have more help. Well... That's pretty much what happened with me in Howaito, too. Aside from chasing down a thieving chicken in a shopping cart." The Elemental finished, not seeming entirely enthused about needing to rest after getting fired up... But understanding it was best for her and Crystal, too.
" yup" Catch nodded " it apparently was to unite the humans with the Dreamers, it lasted for a short period until a collapse happened with the gates and the human realms were cut off... I'm guessing that why these humans look different then in our realm "
Anna tapes her chin and thinks outloud " I been wondering what realm Crystal comes from to? It definitely not this world but that doesn't mean it not close to this realm...humans appear to be scattered across the realms "
"Huh... Well, anyway, getting back to the point," Dreameater says, "So Faithful and Faolan both were half-human, half-Dreamer princes, and they had more abilities and stuff than we do. But whatever happened to them? How'd Faolan even end up getting in trouble and Faithful had to go and sacrifice himself and become Malice?"
“At this point,” Crystal started, “I think it may be safe to think that the bad guys are just everywhere..”
She looked towards Kyle when he piped up, nodding with an understanding expression crossing her face, “I know it’s your job, but really, thank you again for all the help with everything.”
Crystal looked back over to the Elemental when she spoke again, but her eyebrows knit together with surprised confusion after what was mentioned lastly, “A thieving chicken?” She couldn’t help but question, and after a small pause she then said, “..You know, something about that is a little less crazy than some of the other stories we have.”
Catch rubbed the back of his head " I'm still been learning from Queen Victoria and Osiris, I think it would be good for you to talk to them to at some point... but I'll fill you in on what I know so far " he then shifted hid weight, this was going to be quite the info drop but at the same time Catch didn't want to unload everything on him either " from what I understand the twins had a rocky relationship, Faithful was the oldest and held the most responsibility and with that respect "
Anna chime in to help tell the story " " as for Faolan, he got jelly "
" well, there was more to it then that. Faolan and Faithful view themselves as half-bloods differently, Faithful even though his appearance he favorite his mother side in looks, but had more control of his Dreamer abilities as his brother was the opposite, his appearance favorite his father but he struggled with his abilities... mostly in controlling his emotions and how he dealt with feeling others, this I'm sure you can guess made tension between the two brothers "
Catch glace up in thought as he continued " What the queen told me was both of them had interest in her but she chose Faithful and fell in love with him... Faolan grew even more jealous after that and the two would fight like cats and dogs but even with that Victoria mentioned that when the brothers did work together, everything change, things got done and she said they could bring a sense of peace to the chaotic world around them "
Anna added on from were her brother pause the keep the story on track " yeah, things seem to be up and down with them but it didn't get really nasty until their sister was murdered... that end up pushing Faolan over the edge and he only got worse from there "
Catch rubbed his forehead as if he had a slight headache.
"Cat? You ok?" Anna tipped her head with concern and took a few steps back toward him.
" yeah... I think it trying to happen again... my horns are hurting" Catch grimaced and looked to one of the guards.
She took the Cue and came over, getting to work she took a special light and shine it in the Princes eyes to check them, a few silver flakes shimmered but then they faded away like dying stars... " it looks like one is trying to come on " she said and then handed him their version of a thermometer a little ball that they stick in their mouth, from there she went on to examine his horns, she was much more cautious handling the prince head as she looked them over, she took her fancy light and shine it over the gems, the green gemstones swirled with glittering lights that looked like a tiny galaxy of stars in them but then the stars faded and his Gemstones turned dull.
Anna turned a pale green with worry, they had told Weaver but not Eater, not that she figured he care but at least she could inform him on what was happening " there worry that something wrong with Cat visions... this is the 3rd time one has tried to happen since we moved but none of them have happened...there trying to figure out what causing it..."
Dreameater had been listening quietly to the story that Dreamcatcher and Anna were telling him, until he could taste Catch's pain, then his thought process got disrupted and he changed his focus. "Huh... Has this only been when he's been looking into or talking about stuff with the princes?" he asks, cautiously watching his brother and the Vaseterm attending to him.
Morning Glory makes sure she's not in the way in the slightest, and likewise watches Catch with concern, stopping only to give Anna a gentle back rub for encouragement.
Kyle gave a faint smile, "Glad to be a part of it, now." then he went back to quietly listening when Fiona spoke, an intrigued glint in his eyes.
Fiona looked like she'd just been hit with a realization as well, when Crystal pointed that out. "...It is!" She declared, "Since when is chasing down a thieving chicken /not/ crazy?! ...You don't think it'd happen again, do you?"
" yeah" Rihanna replied " the first time was during one of the interrogations, we watched over the video a couple times just to make sure and sure enough it happened when they were talking about that kind of stuff that his visions had shown so far, the Dreamer Princes and the kings and all that, but then it happened again with the Queen and the two of them were talking about Faithful and Faolan "
" it like before " the male guard stated looking at a handhelds screen, he watched as Dreamcatcher temperature went from feverish to dropping blow normal.
Dreameater glances over at the male guard when he speaks up. "So... This is a bad thing that he can't have this vision, right? That's how it's sounding," he says, feeling that odd sense of de-ja vu.
Anna nodded " after talking with the doctors here we found out there actually a lot of different diseases half-bloods can have or get... I guess it even got so bad at one point with their people that many of their rulers that they call Clan leaders outlaw getting married to species outside their own, some of these Clan leaders out of fear would Outcast the individuals or even have them executed out of fear of spending some of those diseases...it pretty intense stuff... "
The woman nodded to her fellow guard " yes, but its already passing..." she then holds out containing for the thermometer and asks " how are you feeling Master Dreamcatcher?"
After freeing up his mouth Catch let's out a breath and replied " like before... I'm tired even though nothing happens and I feel cold" he folded his arms and rubbed them slightly.
" there just not sure what exactly is wrong with him, they done testing for the difference symptoms and ruled out any of the major diseases, thank the moons for that but there still something not right...but it one of the reasons why Hagatha had been pushing to do more testing "
"Huh... You think it'd be something with Cataclysm maybe?" Eater suggests, then crosses his arms and tips his head. "But then you'd be burning up, wouldn't you? Is Cataclysm a Pyro?"
Crystal began to shrug and shake her head, the fact that they had experienced things weirder and more crazy than chasing down a chicken said a lot..
At the ending question though, the girl stopped and looked as though she genuinely really thought about it for a moment. “I mean.. I’m not sure of our chances of running into more chickens, especially the thieving kind, but I suppose it’s always possible. And with our luck, I honestly wouldn’t rule anything out. Although, for everyones sake, hopefully we don’t,” she replied, with a slight laugh after.
Catch thanked the guards for their help, a week ago he tell everyone he fine and move on but the prince hadn't been given that option any more... and it was something he still was trying to get used to, Catch closed his eyes for a moment and shifted his wight to one side. " I'll be ok when I warm up...do I need to go visit the doctor again for more testing?"
" I'm sending the information now... Suzano replied saying, your symptoms haven't deviated from the last time, you don't need to go in at this moment "
" that what there guessing, Cat did say that last time he seen him in a vision that Cataclysm seem sick... I think Catty trying to make Cat sick to "
Catch rubbed his face, he wanted to tell everyone he was fine, but that wasn't true if it wasn't one thing it was something else, but he was told this likely had going on since the beginning or close to it with how severe his visions had been, and how there frequency slowed down they passed months.
Catch let out a breath " sorry about that..." he then turned his head towards his brother and forced a small smile " I should be fine now... " he then glace away thinking about the Nightmare question, even though Anna answered it already " yeah, he's a pyro and I do feel hot at first but then it's like something just sucks the heat out of me and I feel cold..." the cold didn't bother him, normal cold didn't at least, he had to he married in ice Griffin after all but this didn't feel normal, and that to was something he had come to know to, just like Eira corrupted ice wasn't natural, this to wasn't natural...
"Hmmm..." Dreameater hums in a low growl, thinking and watching Catch. He reaches up to the clasps on his shoulder cape, hesitates and tenses up briefly, but then breathes out a small sigh, taking off his shoulder cape and offering it to Catch. "Would some patented Pyro heat warm you up quick enough?" he teases, though he's not smiling, and doesn't have much of a playful tone in his voice this time.
"If we do, we'll have to catch it! No thieving /anything/ is gonna get away from us!" Fiona said defiantly, a little laugh coming from her, too. "...Terra and I were going to cook the chicken, but before we left the store, the cart rolled away with what we bought. That's how the chicken became a thief." She explained further, taking the thief part rather seriously.
Kyle let out a snicker and teased, "During your visit to Howaito, it seems food was the greatest ally for one of you and the worst enemy of the other. ...Speaking of allies... We're within the window of visitation for Crimson whenever you two are ready to go." Using his armbands, he had pulled up a small holographic readout of the time, plus the timezone counterpart for Crimson's location.
Dreamcatcher stared for a moment at the Nightmare, this in itself didn't feel normal but did at the same time, it was natural for hid brother to help but the almost emotionless look and tone Eater has is all a remember of the problems his brother is going through...// that about right, even with everything your still trying your best...//
Catch reached to take his brother shoulder cap as he said with a warm smile "thanks brother " but with this a new since of deja vu hit him, this seems very familiar to when he gave Catty his jacket one time in a dream... "... I... I forgot about that.." he thinks outloud
" Wait? What?" Catch replied very confused then he realized what happened " no" he frowned as he held the shoulder cap and then explained " I just remembered that I gave Cataclysm my jacket in a dream, vision? At one point and this reminded me of that... he was slumped sitting against the wall and was complaining about being cold, I could tell he was because I felt chilled there to... so I gave him my jacket...this just reminded me of that and I realized something has been effecting him for a while... I thought it was my silver blood but, I don't know..."
"Oh, that makes more sense," Dreameater remarks, leaning back in his chair now. A smirk slowly stretches across his face as he then teases, "I was gonna say, you'd have to be /really/ sick to forget /I'm/ a Nightmare..."
Morning Glory makes a face at Dreameater for that remark, and turns a little pink. //I guess Eater's starting to feel a bit better...// she thinks to herself.
Catch put the Nightmare shoulder cap on and he felt the warmth coming from it and it was helping, however it was spoiled by the nightmare comment, and he didn't make a reply back.
Anna looked between the two brothers, now that things seem more calm down she decided to get the topic back on track " if you don't mind Cat I could take it from here, you know in telling the rest of the story on the Dreamer twins "
" yeah, sure.... I should be fine for a while now " he replied plainly.
Anna looked to Glory before fully leaving her and went over to her partner, she knew Catch needed her even just for some form of comfort.
After getting settled on Catch lap she thinks back to were they left off " ...yeah, it was a big oof after Serenity died, that were the big fighting between the bros happened...evidence showed that one of the Kings murder her..."
Dreameater keeps his smirk for a while, but when Anna goes to continue, he focuses again and looks at her. "Oh yeah?" he asks, raising an eyebrow at the Fairfin.
Morning Glory sighs and flies over to her partner, landing on his lap.
Dreamcatcher was still resting and letting his sister do the explain.
Anna nodded and continued moving her hands as she's been alone with her story " it a bit of a mess from what I been able to gather. Serenity was supposedly murdered by Zitan, one of the kings and who happens to be Crimson ancestor.... " she tapped her claws together with a worry look " you can probably see how this complicates things... but it gets worse, despite there being evidence of tracks, blood and even seeing visions of what happened Faithful stood firm that Zitan was being framed, that This was a trap set by Soledormir " and put her hands on her hips and made a face " by what bit I know that sounds like something Soledormir would do, like duh, he the big bad guy! But that were the divide happened, a staggering amount of evidence was against Zitan and with his past track record of being a bad guy ( were still working things out so well come back to this at some point, just know he worked for Sol at one point and everyone knew that) it was hard for some to see anything that didn't follow the obvious evidence, but some also sided with Faithful that there was more going on and this was something Soledormir was doing to try to divide them all.... which no matter how you look at it, it did just that... a lot of people didn't see eye to eye anymore and the Dreamer twins were some of them..."
Catch was feeling a bit more up to saying a little bit so he did " yeah.... I know something was wrong... I felt it with those visions I used to have.... tension between those two but there was more then that to...they still cared..." Catch grimaced and placed his elbows on the table as he rest his head in his hands and let out a deep sigh " there was a lot going on between those two... "
Anna patted her little brother " you just take it easy Cat, I'll handle the rest! You know how much I like to blab! " she then looked back to the Nightmare and clenched her fists in a ready Pumped Up way.
Dreameater watches Catch thoughtfully again as his brother struggles, and when Anna speaks up again, he looks back to her once more. "Yeah, don't worry Catch, girls are good at talking for hours on end," he teases, smirking at Anna, then saying, "So the Princes were divided thanks to Soledormir, what happened because of that?"
Morning Glory makes another face at her partner, and paws at his shirt to get his attention.
To which Eater looks down at her and briefly says, "What? It's true, you girls can talk forever!"
Crystal began to nod, but towards the end of what Fiona said first, the girl couldn’t help but fully pause for a moment as the realization set in. ‘It wasn’t an actual alive chicken..’ she thought, having gotten the idea it had been. “Well, it’s too bad you two didn’t get to cook it..”
The girl then looked over at Kyle when he spoke again, her eyebrows raising slightly as he pulled up the holograph and told them they were at a good time to visit. “Oh, alright,” she started, then thought and said, “I think I’m ready when you two are as well.”
Fiona's attention was brought to Kyle as well, "I'm ready, too!" She chimed in, although she did quickly stuff her face with the last bits of her salad as well.
"Then that settles it." Kyle stood up, collecting his tray with his disposable plate and silverware. Then he headed to a nearby trash bin to properly clean up.
Fiona started mimicking what Kyle had done, stacking up her dishes, first. "Oh! We actually did catch the chicken and get to try cooking it it! ...I'm not great at that, but Terra's been teaching me, so /I'm gonna learn./" Once again, she was lost in thought for a brief moment after that. At least, until she asked, "Do you know much about cooking?"
" see! Even he agrees! So let me do the talking!" Anna hopped back to it.
Letting out a sigh Dreamcatcher just rested, there was much on his mind but was to tired to do much about that at the moment. " after that there was a big split between the forces who followed Faithful and Faolan on who they believe, things were spinning out of control... thankfully the other kings and their father had to step in but at that point it was to late.... Faolan was known for getting into trouble and getting drunk and that got worse and worse, there bit more to the division between the two brothers when Faithful married Alexandria who we know as the Vaseterm Queen Victoria, with everything seemingly going Faithful way, Faolan grew more frustrated until he finally snapped and got the brilliant idea of going to Soledormir! " she shook her head and rubbed it "
" Anna... go easy on him... I know he was drunk and that no excuse for doing something like that...but he really did care " the Dreamer prince mumbled through his fingers.
" yeah, I know, you keep saying that and so does everyone else, but he was still stupid " she commented and then went on " this is why getting drunk is a big no, no!" Anna shook disapproving finger as she cut an eye back over her shoulder to Catch. " I got it Anna... I got it" Catch Mound as he let his support half slide onto the table top as he took one hand through his red hair " I don't think you have to worry about that with me any more..I never wanted to drink in the first place..."
" just making sure! " she replied back and then hop back into her story about the Dreamer twins. ( Catch just waves a go away hand as his face is down into the table top)
" so yeahhhhh, Faolan got drunk out of his mind and was ticked off at everything and everyone.... Victoria said from there weeks went by and no one had heard from him, a few days was normal but not weeks without telling anyone, then those weeks turned to months, everyone knew something bad had happened but wasn't sure what, they knew he wasn't killed or Sol would have made a big show of it, what kind of low life does that?! " she tapped her foot and folded her arms " anyway, you know that Omen guy everyone keeps talking about? Apparently he Soledormir messages boy and sent him to tell everyone that he had Faolan and he wanted to speak to Faithful, and Faithful alone about the negotiations for his brother's life " Catch turns his head so he say something, even though he keeps being told to rest and needs it " .... and that how Faithful is really Malice and Not Faolan...."
" Cat shhh! I'm telling the story and was getting to that part!" She scolded him, after clearing her throat she looked back to the Nightmare " so yeahhhhh, Faithful trade himself so Faolan would be set free and well... the weird thing is Soledormir did just that but we're it so confusing and just messed up! Even though Malice is really Faithful he acts likes and even tries to appear like Faolan when he was mad and stupid! "
" .... yeah...it's all messed up " Catch mumbles again
Dreameater looks over at Catch every time he speaks up, and has a look on his face like something's bothering him, but he doesn't say anything to him right away. At the end of this part of the story, what Anna says catches his interest, and he actually thinks for a moment before he suggests something. "Well, I have my memories because I ate Weaver's heart, that's how all Nightmares work. The only way Malice would have Faolan's memories would be if he ate Faolan's heart. Soledormir had him for months, right? And he had Omen, I know from experience that Omen can rip Light Eaters out of their frames, it could've been that Soledormir had Malice eat Faolan's heart until Faithful came."
"Oh, that's awful..." Morning Glory thinks out loud about Faolan and Weaver both, curling up near Eater's lap near his belly.
Anna colors got a little dim with that getting brought up, they already have been putting together that somehow Malice must have eaten some of Faolan by what they recently discovered with Eater and Weaver. The team for Nightmare had been working almost Non-Stop with thoughts and theories. " that... that makes a lot of sense, Victoria did say when Omen brought Faolan to them he was in awful shape... the worst was his chest, he had a really bad wound and these weird burn marks that I guess Omen bare hands can make..."
"... what...I...wait " Catch was trying to be helpful but he just wasn't feeling good, he put a figure up for a moment as he thought about somethings " ... but , why doesn't Malice have Faithful memories?... or dose he have both? Or can Nightmares only have one Dreamer memories?... "
Dreameater nods his head when Anna brings up Faolan's burn marks, but then he stares at Catch again and seems tense, until he finally speaks up: "Catch, you need hot chocolate?" he asks, narrowing his eyes at him.
Morning Glory tips her head up at Dreameater. //He really can flip from one to the other so quickly, but what's with him and hot chocolate? I know Weaver always liked it, but never as much as Eater seems to...//
" uhhhh???" Anna blinked a few times at the Nightmare. The Dreamer prince was just as confused, he didn't feel thirsty and didn't feel like wanting anything sweet but he was cold so something hot might help?
Catch just shrugged, the prince didn't know what he wanted or needed.
Dreameater quickly turns around in his chair (almost knocking Glory off his lap accidentally) and looks to the closest guard with an oddly determined expression. "Catch needs hot chocolate, where can I find hot chocolate? Can you get him hot chocolate?" he asks, or rather demands.
"I don't know how much that would help him, bu--"
"Catch needs some hot chocolate, it'd make him feel better," Dreameater insists, almost about ready to hop out of his chair.
The guard sighs and puts his notes away in his pocket, and says, "Alright, you don't need to get so worked up. I'll get him some hot chocolate."
Dreameater continues sitting that way and watching the guard for a moment longer, and then he seems to relax as he leans back in his seat again. "Don't worry Catch, the hot chocolate will make you feel better," he tries to encourage his friend, having more of a friendly tone in his voice now.
Morning Glory huffs quietly as she lands on the small table in front of the boys, having decided to fly off of Eater's lap to something more stable. "You could be a bit more careful..." she mutters under her breath, and watches her partner curiously.
" wait? What?" Catch lifted his head to see what was going on.
Anna face Pam " oh boy, he really hung up on that helping isn't he?" She then went over to check on Glory to comfort her friend " you ok? " she asked patting Glory
Crystal followed along and began to clean up her dishes too. “Oh, you did catch it? That’s good.” She said, smiling a bit after hearing Fiona say Terra was teaching her and that she was going to learn, “I bet you’ll get really good at cooking.”
The girl glanced up at the Elemental when questioned about cooking, “Mm, I know a decent amount, I think.. I actually really like to cook, and used to help with it quite often back home.” She tilted her head in thought then added with a soft laugh, “It’s been so long though, I’m probably out of practice.”
"Yeah, I'm ok," Glory replies with a small smile, and then she shrugs at Anna. "I don't know why he's so obsessed with it."
"It makes you feel better," Eater answers Glory, frowning at her momentarily before grinning at Catch. "Hey, don't worry, you'll feel better after you have some hot chocolate."
" that good, because if you weren't I bop Eater nose for you!" Anna puffed, she then did frown " honest, came we ever understand what a Nightmare really thinks?"
The guard returned with the hot chocolate and set it down for the Dreamer prince " Uh, here your hot chocolate sir"
Dreamcatcher sigh and got himself to sit up straight. " thanks? " He still wasn't sure why it was hot chocolate but didn't feel like questioning it further, the Dreamer prince held the mug in his hands, the heat felt good so maybe it would help so he blow before taking a of sip it.
Fiona beamed a little at Crystal's comments. She was glad to hear someone else thought so, too...
Then she listened intently as the girl went on to tell her about her experience with cooking. "Ooh, helping with food for your family sounds awesome! ...If you're out of practice, maybe you could join in on our training sometime!"
A less sad, thoughtful look came to her face, "It's cool to hear something about your life at home, too. I don't think I've heard you say much about that yet." The Elemental wondered if it would hurt to ask. She was genuinely curious about her teammate and friend.
After they had handled their cleanup, Kyle also would've started to lead the way to the nearest teleporter to the lab where Crimson was. He remained quiet to let the discussion carry on.
" that true..." she tips her head and wondered who was it that this was most likely? Weaver definitely would be the one who be concerned for Catch and he likes hot chocolate but hot chocolate definitely wasn't the cured all so that had to be Eater?
Dreamcatcher wasn't thinking on any of that, he just closed his eyes and sipped his hot chocolate and enjoyed it, it felt very comfortable " this hit the spot, thank you "
Dreameater grins, relaxes, and crosses his arms pridefully. "See! I told you, I knew that's what you needed," he huffs, then smirks down at the two Fairfin, "Hot chocolate always makes you feel better, and here you two thought I was crazy!"
Morning Glory looks up at Eater with an eyebrow raised, but she isn't able to say anything before Eater's already doing something else.
"Hey, now you know, if Catch ever gets cold like this again, you just give him some hot chocolate," Eater says to the guard.
Everyone was just confused. The guards had a rise eyebrow and glance at each other, they both heard how much of a freak Dreameater was but they were getting a front row seat.
Dreameater smirks a moment longer, watching Catch drink his drink, and then tips his head slightly to look down at Rihanna again. "Anyway, getting back to the princes, whatever happened to Faolan? He was brought back in bad shape, but then what? If I'm somehow a prince myself like everyone's suddenly thinking, he must've had a family and had kids--otherwise I'd have to be related to Faithful, and I don't have the silver blood for that. Right?"
Crystal gave a small, but slightly cheery nod at first, “Yeah, maybe if we get the time at some point, I’ll see about joining you for that,” she replied.
Though with what Fiona said next, the girl bit at her lip and shrugged before saying, “Well, it’s really because I just haven’t said much about it at all, to anyone actually. There haven’t been many times or reasons to bring it up.” While Crystal didn’t necessarily like talking about herself, or her home and such due to all the weight and emotions that whole area still carried, she knew she couldn’t just never mention anything about it..
She soon looked over and added, “But I don’t mind, if you have any questions, I’m more than willing to answer them. After all, we’re supposed to be getting to know our own team better anyway.”
Anna made a face but went ahead and moved on to " well Faolan had to recover after that and not just physically but mentally to, it was hard on everyone to lose Faithful, a lot of people looked up to him and he held a lot responsibility but he was gone...it hit Faolan really hard when reality of everything Victoria said and it changed him...with Faithful gone those responsibility fell on Faolan and he understood the weight his brother had been carrying "
Catch held his mug and stare at the half filled beverage, he still didn't know the full story but the moon blood did know a personal part most people didn't "...Faolan actually cleaned up and became the last of the great Dreamer kings...but no one knows that because of Malice... "
" yeah... it like Sol took killing two birds with one stone literally... but that stone was Malice " Anna add.
Catch nodded, he had thought a lot about the Princes of late, what had happened and asking questions. " I still need to ask Victoria more, we had to keep our talks, uh, short... with the dark mourning and me and my vision problems...but I did find out that Faolan was one of the few to even know that Victoria had a kid and something else, he made the Fairfins to in hopes of saving brother and his people "
Fiona observed the way Crystal responded to what she said. She had to remember--this was more like the first time she was really getting to know Crystal, and the same vice-versa. While she was a bit surprised, the Elemental gave a friendly smile, "Yeah! We can both start sharing our stories with each other! ...And it doesn't have to be where it's so crowded, either."
For a moment, she focused on following Kyle with Crystal back into the hallways for the time being. There were still plenty of residents around, using the moving sidewalks, or other forms of transportation... But there were less people than in the cafeteria.
"So, to start... Where are you from? I'm guessing it's not from around here? There are humans here, but... They seem a lot different."
"Huh, so he turned his life around... Good for him, I guess," Dreameater thinks out loud. "He made the Fairfin to try and save his brother and his people? I mean they do keep Dreamers from turning, and they're the closest thing we've got for a cure, at least for Dreamers who aren't past the point of no return. So he kind of accomplished that, but not in the way he wanted." He pauses, then asks, "What else, though? Does anyone know how he died? He died at one point, right? Right...? So what else did he do?"
The Dreamer green eyes had drifted down to his Fairfin, he took a hand and scratched her fluff, the Dreamers had a lot to be thankful for, the Fairfins were one of them.
" it sounded like he really did.. that unfortunately seems to be the case to, Victoria said that Faolan wasn't able to finish the Fairfins before his fight with Malice...and that were I haven't found out much..."
" last time Cat talked with the Queen about what happened to Faolan he had one of his vision fit, and we hadn't had much of a chance to ask after that..."
Dreamcatcher rubbed his chest, he remembered the vision he had back in Howaito, were Malice stabbed someone who looked like him, which Catch knew something wasn't right even then, that it felt off, he didn't learn until later that it wasn't Faithful like he believed but Faolan " ... I do know that Faolan did survive... "
"Huh? He got in a fight with Malice and survived?" Dreameater asks. "That's kinda surprising. Though I wonder how Malice took that since he has Faolan's memories. Kinda like fighting yourself? Hmm..."
Catch slowly nodded " I thought so to but Victoria had done the same thing first... well she took the name Victoria after the fight so maybe Faolan did something similar?" He added " but I'm not sure how that really went down between the two of them... I know Catty hates seeing me in dreams and hates that I'm still alive and what I know about Malice though is he still thinks he Faolan..."
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11 Jul, 2022, 6:13 pm
(Repost time!)
11 Jul, 2022, 6:13 pm
Dreamcatcher leaned forward as he looked back on things to, the past year was a mess, and the Dreamer prince was just one more mystery to the list.
" well, for starters Faithful Dream is actually Malice not Faolan dream... it's a big mess " he sigh and took his fingers though his hair " Apparently Soledormir wanted to slander both brothers and pit them against one other.... "
" maybe you should start from the beginning? "Anna place herself next to her friend.
Catch made a face, that was easier said than done or he's going to give it a shot " Faithful and Faolan were twins, they were known as the Dreamer prince of Dawn and Dusk... apparently Dreamers back then had a lot more abilities then we do now, the dream walking and sharing emotions were just some of them... but I'm sure that get brought up tomorrow with Hagatha... "
" a interesting thing Is that the Dreamer king married a human so" she looked up at her partner and grinned " Cat great, great, great, great who knows how many great grandpa has half human, maybe that explains why you're family tends to favor a human form?~ "
11 Jul, 2022, 6:13 pm
"Yeah... Huh," Dreameater murmurs as he listens to Catch. He glances down at Anna when she makes her comment, and then he repeats, "It was the Dreamer King who married a human? Their father? So both the Princes were half-human, huh?"
"Yep, that's what that means," Glory replies, smiling up at Eater.
11 Jul, 2022, 6:13 pm
Crystal took a moment to think about what was said, that something good had come out of something as bad as Crimson loosing his eyes.. And while thinking about it, she wondered if it hadn’t of been for that, would she and Crimson have even became friends in the first place? Slowly a couple more similar thoughts surfaced, but she pushed them aside to focus on Fiona when she began to talk again.
She listened quietly, studying the Elemental as she spoke. She noted the way Fiona’s expression changed after mentioning Terra and Sparky, and a small sympathetic look crossed her own face.
But, it quickly turned to one of surprise with the next bit of information, “You.. you got challenged by Demise, and you won the city?” She asked, obviously unsure of how to even begin to understand, then soon added, “Oh but great job for chasing her off though, I imagine it wasn’t easy..”
She paused and thought about the last couple questions “I- I have no idea what to do with a /whole/ city.. And maybe you’d have to sign ownership documents or something to actually claim it? I’m not sure how those kinds of things work.. Did she own the city to begin with? Surely you can't bet off something like that if it isn't yours.. Especially to that kind of degree.”
11 Jul, 2022, 6:13 pm
Once again without a glance, Fiona grabbed her nearby napkin and scrunched it up, "/I bet she doesn't even own the city/--or if she /thinks/ she does, we gotta get those papers... Aahh, she's gonna regret taking Boo, too!"
The Elemental paused with a huff before she got too far into that mystery tangent."...That's something we should bring up to everybody later.
I gotta wonder what she was really after... Something always felt off about it...
But... Thanks! We worked together great, and I'm sure we'd /all/ be even tougher, now!"
11 Jul, 2022, 8:19 pm
Crystal simply nodded at first, “Regardless, I’m sure the city would be better off in your hands than in hers anyway.”
The girl then worriedly thought to herself with that last part, ‘I can’t believe Boo was taken..’ Her eyes glanced around as she thought about it, but she soon settled her gaze back on Fiona with the next things she said.
“That’s a good point.. There must have been some sort reason behind it, I can’t see how anyone would just offer or relinquish something as important as an entire city. Even if won fairly, and especially the bad guys,” she mentioned, then ate the last bite of her sandwich, dusting some crumbs off her hands with a napkin.
11 Jul, 2022, 9:15 pm
( I love this cover xD )
11 Jul, 2022, 9:33 pm
Fiona slowly nodded as well, "It's weird... And we know for sure the bad guys are in /way/ more places than just Howaito. We've gotta figure them out--especially for Boo." She took an aggressive bite out of her steak.
"Don't forget your team is still on break." Kyle lightly reminded, able to sense a faint tension starting to build, "We have groups out there now looking into these cases--Boo, the Forsaken Lords, and more."
Fiona paused, the last chunk of her food halfway into her mouth. After taking a moment to finish that, she spoke again, "Yeah... It's awesome to have more help.
Well... That's pretty much what happened with me in Howaito, too. Aside from chasing down a thieving chicken in a shopping cart." The Elemental finished, not seeming entirely enthused about needing to rest after getting fired up... But understanding it was best for her and Crystal, too.
11 Jul, 2022, 10:26 pm
" yup" Catch nodded " it apparently was to unite the humans with the Dreamers, it lasted for a short period until a collapse happened with the gates and the human realms were cut off... I'm guessing that why these humans look different then in our realm "
Anna tapes her chin and thinks outloud " I been wondering what realm Crystal comes from to? It definitely not this world but that doesn't mean it not close to this realm...humans appear to be scattered across the realms "
11 Jul, 2022, 10:58 pm
"Huh... Well, anyway, getting back to the point," Dreameater says, "So Faithful and Faolan both were half-human, half-Dreamer princes, and they had more abilities and stuff than we do. But whatever happened to them? How'd Faolan even end up getting in trouble and Faithful had to go and sacrifice himself and become Malice?"
12 Jul, 2022, 12:48 am
“At this point,” Crystal started, “I think it may be safe to think that the bad guys are just everywhere..”
She looked towards Kyle when he piped up, nodding with an understanding expression crossing her face, “I know it’s your job, but really, thank you again for all the help with everything.”
Crystal looked back over to the Elemental when she spoke again, but her eyebrows knit together with surprised confusion after what was mentioned lastly, “A thieving chicken?” She couldn’t help but question, and after a small pause she then said, “..You know, something about that is a little less crazy than some of the other stories we have.”
12 Jul, 2022, 12:50 am
Catch rubbed the back of his head " I'm still been learning from Queen Victoria and Osiris, I think it would be good for you to talk to them to at some point... but I'll fill you in on what I know so far " he then shifted hid weight, this was going to be quite the info drop but at the same time Catch didn't want to unload everything on him either " from what I understand the twins had a rocky relationship, Faithful was the oldest and held the most responsibility and with that respect "
Anna chime in to help tell the story "
" as for Faolan, he got jelly "
" well, there was more to it then that. Faolan and Faithful view themselves as half-bloods differently, Faithful even though his appearance he favorite his mother side in looks, but had more control of his Dreamer abilities as his brother was the opposite, his appearance favorite his father but he struggled with his abilities... mostly in controlling his emotions and how he dealt with feeling others, this I'm sure you can guess made tension between the two brothers "
Catch glace up in thought as he continued "
What the queen told me was both of them had interest in her but she chose Faithful and fell in love with him... Faolan grew even more jealous after that and the two would fight like cats and dogs but even with that Victoria mentioned that when the brothers did work together, everything change, things got done and she said they could bring a sense of peace to the chaotic world around them "
12 Jul, 2022, 12:50 am
Anna added on from were her brother pause the keep the story on track " yeah, things seem to be up and down with them but it didn't get really nasty until their sister was murdered... that end up pushing Faolan over the edge and he only got worse from there "
Catch rubbed his forehead as if he had a slight headache.
"Cat? You ok?" Anna tipped her head with concern and took a few steps back toward him.
" yeah... I think it trying to happen again... my horns are hurting" Catch grimaced and looked to one of the guards.
She took the Cue and came over, getting to work she took a special light and shine it in the Princes eyes to check them, a few silver flakes shimmered but then they faded away like dying stars... " it looks like one is trying to come on " she said and then handed him their version of a thermometer a little ball that they stick in their mouth, from there she went on to examine his horns, she was much more cautious handling the prince head as she looked them over, she took her fancy light and shine it over the gems, the green gemstones swirled with glittering lights that looked like a tiny galaxy of stars in them but then the stars faded and his Gemstones turned dull.
Anna turned a pale green with worry, they had told Weaver but not Eater, not that she figured he care but at least she could inform him on what was happening " there worry that something wrong with Cat visions... this is the 3rd time one has tried to happen since we moved but none of them have happened...there trying to figure out what causing it..."
12 Jul, 2022, 1:04 am
Dreameater had been listening quietly to the story that Dreamcatcher and Anna were telling him, until he could taste Catch's pain, then his thought process got disrupted and he changed his focus. "Huh... Has this only been when he's been looking into or talking about stuff with the princes?" he asks, cautiously watching his brother and the Vaseterm attending to him.
Morning Glory makes sure she's not in the way in the slightest, and likewise watches Catch with concern, stopping only to give Anna a gentle back rub for encouragement.
12 Jul, 2022, 1:25 am
Kyle gave a faint smile, "Glad to be a part of it, now." then he went back to quietly listening when Fiona spoke, an intrigued glint in his eyes.
Fiona looked like she'd just been hit with a realization as well, when Crystal pointed that out. "...It is!" She declared, "Since when is chasing down a thieving chicken /not/ crazy?!
...You don't think it'd happen again, do you?"
12 Jul, 2022, 1:36 am
" yeah" Rihanna replied " the first time was during one of the interrogations, we watched over the video a couple times just to make sure and sure enough it happened when they were talking about that kind of stuff that his visions had shown so far, the Dreamer Princes and the kings and all that, but then it happened again with the Queen and the two of them were talking about Faithful and Faolan "
" it like before " the male guard stated looking at a handhelds screen, he watched as Dreamcatcher temperature went from feverish to dropping blow normal.
12 Jul, 2022, 1:36 am
Dreameater glances over at the male guard when he speaks up. "So... This is a bad thing that he can't have this vision, right? That's how it's sounding," he says, feeling that odd sense of de-ja vu.
12 Jul, 2022, 1:59 am
Anna nodded " after talking with the doctors here we found out there actually a lot of different diseases half-bloods can have or get... I guess it even got so bad at one point with their people that many of their rulers that they call Clan leaders outlaw getting married to species outside their own, some of these Clan leaders out of fear would Outcast the individuals or even have them executed out of fear of spending some of those diseases...it pretty intense stuff... "
The woman nodded to her fellow guard " yes, but its already passing..." she then holds out containing for the thermometer and asks " how are you feeling Master Dreamcatcher?"
After freeing up his mouth Catch let's out a breath and replied " like before... I'm tired even though nothing happens and I feel cold" he folded his arms and rubbed them slightly.
" there just not sure what exactly is wrong with him, they done testing for the difference symptoms and ruled out any of the major diseases, thank the moons for that but there still something not right...but it one of the reasons why Hagatha had been pushing to do more testing "
12 Jul, 2022, 2:07 am
"Huh... You think it'd be something with Cataclysm maybe?" Eater suggests, then crosses his arms and tips his head. "But then you'd be burning up, wouldn't you? Is Cataclysm a Pyro?"
12 Jul, 2022, 2:27 am
Crystal began to shrug and shake her head, the fact that they had experienced things weirder and more crazy than chasing down a chicken said a lot..
At the ending question though, the girl stopped and looked as though she genuinely really thought about it for a moment. “I mean.. I’m not sure of our chances of running into more chickens, especially the thieving kind, but I suppose it’s always possible. And with our luck, I honestly wouldn’t rule anything out. Although, for everyones sake, hopefully we don’t,” she replied, with a slight laugh after.
12 Jul, 2022, 3:00 am
Catch thanked the guards for their help, a week ago he tell everyone he fine and move on but the prince hadn't been given that option any more... and it was something he still was trying to get used to, Catch closed his eyes for a moment and shifted his wight to one side. " I'll be ok when I warm up...do I need to go visit the doctor again for more testing?"
" I'm sending the information now... Suzano replied saying, your symptoms haven't deviated from the last time, you don't need to go in at this moment "
" that what there guessing, Cat did say that last time he seen him in a vision that Cataclysm seem sick... I think Catty trying to make Cat sick to "
Catch rubbed his face, he wanted to tell everyone he was fine, but that wasn't true if it wasn't one thing it was something else, but he was told this likely had going on since the beginning or close to it with how severe his visions had been, and how there frequency slowed down they passed months.
Catch let out a breath " sorry about that..." he then turned his head towards his brother and forced a small smile " I should be fine now... " he then glace away thinking about the Nightmare question, even though Anna answered it already " yeah, he's a pyro and I do feel hot at first but then it's like something just sucks the heat out of me and I feel cold..." the cold didn't bother him, normal cold didn't at least, he had to he married in ice Griffin after all but this didn't feel normal, and that to was something he had come to know to, just like Eira corrupted ice wasn't natural, this to wasn't natural...
12 Jul, 2022, 3:11 am
"Hmmm..." Dreameater hums in a low growl, thinking and watching Catch. He reaches up to the clasps on his shoulder cape, hesitates and tenses up briefly, but then breathes out a small sigh, taking off his shoulder cape and offering it to Catch. "Would some patented Pyro heat warm you up quick enough?" he teases, though he's not smiling, and doesn't have much of a playful tone in his voice this time.
12 Jul, 2022, 3:11 am
"If we do, we'll have to catch it! No thieving /anything/ is gonna get away from us!" Fiona said defiantly, a little laugh coming from her, too.
"...Terra and I were going to cook the chicken, but before we left the store, the cart rolled away with what we bought. That's how the chicken became a thief." She explained further, taking the thief part rather seriously.
Kyle let out a snicker and teased, "During your visit to Howaito, it seems food was the greatest ally for one of you and the worst enemy of the other.
...Speaking of allies... We're within the window of visitation for Crimson whenever you two are ready to go." Using his armbands, he had pulled up a small holographic readout of the time, plus the timezone counterpart for Crimson's location.
12 Jul, 2022, 3:57 am
Dreamcatcher stared for a moment at the Nightmare, this in itself didn't feel normal but did at the same time, it was natural for hid brother to help but the almost emotionless look and tone Eater has is all a remember of the problems his brother is going through...// that about right, even with everything your still trying your best...//
Catch reached to take his brother shoulder cap as he said with a warm smile "thanks brother " but with this a new since of deja vu hit him, this seems very familiar to when he gave Catty his jacket one time in a dream... "... I... I forgot about that.." he thinks outloud
12 Jul, 2022, 3:57 am
"... You forgot I'm a Nightmare?" Dreameater asks, raising an eyebrow at Catch.
12 Jul, 2022, 4:19 am
" Wait? What?" Catch replied very confused then he realized what happened " no" he frowned as he held the shoulder cap and then explained " I just remembered that I gave Cataclysm my jacket in a dream, vision? At one point and this reminded me of that... he was slumped sitting against the wall and was complaining about being cold, I could tell he was because I felt chilled there to... so I gave him my jacket...this just reminded me of that and I realized something has been effecting him for a while... I thought it was my silver blood but, I don't know..."
12 Jul, 2022, 4:25 am
"Oh, that makes more sense," Dreameater remarks, leaning back in his chair now. A smirk slowly stretches across his face as he then teases, "I was gonna say, you'd have to be /really/ sick to forget /I'm/ a Nightmare..."
Morning Glory makes a face at Dreameater for that remark, and turns a little pink. //I guess Eater's starting to feel a bit better...// she thinks to herself.
18 Jul, 2022, 5:37 pm
Catch put the Nightmare shoulder cap on and he felt the warmth coming from it and it was helping, however it was spoiled by the nightmare comment, and he didn't make a reply back.
Anna looked between the two brothers, now that things seem more calm down she decided to get the topic back on track " if you don't mind Cat I could take it from here, you know in telling the rest of the story on the Dreamer twins "
" yeah, sure.... I should be fine for a while now " he replied plainly.
Anna looked to Glory before fully leaving her and went over to her partner, she knew Catch needed her even just for some form of comfort.
After getting settled on Catch lap she thinks back to were they left off " ...yeah, it was a big oof after Serenity died, that were the big fighting between the bros happened...evidence showed that one of the Kings murder her..."
18 Jul, 2022, 5:37 pm
Dreameater keeps his smirk for a while, but when Anna goes to continue, he focuses again and looks at her. "Oh yeah?" he asks, raising an eyebrow at the Fairfin.
Morning Glory sighs and flies over to her partner, landing on his lap.
18 Jul, 2022, 5:38 pm
Dreamcatcher was still resting and letting his sister do the explain.
Anna nodded and continued moving her hands as she's been alone with her story " it a bit of a mess from what I been able to gather. Serenity was supposedly murdered by Zitan, one of the kings and who happens to be Crimson ancestor.... " she tapped her claws together with a worry look " you can probably see how this complicates things... but it gets worse, despite there being evidence of tracks, blood and even seeing visions of what happened Faithful stood firm that Zitan was being framed, that This was a trap set by Soledormir " and put her hands on her hips and made a face " by what bit I know that sounds like something Soledormir would do, like duh, he the big bad guy! But that were the divide happened, a staggering amount of evidence was against Zitan and with his past track record of being a bad guy ( were still working things out so well come back to this at some point, just know he worked for Sol at one point and everyone knew that) it was hard for some to see anything that didn't follow the obvious evidence, but some also sided with Faithful that there was more going on and this was something Soledormir was doing to try to divide them all.... which no matter how you look at it, it did just that... a lot of people didn't see eye to eye anymore and the Dreamer twins were some of them..."
Catch was feeling a bit more up to saying a little bit so he did " yeah.... I know something was wrong... I felt it with those visions I used to have.... tension between those two but there was more then that to...they still cared..." Catch grimaced and placed his elbows on the table as he rest his head in his hands and let out a deep sigh " there was a lot going on between those two... "
Anna patted her little brother " you just take it easy Cat, I'll handle the rest! You know how much I like to blab! " she then looked back to the Nightmare and clenched her fists in a ready Pumped Up way.
18 Jul, 2022, 5:55 pm
Dreameater watches Catch thoughtfully again as his brother struggles, and when Anna speaks up again, he looks back to her once more. "Yeah, don't worry Catch, girls are good at talking for hours on end," he teases, smirking at Anna, then saying, "So the Princes were divided thanks to Soledormir, what happened because of that?"
Morning Glory makes another face at her partner, and paws at his shirt to get his attention.
To which Eater looks down at her and briefly says, "What? It's true, you girls can talk forever!"
18 Jul, 2022, 6:43 pm
Crystal began to nod, but towards the end of what Fiona said first, the girl couldn’t help but fully pause for a moment as the realization set in. ‘It wasn’t an actual alive chicken..’ she thought, having gotten the idea it had been. “Well, it’s too bad you two didn’t get to cook it..”
The girl then looked over at Kyle when he spoke again, her eyebrows raising slightly as he pulled up the holograph and told them they were at a good time to visit. “Oh, alright,” she started, then thought and said, “I think I’m ready when you two are as well.”
18 Jul, 2022, 7:28 pm
Fiona's attention was brought to Kyle as well, "I'm ready, too!" She chimed in, although she did quickly stuff her face with the last bits of her salad as well.
"Then that settles it." Kyle stood up, collecting his tray with his disposable plate and silverware. Then he headed to a nearby trash bin to properly clean up.
Fiona started mimicking what Kyle had done, stacking up her dishes, first. "Oh! We actually did catch the chicken and get to try cooking it it!
...I'm not great at that, but Terra's been teaching me, so /I'm gonna learn./" Once again, she was lost in thought for a brief moment after that. At least, until she asked,
"Do you know much about cooking?"
18 Jul, 2022, 7:37 pm
" see! Even he agrees! So let me do the talking!" Anna hopped back to it.
Letting out a sigh Dreamcatcher just rested, there was much on his mind but was to tired to do much about that at the moment.
" after that there was a big split between the forces who followed Faithful and Faolan on who they believe, things were spinning out of control... thankfully the other kings and their father had to step in but at that point it was to late.... Faolan was known for getting into trouble and getting drunk and that got worse and worse, there bit more to the division between the two brothers when Faithful married Alexandria who we know as the Vaseterm Queen Victoria, with everything seemingly going Faithful way, Faolan grew more frustrated until he finally snapped and got the brilliant idea of going to Soledormir! " she shook her head and rubbed it "
" Anna... go easy on him... I know he was drunk and that no excuse for doing something like that...but he really did care " the Dreamer prince mumbled through his fingers.
" yeah, I know, you keep saying that and so does everyone else, but he was still stupid " she commented and then went on " this is why getting drunk is a big no, no!" Anna shook disapproving finger as she cut an eye back over her shoulder to Catch.
" I got it Anna... I got it" Catch Mound as he let his support half slide onto the table top as he took one hand through his red hair " I don't think you have to worry about that with me any more..I never wanted to drink in the first place..."
" just making sure! " she replied back and then hop back into her story about the Dreamer twins. ( Catch just waves a go away hand as his face is down into the table top)
18 Jul, 2022, 7:37 pm
" so yeahhhhh, Faolan got drunk out of his mind and was ticked off at everything and everyone.... Victoria said from there weeks went by and no one had heard from him, a few days was normal but not weeks without telling anyone, then those weeks turned to months, everyone knew something bad had happened but wasn't sure what, they knew he wasn't killed or Sol would have made a big show of it, what kind of low life does that?! " she tapped her foot and folded her arms " anyway, you know that Omen guy everyone keeps talking about? Apparently he Soledormir messages boy and sent him to tell everyone that he had Faolan and he wanted to speak to Faithful, and Faithful alone about the negotiations for his brother's life "
Catch turns his head so he say something, even though he keeps being told to rest and needs it " .... and that how Faithful is really Malice and Not Faolan...."
" Cat shhh! I'm telling the story and was getting to that part!" She scolded him, after clearing her throat she looked back to the Nightmare " so yeahhhhh, Faithful trade himself so Faolan would be set free and well... the weird thing is Soledormir did just that but we're it so confusing and just messed up! Even though Malice is really Faithful he acts likes and even tries to appear like Faolan when he was mad and stupid! "
" .... yeah...it's all messed up " Catch mumbles again
18 Jul, 2022, 7:55 pm
Dreameater looks over at Catch every time he speaks up, and has a look on his face like something's bothering him, but he doesn't say anything to him right away. At the end of this part of the story, what Anna says catches his interest, and he actually thinks for a moment before he suggests something. "Well, I have my memories because I ate Weaver's heart, that's how all Nightmares work. The only way Malice would have Faolan's memories would be if he ate Faolan's heart. Soledormir had him for months, right? And he had Omen, I know from experience that Omen can rip Light Eaters out of their frames, it could've been that Soledormir had Malice eat Faolan's heart until Faithful came."
"Oh, that's awful..." Morning Glory thinks out loud about Faolan and Weaver both, curling up near Eater's lap near his belly.
18 Jul, 2022, 8:23 pm
Anna colors got a little dim with that getting brought up, they already have been putting together that somehow Malice must have eaten some of Faolan by what they recently discovered with Eater and Weaver. The team for Nightmare had been working almost Non-Stop with thoughts and theories.
" that... that makes a lot of sense, Victoria did say when Omen brought Faolan to them he was in awful shape... the worst was his chest, he had a really bad wound and these weird burn marks that I guess Omen bare hands can make..."
"... what...I...wait "
Catch was trying to be helpful but he just wasn't feeling good, he put a figure up for a moment as he thought about somethings " ... but , why doesn't Malice have Faithful memories?... or dose he have both? Or can Nightmares only have one Dreamer memories?... "
18 Jul, 2022, 8:43 pm
Dreameater nods his head when Anna brings up Faolan's burn marks, but then he stares at Catch again and seems tense, until he finally speaks up: "Catch, you need hot chocolate?" he asks, narrowing his eyes at him.
Morning Glory tips her head up at Dreameater. //He really can flip from one to the other so quickly, but what's with him and hot chocolate? I know Weaver always liked it, but never as much as Eater seems to...//
18 Jul, 2022, 9:16 pm
" uhhhh???" Anna blinked a few times at the Nightmare.
The Dreamer prince was just as confused, he didn't feel thirsty and didn't feel like wanting anything sweet but he was cold so something hot might help?
Catch just shrugged, the prince didn't know what he wanted or needed.
18 Jul, 2022, 9:16 pm
Dreameater quickly turns around in his chair (almost knocking Glory off his lap accidentally) and looks to the closest guard with an oddly determined expression. "Catch needs hot chocolate, where can I find hot chocolate? Can you get him hot chocolate?" he asks, or rather demands.
"I don't know how much that would help him, bu--"
"Catch needs some hot chocolate, it'd make him feel better," Dreameater insists, almost about ready to hop out of his chair.
The guard sighs and puts his notes away in his pocket, and says, "Alright, you don't need to get so worked up. I'll get him some hot chocolate."
Dreameater continues sitting that way and watching the guard for a moment longer, and then he seems to relax as he leans back in his seat again. "Don't worry Catch, the hot chocolate will make you feel better," he tries to encourage his friend, having more of a friendly tone in his voice now.
Morning Glory huffs quietly as she lands on the small table in front of the boys, having decided to fly off of Eater's lap to something more stable. "You could be a bit more careful..." she mutters under her breath, and watches her partner curiously.
18 Jul, 2022, 10:08 pm
" wait? What?" Catch lifted his head to see what was going on.
Anna face Pam " oh boy, he really hung up on that helping isn't he?" She then went over to check on Glory to comfort her friend " you ok? " she asked patting Glory
18 Jul, 2022, 10:19 pm
Crystal followed along and began to clean up her dishes too. “Oh, you did catch it? That’s good.” She said, smiling a bit after hearing Fiona say Terra was teaching her and that she was going to learn, “I bet you’ll get really good at cooking.”
The girl glanced up at the Elemental when questioned about cooking, “Mm, I know a decent amount, I think.. I actually really like to cook, and used to help with it quite often back home.” She tilted her head in thought then added with a soft laugh, “It’s been so long though, I’m probably out of practice.”
18 Jul, 2022, 10:31 pm
"Yeah, I'm ok," Glory replies with a small smile, and then she shrugs at Anna. "I don't know why he's so obsessed with it."
"It makes you feel better," Eater answers Glory, frowning at her momentarily before grinning at Catch. "Hey, don't worry, you'll feel better after you have some hot chocolate."
18 Jul, 2022, 10:57 pm
" that good, because if you weren't I bop Eater nose for you!" Anna puffed, she then did frown " honest, came we ever understand what a Nightmare really thinks?"
The guard returned with the hot chocolate and set it down for the Dreamer prince " Uh, here your hot chocolate sir"
Dreamcatcher sigh and got himself to sit up straight. " thanks? " He still wasn't sure why it was hot chocolate but didn't feel like questioning it further, the Dreamer prince held the mug in his hands, the heat felt good so maybe it would help so he blow before taking a of sip it.
18 Jul, 2022, 10:57 pm
"I know you would," Glory giggles at first, then sighs, "Who knows, honestly? At least we can kind of tell who's talking, at least... I think."
Dreameater stares at Catch expectantly, without saying a word.
18 Jul, 2022, 11:18 pm
Fiona beamed a little at Crystal's comments. She was glad to hear someone else thought so, too...
Then she listened intently as the girl went on to tell her about her experience with cooking. "Ooh, helping with food for your family sounds awesome!
...If you're out of practice, maybe you could join in on our training sometime!"
A less sad, thoughtful look came to her face, "It's cool to hear something about your life at home, too. I don't think I've heard you say much about that yet."
The Elemental wondered if it would hurt to ask. She was genuinely curious about her teammate and friend.
After they had handled their cleanup, Kyle also would've started to lead the way to the nearest teleporter to the lab where Crimson was. He remained quiet to let the discussion carry on.
18 Jul, 2022, 11:18 pm
" that true..." she tips her head and wondered who was it that this was most likely? Weaver definitely would be the one who be concerned for Catch and he likes hot chocolate but hot chocolate definitely wasn't the cured all so that had to be Eater?
Dreamcatcher wasn't thinking on any of that, he just closed his eyes and sipped his hot chocolate and enjoyed it, it felt very comfortable " this hit the spot, thank you "
18 Jul, 2022, 11:23 pm
Dreameater grins, relaxes, and crosses his arms pridefully. "See! I told you, I knew that's what you needed," he huffs, then smirks down at the two Fairfin, "Hot chocolate always makes you feel better, and here you two thought I was crazy!"
Morning Glory looks up at Eater with an eyebrow raised, but she isn't able to say anything before Eater's already doing something else.
"Hey, now you know, if Catch ever gets cold like this again, you just give him some hot chocolate," Eater says to the guard.
19 Jul, 2022, 1:12 am
Everyone was just confused.
The guards had a rise eyebrow and glance at each other, they both heard how much of a freak Dreameater was but they were getting a front row seat.
Anna just rolled her eyes and thought//whatever//
Catch just sip his drink
19 Jul, 2022, 1:16 am
Dreameater smirks a moment longer, watching Catch drink his drink, and then tips his head slightly to look down at Rihanna again. "Anyway, getting back to the princes, whatever happened to Faolan? He was brought back in bad shape, but then what? If I'm somehow a prince myself like everyone's suddenly thinking, he must've had a family and had kids--otherwise I'd have to be related to Faithful, and I don't have the silver blood for that. Right?"
19 Jul, 2022, 2:28 am
Crystal gave a small, but slightly cheery nod at first, “Yeah, maybe if we get the time at some point, I’ll see about joining you for that,” she replied.
Though with what Fiona said next, the girl bit at her lip and shrugged before saying, “Well, it’s really because I just haven’t said much about it at all, to anyone actually. There haven’t been many times or reasons to bring it up.” While Crystal didn’t necessarily like talking about herself, or her home and such due to all the weight and emotions that whole area still carried, she knew she couldn’t just never mention anything about it..
She soon looked over and added, “But I don’t mind, if you have any questions, I’m more than willing to answer them. After all, we’re supposed to be getting to know our own team better anyway.”
19 Jul, 2022, 2:34 am
Anna made a face but went ahead and moved on to " well Faolan had to recover after that and not just physically but mentally to, it was hard on everyone to lose Faithful, a lot of people looked up to him and he held a lot responsibility but he was gone...it hit Faolan really hard when reality of everything Victoria said and it changed him...with Faithful gone those responsibility fell on Faolan and he understood the weight his brother had been carrying "
Catch held his mug and stare at the half filled beverage, he still didn't know the full story but the moon blood did know a personal part most people didn't "...Faolan actually cleaned up and became the last of the great Dreamer kings...but no one knows that because of Malice... "
" yeah... it like Sol took killing two birds with one stone literally... but that stone was Malice " Anna add.
Catch nodded, he had thought a lot about the Princes of late, what had happened and asking questions. " I still need to ask Victoria more, we had to keep our talks, uh, short... with the dark mourning and me and my vision problems...but I did find out that Faolan was one of the few to even know that Victoria had a kid and something else, he made the Fairfins to in hopes of saving brother and his people "
19 Jul, 2022, 3:17 am
Fiona observed the way Crystal responded to what she said. She had to remember--this was more like the first time she was really getting to know Crystal, and the same vice-versa. While she was a bit surprised, the Elemental gave a friendly smile, "Yeah! We can both start sharing our stories with each other!
...And it doesn't have to be where it's so crowded, either."
For a moment, she focused on following Kyle with Crystal back into the hallways for the time being. There were still plenty of residents around, using the moving sidewalks, or other forms of transportation... But there were less people than in the cafeteria.
"So, to start... Where are you from? I'm guessing it's not from around here? There are humans here, but... They seem a lot different."
19 Jul, 2022, 3:17 am
"Huh, so he turned his life around... Good for him, I guess," Dreameater thinks out loud. "He made the Fairfin to try and save his brother and his people? I mean they do keep Dreamers from turning, and they're the closest thing we've got for a cure, at least for Dreamers who aren't past the point of no return. So he kind of accomplished that, but not in the way he wanted." He pauses, then asks, "What else, though? Does anyone know how he died? He died at one point, right? Right...? So what else did he do?"
19 Jul, 2022, 3:56 am
The Dreamer green eyes had drifted down to his Fairfin, he took a hand and scratched her fluff, the Dreamers had a lot to be thankful for, the Fairfins were one of them.
" it sounded like he really did.. that unfortunately seems to be the case to, Victoria said that Faolan wasn't able to finish the Fairfins before his fight with Malice...and that were I haven't found out much..."
" last time Cat talked with the Queen about what happened to Faolan he had one of his vision fit, and we hadn't had much of a chance to ask after that..."
Dreamcatcher rubbed his chest, he remembered the vision he had back in Howaito, were Malice stabbed someone who looked like him, which Catch knew something wasn't right even then, that it felt off, he didn't learn until later that it wasn't Faithful like he believed but Faolan " ... I do know that Faolan did survive... "
19 Jul, 2022, 4:03 am
"Huh? He got in a fight with Malice and survived?" Dreameater asks. "That's kinda surprising. Though I wonder how Malice took that since he has Faolan's memories. Kinda like fighting yourself? Hmm..."
19 Jul, 2022, 4:16 am
Catch slowly nodded " I thought so to but Victoria had done the same thing first... well she took the name Victoria after the fight so maybe Faolan did something similar?"
He added
" but I'm not sure how that really went down between the two of them... I know Catty hates seeing me in dreams and hates that I'm still alive and what I know about Malice though is he still thinks he Faolan..."