Kisses and Goldielocks
Lux was acting erratic, Jinx and Isha could tell something was up. She had had a nightmare some days ago, her awakening had been bad, roaring and coughing a liquid that wasn't there anymore. When the group hug her and lure her to sleep, Isha between the two bigger girls, she was finally able to calm down. She had told them that the only clear thing she could remember was drowning in a gold lake.
Jinx knew how much that could suck, she had experienced before, thanks to her precious daddy dearest with a really unhealthy obsession with marine life. So she knew that dreaming about the experience was nasty. She had told Lux that in the end It wasn't much of a biggy if you clench your jaw and go up like headbutting the water. Which had kinda worried Lux more, not about herself so kinda nailed it?
But sometimes Lux will just stare into the woods with a melancholic and confused stare. Now was one of those times, her wings were on her cloak and if It wasn't because her claw was in Jinx's hand she would have walked right into a tree. Isha was running up ahead, wanting to give her parents some privacy, she was content by looking and taking some flowers and herbs that Lux had told her about. Little info, stories and missnaps.
When Isha was out of earshot, her mom stopped their walk and looked up at the gargoyle. Sensing the stop and the gaze of Pink, marble blue finally took sight of her companion.
“Okey Big girl. We need to talk. Some birds are picking at your nest?”
“Mhm perhaps your right, that would explain the aching”
Jinx squishes a little her palm, tracing golden knuckles.
“Is this about nightmares?”
“I'm afraid It is....I can't remember any of them completely. I just feel they are about me, of…someone I was ... .I am?”
“Oh….”
“I just have glimpses of It, I know It has to do with my past. But i don't remember anything “
“Past selves have a way of hunting us down…”
“Jewel, I…what if I do remember and I change…would you and Isha still like me?”
It is then that Jinx gets in front of her, pulling her down by the neckline of the shirt, cupping a soft cheek.
“Sunrock we Will like you no matter what past you have. That blondie was not the creature we met, this was. Nature changes all the fucking time. I changed like four times. Is something normal. But if you want to reclaim some of the memories we will be there, and if you wanna kill It, we will make a funeral. Is it alright?”
“It actually is, thank you my dear Jay”
“Don't sweat It Sunrock”
Lux cups a burned cheek as well lowering herself more and putting their foreheads together.
“The same goes to you, my jewel. I met you as Jinx I will always cherish Jinx, no caring about how many forms you adopt”
And then they're closing the distance until their breaths are colliding in the dark. At the end neither of them are sure who leaned first, but they did, they kissed. Jinx lips were against one's between tusks and fangs. It was soft and chaste but for them It left a shiver traveling along their hearts. The monkeys in the human stomach were doing backflips and all her shimmer was pumping in her veins. Making her flush a neon shade across the ears.
Lux was in no better shape, she was glowing and flapping her wings, hugging Jinx by the waist pulling out of her trance and going for another one. Jinx's arms circled around her shoulders. They laughed and gave short kisses and nuzzles. They couldn't get enough of the feeling of excitement and care they felt for the other. They didn't want to stop kissing.
And then a gasp and a squeak came out. They stopped immediately being dizzy with corny feelings looking at their kid that got a face between squealing in joy and gagging in disgust.
The guardians look at each other before exploding in manic laughter. After that they both scoop Isha up and start pampering her with kisses on the cheeks.
Isha giggled and gave a pout not liking this excess of love at all. But she still hugged her dada and mamma by the head.
The family was happier than ever. And stronger.
[........]
By the sun's light Alina was pretty sure It was morning. She wasn't sure how much time she had spent traveling. Her clothes were rags by now and she was covered in dirt from head to toe.
The sprite that was guiding her through the forest though couldn't care any less. Well maybe it was because they cared and wanted to take her into the good place they have talked about multiple times.
For her sake, Alina opted for that thought.
She passed a village on her way here without leaving a trace of being invisible. And then a river. This far away from everything, she was starting to think that the sprite was going to take her to freljord. That until he stopped at a field. When Alina entered It she saw a tower of pure white decorated by a whole arrange of paint and drawings.
In awe she came closer to it, sporting a smile when she saw the drawing of three figures along with the phrase, “If you're not Magic or a weirdo or both explode”. Well she was Magic and maybe a weirdo if she had blindly followed a spirit made out of blue jelly.
The sprite had disappeared into thin air. With a doubtful and shaky hand she knocked her knuckles on the door. And she waited.
Her body felt fluents, one really similar to hers but really different and with a stronger pull on her essence. Then she felt a twich of the current, something that Alina could not read like magic. At least not like she had known before. And then when she lifted her gaze, a hooded little creature on the wall jumped on her, she let out a scream, her magic responding too late and hinting the stone absorbing It.
The two kids started rolling on the floor. Until Alina was under the attacker. Who had drawn a dagger against her neck. Alina didn't move nor did the blunette. Alinas glasses started to fall a little off her nose bridge. No, she hadn't come this far to be killed by a little goblin. She lifted herself up and kicked the blunette who rolled and made a fighting stance .
Alina had her hands glowing and she was panting. This was probably a test of the Mother of sprites or something. To look if she was worthy of their shelter. She was, she could show them.
“I can do this, I can do this….”
The hooded creature tilted her head at one side feeling the fireworks of this new blondie. Was she like dada?.
Then the front door opened and a blur of pink was between both kids, looking like she had been out of bed at the last second. Sporting a crossbow like anything Alina had seen before. And It was aiming at her. In front of the little gremlin
“Who are you Goldielocks, and what are you doing in our home?”
Their home? That was them in the door? Her shoulders tensed and her magic stayed at her fingertips anomaly. Was this the right place? Had the sprites lied to her?
“Im…Im sorry I just, the sprites told me I should look for my place. They, they lead me here. I’m so sorry, It wasn't my fault.”
The Pink eyes on the person go wide at that last phrase, she moves her head around like fighting of things that are not there. And the kid at her behind coming to hug her leg, after a while she shots a bolt to a nearby tree, the arrow full of glitter leaving a trail of smoke and particles, when colliding with the trunk an explosion goes out and the tree is not longer rooted to the floor. Alina backs Up a little both amazed and careful not to piss the lady.
Jinx sighs, lowers the weapon and looks at the glasses girl. Being a total wreck of herself. And for a moment she can see Powder crying full of scratches needing a new home cause she lost everything.
“You must be tired out of your mind, want to enter and have some tea? Especially of the cloud family, non other mortal could have made out this contraction”
She flashes a grin, putting the crossbow to her belt. And the figure behind her, even if shes still careful, starts approaching the girl again, and instead of the Blade she takes out a lion plushie offering It too her. When she takes It from the smaller child, she hugs It lightly and can see a tooth gap smile under the bunny hood and some gestures being made.
“She says that you reallyyyyyy need a bath”
[......]
Lux felt magic, she felt It stir some part of her. Making her talon tingle. It had collided with the tower's wall. She wanted to spring her wings immediately and take her staff out to protect her humans. But she couldn't do anything in this state. She was aching and hurting between the space of consciousness and dream world.
The only thing she could do now was move her eyes around the sockets in search of the anomaly that had entered their home.
She heard some steps on the stairs and soon enough pool pink looked into her and honey gaze went directly to her hugging her cold body. How she wishes she could hug her little adventurer now.
“Isha really lives Up to her name,Sunrock . She jumped into action before I could stop her. Our kid sure loves the thrill and us too much”
Her mate's voice was both a mix between pride and worry. But she doesn't come closer to them. She just waits at the wooden step. A ball of gold, just like her own mane, comes up with a wobbling pase, blue eyes framed by a really broken set of glasses. Taped up on the bridge, and scratches on her freckled face, when she came fully to the second floor she could see the familiar plushie on her hands being hugged carefully.
The eyes were fully on the gargoyle, she could feel their magic. Their light wants to interact. But something was wrong with the blonde. She could see traces of a great waterfall that now was just a spark. Had she been exposed to petrice? Little spark didn't come closer and Isha didn't move from the gargoyle's side. She was sporting an analyzing frown.
“Well Isha, play nice with the visitors, I would go do those teas, Luxie take care of the kiddos”
And she was going down. What was Lux supposed to do like this?!
[......]
Isha stared at the new girl in their home. Playing with the plushie in her hands not wanting to meet her eyes. She was probably a little older than Isha herself, but she wasn't sure. The little bunny had sat on the gargoyle's lap. Lux had gone to sleep last night sitting with both of them cuddling on her.
She was not gonna let the girl get too close. She had that same feeling of fireworks like dada but she didn't want to be too trusting. She could be here to hurt them. But to Isha she just looked lost. Like she has been before finding her mamma.
Isha looked around the workplace/bedroom and spotted some pencil and papers that Jinx had been using to draw some ideas. She took them into her hands and started writing before whistling and making Glasses look at her arching a brow a little defensive. The little bunny turned around the paper.
[I’m Isha, you?]
“Alina…you can't Talk?”
[Not with words]
She does some of her hand movements calling the girl stupid between giggles before writing again.
[That's how I Talk]
“I see…I get from your giggles that you say something about me”
[Call you stupid, how did you know?]
“A guess…”
[How old are you?]
“15…um…you?”
Isha brings up all of her fingers.
“So you are ten?”
The blunette nods and waits for Alina to say something in a little awkward silence, she can almost feel her dadas wing wanting to Hug her for doing a great job at trying.
“That…statue is alive right? It has a lot of magic”
[Yeah, she's my dada, she can't move during the day. She's Stone lazy]
“And the other girl is..?”
[Mamma]
Alina nods, hugging the lion closer to herself.
“I shouldnt have come here, the Sprites told me there was a place for me here, but you guys are a family and I’m just a stray mage”
[You are a weirdo]
“Ey! That is rude, taking into account you were the one who came at me like a manic goblin”
Alina is pouting a little coming closer to her, she seems a little annoyed. Fun. Isha grins going back to writing.
[Your aim is shit, you blast the hell out the tower]
“You surprised me, I'm actually really good with my blasts!”
[Liars are eat by a crag beast]
“Not lying”
[Yes lying]
“No”
[Yes]
They looked at each other for a long time with a mean frown then they laugh a little and Isha was getting up from her sit on Lux and offering her hand to the taller girl with a last paper on hand.
[Want me to show you my treasure box?]
“Um…sure”
And they were going up to Isha's room.
[.....]
Lux had awakened when the girls came down again, Jinx had left the tea up there. Alina had given it a sip, spit it, blush and then gulped it down when Isha had challenged her to do it, in one go.
Jinx didn’t know what to make out of the little girl in their home, nor did she want to acknowledge a pain in her heart when she saw how Isha showed Alina her trinkets and toys at an amazed blonde.
When the familiar roar took her out of that memory plane she was being hugged from the back and kissed. Smiling into it she pet the mossy cheek, tracing one of the tusks.
“Good night Sunrock”
“Good night princess”
Isha huffed in her place playing some kind of game with beetle shells and Alina looked at them with a little blush trying to be on the game. But Isha had won putting her red beetle in row with the other two.
Jinx coughed and they both came down to the floor, sitting in front of the children. Lux smiled a tusky smile at the little spark, extending her claw, a flame of rainbow light twirling around in her fingers.
“Hi Alina, I´m Isha´s dada, and JInx's mate and you have such a gorgeous light little spark”
The girl that had been hugging herself looked at the clawed hand with reconicition and awe.
“I…really?”
“Really, it is full of dreams and hope. Why did you come here?”
“Yeah. Goldie we are not gonna throw you out, but we need to know why you are here”
“I…ran away, from the Mageseekers, they caught me, I was trying to help a friend but I couldn't do anything right”
The hand that was going to touch Lux’s magic retrieved to her chest, some tears were coming down. Without even thinking about it Jinx came to the kids side and hug the ball of blonde against her chest, tracing twigs and leaves out of it, Isha came to hug the girl and her mama even if her arms were not large enough. Then Lux hugged the three of them draping her wings around them and her tail swinging lightly.
“Look kid…not matter what you might have cause, it might look like your fault, but you…you just wanted to help, your young, mistakes happen…it isn't entirely your fault”
"If you need a place to stay, and lay low, you can crash with us little spark. I think you have the perfect profile to be in the fortress. Never fear your magic please, the mageseekers are just scared of it cause it can reveal their own darkness. You were born to shine bright dont hide”
“Yeah goldie, good shows are meant to have a public, I'm sure Isha wouldn't mind sharing her room”
The little bunny revolves a little in the hug but then the kids look at each other frowning in a sense of competitiveness and then smile, their souls speaking in great terms, Lux can see it, maybe Jinx can sense it as well in her pool of pink.
But maybe Alinas arrival was meant to be.