A ROSE TINTED VIEW - 21/04/2022 - Beets the Beetle
Apr 30, 2022 18:41:24 GMT
Toothy, Velania Kalugina, and 1 more like this
Post by Beets The Beetle (Feenix) on Apr 30, 2022 18:41:24 GMT
Coll is alive…I..I don’t know how but..he’s actually alive…Actual Coll not just…His body with that…Not Coll voice..Yet…How can he be alive…Inside a shiny rock?
It was gorgeous day in Daring Heights-and me using the word ‘gorgeous’ should of set my wings a flicker straight off! The sun was shining, the birds were singing, and everyone seemed just so bugging friendly, I just had a feeling, it was gonna be just a simply wonderful day-Blegh! What was wrong with me?!
I started the day as always grabbing breakfast from Paradise frost, no queue, freshly glazed raspberry muffins piping hot from the oven, what more could a beetle-girl ask for?
I munched as I made a quick drop off of a package to Fritz Fashionables, I didn’t remember the package was exactly but the Fritz’s were friendly as ever. No Lolli-bunny though…I didn’t even flittin’think to ask about her…Bug do I still feel guilty about that now…
In fact as I was in such a buggin’good mood I decided to fly up for a rooftop view of the town and some morning stretches. The sun felt great on my wings, and the townsfolk below giving a friendly wave or laugh as they passed, Jeff, Gerlandine, little Suzy, that talking dog…Yep Daring Heights really was the perfect place to be…
Of-course it wasn’t real!
It all started when that…elf girl…A-Anna I think…Turned up with few smiling friends in toe. Of course I remembered them, smiley Toothy, Ilthuryn-who seemed very talkative, that pretty horned clip-clop gal Orianna…But when I try and remember what that Anna looked like now..It-It’s like her face is all just popping and flitting constantly, like a really messy patchwork quilt caught in the wind…
I don’t remember much of what happened after that…Something about a seeing some old woman…Toothy stealing cats…and chickens…chickens trying to…eat me…
“We need to get Coll.”
That buggin'snapped me out of it!
“We need Coll to come with us” that Anna girl said…But how? Did she mean…The Coll with the Not-Coll inside him…Quick at a flit though she was back..with Coll…Normal Coll..Normal talking and sounding-and buggin’right infront of us Coll!
I-I didn’t flittin’believe it! “You died! Coll” I said…”You-DIED!”
And he remembered…He remembered everything…The stories, and the chase..right down to his…Fall…
And then Toothy vanished!
We had been captured. I remembered it all. Jennah hurrying into the Great Hall, saying there was a job to tail a ‘Yanki general to the flying city, the words barely out of her mouth before I was off, food and tankards and tabards flying everywhere!-THEY WERE GONNA PAY, THEY WERE GONNA PAY FOR WHAT THEY DID TO COLL!
It..was probably my fault we got caught. I was so eager for a fight, I wasn’t thinking straight, not keeping an eye out as I should. All I remember is a crack as I was pulled out of the air and slammed to the ground, cold rough hands strapping us into chairs, the taste of blood as I bit one of the hands before they clobbered me and then forced a red visor over my eyes, a pointy needle like helm slamming into my skull and then…
I held that rock in my hands, and I heard him…Coll…He was inside my head, questions flitting between us all as we rushed through those stone corridors. Coll somehow knowing where to lead us, the shouts of the 'Yanki army hurrying to find us…And then…The Dragon…
Not since staring into those dark void eyes of that great beetle have I felt such evil from something…The complete and utter urge…To slaughter…
The ‘Yanki general sneering from his perch atop its back. “It doesn’t have to be this way…We can let you go…We do let some go…So what’s it to be? The Gem…Or your lives?”
I couldn’t do it. I was so bugging scared. Scared to lose Coll. Scared to lose my friends…I wasn’t strong enough..There would be a cost to pay if we fought…
Coll made the call…
“Beets…It’s okay…Let me go. But do something for me…Tell Velania…Tell her I’m sorry I ruined our date.”
I swore…Swore as I promised him, promised this would not be goodbye, that I saw Coll’s face in that gem as it was wretched from my hands, and we flitted through the portal.
Aurelia has been gone an awful long time since we told her all this at her place. Toothy has fallen asleep in a the chair by the dying fire-and somehow he’s managed to pull a snoozing kitten from somewhere. The tea Aurelia poured us has long gone cold…
But there’s a warmth-blazing inside me as I watch the fire embers glow…
Coll’s alive…And somehow, we’re gonna get him back!