Akito and the Loonatics

chapter 2

Mo held Estelle as she still cried about the loss of her twin. "It's okay, sweetie... He'll be back..."

"But how do we get him back?" Estelle trembled. "We don't even know where he is!"

"We'll find your brother, somehow, I promise." Mo said while comforting her daughter.

Estelle sniffled in her mother's hold.

"You guys think maybe Aunt Cherry and Uncle Forte could help us?" Vincent suggested.

"They might... But, what could they do?" Mo shrugged.

"No harm in asking..." Estelle said, clinging closer to Mo.

"Okay, okay, we'll go and ask Aunt Cherry and Uncle Forte and see if they can help." Mo said, comforting her daughter even more.

And so that's what they decided to do as they left to go and see Cherry and Forte to see if they could help them find out where Akito is. There was a womanly figure with light milk chocolate brown skin in the garden with a floppy pink hat doing gardening.

"Aunt Cherry?" Estelle and Vincent asked.

The figure looked up, revealing to be actually a very young man. "Oh hello there!" he chuckled, sounding quite feminine.

"Uh... We must have the wrong address, we're looking for Cherry and Maestro Forte." Mo explained.

"That's where you are," the young man smiled. "I'm doing gardening for my mother."

"Do you know if their home, we really need to speak with them." Mo requested.

"Yeah, like really, really, really need to speak with them." Vincent said, urgently.

"This is a matter of family emergency!" Estelle shrieked.

The young man looked a little sad for them. "Mom's in the back."

The Fudo family nodded, thanking him and went to the Forte backyard which was revealed to be a personal graveyard with black roses. Cherry was relaxing there like it was a picnic spot and was under a black parasol to block out the scolding sun. Felicity was there with her, playing with her dolls and her dollhouse.

"Aunt Cherry! Aunt Cherry! We need yours and Uncle Forte's help! Now!" Estelle cried out as they began to run towards them.

Cherry had never heard Estelle this worried or scared before, this must have been very serious. "What happened, dear?" she asked, stoically as always.

"W-We're not sure..." Estelle got in a frenzy. "We were having free time from our studies and there was this portal that sucked him in somewhere!"

Cherry looked like she may have known what they were talking about. "What did it look like?"

"It looked like some kind of rainbowish color and it showed some kind of city before it closed up." Estelle described.

Cherry looked firm.

They all followed Cherry as she turned a picture a little crooked, showing the bookcase to wheel away and show a secret passage downstairs.

"Stay close to me." Cherry told the others as she grabbed a candelabra and went down the several stairs to the secret room she kept hidden from everybody else.

They did so as they all followed her down the stairs.

"Aunt Cherry, where do these stairs lead anyways?" Vincent asked her.

"A special room..." Cherry said as they were nearly there.

"1,001... 1,002... 1,003..." Estelle lazily counted. "Are we there yet?"