Ariqa's quest: Origins of Maria

Chapter 3, part 1

Katelin's point of view 

 I woke up to my own bed on the other side of the room this early morning. It has been a week since I arrived at Lake Inn.

I turned to see Arbour already in his lumberjack outfit.

"Morning Arbour." I said cheerfully.

Arbour looked at me and smiled nicely.

"Morning, Katelin." He said nicely.

I got up and went to what used to be the empty room and shut the door.

Arbour's point of view 

 Ever since Katelin came, everything we did was sometimes nice, and sometimes, with a bad surprise.

Yes, it took another night of sleeping together that we were able to get Katelin a proper bed, turning the empty room into a changing room. There was one time that I accidentally walked into the middle of Katelin drying her hair in the bathroom, which wasn't my proudest moment, but she was dressed at the time so at least I didn't see her sensitive parts.

We also got a supply of maple syrup and potions going, the wooden poles for planning where the building would be, and how fast it was to plant the seeds, letting the migrated water work with the sunlight to grow them into proper food in two days.

We also learnt that the thick cows, although they look fat, they actually grow leather that only a small to medium-sized cut can peel off the leather skin without murdering it's unprovoked life.

Kesshō also visited us near the end of the week, where she said that sugar canes are growing near the sea, which is essential to making paper, So Katelin and I took as many wooden poles and created a path that had you follow them.

On the way to the sea, though, we had stumbled across the Beehive village and one Mattew 'D67' Honeybourne, who has his arms crossed.

Mattew said: "What are you doing here?" In a disappointed tone. We knew that we were in trouble and that the Bees would be coming for us.

"Uncle Mattew!" Said a different voice. Mattew turns around, and we see a female Bee who is the same size as her 'uncle' but has short black hair that was two weeks overdue in a yellow mechanical three piece suit of yellow, black and neon yellow alongside her display card.

The display card says:

Spectra Hive
Second in command
Spectra program

"They are getting the poles to let them know our private town." Said Spectra. Mattew moaned a little but allowed us to hand over the poles and create a perimeter for us to stay out as well as put yellow tape to stand out.

Mattew said in a threatening tone: "Don't go over the tape or else the Bee Queen Haibu Hive will declare war on all of you... Don't you forget it!"

We both said:"Yes, Mattew."

Mattew smiled and left. Spectra didn't and asked: "Where are you going?"

Katelin: "To the beach where the sugar canes are to make paper."

Spectra used her arm to a heads-up display of the plains map for a few seconds before the heads-up display was removed.

Spectra :"Over there, you go for a mile before you reach the nearest beach." She pointed out to the right.

Katelin smiled. She said:"Thanks, Spectra."

Spectra:"Well, got to get back to work." Before she left and went back to the village.

"At least one will dare to go over there anytime soon." I said to Katelin.

"Yeah, that's for sure."

And so we went in the direction Spectra pointed us to. By the time we ran out of wooden poles, we were within a few trees overlooking the beach and the sugar canes. So after my iron, Chopseed took care of the trees, blocked the beach view, and replanted them somewhere else.

Katelin asked:"Excuse me? How are you going to use the wood for when we are about 3 miles away?"

I stopped moving the tree. That was the one thing that I didn't really think till now.

"Umm..." I paused embarrassingly. "...I really didn't even expect to do that."

Katelin face palmed herself, annoyed with what I lack for in this plan before she signed.

"Luckily, I have potions of floating designed to last for 20 minutes alongside speed potions to get back home faster with quicker reactions."

And so we got the first tree floating in the air before we both drank the speed potion and ran as fast as we could back home, along the way back home, however...

Spectra's point of view [sourced from Katelin.]