Whispers of the Underground

Chapter 3

Blazing

Blazing shot death glares at his target. He just had to wait for Grain to go away. His mother soon left the room to go talk to his father. Now go! He leaped onto his mother's recently new glass work and it shattered. It was an eyesore. 

He heard a shriek next and then Grain ran back in and gasped at her ruined glass work. She furrowed her brow and took a breath in then out. Then she walked over to the glass tube and wrote on a scroll and threw it in. An animus had enchanted the tubes so that the AntWings could send messages to each other and Blazing felt like he knew what the message was going to be. Probably something like: 'My son Blazing has broken my definitely totally important glass artwork and I request a new one Seed  - Grain'.  He was annoyed that Seed was always helping his mother and the only helpful thing she had ever done was to deliver the ice to his class. But the thing he was more annoyed with was animuses. If they hadn't existed  then the tunnel wouldn't have existed, thus meaning his home wouldn't be painted with decorations. Most of the animuses are part of the royal family. But wait, didn't my mother say Queen Argentine told her that she had eggs? Maybe Astonishing is actually growing off of her, he remembered. How many was it again? I think three eggs and I'm pretty sure my mother said that she was told that it was two males and one heir. Ha, imagine if the female was an animus! I would love to see Astonishing's face knowing he has to compete with an animus plus an heir! Argentine would pay double attention to her instead of him, he noticed, maybe not all animuses are bad, just as long as Astonishing hates them, I like them. 

Soon, Seed was at the door waiting and Grain burst the door open.

"My glass work?" she asked as if she didn't have it she would lose all oxygen. 

"Mhm! And since your our best customer, we gave you ten times request!" she told Grain. Grain smiled eagerly as Seed handed her the pack of glass. More glass to crack, he thought. 

As soon as the door was closed, Grain made a face at him that said, Don't break it! He stared back at her and said, "That was just for today" he snapped. Then he stalked into his room. 

Inside his room popped out a message from the tubes and he found a scroll. 

Today is the worst. My mother is forcing my sisters and me to prepare for Queen Argentine coming to our house. - Nectar That was it. Nothing else. Maybe I'll reply, usually she sends training messages but I guess I understand.

Cool. At least your house isn't flooded with art - Blazing. Then he shot it through the tube and on the stone wrote Nectar next to the tube so it would know who to send to. 

That's sad. But I have to where leaves  all over and a few twigs on my head. I really wish I could burn them with my teeth but my mum would get furious - Nectar. 

Then the chat was over. Probably her mother caught her chattimng instead of preparing, he thought. Well the chat was over and he was bored. Back to smashing glass... Then he remembered something. He wrote Nectar's name on the rock to send the message, then he pushed in a scroll that said: Tell me if Argentine's daughter is born yet and if she's an animus, prepare for Astonishing's face - Blazing.