It's a Patched world out there!

Keeper of the Heart.

The wolf boy sat as the statue eye's began to glow "Who dares come into my chambers?!" A voice echoed from it making Fangora nod "Aries. It is I Fangora, I have brought the Wolf boy belonging to the Skull Patch family." She looked over to him as the Guardian grumbled a bit "Good young dragon.. But now I fear I must give bad news." The statue began to emit a white smoke and soon appeared a small old goat woman in a long dress that reached the ground, Drako gave an odd look making her scoff "Don't ya give me that look, respect your guardian!" She whacked him on the head with her cane and chuckled from his whine "Ah yes, much like the hero who once saved our lands many moons ago." The young wolf rubbed his head "Don't you mean years ago?" The goat then froze and waved him off "It's nice to finally meet you Drako." She looked over to him "I hear that you're going to be a big brother soon, you must be happy to have that opportunity." About to ask her what she meant the goat bleated a bit "You'll be a hero to him, and everyone if you can pull this off." She walked over to them as Fangora floated over and onto her head "Drako Wolf, I understand you're still a bit young for this task..but Patched world needs you. More so than ever, the 12 signs me included are losing their power." The stood up quickly "What?!" She nodded and sighed "They have been devoured by Oshoku, he's awaken do to the non-believers in the Patched kingdom." Drako shook his head and walked closer "But I believe in you guys, you made the world we live and breath in today.." The Goat woman chuckled "I wish to make such a thing as a new land to travel to but in my weakened state I've formed into my last form. I'm surprised I was able to reveal myself to you." She sighed and sat down in a chair as the wolf looked over to his dragon companion "B-but Aries, what am I supposed to do? I can't even get my parents attention without being trampled on by my big brothers." Fangora chuckled softly making him glare at her, and Aries looked over to him and smiled "You have the will to do it Drako, you've been training top notch with your brother Jet. You know what to do when the situation calls for it, don't put yourself down young wolf." Holding up her cane Drako watched in amazement as it formed into a strong looking scythe she held it out to him "I believe you came for this." She stated as he took it from her and grinned widely "Whoa! Is this actually my weapon?" He looked over to Aries as she nodded "Yes, I don't really have the energy to tell you all of the details." He used a vine as a strap and strapped his scythe over around his back "But who will, I can't bring this type of news to the Forested Glade. There will be a whole riot of Patchuni trying to leave for safety." Aries nodded and thought for a bit "The celestial being hidden within fur, shows her respect with written words. A star for an apple she goes for a day and where you'll find her royalty lies." He looked to Fangora who gave a shrug making the goat woman grunt "She's the King's adviser, but in order to find her you have to find Nabi herself." Drako gasped lightly "Are you kidding me? She's heavily guarded by the strongest knights." Aries nodded "But aren't you a knight, young wolf?" She asked as he nodded looking elsewhere "I may be capable but I'm not of the Royal Guard, I'm just a Foot Soldier." The goat woman smiled "You'll handle it."

Drako looked up at the huge structure that sat in the middle of the castle town as Fangora flew around to get a better look, she gave a sharp whistle "Wowie! Look at that castle, looks like somethin' from a fairy-tale!" Drako looked around as he noticed a skunk and gave a slight whine "Dang it, it's Petunia." The dragon raised an eyebrow "Petunia?" He nodded and tried to hide "Yes, she has some odd crush on me since I sort of saved her from being crushed by a food cart of cabbages." Fangora rolled her eyes "What's wrong with that? It's just a crush silly." Drako froze slightly as the bush moved "Drako? Is that you?~ What are doing hiding in there?" A voice cooed making him groan lightly "Oh hey Petunia, I'm just a...digging for my bone." He gave a glance to the side as the skunk giggled lightly "You haven't done that in years silly, besides you won't even find it." He gave her a look as she chuckled nervously "Nevermind, I see you're going to the castle, Ma chérie~" She smiled fixing up her dress as he stood up and out of his hiding place "Yes, my uh..brother Jet wants to meet me there." She grinned "Wonderful, could you do e a small task please?~" About to say no "My father was supposed to deliver the Royal family's order of eggs and milk in our cart here but he seems to have disappeared. If I know him he's probably napping somewhere." Drako nodded "Sure thing Petunia, gotta go do things, bye!" The young wolf dashed off quickly making Fangora hold on tight to is scarf. "Let's see.. We found that skunk girl's father, so now we have to find this Kit. But we need to get to the Princess first." Fangora said as Drako walked around in circles, they just got away from some knights and now are trying to get in the castle "It ain't going to be easy though, that Princess isn't gonna show up randomly." Drako told her and as if on cue a door leading to a garden of sorts opened and Drako nearly lost it seeing his brother there with the Princess, they stared at him and he stared at them Fangora looked at them all and chuckled nervously "Awkward.." Jet cleared his throat "While I should be scolding you for being around the castle right now, I'm more shocked at the fact that you even got to the garden." He stated crossing his arms "The Princess loves the garden so it's heavily guarded, damn idiots I have to post more knights here." The Princess looked up from under her parasol and then to Jet "Who is he Jet? Well him and the companion." She gave Fangora a long stare as Jet smiled "Well Princess this is my little brother Drako, he's not a bad guy unless you mess with him. But this is good, I can give you both the news instead of separately." Nabi looked up to him with great urgency as Drako and Fangora talked to themselves "Being with the new things happening around Patched World and the commotion in the castle King Fredric has ordered me to hire my brother Drako here." Getting down to one knee he took the Princess's paw and sighed "It's been an honor to serve you, your highness but I must inform you that I can't be your personal knight anymore." The princess gasped "W-what?!" Fangora hummed softly "I see what's going on.." She whispered to Drako but he raised an eyebrow "You do? What's happening?" The white rabbit shook her head "But you can't go, you're the only one who actually listens to me!" She exclaimed and hugged the older wolf tight "I know I know, but it's okay Nabi. They need me in the front lines for the knights, you want Patched Kingdom to be safe right?" She gave a grunt "Don't act childish now, what happened to being well reserved?" She then moved away from him as he stood up "This is when Drako comes into play." Nabi quickly looked over to him and closed her parasol "Him?! He has to be my personal Knight?" Drako nearly jumped for joy, one step closer to his goal "He can't be my knight, with a weapon like that he could kill me. He's probably not even trained for it." Drako growled slightly "Don't tell me you're not some snooty rich girl, with her head so far up her own arse." He covered his mouth quickly as Jet let out a chuckle once Nabi walked over to him "You better not be some guy who thinks he's the toughest shit around then cause I'll give you trouble wolfy!" She crossed her arms making Jet push them apart "Come on now, play nice you two. Nabi I'm pretty sure you'd like Drako if you give him a chance, and Drako I'd keep that mouth in check." Jet then walked off randomly making Drako jump "Wait! You can't leave me here with here I need to figure things out first get the rules and possibly out of this job!" Jet only laughed and waved bye before turning the corner "Take care of the Princess!" The wolf gave a saddened look as Nabi glared at him and opened her parasol again "Fine, I suppose you'll do. We have a lot to discuss now, follow me." She mumbled walking to the garden door "But didn't you just come from the garden?" She nodded "Yes but I need to think and tell you about this and that, the garden relaxes me. Now if you are to object I'll gladly talk to your brother." She huffed and Fangora rolled her eyes "Some Princess."

Drako looked around at the garden, it surely was beautiful with all the elegant looking plants and flowers. He picked a pear off of one tree and bit into it "Wow, that is one good pear." He mumbled as Fangora ate up her own pear quickly holding the core of it "Yup, not a bad garden you got here Princess." Nabi ignored her but gave a nod "Father and Mother made sure it was a garden to compare with the beauty of the Kingdom." She walked over to a lake..well small pond with a tiny island in the middle of it "Each time someone is born in the Patched Kingdom a plant is planted and taken care of each day so it never dies. Not that they day if it dies just that they want the plants alive y'know." Drako looked to the small bunch of purple flowers its downward-curved periwinkle petals were pretty making Fangora happy to go smell it "Stop! Don't go near that flower!" Nabi pulled the dragon back quickly and sighed a bit "That's called Wolfsbane, a very deadly flower." She looked over to Drako "That's also your plant there, the reason why it's far apart from everything else is so people don't kill themselves with it." Drako gave a scoff "Oh how deadly can it be, it's a flower!" Nabi's floppy ears twitched "Believe me, doing anything with that plant even breathing it in when it's burning can kill somebody. Just completely shut down the whole respiratory system and then-" She made a choking sound and fell back to the ground making him chuckle, she looked to Fangora again and let her go "I guess I can get used to you being my knight, Jet was around since I could talk he's been a big brother." She smiled looking elsewhere "Princess there's something I need to tell you and I need to know if-" She covered his mouth and grabbed him up "Shut up!" Also grabbing Fangora she ducked quickly behind a hedge as two large doors flew open a fox woman walked out swaying her tail a bit as a large cougar character walked alongside her "This is the garden, many trees and exotic flowers grow here." The fox told him as Drako gasped noticing her star shaped patch as her left eye "This will be a great area for me and Nabi to relax." He chuckled and Drako gave a look to Nabi and glared at the cougar "Who's that guy?" Her ears twitched "He's my fiance." She sighed glaring at the cougar as he and Kit talked about arrangements "When I turn 18 he's to become my husband." She then sat down on the grassy ground and groaned "I told my dad I didn't want to do it but he's being an uppity asshole." Drako shook his head "Princess you can't just give up like that, you gotta keep fighting." He said as she looked over to him "I need to talk to that fox, she's the key reason why I'm here." Nabi raised an eyebrow "You mean you sneaked into my home to talk with my father's Adviser, not to become my new Personal Knight?" The wolf boy nodded "I have other things to tend to in life, not watch over some Princess." Nabi huffed and crossed her arms "You're oddly rude to someone who can toss you away in Jail." She chuckled softly "I like you. I think you're gonna make a good personal Knight." She stood up and wiggled her tail a bit "Well he's gone now, so let's go find Kit. Just a fair warning, explain yourself quick to her."