Brizana pulled open the door to Plada's room. Everything looked normal until she looked up at the window. It was smashed, and there was glass floating everywhere. Someone must have broken in. That must be what set him off. But who, or what, broke in?
Brizana decided to text Illophine. She opened up messages and tapped on Illophine's name. Before she could text anything a message came in.
PING!
"Where are you? 🐦❓" It was from Illophine.
"Sitting in my brother's bedroom. Why? 🐠" She texted back.
"You said you were going to meet me in the normal place."
"No, I didn't."
"Wait, you didn't? But I got a text from you!"
"Something fishy is going on."
"Heh, nice pun. I'll go ba..."
I'll go ba? It must be an unfinished message. Illophine was normally one to send half entered messages without immediately fixing them.
"Illo? You ok?" Brizana was worried
"This ain't Illo you got here 😎"
"Ok, stop messing with me"
"I'm not messing with you"
This is ridiculous, Brizana had to go to her cove. She couldn't let something like this slide. She swam out of Plada's room and through the hallway into her room. She exited through her window and swam to the entrance to her cove. It was a long swim, but she did this almost everyday.
She reached the cove and swam in. There was no one there besides a centaur and a lamia.
"Who are you?!" The lamia shouted at Brizana.
"Who is she? Can you not tell she's royalty?" The centaur whispered at the lamia.
"Sorry, Miss Oho! I should have realised a tad sooner! Let me introduce ourselves. I am Nysopahi Renender, and this is..."
"Cystorn Copati," the centaur informed Brizana with a smile.
"We were sent out here on a distress call because of a text from a human phone to a monster phone," Nysopahi told Brizana.
"That would probably be Illophine then." Brizana pulled herself up onto the rock.
Brizana transformed her tail to legs allowing her to jump up onto the ledge where Nysopahi and Cystorn were standing.
"Illophine?" Cystorn asked Brizana.
"She's part of the Harpy Guard," Brizana replied.
"That's right, she was just made a captain"
"That was me," Brizana said with the faintest of blushes.
"I can tell that you're blushing" Nysopahi told Brizana "Us lamia's can see blood moving through the body easily, even if it's not red."
"Ok, we're going to go look for this M.I.A harpy," Cystorn said and waved goodbye with a smile. Nysopahi followed her.
"Wait!" Brizana yelled. "I'm coming with you!"
Cystorn and Nysopahi turned around, both now equipped with weapons.
"You can't," Nysopahi told Brizana. "You're royalty, and you have to go into hiding."
"And as royalty, I demand I come with you!"
"I'm sorry, you can't. We aren't in charge of making the rules," Nysopahi said.
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Monster Crystal
FantasyIn a world where monsters and humans are living separated, there are many things that could wrong. Now the humans have had enough of these foul beasts and are waging a war against them. It's up to a group of unexpected friends to save their kingdom.
