To Kill A Queen

New Recruits Part Three

Bronze's POV

After Eli had handed us our WANTED posters I looked at my photo. Mine made me look like I was about to murder someone. I wasn't smiling, my eyes portrayed no emotion. But $200? Man, if it wasn't me, I would totally turn this person in. I looked over at Pandora's. The way she was drawn, you couldn't even see her eyes! Just a nose, and a smile from underneath her hat. Pandora doesn't even wear a hat. These were so off. I smiled and laughed.

"We should probably get going." I said. 

I looked up to see Eli turning around in circles.

"Eli, what the heck are you doing?" Naomi asked her.

"Where did Moonlight go?" She replied.

"Over there." Sonic pointed. 

We all turned to see Moonlight eating with a wolf by her side. I guessed he was Moonwolf.

"Blair do you know where to go after this?" Jean asked her. 

Blair looked around. "Uh... nope. This is as far as I can remember."

"Where are you guys trying to go?"

I looked over to see a girl with glasses standing next to a black fox.

"The Feary Queen's Palace." I said. 

The strange girl nodded.

"Should we help them Glass? I mean, you know the way, but they haven't done anything for us." The fox said. 

Red's eyes widened and she stepped back.

"Of course we're going to help them! And please turn into a human." The girl called Glass said.

The fox sighed. "Okay. Okay." 

The fox started to stand up and in the time it took to blink, there was a boy standing where the fox had been. He had black hair with one white stripe at the front. He had on a white tunic with a black belt, back pants, and black shoes.

"Hi." He said. "My name is Shadow. This is Glass. We can help you get to the Feary Queen's Palace."

Bronze ran forward and hugged Shadow. He put his arms up in an I surrender pose. He looked panicked.

"What is she doing?"

Time skip!

We were all walking through the forest again. Glass was leading with Shadow by her side.

Red leaned over to me. "Do you have any leftover booze?" she whispered.

I laughed and nodded. "I spent some money on another case and a bottle of vodka. Which one do you want?"

"Vodka."

I took it out and handed the bottle to her. She uncapped it and took a swig.

"Ugh. Disgusting, yet satisfying." She handed the bottle and cork back to me and I recapped it.

"How do you know Erin?"

"We kind of grew up together. We met when we were little. Then my family moved away, we didn't have a way to keep in touch. This is the first time I've seen her in almost a decade."

"Go then. Talk to her. Be her friend again. Because right now, she's the one walking alone." 

I looked up to see Erin behind Shadow and Glass, moving trees with her bare hands.

Red looked at me and smiled. She walked over to Erin and began talking to her.

I noticed it was getting really light out. "Hey, shouldn't we stop to eat lunch?" I called out.

Glass stopped and Shadow nearly ran into her.

"There is an animal up ahead. If someone kills it, we can eat that."

I smiled and glanced at Bronze. She nodded. We stalked off towards the animal just like we used to. Bronze drew her knife and I followed. We found some bushes to hide behind and peeked through them. There, up ahead, was a deer. I smiled. This was going to be an easy kill. Bronze went to the right and I went left. Bronze threw her dagger. It embedded itself in the deer's ribs and the deer fell down. I got up and drew my sword and skinned it. I left the pelt and about a pound of meat for scavengers and walked back, careful not to get any blood on my new tunic.

We made it back to camp to see everyone smiling and laughing. Pandora noticed us first.

"Naomi, make a fire please."

Naomi nodded and got started. When the fire was finished, I put the deer on and it started to cook. Blair was trying to get Jean to go somewhere with her. She looked bored but decided to go anyway. They walked off leaving the rest of us.

"Where do you think they've gone off to?" I leaned over to ask Diana.

"I don't know. Something about more arrows and flowers." She replied.

I nodded and looked over at Bronze and Pandora. They were cutting up the deer now that it was ready and handing a bit to everybody. We had all finished when Blair and Jean came back. Blair had some arrows and Jean had a basket full of blue and purple flowers. I smiled and covered my face trying not to laugh. Jean looked so angry. Shadow perked up as Jean came close. He was eyeing the basket while Glass was drawing something in the dirt. It looked like a map.

I smiled and handed Red a bottle of brown liquid. She smiled back and took it from me. We both popped ours open and drank.

"Ahh! Refreshing!" Red exclaimed. 

I gave her a weird look.

"What?"

"Nothing. Hey, Pandora. Why do you want to kill me?"

Pandora shrugged. "I want kill all of my students. They get to powerful, and I'm just not a nice person."

Erin scooted farther away from the witch mentor and I just laughed.

I looked back over to see Shadow eating from the basket of flowers. Pandora followed my gaze and she shouted: "Shadow ! No! Get out of there!"

He looked over at her and his eyes couldn't seem to focus. Red and I took another sip. Shadow changed into fox form and leapt at my box of booze.

"Nooooo!" Red cried out. 

Shadow landed on them and proceeded to break all of them, without getting a scratch. Red and I set down our drinks and drew our weapons. Shadow got the hint, turned tail, and ran. Red and I ran after him. For a high fox, he was still very nimble. He ran into a clearing where we found our old friends Kiwi, Strawberry, Haven, and Nala, all with weapons drawn and pointed at us.