Love Crimes (Cheater! Neo X Male Reader)

VIII: Time

Peach had better be right about this. I know he's hardly ever wrong, and I'd prefer to stay on the positive side of things, but entering the territory of our greatest enemies seemed a bit too dangerous, especially with my team sitting ducks outside.

At the very least, he had gotten us inside without being killed, and the guard had let us through after taking everything in my pockets. While I was here to help Peach, this also acted as good opportunity to scout out the interior of the camp and its defenses myself. All in all, it was a lot like the Branwen camp. Large spiked logs surrounded the camp, acting as a wall to keep enemies and Grimm out, though theirs was a bit redder than ours. Their tents all seemed pretty similar, beige with a pale green pattern with blocky zigzags and diamonds, some having an inverted color scheme of green with beige patterns. At the front of the camp was a large tent that was green with a red pattern, large triangles spiking up from the base of the tent.

"Keep moving scumbag!"

Peach was being kind of a douche. I mean, I know we had limited time, and he had to seem inconspicuous, but it was hard for me to walk and study my surrounding at the same time.

Peach lead me to a larger tent to the side of the camp, it was primarily beige with green accents and also seemed to be 3 tents connected into one.

"Goldleaf old pal, got another one?"

There were two guards in front if the tent, the one who spoke was a shorter guy in a sleeveless grey shirt with a black bandana, black pants, and poofy red hair. The other was a tall dark fella in a red executioners uniform with a purple suit underneath,

"Yep, think you could lock him up for me?" Peach asked.

"Will do. Blacen! Take our new guest to his bars." The shorter fella ordered.

The executioner guy picked me up, slinging me over his shoulder. Carrying me inside, he revealed to me a large collection of cages in a dark room only lit by dim candles. The cages varied in size from large ones capable of holding several people, to small ones barley big enough for a medium sized dog. All filled with children, a few teens scattered here and there, all starved or skinny.

The big guy pulled out a key ring that jingled as he opened a door before tossing me into a larger cage. My head banged against the bars and I almost passed out, but the pain seemed to keep me awake.

The big guy walked away after locking the cage back up, giving me time to read my surroundings. There were two children mixed in with me, one looked about eight, a girl, and her younger brother around 6. The girl looked at me like I was a dangerous animal, shielding her brother from me with her body.

"Hey, hey, it's alright. My name is Quincy Arcenciel, what's yours?" I asked calmly.

The girl seemed to lighten up a bit.

"Rosan." She said quietly.

"And your brother?"

"Dandelion." Rosan answered.

I moved towards them and Rosan got a bit defensive again.

"It's alright, I'm here to get you out of here, but I may need to use my semblance on your brother to do so. Is that alright?"