Submerged City

Chapter 4: Faux Oasis

With their moving shelter helping, the journey to Siren City Capital would be less dangerous. The cat house was moving at leisure speed, like cats usually do. It had fur that of felines and a tail gently swaying behind. It had every feature of a regular cat, except it was huge and the eyes were bigger and held one sided mirrors for eyes.

"How exactly does this-" Joey gestures to the whole mobile home "-move, exactly? There's no trace of magic that makes it move." He asks sitting at one of S's scratching post branch. He was sporting a black shirt with the word Ivy written in white cursive across his chest, a green overall and walking with bare feet.

"You have workers, but we can't exactly see them either." Ellie added. She was wearing a loose white dress with frills that has golden tips cascading on the side. Adding golden gladiator sandals to her look.

"Surprising how she has both of your style ready in this house." Matt noted while he was rolling up his long sleeved grey shirt. He also folded his blue denim pants that was two sizes longer than him.

"Apologies sweetheart. I thought humans grew faster than Drakins, so I had them bigger in case." S smiled apologetically as she wrapped a leather belt on Matt's chest and another on his waist. She also wrapped his arms with bracers to prevent the sleeves from unfolding.

"But you must admit, you look like steady a fighter in that get up." S regarded with a smile. "And as for your questions, let's wait for that lazy hunter to join us, so I won't bother going about it twice."
She tries her best to be smile whenever it's just the three.

S thinks and smiles at them once more before approaches a panel in the wall, producing a cone connected to a long wire and starts speaking in to it. "Take us to Toxic Oasis my darlings. We'll reflenish our supplies there. And do get the hunter to the main room. Thank you sweeties." With a flourish she returns the cone and closes the panel.

"Now, now." S claps her hand. "On to the main room. We've stayed in the right eye for too long already." She ushers the three out of the observatory and in to a meeting room, thats seems to be a part of the brain, figuratively.

S opens the doors and reveals a room with light blue walls and a big round table that had eight green seats ready. There weren't much inside the room but maps hanging on the right side, a globe at furthest from the door, and posters on the left. Some had been crossed with red ink, while the maps where showed five different locations.

"Welcome younglings, to the thinking 'slash' war room. I call it, Cerebrum" S gestures with jazz hands. Joey's mouth was hanging, Ellie tried her best not to visibly cringe, while Matt was already engrossed with the maps.

The door busts open and reveals a, if even possible, more rugged Mike panting. "How fast are you trying to run this-" he gestures at the whole house "There is a giant Naga crawlimg its way here! I thought you were the best at escapes, last time I believe files from before I was born." he crosses his arm but slowly steps back once he sees S glaring at him.

S dismisses it and taps a button on the table. A short hiss and a panel opens near her and a microphone rises. "Darlings, a bit more light feet and shrowd powder every now and then. Thank you, kisses." she taps the button again and the mircophone recedes.

"So thats how you stay elusive. Aren't those illegal though?" Mike praises and questions S. He slowly sidewalks near Joey as the cat woman beckons the them.

"It seems the river guardian you pissed off is a powerful one. If it is able to search for us even with shrowd powder, Toxic Oasis is where we can lose him." S was shaken, but she was steeling herself not to look worried in front of you the young ones.