Prologue: Faithful Omens

Peaches woke up from her hammock. She went to wake up her sister, Spooky, who was sleeping on her phantom-themed bed. She loved phantoms, but she doesn't think they're real. ''But they are!'' Peaches always argues, but the purple and lime-green lizard declines. ''No, they aren't, we'd have an invasion every day.''

Peaches is an X eyed, coral on pastel pink lizard. And, a few years back, she had this dream. Phantoms everywhere. It was all covered in goop. Alphas, and not just alphas, but owners, fighting the phantoms. Her and Spooky got caught. They d- okay maybe that would be a bit sad. But it was just a dream!

***FLASH FORWARD***

But, something incredible happened. It was May twelfth. Her owners went missing. The whole world, all the nine lands, shook and fell apart. Well, just eight. Why? Serapia Forest was safe. Sadly, it was invested with millions of phantoms. Does that many even exist?

They entered a rabbit's burrow, underground. It's usually reserved for rabbits only, and you needed an ID to prove you're a rabbit (safety purposes: wolves, although that age passed many centuries ago), but it was a safe retreat for pets.

''Let's introduce ourselves, I guess?'' Spooky, the purple and lime lizard said. She had coral eyes and eyelashes. ''I'm Spooky.'' she said. ''And this is''- ''I'm Peaches, Spooky's sister who clearly doesn't know I am not in an egg anymore!'' she hissed. Spooky blushed in embarrassment. A purple, vibrant purple, like the color of that one Rare Feather Boa, with a nice underbelly the color of lilac, had blue default eyes. ''Hey, I'm Audrey.'' A bee-colored yellow lizard with a swampy green underbelly and turquoise blank eyes (Peaches hoped Spooky wouldn't be rude; she wasn't fond of blank eyes), shyly (or was he entertained, Peaches didn't know) said, ''I'm Bumble. Before you say I don't look like a bee..'' He shortly stopped. ''Ask Loafie. If I ever see her again.'' The lizard added. Spooky scoffed.A lighter version of swamp green with a yellow bottom and happy eyed lizard said, ''I'm Dragon!'' He opened his eyes to reveal blue. A nice navy. A purple lizard, also with happy eyesand a cantaloupe yellow bottom, said, ''I'm Skip, at your service, captain!''

A lizard with blank eyes and a blue bottom and cream-ish top, who looked like Aang from ATLA, had a remarkable introduction. ''I'm Aang. Just kidding, but that is my name!'' A cream and white dove with eyelashes sat on Aang's head. ''And I'm Zelda. But my favorite Nitendo game is Among Us!'' Aang nudged Zelda. ''Dudette,'' he said. ''Among Us isn't from Nitendo.'' ''Oh.'' she said. ''It's Splatoon, then!'' Spooky grinned. It was also her favorite game!

Then, the blue lizard who was sleeping, said, ''And I'm Sharkie.'' Sharkie was a Summer blue top with an ocean bottom and Blue X eyes. Peaches sighed in relief. ''Great that I'm not the only one!'' She chirped. Everyone stared at her. A weird velvet lizard with an orange bottom said, ''I'm Marlenka, and you're stupid. Context please?''

''Whatever. I'm Cantaloupe, and this is my buddy Evil Snoflake.'' Cantaloupe was grassy green with an orange bottom and default eyes. Let's call Evil Snowflake Evil. Evil was blue with a purple bottom and blank eyes (anothr target for Spooky). ''Okay Greenhead, shut the hell up.'' Everyone stopped. ''Don't swear!'' Aang said. A parrot named max had a spider in his bowtie. He didn't introduce, his bowtie said it all. ''He likes to escape, so we put his information on his bowtie.'' Sharkie explained.

Three more lizards were there. ''I am Bella!'' she softly said. She was red and swampy green, but she was pretty. She had happy eyes, like many of the lizards, but her eyes were ivory. ''I'm Twig, but my momma calls me Sprout. So hear me out.'' The orange and green lizad said. Hppy eyed, but when he opened them, the revealed a soft grey eyes. (lilac: simp mode activated) ''And I'm Lilac.'' The blushing, happy eyed lizard said. She opened her eyes to reveal pink eyes. Her head was dark purple, and her underbelly was plum-purple.

The spider in Max's bowtie jumped out. ''Oh shoot!'' Max squawked. ''He only does that when he's in danger.'' Marlenka screamed. Audrey kept on screaming. ''Hit him with that shoe! Stomp on him!'' Max chiped an ear-bleeding squawk. ''NOOOOOO!'' The black and gray spider, nameless, with two eyes, hid under a table, leaped on Evil's head, and went back to Max's bowtie.

''Phantoms discovered us.. and lots of them..'' the spider said.

inspired by @lilloafie