Faithful Omens: Two

‘’So,’’ Anyone could tell Marlenka would throw accusations as she slammed her paws on the table while Yunho, Lime, and Tsunami went on a walk. ‘’What are we gonna do with that bunch?’’

 Cantaloupe sighed. ‘’They’re legit innocent.’’ he said.

 Marlenka glared. ‘’One of them aren't safe.’’ she challenged.

 ‘’Proof?’’ Sharkie questioned. His best friend would always be on his side.

 ‘’Well, look at this leaf.’’ The group looked.

 ‘’I don’t see the point of this leaf!’’ Peaches whined and Marlenka groaned.

 ‘’Look at the dewdrops carefully.’’

 Cantaloupe stared hard. ‘’One looks like a Y.. one looks like an L.. one like a T.’’ he exclaimed as he lifted up his head and slammed his paw on the table. ‘’Wait.. I UNDERSTAND! The newcomers' names: Yunho, Y.. Lime, L.. Tsunami.. T.. but how are they bad?’’

 Marlenka calmed down. ‘’See the brown holes in this leaf?’’ Cantaloupe and three others nodded. ‘’That means a leaf is bad. I know, because Lotus is a gardener.’’

 ‘’What if it’s just a coincidence?’’ Aang asked.

 ‘’It’s not,’’ Marlenka said. She wiped the dew off the leaf and in an instant new dew formed up, exactly the same. ‘’It makes you more thirsty. I was too lazy to go to the river, found this leaf. I thought, ‘Ooh! Dew is water, so sure’. Then the minute I drank it I became thirsty!’’

 ‘’Fascinating,’’ Cantaloupe thought out loud.

 ‘’Is this all the matters we will discuss today?’’

 Shark raised his paw. ‘’Are you getting urges of eating something?’’

 Marlenka rolled her eyes but replied with, ‘’Yeah. Fern. Why..?’’

 ‘’This might be important!’’ Sharkie exclaimed. ‘When I woke up I had an urge to eat shrimp. I ate everything.. ANYTHING but nothing satisfied me until i ate the shrimp. So delicious..’’

Cantaloupe said, ‘’I had an urge for mangoes,’’ he confessed. ‘’I’m a great tree-climber.’’

 Peaches looked nervously.

 ‘’Wait.. Did everyone here have an urge? I had one too,’’ Spooky asked. ‘’Raise your paw if you did!’’

 Everyone raised their paw, but Bella, Peaches, Evil Snowflake, and Skip looked tentative.

 ‘’Mine was bananas,’’ Peaches quickly said.

 ‘’Mine was nobody asked,’’ Marlenka quickly said.

‘’I assume there are no other queries,’’ Skip quickly said. ‘’Meeting? Over!’’ His buddies, Audrey, Dragon, and Bumble looked at him weird. ‘’Let’s have a convo about this later.’’ They decided.

 Later, Yunho came running as he was accompanied by Lime and Tsunami. Marlenka quickly hid the leaf.

 ‘’You smell like lavender..’’ Zelda said. ‘’And oddly.. Sugar Glider too.. WHAT?’’

 Everyone knew that the sweet and cute creatures were brainwashed by phantoms. They were on the evil team.

 ‘’I was attacked,’’ Yunho stammered. ‘’I was in safety.’’

 ‘’M-hm.’’ Marlenka said.

 ‘’Mhm, right.. You sound like a teacher!’’ Twig remarked.

 ‘’Mhm.. Right.. GET OUT OF MY FREAKING SIGHT! This has nothing to do with you,’’ she yelled.

 ‘’O-oh.. Okay..’’ Twig ran.

 ‘’Anyways,’’ she smiled. ‘’Have something to eat. Fish perhaps?’’

 ‘’Have any apples? I’ve been craving it,’’ remarked Yunho.

 ‘’We have been craving foods, too, so he can’t be mean,’’ Cantaloupe pointed out.

 ‘’Fine,’’ Marlenka sighed. He didn’t seem to be faking it, either. ‘’And you guys?’’

 ‘’No, not Tsunami and I,’’ the duo shook their heads.

 Suddenly, a small wave of water randomly splashed to their paws. Then another, and another. But no, it wasn’t raining.

 ‘’CANTALOUPE!’’ Spooky yelled. ‘’CHECK IF THE LOG IS IN PLACE. IT HAS BEEN WINDY.’’

 Cantaloupe ran to the river. They had set a log in front earlier because of water spilling out due to the rainstorm the night before. The log was gone. He looked, and saw a black and whie glider floating off the log. He ran to the log to save the glider, but she jumped off and ran. She looked back and he saw a glimpse of her teal eyes.

 Suddenly, half the river gushed out. He slipped and hit his head on a rock.

 ‘’O-ow..’’ he stammered. ‘’Wha--? I’M BLEEDING!’’

 Water swept on his paws. He just ran.

 Then, he came across a teal glider. Her underbelly was purple. ‘’Hello!’’ She said.’’ Gliders that are brainwashed hiss, they don’t talk. This was one of the lucky few.

 ‘’Hi,’’ he said. ‘’Can you glide me to a red cave?’’

 ‘’Sure!’’ he said. ‘’Ghost! Help me glide!’’

 ‘’Okay! He said. ‘’Fizz!’’ Ghost called. He was male. Fizz flinged her tail from tree to tree, and then on Ghost’s head. ‘’Let’s go!’’ her high pitch voice squealed.

 When they came back to the cave, it was water. Everywhere. About more than half of the large cave. Max was on one of the large boulders. Mostly everyone was safe.. Except for a few.

 Ghost swam like a pro. ‘’Get on this rock, guys.’’ He told the glider and Fizz. ‘’Pixie, don’t go gliding.’’

 ‘’Okay!’’ the teal glider said happily.

 Peaches slipped from a rock. Spooky looked scared. ‘’Someone,’’ she weeped. ‘’Save my sister!’’

 Ghost intensely climbed, but his slippery paws couldn't get it right. Antelope looked from his high rock, and jumped.

 He landed under water. He held his breath and swam like there was no tomorrow. He blew on his paws so they’d dry, like Fluffy told him to, and dug his claws in the water. He hasn’t climbed rocks in months. He usually climbs trees. He grabbed Peaches and put her on the rock. ‘’Thank you!’’ she said. Cantaloupe screamed as he slipped and fell.

 Ghost ran to get him, but Cantaloupe did not land on his back.

 ‘’Help!’’ he gasped for air. He tried swimming like he used too.. But couldn't. Holding his breath, he swam underwater with effort but the waves were pushing him back. He caught a glimpse of the dead lizards: Marlenka.. He’d miss that girl. She loved to use rude remarks but was a great leader overall.

 He saw Evil Snowflake.. His buddy.. He saw one more lizard but his breath ran out. The lizard was small and blue. He tried diving up but the waves, remember?

 ‘’This is my end,’’ he said, closing his eyes. ‘’I’m sorry, Sharkie.. Evil Snowflake.. Fluffy, even you, when I told you I’d never give up on anything.’’

 He woke up on grass. ‘’It was a d-dream?’’ He said, looking up. There was a glow, but no stars. He ran to a river and looked down. In his reflection.. He saw wings and a star. That star was the color of the group you belong to. Moons mean you were evil, stars mean you weren’t. His was red. He was in the fire group, right> No.. wasn’t that orange? Wait.. his blood was still gushing.. He was in the blood group.