Faithful Omens 5: Glider Tribes

“Cosmic powers.” Strawberry Cream said. Peaches gasped. So did Strawberry Cream. “But the cosmic’s name is.. Aiko.”

Peaches blinked. “What?”

“Aiko. Your name.”

Pixie watched the conversation unfold. She's a sugar glider. The one that came with Fizz the Pygmy marmoset and Ghost the lizard, hm? That is her.

*Peaches is SUCH a boring name!* Pixie thought. *Of course she should’ve changed it into Aiko!*

Then Pixie realized one day, it was the second Saturday of August. Every month on the second Saturday, she visited her friends in the Sugar Glider Tribe, a tribe where all gliders live. Only very, very few don’t live there. Gliders depend on each other for food, water, and shelter. Exotics and other animals didn’t take care of them because they thought that gliders were overrated, but Ghost and Fizz did not care.

“Ghost, Fizz, wake up!” Aiko and Strawberry Cream looked up. They looked back down.

“You have special powers,” Pixie said rolling on her back. “You control the Six Constellations.”

Aiko widened her X eyes and shook her head three times in disbelief. Ghost came in. “Hm? Did you call?”

“Yes, actually!”

“What would you like?” Ghost sat down.

“It’s the second Saturday of the month. We should go to the Sugar Glider Tribe!” Pixie squeaked.

“Fine. Let’s go.”

After arriving at the tribe, Pixie leaped. “Iris!”

A purple and white sugar glider with pink eyes swished her tail in delight. “Pixie! Ghost! Where’s Fizz? I’m on guard today.”

“At home,” Pixie replied. Talking with lizards was hard, but chatting with her own kind was easy-peasy.

“Where’s Willow?” Willow was a white X eye glider with a green underbelly and green X eyes. Willow was the founder of the Sugar Glider Tribe.

“He is inside. We are about to discuss important matters, we were waiting for you. Come on in!” Iris eyed Ghost. “You, stay outside. We trust you, but rules are rules, Ghost.”

Ghost nodded and Pixie bounded inside.

“Ah, Pixie. It’s super nice for you to have come back.”

“WILLOW! I sure did miss you! Hey..?”

She looked. At meetings usually not everyone in the tribe attended, but all of the rainbow eyelashes joined, there was only Iris, Sakura, and Minty were here.

“Is everything okay?”

“This meeting is about the disappearance of some of our tribe members. The rest of the Rainbows have gone missing.”

Pixie looked shocked. “That’s terrible!”

Willow shook his head. “The first missing glider, Red, disappeared an hour after you left. And they are lizards, due to their claws.”

One month ago. The flood that she found the clan. That was an hour after she found her new group. She thought about Aiko. Spooky. Aang. The many others she will never meet.. They were never judging about who she is. *Wait a minute..*

“You guys could join my group! They have nonjudgmental lizards and other animals. They have a parrot!”

Sakura looked around. “Are you sure that will be ok with your tribe?”

“They aren’t a tribe. And they will be okay, I think.”

“Okay, your trip will almost be over,” Willow said. “Let’s pack up our fruits and vegetables, and we’ll be out.”

They were 8 miles away in their third resting point when they heard leaves rustling. Ghost perked his head up. “I will protect you guys.”

A red sugar glider with a darker red underbelly and red X eyes jumped down. He had a tattered ear. Pixie would recognize him anywhere!

“Red!”

Red looked. “Guys? Were you looking for me? I was looking for the missing sugar gliders too.”

Pixie shook her head. “We were going to my place. We had to go, gliders are going missing and it’s to the point there are barely any gliders left.”

Red looked. “Baguette's gliders!”

Pixie nodded. “Yup! Let’s get going.”

Once they arrived to their destination, Pixie had some explaining to do. However, they gladly accepted to shelter the gliders in exchange for some food. They had brought most of the food that their hunches beg for.

Aiko said, “Be careful. I found out I can make anything cosmical happen. If I wish the sun’s fall.. it could happen. SUN, PLEASE DON’T FALL!”

Pixie laughed. “She is like this.”

Then, a purple lizard quickly ran in the cave.

“Marble Soda!” Strawberry Cream ran to the purple lizard. Marble Soda nodded, and pushed her away. She sent two crows with her. “Chase Aiko.”

The crows nodded. “Yes, your fabulous majesty.”

Strawberry Cream looked confused. Pixie looked scared. “You better hide,” Marble Soda hissed. “Ramune will rule this world.”

Strawberry Cream had a face of regret. Pixie could tell. “If only I hadn’t sent you those letters!” She yelled.

Ramune giggled. “If only..”

Aiko ran and ran. “I can’t! They will basically follow me even after a comet fell on them!”

Pixie ran trying to shoo away the crows.

“IF ONLY THE SUN EXPLODED, THESE CROWS WOULD RUN AWAY!” Aiko yelled. *Uh oh,* Pixie thought.

They were dead.