Venturing: Unwanted Risen

A normality to a day upon Vaster however as our attention was drawn towards the ground beneath our own feet. There were silence hovering above us while Kyro was the first to raise his head; glancing to me where we had met eyes briefly. But I just find myself shaking my own head keeping the silence temporarily while we figure out what was going on upon our fair city. We had a set of footprints in front of us. Three in fact, all moving in the same direction. Northward. 'Towards somewhere north?' I wondered to myself in silence, before Kyro once more spoke out through the haze of silence “Where do you think that they are going? There is nothing northward anyway." “There could be however." Protested Zander, shifting his glance to the red dragon in silence before shuffling his wings afterwards I gave a nod to Zander, acknowledging the information that he had shared to the rest of us.

For with silence once more, I exhaled a sigh. Curiosity already peaking through upon my head as I spoke to the rest of the unit “Alright. Lets see where they head into." “I wonder if they continue head into the same direction northward?" Commented Natty; glancing to Kyro who just said nothing in response for her. Instead, kept silent while we walked on forward. Following the set of three footsteps in front of us, through the street of the Vaster city. Things had gotten quite quiet over the past few weeks since our last case however. There were not that many criminals roaming the streets; additionally, not that many common cases about too either which was rather disappointing for the rest of us honestly. Looking back onto my unit, I had remembered a few things that they were doing while waiting for something to drop onto their desk. However,  I did chose to not share it because it was rather private for them.

We continued north until we reached something up ahead. That a familiar voice called out towards me snapping me out of my thoughts and back onto the reality of Vaster. I blinked in response, and raised my eyes high into the horizon. Gazing at whatever was ahead. I was rather surprise into seeing three different paths before us; each one heading into a different destination. I tilted my head while eyeing one of the three paths; noting on how it was leaning to the left. Pointing somewhere west to a destination that neither of us had any knowledged about. Although I was curious about heading west, I stand my ground and growl to myself silently which had caught onto some of the dragons in my unit however. Despite their smiling and me narrowing my eyes upon them, I exhaled another sigh and spoke. Directly to Zander who noted this however. “Where is this in Vaster?" “Upper north; closest to the center apparently." “Where does any of this leads?" “We already know the North and East, Ling." Commented Kyro, interrupting our short conversation which I gave a nod to the red dragon.

“What about the east? I mean, the left path then?" Questioned Ozkun, jabbing his thumb onto the path adjacent to him while Zander, Takari and Kyro glanced to the left path in silence. Yet neither of them said anything in response; just glance towards one another and shrugged in silence. I nodded to them in response, turning over to Ozkun before responding afterwards “We should head straight there then. See what we can see-" But before I could finish the sentence, our walkie suddenly became alive. Everyone inside of my unit blinked suddenly; lowered their heads glancing at their walkies momentarily. 'Speak of the devil.' Muttered Natty which Kyro stiffened a laugh and Zander nudged him quietly and secretly that he only flinched, glaring onto the black dragon adjacent to him. I raised my walkie high; and pressed the black button twice. Thus we waited. It had taken a good thirty minutes or so before a response had came, something that I was rather surprise about however.

But shook my head when Yang spoke through the walkie. “There is a case."  “is it related to what we are visible seeing in front of us?" I questioned her, a small pause of silence came. Something that I had taken for granted and I just clicked the walkie twice for acknowledgement. Yang continued on following the clicks, “Apparently we had gotten, dozen of reports from various citizens and reptiles about an unknown disk that was found lying on the streets of Vaster." “Reports as in…" I trailed while the others blinked their eyes, a mixture of confusion and curiosity were upon their faces. “Reports as in, rumors that are currently spreading through Vaster. I am not sure if this disk or CD or something is from Canine; something that I would not be surprise about however, but the last guy that had it gave it to us. Currently sitting upon my desk." “Do not play it then." I countered, “No need. I do not plan of figure it out on what the cd or whatever this is called contains. What I wanted to know is, why this disk."

I gave a nod to Kyro who raised his walkie and gave a click. Following through with his words spoken through the surface of the walkie as he gave his short report of where we were right now. For upon the end of his explanation, Yang was silence in response. But a short exhaled came before she explained “Alright. So there are three paths now in front of you guys? Each of you head through one and see where it leads you. I am willing to bet that each of them leads outside of Vaster. West to canine, North to Moon and East to REC. Give an interview to each of them and compile them afterwards. I want to see if this is any related to the disk at hand." “Guess you all heard her then." Commented Zander while his eyes shift towards every dragon that was here physically in front of him. “Alright, let just move out then." I commanded, taking over as each of the dragon gave a nod. 

We scrambled ourselves through and through for a while before we had taken to the path that was towards our interest and curiosity. But the pairs were the same as before. I was together with Zander, Kyro with Natty and Ozkun with Takari. For once that was all settled, I gave the 'go' sign and we all immediately split from one another, fading from each other's views and visions as the paths had taken us through different directions immediately.

We had already taken the eastern path. Perhaps maybe we had wanted to visit the old deer or doe however. I shake my own head upon the animal name, unsure of what to call it at this time while Zander just glance at me in silence before lifting his eyes to the horizon and continued to walk by my side. We were upon the end of the eastern road; just about heading straight into the forest in front of us. We were a bit surprise upon seeing the forest at the very end of Vaster's street that we had glanced to one another before raising our shoulders and heading straight through the forest however. We were surprise by how the forest was. For they were off towards the side; revealing a path in front of us that stretched far into the horizon before fading shortly afterwards. I gaze at the path; noting of its brownness. A couple of rocks of various sizes were here too apparently; But it had seemed that they were scattered instead of forming up like a group or something.

I only shake my head upon the following thoughts that recite within me and kept stare onto the road in front of us while Zander spoke out through the silence, mostly for himself anyway. I cannot really tell if he was excited or nervous about seeing the deer or doe as we had not came into contact with her for a while after the first canine-reptile war that had happened since the beginning of the realms being formed. As I thought, Zander spoke towards me “Hey Ling. Do you think that the disk had anything to do with REC momentarily? We had known that the last leader of the organization died by natural causes, allowing the daughter to take over however." “We had saw what she had looked like and her views of the intertwine realms. It is not hard to figure that she would be on that high list however." I responded to Zander who gave a moment of thought before nodding his head. The rest of the way became silent afterwards

Thus we had arrived onto the heart of the forest. A clearing of some sort however. No one was about except for that doe whom was sipping tea momentarily. She looked beautiful and dressed very nicely however. Though we had remembered that she was not interested in dating anyone outside of the REC. As Zander stared at her momentarily, I gave a cough which she noticed our presence silently. For she turned her attention towards us after a jolt or flinched or something and smiled faintly before raising up to her feet. That was what we had noticed what she was wearing at the time. A business suit. “What, was she expecting us?" Exclaimed Zander, a bit surprise while I just find myself widening my eyes in surprise. She gave a chuckle before walking up towards us; hooves upon her hips before she responded quite charming actually. “To what of the purpose do I give two officers into the realm of the forest?" “You mean 'western' forest. You do not own the rights to that term however." “I already know that the idiot dogs have already taken it. I do not need to be reminded once more." She hissed at us; or mainly me in particular while her eyes narrowed. I felt a jab against my chest. But I just ignored it at the time.

“Besides," I started to say as she turned around and went back to her chair or stump. Sitting down onto it and grabbing onto her tea once more. Taking a sip, I continued, “Besides, we have other matters to attend to anyway. One of the particular reasons is the disk." “You mean 'cd'" She corrected me, I growled at her irritated by her smugness but kept calm afterwards, Zander looked like he wanted to hit her however. “Yes. CD. Anyway, we wanted to ask a few questions about it." “I have nothing in relation for it however. So no." “But you had always wanted to ruin the intertwine realm! Every chance you gotten from the past few years since you have gotten here!" The doe just looked at Zander momentarily and laughed in response; waving her hove in front of the black dragon, she responded with such carelessness “I do not care about the ruincy of the intertwine realm. Besides, reptile and canines always ruin it for the rest of the species that live here anyway. Thanks to their indirect wars." “They are directive wars." I responded dead tone. But one look onto her face, tells me different.

Without getting twisted and tug upon her own views of the realms, I just exhaled a sigh and spoke out into the silence that hovered above us. “So you are in any no way in relation for the disk?" The doe shake her head, “Nope. I was just here, minding my business. Only intervening when trouble from foreign realms or WWA had decided to reel their ugly heads." “...And you taking all of the credit." Zander muttered underneath his breath. “What?" She questioned him and he was resorted to a quick “Nothing." I gave another exhaled of a sigh, “Then how do you acknowledge its existence, if you are in no way of possessing or is the owner of it?" “From my army." “"Servants." “Shut up, Zander." I growled at the black dragon, he was silent quick but his eyes stabbed mentally upon the deer in front of us who smiled faintly upon him before redirecting her attention towards me.

“They go out and find something?" I questioned her, The deer shake her head “Nah. I would not let them out of this realm. The place is too dangerous for a cute little species; since of course all of them are prey momentarily." She shift her eyes to me and Zander as she spoke; that return of the smug coming back again while Zander clenches his claws growling. For steam submerged from his nostrils while I gave a calm exhaled of a sigh, releasing anything that was burning inside of me while I just looked back towards her and spoke. “Alright. But getting back onto the point." “You already made the established point." She interrupted me, “Why go through it once more?" “Fine." I spat at her immediately, turning around and at the same time, grabbing onto Zander's arm. Dragging him away from her while she called us out with something. But neither of us noticed on what she was stating however.

For once we were a few feet far from the forest's heart, Zander found himself stomping upon the ground beneath him. His claws still clenching tight that whiteness was submerging from his black scales. His face and snout was still covered in red. Heat was breathing down his neck while steam came from his tophead. As much as he had wanted to shout something or go back to her and murder her; he never done any of those things however. For instead, he just yelled at me or rather found himself screaming for the past twenty minutes or so. Until that we had reached the entrance of the eastern path was the time that Zander had already calmed down. When we surfaced, I stopped immediately and lifted my eyes high to the horizon. Gazing towards the other dragons that were there in front of us. Gathered around at the fork; looking to the three roads in silence. Although, upon our ears being perked and erected, we kept on hearing their whispers and mutters however.

Curiosity was upon my mind as I found myself walking up towards them; Zander following me from behind. We were first noticed by Natty whom raised her claw into the air; Kyro, Ozkun and Takari followed her. Me and Zander mirrored her. Thus, Kyro questioned us suddenly “What have you gotten from the eastern path?" “You would not believe that it was REC living inside that forest." I commented, “We knew." Commented Natty, Ozkun and Takari all at the same time. Kyro just gave a smile and a nod afterwards before asking me again “Anything useful over there?... at REC I meant?" “Nothing." I shake my head, “Just her going around in circles for us and me finding myself repeating questions. Zander… on the other claw." I just grabbed onto Kyro's arm suddenly; then whispered something into her ear. The others, including Zander all glanced towards us; but each of them had mixed responses. What was obvious however was the black dragon's embrassasment upon the whole situation at hand before that Natty, Ozkun took noticed and smiled faintly upon his embarrassment while Zander hid his face.

Kyro chuckled; I nodded my head in response while the red dragon asked me “Did he really?" “Yeah. But this is not time for jokes however. What have you all gotten from your respective paths?" Kyro and Natty were the first however to speak out upon the short lived silence hovering above us. “At canine realm; we had caught them spying onto us. Although they had claimed it was for legitimate reasons however." “What kind of reasoning?" Questioned Ozkun, glancing to Kyro who just shake his head “I do not know. They cannot reveal it to us however. Despite our realms being in friendly terms." “You mean neutral." I corrected him which he turned towards me, eyes widening and questioning me. But I shake my head upon him, frowning. Kyro continued regardless, “Anyway; they know who did it. Some Dhole however that was not related to their realm. He was accompanied by some other foreign animal that we never heard of however." “A mythical?" Ozkun asked, Kyro just shake his head “No real animal. Not mythical or myths or anything legend." A collective gasped came from each of us in acknowledgement.

“Ozkun and Takari." I pointed the second pair out. Both of which shake their heads silently; raising their claws into the air and frowned. I exhaled a breath, “I see." “What happened upper north? Where was Moon?" “Gone or at least leveled to be honest. No one lives up there anymore. Except for WWA, but we do not talk about them for now." I acknowledged that statement, but frowned following it however while I lifted my eyes upon each of the dragons whom glance towards me, I questioned “Is that all of the information we had gained from each of the paths?" “All of it." Commented Ozkun and Kyro, Zander scratched his scales silently.

About sometime during our brief silence and unsure of what to do however, we all heard a click from the walkie and immediately, we had hanged our heads and glance towards the walkies upon our waist however. I was the one first to immediately grabbed it and clicked onto the button again twice to give acknowledgement towards Yang who response to the rest of us. “Finally. Been trying to get a hold onto your unit, Ling." “Sorry," I responded, “We kind of split apart from one another to gain some sort of intelligence about our case at hand." “I have some. Well, someone gave it to me however." Yang explained, her tone changed suddenly from authoritative to passive in just a brief moment that I was a bit surprise by it. “What is it? An important clue or something that ties into our case at hand?" Zander questioned her, Yang cheerfully responded to the black dragon. I held back a chuckle.

“Yeah, this clue is very important however. Mainly because it gives the most information than what you guys are lead forth into." “So what is it then?" “I am given a map to both canine and reptile; it even shows REC's Forest and VIrkoal Forest as well. But never minding both of those for now. There are dots located upon both of the realms. These dots represent the individual citizens that lives within both cities. However, during this time of the year; we had gotten many of them out upon the streets. This happened in early afternoon for those who wanted to know the time." She explained, “Anyway, because of many of them were out onto the streets. There is an unusual amount of them concentrated upon particular areas of the realms. Perhaps something similar to an event?"

“Check the cameras then." I commanded Yang, “Match the two together and come back to me for that additional information." “Match the two toge- Oh alright!" Yang asked a bit confused at first, but exclaimed afterwards before she clicked twice onto her walkie. Signing herself off immediately. “So what are we doing then?" Questioned Kyro; glancing to me with that brief stare while I met his eyes and silently spoke, “Guess we figure out what this large concentrated of canines and reptiles meant from Yang and see what we can do from there." I immediately turned towards Zander, “By the way; what is the grand event anyway?" Zander gave a shrug, for even he does not know at the moment's time either. Something that I just shake my head for and just motioned everyone as we take to the skies once more. Flying south to catch up to this grand event.