5. Evening meets up with them at the gate, a big golden gate with sprinkled pieces of gold on it.
“You know this gate?” She says with slight questioning, “this is where the border between us and the Aden’s starts, where we were was our danger zone, that’s where we go to do our jobs, wearing our protective warrior outfits, in here as you can see I’m wearing my peace outfit because this is where we are safe, with no use of weapons at all, just as much peace as we can have.”
When they turn around, they see Afternoon coming, riding on a griffin like bird, with all white body and feathers, coming right at them from the vast green field they are now in.
“Hey everyone, I have some news for Dusk and Dawn.”
Afternoon has yellowish-tint skin, a blue and white with yellow outfit that fits him like a trench coat with brown trousers. He has brown eyes and chin-length brown hair in a small ponytail with a scarf wrapped around him, along with brown boats and a bow and arrow on his back. He also has a gold piece hanging to his face from his hair that looks something like royalty. He is also 5'10 in height.
He gets off the bird saying, “Lady Maldu said that she has a way of restoring you guy’s memories, so, don’t worry, things are going to go back to normal soon enough.”
“Yay, thanks Afternoon!” Evening hugs Afternoon, while he continues saying, “I hope this has nothing to do with Twilight, or even Daylight.”
“That’s it, what is with these two? What exactly are they doing to be mentioned in every conversation!”
“Dusk, hold on,” Dawn looks back over to Evening and Afternoon, saying to Afternoon specifically, "how is it that you know about our well being as of now? You know about our memory loss?"
"You two have honestly been acting strange for the past few days, Dusk here completely forgot my name yesterday, so I went out this morning, hoping to find some evidence as to what happened after you two went to look for Daylight."
Seeing this as some sort of confirmation, Dusk walks up to him saying, "thanks for helping us, now I want to know what is going on with this warrior Daylight as well, if she is a part of the reason that Dawn and I can't remember a thing."
“Come follow Evening and I, and you’ll find out.” Afternoon says back to him.
Evening and Afternoon jump on the Medito (The type of bird it is, which resembles a Griffin)
“You guys got your horses?” Afternoon asks.
Behind them two horses show up, a dark blue one with gold hair and a purple one with navy hair. Dusk takes the blue one while Dawn takes the purple one. They all ride off to the home of Lady Maldu after this, with Dusk and Dawn luckily still able to ride their horses.
Remembering due to it being a royal custom to ride different types of animals and creatures.
...
As they all ride up to the home surrounded by colorful trees and blissful pathways, Afternoon gets off of the Medito and slowly swings the curtain door of the tiny brown home.
The curtain’s brush aside and a beautiful older woman comes out. She has ruddy dark skin, thick and long golden hair, and a glow that shines on her face of mystery and content.
Her long dress is maroon and gold with all kinds of designs on it, with brown leggings to fit her skin. Her eyes are a sharp gold, with a brown ring in the middle.
The way she is, is very different from anyone they’ve seen before, even though they are both of the Areanean nation, but her presence immediately drew Dusk and Dawn to her, with them nodding to her as soon as she catches their eyes.
Afternoon gets up and takes charge as he says, “hello, Lady Maldu, I’m here with Evening, Dusk, and Dawn. Dusk and Dawn are having memory issues and I was wondering if you can help them.”
Her eyes shift back over to Dusk and Dawn, then back to Afternoon and Evening, “why yes of course, it’s my job and it’s most likely something I didn’t do right for this to happen, so, come on in, this must be handled immediately.”
Her voice flows just like the running water the tiny home sits upon. They all walk in and see the beautiful and comfortable home filled with the colors and jewels of bronze and gold.
She takes them to her lounge room where they all sit down. She drinks her tea saying, “you two want some?”
“No, thank you.” Dusk replies. “I’ll take some.” Dawn says politely.
As she pours Dawn her tea, she begins to speak, saying, “Okay, I’ll begin by saying my name is Maldu Chargeme, but please call me Lady Maldu, only Midnight calls me mother. I’m the keeper of your crystals, which is codenamed a charm for each other. I am caretaker of you all, making sure you do your diligence as warriors, granted this by my husband, Sovereign of Lesothia, Marshogon, who then got word from our Creator Himself."
"All you have told me...I remember." Dusk says, thinking deep on it.
"What about you Dawn, do you remember the details of who I am?" Lady Maldu hands Dawn her tea, with Dawn looking down into the yellow cup, saying "I do..."
"Do you? You say that as if you are confused?"
Dawn looks up at her, "I do, Lady Maldu, I recognize you."
Lady Maldu walks over to her counter where she places her teacup, turning back to Dusk and Dawn saying, "good, now it's exactly what you two should be doing as well, about three days ago you guys lost complete track, that is not good, so now I’m going to have to fix your broken crystals, to let you guys start fresh and fix yourselves now that you two are getting the basic knowledge again.” Afternoon replies with, “another crystal?”
Then Evening says, “how long will that take?”
“Very fast, all I need is their crystals now, then once you give them to me, I’ll have it polished and cleansed, it’ll take about six hours to do that, so I would say, about two days total once letting it sit out in the sun to dry and then activate.”
“Okay, that’s good.” Evening starts clapping happily, "we're getting somewhere."
“Yes, everything will come back to you two, now this is not hard, we will get this done, okay?” She smiles.
“Okay, thank you Lady Maldu.” Dusk stands up and says this to her.
She makes the "mhm" sound before saying, “never thank me before I do something though, thank me once it’s done, now let me have your crystals.“
“We have to go get them.” Dawn states.
Lady Maldu turns back around to them, “then do so, quickly.”
They both nod, then walk out of her home, back to the horses, with Afternoon and Evening right along with them.
All of them ride back out to their homes, and on their way to the village where they all stay.
While peacefully riding out towards the village, making it down the hill from Lady Maldu's, Dusk and Dawn take in all the trees they see, feeling the piercing sun, the glowing colorful flowers and well placed brick paths that they are riding on.
Even seeing the animals native to this island walking right along with them.
Suddenly though...
Afternoon puts his arm out for them to stop, right before the jade covered gate that leads into the village.
Outside it is Noon and Twilight talking, Noon is a young man with bushy-fiery hair and eyes that look like fire resides in them. He is tanned well with a brown shirt on and red trousers along with red boots on. He is not with weapons or accessorized at all, only with an orange tattoo on his neck, meaning he is wearing his peace outfit, and he is 6'0.
"That is Noon and Twilight." Evening says quietly.
“Why are we whispering though?” Dusk questions.
"Because he hates you two, and this is not the time to be fighting. We just want to get the crystals and come back, nothing else.”
"Why?" Dusk questions again, "What did we do to him? At this point, I don’t mind asking him some questions." He crosses his arms, ready to speak with this Twilight.
"Not now, you'll find out soon, remember?" Afternoon says back to Dusk, with a firm tone in his voice.
Dawn closes her eyes, hearing that male voice in her head again, hearing those distorted words of...
"You promised to come with me!!"
Then again...
"You told me that we will always be close to each other, yet, you leave me when the words physically count!"
"Dawn!"
"Dawn!!"
Dawn holds her head, grunting, "ugh."
Then she hears her name again, "Dawn!" Dusk shouts quietly.
“I think he’s coming our way, you two hide behind the tree, and don’t bring your horses. We don't need him investing himself in this, we'll tell him later.”
Dusk and Dawn get off and hide, while Twilight comes in through the gate.
Twilight is a 6’2 tall, muscular, mysterious, and stoic young man with long brown hair, brown open-cut shirt with beige pants and brown boots with light-tan skin also. What makes him mysterious is his golden mask that he wears that covers his face, it is something of Eneki tradition where he is from, but it stands out amongst the other warriors.
Even though he is wearing his peace outfit, he wears a shawl to still cover his face, only showing his slit golden Eneki eyes.
He always carries his sword with him, peace outfit or not.
He starts saying to them, “what’s with the horses?” He says In a serious tone that matches his deep raspy voice.
Evening replies with, “we found them today by Lady Maldu’s home, we are taking them to the open land.”
"They're Dusk and Dawn's horses, where are they?" He suddenly sounds angry just mentioning their names.
Afternoon and Evening look back at each other as Afternoon replies with, "we don't know, we haven't seen them today."
“Really?” He questions, “but you have their horses?"
"Well I'd rather we do it, Takashi..." Afternoon says boldly.
"Did I say I was going to take the horses?"
"If not, then keep going?" Evening says, stopping the both of them from talking further, even Afternoon looks at her quite surprised that she said that to him.
Twilight just snickers and smirks, "alright, I don’t care what you two are doing, out of my way already.” Twilight walks right past them, sneaking a look at the bushes beside him before walking right off, making his way to Lady Maldu’s home.
“Alright, you guys can come out now.” Afternoon says with hand gestures. Then Dusk and Dawn quickly make their way to their horses, and leave with them. But Dawn managed to look the way Twilight went as they left, looking sad to do so.
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