"I really wasn't expecting such a show!" Loki ughs.

  He's brought me back. Two weeks without him, gone. Why does he show up so much nowadays?

  "What do you want?" I ask.

  I'm not really in the mood for Loki's games right now. Marty already scolded me for the whole, inviting the fairies without his permission. We were there to do that anyways! Why get mad at me for actually completing something instead of drinking my ass off!

  "Whoa! You really have some strong thoughts today! I just wanted to warn you." He smiles.

  "About what, huh?" I say.

  Loki bends down and points at my neckce.

  "You're the one who got rid of her tracker." He says, "She's going to have more."

  "So you think this is a trap, or something?" I say.

  He nods and walks over to his shabby bed.

  "I also noticed something in your pocket." Loki adds, "Could it be reted to this, colossal?"

  "I thought you just knew these things." I scoff.

  He stands up. Loki puts his hands on his hips and walks around me in a circle.

  "If you don't want my help, I can just leave." He tells me.

  Go ahead! I wouldn't care jackass. He sighs and puts his finger on my forehead.

  "You should be nicer sometimes." He pouts.

  His fingers push me down. I fall into the ground, waking up in our carriage. I sit up on a seat. The driver is still awake, making out with that fairy dy. They're inseparable! The king, queen, and princess tagged along in our carriage. The king and queen are just as annoying as the driver and his little girlfriend. Not to mention Marty calls the princess his, "little niece." I lost count on how many times he's pinched her cheek or bought some expensive item for her.

  I'm always the first one to wake up. I don't know if it's my sleep problems or if it's because of Loki's influence. Maybe I just need to start sleeping ter? No, they always wake up shortly after me, maybe Loki uses his time magic or something? The king wakes up first, he stays ying on the floor next to his wife.

  "Morning." I chuckle.

  He jumps up, clearly not noticing I was awake. He sits across from me and clears his throat.

  "I hadn't seen you there." He says, "Why are you up so early?"

  "I have sleep problems." I tell him, "No big deal."

  He looks over at our driver. His cheeks turn red and his head falls, looking towards the ground. He's acting like this is the first time seeing something like this. Maybe if he knew what he looked like with his wife.

  "Is that not embarrassing to you?" He mutters.

  "You're joking right? You and the queen were just doing that this morning!" I ugh.

  "I don't touch on her like that. And we're married! You humans corrupt our minds." He shouts.

  Humans aren't the one to bme here. He shakes his head, and turns slightly. He looks directly out the back entrance to our carriage.

  "Where are we stopping next?" He asks.

  I grab the map from Marty's bag. The fairy vilge was called, "Trepie." Our next stop is, "Katuk."

  "I believe... Katuk, just a few more hours." I tell him.

  "Good." He says.

  Katuk is a rge city. It's also the meeting point for the beast fairies and the northern fairies. The shock on peoples faces when seeing the king with humans was kind of hirious. The northern fairies are so tiny! I know they're grown adults but I want to keep one as a pe... Nevermind! I kind of sounded like a bandit there.

  "Is it just me, or are people giving us strange looks?" Pyra whispers to me.

  "They're just staring at the king. We're going to be fine!" I tell her.

  We reach a rge mansion. The king and Marty both get out of the carriage.

  "It's been awhile since we were here." Marty sighs.

  "You think Frank will actually be happy to see us?" The king ughs.

  "No, he'll probably think we're crazy coming back here." Marty says.

  The rest of us follow inside the mansion. They have a rge yard, with a lot of maids. Maybe they could be a mayor, or some noble? We walk inside, a maid greets us and takes the girls to another room.

  "Where are they going?" I ask.

  "This guy is... kind of sexist, he doesn't talk to women like equals." Marty tells me.

  "That still doesn't expin why they were taken somewhere else." I tell him.

  Marty sighs and wipes his forehead.

  "The queen is... She doesn't like this man, so they usually take them to another room." He says.

  Why would they take Pyra and the princess? And why would Marty be friends with somebody so sexist? Another maid escorts us to a rge room. A man is sitting on a rge couch. He has two women by his side. Once he sees us enter, he pushes the women off of him. He crosses his arms and points towards some seats. We each sit down.

  "Frankie!" Marty says.

  "What do you want?" He sneers.

  This man is human. Why is he living in the fairy territory?

  "We just need some help with a little problem." Marty tells him.

  "No." The man says, "I've already gotten Vincent's letter. I won't help you."

  Guess this was useless. This guy clearly doesn't want anything to do with us. I look around the room, he has paintings of rge men. There's life sized statues of women, this guy is pretty weird. Behind us is a board with photos on it. The photos are stuck to the board with knives. A few of these photos have words on them. I think it says, "bounty." Maybe this guy is a bounty hunter!

  "I guess we don't have to help!" Marty says.

  Marty and the king stand up, they start walking out when a rge man bursts in.

  "Frank! I've got a real big bounty for you!" The man shouts.

  He runs over to Frank. The man shows him a piece of paper. Frank smiles and stands up. He looks at the paper for a short time. He looks back over at Marty, then he stares at me.

  "Maybe I could help you two one st time. But I need the boy." He ughs.

  He flips the paper over, showing a bounty poster of me. The two look at me, Marty looks like he has an idea. They can't be serious! Marty shakes his head and turns back to Frank.

  "Can't do that man." Marty says.

  "Come on! I joined your party and you gave me nothing in return." He says, "This is your st chance to make up with me!"

  "What if we don't give him to you?" The king asks.

  "I'll kill the girls." Frank chuckles.

  He licks his lips. Tapping the poster with his finger.

  "Maybe I'll turn your little one into a maid, and your wife one of my statues." He ughs.