There was a tower of cages. The cages were like the kind animals were kept in. The tower stood tall in the dark abyss. Looking down, none could see the ground.
Dream Lyn appeared within the tower, "Wow, 68th times the charm(pleeeease),"
"Who 're ya?" a child asked.
From within the cages, was a child with olive skin and black hair in a buzzcut. He was wearing dirty rags. The cloth looked like it was made up of stitched together hand towels. The stains were pretty bad too. On his head was a wool newsboy cap.
She hunched down slightly to get on the kid's level, "Oy, anythin' wash up on the beaches of Hafennest lately?"
The kid's eyes bulged slightly. She smirked.
"On the money," she remarked, snapping her fingers. "Alright kid, I need ya-"
"WHAT'S GOING ON HERE!?" A beast's voice roared.
Lyn turned around. Outside the cages, stood a skyscraper of a Drescher. Its edges were bleeding into the other, like each part of its armour were just a bit too big. It made it look more monstrous than normal.
She pointed at it with her thumb, still making eye contact with the kid, "Have ya thought of gettin' nightmares' within a reasonable size?"
"YOU WILL LEAVE THIS PLACE-!" The Drescher roared.
"Whatever," Lyn exclaimed, turning to it and waving it away. "Don't talk, just go….away," {reference Devil May Cry 2}
Its shadow loomed over her. It SLLLLAMMED its left claw right at the tower.
"I miss Amara's bullcr-,"
It clawed right through the tower. The cages all scattered into the abyss.
...…
Lyn, carrying the boy's cage, hopped through a portal. They ran through an endlessly long hallway with a creaking creak that sounded like a syren going off with every step.
"Listen kid, tell me where Shadow Velvet Ursa is ahn I'll be outta yer way!"
"What?!" the kid exclaimed, looking around frantically, his hands on his ears.
"Gimme a sec," she exclaimed, opening a new portal.
They hopped in and out. They were now on a hamster wheel made of textbooks. They were in a classroom full of them. Heck, all the other students were actual hamsters.
"Where's Ursa," Lyn repeated.
"I…I can't tell ya, the others'll be mad at me,"
The hamster wheel broke and started crashing through the rest of the classroom. Hamster squealed in rage and pain.
"Don't worry about it. Legally if ya don't know yuv committed a crime, ya should have a good defence, ahn ya won't remember a thing once I leave," Lyn explained, raising a finger. "I think anyways, I ain't a lawyer,"
{Note: pleading ignorance of a crime doesn't act as a good legal defence in the court of law. Please be informed on the laws}.
The hamster wheel fell over. The entire classroom had been destroyed. Lyn rose out of the wheel, standing on her two feet.
"(But the Dreschers…)," the boy muttered.
"O-ho, the Dreschers eh," she remarked, snapping her fingers. "If that's yer concern, worry not. I'm plannin' to rescue Ursa from this city,"
"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING!?" more crooked Dreschers exclaimed, breaking the door down.
"LATTE!" Lyn called out, making a new portal.
They dropped onto a raft on the black waters. Lyn held the kid up higher and positioned her feet for surfing. The waves were wild, pushing them back and forth.
"Can ya do that?" the boy asked, leaning forward.
"Sure, I snuck into this place, how hard can it be to sneak out?!" she exclaimed, carefully pushing down on the raft to avoid capsizing.
"She's at my house," the boy answered, clinging to the cage.
"AHN WHERE IS THAT?!" Lyn exclaimed, getting thrown off.
She made another portal just above the waves. They crashed down onto a soft bed.
"Where is it?" the boy asked.
"Yyeeep," Lyn answered.
"Whose this Ismael?" a voice like a mother black bear in hibernation called out.
Lyn looked up. Her eyes widened.
Sitting in the bed, was Setsune. She was wearing a white, stripeless robe, her hair was poorly dyed black(with some of her red brown still showing through), and there was a bit of black paint where her beauty mark normally was. Her eyes looked tired, and she looked sickly.
The boy got up, "this person wants to save ya?!"
"Really?" she exclaimed, patting Ismael on the head, a warm smile on her face. "That's wonderful news,"
"That's great, now tell me-," Lyn interjected, getting off the bed and turning her back to them so she could stretch.
"Thank you so much, sweetie," Setsune interrupted, energetically getting out of bed and giving Lyn a big bear hug from behind.
"Oy! Oy! I ain't a hugger!" Lyn exclaimed, struggling to escape as she was getting picked up. "Kid! Tell me where yer house is!"
"But we're already here?" he questioned, looking around.
"No no, this is a dream! A DRE-AM!"
"So ya ain't real?"
"NO! (By Omnes) LET GO OF ME ALREADY!"
To Be Continued in Season III...…