Whispers

"Hey… who are you guys?" Hubrid says, leering into the robe as his eyes are nearly blinded by the light, almost dislocating his neck to do so.

The robe that was illuminated in an orangish-yellow light began to decay slowly as Hubrid continued speaking to them.

"Hey! Hey!" Hubrid shouts as they do their best to ignore him with cold sweat dripping down their miniature foreheads.

"Ignore him and he'll go away, just focus on the mission-." Hubrid reaches into the robe and pulls out the two sprites that'd been talking.

"What the-." The sprite cries out as he sits in the closed palm of Hubrid alongside his friend.

The two sprites look at each other in confusion as they stare into the robe looking at the two faces they'd despised more than anything before being dragged out.

'This kid uses magic, doesn't he? So how is he touching us?' The two sprites thought as they looked at each other with their fear growing and bewilderment showing.

"Who are you!" The sprites say in utter awestruck as they begin trying to struggle free from Hubrid's iron-tight grip to no avail. He eyed them down with wonder as he tried to remember the lessons he'd learned from Druchess.

Hubrid smacks his head in an attempt to remember their names. "You guys are… melons? No, wait you guys are oranges!" Hubrid says with confidence as he stared at them with their faces nearly reaching his eyeballs.

"Rijal! Ignore him and start draining him of his magic!"

"Alright, Bigal!" The two of them stick their needle-like tails in Hubrid as it pierces his skin and they bin to steal his magic energy as their tails begin to bulge from the amount of power being sucked away.

"Rijal, Bigal, did you guys know Druccshess? Yoou wasre inside oaf hies rove." Hubrid says as he begins drooling, nearly assaulting the two sprites with his saliva.

"Looks like we were worried for nothing Rigal, this guy isn't as tough as I thought he'd... be?

Hubrid slobbers as he lifts the black-winged humanoid figures towards his mouth as he began to crunch. The two of them screamed out in pain but it was too late for them. The moment Hubrid had his magic drained, he saw the sprites as cockroaches, which to him was a good meal.

"Foob!" Hubrid cried out in joy as it was the first time he'd eaten in a while. As he swallowed and with a gigantic gulp, he felt his senses returning

"Where did those felons go?" Hubrid wondered as a strange aftertaste lingered in his mouth.

Suddenly, more voices were heard coming from the cloak.

"Help us! Help us!" A tiny hoarse voice of a female could be heard whimpering inside of the robe as the light that encumbered them began to fade slowly.

"Be quiet! With those sprites gone we can finally escape on our own!" The tiny voice of a man says hushedly despite his loud tone as chains began to clank and struggling was heard only for it to end with a large huff and an awkwardly long pause.

"Help us! Help us!" The voice of a man is heard again, this time joining in with the cries of the female.

Hubrid quickly darts his hands into the cloak and reaches around, as he continues digging he feels himself being pulled into it, eventually entering inside of it to see a library that could dwarf even the great library of Eruna. Hubrid looked around in awe, scouring the library, and glancing swiftly over the abundance of books surrounding him from all angles. He dashed around merrily at the large expanse of books, he'd finally begun to feel true warmth, not the facade of warmth that the robe usually gave him as it covered him head to toe.

The oak bookshelves piqued Hubrids interest, he'd always wondered where Druchess had gotten his wide variety of books from. Whenever Hubrid would ask, Druchess would give some petty excuse to him such as "Knowledge dwells inside of all of us," Hubrid touched the books with both hands outspread as he flew across the ground like an eagle with its arms outstretched searching for prey.

The bookshelves appeared to look endless as Hubrid continued running down the isles taking book after book off of the shelf. Lights shined so brightly Hubrid had thought he'd found himself outside of the cave while sleepwalking. Hubrid continued down the isles, knocking book after book off of the shelves as he heard more strange voices calling out to him. The cries of the fairies were nearly ignored as Hubrid began skipping around the library in joy, with this abundance of books he could learn anything he wanted.

Hubrid begins sniffing around the library as the two fairies stood in front of him malnourished and weak. He continued inhaling air through his nose as he walked closer to the fairies, the two fairies looked at the disgruntled appearance of Hubrid and began planning for the worst.

"Damnit! Hey! Get us out of these chains!" The struggling voice of a male is heard once again, this time without the exaggerated high-pitched voice.

Hubrid turned to face the fairies and they met eyes on an equal level, Hubrid was shrunk when he entered the robe making him the same size as the fairies. The fairy on the right was chained to a wall, bound by her feet and hands by a rusted, corroded chain, her hair was a light bluish color, and her eyes the same. Her eyebrows frowned at the sight of Hubrid staring at her on the wall as she sat there in little clothing with bruises and scratches covering her body head to toe. The Red-haired fairy next to her began to bargain. He looked similar to the female fairy but with manlier features and his eyes matched his hair color.

"Hey, kid! Get these chains off of us and we'll give you-."

Before he could finish talking, Hubrid had already broken the chains from their links freeing both of them from their internment. The rust cracked away from the chains as the three of them coughed from the rust-infused dust that littered the air around them.

"Are you guys felons?" Hubrid says in confusion as he scratches his head as his other hand trembled with excitement. He'd heard of the fairies, Druchess told him of the war that took place between fairy and sprite long ago, he was told about how they could go into different worlds and planes of existence, he looked around the library once again as books flooded his eyes and wondered if he was in the world Druchess had told him about.

"No! We were kidnapped by those sprites ages ago! Why'd it take Regil so long to send someone for us and why'd he send a kid-." The fairy looked on, realizing that Hubrid was missing his wings, the trademark symbol for a fairy. He examined Hubrid wearily as he gestured to the blue-haired fairy to attack.

She attempts to attack but hardly manages to summon a small droplet of water from the magic she'd begun summoning, her body faltered as she was too weak to even fight and the single water droplet was gobbled up by Hubrid as he dashed across the room so it would not be wasted. He slid underneath her as the water droplet fell to the ground and slurped it up as it made connection with his mouth.

"Do you have food too?" Hubrid says as he eyes down the fairy standing above him as he lay at her feet while letting out a huff of relief from the water he'd drank.

"By the way, what are your names?" Hubrid says as his mouth drool left his mouth as he stared at the two of them with what appeared to be delusions.

The two fairies looked at Hubrid with fear drawn over their faces. They had no idea what a man like Hubrid would do with them, and neither of them could use their magic or wings to defend themselves or run away due to their prolonged imprisonment.

"... I-I'm Barry… and she's… … Mwopy…" The fairy says while lingering on every word he speaks.

"But the voice inside of my head told me you were Arry and she was Mwop… maybe it was lying to me," Hubrid says with innocence as both Arry and Mwop looked on in shock.

"... I guess so," Arry says as a drop of sweat somehow manifests on his head despite his lack of hydration, Hubrid walks up to him and licks it off of his forehead calmly as Arry stood still.

"Oh! You guys aren't felons, you're fairies! Where is this place that we're in?" Hubrid says as he heard a whisper in his head.

"You guys got caught by the oranges…" The voice whispers to Hubrid once again, "I mean the sprites right? Where'd they go?"

Hubrid perks up as he hears the voice speak to him once more.

"I did?" He says in confusion as he coughed up a bone, making the two fairies jump back in shock as a wet slimy substance covering the bones hit the wooden floor with a wet thud as Hubrid continued looking at the fairies.

"Okay," Hubrid says in determination as he stares at the fairies as he heard the voice beckoning him towards the fairies.

"I'll do whatever it takes!"