It has been two weeks since Celestia told us we couldn’t go to other worlds till the Trade talks were complete and the trades were underway, Until then I had nothing to do as while I could always head off to another world with my Dark corridors I could only go to ones I knew and even then I didn’t want to risk the people I knew on those worlds knowing I had dark magic Leon was bad enough the only ones that would probably understand are the Titans but that might be a stretch. Moondancer returned to her studies while Gleaming resumed her guard duties.
As I walked down the streets of Canterlot I bumped into a man wearing a brown cloak “Oh sorry.” I said as he bent down to pick something up and then handed it to me.
“You dropped this,” he said as I was about to correct him he disappeared into the crowds. I shrugged and wondered what he gave me. I looked at the thing and saw that it was a crumpled up piece of paper, curious I unfolded it and saw that it was a note.
Mister Huxley
Please come to the address listed on the bottom of the note at the date and time listed below. There is a job for you if you wish to take it. The payment is 3000 bits upfront
This seemed like a trap but I also had nothing to do for a month so I would see what's up.
The next day I woke up bright and early before I went to the address listed on the note, it was a back alley next to one of Canterlots many mansions. When I approached the meeting point I saw a horse, which surprised me as I didn’t think they existed in this world, and a carriage. As I got closer someone whom I guessing was the man from yesterday spoke up “Who goes there!” he asked before realizing it was me “Oh, Huxley right?” he asked.
“Yes, I’m Huxley,” I said feeling a little uneasy about this.
“Alright come with me you’ll meet the mistress.” He motioned as an old woman about 50 or 60 years old came out of the side door.
“Hello” I greeted before asking “So what's the job?”
The man spoke up and explained “You will be escorting Mistress Page to Las Pegasus.” before handing me a large bag of bits “This is your payment.” I wondered what was stopping me from simply leaving but I had a feeling that they had already planned for that and I didn’t want to see that plan.
“Alright, anything else I should know?” I asked.
“Do not abandon mistress Page.” he said in a very clear tone.
“Right understood,” I said before asking “So how long is this trip going to be?”
The man looked at me and answered, “A week to get there a few days break in Las Pegasus and another week to get back.”
That wasn’t a long trip for me as I’ve crossed Canada multiple times in my life so this would probably be just a long quiet trip. “Well, shall we get on with it then?”
“Yes, lets.” Ms. Page said as the man escorted her onto the back of the carriage before I got on to the carriage, the inside was nicely furnished with a cozy interior, and as the door closed the carriage started to move.
A few days into our trip as we were stopped at a forest clearing for lunch, we were at least a day or two away from Las Pegasus. As the man whom I never got his name was preparing the food I was wandering around the area to make sure there weren’t any animals that would try to either steal our food or harm Ms. Page, as I’m sure the cab driver would try to kill me for failing to do the job I was hired to do.
As I was finishing up my walk I heard a noise from behind me and Before I could react I was stabbed in the back, multiple times and as my vision faded I saw a few bandits who judging by there claw-like hands were the griffons of this world. “Let's go and get the target boys,” the head bandit said as I blacked out.
‘HUXLEY!’ the voice of Xion shouted as I came too I quickly got up and ran towards where the carriage was, only to find the man laying down next to a few dead bandits. “Crap,” I said running up to the man I looked over him mutter “Please don’t be dead, please don’t be dead.” over and over again.
“Where were you?” He said weakly.
“I got knocked out by the group that I’m assuming attacked you.” I answered before trying to see how hurt he was.
“Leave me, go find the mistress.” He said.
“Hold on I have something,” I said as I summoned my keyblade and cast Cure on him and he got up.”How are you feeling.” As he dusted himself off I asked “So how do we track the Carriage?”
“I put a tracking spell on it, It was intended for Las Pegasus so we wouldn’t lose it,” he explained.
“Alright, so where is it?” I asked as he looked around before pointing in a direction and we ran off.
Half an hour of running we found the bandits camp. It seems they’ve also stopped for lunch. I looked at the man whom I still didn’t know his name and asked “Alright what's the plan?”
He looked at me confused “You're the bodyguard, you come up with the plan.”
I thought for a second before Xion said something ‘We could always try Demyx’s power on them.’ I smiled at the thought and summoned my keyblade turning around and holding it like a guitar before Shouting “DANCE WATER DANCE!” before all the bandits could react Water clones began appearing and attacking them.
After a short while, the Bandits were defeated and we made our way to the camp both to find Ms. Page and to get some answers from the leader. “Huxley check the carriage.” The man whom I really need to learn the name off said.
As I opened the carriage I found Ms. Page safe but before I could tell the man that she was fine a Bandit tackled me to the ground and started to pummel me, then everything I felt something. I raised my hand to get him off me but something strange happened it wasn’t my hand that attacked him it was a shadow’s claw. He quickly grabbed his face in pain which gave me the opportunity to get another hit in this time knocking him off me.
As I got up he started to back away fearful of me “No... stay back.” he said as I kept walking forward.
I grabbed him by the collar and asked “Who hired you to kidnap Ms. Page?”
“K-kidnap we were hired to save her.” he said fearfully
“Bullshit now answer!” I shouted as Ms. Page grabbed my shoulder.
“Put him down, they were hired by my husband to take me back home.” She explained.
I turned my gaze to the man I was holding and said “You try to come for her again and you won’t survive the fight got it.”
As he ran away I turned to Ms. Page and said “I want answers.”
She sighed and said “I’ll tell you everything in the carriage”
As we rode out from the clearing where the mercenaries took Ms. Page She started to explain everything. “I should probably explain what happened, Why my husband thinks I was kidnapped.” she paused for a second before saying “I’m leaving him. I was nothing but a trophy to him.” She then sighed “If you're wondering why we're heading to Las Pegasus, its because there is a clinic there that does the impossible, reverse aging though it's extremely expensive, which is why I’m doing now with the other miracle of leaving this world I can screw the bastard out of his money and leave before He can find me.”
“And what makes you think this will work?” I asked.
“The clinic requires a signature and is enforced by Celestia herself so If somebody doesn’t want to pay they’ll have to answer to Celestia herself,” she explained.
“And what makes you think that you’ll even be allowed to leave the world I heard that only a select few have been chosen and they are mostly workers.”
She smiled a tricky smile “I have a friend who put in a good word for me and Hard Work.” I guess that's the name of the man who’s driving the Carriage. “She put me down as a managing job and him for a job under me.”
The rest of the trip was is silence, there were no mercenary attacks or anything till we got to Las Pegasus. It was quite a sight. The flashing neon lights and the tall casino hotels. After an hour of driving through the city, we arrived at our hotel which was close to the clinic were Ms. Page would take her procedure. We quickly dropped our stuff (and by our, I meant their stuff as I didn’t bring anything) in the room, I shared a room with Ms. Page while Hard Work had his own room adjacent to ours.
Two hours passed since we arrived in the city and I was bored out of my mind. There was no Television here (not that there was one in Canterlot either) and I didn’t bring any books to read. Hard work took Ms. Page to the Clinic for the age procedure and they said it should only take an hour, hour half at max and I was told to stay in the room till they came back.
As I was considering heading out when I heard a knock on the door, I opened it slightly and saw that It was Hard work carrying a girl who looks to be in her twenties. “Is that Ms. Page?” I asked Hard Work.
“Yes, keep her here till I return with some clothing.” He said as he placed her on the bed and left.
“Well good thing she’s aslee-” I stopped myself as I heard the bed move.
“Hey there Huxley.” Ms. Page said in a young voice.
“Oh, I didn’t know you were up.” I told her as she motioned me to sit on the bed. I reluctantly did so and asked, “Are you feeling alright?”
“Oh, I’m fine, just a little Hot under the collar.” She said as I didn’t like the way she said hot it felt off. “Would you help me cool off?” She asked
“How would we do tha-” Before I could finish she hopped on me and kissed me.