Poppies Watered in Blood | third life | flower husbands

Part Nine

Scott and Bdubs snuck over to a corner of The Fairy Fort careful not to make a sound.

While Lizzie would know they were there, Scott had a feeling she wouldn't do anything about it. That was what Scott hoped would be the case.

Putting a hand on a lilac, Scott used his powers to see through every lilac in The Fairy Fort. While he didn't see Cleo he did see BigB with Joel, and Grian.

"So let me get this straight, you want us to help you find Cleo, Scott, Bdubs, and Jimmy correct?" Grian questioned, "yeah! I think we can really do it!" BigB confirmed, "how?" Joel asked.

"There are so many ways you could help" BigB promised, "uh huh, fat chance" Joel scoffed, "yeah, we know you did something to them, to make them disappear" Grian agreed, "wha-what do you mean by that exactly?" BigB asked Joel rolled his eyes.

"Cut the bullshit BigB, we've known for a long time that you've been working for the humans" Scott lifted his hand from the lilac in shock, "what?" Bdubs asked in a whisper, "did you find her?" "No, but Joel and Grian know about BigB" "really!?" Scott nodded, "oh that's a pity" a voice echoed out making Scott freeze.

"I had really hoped that useless creature could really help us rid the world of you pesky fuckers."

Scott and Bdubs turned to see a group of humans looming over them.

Before they could do anything Scott and Bdubs were grabbed by two goons, sending some of his energy through the ground so that Jimmy would know they needed help.

The humans tied Scott and Bdubs up putting cloth around their mouths so the couldn't scream, but Scott wasn't about to play helpless victim. Using his power he sent a canary to Lizzie while ravens started dive bombing the soldiers.

The man tried to grab Scott, but he kicked away.

Bdubs was already making a break for it, and Scott decided he'd do that to, but just as he was running to go follow him, a soldier grabbed him and slammed him to the ground.

Desperate to escape Scott summoned thorny vines to pierce through their armour, but unfortunately one lucky guy was able to shoot Scott's side halting the thorns. Scott screamed through the rag covering his mouth as he was grabbed once again.

Throwing him onto a cart the man pressed Scott's head into the wood.

"Call them off demon!" The man shouted.

"Call them off!"

And Scott did, not because he was scared, but because of the canary he sent to Lizzie.

Hopefully The Shadow Queen would help him, but even if that wasn't the case at least Bdubs and more importantly Jimmy would be alright.

"Don't bother going after it!" The man shouted

"We got what we came here for!"

The soldiers rode away taking Scott with them. From the corner of his eye he thought he saw Ren and Lizzie watching him go with wide eyes, but that could just be his hopeful imagination.

The trip was long, but Scott was too scared of what might happen to him to sleep.

Not like it mattered anyway, as he doubted his captors would be so kind as to give him a wink of shuteye.

Eventually they took Scott out of the cart, and into what Scott imagined to be a dungeon. Scott was handed off to cell guards who looked at Scott in confusion.

"Why must we have another!?" The guard asked, "we should just kill 'em like we always do!"

"This one's important" the soldier snapped, "he ain't worth killing till the king says so"

"At this rate the whole dungeon will reek of 'em!"

"Oh boo hoo!" A prisoner called out from her cell, "such terrible punishment for you fuckers!"

"How bout I throw 'em in your cell ay!?" The guard shouted, "then you'll see the true monster in 'em!"

Without warning Scott was thrust into the woman's cell before the guard turned and left.

"Well hello there" a male voice called up and Scott saw a heavily scared man with brown hair, and a woman with one scar above her eye.

The woman propped him up against the stone wall, and started untying him whist talking all the while.

"Wow, so your one of those magical creatures with powers! I've only met one of them, he was a healer! Kinda the reason I'm in here, but not the point! So do you have a name? Mine is Pearl, and my cell mate over there is Scar! Well I guess our cell mate now since we're in this cell together! But that's alright! I don't think we're at all bad company!"

Pearl removed the rag from Scott's mouth with a satisfied expression.

"There we go!"

"Uhm... thanks" Scott mumbled and the two prisoners smiled, "honestly you're doing us a thank you, because you can help us escape!" Scar said and Pearl punched him in the shoulder.

"Owwww, what was that for!?"

"You're not forcing him to do anything he doesn't want to do"

"But everyone wants to escape!"

"Even so you can't just say that to every creature you meet!"

Scott listened to the two ramble with a feeling settling over him that this happens way too often.

"We don't even know his name yet!"

"So let's ask him!"

Pearl turned to Scott with a smile, "so what is your name?" "Scott"

"Is it because you're Scottish?" Scar asked earning another punch from Pearl, "uhm... no that's just kinda my name" Scott answered awkwardly.

"Forgive Scar, he isn't good with people" Pearl said, "you're only saying that because I tick and the guards off a lot" Scar pointed out.

Pearl rolled her eyes, "see what I mean?"

Scott nodded in understanding, "so anyway, do you want to help us escape? This will include you, and if it's not too much to ask, can you stick with us for a bit?"

"Can I ask why you want me to stay with you?"

"I want to find the healer that helped me, and I can't do that on my own, and certainly with just Scar"

"Hey!"

"Anyway I owe that healer a lot, so I want you to help me after we all escape, you don't have to, and I'd understand if you said no."

Scott thought about it for a moment. He was ok with helping them escape, but was he on helping her find this healer? He did have a pretty good idea on who it was, so was the answer yes?

"Can I think about it?" Scott asked

"Of course" Pearl answered, "but you will help us escape right?" Scar asked and Pearl slapped his face.

"I will help you guys escape, trust me" Scott promised.

"You're not doing this because you pity Scar right?" Pearl asked, "no, I just genuinely want to escape, and if I can help you guys escape then why not."

Pearl nodded

"I see, thank you"

Scott didn't know how long it would be before he got to see Jimmy again, but one thing was for sure.

He definitely thought Pearl needed to lay off a bit in slapping Scar.