"Anyway, we should go to bed." Airi said, bringing her back to reality.
As she stood up, she stepped on a teddy bear and almost lost her balance if she hadn't held on Airi for support.
Clicking her tongue, she uttered in disapproval. "This room is so unethically messy. So much for always being so elegant"
"They'll grow up soon. But you should get used to it, 'cause you'll be coming her more often than you expect." Airi said that as he helped her. "This room though, changes quite a lot."
Scanning the room, it was so obviously messy with lots of toys and plushies, along with stacks of books are scattered everywhere. But aside from that, the room looked lot different. It was no longer a pentagonal room; the balcony wasn't there anymore either. The only door was the one leading to the hallway. There was still shelves of books, but the musical instruments are no longer there. It was designed somehow cute looking. Unlike how it previously looked, it was now looked more like a room for children. Though under all that mess and cute stuff, it was still elegant and the walls and floors are still pure white.
It was already morning and the children are still in bed. Sychi gently touched Kishi's soft porcelain cheek to wake him up.
"You've been gone from school for days now, aren't you going back today? It's already late." She told him gently.
With a soft groan, Kishi slightly opened his puffy eyes and grabbed a pillow and hugged it.
"One more day...please..."
Sychi couldn't suppress a smile as she sighed. "Alright, one more day, okay? But don't miss breakfast."
With that, she departed the room.
Kishi sat up after a while, rubbing his eyes as he yawned. Looking around, the others are still asleep, so he decided to read a book to pass the time.
Bubblegum woke up last among the four of them. She leaned over to Kira who was sitting beside her and peeked at the book she was reading.
"I don't understand why you guys like to read books. It's so boring" she said as she wondered.
"Because it's fun!" Kira told her cheerfully.
Bubblegum suppressed the urge to roll her eyes and said to herself. "It's not even that fun..."
She tried to read what she was reading but was surprised because she can't understand the language written. "Kira, you can read that?" She nodded.
"It's just Elven language Sugar." Airi said. "That's what you get for skipping your language lessons."
She was somehow offended as she turned red from embarrassment. "Oh, I'm sorry. I'm just not interested. I mean, do elves even exist?"
"You haven't seen one before?" Kishi asked; astounded
"Err-No."
"You didn't see any when we first arrived here?"
"No."
"Give it a rest Kishi. Sugar is a princess who only knew what sugar bunnies are." Airi sneered.
"Airi!!"
"You wanna see one?" Kira politely offered.
And so, the four of them ventured deep in the Enchanted forest. As they go deeper, the trees became even more thicker. The grass is also taller and the terrain is lot dangerous. It was dark and quiet that only the cracking of the branches and the crunching of leaves under their feet was heard.
"Umm...a-are you sure this is okay?" Bubblegum asked nervously as she looked around tensely.
"It's okay Sugar, were almost there" Kira reassured her, jumping on a trunk and balancing across the river.
As Bubblegum looked down, she frightened at the rapid that was also full of sharp rocks.
As a percussion, she turned the whole trunk into a candy and slowly walked over it with her legs trembling. Unlike that other three, she was not as experienced on wild. She liked it better to walk on stone pavements than to climb steep mountains.
"Were here!" Kira told them, making her slightly relived.
Kira advanced forward and touched a rock. It immediately glowed blue with a magic circle appearing under her hand.
In an instant, the forest changed into an unknown place filled with luminescent moss on stones, radiant plants and flowers, and glowing mushrooms. But for some reason, the place wasn't bright and it wasn't dark either. It feels as if the lights of the place were barely lighting everything despite its quantity.
"What brings the prince and princes of the human empire here at our home?"
A lovely and elegant voice said. The children turned to look at where the voice came from and Kira immediately ran at the elf girl and embraced her.
"Azariah!!" she cheerfully greeted.
Azariah was an elf princess. She wore a golden circlet over her long silver-blonde hair. Her eyes were purple and she was wearing a flowy white dress. She was also as tall as an average human but with pointy ears.
"Kira, how are you? It been a while, hasn't it?"
"Yes, Azariah, it's been a while."
Azariah nodded before she beamed at Kishi who smiled back at her. With his other hand on his pocket, Kishi waved at her as he approached.
As she listened to their conversation, Bubblegum can't help but wonder. "They speak the same language as us"
"Yes, but they have their own language. We speak it as incantations. We also use their language in writing enchantments and scrolls." Said Airi.
"I see that you brought some friends. You've been spending some time at the outside world I take it?"
Kishi nodded. "Yes, we've been attending a magic school."
"Oh, I see." She said "What brings you to visit here?"
"Nothing really" he replied
"It is getting dangerous in the out side world." The twins noticed that her voice turned serious. "I heard that there is a lot of tragic things that is happening, immortals dying for example..."
The twins were momentarily stunned but they picked themselves up quickly. "It's nothing to worry about. We're actually having fun." Kishi said to her.
Azariah smiled again and offered. "How about a tea?"
"Ice cream!" The two of them said together.
***
They went home by the afternoon. The children were once again in Kishi and Kira's bedroom. Kira was leaning at her brother's shoulders dozily, exhausted after their trip at the elven domain.
"This place is so boring..." Bubblegum sulked as she hugged her knees, rocking back and forth. Having enough already, "That's it! I'll go take a walk--AAhh!!"
The two boys just looked at her with unamused expressions as she picked herself up from the floor.
"This room, is way too messy!" She complained
The two of them looked at Kishi and he just shrugged "Not my fault. It was all Kira's idea."
"Last time, you turned your room into a music room, now it's all noting but mess. How may times do you redecorate your room anyway?" Airi asked him.
"Were having music lessons that time!" Kishi told him, his face all red from embarrassment.
Sychi appeared out of nowhere and giggled. "Those brats are too lazy to go to the music room, that's why. And they redecorate their room whenever they want."
"Sychi!!"
She laughed yet again as she looked at Kishi's reddened face. Kira in contrast had finally dozed off and is sleeping so soundly at his lap.