Sage had visited Aqua yesterday, and it served as kind of a wake up call. The Mushroom Domain was under more attack than it had ever been, but yet none of the other domains had sent any help their way. Aqua would have mentioned to Sage this was odd, that usually any domains that weren't under attack would send a lot of protection to those that were. But Sage had a lot to deal with, even the prince of this domain was being hunted down, and he needed to focus on staying out of the hands of the hunters. Aqua could handle reaching out to the other domains, but just this morning they saw their desk covered in letters. Each letter was a rejection, every domain turned down their desperate pleas for help, the Fox Domain, the Daisy Domain, and even the River Domain, Aqua's home, would not hear them out. Amongst the rejection letters, one caught Aqua'a attention, one sent from the Diamond Domain. They picked up the letter, slid it out of its envelope and began reading.
" Good morning Aquamarine, village leader.
I find it shocking no one has come to help the Mushroom Domain yet, since it's fallen prey to a targeted hunter strike. However I find it odd that I'm hearing from you, village leaders are usually fairies of high respect and honor within their communities, I understand that prince Sage is young and although he can technically appoint leaders they can still be questioned by other domain rulers. I sent my concerns to some other domain rulers and they agreed with me that a new village leader should be appointed to rule over Orchid village. The fairies that will be sent from my domain as a means of extra security will remove you from your throne room if you're still there by the time they get there.
No hard feelings, I just have this village's best interest in mind.
Brooklyn Diamond "
Oh, now they'd really gone and done it. If Aqua hadn't said anything, they would still be a village ruler. Why can't someone be a village ruler even if they don't come from a wealthy family? Why would some other rich fairy be more qualified than them? No, it was no use being bitter. Aqua didn't have much to pack anyway, they hardly brought anything to the Mushroom Domain, most things they owned were back home in the River Domain. At least this gave Aqua an opportunity to go back to the River Domain and see their Aunt again. They quickly swept the throne room of everything they brought and made their way out of the throne room, maybe it was best if Sage didn't know they were leaving, he might lose sight of what he's supposed to be focusing on in an attempt to defend them. When they had gathered everything into their purse, Aqua left the throne room and was greeted by every fairy they walked by, it reminded them of how much they would miss this. Fairies never liked them, always thought they were weird or improper, it felt nice to be treated like they were someone. Suddenly Aqua turned around and faced the throne room, one thought plagued their mind...
"Screw this." They said, walking back to the throne room, placing their purse back on the coat rack, and sitting down at their desk to do their usual duties and responsibilities. So what if Queen Diamond didn't want them here? She's going to have to drag them out herself. As Aqua sifted through missing fairy cases, reviewing all the stories again, they heard a knock at their door. They didn't remember setting up an appointment this early, it couldn't be Sage since there were only three knocks. Aqua hesitantly walked towards the door, they thought maybe these were the fairies that were supposed to take them out of the throne room if they didn't comply. If that was true...then they shouldn't answer the door. Instead they took several steps back, as they heard the fairy on the other side of the door knock three more times. Aqua gently lifted the glass part of the window that shined over the throne, they then stepped up on the throne and started to make their way out the window. They heard three more knocks, but these knocks were threatening, they were spaced apart like this fairy was running out of patience. Aqua slipped out the window, flapped their wings, and flew down the hill on the other side. They were quick to charge in the first store they saw, trying not to be spotted by the fairy sent from the Diamond Domain. The store they landed in happened to be the bakery, Aqua made a point to walk in casually, like they were looking for breakfast instead of a place to hide. They waved casually to the fairy behind the counter, "Hey, Persephone." The young fairy looked up at Aqua and beamed, "Hi, Aqua, what would you like?" Aqua looked behind her and saw a basket of blueberry muffins, "Blueberry muffin, please." they said casually. As Persephone took a muffin from the basket, the door to the shop swung open, three fairies walked in, all of them wearing all white. It was uniform for the guard fairies of the Diamond Domain, which meant Aqua was screwed. "Come with us." one of them said simply, Aqua took several steps back. "I've led this village better than anyone ever could!" They argued, while also knocking down Persephone's water bottle with their telekinesis. "It doesn't matter, the queen thinks you are unfit to lead." the guard said. "This village was a wreck when I got here, I'm the one that helped rebuild it, does it really matter that I'm not from a rich family?" Aqua argued, they moved the spilt water towards them. "What matters is that you have no reason to be a leader, we can't just let anyone be leaders." The guard said, Aqua couldn't help but grin at this, "Then I'll give you a reason." was all they said before using the water on the ground to lift that guard into the air, they let go of that guard and used the water to propel the other guards into the air before they could attack. Aqua jumped onto the counter to avoid a spike of ice that the guards made from the water Aqua had thrown at them, while on the counter, Aqua kicked the tap on the sink. That gave them unlimited water to work with, which would be useful for battling frost fairies who could just turn any water they threw into ice. Aqua used the water from the sink to grab one of the guards and suspend him in the air, just as the other guards prepared to attack, they slid behind the guard they had caught, leading the other guards to freeze the water surrounding him, he was now completely captured, one less to worry about. After realizing Aqua had tricked them, the other two guards knocked the block of ice their fellow guard was trapped in towards Aqua, who quickly caught it with their telekinesis, already moving water over to help them. Both the guards and Aqua battled with the block of ice, pushing it back and forth in an attempt to crush each other with it. One of the guards decided to freeze the water Aqua was using to help themself, the minute they were distracted with that, Aqua flipped the whole block of ice on them, nearly crushing them as they just barely managed to escape. Aqua stood on the block of ice and pushed all the water from the overflowing sink forward, they concentrated it to sit on the heads of the two guard fairies left. If they froze the water, they'd be trapped in ice, if they didn't, they would drown. Aqua waited patiently to see what decision they would make, before they felt their hand suddenly get pulled behind their back. Before they even had time to process what was happening, one of the bracelets hunters use to rid fairies of their magic was forced onto Aqua's wrist, this made all the water they were using to drown the guards fall to ground like it was nothing. "The queen was hoping you'd come easily, but she sent backup just in case you didn't." The guard behind Aqua said as she placed handcuffs on them, and then led them out the door of the bakery. Aqua felt bad for flooding Persephone's bakery, they turned their head to apologize to her, but she had already bolted off when the fight started. Oh well, Aqua would just have to apologize when they came back here, because Aqua was coming back, even if the queen didn't want them to. "We're taking you to the River Domain, you're not to ever come back here unless we receive word from the queen." The guard said, as she took Aqua out of the forest. Aqua would cooperate...for now. But they'd make their way back to Orchid Village eventually, they've been meaning to visit their aunt in the River Domain anyway, this would be like a little vacation.
In the throne room, Aqua's phone rang...
But no one was there to answer.