Chapter 103: Ben Dover

The four of us went through the gate, but we had to go to the Crystal Flower Farm first cause both of us went first and then got hell after. Neither of us had been to the Manufacturing Hex-Comb, so we had no way to get there, but then that begs the question of how the first person got there?

"You can't go rushing off! Even though we are inside the ship, we don't know if someone will try to break into the place you are entering? The Predators have some kind of edge, and they know things that she shouldn't," Riza scolded me, and I nodded.

She was right, and I should be a lot more careful. 

"Sorry, I need to get my head screwed on, but that is an excellent point to bring up. The leader of the Predators is a man, and he is doing something to control the girls, but he can also see the future or predict it. I think that he might be another God-Tech user, but having the ability to control others and predict the future doesn't really make sense," I said as we started to walk into the flowers.

I was Holding Miku's hand, and she was hugging my arm, but I could also feel the pull from the flowers and the greetings as I passed. This was only my second time in this place of giant glowing blue Crystal Flowers, but it was my favorite place save my bedroom hehe.

"Maybe he was able to get magic somehow like you can? There are other races like the Owl Folk that can predict the future, or he could control someone with that ability. Either way, we need to find them first before we can do anything," Riza said.

"How do you find someone that no one knows anything about?" Joni asked curiously.

"That is a good question, but here is another one. Have the Predators always been here? Or did they show up?" I asked as we reached the end, and I walked to where I had seen the big flower before.

"No, they only showed up about a year ago; it was when they attacked the Raccoon Village. Before that, we had never heard of them, but I have no idea where they came from. What I know is all second-hand knowledge that I have gathered from talking and listening to others talk," Riza said.

I was disappointed to see that the extra big flower was now just a normal one. It was not like Pelleta was going to just show up again, but the large flower was just like a comforting reminder of her.

"That's alright that you don't know, but now I know the right questions to ask people to find the answers that I want. I am excited to meet Terrance; I think that I will be able to glean a lot of useful information from him about the world. I am hoping that he might know a little bit about the Predators, and I would also like to see if I could get him to join us," I said as we started to head back.

"Terrance might take you up on that offer. He really likes to travel to new places, but he can't fly into the sky to explore, so he would consider it," Miku said as we neared the end of the field.

All the flowers looked vibrant and healthy, and I was also feeling more relaxed after talking through problems as we walked. We didn't come up with answers, but we identified some of the possible problems and figured out how to maybe find more information about them.

All in all, it was a good walk, but now it was time to go and see the manufacturing Hex-Comb, and then we could see Assembly. After there would be the weapons, and then I was free! Provided that all my duck Bee Hive and stay in on row!

Miku and I waited for the girls to go through first, and then we followed behind them into absolute chaos. 

People were running and flying everywhere I looked, and I could see Gamble and Pixie in the middle of it all. They seemed to be directing traffic and ensuring that everyone had something to do and knew what they needed to be doing.

"Excuse me, coming through. Oh! Sorry, my Queen, I didn't know that was you there!" Said a Skunk Folk man that was carrying a bag or something that looked very heavy.

I stepped out of the way, and the mane and more strong men like him made a train. Gamble saw them and started to wave them all to a sizeable furnace-looking thing, and then they took turned to dump their back full of dark gray rock-looking things.

"Over here!" Pixie called, and suddenly Rixie hopped out of Miku's shadow, and the two were running off to see Pixie.

I just blinked. Had Rixie been here the entire time? Why didn't she come out? And I also was going to talk about the elephant in the room.

I might have been a bit hasty about Rixie's name and not really thought it through. Now Rixie and Pixie were becoming fast friends, and I cringed at my stupidity.

"Ashia?" Messia asked me and scared the Beeswax out of me, making me almost jump into the air.

"Hey! A bit of a warning would be nice! I have fragile nerves, don't cha know?!" I said, whirling on Messia and a strange-looking Raccoon that felt vaguely familiar.

"I found this Raccoon Folk wandering around, but we don't have a Ben Dover on the list," Messia said with a straight face, but then Bob and I burst out laughing.

Messia looked at us strangely, but she still didn't get it, but that only made us laugh harder. 

"Bob, don't you have anything better to do than lead my wife in circles?" I asked him.

"Who is Bob?" Messia asked, but I ignored her for now; that was no point in trying to explain it to her.

"I am practicing for when I have to go and do special missions for you! If I can fool your own wife who keeps track of everyone, then I should do it when in another kingdom. Now, I am going to go and bother Will some more," Bob said with a smile and walked away.