Name: The Stolen Hope | REBOOT | Episode Three (Animated Cat Series)
Uploaded: 2022-06-10T10:49:59.000Z
Duration: 26 min 15 s
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Wha-  Look what you did! You scratched me… you actually scratched me!

That makes two of us. Look at us, blood brothers.

I know how stressful the first time was for me too, but one you get around scratch number 35 you start to get pretty used to it.

Vivian! Your behavior as of late has been unacceptable! We are training, which means not actively hurting the ones around you! Using your claws is intolerable, and to make matters worse, you did it twice!

Either you reign your aggression in, or there will be serious consequences. I will not have a soldier on my battle lines as careless as you are, understood?

What am I going to do with that insufferable wretch?

Jackson and Apollo, go pay Sharp and Rowan a visit to patch you up. And Vivian, you better show up tomorrow with a better attitude. Your graduation is soon, and if you keep this up, I’ll be left with no other choice than to fail you and extend your training.

Oh, and what a shame that would be, having to sacrifice more of your quality time with yours truly.

*groan* Every conversation I have with you makes me age ten years. This isn’t worth my time to be bickering.

Care to fill me in on who Sharp and Rowan are?

They’re the Thorn head medics. It’s pretty cool, actually. They’re only a little bit older than us, yet they’re so skilled already.

I’d certainly hope they’d be more skilled than you! Do you even know what kind of leaves you're patching me up with? Whatever it is, it tingles!

Hmmm… Pretty sure it’s poison oak. I heard the toxins clear the germs right out of the wounds.

Hey! This isn’t funny! I’m gonna have a rash for weeks!

You are so gullible! *Laughs* It’s not poison oak, they’re maple leaves! See, look! Completely harmless!

Y-you freaked me out! You’re such a jerk!

Yeah, a jerk who patched you up! You’re welcome by the way!

Don’t mention it. Come on, maple boy. Apollo and Vivian are already headed over.

Hey! Why maple boy?! *groan* Well... if I’m maple boy... then I’m calling you...

I'm sorry if that hurt your feelings, if it did I-I-I take it back, that was-that was-that was a little out of line. I'm sorry,

Ugh! It physically hurts me to hear you try to whip up a comeback, eugh. I’m not the one with leaves stuck to half of my arm, maple boy, so your nicknames automatically don’t count. Good try though!

How kind of you to wait for me. For a split second, I almost the outgoing cheery soul we all know and love was starting to change it up on me!

I suppose you’ve been patiently waiting to give an apology for the scratches, Viv?

Vivian, what's the matter? You’ve been acting out a lot more recently.

I’m just showing everyone that I’m not to be messed with.

I hate to break it to you but I don’t think Lunis and Apollo have any intention of “messing” with you. Dusk? Ehh… not her either. She just wants you battle ready, but it certainly doesn’t help you keep pushing her buttons.

You know something, Jackson? I’ve been putting twice the amount of effort into training as you, yet… yet Ares won’t stop fawning over you!

No! I was the one who met him first, I was the one who brought you to him! I’ve been the one who’s been training more than you, and still… After all these months we’ve been training with him...

he still views you as stronger than me! More gifted than me! The better option for getting the curse than me, when that’s all I’ve been working for!

You heard Ares the first day you met him, you have a “stronger physique” than me! He just likes you more because you look like him! You boost his ego, even though I’m the one working twice as much as you do, just for you to sweep up the praise!

I don’t know what to tell you! It’s not like I have any control over how he views me! I don’t even like him! In fact, I hate him! The only reason I’ve been sticking around is to make sure you’re okay!

Look. All I’m going to say is you need to back the hell off, Jackson. I don’t need you to take care of me.

But you’re my sister, Vivian. I just want to make sure you’re safe.

Just… back off before you step in the way of my plans.

What “plans” could you possibly have?

Stay out of the way and you’ll have nothing to worry about.

You know, you visit me almost every week with mysterious ailments, but this is the first time in a long time where it’s actually been true.

Well-I mean, not every issue I have can be seen on the outside you know! I-I’ve had real issues before. I mean, they’ve all been real! I don’t know what you’re talking about!

Sharp’s right, Apollo, and you know he’s right. Unless, there’s another reason you keep stopping by (giggles).

Oh, no! Nothing’s wrong. I just have some stuff on my mind, that’s all.

I need you to help me carry the jar of cream over here or Jackson’s cuts. I can’t hold the bandages and cream together by myself. So, uh...follow me.

I’ve run into you a handful of times while visiting Ares. Vivian, isn’t it? You seem to visit the King pretty frequently, so if anyone would know this, it’s you. Tell me, is that boy... Ares’ son?

Um… yes? That’s Jackson, my brother. We’re his kids.

Curses, he did have an heir! Two heirs! It wasn’t a rumor!

Yes, we never knew for sure if he was a father. It was just a mere rumor that spread like wildfire years ago. I remember my parents gossiping about it when I was young.

Time went on, and the heir never appeared, so we all thought they had died, or it truly was just gossip gone wild. But now, two children… and they’re alive! In the Kingdom of Thorns!

I-I have so many questions! I don’t know how I couldn’t have seen it, the more I look at your brother, the more I see his father…

How didn’t you ever notice him training with us? It seems like you aren’t that great of a spy, are you?

Watch your mouth. I saw you slinking around Ares months ago, alone. Plus, I like to keep a low profile and give my spy reports when nobody else is around.

Staying hidden is the smartest way to go in case one of the other spies decides to snitch to Hesia and turn us all in. You never know who you can trust.

Sharp: Hey, what’s taking you two so long? Are you putting the whole medicine shelf on his arm?

Oh-We’re coming right now, just, uh, had a hard time finding the bowl!

I’ll tell you what. I’ll keep an eye on him if things start to get murky… just in case his loyalties change, he’ll have two sets of eyes on him. Not just one. Come on, carry this.

What’s with little miss blank stare over there?

Lunis! Lunis! What is she doing? Is she alright? What’s happening to her eyes?! Can she even hear me?

Don’t interrupt her when the spirits are trying to communicate! You could’ve cost her valuable information!

Sharp, it’s alright, I’m fine. They didn’t tell me anything anyway.

They were trying to tell me something… they seemed angry. I don’t know. I couldn’t focus enough to understand.

Ehh… I try to at least. Mostly, it’s just them shaking their heads menacingly. My mother… She's much better than me. She’s been able to talk to spirits since she was a child.

I didn’t even get my guide until a few years ago. I can’t control when they appear, or what happens when they do.

Yep, I was born with it, lucky me. Although Rose tried playing it off as a “blessing”. Blessing my ass. Call it what it is, a curse.

It’s exhausting. Debilitating even. The pain in my head when they contact me is unbearable at times. I don’t know how Rose, or Hesia were able to master it.

The queen talks to them at will? How does she do that if it’s so weakening?

Well, she had Rose and my grandmother’s help to guide her as a child. But my guide doesn’t have nearly as much interest in helping me, and they’ve been especially absent lately.

I’ve been training with my mother sometimes… when she’s not too busy. She told me that “the spirits are there to offer wisdom and warning”, but what use are they if they don’t speak?

Wow, Vivian, I didn’t know you were so interested in curses! That’s pretty cool!

You wish, bonehead! I’m just making conversation.

Well, you two are all cleared to head on out. Just clean the wounds each morning and night and they’ll heal up nicely. It was nice meeting you, Jackson. You too, Vivian.

What’s the matter? Are your old man bones finally giving out on you, dad?

Oh, you wish! I’m just going easy on you because I’m feeling nice today!

Alright, Apollo, let your dad up, you might give him a heart attack if you keep this up. I swear, I have to take care of three children at heart.

We’re going to speak with the other High Ranks about the refugees.