A note before reading that this takes place after when Aimee had escaped from Trinity Facility, and of course, before the facility was destroyed, practically, when Hailey was there
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“Wake up” the voice called out to the sleeping Vixen, but so far, no response, well, save for a groan and roll over in the bed. The voice gave off a sigh and approached her, pulling the covers off her “Get up, now” she ordered her.
The Vixen in question whom was sleeping was Hailey as she rolled over to look at who had woken her up, Trinity “What is it?”
“Shut up, get up and get dressed, we’re needed” Trinity ordered Hailey with a fold of her arms as well as she eyed Hailey still.
Hailey wore a shirt and a pair of underpants as she moved to the side of her bed and gave off a stretch before standing up and slipping into some more proper clothes before looking over to Trinity “So um, what are we….needed for?” Hailey asked with a yawn.
Trinity, however, gave off no answer as she turned and started to walk off with Hailey following her until Trinity spoke up “We’re heading out, I need to go and see someone and I need your help in the matter as well”
“And, who are we seeing?” Hailey asked back, getting rather curious by that point as she tilted her head to the side whilst the two of them walked over to the elevator of the facility.
“She’s a friend of mine….tell me, do you recall the human nursery rhyme of Old Mother Hubbard?” Trinity asked Hailey as they waited for the elevator to descend to their level before stepping inside.
“Old Mother Hubbard, went to the cupboard, to give the poor dog a bone, when she came there, the cupboard was bare, and so the poor dog had none.” Hailey replied back as she had indeed, recalled the nursery rhyme.
“Very good, well, that is only the first line, it goes on for a few more sentences, but no need to go into detail about them as much, reason I asked about it is rather simple actually, we call her Old Mother Hubbard, her and her dog friend as well….I suppose you can call it a code name of hers” Trinity glanced back to Hailey as the elevator continued to move upwards.
“So, she’s old as well? And what about her dog friend? What’s his name?” Hailey asked in order to get what information she could about Old Mother Hubbard, the one that Trinity was telling her about as the elevator made its way up.
As the doors opened and the two stepped out, Trinity spoke up as they walked towards Trinity’s car as well “She’s 79 years of age, but that does not necessarily mean that she’s not capable of doing many things….as for her dog friend, even I’m not sure on his name, he never talks when I’m around”
Trinity’s car, a Ferrari, an Enzo Ferrari to be more precise as Trinity got into the driver’s side of the car whilst Hailey got in the passenger’s side, to which Trinity drove off, heading towards Old Mother Hubbard’s place.
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As they were driving, Hailey spoke up to break the silence in the car “So um, what does….Old Mother Hubbard actually do?” she decided to ask, as so far, there was just a mystery behind the old lady, and to her, it was just confusing as it was “Cause an old lady working within the ranks of Dragonstorm, I guess that seems to be good, something no one would really expect, cause I didn’t”
Trinity just gave off a soft sounding chuckle “Well, I must say that you are rather smart, even if you do ask a lot of questions, that’s one of the sole reasons she works with us, as you have the usual, young ones, or older ones, but not old as in, 79 old, not many do like to suspect little old ladies”
“Yeah, I guess that’s true, cause I wouldn’t suspect her, she would be one of the last ones I would suspect” Hailey spoke with a little laugh as well “Oh, by the way, um, before I forget…what’s happening with that new Dragonstorm experiment of yours and Kain’s? I mean, she’s new and all, I know that, just created and all that sort of stuff”
“No need to worry about her at the moment” Trinity reassured Hailey as they continued to drive out of town and down the highway, the speed of Trinity’s car speeding up some more, going from 50 to 100 in two seconds flat.
“So, where does Old Mother Hubbard live?” Hailey asked as she watched the trees whiz on by.
“At least half an hour worth, she decides to keep away from towns and cities, so I guess you could say that she lives in the middle of nowhere” Trinity replied back to Hailey.
“Heh, kinda like Courage does” Hailey spoke with a small giggle as well.
“Yes…” was all Trinity had replied back rather flatly as well, turning the radio on as well, just for a song to start playing, Linkin Park’s song Bleed it Out, to which she just smirked lightly as they continued to drive onwards still.
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After that half an hour had been and gone, Trinity slowed down to drive off an off beaten path, a house was visible in the far distance as well as Trinity drove up to said house.
The house in question looked to be an average size looking house as the car was parked, to which Trinity nudged the sleeping Hailey, waking her up before stepping out of the car.
Outside the house, on the porch, an anthromorphic dog stood, leaning against the side of the house, eyeing Trinity somewhat. He watched as Hailey got out of the car as well before stepping off the house and walked off inside whilst Trinity walked to the door to follow him, only for the dog to raise a hand to get Trinity to wait there whilst he headed further into the house.
“Was that her dog friend?” Hailey whispered some to Trinity as well.
Trinity nodded back “Yes, like I said, he’s not really much of a talker as you can tell so far, and again, so you don’t ask, no, I don’t know his name, but it’s best not to ask about it, you wont really get much of an answer in regards to it, that, and it’s not really important either”
Moments later, the dog returned and motioned for the two of them to enter the house after him as he showed the two females inside. He put out a hand to the couch, to which Trinity pushed Hailey slightly to get her to sit down before sitting down as well.
The dog turned and walked off again “Is it always like this?” Hailey asked Trinity.
“Yes, Old Mother Hubbard does thing rather delicately” Trinity answered back to Hailey as the two of them had to again, wait for a bit longer still.
A few more moments, an old lady walked into the lounge, to which she looked to Trinity “Good to see you again Trinity on such short notice, I must apologize for bringing you out here”
“Please, it’s of no bother” Trinity spoke back rather calmly “Might I ask what it is that you wished to see me about? Your message was, as usual, rather…coded”
Old Mother Hubbard gave off a nod back “Of course, I had to as you never know who could be listening in, now, what I needed to see you about is actually, in regards to my experiment and I know what sort of scientific mind you have, especially in regards to what help you had in creating that Subject 19 you told me about…come” she turned and walked off, to which Trinity followed the old lady off as well.
Whom that was left in the lounge was Hailey and the dog, to which Hailey spoke up first to him “So, do you have a name?” she asked him, but got no answer back from him “Cause I’m Hailey” she added on, but still, got no answer from him, to which she instead, noticed something else that he had, on what seemed to be his belt, a flute “You play?”
He gave her a nod and unhooked the flute, placing it to his mouth and started to play on it. Hailey stood up, her tail wagging happily from the music playing “Wow, you’re good at it”
And that’s when he spoke, something even Trinity hadn’t heard him do “Oh, you have no idea….” He spoke in between playing as he continued to play, to which Hailey could not help but start to dance along to the music, it was as if the music was controlling her.
“Uh…wait a second…I’m not a dancer!” Hailey called out as her legs continued to dance away still.
The dog just smirked as he continued to play, stepping around Hailey as he continued to watch her still before seconds later, he made a move, using only his flute, he struck her in the chest first, then upon the shoulder before aiming the mouthpiece of his flute at Hailey “You should watch yourself…I’m no ordinary creature…”
Hailey put her hands up a little as she looked to the flute, then to the dog “Are you…a Dragonstorm experiment by any chance?”
He gave her a nod back “But there is a reason I like to keep quiet…to be able to observe more easily…” there was a pause from him before he spoke again “Drake”
“So, what powers do you have?” Hailey then decided to ask Drake.
Drake shook his head back “There’s no need to give away secrets now is there?” he smirked to her as he put his flute away again, folding his arms as he then leaned against the wall “Now, it’s best you keep quiet, too many questions can get you into trouble, especially if you go about asking the wrong question”
“Well, yeah, but now I’m just confused on a couple of things, why did you attack me after the music?” Hailey asked him next.
Drake only gave off a bit of a chuckle back to the question that she had just asked him “Well, you wanted to see if I could play with my flute, and I showed you…in other words, you got what you asked for…”
That didn’t seem to help out Hailey all that much as she scratched her head somewhat as well “Uh, I guess so” she just ended up shrugging as well as she layed down on the couch, only for Drake to cough some.
“Please, don’t do that, Old Mother Hubbard doesn’t like it when one lays down on the couch, she doesn’t like to have dirt on the furniture” Drake told Hailey.
Hailey just groaned as she sat back up again as Drake walked over to the couch, reaching into his pocket and pulling out a handkerchief, to which he wiped the couch, removing the dirt that was dropped on the couch by mistake as he glared towards Hailey some as well.
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