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Witch of Dishonour 2: Ready? Go!
I get up and pay my respect to Lisa's grave. It was just yesterday that I came back to find the village destroyed. Dracula holds to what he said, I can feel the presence of Demons nearly everywhere, slowly eating away mankind. /Lisa would not like to see it destroyed/ I stand up and go back into the house, I grab whatever I need /I am sorry, Lisa. I didn't save you, but I will defend mankind against Dracula's Demons. Watch over me!/ I drape my bag over my shoulder, dress in my clothes for combat and leave the house.
As I enter the forest, I see a familier face „Adrian..." I cast my eyes down. „It wasn't your fault, Iduna. Father won't listen to me... but mother told me not to hate mankind!" Adrian exclaims. „I know. You do not need to worry, Adrian" I reassure him. „Will I see you again?" he asks innocent. „Perhaps" I answer and go into the forest. I can feel his sad gaze on me but I ignore it „Iduna... Don't die..."
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After I wake up, I stretch. I fell asleep in the middle of the forest. I walk further and see the neighboring village up ahead. „Iduna!" a little girl comes up to me. „Good day. How have you all been?" I wonder and she laughs at me „We are the same as when you left three days ago!" she replies between her laugher. /Of course!/ I resist the urge to facepalm /I was here just three days ago because of the village trading/ I smile at the girl who takes my hand and pulls me with her.
„Miss Yolanda!" the mayor greets „You are back already, child?" he smiles at me. „Yes, I am. I have bad news..." I start „My village does no longer exist... it was already destroyed when I arrived" I explained truthful. The mayor makes a sad face and closes his eyes in a small prayer. I stay two nights in the village, put up protective spells without being noticed and leave it behind.
On the road I encounter a small carriage of merchants that is attacked by Demons. I look at it /Good, the merchants are hiding,, they won't notice my magic/ I nod to myself and cast a basic fire spell at them. One of two Demons reels back and the second charges at me. I dodge to the left, narrowly avoiding a cut on my cheek. I summon spheres of light and pierce the attacking Demon with it. I summon the spheres again and kill the second one as it stands up. I speak a prayer and hastily hide behind a tree.
The merchants come out and scratch the back of their heads in confusion. I smile slightly and take another way towards the next village. Crack! I halt in my tracks, someone stands behind me. Slowly, I turn around. I come to a stop and see... a rabbit. I scratch my cheek „I am stupid, huh? To be startled by some animal. Haha" I laugh until suddenly, the rabbit turns into a giant monster.
I jump a few feet back and use an ice spell to form a sword. The rabbit charges at me and I dodge it. I roll left and try to cut its arm but my sword bounces off. It swings its arm left and I crash into a tree with great force. I wince in pain and struggle to stand up. As it swings it arm again, I close my eyes and chant a high- class spell „Fire, grant me your presence and destroy the being before me. Show yourself, Fire of Destruction!"I stretch out my arms and a fire appears between my palms, seonds before the monsters paw connects with me, I fire the magic in the monsters direction, it gives a loud shriek and is reduced to ash within moments.
„Done" I sigh in relieve. I try to move forward as a sharp pain enters my leg. I let myself fall down again and cast a healing spell on my leg. While I do so, I remember that mother always told me not to use magic, even when no one is there. My leg is completly healed after a few minutes but I remain sitting, I listen to the world around me.
I stand up and leave the forest, the next village will be in my sight shortly. As if to mock me, the village is under attack, I can see lots of Demons and Humans all over the place. /I cannot use magic like this.../ I close my eyes and take a sharp breath /Whatever. These people need help, I need to use my magic!/ I charge forward and slice a zombie with my ice sword. The next moment, three skeletons come at me.
I use the basic earth spell and put a really hot fire spell on top of it. The earth melds due to the heat and my attack forms into a lava stream that vanishes after the monsters are taken care of. I stare at nothing, stunned at what just happened. The village peoples shouts of terror bring me back to reality. The enemys left are some giant bird and at least ten zombies, I deal with the zombies quite quickly but the bird doesn't even get a scratch from my sword. /It must be the feathers. Maybe they are resistant to the cold... perhaps I can use that lava thing from earlier/ I concentrade, I try to summon it again using the earth and fire spell from before, but nothing happens.
I try to beat the bird with the Flame of Destruction but it will not work. „If ice and fire do not work..." I mutter under my breath „Then maybe light will!" I jump a few feet back „Light that illuminates my way, shine upon me and grant me your strenght. Form in my hands, Sword of Light!" A golden gleaming sword rests in my hand and I attack the bird. I cut into its right wing while I dodge an incoming attack, it wails and jumps into the air. It flies up there and looks down on me.
It shoots fire balls at me and I parry them with my sword. I use my magic by channeling it through the sword and send beams of light towards the bird. It does not have the time to move out of the way and gets destroyed. The villagers stop cowering and come out of their hiding places, the mayor takes the lead. I turn to leave „Please, wait!" the mayor shouts after me, he bows „T- thank you, you saved us" „Your welcome..." I reply and leave. I hear the rest of the villagers complain about how he could thank a witch. I create a barrier around the village.
„How nice of you! You helped them even though it should be clear that they would not like it. They will blame you for the fact that they were attacked!" An old lady comes up to me, I can feel traces of magic in her. „You are a witch..." I state „That is true, my child. I am Gisela. What brought you to save these people instead of staying in your village... or where you run out?" She questions.
„My name is Iduna. A friend of mine would have not liked to see mankind destroyed, that is why I will defend it! My village was already destoyed when I returned there but to be honest... It deserved that. But the one who destroyed it is overdoing it, he already had his revenge. I will stop him! I don't care what people think about me, I don't care if they are thankful as long as they continue to live!" I tell her as serious as I can.
She laughs good- hearted and pats my head „Do what you deem necessary, I will not stop you. If you need anything, I live in the forest near this village, I will sell you whatever you need. You can also brew together things you need" she suggests. „I will, thank you for your kindness" I bow to her and take my leave for now.
I arrive at a small river. I look around but see no one. Content I stretch out my palms, I try the basic earth spell combined with my fire spell. I concentrade as good as I can. After at least three minutes, a bit of lava forms but disappears right after /Maybe I need to pour much magic in it from the beginning/ I try again and use a big amount of magic. A huge lava stream forms before me, I touch it and try to form it into a sword. I manage to do so without burning myself.
„Yes!" I exclaim proud of myself. I use my magic to direct the stream in different directions and it works, depending on my will it even deforms. I stop midway and the stream falls down /Now that I think about it... fusing two magics and to control it by will should be impossible... But why does it work now?/
Panicked, Irun to Gisela. She looks surprised „What brought you here in such a hurry, child?" „I need to ask something. To fuse magic or control it by will is impossible, right?" I ask her unsure of myself. „Indeed, it is. A witch can infuse an object, animal or other things with magic. We can use magic when we brew something but it is impossible to fuse to magics. It is even more impossible to control it by will" She explains. „What..." I start „what if I can do such?" I start to panic again. „Are you saying that you can?" she wonders disbelieving, I nod afraid „Show me!" She urges.
I concentrade and summon the lava stream again. I will it to go right and it goes right, I will it to go into the air and it does, I also form it into a sword. I let it disappear and look worried at Gisela. She sits down on the bench before her house and holds her forehead „I have never seen such. I have not once heard of this, many of us tried to do the same but failed. The reason is that no human has enough magic to do so... You must be very special and have an more than an impossible amount of magic that increases steadily seeing as you are not tired" She shakes her head „How did you come to the idea to form it into a sword?" she asks.
„I usually do this with my ice spell. When I was seven I was trying to make a floral wreath but it wouldn't work. I was frustrated and before I knew it, a floral wreath was there made of ice. I didn't think that it was weird... but does that mean that even that should have been impossible?" I worry even more.
„Yes, it should have been impossible. We require complicated spells to do certain things but it is impossible to just create something out of thin air... Even in the village you used a fire, ice and light spell. Normaly, you need something to channel the magic. If you have fire near you, you need nothing to channel in order to create a fire spell, exceptions are if you need more fire than there is present. And light spells are those that are impossible! It is inly possible to use certain elements, in other words: fire, water, ice, earth and wind!" She shakes her head again.
„Did you ever need something to channel your magic?" she wonders, not looking up. „No..." I reply quiet. „What... just what are you, child...?" she wonders. „A human, a witch. Nothing more..." I say hopeless. „You truely are special child. You do not need to channel magic, can use elements and spells that are not possible and have a steadily increasing amount of magic..." She shakes her head again and looks up rather tired.
„Infinity..." I lift my head at her words „Child... never tell anyone about this!" I nod my head alarmed. She sighs „What is your full name?" „Iduna Ingrun Yolanda" I explain. She nods „I shall remember that" She smiles „Idun Ingrun Yolanda, the Infinity" „Infinity?" I ask. „You will understand someday... maybe" she tells me and I nod.
I begin to leave again as Gisela stops me „If anyone asks for your name, tell them you are called Infinity." I nod and leave.