Author's Note: So here is a short update. I figure I can update more often if I make the chapters shorter.
Tell me, do you like short chapters and frequent updates or long chapters and a little bit (long) of a wait? The next update should be tomorrow or later today.
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"Eh! I'm not drinking that." Akari yelled from her spot on the bed. After puking the contents of her stomach out, she had fallen into a fever, and now she was under an ample amount of blankets sitting up in the Witch Princess's bed, as said princess held up a goblet filled with red metallic smelling liquid for Akari to drink. Akari had injured herself enough times in her life to know blood when she saw or smelled it, and the liquid in that goblet was definitely blood.
"Don't make me force you!" The Witch yelled amber eyes burning with irritation as she tapped her foot impatiently.
Akari glared and crossed her arms. "What poor animal did that blood come from?" Akari asked wrinkling her nose.
"What makes you think it came from an animal?" The Witch Princess said smirking in the process, which resulted in the widening of Akari's eyes.
"A human?" Akari asked fearing the answer.
"No."
"A Fish?"
"No"
"Then what did it come from?" Akari asked tilting her head back and away from the goblet.
"This isn't all blood you know." "It's a potion, with one of the key ingredients being blood." The Witch princess replied smugly.
"That still doesn't answer the question." Akari said her face becoming pale.
"It comes from a magical being. Now no more questions drink up."
VIVI'S POV Flashback
It had been three weeks since Akari had moved in with her, and in the second week the human's appetite had decreased and she began to pale slightly. Vivi knew why, and the reason pissed her off, and led her to seek out the bastard that was responsible; with her staff in one hand and a sack filled with the things she would need in the other.
The Wizard wasn't hard to find, he was actually waiting by the Fugue forest sign on the outside of the forest looking pissed.
"Give her back to me!" The Wizard gritted out, teeth clenched in a scowl, that seemed so different from the calm façade he showed to the mortals around these parts.
"Why don't you go get her?" Vivi asked smirking, knowing that, that was impossible since she sealed off the forest to most magical being besides herself. The only one who could break her seal was the Harvest Goddess herself.
"Akari needs me...I can feel her... she's ill." The Wizard said his face taking on a look of worry.
"And whose fault is that dumbass? Vivi asked gripping her staff tighter in anger.
"I never possessed a reason before to kill you… don't give me one now." The Wizard said as his lighter colored eye began to glow.
Vivi rolled her eyes at his empty threat. He couldn't kill her and she couldn't kill him, their divine wardens made it so.
"Look, I came to find you because I need to make her the potion."
"She's mine and only I can make the potion for her." The Wizard said clenching his fists at his sides.
"That's why I brought the ingredients and-" Vivi began.
The Wizard interrupted her.
"I...already possess the ingredients...take me to her."
"How does that one human saying go?" Vivi pondered with a finger to her chin before giving the Wizard an annoyed look. "Oh yeah, do I look like I was born yesterday? You're not seeing her and that's that. So make yourself useful and give me what I want."
The glow of the Wizard's lighter eye intensified as an invisible wind seemed to pick up around him, blowing both his and Vivi's hair.
Vivi tensed feeling the change in the Wizards magic.
"So you're out to play aren't you?" Vivi asked tapping her staff to the ground three times as her amber eyes began to glow a soft orange.
"She... belongs to me. I cannot kill you… but I can make you wish that I could." The Wizard threatened his once quiet spoken voice darkening and filling with a menace that promised pain to whoever disobeyed him.
"Blah blah blah. I haven't exactly been sitting in that forest twiddling my thumbs dumbass." Vivi said eliciting a growl from the Wizard across from her. "I've found a way to restore part of my real power back to me, so I don't mind taking what I need by force, to take care of my human!" Vivi yelled, easily dodging a punch from the Wizard.
"Fist fighting, isn't that beneath you Galeon?" Vivi smirked as she slammed her staff to the ground, resulting in a burst of flames from her staff, catching the Wizard's clothes on fire.
The Wizard smiled darkly as he waved a hand over his torso and the flames vanished just as fast as they had appeared.
"Fire...doesn't that remind you of something? Death… pain, loss, and destruction?" The Wizard taunted smiling darkly as a large purple book appeared levitating beside him, and he opened it, his lips moving fast in a chant.
Vivi grit her teeth.
"Shut up!" Vivi yelled her shoulders shaking in her rage. "Akari needs this potion...her baby needs this potion, can't you stop being so fucking selfish for once in your existence? The longer we wait, the longer she's in pain. Haven't you hurt her enough!?" Vivi exclaimed tapping her staff twice to form a transparent orange bubble around herself, as a black mist materialized from the Wizard's book darkening the area around them.
Vivi waited, ready for whatever the Wizard would throw at her. When the black fog dispersed revealing a golden, purple, jeweled chalice sitting on the ground filled with a red liquid; Vivi stood confused.
Vivi frowned looking around for the Wizard just to see his trembling back as he walked off in the distance towards the farm that he and Akari once shared. Vivi recognized the chalice instantly as she picked it up and her fingers skimmed across the carvings of the Wizard's full magical name.
'That bastard already had the potion prepared.' Vivi thought as she headed back to her stubborn human.
END FLASHBACK
Vivi frowned at the memory. It was odd having the Wizard surrender so easily...but he wouldn't poison his own wife and child out of spit would he? But then he wouldn't complete his task to escape the Island.
"What magical being?" Akari asked, her eyes going wide as she just remembered that she hadn't seen Finn since he told her the Wizard's plans and the Harvest Goddess summoned him back to her.
"You know, you ask too many questions for a human. I should say jump, you should respond 'how high?' I should say drink this and you should say 'yes mistress; may I have some more?'" Vivi said smirking at the glare Akari was sending her as she weakly folded her arms across her chest.
"Bite me." Akari said feeling her temper rise.
"Don't tempt me." Vivi responded as she sat on her bed next to her petulant human. "Drink before I drag the Wizard here." Vivi threatened.
Akari gave the witch an incredulous look. "You expect me to drink blood?"
"Enough!" Vivi yelled losing her temper, and standing so abruptly that she almost knocked the goblet out of Akari's hand. "I'm not very patient human." Vivi stated as the annoying human as her staff floated to her side and she gripped it tightly. "What I say is law here, got it?"
"If I didn't listen to Ga…I mean the Wizard what makes you think that you can boss me around?" Akari fumed, angrily sitting the goblet down on the table next to her.
"You live in my house." Vivi yelled pulling at her hair with the hand not holding the staff.
"Fine I can leave!" Akari weakly tossed the blankets off of her body, and instantly regretted it as she began to shiver and cough violently.
Eyes widening in alarm, Vivi tapped her staff to the ground once and the blankets rapidly tucked in around Akari, while the pillows fluffed behind her head.
Vivi eyed her human, while trembling in rage. She didn't know if she wanted to hex the stupid fool for not just drinking the damn contents of the Wizard's goblet, or smooth her sweaty brown hair off of her forehead. Her human looked like crap. In any other situation Vivi would have cast a spell to make Akari drink the damn liquid, but it was something that she had to drink of her own freewill. Vivi couldn't even make a meal and hide the liquid in the food because the Wizard was the only one that could handle the elixir and make it into anything else.
Akari sighed once her coughing subsided. "I'm sorry Witch but I can't."
"Human, argh fine don't drink it! I'll find you a substitute that doesn't include blood in the ingredients." Vivi lied.
Smiling, Akari closed her eyes. "Thank you."
Vivi grabbed the goblet and tapped her staff four times to the floor of her house and teleported to the entrance of Fugue forest. She hated what her human was unknowingly forcing her to do.
After teleporting a second time Vivi appeared at the entrance of the Ranch that belonged to her human. She watched frowning as a few plump grazing chickens gazed curiously at her before running off. The cows and other animals glanced before turning away to do whatever it was they did.
The witch noted that the animals seemed healthy and well taken care of, and the rows of crops that were growing seemed to be doing well. 'Well the bastard is keeping my human's home and livestock in order at least.'
'Speaking of the Wizard, where is he?' Vivi wondered when she didn't sense his presence anywhere.
"What has happened…is Akari well?"
Vivi spun around and jumped backwards gasping in shock. 'How in the hell did he sneak up behind me without me noticing!' The witch thought, frowning when she saw the Wizard's worried face. His eyes studied her before resting on the goblet in her hand. Vivi magically lidded the goblet, so she wouldn't spill any of its contents.
"She did not drink…" The Wizard said.
Deciding to get to the point before the Wizard jumped to conclusions Vivi began. "She didn't like the idea of drinking blood. Humans seem to find that odd." Vivi said irritated. "Take this and make it into some normal looking human food. Split it into a few lunches so I can give it to my human over a few days, that way she won't become suspicious."
Gale stared at her calmly, his emotions non-existent as he held out his hand for his goblet.
Vivi raised an eyebrow. The Wizard seemed too calm, after wanting to kill her. 'What are you up to?' Vivi wondered studying the Wizard as she handed him his goblet.
"If my wife and child come to harm…no deity will keep me from killing you." Gale said, still eerily calm as he walked to his house. "Wait here…"
Biting her lip, Vivi didn't let the angry retort leave her mouth. She knew the Wizard well, and she knew when he was plotting something underhanded. Her thoughts worriedly went to Akari. 'Even though you're the most annoying, stubborn human I've ever known, I will keep you safe Akari-chan.'
'Could the wizard be pissed that I uttered his magical name?' Vivi laid her stick horizontal in the air and jumped up to sit atop it. She levitated high enough to gaze out at the ocean and the bright sun nestled amongst a few stray puffy clouds.
On any other day, and in any other situation Vivi would have flown off, and reappeared two hours later just to piss the wizard off. She found herself lost in her thoughts.
The Witch found herself thinking back to a time where the Wizard would freely utter her name and she would freely utter his to damn the universe and the laws that governed all witches and wizards.
'I've been on this island too long.' Vivi thought with a sigh 'I can't remember which one of us corrupted the other first.'
Flash Back
"Daughter of mine, where have you gotten off to now?" A high pitched woman's voice called out in amusement.
Vivi ignored her mother's calls and stared from her hiding place behind a bush to view the spectacle happening on the other side of a bush. A young wizard from a neighboring village was going to the Pond of Oracles to receive his magic name. Only the old traditional magic families who followed the old ways believe in the existence of the Pond of Oracles. The modern magical families of Vivi's village thought witches and wizards of the neighboring village were a bunch of old-fashioned traditional loons.
Vivi wanted to see what really went on in their weird ceremonies. After begging her mother to take her to the market place and close to the main road out of the village, Vivi ran away and hid in a bush as soon as she got the chance.
Hearing the high-heeled approach of her mother's footsteps on the stone paved streets, Vivian quickly darted out of her hiding place and gathered the tiny bit of magic her five year old body could produce, and changed her prim and proper white and pink polka dot dress into a dark black and purple robe to match the foreign villagers trailing after the young boy.
The young boy, who held the hand of an old rankled woman, turned his head and met Vivi's eyes curiously.
Vivi gasped. Never in her short life had she seen such an odd looking boy. His eyes did not share the same color! Vivi instantly thought of the stories her older sisters would tell her of a wizard who made a deal with a dark entity to share the same body, so that he could be as powerful as a god or goddess.