Hey peeps! After a long wait (okay 4 days isn't long, especially in college lol) I finally had enough time to type and post up the next chapter of "Rise of the Mistress of Magic". Since it's about 3 am on the east coast about 12 am on the west coast. I got a 3 pm class in the morning, so I got tons of time to sleep. Plus, my birthday's next week! Yay! I turn 18 on the 13th! :D Expect the next Adventures chapter up on that date! Let's get started with this chapter shall we? I don't own jack except Felicity, and the Telum de Lucis. The Air Shroom is not my original idea. I got that from a YouTube video, and the name escapes me at the moment (sorry!). Anyways, read and review, and enjoy!
Two hours after we left the castle, we made it to the docks with a half an hour to spare thanks to Pit's flying. The boat left, and we were on our way to Rogueport. I was leaning on the rail of the boat. I felt the boat go up and down against the beautiful, blue water, thanking the higher beings that I didn't get seasickness. I was watching the beautiful sky to past the time (and boredom) on the boat ride. All the questions I had would be answered very soon. There wasn't a cloud in sight, and the sun was bright and beautiful.
It was the exact same weather when I first came to the MK those seven years ago. It seems like yesterday when I first came here, helped Mar, and defeated Bowser for the first time. Man, those were on better times. And then it hit me: I'm finally going on my first adventure alone without any adult supervision. This is so...awesome! Finally! A chance to show the world what this teenager is made of! Mar, and them have done so much for me these past years. Now it was time for me to start paying them back for everything.
I closed my eyes to take in the beautiful crisp air blowing on my face, and the smell of seawater that surrounds me. It times like this that I love going on adventures. Going to far off places, meeting new people, learning new things, facing dangerous obstacles, and much more. I opened my eyes after the wind stopped blowing, and my hair finally came back down. I looked down at my right wrist to see the charm bracelet Mar gave me on my 13th birthday, and unintentionally started moving my fingers over each stone and the bracelet, which gave me a big reminder of what I am.
"The silver bracelet represents the reflection of yourself, and the gemstones help show that reflection too. The red gem is Garnet. It symbolizes the courage you have whenever you're about face a hard challenge, whether it is an enemy or obstacle. The pink gem is Opal, your birthstone. It symbolizes the love, hope, faithfulness, and loyalty you have for everyone and everything you care so much for. The orange gem is Amber. It symbolizes the happiness you have all along and the happiness you brought with you when you first came to the Mushroom Kingdom. The green gem is Emerald. It symbolizes the wisdom and knowledge you gained and shared with others and us throughout your time here. The last one, the purple one, is Amethyst. It symbolizes the sincere and genuine personality that you were born with. So, the sum it all up, this bracelet, and the gems that are in the bracelet are in a sense, who you are, and I, we want you to know, that we are all proud of the amazing, beautiful young woman you became today."
I knew my eyes started to fill with tears when I started to think of that moment. I felt a hand wipe my tears away. I looked up to see Pit by my side.
"Ahh!" I screamed as I was jumped, being startled by him. I fell and landed my butt on the boat's deck. He started to laugh hysterically at me (great guy right?) as he bends down to help me up.
"It never gets old seeing your face like that!" Soon enough, his laughter is contagious and I started laughing as well. I knew what he was doing, He was trying to get me to smile, and be happy instead of being sad and crying. I took his hand, and he helped me up, and pulled me straight to him in the process. Like I said before, his chest is so warm and strong that I just snuggled my head all up in his chest. He is a couple of inches taller than me, so it works. Then, he took one of his hands, and run it through my hair, knowing how much I love it when he does that.
"Thanks again."
"Anytime. What were you thinking about that made you cry?"
"The bracelet Mar gave me, and what it stands for. He, and everyone else have so much faith in me. "
"Well of course they do. They know you're going to save them, and the whole world."
"But that's the thing. What if I can't defeat her! What if I fail, and everyone suffers because of me? I'll just let everyone down. Maybe I don't have what it takes to be this Mistress. Maybe, I should just give-" I didn't even get to finish that train of thought because Pit just grabbed me and kissed me full out on my lips. This and the wind blowing really hard, blowing my hair as I slowly put my arms around his neck, and he had his arms around his waist made this feel like a part of a romance movie. And as much I wanted to keep kissing, I needed air. We stopped at the same time, gasping for air. As soon as he got his breath back, he looked at me to make sure I was all right, since it was taking a while for me to get mine back.
"I'm fine. I'm guessing you did that so I would stop rambling on right?"
"Yes, I did. If you didn't have what it takes, then Mario, would never have given you that bracelet, or tell you everything he knew. Toadsworth wouldn't have tested you like that. And I know for a fact that I wouldn't have let you go." He made some very interesting points about the whole thing. Mar wouldn't have let me gone on any other adventures growing up, Toadsworth would have actually called Peasley to save the day, and Pit wouldn't let me go at all. So they have faith with me, why can't I have faith in myself?
"You're right. I do have what it takes to defeat her. And she's going to see what happens when you mess with my family and home."
"That's the girl I know and love." Before I could say anything, there was some intense shaking. We both tried to keep our balance. Pit lost his, but I barely managed to keep mine (Thank you years of dance). As soon as the shaking stopped, I helped Pit to his feet. The Captain, a Toad whose name I forgot by accident, came running toward us.
"Captain, do you have any idea what cause the shaking just now?"
"Yes. I'm afraid I do, your highness." A vein literally popped out of my head when he said "your highness". I hate being called that. Yes, ironic that a princess hates being called "your highness". It's weird for people to be calling me "your highness". I grew up with people having called me "Felicity" or "Felic". I rather have people call me by my name, and by formalities.
"Felicity is just fine, Captain. Now, what seems to be the problem?"
"Well your-I mean Felicity, a Gooper Blooper hit the boat. There's nothing to worry about. They usually don't bother boats. They just hit it once and continue swimming." I turned around and looked back at the water. Suddenly, I got the feeling of my clairvoyance acting up. In my vision, I saw the Gooper Blooper again. This time it was attacking the boat, crushing it into nothing, and so many people being injured, or worse.
"It's not over." I heard myself saying out of the blue when my vision ended.
"Pardon, Felicity?"
"It's coming back! It's going to destroy the boat!" I screamed as I turned to face them. Soon enough, the boat shook again, this time, more violently than the last time. We all lost our balance, and ended up on the floor. We got up quickly to hear people screaming, and a horrifying roar. Our eyes widen as we saw the giant Gooper Blooper make its appearance. Pit looked at me, and I knew exactly what he was saying. We quickly got back on our feet, and I helped the captain to his feet as well.
"Captain, please try to keep the boat afloat. Pit and I will deal with the Blooper."
"Alright. Be careful you two." The captain said as he went back inside to steer the boat again (It was on Autopilot before).
"So, any ideas how to defeat this thing?" Pit asked as the Gooper Blooper roared and swung his arms around. I looked at his eyes, and saw that they were red, compared to their normal black eyes. Seeing his eyes gave me a very dangerous and risky idea, but maybe it would defeat him. Might as well try it out now. If it fails, I can't say that I didn't die trying.
"Actually I do. Could you fly around and keep him distracted with your arrows?"
"Yeah. But, what will you do?" I started to put my hair in a ponytail, and take off my shoes, and socks.
"You're going to sneak up from under him by swimming underwater?"
"Yup."
"And how will you be able to breathe for that long?" I pulled out a blue mushroom from my pocket (I've been saving that mushroom for a while, and it's still edible).
"And what is that?"
"This, my handsome angel, is an Air Shroom. It gives me the ability to breathe underwater. It's like being a mermaid without the freaky, fishtail." Though I wouldn't have mind becoming a mermaid, even for a short while. I blame Disney and my love for "The Little Mermaid" for fueling my desire to be a mermaid.
"And how in the world did you get your hands on something like that?"
"Being a princess, and future ruler of the MK has its advantages. But we'll talk about that later, after this calamari is defeated."
"Right. Good luck, and be careful. I don't want anything to happen to you."
"Same to you." I ran toward him, gave him a quick kiss on the lips, then ate the Air Shroom, and dived into the water.
*Boss Battle: Gooper Blooper! *
Gooper Blooper: 200/200 HP
Pit: 75/75 HP
Felicity: 90/90 HP
I was swimming around for a bit, dodging the many tentacles it had, then I had to achieve step 1 of my plan. When I take out the tentacles, Pit can have a clear shot of his face and hit it square on. I swam up to the surface, and looked for Pit. He was dodging tentacles left and right. Knowing he wouldn't be able to hear what I have to say at the moment, I decided to take my plan into action. I dived again, dodging tentacles once again.
"Flara!" I screamed as I formed a small fireball in each hand (how I can make fire in a body of water in the first place I have absolutely not the slightest idea). I threw them at the tentacles, hitting two and burning them. I continue doing this until all the tentacles were hit.
Glooper Blooper: 180/200 HP
Pit: 75/75 HP
Felicity: 90/90 HP
I swam up to the surface and try to find Pit again. This time, he was just floating in the same spot, wondering what happened. I was waving my arms around like a total idiot, hoping it would catch his attention. Luckily for me, it did, and I managed to quickly tell him my message.
"Pit! Hit it now! While its tentacles are down!" Pit nodded and aimed carefully at his face. He shot two arrows at its face. The arrows seem to have an effect on him, but not much. While the arrows dazed him, I decided to try out a spell I've been working on for a while. I put my arm out in front of Gooper Blooper, closed my eyes, and concentrated on the spell and it's target.
"Verum Ostendo Sum!" I screamed as a light blue light came from my hand, and went straight toward the Gooper Blooper. I opened my eyes to see it hit him head on. His eyes went from red to black to red again. Of course, it wouldn't be so easy to get him back to his senses. Pit looked at me, and gave me a smile and a thumbs up. Before I could respond, a tentacle hit him straight on, causing him to fall back onto the boat.
"Pit!" I screamed in horror as I swam toward him, only to have the air knocked out of me by another tentacle, and knocked back into the water.
Gooper Blooper: 140/200 HP
Pit: 65/75 HP
Felicity: 70/90 HP
I almost panicked, thinking I was going to drown, until I remembered that I could breath underwater. I swam under the ship to check on Pit, hoping he's okay. I was swam up to the surface, I saw him dazed on the edge of the boat.
"Pit! Pit! Are you all right! Say something! Please!" I said with panic and worry evident in my voice. If anything happened to him because of me, I would never forgive myself. I heard a groan, and saw him move, causing me to sigh in relief. He shook his head and looked around, most likely looking for me, and making sure if I was all right. He turned around and saw me in the water, looking at him.
"You okay?" I screamed at him.
"I'm fine. Are you all right? You're not hurt?"
"I'm good. No injuries on my side."
"Good. Do you mind answering what did you do just now?"
"I'll explain later, but right now, we need to do the same thing before."
"Is this your plan from the beginning?" I nodded at him. He smirked at me, and complied as he loaded his bow and arrows, and prepared his wings. I swam back underneath the boat, and ducked the tentacles again, but it was harder this time. He most likely caught on to our plan before, but I still managed to shoot fire at its tentacles.
Gooper Blooper: 120/200 HP
Pit: 65/75 HP
Felicity: 70/90 HP
I swam up to the surface just in time to see Pit shoot arrows at him. The Gooper Blooper tried its hardest to dodge, and spit out ink toward him. He dodges the ink and shot more arrows at it. It managed to dodge two before he became dazed yet again. I closed my eyes, held my arm out, and concentrated yet again.
"Verum Ostendo Sum!" I screamed yet again, this time a little louder and harder than the last time. The light blue light came out my hand in front of it yet again, and hit him straight on yet again. His eyes changed black again, longer than the first time, before they turned and remained red. One more time should do it.
Gooper Blooper: 80/200 HP
Pit: 65/75 HP
Felicity: 70/90 HP
I didn't wait for Pit to give me a cue or such. I wanted to end this as quickly as possible, so we can get on with our trip. I swam toward him once more, and I realized that I was starting to lose air, and I didn't have another Air Shroom on me. Not now! Anytime but now! Just my luck right? And not just that, it finally hit me how powerful that attack was, and along with the consecutive amount of times I used "Flara" to paralyze its tentacles. I was starting to get really tired, but I couldn't give up just yet. I had to defeat this thing to save all the passengers, and the captain, and make sure they get to Rogueport safe and sound. I continued to swim at the tentacles, only getting hit twice.
"Flara!" I screamed for the third time, hitting the tentacles with accuracy, so I wouldn't miss, and waste what strength I had left.
Gooper Blooper: 60/200 HP
Pit: 65/75 HP
Felicity: 50/90 HP
I barely had any air left after I was done, so I swam as fast as could to the boat and air. As I managed to make it to the surface, I gasped and took long, deep breaths of sweet, sweet, air. I managed to climb on the boat by myself (Yay upper body strength). I saw Pit trying so hard to shoot the arrows at him. He got ink spat on him (ewww), but he still managed to hit him with the same two arrows he did before. As soon as the Gooper Blooper was dazed, he flew down toward me.
"It's t-t-t-t-t-time to end this." I said stuttering (cause being in water for a long period of time does that to a person) as I took a few deep breaths, closed my eyes yet again, and this time put both arms in front of the Blooper.
"Verum Ostendo Sum!" I screamed as loud and hard as I could as the light blue light, this time bigger than the other ones shot out my hands and straight toward it. As soon as I released the spell, I felt my knees give way below me, and I fell to the ground. Thankfully, Pit was there to catch me before I hit the ground. We looked up as soon as we heard the Gooper Blooper scream in pain as his eyes finally changed from red to black, and stayed black. The Blooper looked around, most likely forgot what it was doing there in the first place, and swam away like nothing happened. I sighed in relief and closed my eyes.
"Felic? Are you alright?" I opened my eyes to see his cute and worried face. I managed to make a smile with my trembling, freezing lips (that I believe were blue. I'm not sure).
"I'm f-f-f-fine. I didn't expect that s-s-s-s-spell to take s-s-s-so m-m-m-much out of m-m-m-m-me." I said stuttering since I was shivering. He slowly helped up, and allowed me to lean on him for support. The Captain (who's name I finally remembered to be Rodney) came with many blankets for the both of us.
"Thank you both for saving us all. We are truly indebted to the both of you. Here some blankets, so you two won't catch a cold." He gave us the blankets to use. Pit took one for himself as he wrapped the rest around me. The blankets were so warm too.
"Come inside, and we'll warm you both up very quickly." Captain Rodney said as he walked back in the ship.
"Can you stand?"
"Y-Yeah." I said, stuttering much less than I did a few minutes earlier. I slowly got up on my own successfully. I took a few steps, but slowly swayed before Pit caught me.
"See? I t-t-told you I c-can stand."
"But you can't walk. Allow me." He said as he picked me up bridal style, yet again. I'm not complaining though. I love to be picked up like this now and then, but he was covered in ink, and possibly injured. I couldn't be another burden to him.
"I'm g-g-getting you all wet now. I'm really s-sorry about that."
"Felic, you're trembling, turning blue, and slowly getting hypothermia at the moment. Getting water on me is the least of my concerns right now. You will always be my biggest, and main concern. Besides, I have ink all over me. I'll be fine." I smiled at his concern, and put my head on his warm chest once again. He slowly walked to the inside of the ship.
"So, how did you think of that genius plan of yours?"
"Well, it s-s-started when I saw that Gooper Blooper for the first time..." I continue rambling onto him about how I made up that plan while I getting warmed up by his embrace, and the blankets. Soon enough, I was feeling much better, and my lips were pink again, and my skin was caramel brown once again. I began to get tired, and fell asleep as Pit (knowing for a damn fact that it was him) set me on the bed, and pulled covers over me. I felt his lips kiss my forehead, as I let my exhaustion, and desire to sleep take over.
At Bowser's Villa, Pauline, with red eyes (or shall we call her Shadow Queen at the moment?), is still wearing the same dress she wore two days earlier, was staring at a mirror, showing the events with Felicity, Pit and the Gooper Blooper. Her smile turns into a frown as she sees the Gooper Blooper falls to his defeat, and out of her control. Her frown turns into a smirk.
"Good. That weakling Blooper didn't easily defeat her. And her spells are quite impressive for a child her age. Perhaps I might have a challenge after all." Soon enough, a shadow arises from the cold castle tiled floor.
"Your majesty of shadow, shall we dispose the girl and her companion now? While they're in their weakened state?"
"No. Leave them be. They earned the right to search for the Telum de Lucis for a few more days by defeating the Gooper Blooper. Wait until you receive further instructions from me regarding them."
"Of course, my lady." The shadow says as it descends back into the shadow once again. The mirror ends with Felicity in a peaceful slumber. The mirror fades into its clear color and reflection. Pauline turns around with her red eyes turned blue.
"Sleep well, Felicity. From here on out, it won't be smooth sailing for you. You won't take away the man I love from me again. This time, I'll get what I want, and destroy anything that tries to stop me from achieving just that." Pauline walks out of the room with a wide, and evil smirk on her face as she conspires what to do next against the teenage heroine, and her angel boyfriend.
And that's it you guys! Hope you like this one. Now, to study my two midterms that I have on my birthday (I know. It sucks.), but at least I'm finally becoming legal. Always look for a silver lining guys! I'm signing out! Until next time!
~Hopefaith2