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Hola mi amigos. Sorry for the long silence but school is almost over and I've been rushed doing 3 separate projects! So This is a bit of a splurge on my part so I can relax. Also does anyone really read all of my Author's notes? Because I put up a lot of questions but nobody (Except for once) responds to them. Just a question.
Elise reluctantly comes back to the present, wanting to stay with her love for as long as she could but the incessant nudging on her shoulder and a cold feeling traveling up her spine makes her slowly open her eyes to Lilly holding her yawning and a blindfolded Mike. Knowing that Lilly made him do that was making her start to giggle.
"Excuse me princess, I'm not comfortable with this on, could you please make a clothes illusion like you did at the ball last week." Mike said making Lilly gasp and look at her princess in an accusatory way.
"Lilly, the only reason he knows that is because he can tell if magic is being used. That's one of his gifts like yours is to make me feel like a kid with her hand caught in a cookie jar." Elise said making Lilly's anger crack with a flicker of a smile on her face.
"It doesn't matter if you did go naked but fooling your friends and political allies like that is…" Lilly struggled for the right word but couldn't find it. "OH YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!" Lilly said while both her companions struggled to keep themselves from laughing.
"I do and I won't have to use this spell until after my plan." Elise said while she quickly muttered a spell under her breathe causing a halo of light to surround her naked body (She had torn off the whole dress in the last chapter. It lies in rags next to her) Lilly closes her eyes against the blinding light leaving blotches of darkness on the inside of her eyes. The light starts to dim down and when Lilly opens her eyes she saw her princess. She was clad in a skin tight black jumpsuit that accentuated every part of her body, but mostly her budding breasts that even outlined her nipples. It was as if someone had spray painted her friend black.
"CH-CHANGE IT RIGHT NOW!" Lilly nearly screamed as she turned her back towards her friend who was full on laughing now.
"What did I miss? Lilly, can I take off my blindfold yet?" Mike said with the cloth already half off. Lilly is too shocked at what has just happened for the words to sink in all the way so before she can do anything the blindfold falls to the ground and Mike stares, dumbfounded, at his friend, student, and monarch.
*SMACK!*
"OW! I'M PUTTING IT BACK ON LILLY! "Mike said as he closed his eyes tight and felt down near him for the discarded blindfold with one hand while holding his head with the other one. While he searched for it another blinding light filled the hallway. When that faded Elise was wearing the same nightshirt as before except it was fuller in the chest than before.
"Stop hitting Mike, Lilly and maybe we can finally get to the armory." Elise said taking her son from Lilly and picking up the blindfold from the floor while Mike frantically searched for it. She leaned down and whispers into his ear. "You know that she does that because she loves you and is jealous of all the girls you've been with." Mike stiffens at her voice but slowly stands upright and opens his eyes.
"Soooooo. How about we head over to the armory and see my cousin." Mike said while walking away with Elise.
"HOLD IT!" Lilly yelled at the both of them making them turn around slowly. "Nobody's going anywhere until I learn a few things. Since when was Elise a whi… Been able to do magic? How long has Mike known about this? How can the princess of Soleanna use magic? And most importantly, WHY DIDN'T I KNOW SHE COULD USE MAGIC!?" Lilly yelled the last part glaring at both of them.
"Well I've been able to use magic as long as I can remember. And you don't know about it because you never tried to snoop around in my life for which I'm grateful." Elise said looking Lilly directly in the eye making sure she didn't back down.
"Also I learned about it 3 years after we moved in. I've always seen a slightly blue-ish light around anything with magic. Sometimes it was only faintly there but in Elise's case when I first saw her it was almost blinding. It was as if she was made of magic. Once we came here I started to get used to it which is why I was able to look directly at Elise. One day I saw her light shining through a window looking outside so I looked out there and I saw her dancing on water. It was one of the most wonderful things I've ever seen. I went out there and I confronted her and told her about how she shines like a star on Earth to me. She frowned as if thinking then told me to follow her. She brought me to a place in the castle I've never been able to find again and there was the man who I learned was my cousin. He taught me and Elise from then on in the ways of magic. He popped up in my room once a week with spellbooks and Elise. We would practice all through the night until dawn. Then he would take Elise with him and leave. It went on like that until just before the festival of the Sun. He appeared without Elise this time and told me that I had to teach her from now on. He said that I had surpassed even him in strength and that he had only one more thing to tell me. It was the history of Magiki, magic users Lilly." Mike said forestalling her question. "He told me that the mission of every Magiki, great or small, was to only help people and to never use magic to hurt people, even in self defense. With that he took a small bag from off of his belt and handed it to me and said to me in a quiet voice."
"Remember cousin. Magiki can do many things to heal and help but they can't cause any pain or they will lose their powers forever. This means that if you want to keep your powers you can't hurt any thinking being in any way. You can't hit them, you can't kill them, but hardest of all, you can't have a son or daughter or even make love to most women. It makes it hard to be a Magiki man. Most kill themselves because they can't give up their powers but can't keep themselves from wanting love. I am stronger than most but even I will lose the battle eventually. Love can conquer even the most intoxicating of powers Mike. But there is an upside. If you find someone who loves you mind, body, and soul, you can love her fully."
"With that he leaned over and pinched me, drawing blood making me bite my lip to keep from crying out. Suddenly the blue light just winked out of him as if it was never there. He disappeared and the next day I found him and he had no idea who I was. He forgot everything to do with magic including his family and Elise. She hired him to the vacant post of Guardian of Swords." Mike had looked down near the end of it bowing his head and Lilly could tell he was crying even if there wasn't any sound or movement.
"Mike I'm sorry. You shouldn't have had to relive that." Lilly said sorrowfully, truly ashamed at herself for making him feel that way.
"Lilly if I wanted to stop I could of. I wanted you to know what was happening now and that meant that you had to know this." Mike stood there with his head bowed for several seconds, breathing deeply, until he stood up slowly and looked Lilly in the eyes. He stood there for even longer trying to convey his hope to her that she is his prophesied lover. Lilly is the first to break eye contact, looking down quickly and blushing.
"And for your last question" Elise said breaking the uncomfortable silence that enveloped the corridor. "Anyone who has royal lineage can use magic. That's how they gained power in the first place by amassing wealth with simple healing spells. They were the first magiki and they passed on their skills to their offspring. When they started to have kids with regular people the kids still had magic but they were much less powerful than when they had kids with other magiki so they passed laws making it so royalty , aka magiki, could only marry other magiki. However most magiki didn't follow this rule and had kids with anyone they could lay their hands on. This made almost half the population of the world lesser magiki today." Elise finished leaving a very stunned Lilly standing still in front of her.
"Can we get going now Lilly or do you need more time to digest all of this?" Mike asked Lilly softly making her jump in surprise and blush.
"Let's go find your cousin Mike." Lilly said walking down the corridor briskly making her 2 companions have to run down the hallway to catch up to her.
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Once again people you know exactly what to do. Review me and tell me how I did. Also I realized I never put in a disclaimer so here it is. I don't own Sonic the hedgehog or any of his friends/enemies.
