Sorry! For not updating but I should just be upfront. I am an unreliable author! I'm sorry! But heres some good news If you type mc-ai deviantart you can find the witching outfits I drew for Akari and Okuda
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The alarm was abruptly turned off as Akari slammed her hand over the 'off' button…She had woken up earlier than the alarm eagerly awaiting this day…Sunday…Today they would be getting their witching outfits! Finally after so much waiting! Akari practically squealed as she jumped out of bed and ran towards Manami's side of the room with unrestrained joy like a child waking up early on Christmas morning.
"Manami, Manami wake up!" She cried eagerly as she shook her best friend awake.
"I-I da wahha… huh?" Manami babbled as she was forcefully removed from the land of dreams and brought to reality by Akari's constant shaking.
"Our witching uniforms come today!" Akari cheerfully clarified.
Manami's lilac eyes soon brightened as the last drowsy cloud of sleep finally parted; giving way to a bright spark of enthusiasm.
"I-Is it already here?" Manami asked with just as much excitement as Akari was feeling.
"Let's go look!"
Manami nodded as she scrambled out of her bed to quickly follow the running Akari not even bothering to brush her hair. She had got up so quick she almost forgot her glasses.
"Aguri! Is it here, is it here!?" Akari asked jumping up and down in excitement.
Aguri jumped forward in surprise dropping the morning paper she just got in the process.
"Akari you scared me!" Aguri cried as she held a hand over her thumping heart.
"Sorry….It's just…I'm so excited!" Akari responded.
"And we just can't hide it!" Manami chimed.
"Hohoho looks like I got here at the right time then!"
"Koro!" Manami proclaimed as she saw a flash of colors pass by.
Over the last two weeks the two had grown close and Manami no longer formally called him and Koro in turn didn't refer to her as Ms. Okuda.
"Is it here?!" Akari asked trying to look for a bag or a box or something.
"What's the magic word?" Koro asked.
"Please!" Akari said impatiently.
"Abracadbra!" Manami replied honestly.
"Ding, ding ding! Abracadraba is right!" Koro sang as his yellow tentacle hair brought out two boxes that where neatly wrapped in colorful wrapping paper.
"Wha….You're so biased Koro!" Akari replied with a pout but a smile quickly overcame her features.
"But Manami-chan is so moe you can't resist~" Koro cooed.
Koro treated Manami like a doting father or a loving brother…But Akari couldn't deny the fact that he was right.
"You have a point." Akari replied as Manami silently flushed at the compliment she had just received but smiled all the same.
"Well then go on and open them I want to see what you two will look like in them." Aguri said as she happily watched over her students from the sidelines.
The young witches quickly went to work opening up their respective boxes. They decided that Akari would get changed first and then Manami. Akari quickly ran to the nearest restroom to get changed.
"You ready Ms. Akari?" Koro asked as he got out a large camera ready to take pictures.
"Okay I'm coming out!" Akari responded from behind the bathroom door.
She opened the door and hopped out happily twirling around as she posed for Koro. Koro in turn eagerly started taking hundreds of photos.
Akari's witching outfit consisted of a fluffy pale icy blue skirt with a sky blue bow tied at the back and from the skirt's belt loops loosely hanging off her hips where two purple spell notebooks, no doubt filled with spells of Akari's own creation. The skirt barley reached her knees but to combat this Akari made sure to wear pale teal and cold purple striped tights underneath. For footwear she had on brown combat boots. She was also wearing a teal ombre peasant's blouse the sleeves of which were drooping off her shoulders.
However, her right shoulder was covered up by golden armor plates that were strapped on with a brown leather strap and accompanying this armor was a golden armor corset that went over her top and stopped right below her chest. In order to make the whole outfit more 'witch' like Akari wore a hairband that had a small purple colored witching hat attached to it. She then made sure her citrine pin was visible and safely pinned on the left side of her blouse before she took her large magical staff in her sky blue gloved hands and looked down at the now completed outfit.
"How do I look?" She asked after Koro finished taking a few hundred pictures.
"You…look…ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE!" Manami exclaimed.
Stars' filling her sparkling purple eyes her rosy cheeks lifting upwards into a stellar smile.
Akari flushed happily at her friend's compliment.
"Thanks! I'm glad you like it." Akari replied with a large smile.
"I'm so proud of you sis!" Aguri chimed. Akari just shot her a sheepish grin feeling a little embarrassed at all the positive attention.
"W-well come on Manami I want to see you in your outfit to!" Akari said.
"R-right."
Manami quickly made her way to the bathroom to change into her outfit as well. After a few minutes she finally stepped out.
Purple. Manami's entire witching outfit consisted of varying hues of purple. It made sense it was her favorite color. However, there were a few things that weren't purple like the tights she wore. Although they were a light violet like her small pouch they also had thick dull blue strips on them. The brown of her combat boots alongside the tan of her arm and leg garters, which held a few potion filled test tubes, also stood out against the sea of purple. But everything else was basically purple.
Her eggplant colored military skirt had two pouches on each side and had a small slit on the right for better mobility and from its belt loops hung a string that held four large circular potions the colors of which were red, green, orange, and sky blue. She also wore a dark mauve purple coat with amethyst colored trimming. The coat was buttoned up and had a popped collar and it's two coattails gave off a rather 'witch' like vibe as they split from two tails to four coat tails which curved upwards slightly in a small swirl. Underneath the coat Manami wore a dark iris undershirt with an amethyst colored swan neck. The dark iris purple was the exact same shade of purple as her gloves.
Her gloves only barley covered her forearm as they stopped just before the elbows and where all but fingerless as the gloves formed a small triangle up the back of the palm coming to a point at the gloves' attached golden middle finger ring. Wrapped loosely around her gloves was a string of potion beads that came in a variety of different colors and its colorful rainbow of hues resounded against the dull iris color of the gloves. The only other thing Manami had on was her opal necklace and a headband much like Akari's expect her small witching hat was a light amethyst.
"I-is it t-too much purple….?" She asked meekly obviously embarrassed by her choice of colors.
"No I think you look super cute!" Akari reassured.
Manami flushed but she gave a shy smile in return assuring Akari that her comment was well received.
"You're so MAUVElous!" Koro commented as he began taking thousands of pictures of the young witch.
Manami giggled while Akari just rolled her eyes at the pun. Still a small smile tugged at her lips. It was going to be a great day. After all they were going ingredient hunting today to prepare for next Thursday as Manami had used up most of ingredients and resources just like she did last week and the week before that.
"The target has been located. Should we release the test subject?"
"No. They will be off ingredient hunting shortly which gives us a small window where the target will be mostly isolated."
"Understood."
Akari took a deep breath as the wind rushed past her softly blowing her green hair back. She just felt so refreshed today. It was nice.
"Okay here we are!" Koro announced as he slowly descended downwards.
Akari's eyes scanned the area around them. It seemed as if they were in a small clearing evident by the sparse circle of young trees surrounding them that only grew thicker the further you looked. Off in the distance Akari could also see the peaks of blue mountains beyond the sea of thick trees.
"Do you have the list Aguri?" Akari asked while she straightened out her small witching hat and made sure her skirt was wrinkle free.
"Yup!" Aguri responded holding the long list in her hand as proof.
"Okay then I will be off then!" Koro said.
"Wait, wait, wait…I thought you were going ingredient hunting with us?" Akari proclaimed with a pout.
"Well you see some of the ingredients you three need, can only be found in some rather dangerous places. Aguri and I agreed I would take care of the more dangerous ones while you three would look for the safer ones." Koro explained.
"Aguri we're not kids you know! We can handle it." Akari proclaimed hoping she could change her sister's mind….
"W-Well…it's…it's just you two still have so much to learn and I am not going to risk getting you two girls into any danger until I'm sure you can handle yourselves." Aguri lectured.
Akari frowned.
"B-But Aguri this…isn't our f-first rodeo as they say….Akari and I are quiet proficient when it comes to ingredient hunting at least…" Okuda commented.
"Hmm…Okay tell you what. I'm going to let you two go ingredients hunting all on your own for today while I accompany Koro. If you can gather all the ingredients by yourselves then next time we go ingredients hunting I'll let you guys help me find more dangerous ingredients…But if you run into any trouble please contact me on your Pearl and I'll be over in a millisecond." Aguri explained.
"Got it!" Akari replied as she took the ingredients list from Aguri's hands.
"Here take my broom to."
Okuda gladly took the broom.
"T-thank you for trusting us w-with this I…I promise we won't disappoint!" Okuda declared.
Aguri gave a small smile as she slowly stepped closer to Koro so he could wrap his tentacle around her waist.
"Take care you two okay…." Aguri said with her voice wavering slightly in worry.
"Don't worry we will!" Akari said as Aguri and Koro slowly took flight.
"Bye! See you in a few hours!" Okuda called out.
Koro and Aguri waved in response before they went on their way.
"All right then! Let's get started! What's the first thing on the list?" Akari said.
"Hmm…Cedar twigs, nightshade, and blue mountain flowers are the first things on the list." Okuda responded.
"This is gonna be an easy day!" Akira declared.
"I don't know what Aguri was so worried about." Okuda commented as the two made their way deeper into the forest.
"Is something wrong Aguri?" Koro asked after a short silence befell them.
He had noticed Aguri's worried expression and opted to ask what was bothering her.
"Oh! It's nothing….I'm…just really, really worried for the girls! Oh what if I made a mistake! They could be getting hurt! Or worse they can get lost and starve to death!" Aguri babbled as her motherly paranoia began setting in overtaking all sense of rationality.
"I didn't know you had so little faith in them." Koro commented slyly.
"N-no it's not like that! It's just…I do think they are well rounded witches that can totally handle themselves but even still….I don't know…I just…I just have this bad feeling in the pit of my stomach…" Aguri explained as she began to bite her nail.
"Hm…that's….disheartening to hear….would you like to go back?" Koro asked as he too began to feel a sense of dread.
Aguri's gut feelings were often right…So Koro's growing unease was warranted for the situation.
"I…no I think you were right maybe I'm just being over paranoid." Aguri said sheepishly.
"Well okay then…If you say so…ANYWAY what's the first thing on our list captain?" Koro asked making sure to put more energy and enthusiasm in his tone of voice so as to lift the heavy feeling of anxiety and dread that had overtaken them.
It seemed to have worked as Aguri finally seemed to relax her tense muscles and a real sincere small graced her beautiful features.
"First up are icicle jewels from the infamous Winter Geode Cave. Now full speed ahead my noble stead we're on a mission!" Aguri proudly declared.
"Yes ma'am!" Koro replied before gaining momentum.