Hello, my lovelies! I hope everyone is as happy as I am as I'm writing this due to the good news of all the new services. WOOOOOOO 2021 is already looking up to be something fucking great!

Anyway, outside of all the politics and everything, here's an update for you guys! I hope you all enjoy it!

"What is she doing here, James?"

"Oh, full name. I didn't think bringing her here was a bad idea, honestly, but you're acting like I did something heinous."

"You brought the Trollhunter, you know, the person protecting Trollish kind, INTO A WIZARD'S HIDEOUT! YOU KNOW, THE ONE HIDING SPOT I HAVE FROM THE TROLLISH KIND?!" I gave my teacher a hesitant chuckle as I nervously scratched the back of my neck.

"Now that you put it that way, I feel a bit more stupid now." Douxie sighed lightly as he pinched the bridge of his nose. "But she was hurt, Doux. What was I supposed to do? Leave her there?"

"Oh, by Merlin's beard of course not! I'm not fucking heartless. Just, I would have brought her to your mother. She's the healer out of all of us."

"I all I thought about was getting her to the closest safest place possible and this was the only one that came to mind. Also, it was just a simple sprain from what I could tell so I didn't see the urgency of bringing her to mom." He dropped his hand from his face and to his side as he glanced over toward where Toby was keeping Claire company and help her contact her 'team' to let her know where she is and that she's alright.

"I guess you did what you thought was right so I can't tell you that you did anything wrong. Also, the cafe is still in tack so I don't have to end up giving my check to my boss again. I guess everything is well, but be more careful next time, alright?" I nodded my head to my teacher as he placed his hands onto my shoulders. "You're just lucky I'm not as stubborn with my beliefs as my teacher was. If Merlin was here, he would have put you through the wringer."

"I know I'm lucky to have you, Douxie. That's why I felt horrible when I realized how stupid I actually was."

"You weren't stupid, Jim. You were just hurried. You thought clearly for someone of your age. You just need to understand when your emotions are no longer your power, but your enemy. When you think too much with emotion, your judgment can be blurred. Your worry for our little Trollhunter blinded you slightly, but not bad enough that it caused a horrid result which is wonderful for all of us involved."

"Don't think too much with emotion. Got it. I'll try my best." Douxie gave me a soft smile as he spoke once more.

"I know you will, Jim." He glanced over toward Claire and Toby to see that they were chatting toward one another as it seemed that she was answering questions that the smaller boy had for her. "Now, let's check up on our guest, shall we?" We turned toward the two humans within the room and made our way across to them. Once they noticed we were near, Claire propped herself up onto her elbows before speaking directly toward Douxie.

"Whatever trouble my presence caused you, I'm sorry. I know that me being here is dangerous to not just you, but the rest of your kind that hides away here in Arcadia, and I never meant to bring you or any of your people any harm." I looked over toward Douxie to see he had a wide-eyed look as he took in the Trollhunter's words. I smiled as I knew they struck a chord with the musician in a way that I knew only Claire would. "And I promise that this wasn't Jim's fault that I'm here. It was my own stupidity thinking I could handle Nomura on my own so soon. I barely escaped from her recently without any assistance and it seems that the injury I got from that encounter still seems to want to be a pain in my God damn ass." I watched as she shot her right ankle a glare as Douxie could only chuckle in return.

"Well if this one here just explained how much of a pleasure you are," I felt him nudge my ribs with his elbow as he shot me a wide smirk. "I don't think I would have minded originally. But I assure you, Trollhunter, no one is endangered due to your presence."

"You can call me Claire if you want."

"Claire it is then. But if we're being formal, you can call me Douxie then." She shot the wizard a wide smile in return before giving a simple nod.

"Nice to meet you officially, Douxie. Now that I heard your voice a little more though, weren't you the one that helped Jim with Bular that day I was chased by him? If so, thank you. If it weren't for you two, I would have been a goner."

"No need to thank me. I was pretty selfish then as all I wanted to do was make sure my favorite pain in my ass was okay." The taller magic wielder tousled my hair as I shot him a half-hearted annoyed look from the corner of my eye.

"You treat me like a child, Doux."

"In comparison to how long I've been around, yes. Yes, you are." Claire gave him a confused look so he just shrugged before explaining himself. "Full-blooded wizards after they reach the height of their magic potential stop aging. I stopped aging once I turned eighteen."

"And when was that?"

"Nine hundred years ago, I believe." She gave my teacher a wide-eyed look as he just chuckled in reply. "What? Here I thought I looked good for almost a millennia old."

"I think it's more of the fact that she's not used to meeting someone that older than dirt."

"You watch your tongue, mate, or I'll make you sweep the floors as my master did to me."

"Upgrading yourself to the title of master now?" I gave him a smirk as he just tousled my hair once more.

"Only once I get my staff." He turned his attention after that to both Claire and Toby as he continued to speak. "Even though I quite enjoy your presence, Claire, what's the situation with your team at this moment?"

"My friends Darci and Mary are already in Troll Market making sure that no one was injured during the attack from Nomura."

"If you don't mind me asking, what were you doing that caused you to gain the changeling's attention?"

"Honestly? Nothing as of yet. We were looking into a goblin sighting when she appeared. I don't think it was just a coincidence though." I watched as Douxie rubbed his chin in thought for a moment as he looked over toward Toby.

"Tobes, could you look into something for me? There should be an old book upstairs that speaks about the collaboration works between goblins and changelings. Could you find it?" My best friend jumped to his feet almost immediately before giving Douxie a small salute.

"You got it, Magic Man!" With that, Toby went us the small staircase and start rummaging through the bookshelves without a second thought as Douxie brought his attention back to me.

"I think I know a concoction your mother taught me that can help her with her ankle. Since she said that the injury happened due to a different one earlier, this could cause the joint to heal completely instead of how it normally would with time. But I'm going to need assistance." I gave him a simple nod with a smile before speaking.

"Whatever you need." The older wizard then turned his head toward Claire with a smile of his own.

"You do not need to take it if you don't wish to. I know how some humans can be when I say the words 'concoction' or 'potion', but I promise that it won't have any side effects." Claire just gave him a soft smile before bringing her eyes toward me.

"If you think it'll help," She brought her eyes back toward Douxie as she continued to speak. "I'll try it."

"Wonderful!" Douxie slapped his right hand into the middle of my back before heading toward his potion table not too far away from where Claire was laying. "Let's get to work, shall we?" I followed Douxie with a smile before shooting a look over my shoulder to make sure Claire was okay being by herself. The reassuring smile she sent my way was enough for me to actually give Doux my complete attention as he spoke to me instead of letting my mind fill with worry for the injured knight not too far away from us.

"How are you feeling?" I gave Claire a side glance as I walked beside her in the crowded hallway. It had been about ten or so hours since she took Douxie's remedy for her ankle and she seemed to not be in any discomfort or pain, but it didn't cause me to worry any less for the Trollhunter.

"I'm feeling great, actually. There was tingling at first and I was drowsy for a little bit, but I think the little potion worked."

"Glad to hear. I don't think any of us need you getting an Achillies Ankle of some kind."

"Don't worry, even if it didn't work, it'll take a lot more than a bad ankle to knock me down." She gave me a confident smile as I felt a soft one graced my face.

"I wouldn't expect anything less from you." I smiled toward her gently as we continued down the hallways together. "Just making sure though. Some of those things have weird side effects mattering who is taking it. Like I wouldn't have had the same reaction since some of the ingredients would have caused a reaction with the magical side of me."

"So you're only half-wizard?"

"One of the very few." I slipped my hands into my sweatshirt as I gave a small shrug. "It's hard to explain how my existence is even possible, but I can try if you want me to."

"Don't worry about it. You don't need to explain yourself or anything to me." I gave her a slightly shocked look as she looked ahead of us as if what she spoke meant nothing, but it did more than anything. Especially since my whole life, I had spent explaining my existence to almost everyone that ever found out of my origins.

"You're only a halfling? How is that even possible?"

"My mom fell in love with a normal human mortal. What's not to understand?"

"But a half-wizard is nearly impossible. We're human already and the only thing that makes us different is the fact that we blossom our powers at a certain age." I sighed as I looked up toward my mother's old friend. Even though mother had explained it to him herself multiple times, he seemed to still struggle to understand the conclusion of the situation.

"I'm a half-wizard. Nothing more nothing less. I can't use the gauntlets. Most magical potions cause a side effect reaction with me one way or another since I'm half of both humans and wizards and if that doesn't seem to make sense to you, we can never bring this up again."

"I didn't mean to-."

"You meant everything, sir. You're making my existence seem impossible when there's more than just me like this within our world. I'm real and others like me are real as well."

I smiled as I looked over toward Claire to see she had turned her head toward me to showcase a gentle smile that was dancing on her lips.

And she sees me as real without even a real explanation.

"What's yours and Douxie's plan with all of this? We're getting awfully close to the order getting what they want and personally, I rather get my brother back before I lose my mind."

"Honestly, Douxie doesn't have a plan at the moment. He actually was saying that he didn't want us to get involved with everything until I basically went against him on it."

"Really?"

"His master made him promise that he was just going to just keep him and other wizards in the area safe while staying out of trollish affairs."

"And that meant you as well."

"Yup! Well, until I basically went 'Fuck you' and joined the battle anyway." She giggled at that a little bit as she looked over toward me for a second.

"Do you regret it yet?" I smiled gently toward her as my mind nearly went on the fritz by how she looked at me as if she saw me as something more than I really was.

"Not even a little bit." There was silence between us for a moment before Claire suddenly spoke after she brought her eyes ahead of her.

"I want you to come to Troll Market with me and the girls." I gave her another shocked look even though she was looking before her still.

"Me? A wizard? In Troll Market? Isn't that, a war crime of some kind?" She turned her head toward me to see she was giving me an amused look as she seemed to be battling to hide her laughter. "What? I was told no one was allowed within Troll Market without reason. Especially my kind since the witch of legend, Morgana."

"Morgana? As in the mythical King Arthur's Morgana?"

"Mythical? Claire, everything from the story of Camelot is true. Douxie is living proof of that as Merlin Ambrosius' apprentice. Did they never tell you about them?"

"Well, I remember Darci bringing up the fact that we were studying Arthur in history class and Master Vendel looked like he was about to blow a gasket over her even speaking his name."

"Honestly, I don't doubt that. The people of Camelot weren't very, for the lack of a better word, kind to those with magic." I sighed a little as I brought my eyes before me as she has done while I tried my best to recite what Douxie had told me on the topic of Morgana. "Morgana was Arthur's sister, as most would know, but she was born human. Like most witches and wizards though, her powers blossomed not long before her brother decided that he was going to murder anyone within the near 100 miles radius that practiced magic who didn't believe that his thoughts against their existence were true. Basically leaving his sister, Merlin, and Douxie the last ones within Camelot to be magic wielders. Over time though, Morgana started to try to head some of the magical creatures within the area as her brother started laying waste to their lands and homes. But this only leads to Arthur using her kindness as a way to infiltrate the trollish safe area that the trolls created for themselves and kill many more of them. Ever since, as Douxie said, wizards are seen as devious beings to trolls that cannot be trusted."

"Well, they wouldn't need to know what you are if you don't want them to."

"And lie to a people that already hate my kind enough? Honestly, I rather let them know and be hated as I walk through instead of them liking me due to lies."

"You're talking as if you're agreeing to the idea though." I glanced over toward her to see she held a soft smile as she crossed her arms over her chest.

"I already told you that your battle is also mine and that I already broke the biggest rule I was given by my teacher. I've got nothing else to lose within this moment outside of the obvious." She smiled at me as she dropped her arms from her chest and reached out with her right to place her hand onto my left shoulder.

"I won't let anything happen to you." The look in her eyes was pure as her voice had a more serious tone to it than normal. "Even if it means fighting off a troll or two." She smirked as the bell rang. "The girls and I normally meet up at the canals after rehearsal every night. Let me know by the end of rehearsal if you can join us, alright?"

"Can I bring Douxie or Toby along? It just feels, wrong, joining you if they weren't to be apart of it all. Especially since I still have a lot to learn as a wizard." Claire smiled toward me as she dropped her hand from my shoulder.

"Of course. The more the merrier, as they say." She started reading herself to leave for her class as I realized that she purposely missed going into her class a few doors back to keep talking to me. The thought of her doing so causing my face to flush to the slightest degree. "See you around, Jim." I gave her an awkward wave as I felt my blush further just a little more as her normal half-smile danced across her face in such the most adorable way possible.

"See ya." As she left my side and started making her way toward her class, I brought my eyes before me once more as I made my way down the hall toward Miss Janeth's room while a sudden realization seemingly smacked me across the face.

I had to ask an Arthurian wizard if he wanted to go to a place that he has been told would skin him alive if they knew who he exactly was and I was going to go against him if he agreed to come with or not.

"Are you out of your bloody mind, James? Are you sure you're still all there or do I need to find you a spell that can help you think straight? Especially since it seems your love for the Trollhunter is making you a little blind, my friend."

"Douxie, I'm being serious here."

"So aren't I! Do you know what some of those trolls would do to me when they realize not of what we are but who my master is? Even if it was Merlin that gifted them the Amulet of Daylight, they still hold a grudge that I don't quite disagree with."

"This can change that, Doux! We can start anew for not just our kind, but for them as well."

"Or you just want to follow through with what a pretty Latina asked of you."

"I won't say you're wrong but-."

"Because I'm not." I sighed into the phone I was holding against my ear as I crossed my right arm over my chest behind stage.

"But, this is so much more than that, Douxie. You said it yourself that there's so much that I have to learn about not just being a wizard, but about the kinds I've sworn to protect as one. And personally, even if trolls seem to despise us, I think they go well into the whole 'all and any magical creatures' category you told me of when you swore me in as a wizard with mom." I heard the wizard chuckle on the other end of the line for a moment before speaking in a rather soft tone.

"You remind me so much of younger me, Jim. Now I can say that I understand what Merlin must have felt dealing with my ass." I chuckled along with him as he continued speaking. "Just please tell me that you're not going to get a man-bun, okay? I think that was the worst decision I made as a young wizard."

"That was the worse? Getting a man-bun? Seriously?"

"Yes. Nothing else is more embarrassing than getting one of those blasted things in the era of knights and maidens and thinking it was fashion-forward of me."

"You really are something else, Douxie."

"And I chose to stay that way so you better enjoy it, you little bugger." I felt a smile spread across my face as he went on talking. "I guess I'll be meeting you by the main bridge of Arcadia then, huh?" My eyes widened for a moment as I made sure that I heard him right.

"You're serious? You're going to come with?"

"Well, someone has to make sure you don't act as stupidly as I did when I first came across Vendel and his people. Also, what kind of teacher would I be if I left my young little student on his own?" I could tell by the switch of tone in his voice that the punk must have had a smirk on his face as he sounded quite amused with himself as he continued on. "And poking fun at you before your crush is going to be an added bonus, my friend."

"I hate you sometimes."

"Love ya too, ya bloody bloke. But if shit goes south and I end up murdered by Vendel, I get to say I told you so in the afterlife, alright?" I gave a wholehearted laugh at the wizard's demand before replying to him through a small chuckle.

"Deal."

"Wonderful then. I'll speak to you later, ya? I'm gonna make sure if TD will need a ride there or not."

"You know Tobes. If he doesn't need to get himself there, he'll take the ride. Even if he and I only live like three minutes by bike to the bridge."

"Oh, I know, mate. See ya around, Jim."

"Speak to you soon, Doux." I smiled as I brought my phone down from my ear to end the call as I heard soft footsteps coming toward me.

"What was that about?" I looked up toward Clair with the same smile dancing on my face before replying to her question.

"That was an Arthurian wizard hoping he's not making a death wish with us today."