DISCLAIMER: The only characters I own are Brittany, Mary, and Daria! Sadly everything else belong to D.W.J
SUMMARY: A Druid, a bard, and a Magic user are heading to Kingsbury to make their living. On their way they encounter the witch of the waste, and help her to get pass the wards that were cast around Kingsbury. Can they undo the mess they made, or will they end up trapped in their deepest fears?
Chapter Two— In which a witch strides into camp and a plan is made.
Mary, Brittany, and Daria stopped to make camp, there was two days journey left, in order to get to Kingsbury. Brittany had already left to forage for food and maybe water, it they were lucky. While Mary set out there sleeping blankets. Daria used her magic to make the trees cluster together so no wild animals could get through.
"Eeeek, Daria do something!" Mary exclaimed.
Daria finished off her last spell and went to see what Mary was screaming about.
"What? It's just a spider Mary," Daria said.
"Ewww I hate spiders get it out of here please!" Mary begged.
Daria sighed, it was just you common spider, there was dangerous about it. She picked it up gently and put it on a tree that was far from camp. She turned back, to Mary and sighed. What is with her and spiders? She thought. She then went back to her spells.
"Hey, ya'll miss me?" Brittany strode into camp with food and water.
"Like the sun misses the moon," Daria, said sarcastically not looking up from the book she was reading.
Brittany smiled, "That much eh? I think you may have separation anxiety Daria."
"It's called sarcasm Brittany, ever heard of it?" Daria said, eyes not leaving the page she was reading.
Brittany smiled, "Ah, nope don't think so Daria,"
Daria looked up, "Shut up Brittany," and went back to the book she was reading.
"Aren't you going to look up from your book long enough to get the fire started?"
Daria waved her hand, and fire rose up in the fire pit Mary had set up earlier.
"I take that as a no," Brittany said.
Daria smiled, but continued reading. She was reading a book on magic. You'd think these idiots would know what real magic is, but they don't! She thought to herself.
"Daria, why are you reading a book on magic?" Mary asked.
"Want to see the competition I have here in Ingary, but to tell you the truth the people here wouldn't know magic if it bit them on the nose, rubbed its bare butt in there faces, and laughed!"
"That bad?" Brittany asked.
"You have no idea," said Daria, putting her book aside.
"Let's see it," Brittany said.
She took the book and began to read it, and then her eyes took on a confused look.
"This is bull shit! What the hell are they trying to say?" Brittany said.
"Give it here Brit," Mary said.
She began to read the book, and she too became confused.
"What are they trying to tell us, why don't they just come right out and say it?" Mary asked.
"Person who wrote that book probably has no clue what he/she is talking about!" Daria said.
"You don't think this is how the magic users here learned magic, do you?" Brittany asked.
"Most likely," Daria replied.
"Damn these people are mentally challenged," Mary said.
"Not mentally challenged Mary, idiots is more like it," Brittany told her.
"They both mean the same thing Brittany," Daria said.
"I know that, it's just better to refer to them as idiots rather then as the mentally challenged at least this way they'll know what were calling the."
Daria smiled. "You have such a way with words."
Just then a woman strode into camp, long red hair, nice complexion, tall, and thin. Daria was the first to notice and the first to question her.
"Who the hell are you?" Daria asked the woman.
"I am a witch," She replied.
"I can see that, do you have a name?" She said, hostility growing steady in her voice.
"I am the witch of the waste, or at least I was," the woman said sadly.
"I've heard of you, what are you doing outside the waste?" Mary said.
"I was banished from the waste and Kingsbury, its been so long since I've seen civilization," the woman said.
"What exactly did you do to get banished?" Brittany asked.
"I tried to get revenge on a man who broke my heart, and I threatened the King's daughter," She said in a matter-of-fact tone.
"Who?" Daria asked.
"The now Royal Wizard Pendragon, or Jenkens," The witch replied.
"Why don't you just take down the wards that are keeping you out?" Mary asked.
"I'm not strong enough yet," The witch of the waste told her.
"Daria could probably take down the wards for you, if she felt like doing something nice for a change," Brittany said.
"Since when have I ever felt like doing something nice?" Daria retorted.
"Oh could you take down these wards?" The Witch asked.
"'Course I can," Daria said icily.
"Then could you take them down for me? Please?" The witch begged.
Daria didn't say anything.
LATER THAT NIGHT
"Well," Brittany asked.
"Well what?" Daria replied.
"Are you going to help her or what?" Mary asked.
"Don't know," Daria told her.
They all became silent.
"First I want to see if she is the witch of the waste, and then I want to find out how much havoc she reeked when she was in her prime," Daria said after awhile.
"How are you going to do that?" Mary asked.
"By getting to know this Royal Wizards family. One of us befriends his son Morgan, after awhile he'll invite that one of us to dinner, then that one of us questions the father, leaves, and reports back to the rest of us," Daria replied.
"Which one of us is going then?" Brittany asked.
"Mary's going of course." Daria told her.
"Mary's going?" Brittany said.
"I'm going?"
"Yes you're going; you're the only one who is friendly enough to do it!" Daria said exasperatedly.
"Alone?" Mary asked.
Daria paused for a moment, and appeared to be deep in though.
"No," She said after awhile, "Brittany's going to go with you, but it's you who has to befriend them not her."
"I'm going?" Brittany said.
"Weren't you listening? Yes you're going!" Daria said in an irritated tone.
"What about you?" Mary asked.
"I'll stay here and keep Mrs. Witch company o'course!" Daria replied.
"You always think of everything," Mary said admirably.
Daria rolled her eyes.
"Think it best that you two get some sleep, you'll be leaving first thing in the morning," Daria told them, she then rolled on her side, and tried to go to sleep herself.
END OF CHAPTER TWO
(A/N Well what do you think of this chapter? Did it suck so unbelievably bad, or was it okay, good, great, excellent, or awesome? Please Review and good fortune might smile down upon you!)