"Ugh, why do we have to go the convention again? I have more important things to do!" said Clement angrily as he stared at the back of his father
"*sigh* Clement, you're barely 13, you should have some fun from time to time, go out with friends or something" said Mr.Applehorn attempting to be cheerful "not study curses and healing at every possible occasion"
Clement and his father were now flying to a convention on the father's staff that had a brown toad as it's palisman
"I can do what i want!"
"Not this time, today you're staying at the convention and that's final" said Mr.Applehorn trying to act stern
Clement growled, but didn't talk back. Mr.Applehorn sighed before looking at his son who was avoiding eye contact, he quickly became crestfallen and looked at the sky ahead
Once they landed, Clement jumped off and Mr.Applehorn took him by the hand, then they went inside, where Applehorn looked around excitedly
"Ooh! How about we get some cupcakes? You used to love them so much!" Said Mr.Applehorn with a big smile as he eyed the baking coven
"And now i don't"
"*sigh*...ooh ooh! How about we check our fortunes?" Said Applehorn cheerfully as he pointed at the oracle coven stand
"Yes, because i want more people in my life telling me what i should do"
Applehorn sighed before he saw the construction coven, his coven, he wanted to hang out with them a little, but shook the idea out of his head
"You can go"
"Is it really that obvious?" Asked Applehorn scratching his head in embarrassment before Clement nodded with his usual frown "but i can't take you to them, your not the nicest to other people, and i can't just leave you alone"
"You can, and either way, I'm leaving after the emperor's jig, because there's nothing else for me to do" said Clement as he walked away, his father didn't follow him
Applehorn decided, maybe he could ask his pals about some parenting tips, he sighed before heading to the construction coven with his back hunched
"Things are really falling apart aren't they"
_-_-_
Clement walked towards the emperor's coven stadium, it still hasn't started yet
"Great, more time in this awful place"
He watched as the seats were slowly getting filled by people, a few catching his eyes
Like Willow's abomination thing, Willow herself and Augustus
"At least i don't have to bump into them, that'd be a waste of time"
Then he felt someone arrive, it was an old female witch...and they were cursed, it was similar to, but not as powerful as his mother's curse, though it was pretty strong, it was curable with his abilities
Clement decided to partially focus on the show he had to get through so he could go home, the other part focused the cursed lady, analyzing her curse.
Bump introduced the emperor's coven and it's leader, Lilith, the crowd cheered excitedly after her appearance
"I can never get what's so great about her" said Clement with his ever present frown as he watched Lilith say an extraordinarily cliche speech "so insufferable"
At some point, Clement just stopped caring about the emperor's coven and put all his attention on the curse in front of him
_-_-_
Clement got out of the stadium as fast as he could after everything was done
First thing he did was go to his dad
"Dad! I'm going home!"
"Clement! Why don't you come here an_" said Applehorn excitedly before Clement just started walking away
Applehorn started tearing up and his construction buddies started comforting him, Clement didn't take even a glance back.
"Finally! it's over!" said Clement stretching before summoning his staff (dark blue frog) "now i can go hom-"
He was cut off by someone darting past him, he felt a curse from them, a pathetic curse that isn't worth the trouble of getting casted on someone
The person was a girl, a student at Hexside, the uniform gave it away, she had a cursed arm, and it was controlling her
Clement sighed before having to deal with it
_-_-_
The leader of the healing coven walked hurriedly through the convention, there was someone who had a curse that needed to be cured, but they ran away
(The leader of the healing coven is a they because i don't know what they are and they migh even be the right one, so they are a they)
They could sense the curse outside the covention, they made it out and saw a boy from her coven in front of the cursed one
The boy drew a dark aquamarine magic circle using his hand, and from it came a beam of energy that hit the student, nothing happened
At least to the naked eye, but they could see it, the boy cursed the already cursed girl, it wasn't a big curse or anything. She decided to watch the boy in front of her
The cursed one attacked the boy, but he dodged easily before drawing another magic circle that fired a beam at the cursed one
It was another curse, after it hit her, the boy created a barried between the two of them, the girl became aggressive, too aggressive, more than they ever were a few seconds ago
The boy fought using curses
The cursed one attacked the barrier like her life depended on it, even though she was being controlled by a curse
The girl quickly grew tired and soon after, fainted,
"The first curse was draining her energy" the healing coven leader whispered to themselves as they stared at the boy who then approached the girl
The boy finally used his staff, from it, he fired a beam at the cursed arm and the curse started disappearing until it was gone entirely, then the curses he cast on her disappeared on their own, as if they were on a timer, and after all of that, the boy started mounting his staff as if nothing happened
They had to admit even as the leader of the healing coven, they couldn't heal a curse just like that, they could, but not as easily
They decided to approach the boy
_-_-_
"Hello, child, you, the black haired one" said an unfamiliar voice making Clement stop mid take off "what's your name?"
"None of your business" said Clement taking a glance at who he was talking to before attempting to fly again
"That's now way for a healer to speak" said the healing leader with a calm smile
"I don't care"
"Clement!" Said mr.Applehorn as he ran out of the covention after hearing a commotion, but he he was too late, Clement already started flying back home, Applehorn looked at the leader of the healing coven "I'm really sorry, did my son offend you in an_"
"No, no, not at all" said the healing leader waving it off "I'm interested in the boy, is he always so...blunt?"
"*sigh* yup" said Applehorn tiredly as he looked down at the ground crestfallen
"I see, can you tell me more?"
_-_-_
The next day
"Want a piece of meat?" Asked Clement as he pet the beast that was his mother and it nodded
Clement grabbed a slab of meat from a plate next to him and gave it to the beast, it gobbled the meat down instantly
And as Clement was about to put back the plate, he heard his dad's voice
"Clement! Please come up! You have a visitor!" Yelled Mr.Applehorn from upstairs
Clement ignored him, he didn't have anyone who'd want to visit him
He put back the plate and went back to taking care of his mom, healing her took time, Her curse was so ingrained in her body that it'd kill her to remove it all in one go, he needed to be with her for as much time as possible to never give the curse a change to grow again once it's weakened, and slowly but surely, he's curing her, that's why he needs to graduate early from Hexside
"Clement! It's someone from school! They're saying something about delaying your early graduation, what's going on?" Yelled Mr.Applehorn nervously from upstairs making Clement flinch
Clement immediately ran upstairs, only to be met with a big fat lie, it wasn't someone from school, it was the leader of the healing coven
"Hello" they said with a calm smile
Clement glared at his father angrily making him laugh nervously
"Please, sit down, i have a proposal to make" said the leader smiling
"And i have work to do, leave" said Clement glaring at the leader
"Clement! They're a guest! And don't you know who they are?" Said Mr Applehorn trying to act stern
"I know, and i don't care"
"At least hear me out before i leave, i won't do so otherwise"
Clement grumbled under his breath before turning to the coven leader in front of him
"I want you to become my apprentice" said the coven leader making Clement roll his eyes "I looked through your healing records from Hexside, although you're far better than me in curses, that i admit, you're lacking in the other areas of healing and i want to fix that, i want to make you into the perfect healer"
"Counter point, i don't care" deadpanned Clement
"But with talent like yours, you can easily become a coven leader, just imagine how many you could help"
"Sadly, there's only one person i want to help right now, so stop"
"Your mother, right?" Said the coven leader making Clement flinch "imagine how proud she'd be to know how far you'd gotten if you became a coven leader"
"...get...out..now!" said Clement gritting his teeth and clenched his fists to the point that some blood started flowing out
"...Very well, i guess getting an even earlier graduation is too much for you" said the coven leader as they walked to the door, gaining Clement's attention
"What do you mean?"
"Well, with me vouching for you, you could graduate at any time easily, i am a coven leader after all" said the coven leader smiling "but of course, you have to impress me first, and your lackluster performance at school is nowhere near enough, so this is my proposal, i become your mentor and once you perfect all that I'll teach you, I'll push for an immediate graduation from Hexside"
"The catch?"
"I'll delay your graduation if you don't perfect my techniques before your original graduation date...so, do you accept to be my student?"
"I won't be forced into the position of coven leader or something, right?"
"Unless you want to, yes"
"...fine, I'll do it"
"Excellent! I'll contact you tomorrow for our first lesson, goodbye!" Said the coven leader before leaving the house
Mr Applehorn laughed nervously as his son stared at him
Clement sighed taking his eyes off of his father and heading to his room
Things are getting very confusing for him
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Toodles.
