"This is not going to be good." I muttered while sweat dropping.
Nico just giggled as she skipped while we were walking.
As we were walking two friends of Elden walked pass. I assumed they were his friends because they seemed to know them.
"Hey Elden, Nico!" One waved, he seemed nice.
"A new friend I see? She's hot!" I heard the other one whispered to Elden while elbowing him.
Elden sweat dropped.
"Friend... Eh? Yes. Hot?... No." Elden said coldly out loud.
I stepped on his foot with all my weight.
"Owwww!" Elden said glaring at me.
Nico laughed out loud, holding on to her stomach.
We continued walking to where Elden was taking us.
We got there shortly.
As we were walking in the store I looked up at the wooden sign.
It said Magical gift shop.
"A magic shop?" I asked them.
Elden nodded as he opened the door for us gesturing us to go in.
When we walked in, it was really dark, with a lot of glowing things on the shelf.
"Welcome back Elden and Nico!" Said a happy old man by the counter, way in the back if the room.
He had a long white beard and a fisherman's hat on. And a leather vest.
"I see..." The man said stroking his beard. "You must be the new Neophyte in town?" The old man asked.
"Yes, nice to meet you." I walked up to him to greet him while bowing.
He smiled back asking me if I remembered my name. I simply responded with a 'No', while he stroked his beard thinking.
Elden and Nico came running up to me destroying the man's thoughts.
"Hey, try this potion for me will ya'?" Elden asked, holding up a bottle with glowy pink and purple stuff swirling around in it. It reminded me of a lava lamp.
"Urm... Is it safe?" I asked looking at it closely.
"Absolutely." The old man said giving me a warm smile.
I poured some of the glowing liquid in a sample shot glass, and gulped it down.
It was weird. It tasted like straw berry maple syrup, mixed up with brown sugar.
" I mean... I'm pretty sure it's safe..." The old man said scratching his beard.
My eyes widened.
What the heck was happening.
"Um... why is everything growing?" I asked while my voice was turning squeaky.
"No... your getting smaller." Nico said pointing at me looking confused.
"Elden, you jerk!" My squeaky voice said. "You planned this didn't you?"
He picked me up and sat me on the counter. I was as small as those lipstick containers Nico had.
"Put me down!" My squeaky voice yelled while squirming from Elden's two fingers.
Elden and Nico laughed so hard I had to cover my ears from all the vibration.
"Your so small!" Elden spoke out while still laughing.
The old man continued to stroke his beard.
"Ha, ha. Very funny." I shouted. "Now change me back!" I demanded stomping my foot.
"Relax samples only last thirty seconds." Elden said still laughing.
"Your voice..." Nico said rolling on the wooden floor. "It's so funny!"
"Alright, that's enough playing." The old man said chuckling while snapping a finger.
I started to grow big again, with my clothes.
I looked at my hands.
"I'm back." I said sighing in a relief.
Elden continued to laugh while I coldly glared at them.
"Stop laughing at me!" I said closing my eyes and folding my arms.
"Sorry Neophyte..." Nico said holding her stomach. "Your voice was just so hilarious!"
I death starred them.
"Well since she had a free sample, you too have to as well." The old man said very quickly.
Elden and Nico paused.
"Whaaaa?" They both said with their mouths dropped.
"Payback!" I said while while balling up my fist and putting them on front of me.
"I get to pick them too!" I said, searching around the dark shop.
Nico and Elden looked terrified hiding in a corner.
"What do you think she's going to get?" Elden asked shivering.
"Probably a mutant changing potion!" Nico said closing her eyes while shivering.
As I was looking I over heard them, and death starred them. They flinched in response while I laughed my hardest. This was gonna' be fun.
I read the bottles while picking them up
The bottled was labeled 'Muntant changing head'. I read the back, it said, 'Changes the body's head into an unknown mutant. Samples last thirty seconds.'
"Perfect!" I said out loud. It was a green and purple glowing liquid.
That one was going to be for Elden I said while laughing evilly out loud.
This one is for a special someone... Elden. I said while setting it on the counter while the old man got the shot glass ready.
"Now time for Nico's." I said rubbing my fingers together.
I heard Nico gulped.
I walked over to an all orange glowing bottle.
It read 'Slow motion' labeled on the front. On the back it said, 'Makes the body move at a slow paste in any motion. Sample last for thirty seconds.'
I smirked while I sat it on the counter as the old man got another free sample shot glass and poured the liquid into it.
"Nico, Elden! Come out from your corners, time to drink up!" They moped there way to the counter as I pointed to the ones they were suppose to have.
Payback! I said in my head while smirking.
The smelled it and then gulped it down.
It was working. Elden face was turning scaly.
Nico screamed while trying to run, but her feet raised off the ground very slowly.
Elden looked confused of why Nico was screaming.
"Woah there, Elden." I said smirking while holding up a mirror. "What's up with the face? Lizard boy."
"It's just me Nico, I'm Elden!" Elden said as his lizard tongue dropped out.
But it scared Nico even more as she screamed louder and tried to run but failed as her knee wasn't even in the air yet.
I had to admit, his eyes were scary, but I laughed so hard as he tried to assure Nico that he was Elden.
I ran passed Nico pretending Elden was chasing me.
"You better run Nico the scary lizard is right behind you!" I yelled pretending to run.
She screamed even louder while closing her eyes.
The potion wore off as the old man snapped his fingers.
Elden's face was back to normal but Nico still was running with her eyes closed.
"Nico it wore off already!" I yelled at her.
But she still screamed while running with her eyes closed.
"Nico!" Elden yelled across the room.
Nico ran right into me causing me to bump right into the counters of potions.
This isn't going to be good...
I closed my eyes as a clear liquid poured on my head from a shelf.
I opened my eyes while rubbing my head, it hurt like heck.
Elden was in front of me looking right through me like he couldn't find me. He was getting closer.
Way too close.
"What's your freaking problem, Elden?!" I said while kicking him in the gut with my foot.
He flew back really far.
"Ow! Something kicked me!"
I laughed out loud, because it was funny.
"She's invisible!" Nico shouted surprised.
"Yes indeed." The old man said rubbing his beard. "The Invisibility potion. Turns any object invisible not allowing other humans see them."
I laughed. "Yup!" I said while getting up."It's official! You guys can't see me!" I said smirking.
Following my voice Elden rubbed his gut.
"Don't think I won't get you back for kicking me girl!"
I just laughed while picking up a old book from a book shelf.
"Look guys, it a floating book!" I said 'oohing'.
Elden sweat dropped while Nico clapped while laughing.
"Woah, Neophyte how are you all the way over here while doing that?"
"Doing what?" I asked confused.
I looked over to what she was pointing at. It was a floating wooden broom.
"Urm... Nico that's... n... not me." I said stuttering.
"Stop playing games! We all know that's you!" Elden said folding his arms.
"That's not me! I'm right here!" I said holding up the dusty book.
"If that's her..." Nico said pointing at the book. "The... Who's..."
"G... Gh... Ghosts!" We all said terrified.
"BOO!" The old man said appearing un-invisible. "I gotcha on that one!" He said chuckling while stroking his beard.
We all looked at the counter, and back to the old man.
"How did you get over there?!" We all exclaimed.
The old man chuckled even more while stroking his white beard. He has a problem with beard stroking.
Soon the old man snapped, as I turned back to my normal self. I sat down the book.
I still felt liquid on my forehead.
"Um... your bleeding." Elden said while pointing to my head.
I looked up and flinched in surprise.
"I didn't know I pushed into you that hard!" Nico yelled saying sorry.
I panicked while the old man insisted to calm me down.
He sat me on a old wooden stool and got out a first-aid kit.
He rubbed glowing white ointment on the open gash on my forehead, and rapped bandages around my head.
"All better!" I said thanking the old man and bowing. "See, it's okay Nico It barely hurts!" I told her while pointing to my head.
"Are you sure?" Elden said blankly. "It looked pretty bad."
"I'm just fine!" I hissed at him giving him a hint I'm trying to cheer Nico up.
"Okay, okay." Elden said sacredly while waving his hands. "If you say so."
Why did he care anyway?
Nico went from frowning to cheered up again like her happy self. She bounced up and down shouting 'YAY!'
We all smiled while leaving the old man a tip for giving us free samples.
We opened the door. "See ya later, pops!" Elden waved while me and Nico kindly waved.
The old man nodded as new customers discovered his shop.
We decided to walk around seeing if we saw anything interesting.
I loved walking around town like this.
The town was crowded, and there is a lot of people laughing and smiling in joy. I felt so comfortable walking around with my friends like this.
As we were walking, Nico and Elden didn't notice but I seen a training session across the side walk.
It was a building where you train at. I wanted to train. To fight for my friends. I wanted to get stronger.
I didn't want to go there today and leave my friends, so we continued walking.
We stopped by a public restroom because Nico couldn't hold it anymore. She sprinted in the restroom while I tilted my head over the water fountain for water.
As I was getting refreshed Elden splashed water on my face from a different water fountain. And my hair was wet again.
"Idiot! That was not funny!" I said ringing out my hair.
He continued to laugh while holding his stomach and closing his eyes.
"So that's how you wanna play? Huh?" I said under my breath.
While he was closing his eyes I splashed water on him from the fountain, while he jumped up.
"Hey!" He said shaking the water off.
"Isn't funny now isn't it?!" I said laughing.
He splashed me back on my jacket. And we went back and forth till we were completely wet.
Nico came out the bath room drying her hands.
She looked at us and was immediately disappointed.
"You guys went swimming without me?!" She fake sobbed , while me and Elden sweat dropped.
"All we did was this..." Elden said while splashing Nico with water in her face.
"Hey!" She said trying her face.
"That's all what we did." I said while splashing her too
"You should've of said so, she said while splashing us back." It was soon another water fight all over again.
We finally got done and we were laughing our butts off as we were soaked all over again.
"Well since we are wet, we should go hang out for a bit at the shore and dry." Nico said running towards the shore way down the path.
"Wait up!" Elden said running after her.
I ran after him shortly after.
We arrived at shore and sat up on rocks while waves of water splashed up against our feet.
I enjoyed the sun rays drying me off because we were all soaked.
I was just smiling as the sun smiled back while still shining.
It felt good relaxing by my friends by the shore.
They seemed to like it to because they were smiling.
I closed my eyes feeling the sun going through my wet clothes.