Tear Droplet: OMG I just thought of something for this fanfiction which is why I wanna finish now XD. OMG I have so much in mind that I don't know where to start and where I started and how to end. Haha, keep up with me please. Don't hesitate to ask questions whenever needed cause since I know what's going on and what will go on, I might not explain things as clearly so please ^^. Anyway, enough OMG's and onto the story!

Disclaimer: You wouldn't be reading this if I owned A Witch's Tale because you would've been playing it if I did XD.

Chapter 3: First Taste of Shiva

Entering Rem Sacchras, Liddell looked around.

"Nothing has changed" she said out loud.

"Of course not, you think this place will change that much since you saved it?" Loue said

"No but I thought since something happened in the parallel world, something could have happened here" she said.

"Hm, that would make sense but"

MEOW

"Loue, this may sound like Déjà vu but did you just meow after your sentence?"

"Huh I uh"

MEOW

Another meow came then a cat appeared.

"Hmm what do we have here, it's her again" the Cheshire cat said.

"What, can't I be here?" Liddell said

"Hmm…it's not the fact about being here but the fact that you shouldn't be here" he said

"Why shouldn't I be here then?"

"I heard you created some mischief over there. You naughty naughty girl"

"Don't change the subject"

"Give up now. Things shall fix itself here. You give up on this crazy journey of yours. Unlike last time, this isn't a game. You can actually lose more than your memories this time" he said.

"Huh? Speak English; you're not making any sense"

"I hear he's quite the player but then again, what should I know"

"Uh hello you stupid cat are you still here?"

"I warned you now; give up while you still have everything"

"You know, this is probably why you don't have an owner. You keep straying away from things" Liddell said.

"Hmm, perhaps but that's where you're mistaken" the cat replied

"What? So you do have an owner?"

"Whoops, things have become complicated. I shall take my leave" the Cheshire cat said before disappearing. "Don't worry, you shall understand soon enough"

"That was weird" Liddell said.

"He was probably playing with your head again" Loue said

"Yeah but how did he know about what happened?"

"News can spread. Anyway let's hurry to the castle. Who knows how much time has passed already over there"

"Right"

"You remember the way right?"

"Yup! And if I don't, we can always chew our way into the castle and such" she said

"That's not really a good idea"

"Kidding" she said and ran north.

After encountering some monsters and getting lost a couple of times they finally made it to the front of the castle.

"See I told you we'll make it!" Liddell said proudly.

"Yes but it took us an awful amount of time" Loue sighed

"Hey, not my fault, those monsters we came upon threw me off course!" she said defensively.

"It's a good thing you're a lot stronger now" he said.

"Yes and its all thanks to the practice of the Runes"

"I wonder why when you tried to use the new magic it didn't work"

"Maybe it's because it only works on the other side" she said

Loue looked shocked.

"What?"

"It's nothing; it's just surprising to see you say something so clever"

"Hey what is that supposed to mean!" she shouted and started waving her umbrella in attempts to hit him but he dodged perfectly.

Suddenly Liddell had tripped over a candy cane and fell into Loue's arms that caught her in time.

"Haha, you're so clumsy" he said laughing

Liddell blushed. "Shut up" she said still not removing herself from his arms.

"Hello and welcome, the princess has been expecting you" a gingerbread man said ruining the whole moment.

"Ahem, yes" Loue said helping Liddell back onto her feet and straightening herself.

Liddell still embarrassed, straightened herself too and looked at the gingerbread man.

"I am here to escort you safely into her chamber" he said once more.

"Yes, please do" Loue said and together they followed the gingerbread man into Gretel's Princess chamber.

Upon entering, they were greeted with a happy cry.

"Liddell!" Gretel exclaimed "Welcome back, I see Loue is still with you" she said happily.

"Hello" they both greeted as Gretel excused the gingerbread man.

"It's been such a long time, how have you been?" she asked.

"The usual, anyway I hate to be rude Princess but we're in a big pinch right now so I would appreciate it if I didn't explain everything. Getting straight to the point we need to enter into that door behind you" Liddell said.

Gretel's childish face suddenly grew serious. Her servants were looking around aimlessly not knowing what was going on.

"Everyone please leave" she said referring to her workers. "I would like to have a private chat with these two so I would appreciate if you would leave us"

They did as they were commanded and soon, everyone had left leaving the 3 inside alone.

"Why did everyone leave?" Liddell whispered to Loue.

"I don't know" he replied.

Gretel heaved a sigh. "I knew a day like this would come but I didn't think it would be this soon. And to think I thought we could have tea again upon your return"

The two wondered in question marks.

"No need to explain, I can probably guess what's going on even though I have no clue myself. I am the youngest out of the 6 princess' so I am the least informed. Let me explain, but first I would like you two to look behind me. What do you see?"

The two looked.

"I see a wall" Liddell replied.

"Exactly, a wall. The door you seek is right there at that wall but few know of this. This is because the world you shall enter is different from the one you know of. It's been kept a secret to keep balance but I guess the balance has been abnormal nowadays"

The two kept quiet.

"I shall allow you two to pass but it's not done simply. You need permission to enter" she said.

"Oh that, we already got it" Liddell said.

"Then I guess we are all set" she said.

Taking the chocolate key that hung around her neck she walked up to the wall and pointed the key at the wall. She made a counter clockwise turn and a door was soon revealed.

"I wish you the best of luck for your safe return and end" she said.

They walked up to the door and stopped.

"Before we go, we need your sigil" Loue said. "It was returned to you when she left"

"Yes, I shall provide it for you once more" Gretel said handing it to them. While I'm at it, here's some cake. Please return safely and make the right choices" she said.

The door opened and a white vortex was revealed blinding the three for a while.

"See you Princess and thank you" Liddell said before jumping into the portal with Loue following her.

"When you come back, let's play Blackjack again!" Gretel shouted happily after them.

At the end of the vortex was a world very different from the worlds that they've been to. It was very warm and bright, not to mention very white. The floor was fluffy making it hard to stand up right.

"Where are we?" Liddell asked.

"I don't know but maybe this can tell us something" Loue said holding the mirror Glace had handed to them.

Liddell grabbed it from his hands and started to tap on it nonstop.

"Argh, how do you work this thing!" she exclaimed.

"Didn't she say something about holding it against some light of some sort?" Loue replied.

"Well there is plenty of light here, and I don't see it working"

"Wasn't it supposed to be a special light?"

"How special does it have to be?"

"I don't know, this is new to me too you know"

"Argh! This is frustrating! How are we supposed to get somewhere if we don't even know where we are!"

"Would you two quiet down" a small voice said.

The two looked around but saw no one.

"Loue you heard that too right?"

"Yeah"

"I'm down here" the voice said.

The two looked down and saw a caterpillar sitting on a mushroom smoking.

"What is this, a caterpillar?" Liddell said.

"I think it is" Loue said "but I think I saw this before…somewhere…"

"Hey, can you tell us where we are and where the ruler of this place is?" Liddell said.

The caterpillar ignored her and continued to smoke.

"Hey I'm talking to you!" Liddell shouted.

It continued to smoke.

Losing her temper, she grabbed the caterpillar and held it to head level.

"When someone's talking to you, the usual thing to do is to answer!" Liddell shouted.

The caterpillar let out a puff of smoke before replying "Perhaps you should be a bit bigger, then you'll be able to see better"

"Huh?" she said.

"You aren't the correct height for this world. Perhaps you should grow a bit" the caterpillar replied.

"Thank you for pointing out how short I am, I'll grow, just not as fast"

"Growing is not a problem here for this is wonderland too and anything can happen"

"Then what do I do?"

"The world you came from has provided you aid for that" he said before disappearing from Liddell's hands and back onto the mushroom.

"I remember now, the caterpillar I believe is one of Lorina's friends. He comes and goes whenever he pleases" Loue said.

"Great, just great, more Looney goons over here. Let's see what I've brought from the other world that can help me grow" Liddell said as she rummaged through her stuff. Many stuff had dropped such as her tauth dolls, the rune book, the sigil, her umbrella, and the bottle of phoenix tears but nothing to help her grow. "These cakes that Gretel provided me are all I have left" she said.

"We'll think of something" Loue said after gathering all her stuff from the floor and handing it to her. "You have to be more careful with your stuff or you're going to lose something" he said.

She took everything to her arms desperately trying to juggle everything carefully. With Loue's help she was capable of putting everything back together.

"Mr. Caterpillar, if I give you some cake do you think you can help us?" Liddell said.

"What I need isn't the cake but it's what you need" he said blowing another air of smoke.

"Huh?" she said. "Oh well I am quite hungry, I guess I'll take a bite of it" she said opening the box of cake. She was greeted with a small beautifully decorated cake which had the words 'EAT ME' on it.

"Haha, what a way for Gretel to give us a cake" Liddell said as she picked up with the cake and took a bite.

"Huh?" she thought as soon as she got a weird feeling the minute she took a bite. After swallowing Liddell gradually started to grow, not age wise but height. When she stopped growing she was as tall as a sky scraper.

Loue looked up in shock and confusion.

Liddell was in total shock right now. "Cool" she said in her normal pitch voice but what seemed to Loue and the Caterpillar was a huge one making them cover their ears.

"I can see a Castle from here" her voice boomed "I didn't know Gretel's cakes could do this!"

Loue continued to cover his ears while the Caterpillar continued to smoke. "Hey what do you think we should do now?" Liddell asked.

"You said that you could see a Castle right? That's probably where the ruler here is. I guess we should head towards that direction but…"

"Hey Caterpillar, what do we do next?" Liddell asked.

The Caterpillar blew a puff of smoke and said "my work here is done; everything else is relatively the same. Perhaps we shall meet again" then disappeared along with the smoke.

"Hey where did he go?" Liddell's voice boomed once more making Loue cover his ear for cover.

"I think before we do anything, I should probably become eye level before this adds anymore stress" Loue replied "though I really don't like sweet things I guess I have to do this" he sighed and took a bite of the cake on the opposite corner. He started to grow too and soon they were relatively the same height level as if they never ate the cake to begin with.

"Hmph" Liddell said.

"What?" Loue asked.

"You're still taller than me" she huffed.

"Haha, no point in getting pissed about that now, you'll grow" Loue said patting her.

"Argh" she groaned and hit Loue with her umbrella. "Huh?"

"What?"

"I just noticed how even though we were the only ones who ate the cake, our stuff still grew in size" she said.

"That's probably how the magic here works" he said.

"Hmm… I wonder where we should get started" Liddell said "The Caterpillar said that everything here works just about the same so I guess we should find the ingredients for the key and enter the castle. Ugh, that means we have to find our way around this stupid area first. Where is everyone when you need them?"

"Maybe we can ask Glace around" he said pulling out the mirror "I don't know my way around so it's best to ask someone who does before we do anything reckless"

"Fine, but how do we use this thing anyway?"

"See any light?"

"Plenty"

"See any special light?"

"Ughh she said while looking around, there's that weird white light over there that looks black she said pointing at the direction of the light. Do you think that's it?"

"Yes, that may be, let's take a look"

Together they walked to the black colored light and had the mirror reflect it. The moment that happened, a screen had projected from the star that was attached. On the screen there were options such as communication, maps, encyclopedia, directory, contacts.

"Ugh" Liddell said

"I think we touch it" Loue said cautiously raising his hand and touched communication.

'Who would you like to communicate with?' the screen then said. The only option available was Glace so he touched it.

'Dialing' the screen responded. In a few moments Glace's face had came onto the screen.

"Ah hello, I was wondering who it was. It seems you finally made it over there and how to use this. Good job, what did you call for?"

"We just made it to this world and ate some of Gretel's cake and got big. Now we have no clue what to do next" Liddell replied.

"Head towards the castle of course" she replied.

"Ugh, where is it?

"I don't know, figure it out yourself" she said "I've never been there"

"How do we even go there if we don't even know where we are" Liddell stated.

"Judging by your surroundings I'm guessing that's you're in Shiva, the world of yang. Prince Auric is the ruler of this place, I must warn you Liddell to be careful" she said.

"Huh? Why should I be careful?" Liddell asked.

"Um… let's just say that he's trying to get out of something" Glace replied "And I think that you two are best together so I wouldn't want anything to happen beforehand. Though it might be a good experience for you two" she murmured

"Huh?"

"Never mind, I'm just talking to myself. This place works just the same as yours. Collect the ingredients and find someone willing to trade you for a key. Use the key to enter the castle. Simple as that" she said.

"Okay, what do we need?" Liddell asked.

"Umm, I don't know… I think you should try browsing around. I think one of the ingredients was a bottled light of 9, and something about the summer warmth of 7"

"Huh, what kind of ingredients are those?"

"I don't know, don't ask me, I'm just trying to remember rare stuff that might get you something" she whined.

"Ok, ok, no need to act like a 5 year old" Liddell said.

"I am not!"

"Are too!"

"Am not!"

"Are too!"

"Am not plus 10"

"Would you two both stop with this nonsense and let's just get this over with. I'm getting sick as it is here" Loue sighed.

"Oh right, Loue's a vampire so he probably won't like bright places. I'll leave you two alone now, don't do anything inappropriate when I'm away, bye!" she said and the screen disappeared.

"How long is she going to keep that image in her head" Loue sighed.

"What image?"

"It's nothing"

"So where to you propose we look for these items?"

"Let's just walk around. We'll find them sooner or later" Loue replied looking uneasy.

"You sure you're okay?" Liddell asked worriedly. "Maybe we should head back and have you rest"

"No, this is fine. Besides we don't even know the way back"

"True that"

The two continued to walk in the world of Shiva and soon encountered a flock of 3 black bird like monsters. "Let's see if the new magic here works" she said as she flipped through the book. Let's see, if this is the world of yang, then we should fight it with yin! Tenebrous Etoile!" She exclaimed striking a black wave at them. This only made them grow in size.

"Huh! Why didn't this work?" Liddell screeched getting attacked by some of the birds.

"Back off" Loue said stepping in front of Liddell and using his cape as a shield.

"Try something else" he said still standing in front.

"Uhh ok" she said browsing through the book some more. "How about Luminous Etoile!" she shouted, this time a beam of light emerged when she waved her umbrella hitting the birds. They began to shrink."

"Try it again" Loue said "I think its working"

"Okay" Liddell replied casting another one of the spells. This time the birds faded completely. Black puff of smoke emerged and in the place of 3 birds were 3 small angels. (1 male, 2 female)

"Thank you" they said flying towards Liddell and hugging her. They were all in tears.

"Woah!" Liddell exclaimed in surprise. "You three were actually the birds?"

"Yes" one of the females replied. "In the world of Yang, there is some yin in here. It's a cycle of becoming yang, then yin, then back to yang. There will always be a little of each in the worlds so it was natural if we were going to become something like that. However a couple of days ago, this man had came to this world along with 6 other girls. It just seems to happen so suddenly but the next thing we knew, our yin process speeded up and enhanced. Those who got affected by it the most turn into creatures like what you saw before"

"So in order to turn them back to normal, all I had to do was hit them with light, the opposite of dark?" Liddell asked.

"Yes" the other one replied "the balance is now being off thrown with yin and yang battling out to overwhelm the other. They aren't synchronized with each other. Eventually they might swallow each other and the balance would be loss. Prince Auric could fix this though! Unfortunately, he's powerless currently inside the castle. He's probably worried about what's happening in the neighboring country of Shakti so he can't worry about his own place. Please! Can you help him?"

"Sure, that's the whole reason I came here in the first place" Liddell replied.

"Thank you!" they all cheered happily. "We shall do our best and turn our friends back to normal ourselves to avoid you any delays" the male one said "Please take this as a token of our thanks" he said handing her a bottle that was shining brightly. We thank you and bid you farewell. If you come across an angel, we will be your guide. Thank you and farewell" he said and the three flew off.

"That was nice of them" Liddell said gazing at the small bottle that she was given. Inside the bottle was a yellow 9 shining brightly. "I guess this is the bottled light of 9. This should take care of some of our problems"

"Ugh"

"Loue?" Liddell asked and turned around to see Loue kneeling on the floor sweating and panting a lot. He also had a couple of bruises here and there.

"Oh my god! Loue, are you alright?" she exclaimed running to his side.

"Yes, this is no big deal. It just a little brighter that's all" he said managing a smile.

Liddell quickly put the bottle of light away. Loue seemed to get a bit better but he still seemed tired. "Let's find a place to rest" she said having Loue lean on her as she carried/dragged him to a nearby cave.

She gently put him down and let him rest. He seemed to get better with the darkness.

Loue started to catch his breath. "I'll be ready in a moment, just hold on a sec" he said.

"This is odd" Liddell thought "When Loue accompanied to the other places, they had light and he seemed perfectly fine. Was he pushing himself? Nah, I doubt that. Maybe it's just this place"

Loue's eyes were closed and his breathing evened out.

"Loue?" Liddell stated but Loue didn't reply.

"Great he's asleep" she sighed. She took a look at his bruises. "This won't do" she said as she took out her Peso doll and held it in front of him. "Heal Loue" she said as a green light began to shine on Loue. When it disappeared, the bruises didn't look serious anymore but they were still visible.

"That's odd" she said putting her doll down. "Why didn't Loue heal?" She sat down. A bottle rolled out her pocket. She turned around and saw that the bottle of phoenix tears had rolled out.

"I wonder" she said picking the bottle up and opening the lid. She poured a drop on one of Loue's bruises and it instantly began to heal up. She smiled. Holding the bottle a bit higher she poured out a little more. Little fragments of tears poured out, but it wasn't enough to get him wet. Liddell poured about a third of the bottle before Loue's wounds had healed.

Closing the bottle once more, she gathered all her stuff neatly and sat next to Loue. Loue's head gently started to rock back and forth and fell onto Liddell's shoulder.

"Hey Loue!" she exclaimed but Loue didn't budge. She tried pushing him off but he just ended back on her shoulder. She heaved a sigh.

"Gosh, is it just me or did it suddenly getter hotter?" she wondered fanning herself a little.

"So you're saying that she's in Shiva right now?" a masculine voice said.

"Yes sir, my pets told me they spotted her along with a vampire." a feminine voice replied.

"Excellent…San, you go to Shiva. Give our new player a nice greeting. Send the prince our regards too" the man's voice said.

"As you wish sir" San replied

Tear Droplet: YAY! My tests are finally all done and I got a job! I'm so happy!

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Ok that's a total lie. I so flunked my Living Environment test. I'm so going to fail and my grades are going to drop! And then I have to go to summer school making me lose my job!

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Okay, enough of that. I just lost my motivation to write again. You're probably like 'WHAT! What happened to the motivation in the beginning of the chapter!' I lost it after taking days to write this chapter. No biggy, I'll find it again when I get a brain spark. I ended up, randomly typing the ending…haha...

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Thank you so much you two! What happened to everyone else? Did the story get boring? I'm sorry; this is my first time making a game fanfiction so I was trying to merge a fanfiction and game together. Please review, or do something. If I don't get 1 notification on this story (correction on any story) I won't continue to write because I'm assuming that you don't like it so why bother. Please? I know not a lot read this but I feel so lonely for some reason because I put effort to this compared to other stories and my efforts are ignored.

Okay I'm just complaining now. I should be happy with what I get. You can also give me pointers on how to make it better. Bye, till next time.