"Oh crap..." she held the big pink frog that was now Vivi, staring face-to-face with her mortal enemy: the bridge of Garmon Falls. "I forgot about this thing..." She now regretted suggesting they consult the Harvest Goddess now.

"Don't be like that Angela. You wanted to come to the Harvest Goddess spring so badly." Grendel said from half-way across the bridge. Sometimes Angela wondered why she kept that damn cat around.

"Fine. But I'm not walking," taking a few steps back, Angela made a mad dash for the bridge where she proceeded to sprint to the other side of the gorge. Unfortunately Grendel wasn't across yet, and Angela tripped, spilling herself and Vivi onto the hard wood of the bridge. The structure groaned from the impact. Smooth. She could feel Vivi squirming under her stomach, tickling it a little regardless of the circumstances, as her face throbbed. When she pulled her face up, she felt a cool liquid trailing down the center of her face. She touched the fresh wound on her forehead.

"You okay?" Grendel was perched on the hemp railing of the bridge, looking down.

"I guess," She reached for a handkerchief and began wiping her face. Vivi finally freed herself from under Angela's body, and though she was just a frog Angela could tell she was on the receiving end of a pretty nasty glare. Her knees were pretty scraped up too, but her handkerchief had already gone from a pure white to a ruddy red. Still she sopped up the blood on her knees and shins and stood up. Lucky for them, they were only a few steps away from the other side. Not missing a beat Angela quickly strode to the other side, Grendel by her side. Vivi was taking a little longer, as she could only hop. But their fortune at defeating this obstacle soon turned bad. It appeared that the impact from Angela's fall was far greater than any of them knew, and soon the bridge began to give. The sound of hemp slowly untangling itself was almost silent, but the aftermath was explosive as the bridge split in two. Vivi, looking so very small and helpless held on to Angela's side of the decapitated bridge for dear life. Angela screamed for help, hanging her body over the edge and reaching for Vivi.

"Oh my Goddess, Vivi hold on!" Tears welled up inside. She was a necromancer by trade, but an animal lover for life. Seeing the poor little pink frog tremble so helplessly was too much for Angela. Grendel stuck her head over the edge next to Angela.

"Vivi, listen to me. You have suction cups on your hands and feet. Slowly try climbing towards Angela and I." She called.

Still visibly frightened, like a true champ Vivi slowly ascended the side of the gorge. However, once she started closing the distance between her and the girls, she slipped and began to fall again. Cringing Angela expected to hear a massive splat, but to her surprise Vivi was able to prevent falling by catching herself on the wood paneling. Angela stretched her arms as far as her body would allow, but Vivi still was outside of reaching distance.

"Vivi!" Angela wailed. I should have dragged her out of that damn house yesterday! I should've never let her cast this stupid spell! Her inner thoughts grew more hysterical when Grendel cried "Look!"

Vivi was no longer holding onto the cliff's face, but instead was levitating in midair, a strange yellow color aura surrounding her amphibious body. She too seemed ignorant as to why she was now flying; it seemed her mystical powers were suppressed when she became a frog. But as clear as the blue sky Vivi was indeed floating towards Angela and Grendel, the former gratefully catching the still shaking frog in her arms. A shadow was cast against the other side's broken bridge, and when Angela looked up she saw an attractive man, this time it was not Luke. He had bronzed skin with an unknown white symbol tattooed under his right eye. His hair was the same silver as the sparkling stream below, and he was clad in a purple jacket and white pants. He seemed to be silently chanting something as the severed ends of the bridge also began to lift of seemingly their own accord. The same inaudible sound of hemp unraveling came again, this time in reverse as the bridge began to mend itself. When the man stopped speaking, he looked over at Angela where she noticed one eye was yellow and the other an emerald green.

"This should hold until the carpenters are able to properly apply repairs..." as soon and as mysteriously as he came he was gone. Angela's back was pressed against the stone surface opposite of the Carpenter's store. Vivi seemed agitated, Grendel amazed, Angela star struck.

"I think that man was the Wizard," Grendel said, still watching the spot where he was standing. Angela nodded, unable to speak. Vivi angrily leapt from Angela's arms and started to hop towards the Harvest Goddess stream. She stopped halfway to look at Angela and Grendel impatiently.

"Oh wow...that was amazing."

"I agree. See why we should have seen him first?"

"He just...he just came out of nowhere. And those powers?" Her back hunched over before she jumped into the air, "were amazing!"

"Angela control yourself. People are starting to stare."

"What?" she turned away to find all the residences of the Garmon Mines district huddled together, not looking at the miracle that is the bridge, but Angela. Now they come out of the woodwork to help. Luke pushed his way to the front of the group and ran up to Angela.

"Angela! We heard a racket out here, what happened?"

She was about to begin explaining when she remembered that most inhabitants were uneasy and aloof about the magic casters of this island. She bit her tongue against the urge of telling them of the Wizard's heroics.

"I...fell."

It was a pitiful excuse, but it seemed to work. Once she said that she tried running across the bridge as fast as she could due to her fear of heights and ended up tripping over her own feet, the people seemed satisfied and dispersed back to their homes and businesses. As they walked down the path, Angela replayed the scene over and over again in her mind.

"Are you okay Angela? You're being awfully quiet."

"Yeah, I was just musing."

"Over what?"

Her face transitioned from white to red. "I-I can't say."

"Hey! We never keep anything from each other!" Grendel sounded amazingly offended by Angela's sudden reservations.

"Don't be like that Grendel. It's no big deal."

"From the look on your face I would have to disagree."

"Since when have you been a gossiping Gabbie?"

"A what?"

"You heard me." The two exchanged more remarks over the course of four minutes, and Vivi had been tired of hearing them since minute one. In an attempt to get Angela to finally spill the beans, she stretched out her long sticky tongue and lobbed Angela right in the face. It stung again the cut on her forehead.

"Okay okay, jeez..." she tried to disguise her face by using Vivi as a cover. "I was just thinking...what that mark on the Wizard's face meant," she lied. Not about whether or not the Wizard likes to slow dance, never would I be thinking of that...

"That's what you were so secretive about?" Grendel gave her the stank eye.

"Yes. You asked the question, so now you have to accept the answer." Her steps became quicker as she rushed towards the spring.

"Hey! Wait up!" Grendel, having four legs, was able to catch up with her and greet the Harvest Goddess.

"Angela, Grendel...and Vivi?" The Goddess was surprised by this last visitor. "My, I haven't seen you since you first came to Castanet so long ago." Vivi shrugged, hoping out of Angela's arms.

"How did you know that was Vivi?" Angela was impressed by all the surprises this goddess kept exposing.

"The waters," her arms waved around her body, making a circle. For the first time Angela noticed that these small bodies of water that surrounded the Goddess were different from the ones they passed on the path. The coloring was off, and a mystical sparkle and shine emanated from its surface. "I'm able to watch over all of Castanet by just peering into these special puddles. I saw what Vivi tried to attempt, and while her intentions were sound, I saw the backlash of that spell as well. That had to be very scary, huh Vivi?" She spoke with the compassion of a mother. This didn't seem to soothe Vivi at all, only making her hotter under the collar.

"My lady," started Grendel, "how can we change Vivi back?"

The Goddess considered this for a minute before a small smile spread across her lips. Her hands twirling, she magically produced a small glass vile, which she filled up with the same special water she was just speaking about. She handed the vile to Angela. "Give her half of this today, and the other half tomorrow."

"Thank you my lady. So this will change her back?"

"It should."

"It should"? "What if it doesn't?" Angela winced thinking about crossing that bridge again unless she was going to the safety of her modest farm.

"If by the second dose tomorrow she has not returned to her former body, then I advise seeking G-the Wizard in Harmonica Town. I'm a deity that governs the life of plants and animals, I'm afraid I don't know much about magic outside of that field."

"Oh..." Angela thought the Goddess also created human life. I guess that's where the Harvest King comes in. "Okay then. Thank you again." They waved goodbye and left the aqua haired beauty to her reveries.

She waited until the trio was out of hearing range. "My my, I'm quite the cunning nymph aren't I?"

A/N: Did I lie? XD He's going to have a much bigger role from the next chapter on, and that's all I have to say on the matter.