Hey there! Sorry about the chapter here being so short. I really need to get it much more interesting than before. But I want to put this chapter separate from the others to put chapter 11 in a suspense. But still, I apologize for the terrible inconvenience. Here it is! Chapter 12, where something exciting will happen.
Chapter 12 Newfound Powers and an evil Witch!
Jester soon notices the tides have turned against him. Jester just looks rather mortified to see the changes in the girl's alignment. How did she become so evil? She was supposed to be Draugit's long lost love. Though questions and doubts cannot solve the problem he is in right now. Only fate makes him wandered into another string of loose controls.
"So Jester, I've heard that you were being left behind by your parents. Seems like they thought you were a burden, aren't they?" Clarissa, the woman behind the incident, reveals herself and said as such. Jester just looked utterly confounded again by the illusion.
"You were the one who set the residents of Kippernium into ashes, and the one who almost forced Dragon into the dark side. How can you be capable of such a dreaded act?" Jester tries to commune with her, hoping of a speck of good inside of it.
"How could I? I lost my soul to the devil a long time ago. I was given with a curse of not being able to kill anybody. How could you not stand it? I may have been as weak and frail, but I would NEVER stray from my path. To ensure that all the knights in Kippernium are vanquished..and gone forever." Clarissa said while building up her voice.
"But, aren't you supposed to be Draugit's love! He is a hero and your to be husband and you tainted his honor like this. This just isn't who you really are!" Jester exclaimed.
"He is dead. What more can I do? He was my love, true. However, I share no hands in his inevitable fate and I was only doing what I was supposed to by my master. No one interferes with me and NO ONE!" She said before going into a stance that signifies that she is going to battle.
Boss Battle 1: Clarissa (?) VS Jester
Clarissa started shooting purple flames afterwards. Jester wasn't a good evader, but he manage to escape from the hands of her powers. Jester tries to wake Jane and Dragon from their lifeless selves, but it's no use. Dragon is looking vividly unconscious while Jane is trying to bring the mood down.
Clarissa then manages to corner Jester at that moment. He is about to meet his fate at her hands and he is nervous at what will happen next.
"Jester, you may have evaded my powers with your intelligence. But this time, I'll make certain that you are indeed completely under my control!" Clarissa then enchants a spell. The spell surrounds Jester with bright light that's harsh and painful. Jester screamed with all his might. That's when it happened.
The illumination surrounding him completely vanished into thin air, as if nothing seems to have happened. Clarissa gives a large shock of disbelief, revealing that Jester wasn't just your ordinary person after all.
"How do you do that?" Clarissa asked.
Jester wasn't sure what happened himself. He seemed to have gotten a strange feeling, a feeling beyond what ordinary humans can express. A manifestation of his magic is finally revealed into him. It turns out that the nullification powers indeed comes from Jester. His powers of black magic is truly out of his comprehension. But this time, Jester's ready to fight back.
"I can see that you won't be manipulating me anytime soon." Jester said with a much more confident tone.
"That was just a fluke. You won't be doing that again!" Clarissa exclaimed before trying another spell. Jester manage to shrug it off naturally like a master wizard. Seems like he is so easily adaptive to his new powers once its been activated that Clarissa took about 3 magic spell failures to figure it out.
"Tch. I suppose you have won this round! But you'll never get these two! NEVER!" the woman said with a wicked voice.
Jester showed an amazing display of magic to remove the mind control away from Jane and Dragon and the two regained their consciousness, returning to reality as we know it.
"What? How can you use your nullification magic on others? People who just realize their powers only can use it on themselves?" Clarissa boasted to Jester.
"DO you think I'm such a 'fool' now?" Jester teased Clarissa, to which her soothing personality begins to become sour as lemon.
"W-What happened?" Jane asked.
"W-What in the world? Floppy Ears! Why are we here? Who's that strange looking...demonic little short-life there?" Dragon keeps asking to that variety. Jane looked at her and immediately notices as Clarissa.
"Clarissa! Why are you doing this! This isn't right! You know that!" Jane keeps bringing out words to snap Clarissa from being manipulated, but all is in vain.
"You-You wouldn't hope to understand what I've been through. That Draugit had disgust me from the first sight I made with him! Don't you see! I'm the victim, NOT THE VILLAIN!" Clarissa said in anger, rushing out many spells that were out of her limits. Jester, with his powers, escaped by using the same nullification magic to get them back into reality. Jane, Dragon and Jester then finally returned to the forest where they walked through along in their journey from Alta.
"W-What in the name of..." Dragon said before he passed out, spinning around cows rotating in his tired head.
"Jester! That is just brilliant! Where do you learn of such arts?" Jane said.
"I don't know Jane. It just comes out to me...for some weird reason." Jester answered. The two then realized that there lies the final piece of the scroll. Clarissa obviously dropped it for them to dechiper. Yet for what reason they may not know for the time being.
"What does it say?" Jane said as she wanted to know more about the scroll.
"Lets see. Let me read it all from the start and see if it makes sense." Jester puts the entire scroll together, forming a piece of written letter made by the wizard in the castle.
"The hero lies upon the forces of light. The dark powers sealed him within the bowels of slumber. Awakening would require a knight of brave soul. But the location remains to be found.
The only way is to find a spring in a secret place somewhere. There are few who manage to find this spring, only to fail. The powers that influence him would have to be of someone who is bold and brave. Kippernians who found this scroll...I hope you can find the hero, and save the kingdom from inevitable dissipation.
There is also one thing you should know about the hero, despite the influx of inconsistency and that is the traps being laid out. The cave inside where the hero sealed himself has led him to set many traps that may prove a challenge to those who tried.
Kippernians..please..find that hero before its too late! It may be the only clue left to save the entire kingdom from the real destruction that will happen in the future."
"We need to find this spring as soon as possible. We may need Draugit's help if we are to survive against the next thing Clarissa may inflict on us." Jester said calmly.
"But where is this spring? How can we find this spring? We manage to find the meaning of the scroll. The next thing is to find out where it is." Jane said.
"OI! Short-lives! I've found something here. Seems like that witch didn't just dropped the scroll after all!" Dragon then pointed out to another piece of scroll maintaining the location of the spring.
"W-What the? This is just amazing! We can use this to finally find Draugit!" Jane said.
"Yeah, but still. This place that she marked. It is a dangerous location in the Kippernian borders. Are you sure we wanted to go there?" Jester then realizes that he can't turn back after what happened. So they are going to venture to the springs to unseal the hero and find a way to stop Clarissa from causing anymore damage.
What will Jane, Jester and Dragon do next? And why Clarissa dropped the scrolls and its location so conveniently? What happens next? Only Fate can determine that.
Done! Sorry for the lack of creative words. But I'm desperately trying to make this understandable. (and chronologically correct) But oh well, plot confusion in the end!