Sorry that there was no story last week. A little background information. There is this human down on earth who transcribes my stories from the format I send him to a format that fanfiction will accept (word.) According to him, last weekend there was an update that caused his keyboard to stop working. It was fixed with another update at the end of the weekend, but there was no time to transcribe my work onto word. As such, I will composite you guys by not taking a break between stories and releasing the next one as soon as possible. Anyways, onto the chapter.
Marisa woke up by loud sounds coming from the main room. After nearly falling off her bed, she got dressed in her apprentice outfit and went to the east hallway. As she approached the main room, she could clearly make out Mima's voice among the voices.
When Marisa entered the main room, she was immediately noticed by Mima and the two guest. "There you are. Awake sleepy head?" Mima turned back towards the guests "This is my apprentice Marisa."
One of the guests, a woman, gave a quick bow at Marisa. She had dark… purple (?) eyes and purple hair that was tied into a ponytail. She wore white vest with a red vest over it in a style that a man would often wear. On her left hip was a sheath for a katana. "Hello there young child. My name is Meira and this person's name… what are you going to blurt out Rika?"
The shorter woman (?) was taller than Marisa by a large margin, but looked like a child next to Mima and Meira. She had brown eyes and hair that was put into two braids in the front. She wore a white shirt as well as light brown pants, but did not look nearly like a man like Meira did. A light blue bow rested on the top of her shirt. She had her hand over her mouth, trying in vain to stop herself. When Meira asked her that question, the flood gates opened. "Who are you and what have you done with the real Mima!" Rika had a massive smile on her face.
Mima gained an equally massive smile on her face. "Oh, well the real me is right over there." Mima pointed at the corner, where another Mima was waiting. "Hi."
Marisa started to look back and forth rapidly "What? Wait what? Why is there two of you." Marisa put her hands over her ears as her brain started to go on meltdown.
Meira put her hand over her face. "Please stop messing with your apprentice, your blowing her young mind." Despite her attempts to hide it, she could not help but have a small grin as well.
The Mima in the corner responded. "Ghahaha, sorry but I can't help myself." She wiped her eye like there was a tear in there before going to the center of the room. The Mima already in the center of the room exploded into purple clouds before they too faded.
"Mmmm…" as processing what just happened racked Marisa's brain, another thought rose to the surface, one she could not believe she had forgot about. "Can I, um, go outside?" Marisa looked with a face of pure innocents.
Mima summoned and twirled her staff "well you did sleep in today…" Mima stopped twirling her staff and started to tap it against her left hand, "buuut I did promise you I would allow you to go outside yesterday," Mima stopped tapping her staff and slammed it against the ground "so I will allow it this one time."
"Okay then." Marisa bounced out the door as she said that. As she was about to close the door behind her, she overheard Mima and Meira talking.
"You let her sleep in on purpose didn't you?"
"Was it that obvious?"
Marisa was finally able to experience being outside by herself again, and she was in awe at the tranquility and peacefulness of it. Every time she had been out here in the last few months, she had to stay close to Mima and they never strayed out far from the house. She was now free to explore and take in her surroundings. She was currently focused on getting a mushroom on the side of a tree.
"Come on, get it, get it, err." Even standing on tippy toes and reaching as high as she could, it was just out of reach. "Fine then, how about this." She backed up and did a running jump to get the mushroom. She grabbed it, causing it to snap off and causing her to fall down a hill into a bush at the bottom.
Marisa jumped out of the bush with the mushroom held high and a smile on her face. "I've got it!" yelled Marisa in triumph. Just as she was about to take a bite out of it, a familiar voice made her drop it.
"Marisa? Is that you?" out of the foliage came a man with short blond hair wearing a traditional garment and holding a slip of paper in his hand.
"Dad!" Marisa tried to back away, but the man rushed forward, picked her up, and hugged her.
"I-I was worried sick! I was worried that some youkai got to you! I'm glad that you safe." He stopped hugging her and gently put her down. He grabbed her hand. "Come on lets go home."
Marisa tried to resist "NO! I-I want to learn magic!"
Marisa's father let go of Marisa's hand, knee down to Marisa's level, and looked her in the eyes. "I never said that you couldn't learn magic, honey. I just wanted you to wait tell you were older. Look at me. I know you ran away, but that's never the solution. We will get through this pain together, Marisa."
"I-I want to stay with Mima." Marisa ran away as fast as she could, only to nearly run into a tree. She looked back to see her father walking towards her.
"Marisa, please, I know you ran away but I can forgive you for that. I'm your father, so please listen to me. Come back to the village with me."
Marisa shouted at the top of her lungs "You are no longer my father!" There was a brief silence in the air.
"What did Mima do to you? Come on, were going to the village, you need help." He had the slightest bit of pissed off in his tone. He rushed at Marisa, but before he could reach her, a star whizzed between them, forcing Marisa's father to stop.
"What are you doing to my apprentice?" At were the star came from, Mima was pointing her spear at Marisa's father. She had the face of seriousness combined with anger, just like when youkia had attack Marisa.
Marisa father, despite visibly trembling, did not back down. "As Marisas father, I will make sure that you will stop corrupting my daughter!" He rushed at Mima, who did nothing to stop him. He slammed the amulet he had in his hand onto Mima.
It fell of her without doing anything. Mima now had a grin on her face. "You thought an amulet made to deal with ghost would have any effect on me? You guys at the village clearly don't have any idea what you're dealing with. And anyways, you're not Marisa's father, she has broken ties with you. As her guardian, I will protect her from being taken away by you." She thrusted the non-bladed end at him, knocking him down, before trusting the crescent blade downwards so it traps his neck, but is not far enough down to cut him. "Plus you chose the worst time to attack." Mima snapped her fingers.
Meira jumped out of the bushes in between Marisa and her father, with her left hand on her sheath, and her right hand above her handle, ready to unsheathe her sword at a moment's notice.
A red dot appeared on Marisa's fathers head, racing it back reviled Rika in the sky riding a large purple eyeball which was ready to fire at Rika's command.
"Now I would normally kill you, no question, but you are Marisa's father, and you still care deeply for each other, so I will let you live if you leave and never try to take Marisa again." Mima lifted her spear.
Marisa's father got up to his knees. "But, hur. Marisa do you want to stay with Mima?" Marisa gave a nod in response. "Fine, if that's your choice, I will not argue with you." He got up, dirt now covering his cloths, and started to walk back to the village. "Just know this much, I will not take you back in. Got that?" With that, he left without hearing a response.
Meira stopped getting ready to attack with her blade and walked over to Rika, who had descend form the sky and had turn off weapon mode. After a silent bow, they left Mima and Marisa alone.
Marisa was silent, and looked down with an air of sadness. "Hey, do- do you think that- tha-"
"That we could have a falling out. No. Not in less I do something you fine morally wrong."
"But what if some tries to separate us?"
"Then I will promise on my life my soul that I will protect you, and stop anyone who still tries. I doubt anyone can break our bond though, and I know that no one will be able to beat us. You know why.
Marisa looked up, no longer with an air of sadness. "Why?"
Mima yelled with as much theatric, as much joyful energy as she could. "Because I one of the top mages in the world, and you will eventually surpass me!"
Marisa beamed joy "Your right. Nothing can stop us."
"Hmhmhmhmhm. Come on, I need to tell you about the shrine, the maiden, and my never ending battle with her. I'll race you." The two of them ran back home, Marisa running as fast as she can, Mima floating just behind, both having gigantic smiles on their faces. Racing back home, and towards the future.