"You're telling me, the 'most dangerous' ingredient we need… is water?!" Skara said, as her, Willow, and Eda tracked through the forest.
"It's more than water, it's the water of the legendary lake of The Titan, it's said to be guarded by a dangerous creature."
"And what exactly is this creature and how the hex do we get around it?!" Willow asked again in fear.
"Her, the creature is said to be able to be lulled by Bard music." Eda said, pointing to Skara, "As for what it is, no one really knows, anyone that has seen it is never seen again."
"Great. That helps us so much." Skara said sarcastically.
"Hey, this is to help you. Get over it." Eda said to them.
Skara lets out a sigh.
"For Boscha." She said.
"For Boscha." Willow whispered, quickly kissing Skara as they continued to follow Eda.
Eda used a spell to slice through the thick plants like it was a knife.
"Just a little further, lovebirds. Get ready." Eda said to them.
Willow and Skara nodded as the latter summoned a small harp. Eda slashed through a group of vines, revealing a large lake.
"Alright, we're here." Eda said with a nod.
"Okay, should I start playing now or wait until we see that monster?" Skara asked, her fingers on the strings.
"Let's see if we can actually get a bottle filled first." Eda said, "No sense in alerting it if it doesn't know we're here."
"Got it." Willow said as they went towards the lake.
Eda puts a bottle in the lake and Willow watched.
"Huh, this seems... easy." Willow said.
"Yeah, but I won't complain." Eda said.
Behind them, a large creature moved through the trees, despite its large size, it was silent as it walked. It's scales slowly changing color, no longer needing it's camouflage as it sneaks up on them. It bites down on Skara's uniform cowl and violently lifts her up and shakes her like a dog does with a toy. The scream alerted Willow and Eda.
"Skara?!/Kid?!" Willow and Eda shouted!
The creature threw Skara and she hit a tree, causing her to bleed from her head and knock her out, along with breaking some bones.
"SKARA!" Willow shouted as the beast roared at them.
"Oh shit, it's a Death Glider! I thought these things were extinct!" Eda shouted, summoning her staff.
Willow didn't listen as she glared at the beast, her eyes flashing green with magical energy and anger.
"Kid, don't do anything stupid!" Eda said.
Too late. Willow fired plants at the beast, who bit down on them and used its sharp two foot long saber teeth to shred them.
"RAAAAH!" The Death Glider roared!
"RAAAAAH!" Willow roared back, crying from her love being hurt!
She kept attacking the best with everything she could, whipping vines at it from all sides as it continued to tear them apart. The Death Glider got tired of Willow let out an ear piercing roar, taking Willow to her knees as she covered her ears from the noise. The Death Glider pressed its hind leg onto Willow, pinning her to the ground, as the Dew Claw extended towards Willow, slightly poking her stomach, before Eda blasted it with magic.
"Bottle's full! We need to go!" Eda said as Willow held her stomach!
"Aaah! It hurts!" Willow said, groaning in pain.
"Oh Titan, it must've stung you!" Eda said, rushing to Willow.
"I... I can't move!"
"Yeah, it's claw has a poison that can kill someone in a minute, just be lucky you only got enough to temporarily paralyze you." Eda said.
"Paralyzed?!" Willow shouted in shock.
"Temporarily, so you'll be okay eventually!" Eda said as she picked up Willow. "Now we need to get your girlfriend and her the hell out of here!"
The Death Glider swung its wing, hitting Eda and sending her into the water, unconscious.
"Eda!" Willow shouted!
"ROAAAAAA!" The beast roared at Willow.
The Death Glider went to bite down on her... when a staff held its mouth open.
"Oh, there's two things you don't do to me buddy!" Boscha said, "One, you don't hurt Skara! Two, you don't hurt Willow! You're two for two!"
"Boscha?!" Willow said in surprise as the triclops got in front of her. "What at you doing here?!"
"I've been calling you both for an hour! Neither of your answered, so I tracks your scrolls!" Boscha shouted.
Boscha gripped her staff tightly and her eyes started glowing.
"You mess with MY girls, you get to see my demonic half!" Boscha said.
She thrusted her staff and actually made the Death Glider fall backwards. Boscha held her staff out and growled.
"No one will... EVER... take away anything else from me." Boscha said.
'I lost my sister and I am NOT losing my girlfriends!' Boscha thought as she began glowing with magic power.
Boscha funneled that into her staff.
"One interesting fact... you don't mess the Triplet family." Boscha said, before blasting the Death Glider, "We naturally have the strongest magic on the Boiling Isles."
The Death Glider could barely roar as the blast consumed its body, sending it crashing to the large rock mountain on the other side of the lake.
"We don't have much time." Boscha said.
"Pinky's right." Eda said, dragging herself out of the water, "Oh man, I knew the breathing underwater spell would come in handy. Pinky, grab the Bard, I'll get stick here."
"Stick?" Willow asked, still groaning from the poison.
"You can't walk, you like plant magic, and you're built like a log." Eda said, getting up. "Ergo, you're a stick."
Eda picked Willow up as Boscha picked up Skara.
"We need to get them to a healer." Eda said, "And since your family is rich you can pay for it."
"No shit I'm paying for it! They're my girls!" Boscha said as they made their way out of the thick forest, "And if that lizard comes back, I'll blast it again!"
'This girl has a lot of guts to take on a Death Glider. Reminds me of myself at that age.' Eda thought with a small smile.
"What were you even doing out here!?" Boscha yelled.
"W-w-we... we were getting stuff to make a potion for you." Willow said.
"No potion is that important for you to risk your lives!"
"Even a potion that can find Sasha?" Willow asked.
That made Boscha stop in her tracks.
"W-w-what?"
"Your girlfriend's telling the truth, kid. Both of them came to me and asked for help with finding your lost twin." Eda said as she stopped by the tree line.
Boscha looked around, almost struggling to comprehend that. She looked at Skara's bleeding, unconscious body and closed her eyes. She felt tears form in them.
"If it causes you two to get hurt, then I'm better off thinking that Sasha is dead!" Boscha said.
"Boscha, you know you don't mean that." Willow said.
"Yes I do, Willow!" Boscha shouted.
"I would rather believe she's dead than have my girls be hurt!" Boscha said, "She's dead Willow! Burnt to ash just like the rest of the stuff from my childhood! And as if that wasn't bad enough… I almost lost the two people that have kept my afloat since then…"
Boscha put Skara down, because her legs were too weak to even support herself now, and she fell to her knees
"I want to think she's dead, because I can't afford to give myself hope, because I know I will lose a piece of myself for a second time." Boscha said, pulling her locket out, "Sasha meant the world to me, but she's gone… no potion can bring her back from that."
Boscha opened the locket to reveal the picture inside of herself and her lost twin when they were babies, being held by their mothers. The only memory and the last piece of Sasha she had in her life.
"She's gone Willow... forever." Boscha said.
"Well... then I guess we can use this potion for King then." Eda said, already having a plan, "How about we get these two to the Healer and you calm down a bit? After that we can get back to my house and, you never know, maybe you'll be surprised and the potion will reveal something you have wanted for a while."
"I told you, she-"
"Then at least do it for closure. Even if it might not be pretty, it will do you some good to finally have some closure." Eda said to Boscha, "I mean, what else do you have to lose?"
Boscha looked down.
"Fine, let's get them to a Healer."
Eda smirked, because she knew Luz would have that same locket around her neck.
'This is going to be an interesting day.' Eda thought as Boscha picked up Skara again and they walked out of the woods.
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