POV Narrator:
The journey goes on and on, each one of the nine girls will make their way at the same time, taking the necessary time for them to reach the sanctuary of the nine witches, where Diana is located, who after going through Woodward's spell she needs the presence of these eight girls to free herself, get out of the seal and finally reach the next key point of this path, which may end in the revolution of the nine witches.
Sucy is starting her journey, with potions she will specialize more in how smart she is in dealing with poisons and create potions to aggrandize herself as a witch, having the help of Marianne Von Hoffen who along the way will show where to go and reach the end of the journey.
POV Sucy:
I'm sure it was Akko's doing, once again involving me in her crazy stuff, but it seems that it's also serious, to think that I'm in this crazy adventure of witch revolution because of her... I didn't even want to get involved in anything, but here I am doing this thing that I honestly don't have the least hope for.
As I pass through the forest in front of me I come across another forest full of mushrooms, some huge and others smaller, it was paradise, now at least there will be something interesting, wait a minute is this the legendary mushroom forest of the shrine of the nine witches? It's not so bad here, who knows I might finally find a cure for my skin turning pale like this.
"It seems that you really like this place, I didn't imagine that someone would like mushrooms, usually those who do are just for the other very suggestive meaning, girl, don't delay things too much because the journey is important" said the blonde who seems very restless.
"Hey white one I'm just having a look around, these mushrooms look quite interesting for my taste" I say looking closely.
"They are poisonous, don't think about eating them, the trees nearby have a fruit that is edible and is good for you" she said and I was already hooked on which fruit it was.
Even so I took some smaller mushrooms and started putting them in a bag, at least this I have, as well as some fruit to eat, since I will have to improvise on this journey, I prepare some test tubes with potions, which I mix some ingredients, before moving on, seeing how well they are made.
"Until for someone I called you suddenly know how to do something" Marianne said.
"Now I can go, I won't stay here unprepared, I have to arm myself with potions" I say with them already inside my bag and sealed with corks on the end.
I started to walk forward, with my eyes alert, I'm not going to be suddenly attacked, so far so good, no creature, but it's good not to falter or the worst can happen, I see some mushrooms with legs are appearing and I'm very alert, I use a spell on me to diagnose myself and I'm not under the effect of the pores of these mushrooms, which is strange, they usually appear in hallucinations like what happened to Akko on my 16th birthday hahahah.
"They're walking mushrooms anyway, careful they're nothing..." Said the white girl and I already throw a potion on the ground that makes some roots take me forward.
I go towards them getting very close just to see something and soon it doesn't take long for them to realize my presence, starting to walk to catch me, some lower their heads preparing to release spores and I use more of the potion for the roots to take me up and with that I already start to release another potion that is raining down below the mushrooms, I jump from that distance and lean on a tree, watching the rain practically dissolving each of the walking fungi into pieces.
"Damn I wanted to study them more closely" I say as I look at them melting.
"This is serious business here girl we can't waste time here, come on, I was in my eternal sleep enjoying immortality in the afterlife and you show up getting into trouble and now we have to show up before the world I came from destroys itself" Wow what a great person she is, I like the way, at least she doesn't pretend to be a heroine.
"I was as thrown into this as you were, believe it or not, I just wanted to find different poisonous mushrooms and make a potion that can bring me back to what I had before I was poisoned by my parents, because of them my skin is all grey, I even wanted to find out who those people were and everything else, to know the
truth, but now that all this has burst out of nowhere, this talk of witches' revolution, here I am doing something that I don't even have that much bag to do" I answer the blond with my sack full.
"Oh whatever, just keep on going, it amazes me the ability of you current generation to fuck up and us nine witches having to fix your shits" Oh who would have thought it, don't you, you say that, but it's us who are walking around and doing everything.
"If you were going to do that you should have come back much earlier when Victoria Mclaren wanted to modernize magic, she could prevent all this, you could prevent the system to become what everything has become today, that could prevent even the birth of Miranda Holbrook, we would not be in the shit... You blame us, but you did nothing, you always acted in mysterious ways and staying with codes, wake up, this is not the way the world will change" I tell her that only remains very quiet.
"We can't interfere too much with the world of the living and you have now extrapolated to the point where we have to choose nine people for this" She said retorting to me.
Anyway, now the big mushrooms that attacked me are dead, I'd better be on my way soon, let's get going, I have to increase my mushroom collection, there are some I've never even heard of, it will be beautiful at home when I put them on, also to make the potion I wanted so much.
And the hours went by, Sucy from time to time faced the humanoid mushrooms that appeared andshe even used her magic at some points, from far away, with the help of potions to knock down thecreatures and with that the sunset arrived where she took a well deserved rest after using somepotions to make a house on top of a mushroom and thus a place to sleep, waking up the next dayalready ready to start adventuring?
At least the bed was comfortable, these mushrooms are soft, let's see what's on for today's challenge, I walk around and look around, picking up some mushrooms that interest me, I notice it's kind of okay, none of those big guys at least, Marianne even gave me a good chat which is pretty rare.
"It seems that we have some similarities who would say, I would never imagine that I look like you that way, you like potions and poisons, I like potions and poisons, you're the type that likes to put chaos, me too, I've had many memories when I caused some messes among the eight, I was actually kind of pulled by them to be one of the nine, my parents pulled me to this journey because I didn't do anything all day" said Marianne and interesting story I'd say, everything has a beginning at least, I always end up mistaken for Hellene's girlfriend when I remember this girl's name.
"Well I was practically pulled out of the blue by all this, the friendship with Akko, it was a moment that began to take her away and in the end we became colleagues, all this to get her getting me into trouble, I had to serve detention because she simply did not know how to hold back from doing some shit and who paid was me and my friend Lotte, but anyway what is this in front of me?" I say when I notice that the path had some dark fungi.
I'm not at all dumb to note that these fungi eat anything quickly, so much so that it makes sense that they are buried, I even throw a fruit and see that the fungi simply absorbed that fruit until there was nothing left which I found quite irrational to be honest.
"What a cool fungus" I say impressed.
"If you step on even the tip of your foot on those things, you will be consumed and become just a paste or part of the fungus" the blonde said.
Good that I brought several mushrooms, unfortunately I will have to abandon them, I am using my magic taking them out of the bag, making them get bigger, I am also taking some around and I am throwing them in the middle of the fungi, seeing that they are not consumed so quickly, I jump to the first one and do it one by one, going very fast, without looking back, seeing that even the mushrooms are being devoured, practically creating a bridge where I use the mushrooms as a trampoline to propel from one side to the other, so it seems that I am in a game.
"Smart decision pink haired girl, you thought more than I would think to make a bridge with the root of some plant and lead to the other side" Said the white girl and I was jumping from one mushroom to the other.
This to get to the other side, I want to see how far I can go, I will not hesitate for a second, the mushrooms are already running out, it was exactly what was missing in the last one I give a boost that the fungus doesn't catch on my tennis shoe, the boost made me jump high enough, I play a herbological potion that breaks on
the ground and then it makes roots grow that I control to catch in my direction, I hold the roots and I go after walking on top until I arrive at the other side what beats until a relief and I see that everything was being devoured behind me, I even cut the rest of the root to give a good meal to the fungus.
"There, now I've reached the other side" I say, brushing some dust off my clothes.
"Not bad Sucy, you knew how to use magic in a clever way, but now what? Did you know that's just an island in the middle of the whole fungus path?" I look ahead and notice that.
"Oh, I don't seem to have calculated it well, but I can still manage" I'll take a few things out of my bag to see if they have any effect.
I throw a potion of poison seeing that I still have to cross the island, I see that the fungus reacts as if it were nothing, it just gives an opening of nothing, but what a drag, this is going to be more annoying than it seems, but I know one thing here, this potion here, I throw a potion to freeze, which in the test ends up hardening the fungus and by throwing a fruit I could notice that it was even consumed with extreme slowness so this is going to be the tactic, the potion only served for the temporary effect.
I use a potion to grow a tree, I take the trunk of it and I'm leaving the bottom part as if it was going to serve as a sled, then I start using magic to freeze the ground, it's going to be genius enough to the point of that, I then go behind using magic to accumulate momentum and I'm already with a few glasses of freezing potion on the tip, now it's just sliding
"I can't believe I did something like that" I say, already starting to slide.
"Genius, even more so since the buoyancy of the broom is denied in this place because of the pores of these fungi, you could even lose the ability to fly forever if you use the spell, I forgot to warn you" Good, I was already going to use the broom as an emergency plan,
The glasses of the freezing potion burst and I start to slide forward like a sled, getting speed and I'm already throwing a growing potion while I give more impulse and I'm using magic to freeze in the front, this way I'll reduce the chances of the fungus consuming the whole trunk, I see that in the front the ramp was being formed getting very high exactly as I wanted.
I give a lot of impulse going more and more forward, feeling the speed and the way getting frozen, I feel the ramp, I go up and getting more impulse going to the end of the ramp where I am thrown and woah, may even deny the buoyancy of the broom, but gravity exists and I gave enough impulse to give me propulsion through the air I look around and woah this is too much fun, I get really close to the other side and see it's no longer an island, I even give myself one more boost by jumping off the log and then use a spell to create a mushroom umbrella which served as a parachute while the log behind me fell into the fungi and was being consumed I fall safely on the other side.
"Whew, it was a prettyAkko idea, but it served, it was smart at least, now it's good to move on" I say as I see the results.
"Not bad, I wouldn't think of such a thing, it was a clever and quick idea, the crossing was supposed to take hours and test your potion handling in a delicate way, you had solvent potions that nullify the effect of the fungus for a few seconds, why didn't you use it?" she asks and I already have a good answer.
"It's not fun, I think my days with Akko made me come up with this crazy idea" I say shrugging my shoulders.
"It's good to know how to use potions saving the challenge is not that easy at all" She said and I just shrug again.
"It's good, but it's not smart, you have to know how to use the potions in a smart way and let everything around you work in your favour" I tell her who even gives a smile.
"I like you, you're smart" Whatever, I'll continue on my way.
I'm moving on in the mushroom forest and now is the time to walk as far as I can, take a nice rest before moving on, well the forest is as always quiet, I'm taking the time to gather mushrooms again, picking them up for some emergency, as well as fruit, I'm already getting more ingredients to make potions and drinking some water, I'm even thirsty.
Sucy went on her way, after a good few hours, half fighting against some humanoid mushrooms, shewent for a nice rest, already going to make a shelter in the evening talking to Marianne so that thetime would pass and during the night she would go to sleep, in the next day she wakes up and goes
for a good walk for a good few hours, until then only mushrooms appeared, it was the biggestchallenge, but it didn't take long for another challenge to appear in the middle of the afternoon
Their mother arrived, or father I don't know, these things have several genders, it's impossible to know what it is... It arrived in the progenitor of the mushrooms that fill my bag and what a huge thing, it must be at least 20 meters high, I'll have a job like that just to defeat this thing, it seems I'll need it, I still have to be careful.
"It seems that the biggest challenge has arrived, I want to see if you can kill this thing, now your potion admixture will have to improve" Marianne said and I am calm, I made a lot of potions last night and they are ready for the attack.
I shrug my shoulders and throw some explosive potions on the way, the mushroom notices my presence and turns around to try to find something to attack it.
"Stay in the corner" I say holding myself.
I feel the mushroom rising and standing up after I see some little dust on my side, what I throw myself to the side and luckily I land on a mushroom that is not humanoid, in this the rain of spores begins, it gets to raise the biggest dust, I even take care not to catch me.
I leave the potions ready to throw towards the mushroom, these potions that I made with the smallest of them will do, I throw the glass inside the rain of spores, which causes a combustion, exactly as I wanted, I even protect myself behind a tree and use a shield of magic, I hear a heavy explosion and then a shock wave that was very strong, But when the explosion passes I see that the giant mushroom is well detonated, but then it is falling apart and part by part it is falling to the ground as small balls, which are transformed into smaller mushrooms.
"It looks like you were smart, but now there's an army after you" The blonde said and I shrugged.
There are 50 of these smaller ones, but there will be even fewer of them, I throw some explosive potions in the direction of where they are and I take the opportunity to take from my bag a special wand that belongs to Constanze that I go on assembling into pieces, forming what looked like a Thompson only with magic.
"Now let's have fun" I say, already starting to cast spells.
"Woah, okay that was pretty interesting, where did you get something like that from? As I couldn't tell, a wand altered for rapid murowa shots" Marianne said.
"Hey Whitey this was courtesy of my German friend, she gave it to me disassembled and I could use it for emergencies, apparently the emergency has arrived, I love this girl, it's time to show that the Manbavaran mafia will eat loose here, I am the powerful boss here" I say while I was shooting with the machine gun wand.
Wow I love how Constanze left me this Thompson of magic, I was waiting a long time to use it and by the looks of it the mushrooms are all being destroyed, they are splitting into smaller and smaller of them, how comical, so by the looks of it it's the monster's thing, the giant was all of him, interesting to know, I kept shooting until they were minuscule and I could already see that I couldn't use the magic to shoot anymore.
- Well I think you've eaten enough magic, it's time to wash everyone up" I'll get some poison potions out of my bag.
I simply throw myself among several of them that are drowning in the poison and starting to dissolve, I was really smart in this tactic, to see that size does not matter, I continue on my way now free, I even give a wink to Marianne, she really had no notion that I was that smart, even more so because my emergency plans were well dismantled.
After a while Sucy goes to take a rest, settling down as she used to do on her exploring days, leavingon the fourth day and getting to walk some more, this time the path would have one more hindrancewhen she was walking, it wasn't something easy at all to pass as she came across a huge barrier infront of her made of very prehistoric fungus...
I've tried to use potions to dissolve, but nothing, these fungus look like white carrots upside down, how do I get these things out of the way? I don't know, but I need to fix it, I use my strength, but nothing, it only makes the thing grow more, I shoot it with magic and the same thing happens.
"Damn it, I swear I'm going to destroy this wall, I just need to find the right way" I say in frustration.
"I guess none of your tactics worked now, huh?" Said the blonde teasing me, but just for that I'm still going to pull something out of my hat.
I go digging down and by the nine witches the root of this thing goes further than I thought, it wouldn't work doing that either, it looks like a huge thing, like it's infinite, so escaping by digging down wouldn't work, this giant fungus won't get out of the way so I'll have to use another way, and I throw a fruit, just in anger.
"Hey asshole get out" I say when I see that the fungus absorbed the fruit and then went down very little, but it was enough for me to notice that something has already happened there.
"Look you seem to have collected yourself, it's your chance girl" Marianne said.
I would make a launch with several potions, but I was smarter, I started there with my stuff to improvise a potion using the pulp of the fruit what I was leaving the liquid super concentrated, this way it will end up spreading much more for all the fungus, this thing will shrink much more, since it repels me every time I tried to climb.
I mix it with other things, I mix everything pretty well, I even use my magic to produce some more things, well now with the mixture I believe that everything will be pretty to me to see results, I give a test and I play in the fungus and they started to absorb that, they went down at a very high speed, going until the ground, that strange, but at the same time peculiar, I still can't see the top of that thing.
"Wow, that's clever, at least you used potions in a different way and found a way to get to the other side" She said.
I'm going to get more fruit, this time I'm going to make two litres of this stuff, I only made it with 10 ml and it already took a while, but I think it will be enough, I'm going to prepare a lot, without hesitating, it may take a long time, but the important thing is that it works, at least I'll get close to having some result, I hope, it will be 200 times more volume.
Hours later...
Until the sunset and I get the potion ready, I throw the bowl that I improvised with wood on top of the fungus and everything is being hit, wetting it with the pulp of the fruit I keep on releasing what I had, until I hit the ground and that way when I saw everything came down and thus the way was free for me to pass, I finally pass relieved, even hit a hunger, I decide to drink the juice that I made with the rest of the fruit and helped me to be well disposed, now it is to build a shelter before leaving.
"That was pretty genius, I have to congratulate" said the blonde.
"I just went with logic, what else is there from now on?" She just shrugged and I walked on, I think it's good to take a break.
I've been finishing the potions on the mushroom nearby and I'm even watching the stars just thinking about what's ahead, I hope I can make it to the end, this whole journey is quite strange, but I feel even involved and important, my potions can impact on something and help them, they will be essential for our victory.
"Nice night, isn't it? It seems to have passed the fungus wall and now it's heading into day five" said Marianne.
"Are we far away?" I ask her.
"A good walk and we got there in a short time, now rest, many challenges still lie ahead, I liked you, you are not stuck to being a witch of potions, you are quite versatile actually, well that is good to become a legendary witch, it is good to know how to handle yourself depending on the situation, anyway, good luck, I think you can be one of the nine" said the blonde.
"Don't you want to talk for a while until I fall asleep?" I tell her and she shrugs.
"Well what the hell, but don't sleep when things get interesting" I laugh.
It's not my fault you have some really annoying moments, who would have thought that even after so much time she grew up and is still one of the nine most starched and spoiled witches, it surprises me that she still finds it normal hahahaha, but it's fun, it's another reality totally different, she's a little princess and to think that I thought Diana Cavendish was the most spoiled, but this one surprises even more.
POV Narrator:
Sucy really ended up sleeping in the interesting part of the story on the night of the fourth day, which then she was waking up and going for the walk on the fifth day which saw Marianne's face very upset for eventually seeing the Manbavaran sleeping in the interesting part and so the fifth day was going, until then very calm, it was the same mushrooms of the other paths, where Sucy was giving account quietly and just moving on until it was a few hours later and having to stop to rest, the path was really quite long for the Filipina.
The sixth day was already going one more walk, having an extra challenge since more of the giant fungi appeared attacking the Manbavaran, this time they were a trio and it was enough to yield some good strategies by Sucy that waited for the three to synchronize the spores and so she was taking advantage to launch the explosive potion and then finish with the rest using the thompson, being a true army, having fun even a lot that day what she was making sure to get closer to the goal.
A week and Sucy was already getting close, she walked a lot, it was a relatively quiet path, but now coming across in the middle of the afternoon the same huge primitive fungi of the fourth day, this time she was already preparing the potion and even prepared the shelter, in case it took longer than due, what she was focusing on was making the potion to do soon while she went chatting with Marianne Von Hoffen about her life and the adventures of the nine witches, in the evening the potion was ready.
POV Sucy:
This time I did a lot, I filled a bucket with this stuff and it's never coming back, I'm already wetting everything, the ground is even red, it's like menstruation, I can see that the thing is going down a lot and that's good, I'm throwing everything away, it's falling all the way down.
I see the thing going down at an impressive speed, it's ten litres at the end of the account, if it doesn't go down it's a joke, with two it already went down, who will say with ten
"I just have to say one thing Sucy, as the time is short until this fungus grows again I say goodbye, it was good to venture with you, you have a way I like, you remind me a lot of Kara" Said the blonde.
"So the sanctuary is up ahead?" I ask her and the whole thing is still going downhill, wow, it really is a lot if you stop to think about it.
"Yes, the end of your journey arrives here, by the way there is nothing to improve, you are already excellent with potions, you have the knowledge and know how to use them, now by the way you have even used the most correct amount possible and when this falls I say goodbye, good luck with your friends, I am furious that you leave the paradise to help them, but I appreciate that the struggle is great, you can be sure that we nine witches are proud for you" Marianne said and she disappears.
I look back and all the fungus has gone down, what I'm walking forward, I don't think there's much to do, I see that next the fungus goes up, from now on it will be just me, without Marianne, she was fun, but I have a bigger mission ahead.
ImposingAkko is one of them, I am sure that this silly girl is one of them, I take a deep breath and start walking in the middle of the grass and trees, it even became a normal forest and it is very peculiar that here we are in the middle of summer, that's why I didn't feel so cold, just a little bit of nothing
Sanctuary of the nine witches here I come, let's soon solve this bullshit and defeat Holbrook, if that happens I will gladly replace Lukic giving potion classes, it will be my favorite pastime.
"Farewell Marianne Von Hoffen, even spoiled though you are one of the nine witches I liked even" I say smiling looking at the fungi still rising.
POV Narrator:
Sucy arrived at the end of her journey, accompanied by Marianne Von Hoffen she was well tested of her abilities as the witch of the potions, as she was solving with inteligence some challenges that came ahead, much for the conviviality with Akko she had the courage to think of miraculous ideas and also to use ideas that guarantee her arrival in herself, But challenges will still come ahead in the midst of this journey in the sanctuary, the great challenge of defeating Holbrook and conquer the revolution of the witches, the aggrandizement of the group of adventurers that were only being normal students, only that ended up becoming the great witches that will change the destiny of humanity and witchcraft.
See you, potion witches...
