Hope in Tasculy

Peter and his friends after four days finally made it out of the northern forest and set up camp on the hill of cabbages which was just near the town of Tasculy.

"We'll stay here for now and we leave through the town at night," Peter said.

"That won't be necessary," said Melwise.

"We have to avoid being seen and traveling at night through the town is our only option," Peter said.

"It won't be necessary because I can make disguises for all of us," Melwise said.

"But what do you need a disguise for, you're a guardian angel," Adrien said.

"I'm well aware of that but by now word must've probably got out that I'm a fugitive with a demon girl and human children," Melwise said.

"You're right," Peter said. Marie just sat in the corner under a tree quite like she had been for the past four days with Alice and Claire sitting beside her and keeping her company.

"Do you think she'll be fine?" asked Alice who was now standing next to Melwise, Peter, and Adrien. "She hasn't said anything for days now".

"We all have our different ways of dealing with grief and maybe that's just hers," Melwise said.

"Do you think we should give her space?" asked Alice.

"That would be a bad idea, Alice," Adrien said.

"Why's that?" asked Peter.

"You guys probably don't know this but when Elise, Gaston's girlfriend died he said he needed space to process his loss and we all left him alone. That very night we left him he tried jumping off the dormitory window but luckily Mr. Julien was just on the ground at the time and broke his fall with a spell," Adrien said.

"He tried killing himself?" whispered Alice in surprise.

"On two occasions," Adrien said. "So it'll be a terrible idea to leave her to herself".

"Alright then, that won't be a problem seeing as Claire has been with her since the incident," Melwise said.

"So... the disguise, how do we go about it?" Peter asked.

"It'll take at most two days to finish such a spell but it should be ready before tomorrow since I'll be having Alice's help," said Melwise assuredly.

Since they were going to be staying for a while, Melwise with a spell conjured a small enchanted tent near the tree so they could stay in while the spell was being prepared.

Marie pulled the piece of paper from under the old sweatshirt she was wearing the previous night, before having a change of clothes and she read it once again, and once again she began to cry, she cried for hours and Claire couldn't console her.

Peter and Adrien arrived at the table and saw she was sitting with Claire and Alice.

Adrien and Peter before coming to the table had already prepared a perfect plan that would get Marie to talk and they couldn't wait to execute it.

"What kind of Person was Kylian Adrien?" Peter asked.

"He was fifteen, a year younger than I am now but he was way too grumpy for his age," Adrien said feigning a sad look on his face.

"He was not!" said Marie as she got up and stamped the table with her hand.

"Easy easy Marie I'm sorry," Adrien said. "Why don't you tell us a little more about him then".

"He was kind and very selfless, he was smaller than the rest of the kids in the class so he was bullied by the bigger kids and occasionally I would come to defend him," Marie said. "And when some of the other girls made fun of my curly hair he would turn their hairpins into frogs or transform the buttons on their blazers into cockroaches" (and they all laughed).

"He sounds like a really funny and nice person," Peter said.

"Yeah he was," said Adrien. "We were all in Alice's class and to be honest I bullied him one time, I'm not at all proud of it but his face anytime we made the words on his books disappear or when we made his nose bloated, whenever he was talking to Marie was funny and he wouldn't fight back except we were messing with Marie of course".

"He's also very smart and good with spells too," Alice said. "One time when I was teaching the class the flaming spear curse I called out Franco to come to try it out on the training golem but for some reason, he pointed his wand at Kylian and shot the spell at him but to my surprise, he knew the reflection spell and redirected the small flaming spear back at Franco and it hit him on his arm"

"Ooh yeah, I remember that," Claire said loudly and they all burst out laughing but it didn't last long as Marie began to sob. Peter and Adrien who were at the opposite side of the table came over and they all hugged her.

The following morning had come and after a long night of work, Alice and Melwise completed the spell and trapped it in a bottle.

They all stepped forward one after the other and with a finger, they touched the spell inside the bottle immediately after, a colorful spiral of light came over them and transformed their hair color, and their complexion and gave them tiny wings just at the top of their waistline and voila they were already looking angelic.

"We'll have to hurry through the town because the spell doesn't last for very long," Melwise said and she dismantled the tent and they made their way into the town. As they entered there was a man who stood on a platform just beside the gate ringing a bell and shouting;

"Welcome to Tasculy the center of trade" repeatedly.

"Who's that guy?" Adrien asked Melwise.

"That's mad moose and he's the town's gatekeeper. That's how he welcomes people new people into the town" Melwise said.

"What do you mean new people?" Adrien asked.

"Only newcomers can hear his shouting, once you've been here for at least a day you stop hearing him," Melwise said and Adrien's eye lit up in amazement.

"There wasn't this type of magic back in the human world," Adrien said.

"Of course, there isn't. It's the least magical realm but I do have to admit there are lots of fascinating things and powerful magic users there too," said Melwise.

"Aren't horses used here? we've been walking for hours" Adrien cried.

"Only nomag angels use horses and there aren't very many of them," Melwise said.

"There are nomags here?" Peter asked in surprise.

"Of course they are, they're in every realm just that the human world has the highest population of them and they're the most ignorant and stupid of all the nomag people," Melwise said.

"That's quite offensive lady" Claire blurted.

"I don't care. What are you going to do curse me?" Melwise said and laughed out loudly leaving Claire with an angry look on her face.

After walking for almost three hours they decided to rest at an inn just ahead of them.

They got in and rehydrated after which they had chicken and dry bread the only dishes the inn was serving. While they rested at their table they overheard the conversation of a few adventurers sitting at the table behind them.

"I heard that the void caught plenty escapees recently," one adventurer said.

"Yes it did, and I even heard the void accidentally swallowed Nordal, king of the northern forest," another said. At this point, Marie and the rest of her table were even more interested in the conversation.

"Excuse me sir but when was this Nordal captured?" Marie asked.

"I think four or five days ago, I'm not sure my brains a little foggy from all the dragon brew," said an adventurer.

"Was there a boy with him, a young boy?" Peter asked.

"I don't know really, but it's two things lad, either the boy's with the rest of the prisoners on their way to the dungeons or the dragon has killed him while in the void," the adventurer said.

Immediately Marie's face brightened with Joy and she hurriedly got up.

"We have to leave for the dungeons right away," Marie said.

"We don't know if he met with the second option," said Peter.

"I know he didn't, let's leave right away," she reiterated.

"Mrs hasty boots, d'you even know the location of the dungeon," asked Melwise.

"I don't but if you guys aren't ready to leave I'll figure it out myself!" Marie said fiercely and left the inn.

"Why'd you say that!" Claire asked Marie angrily and she followed after her.

"Let's go, please Melwise," Peter said.

"Fine, let's go" and they left the inn for the dungeons.