The Real Witch Princess (Vivi Ornitier)

Everyone was always leaving him… but considering the things he’s done, he couldn’t blame them. Maybe it was better off for him to be alone, and not bother anyone anymore…

Suddenly, a call from downstairs interrupts his thoughts, and he sits up in bed and looks wearily at the door. It sounded like Vivi… she sounded upset about something, too. The farmer lets out a heavy sigh at this, reasoning that he must have done something else wrong again. Why couldn’t he stop messing up?

He slowly stands up from the bed and leaves his room. The farmer walks to the head of the stairway, looking down towards the bottom of it–

–only to see a horde of monsters surrounding Vivi!? 

Raguna immediately braces himself, and reflexively grabs for a weapon that – damn it all – wasn’t there. Crap, he had no time to run back to his room and grab a sword! Vivi sounded like she had been in real distress, not to mention the fact that the monsters were literally on their doorstep surrounding her! She may have known how to use magic, but she was more likely to hurt herself with it than the– wait.

Magic!

No need to grab anything when he could just hurl a quick spell! Raguna gets ready to charge up a wind spell when he looks down at Vivi and notices the… grin… on her face. When she speaks again and immediately dispels his thoughts of the monsters being hostile creatures there to kill them all, the farmer slowly relaxes his posture and stares down at her dumbfoundedly. He blinks and, at her request, walks down to the foot of the staircase where she and the… strangely barn animal looking monsters were standing.

“...Yes. All for you. Don’t you know that today is that stu-- human holiday,” she started, speaking strangely considering the way she avoided insulting things as per usual. “Today is the Thanksgiving Festival... I... You see... I...” What did she even want to say? This entire time that she was working on making money and buying his gifts, she never once stopped to think of the way she’d talk to him after the fact. Words weren’t exactly her kind of deal-- Let alone kind words. Not around him, at least, even if she spent a long time hiding out in his room. It was still hard to show how much she cared because she was mostly scared of appearing weak-- And now she’s managed to spend much too long thinking about this! Standing there, silently, wasn’t going to make things any easier. He’d know for sure that she cared too much about him, especially with how she was trying to be careful about sounding rude about everything.

Vivi let out a sigh, turning on her heel to give Raguna a swift glance before placing her focus on the Woolies that were now running in a circle for whatever reason. “I hope that these creatures will be useful... Since you run a farm... I... Have more to show you...” Dear Goddess, why was it so hot in here all of a sudden? “Here, I think it’s an ostrich and the bag is yours too!” she exclaimed, shoving the dragon egg and bag into Raguna’s hands before hastily walking straight past him to open the nearest closet door. The witch grabbed three tools: the Mystic Hammer, the Mystic Hoe, and the Mystic Fishing Rod, then she stepped back over to the farmer to present the items to him by holding them against her chest-- They were too heavy to hold out to him all at the same time. “I had to buy these just to make sure that I could afford everything in the end and I really worked my ass off! These tools are for you though, since you can’t expect yourself to be a GREAT farmer without proper tools! So you better apprec-- You better be hap--” This was no good. BE NICE, she reminded herself.

With furrowed brows, Vivi turned her face away once more and spoke in the softest tone she could manage: “Please, cheer up, I mean.” Now he would definitely know something was up, but she didn’t want him to worry about any of this. Why she was doing this, how much she’s worried about him, and that it was starting to get to her that she wasn’t exactly good moral support for him. Was she even good enough for him in the first place? As a friend-- as anything-- why are these thoughts even coming to mind? Her expression was contorted, easily matching the feelings she had inside, and she didn’t know how to tone down how overwrought she was overall. “...If you don’t like any of this... That’s fine... I’m sorry if I screwed up at all...” Why were tears even building up right now? AND WHY DID SHE HAVE TO BECOME SELF-CONSCIOUS ALL OF A SUDDEN?! Honestly, she was making herself really angry as she kept chewing on her own thoughts.

Barns and Nobel Animal Store had gotten a new shipment, and of some strange creatures at that!! Popuri slapped some information up on the town request board about the new animals so people would know to come by Barns and Nobel to get them!

LARGE COW (12,000G) [x1] - I don’t know why this cow is so big but I guess that just means it has an even bigger heart. It is very kind and makes milk as a regular looking cow would!! She doesn’t know what it is, but you might! It is a Buffamoo

Weird Chickens (6,000G) [x2] - These chickens are kind of big and a bit scary, but they’re super sweet!! They give eggs just as normal looking chickens would!! Even though their eggs look different… She doesn’t know what it is, but you might! It is a Cluckadoodle.

Cute Sheep (8,000G) [x2] - This sheep is super cute. Cuter than all the other sheep. But it walks like a bunny? Still gives good wool though!! She doesn’t know what it is, but you might! It is a Woolie

“I’m buying everything you’ve got, except the brown horse! I don’t care what it is so long as it’s healthy and ready to go, my friend needs to fill up his farm either way. One last thing! You got anything weird?”  The witch had to think for a second because she could have sworn there was some kind of sale going on that dealt with another animal-- Oh, those pink rabbits! “ANGORA RABBITS... There was a newspaper ad for your shop, something about two Angora Rabbits? The fluffy pink ones... I’ve got 12,000G to toss at you for them too.”

Eris stood in front of her house, it was finally completely finished, Down to the furnishings and knickknacks, for more then a few occasions Eris had used magic  to do something in the house, or even more common, paid someone to work but, most of it was her work. And that felt amazing. 

The blonde glanced over at the white haired woman beside her, her pride expanding even further at the shocked face her companion wore. Eris climbed up the front steps and actually smiled. “Come on Vivi, let me show you around.”

While yes, it was much easier to rely on pawns and remain in his apartment, hidden from those who might catch on easily, there were somethings he had to do himself. Such as finding the pawns and tools. But more important, something quite interesting had happened recently. The forest had simply… regrown. While he hated to admit it, something was afoot… whether it would be useful to his plans or not was the question.

So, very simply, he’d have to investigate. And from there he would decide: either it would be collected or… exterminated. Admittedly… it probably wouldn’t be him destroying whatever had this power, he’d have a pawn do it.

Once he had more of them.

Add that to the list: More pawns.

And bacon.

He hadn’t been exploring for a particularly time, at least he didn’t believe he had been (though he wasn’t sure, he was quite bored before long), when a strange sound caught his attention. Could this be the source of this sudden… growth? No, no… someone was fighting. Another person, a creature? At the very least, pausing to watch was more interesting than this walk.

He remained out of view, peeking around his cover to view what was happening. A white haired woman, quite pretty, was cornered by what he believed to be a group of three monsters? Ah well. While he hated to see beauty laid to waste, there wasn’t any point in going out of his way for the girl. He had things to find, better things to… oh.

This girl… she had seemed helpless, but then there were balls of fire.

Why… if she was able to do that, what else could she be capable of? Perhaps she could be more useful than he first thought… in which case, why should he just give up on the pretty thing? If he played his cards right…

She could be useful and nice to look at. What a turn of events from his past company.

Stepping through the entrance, she paused for a moment to look up at the trees which appeared to be healthy and full of life. That was strange as fuck can be, she thought to herself, how can it even look this way? It wasn’t like the Harvest Goddess to actually pull her weight around here when mortals actually needed help, so who did this? Why? What do they have to gain?

There wasn’t much time to think about these things. Three monsters decided to show themselves and she had to act fast, which meant tossing as many fireballs as quickly as possible at the blood-thirsty beasts. No way in hell that she’d let another creature take her down! Not again. The witch was too distracted to even sense that she wasn’t entirely alone, otherwise she would have noticed that she was being watched and she definitely would have screeched at whomever it was for being creepy. When the shield made its appearance, she clenched her fists to extinguish the flames hovering over the palm of her hands then turned on her heel to look for the source of her newfound barrier.

Area: Garmon Underground Mine

Equipment: Mystic Hoe (20 Spots) [-20,000G]

Numbers Chosen: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 23, 25, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 40, 42, 45, 48

Effect: Fell through a hole!

Pink Diamond: 5,000G

Amethyst: 600G

Mythic Stone: 10,000G

Orichalc: 500G

Brooch: 2,000G

Earrings: 2,000G

Gold Ore: 300G

Amethyst: 600G

Pink Diamond: 5,000G

Necklace: 2,000G

Amethyst: 600G

Ruby: 750G

Pink Diamond: 5,000G

Silver Ore: 150G

Earrings: 2,000G

Peridot: 680G

Ruby: 750G

Mythic Stone: 10,000G

Gold Ore: 300G

Alexandrite: 5,000G

SELLING EVERYTHING BUT THE PINK DIAMOND… Grand Total: 48,230G

Bank Increased:

Previous Balance: 35,632G

There was always that issue.  The one he foresaw in the crystal ball.  Yeah.  That would do.  At least then he wouldn’t be the only person to know about the portals.