Tactic Tent, near the Steel Gate
Eldaro and Rose are sitting in the tactic tent. Eldaro shares with Rose the information about the monsters in the metal gate, Rose is now more suspicious about the black coat mage and has many questions about her. Eldaro sends the information to the King and asks for more resources and soldiers by radio.
"So, how is the response?" Rose asks while sitting on the chair and spinning a knife in her hand.
"They will be coming with some missiles and many medical resources. They also will bring two tanks here too, led by the Queen,” He answers with an annoyed tone.
"Why is the Queen coming here? And why does she bring such resources?" Roses are curious about this.
"I bet that the Queen is threatening king Leo again so he let her go..... again," Eldaro explained cause he knows those two more than anyone and sighs.
"You know those two? " Roses asks with a surprised tone.
"More than you know. We have been best friends since we were kids."
"Wow, you really have a good relationship here, you know, you can ask as many resources as you want."
" I don't do that to my friend but this time it is a serious problem. Monsters keep coming out the portal and gate while our soldiers are struggling to fight these monsters. We can't even go into that portal if that Hydra still remains there," Eldaro explains the situation for her.
" I see..... so when will they come here?" Rose asks and take a cup of coffee.
" Three days. They are full speed ahead here," Eldaro answers and he sits and thinks after that, "I hope those four are ready to battle soon. No offense but only they can slay that Hydra."
"Ah speaking about the Team. I am still very suspicious of that Black Coat mage," Rose said in an angry tone "I mean she looks so different from other mages. And why does she have to hide her appearance?"
"You mean Sunset Shimmer? Well, the reason that she hides her appearance..... I don't tell," Eldaro teases Rose to make her curiosity more than ever
"You know her, then tell me, please?" Rose put her face to Eldaro's face. Eldaro uses his hand and pushes Rose's face out. She whines, "Oh come on, I want to know."
"Sorry, but this time is a big "no-no". If you want to know, just ask her in the morning," Eldaro goes out of the tent and leaves Roses, sits there, has a red face like a tomato because of angry.
Medical Tent
Lance and Natalie wake up and they notice that they are in a strange place. They start to get up but can't because they are heavy injured
"Whoa, whoa don't move," A young, white-haired woman with a white robe and a white hat said, he is sitting with Matt, who is lightly injured too.
"Ugh... Where are we?" Natalie asks, "And where is Sunset?"
" You two are in our Medical Tent, and I advise you two shouldn't move right now until tomorrow, you will recover." The woman says, "Oh, sorry. My name is Tiana, nice to meet you,"
"About Sunset, she is sleeping in the tent. I'm here to watch you two too," Matt explained and he is eating the meal, "Well, Tinana, you have any beds? I should sleep too. "
"There are many empty beds in this tent because we don't have any injured soldiers right now," Tiana says and points at the nearest bed, "I think you should sleep here for me to check you three."
A blue-haired girl rushes into Tiana, shaking because of fear "Mom, I think there is a witch in our sleeping tent. I'm so scared of her because she might be evil, and all the witch is evil," Tiana sighs and explains to her daughter.
"Now, don't need to be scared, ok. If that witch does anything to you, I promise that I will protect you okay?" Tiana tries to comfort her, her daughter nods and hugs her tighter, "So how about you sleeping here with Matt over there?" Her daughter nods and sleeps beside Matt, make Tiana smile, "I hope that witch is like Matt, even if... I haven't met her yet"
" Don't worry, Sunset is nice. Just her face is so... uh different for others so she has to hide her appearance," Lance tries to explain
"Oh, really. Does she have a curse or something?" Tiana asks as Lance shakes head, " I see, you know your friend... Sunset here makes all the camp members suspect her. Because they wanna know why she has to hide her appearance. Even if captain Eldaro said that they are not curious but in their mind wanna know very much. Well, me too."
" I see. Maybe she has a very impressive fame to make them do that," Lance teased.
"It is because everyone in this camp knows she defeated the captain," Tiana explains while Lance and Natalie deadpanned, " What? we have cameras in the training room there so we know that battle."
"So, does anyone know my uncle?" Lance asks "I should not predict the guns and techs before."
"Yep, but I don't think they're gonna challenge her though because she causes nothing harm there. Besides, she got information about that monster. That will be a good thing to encounter something similar in the future," Tiana explains, Lance only smug at it. "Now, you should take a rest and sleep as much as you can. I'm gonna sleep so if you want something, just ask some soldiers outside there."
Tiana finds her own bed with a book in her hand. When she finds her bed, she climbs on her bed and starts reading. After reading a while, she starts to sleep along with the trio and her daughter.
Inside Sunset's body
"So we will start about some basic light magic," a white dragon is talking with an orange unicorn, "Let's start with this spell," Whitty form a light arrow on his claw "This is "Light Arrow" spell, a very basic spell to a light spell," Whitty explains, "just careful with those"
"All right, let's do it," Sunset is forming a light arrow. As she is forming the light arrow, she finds it very difficult to form it. After a moment, she finally forms a light arrow but lost more time and more mana.
"Wow, is your body clean or not?" Whitty teases but has to dodge because Sunset throws the light arrow at him, "Okay, okay. But seriously, this is a problem because you lost more time than normal to do the spell."
"Maybe the light spell is not my type," She jokes and is thinking about something.
"What do you have in mind now? " Whitty says in a suspicious tone
"Not nothing, just ask if there have any spell that makes the spell keep going?" Sunset asks with an innocent tone.
"Well, it does. That the "circle - drawing and continuous" spell. Here is the circle," Whitty draws the circle of the spell on the ground, "This one will keep another spell or things keep working until you are out of mana," Whitty explains and sees Sunset is picking the circle, "Now, now what are you doing?"
"Well nothing, just wanna know how the circle is drawing," Sunset sees the circle, which makes Whitty sigh of relief. Then, he turns and walks around to think about the basic dark spell that can teach Sunset. ".... Well, maybe dark ball is the good thing or dark spear,... or,"
Sunset uses a light arrow and puts it in the circle, it consumes the "Light arrow" and she picks the circle up and chanting something without Whitty notices, she aims the circle to Whitty and thinks that will be normal and tests the spell. The circle's words disappears and many light arrows appear and fly to Whitty.
Whitty turns his head to Sunset "Hey, Sunset. I think I had-" but his face went pale, if he can paler, when he sees many light arrows fly to him and has to jump aside to dodge the arrows, "What the-," the arrows are too many and form nearly into a ray, and that 'ray' keeps following him, make him have to fly away
"What the hell is this?". He turns to Sunset and sees she is using that combination spell, makes him roll and fly to her, and dodge the 'ray' that she keeps that weird spell chasing that spell. After a while, Whitty finally near Sunset uses his thumb and his index finger, makes them around her throat then pins her down to the ground. Make her shut down the spell
"You're going to explain about this. Right... Now," Whitty says in an angry tone, making Sunset gulps in fear. Whitty helps her stand up and hugs her tight, making sure that she doesn't escape anywhere. Sunset tries to escape but Whitty puts his teeth near her throat, making her breathe faster, "Don't even think about that. Now tell me how you can do it?" Whitty demand.
"Well... uh I-I just borrow your spell and add a "light arrow" to it, and it seems to apply the spell, and I try to transfer some mana on it and it shoots many light arrows to it" Sunset inhales and explain "That's ... spell draining my mana quite fast but I can't stop the spell so... it keeps continues to shoot until you pin me down," She gulps, "I'm sorry."
Whitty pins his teeth to Sunset's neck to make sure that not hurt her. Sunset yelps and her neck have some Whitty's teeth marks. " Why are you so daredevil like that? Don't you think what will happen when you drain out the mana?" Whitty asked and Sunset shakes her head "You can die if you don't be careful because the mana will consume your energy life, and death will come to you," Now Sunset scare more, "Don't depend on your mana pool and mana generation too much because it will make you prideful."
Sunset inhale to make her calm down "So, these teeth marks are the warning for that thing?" She uses her hoof to reach the mark and feel it "Maybe I should be more careful about this... and this is the first time you make me scared a lot."
"Sometimes scare is the medicine of your daredevil. You should feel it to tell yourself that be more careful with your actions in the future because magic or anything in life is not a joke," Whitty warns her, "One small mistake can cost your life, you know it right? " Sunset nod, " And advice for you, if you want to try some new "recipe" for your magic, try it with a little mana."
Sunset leans into Whitty's body "Sorry, I got lost into the new thing." She sighs, "If you are not here, maybe I will be a magic freak though."
"That's dangerous. Sometimes greed will come to you and many victims get lost into it, that's why you have to calm yourself down." Whitty says while rubbing her neck and Sunset seems like it, "At least I have a hugging pillow."
"Enjoy your pillow cause I have my own pillow too," Sunset teases, and both are laugh
"Oh right, you should get up now, it's 6 am already," Whitty lies, Sunset smugging. "I'm not lying about this thing, just wake up before someone will take off your coat."
"Fine, I trust you," Sunset closes her eyes to wake up.
At the gate of the campsite, before Sunset awake
"Man, that boring," said a black-haired man is wearing a black coat with bulletproof ammo, who has to guard the campsite, he is eating soup and sitting in the watchtower "I don't know why we have to guard, I wanna some fighting to improve my skill"
" Don't say that, Jame," a blue-haired man is wearing a white coat with a white hat, white dress-like clothes retort "We have to guard this gate and campsite in order that the people will die if we give up."
"Nah Nah, a priest like you don't know anything about me, I wanna be stronger and stronger to protect this kingdom," Jame retorts in an annoying tone, "How can we protect the land and kingdom when we are not strong huh? "
" Stronger but you have to be smart enough to fight too," The priest retorts. " Sit down, we-" he sees two people coming their way and going to take charge of their guard.
"Finally, I can have some practice," Jame cheered but then he has an idea "Hey Paul, how about we discover the Black Coat mage's appearance." Jame's idea make Paul step back away from him
"You think that a good idea, Jame," Paul is quite shaking, "I have heard many rumors about her like she is an evil witch, can curse anyone around or she just wanna hunt for Arkon's power to destroy this land."
" If those rumors are true, then we should stop it before she can do it right?" Jame said in an interested tone and start to drag Paul to Sunset's sleeping camp, "Besides, what if she is a beautiful girl? Come on, we will miss the chance."
"Fine, I follow you this time," Paul follows Jame to the camp, "But you have to buy me breakfast this time," Jame nods for agreement.
Jame and Paul go to Sunset's sleeping camp. By the time they got there, they see the Black Coat mage is seemed sleeping. They look at each other, then nod, and start coming closer to the mage. They come near to the mage as quiet as they can, but Jame makes a sound, makes them immediately look at the mage. They sigh in relief and keep come closer. When they near her, Paul reaches his hand to take off the coat, but he got blocked by a wooden staff. They look up and see the Mage is turned to them. She slaps Paul's hand by the wooden staff, makes him jerk back.
"May I help you?" Sunset asked them and seem to prepare to fight.