"Damn him!" A loud bellow accompanied by the sound of glass breaking resounded throughout the castle.
Tia was furious and had started to wreak havoc in her room. Her hair was messed up and her dress was ripped, her body emitted steam while her skin had rivulets of sweat running her body.
Water sloshed as the puddle beneath her grew, it was a peculiar scene. Black mascara streaked down her face in the form of murky dark tears.
In another room her siblings showed great concern as they heard her rampage through the thin walls. "What shall we do about this?" Diane spoke aloud worried that her sister would go crazy and possibly court death if she got out of hand.
"We have no choice but to keep her from going to the shop. We must beseech our father to take care of this, but for now we shall choose who gets which fruit." Prince Crow had the most experience in leadership out of all them and had formulated a plan for later use.
For now six strange fruits that they bought was right in front of them. Royals never get out often so they were very curious about these fruits that bestowed great power.
"I'll take this one." Rose chose a violet melon shaped fruit with various swirls on it and a curly stem on top.
The others nodded and five were left. "This one looks interesting." Sapphire pointed towards a grey grapefruit with a twisted stem.
"Then this is mine." Prince Crow chose an exquisite star-shaped yellow fruit with its big leaves hiding the top of it.
The last three chose a melon-like fruit and raspberry-like fruit as well as a mango-like fruit in the end. Then they all glanced at each other before nodding in agreement.
"One ~ Two." And they all simultaneously bit into the fruits, some peeled and some with the peels.
The only thing they could say was. "Sho Grosh!" With a stuffed mouth.
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Lydia could be seen with her hair up like a hedgehog trying to control her power. It took her multiple tries before finding a way to turn her own clothes into spikes along with her.
She had her hair spiked up constantly because she liked how it looked. She was reading on her Grimoire and saw that there was only one page filled out.
She felt that there was infinite possibilities on how she could use her newfound magic. Mist Magic.
As for Beltram he seems to have Smoke Magic which went surprisingly well with her magic.
As for Rude and Walter they had seemed to have gotten techniques called Haki from their boss.
Armament Haki and Observation Haki was seemingly the only one they could do so far.
Walter and Rude had been sparring for an hour and their fight somehow escalated into that of a life and death battle.
Only thing I could do was watch since I myself could not compare to them since they trained so much.
But I knew I had to do something which was why I called Athena. Using her speed as a cheetah she had arrived in the blink of an eye and stopped the both of them using a rubber bullet from her palm/paws.
She scolded them both and punished them with cleaning the toilets and latrine pits for a week.
They were saved from the scolding when Nathaniel came in. "Um, I was only gone for a few hours. What happened here?"
Athena recounted the entire situation which surprisingly didn't faze him at all. "I see, Walter and Rude I'll have the two of you become mutants for tomorrow."
Hearing this we all gasped even the robot gasped along with us. Turning someone into a mutant was the worst punishment in this shop.
Due to the perfected mutagen Nathaniel had also created the Anti-mutagen since he realised that it was the perfect penalty and humiliation.
If he wanted to he could mutate us into half slugs or even half blob-fish. Personally some of the employees loved blob-fish but some didn't.
This was the worst penalty since he mutated us into possibly the most weirdest and grossest creatures ever.
He called it a Chimera. A being with the features of different species. He picked the most unattractive animals and monsters in this world and pushed us into the tank.
Last time he did this was to Beltram who had transformed into a grotesque vulture with an oversized brain and pus dripping out of its eye.
His legs were that of an octopus and was exceedingly slimy it was bulbous and if one looked at it correctly one could see faces screaming in agony.
It's back had a disfigured cat's face in it covered in feathers and blood. It was the most gruesome being that I had ever seen.
It was so horrible that even Rude couldn't handle it despite him being so calm about most things.
Having Athena handle this Nathaniel disappeared once more. Possibly getting ready for tonight's full moon.
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"Hmm, Mr. Nathaniel are we set to go?" Diane was the most enthusiastic for this trip. While Graham was the least enthusiastic.
"Oh my, so you are the ones who granted my children such novel and peculiar abilities." Chuckling to her self a lady in a simplistic yet extravagant dress hidden behind her silk veil her eyes scrutinised the store owner.
"Now, now Carla we are here to meet with the Master of The Shop of Wishes not to have him imprisoned for kidnapping." A handsome middle aged man in a red robe walked in the room speaking with great dignity and authority.
"Of course it was their choice to stay with him, besides Rude would be happier this way." Staring at the man in a bespoke suit squeezing a rock into a glass.
One by one the tray of wine glasses were filled with a juice that produced an intoxicating fragrance.
Taking in the aroma the royals were captivated. The beverage was not in the least inferior to their greatest wines and champagnes.
But this juice despite the effervescence had no alcohol within it. It was a peculiar drink that they had never seen before.
As the bubbles hit their tongues it exploded upon their tastebuds resulting in some shocked expressions.
The bubbles elevated it to another level and they even asked for more. "Oh pardon me, but may I ask how you made such a peculiar beverage?" The Queen had an interest in food so she was obviously curious to know how he had produced such an interesting juice.
She realised that this refresher would compliment some of the desserts such as Chou á la crème or Puddings.
Maybe even a jam filled Eclair would go well but she was unsure of the last one. "This beverage cannot be replicated since this is produced as an effect of one my abilities."
The Queen and the King perked up their ears wanting to know of his capabilities. "The Wring Wring Fruit allows me to squeeze out liquids from an object or creature for example a human."
They were aghast wondering how he knew that he could do such things, knowing this he quickly replied. "It affects basically any living and non-living things and drain them in the form of liquid."
Using Spatial magic he bought out a golden cage with a sparrow flittering inside. Opening the cage he reached out and grabbed it by force.
Creating a wine glass from ice he began to squeeze the bird out. The royals watched on as the bird chirped in pleasure visibly dehydrating as it went on.
"Through this power I have become a Dehydration Human." Sipping from the glass the atmosphere grew tense and sullen.
Then all of a sudden. "That's incredible! Do you have more of these? Actually Magicians are hard to cultivate but with these fruits it may even be easier!" The King bellowed in excitement at the wondrous prospects of the Devil Fruits.
Nathaniel smirked. "I thought you might say that which is why I bought two Devil Fruits for your majesties."
Bringing out a suitcase he opened it and turned it around revealing intricately patterned fruits.
The first fruit was a radiant pink having bulbs on the entire body. On those bulbs were little lined curled connecting to the other lines.
He then passed it onto the Queen. The second one was even more peculiar as it had a pitch black form with jagged crack-like crimson curled lines making it resemble a lava rock.
Then he looked towards the royals and called them to line up by age. "Crow had eaten the Glint Glint Fruit. Rose the Bubble Bubble Fruit. Ren and Sapphire had eaten the Door Door Fruit and Soul Soul Fruit respectively."
Then looking towards Diane he was surprised. "Dog Dog Fruit, Model: Kyubi No Kitsune." Indeed it was quite strange since this fruit was something he never expected to actually sell.
Turns out he had accidentally mixed them up. Diane was supposed to have been granted the Axolotl Model but he had realised it too late.
Then to Graham who he knew was lazier than himself. "Prince Graham has eaten the Bis Bis Fruit?!" His surprise caught the attention of the others wondering why he was shocked.
Knowing this he began coughing awkwardly and raised his hand to change the subject. "Are you ready, Your Highnesses?" An ice lance condensed above his palm multiplying into six.
Throwing them towards them with the intent to kill they scrambled to dodge. But these ice lances were special as they were imbued with Spatial Magic.
A book came beside him. "Spatial Ice Magic: Targeting Frost Spear." This was a new spell he had created painstakingly through trial and error.
Now armed with a spell that homed in on his enemies he was now able to defend himself from most enemies.
Seeing this the royals started to act recklessly and confront it using their special magic. "Flare Wall!" The temperature rose as the air exploded.
It resulted in a magical wall of unmeasurable heat. A Flare Wall. Usually ice would melt after coming near the wall of surging flames but not ice imbued with spatial powers.
The ice disappeared and appeared behind them. Thanks to their incredible Mana sense they were able to track down its location and dodged accordingly.
They had no choice but to face it on using no magic as it dodged every one of their spells.
It seemed to them that Nathaniel wanted to have them use their Devil Fruit powers to solve this since the abilities obtained from the crystal was nullified by well the crystal.
Nathaniel bought it out in order for him to advertise his merchandise. Turns out the crystal could either nullify or take powers away rendering those who gained powers from it useless.
"Well then let me take first place!" Sapphire ran forward and touched her chest. Pulling out a glowing white orb she flicked it towards the ice lance.
"Stygian Oath." The lance exploded into tiny shards before reforming into an ice cube with a jovial human-like face on it.
"Come to me Pagos!" The cube floated beside her and Sapphire's figure flashed. She was sent to where her parents were.
Impatiently Diane transformed into a golden furred Fox with nine bushy tails. She snarled and pounced on the icicle smashing it to pieces with her raw strength.
Bubbles surrounded another icicle encasing it in a pink soap bar before exploded into many ice shards.
A golden light beam shot out melting the icicle. One by one the royals disappeared leaving only two more.
Graham had dust swirling around him forming into a giant cookie shield. The lance hit it breaking off into smaller pieces.
Ren jumped behind it creating an air door. Going behind the door he knew that it would come straight at him so averted its attention to the door first.
Closing it shut the royals had passed the test and they were ready to be assessed. The last two flashed leaving only one last person in the room.
Tetson. He had been there from the start which Nathaniel and the others knew thanks to their amazing perceptional ability.
Only reason why they didn't expose him was to keep him in. The spell Nathaniel casted the [Targeting Frost Spear] had an additional after effect.
The dust scattered froze any surrounding being in ice encasing them for over twenty minutes.
Tetson had broke free a few minutes after they disappeared. Coughing wildly he alleviated his pain using magic.
Walking towards the middle of the room he picked up two fruits. It was a gift from Nathaniel.
Taking the note off he read it. "To Tia. Come to my shop and I'll give you a discount for these two fruits." Tetson chuckled.
He had no idea whether Nathaniel was stupid or just being honest. Walking away he randomly chose one and bit into it.
"Thank you, Master of the Shop of Wishes."