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Chapter 12 - Confliction

Leon woke up in the early morning, the light had given a dim glow to the cave as he looked over at his side groggily. Violet had cuddled up next to him for warmth, he smiled and pulled her closer, she moved a little and raised her head to look up at Leon "Good morning Violet, how did you sleep?"

Violet looked around and yawned "I felt fine, but you shouldn't sleep on your own you could catch a cold out here." Leon thought for a moment "Well then you can come and crawl up next to me every time I do, and if they don't notice I'll let you stay." Violet smiled and nodded as she stretched "So today, I wanted to try doing something that I dreamed about, it shouldn't be hard."

Violet stood up and held her hand out "You already know that I'd follow you anywhere so Ill say: let's go right now then." Leon took her hand and stood up, he hesitated before grabbing his bow as he wouldn't need it. Violet just smiled and started off towards the door, Leon left the bow as he walked out to the door.

He opened the door and let the sunlight in as Violet walked out into the shade of a nearby tree "It's less bright here, so we can wait while our eyes adjust."

When Leon walked into the clearing where the labyrinth was, he smiled and showed it to Violet "This is a dungeon I found, its got a few floors, but I don't know how far it is yet." Violet looked excited and ran towards the entrance as Leon followed her hastily "Its a really big door, but are you gonna explain what we are doing here?" Violet turned around and looked confusingly at Leon.

He scratched the back of his head and laughed awkwardly "Well, I wanted to see if I can make a sword for me, its a very special sword so I'm not sure if I could do it without finding a material I saw down here."

Violet thought for a moment then nodded and started walking "Let's go find this material then, and make you that sword Darling!" Leon hesitated before following her, he had a feeling he was being watched, he looked around behind him, scanning the treeline but not seeing anything of importance. He sighs and runs in after Violet "Wait for me, you could get hurt without me."

Leon puts his hands into his pocket as he walks, the cave walls were only illuminated by various crystals that were scattered around "It's pretty dark here, be careful Violet." Violet looks back at him and gives a smile, Leon grabs her arm as she almost walks off a platoon in the cave "It looks to be much more dangerous than before, please be careful Violet."

Violet nods and steps back onto land as Leon let go of her and he sighs and follows her "So what does this metal look like?" Leon looks around and tries to find the reference but points an exposed metal in the wall, walking up and manipulating it out and flowing around his finger "Just like this one." Violet walks up and claps "So did you find what you want darling?" Leon nods and starts walking back home, Violet's mood quickly changes as they reach the end of the cave.

Violet grabs Leon's hand and stops him from walking "Maybe we should just stay alone together a little longer." Leon looks at her with surprise on his face but relaxes as he grabs her hand back and keeps walking "I actually planned on enjoying this early morning with just the two of us too. After all, I love you the most Violet." Violet brims with happiness and nods "I love you just as much Darling!"

Violet walks up next to him and holds his hand as they walk out of the cave smiling at each other. In the darkest shadow of the cave, a cloaked person smiles and follows closely behind, waiting for the right opportunity to strike. Leon had noticed a pair of eyes watching him and he turned to see where it was coming from but saw nothing back in the cave "Is everything ok Darling?" Leon nods and laughs "Yeah, I felt like someone was watching me."

Leon walked up a hill with Violet and could see as far as the town where the doctor lives. Leon sat down against the tree and Violet sat next to him, she marveled at the sight of the morning sun slowly losing its sunrise beauty "Wow, this emotional love you have is so amazing, I didn't think love would be anything more than a man using my body." She looked back at him and smiled again, Leon smiled back and noticed how cute she looked "You look very cute all of a sudden."

Violet flinched out of shock but she quickly smiled and recovered "You always look cute, and strong, I like your body type Darling." Leon looks at his body and attempts to smile charmingly, he stops smiling and thinks for a moment about who the other person who entered the world did, they all entered at the same time yet only Sam has found him. Leon continued to wonder as Violet looked at him.

She inched closer to his face, trying to find out what he was thinking but when he looks up, their lips meet as Violet blushes heavily "S-s-sorry D-darling, I didn't think y-you'd look up so quickly!" Leon laughed and appeared to be calm as he spoke but he was just as freaked out "Don't worry about it! We kiss so much that they will lose meaning if we keep doing it." Violet remained flustered as she snapped and looked like she had switched off. Leon waved his hand in front of her face as she snapped back and looked at Leon "Sorry, I feel like I had lost control of my mind for a moment."

Leon stood up and saw a figure walking across the edge of the clearing. Leon ran at the fastest speed he could muster and caught up to the figure but couldn't stop himself when he slipped on some mud so he ran right into the figure and fell over with them. Leon got off of the figure as he groaned and shook his head, he looked down and laying there was a girl with long black braids "J-Jenifer?!"

The girl named Jenifer sat up and groaned a little as she rubbed her head "L-Leon! Hey, I haven't seen you in a while, what are you doing here?" Leon stood up and looked back up the hill, at Violet who was rushing down to him "Well thanks-" She held her hand out but Leon was too focused on Violet running down, Jenifer grumbled then stood up and reached out to pat Leon for finding her but he had run off to help Violet "Wait, there's some mud there Violet."

Jenifer grumbled again as she walked back off into the woods and disappeared "Leon, who was that person just now?" Leon smiled at Violet and turned to explain except she was gone "Well, that girl was my ex-girlfriend, Jenifer."

Leon walked inside the cave, once he told Violet that girl was his ex, she immediately dragged him home and woke up the girls explaining the situation "And that's how I saw her. She looked evil and ready to steal Leon back from us." Leon knew the story was greatly exaggerated but he wanted to focus on making this blade, it was very hard and required great amounts of magic and skill, Leon had almost perfected his skills at crafting but with this metal he could give it special properties because it didn't have any to begin with and Leon cant add special properties with his current Unique Magic power, Leon could have some of the features he wanted like the blade is about to morph from a carrying position into a blade but he could imbue magic into it yet either.

Leon sighed as his attempts to form the blade failed again "What are you making?" Leon looked back to see Selina with her red hair falling onto his face "Oh it's supposed to be a very special blade but I can't get it to work." Leon blows her hair out of his face and she giggles "Leon you do know that manipulating materials and making artifacts are completely different stories right?"

Leon looks at her and gives a confused look "The thing you are trying to make is an artifact, and nobody has ever made one before." Leon thinks for a moment then pulls Selina down and whispers into her ear "That's great advice, but whatever you do don't believe Violets story, she exaggerated it greatly." Selina gasps and walks over Violet and starts arguing, Leon laughs and goes back to working on whatever he can with the artifact.