The Ritual, The Date, The Ceremony.
Three weeks Later.
A Letter come from the Queen. It inform the Lord about the Saintess and priestess from temple who are invited by the King, would come to her territory.
"Hah! I always grateful my Queen... I know that Jelousy King won't inform me anything until the day the Saintess come, so I'll lose my dignity as a Lord who won't welcome the Temple envoy.
But the Briliant Queen send the information and pass your obstruction didn't she? Hahahaha!"
She laugh when imagining how the King felt defeated by her when she doesn't even there, in his palace.
"Fortunately the Town's construction already finished and I can prepare for the Saintess Ceremony. "
Even if her people already heal, compensated, and their home back to normal, they still need to heal their spirits from trauma. This is a peaceful place the people never face any difficulty of War, even the Knights become docil and cry easily over a horse because how peaceful they lived here. Then suddenly they faces a horde of beast threatening their life.
They sure still fearfull. So, it is essential to ease people's hearts after big incident with their prays and ceremony.
For their tainted heart they surely need a salvation. They need a Hero, a Savior to depend on. So, that's why the Saintess is perfect to be choosed.
Saintess Ariya Naga, a half elf with high amount of mana and an absolute authority for Light Magic. Because of her shoothing personality and bright appearance, rumors about her being an albino never been a problem.
She has a pale skin and fair white wavy hair. Her ears are pale pointy and her eyebrow and eyelashes are as white as snow. Even her nails don't show any red vein making her looks so pale. The only thing that has color from her is just her Rosy lips in pink color and her ceremonial dress.
She looks like something that came from another world of this Kingdom. She is a beauty that came from the painter's canvas or from fairy tale books. Then she is now standing in font off Dame. Goth Elle with a fake smile ready to burst.
"Lord of Crownaisans. Did your King not tell you my requirements before ceremony?"
"Yes, Saintess Ariya. No magician around.",
'The preparation are completed and perfect, why did she seems not satisfy?' Dame. Goth Elle confused.
"Then why there is one who follows you around?"
The Saintess smile but her eyes mad like want to gouge out to stab what ever she saw right now.
"Owh." Dame. Goth Elle understand who she mean and feel uncomfortable like she accused to lie when in fact she is not, "That one? I'm sorry... I would drive him away. He will follow me if I go outside the ritual boundary. The King seems ordered him to keep an eye on me. So, I'm sorry, if that bothers you Saintess."
"Hmm... Seems the King doesn't favor you enough but he invited me for you?"
The Saintess relaxed her eyebrow and show a pitty and compasional smile at her.
"Haha ha... Is that so?" Dame. Goth Elle smile a bit awkwardly when she feels the Saintess pitty is a fake. 'Yep! I know I don't really good when facing this fake play' she thought.
"Then please drive the other one too! He seems lingering with a pixie fixen."
'Fixen?🦊 ' she examine the Saintess's face more attentively, 'Jelousy 🍋 detected!' she thought.🤐
"Their mana might disturbing the ritual." the Saintess point at a couple that's about to kiss in the crowd.
Dame. Goth Elle look closely at her direction and trying to find the so called Fixen and her Magician. When she recognize who they are, in shock, she thought,
'That's the BLOODY Polar bears-Summoner-apprentist!'
"Of course! Then, if you would excuse me."
She hurriedly approach the Head tower of Magician who don't even try to hide him sellf while stalking, and she says,
"Head magician! Spying times over. Let's go! "
She grabbed his hand.
"Where? A date? "
"No! To capture your apprentice, The summoner!"
He look at the direction she walked. There he saw his apprentices with a girl.
"Oh! Double date then! It's even better."
"No! "
'Why do I even talk to you? It's better if you shut up. Your silence is more valuable than gold.'
"You know?"
"What?"
"You're more handsome when you're NOT talking."
"So, you admitted that you like my face? "
"Husssshh! Just hurry up! The ceremony would begin! No magician allowed to disturb here!"
They walk hurriedly and the Head Magician try to capture his apprentice with his Wand. But the Lord stop his hand and says,
"Hey! Hey! Hey! No more magic until the ritual! No other Mana allowed!"
"But symple spell won't disturb other people's mana easily."
"That's not the points! The Saintess would be mad!"
It's not the matter of effectiveness, but it is the matter of the Saintess mood. She clearly hate to feels magicians' mana no matter how trivial the amount.
"OK then... Chuu~💞" the Head Magician catch both her hand kiss them.
Dame. Goth Elle is figetting but she allow him to hold her hand so they could go quickly.
Head Magician keep back his Wand and hold her hand with one hand while his other hand grab the back of his apprentice's coat and drag him along with them.
"Master?" His Apprentice confused suddenly been drag.
"You come with us too, Young Lady!" Dame. Goth Elle says to the girl friend.
'The Saintess called her Fixen 🦊, maybe she would mad seing her around.' Dame. Goth Elle thought.
The four of them then walk further from the lime light of the Saintess ritual.
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The Ritual Begin.
The Saintess chant holly spells. Start with the lowest tone she could and Repeat them step by step to higher and then the highest tone that human could hear. Then silence come she chant them without sounds but seem alot of animals could hear them. Birds chirping aggressively, dog howling, cats hissing angrily, they seem to feel painful on their ear drums. Some windows at nearby houses crack.
The sky began to covered in darkness under cumulonimbus clouds. Then aurora of light came washed it away. Holly power of Saintess, her mana glowing around her and lighting even the ground.
"It's the power of Saintess! " people start to praise the Saintess.
"We are safe! Our land saved now!"
"The bad luck is gone!"
The people of Crownaisans become happy, full with joy they start to begin the festive and ask the Saintess to bless them.
Meanwhile far away from the ritual,
"What a beautiful mana. " Dame. Goth Elle says while thought her manifestation of mana is visible but different from aura.
They already go further but still can observe the ritual. The apprentice and his girlfriend says they need to go somewhere but promise not to approach the Saintess until the ritual end. Thus, the two of them could left alone the so called 'Date'.
"Yeah, nice trick! Even my apprentices could do it! Just look! They selling a paper lamp in high prize and says they are blessing them. That's really sly!" the Head Magician says.
The priests and priestess from the temple open a stands and make the town people to line up to get the colorful paper lamps in exchange for coins. Then Saintess Aria would spread her mana with emiting light like fire flies around them to light the paper lamps. They then walk to the rivers and release their paper lamps which they already written with hopes, wish or prayer to become true up high along with the wind to reach the sky higher than mountain. The priests and priestess says those blessed lamps would reach the God' Pantheon.🎈
The view is still amazed Dame. Goth Elle even though the one beside her saying his negatif opinion about the Saintess. With a furrow eyebrow, she says,
"How could you say that to people who fix your apprentice's fault? "
Dame. Goth Elle can't possibly catch what's he thinking and why he didn't appreciate her efforts fixing the problem. Maybe her solutions are not on par with the Greatest Magician in this Kingdom, not as bizzare as him, but at least she fix it as a capable Lord. Her people sure appreciate and welcome the Saintess envoy, while the one who says He Love her is not. She is keep starring at him with unconfortable gaze.
"Yeah? Sorry then I 'm just jealous because you complement her. "
"Ha? Hahahahaha! Are you a kid or what?" She relaxed her eyebrow and laugh.
"Ck! I don't care! I 've been a good boy not come near that petty half elf! Give me my reward! "
"What reward? Hahaha.. I never say anything about reward. Didn't we already on a date? "
"Yeah? And what a date without a..."
The Head Magician lean closer to her and pursed his lips.
"Alright fine! But not here, not in public places!"
'Click! '
"I put a barrier, no one could see us now. Isn't this private enough? "
"Seriously? But here is- mmmft!"
He kiss her before she could make another excuse.
He give her a deep kiss until her mind can't think of anything.
He then try to copy her to unbotton her uniform while kissing her neck.
"Mmmh... " she moaned with her eyes closed when he kiss her collar bone.
He feels so happy his love one didn't hate being touched and even seem like his touch. Then he became greedy. He wants to see her stares with droopy eyelid when she feels his touch,
'How beautiful they would be? Her eyes when she feels good because of me? ' he thought.
His pride as a man makes him curious what else he can do. Then he says,
"Dame Goth Elle, don't close your eyes! Let me see it!"
"What?"
She feels shock like suddenly sobber from a Hangover. She then saw his greedy gaze only fix to her two eye balls. Then she feels pain on her chest almost make her cry with no reason.
"Why is it your eyes full of fear? Although they're still beautiful, but what's wrong? "
'Fear? I was a General on a battlefield, why would I fear you?!? ' she thought while frown.
"Oh.... Your angry 😡 eyes are beautiful as well. Please, look at me. "
Just when everything feels alright, he ruin the mood.
Dame Goth Elle hug him and whisper,
"Our date end here!" she loosen her hug and pushed him away.
She then light her aura and walked through the barrier. Her chest heavyly suffocated and her heart feels so painfull. She felt nothing but humiliation drown her to madness.
'Why must you makes me remember the REASON WHY you says LOVE to me? When I finally surrender. You make me realize this is what happens when you become a prisoner of war.
You're the one who drunk it but I'm the one whose coroded, being poisoned.
F*cking Love Potion!'
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Meanwhile, far away after the Saintess Ritual, the apprentice of the tower chain his Hands with a girl he have date with and stand in front of a Priest.
"I declare you husband and wife!"
They exchange rings and kiss with joyful faces.
"Thank you Priest Langston." He says while give a pocket of coins.
"You're welcome. I usually help the knight after war and you know Tom, so... this is just between friends. Congratulation for you two! Say Hi to Tom."
"Of course!"
The two newlyweds couple walk home happily and say Hi to their neighbour before they walk inside.
"Hey Tom!"
"Hey Fred! Where we're you?"
"Here!" He throw a bottle of brandy."I know you more like Vodka but try this some times."
"Hup! Whoa! Special with extract potion!" He exclaim when he read the label that tied on the bottle.
"Yeah! Thank you to introduced us to Priest Langston. He send his blessing to you."
"Sure! You're welcome! And congratulation! Now you're a madam, pretty girl! Don't forget me, when you get me a nephew!"
"Hahaha ... You're nice Mr.Tom! Thank you " the bride thanking him.
Then the two of them walk inside their house.
"Glup! Hmmm... This is verry good drink! The special extract potion, I don't need to worry about Hangover tomorrow." Tom says after a sip of brandy.