Alyia and Deca- Size Matters

Alyia could not see her partner anywhere. She looked back and forth across the garden and saw no sight of him. Where could he be? A low growl erupted from her throat. Did he leave her? Did he find the ring and leave her? She had told him her story and he went and left her anyways. ‘This is why I don’t get close to people,’ Alyia though as she turned away from the rest of the garden and went to go back down to the ground. As she reached for the main stalk of the plant she was standing on she heard a squawk from above. Pausing her motions she looked up only to be hit by a falling metal object. With a grunt  escaping her, Alyia was knocked down onto the leaf the object resting on her. With a snarl released from her throat Alyia looked up to see if she could find what had dropped the object on her. She hadn’t even looked at the object as she pushed it off of her and stood up to get a better look. After looking for a moment she spotted a bird and a small thing fighting it? With a gasp the blonde looked down at the object that had fallen from the sky. It was a ring. The ring! A small smile gracing her face Alyia looked up. The small thing that was fighting the bird was Deniel. He hadn’t left her!

A smirk growing on her face Alyia watched as she bird and Deniel grew closer. With a new resolution Alyia grabbed the ring and put it around her shoulder so that she looked like she was wearing a satchel. Grabbing the stalk of the plant the blonde climbed higher up. Reaching the top of the plant Alyia stood between the junction of a leafs stem and the main stalk and looked back up at her partner and the bird. The smirk that had appeared on her face never disappeared as she gripped a piece of the birds mind and mumbled the words: I call upon the Fears of the Risen. She didn’t know if the spell would work from so far away seeing how she was on 2 cm tall. Her initial spell would reach 100 feet but she was shorter and so her power was smaller. With the bird no more than nine feet above her Alyia hoped that the spell would reach it. Watching the bird freeze in mid-air Alyia knew that she had been able to reach the bird and activate the spell. With concentration sculpted on her face Alyia watched the bird freeze and stop flying. 'That should give Deniel enough time to do something to finish off the bird.’

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The bird flew up into the sky again after hitting the ground, and Deniel few after it with his rattling and buzzing wings. Him and the bird started to have an aerial battle with them clashing into each other. Deniel could have finished the bird off with one slash and a spell, but he tried to enjoy himself as much as he could. The bird used its beak as a weapon to fight off Deniel's giant broadsword, and it worked fairly well. Deniel hacked and slashed at it, and the mockingbird surprisingly was able to hold its on by deflecting or blocking every shot with its powerful beak. Deniel was impressed with the bird's ability to keep up with him, despite him not being serious. "Impressive. Very impressive. BUT NOTHING STANDS UP TO THE STRENGTH OF THE BLACK DEVIL!" Deniel raised his sword to the sky, holding on to it with both hands. He was getting ready to see if the bird was going to try anything, but to his surprise, it was completely still. In fact, so still, that it had stopped flying. "Huh?" Deniel watched the bird start to fall harmlessly to the ground. Instead of just sitting there in awe, Deniel flew down after it. After reaching the bird falling, Deniel climbed on top of it and then stabbed Nidhogg right where its heart should be.

The bird made a harsh impact with the ground, and it only shoved Deniel's sword further into its heart. It was the way he usually finished his opponents: a stab in the chest, and the bird was no different. He dug his giant blade out of the bird's lifeless corpse and then slid right off of it. He looked around himself in all directions to see if he could find the source of what had caused it to freeze so suddenly in the air. "Alyia, are you there!?" Alyia!?"

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Alyia watched as Deniel took down the bird down with one swift stab to the heart. With the sight of that she cheered from where she was standing. With the ring still around her Alyia rushed to the stalk and climbed down. Reaching the ground she took off in the direction that she had seen Deniel go down with the bird. Speeding through the foliage Alyia held onto the ring with one hand while the other pumped back and forth at her side. With her hair flying out behind her Alyia jumped over pebbles and ducked under leaves. Her partner could not be too far away now.  "Alyia, are you there!?" Alyia!?" The words of her partner suddenly echoed through the leaves of the garden. “Deniel!” Alyia called back. “Deniel!” She pushed her pace faster knowing that her black haired partner wasn’t that far away now. Leaping over one last leaf the blonde haired girl burst into what would be a large clearing for her size. At first glance all Alyia saw was the bird and her partner no where in sight. But taking a second look around Alyia spotted Deniel by the mocking bird. With a small smile gracing her face the blonde took another step forward. “I’m not dead,” the words tumbled out of her mouth reassuringly as she looked at her partner who was standing a few inches from her. “And I got the ring.” She motioned to the ring that was hanging around her torso.

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Deniel frowned when he didn't hear Alyia respond to him right away. A sense of worry started to overcome him, until he heard the familiar sound of her voice. “Deniel!” Deniel first thought he was imagining it, but then he heard her voice once again. “Deniel!” He started to look around himself, wondering where her voice came from. With the huge size of the garden compared to them, he couldn't tell where exactly she was yelling from. "Huh..." his pure red eyes scanned the area, and since he didn't have pupils, there was no telling where he was looking. And then, he heard the sound of her voice again, much more close this time. “I’m not dead,” he jerked his head suddenly to where he heard her. He didn't really pay attention to what exactly she just said, he was just happy she was alive. The look on his face said otherwise, since he was in his demon form, he was pretty much incapable of smiling from happiness. So, not to his knowledge, he scowled at her instead.

"Alyia!" He gathered a burst of speed from standing still to running straight at her. With his unhappy face, he probably didn't look like he was going to her for good reason. The same magic circle that turned Deniel into this form when he jumped suddenly appeared between him and Alyia. Every part of him that passed through it inverted the transformation process: from scales to skin and clothes, and from Armageddon to Nidhogg. The moment his face passed through the magic circle, his frown immediately changed into a bright smile, and he no longer looked like he was going to assault her. Once his whole body passed through, the magic circle vanished as fast as it appeared. Deniel grabbed Alyia with his arms around her and lifted her off the ground while spinning in a circle once. "I'm so glad you're okay!" He put her down after spinning around, and that's when he finally noticed the ring she had. "The ring...you found it! We've completed the job!"

When Alyia had seen Deniel race at her with a scowl on she honestly was scared. So when her partner yelled out her name as he was running at her Alyia had half of a mind just to take off running. But, she stopped when the same magic circle appeared in front of him as he ran and he changed back to normal. She saw that as his scales changed back into skin the scowl on his face was no more and in place of it was a smile. A bright happy smile. Alyia unfroze and smiled back and Deniel. It wasn’t a smirk or a snark it was a genuine smile. She squealed as he lifted her off of the ground and spun her in the air, her hair moving around them as they spun. She was so hyped up on the happy energy in the air that she didn’t her his comment about her being alive. Once she was put down the world came back to her and she heard him talk about how she found the ring and that the mission was completed.

It had taken them at least a half an hour to get back to the house where Mrs. Cartigan resided but, when they finally got there she was waiting outside on a chair. Alyia took a big breath and walked up to the giant lady. Thinking of a way to get her attention the blonde mage pulled on the woman’s sock. She watched as the old woman slowly moved to a position where she could see what was bugging her and as she saw Alyia her eyes widened and a smile grew on her face. Without a second notice a few words came from the old lady’s mouth and Alyia began to grow once again. With surprise Alyia dropped the ring on the ground and the old lady picked it up. Reaching full size Alyia looked at the old woman. “Did it. Mission complete.”

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