Chapter XIV
After a couple of minutes of flight the cloak descended to leave the young Queen at a point in the forest and allow her to begin her training.
"Are you sure we're out of danger here?" Elsa asked.
"Even without seeing I can tell you that I don't perceive any magical presence nearby, also, I trust that the Cloak of Levitation will maintain a responsible vigilance... don't worry Snowflake, if I perceive anything suspicious I will be by your side as soon as possible." Said Honeymaren, caressing her partner's hand
"Thank you Honey... you can count on me to do the same for you." Elsa said, also caressing the hand of her beloved.
After giving the girls a bit of time to take the blind separation calmly the cloak flew again, this time to leave Honeymaren at the point from which she would depart for that exercise.
"Thank you." said Honeymaren once her feet touched the forest grass, "Be alert to warn us of any danger, and if the risk is imminent, grab Elsa and take her to a safe place before looking for me." Added the brown skinned girl.
At those words, the cloak moved agitatedly, showing disagreement with the indication of the young sorcerer, who, feeling the conflict of her ally, separated from her, later turning to face her.
"I know you care about me, and I appreciate it, but you must understand that I am in the same situation, I care about Elsa, she is... very important to me; It will be useless to be safe if all I can do is worry about her, if I can count on you to take care of her safety I can focus on defending myself, you know that with the Eye of Agamotto my chances of enduring more time alone are greater." The young woman said, sure of her words.
The cloak moved slightly from side to side upon hearing the explanation of the one she had decided to serve, as if she was considering her proposal; a little less than a minute later she stopped, nodded, giving off a feeling that she accepted reluctantly, and began to fly, maintaining the necessary height for the surveillance they had agreed upon.
"Well, the time has come." Honeymaren said, preparing herself mentally and physically to focus on her remaining senses and trying not to allow the concern for her girlfriend to distract her.
"I can do it, I must master this." Elsa said, concentrating to use her magic properly.
Both young women began to project their magic around her so that they could feel through it; the trees against which the magic energy that they displayed by their hands collided, the small rocks with which the magic transmitted by their feet to the earth ran into, and everything that was in the air at the moment, their entire environment was noticeable to them, just as if they were looking.
"So far so good." Elsa said, gaining a good sense of her surroundings through the magic waves, and then began to advance. "Oh!" The girl exclaimed when she felt an icy layer under her feet after taking a couple of steps, then slightly raised the bands in front of one of her eyes and could see how several meters around everything was covered in a light layer of ice. That's not right, I must concentrate on just projecting magic energy, not my magic too." The Snow Queen added for herself, covering the eye that she had uncovered and then taking a few steps forward until she felt soil again.
For her part, the young Northuldra had started as expected, aware of her surroundings almost as if she saw it through her eyes, however, there is something that dismayed her, for just over a second between each magic wave she was blind, it could seem like a little, but in a battle that second could mean everything, so she had to find a way to increase the frequency of the magic she projected around her.
"I feel comfortable at this level, but I need to improve, that little lapse could make a difference." Honeymaren said, sitting cross-legged on the ground to focus on her magic and the way she was using it. "This will do." She said later, picking up some small stones that she sensed around her.
As part of her training the young woman threw a small rock into the air vertically and concentrated as best she could on detecting how much of its movement she could perceive between each magic wave she projected, and how much of the rock's path was lost during the time between each wave.
"Damn, that's almost half, I can't allow this." The brunette girl exclaimed, realizing that she could only observe the position of the rock in the air three times before it fell, a dangerously low number if she were talking about following an object whose goal i1s to hurt her.
After that action, the young woman concentrated a great deal of magical energy in her body and began to project it into closer lapses so that she could maintain control and not get tired or let the magic escape too quickly. Once she felt ready, she continued to throw and retrieve stones for a few minutes, paying great attention to how much of their trajectory she could perceive.
"Good!" Said the young woman once she was satisfied with the result, then, as a last exercise she thought of, she gathered as many small rocks as she could and threw them into the air above her. "Here we go."
In what was to be the trial by fire the young sorcerer threw magical pulses constantly so that she could clearly perceive the great quantity of rocks in the air and how they were beginning to fall towards her, and in an act of great coordination and foot work she began to evade them, trying at all costs to avoid being touched by any of them, using even her magical power when she felt that any would be impossible to evade in her position. The exercise, which the young woman repeated a few times, always passed without any of the stones touching her, showing that she had finally found the perfect balance to replace her natural vision with magical pulses.
"Perfect! Now I must find Elsa." Said a satisfied Honeymaren, quickening her pace to join her companion.
The Snow Queen had, after a few attempts, perfected separating her magical energy from its magical power itself, no longer freezing everything around her as she projected the waves of magic to perceive it; after that she covered great ground, aware of her surroundings by magic and feeling it through her remaining senses; the grass under her feet, the wind against her face, the scents of wood, water and flowers, the sounds of birds, the leaves of trees as they were caressed by a gentle breeze, the melodious flow of a stream on its way to the pond, all the little details were so clear to her, so much that she began to think that being the fifth spirit had given her a greater connection to the elements than she had thought, ignored before perhaps, because she based herself more on what her eyes saw than on what she could feel around her.
The couple had spent a little more than a couple of hours apart and blindfolded when they simultaneously felt in their chest the undoubted essence of the spiritual energy of their beloved.
"¡Elsa!" The young sorcerer shouted.
"¡Honey!" The Snow Queen replied.
The two ran to meet, and soon found themselves wrapped in each other's arms in a tender and liberating embrace, in which, as they finally felt the body of their beloved beside their own, both could allow the constant concern for each other's well-being to fade away.
"Can we get this off our eyes now?" Elsa asked in the ear of the one to whom her heart belonged.
"Of course, I can't wait to see your pretty face again." Honeymaren said, allowing only a faint thought from many that she had towards the one for whom she would give everything to come out.
The couple broke their sweet embrace and uncovered their eyes, taking a few seconds to get used to the light again and then recognizing before anything else the beautiful features of the face that they wanted to continue seeing when they woke up every morning for the rest of their lives.
"I will never get tired of seeing you blushing." Said Honeymaren with a provocative smile.
"And I'll never tire of seeing what you insinuate with your eyes when you look at me like that." Replied Elsa provocatively, with a gesture and voice that made Honeymaren blush powerfully.
"You weren't supposed to answer back like that." Said Honeymaren nervously, giving a slight nudge to the arm of her beloved, who was only laughing at the reaction she had caused in her.
"Don't laugh" Honeymaren said laughing, affected by her partner's contagious laughter.
Both girls began to play around laughing and pushing each other until, holding each other's arms, they fell onto the grass together, ending up with the brown skinned girl on top of the white skinned one. For a moment both remained silent, only looking at each other, allowing themselves to get lost in each other's eyes; until they were distracted by their ally made of enchanted cloth, who, noticing their encounter, had come down to meet them again.
"No! No! You're not interrupting anything!" Honeymaren said, hurrying off to lie down beside Elsa, 'We are just tired and we decided to lie down for a bit.
"Yes, facing the basilisk will be difficult, the best thing is to rest and to arrive in as good a condition as possible." Added Elsa nervously.
It was clear that The Cloak of Levitation didn't believe them, the young women could perceive it, but both parties decided to pretend that nothing had happened to continue the training mission as smoothly as possible, the couple rose, the cloak returned to Honeymaren's back and then their journey to the lair of the mythical King of The Serpents began. Once they got behind the rock they had used to hide their first time there it was time for them to review their strategy.
"The plan goes on like the first time, I'll go in, I'll get it out, and while it only has me as target, you'll use the element of surprise to attack it too." Honeymaren said.
"I understand, I still don't like that plan much, but I accept it, just be careful." Elsa said.
"I will, the spell should protect us against the poison, we only have to cover our eyes to avoid its gaze< we must still avoid having direct contact with the poison as much as possible, to have to repel a large amount or a very concentrated one the spell would absorb much of our magical power, weakening us, and quite possibly also limiting our ability to perceive the environment." The young sorceress said, with her band of cloth in her hand, seeing her girlfriend's eyes one more time before covering her own.
"I'll also be careful Honey," Elsa said, smiling at her, knowing that even if she tried to look as prepared and confident as possible Honeymaren would still be worried about her.
The young women smiled, nodded, giving themselves the sign to cover their eyes, and then proceeded to do so.
"I'm going in." Honeymaren said, rising decisively.
"I'll be waiting." Elsa said, doing the same thing.
Both had achieved in their own way a great ability to obtain a clear view of everything that surrounded them through magic, they hold hands, getting more calm feeling their hand against that of their beloved and after giving the signal that they were ready to separate they felt something unexpected.
"Is that what I think?" Elsa said.
"That's right, it's about to come out." Honeymaren said.
"But why? Did it detect us?"
"I doubt it, I think it will come out to hunt, which means it will be more aggressive, we will have to be more careful from the beginning."
"Understood."
"Snowflake, change of plan, when the basilisk is out, I'll fly quickly to the other end of this clearing, making me its target, that will give you you an opening to attack it off guard.
"Got it!" Elsa said nodding.
A few seconds later the two could perceive how the great beast came out of its lair, and being half outside its body stood up high, as if it were watching its surroundings closely. The couple wondered if it had detected them, but even if it had the plan wouldn't change since with the speed of the cloak Honeymaren would easily draw its attention at first, diverting it from Elsa.
The basilisk continued to advance until it came out completely of its lair in the ground and then began to slowly advance with its head upright and the front of the body hunched; it was in attack position, it had clearly detected something strange, the only doubt was how aware it really was of their presence.
"I'll get him!" Honeymaren said, preparing to leave the hideout, Elsa nodded, sure of the plan, and then the young Northuldra acted as fast as possible.
The Cloak of Levitation and Honeymaren made their best efforts and passed quickly to the side of the creature, landing on it several magical projectiles that made it angry, moving its head from side to side, hoping to find its prey. Seeing this Honeymaren remained static in the air, on the opposite side of where Elsa was, and conjured a great lightning bolt on the body of the animal, which caused it erratic and furious muscle movements, and as soon as it had the opportunity it threw poison in the direction of Honeymaren, who conjured a shield against which it collided without causing any danger. The great snake, controlling its movement again, rapidly pounced in the direction of Honeymaren, and accommodating in a flicker its body in the form of "s" pounced with a spring action lifting much of its body through the air, Honeymaren evaded the creature's head and then drew with magical energy a long symbol on its body that was still passing by it due to the inertia of the attack, once the Basilisk fell to the ground and set out to attack again the young sorceress created a magical circle with her hands, and when she interacted with it the great mark she leaved on part of the snake's body took an orange glow, seconds later, when the young woman imploded the magical seal in front of her, the mark burst violently , doing great damage to the beast and leaving much of its outer layer Scorched.
"Don't underestimate the power of a sorceresr," Honeymaren said, seeing that the enraged creature seemed to doubt its next strategy to attack its prey, realizing that it was not in the middle of a common hunt.
In a sudden motion the basilisk threw poison back towards the young sorcerer and when she was covered with her magic shield against the poisonous projectile it lashed out again by throwing its body into the air thanks to its tremendous muscle strength, crashing into the young woman's shield and pushing her several meters through the air by taking her slightly off guard, but not so much as to allow her shield to break.
Here I go Elsa thought, when having slipped behind the creature, which was completely concentrated in Honeymaren, created a large blizzard, which covered the sun and greatly diminished the creature's ability to see, as well as its ability to perceive the heat of their bodies.
"Great move!" Said the Northuldra girl, landing next to Elsa outside the blizzard.
"Thank you," Elsa said, focused on the situation in front of them, "do you have a plan for what's next?"
"Of course!"
"Tell me everything!"
The young women quickly agreed before the basilisk found a way to leave the blizzard and then didn't lose a second to put their plan into action. Honeymaren returned to the blizzard and repeatedly provoked the snake with energy discharges, guiding it where it wanted even amid the confusion of the blizzard. The further they advanced the more the blizzard diminished, until the time came when the creature could see Honeymaren on the floor, with a leg apparently stuck in a large block of ice and desperately struggling to free herself. The king of snakes didn't think twice about seizing the opportunity to wipe out its prey once and for all and pounced itself using all the impulse its body could give it. Honeymaren waited motionless until the last possible moment, when she was able to clearly distinguish the rows of teeth and the sharp fangs on the snout of the creature, that was when the ice disappeared and the young woman, with the help of the cloak, took flight as quickly as possible. The great snake, unable to stop its impulse, found itself falling surprisingly as it attempted to land beyond where its prey was, only to fall into the girl's trap and throwing itself at full throttle against a cliff whose presence had been hidden by the blizzard. After a few seconds a great roar marked the moment the beast hit the bottom, hitting hard against the uneven rocks of the terrain.
"Excellent performance." Said Elsa, appearing behind Honeymaren, who, after seeing that the plan had worked, went to stand on the edge of the abyss.
"Thank you... although I'm worried about how easy any of us might have fallen for such a trick as well." The young woman replied, taking the bands off her eyes.
"Yes... you're right." Elsa said, doing the same thing.
"We may not have to do it as consistently as we do now, but on any unknown battlefield we have to give ourselves an idea of the ground using our magic just like our eyes, this and many other traps could be fatal if we are taken off guard." Honeymaren said, still looking thoughtfully at the abyss.
"Don't worry Honey, I will, and promise to do it too, okay?" Elsa said, taking her girlfriend's chin and gently directing her face towards hers, until their glances met, taking her out of the trance she was in.
"I will." Honeymaren said, smiling.
Soon after, their surroundings began to fade as the young couple returned to the training room.
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