The second day starts, and the sky was... Closed?
The sun was not wanting to shine today, how surprising...?
***
"Done."
Amethyst lifts up six syringes with needles, three in each hand between her fingers. Sakana and Guilherme, who were watching closely, celebrate with her, the three starting to dance.
The prince and the fourth princess enter the pharmacy, with Lun Re and Wuxunle of course. They see the three physicians dancing together as if they won the lottery, the three confused by the sudden happiness.
Prince Saganu approaches them and cleans his throat out loud.
The physicians stop in their tracks, looking at the prince, the princess, and Lun Re.
"Your highness, your grace, a very good morning." Guilherme greets, with the three bowing politely to them.
"Physician Guilherme, good morning." The prince greets back. "I couldn't help but be surprised by your... Dance? What is the reason?"
Fugi approaches a bit, dragging Amethyst in front.
"Amethyst finally managed to decipher the ingredients of the cure potion, and could make ones herself." He announces.
Amethyst shows the syringes to the prince. "I just finished, but it did not got tested yet." Playfully she adds. "Who wants to be the ever first tester of the now improved cure potion."
The three look unsure, knowing very well how Amethyst can get carried away when the topic is science and medicine.a
"Lady Amethyst, lady Amethyst!!!" Calls out princess Dunishia. "I discovered something about you!"
Amethyst eyes shot up in surprised, the princess knew she catch her attention.
"You have an gigantic siren as your magic companion!!!" She confesses. "I discovered by the files from the academy, in the photo board of the top 3 students and their magic companion."
Amethyst remembers now.
In her 15s, on the royal academy, they have always test for witches to see and register their magic companions, if the student was a top 3, they would take a photo and put in on a board for the others generations to see.
"Can I see it?? Pretty pleeease." She pleads, with a cute sad puppy face.
Amethyst signs in contentment, and that was a sign to the princess that make her smile brightly.
"Her name is Linda, she is in the lake of the pharmacy. I wanted to her be outside, so I freed her from the summon spell, but I don't doubt that she will enter back in no time."
The princess listened attentively, before quickly going outside to the pharmacy lake, crouching to her feet and calling out for the siren. When she appear, a big gasp couldn't help but come out from the princess as she coos and throw praises to the magic companion.
The prince change his attention from the princess to Amethyst, leaning closer to her ear to whisper something.
"I dreamed with something that you must need to know."
***
On the twilight of the day, In the shades of the nurse's room, stands by herself in front of a prayer table, hands together. Tô others, she was simply praying to the Achiever she worship, but to her, it was something away from that concept.
She wasn't with her eyes completely closed, looking down at the communicator she's holding between her hands. Luckily, the volume was too low for others to be able to hear, but Nurse Rose was having a little conversation with the pirate guy.
"Rick." Nurse Rose whispers. "We're was the last time you was with the Coat of Arms before going to the reunion?"
"I don't know...!" He responded. "In the cavern of the South, if I remember?"
"Did you, by any change, took out the Coat of Arms to make any use?"
"Yeah I did, but I swear I put it in place right after!!"
Nurse Rose sighs, pondering if the Coat of Arms was left in the cavern.
"Yes, I did go back to the cavern, if you wanted to ask that." He jabs before the time. "But, i didn't find it anywhere."
Nurse Rose then remembers.
"Rick, the Prince's assistants where there in the cavern because of the sibling's lunch day. One of them must be with it. Don't worry, I will go get it. Somehow."
She finish the "prayer", before continuing with her duties.
***
In that same time, after prince Saganu finish a discussion about weekly tests to the workers of the palace with Fugi and Guilherme, Fugi sugest a snack for them to eat while the twilight was passing by, slowly bringing the night on the kingdom.
Amethyst was out for a moment, on her way to search specific herbs around the palace to refill a very specific stock of them.
In her way back, she was walking with Nayoto, they both chatting when Amethyst felt a scent coming from the pharmacy that made her alarmed. She quickly increased her pace, signalling Nayoto to do the same.
"Nayoto, I want you to use this." Amethyst gives a pipe, putting a small flower in it, and lighting it up. "Inhale as much as you can, and when I open the door, you exhale the smoke out."
"Why can't you do it?" She asked, confused but holding the pipe anyway.
"My parents don't allow me to smoke... It would worse my little lungs problem." She responds, bashfully.
"You truly love your parents, don't you?"
Reaching the pharmacy, the smell was strong. Amethyst, in the three, opens the door of the pharmacy, Nayoto blows it out the big puff of smoke on the room, and closes the door.
They could hear the bodies of the people inside landing on the floor, that was a signal that they fainted.
***
The persons inside was none others than Guilherme, Fugi, Lun Re and the prince, they were having a conversation about doing monthly check ups on the workers of the palace, and after that, they decided to have a snacks which was...
"Lady Amethyst, why you have Otter meant in your room??? Aren't you aware of the aphrodisiac effects just by it scent when cooking?" Guilherme started.
"Oh, Otter meat? It my night lunch." She responds casually.
The others inside get shocked by the response. Amethyst was confused by such reaction, then she remembers.
"I am an apothecary."
An Oh moment happened between then, before brushing it off with chuckles.
"Yeah, right right, you're an apothecary." Points out the prince, patting her shoulder.
"Sometimes I forgot that the mith about apothecaries need to develop an highly high immunity towards poison, toxin and drugs it's actually truth." Adds Fugi.
"Which makes rare to find one." Says Lun Re.
"But the question now is... Why one of you took the otter meat??? Didn't I told that the cow meat was on the shelf in my room? Did you mistake it?!"
***
The night falls, surprisingly, the night was too dark, with no stars, no moon... how odd.
Rose quietly and discretly enters in Amethyst's room. She makes sure she's not making any sound, and seeing that no one is in the room, she decides to start searching.
Going around Amethyst's stuff, she couldn't find the object, until she opens a specific drawer. There shining in the middle of the drawer—
"A very good everning for you too, Nurse Rose."
The nurse jumps in fear and quickly turns around with a gun in her hands. It was Amethyst, holding a cup of tea in her hands.
Amethyst, taking a sip of her tea before grabbing a prepared cup of tea for Nurse Rose. "You want some?"
"No." Rose responds. "Not this one. Serve me another, in field of vision."
"Very well, please sit."
Amethyst, casually, discharges the tea from that cup and serves a new one, with no suspicious moves, and not blocking the view of the cup or the kettle.
***
"What were you searching for, in my stuff?" Amethyst asks with a smile, casually, calmly. Too calmly.
"I was searching for... An object." Nurse Rose hesitates a bit. "It seems that its an object that you probably found in the carven of the south."
"Mmm. And why didn't you ask for me about it?" Amethyst takes a sip of the tea.
"I though you might be sleeping at this hour, I didn't wanted to disturb." Noticing that Amethyst is taking the tea without any restrain, she decides to finally take a sip of hers as well, since it's she same one.
"But you decided to invade my room, instead?" Amethyst chuckles. "That would be considered a crime, and the punishment could be severe."
"I'm aware of, but—"
Nurse Rose suddenly started to feel dizzy, and abruptly falls on the floor. Her abdomen hurts like hell, a fatigue suddenly appeared, and hit 10X worse than normal.
"What...!?" She mutters.
Amethyst just takes another sip of her tea, before standing. Nurse Rose craws backwards until her back touch a wall close to the door.
"You trick me... What did you put on the tea?!?" She tries to gather some strength to lift up her gun, but no avail.
"Well, let me tell you a story..."
Once upon a time, a Dionisia was relaxing in her home, drinking and crimson red crystal tea that looked like blood. She drank and drank, while reading a book. Her four kids arrived at the kitchen and look at her mother drinking the tea. The oldest asked:
—Mama, what are you drinking?
She responded.
—Well, my sweet child, my sipping a very dangerous tea made from the spider Lily flower.
They all gasped, and quickly worried about their mother.
The third rushed and says.
—But mama, that's a toxic flower!!! You cannot drink that!!
The mother giggles and calmly said.
—Oh, my precious children. I developed an immunity to any type of venom or toxin. And so are you all as well.
The kids gasped in shock, but the mother had already served a cup for each one of them. Since she was a doctor it would be okay. Since their curiousity is bigger, the kids finally drank the tea, and they were fascinated by the taste.
And since then, they started drinking their favorite mother's tea.
"You are really horrible at telling stories." The nurse says coldly.
"I wasn't putting much effort to do so." Amethyst interjects.
The nurse ponders for a moment about the story, and then, her face drops—processing what Amethyst was trying to say.
"You... You made a spider Lily tea...?"
"You figured out fast." Amethyst claps her hands softly.
"Oh what? You also trying to tell me you are a Dionisia's daughter and have 'the protection from divine' ?"
"You silly woman. I have the Witch's Eyes." She says softly, a smile opening in her face. "Now enough chitchat. You were looking for this aren't you?"
Amethyst shows the coat of arms, and throws it at the Nurse's face.
"You can have it. I already made a copy."
The legs of the nurse were starting to get paralyzed because of the toxin, along with her lungs, who was difficult to breathe. She felt as if her immune system went into a shut down, which makes her vomit on the floor.
"Now you're asking what did I do right now, correct? The toxin of the flower don't do such a thing at such early minutes. I will admit, when you master the earth element manipulation too much, you will notice that now, every living being will start to wrap around your finger, even batteries."
Nurse Rose could still manipulate the air, and make her best to lift herself up and try to get out of Amethyst's room.
"Wait!" Amethyst interjects, showing the tiny bottle. "You wouldn't leave without the antidote, would you?"
In a bliss, Amethyst throws the bottle from the yard door, the bottle flying fastly towards the bushes in the far.
In a sudden drop of Desperation, the nurses fluctuates towards that direction, starting to search as fast as she can for the bottle. Before her organism start to shut down completely.
***
...crack...