Klarice was looking all over the campus for Albert. She was bored and wanted to have some fun.
In the past 2 days, every time she tried to seduce him, she felt a searing pain in various parts of her body. It started just as a simple poke or itching feeling in her bosom. But now every time she offered him the 'privilege' of having sex with her, or just flirting in general with him, she felt an ever increasing pain in random parts of her body, the location and amount of pain was inconsistently shocking each time.
"Where are you~♡?" Klarice called out, she was starting to get impatient.
"Maybe he's in the forest, fuckin' tree hugger." She chuckled, before skipping out of the school in search for a plaything.
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Albert was staring into the 2 snakelike green eyes of the Toxodile. It was staring back, with a clear form of malice in its eyes. Lilac was gripping her Staff with all her might.
"Kill it!" Michael said, pointing at the Toxodile's grotesquely wide mouth.
Albert jumped up and slammed his axe down on the beast's back, he intentionally didn't target the head so Lilac could kill it. It did major damage, it clearly managed to pop some of its bubbles, some of the acid splashed around, a small bit got on his forehead, melting some of the skins create a large circle shaped scar.
"Albert! Your head!" Lilac said, gasping. Albert was in searing in the pain, but he didn't care much, thanks to the training he had back at the mansion.
"My turn!" Michael said, moving his hands and casting a spell.
"Glass arrow!" Michael yelled, before casting the spell. Causing a small spear of glass, intending to stab its head, but the Toxodile whipped it's tail with incredibly fast speed, managing to deflect it as it screeched. But in the That moment, Albert rolled under the toxodile.
"Ah, it's a female." He said to himself, before slicing Nihil. Since it's scales were tough, but the ones on its underbelly were much softer. He managed to create a wound, causing some blood to drip out.
"Nice slice!" Michael said. Lilac's expression became mortified as the creature shrieked in pain. The Toxodile then tried to slam its tail onto Albert, thankfully he managed to react, dodging it.
'Oh god, oh God, I was literally gonna be crushed!' He thought to himself. Hiding his fear under calculated smug looks.
"Lilac! A little help!" Albert yelled, glinting at her.
Lilac immediately starting to wave her hands and focused. In a few seconds she managed to create a bright flash, blinding the monster enough for Albert to retreat a far enough distance.
"Blue Ember!" He yelled, casting the spell, thanks to Alabaster's training, the spell was a little more potent than it was before. It didn't make much of an impact if he casted it without the training, but it managed to catch the tail on fire.
The Tozodile shrieked again, stamping it's tail on the ground, making eventually a forest fire.
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Lucine was drinking some tea with a small group of followers. There was a lemon haired girl, a green curly haired one, and a split-haired lady with Cyan and white hair. This was actually Lucine's first time making friends while in the academy.
"So, have you and Albert advanced to the next level of your relationship yet?" The Cyan white haired girl asked.
"No, I'm planning to do that next semester. Remind me, when is that?"
"In 4 months Lucine-Dearie!" Said the Lemon haired girl. Voice bubbly as usual.
"Well then, Cyan-white girl. You have your answer."
"My name is actually Evilyn, Lucine-friend." Replied the Cyan White haired girl. Lucine simply shrugged and laughed it off.
"Oh forgive me. I'm sorry, I'm just not good with names of people who don't pose a threat to me. Excluding the Lilac and Miriam girl, those 2 are more intimidated by Albert-dear more than not." Lucine replied, sipping some of the tea.
"My name is Dorene Foolsfellow, the yellow haired one is Cecil, and the last one is Evilyn as you already know." Said the green curl girl.
"I wonder where Albert is anyways?! I want to introduce myself to him! Since we are in the same class." Said CeciLemon.
"Oh, you are in the same class as him!?" Lucine said, smiling warmly.
"Yeah? I don't have romantic intentions just so you know." Said Lemon Cecil lady.
"Well here's an idea, every time a certain girl named Klarice makes a romantic advance on him, cast pain dart on her, in a spot where it hurts. Ok?!" Lucine said, grinning, licking her lips.
"Okie dokie Lucine-Dearie."
"Please don't overuse that title in public." Said the Cyan-white girl.
"Why not!?" Said the petit Blondie. Puffing her cheeks in a childish gesture.
"We don't want to make it seem like we have mutual feelings for eachother. We need to get Albert in Lucine's bed." Said White Cyan lady.
"NOT YET!" Said everyone else.
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The forest was starting to burn. Lilac was horrified, hyperventilating even. She was considering to just ditch the boys and have sex with Steven again to forget about it.
"Lilac, we need your help! By this point. You probably have learned a healing spell. So please, heal us." Albert yelled, with a tone that suggests he knows the exact spells she can cast. Michael just pointed at her, his hands telling her to start healing.
She didn't know if she could heal them, they have been fighting this monster for the past 5 minutes and they were injured, sure the monster looked withered but it sure as helll wasn't dying soon.
"Ok, Basic mass heal." She said, before a bright light emanated from her. But something else happened as their wounds were being healed. A small aura appeared to emanate from them, an aura of strength. That didn't happen the first time she used it the other day!
"Yeah, that's the main ch- I mean, the power of FRIENDSHIP!" Albert said, forcing a smile halfway through the sentence.
"No, she probably casted an additional buff spell. We should report this since when I looked at her ID, her skill was disease resistanc-" Michael said, clear annoyance in hid voice but was shushed by Albert.
"THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP OR SOME STUPID CRAP!" He yelled.
The 2 boys jumped on the back of the Toxodile, before pulling out their weapons and hurting the beast. Albert was using his weird axe, and Michael was using a long wooden Staff. They were doing considerable damage, even strategically popping the bubbles on the back before they had time to expand, causing the acid to land back on the creature dealing more damage.
"Heya Albert♡!" Said a weirdly annoying voice. It was a curvy well-endowed girl, running with a teasing look on her face.
"No! Not now Klarice!" Albert yelled, pure fury in his words.
"Aw, what's the matter. Don't worry I can do it on that big Toxodile back, let's play!♡ Lightning shock" She said, casting a bolt of lightning from her hands, Michael looked hopeful, but then the creature just, ate it.
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The Toxodile just ate the lightning bolt.
"What!? They. They can't do it. Not unless, oh no." Klarice said.
"Oh God, this is not a normal Toxodile, this is a Toxodile under the effect of the, "Greater Hypnosis" spell. A spell that can not only hypnotize large creatures, but also give them an immunity to one type of magic of the caster's choice." Klarice said, panic in her voice. But then Shae have a sly smile.
"But that means within 2 miles of the beast, there is someone controlling it. This explains a lot."
"Ok. What do we do!?" Albert said, trying to pierce his large axe in the creature's skull.
"Toxodiles sxales on their head is impenetrable, even to orichalcum. Only the hardest diamonds can break it. But if we kill the caster we have a much higher chance to kill it." Klarice said, sticking out her tongue and making a suggestive hand gesture.
"How do we do that, weirdly annoying lady!?" Said a pink haired girl, clearly the commoner. She didn't like being called annoying, so she explained since it would likely get Albert to fuck her.
"Simple, I'm just going to cast a spell to help us find the bitch who hypnotized this poor creature." Klarice said, throwing a glance at the Tozodile as she spoke.
"Oh, yeah sure. This creature is real defenseless!? Of course you say that you whore!?" Michael yelled. Klarice rolled her eyes, he wasn't that entertaining to bed anyways.
"Locate spellcaster, condition: Greater hypnosis." Klarice said, and as she did a line appeared and went down the burning forest.
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Albert was impressed. He had no idea Klarice could be this helpful, let alone basically carve out the literal path to victory. But this was yet another chance for him to hook Lilac and Michael together. So with a smile he yelled out.
"Ok, me and Klarice will keep this Dumb Croc busy. Paralyze!" Albert yelled, freezing the creature as it begun to turn its head towards Lilac.
"You two run! This spell isn't effective as much on such a powerful creature, capture the hypnotist and bring it to us!" Said Klarice as the Toxodile freed it's leg.
Michael and Lilac spent no time and ran after the line, as the Toxodile managed to break free and bite down on Klarice's voluminous butt.