Chapter 5 - Wishing Blooms

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Valorie, Everette, and Cypress sat around a campfire. Valorie stood up "I'm tired of being powerless. I barely help when we get into fights."
"But there's no way to-" Cypress was interrupted.
"The Coralian flower in the center of the uncharted lands, it can grant any wish" Valorie stated.
"But We'll die in there!" Everette exclaimed.
"Correction. I'll die in there." Valorie responded
"You're going it alone?!" Cypress asked, shocked to the core.
"I don't want to put you guys in danger for selfishness purposes." Valorie reasoned, leaving them behind.
Valorie walked across the dangerous lands, hoping to eventually reach the center tl obtain the coveted Coralian flower, despite not being sure it was even still there, the kept on, determined that she wouldn't come back without something magic.
A lanky creature with a disheveled look, and sharp claws approached Valorie and grabbed her shoulder.
With her free hand, Valorie grabbed out her bowstaff. She attacked the figure, escaping it's grasp. She ran, but the figure chased her. Valorie tried to attack it again. The figure vanished.
"The mirage grass is getting to me." Valorie said, but still kept walking.
Eventually after about two days she got to the bloom, plucked it and held it up
"I wish for some kind of power, any kind. I just want to be more helpful to my friends." She said, with an immediate glow from the bloom. The Coralian flower disappeared from Valorie's hand.
Something ran at Valorie, a knife covered in some sort of electricity materialized in her hand, which she used to attack the figure, striking it down.
She began her trek back to camp, which she hoped the others were still at.
"I made that... I made a knife out of nothing.. I wonder.." Valorie was talking to herself. "Can I... Make other things?" Valorie thought. "I'm kind of hungry." After she said that, an apple materialized in her hand. "Woah! I- I can make anything!"
Eventually, after two days, Valorie got back to camp, where Cypress and Everette rested.
"It's night. I should get some rest too." Valorie said, sitting down under a nearby tree, and falling asleep.
Later, in the morning, Valorie was the first to wake up. She started a fire and made baked apples.
Cypress and Everette woke up to the sound of fire crackling.
Everette ran up and hugged Valorie "Valorie! You made it back!" She shouted
"Yep." Valorie said
Cypress walked over to the two, "Yo, I smell apples, where'd you get 'em."
"I made them!" Valorie exclaimed.
"Huh?" Everette let go of Valorie "How?"
Valorie made a rose out of nowhere and put it in her hair.
"Woah!" Everette and Cypress exclaimed.
"Apples should be ready now, Valorie said, grabbing them from the fire and putting them on a log.

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