Hansel and Gretel: First Impressions

Chapter 9: Hansel

The Prince threw open the doors to the king's quarters, "Father! We need to talk,""Yes, we do," said the king ruefully, "I am sorry my son, but I must do what is best for the Kingdom," he popped a jar that he was holding full of magical sparkles, and threw them at Prince Benji. "I had to steal the persuasive potion from Kiki's potion stores.""Really, your highness, you should really learn how to use a potion before you, well, use it." Kiki interrupted, "that particular potion has to be ingested, duh."The king seemed fairly flustered and out of sheer desperation, jumped out the nearest window to his death in the alligator moat. But unfortunately a flying banana caught him in mid air and flew him towards the West Forest. It would have been so much easier if he had just died; then we wouldn't have been accused of regicide "So, that just happened," I said awkwardly."But, but, but," the prince stuttered, clearly in shock, "We have to rescue him,""Really, he was on his death bed anyway," "Hansel!" Gretel scolded, "Of course we can rescue him, so, Kiki, what's the plan?""Well, we could set fiiiirrrreee to the west forest, watch it burn as we all laugh." Sang Kiki."Sounds good to me,""No, just no,"Suddenly the doors flew open once again. In came a warrioress like lady. She wore knights armor, and held a long golden embroidered sword in her right hand. "My prince, the kingdom is at panic," she said, "The subjects saw a banana flying across the sky with the king on it, and the Council of Seers have reported a kidnapping of one of their kind. Which points to war, as we all know how useful seers can be in a war, and the king being held hostage helps too.""Excuse me, but who are you?""Everyone this is Lillian, royal strategist," introduced the prince, "and yes my father was carried off by a banana. It was headed towards the West Forest. We could send our forces, but we all know what happened last time.""Ah, yes, the little critters are very cute, but I do not think I could take care of an army's worth more," cut in Kiki."Well, for the first time in forever, I don't know what to do. If only we had a seer available, we could just possibly see what Candor plans to do.""Um I guess I could help you out," I said hesitantly, "I am a seer...""But he is untrained," interrupted Kiki, "he wouldn't do us much good.""But it might just give us some sort of idea, currently we have nothing, even a riddle would help us," countered the prince, "I say we do it, Kiki do you have any induction potion,"I shuttered, that didn't sound good, not at all. Kiki looked fairly hesitant, but slowly nodded pulling out a small vial of purple liquid, "Say ahhh,"

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I woke up in the black area, but this time I saw no wisps just a projection of a woman. She had long brown hair and a somewhat scrawny figure."Do not fear young seer, I am only here because the Council of Seers needs your help," she noticed my look of confusion, "my name is Ava, head seer, and recently one of my associates went missing, her name is Natalie,"I gasped, "I recently had a vision of an oven saying she was Natalie, she was warning me about Candor."Ava's eyes widened, "That means Candor has got her, and what you probably saw was a distress signal, but you wouldn't know-being untrained."She paced around the "nothingness", hmm, that is what I should call this place the "nothingness", anyway, she seemed to come to a decision, "I need you to go with your sister and the witch to rescue Natalie, don't bring many others. Tell the witch it is only a simple polymorph spell that she must undo. You will find your sister will be the key to success.""But ma'am, I was supposed to have a vision of what Candor was going to do, to help strategize the rescue of the king,"Ava paused, "I have told you all you need to know, just remember your sister, and love is the key to your success in this battle. Do not plan on taking Candor down in one hit, and you may find you will have an unexpected visitor. Do not trust this person, people can change in a blink of an eye. Now go you must hurry,"

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My vision slowly blurred into to the clear sight of Kiki standing above me. She gasped as if taken aback, "Oh thank goodness, when the cookie, and not even my magic wouldn't wake you up I got really worried. You were out for close to three hours," she hugged me, though I can't say I didn't like it, she did have a tight grip.I paused, time must pass more quickly in the nothingness,"I'm fine, I'm fine," I stressed. She wasn't letting go, "Um, you can let go now," she released me a bit flustered looking. I heard the doors to what I was now realizing was the infirmary slam open. I saw Benji, Gretel, and Lillian rush in"So what did he see?" pressured Gretel somewhat anxiously."Just wondering but how did you know he was awake?" asked Kiki"We are twins," she said, "Must be some 'twin sense'""Let's not rush him now," said Benji."Yes I will need some time to take it all in, too," supported Lillian.I sighed, preparing to share the surely long story, as everyone would question my vision, "So I guess it goes like this..."

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About a half an hour later Lillian looked completely fed up. "They want us to rescue a single seer! Can't they see we are trying to rescue a king!""Well she did tell me that Gretel is the key, along with love, and not trusting any unexpected visitors..."As if the speak of the devil, the doors to the infirmary roared open again. They produced a sound that was really starting to annoy me. In walked Phia, dressed in her usual purple robes, "Kiki, darling, great to see you, Hansel, Gretel, and of course the prince, so nice to see you all," she then turned to Lillian, "You..."