Treated Better (Normal Version)

Page Eleven

Mizuki was returning from training, and was stopped in the hall. The soldiers stopped her, the same ones that had left her for dead, and the same ones she beat in battle earlier that week.

Soldier1: You made us look like idiots!

Soldier2: Even worse, you made us look bad, like we left you to die!

Soldier1: Now your dumbass is going to pay!

One soldier restrained her, holding her hands behind her back. The other was about to swing at her as she kicked at him. Some of the warriors saw this and stopped them.

Link: *Glares*

Lana: What do you think you are doing?

Fi: My analysis shows that you are taking a bad course of action.

Agitha: Mr.Beetle doesn't like you, you are supposed to help your friends!

Ganon walked in along with Zant and Ghirahim.

Ganondorf: What's going on here?

Fi: If I am correct, they just tried to harm her.

Soldier1: W-well you see I- uh.. I just-

The soldiers run off, scared of the consequences they will face if they don't.

Lana: Are you okay?

Agitha: Yeah, you even worried my little bug friends.

Fi: I sense no harm to her, though I do sense an elevated heart rate.

Ghirahim looked at Mizuki making sure she was unharmed.

Ghirahim: They seem to have a personal vendetta against you.

Zant: They are probably the same ones that poisoned us.

Fi: I will alert the princess of their wrong doings.

Lana: Tell us if they try something like that again.

Agitha: Yeah the next time they try that I'll have Mr.Ant bite them.

The next few weeks were alright, Mizuki had to stop the two sides from fighting now that they were allies. The princess had even called her in to award her efforts. With the princess thanking her, Mizuki felt very proud of her actions. The princess's praise drew attention to her however. With the soldiers disliking Mizuki, the praise angered them. Ghirahim roamed the hallways, stopping after hearing her name.

Soldier1: That useless bitch ruined everything, she joined the other side and yet she still gets praise?!

Soldier2: She is always doing everything but what she is supposed to, how does that get praise?!

Soldier1: Everything but what she is supposed to huh?

Soldier2: What are you thinking?

Soldier1: We'll frame her...

Soldier2: For what?

Soldier1: Anything severe enough to get her exiled, she does everything but what she supposed to right?

Soldier2: Or we could frame her for joining the third party, she already joined the enemy because they "treated her better" who says she wouldn't do it again?

The soldiers continued planning and figuring out who would help, Ghirahim stood around the corner listening to everything. He watched Mizuki's back closely but out of sight, making sure the soldiers didn't try anything. He watched for the rest of the week before something happend. She had just come back from a personal research expedition, the perfect chance for them to try something. The soldiers started by apologizing, then asking if she could help them. Mizuki hadn't fully forgiven them but she didn't mind helping, this would sadly be her downfall if it weren't for him. Ghirahim revealed himself and stopped the soldiers.

Ghirahim: I heard your pathetic excuse for a plan, don't try anything. And I told you you were too forgiving.

She stood behind him, confused and frustrated by what he was saying. The soldiers tried to tell him off and gaslight him, but he used these methods himself, it didn't phase him.

Ghirahim: Such simple trickery won't work on me, I am far beyond you in almost every way. The only way you exceed me is in your stupidity, your idiocy surpasses all others I know.

The soldiers attacked him, aware that there was no one else around but their reinforcements. She stood back and waited to stop them safely. She found her opening and used her magic to bind all three. The reinforcements ran to her, trying to make her release the soldiers. She released Ghirahim instead.

Mizuki: Aim to disable temporarily, not to kill.

He listened, avoiding all of the soldiers's vitals. As he weakened them she bound them with actual rope. With all the soldiers bound or fled they set route to the castle, ready to tell the general of the soldiers plan and then release them. The two main soldiers were still bound by magic, she had them suspended in the air behind her as she walked. The soldiers squirmed and fussed, yelling cusses and slurs at her. Suddenly the soldiers dropped, they ran away from her and into the woods nearby.

Mizuki: Shit, I forgot most magic created items disappear after 'while, I guess the fighting lasted longer than I thought.

Ghirahim: At least you were smart enough to tie them with actual rope.

He said, pointing to the still tied soldiers. She continued back to the castle quietly humming.

Soldier3: Can you shut the fuck up, you are about to turn us in and ruin our careers and you're singing?!

Mizuki: Sorry, I will be telling the General that you were an accomplice to the soldiers that planned this, you are correct. If you were bribed, blackmailed, harassed or anything else like that, into helping them you can take that up with the General. But in the meantime I am going to continue my humming.

She arrived back at the castle and handed the soldiers to the general. Ghirahim explained the plan that the soldiers had created, leaving none of the details out. It was only after he explained the soldiers's plan that Mizuki realized how much trouble she almost got in. As they walked out her fingers lightly brushed against his hand, making him look at their hands and then at her. He didn't pull his hand away, taking that as a sign that he didn't mind, she grabbed his hand. With interlocked fingers she dragged him to the tree by the lake, where he had found her and saved her, she made sure no one was around.

Mizuki: First off I want to thank you, you always seem to be pulling me out of a bad situation. Second, I wanna ask you something...

Ghirahim: Proceed.

Mizuki: In my investigation I found an object that could amplify magic and connections with the spirit realm.

Ghirahim: The spirit realm huh?

Mizuki: Yep, I was hoping once things cool down enough that you would help me research it and maybe even find it.

...

Mizuki: So, will you help me?

Ghirahim: We'll see.