The Reconfiguring

Ch. 14: The Potion Room

As soon as Sheri had left to distract their father, Don wandered around the mansion until she found the one room near the basement that she needed. Her father's potion room. Of course the combination to the lock was the same. 

Don cautiously opened the squeaky door (very cliché, Don thought) and froze in shock of how big he's made it. It was only about the size of her own cave when she left. Now it was HUGE. But now was not the time to stand in awe. She had to save Phig. And the only way to that, was with invincibility.

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"No, no, no!" Don said under her breath. She was running out of time. Grand would come and look for her at any minute now. 

For some reason the invincibility potion wasn't concocting together like she wanted. She stood back away from the table and took a deep breath. She could do this. She had to. She was better than her father, and this would prove it. Motivated again, Don set to work on a completely new version of the potion. For some reason, this time it worked. "Yes, yes, yes!" Now came the task of carrying it to her room without dropping it. You wouldn't believe how many amazing potions have become failures by that. 

"But...Daddy! Isn't there anything you can do? Please, Daddy, I beg you." Sheri.

"No. There's nothing I can do. The rules state he must go out in the Arena tomorrow because he is an Intervene. That's the last of this we will speak of." That's Grand. Don uses her last time in the potion room to quickly concoct an invisibility potion (her speciality) and drains it while holding the invincibility potion to make it invisible, too. As soon as she does that, the door to the potion room opens.

"Now, go back to your room and leave me to my business." Grand says, closing the door. Thank God Don had slipped out while he opened the door. She scurried (kind of slowly) to her room to hide the new potion. 

Don sighed as she shut her door and the invisible effects wore off. For some reason, there weren't any Burlies outside her door at the moment she opened it. She wrinkled her nose at the still-pink room that she had no choice in the color scheme in when she was younger. Now, how was she going to get this to Phig? 

Wait. Weren't the oddly nice Burlies outside his room? They had always let her get away with anything they believed had a worthy cause behind it. Surely they'd let her do this. They had to. 

Unfortunately, night had fallen while she had worked on the potion. Sheri must have stalled their father much longer than Don thought she had. She'd have to thank her later. For now, she was making her way through the halls to the Intervene room. When she got there, she noticed the Burlies hadn't fallen asleep. It was really late at night then. 

"How are you not asleep?" Don asked them quietly. 

"Don? That you?" the one with the Irish accent said. (She used I be obsessed with the old countries and their accents)

"Yes. I need you to give this to Phig." Don held out the potion bottle for them to see.

"Is that a potion? Oh," the British accented one thought, "it must be an invincibility potion! Wicked."

"Yes. Very...wicked. Anyway, I need you to give this to him tomorrow. It's the only way he'll survive this."

"Gotcha. Be careful making your way back to the room." the Irish one says with a wink.

"I will, don't worry."

'And now there's nothing else to worry about,' she thought. 

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Author's Note-

HI! I'm back again. School's out, so I'm probably getting the next part out today, so why am I writing this? I honestly don't know. Just to say hi, I guess. Thank you for sticking with me through all of this. I hope you still like it. And what do you think? Is my writing getting better? I don't know.

-Kagiemd