the enchanted deer

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Once upon a time, there was a kingdom called Fiore. In this kingdom, there was a small village that lay right before a forest that lay inbetween them and the capital city's outskirts.

In this village, was a miller who had two children. A boy named Jet and a girl named Levy. Now, their biological mother died from illness and their father couldn't raise them on his own, so he married a secretly dark mage who hated his children. Her name was Sorano and while she protrayed herself as angelic, she was truly wicked. She even poisoned her own husband for control of the mill. One day, her abuse went to the point of this:

“Levy I can't take it anymore! Angel treats us worse than the dog! At least it gets fed daily crusts! We need to leave here!” Jet yelped after their stepmother had went into town to get supplies.

“But Jet, where would we go? She'd catch us as soon as we’d try to leave!” Levy whimpered as she bound his injuries from Sorano's whip.

“We can go through the forest! If we can make it into the forest, and we made it to the capital city, we can tell King Metalicana, or someone official up there so that she can't hurt anyone again,” Jet countered as Levy found herself persuaded. So at night when Sorano was asleep, Jet and Levy left in the cover of night. They got a quarte r  when they fell asleep against a tree.

When Sorano woke up, she had found her stepchildren gone. She held up a magic mirror and used it to find them in the one place, she'd never enter.

“Those miserable little rats, so they want to be free, well they'll be free after what I now have planned,” Sorano gritted as she poured a potion on her magic mirror. It went through the mirror like a portal and it enchanted the waters of the brooks in her step-children's range so that till one of them drink, or they are not in a certain range, the drinker would turn into an animal.

Meanwhile…

Levy and Jet had been walking when they came across a brook. Jet ran up to it and went to drink from it. Before Levy could stop him, he had unknowingly drunk the enchanted water. He then found himself transformed into a deer.

“Jet! I told you to be careful!” Levy squealed as she went to where Jet now was.

“I'm so sorry Levy, please don’t leave me here on my own!” Jet, practically begging on his hooves. Levy knelt right next to him, took off her headscarf, and wrapped it around Jet's neck. She hugged him by around his now longer neck and kissed his muzzle.

“Of course I will, but we need to find a place to call home,” Levy responded. Not long after, they found an abandoned cottage that could house the both of them. It had dishes, a bed, and even some clothes for Levy to alter as she grew up.

Time skip 7 yrs…

After 7 yrs, Levy had gone from a little girl to a lovely maiden while Jet had been a fawn, he then had become a nice buck with quite the desirable horns.

“Levy, you got to let me out! I'm tired of hiding in these walls. The hooting of the horn is like a calling to me!” Jet pleaded to his now 18-year-old sister, who was fixing the fire.

“Jet, the main hunts of the year are coming and you can't go out then, they'll kill you for sure. Not to mention that, if they kill you, I'll be all alone,” Levy reminded Jet as she got a cozy little fire started. She turned to him as she tried to persuade him. But she found that she couldn’t persuade him. “Okay but while you are outside, I will have to bolt the door to keep out the hunters. When you come back, say, little sister, let me in so I know it's you. Please be careful and remember, ” Levy told Jet as he bounded out the door.

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