Princess and Magic Man and the Ancient Elixir
Now where were we…….
Princess and the Wizard were fighting zombies and skeletons!
the princess had stolen the Lich's skull, and he couldn’t reform
The Wizard was in search of an ancient magical elixir to help the princess
The Princess carried the Lich's skull through the halls, by poking two of her fingers into his eye sockets and carrying him like a bowling ball!
The Lich didn’t like that one bit and demanded to be put down!
He promised riches and knowledge and power and even a skeleton army
But the Wizard warned her that he was the Guardian of Deceit, so she knew not to listen to him
The Lich had also tried to steal the Wizard's magic so the Princess already hated the Lich
How dare he try to hurt her Wizard!
She had half a mind to stomp on his skull or toss him out a window
But she remembered that if she destroyed the skull the Lich would come back
Also they were underground.......so…… no windows to throw the skull out of
The Princess carried the skull through the archives, demanding to know what important things were worth taking!
But the Lich wouldn't answer truthfully, so every time he told her something she called him a chimp and jammed her fingers back in his eye sockets again!
The Lich didn’t have eyes but he sure didn’t like that!
The Wizard had an idea!
He cast a spell on the Lich’s skull
So that the closer they got to his phylactery, the urn that held his soul, the more the skull would light up!
If they could find the phylactery then the Lich would have to do what they said
They wandered through the dark and dusty halls, until the skull became so bright that they could barely look at it
They found an old ceramic vase, covered in runes and paper with spells on it
The Lich, who hadn’t shut up the whole time, grew silent
the Wizard moved to take the urn
But the Princess KICKED IT OVER FIRST
It shattered into a million tiny pieces!
And the glowing soul came fluttering out!
The Princess held up the skull and the soul seemed drawn to it.....
The Wizard wondered what the Princess had in mind
The Princess held open the Lich's jaws, and the soul floated in!
It began bouncing around inside the skull, making it rattle and clack its teeth!
The soul couldnt stay inside just a skull forever, it was going to explode!
But the Princess had an idea!
She told the Wizard to cast a rune of sealing on the skull
So that the soul wouldnt be able to leave!
The Wizard thought that was a great idea!
He cast a spell quickly, and burned a black rune into the glowing skull's forehead
The skull stopped moving and began to float in the Wizard's hand!!!
The Wizard could feel the Lich’s magic coming from the skull! and could feel his own magic returning to him faster than ever!
The Princess had a great big smile
“Now youve got an extra powerful artifact to help us fight the Chimp Army!” She said
The Wizard was amazed! He didnt know that would work!
But he had faith in the Princess!
She must have more magic than he originally thought!
The Lich was also free of his curse, but bound into service of the Wizard and the Princess!
He would answer any question they had about the ancient wizarding sanctum
But unfortunately the skull would only answer questions, not help much because there was a soul was stuck in a skull, not a brain
oops
But!
They managed to find everything of value in the sanctum
Powerful books and scrolls and tapestries and valuable gems and stones
They even found a special necklace for the Princess!
The Wizard knew she would love it, but he wanted to wait to show her when the time was right
The Wizard asked the Princess to wait outside the final chamber
The skull told them thats where the elixir was
But the wizard still didnt trust him
The Princess pouted
She told the Wizard that she could take care of herself and that she had helped kill the Lich and imprison him!
The Wizard knew she had a point, but he didnt want to put her in danger
So he made the Princess promise that he would go first with a magic shield, so that if anything happened then it would be him that got hit and not her
The Princess was very excited to see what was in the final vault!
They entered a huge room, with big statues of sorcerers all around!
In the middle of the room was a great big bowl, filled with glowing golden liquid!
The Wizard found the elixir he was looking for!
He carefully dipped a vial into the liquid
And put it in his magic bag
The Wizard was cautious, but if the elixir was that magical he wanted as much as he could take
Who knows how powerful it was or what it could do, and maybe the Wizard could make more!
So he dipped more vials in
One after the other
Until the bowl was empty!
Then because the Wizard felt like it he took the bowl too!
The Princess was astonished the wizard could carry so much!
That had to be 100 pounds of elixir!
But the Wizard showed her a tiny pouch, about the size of a coconut!
There was no way all of it could fit in there! The Princess thought
But the Wizard hefted up the bowl, and shoved it into the pouch, until his whole arm was gone!
Then he pulled it back out and the bag went back to normal size!
It was a magic bag of holding!
It had no gravity inside and it was enchanted to be bigger on the inside!
That way he could fit as much as he wanted in there no problem!
The Princess wanted to stick her head in and see what it was like in there!
But the Wizard said they had to wait until they were back in the castle
The Princess said they had to go back to the castle immediatly!
She wanted to know all about the elixer and the bag!
And what other secrets and tricks the wizard had
They left the sanctum buried under the desert sands, careful not to trip any more traps
The Princess made it back to Lucy, and got on her and began to ride back to the castle!
Mittens yawwwwwwnnnned and got up too, hoping the Princess would be going back to where the treats were
The Wizard got on the back of Winnie the wolfhound, and the 5 of them galloped back to the castle together