kingdoms_of_auradon | Wizard has been displaced

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Wizard has been displaced

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Who: Harry and You
What: Harry has been displaced across the multiverse AGAIN
Warnings: Tons of disorientation and confusion; Will update if something comes up

So this is it: he is about to return home after helping out in saving Avalon and the world from being frozen in time for nearly two years. And he does miss home so much that once Excalibur has been destroyed and time and the multiverse has been saved, he thought that now is the time to go back and rest up from a long endgame fight with a cursed sword. As much as he wants to stay here, he has a mess of a battle aftermath to clean up, a destroyed school to come to, friends who are missing him badly now, and a community that needs to rebuild itself. The situation his world is in is not that great but he does need to go back and help in the repairs soon.

Or that is what he thought how that day would end because he soon finds himself being transported into a very unfamiliar place. For the second time in his life, Harry has been very much displaced across the multiverse again. He takes a look around to see if he has everything from Avalon with him. Relief settles in when he finds that Hedwig in her cage is there, and much to his own surprise, even Rose too. Wait a minute, he thought that he had tried to say goodbye to her in Avalon so seeing the little pink Pygmy Puff is a big surprise to him. Then he turns to find that his polearm had become very padded and his phone from Avalon didn’t work as at all. So he can’t be able to call King Arthur for help anytime soon.

But the most confusing thing he has stumbled upon to date happens to be the giant and grand scale of the castle before him. He knows that castles can be big in space like with Hogwarts Castle but this one has to take the cake. And it is a lot more beautiful than what Hogwarts is currently at, whoever did the maintance work sure does put a lot of effort to make it super pristine as it can be. But all he can muster to say at this time as he looks more confused by his new situation is “Where in the world I am in now?”

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She gave the owl a nod, and with a small gesture, set down a little bowl of the green creatures for the owl to have her fill from. "I'm glad I could figure out something, at least," she said, smiling faintly. "Honestly, I barely remember those, but it's probably the closest I can come up with. Or want to, to be honest." Her nose may have wrinkled just slightly, if anyone were watching carefully enough to see.

Finally, she looked back to Kyoko. "And poppet, I'm afraid I'm becoming less and less convinced you're using that word the same way I or those like me would."

"You're a fairy, it is a creature you created, from your world. Thus a fairy creature!" she logiced happily.

Hedwig doesn’t seem to pay attention to Kyoko’s over eagerness as she digs into the bowl of green crustaceans while Harry couldn’t hide any attempts of giggling while biting onto the cookies. He can see why Kyoko is always in awe of fairy magic everyday: there is never a boring day when magic is being made.

"It's a common plant-pest," she corrected her, "albeit rather larger than I've ever encountered them in nature. And I'm still uncertain how you knew I'd been born an insect myself from first sight of me." She suspected she hadn't, based on how she was using the word and all, but perhaps Kyoko would surprise her and take a hint about its actual meaning. Or maybe this friend of hers would?

She turned to him, mostly succeeding in keeping a straight face despite her amusement, her smile mostly only hinting in her eyes. "What would you have guessed I am, had you met me without foreknowledge or introduction, pray tell?" She lifted her hands up a bit and apart, in what wasn't quite a gesture of exasperation or surrender, or perhaps simply holding her sleeves aside so he could see her properly... a mix of all of the above, maybe?

"I never thought you were an insect! I always knew you were a fairy though! You'r so pretty, and your proportions are inhuman," she said as if that was a great compliment. Of course, this being Kyoko she didn't mean the proportions someone else might have meant... "The distance between your eyes, the length of forearm compared to upper arm, the muscles that connect everything," she babbled happily. Look, she identified Ren based on his proportions from her internal Tsuruga scale that came from making so many dolls of him. She saw people so weirdly. "No one human could be formed like that! The only one who comes close that I ever met is part fairy, though he doesn’t know it yet! I wanna be there when he finds out!" she said, bouncing. "Besides, you glow and shine like magic. Of course you're a fairy!"

“Oh gee, if I had to make some good guesses. I thought that you might be a beautiful human like fairy or nature spirit,” Harry admits to Mallia as he tries not to get distracted by Kyoko’s excitement, “Apparently in where I'm from, most depictions of fairies and nature spirits aren’t too different from humans and wizards alike.”

She couldn't help herself; she had to laugh at all this. She even brought a hand up to her face to hide it some, and after a good moment moved it, seeming to be wiping away hints of tears, taking a breath. "Elf. The word you're looking for is elf," she said, looking between the two of them. "Those are your kind's relatives. Fairies are butterflies."

"I've never met an Elf... But I met Corn, and I met you! Faeries!"

“Say Kyoko. Have you found Corn in here so far? I’m not sure if I was able to spot him in campus today?” Harry asks her before he turns his attention to Mallia.

“Oh right! Elves: That’s definitely what I have been thinking of, I can’t seem to get their name out of the top of my mind immediately but thank you for pointing it out to me, Mallia. Elves are quite a fascinating kind; for the longest time I initially thought that they only exist in fiction but I’m starting to think that elves could be more real than I can imagine.”

Mallia shook her head. "I was raised by them. That's why I took after them, to blend in better, when I came up with my larger form here. I look nothing like a--" She paused midsentence, seemingly only just now registering that here she was trying to explain, when she could instead simply....

...She waved her hand, gesturing to the top of the fruit bowl she'd set out, and tried to keep a half-straight face as she watched their reactions. "That," she said, "is what fairies look like. Not this." A vague gesture toward herself again. See? Big difference here, you two!

And now that she'd drawn their attention to the fruit bowl, they'd be able to make out the shapes that were playing around among the bits of produce: she really hadn't been kidding, in saying that they were butterflies. They varied greatly in color and pattern, and even in wing shape, but they were indeed otherwise much like the common, fluttery insects. Ones that seemed to push themselves more or less upright on their four hind legs, the fur on their thighs and abdomens blending together to make several of them look quite a lot like they were wearing little dresses of sorts, while they used their front arms as... well, as arms, reaching forward to grab a small berry and roll it around, or preen themselves off. They looked vaguely a bit more humanoid than a normal butterfly would tend to; perhaps it was their heads' shape, their fur sticking up in back like a tiny updo, with tiny faces that had large eyes and mouths that they'd open, to suck on their fingers as they preened themselves or chewed on fruit....

Didn't real butterflies have more of a curly straw for a mouth, not a biting-type one? Because these were definitely built for biting, as one of them was already proving with a little red ball from a raspberry. Maybe they weren't truly butterflies, at least of the usual kinds?

"But you made yourself look like that! So Faeries can look however they want to look. Like you and Corn an..." something skidded to a screeching halt as she turned to face Harry. "YOU THINK YOU SAW CORN MAYBE?!"

There are what seem to be a whole host of actual faeries here. And normally that would have her full attention. Harry, however, had mentioned one of the few things stronger for her. One very specific Fairy.

Corn.

“I’m going to try to start a search for him as soon as I can get settled in Auradon, but I’m not so sure if I’m going to have some successful on the second try,” he admits to her while Hedwig finishes up the green crustaceans, very much satisfied with the meal.

Rose then squeaks out of curiosity as she pulls herself away from the cookies for a moment, wondering if the fairy friend of Kyoko might have landed in Auradon or maybe not. But she does think that it is out of the realm of possibility.

Mallia sighed, still all too amused by this. "I'll still keep a lookout, but...." Well, no luck so far, and she wasn't going to promise what she couldn't realistically promise!

"CORN MIGHT BE HERE AND I DIDN'T FIND HIM YET?!"

A mix of hope and despair, which was probably amusing to watch.

“It is entirely possible that he might have misplaced somewhere in the Kingdom. So I can’t be sure if he got here much earlier than the rest of us or he had arrived at the same time as me, but don’t worry, Kyoko. We’ll find him eventually, I promise.”

Mallia just shook her head to herself a little, staying out of it. She'd keep an eye out, should she come across who they were talking about, but beyond that, what could she do, really?

What could she do? She eyed the table, and discreetly added a few more of the glassy-looking green creatures to the bowl for the owl, in case they hadn't quite yet had their fill of them somehow. The rest of the food was similarly refreshed while they weren't looking at it; there would be no such thing as finishing a dish, for them! ...Which was mostly just her feeling like teasing a little....

And after all the confusion that Kyoko seemed so determined not to let her properly clear up....

Honestly, she was just in a bit of a mood again. And she had plausible deniability, at a glance, didn't she? If she just... ah....

One of the little ~~butterflies~~ fairyflies jumped up, flapping a few times, and landed right on the front of Kyoko's shoulder, grabbing hold of the fabric there to steady itself and secure its position as it craned its little head to look right up at her, folding its wings again behind it. How would she react to a roughly three-inch-tall vaguely-humanoid little figure suddenly perching on her like that, looking up at her with its huge eyes and a little face that looked vaguely to be somewhat smiling? ...Or was it smiling? It might've actually been smiling at her....

Sorry, Harry. The fairy now had Kyoko's full attention. She squealed happily and offered the small delicate creature one of her hands, eyes shinning with joy and excitement. "Hello!" she breathed, afraid to make too much noise, afraid to spook it.

“Oh wow, that little creature looks pretty amazing,” he gasps in amazement as he sees one of the little creatures Mallia conjured up landing on Kyoko’s hand and gets to eat some more cookies.

Hedwig goes on to continue eating the crustaceans once again although Rose is now being distracted from her cookie eating by Kyoko’s reaction to the little fairyfly in her hand. The pink Pygmy Puff squeaks on delightfully as she cranes her head to see it up close.

"And now you have seen a fairy." She was amused, watching Kyoko playing with it.

The little thing climbed right onto her hand, looking around, exploring the part of this giant creature that was within its reach, silent. It looked up, flitted its wings a little again before folding them back up again behind it, and then raised a small arm to wave at her.

Another of them brought one of the berries down from the bowl of them, rolling it toward Rose... a third of them seemed to decide that it would be an opportune time to jump across the table to land on the plate Harry had been picking from, to help him with that. Not that it would be able to eat much, as tiny as it was, but it was the thought that counted, right?

Kyoko was so happy right now. She might not be paying attention to Harry or Malia as she offered a finger of her other hand to the fairy, entranced.

Harry is pretty amazed by the fairyflies just as much as anyone else would, especially with Kyoko all things considered. Rose happily squeaks as she greets the one rolling the berry towards her, wondering if the berry is for her or for the creature itself, while Hedwig is still busy going through the crustaceans.

The young man lets out an amused chuckle as another of them lands on the same plate he got the cookies from. He thought that the fairyfly is trying its best to help in eating the cookies with him. Cue the many awws from a man who has seen and learned about many fantastical creatures in his world as a part of his education.

The one near Rose rolled the berry up closer, and then jumped away to go fetch another, the little fruits bigger than its own head. For its size, it was comparatively quite strong... but realistically, bugs tended to be, and the fruits were only about the size of a large grape anyhow. The one by Harry managed somehow to wrangle a loose little piece of the cookie off of the rest of it, and looked up at him, pointing at the big crumb, as though checking with him before biting right in. Did he see it? Isn't it big? Hah... But bite in it did, taking a proportionally rather decent chunk out of it, with what passed for cheeks puffing out as it chewed.

And then yet another was apparently getting bored of the plate of fruit, and sniffing around, only to creep up ever so stealthily to the bowl of giant bugs that the owl was making a feast of. It was one of the more brightly-colored fairies, so stealth may not have been its forte -- far from it, actually, with how it raised and lowered its wings in anticipation as it got closer to the bowl, though it tried not to be spotted... and then after it got close enough, reached up and tugged at the leg of one of the bigger green creatures. It didn't simply come right off, so after a few more attempts, the little fairy reached up to bite right through the thin limb so that it could claim its prize and crouch there just under the bowl's rim, munching away on the leg.

The one on Kyoko's hand took what it figured was being hinted, and climbed up onto her finger, only to crouch there and begin preening its tiny head with its front hands, licking its fingers and then dragging them down its little face. It ended up pulling some of its furry hair forward over its big eyes, and then took to smoothing its hair back away from its face again, licking its fingers and repeating the process.

Mallia, for her part, was plenty amused to watch everyone's reactions. "When you're done, I could conjure up the images of other elves I've known...?"

Kyoko squeeled happily and watched the small fairy in fasciation. The rest of the world seemed to have vanished around her. All that mattered was the small fairy.

“Oh yes. That would be very amazing. I am interested in seeing what the other elves look like.”

Rose meanwhile happily squeaks as she gets to see the fairyfly being able to push another fruit with its head. Oh, this is becoming into a friendly fruit picnic. She is liking this already as she merrily munches on the berry in sheer delight.

The fairy on Kyoko's finger continued to preen itself, absently leaning back as it did, as though forgetting what a narrow perch her finger actually was, and it didn't take long until it had to quickly grab on with its hands again to stay on. The not-quite-fall led to it landing against her finger, wings suddenly out and flapping for its balance on instinct, smacking her hand, gently as one might expect a butterfly's wings to do. The move was knocking scales off its wings, dusting the top of her finger in a sparkle of the fairy's color, before it was able to finish climbing back up and calmed back down. The experience left it turning around to jump back down to the little table again, to go rejoin the others in finding things to munch on.

"Well... I suppose I could start with a friend of mine." She gestured to a spot beside the table, between Harry and Kyoko, so that they could both get a good look -- provided Kyoko found it in her to look up from her hand and what rather resembled a minor accident with eyeshadow. There where Mallia indicated, another illusion formed, just as the table had, becoming solid in a blink. It was a guy with light blond hair held back by his barely-pointed ears, the light blue of his eyes a bit bigger than a human's would be versus his sclera, just as her own dark purple eyes were. He did look otherwise fairly humanlike, dressed in greens and browns, nothing too seemingly fancy... but perhaps a bit dated, in a way that wasn't clear whether it belonged in Robin Hood's times, or the modern era, if a rural location in it... or perhaps from the magical world Harry had seen in his own part of the multiverse. He had a staff, one that looked to be made of some long twists of light-colored polished wood, a smattering of rainbow-y fibers running lengthwise through it, and a sort of blub in its shape at the top of it, a faint glow peeking from between the twist's sections, as though the wood had tried to simply enclose the shape inside it, and had failed to entirely contain whatever it was. He stood there rather casually, absently playing with the staff, leaving its end on the ground between his feet as he gently batted it from one hand to the other... and as he eyed the spread on the table, smiled a little.

He didn't wait long; she had him reach for a bottle he pulled from between the raised fruit bowls, a darker-looking wine bottle with plants of some sort either molded into the glass and painted, or dried, pressed ones plastering the outside for decoration. He took the cork out swiftly enough, his staff falling into the crook of his elbow, and he took a glass out from who knows where, to pour an inch in, and then another glass to repeat it, setting them down by the two humans. "No one's getting into this yet? Do you not know, it's the best there is?" His smile only grew, turning a bit conspiratorial. "Of course, we simply must test it to verify!" And a third glass, for himself....

If they took the hint, there didn't seem to be much alcohol to speak of in it, only a lovely flavor that was something berry-ish... but the black liquid certainly did have an odd appearance. Dark as it was, there was some sort of pale blue-glowing swirl to it, a hint of some sort of magic in that as well, a very faint tingle of some sort of energy, not unlike perhaps a good coffee might give....

~~Minor MP-restore, get? ...Very minor....~~

Edited (typo) 2023-10-09 04:53 (UTC)

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