Spells, Summons, Strikes... and Trixie?

Fata's P.O.V.

My Mistress was at the edge, a life changing decision. Option 1#) walk away. Turn off the path of the magi before it was too late and she would be trapped down the proverbial rabbit hole, or option 2#) open the door and embrace her future as a magical woman. The last option wasn't a REAL option. option 3#) To continue moving blind though a truly terrifying new world. No that was definitely off the table.

but why in the name of arcane ether was she just standing there holding the key? She had won, now was the time to collect! Why was she being such a fraidy-familiar?!

Trixie's mind was a mass of confused knots made ironically confusion and self-doubt, emotions foreign to her one side of Trixie.

(the professional Trixie.) wanted to open the door before her and learn magic, the other side, (Trixie's heart of hearts) didn't know to face her love incarnate and tossed insecurity after insecurity, con after another con. This fight in Trixie's skull between her mind and her heart had deadlocked her body.

There Trixie stood transfixed with a war eventually won by 'the professional,' lobbing the bomb "nothing ventured, nothing gained" on HoH con plant. Trixie turn the key in the lock and opened the next stage of her life and it was  behind This Door.

Blood Lust's P.O.V.

Mingki was watching some kid's show on the tella-scroll and Frost Jackclaw was tinkering with the mana-array I got him his tenth binding day. I was in the shower washing the image of that white haired magenta eye-ed beauty, who was now entrenched in his soul, but she was a Techo Blooded and I was a Magi Blooded at the lowest rank of the magical wheel. I was no catch in the romance department,

so you can guess my surprise when the beautiful and mysterious Trixie trickster, with out peer shows up on my porch dressed in simple clothes that only manage to make her shine that much more.

"Mr. Blood Lust, Sir, I am in dire need of teaching, so I can control my gifted powers. I know t'is a large request, BUT I'm willing to buy my own supplies and food and do what ever is necessary to be your pupil, 'cause I need to know you as much as I need to know magic."

Oh, no! she wants me to teach her magic? Oh nine hells yes!!! she wants *ME** to teach her magic, but to know how far she is willing to go for forbidden knowledge, that means a test, one to judge her commitment and power.*

"I will accept your terms, but my entrance fee is quite steep. A price you may not be willing or even able to pay." Blood said. Laying the bait to his trap.

"I need to be taught the basics of magic, and I rather learn from someone who I trust, not to betray my code, then so be it! I'll pay the world if need be! name your price and I'll pay," Trixie defiantly answered.

"Then give me the beat of your heart, your emotional core! I am a teacher, your teacher, of the school of water, which means my heart and those I teach, should be as the mighty as the ice cold glacier, the adaptably of a river and the depth of the blackest sea, while maintaining the purity of fresh snowfall. Now I ask once more, and this will the last time I ask; Do you still wish to be my student?"

Trixie's P.O.V.

"I, Trixie accept your price and willingly give you Blood Lust, my heart to do with as you wish of it as long as I, Bellatrix Agatha Lulamoon i'm under your mentorship." The moment the last word left my lips, a summoning circle appeared over my breast, then the pain started. The feeling of being cut from the in-side-out, and then there was the mind numbing cold freezing all her emotions. All the bad holding her back, but also the goods too. Her driving force was growing weaker and weaker and weaker. and then clam.

The calm like true zen. My mind, while never the one for excessive logic was finding it for lack of a better word, enjoyable. Even though Trixie had lost the power to feel, I maintained the ability to remember what my past was. The circle disappeared and in it's place was a small locket made of a rainbow colored stone shaped into the form of a beautiful heart on a golden chaine.

Third person P.O.V.

Fata materialized her green-yellow eyes ablaze. The the green anthro Unicorn grabbed Lust by his collar and hoisted him a good five inches off the floor, so she could look him directly in the eye. "You best be trustworthy, for you 'n yours sake.No! this is not a threat, that was a promise. "

"well! my charge has her spellbound. that's good, though your spellbinder came to me and until she completes the contract, she singed of her own freewill mind you, me and mine trump you in power." Blood said through gritted teeth.

lesson 1: life is a school where we all are enrolled.

lesson 1.2: Recovery spells; cakes and potions will get you only so far, but you never run out of remembrance.

Power was ripped from Trixie's core of her body, similar to the state she passed-out in her battle with the Dazzlings. Trixie would heal herself and restore her physical and mystical energies, only to have them stripped from her again.

This lesson lasted a week trixie got an A- for power C+ for speed. 1Week time.

lesson 2: The goal of the wise is grant wisdom, it the goal of the smart to seek the wise.

lesson 2.2: HADES MONTH; Test on her mind's problem solving and limit-break-ing

Trixie emerged stronger both magic and body. Trixie went in good looking, came out . . . . well the body equal of a adonis of an amazon, and a sharp mind now  literally able to slice atoms!

This lesson lasted a month, but in truth was ten years packed into 1/120th of the time!

Final lesson: love, wisdom, charisma, knowledge and hope are the keys. Life is the lock, life is the treasure.

Trixie was MUCH better magician and fighter now, but she felt no pride, she had killed many intelligent creatures many  guilty of punishment, but then there were the ones innocent and pure. She felt nothing over their deaths, no feelings, just an all consuming numb, like her soul had no fire.

"Trixie! Time to take your hardest test. Are you ready?" Blood asked early one October day.

"Yes Sensei, sir." Trixie said in her new monochrome tone. A steel mask where her face should be.

"Are you sure? This is like no test i've set before you thus-far. I have taught you the how, now you must face the judgement of your own heart. If you can take the burden of the weight of your own sins, then you will be,not if you can. Now knowing this, I offer you the option to have your memory cleansed and though that your sins removed.

Trixie was silent for a time considering, "why? Why give me what I wanted, just so you can have me throw it way. Just like that?"Trixie went into a cold steely monotone, as a spark ignited in the void in her chest. "You will keep your word,  or i'll take your heart and we'll be a loveless bride and her heartless groom.For if i can't love then i'll steal your ability to love and keep you in bondage aaahhhhhi."

There was a blinding flash, Trixie was panting and gasping clutching her... heart? it felt so, strong! Then the passion and fire she had been lacking in, coursed though her, warming her frozen soul. Each beat remembering the sins AND virtues. She was as much magic as anyone, but she was also Trixie Lulamoon and good or bad, that was how she liked to be.

"There's some people The great and powerful Trixie would like you to meet. If you don't show, I'll know I was foolhardy to pursue you in a relationship."

"Oy! Lassy, gut ye by the gonads." Frost commented

"Shut up!." blood yelled blushing.