You could see from the big window in the living room the sunrise, Ophelia intended to make coffee but there was no coffee grain, only chocolate powder. So instead, she brews two hot cacao and placed them on the square table. Her stomach was rumbling since yesterday, she skipped supper, so she took the liberty to make some PB&Js. When she opened the fridge to get the jar of jam, it was filled with chocolate bars.
"He really likes chocolate huh," said Ophelia to herself, chuckling to the abnormal amount of chocolate in the fridge. She took the jam, which was a surprise he had and closed the fridge like she never saw it and prepared her breakfast.
Ophelia convinced Sinon to take his first shower of the month. She already took time in the bathroom since she woke up first, shaking by her nightmare of leaving Dreida controlled in the lone apartment. Sinon enters the main room, hair soaking wet.
"Heh, did you forgot how to dry your hair?" playfully said Ophelia to Sinon while taking the towel from Sinon's shoulder and trying to dry his hair. "Get down, I'm not tall enough.".
"Sure princess" laughed Sinon as he bent down, enough so Ophelia could reach his fluffy hair. She dried his hair while he blushes. 'She seems to enjoy it.' thought Sinon. Afterward, they sat down on the table and drank their hot cacao.
"Did you sleep well?" asked Sinon to Ophelia eating away her sandwich.
"Actually, I had a nightmare about Dreida, she is controlled so I can't imagine how it is to not be able to control your own body. Must be awful, she even witnessed her own self try to kill me. I would change place with her in a heartbeat." gloomily said Ophelia, drinking the rest of her drink.
"Oh... So she is controlled by Alumm. I might know someone that can help us with it. Just get ready to head out, we are going back at the SunnyCup."
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Sinon and Ophelia were next in line to order waffles. After breakfast, they came back here thought another portal opened from Sinon's house.
"Hi, what would you like to order?" said Lucia on her last shift
"Hey, you have time after your shift, I need a favour from you..." asked Sinon to Lucia, putting his left arm on the counter covering his mouth with his left hand like he was telling someone a secret.
"Um... Sure! I finish in about, lest see...5 minutes!" Lucia looked at her watch. "What about you Ophelia??"
"Ohh! Could I get two small waffles one with powder sugar and the other dipped in chocolate" said Ophelia, hungry after the breakfast she had this morning. Ophelia paid for them and waited in the area to receive those delicious waffles. After receiving the meals, She gave the chocolate one to Sinon.
"You don't eat enough and you really like chocolate since it was the only thing in your fridge so take this one." Ophelia handed over the chocolate waffle to Sinon and she finished hers in one bite.
"Thank you. I can't believe she saw my chocolate collection," he told to Ophelia while whispering the last part in an embarrassed tone.
As they wait for Lucia, she suddenly comes from the door to the apartment surprising Ophelia.
"Gasp, why did you come from there!" asked Ophelia, stunned from this new discovery.
"Giggles, the back door is beside the stair." smiled Lucia in an adorable manner. She had that cute vibe around her since she always wore her clothes and makeup in a cutesy way. She wore space buns with side bangs hanging from the side of her small creamy peach face. Of course, she had straight bangs along with her Spanish pink hair colour. Her makeup had a bit of blush around the cheek and nose with her eyeliner complementing her downturn eyes. Lucia wore a jungle colour cardigan with an ivory high neck t-shirt. A black skirt was not to short since she was smaller than Ophelia. She had pink slippers on with high sock. (Drawing of her in character cast).
"Anyway, want to take this conversation at my place? It'll be better since there is a lot of people here. Can't talk about." said Lucia, gesturing with her hands a bird flying higher and higher.
She smiled and guided the couple upstairs reaching the fourth floor.
"Aren't we going to your house?" asked Ophelia.
"We are." formed Lucia, reading an eyebrow.
"So why are we going to my apartment," Said Ophelia, confused or just stupid
"My house is right across yours. Did you not know?"
"No..."
"You don't even know your only neighbour, How embarrassing." teased Sinon at Ophelia
"Don't say it out loud..." responded Ophelia, holding tight her bag while turning her face from everyone else, blushing.
"God... Get a room you two," said Lucia while opening her residence door. Ophelia and SInon looked at each other and blushed as they quickly turned their head.
"Welcome to my house, now come, please don't touch anything," said Lucia as she takes off her shoes, Ophelia and Sinon did the same. The place was small but she managed to make it livable. The entrance was right next to the pink cerise left wall where a little black television was stuck to it. The rest of the rooms opened to the right side where the kitchen was full of vials and spice, even some containers with some mysterious powder and liquid in rainbow colour. Her kitchen was not organized but it seemed like an organized mess. The room had an island kitchen that folded itself into a couch. It was a teal couch but you could lift up some space and put some folded chair and you had a diner table for four people. On the right of the couch were two hickory shelves with about ten potion vials with liquid and crystal on the first shelf. The second was filled with books and a magical looking plant was on the table right below the shelves. In front of the entrance, a corridor perpendicular to the entrance led to the bathroom and Lucia's room.
Lucia took a chair, unfolded it and sat right in front of the couch.
"Don't be shy, you can sit on the couch. It will be easier to talk in a triangle." smiled Lucia as she holds out her hands to tell them to sit. They obey and sat down.
"So what did you want to request Sinon?" asked Lucia.
"I"m sure you know that I don't have much magic left in my halo. So I wanted to ask you if-"
"Wait wait wait wait wait...She knows you are an angel!!" Ophelia cuts off Sinon while putting her hand on Sinon shoulder to get his attention.
"Yeah..didn't you noticed on your arm that she is an angel?" remarked Sinon. Ophelia glance at her left arm to see written'Lucia is an angel'
"Ah... Forgot I had that power."
"Ahem, Sinon. What did you want to ask me again?" annoyingly said Lucia, crossing her arms and leg while glaring at Sinon with a slightly raised eyebrow.
"I need you to help us free Dreida." replied Sinon "You can make potions and reinforcer power so I am sure you are the one that could help Dreida"
"Wow! That's so cool you make potions!" exclaimed Ophelia. "Umm... So, are you willing to save your queen from the horrible monster named Alumm?" exaggerated Ophelia by putting her hand on her chest and the other in the air like she was giving her soul to heaven. Lucia almost saw some flowers blossom behind Ophelia.
"Of course I am. We are talking about Dreida!! We need to save her, she's your best friend." proudly said Lucia clenching her fist to the air while almost jumping out of her seat.
"And your crush." Sinon teased Lucia in a monotoned voice calmly.
"Ah.." blushed Lucia in a bright red. She shook her head and said
"Anyhow, we need to determine the sort of mind control she is under. There are three sorts of mind control." started Lucia holding up 3 fingers.
"For the first one, the victim will follow any command and act like a mindless zombie, that one is the most used since it's a simple spell but its obvious," said Lucia.
"The second is only known by people that study spell since it's hard to cast. Basically, it removes all control from the soul of the body and the abuser can enter the body to take authority of it."
"So it is like playing a video game but its the body of someone?" asked Ophelia.
"I guess you can say it like that. So the last one is the hardest to identify if the person is controlled because the abuser will take a soul from the path of resurrection and insert it into the body. It is not easy to get a soul, so it's convenient if the abuser is a Guardian(assure the passage of souls in their next life). The soul can view the victim's memories to act like the victim. Of course, the soul can do whatever it wants so it's possible that the soul doesn't follow the abuser's commands" explained Lucia.
"umm...She acted pretty normally. At some point, she started crying and wondered why she was." told Ophelia to the group.
"It's probably Dreida's crying, sometimes some emotion can surfaces on the body because they are still inside the body," said Lucia, putting her hands on her chin.
"I think its the third option. Alumm is a Guardian, it'll be easy for him to get a soul," stated Sinon, crossing his arm and leaning backward on the couch.
"He's a Guardian huh... you might be right Sinon. We would only need to extract the soul of her body and she should be able to be in control again," replied Lucia glaring at the shelf of the book she had behind Sinon.
"You can do that! That's amazing!! So all we need is to locate Dreida and the story is done!" exclaimed Ophelia, excited to get her normal life back.
"It's not that simple, extracting a soul from somebody's body is complicated," said Sinon to Ophelia, 'she doesn't get it, this girl' thought Sinon, annoyed that Ophelia thinks it is easy.
"Sinon is right but I might know how to do it." smiled Lucia.
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