Chapter 6; The Mystic Illusion

The trees were tall and nearly touched the sky, keeping the Great Forest dark at all times... That is, until one reached the parts that were filled with mirrors. These were the Mirrorwood, the part of the Great Forest that magnifies the truth inside of yourself and allows it to consume you completely. Here, when one looked into the mirrors, they would see the truth of themselves. This was where one goes to figure out what their Soul is.

Because she could not escape through the thickness of the trees, she ended up having to fly into the Mirrorwood, where the trees would shine and become illuminated to the light the way of one's aura in the dimly lit forest. Those with larger auras could see them glow and be magnified in the darkness.

Tsuki found herself lost in the Mirror Maze, trying to find a way to escape this place and get to the Enigmas as swiftly as possible. After just having unlocked her powers, she had no control over how they occurred, but merely that they were functioning on their own. She came upon mirror after mirror, shifting through the maze at a high speed and avoiding the whipping white wind that had been cast at her.

"Crap. I shouldn't have said anything about 'Mirrors.' >>; " She went right into the Mirror trap. Now he had to go into the Mirror Maze as well, which was already annoying enough as it was without having to actually have your power magnified all around you. Well, hopefully it would give her some direction or control or something... Maybe.

The swift bird swooshed through the mirrored corridors with expert precision, able to see when a wall was coming due to seeing his own face looking directly back at him, then found the only route in which there was no reflection shining back and took that path. Every now and then, he would swash his arm out at the side and release another whipping white wind that would bounce off of the mirrors around him and reflect, creating large concentrations of wind inside the tunnel-like tree-mirror maze. (10:52) Some would also randomly be lashed out ahead at Tsuki, knowing it was only gonna take one good, clean swipe to take her out of commission.

"As long as she doesn't make it to the Tree... I think we'll be fine. We sure have a lot of very powerful trees around this place, for some reason."

"Why are you following me?" she screeched at the black shadow on her tail like white on rice, "Don't trust me to get this done on my own, or something?! I'm not just your little wifey-poo, you know!" She was able to hear the waves of his soul in her head, echoing in the same fashion... The same way the brain released its vibrations, so too does the heart, and this spirit here... It was not letting up.

"It's because of the contract, huh? The covenant? Huh..." Looks like the switch worked... So, if that was the case, then why was he trying to attack her? She didn't understand and dodged the swift slashes by matching the tempo of his movements within the distortions in the air around her head. Djinni weren't supposed to attack their masters... Nor disobey their orders. But then again... This one WAS unrestricted by rules. Maybe he was trying to do something terrible to her now that he had her power in his family...

The Demon Owl aura surrounding the girl peered down at the Dream Owl behind it and flapped its wings in time with his, releasing phantasmal feathers of blazing purple haze condensed into physical form to shape Midnight Bleue owl-shaped arrows. They were Nightwing Arrows that seemed to stream from the Demon Owl's essence. "You aren't helping by following me around. Do something productive with your time. Like, figure out how to use YOUR OWN?" She rolled her eyes. She felt like he was just gonna get in the way. "I know that you know that there are better things to do right now. I'm trying to get out of this damn forest..." She wasn't familiar with any of this territory, considering that she was not originally of the Veritas, nor any of its territories, as she had never been there before. She'd only been to Khrona's house a couple of times before they inherited their True Bodies. "But you're no help at all. Can't you warp, or something? Why haven't you been doing any of that, instead of fucking around with spawning little pixie fuckers for your amusement?"

"Whaddaya think I'm doing, huh? >>; I'm trying to keep you from FUCKING UP, like you're ABOUT TO DO if you don't SIT STILL... Damn..." She mirrored and matched his efforts with her own; though, it didn't seem to be that it was actually Tsuki acting... But perhaps that Demon Owl... The part of her that still craved the Insanity. "Hmmm..." She WAS originally a WITCH... Fortunately, if she had a Shinsanity Core, then the Demon Owl would just become the Dream Owl and feed the Shinsanity to all of the Fae locked behind the border of the Enigmas.

"Oh, okay... You wanna 'play,' huh...? >D I got yer warp..." The Great CryptOwl suddenly warped in front of her, fading out into a rainbow fizzle before igniting again several kilometers away. He already knew that she would be on that dumb shit and had the set up prepared from the beginning, as was how he functioned. "... KOKO DA!!!" He screeched in return, amplifying the waves of the wind already being magnified from the reflection off of the magnificative Mirrorwood all around them. The entire Mirror Maze would be filled to the brim with a beautiful Crystal Aurora that would pass through every nook and cranny, blowing the both of them up and out of the Great Forest through the top of the trees.

With that, the Incomplete version of the heavenly power source, the Forbidden Source, Magic, would be changed into what was acceptable within the realm of the Veritas; Manna. (4:44) The reason why this change had to occur before they came was because they were prone to take energy from other sources rather than generating their own, which was the problem with Magic. However, Manna allowed you to generate your own or share with others. 'Magic' functioned selfishly, as it was the mark of Sorcerors, not Creators. Those who do not respect the natural flow of energy... and of Nature itself. The difference between a Mage and a Sage.

If her people were beings that were part of nature, they had to respect nature as well, including themselves, as creatures that were part of nature. Otherwise, they could not say that they truly respected Nature itself and be part of it having some sort of mentality like that connected to it. That would cause Nature to wither and die. In order for it to flourish, all creation had to be harmonious and balanced. This would ensure that it was so.

"Besides. I just wanted to be there with you when it happened... Okay? >>; Is that so wrong of me to wanna be next to you~?"

In a flash, the both of them would warp away, for at that moment, she would have the Will of Tensei pass through her and fill the emptiness that was within her Spirit Animal, connecting both of their Owl spirits and influences in perfect harmony as they warped off into the abysmal cosmic cosmos of the Enigmas. Rather... 'Manna, the Dream World.' Once they left, there would be no more emptiness in Tsuki's soul, which should satisfy every inch of her being and allow her to use Shinsanity to turn her Magic into Manna. (4:42)