Darkhold Chronicles Chapter 8

Once they touched back down, Gweniver had moved swiftly on to the next matter of business, tucking away her feelings from the hug to be analyzed later.
“Now then, Zach, it is time I taught you how to use the Transmutation tablet.”
Zach, who had been showing off his new flying ability to the stunned mooshroom, turned around and flew over to Gweniver.
“Can we do it later? I want to go look for another mooshroom to be friends with Duke and Sally!”
Gweniver reached up with her hand and plucked the Klein star out from where it was poking out from the flap of Zach’s bag.
Instantly, the ring on his finger lost its faint glow and he plummeted down to the ground a few feet below, landing smack on his face.
Gweniver couldn’t help laughing as he scrambled up, his mouth full of grass.
“Gwean!” He sputtered, as he coughed up grass and dirt, “Woat yo du dat fur?”
“To show you what would happen if your Klein star ran out of energy while you were flying! You would fall like a bird with no wings and, even though that little fall didn’t hurt you, if you fell from higher up it really could. Do you understand?”
He looked down at the ground sheepishly “I guess, but flying is just so cool…”
She sighed and mumbled, “It will only take a minute and then you can go back to flying around.”
His head snapped up and his eyes lit up once more.
“Do you mean it?”
“Of course-“
“Alright!” he said cutting her off and grabbing her arm “Teach me all about the magic stuff!”
She sighed but then led him into the walls of their base.
“Right,” she said, shuffling through her bag and pulling out some red stone.
“Basically, the transmutation tablet works with EE. It takes the power out of something and inserts that power into the star. The more EE something has, the less of it you need to charge up your Klein star. Luckily, we can pretty much make an infinite amount of anything you need so you don’t have to worry about running out of things. Just make sure you always keep one of the items you use or it will be a pain to go out and find more, ok?”
Zach nodded “EG something, Klein star is a battery, don’t run out of redstone.”
Gweniver sighed “Yes, that is basically it. So, here. Go ahead and put your Klein star in the middle there and then put red stone next to it.”
Zach did as he was told and flinched as the redstone disappeared in a bright flash.
“Did it work?” he asked, hesitantly lifting up the Kline star.
“Yes! It worked just fine. Now you know how to charge your Klein star so we don’t have to worry about that. Just make sure to keep it charged at all times or else…”
“I eat dirt”
“Or worse”
“Or worse” he nodded and then grinned at her “Are we done now?”
Gweniver sighed and waved him away with her hand, “Go on, you useless thing.”
“Thanks Gwen!” he said and soared off to the mooshrooms.
She shook her head, and looked around, trying to decide on what to do next.
She supposed the next thing to do would be to go ahead and plan out, at least roughly, where the rooms on the first floor would go. She quickly made a huge amount of basalt bricks and set about planning the rooms.
She tried to make them as symmetrical as possible and was half way done with the plotting when she heard a massive scream.
“ZACH!” She cried, leaping up from placing the bricks. “Zach?!”
The only response was more screaming.
Panic surged through her veins, turning her blood to ice. Had they found them already? She was sure she hadn’t left a trail for them to follow? The thoughts ripped through her head as she unsheathed Super Jim and dashed through the door to where the screams were coming from.
She whipped around the corner, half expecting to see Zach running around with some sort of blade sticking out of him. Yet, what she saw… nothing?
Zach was running around, screaming at the top of lungs but Gweinver couldn’t see anything that could be causing him that much alarm.
“Zach?!” She cried, her eyes still roaming for the cause of his alarm “What is going on?”
“IT’S ON MY HEAD!” He screamed
Her eyes snapped to his head where she saw a very strange sight. Clinging to his hair, was a small green thing that looked sort of like a lizard.
“Zach, calm down. It’s just a lizard. Come here and-“
“IT HURT ME!” With that, he dropped to the ground and began rolling around, trying to dislodge the lizard.
Gweniver sighed and walked over to him. She then bent down next to the writhing boy on the ground and plucked the lizard off of his head.
The small thing was very strange looking. It had winged arms and legs and what looked like a small sword belt around its middle. She had bent down to take a closer look when-
“Ouch!” she cried, her fingers reflexively opening around the small creature as a sharp pain shot up her hand.
The little lizard glided down to the ground and raced off into the woods.
Zach, who had somewhat recovered at that point, raised his head and looked at Gweniver.
“Are you ok?”
“Yeah,” she said, inspecting the small cut on the inside of her hand “What was that thing and how did it get on your head?”
“Well, I was just flying around, and I might have flown under a tree and as I was going under, that thing leapt out of nowhere and landed on me! It cut me with something, probably the same thing that it cut you with. I don’t know what it is! I’m scared Gwen!”
“My name is- well whatever. We have bigger problems at hand. I’m not sure what that thing is, but I know that we are going to find out!”
“But why try to find that the thing that hurt us?”
“Because I want to know what it is. Also, if it is hostile to us, we need to get rid of it.”
“Oh,”
“Right, so first things first, we need some armor.”
“Ohhhh, I can have something totally awesome, Gwen?!”
“Well, I mean dark matter is pretty cool I guess.”
“Alright! Let’s do it!”
Gweniver watched in amazement as her apprentice scampered away, totally unfazed by the fact that he had been attacked by a small winged raptor just moments before.
He was waiting for her by the condenser when she arrived, and she could almost imagine a red-dog tail wagging from his backside.
“So, where do we get this black matter stuff?” he asked, leaning over her shoulder as she retrieved the materials she needed from the chest.
“Well, it is Dark Matter first off, and second off, I’ve had the condenser making some for a while now so we have lots!”
She quickly assembled the correct amount of dark matter Zach would need to make the armor and tossed it to him.
“Here,” she said, as he fumbled to catch it. “Go ahead and put those in the normal slots you would if you were crafting iron armor. You do know how to do that, right?”
“Um, sure!” He said in a way that made her doubt him even more.
He did manage to it, however, and shortly, he was completely decked out in black armor.
He glanced down at him self and then pulled out his sword, flashing a smile in to himself in its refection.
“Hey good lookin’, what’s cookin?” he said, winking at himself.
“If you are done playing,” Gweniver interrupted, pulling on her red matter gloves, “We can go now.”
“Sure Gwen just let me- What is that!” he cried, pointing to her armor.
“What? This is red matter armor.”
“What is red matter? Is it cooler than dark matter?” Zach asked, still gazing at her armor in fascination.
“Well, it is more powerful so I guess?”
“Why don’t I have red matter and you do?”
“Because I am the teacher and you are the student! Now then-“ she said, cutting the boy off from arguing with her anymore, “Are you ready to go find this lizard thing.”
“Oh right! Lizard-thing-man is going to get what’s coming to him!” Zach said, rising his sword in a valiant salute.
“Right, well here we go!”