“Ami, I’m incredibly sorry to ask this of you, but could you teleport us all back to the mansion?” My sister asked so ti after Cynthia had left. In the anti Hilda, Max and Carol had been running around talking to so people around the encampnt.
“We could just use the sa trick we used to get here for getting back, but with Sam’s current health situation, that might not be best…” Nikki looked at Sam who was still not looking all too good.
“I can handle it.” Sam waved their concern again but as soon as just moved just a little bit it was clear that she was still biting away the pain.
“It would be best, as our log-out ti is approaching swiftly, that her body could rest back in Hofudstadr.” My sister comnted. “Although, if you don’t feel up to it, we will find a way around it.”
“In all honesty…” I stood up and jumped a couple of tis. “I’m feeling rather okay. The headache seems to have gone and apart from being pretty tired… I think I can at least manage one teleport.” And my sister and Nikki were right. Sam still needed to heal and as we would not be able to be on this world for a while, I’d rather have her in a controlled environnt like Hofudstadr than a piece of forest close by a portal that leads to yet another world.
“Maybe leave the jumping out if you feel tired, sis.” My sister chuckled softly.
“Right. Hehe.” I rubbed the back of my head apologetically and then looked at Sam.
“Are you sure about this, Amicia?” Sam sat up straight just a little more.
“Yes, it’s going to be better to get you into a real bed. My teleport is also going to be more precise than that little trick. Don’t want you to land with your back on a pile of gold coins.”
“Huh, are you going to tell they aren’t as soft as they appear to be in the cartoons?”
“Tried swimming in them, but I wouldn't really recomnd it.” My sister replied in a serious tone.
“Awh.” Sam faked her disappointnt surprisingly well. “In any case,” she then continued, “do you think you can teleport anyway? Last ti we were this close to the portal, you couldn’t really do so.”
“I think I can.” I stated rather confidently. “That oppressive feeling I got is gone…” I looked around . “I’m not going to try now though, let’s way until our friends co back.”
“I’ll go and get them.” Nikki smiled and then left our little enclosure.
Right after she ran out, Veanya, Gamma and Sid all walked over to . “As for us, we better get going too. We don’t need to catch a lift, we do need to hike for a while to make sure we are not observed though.” It was Veanya who did most of the talking.
“Couldn’t you do it from this location?” My sister proposed. “It’s not like they will notice 3 less people…”
“Our ritual to traverse worlds is a lot more… explosive than how Amicia’s teleportation spell works…” Gamma replied. “It would really not be good if soone would be caught in that.”
“So you are saying sowhere near the crossroads where we t, there’s a crater?” Sam asked.
“Wouldn’t necessarily call it a crater…” Gamma scratched the back of her head. “It’s just a minor hole in the ground. It’ll be overgrown soon enough.”
“Don’t let us hold you here.” I smiled. “Thank you for helping this world out.”
Sid smiled back. “As we have stated before, it’s our duty as Gods to keep an eye out for these things. But I think we should still apologize for not being able to keep you safe. We underestimated our opponents and we will never do that again.”
I don’t know why but a part of wanted to start laughing at that really hard but I ended up shrugging instead. “We knew there were risks involved. Both Sam and I knew that.”
“We did.” Sam nodded slowly. “Though in a way you did keep my safe by giving that necklace.”
“The fact that you needed it already proves that we didn’t keep you save enough, Sam.” Gamma poked Sam on her forehead. “We will do better next ti. Although I think I speak for all those present that I hope there won’t be a next ti.”
“That might be a bit of a vain hope.” Veanya sighed. “If there’s one thing I know about evil, it’s that, while it is always beaten, it tends to stick its head up again sooner rather than later.”
“Let’s keep training then so that we can show it to the door faster next ti.” I smiled.
“Yes. But first, you two need to rest.” Sid gave a head pat. “Take all the ti you need.”
“I’ll make sure of that.” Élise proudly tapped herself on her chest. “Have a safe trip back to your own hos.”
“Thank you, we will.” And with that, our group of divine friends left the encampnt too, on their way to find a piece of forrest they could safely blow up without anyone nearby.
Nikki ca back a couple of minutes later with our friends who inford us that the army had been ordered to set up a permanent fortress around the portal. Apparently when asked what would happen if the portal closed and people got stuck on the other side, the officers responded that that was the reason why they kept a rather minimal force on the other side like the mages Cynthia had ntioned before. They had also been brought supplies to last them quite a while and they had also all been briefed on the dangers.
“They must get a pretty sizable danger pay supplent, right?” My sister asked as she helped quickly dismantle the encampnt so we could take the materials with us. Luckily that went rather fast as it was designed for the purpose of quick set-up and breakdown, and it did also help we could stow most of it in our vault too.
“Quite, and an even bigger one for their families if the portal does end up closing on them while they are on the other side.” Hilda nodded. “Although most mages are there mostly for their morbid curiosity rather than the money, at least that’s the impression I got from talking to a couple of them who were nearby.”
“It’s an entirely different world they get to explore. I can understand.” Max agreed with the mages’ sentint. “That’s kinda also why we are here.”
“Not untrue.” Nikki nodded as well.
The rest of the party also joined in on the camp cleanup, except for and Sam obviously. When everything was cleared, Max gently lifted Sam off her field bed so that it could be stowed as well. My sister wanted to carry Sam first but as Sam isn’t the smallest cat girl around and Max is just as strong, if not stronger than my sister, while also being quite a bit taller, it was her who won out in the end.
“Besides,” Max smirked. “I’m used to carrying Sam off the field anyway. It’s not the first ti she has been injured.”
“Are you referring to the studs incident?” Carol asked.
“Among others, indeed.” Max’s smirk grew wider.
“Oh please, Goddess, no, don’t tell her about that, I’m going to die again if she hears that.” Sam tried to hide away but she couldn’t as she was in Max’s arms.
“But it’s funny.” Max’s smirk did not go away.
“I am starting to get curious now too.” Lise replied.
“I have to say I am too…” I looked at my girlfriend and smiled. “But if she doesn’t want to tell… that’s fine too.”
Sam waved that away after thinking about it for a few seconds. “Just tell her Max…” She had already gotten bright red. “Better to rip a bandaid off fast or she is just going to keep wondering about it.”
Max didn’t need long to start telling her tale, she was pretty much ready for this opportunity. “Well, during one of our gas when we first started playing together, we were on the attack and had pretty much ran past the entire enemy team during a great counter.” She started. “As Sam is the better shooter I passed the ball to her and with a cocky smile she made an attempt for a three pointer. Now… I don’t know how physics work, I have not studied it nor do I ever want to, but sothing was going on with that ball which wasn’t entirely right. It hit the rim and bounced back incredibly fast, hitting Sam square in the face and flooring her imdiately. She was almost knocked out cold, nosebleed and everything.”
“Ouch.” My sister showed her teeth.
“Yeah. It definitely looked like it hurt. But on the other hand, it also looked funny as hell. And I’m sad to this day that there’s no footage of that incident.”
“Then how do you know?” I squinted and looked at Carol.
Carol shrugged. “It was just one of those things that really went around campus fast as a story. It did really help with Sam's popularity afterwards though. She was already famous because of it, doubly so when she beca captain.”
“After nearly ruining it…” Sam pouted as she tried to hide her blush.
“Hey, at least you practiced your three-pointers so much that you rarely miss them now.”
I chuckled softly. “That wasn’t that embarrassing, was it? Although it does really sound like a comic book thing.”
“It was the combination between her cocky attitude, the comic-book like nature of the rebound and then the princess carry by a teammate that made it story gold.” Max smirked. “But hey, as Carol said. People mostly rember Sam’s na, not the person who carried her off.”
“You are plenty famous for .” Carol smiled.
“Thanks babe, I know.”
“Could you two stop flirting and get to a nice warm bed now?” Sam pouted.
“Don’t look at , I don’t know how to teleport.”
-Right, let’s get her ho now before anything else happens, or I might have to sleep on the couch…-
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