Act 13

The coast was clear and she went out the building sneaking her way to the forest. She made it and was greeted by Xavier that was slowly manifesting his head on the wall beside her. She returned the greet and once again show him her notes, “We need to carve our wish into a wood from a birch tree, the tree represents new beginnings like what we are going to do and after carving the wish into the wood, we must wrap it in a newly discarded cocoon of a butterfly which symbolizes transformation. That is the final item we need for the incantation.” she said with determination in her voice. Xavier nodded and they proceeded to head to the woods again, the first thing they searched for was the wood of the birch tree. Luckily Xavier knew a small part in the woods that a few birch trees are located so with no delay, they started the journey there. However, they slowly this time around, Lily told Xavier about what Mat said to her while she was heading to her apartment but Xavier reassured her that it wasn’t going to happen because they will succeed. Lily nodded in agreement and tried focus on the mission, Xavier transformed into his stallion form again so they could travel quicker than last time. The trees are found in the eastern side of the rocky hills and not as far as the ancient oak tree. It just took them several minutes to get there and started immediately, Xavier reverted back into his regular form and conjured a tentacle, with swipe he cut a couple of branches from the tree. Lily jogged to the fallen branches and carefully picked a sufficient piece when she did, she brandished her knife she brought along and slowly hacked the piece. She showed it to Xavier to which he nodded in satisfaction, Lily sat on the ground and took a precision knife with thick blade. She expertly carved their wish on the wood, “To return him to his original state” she wrote. “Next up, the butterfly cocoon.” Lily said with she opened a book about butterflies. “Where did you get that.?” Xavier said slightly amazed by Lily’s sense of preparation. “It’s my book about butterflies, it’s the very first book I got when I was a kid and the very book that fueled my passion for reading. I know what are the odds huh?” she said still looking at the book. Xavier didn’t say a word and letting Lily do her magic. A couple of pages later, Lily brought the book up to Xavier’s face and yelling “I got it” 5 time in a row. Xavier went with her excitement and simply asked her what she found. “I found our butterfly, it’s a common on in this forest” Lily said. Before Xavier could see the name, Lily closed the book and urged him to transform into his stallion form and without a choice Xavier obliged and they headed east from where they were. It did take long as Lily urged Xavier stop near the tree line. Xavier did and he followed her through the bushes, but before he could pass through Lily held up her hand in a stop gesture. Xavier gave her a “what the hell” look but Lily told him to first close his eyes. He asked why but Lily just urged him further, he sighed and begrudgingly closed this orb like eyes. Lily guided him into the bushes slowly making their way into the glade. They stopped at the center of it and Lily told him to open his eyes, he was awestruck from the sight he was beholding. A swarm of Blue Morpho butterflies clinging on the sides of the trees, Lily wined her arms for a big clap. When her two hands collided, a soft but loud clap echoed through the entire glade. Like clockwork, the butterflies descended from the trees and began to flutter around them, ingulfing them in a vortex of sapphire beauty. Xavier was overflowing with joy, contempt and life and he let one of them land in his newly materialized arm, he slowly raised it up into his eyes and the beautiful insect just slowly flapped it wings before joining its brothers and sisters. Both of them just stood and watched as the butterflies flew up the sky, Lily looked at Xavier and smile to see that he was actually having the time of his life and without a second thought, she held his hand and continued to watch the butterflies as they disappeared from sight. “Wow, despite the danger lurking around every corner of the woods, I never thought that it can house something as beautiful as that.” Xavier said. Lily hummed in agreement and turned her gaze that the tree trunks, “You know what else is beautiful?” she said while she walked towards the trees. “You? Xavier said sarcastically, Lily blush a bit upon hearing him say that and replied with “Good observation but this is equally pleasant in the eyes.” He slowly made his way toward Lily and knelt down to see that there were hundreds of thousands of butterfly cocoons attached into the trees. “They weren’t just butterflies; they were fresh out of metamorphosis.” Lily said as she picked one of the cocoons. It was big enough to cover the entire totem, “We have all the things we need to do the incantation.” Lily proclaimed. “That’s good news, so all we have to do now is to prepare for the incantation. Where are the other items?” Xavier replied. Lily went to her bag and quickly searched for the items but they weren’t there. She held the bag up to see that it wasn’t the travel bag slapping her forehead as she did, she must have grabbed the wrong bag in her excitement to finish their quest. Xavier suggested that they would return to the mansion and she should go home and get the other items, she agreed and so they hastily returned to the mansion. After arriving, Lily jumped off Xavier as he halted into a stop and quickly sprinted towards the side of the house. “I’ll be back as fast as I can, you just hold on to that totem.” she stammered and Xavier did what she asked and head inside the mansion. Lily run across town and to her apartment with no delay, she opened the door and quickly grabbed the bag making sure that it was the one with all the other items, surely enough they were all inside ready for the cleansing. She zipped the bag and once again sprinting out of the building. In her haste, failed to see that Mat was right around the corner when she passed by. He quickly took notice of this and followed her to the entrance of the woods. Seeing this as an opportunity, he grabbed his phone and clicked of the video recorder app and walked into the woods after her. Lily arrived at the door and Xavier let her in as Mat came out the tree line, he only saw Lily went in the mansion.