Gaia's Champion Ch. 31 - Teaser (Patreon)

Jason, Sheena, Phalmina and Xaera woke up at the apartment, having felt the same thing that Aaliyah and Darnell had. They blinked away the sleep in their eyes as they came to, minds focusing on the remnants of the dream.

“What was that?” Xaera asked as she rubbed her eyes.

“That… felt like a… warning,” Phalmina breathed as she sat up, trying to wrap her head around what was going on.

“Only thing was, that it wasn’t clear. Like it was garbled or… something,” Jason groaned as he stood up, cracking his bones and his neck.

“Indeed! I believe that it’s because of where we are, is why we can’t make sense of it. I think if we were to return to the grove by the house, we’d get ourselves a proper read on it,” Sheena suggested.

“There was… something… I managed to catch as we woke up,” Xaera stated as she sat there pensively.

“Well? Come on girl, spit it out!” Sheena almost demanded.

“It was a word, but I’m not sure if it was the right word. The word was… ‘witch’,” the troll woman responded.

“Oh fuck! Shit just got a fuckton more complicated!” Phalmina groaned as her wings drooped with her mood.

“Complicated? Complicated how?” Jason wondered.

“If witches are involved, then we are going to have to tread lightly. In ages past, witches were often involved in the various conflicts that would rise. Though who they sided with was always unknown until you met them in battle. Witches were and are perpetual wild cards in the game of life,” Phalmina explained.

“Wait, witches are real?” Jason asked, blinking rapidly as he came to terms with this new information.

“Yeah, silly! They’ve been around since the earliest days of humanity!” Sheena told her fiancé.

“Sheena, go easy on the man. It’s not like he grew up with the same knowledge you did,” Phalmina reminded her. Sheena then facepalmed herself cutely, as she remembered this little factoid.

“Witches are, by definition, unaligned magic users who play by no one’s rules but their own. Sometimes they’ll be out on their own, but more often than not, they form, or join a coven that is more along their own personal tastes. It is because of this lack of rules is why they are often seen as wildcards in the greater scheme of things,” Phalmina explained.

“How do they have access to magic? I thought you had to be a magical being for that to happen! Or at least chosen by a magical entity!” Jason replied.

“That’s one thing that no one, but a witch, knows about. The thing that is most scary about a witch is that they have a unique ability among those who use magic. They are capable of drawing from any type of magic they wish to. From the green, life giving magic of Gaia, to the utter blackness that is Dark Magic, witches can use any magic on the spectrum,” Phalmina continued.