happilyeverbeginning | i'm your venus, i'm your fire (magica x scrooge)

"What do you think I am? A walking stick?" he huffed in annoyance.

"If I have nothing to do all day, then I'm going to enjoy the reason I'm here." Once again, head on his shoulder, grope grope grope.

It was really having the opposite effect on potential customers, as no one wanted to be near... whatever this was.

"You're driving off customers! And stop groping me!"

He wanted to shove her off, but he didn't want to risk making the goddess even more annoyed.

Someone, please interrupt this!

No mortal would dare interrupt this snuggle-fest, and Magica knew it, cackling quietly. "You know, if if you just relaxed, you'd really like it... after all, you're being caressed by the one and only-"

"Magica De Spell?"

Magica froze. No. No way in hell or heaven. Had she summoned him by saying his name?!

Walking up to the unhappy couple was a young man with fluffy brown hair, small glasses, and plenty of scrolls under his arms. "My my my! Hail heartily, my good friend!"

A friend of Magica's? Which meant this had to be...

"Which god are you?" he asked, wondering if he might be able to pawn Magica off on the newcomer.

At the same time, he tried to disentangle himself from her grip.

The man made a polite bow - or at least an overly theatrical one. "Ludwig Von Drake, god of knowledge and wisdom, at your service!"

"Then do me a great service and LEAVE!" Magica snapped, letting go of Scrooge to try and push Ludwig away. "This is MY territory! And I'm not sharing!"

Oblivious to her ranting, Ludwig casually walked to the side - making Magica accidentally fall flat on her face - to inspect the horses for himself. "Would you look at these marvelous stallions! Such shiny coats, and such strong legs! These have been raised with expert care and attention! Why, I imagine this one will last many a good year!"

Funny enough, this was drawing attention in a more positive way. Potential customers were starting to glance over, intrigued by Ludwig's appraisal.

"Geldings, actually," Scrooge said proudly. "But, aye, these two were raised specifically for farm and cart work." He patted the mare, Autumn Sunshine, who tossed her head. "This lovely lady is more for riding. You have a good eye for someone who likely doesn't get around animals that much."

Well, Ludwig was already winning points in Scrooge's book. Much less annoying than Magica.

"Gelding! Fascinating!" Ludwig popped out a quill from seemingly nowhere, unfurling one of his scrolls to jot it down. "Gelding, not stallion, yes yes... I'll have to add that to my list of things to research."

"Do it somewhere else!" Magica grabbed his arm, still trying to drag him away. "Move! Scram! Get lost!"

"No harm in letting him learn, is it?" Scrooge asked with mock innocence, eyes twinkling with mirth. Oh, this was fun.

"Yes there is!" Magica hissed as Ludwig continued to ramble on about the differences between horses. "Look, if one god is one place, the level of magic there increases but only slightly, nothing to take notice of. But two in the same territory? That doubles the output! It'll make OTHER GODS take notice and wonder what's going on! Having a second god here may as well be a smoke signal for any and every god to come see what's so interesting about this place! You think I'm a pain?! Just wait until you meet ALL the others!"

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"Just because he's asking about the horses doesn't necessarily mean he's planning to stay, does it?" Scrooge asked, confused.

Magica said nothing, and instead gestured to Ludwig... who was still talking. In fact, nothing and no one was stopping him, even the customers who were trying to get attention to buy a horse.

"... And to think that these creatures have such unique skeletons inside them! One would think that the evolutionary factor would change things up, but instead, for example their eye structure..."

Magica then said quietly, "A god who doesn't have to breathe never learns to shut up."

Scrooge gawped for a moment before he cleared his throat and tapped Ludwig on the shoulder. "I'll talk to you in a bit about horses. Right now I've got customers."

Nope. Still going. "Which begs the question, what brought about the mindset to ride such magnificent animals? Was it out of desperation, or curiosity? Or perhaps a mixture of the two? Of course, mortals being such fascinating creatures themselves, often fail to recognize the things they are capable of up until their backs are against the wall..."

Magica looked at Ludwig, then at Scrooge. "... Give me permission to use my powers just once. I'll get rid of him, and be out of your hair for at least an hour. Deal?"

"Deal. I appreciate his attempt to help, but at this point, he's going to start driving away customers."

Scrooge rubbed his temples.

"Good man." See? She was annoying, but at least she wasn't this brand of annoying!

She then held out her hands, holding them apart, murmuring a few words of the old tongue, with purple mist spreading around her fingers until what she summoned came forth!

A two by four piece of plywood.

"And look at those hooves! It makes one wonder how hard they can - GLBXT!" The sound a god made when thwacked upside the head, apparently. Magica then casually tossed her weapon away, as Ludwig fell forward, K.O.ed ungracefully. She then grabbed him by the foot and began to drag him away.

"I'll dump him far enough away. In the meantime, you better realize how grateful you are to have me!"

"Thank you!" he called.

Ludwig was a god. He'd be fine.

Scrooge then smiled at his customers. "So, who's interested in a new horse?"

Since Magica had used her promise to use her powers just once to knock Ludwig out, she refused to use them again to zap Ludwig off anywhere. No, she was proving her worth! So she'd walk as far as she thought was acceptable, dump him, and then head back... which did take more than a few hours. Who knew the average walking speed among mortals was so slow! Boo!

But to Scrooge's benefit, he did manage to sell all the horses. One customer even mentioned that "having such a funny show" beforehand was so relaxing!

Scrooge was humming to himself as he did the shopping to kill time, a broad smile on his face. Ah, yes. Today was a good day!

He looked to see Magica returning, looking tired. "Just in time! I'm almost done here!"

Magica was a little tired herself, having walked and dragged for so long, but she wasn't going to speak of it. She was a goddess, she could handle anything.

"Did you sell all of them?"

"I did!" he said cheerfully. He still had the saddle pad and the bridle he'd used on Autumn Sunshine, but everything else was gone. "And with both of us, we'll be able to get all the shopping home in one trip!"

Bah. She wanted to ride back with him and get in more chest rubbing. Oh well. Still, he was cute when he was happy, so she supposed it wasn't a complete wash.

"Very well. What would you have me do now?"

"Help me carry this all home," he said, gesturing to the shopping bags he had next to him. He was practically bouncing on his toes.

With one extra person, their stores needed to be adjusted.

She grabbed as many as her hands would allow. "See? I can be useful. None of this was terribly hard at all. I could do this all my days, if I had to!"

"Would you?" Scrooge asked, adjusting who was carrying what bags. It wasn't a matter of number but weight, and he was pretty sure she couldn't carry that much for the long walk back to the castle.

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