So last time Lulu got some chit-chat with Pix before she met Tris at the coffe, but their meeting got interrupted by a really unexpected explosion. Near to it they saw Veigar, and Tris already has some misgiving about his presence there...

May it's time to change perspectives?

Veigars POV

I woke up with the sun shining right into my eyes, it was 8 AM. Normaly I stand up at 6 or 7 Am but the match yesterday was so draining that I made an exception and acorded my body a bit more sleep than usual. I just don't have to make that an habitude, otherwise I would become weak, and also lacking time for my training. Speaking of that, I have a lot of exercices and studying to do today...

After I dressed myself, I was wearing my usual purple robe and hat, I went down the stairs rigth into the kitchen. I made myself some coffe. There is nothing better than a good old, dark and pure espresso without milk or sugar. I actually have a real espresso machine. It is made of metal and has a octagonal form. You fill the water in the bottom of it and put the fresh grounded coffebeans in the top of it. After that you put it on the fire and wait until the steam went trough the powder and cooled down at the cap of the machine. The steam cools down and drops as coffe from the cap. It just tastes delicious! But this machine has a big disadventage, it takes you a lot of time to make your coffe...

So while my espresso was cooking I made myself a slice of bread with butter and salt. I do not like sweet things, that's why I dont put marmelade or honey on it.

After I finished breakfest I went to my readind room. There is a big desk at the centre of it, right infront my second chiminey. Yeah I have 2 of them, I like to work in front of a fire, and I like fire itself. The walls of the room are covered from the botoom to the top with bookshelves. Everything in the room is tidy, except my desk.... There are at least 20 or even 30 books laying on it. Most of tehm are opened with personnal notes writen between their lines. I went to the desk and searched for a special book named "The Art Of Teleportation". I wanted to learn a new spell, well you probably would have guessed it, but it's a teleprtation spell. But until now it turned out that it was impossible for me to open a portal without a teleportation stone. This stones actually aren't even stones, the contain a lot of magical energy. They have a deep dark blue color and are extremely expensive and rare. With the help of them nearly everyone can open a portal to wherever he wants, especially yordles because most of them have a natural gift for magic. But I want to be able to open a portal without them, or a stupid ritual that takes me 2 hours to prepare, what always drains my entire magical energy and mana! The thing is, in this stupid book there is nothing said about how to open one without a port stone or ritual! Gha, how is it possible? After all this years of intense training and studying I am still not able to open a stupid portal all by myself! Magic can be frustrating from time to time...

Hmm, but I am sure that there is a way, and if not I am gonna invent my own teleportation spell even if it takes me hundreds of years! Maybe I am lucky and the answer is writen in the book I ordered a few days ago in this shady shop near the walls of Bandle City. I also ordered some other... I'm gonna say interesting things. *Sigh* seems like I have to go down to the city today... Nah, I had to make some grocery anyway, I'm lacking of a lot of things right now, most of them are magical stuff that I need to make potions, rituals or experiments. But I also need some food and drinks, so it's not that bad.

So I closed the book and putted it back, in the shelve this time, and made myself ready to go to the city, I wrapped a big purple cape around me to hide my normal outfit that way I would not ganna be recognizable. I know that that sounds stupid, but most of the people in Bandle City are wearing fancy stuff, there are even an unexpected amount of pink-cape-wearers. So, I was ready to go and closed my door behind me. For normal people it would have been a beautifull day, the sun was shining, the birds where tweeting and all that slimy stuff I hate... With other words for me it was a bad day. I just hope nobody is gonna recognise me at the city, it is not that I would care but it would probably lead to a lot of trouble because I am pretty much unwanted there. That's one of the reasons why I live outside of the city. Happily the guards at the entrance just let me in without questioning. A few moments later I was walking down the Spring Avenue, where I saw Tris and Lulu going in the cafe that stands between the bakery an the shoe store that belongs to the old Dumble. Wait you don't know where I mean?? This cafe is famous! Ok, I' m gonna explain where it is :

Nah, don't worry I'm just kidding, not gonna make the same bad joke 2 times in a row  ;)

Anyway, I was not really wondering about the fact that Lulu and Tris where meeting and having some chit-chat together. I supose that that's what normal persons do on a day like this. Not like me going to a shady store and buying odd things. But before I go to that shop I still have some "normal" grocery to do, let's see what do I need? Coffegrains, bread, butter, meat, milk, water, salt,... ok a LOT of things. I went down to the market and started my shopping tour. I hate to do that, there is a huge amount of people and everytime you want to buy something you have to haggle with the seller, and when you think you finaly reached an agreement the tradesman next to him lowers his price and than your's lower it to and a few arguements later it comes to an agreement but not between you, between the to sellers who agree on a even higher price than at the beginning of the the conversation...

Then I discovered a tradesman selling green apples. There are not much fruits I like because most of them tastes sweet, and like I said; I don't like sweet things. But green apples are just a bit sweet and mostly just tastes sour. Unfortunately there are not many peoples buying them what means that the sellers rarely have them because they fear to don't get rid of them and making losses. That's why I had the bad Idea to ask him for a few apples...

"Hey mister, how much for tree of the green aples here?" ( I try to eat healthy to rest in good phisycal conditions)

"I recomend the red ones they are a lot sweeter, the green ones aren't even ripe, you probably gonna get stomach ache when you eat them"

"I don't like sweet things, and besides that you will need much more than an filthy apple to make me ill" That... didn't seemed to please him... he got an angry look on his face...

"Ok, 20 gold pieces then!"

"WHAT?!? That's more than 6 per apple! There is no way I'm paying that much for apples, I'm not gonna pay more than 2 GP (gold pieces) per apple, and even that is double the price I usualy pay!"

"Ok, ok,ok, you are right 15!"

"No!"

"12?"

"I said NO!"

"And how does 10 sounds to you?"

"Maybe 9..."

And than just before I could lend him the GP and pick the apples his "neighbor" said :

"I'm selling you them for 6"

"Ok than I go down to 5"

(now the 2 tadesman are standing face to face with a gap of only a few inches.)

"I ask 3"

"Guys please I just wanted to buy some apples,..."

"Are you insane!? Now I have to go down to 2 GP, I'm not even making any benefit anymore!"

"May we can agree on a higher price?"

"Sure"

"What was your starting price?"

"20"

"Ok can we agree on 24 then?"

"Sounds good to me"

And than both looked at me and exclaimed simultanously "24". I pinched my nosebridge and looked down while this 2 idiots where glancing at me. When I showed up I grabed the left one with my left hand and the right one with my right hand. I dragged their faces down to mine and lifted my cape a bit so they were both able to recognise me, while looking rigth in my now glowing yellow eyes.

"Listen you two, you are just gonna give me these stupid apples and let me go! I have way more Important things to do than to argue with two morons like you! Was I clear enough?"

(both) "Y-y-yes l-l-lord Veigar."

I had to smirk, even if I don't come down to the city very often I am still known and feared by every of his residents, that occured to please me. So each of them quickly handed me tree green apples and begged me to don't hurt them. I tooked the apples and went away. Grrr, I still hate to make grocery! Half an hour later I had bought every "normal" article I needed and decided to go down to the shady shop where I normaly buy my magical ingreediants and also my new book. When I got there I made sure nobody was looking and went in.

It was the kind of shop where you looked around at the articles and exactly knew, half of the stuff here was stolen, and the other half was highly illegal. No wonder it was THE shop for shady busines in the city. I mean the shop's name even was: "The Shady Shop". The shopkeeper went in from the backroom of the shop, he was the shopowner at the same time, and he always wanted to be called Mr Shady by his costoumers.

"Hello mister Purple, what can I do for you today?"

He doesn't want to know the names of his costumers he says that it is to risky in his sector, but it occures that I am his costumer since many years so he gaved me a nick do to my habitual dresscolor.

"Yes, did my order arrived?"

"Yeah, here is your book and a few magical ingreedients. A few of them were very hard to get actually"

"And illegal, but that's why I order them here." I smirked.

"By the way, I have a special request, and I am not sure that you can get me what I need..."

"With enough time there is nothing I can't get, so just tell me." He said that with a smirk on his face, you could clearely see, even if his face was hidden by the shadow of his cowl. I handed him a paper whit a draw of what I needed. He seemed to wonder about my request, actually he even looked a bit shocked. I know "Shady" for many years now and I already had some weird and extraordinary requests, but he never putted a shocked look on in all these years. That's why I tilted my head a bit and asked:

"Is there something wrong? Are you not able to get what I need?"

"I'm not gotta lie to you, but it's gonna be really hard to get this. I don't even know if it's actually possible..."

"No problem, I already feared that." He beguns tu thoughtfully run up and down behind the counter, but suddenly he stopped...

"Wait!" He exclaimed.

"I remember someone who could get you what you want. But it will take me a while..."

"that's not a problem, like you know I have a lot of time."

"That's good to hear, but due to the actual size of the object I'm not gonna be able to order it to my shop."

"I was aware that that probably would be a problem, so once you know the delivery day contact me and deliver it at these coordinates." I pointed at the coordinates that I had writen preventivly on the same paper as the draw was.

"I see... home delivery for an object of that size would normaly cost you greatly, but due to the fact that you are a loyal costumer and I have no place to put it anyway, I will let you pay only half of the usual delivery costs."

"Sounds good to me, but I am aware that the object's worth alone is probably higher than that of all Bandle city, so I wanted to propose you some swap trade."

"Not exactly that high, but yeah. What kind of swap trade would be able to compensate such a high price?"

Whit a grin on my face and a teasing voice I said: "What if I tell you that I can aprovise you with a substance everyone wants, but nobody has?"

"I am very interested, but I supose it's an illegal substance?"

"I'm sure that that is not gonna be a problem for you"

"You guessed right so tell me!"

I oppened my bag and putted ten round glassbottles filled with a blue liqued on the counter.

"Is that.... *he opened one of the bottles and smelled it* mana!?!

"Yes it is."

"The league stopped seling those years ago and declared them illegal! They also closed every laboratory and destroyd every formula!"

"Yes, but I found a way to make them, and apparently you are interested so what are they worth?"

"A thousand bucks per bottle."

"Wow, ok that's a lot more than I thought... How many of them do I need to make for you till we are quit?" Shady pinched one of his eyes and looked thoughtfull in the air.

"A thousand should be enough."

"What? But that's equal to a million of GP! On the other hand I have no choice, guess I will have to work through the nights for the next weeks..."

"You don't have to pay me in one swif, do it over 3 months, your order is not gonna be ready earlier than that anyway."

"Thanks, I will come once a week to handle you the bottles and pay my to pay my debt bit by bit."

"Sure thing. Oh and take these"

He handed me a pouch filled with tp stones. I looked at him with surprise, I never saw him making any presents of this sort in the past. He seemed to notice that and told me, that in case of such an expansive order he can close an eye and give me some "extra" service. I thanked him and went out. I was only a few meters away from the shops door when it happened.

BOAM!

There was an explosion and the Tower behind the shop crumbled down and fellt on top of it, and just missed me by a few meters. Dafuq? Did I made a mistake while mixing the mana potions....? Would not have been the first time... But there was no time to for this, I could already hear footsteps running down the street. I hastly stood up and cleaned myself. I begun to run down the street myself; if someone sees me here, next to the explosion, with all this illegal stuff in my back I'm surelly gonna have some big problems! As I turned right at the next corner, I looked behind me to see who was actually chasing me. Shit! It's Tris and... Lulu? 

But there is no time for wondering I had to escape! If Tris is able to catch me I'm going to jail directly! I grabed one of the port stones, opened a portal and slipped trough....

Authors note:

At first: this chapter occured to became much longer than it's now in his published form, but don't worry I didn't deleted anything I simply decided to split it up in 2 chapters becaus I feared that it would have been to long. So if nothing went's wrong you can expect the second chapter for this weekend.

An at second: We actually not only breached the 100 view mark, but also the 10K words mark, Yayyyy! So just thx to every single reader. Hope you will continue reading and enjoying the story. (and also enjoyed it yet.)

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