One day a new client came to Percius. That was Pureido. He was devastated.
– Unhappy love, said Percius.
– I knew, you would help me! You know the problem without any questions, said Pureido.
– You need the love potion. You came from Japan, didn’t you? The potion for you must be exotic. I need to travel to get the ingredients. I can do it for you, but you need to do something for me.
– What do I need to do?
– These three days special mushrooms are growing on the tall trees of Enchanted Forest. They glow and they are blue. Usually my snakes bring me ingredients from tall places but they are busy hatching their eggs now. Take your bow and shoot down ten twigs with these mushrooms.
– That will not be easy, worried Pureido. I don’t use my bow anymore.
– Love is not easy, laughed Percius. You must remember how to use it. I am going to prepare for the journey. See you in a week!
Percius decided to go to Canary Islands. They are rather dry and there are many succulents which he needed to find. He chose Lanzarote.
There he went to the cactuses garden. He needed to climb cactuses because he wanted to get their flowers. It wasn’t easy because they had very sharp thorns. He collected three flowers of three kinds of cactuses. Then he needed some toxic juice of blue cactus. He took out a vial and syringe from his pocket. He injected the needle and pulled out some juice. He injected the juice into the vial. He had to be careful not to burn his hooves.
– Still a thorn of snake cactus is needed, he thought.
After getting all five ingredients he went to a cave. He went there to get a scorpion molt. That was not easy because there were bad vampire bats in the cave. Percius had to pull out his magic wand and tell a proper spell. After that they changed into small stones. Percius put those stones into his pocket.
– They are magic. I will put two of them info the potion and one of them is going to be mine. So I need to disenchant it but I will transform it into a good bat which will become my friend.
He thought so and took the stone, touched it with his wand and told the spell. After that the stone changed into a good bat.
– Help me find a molt of a scorpion, ordered Percius.
The bat helped Percius and brought him the molt. After that they left the cave.
Then they went to the cave with magic mirrors. Only wizards know where this cave is. Percius reflected the molt in the mirror. He did it to catch its reflection. To do it, he had to enter the other side of the mirror. He took out from his pocket the magic potion, which he had brought, and drank it. After that his body wibrated and he went through the glass of the mirror. He saw the reflecion and caught it to a little bottle. Next he drank the potion again and returned through the mirror.
After getting what he needed Percius approached another mirror in which he saw a lot of his own reflections.
– I will catch one. I may need it in the future, he thought. What he thought he did.
– Now it’s time for mussels of love, he decided. We are going to the beach, he said to the bat.
Because the weather was beautiful, they lied on the beach and sunbathed. There were many shells of mussels, so they quickly collected some.
Then they could come back to Percius’ home, where the bat joined the other animals.
The next day Percius met Pureido.
– Have you got, what I asked for? He asked but he knew it anyway.
– Yes, I managed sighed Pureido. That was a challenge!
– So give me the twigs, please.
Pureido handed him a big bag of twigs with blue mushrooms.
– Great! Come back tomorrow. The potion will be ready, said Percius.
Pureido was very happy when the next day he got a bottle with magic liquid.
– But how will I give it to Beauty? he worried.
To be continued…
This story was made up by my student Krzysiu to the photos taken by me in Lanzarotte. Thank you Krzysiu!