Olive/History

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### Spying on the High Guardian Academy

   Tasked with observing High Guardian Academy, Olive has multiple small moments in her cat form before being fully revealed. She first appears in *Disorientation Day*, during Sacred Alphabets class. Thyme spots Olive standing outside one of the windows. Olive gives Thyme a suspicious glare but disappears once the elf gets called by Professor Caraway.

In *A Lost Cause*, Olive briefly appears as a cat once more when she witnesses Professor Redbud feed a living rat to a plant. When Redbud threatens to do the same thing to her, she meows and runs away.

At the end of *The Cave of Vinca*, Olive sees Rosemary and the others heal a tree affected by the Rot, using the Healing Waters they had retrieved from the cave. With the girls getting closer to figuring out the secrets of Witch Country, she contacts the Triumvirate through Smokeface, not knowing that Neppy Cat is eavesdropping. Olive then gets tasked with killing them. She initially speaks out on this idea but gets threatened with her life.

### The Autumn Processional

In part one of *The Festival of the Fall*, Olive tries to convince the Triumvirate once more that there is no need to kill the girls, arguing that they did not tell anyone about the secret. She then gets clear instructions on what she needs to do; bring the girls together and use a Spark Spell that turns them to stone, and kill them by letting them break.

During the Autumn Processional, Olive meets Rosemary and gives the girls some activity flyers. Afterward, she is seen playing with a decorative bat, waiting for Neppy Cat to find Thyme and warn her about Olive's plan. The girls meet up with Olive on a rooftop, and in their conversation, she reveals that she intentionally led Neppy Cat to lure them to her.

Olive manages to steal Thyme's Healing Water and offers to return it to Thyme if they follow her to the Triumvirate. When Rose rejects that offer, Olive lets the vial fall down and smash it on the ground. Thyme, now upset, tries to attack Olive with some arrows, which the catgirl easily parries with her staff. With the girls now brought to a single location, Olive tries to cast the Spark Spell given to her by the Triumvirate. Sage is quickly able to create a barrier that deflects the spell towards the other guests of the festival, and the whiplash throws Olive against a wall.

In *part two*, Olive wakes up again, only to see the people of Lyngarth turned to stone. Smokeface appears, instructing her to reverse the spell only after the girls have been killed. Observing the girls at first, Olive jumps them from behind. She rushes towards Thyme, who then shoots an arrow at her. After dodging the arrow, Olive strikes Thyme in the stomach with the end of her staff, which knocks down the elf. In the same breath, Olive then sweeps down Sage. Trying to rush down on Rose as well, she halts before she would sustain great injury from Rose's sword swipe. The guardian would then launch another swipe, which Olive dodges.

Backed away, Olive gets asked by Sage what she wants from them. Olive states that she would like them to have a visit to the Triumvirate, which would be rejected once more. The catgirl mentions that, with everyone in Lyngarth now turned to stone, they have no other chance, unless they would catch her. With Olive jumping off the building, she is given chase by Rose.

During the chase, Rose would be led to an alleyway. After another small conversation, the two start fighting. Olive dodges Rose's first sword strike and hits the guardian against her butt to which she then laughs and remarks that Rose's sword, Flowering Thorn, might be "a little above her skill set". The fight continues, and Olive repeatedly parries Rose's sword swipes with her staff, sometimes dodges them to land punches and kicks on the guardian.

Kicked and knocked against a bunch of crates and barrels, Rose stands up and barely manages to dodge one of Olive's strikes. With Rose trying to launch another swipe, Olive jumps up and hits Rose in the face. After a few more exchanges, Olive starts launching a barrage of strikes against Rose in succession. Enduring the pain, Rose then manages to get a hold of Olive's staff, drags the catgirl towards her, and finally manages to strike Olive with the sword. Olive gets wounded on her right arm and is flung to the ground. When Rose tries to check on Olive, the catgirl hisses at the guardian and uses that brief distraction to run off.

Rose is, again, after her. Bruised and bleeding, Olive ends up leaning on the side of the bandstand. There, she becomes briefly frustrated and on the brink of crying. This is cut short, as she gets spotted by the rest of the girls, who are now accompanied by Amaryllis and Snapdragon. Heading inside the bandstand, she faces Rosemary again, and before she can utilize her Terrasphere again, she loses it when her hand gets scraped by an arrow.

Cornered by the group, Olive gets asked about the Triumvirate, and what this is all about. The catgirl bluffs but eventually says that she is "far from the only enemy they have". She further remarks that "the others won't be so nice" and makes a last attempt at offering them to go willingly. Olive uses one last moment to try and get a hold of the Terrasphere but gets hit by one of Sage's attacks. The catgirl uses the flash of light to quickly hide behind one of the guests before escaping from the scene. Sage manages to undo the spell by smashing Olive's Terrasphere, which she had to leave behind.

Hiding in an alleyway, resting while in cat form, she gets woken up by Smokeface. He tells her that he was able to convince the Triumvirate to give her one last chance and instructs her to hide in the school until "he" arrives.

### Attack on High Guardian Academy

Olive keeps observing the school. At the end of *Rainy Day Memories*, Olive is seen hanging out in one of the academy's attics. That's where she first mentions Mandrake, the person sent out to help her with the mission (to her displeasure). In *The Scypith*, the catgirl is seen reading Rosemary's diary, commenting on her hundreds of poorly drawn swords.

In *Attack on High Guardian Academy*, Olive meets up with Mandrake, and the two first exchange some insults. When Mandrake gets closer to Olive, he comments on Kino, calling him a "cute little cat", and then asks Olive if he can break that cat's neck. This leads to Olive putting down Kino and instructing him to go. Mandrake, as instructed by the Triumvirate, gives Olive a new Terrasphere, and states that she works for him now. Olive summons Smokeface again to object to this but she gets reaffirmed about her new position as a subordinate. Smokeface also mentions that he was able to delay her execution, for now.

Inside the academy, Olive and Mandrake have a conversation about Rosemary and Sage, where she tells him everything she knows. After making another remark to Mandrake about his psychopathic tendencies, and suggesting that it would be better if Rose met her mom, Mandrake is confused. It is then revealed to him that Lavender is Rose's mom. Inspired by this revelation, Mandrake shapeshifts into Lavender and lures Rosemary to one of the school's basements. Olive tags along in cat form, and is able to observe the conversation between the disguised Mandrake and Rose. In that conversion, Rose mentions her fight with Olive and expresses a bit of sadness over injuring her.

Later, the two break into Caraway's office. Olive is sitting inside one of the bookshelves, observing Mandrake attempting to break to gather more information. After Mandrake has been found out by the heroes and was going to be blasted out of the building, he affirms to Olive that there should be "no one to tell the tale". Olive nods, and stays in position until the heroes leave to go after Mandrake. She is last seen taking a glance at Caraway.

Mandrake and Olive take out Caraway off-screen, and Mandrake takes on the shape of the professor once more. The shapeshifter goes to the forge in the basement to meet up with the other teachers and offers them a drink that had been tampered with. When they appear to be sleeping instead of dead, Mandrake calls out Olive for not putting in poison, as he asked. Olive then reminds him that they aren't supposed to draw attention. Mandrake points at the door, asking Olive if it's the only way out. When Olive confirms it, Mandrake comes up with another plan.

Using the school's loudspeakers, Mandrake uses Caraway's voice to mandate to head to the forge for an assembly. He manages to trap most of the students inside the forge. When Olive asks "what's next", Mandrake states his intentions to burn down the school and make it look like an accident. Olive tries to object to that idea, telling him he can't. Asking her why he couldn't, Olive informs him that the girls aren't inside the forge, since they didn't listen to the voice of the disguised Mandrake.

Outside of the school again, Mandrake puts up a large barrier around the High Guardian Academy premises. With the girls spotting Olive and Mandrake, they are lured to the school's library, just like Mandrake had planned.

Gathered at the library, Olive and Mandrake split up. While Rosemary and Thyme start their chase towards Mandrake, Rose offers to go with them to Witch Country after all. Olive tries to reason with Mandrake once more, insisting that her plan could still work, but she gets dismissed by him, who tells her not to be "so naive".

During Mandrake's fight against Rose and Thyme, Rose attempts to outplay the shapeshifter by telling Thyme to meet up in the books section that starts with the first letter of Rose's first crush. Olive tells Mandrake the letter after being threatened by him. Mandrake uses this opportunity to ambush the two heroes and to hold Thyme at knifepoint.

    Olive shows up again to apologize to Rose for reading her diary but also makes fun of her drawings. The catgirl then asks Mandrake if she could take out Thyme instead, telling him that she was too attached to the four girls and that she would like to free herself. Mandrake tells her she could use his knife. With a knife in hand, Olive takes another look at Thyme. A few moments later, the catgirl launches an attack but surprises everyone when she struck Mandrake with the knife.