"Time for breakfast!" my mother cheered from the kitchen. I'm Dark, my dad is the famous black mage Raggedyandy, he's a tarutaru, and my mom Miah, she is a mithra. "Make sure you cast that spell Dark, last thing we need is for you to get in trouble. " She reminded. I inherited my mom's animalistic features and I am taller than almost all the tarutarus, but I still have all the traits they have, a black nose, short stubby limbs, and a chibi body. I casted a spell that partially changed my shape so I looked like a regular tarutaru.
"Mommy, I want my blanky!" cried my little brother. He's an eleven year old short human kid we found on the streets a few years ago.
"Hundred Fists!" shouted my sister. She is a mithra that was adopted too, just one year older than Taftafs. Her name is Fiona and she's training to be a monk then eventually a warrior and ninja or samurai. She started to pound Taftafs to a pulp. He started wailing and all the other shit he does every morning.
"Shut up! Thundaga!" I yelled and two were struck by a weak lightning bolt, barely scorching their clothes. They both cried for a moment then went to the kitchen table. We live in the Elvaan city of San'Doria, My dad lives in Windhurst now with my human step mom Angela (she's a bit of a hippie).
"Dark, no spells on your siblings! Curaga," She scolded then the two were healed then we all ate breakfast.
"I'll be back later." I announced coldly. I casted a familiar teleportation spell.
"Hi Dark, me and Angela were going to go to the market, want to join us?" my dad offered. I shook my head.
"I was told you needed me for a different reason." I said bored.
He nodded slowly and said quietly "I'm retiring son, I'm done adventuring. Besides I'm sure you'd love to try it and your teleportation abilities are unmatched. Plus you are more powerful than me when I was in my prime"
I chuckled lightly and boasted, "That is true, I did kill a 'powerful' bomb with a weak fire spell and it usually takes you a medium fire spell or Burn and a weak spell."
He laughed heartedly at this and waved goodbye. I told him I was going to cross dimensions today, I found out how last year and I perfected it.
"Bye dad, take care." I told him. A tear rolled down his cheek and a black portal showed up. I jumped inside then I saw eternal darkness. Out of nowhere thousands of doors appeared with different patterns and such etched into them. One seemed to radiate with energies and magic that was somewhat similar to my own.
Reaching out I touched it then in a flash of light I was plummeting into an enchanted forest. "Crap! Tornado!" I shouted. A thin Tornado appeared and I slowly floated to the ground. When I landed I heard furious growls and roars. Looking around I noticed a bunch of bear-like creatures running at me with swords, bones, and other weapons. I grinned, there were about 20 total and a large black bear trying to stay far away from me, I mumbled Firega then all the creatures nearby and vegetation turned to ash and white flames covered the small area. The black bear was missing a leg, foot, and all the flesh on his back. An arrow whizzed through the air and penetrated his skull. I casted Invisible and a tall purple figure creped out of a bush, she was lean and slightly toned clad in small ragged leather clothes.
"Why are you here?" I asked. She jumped then started looking around, trying to find the source of my voice.
"Who are you? Where are you?" she asked in fright as she drew an arrow. I chuckled at her response.
"I'm not that important and as for my location… I'm everywhere Lady." I replied. She growled lowly and attempted to hide herself. Unfortunately for her she was very visible, just clear like stain-glass.
"My name is Kimber; you are in Teldrassil, home of the night elves." She declared.
"A night elf, interesting… I'm Dark the Dread Mage." I introduced. I noticed a shallow cut along her thigh, it's been a long time since I fed on mana OR blood so I decided to toy with her a bit. I walked slowly to her side, still invisible, and licked the blood from the wound. She gasped blushed a deep violet. "I see you're cut, give me a second to heal you." I told her in a high-pitched voice, a trait almost all tarutarus had. Lights started to appear around me and I casted Cure on her. A purple glow surrounded her for a second then when it faded all her wounds were healed and she was clean.
My invisibility faded and so did the spell I casted earlier so there I was, standing at her side about knee high with cat ears and tail plus all the tarutaru traits making me look like a giant plush toy. She gasped then squealed, "Aw, it's so cute! Look at these ears!" while squeezing the life out of me. Thinking quickly I teleported just in front of her.
"You nearly killed me!" I yelled but she squatted down and started playing with my ears again, but stopped when she registered that I talked. She squealed then backed up while pointing at me and stuttering.
"Chaos Bolt!" someone shouted. A ball of shadow magic was speeding in my direction and made contact.
"Dark!" she yelled concerned. However instead of doing damage to me I simply caught it and added my own magic to it, doubling its size, then tossed it at the assailant. A scream of pain was heard then a thud. We sped off to the source and found a human in a purple demonic robe standing with a large demonic creature lying at his feet with a giant hole going through its axe and chest.
"Kim are you alright? I heard you squeal." Asked the human. She nodded as I teleported behind the human and I started to heal the demonic avatar.
"Dark this is my friend Devilion; he's a Demonic Destructionist Warlock. Devilion this is Dark the Dread Mage." She explained. We shook hands firmly.
"How about a duel? We fight each other while our avatars attack themselves." I proposed. He grinned under his hood and nodded. "Summon a different one if you wish." I offered. He grinned and his Felguard phased out of existence then a green meteor crashed down but it took the shape of a giant made of what I'm guessing is Infernal Stone surrounded by acidic green flames. I grinned and summoned Shiva, the ice mistress. She was the same height as the creature but she levitated a few feet off the ground and the air seemed to drop in temperature. "Begin!" I shouted and started casting Shadows, Stone skin, Ice Spikes, Blink, Reraise, Shell, and Protect, while he was charging up a powerful spell. He casted Chaos Bolt only this time it was a lot larger. I grinned and casted Haste on myself then I opened my mouth, as if I was going to eat his spell. I swallowed the shadow magic and added a bit of thunder magic to it before firing it again, only this time it was pitch black and fired like a beam that stunned him for a few seconds. Shiva was casting Sleepga and Freeze II on the demon constantly; it was crumbling now with only a tiny flame left in its mouth. Me and the demon glowed purple for a second then it completely disintegrated and I dismissed Shiva. Devilion started naming curses but I was unfazed by it and casted a weaker form of Tornado while his magic curses bounced off me, the spell covered him in cuts and gashes then he fell unconscious. I casted Cure V then Refresh, so he was healed and would wake up.
He awoke and grinned and we said good fight. "If you show me what other demons you can summon I'll give you a special book my teacher gave me." I proposed.
"Sure," he replied. He summoned his imp, then the voidwalker, succubus, felhunter, Felguard, and the two mount demons then he used Metamorphosis. Each time he showed me a different demon then Metamorphosis that purple flash appeared. I already knew I was subconsciously recording his avatars. Afterwards I tossed him a black book with weird runes on it.
"But this is…" he started.
"I don't need it, plus I think that it'll help with that succubus of yours." I replied.
"What book is it?" Kimber asked.
"A book only lucky men and teens can dream about getting, they practically become gods among men after reading this book, but I don't know why you don't need this Dark" Devilion explained.
"Who would want to date a half-breed? Hell will freeze over before I get a girl, despite a certain power I have." I reasoned. Devilion was curious about what I said in the end. "Are you two headed anywhere?" I asked.
"We were going to Storm Wind, the human capital." Kimber declared.
"Great, lead the way." I recommended. I blew a whistle and a large heavily armored bird ran towards me. "Kage you ready?" I asked the bird. It chirped happily and squatted so I could mount it. "Kimber you can ride with Devilion." I suggested. The two helped each other mount a brown horse with flaming hooves, eyes, and mane. The trip was uneventful until we reached the gate to the Night Elf city that is.
"Halt!" a guard shouted. "You on the bird, show me your passport." She commanded.
"I would if I had one Miss, I usually teleport to where ever I wish but I'm unfamiliar with the area." I replied sheepishly.
She motioned two other guards over and instructed, "Search him!" out of my bags sets of food and items among other things were flying out as the two guards searched them. "What's this?" she asked when she picked up a bloodied black leather book.
"That's my medical journal with other things recorded in there as well." I replied as she started flipping through the pages. A sickening look crossed her features when she reached a certain section, might have been the autonomy section.
"Dismount Shorty, we need to search your clothes." She instructed. I sighed and hopped off my chocobo then the two guards started to search me like humans would search criminals. One of the guards whispered in her ear then she dismissed us.
"That was weird." commented Kimber. I laughed then all of my stuff hovered back into my bags tied to my armored bird and I remounted it.
"Let's go," I suggested. Devilion Nodded and we took off. The locals stared at me and started whispering as we rode through the city. "How much farther?" I asked.
"Under that tree then we take the Hipogryph and a boat to Storm Wind." Devilion explained. The tree in question was a massive risen stump with a purple light under the roots that raised the stump about twenty feet from the ground. I entered the light and after a few seconds we reappeared at a small building with a dock and a built walk way. Devilion headed towards the walkway and I could see a weird creature, it looked like a four legged deep green bird with deer antlers. Next to it stood another Night Elf but he was taller than all of us fully armored in yellow and white plate armor with a large pole arm on his back. The creature looked normal in my eyes but Kimber stared at the Hipogryph for a second.
"One Silver piece please." He stated. I dismissed Kage and shook my head at him with a sad look on my face. He turned his glance to Kimber and Devilion who were holding out their silver coins.
"Just a sec," I told them then a green runic circle covered the wooden floor and a large green harpie like creature appeared in the center, Garuda. "Ok mount up guys, I'm taken care of." I said. Garuda looked down at me; she had a long green pony tail made of feathers with artificial moth antenna, long green wings on her back, a pale green feminine body, and taloned hands and feet with a few layers of feathers surrounding them. She picked me up like a loving mother would to a child while the others mounted the creatures then we took off.
"Hey Dark, what is that?" Kimber asked.
"This is my second avatar, her name is Garuda: Mistress of the Wind." I explained.
"What else can you summon?" Devilion asked.
"I can summon an avatar of each element, same for spirits, dragons, clones, a demon, any animal god, magical beasts, and the dead." I replied. Both of them went silent at this. "I do go crazy in battle if I use my combat form and I usually don't calm down until it's over or I pass out." I explained.
"Why do you carry a sword and staff?" Kimber asked. For someone my size the sword I have on my back is a two-handed weapon and so is the staff. The staff was glowing an eerie green, but looked like a high quality wind staff other than that.
I grinned and said something my dad told me a lot when he was joking around, "Its' good training." and Kimber pouted and tried to focus on the task at hand. When we got there we landed on another wooden platform and there was a dock very close by and an innkeeper near the bottom of the ramp behind a counter.
"Welcome to Darkshore, ask me if you need anything and the docks are directly behind you." She greeted. Garuda disappeared behind me then a few winged imps appeared in her place with a sack of crystals and took off. She looked surprised when she saw this and looked at me. "Aw, look, at the little guy, he's so cute!" She squealed and gave me a bear hug.
"Can't… breathe… chocking…" I wheezed out. Kimber was trying to pry me from the crazy elf while Devilion laughed at me dying by suffocating in her breasts.
"Here, Unending Breath." He said then the magic started working then I could breathe again.
"Thanks Devilion," I told him when I escaped the innkeeper's grasp. "Wait a sec before we go anywhere, this summoning takes a bit longer than most." I stated then a purple rune circle appeared on the ground around me then a dark crystal materialized above my head and started morphing. After a few seconds it exploded in black sparks and a perfect copy of me stood next to me. "Have fun with the innkeeper, but don't do anything until we leave." I told the clone. It smiled brightly and hopped behind the counter by the innkeeper.
"Won't it disappear if you go too far away from the clone Dark?" Kimber asked. I laughed and shook my head.
"Let's go," Devilion said. We mounted the horse and my bird again and went to the dock that jutted off to the left. A figure was stalking towards me but he seemed to be using a weak invisibility spell and I casted a spell to hold him still.
"Hello little thief," I greeted him. He had a shocked expression on his face and cancelled his invisibility. I laughed and released him. "You won't be able to sneak up on me with that invisibility so weak." I stated. He was in all black leather with two glowing daggers at his waist.
"Sorry I was just curious; I've never seen anything like you." He told me sheepishly.
I grinned and replied, "If you like cats or have a fetish for cat girls you'd LOVE the city my dad is from." then we all chuckled and the boat started heading towards the city. "Hey Devilion, how long will the ride take?" I asked.
"About two to three days tops. The sleeping quarters are on the first floor below the deck." He replied. I nodded and went to look for a room.
"Is Kimber in a room already?" I asked. Devilion nodded. "Hey thief, what's your name?" I asked.
"It's Hayate," he replied.
"Mine's Dark." I told him and went into the ship. As I looked around I saw a few guys on the ground floor getting drunk and flirting with the female crew or playing poker I walked onto the first floor and when I opened the first door what I saw I will never forget. Inside the room was Kimber, but what shocked me was she was putting on a shirt then she immediately covered her chest and let out a loud girly scream upon noticing me. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" I yelled as I slammed the door shut and went into the room across from her. "What a day…" I muttered and lay down on the bed.
"Everyone get up, this is an emergency!" Someone boomed. I checked my magic watch and it said 6:30 A.M. Darks Day facing 30 degrees North East. What could be important enough to wake me up before seven? "There is an assassin on board!" the voiced yelled again. I groaned and got off the bed. An assassin? That's just peachy. I got off the bed and casted my transformation spell again into a regular tarutaru but this time I had a droopy violet witch hat on top my head.
"Why would there be an assassin be on board? I'm tired of all this crap." I asked soon as I exited the room. The yelling man had a captain's staff in his hand and was in full body armor with two curved blades strapped to his waist.
"We are escorting the princess of Storm Wind, that answer your question, Fatty?" He explained. I grinned and a small blue armored dragon appeared and pounced on the captain.
"Down Lady, we need this captain to order the crew." I told the dragon, the scaled beast growled then reluctantly flew off of the captain then disappeared.
"You dare attack a captain you fat elfish gnome?" he spat.
I grinned and replied, "Lady doesn't like it when I'm insulted and she does a lot more than breathe fire and bite." and the captain looked angry.
"What is going on?!" a feminine voice asked. I looked towards the source and saw a beautiful human girl, about 17 from the looks of it, in priest robes and a large staff in her hand that had a large blue crystal on the top.
"This short guy took down the captain with one blow of his companion, Princess" One of the crew members told her.
"I'm not short! I'm actually a bit tall for your information!" I argued. All of a sudden they all laughed then I bashed my staff into the man's head then he went flying across the hallway and crashed through the stairs. Everyone stopped laughing and gawked, he didn't hit the floor until he hit the stairs.
I put my staff back on my back and crossed my arms with a smirk on my face. "It seems you are quite a nasty hitter, Captain what will we have to do about my stay since the assassin knows a way into my room?" she asked.
"We will move you into a room with one of your guards." He said. I turned around and was about to go back to bed until I felt an evil aura and the captain said, "It seems Shorty has volunteered, I hope you have a good stay." and that made me go stiff for a second.
"Alright, and check to see if that man is breathing." She replied. I sighed and entered the room again then I started casting a spell that took quite a few minutes to cast. There was a bright flash then the room changed into my old room back home. In the middle of the room was a moogle doll, in the back was a fire place, a few bookcases with nine decorative eggs on top, a massive Easter egg in the corner, a massive bed, an egg buffet next to the fire place, three small national trees next to the window, a plague on the wall, four paintings, a desk, and a small chair. On the ceiling there was a chandelier that had a bunch of elemental shards and crystals on it, illuminating the floor under it. A few minutes later the princess entered the room with two crew members carrying a medium sized chest. "What is all this?" she asked in awe. I pointed to the corner next to the large egg and they set it down beside it.
"I used magic to link my room back home with the room on this ship." I told her. She started looking around my room and noticed a small airship I kept on a cabinet next to the fireplace. If you looked at it you could see that the model's propellers were spinning lazily on their own.
"What's this?" she asked.
"That's an airship I built." I replied.
"You are an engineer?" she asked.
"You could say that." I answered. Back in my world I was well known for being an excellent crafter and my gift of teleportation. "Get some rest Princess, you will need it." I suggested. She nodded and looked around but spotted only one bed.
"Where will you sleep?" she asked confused.
"The bed is king sized for elves so I guess we can share it if you want." I told her. She blushed a bit and got in the bed.
"Ok, we can share it." She said barely above a whisper. I grinned and morphed into an Elvaan before getting in the bed with her. She gasped and started blushing red as a tomato when she saw my bare muscular chest. "W-what are you doing?" she asked surprised.
"Going to fool the assassin," I replied. She turned away from me and drifted into a peaceful slumber then an odd smell invaded my nostrils.
The two crew members kneeled in front of the captain and he commanded them to report what they saw. "When we entered the room the atmosphere was different and it radiated magic, the room seemed a lot larger with many decorations and books. There was also a fireplace in the back and a rather massive bed. We could see the handle of a trap door beneath the rug in the middle. His chandelier seemed to radiate energies like a shaman's and a bit of shadow magic as well." One of them reported. The caption looked at him strangely then stared off into the distance.
I awoke late in the night, someone had picked the lock on the door and was about to open it. I opened an invisible portal in front of the door and entered it just before he noticed me. He looked in and what he saw was a bare room with the princess on the bed but when he crept in the room suddenly morphed into an abyss. He started panicking and yelled out "Who's there?!" then I appeared with a dark look on my face.
"Your death," I answered coldly and unsheathed my katana and started to torture the assassin while he cried and screamed for mercy. I would have none of it and soon grew tired then I beheaded him. "What a waste." I muttered. I returned to the room and went back to sleep, all his items and his spell book were now in my dimensional storage.
I awoke early and looked at my Bastokian Clock Egg and it read 7:00 A.M. then I drew a runic circle and waited for my scouts to return. After a few minutes five imps jumped out of the runes, each with a rolled up parchment and empty messenger bag but two of them had another item in their hand. I took the parchments and unrolled them revealing extremely skillfully drawn maps. Then two of the imps gave me the items they collected. They looked like trinkets, one was a blue and gold lion head and the other was an odd thing, it looked like an upside down red tear with barbs and a circle in the center.
The princess started to stir so I pocketed the items and morphed into my tarutaru form. "Good morning," She told me in her tired state.
"Morning, I already took care of the assassin this morning." I informed her.
"Please don't call me Princess, my name is Sophia." She requested.
"Alright Sophia, are you hungry?" I asked. She nodded and a few fish appeared in my hand. "I'm Dark," I told her.
She smiled and asked, "How did you turn into a High Elf last night?"
"I'm actually a shape shifter in case you were wondering; this is one of my forms I use while traveling." I explained. She nodded slowly then started spacing out with a blush on her face.
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"Raggedyandy, were is Dark at?!" my mother screeched.
"He's out on an adventure." He replied nervously. I had asked him to keep the part about my dimensional travels a secret.
"Then why is his Link Pearl not working?" she asked.
"The area he is in most likely cuts off the Link Shell communication." He replied swiftly. My mother growled and my little siblings looked sad. "Oh I almost forgot, he made something for you and Abigail before he left." He told them trying to brighten the mood. He handed Mom a hexagonal prism with a different colored pearl in each corner and Fiona a small cube with a pearl in each corner.
"What is this?" Mom asked.
My dad shrugged and replied, "He said they allow you to change jobs like a Moogle but this is portable. Fiona can use the other two pearls when she gets powerful enough." making Fiona beam and my mom looked astonished
"Dark got nothing for me?!" Taftafs wailed. Annoying little brothers are pests.
"No, he said that you need to be less spoiled." Dad said jokingly.
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"Hello, Sophia? Hey!" I shouted in her face waving my hand urgently. She snapped out of her trance and shrieked when she saw how close we were. I sighed and jumped over to the fire place waiting for the fish to finish cooking.
"What are you exactly Dark?" she asked.
"I'm a talented mage and summoner with an excellent fighting style. Being a shape shifter also helps." I replied.
"Exactly how talented are you in shape shifting?" She asked.
"I can make more limbs, weapons, make any part of my body larger, a flock of crows, into a psychic, and make a hard shell around my body." I replied. She started spacing out with a deep red blush and a minor nosebleed. My eye twitched. Great, we have a perverted princess. A thin zap of electricity shocked her slightly and she yelped.
"What was that for?!" she screamed.
"For spacing out, and you look cute when you're mad." I answered with a smile on my face. "This boat is going too slow." I muttered and wobbled out of the room. I walked out on the deck and I summoned a winged imp and sent it to look for Storm Wind then headed to the rooms.
"Dark, can you come here for a second?" Kimber called from her room. I wobbled over to her and nodded.
"What do you wish to discuss Kimber?" I asked.
"Um, about last night…" She started.
"Do you want me to forget about it?" I asked.
"Uh no, please don't tell anyone what you saw." She replied. I nodded and she smiled brightly and started to hug me in a death grip. I casted Unending Breath then hugged her back.
"Hey Kimber what are these?" I asked holding the two odd trinkets to her.
"The lion head is an Alliance Battle Grounds transporter; I think the red one is the Horde version." She explained. "But how did you get a hold of them?" she asked.
"I had a few imps mapping the area and they brought back these." I explained.
"All hands on deck! A dark portal opened on the sea!" the captain shouted. I ran to the deck and looked at it. Looks like my imp found the city.
"It's okay Captain, steer the ship into it. This one will take us to Storm Wind." I explained. He looked at me skeptically but did as I requested. There was a flash when we entered then we were at the Storm Wind port. Most of the crew was muttering then my imp swooped down to my feet and started chattering and faded out of existence. I went down to my room and saw the princess lightly sleeping on the bed next to a plate of fish skeletons. I went into my Elvaan form and awoke her. "We are here Sophia." I told her. She rose up a bit and smiled.
"Wait we are here?! Did I sleep for that long?!" she asked in shock. I laughed then explained the situation and one of her guards walked in to escort her to the keep.
"Dark, c'mon," Devilion yelled from the deck. Forgetting to change back into a tarutaru I ran up on deck.
"What now?" I asked impatiently. Without looking at me he mounted and Kimber got on his horse.
"We have to go; maybe we can get something down about your current armor." He replied.
"My armor is just fine!" I yelled back and chased them on my armored bird. When they stopped in front of a building packed with people.
"This is the Auction House, Kimber and Dark, look around and tell me what you want." He told us. I started looking around and noticed a lot of cool looking armor but they all had really bad enchantment bonuses. I looked towards Kimber who was looking at the bows and leather armor. I finally came across some scrolls and looked through them. All of this stuff is crap. Weapon Enchant Berserking? Boring! I moved on to the metals and crystals. There were plenty of Titansteel and building materials around. A few of my Wind, Fire, and Thunder crystals should work for building something. I looked at a gold coin being handed to an auctioneer and reached into in to my pocket. I pulled out a Fire Crystal and a bunch of gold items I had from my world and smelted them into the amount of gold needed for the metal.
"Hey Miss, Is this enough for the Titansteel?" I asked an auctioneer holding up both hands with a pile of gold coins. She looked beside me and saw that I grabbed all the Titansteel in the building. Her eyes widened and she counted the gold.
"Surprisingly yes, what are you going to do with all that Titansteel?" she asked.
"It's a secret." I replied and dragged the mountain of Titansteel out of the auction house. The mountain was almost not an exaggeration. It took me a few trips to drag all my metal out of there. I started casting a spell then all the Titansteel went into my dimensional storage. I turned back into my tarutaru form and reentered looking for my two companions. Kimber was in and out of the dressing rooms with different leather armors before settling on a studded leather harness, cloth shoulder pads, a battered jungle hat, a glowing dagger, a leather subligar, long leather steel toe boots, long studded leather gloves and a long bow with sharp arrows.
"How do I look?" she asked excitedly.
"Uh, you look great." I answered. Devilion shook his head and paid the Auctioneer the money for the armor.
"Kimber, how about you and Dark try to find you a pet?" Devilion suggested. Kimber looked at me with pleading eyes.
"Pwetty pwease?" she begged. I sighed and gave in.
"So what kind of pet do you want Kimber?" I asked.
"I want a strong panther." She chirped.