I put up a story that was basically ideas for new celestial spirits and I'm still working on it, but I thought it would be fun to write stories where the spirits are actually used for combat because that's the fun part. I show the spirits and their abilities without going in to much detail so if you want a more in-depth look at them they're in my other story. If I like this chapter after posting and reading it, I'll continue and I might find D&D quest ideas and use them to write a couple chapters of jobs where the spirits can be used. I also just realized the villain in this chapter is basically Angel and is named Angelique.
In a Town Taken Over By a Dark Guild
Luke Matthis was currently running through the town of Hyacinth Spring, a small town which him and the members of his team came to for a job. How helping everyone cool down during a really bad heatwave turned into saving them from an attack by a powerful dark guild he didn't know, but he'd gone against orders and decided to go through the eastern section of the town and help as many people get safely to the town hall as possible. He heard a scream and ran in its direction. When he rounded a corner he saw who it came from. A woman and five children of all different ages were surrounded by a group of wizards. Luke reached for the braided leather necklace he wore that held his gate keys. He pulled out a silver key and held it in his hand, focusing his magic power into it.
"Open, gate of the Little Archer: Saggita!" He yelled. Silver light flashed as the little girl holding her bow appeared. The wizards surrounding the woman and kids turned to him. "Saggita, stop those wizards, they're from a dark guild."
"Kinda already figured that out." Sagitta said, aiming her bow. A glowing purple arrow materialized as she pulled back the string. "Scatter Shot: Sleeping Arrows!"
She released the string and the arrow shot forward, splitting into six different arrows that flew into the wizards, disappearing as they did so. After a second the six wizards fell asleep. Luke approached the civilians.
"Are you alright?" He asked.
The woman nodded. "I found these children in my building and I couldn't leave them alone. When we were leaving those men ambushed us."
"Well you need to get to the town hall, my friends and I were able to set up a barrier that only the townspeople can get into." Luke retrieved another key. "Open, gate of The Driver: Auriga."
A flash of silver and an ornate silver carriage with no driver or horses appeared.
"Get inside and it'll take you straight to the town hall." Luke told them. They did and when they were all inside the door snapped shut. As the carriage began to move, a magic blast hit it. Nothing happened since it was indestructible after its doors closed so it sped off. Another magic blast was fired at Luke and he jumped out of the way. Saggita aimed her bow at the source, but a blast hit her and she glowed silver as she was sent back to the celestial world. "Saggita!" Luke called.
Luke looked around and saw a trio of wizards approaching him. In the middle was a beautiful woman in a black dress and extremely high heels. She had long blonde hair, well-done makeup and she had a white purse on her arm. On either side of her were rough-looking men, one with brown hair and one with black hair.
"Look what we have here." The woman purred. "A celestial wizard." She glanced at the man on her left. "Get rid of him, I want some new toys." She ordered.
The man on her left with the black hair nodded and stepped forward. He held out his hands to reveal blue gems glowing on his palms. Two blasts of light fired at Luke.
Luke grabbed a platinum key from his neck and yelled, "Open, gate of the Queen's Hair: Coma Berenices!"
An Egyptian queen appeared in front of him and took off an elaborate headdress to reveal long, shiny solid gold hair. It grew longer and spread in front of them to shield from the attack.
"Stop them." Luke ordered.
"Speak to me like a servant again and I'll let him hit you next time." Berenice said before swinging her head three times in quick succession. Her hair struck the black-haired wizard three times, each strike so hard he flew through the air. When she was done he was unconscious on the ground. The wizard to the woman's right drew a sword and ran at her, trying to cut her hair. When it hit the golden locks his sword shattered. Berenice swung her hair at him, but he dodged it and shot at her with a fireball. As Berenice flew backwards she made her hair catch her from falling on the ground. She sprang to her feet and her hair grew and spread out above the fire wizard. When it was spread enough to keep the sun from hitting him she slammed all her hair down in an attempt to flatten him. The wizard coated himself in fire and the hair surrounding him melted. He released a shockwave of fire from his body and it melted the hair surrounding him. Berenice hissed as her hair regrew.
"The girl behind him." Luke said. "Hit her."
Berenice rolled her eyes as she swung her hair at the woman with the blonde hair. The woman reached out and grabbed the fire wizard, pushing him in front of her so the attack struck him instead. He went unconscious after being hit.
"You boys are so useless." The woman sighed, scowling at them. She turned toward Luke. "Hello, my name is Angelique. I'm in the dark guild Hidden Terror." She gestured to the skull-shaped guild mark on her leg.
"I don't care, I'm still taking you down." Luke said. Berenice looked upset so he added, "We. We're taking you down."
Angelique laughed. "Oh, no, honey. I only told you that because you should at least know the name of the person who kills you." Angelique reached into her purse and pulled out an object that looked similar to a wallet. "I can't wait to see what kind of keys you have." She opened the object and it revealed ten keys. She pulled one out.
"You're a celestial wizard too?!" Luke exclaimed.
"They call me the Bane of the Stars in my guild," Angelique said, "because I've killed so many wizards and stolen their keys."
"That's despicable." Luke said.
"For once we're in complete agreement." Berenice said, swinging her hair at Angelique.
Angelique jumped out of the way and pulled out a silver key.
"Open, gate of the Crow!" Angelique called out. "Corvus, darling, we've got a situation here."
Silver light flashed and a man made out of dark shadows with large wings appeared.
"Kill those two for me." Angelique ordered, pointing to Luke and his spirit.
Berenice slammed her hair down on the ground, causing the cement ground to shatter and fly in the air. Then she swing her hair, launching the shrapnel at Corvus. Corvus held out his hands and a shield made of shadows appeared in front of him, negating the attack. Corvus then disappeared into thin air. Berenice looked around and spread her hair out in front of her, ready for any attack from the front. But Corvus attacked from behind, appearing at her back and hitting her with a blast of shadow. Berenice screamed as she glowed with platinum light, returning to the celestial world, defeated.
"You're gonna pay for that." Luke said. He grabbed a bronze key and yelled, "Open, gate of The Wings: Yì Xiù!"
A small fairy appeared, emitting bright, purple light from her body. Dust fell from her body emitting the same purple glow.
"Get ready to hit him hard but don't attack 'til I say so." Luke said. The fairy immediately complied with the order, flying toward Corvus. Corvus disappeared again, but when Yì Xiù came near him he was revealed by her purple glow. As Luke thought, his darkness was countered by light. The fairy flied around as Corvus tried to attack her with blasts of shadow, her purple dust following her as she evaded smoothly.
"Stop messing around and get rid of it." Angelique ordered.
Corvus doubled down with his attacks and almost managed to hit Yì Xiù with a shadowy blast. Luke felt the drain on his magic power decreasing and realized Auriga had finally reached the town hall and closed its gate. "Now we're talking." Luke said. He grabbed a silver key and opened the gate of the shield. "Scutum, I need a barrier. Yì Xiù hit him with everything you've got."
A golden shield with a giant gem in its center appeared and glowed as a giant force field made of blue energy materialized around Luke. Yì Xiù glowed a brighter hue of purple and specks of purple dust revealed themselvesvto be coated all over Corvus's body before detonating. A giant purple explosion went off, the shockwave sending Angelique backwards.
"Nice one." Luke told the fairy.
Angelique stood back up and saw that her dress was now coated with dust and her spirit was no longer present. "Seems like I underestimated you." She said. "But it won't happen again and you're still out of your depth." She took a red key out of her bag and help it to her chest. She glowed red and in a few seconds she was wearing a new black dress with a giant coat made of tiger fur. She held her hand out toward Yì Xiù. "This is how you blow someone up." She said with a smile. An explosion went off and when the smoke cleared Yì Xiù was nowhere to be found.
Luke stood with his mouth agape. Scutum's gem glowed bright red and the force field disappeared. "No, Scutum, don't!"
But the shield had already began flying toward the dark wizard, ready to bash her in the head. Angelique pointed at Scutum and an explosion surrounded him. When the smoke cleared the shield was on the ground with its gem shattered. Scutum glowed silver as he returned to the spirit world. Angelique pointed a finger at Luke and an explosion went off in front of him, sending him flying backwards ten feet into a wall. Luke quickly grabbed a key.
"Open, gate of the Triangle: Triangulum!" he yelled. A glowing, green triangle appeared in front of him.
"What do I need to do?" Triangulum asked in a deep voice.
"Stop her." Luke said.
Angelique caused another explosion, but Triangulum glowed a brighter green and it disappeared before it went off.
"Star Dress magic using the power of the Tiger." Triangulum identified. "Easy enough to deal with."
Triangulum glowed brighter again and Angelique was back to wearing her old, dirty black dress. She looked down and her mouth flew open. She looked at Triangulum and smiled.
"When I own your key, I'll make you suffer every day of your life." Angelique promised, pulling out two keys now. "Open, gates of the Fox and Ghost: Vulpecula and Gui!"
A woman with black hair, gold fox ears and nine gold tails appeared next to a ghost made out of wind.
"Kill them now!" Angelique ordered.
Gui turned into a cyclone of wind and Triangulum dispelled it, returning him to normal. Vulpecula held her hands up and a meteor of fire appeared above Luke's head, coming down like-well a meteor. Triangulum tried dispelling it, but nothing happened. Luke screamed as the meteor continued falling and he began to feel its heat. When it finally did hit him it just kept sinking into the ground. The Vulpecula that was still next to Angelique turned into fire and dashed toward Triangulum while his back-or corner-was turned and kicked him, shattering him into millions of little green shards.
"Your illusions could use some work." Angelique said.
Luke grit his teeth and grabbed another key. He held the red key out as he roared, "Open, gate of the Ox: Niú!"
The giant bipedal ox appeared next to him and Luke held the key to his chest and after glowing red he was clad in pants and a shirt made of ox fur.
"She's evil and we need to stop her." Luke told Niú.
"What do you mean by 'stop?'" Niú asked. "Stop her figuratively or literally?"
"Both." Luke said.
"And-" Niú started to ask.
"Just follow my lead." Luke said.
Luke ran forwards and clapped his hands, causing a shockwave that sent Vulpecula flying. Niú followed and did the same thing, sending Vulpecula back farther. Luke ran forwards, grabbing and throwing the fox spirit so she was sent flying at Niú. Niú clapped again and Vulpecula was sent back to the spirit world.
"Gui, show them what you're made of!" Angelique yelled.
Gui ran at Niú and, when the ox clapped to release another shockwave, the ghost turned into a tornado of wind and whirled toward the larger spirit. When he hit Niú he caught the ox inside the whirlwind. When Niú was ejected he was thrown onto the ground, coughing.
"My little ghost here uses wind spirit slayer magic." Angelique explained, looking rather imperious. "It's toxic to anything you can summon so have fun dealing with that."
Niu continued coughing and eventually he passed out, glowing red as he was sent back to the spirit world. As the ox disappeared so did Luke's star dress.
"Give up now and I might let you leave with your life." Angelique said with a grin. "Maybe even some of the spirits of yours that I don't want."
"Never." Luke said. "I don't care if I have to throw rocks, I'll never let you have my keys!"
Luke racked his mind for a spirit to use right now. It was a Saturday so most were available, but none that seemed useful against the wind spirit. Other than maybe...
"Open," Luke said as he grabbed a silver key, "gate of the Furnace: Fornax."
A teenage boy with red hair and clothes appeared in an apron with oven mits on both hands and icing all over his clothes. A miniature oven floated in the air beside him.
"I was trying a new recipe." Fornax complained.
"You really think a baker is gonna help you?" Angelique laughed. "Gui, blow him away."
"Fornax, hit him with all the fire your oven has." Luke said.
Fornax nodded to the metal oven and it flew forwards as Gui turned into a tornado again. The oven spouted a torrent of fire at the tornado. Gui turned back into its regular form, noticeably smaller.
"Air feeds fire." Luke said. "So his wind attacks will only make Fornax's fire stronger."
"Oh, look at you." Angelique said condescendingly. "So smart. Gui go around that thing and attack."
Gui turned into wind and flew through the furnace. Now he was in between the furnace and Luke and Fornax. The furnace turned around to face the ghost.
"Wind makes the fire stronger, huh?" Angelique asked. "So now it'll be strong enough to roast you. Right?"
"Fornax, tell your oven to blast with as much fire as possible and not to stop." Luke said.
"But it'll-" Fornax started.
"Trust me." Luke said.
Fornax gestured to his furnace to blast another wave of fire. When it hit, Luke opened Auriga's gate again, the carriage surrounded him and Fornax. While it did protect them both from the flames, it got very, very hot inside. When Luke thought the fire had done its job he asked Fornax to stop the fire and closed Auriga's gate. When the carriage disappeared he saw that Gui was reduced to nothing but a miniature version of himself.
Angelique sighed as she closed the spirit's gate. "This is getting annoying." She said. She produced another pair of keys from her bag, one black and one platinum. "Open, gate of the Water Planet: Neptune!"
A man made of aquamarine water appeared in front of Angelique.
Luke was breathing hard from the strain of opening all these gates. He could see Angelique was, too. But he knew he had an ace in the whole. He closed Fornax's gate. "I have a planetary key, too, so don't get comfortable." He grabbed his black key from his neck. "Say hi to my most powerful spirit. Open, gate of the Moon: Luna!"
A woman appeared in front of him...and she was lying on the ground, asleep.
"Luna!" Luke called. "Luna, wake up! Please wake up!"
"Oh my god, you're even more pathetic than I thought!" Angelique laughed. "Neptune, drown them."
Neptune looked like he just started paying attention. Luke closed Luna's gate to save her as he was surrounded by a giant cube of water. He barely held his breath in time before he was sinking in the freezing water. He saw Angelique place her second key inside the water and faintly heard her yell, "Open, gate of the Sea Monster: Cetus!" A flash of platinum light and a giant leviathan appeared inside the water. It darted toward him, snapping its teeth in an attempt to eat him. Luke swam out of the way and grabbed a wooden key from his neck, opening the gate of the Thunderbird. An eagle made of lightning flew into his body and gave him a pair of bird's wings. He flew out of the water and into the air.
"What kind of key is that?" Angelique thought out loud, her eyes shining with greed.
"Thanks, Elder." Luke said. "Lightning-Make: missile salvo!"
Arrows of lightning flew toward the square of water, electrifying the entire thing. When Neptune allowed the water to lose its shape-annoying Angelique when her shoes got wet-Cetus was unconscious on the ground. Luke flew away to a nearby rooftop while Angelique was looking at Cetus. He grabbed a red key and said, "Open, gate of the Red Rat: Shǔ." A tan man with white hair and ears, and a pink tail, wearing white pants appeared next to him.
"What's up?" Shǔ asked.
"I'm fighting a woman from a dark guild and I need you to take her purse-"
"Done." Shǔ said, turning around.
"Wait, I also need you to sap her magic."
"Fine, I'll do that too. Oh, and I accidentally took this." Shǔ returned the key Luke had been holding. He hadn't even realized that the rat had stolen his own key from him.
Luke sighed and returned it to his neck. "I'll distract them so you can sap her magic and take her-and he's already leaving."
Luke flew back up and saw Angelique pointing to him and saying something. Neptune blasted him with a jet of water and Luke dodged it by flying to the side. "Lighting-Make: swords!" A dozen swords made of lightning surrounded Neptune and flew at him, but he jumped into the air and shot jets of water from his hands to keep him afloat. He landed on the ground and shot another two blasts of water that arced around behind Luke, forcing him to fly closer. "Lightning-Make: cannonball!" A ball of lightning flew At Neptune, who easily jumped over it and made water shoot upwards under Luke like geysers. "Lightning-Make: phalanx!" Shields made of lightning surrounded him on all sides, but they shattered when the jets of water hit them and he was sent upwards. He spread his wings to steady himself in the air, but Neptune shot another blast of water at him. It felt like he got hit by a hammer and knocked him out of the air. When he fell to the ground he saw Neptune standing over him. Neptune held out a hand and prepared to fire another blast of water. When he did a light mist shot out like a spray bottle. Neptune looked as surprised as someone with a face made of water could and Luke glanced at Angelique, smiling at what he saw.
Shǔ had snuck up on her, stealing her purse and the keys inside and grabbing her arm to use his magic. He was slowly draining her magic power, supplying it to Luke. Uranus, realizing she was almost out of power and how much of it he used, closed his gate and disappeared. When Shǔ let go of Angelique's hand she fell to the ground.
"You're going to jail." Luke said.
"Never." Angelique said. She reached for a necklace she was wearing and pressed a button on the back of it. A man in a black tuxedo that matched her dress appeared at her side and in the blink of an eye the two were gone.
