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Title; The Demon Queen
Chapter 1; My Champion
His first impression was that she was cute, his second was that she was also most definitely insane.
And she kept touching him.
"Y-you're really real, and w-warm too. I-I was afraid y-you'd be k-kind of z-zombified." she was still poking his cheek as her mismatched eyes took him in with unveiled fascination. They distracted him somewhat from the incessant poking if only because he couldn't decide which eye was weirder. The glowing white left eye or the equally strange dim purple one.
It was also hard to ignore the fact that she had fangs, cute little fangs but fangs none the less.
"Yes, I'm real. Stop that." he growled swatting at the girl's hand. It had the instant reaction of the girl jumping back both hands moving to cover a gasp as she rushed an apology blushing hotly.
"Now then what exactly is going on here?" for the life of him he couldn't remember anything, there had been light and a cool tingling presence all around him before there had been a yank and he found himself here. Here being a rather strangely decorated room.
Half the room was decorated in Gothic lavender with lit candles and eerie artwork while everything else was Spartan, white and clean. The strange girl's clothes seemed to follow the trend, her patchwork mini dress was half purple and half white with a pitch black hood hanging off her back.
"I-I summoned you! It f-finally worked!" the girl seemed happy enough with this apparent accomplishment that the man feared she would break into a dance of some sort. With considerable patience the man folded his arms and raised an eyebrow.
"I'm going to need more than that. You summoned me, for what, why?" he tried swearing as a sudden migraine tore through his mind and the girl descended on him with worried hands. He allowed her cool hands to ease him as he felt something unlocking in his mind. He remembered his name, and what he was.
That was something at least.
"T-to be my champion. I-I'm...I need y-your help to escape this place." the migraine was calming down as proximity to the woman seemed to ease him. Despite his pride though he couldn't bring himself to push her away. Magical binding, he realized calmer than he should have, he was definitely her thrall.
"Who are you then, summoning people from the dead, locked in a castle? That's not exactly normal." Not that he was normal himself at this point, maybe he had been in his past life but now he was an Undead warrior bound to this woman. That would get looks all right.
"A-ah right. I'm Hinata Hyuuga. Magus and d-descendant of t-the F-f-first D-demon King. I've been i-imprisoned here by my f-father, he s-sealed my p-powers in G-guardians. E-everything e-except my s-summoning." she rambled a little, gesturing around the room to her messy bookshelf and work table eyes swinging to stare at the floor in what the man recognized as possibly shame.
"So I, what, fight these Guardians for you and then what?" maybe he wouldn't have a choice, weren't all the thralls in stories essentially slaves. The girl was giggling, shaking her head vigorously whilst still visibly blushing.
"N-no we fight them t-together, and after the f-final one I can r-release you. You'll l-live again, f-free." there was a childishness to the girl as she scurried over and the man had to wonder how old she'd been when she was locked in here. She hadn't spoken to many actual people he would have guessed. To live again though, that was some deal. Living was a good thing right?
"In that case I'm Sasuke Uchiha, I'll fight these Guardians for you." and it wasn't a moment later the man found himself with his arms full of crazy demon Mage as she tackled him offering an enthusiastic thank you. This was going to be a difficult partnership.
"Stop that Mage. I assume a Guardian's keeping you here, well I've got no weapons and you've got no magic so?" Somehow he thought that any Guardian set up to keep a demon witch hostage wasn't something to take lightly.
"R-right right. You're right. I-I might be able t-to fix some of t-that. Just t-try not the f-freak out." the girl spoke pouting and demonstrating her full lips nodding to herself in the way the insane liked to in order to comfort themselves.
"Go for it Hyuuga, you summoned me you may as well you arm me." while he spoke his part though the pale girl shuffled away a bit pulling up her hood to cover her face in shadows. Rather disturbingly he noticed as she turned back to him a stark contrast as her dull purple eye now glowed and her white one had paled considerably. The wicked grin stretching her lips also seemed a damn sight more disturbed than before.
"Minion, to my table, now." she beckoned him furrowing her hands up her mismatched sleeves and slinking away to the table ahead of him.
"Minion?" the Uchiha asked as he approached none the less watching as the girl nimbly pulled at bottles mixing various dyes and liquids whispering under her breath in words the man couldn't understand.
"My powers are trapped, sealed and locked but you can become my bridge. My little key. Arm now!" she ordered turning her glowing eye on him. That hood had done a remarkable job on the girl's personality, giddy and stammering had turned into sharp and bossy. He offered an arm anyway trying not to wince as she locked an iron grip on his wrist and began etching an image into his skin.
"Now we'll see what you unlock my minion." she whispered purple eye staring at him before she copied the pattern on her own arm and stepped back. Her grin was positively creepy as her eye seemed to glow even more fiercely.
There was a humming as the woman peeled her full lips back to laugh shakily. Her left hand had begun to spark, lightning trailing over her long pale fingers for a few moment before it collected together in a ball of rolling power in her palm. The right hand lit up moments later too, coming just a little later, liquid fire dripped down her wrists pooling on the tips of her fingers in small bright orange stars.
"Good, this'll do just fine." the woman commented dissipating the elements in her hands before she yanked her hood back down. As the dangerous air died down her eyes again swapped intensities and her expression faded from a devilish grin to a more bashful embarrassed sort of look.
"Well that was interesting." offered the Uchiha wondering if that was something he'd have to deal with every time his new partner used magic.
"Ah y-yes I should h-have s-said b-but my m-magick's are p-partitioned too. I s-summoned you like t-this but all m-my other m-magicks are s-sealed in o-objects and persona. Each O-object we need to find b-before s-slaying the Guardians." she explained poking her fingertips together meekly. The Uchiha helped himself to a seat rubbing his chin thoughtfully.
"And will your personality change every time you use one of these items?" asked the warrior second guessing the wisdom of joining up with the strange woman, if that hooded woman was anything to go by her alternate forms might be more trouble than they're worth.
"N-not change, I s-stay me. S-same motivation a-and g-goals, just each m-magick brings o-out m-more of s-something in me. B-black m-magic should b-be t-the worst, I think, i-it's l-linked to anger and d-dark e-emotions." the girl explained eyes swivelling downward again in it seemed shame at her alternate side.
"Try not to worry about it then. We'll just keep your Black Magic as a last resort then. Do you have any abilities now, without your hood?" he asked watching the girl as she draped herself on the bed, legs hidden by her thick dress curled beneath her.
"N-nothing really, t-this form is w-what keeps y-you a-alive. There's p-probably a l-limit on how long y-you'll survive w-while I'm in o-other forms." answered the odd eyed girl again sheepishly poking her fingers.
"Probably?" he didn't like the sound of that probably.
"Y-you'll f-fade slowly, w-we'll have p-plenty of warning." she didn't sound all that confident and the warrior chalked that up as another reason to keep her from abusing that Black Magic form.
"I see. We still need weapons." The rags he wore now certainly didn't offer much comfort at the prospect of battle, especially if the woman's powers ran a risk on his own existence. The bubbly girl bounced up though at his reminder, springing from the bedding with a tangible excitement.
"Oh y-ya, I g-got lots of w-weapons. C-come on!" she squeaked twisting him by the wrist as she all but dragged out him out of the room. It was getting increasingly difficult to believe the girl really was some sort of Demon Mage. The memory of her wearing her hood though reminded him that wasn't such a bad thing.
"I l-like the s-swords b-best, t-the light o-ones." she explained happily still pulling him through the dusty moonlit corridors.
"You really weren't kidding were you." the Armoury the Mage girl had brought him to consisted of a lot more weapons than he'd honestly have expected to find in a military camp. And that was saying nothing of the variety of the weapons, spears and swords ranging from the practical and plain to the kind one only expected to see in paintings.
Nothing looked familiar though, or right. Even with the Hyuuga Demon girl rummaging around the equipment offering up a dozen stammered suggestions a minute, though that may have been more distracting than anything.
"Did your father stock this for you?" Sasuke felt himself asking as he approached the first weapon that seemed to call out to him. All of them sent flashes through his mind, techniques, capabilities and downfalls. The spear he gripped now seemed like it held more though, in his mind he also felt an affection for it.
"Yes, it's j-just like my s-summoning. T-this i-is a t-test so i-it can't b-be i-impossible. S-some of t-the armour i-is m-magic, s-should I chose t-that?" she responded pouring over the pieces with squinted eyes seeming capable of determining facts about it the warrior couldn't.
"Pick something light, that won't effect moment much. For both of us." He wasn't foolish enough to think he'd be continuing on long after the demon girl passed. The spear was feeling better though, the longer he held it. Without knowing his past though he couldn't say whether he'd carried something like it in his past life, it was possible.
"Um o-okay. C-can I wear it u-under m-my robe...it's not v-very p-pretty." asked the demon girl pouting at him with too wide pleading eyes.
"Do whatever Hinata." he shot back the first use of her name going unregistered as he focused on the next weapon seemingly calling to his hand. A blade more on the side of plain and functional it seemed to warm in his hand but before he could try drawing it the demon Mage was upon him poking him in the side.
"Say it again!" she hummed both bright and dim eyes boring into his own.
"W-what?" the intensity caught him off guard for a moment and he was almost sure he was speaking to her alternate self, except the hood was still down and it was still her white eye that glowed bright.
"My name, say it again." she ordered plainly poking him in the side again.
"Hinata, right?" he wondered if he'd said it wrong until she grinned up at him brightly. Of course he realized after that grin that it had just been a very long time since she'd heard someone else saying her name, it must have seemed surreal.
"You're s-sure about these t-two then? T-they're o-okay?" she asked moving her ever poking fingers to prod the weapons he'd selected. He only offered a non-committal shrug, they'd do for now but weapons were ultimately disposable. They wore down and broke, that's why he'd taken two.
"I c-can enchant t-them. The o-other side of me." offered the girl tilting her head a bit. That earned a small frown from the Uchiha. On one hand he could have empowered weapons, on the other he'd have to deal with being called 'minion' again.
"Do it." he watched as she slide her hood up and changed again. The light in her eyes switched sides and her soft pout became a feral grin.
"Do you want my power now, my Minion?" her voice was still the same but it had an added intensity. A whisper of greed and sinister intention that hadn't been there before. Same person though he could see, just inherently darker.
"Do you want my help?" he returned fixing the smaller figure a dark look of his own. He wasn't about to start begging yet, not when he wasn't even sure he wanted to be revived yet. So far all that kept him involved with the Demon girl was curiosity and a desire he didn't quiet understand to fight.
"A contract then? I give you power, you fight my enemies?" asked the hooded girl slinking around him as she continued to grin slyly. Darker emotions he reminded himself, wondering if he'd be bartering with this version of Hinata whenever she came out.
"If you want to word it like that fine. I've already agreed to help your other side." he answered flinching when the Hyuuga's cool fingers kissed the skin of his wrist, working their way down to the shaft of the spear.
"The fluffy bunny. You haven't agreed to help me yet though." there was lightning dancing on her fingers again and over the spear shaft and it was only pride that kept the Uchiha from letting go of his new weapon.
"You'll serve me yet, sweet minion. You'll see." she'd released the spear as she spoke but the lightning hadn't left the weapon. Her other hand reached to the sword I'd chosen though sliding up the scabbard to clasp her hand over his.
"I'll protect you demon girl, that's about it." he promised by way of protest not enjoying the way his companions grin stretched in a challenging manner before he yanked her hood back down. Wide innocent eyes blinked at him.
"Your evil side isn't nearly as cute Hinata." he ignored the way the brunette blushed bashfully as he stepped around her to claim his armour.
The opening to a new story. Not really sure how this one came to be, watched fate zero thought the whole summoned spirits thing was pretty damn cool, played a lot of old school Metroid and Castlevania so this thing came about when I sat down to finally break my writer's block. What if Hinata was a Samus like heroine collecting power ups with a summoned undead Sasuke as her companion, with Hiashi as a Dracula like figure she was planning to take down. Then I gave her the different personality depending on what power she was using at the time thing...for kicks mostly.
Anyway please leave a review with some feedback, let me know where you'd like to see this go. I've got a lot of world elements planned out but since it's an adventure there's lots of room for indulging reviewers :).
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