Hello, again!
It was lunch time, and almost everyone was gathered in the Guild eating their lunch. It was the day after the parting of Levy, Gajeel and Lily, and Laxus was wondering who'd be next, it was around this time they got the new jobs, making the more agitated members even more worked-up then usual, and he could already smell the mailman. He had arrived at the door, he opened it, and gave a bag full of letters and jobs. As Makarov took it, he went to his office in the back and separated the complaints from the jobs. It took him about thirty minutes and when he arrived he had two job fliers in his hand. "So, two groups of people, is that it?" Laxus thought, curious about who would they be.
"Now, attention everyone!" Master said, but it didn't help much, as everybody kept talking and drinking, "HEY!" now that did it, his scream was enough to shut everyone up. "Now, in my hand I have requests of upmost importance for they are both from members of the Ten Wizard Saints: Cana, Wendy and Carla you will have to go help with a graveyard-"
"WHAT?! Oh nooo..." Wendy said, terrified over the thought of going to a graveyard. Seeing this, Cana went to her and tried to comfort the little girl.
"Try not worry too much, my child, he asked specifically for you two. This is a job with Faust, he has the rank of Seventh. I am sorry for the incovenience, but it will take a year to do it, you must take this paper for him to be sure of it that it was you, I'm guessing for safety reasons." He handed the paper to Cana, as she was still comforting Wendy, very uneasy with the thought of a graveyard. "Erza! You'll be doing a mission with Kagura and Mermaid's Heel's master, the holder of the rank of Eighth, Mayuri Makise, she was requested by higher ranks to take two mages of choice and go to the mountains and take care of an infestation of monsters that have been terrorizing the city. Since you and Kagura are swordsmen, she thought it'd be more appropriate. You have the map to their guild here." He said, as he handed the flier to them.
"Thank you, Master. I'll go immediatly" She said, inadvertently taking the flier with them. This course of action did not go unnoticed by Laxus, who has been paying a lot of attention, not to his grandfather, but to everyone's reactions. "Damn, they are clever. Everyone cringed at the thought of a graveyard, nobody noticed the similarities between their jobs and Gajeel's. Erza's didn't specify how long it'd take, but it's a whole mountain, it's bound to take a while, maybe even a year, and the graveyard thing kept everyone distracted to the length, which was also a year. Not even Lucy, who should be between the smartest of the guild, noticed it."
Erza was on her way to the train station, carrying her oversized luggage, as she suddenly stopped in her tracks. She saw a familiar sword on the floor. "What?! Is this...? It is! This sword. It belongs to Kagura. The dark wrapping, the covered hilt. This is Archenemy. What's it doing here? Has something happened to Kagura?!"
She looked around frantically, looking for anyone even slightly familiar. Since she couldn't find anyone there, she ran and entered the train staion. She looked, trying to find anyone that could help with her search, but that was when she felt a sudden drop in her magic, and she fell on the floor, unconscious, being then recollected by a strange passerby, he was covered in dark clothing, covering his body and even his body form. He also took the fallen sword, having done its porpose of making Erza's guard drop momentaneously.
This man took her to a strange building in an alley, far away from anyone who might recognize him. He put Erza in a jail, with Kagura, and an unfamiliar woman as well. All of them had passed out, though this would not be for long. They were too strong to remain like that for a lot of time. And he wasn't that strong himself so he had to be prepared.
The women were right now locked in a jail covered with chains that would block magic. If he was lucky, this would be enough to stop the tree of them to move to much, so when they wake up, week as they will be, stranded, he would get around one minute before he had to take all their magic again. The mysterious man was still a begginer in Magic Cancelation, only being able to take the amount corresponding to half his own magical power. The sudden shock was enough to take away their consciousness, but not enough to do it for more than an hour, maybe less. That'd be his time limit, even if he could take their magic again, they would wake up not that late afterwards, they might not even pass out at all.
He quickly took Archenemy from his current place on his waist. Taking out its bandages, he removed the sword from its hilt. It was a fine blade. Really one of the best blades he's seen, he was almost pained to do this. He put the sword the window and watched as that place was soon completely full of small 'papermen', then, as those left the place, so has the sword. It'd now be taken to the headquarters. The easy part of his job was done, now to the hard part.
There was something else that would put him and his team in danger, Erza's Nakagami Armor. To take it out of her, without having to deal with a awaken Erza, he had connect himself using his primary magic, Archive, then he would force-transport the said armor to the real world. This, of course, had many risks, by connecting himself with Erza, he might disturb her enough to wake her up, which would not go well; this could happen again if he successfully materializes the armor. To prevent this, he has to do a thorough job connecting himself with her brain, as a small wrong stimulus wakes her up, and to do it like that takes him a very long time, he might finish this just as the first one would wake up.
With this in mind, he put his hands to work. He summoned the various screens and keybords to activate his archive. Then, he started doing things as if he was about to install something in her mind. Usually, this is to put maps and timers into people's heads, but right now what he was installing was a sequence of letters and numbers that might be able to give him access to the place where she has her equipment. With this process, though, he had to keep opening and closing all the doors in her mind, keep entering a special code to give him access to new paths, the problem was the fact that he was doing this in the dark, every mind was different, and even though he had trained with other people, this only gave him a thin string of clues. Everything else he had to figure out himself. Only this time he didn't have that much time, and this process alon would take away half of his time.
But he, evetually, did it, he entered Erza's pocket universe where everything he could want was there.
Now, in his screen there was a bunch of different weapons and armors floating around in a white, shining space. He selected the desired one. Now, he had to write the code to install the programme that would allow him to teleport that armor. Then he would have to convert the armor into a series of numbers and letters. This process proved to be harder then what he'd thought, and, by now, he realized that if he did finish it before the women woke up, it'd be by a hairsbreadth. But he knew he could do it, he trained this beforehand and he did it, a few times even. Although, there was another thing, usually he'd teleport something to be next to him, but now he had to do it to a place further away, to his master's office. The thought of killing the woman crossed his mind, but he quickly pushed it to the back of his mind, he knew that if any harm, be it mental or physical done to the woman would just wake her up and destroy everything he had done.
Five minutes left and he had finished doing the code, now he had to select it, put it on the transportation software and enter the wanted coordinates. That's when he heard groans. Panic started to flare in his chest and he couldn't write faster by now. But as the woman opened her eyes, he pressed enter, finishing the job before she attacked, now all he had to do was keep himself alive until the download was complete.
"Hm, where am I?" it was the strange, unnamed woman who talked, as she looked around in her groggy state. "Huh, chains, a prison. I see, you trapped me, and my assistants as well. According to the clock in the wall, I've been here for around an hour, well, less. My magical power is weakened, though. Ohh, I get it, so you take away some of my magic and the sudden change caused me to pass out and gave you time to imprison me. Is that it? Of course it is, say, then, what's your name?"
"Why do you care?" he retorted.
"I thought you'd want some time to make that thing load. If you don't want to tell me, I won't force you. But know this," she said suddenly looking in his eyes from across the room, "I'm getting bored, and you wouldn't like when I'm bored." She said, showing a bored expression with a slight, almost non-existent grin.
"I'm called Shou Tucker" he said, looking at her, nervous about the download, even if it was halfway through.
"Hello Shou, I am Mayuri Makise. I'll be your killer today." She said, without fliching, looking at him with soulless eyes.
"What? That's preposterous. You are between the nice ones. How do you think the people above you would feel if they knew one of the Ten Wizard Saints killed someone. Your rank would be taken away from you" Shou said, almost laughing actually, showing that he was confident that he would live to finish the download.
"I'm afraid you did a terrible mistake, though. You confused me for someone else. You know that I'm from the Ten Wizard Saints, but you're confusing me with the big names like Makarov and Jura, the goody two-shoes that would never kill anyone. What makes you think I'm someone like that as well?" Mayuri argumented.
"The fact that it doesn't matter either way." he grinned "The download is COMPLETE, my job is done and even if you kill me, I've done my job." he was almost laughing like a maniac until...
"Alright, I've grown bored of you." She breathed in. Then, she foccused on Erza and breathed out, and a small snake-like pattern left her lips, then, roaming aroung her body, it reached the floor. After that, as sudden as lightning, it grew and bit the man. What was left was a simple pair of legs and hands, which then formed a huge puddle of blood, as it was coming out of these severed limbs. The snake then bit turned to the jail Mayuri was in, and quickly released her from her chains. Now released, she pat the snake, making go back to its 2D form, crawling up her arm. She then went to wash her face in the bathroom in the next room.
Soon after, the other women woke up.
"What happened?" Kagura started. "What's up with these chains?" She continued, almost speaking Erza's thoughts. "Where are we?", she looked to the sides, only seeing Erza to her left and a bunch of broken chains. "Wait... MASTER, WHERE ARE YOU?"
The said person revealed herself, as she left the bathroom. "Calm down, sleepyheads. We seem to have been ambushed. Tell me, do you feel any different? Anything?" she asked.
"No, I don't think so. Could you release us, though?" Erza replied.
"Can you not release yourselves?" Mayuri replied, curious if they were still lacking in magic.
"Oh, uh no, these chains are blocking our magic" Erza replied. This made Mayuri frown, but she soon shrugged and made swirly motions with her hands, creating to small marble-like balls made of aur. She then threw them at her, cutting and destrying the chains.
"So you're both perfectly fine, isn't that right? Then what could he be possibly doing to us." Mayuri thought that maybe he had changed something in the fighting abilitys, but that wasn't it. She walked around the room thinking of things that could be "downloaded", until she stumbled on something, it was a sword's hilt. She picked it up, only to then drop it in shock. "Archenemy... ERZA, are you missing any weapon or armor?!" she screamed.
"Huh, let me see... Wait... MY NAKAGAMI ARMOR'S GONE!" Erza screamed, terrified over the loss of her strongest armor.
"And that hilt, it's from Archenemy, isn't it?" Kagura asked, a mix of anger and confusion in her features.
"I'm afraid it is. I'm sorry, but it seems someone took our consciousness and then your weapons." Mayuri said.
"I can't believe this. Where is he?! I'll make him pay for what he did!" Erza said, quite angry at having her armor taken away from her.
"He's dead. I killed him." Mayuri said, emotionless.
" You killed... HOW COULD YOU!? YOU JUST TOOK ANOTHER PERSON'S LIFE. WHO-"
"Erza, please. I know you're against killing, but this time you must understand. We were stranded and our best weapons were taken away from us. Who knows what he did to them or what chain of events he caused, and chances are he would end up killing another if he didn't die himself. At least try to ignore this." Kagura defended her master's actions.
"I just do not agree with killing, but did you at least find anything about him, like who he worked for or anything alike?" Erza asked, slightly disappointed in her friend's line of thought, but willing to let it go for the time being.
"He believed strongly that I wouldn't kill him, meaning he was naive and thought of only two sides: the good guys and the bad guys. If he saw me in the good guys, hence the thought of his death being against my principles, that means he himself was between the bad guys. You might not know of this, but Zeref as started to make an army, collecting dark mages from all over, and this guy was between them, I'm sure of it. But that also means, your greates weapons are now in the enemie's hands. This is also the real reason I asked to go to the mountains with you both, as I told Kagura before this whole thing happened, is to train both of you and make you better warriors or mages to fight the dark army. Your strongest weapon has been taken away but maybe there's a replacement. Let me think." She closed her eyes, foccusing on what would be a good weapon for them, until it hit her. "That's it! If you come with me, I can teach you a way to have something that can easily rival those weapons, what do you say?" Mayuri said, looking primarily at Erza, as she would be the one that might oppose to it the most.
"I say fine. But what would be this thing you'll be teaching us?" Erza said.
Mayuri nodded, and asked both of them to come with her by doing a simple hand gesture. They reached the outside, and started going to the train station again. They walked in silence, went to their train in silence, and reached the requested mountain in silence. Only when she was sure that no one would be listening, she said, "Soul Weapon Magic", a phrase that left both women curious and wanting for more information. "This is also known as the Weaponsmith Magic, for you see, it is something that allows you to forge a sword that will mirror your own soul. If you choose the way of the warriour, you will have a sword that can change itself to resemble more and more you soul; choose the way of the angel, and you will have a new magic that will change according to the light side of your soul; or choose the way of the demon, and you will have a sword that can, eventually, release the darkness of your soul. Now the question is, which one of these do you want to become: an angel, a warrior or a demon?"
"A WARRIOR!" the brave girls said in unison, as they knew theirselves well enough to realize the best way to be true to themselves would be to become a swordsman.
And that's the end of chapter two, tell me what you're thinking, and also these chapters should come twice a week, this I promise, even if I have to do it in two days, I will bring you two chapters. Oh, and on the next one we'll have Wendy and Cana in a graveyard, bound to get spooky.