Chapter 4
(Three months into training)
"Idiot! The key to Shinning magic is your heart!" Raijin said in irritation. "Must I repeat your lesson?"
"Umm… Yes sir." Tsukune said. It was a four month after he was nearly killed by Moka, both, and their father. And they didn't visit him in his room, while he was healing, elves had an above average healing ability, but the wounds would have killed him and they wouldn't allow Tsukune to be healed. The rest had visited him, but they were soon not allowed to because it was bad for his health. Only Manami was allowed to visit him, and only at night, because Outer and Inner Moka would think it was something else and either, or both, would then finish the job.
"Fine." Raijin said. "Shinning magic is magic of the heart. Shinning mages must be able to use their heart to call their magic and vanquish the opponent. The strength of the magic depends on the strength of your heart. The weaker the heart the weaker the magic. You have an abnormally strong heart, so you should be able to grow in magic more easily, but if you don't understand the magic, it's useless!"
"Umm…Sorry sir." Tsukune said timidly.
Raijin ignored him. "Naturally a mage is pulled to a certain type of magic, I was pulled to thunder magic, and you to wind. But that doesn't make it your only magic." He pulled a flame into his hand. "I have thunder, fire, and earth, but they are the ones that I am best at. We need to find your magic, but that will have to wait until you can use your magic, most elves that awaken can use it in half a week, four months aren't enough for you to use it on command!"
"Sorry." Tsukune said.
"Don't care! Just use magic and I'm fine!" Raijin said. "Focus on an emotion and use it to break open the barriers of your magic, and then use it!"
Tsukune then took a deep breath in and then found himself in a state of tranquility. He could see everything. He saw the glint of sunlight, the splash of waves, and the wind blowing on the grassy plain, and then he saw the crackling of lightning as it was fired at him. Tsukune put out his hand and diverted the flow of lightning. With his other hand, he sent a pressurized flow of wind at him, which he dodged easily.
Raijin's mouth moved, but Tsukune didn't know what he was saying until an arrow of lightning was right in front of his face. Tsukune managed to divert the path of the arrow, but this time, instead to leading it to the ground; he sent it back at Raijin.
Raijin dodged the attack and sent magefire at the wind mage. The mage put a shield of wind in front of him to block the flames, but that was a mistake, the thunder sage dashed up and tried a quick swipe with his thunder blade. Tsukune dodged, but when he tried to punch him, as he did so many times training with Inner Moka, his punch had little to no effect.
Raijin knocked Tsukune away with the flat of his sword and in a second had him at sword point. "Elves can't use youki the same way a vampire can. Your elven heritage takes priority, but you can try to increase your physical strength. Be creative in the way you use magic."
Tsukune was happy that he used magic, but Raijin's statement quickly deflated his joy. "Yes sir."
"Now, wind magic doesn't do direct harm, be creative when you fight." Raijin said. "I'll end training now. Aella, you will train him in wind magic now." Raijin ordered to a young woman standing near a tree.
"You might be of the stronger Shinning Sages, but that doesn't allow you to order me around." Aella walked up to them. She seemed like she was eighteen. She had long brown hair, pointed ears, a nice body, was tall and thin, but she was wearing a blindfold. "Plus you were always the cause of my problems."
"I never stole your virginity." Raijin said in a bored tone, but Aella blushed.
"I-I never had it stolen." Aella defended herself.
"Then who did you give it to? I thought you lost it when you were…fifteen." Raijin teased.
"H-How did you…I never lost it!!!" Aella yelled her face was crimson.
"Really? I remember a certain someone boasting about taking a young, blind, female mage's virginity a couple years ago. Who was it?" Raijin said.
"No one took it!!!" Aella conjured wind and sent it at him.
Raijin disappeared and was right behind her. "I'm sorry; I guess I took it too far. Forgive me?" He was holding her from behind and was resting his chin on her head.
"W-What?" Aella's face was beyond red. "F-Fine. N-N-N-N-Now, get off!"
"Sure thing. You are still just as cute when you used to do that as an apprentice." He patted her head. "Better go." Raijin then disappeared in a flash of lightning.
"W-What?!" Aella looked to a smiling Tsukune.
"Nothing." Tsukune chuckled. "What was your relationship with him?"
"T-There was nothing between us!" She was strangling him. "He was just the top student a long time ago who I admired!" She said desperately. "Nothing else!"
"Yes sir!" Tsukune said.
"I'm a girl!" Aella yelled.
"Yes Mrs. Aella!" Tsukune corrected.
"Idiot! I'm a single virgin!" Aella said strangling the life out of him.
"I never said anything about your chastity!" Tsukune said, hoping to leave with his life.
"It seems you have a death wish." Aella said; her aura was filled with killing intent.
Tsukune screamed, but he didn't feel anything. "Aella-chan, you seem just as violent as before, I'm really disappointed in you." Raijin was right in from of him, holding off Aella.
"Raijin-senpai…" She then blushed. "I-I thought you left for today."
Raijin shook his head. "No, I wanted to make sure you didn't kill my charge here, but it seems that you are killing him, so I might have to relieve you of your duty. I'll end training today, Tsukune go back to the inn. I'll talk to Ahura-san." Raijin was using her last name, this is bad.
"Don't worry, it was just us playing, no need to do anything." Tsukune said trying to cover up for his other teacher.
Raijin glared at him, a glare that seemed to make Hell freeze over. "A Shinning Sage must be able to control passion and rule by reason; she demonstrated that passion is ruling her. I'm afraid that as the Headsage, I can't allow any weak links in the Shinning Sages." Raijin said grimly.
"I'm sorry…Raijin-senpai." Aella was crying.
"I…won't destroy your magic, that's far too cruel and is the punishment of traitors." Raijin said coldly, but Aella seemed to be happier. "But…you won't be able to use most of your magic, I'm sorry. But as the leader of the sages, you will be replaced, but you will be able to use simple magic, but I'm sorry, you were always like a daughter too me." He placed his hand on her head and whispered an enchantment. "You will lose most of your magic, but you will still be able to work, but you aren't a sage, or a mage. I'm sorry, but in place of your master, you are finished as a mage." There was a large burst of youki, and in a second it was gone, along with most of Aella's youki.
"Aella-san." Tsukune said as he went to the side of the crying elf.
"I let you keep the ability to read your environment, but not the rest, I am off now." Raijin said as he started to walk away.
"Why?" Tsukune said to the retreating sage. "Why did you do that?! She never did anything!"
"She was never fit to be a sage. We need reason to rule over us, she let passion rule and if passion rules, then her magic would go out of control eventually." Raijin said coldly. "We can have fun, but remember the most important rule, Passion rules reason." He then turned to fog. "Don't let your passion overcome your reason." With that his voice disappeared.
"Magic is everything to a mage, and he took that away." Tsukune was trying to calm down his former teacher. "I'm sorry. I'll try to ask him later."
She lifted her blindfold up and wiped away her tears. Tsukune saw that her eyes were pure white, no pupils at all. "Don't worry."
"What happened to your eyes?" Tsukune asked as he held her face to look at those white eyes.
"Nothing?" She tried to get away, but Tsukune held her firm.
"Please?" Tsukune asked gently.
She gave a big sigh. "I was born blind, so I didn't have much worth as anything, but Raijin took me in and became one of my masters at the elven magic school, he taught me magic and gave me eyes, but he took away his first gift, but not the second." She looked dead.
"Are you okay?" Tsukune asked.
"No, having your magic taken away is as good as dying to an elf." Aella said sadly.
"Let's go back to the inn." Tsukune suggested. Aella nodded and tried to stand. She slowly got up, but couldn't walk. Tsukune crouched down. "Here, I'll carry you." Tsukune said, motioning for her to climb onto his back.
"D-Don't be silly! I can walk just fine." Aella tried to walk, but tripped on her own two feet, and fell flat on her face.
"See, you can't walk like that." Tsukune said, chuckling, while he extended his hand too her.
"I can walk." Aella got up and then tripped.
"Aella-sensei." Tsukune was walking to her again.
"I don't need help." The cycle continued for ten minutes, Aella's face was turning redder by the second.
"See, Aella-sensei. You can't walk like that." Tsukune scolded his former teacher, who was riding on his back, trying to hide her face from the many citizens staring at them.
"Aella is dating Aono." A centaur said. "I thought you loved Raijin-sama."
Aella turned an even brighter red. "I'm not dating Tsukune!!" Aella screamed.
"So you still love Raijin-sama though, I see." A Minotaur teased. "I thought you would grow out of that, he's too old for you."
"Aella-sensei loss her magic by Raijin-sensei, I think she is probably in conflict with her feelings right now." Tsukune said. "She loves him, but the hate of him taking her magic is really great so…" Tsukune found himself getting hit by Aella.
"Idiot!!! Why are you telling people about this?!" Aella was hitting him on the head repeatedly. "Don't you know about privacy?!"
"Aw, lover's tiff." A unicorn teased the two, causing Tsukune too blush, while Aella went crimson.
"W-We aren't lovers!" Aella yelled, causing the three youkai to laugh aloud. "Uh…I-I'm leaving!" Aella stormed away, stumbling a little, but stormed away.
"She seems mad." Tsukune said. "I'll go catch up with her and make sure she's okay."
"Sure thing Tsukune-kun." The centaur said.
"They are great people, but they should know when to stop." Tsukune thought as he went chasing after his teacher.
He found her outside the inn, staggering to the door. "Aella-sensei, you will fall." Tsukune said grabbing her arm.
"Let go!" She pulled her arm from him and went for the door.
"Aella-sensei." Tsukune went catch her, but he ended up stepping on her dress and they fell into the inn. "Oww…Aella-sensei, are you okay?" Tsukune opened his eyes, but instead of seeing the floor, he saw Aella beneath him, apparently her dress was removed when he stepped on it, and that her shirt was ripped open. "Oh crap." Tsukune thought. "Sorry Aella-sensei!" Tsukune said, he tried to move, but he couldn't.
"Tsukune-kun?" Aella was stunned by what happened, but didn't make any attempt to move.
"Aella-san?" Tsukune felt her warm breath, and her heartbeat which was quickening while his own heart was thumping like mad in his ears. He felt his face heat, his palms sweat, he felt his heart constrict, and his breath was short and shallow.
"Tsukune." Aella was panting also. She looked like a goddess in this light.
Tsukune felt his face flush when he looked at her. She wasn't completely naked, she still wore her panties, but she didn't wear a bra. "Sensei…" Tsukune said, leaning closer to her.
"Tsukune-kun… I'm not your teacher anymore…call me…Aella." Aella said, short of breath.
"Aella." Tsukune leaned in and kissed her, passionately on the lips.
Their kiss seemed to end too soon; a Tsukune went up for air. "Tsukune-kun."
"Aella." Tsukune said as he stared at her beautiful face.
"Tsukune…" A voice said.
"What?!" Tsukune looked up suddenly, and standing just a few feet away are Inner and Outer Moka, Outer Moka looked like she would burst into tears, and Inner Moka looked like a lightning bolt just struck her.
"Let's go." Inner Moka turned around and started walking.
"Moka-san." Tsukune got to his feet and dashed to Inner Moka, and grabbed her shoulder, but she pushed it off. "Moka-san let me explain." He grabbed her shoulder again and turned her towards him, tears were flowing down her face, surprising Tsukune for a moment.
"What else is there to explain, that is what happened." Inner Moka pointed to the half-naked elf getting off the floor. "This is what happened, there is nothing to explain!" Inner Moka seemed to be holding in her tears, she started shaking, and then slapped him.
"M-Moka-san?" Tsukune was stunned beyond reason.
"Let's go." Inner Moka walked away, with Outer Moka following her, and neither looked back.
(Inner Moka, later that evening)
Outer Moka has been crying non-stop in their room, and even Inner Moka was having trouble stopping her tears, though she wasn't crying as loudly as her other self.
"Why?!!!" Outer Moka cried. "Does he not love us?!" she was crying into her inner self's shoulder.
"I don't know." Inner Moka said. "It seems he was not satisfied with us." The silver-haired vampire thought about training that morning, to get her mind off Tsukune.
(Flashback)
"You still aren't getting it!" Hellsing yelled as he threw Inner Moka at a tree for the millionth time. "If you try to use raw power to beat an opponent, you will lose when fighting someone with more power. Strategize the battle! Predict my attacks before I can think about them!! Now, let's fight again!" Hellsing mixed fast and slow movements to confuse her.
"Okay, read his movements, he's a close combat expert, so wait until he's in range…" Inner Moka saw a red blade cut he cheek. Inner Moka ran back. "What was that?!" A red blade was just in front of her face.
"Vampire magic." Hellsing said with a grin. "It was good that you were anticipating an attack, but expect and attack from any range. There are some people who use close combat, but can also us ranged combat."
"You can use magic also." Inner Moka glared at him.
"Yes, and if this wasn't training, you would be dead." He said. The slayer put his blade to the blood on the wall, this was a training center where elves spar, and the blood came off the wall and made his blade wider. "We can also take blood out of things, only when our blood comes in contact with it. So it is like blood sucking, only more deadly and less enjoyable." Hellsing said. "And isn't it a ritual between lovers, by the way, have you told Tsukune-kun that?"
"O-Of course." Inner Moka said.
"I have your blood in me; I can read your thoughts." Hellsing said to her.
"What?!" Inner Moka's head shot up.
"Just kidding." Hellsing laughed at her expression.
"Idiot!" Inner Moka ran and tried to hit him, only to get air.
"Nice panties." Hellsing was behind her, looking at her undergarments.
"Pervert! Get away from my Onee-sama!" A giant hammer came out of nowhere and slammed Hellsing's head into the ground, but alas, he didn't get hit!
"You almost had my head!" Hellsing said at the enraged little vampire, Shuzen Kokoa, who was charging at him with her hammer high over her head. "One enraged vampire, I can take, but two!!" He started screaming as the two vampires chased him. "This reminds of the time when I got your mother angry; I can't believe I'm alive."
"You knew my mother?" Kokoa and Inner Moka looked at each other.
"Both of them." Hellsing clarified.
"Bastard!!" The sisters yelled.
"Memories." Hellsing said as he remembered the times he almost died. I seriously envy him and his ability to be able to think about anything, EXCEPT the dangerous situation at hand.
This went on for half an hour before the two gave up and let him go. "How does he have so much stamina?" Inner Moka asked herself and Hellsing was standing there looking like he didn't even run.
"Thank your mother." Hellsing said.
"Bastard!" Inner Moka said.
"She was just as violent as you are. When we went to Youkai academy, she tried to kill me on many occasions, granted I deserved it, but I almost died." Hellsing said happily. "But your father was in love with them. He loved them more than anything, and always protected them, but he also made me help him in restraining your mother. She tried to kill anyone that was going to hurt either off them." The slayer smiled. "I see that you have your mother's pride, and your father's strength, but let's increase your strength to, near your father's. He's a beast." Hellsing laughed.
"So you were friends with her also?" Outer Moka asked.
"Yeah." Hellsing said. "I can see your differences." He said to the silver and pink-haired vampires.
"There are differences?" Kokoa asked.
"Yes. You look exactly like your mother." He told Inner Moka. "And you look exactly like your grandmother, they were both beautiful."
Their grandmother died a long time ago, before they were born, so they wanted to know about her. "What was she like?" Outer Moka asked.
"She had a nasty right hook." The slayer said, rubbing his jaw. "Anyway, she was a caring person, but she always followed her beliefs."
"Would she…approve of us and Tsukune?" Outer Moka asked a little embarrassed. Hellsing found out the first day that they loved him, but weren't dating him.
"No." Hellsing said.
"Well, it's not like she can do anything about it." Inner Moka said gruffly.
"But…" Hellsing said, clearly not liking being interrupted. "She would say that if it was true love, she can't do anything about it. She'd give her blessing, but she wouldn't approve of it, but she would have told you of the way to solve that problem."
"Which is?" Inner Moka asked.
"Give him immortality." Hellsing said. "Not like the way you did it, but have him drink your blood, thus turning him into a vampire, and you could be together forever." They looked stunned. Turning a human into a vampire was against the sacred laws. "It is against the law, but to her, love is more important than law, all she had against it was the anguish of when he dies, but now she would approve of it completely." Hellsing said.
"But he's an elf." Inner Moka said.
"He's immortal, and you love him." Hellsing said. "She wouldn't care."
"Was she always that simple?" Inner Moka asked.
"I don't know, ask your father." Hellsing said. "But I should tell you this. While you're being angry with him, another girl can steal him away from you. I think you should make up with him now." Hellsing went to the door and opened it. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to make sure Gin doesn't die, Moka-chan, please heal Moka-san, my magic cancels her healing abilities." Hellsing ran out the door. "Don't kill him, death is short, pain is long." Hellsing yelled to Kurumu. "Torture is longer!"
"Ajax-san!!!" Gin yelled, surprised that Hellsing gave her that idea.
Inner and Outer Moka walked to the ladder, the elven village made no sense, they had portals, and one door lead to another…Hellsing's inn made no sense, no wonder they had few people willing to stay.
Inner Moka went around the corner to exit and see Tsukune's training, but when she looked, she saw Tsukune, lying over an elf, who was only wearing panties, and they were kissing. Inner Moka was shocked, and she heard her other self whisper his name. "Tsukune…"
(Flashback; End)
"I guess he was right." Inner Moka said sadly. "For four months, we were angry and ignored him, so he went to someone else." Inner Moka felt tears being forced out. "It seems we're to blame, his nature is to help people, and yet we took it seriously." Inner Moka felt her tears coursing down her face. "I'm sorry."
(Tsukune)
Tsukune was lying in his bed, he just couldn't get to sleep, and he could only see the tears Inner Moka shed. "I not only hurt Outer Moka, which is horrible, I hurt Inner Moka." Tsukune sighed. "What came over me, I was trained these three months to suppress any urge. It was only a few months, but he drilled it into me already." Tsukune rolled to his side, but since he was at the edge of his bed, he fell. Tsukune got up and decided that he would go outside to try to relax.
He opened to door and to his surprise Manami was outside. "Manami-chan? Why are you here?"
"Moka-san and Akashiya-san…" Outer Moka and Inner Moka. "Wanted to be alone. So…may I stay here?" Manami asked.
"Sure, Manami-chan." Tsukune smiled. "Come inside."
"Please excuse the intrusion." Manami stepped inside. The room was pretty bare. There was only a bed, a closet, and a desk. "This is really empty." Manami said, looking around.
"Yeah. I don't really have anything to put in here, since I can't buy anything and we left all our stuff in the rubble of what was Youkai Academy." Tsukune said with a voice of regret. "But at least I have a room."
"Yes…" Manami yawned.
"Go to sleep, I'll wake you in the morning, for your healer training." Tsukune said.
"H-How did you know?" Manami asked.
"I…have my sources." Tsukune said, grinning.
"What sources?" Manami asked.
"Go to sleep." Tsukune ordered.
"Yes sir." Manami said sadly. "Can't I stay up longer though?"
"You came here to sleep, and sleep you will do." Tsukune said. "If you wanted to stay up, you should have come at a later time." Tsukune carried her and put her in the bed. "Sweet dreams."
"Good night…Where are you going to sleep?" Manami asked.
"I'll make do." The wind mage smiled. "Now sleep."
It was a couple hours later, Manami was asleep, and Tsukune decided to read facts about the youkai living in the elven lands.
Elves are immortal youkai said to have been the first youkai on the planet. They have great powers and wield the magic of the heart. They have powers equal to vampires, but not equal healing ability, though the ability to use healing magic is quite great. Magic of the heart takes form in the magic that is better utilizes the mages ability, fire, water, wind, earth, light, space, and time. They could also use many variations of seven magic, though there are no known space mages, nor time mages.
Minotaurs: they are giant youkai, with overwhelming strength. They are said to have disappeared millions of years ago, but have actually been protected by the elves while they were endangered, in the elven lands.
Unicorn: Holy youkai that were said to have appeared and disappeared in the human world, thus creating the unicorn of fairytales. The Lost Ones are said to burn by contact of a unicorn, even more with the blood of a unicorn.
"What is a Lost One?" Tsukune thought as he read, but then he continued reading.
Fallen Elf: An elf that has given into the Shadow arts, denying the light, not much is none except they use the counter to the Magic of the heart.
Tsukune stopped reading. "There is no information on these Fallen Elves. This doesn't say much." Tsukune went to the door and opened it, planning on going to the library for more information, but standing there was Aella, looking as if she was going to knock on his door several times. "Why is everyone going knocking on my door tonight, they should be asleep."
"Tsukune-kun…May I…come in?" Aella asked nervously.
"S-Sure…Aella-san…" Tsukune said as he stepped to the side, allowing her to enter.
Aella entered the room and looked to a sleeping Manami and smiled. "How old is she?"
"I don't know, I guess about thirteen or fourteen, not any older, probably." Tsukune said with a shrug.
"What are you reading?" Aella asked as she went to the fact book. "Studying about the youkai in the elven lands, aren't you? It's good to know." She said with a smile.
"Yes, I wanted to know for four months and so I…How can you read that?" Tsukune asked the blind elf.
"I know how to use magic to give me eyes. I can see everything with magic, and I can also read with it. Raijin…taught me this." Aella said glumly.
"I'm sorry." Tsukune said rubbing the back of his neck.
"Don't worry about it." Aella said. "It's not like you could do anything about it."
"Yes. Sorry." Tsukune let his hang.
"Stop it!" The elf punched the half-elf in the arm.
"Yes ma'am." Tsukune said, rubbing his arm.
"Tsukune…I'm sorry about what happened!" Aella dropped to her knees and had her head to the ground. "I don't know what happened."
"Aella-san." Tsukune looked at her. "You shouldn't apologize, I'm at fault. I guess I lost control. You are just so beautiful." Tsukune looked at the floor. "I'm sorry; you must be feeling horrible about what happened with Raijin…" Tsukune didn't know what to say.
"Actually, I feel great." Aella said, making Tsukune's head rocket up. "I know it's weird, but I don't feel that bad about it, I don't understand!" Aella slammed her fist on his desk.
"You'll wake Manami-chan." Tsukune warned.
"Sorry." Aella said. "I should be sad about this, I should be crying about losing my magic, but I…can't."
"…Umm…How do you know Raijin-sensei?" Tsukune asked cautiously.
"He was a teacher in the Academy of the Heart. He was one of my teacher teaching magic to me." Aella stared out the window.
(Aella in the Academy of the Heart, Flashback)
"Master Raijin?" A young Aella of about ten years old walked to the thousand year old sage reading at his desk.
"Yes Aella-chan." The Thunder Sage said with a smile.
"Will you be training me again?" She asked him with pleading eyes.
"Sure thing young lady." He ruffled her hair. "But remember, keep your guard up, you don't want to be knocked into the lake again."
Aella pouted. "You know I hate that story!" Aella said, crossing her arms.
Raijin laughed. "Sure thing, mermaid." Raijin walked through the door.
"Don't call me that!" Aella yelled at the Thunder Sage walking through the halls of the palace.
(Flashback, end)
"So he did have fun?" Tsukune asked with a surprised look on his face.
"Yes, he was a very nice person." Aella said sadly. "He cared about me, and always protected me, though he did get mad sometimes." Aella yawned.
"Maybe you should get some sleep." Tsukune suggested.
"Weird, I usually stay up so much longer." Aella yawned again.
"Want to go to your room, or should I carry you?" Tsukune offered.
"I'll walk." Aella stood up and walked to the door, but she collapsed at the door.
"Aella-san!" Tsukune rushed up to her. "Aella-san." He held her and put his ear to her chest, he heard her heart beating, and he heard her snore softly. "She's sleeping. I would never believe it if I didn't see this." Tsukune said. He pulled the futon he was going to use and laid Aella down in it and tucked her in. "She must be tired to be able to fall asleep like that." Tsukune chuckled to himself. "Raijin-sensei, come inside, it must be cold out there."
Behind Tsukune, the windows opened, revealing Raijin, the Thunder Sage standing there. "Very good, you could tell I was here." Raijin mused.
"Well, since I can now use magic, it probably increased my senses." Tsukune said nervously.
"Yes, your senses are increased. You have longer sight, keener ears and sense of smell, maybe a curse, but your sense of touch is not as good as it should be, and taste doesn't change." Raijin said. "Maybe I should let you turn back into your human form?"
"I can?" The half-elf asked.
"Is that what you desire?" The Thunder Sage asked.
"Yes!" Tsukune said.
"Very well." He tossed a ring at the half-elf. "Put it on your index finger, it will suppress your youki and give you the form of a human."
Tsukune looked at the ring, he could feel the power in it, and it was immense. "Are you sure this can do that?" Tsukune asked, fingering the ring.
"Just put the damn ring on!" Raijin ordered.
Tsukune slipped the silver ring onto his index finger. He felt all the powers in him disappear, leaving him an empty shell. Tsukune dropped to his knees, clutching his chest. It felt like his body was destroying itself. But the pain died down to a whisper, his eyes cleared up and his head cleared, giving him awareness. "What was that?" Tsukune asked, gasping for breath.
"Your body was changing back to a human's." Raijin gave a blank look. "Did you expect it to be painless?"
"N-No, but…how can Moka-san stand that?"Tsukune asked, still not able to stand up.
"This only happens once, during the re-sealing. After that your body should be adjusted to it and it will be a simple thing." Raijin dismissed Tsukune's pain as nothing. "Anything else you wish to ask, boy?"
Tsukune thought for awhile, but then asked his question. "Why is Uncle Ajax here?"
"He wanted to be here to witness prophesy." Raijin said easily.
"What is that prophesy?" Tsukune asked, people talked about this 'prophesized one,' and Tsukune wants to know what it means.
"One born of the Three Kings will lead the world to destruction, thus creating a realm of peace for ages." Raijin recited. "The one blessed by the Lord of the Sun and Lady of the Moon will do battle with the Terrors, and the result will be the foundation of the New World." Raijin was in a trance while speaking, what was he doing? "The Traitor of Shadows, the one whose choices will ultimately destroy the world, and lead it to chaos, or save the world and bring peace." Raijin stopped talking and seemed to wake up from a deep sleep. "That is the prophesy."
"H-How do you know that by memory?" Tsukune asked in awe of his teacher.
"I gave the prophesy." Raijin said simply.
"R-Really?" Tsukune asked.
"People consider me a gift from the Gods. I am a demigod to people, but they don't understand the fact that I, too, am mortal." Raijin shook his head. "Any other question?"
"Um… Do you know who the people of the prophesy are?" Tsukune asked afraid of the answer.
"You are one." Tsukune froze, he realized he was one of them, but wished he wasn't.
"Which one?' Tsukune had his head in his palm.
"The One blessed by the Lord of the Sun and the Lady of the Moon." Raijin said, not catching on to Tsukune's distress.
"How about the others?" Tsukune asked.
"I don't know." Raijin shrugged. "I just said it, I didn't write it."
"Okay, Raijin-sensei." Tsukune looked down. "What am I suppose to do as a prophesized one?"
"I don't know, but I know you will be able to do it." Raijin said solemnly. "You have friends for a reason, they catch you as you fall, they pull you up from the abyss, and they are there for you." Raijin looked at the stars. "Never take them for granted."
"I won't do that." Tsukune said nobly. "I will always treasure my friends, and I will be strong enough to protect them, at least them."
Tsukune stood there, not backing down, but he was caught off guard by Raijin's laugh. "That's enough of those cheesy lines. Anymore questions?"
"Who is Uncle Ajax?" Tsukune wanted to know.
"He is a slayer…a human with the power of a vampire. He is also a Hellsing." Raijin said calmly, ignoring Tsukune's stunned face. "He is also teaching the two vampires, the arts of a vampire."
"What is he?" Tsukune couldn't believe this.
"He's the Human King." Raijin said simply. "But before we go any further, let's train more, you didn't get enough training." Raijin then jumped out the window.
Tsukune ran to the window to make sure the Thunder Sage was safe, but the Thunder sage disappeared by the time Tsukune looked outside. "Being a Thunder Mage is very useful, maybe he will teach me that, only using wind magic."
Tsukune jumped out the window and summoned his magic. "Bad idea!!!" Tsukune screamed as he plummeted from the third floor window. "Why did I do this?!! What possessed me to do this?!!" Tsukune was desperately trying to call upon the magic. He kept trying to call it but it wouldn't come to him.
"Master, you have awakened. I will be there." Tsukune heard this voice again.
"Who are you?" Tsukune asked again.
"Esen, master." Tsukune found that he was no longer falling, but flying. "Does master enjoy the view?" Tsukune was riding a dragon, flying high over the forest to where they would train.
"w-What?!!" Tsukune then grabbed one of the spikes on the dragon's back.
"You will not fall." Esen said.
"That's great, just who are you?" Tsukune asked, loosening his grip.
"I am your partner of magic. We are creatures that are created from the magic in a mages body." Esen started explaining. "We share your power, I am a wind dragon, and I have your strength. I will also die when you do, so try not to die."
Tsukune thought on the brief description. "So we share the same power?"
"Actually, my power grows as yours, but we aren't linked like that, you might be drained, but I will have youki that can be transferred to you. I can give you more energy to fight, since I don't use it." Esen clarified.
"Is that all you can do?" Tsukune asked, but he instantly regretted it.
"Of course, you have a dragon that can destroy cities and destroy armies by landing on them, but no, you want more!" Esen snapped.
"Sorry! I didn't mean it like that!" Tsukune responded, really embarrassed. "I just thought…"
"Got you." Esen said smugly.
"…" Tsukune had no comment.
The rest of the way they were silent. They saw the Thunder Sage sitting in a circle, and around the circle were torches, one the ground was lines, forming a star inside of the circle. Tsukune dismounted off of Esen and went into the circle. As he stepped inside a barrier seemed to materialize around him. Tsukune put his hand to the barrier and recoiled as he felt lightning pass through him.
"That is a barrier of lightning; you cannot pass it without me dropping the barrier." Raijin stood up. "I see you received your partner."
"Yes, I guess she is the partner." Tsukune looked at Esen, who was lying down, maybe sleeping. "Why haven't you told me about her?"
"Because you never asked." Raijin said making Tsukune hit his head. "And that I wasn't sure that you would even receive your partner, thus making you severely weaker than any mage, regardless or your pure magic power."
"I might not have met her?" Tsukune asked.
"Yes." Raijin said, and then he turned to Esen and asked her a question. "How did he awaken you?"
"He jumped out the window to try to use his magic to fly, it was quite humorous." Esen said.
"He jumped out the window." Raijin smirked. "You're an elf, not a phoenix."
"I know…" Tsukune was really embarrassed. "I just wanted to see if I could use magic to fly."
"Maybe later, but screaming like a girl in front of a girl is really bad." Raijin said with a smug grin.
"They were asleep." Tsukune said.
"Not them, her." He pointed to Esen.
"Esen's a girl?" Tsukune's eyes widened.
"Thanks." Esen said sarcastically.
Raijin chuckled. "Enough chatter, we must fight." He extended his hand and the ball of lightning appeared again, but this time, it seemed more powerful than before. He wrapped his hand around the yellow ball and closed it, forming a blade of lightning.
"Something seems wrong about this sword, what happened to it?" The sword changed from being a plain sword into a lightning bolt, and was twice his arm length. "What happened to your sword?"
"This time I used the maximum amount to energy to create my special sword, Raiden." Raijin said.
"Why didn't you use this earlier?" Tsukune asked.
"Because I wouldn't be able to use the spell Kristallnacht." Raijin said simply.
"The giant fires spell?" Tsukune asked.
"Yes." Raijin held the sword parallel to the ground, in one hand, pointing it at Tsukune. "Now you try, you saw what I did, and you will copy, but you will get the basic wind blade first."
Tsukune removed his ring and then focused on magic; he found that calm center that he had when he used magic on demand earlier and called it and molded it in his palm. Tsukune opened his eyes and saw the orb of wind magic in hic palm. He closed it in his palm and it turned into a long narrow sword. "So this is a weapon of wind."
"Yes, make sure to keep it strong, but after a period of time, the youki will be drained and it will disappear." Raijin explained. "Now we fight." Raijin charged at Tsukune and performed a horizontal slash.
(Thirty minutes later)
Raijin grabbed the blade of Tsukune's sword, disarmed him, and launched Tsukune at the barrier with a lightning fast kick.
Tsukune hit the barrier, and he felt it shock him again. "This is not good. What did that vampire teach you when you were training?"
"She taught me to fight with my fist, not with a sword." Tsukune said with a glare. "She is very strong."
"Yes, she was gifted with power. I wonder how she doesn't know how to use it well." Raijin said. "Alucard was a very strong man, he had almost unmatched power, and her mother was no pushover either." Raijin shrugged. "Maybe because she was sealed for so long, her body can't handle what a vampire can normally."
"How do you know her parents?" Tsukune asked, wanting to change the subject.
"Yes, do you know what they are?" Raijin asked.
"Um…no." Tsukune said.
"Then you won't." Raijin said, tossing the blade to Tsukune. "Come at me this time."
Tsukune nodded and let his youki flow into the blade. Tsukune flushed, fencing term for charging at your opponent, directly at Raijin.
(Raijin)
"He's too far away; I see it perfectly and have plenty of time to react." The Thunder Sage made Raiden disappear and created a dagger. "Time for close quarter combat." Raijin looked at Tsukune; he saw every opening and every well-guarded areas, the head, heart, and lungs. "At least he knows the vital areas." Raijin stepped forward but froze in his tracks. In place of Tsukune was a girl with brown hair, blue eyes, and a radiant smile. "E-Elene…"
"Raijin!" He heard Esen say, and he noticed that he didn't bring his defenses up and Tsukune was about to remove his head, so he used the only thing he could think of, he changed his neck into pure lightning.
(Tsukune)
"Raijin-sensei!" Tsukune thought as his sword went through Raijin's neck, but he felt little to no resistance, he would expect resistance as the sword went through the vertebra, or for it to be stopped, but it went right through.
Tsukune let his sword drop as he heard Raijin scream in pain. "Raijin-sensei!!! I'm so sorry!!! I-I didn't mean to…" Tsukune started, but stopped as the thunder sage put his hand on the wind mage's shoulder.
"I was too careless and allowed you get too close with an attack." Raijin said calmly, while keeping his other hand on his neck. "I apologize for the fright."
"That was worse than a mere fright." Tsukune said, gasping for breath. "How are you alive?"
Raijin hesitated, but after a while he answered. "I turned my neck into lightning, it's a dangerous technique and it will save you, but you will go through excruciating pain."
"Is that only if something goes through a limb?" Tsukune asked, still worried, but glad he didn't die.
"Yes, but it's a difficult technique, and only I can use it." Raijin said. "But I can only perform a partial body transformation, not a full body transformation, that hasn't been done in millions of years."
"It's that hard?" Tsukune was concerned about the side-effects of such a powerful technique.
"If one thing goes wrong, you might lose that limb, that's why the full body hasn't been attempted in years." Raijin extended his hand and turned it into lightning. "I can't fight with this hand." He passed his hand through the ground, and pulled it out. "It's not solid, so it would allow attacks to go through it, but it can't punch people." Raijin made his hand solid again.
"I thought mages didn't punch people." Tsukune said, smiling.
"I said it's not recommended, but we can punch people, like this." Raijin punched the ground in front of them and the force blew rocks in the direction of the force.
"H-How did you…" Tsukune started.
"I used magic to amplify the force of my punch to about half of a vampire's. You might be able to perform it if you train." Raijin said with a sad grin.
"Why did you stop earlier? You should have been able to dodge my attack easily." Tsukune accused.
"It's none of your concern." Raijin said coldly.
"Fine…If you don't want to talk about it, you won't." Tsukune stood up and stretched. "I'm drained."
"Good." Raijin said, making Tsukune stare at him. "That reminds me, tomorrow, we are going to go to Aionis for a field trip, along with all your friends of course." Raijin said as the barrier went down. "It's a hot spring town, so you will be able to relax there and take your mind off the pain of battle, like you do in battle."
Tsukune hasn't seen his friends for a few months now, and now he will spend more time with them, not near the hot springs. Tsukune looked to Raijin only to see he was gone. "Raijin-sensei?" Tsukune looked around for the elusive sage.
"Have a good night sleep." Raijin was sitting on a phoenix, but unlike the phoenix of legends, this fire bird, was a thunder bird! "What?! Do you think you're the only one with a partner and that they were only dragons? I think not." Raijin flew on the phoenix as they disappeared.
"Master, let's go to sleep now." Esen said to the stunned wind mage.
"Yes, but why did he have us train in that circle, and what did those lines mean?" Tsukune asked, pointing to the star.
"This is a spell to increase the results of training, but it only works during a lunar eclipse." Esen said calmly.
"It's a lunar eclipse." Tsukune looked over head, but could only see stars.
"You must be the densest person alive." Esen said, rolling her eyes. "I'm going back, now come if you want, or continue star gazing." Esen got up and lifted slightly off the ground.
"I'm coming." Tsukune said, and he used wind magic as stepping stone to get on the dragon's back. "Did I do something wrong, Esen-san?" Tsukune asked.
"Nothing, master. I don't care that you thought I was male." Esen said sarcastically.
"You won't let that go, will you?" Tsukune asked nervously.
"No, master." Esen said with a hint of amusement in her voice.
"Great." Tsukune said as they flew through the sky.
That was chapter four
I hope you liked that chapter, and yes I did change the name, sorry, but I would like you to help me change the title again, if you don't mind. I would like a good title for the story.
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