Our First Step!

[Two Days later] [Free Trade City, Granicus]

Minako, Natsumi and Akira were cleaning the area around them.

"Mina-Chan are you alright?"

"Yea, I'm alright though my magical power isn't all the way back. Though it's high enough for me to stay in my teenage form. Though, I should really talk to the Kumama about taking on a Magical Job."

"Uh, who's Kumama?"

"I see you're already up."

They turned around and saw a large women with the appearance of a bear, once Minako saw her she immediately hugged her.

"Chief?!"

"Kumama, is there any Magical Jobs that I can take?"

"My, aren't you hyperactive. There are jobs, but they extremely difficult and are not for little girl."

"My Nii-Sans always told me, 'There are no such thing as a difficult job, as long as you think carefully'."

"Alright, but you'll have to be back and finish this job."

Minako smiled brightly and headed in that direction, she pointed out.

"Well at least her bubbly personality is back to normal. She even looks like a boy who used to come around here… Well no more slacking off you two."

"Well, I guess we can't stop her from taking on another job."

The Chief walked away quickly away from them, at that moment they heard a loud commotion. They turned their heads and saw three guys hovering over Minako.

"Come on give back that request. What do you think a little slave girl like you can do?"

"More than you Ponytail."

The man gained a tick mark on his forehead and started eyeing her up.

"You know for a little brat, you've got a…"

At that moment, Akira got in between them with her arms guarding Minako.

"I won't let you lay a hand on this girl."

"What bitch?"

"Captet Coutiem Aciram."

At that moment the collar around Akira's neck started electrocuting her intensely, Minako looked at her with a shocked expression along with Natsumi. Once it was over she fell to the ground nearly unconscious, as Natsumi went to check up on her. Minako looked up and glared at the man with great intensity, she pulled out her wand and pointed it at the man.

"Aqua Virgines Conveniant Optamus Me…"

Before she could finish the man grabbed her by her arm and smiled.

"Ahh, so you're a mage little girl. I'll let you go, if you at least me your name."

"Minako Narukami."

The man looked at her with a shocked expression, at that moment he felt someone place their hand on his shoulder. He turned around only to be punched in the face and sent flying into the wall behind him. Minako looked and smiled as she saw the Negi's teenage alter ego (Nagi) holding her bridal style. And following behind him was Kotaro in his teenage form along with Chisame in her chibi form.

"I won't let you lay a hand on my students nor my friend!"

"Nagi-Kun!"

"Are you alright, Nariko-San?"

Minako puffed her left cheek and pouted adorably at Nagi, whispering.

{I thought I said not to add –San…Negi-Kun.}

"What the hell?! You just came out of nowhere and hit me!"

Kotaro smirked and started cracking his knuckles with an intimidating glare.

"Don't worry what we're going to do, is nothing compared to what Takeo-Nii-San is going to do when he finds out you bullied his cousin."

"W-Wait, she's related to that psychopath. Screw this, I'm not getting involved with someone related to that psychopath again."

*Intermission*

Walking down the road in another part of a different City Takeo sneezed out of nowhere. He looked around with an irritated expression, while Ako looked at him with a worried expression.

"Are you catching a cold Takeo-Kun?"

"No, I felt like someone was talking about me."

Walking towards them was a eighteen year old, with dark blue hair, dark blue eyes, wearing a martial without sleeves and scars on both of his arms. Once he looked up he saw Takeo, he immediately sensed the magical power being released from his body and smiled.

In the three maids' room, Nagi, Kotaro, Chisame and a disguised Kazumi with Sayo in her doll form all met in this room.

"So you're really Negi-Kun and Kotaro-Kun. Ugh, this is getting too much."

"It's alright Akira-Chan. So what're we going to do now?"

"Well, the easiest way would be to pay back the 1 Million Drachma. But that…"

"No necessarily Kazumi-San, there is one other way. Why don't we enter the 'Granicus Tournament'? Plus we can always use the publicity to let our friends know where we are."

Kotaro smirked and smashed his fists together.

"Now, I like the sound of that let's get started!"

"Uh…Chisame-Chan, Kazumi-Chan have you heard anything from my Nii-San or…?"

"I haven't been able to get through with the Pactio I formed with that idiot."

"Well, there was some 'Lightning-Kid' killing a dangerous Dragon at some place called 'Crystal Springs'. But…"

Minako looked at her with stars in her eyes.

"The Crystal Springs was Nii-San's first assignment, and Lightning-Kid was a nickname everyone called him!"

"Well we at least we have an idea of where he was last, but that doesn't tell us where Takeo-Nii-San is right now."

"Well knowing him and his brother follow their path of destruction."

Everyone began laughing at the idea of the youngest and oldest brother leaving a path of destruction in their wake.

[Unknown Battleground] [One Week Later]

On the opposite end of a large scale battle between mages and demons, the demons began pushing forward through the mages defenses.

"Dammit they're pushing back! If we don't…"

As the demons were preparing for a full scale attack, a blast of ice blocked their path and in seconds three hooded figures stepped in front of the mages.

"Their weak, but their sheer numbers gives them the advantages."

"Who cares, then let's just push them with sheer force."

The mages looked at the three hooded figures with a shocked expression.

"Who're you three."

"Wait, three hooded figures…they're The Enforcers."

The wind blew passed them removing their hoods' off revealing to be Haruto, Haruki and Yukiko in their teenage forms. Minato (Haruto) reached into his cloak and pulled out a modified black colored pistol with blue runic designs and rested his on his forehead.

"We're going to end this demons you guys just rest."

Yuzuki (Yukiko) pulled out Yukihime from its dimensional storage, as she ran her index finger towards the tip of the blade it started glowing with a bright blue light. Hiroko (Haruto) smirked and smashed his fist together while they were being surrounded with flames. Minato smirked slightly and pulled a second gun from his holster.

"Let's go guys."

""Right Minato-San/Nii-San!""

The demons charged at the with their sheer, in seconds Hiroko used Instant Movement to appear in front of them with his fist pulled back. With a single punch he incinerated the demons on contact, he continued his brutal assault against the demons.

From all sides the demons began surrounded Yuzuki, as she began slashing her sword into the air she released a wave of ice as it sliced through the air completely freezing the demons instantly. With elegant movements, she sliced the frozen demons into pieces.

As Minato was walking through the hordes of demons, they all doves towards him all at once. The time around Minato began slowing down incredibly. Minato focused his eyesight and began firing several rounds from both of his guns hitting each of the demons.

Once time returned to normal the demons landed on the ground with blood trailing from their mouths.

"Magic Elucidators: Arctic Explosion."

The bullets from inside of the demons all froze the demons instantly from the inside, two large demons started charging at him from all sides. Minato smirked and threw his guns in the air, he clenched he elbowed one of the demons in the stomach.

And began assaulting them with Xing Yi Quan techniques, as Minato's guns began coming back towards him. He reached his hand out and grabbed the guns from the air, he pointed the guns at the demons and a large ice blue magic circle appeared in front of the pistol's barrel.

"Magic Elucidators: Exorcising Shells."

Once he pulled the trigger the demons immediately vanished from existence like dust in the wind. Within seconds the demons were all exterminated in a matter of minutes by the three separate mages. Once they were done, the three mages looked towards the army of mages with a slight smirk on their faces.

"With just three of them…"

"…they annihilated the demon horde."

Haruki smirked and smashed his fist against his chest.

"Man that was a workout, I can't wait for a real challenge."

"Don't get ahead of yourself Nii-San. We still need to meet up with Negi-Kun and the others…"

"I really want to see Nee-San again."

"Wow, Yuzuki-Chan I didn't think you had such a Sister-Complex."

Yuzuki gave him a deadpanned look and placed her sword at his throat with an intimidating glare. Hiroko laughed nervously, he looked towards Minato for help and he sighed out of irritation.

"Yuzuki-Chan, even though he deserve what he gets for that comment. I can't let him die right now."

"Okay, Minato-San."

"Alright, guys we still need to get to New Ostia within the next month. And I don't think we need have enough money to travel there."

"Who cares, we'll just keep racking up money and beating down demons until we make it. And then we'll be reunited with Nii-San and the others."

The three of them smiled and placed their hands together before rising them towards the air with smiles on their face.

[Here we come New Ostia!]

[West Granicus Summer Tournament] [Round 15]

In the stadium the crowd was roaring at the sight of the match, of the man in the martial arts uniform standing on the sidelines of the arena watching in awe. As his cloaked partner was taking both of his opponents without a single issue.

The announcer a women in her 20s held the mike to her mouth and announced.

[These fighting duo has taken each tournament they've entered by storm. And for the fifteenth time without the help of his partner, this cloaked unnamed man is taking on the duo singlehandedly and winning!]

The ones fighting against the cloaked figure were two brother with a strained expression on their faces.

"That's it we're taking this guy out!"

"Right, with our Ultimate Technique!"

Both brother got together and held both of their hands up gathering lightning and wind around their hands.

"Ultimate Flash Cannon!"

They fired off a massive blast of lightning/wind, the cloaked figure smirked and held his hand up, while chanting a spell.

"…Divine Storm!"

He fired off a blast that cancelled out the brother's attack, they made a look of complete shock. Once the looked forward, the cloak figure vanished from sight and they felt someone attacking the back of their neck simultaneously knocking them both unconscious.

"You put up a fight, but I can't afford to lose."

[A-And he wins this fighter who still hasn't revealed his name has again come out on top!]

His partner looked at him with a shocked and surprised expression, he smirked and started walking towards him.

"You know it's not fun unless you give me a shot kid?"

"Sorry, but I wanted to finish this fight quick so we could get to the real fun."

"Geez, you really are a battle maniac."

They looked and noticed the announcer running towards both of them with her mike directed at the cloaked man.

[Okay, I can't take the not knowing anymore! Everyone here is wondering one very simple question! And that is who are you?! You and Your partner are both rookies, and yet…]

"I'll only reveal my face to the one I fight in the finals, but if you want a name then I'll give you one."

The crowd became silent out of anticipation of the fighter finally revealing their name.

"My name is…Raiden Ikazuchi."

The crowd became completely silent, including the announcer and even his own partner.

[R-Raiden the famed 'Thousand Thunderbolt', the eternal rival and ally of Nagi Springfield, 'The Thousand Master'! Are you really that Raiden?!]

"I'm related to him, but I'll leave that to your imaginations for now I think me and my partner will depart from here."

The cloaked figure walked from the announcer with a smirk on his face under his hood, once they were out of sight he sighed and looked towards his partner.

"What's with that look Ryu-Kun?"

"Not only did you take the spotlight again, but you also failed to mention that you're the freaking relative of one of my heroes and the saviors of this world! Takeo-Kun."

He snapped his fingers and he changed into his normal clothing and smirked and at him, while his partner was glaring at him out of irritation.

"Well, you never asked so I never told you. And also, I'm his kid."

"So the rumors were true, he did have a kid with the Clan Lord of the Narukami Clan. Also why do you keep hiding your face?"

"I have some…questionable people after me, and this cloak blocks people from sensing my magical power. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go…"

"…meet up with your girlfriend and pet."

Takeo turned his head and glared at Ryu with a deep shade of red on his cheek.

"She's not my girlfriend! She's just my friend!"

"Right~ she's a pretty girl so don't screw it up! I'm going to go and train!"

Takeo narrowed sighed at his comment and vanished completely from sight, minutes later Takeo was walking from a shop with two ice cream cones in both his hand. He turned his head and saw Ako sitting at the table with Shiro sitting at the tables outside. Ako turned around and saw him walking towards them.

"Here you go Ako-Chan."

"Thanks Takeo-Kun, by the way you did a great job in the match."

"Thanks Ako-Chan, just seventeen matches to go and we'll meet up with everyone."

As both Takeo and Ako were eating their ice cream, a question popped into Ako's head.

"Wait, if Nagi-San really is Negi-Kun then wouldn't that mean you'll have to fight him and Kotaro-Kun?"

"I've never been one to drop out of a fight and besides, I've actually been waiting for the chance to be able to fight Negi-Kun. And besides I don't even see that ten year old as a kid anymore, just another man trying to protect those he cares about."

Ako looked at the expression on Takeo's face and smiled slightly, he looked around and noticed that the sun was starting to go down. Once they stood back up

"Come on let's go back home."

Ako blushed as soon as Takeo said that, but she nodded and began following him. As they were walking through the city, they stopped at a small house within the city. Once they walked inside Ako wrapped an apron around her waist and looked towards Takeo with a smile while winking.

"I'm going to make something special for you after that wonderful match, so go and take a bath and relax~."

Takeo blushed slightly nodded, while walking towards the bathroom. Once he walked in, he wrapped a towel around his waist and started washing his hair with hot water still remembering what Ako had said.

"What was that…?"

Back in the kitchen Ako was blushing to herself, while preparing their dinner.

"Uh, Shiro how was that? I did exactly what Veronica-San told me to."

"You did an excellent job Ako-Sama, but you should try and be a bit more confident with yourself."

"I know, but there are so many other girls who're into Takeo-Kun and I really don't think he'd…"

[Knock][Knock]

"Here I come!"

Ako stopped as she heard a knock at the door, she turned around and walked towards the door. Once she opened it, she looked and saw a black haired women, with red eyes and wearing black clothing.

"How may I help you?"

"Hello, my name is Alice and I would like to leave a message for Takeo-Kun."

"Uh, what message?"

Shiro looked up and saw Alice standing in front of her, his expression became more terrified.

"Ako-Sama move out of the way!"

Once Ako turned toward Shiro, several pitch black thorn vines appeared behind Alice and aimed them at both Shiro and Alice. Takeo exited the bathroom fully dressed running towards the opened door with his teeth clenched.

He sensed a large amount of magical power towering over him, and within seconds the entire house was blown up completely. Within seconds Takeo appeared on the roof of a building far away from the now destroyed house.

"This magical power. It's them!"

Takeo immediately took off towards the forest where he sensed a large source of magical power. In that direction Alice had tied up Ako and Shiro to a tree with the black vines.

"I thought it was going to be difficult getting him out here, but with thanks to you two we won't have to hunt him down."

"Why're you doing this?"

"Oh, what a darling little girl and what a pretty little face. Now, if you want to keep it that way then shut up."

Ako jumped at the cold threat that Alice had thrown at her, her attention was later turned towards a loud shout.

"ALICE!"

She turned her attention towards Takeo who had appeared in front them with an enraged expression on his face.

"Oh, what a handsome little boy you've become. How've you been~?"

"Ako-Chan, Shiro are you both alright?"

Both of them nodded and Takeo's attention was later turned back towards Alice who was smiling sadistically at him.

"Oh~ the Lightning Emperor has once against appeared~ Now what shall we do~?"

Takeo narrowed his eyes as he heard a familiar person's singing voice, appearing next to Alice was Cole wearing a smile on his face.

"Well~ I think it's time for some well-deserved payback."

"Well this is the brat who turned us all into criminals."

Appearing next were two other people, a man in his late thirties with a goatee, dark blue hair and wearing dark blue colored clothing (Rank 3, Zephyr 'The Wind Master'). And the second was a man in his twenties with blonde hair, gold eyes and wearing gold light armor (Rank 4, Micah 'The Light Master').

Micah narrowed his eyes towards Takeo while Zephyr only laughed at him.

"Do you have any idea what you've done?"

"Now, now Micah don't you think it's time to end the pleasantries."

"Now~ Lightning Emperor, just give up~ because you're…"

Once Cole looked forward and saw Takeo appearing in front of him with his fist pulled back. Takeo punched Cole straight in the face with and sent him flying with a large amount of force, completely knocking him unconscious with that hit.

"When the hell did he get there?!"

Alice held her hand out gathering darkness around her hand, Zephyr gathered a flaying wind around his hand and Micah gathered light in his hand. Takeo shaped two of his fingers in to a halberd and sweep his hand downwards.

"Fulmine Cadens De Trorum. Come forth from the void, O Thunder, and cut down my enemy! Axe of Lightning!"

Takeo released a powerful slash of lightning, which sent the three of them flying backwards. Takeo went towards the tree and untied both Ako and Shiro.

"Ako-Chan, Shiro get out of here!"

"But, Takeo…"

Takeo pulled his phone out and handed it to Ako, while pushing her into the opposite direction.

"No, buts! Call the first number on my phone, while I hold the other three off!"

Takeo used Instant Movement to charge forward towards them, as he was charging forward Ako looked down at his phone and was prepared to dial the number. At that moment Takeo's phone started ringing again, playing the song Dekopin Rocket played at the festival.

"Hello?"

Ako answered the phone and placed it to her ear, and heard a cheerful voice.

"Takeo-Kun's fighting three of the Five Star Commanders isn't he?"

"Yes, but I'm…"

"Oh, don't worry we're already on our way Ako-Chan."

"How do you know my name, and who's we?"

"Hmmm, well you could say we're family."