Warning may be some spelling/grammar errors and i'll fix them when i read over it.
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Kai walks out the shower room, a towel in hand as he dries his hair. He walks to the bar counter and grabs a glass of water to quench his thirst.
"Would it kill you to wear a shirt?" Adogo crosses her arms across her chest after she puts her umbrella on the counter. Kai chuckles,"More like Chayyliel killed my shirt." he throws his shirt on the counter it had holes and was slightly burned. Adogo scrunched her eyebrows together.
"You two sparred?" She asks, Kai nods and turns around and points to the injury he got.
"It was his idea. He wanted to prove that he should've been the Angel Combat General." Kai tells her.
"Isn't that when they chose the strongest angel to lead a battle if there ever is a war." Adogo remembers.
"Pretty much." he nods.
"Mister Kai,Vetis took my food." the twelve year Razi ran up to the counter. Kai shakes his head in disapproval.
He pets Razi head as he passes by.
Razi follows behind him.
"Vetis!" Kai spots Katie on Vetis's back as she punched him repeatedly. Vetis walks around with Katie on back as if it was natural. He turns to face Kai.
"Why take Razi's food when you already took Katie's?" Kai shakes his head. Vetis rolls his only good eye.
"I've told you before the food in the demon realm is gross." Vetis reminds him."Buy your own food." Kai tells him.
Katie jumps off and sticks her tongue out childishly, from behind him.
"Just because I only have one good eye does not mean, I can't see what you're doing." Vetis sighs, Razi looks up at him confused.
"Mister Vetis do you have eyes behind your head?" Razi ask innocently his eyes wide with interest.
"Nope. It's because I have a sixth and seventh sense. My sixth sense is I can feel when someone is talking about me or doing something behind my back. The seventh sense is that I can track down anyone with the sacred soul guildmark." Vetis explains to Razi.
"That's cool!" Razi's wolf tail wags excitedly.
"How does that work?" Katie asks poking him.
"The eyepatch I have, I use it to cover my good eye. And with my other eye gives me like a mental map outline image with glowing dots spread out, each with a unique color. Yada Yada the rest is complicated." Vetis becomes lazy in explaining it even more. He waves goodbye and disappear.
"Here's some money. You two go out and eat, since Vetis ate yours i'll pay." Kai digs into his pocket and gives them money.
"Thank you! Let's go Razi"and they run out of the guildhall. Kai has a ghost smile on his face, then it disappears when he remembers that his babygirl wasn't with him. He slowly walks to the door, his head hung a bit low.
"I'll be back later. Tell Xavier i'll be in the angel realm if he needs me." He lets Adogo know, and walks out and takes off..
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Poison Fang Basement
"If I ever find you or anyone else trying to get in this room. I will personally will kill you." Raiden threatens the short fat bearded man, who tried getting into Nikkai's room. Raiden had the short man by the collar of his shirt, holding him up in the air.
"I won't ever again!" the short man struggled against his grip. Raiden dropped him, and the man scrambled away. Ryder walks past the man and towards Raiden's direction . Raiden feels him coming and prepares to get something about being protective over Nikkai.
"Go on this job with that Jc kid. I want you to show him how to kill. I've only seen him take jobs that require gathering intel." Ryder's dark brown emotionless eyes searching Raiden facial features, he had a suspicion that Raiden didn't actually kill the targets.
"Ok" Raiden answers with a straight flat expression. Raiden walks away, once he disappears Ryder opens Nikkai's door. She was in a lying position with a old notebook with a black stubby crayon in her hand. Ryder watches her for a bit and thinks back to his sister when she was younger before he scowls. Nikkai looks up her eyes widen and she closes the notebook quickly
"Gimme that child." Ryder says firmly with his hand outstretched. Nikkai looks up and hands him the notebook. Ryder opens it and sees a crayon drawing of himself. His eyes widen at first surprised and then reads the messy and childish misspelled words.'I luv yuo Ukcle'. Nikkai twirls her thumbs in embarrassment, her child instinct told her that he thought it was troublesome taking care of her. He puts the notebook in his trench coat pocket.
He simply says nothing, Nikkai sits up on the bed.
"Let's go." he says as he holds the door open. Nikkai's grey eyes flicker with a green color. She gives him a small excited smile. It was her birthday she knew because Raiden always brought something special for her to eat. She quietly follows him. Since she had short steps Ryder stops and walks towards her and picks her up with one arm. He walks up the stairs saying nothing all the way up. Nikkai felt like a stuffed animal since Ryder was holding her like that. He makes it to his office and sits her down on his desk. Maybe he wasn't as dark as everyone thought.
"Don't move child." he says sternly, as he combs her soft locks and starts braiding it. Nikkai sits quietly as he finishes her hair up. After looking in his desk drawer he finds a rubber band.
He stares at his niece...almost like he was in a trance as he reached to touch her face. He retreated his hand quickly as he turns away to walk off,but Nikkai grabs his sleeve tugging it slightly.
"Help me" she points to the ground, he grabs her and puts her on the ground quickly.
"Let's go." He holds open the door.
"Where we going?" Nikkai looks up at his tall figure.
"tsk no asking questions child." he answers before he walks along narrow hallway. She follows behind quietly.
"Master, I've completed the mission." Killian Akamatsu catches Ryder off guard. He turns and looks at the 10yr old. Killian had white hair disheveled that made his dark pink eyes stand out. Killian wears white tank top, black leather jacket with a hood over his head, gray plaid shorts with a black belt around his waist, leather combat boots, and a silver chain necklace around his neck.
"Good job Killian. I knew you could pull it off, unlike that worthless bastard who failed to do that mission." Ryder praised the 10yr old.
"I'll never let you down Master." Killian's eyes twinkled a bit due to the praise from his master.
The truth was that he saw Ryder as his father figure. Ryder gave him freedom from the life he once had.
"Good to hear Killian." Ryder says again. Killian sees the small girl standing behind Ryder. Killian feeling uncomfortable around kids he leaves quickly telling Ryder that he will take another job.
After he is gone, Ryder continues his way to the exit at the end of the hall. Nikkai follows behind.
Once a distance away from the guild Ryder starts talking to Nikkai.
"You parents never wanted you." He starts off, observing the small child facial expressions. Her grey eyes became a light shade of blue.
"Your mother was foolish and reckless, and your father was the same as her. They abandoned you, and when I found out I went to get you. All I want is for you to grow up and be strong. Stomp on all those who betray you...who abandoned you." he tells Nikkai, everything was a web of lies the end being true of how he wanted her to become as dark as him. Nikkai partially believed him because Raiden always told her the opposite.
She was just a child and she didn't really understand the whole thing. Ryder later took her back to her dark room..
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Sacred Soul
April 10
Xavier had summoned souls to do the decorations of the party. They did all the work early in the morning before any members arrived to the guildhall. There was streamers and balloons that were a variety of colors and sizes, prepared food were on silver platters that were on a huge rectangular table in the center of the guildhall. Then besides that table there was a round table that was filled with sweets and pasties. Then a big banner hung across the wall that read '3year Anniversary'. Xavier was satisfied with how the guildhall looked.
"Thank you my friends for your help." Xavier thanked the souls that helped. He gave them a happy smile, and waved at them as they faded away.
"Woah look at all the food!" Vetis drooled hungrily, as he walked towards the table.
"Stop in your tracks demon." Chayyliel warns Vetis stepping in front of him.
"You two better stop." Kai warns as he knows what Xavier has planned. They were showing signs that they were soon to engage into a serious fight. Vetis shoved Chayyliel back and Chayyliel seemed to get annoyed.
Xavier watched patiently.
"You guys better behave because we have a special guest coming in today." Xavier tells them. Vetis ignores him about to throw a punch at Chayyliel while he held him in place with his free hand.
"What's up my two favorite dudes." Chayyliel freezes in place while Vetis looked around with his good eye. He spots the Maniac right away. Vetis fades away instantly a bit after Chayyliel does the same.
"They never seen learn to learn Master." he chuckles lightly. The maniac had his eyes covered in white bandages, he wore a white strait jacket that had the sleeves tied together, maniac has long messy white hair, and very pale skin. He sits down by the bar knowing that kai was in that direction.
"Kai Storm why isn't that you have gone running to your realm?" Maniac asks Kai as he looks in Kai's direction.
"Meh, I've never had a problem with you." Kai answers, the truth is Kai was there when maniac pulled Chayyliel and Vetis apart. Maniac was pretty mad when they kept fighting through his crazy lullaby, so in the end he used force and it was anything but pretty. Vetis and Chayyliel didn't come out for a whole week on their own, but only when Xavier called them. Maniac was the true demon out of him and Vetis.
"Xavier will you need me for anything?" Kai looks over to him. Xavier shakes his head no.
"I do want you relax a bit before you go traveling again." Xavier tells him as he walks over to kai offering him a ham sandwich that had been cut into two. Kai takes a piece and walks off to the bar again.
Soon after the guild members were flooding through the doors. Everyone was anxious to eat some of food that was prepared by the soul Temura who was a chef that created all kinds of dishes. She really wasn't meant for battle she was more a support, since she could link her magic to a caster and increase the strength and stamina of the caster and if they were in trouble she would pull them back with the magic chain link.
"Ethan can you stop reading for once." Emma rolls her eyes at her twin.
"I'm finishing up a chapter.." he tells her.
His eyes focus on the letters in his book. After five minutes he snaps his fingers in realisation.
"That's how knight managed to escape after killing the evil duchess. I finally get it." he whispers to himself. He closes the book and puts it in his leather book bag. Emma grabs his hand and pulls him to the crowd.
"We will be having 3 games so everyone partner up." Xavier announced, there were cheers and whoops. Emma automatically links her arm with Ethan's. Razi and Yuki partnered up because they were some of the youngest members. Katie and Chris decided to be partners as they fist pumped each other. Aella and Zephyr were partners as they high fived each other.
"Wanna be partners Kai?" Amiya looks over at him for approval. He gives her a thumbs up with his free hand while he drinks some juice.
While Dino and some of the other guildmates decided to stand by.
"First event will be the three legged three arm race to mount Dansai. Rules are no one can use magic. There will be many obstacles in the way, and you cannot try to undo the magic bind ."Xavier tells the crowd.
"I call hacks!" Katie shouts right after, as she points to Kai and Amiya.
Kai gives her a questioning look.
"Kai is a flyer and they are both S-class." Chris agrees pointing it out.
"Zephyr can fly too." Aella points at her furry partner.
"No magic means no flying." Kai announces. Katie and everyone else oohs.
Xavier puts a magic bind on the pairs.
Each pair gets in position at the base of the mountain. Zephyr transforms to be the same height as Aella.
Kai and Amiya are full of concentration, they nod silently at each were at least going for second. Aella and Zephyr were aiming for first. Razi and Yuki have fiery spirit to win. Emma is determined to win while Ethan is a bit weary of his sister's competitive nature. Katie and Chris were doing it for the rush that they feel for the friendly competition.
"On your mark.." Xavier trails off to get the pairs anxious.
"Get Set.." he continues after a minute. The pairs are antsy to get started.
"GO!" some pairs struggle to get in rhythm with their partners.
Kai and Amiya are already in sync and take off in a speedwalk. Emma and Ethan jog in sync right after the S-class.
"Watch out a tree trunk!" Ethan panics as they stumble as they approach it quickly.
"Let's jump on three.." Emma tells him not slowing down.
"Ok!" Ethan puts his game face on.
"1...2…..3" Emma counts down, the trunk inches away from them as they jump effortlessly over it.
Razi and Yuki were crawling under a row of hurdles in a hurry and we supporting each other as they worked as a team.
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Back at the guild.
Alessio helps set up the next event. With the help of Dino, Adogo, and Hajime.
Hajime and Dino were carefully placing down the long thick trunk in the middle of the base.
"Is it touching ground?" Hajime asks Alessio. Alessio takes a ruler and measures the distance between the ground and the trunk.
"6inches mister Hajime." Alessio tells him stepping to the side.
"Ok good." Dino says as he stretched out.
"This is one of the most messy events yet." Adogo comments as she carefully carries a bucket of mud over. She pours it into the base.
"Yes it is miss Adogo." Alessio nods.
"Dino, where is your friend?" Hajime questions, as he now was carried two large buckets of mud to the base.
"Who..Nikki?" Dino picks up two large buckets and walks to the base.
"Yes the devil slayer who sometime fight with katie." Hajime had a bit of accent due to him not being from fiore.
"Some friend she is. She didn't even invite you to go with her Dino." Adogo tells him the truth.
Dino frowns slightly, and places the buckets down by the base.
"Everyone copes differently to their own personal issues." He answers and pours the thick brown mud into the base.
"He has a point Adogo." Hajime nods.
It was true everyone had their own way of coping with personal issues.
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The top of mt Dansai
"The winners are Aella and Zephyr, second place is Kai and Amiya, Junaru twins came in 3rd, 4th Razi and Yukki, last place Katie and Chris." Xavier announces to the group.
"Ethan we could've had second place if it weren't for your shoe falling off." Emma sighs.
"Sorry." he whispers to her.
"Katie we lost." Chris hangs his head in disappointment.
"Come on we can win the next event." Katie she tells him with determination.
"Next event I will tell you there. Summoning Soul Tezure!" Xavier shouts. A small, round, fluffy,pink bunny with wings appears beside him.
"Yes? What can I do for you master?" Tezure asks with a cute smile.
"Teleport us to the guild." Xavier requests. Tezure nods as he makes a pink bubble around the competitors and the spectators. After a clap of his paws they are now behind the guildhall.
"Byee master.." Tezure fades moments after.
"Who knew a cute thing like him can teleport us so easily." Chris comments.
Some nod in agreement.
"Whoever falls in the mud loses. The one going to fight will be blindfolded, while their partner will be their eyes. Hear we have two foam swords that the fighters will use." Xavier tells them.
Emma and Ethan whisper their plan to each other.
"Junaru Twins vs Razi and Yuki" Maniac announces.
"Razi you fight, I'll be you eyes." Yuki grabs the blindfold and wraps it around his eyes.
Emma is already at her end of the trunk with her foam sword in hand. After Razi is on the trunk, yuki hands him his sword.
"Go." Mainiac shouts.
"Carefully walk forward." Yuki tells Razi.
"Emma balance yourself and charge carefully." Ethan tells Emma and she nods. Razi is being cautious as he walks towards the middle.
"Emma strike!" Ethan yells.
"Dodge! Step back Razi!" Yuki shouts as well. Razi steps back avoiding the attack and holding his sword as a shield to block any incoming attacks.
Emma loses her balance and immediately regains her stance.
The crowd watches in amazement.
"Razi attack now!" Yuki shouts.
"Emma step back and swing; attack from your left." Ethan whispers so she could hear him.
As Razi goes to attack, Emma swings her sword and hits Razi and he falls face first in the mud.
"Junaru Twins for the win. Next to go against them are Kai and Amiya." Maniac announced.
"I don't want to get muddy." Amiya tells Kai. Kai lets out a sigh and puts on a blindfold. Amiya hands him his sword. He steps onto the trunk.
"I'm going to beat you Kai!" Emma shouts confidentially.
"Ok, go ahead knock me down." Kai spreads his arms leaving him wide open.
"Emma he is open. But be careful." Ethan whispers to her.
Amiya is watching with a plate of sweets in her hand.
"Aren't you supposed to be his eyes." Aella sweatdrops.
"He is pretty capable, so i wouldn't worry." Amiya glances at kai.
Emma thinks to aim at his feet, to do it quick and easy. As she crouches and swings. Kai moves swiftly and avoids her attack. She charges upwards, Kai moves his face slightly as the foam sword misses his face. After Ethan was trying to keep up with their fast movements. Slightly out of breath he grabs a glass of punch.
"Hey! You're back!" Dino shouts as he spots his best friend coming through the backdoor of the guild. Nikki is seen with a sling on left arm.
"Yep, just wanted to get home and relax a bit." She says, Dino walks over to her.
"How did that happen?" He asks and points at her sling.
"I fell off a roof, and landed on this arm therefore breaking it." she explains.
"Kai lookout!" Amiya shouts as she almost chokes on her food,as he was distracted by the sound of Nikki's voice. Before he can react, the foam sword hits him hard and he falls into the mud back first.
"Ha, I win!" Emma cheers and she steps forward and slips right after Kai. Ethan facepalms.
"This match doesn't add points to the Junaru twins. Amiya and Kai are still in for the next event since they did get second last event." Maniac announces.
1st Aella and Zephyr
2nd Junaru Twins
3rd Kai and Amiya
4th Katie and Chris
Eliminated Yuki and Razi
Kai gets out from the mud pool and so does Emma. Kai combs his hair to the with his muddy fingers.
"Katie and Chris vs Amiya and Kai." Maniac announces, before kai had a chance to leave the area.
"Amiya wanna win or you cool with just losing on purpose." Kai asks her.
"Meh, I don't want to participate anymore, this food is delicious." she points at her food with the fork.
"OK then." Kai says relief laced in his voice.
"We drop out of the competition!" They say in unison; loud enough so everyone could hear.
"Why!" Some shout in surprise.
"Junaru twins vs Katie and Chris." Maniac announces again.
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Nikki's house
She unlocks her door and steps inside, flips the light switch.
"Come in Dino." She motions with her good arm.
"Thanks for having me over." He says, and slips off his shoes.
"You can help yourself to anything that i have in the kitchen." She tells him as she grabs an apple.
"You're house is pretty nice." Dino complements and follows her to the living room which was to the right of the front door.
"Why didn't you want to stay at the party." Dino asks as he takes a seat in a leather recliner across from her.
"It doesn't really interest me." She answers flatly, and takes another bite of her apple.
"Did you participate in any events?" she asks him. He shakes his head no.
"It was a partner event. So I just helped set up." he answers. He reaches for a album that is on the coffee table. Nikki sits up quickly from her lying position. And reaches to snatch it away from Dino. He had already opened it and was looking at the first photo that was there.
"Is that you when you were a baby?" He comments and continues to observe the photo.
"This album means a lot to me." she says quietly.
"I'm guessing this is your family." he says, and the women had ombre teal hair that was braided neatly with bangs framing her brown almond eyes, lips stained in a ruby red, with a flowing blue white dress, that had long loose sleeves. In her arms was a small baby girl wrapped in a light pink blanket soundly sleeping peacefully. The man beside her looked at her with loving ice blue eyes, he had one hand on the baby's back while the other was on his son who was seven years old. The son wore a grey shirt with a basketball on fire and some black shorts to go with it. He had his mother's brown eyes and dimples while only having dark hair like his father. He looked slightly upset because his father was messing up his hair. The man had a long sleeve dress shirt that had and showed off his forearms since the sleeves were neatly folded at the elbows, he had faded jeans on, his medium length hair was combed back neatly with a few part falling over his eyes.
"Wow, you have some good looking parents." he comments quietly and Nikki cracks a half smile.
He flips through and sees most photos of her and her brother, some with her and dad, and only a few with her mother.
"You can go through the whole album cuz I trust you Dino. You'll see some things about me that not many know." Nikki tells him when he reaches the divider for the next section of photos.
Dino looks as her and then back to the page. He flips the page over and sees some pictures of Raiden and his older sister Tsunami and Nikki she was around the age of 8 or 9.
"Isn't that women Tsunami Striker from the magic council." He asks looking up, and she nods in response.
"She is the sister of the blonde boy there his name is Raiden." She adds.
He flips some pages and gets to one that catches eye.
"Yes, he was once in this guild." she tells him.
Dino continues on and some pictures of Kai and her appear.
"You and Kai were a thing?" he asks quietly surprised. He flips through again and after 8 pages he freezes. There was a picture of Nikki who looked very pregnant.
"Just keep going, and I'll explain everything at the end." she says and gets up to go to her kitchen. There is a one that has Xavier holding the baby girl, then One of Vetis terrified of the small baby, as Kai held her out to him.
Dino chuckles a bit at the picture. Chayyliel on the other hand held her in his arms. Nikki seen in the background resting in the bed. The last pictures were Nikki and the baby, Kai and the baby, and then both of them with the baby. He closes the album. Nikki walks back over from the couch.
"That's a lot to process." he admits.
"I know." she answers.I
"So you and Kai dated, and had a child...Where is that child now?" Dino examines Nikki's facial expression, the aura around was dark and gloomy.
"I had Nikkai when I was 16 which was 2 years ago. She was ripped away from our lives the day after she was born. The one who took her was the one I used to look up to...My brother Ryder who is the guildmaster of Poison Fang." she says quietly a frown etched on her face. Dino frowns at what she had said about her baby being taken.
"I understand. Is there anyway I can help you?" he places the album down on the coffee table.
"Everyday that passes makes me lose faith in finding her." she admits quietly.
"Don't lose it. I'll help you guys find her. I want to see my best friend happy. Let's go to the party;there's some food I know you would like." Dino says as he grabs her good arm and pulls her along.
"Ok, maybe just this once." she responds and follows, Dino closes the door behind them..
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A/N
.Thanks for all that have sent ocs! I haven't updated the chracter list yet. And credit to the owners of the ocs introduced in this chapter. I dont have the time to look for the names of owners of the ocs because my inbox is literally full. I also want to thank you guys for being patient with me. And tommarrow is my 18th birthday!
.Chapter Questions
How would your character feel about Nikki's and Kai's situation if it was to be revealed to them?
How would your character feel about Maniac?
Hope you enjoyed the chapter.