Like I said I was gone for about five days, so I will upload six chapter today. Hopefully.
No one p.o.v.
Lucy sat with Happy beside her back to the river and front to the fire, Mary-lou positioned herself at an angle so she was visible to the others. The sky had gotten dark and the fire and moon were our only light. The cooking fish smell amazing, especially after the smell of a river and flowers. Mary-lou had the bundle in front of her feet, she sighed and pulled on a pair of white leather gloves. "Okay, so the lost legend of the Five Swords of Oydian." She rubbed a finger across her lower lip. "Oydian was an ancient country: it probably doesn't exist now. But Oydian was famous for its undefeated swords." She carefully pulled out each sword by the blade and lay them down on the ground. "There was a battle against some horrible creatures that had never before or since been seen or heard of."
She pointed at the swords. "There were five great heroes that saved the people from the creatures. Three women, one man and a little boy." As she did she pointed at the individual swords. "It is said, that they had the blacksmiths in the country forge them each a special sword. Ones that the like had never been seen before. Each of the swords could slice through anything, and would never break. No matter what you did to it." She pointed at the sword she had use earlier, "The first woman asked for a sword that when activated would spit out a deadly poison that eats away at everything and anything but bone, causing a horrible death to whoever touches it." She glared hard at Happy 'til he nodded. She breathed on it slightly: the metal of the blade turned light blue and shot out a small amount of light, "When you breathe on it, it turns your breath to light. Even underwater!" She blew on it again. "It was known as the Death Eater."
She put the glowing sword down and picked up the next one, the handle was the same but the guard wasn't. The shape of the guard was the same, 200 degrees round, made of gold alloy and had patterns. But the patterns were of people and small crowns. "The second woman asked for a sword that could send out a liquid that turned anything to gold or silver, or whatever the owner wants." She grabbed it and flicked her wrist, a golden liquid settled on a flower, it turned to shimmering gold. "But when it has no owner, it just creates gold." She blew on it. "Instead of glowing like the Death Eater, it would turn invisible." In her hand was no longer a sword, but she pulled her hand closer to the fire, and the sword reappeared. "But heat would reveal it." She carefully put it down again. "This sword was known as the Royal Baton."
She pulled her fingers up the blade of the next sword. "The third woman got a sword that gave off blasts of white light that blinded opponents." She slid her hand onto the handle and brought her hand above her head, about three meters above six short bulbs of light exploded. "The lights were rumoured to be in a likeness to souls, so they could also be developed into a ring and give off many different powers." She did the same but to the side, where six rings of light circled then a large beam catered off into the forest destroying in a perfect line. "This sword was always different from the others, as the thing it produced could do many things, not just blind." She blew gently on it, "And when breath touched it," Thick sticky fog covered the three. "Fog was produced, but another thing about the fog was," It cleared quickly and Lucy and Happy were able to see the pattern on the guard, it was hundreds of thin strips of gold tracing over the pace and joining in places to create a sun like picture. "When it touched a living creature," Mary-lou pointer the sword at Happy and Lucy. "It could track it until it died." She lay it down again. "This one; was once called Steam Soul."
She picked up a sword that was different to the other ones because it was wider in the blade and handle. "The man got a sword that when active spat out seeds that grew cages and walls of soil and plants. It controlled the element earth." Mary-lou swung her hand off to the right and a few small pellets dropped off near the pile of wood and grew a giant green and red berry cage around the pile. The guard for the hand looked like branches and leaves, each woven tightly together. "When you blew on it," Mary-lou leaned over it and did just that, "It would let off a silent horn that drove people wild." A short horn was given off. "But only to those the person wants to hear it. The horn would, if hard enough; deafen people." She set it down. "People named it the Earths Horn."
Mary-lou picked up the last sword in her hand, "The little boy always had an obsession with fire. So when his sword was created he demanded fire be involved." She pointed the sword at the fire, "The sword could emit an orb that would either take fire and heat, or give it." The sword sent out a clear ball and it absorbed all the fire then disappeared, it suddenly went cold. The next one was an orange colour and re-lit the fire and gave heat again. "When breathed on, it would turn into a long fire whip." She breathed on it and it did so, she breathed on it again and it went out. "This sword may not have been powerful like Steam Soul, majestic like Royal Baton, deadly like Death Eater or creative like Earths Horn," She set it down beside the others. "But by far it did the most damage; fire is the destructive element after all." Mary-lou smiled at the two. "It's known in legends as Fire Whip."
Lucy p.o.v.
I glanced at my watch, 9.53pm. Then I stared at Mary-lou as she told us about the swords. I couldn't believe it, if what she said was true, the swords Erza had would have been no match for them. She pulled off her gloves, "There is one more thing about the swords when they come into skin contact for the first time with a person; if it glows it claims them as an owner, it is a weak bond though." She held up a single finger, "But if it shakes, glows then moves to a person while in their presence it is best. The bond is very, very, very powerful." As she said that the Steam Soul, Royal Baton and Fire Whip lit up: Steam Soul went destructive white, Royal Baton brilliant gold and Fire Whip a deadly red. "So it seems like three want us." Steam Soul rose to a tip and threw itself handle first at Mary-lou. "I am now Steam Maiden," She grabbed the handle and they both glowed with the manic destructive white, she also seemed to hover slightly off the ground, "And this is my sword, Steam Soul."
Fire Whip seemed to trip as it stuttered slowly to Happy, he grinned in a way that made me not quite trust him. He grabbed the hilt in both hands and floated above us, both sword and Happy covered in that garish deadly red. "He is the Fire Lord." Happy came down until he hovered only a bit above the dirt. "And that is his sword Fire Whip." The Royal Baton did certainly have a slight royal gait and bearing as it floated towards me, I held out my hand and it tilted into it. The sword and I were instantly bathed in lustrous brilliant gold and I felt myself rise of the ground in a fluid motion. I felt at peace, everything was clear; every move. I could see a squirrel on the side of the mountain that loamed above us; I could hear the heartbeat of the butterfly resting in the flowers on the other side of the meadow. "The sword is Royal Baton, and you are Royal Maiden, the owner of it.
Mary-lou smiled at us as we looked around out surroundings. "Things will look different from now on. Go both of you, go and try to smell those berries on the top of the mountain from here." She used the tip of her sword to show where. Happy and I saw yellow coloured berries sitting in a nest of spiked thorns. I closed my eyes, pictured the berries in my mind and took a deep breath; I felt Happy do the same, they smelt like cinnamon, Yes, with and mixed in with wild honey. I smiled at Happys response, and then realized I hadn't said anything and looked at him. He was looking at me the same way. "I see you've discovered the telepathic link." We looked at her again, she was no longer glowing. We weren't either though. "You'll only glow when you draw it out, and when you first touch the sword." She tapped her temple. "When you have one of these swords, you have a telepathic link with your sword, and the others who also have a sword. This link with the sword allows you to create more brilliant attacks and the like."
Happy stared at his sword, "I can hear it…" He mumbled, but it sounded louder to my ears. "I can hear my sword, he's talking to me." He grinned, "He says I don't have to carry him about." Happy looped his left hand into a circle and using his right hand he pushed the sword fully into one side. But nothing came out the other. Mary-lou looked just as surprised as me. "It worked!" He blinked. "Right." He knelt down with one leg flat against the ground, the same hand on top of it and laid the other out flat in front of him. A red circle appeared; Happy pushed his hand into it and slowly drew it out. In his hand was now the Fire Whip. "This could be handy."
I felt a soft motherly voice tell me to try the same, I drew my sword threw one hand and nothing came out the other. Something told me to copy Happy. So I got in the same position as Happy and a golden light pulled my hand inside, it felt stick but wasn't, when I pulled it out I had Royal Baton in my hands. I saw Mary-lou copy out moves. She smiled when she drew Steam Soul from the white light. "Happy, the voice you hear, is it more like a part of your mind telling you to do something?" He nodded. "Same for you, Mary-lou?" She nodded, I glanced at Earths Horn and Death Eater. "What do we do with them?"
Mary-lou grabbed three fish from over the fire. "I'll put them in my Requip room." A Requip room is where a Requip mage stores his or her magic items. "It'll still glow and shiver and stuff," She threw us both a fish, Happy immediately dropped Fire Whip to eat the fish, and I caught it with my other hand. They were hot. "When we find that person, I can give it to them, and we explain it to them later." She bit into the fish and looked like she just melted because it was so good.
We all finished up pretty quickly and stood up. "It's almost quarter past, time to go to the shop." Happy set out a sphere and gathered up the fires heat and flames for 'another time' that would probably include Natsu. "Mary-lou please keep those other two safe and then change into a cat!" I giggled the last part out and she rolled her eyes. "Can you tell us more about the swords while we walk?" She nodded and a purplish magic circle appeared at her side and she put Earths Horn and Death Eater into it, we all sent out own swords to wherever they went. Then Mary-lou began to walk and turned into a cat as she did so. Happy grew his wings and I followed both on foot.
