CardMaster Of Zero 9
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Thanks for your reviews! ...This is Chapter 9...
Siesta was currently unpacking her belongings in her new maid's quarters until Count Mott entered the room.
"Hello Siesta" He said, eyeing her figure.
"H-Hello Count Mott." Siesta said hesitantly.
Mott looked up and down her current maid uniform. "No. This won't do. I'll get my maids to fetch you a new uniform." He smirked and left an uncomfortable Siesta in her room.
••••
"This is what I'm wearing?" Asked a shocked Siesta.
The other maid nodded sadly, "Yes, that's what he makes us wear." She held out the new uniform to Siesta, "You should wear it before Count Mott gets angry.
Siesta stared at the new uniform. It was Mott's version of a maid uniform. The skirt was much to short for anyone, the size was quite small for Siesta, and it was form fitting at the hips. She looked at it sadly and forced herself to put it on for the sake of her family.
••••
Count Mott grinned when he saw his newest maid Siesta slowly walk into his room. His gaze inspected his newest maid.
"There! The uniform looks great on you!" His words made siesta clutch her short skirt in an attempt to make it hide more of her legs.
He gave a disappointed sigh, "I'll be doing some paperwork in my office so can you clean up this room?" He grinned when Siesta bowed. Siesta saw Mott's indecent grin and she immediately hugged her chest. "I'll be back for you after I'm done, Siesta." With that, Mott left the room.
Siesta looked out the window and when she saw the setting sun she began to cry.
••••
In the academy of magic, Louise De La Valliere was on her way to the dining area when she started wondering where her unfaithful familiar was. She was ready to blast that dog for being away for so long! As she passed two servants she overheard something.
"Is it true?"
"Yeah, 'Our Sword' is off on a rescue mission!"
"Hope he can survive."
"Don't worry! He'll save Siesta and beat Mott!"
Louise heard enough. She stormed off to find and blast Maki for leaving her for that maid!
Louise saw Mr. Colbert walking toward her with his staff in one hand and a book in the other.
"Mr. Colbert did you see my familiar today?"
"Ah, yes miss Louise, he came to ask me for some information."
"What information?" Asked the pinkette.
"He just wanted to know where the Mott Estate was. He said he asked because he wanted to know the nobles around here."
"Oh no!" Louise thought aloud as she combined what she had just learned.
"Is there a problem Miss Valliere?" Asked a concerned Colbert.
"My stupid familiar is going to Count Mott to take back the maid who left today!" Mr. Colbert's expression got serious.
"We need to find him before he gets himself killed trying to take a servant from a noble!" He headed straight for the academy gates, staff at the ready.
"Wait! Take me with you! I'm also responsible for my stupid familiar!" Yelled Louise.
The teacher nodded, "We can probably make it in time if we fly."
••••
"Partner!"
'Who's calling?'
"Partner!"
'Delflinger?'
"Partner!"
"Urgh…" Groaned Maki.
"Are you alright? You just turned back and fainted!" Yelled Delf.
"I'm…fine…" Maki said weakly.
"Can you try standing up?"
Maki tried to get up but stopped by a striking pain.
"AAARRRGGGHH!"
"Don't move!" Shouted Delf.
"Hypocrite." Maki said through his clenched teeth,
"Sorry." Muttered the blade.
Maki kept still and looked up at the sky. He didn't like what he saw, judging by the color of the sky it was near sunset. The two just talked since they were unable to move; one was unable to move at the start and the other couldn't move due to various circumstances.
Delf got a look at Maki's runes somehow. "So my partner is Gandalfr?"
"Yeah. It's really helpful. Let's me perform my transformations easier."
"How so? Doesn't it only work on weapons?" Delf would've raised his eyebrow if he had any.
"It gives me knowledge on how to work my transformations. In my world, the beings I transform into have multiple uses and they could also be used as weapons, living weapons."
"So it helps you get used to your new body."
"Yeah."
"I think I see your problem."
"How? You're just a sword." Maki doubted a sword's intelligence.
"I'm over 6000 years old. I'm not just any sword, I'm a-"
"You're an old sword I get it. Please explain this problem o' wise one." Maki said sarcastically.
Delf grunted, "It only works one way."
"What works one way?" Asked Maki.
"Your runes, Gandalfr, they only work one way."
"Yeah, so?"
"They let you adjust to your new body but it doesn't help you adjust back to your old body." Reasoned Delf.
"This didn't happen to me before." Maki thought back to his transformation Back form Gorz The Emissary of Darkness.
"Was that transformation into a human body?"
"Yeah he had a human body." He thought Gorz was human, or at least humanoid.
"Then that's the solution. Only transform into another useless human unless u want to get hammered by pain."
"So you're telling me to ONLY use human transformations?"
"Yep. That about sums it up."
"I think that isn't so bad." Maki thought about one of his favorite group of cards.
"No convenient dragon-leaps for you." Teased Delf.
"Ah be quiet." Maki flexed his muscles again and the pain had dulled significantly.
"So you can move again?"
"Yeah, better get moving. I don't want to wait here for the pain to disappear altogether, let's just get to the estate and hope that I'm still not in pain." He went up and grabbed Delf, positioning the blade's sheath at his back.
Maki began his painful trek through the woods with the hope of finding the Mott Estate.
••••
Tabitha was peacefully reading her book…not anymore.
"Taaabithaaaa!" Whined Kirche. The tanned redhead was bored to death since she didn't get even a second to play with her 'darling'. The two girls were lounging around the grassy court, Tabitha's familiar was off playing in a forest, and Kirche's familiar was playing with a group of familiars.
The bluenette peeked up from her book. "…Loud…" Kirche went up and hugged Tabitha from behind.
"Buuuut! Taaabithaaaa! I'm so bored!" Whined the passionate redhead.
Tabitha decided to ignore her friend and buried her head in her book.
She felt Kirche's grasp loosen, "Huh? Isn't that Louise and Mr. Colbert?"
Tabitha lowered her book and saw two figures leaving by the academy gate; one was the pink-haired Valliere and the other was the balding professor Colbert.
Kirche looked out in the distance and used her hand to block the sun's glare. "Isn't that Sylpheed and Eve?" she said, pointing with her free hand.
Tabitha nodded. Seconds later they could see the two flying closer, and moments later the airborne dragon and harpie touched down with a gust of wind.
Sylpheed immediately let off a barrage of 'Kyuus' when she landed.
Kirche saw eyebrows furrowing and rising, and she didn't want to be left out of a potentially interesting conversation especially when Tabitha has those reactions. "Hey Tabitha, what's Sylpheed talking about?"
"…Maki…North…" Tabitha pointed from where Sylpheed had come from. Kirche saw a chance and her eyes shined.
However, Tabitha noticed that shine. "No."
"Please Tabitha! Please?" Kirche gave a tighter hug on the bluenette, "You didn't help me before! Please?"
Tabitha closed her book and nodded.
"Yay! You're the best Tabitha!" Kirche ran up to Sylpheed, "Let's go! My darling awaits!"
A few gusts of wind later, the two mages were off in the air on Sylpheed heading back to the north with Eve.
••••
Maki trudged through the bushes for about an hour until he saw a gate guarded by two armed men.
"Hey Delf, is this it?" Whispered Maki.
"It probably is, just look at the walls and the armored guards. This definitely ain't a commoner's house, that's for sure."
Maki nodded, "Let's get Siesta before anyone notices." He drew Delflinger out and his runes did its job. He ran forward with his newfound strength and speed and used his sword as a bat. He knocked out the men with a couple of blunt-force hits to the head and slashed the metal gate into pieces.
Delf noticed the fallen, but breathing guards. "Why'd you just knock them out?"
"They were just doing their jobs, it wasn't like they were ordered to kill me." Maki ran past the gate and saw the main doors to the mansion.
"Stop!" A guard noticed the broken gates. "Intruder!"
"Well there goes subtlety," Muttered an annoyed Maki. He knew that stealth wasn't going to work so he just cut the front doors open.
Two guards inside the mansion greeted the swordsman, "Intruder!" The two charged forward and were knocked unconscious by Maki's batting swings to the head. By the time he had dealt with the two guards, the guards from the outside were already on top of him.
"Get him!" The guards charged en masse at the commoner.
"ARRGGGHHHH!" Maki roared and ran up to deal with these persistent guards.
••••
Siesta had finished dusting off the bookcases in Mott's room and she was currently dusting a small black case from his desk.
"Well, hello Siesta." Mott's sudden entrance surprised Siesta into nearly dropping the case. Mott looked out at the night sky and grinned at Siesta, "It seems it is nighttime." The noble came up and got closer to Siesta.
"Umm…C-Count Mott?" Stammered Siesta.
Mott moved behind her and moved his face next to her ear, "I didn't just hire you to be my maid…Siesta…"
Siesta shut her eyes to block her tears. She felt his intruding hand on her waist.
"You know…you'll learn to love living here." He said smoothly.
They were interrupted by a guard banging on his door. "Count Mott! We have an intruder!"
"Deal with him! Just call more guards!" Mott hissed back, he was going to fire this man for ruining his mood!
The guard glanced back and saw a group of fully armed guards run past, "B-But Count Mott! WE DON"T HAVE ANYMORE GUARDS!" The man screamed in fear.
"Weaklings!" Mott shouted, he wasn't going to fire this man…he was going to fire all the guards!
Mott turned around to Siesta, "My dear Siesta, this will only take a moment. I'll be sure to return to 'entertain' myself later." Mott shoved the guard outside and ordered him to take him to the intruder who fought his incompetent guards.
Siesta was left staring at the open door…she wiped the tears that were flowing freely from her eyes.
••••
"What in Brimir's name is this!?" Yelled Mott, he saw the limp bodies of his guards strewn throughout the entrance hall.
The hall in which the one-sided battle took place was large enough to fit a humble house, and anyone on the second floor could look over a railing and see the entrance hall. Maki was busy knocking out the guards one-by-one as they came. Bodies were sprawled upon the marble floor, and groans of pain echoed throughout the hall. Count Mott walked down from the second floor onto the massive marble staircase that led down to the entrance hall.
Maki grunted in pain as he dealt with the remaining guardsman, the pain he felt now was because he was overexerting his already pained body.
Mott stood at the top of the staircase, "You there!" Boomed Mott. "State your business here commoner!"
Maki's breathing was ragged, "GIVE SIESTA BACK!" Maki yelled, making his anger on the matter known.
Siesta heard her name get called so she left the room, went over to the railing, and looked down over to the first floor. She was shocked at the number of fallen guards and she was even more shocked at who stood at the center of the destruction.
"Maki!"
Said swordsman looked up and saw a crying but happy Siesta…wait? CRYING?
"Siesta! It's alright I'm here to bring you back!"
Mott interrupted, "You?" he scoffed. "You can't take her! She. Is Mine!"
"Siesta's not an object!" Snapped Maki.
Count Mott thought otherwise, "Oh, yes she is." He sneered and produced a parchment with a stamp. "This is proof! She wasn't hired. She was BOUGHT!"
Maki snapped.
"I CHALLENGE YOU TO A DUEL!"
Siesta grew wide-eyed and screamed, "NOOO!"
The sound of Mott's laughter rang through the hall.
••••
"…Louise…" Tabitha pointed out two flying figures with her staff. Sylpheed was catching up to the student and teacher pretty quickly, Eve had no difficulties keeping up, Tabitha was calm, and Kirche was holding onto Tabitha for dear life as they sped forward.
Mr. Colbert was startled when he suddenly saw Tabitha and Kirche fly right next to him.
"Miss Tabitha and Miss Kirche?"
"Hello Mr. Colbert! We're just searching for Maki, I assume you two are also searching for him?" She said happily.
"Shut up Zerbest! We're searching for Maki with a different reason!" Louise's seriousness threw off Kirche.
Tabitha kept her gaze to the passing scenery, "…Explain…"
Mr. Colbert took care to explain, "It seems that Miss Valliere's familiar Maki went to challenge Count Mott."
Kirche didn't get it, "Couldn't Maki just beat him?"
The teacher shook his head, "No, it isn't the same as his fight against Guiche. Guiche was only a dot mage and Mott is a triangle mage. We need to get to the Mott Estate before anything serious happens."
"…Hurry…" Tabitha motioned for Mr. Colbert to bring himself and Louise over onto Sylpheed. The group pressed onward.
••••
"I'll show you the difference between a commoner and a mage!" Mott yelled, he held up his wooden staff. "I, Mott The Wave, hereby accept your challenge!"
"Wouldn't want is any other way. HAH!" Maki ran up the staircase with Delflinger ready to hack his arm off.
"It isn't that easy boy." With a wave of his staff, Mott summoned an icicle spear larger than himself. Another wave of his staff sent the massive spear at Maki.
Maki had to immediately shift into defense lest he get impaled. He used Delf to deflect the ice spear to his side. The deflected spear plowed into the marble flooring behind Maki and forced the guards' bodies against the walls. His deflection cost Maki. Delflinger was flung straight through the front entrance and Maki skidded to a stop across the marble floor.
"I guess that was all a commoner could do." Mott shrugged his shoulders and formed another ice spear and lobbed it at the commoner.
Maki stood tall.
"Accepting defeat?" Smirked Mott.
"THESTALOS THE FIRESTORM MONARCH"
In a flash of light Mott found the remains of his ice spear on the floor in a boiling puddle. Siesta, who was terrified of the outcome, was stunned at what she saw.
Where Maki had once stood was a massive armored soldier, its head level with the second floor. The soldier had smooth silver armor atop its chest and legs. It had studded silver armor covering its arms and it wore a dual colored cloak; from the back, the cloak was navy blue but from the front it was crimson like fire. The head was armored and only showed the mouth. There was a band of metal that wrapped around the eye level of the armored being. And floating right above its hands were two burning flames.
"W-Who are y-you?!" Mott screamed as he took a step back.
"I am Thestalos The Firestorm Monarch." Even though Maki's eyes were obscured by the metal armor he could see perfectly through them.
"M-Monarch!?" The monarch title scared the noble significantly.
"Yes. Now continue the duel." Spoke Maki.
"You?" Then realization hit Mott. "You! You tricked me!" With another wave of his staff he summoned five pillars of ice and launched them at Maki. The pillars of ice were massive by human standards but not by Maki's standards.
"Weak." Maki grabbed the pillars in one hand and crushed them like a cracker. The ice quickly melted and began to boil on his armor and hands. He shook his hands free of the water. Unknown to Maki, the water he shook off were the equivalent of flying cups of hot coffee.
"IT BURNS!" Screamed Mott as a drop of the scalding water hit him.
Maki laughed at the noble's expense because he hadn't even tried…heck, Guiche put up more of a fight than Mott, but then again Maki didn't transform into Thestalos.
"How dare you! I'll teach you!" Yelled Mott.
"No." Maki took a step forward, "I'll teach you." Maki bent down and ripped off a chunk of the marble staircase with his armored hand. "I'll teach you the difference in power." He held out the chunks of marble in his hand and quickly melted the stone into lava.
"AHHHH!" Mott immediately distanced himself.
"Now if you don't want to join your staircase. Throw that paper into the fire." Mott quickly nodded and balled up the document and hastily threw it into the molten marble.
Maki turned to Siesta; his eyes level with hers despite Maki being on the first floor. "Come now Siesta. Gather your belongings and let's go." The maid smiled and ran off toward her room.
Thestalos turned to Mott, "I assume that the uniform was your idea?" He nodded. "Did you ask for her permission?" He shook his head. "How did this happen?"
"I-I Just wanted a new maid."
"You talk too much." Maki gave an eyeless glare and got a satisfactory response; Mott cradling his head in fear.
Maki busied himself by cleaning his hands of the molten stone. He smeared his hand over part of the marble floor in an attempt to wipe off the red-hot rock. He stomped his foot to wake up the guards, and when they woke up they ran for their lives when they saw a huge metal soldier towering over them.
••••
Kirche pointed out the mansion in the middle of the forest, "Is that the place?"
"Yes…" Sylpheed touched down and the four mages disembarked near the front gates of the mansion. Eve and Sylpheed stayed to rest since they were the ones who flew.
Mr. Colbert examined the diced gate, "Did Maki do this?"
"We got to hurry!" Louise exclaimed, running forward.
••••
"Bye Mott, we'll take our leave." Maki turned to face the broken front door.
Siesta looked up at the metal behemoth, "Is it really you Maki?"
"Unsummon" In a flash of light Maki was back in his original body…well Gorz's body but with Maki's clothes. "Yeah it's me in the flesh." Siesta gave Maki her best embrace and buried her head in his chest.
Delflinger was embedded in the stone floor of the entrance, "Hey Partner! You did pretty well back there!"
••••
Mott was filled with rage as he saw the Monarch transform back into Maki.
"You filthy COMMONER!" Mott lifted his staff and gave a chant before unleashing a massive ice boulder at Maki.
••••
Delflinger was the first to notice the incoming iceberg, "Incoming attack!"
Maki whipped around and saw the ever-growing iceberg. 'Shield Damnit! Shield! Shield! Shield!'
"MILLENIUM-"
Maki thought back to what Delf had warned him about, but it was to late for Maki to correct himself. 'Shi-'
"-SHIELD!"
Maki's body flashed and was immediately replaced by a massive gold and red floating shield. It took the impact of the iceberg with ease and shattered it into shards of various sizes. But that wasn't the end. The shards were reflected back with twice the speed and decorated the back wall of the hall with mice shards.
Mott screamed as he was impaled by various ice shards; the most damaging hits gouged out holes in his hands and left his staff broken to bits, he was left with various cuts from the smaller shards and he was immediately knocked out by the shock and sudden pain.
••••
Delf yelled out to Maki, "Incoming attack!" Louise heard the sword and hastened her pace even further.
The group of mages caught up to Maki's sword and they saw the massive iceberg coming homing in on Maki. The mages braced themselves for the dreadful outcome that was to be…but they thought wrong.
They all saw a flash of light engulf Maki and the next moment later he had disappeared. The next thing they saw was a massive display of defense; the shield floated and blocked the massive iceberg without budging an inch. They all felt the collision and felt a rush of cold wind as the mages watched the contact. The shield then shattered the ice formation with ease, and it then reflected the broken shards back at the caster with amplified power.
The next thing the saw was a flash of light from the golden shield and Maki's standing body where it was before. Maki fell on his knees then fell forward.
"MAKI!" Everyone yelled.
Author's Note: I picked the Monarch because it can be understood by the french(?) speaking people of Halkegenia. I also have various scenarios that work with these Monarchs.
P.S. Sorry for the long delay but it was because of the length of the chapter.
P.P.S. Please give me your thoughts on this chapter!
P.P.P.S. Was i too brutal? Unfortunately this was not a true gauge of power and will be shown in the next arc...not chapter, arc.
P.P.P.P.S. There! are you happy with my Ch9 finisher? If not, then do not fret because i'll add ch 10 next week!
