Chapter 10

(Thicker Then Blood)

Mia just looked up at the man who was staring down at her, she didn't even noticed what happen behind the leader of this guild that took her friend, but the rest could see it as clear as day, the ninja slowly fell, his top half went forward as his lower went backwards. Suddenly Mia's best friend the exceed Fury ran up to the man with both swords in hand.

"Get away from her!" He yelled as he swung his swords only to feel a sharp pain come from his waist, it was forcing him to fly past the man and Mia. Fury got a gleams of who pushed him and it was revealed to be Julius, who was still middle air as the man was still turning to defend himself, Julius pushed off the man's hand making himself go higher into the air as the assassin fully moved his hand at the last moment causing a sudden shockwave of air knocking a lot of the mages over and ninjas. A few of the mages who didn't fall believed this was their best chance to get their friends back and took off after the Elites who some was also knocked over by the man's attack.

On the other hand Julius saw this as his best chance to counter attack and went to Ax Kick his father only to have him catch his leg and slam Julius right onto the floor causing a human shaped outline in the floor with only Julius leg sticking out. The older Blackblaze looked around the hall to see the fight has only slightly stopped as his elites were starting to leave once more.

"Spade."

One of the elites stopped in his tracks and turned to face the man, he didn't have the look of fear on his face but more of boredom, he saw the mages running closer to him as the other elites got out the room.

"Handle this as I have something else to take care of." He said as he turned to the horrified Mia who was backing away.

"Sleep"

And like that Mia was out like a light as she fell into Abenzio's arms, the man was quick to turn and slap something that was flying at him at high speeds out of his was, if you followed the purple trail left by the thing you could see it was slapped behind the Assassin leader as an explosion happened moments later, which sent Fury flying into a wall only for him to bounce off it and hit the ground hard.

"GET AWAY FROM HER!" Theo yelled as he threw another coin glowing with purple energy at the man before he disappeared with Mia. The look of anger on Theo's face was greater than ever before, and a ninja found this out first hand as he tried to attack the teen's backside only for the man to turn and slap the man in the face as an explosion followed sending the masked ninja flying and Theo standing in a small dust cloud with the sleeve of his shirt burned off.

"Well it looks like I'm first them." They all heard a voice come from the steps and they saw the one elite named Spade who was standing on the stairs, there was only a few mages in the room as the rest gave chase, and a lot of beaten ninjas on the ground as others was training to recover.

Julius, Theo, Sunday, Runa, and Thursday was the only mages left as they faced the young looking assassin as Ashton and Britt were helping Izumi and Fury with Ryota protecting them from any attacks as Ashton and Britt were not the best at fighting. The assassin stood about five foot eight with a skin body and olive skin, he had on black jeans with a black and white shirt on covering his small body and a white hoodie over top of it unzipped, he had black and white checkered boots. They looked around to see a lot of the fallen ninjas getting back to their feet, they was tripped and outnumbered.

"Hmm, so only five of you stayed to face me?" He took a seat on the steps and snapped his finger and two summoning circles appeared and two fully armored black and white knights appeared with Shields and Swords, The mages looked at the knights when the three Wonderland mages slightly looked at each then back the knights before Runa broke out into a laughter, Sunday was more able to hold back her giggles to keep her monotone look, but she did find this sight funny.

"W-What's so funny!?" The teen sitting on the steps asked but it was more of a demand for an answer.

"I believe my guild mates would be laughing at the magic that you are using." Julius explained as he looked at the boy with no fear in his eyes.

"And what's so funny about Chess Magic?!" The teen asked as he didn't like the idea of people laughing at his magic.

"It's just the fact that our guild master uses the same magic and we have trained with her." Sunday explained to the teen. "And from what I can tell from your skills just from looking at how long it took you just to summon two, the odds of you losing has increased from 71.229 percent to 87.724 percent."

"Uh sis, why so low?" Her older blonde haired sister asked. Sunday pulled out a small gun from her back pouch and pointed it up.

"I will not be taking part in this battle." He fired the gun and a grappling hook came out and pulled her up to the ceiling of the room and she disappeared into the interior of the place.

"… I guess some things never change…" Thrusday said to no-one really, but still got an answer from Runa.

"Tell me about it…"

(Super Spy Sunday)

As the Wolf and Wonderland mages ran down the narrow hallway they soon found themselves in a small circle shaped room which had six open hallways not counting the one they came out of, there was a torch next to each door giving the room a dim light as all the mages started to look around not really sure which way to go.

"Damn It!" Cora yelled out as she punched the wall, her fist went through it as if it was made of paper and she pulled it out just as easy taking parts of the wall with it.

"Cora, calm yourself." Serrano said to her as the swordswoman stepped over to her and was now standing in front of the party. "We do not need you with a cool head."

Serrano then turned to face the group of mages, she didn't say anything for a moment before she nodded her head.

"Okay, we will break off into teams of three, each will be led by an S Class Mage and we will each go down a hallway." She said to everyone and they all nodded or agreed to the plan out loud. "We have no time to waste so all the S Class step forward now!"

And like that Cora, A, Tania and Cal all stepped forward and stood next to Serrano as they looked at all of the non- S Class mages. It looked as if the S Classes was picking a team as if for sports. Serrano was the first to speak, as she stepped forward.

"Karma and you with the sword, you two will assist me." She said and they both went over no questions asked as A was next.

"Nora and Pedro." They both nodded and went over to her and the door she was at, Cora was quick to pick hers.

"Jean, You and your blonde friend." Jean nodded to her as he looked over to Scarlett and they both went over to her, Cal was next to pick.

"Gemma, Cruz, I'm sure you two will be perfect for whatever happens next." And Tania didn't even give them to walk over as she picked.

"You two." She pointed to Liberty and Tanith how both went over to her, as Tania looked at the last three mages and the wolf.

"Suta, Nae." The siblings looked at her. "You two will go with Urteil and Lupa, He is a former S Class, Stay safe you two." Tania said as she flew off on her broom to the team she picked leading them down one of the hallways as most of the other teams left down their own hallways. Soon the room well into a deep silence as it was empty as the only the sound of the torches could be heard burning slowly, the light that they produced was dim within the room and they slowly went out one at a time until the room was pitch black.

"… My Children, Do not expect my kindness again…" A voice said from within the darkness and suddenly the lights all turned back on to show nothing and no one within the room.

(Hmm)

Mia slowly awoke to find herself looking at a red ceiling, her eyes quickly widen as the flood of memories rushed back to her, she jumped up from laying down to seated and found herself on a dead, her eyes was soon met by the red eyes of the man who kidnapped her and her friend, the same man who just claimed to be her father, so to say she was defense was an understatement as she moved back to the edge of the bed. The man just sat in a chair, his face didn't show any signs off… any, it was just plain as if he was playing poker. Mia on the other hand was showing a lot of emotions at once on her face, but the mean two was Anger and Fear.

"Seven Years…" The leader of the Assassins Guild finally spoke, if voice was deep and rough, but surprisingly soft. "…You mother hide you from me, Mia."

Mia just watched the man carefully, as he just sat there and continued to talk. "Where did hide you Mia?" He asked but didn't even give much time to answer, "It doesn't matter really, you're back now, and that's what matters."

"My friends will-"

"They will die Mia, all of them, mainly that brother of yours… That brother of yours…" As the man repeated himself as eyes slightly widen as if he noticed something he missed. "Of course… He knew where you were this whole time… right underneath my nose." He then looked at Mia and noticed the fear on her face and he couldn't help but smile.

"Fear not, my child, you are back home and here I am god." He proclaimed as he stood up and slowly walked over to her only for her to try to back away more; he quickly stopped himself once he saw that. "You don't have to be afraid Mia, you are a goddess here, you can have whatever you want."

"I want to leave!" She yelled at him with her soft voice, only to be shocked when he said, "Sure, if that is your wish. But remember, where ever you go it will lead to the death of everyone."

Mia didn't say anything as she saw the look in his eyes; he wasn't lying to her and from what she learned before the mission, he might be able to do it to. She slowly looked around with her eyes to get a quickly peek of everything in the room, hopefully she could find a way to run.

"Sir."

The sudden new voice made Mia jump and she turned to see a female how looked to be about in her early 30s with long raven black hair, her skin was slightly tanned and very soft looking, she had soft blue eyes and was in a full maids outfit from the top of her head down to her feet which was slightly floating off the ground as Abenzio was holding her by her neck chocking the life out of her.

"What have I told about interrupting me…?" She wasn't even able to speak with her mouth and eyes wide open.

"Put her down!" Mia yelled at him as she got ready to attack but just watched as the man slightly turned his gaze to her and let released the woman from his grasp. He then turned his gaze back to the woman.

"Speak, Mary-Anna, Why have you interrupted me?" He asked the woman who was coughing and holding her neck, she was trying to take in as much air as she could. Abenzio grow impatient as he waited for her to speak. "Mary-Anna Ross…"

"S-sorry sir." Her soft voice was slightly raspy for a moment. "Y-you have a call f-from Mr…" She noticed the look in his eye as she said the word 'Mr' and was quick to pick better choice words. "Your client… The client says it's urgent… Sir."

"… Fine." Abenzio turned to Mia before he sighed softly. "I have work that needs to be done, make yourself at home. You can try to run if you wish, but it will not be best for anyone you go near." He was about to take a step but stopped himself. "You will not be able to help those mages, nor will I let you anywhere near the battle. I don't plan on losing you a second time."

"And you." He said to the maid as he turned to face her. "Your life belongs to her, so you will serve her to the best of your power… as long as it doesn't upset me." The maid was quick to bow as he walked past leaving the room and closing the sliding door behind him.

The maid stood there by the door with both of her hands in front of her as she turned to look at Mia, the maid smiled softly as she looked at the small child before she spoke in a slight whisper. "It's very nice to meet you, Lady Mia."

(Cut)

And Done, I hope you all liked this really slow build up to the action soon, the teams have been formed, but what do the Blaze Force have planned?

Also, if you enjoy this and wish to learn more about other characters past go check out my other story Western Fiore's Rewind, it is a collection of stories from the past of some of the characters and just other tales I didn't have time to fit in the main stories.

And if you wish to see what Morrigan, Isadora and Xavier aka Team Slayer is doing Head on over to Wolves Pride to see them take on The World Breaker.

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