How does magic even work chapter 10
Naruko sat in a hotel room staring intently at the white cat in front of her ``so let me get this straight. All of you are from another world except for one of those Lucy girls?´´ the cat nodded ``and tomorrow you are going to invade the castle and overthrow the king?´´
the cat shook her head then ``not quite, we think that the king knows how to turn the lacryma back into our comrades.´´
Naruko slowly nodded ``i have no idea what you are talking about.´´ the cat facepawed and sighed deeply while muttering something about idiots ``whatever just tell me one thing. What do you want ME to do?´´
``you are an assassin correct?´´
``yeah. So what, you want me to kill all the guards or something?´´
``no! No nothing so extreme! Just, we need you to sneak into the castle and gather information. We will take an alternate route to get in unnoticed and with your help we will be able to reach the king with little problem.´´
Naruko nodded sagely ``yeah I get that... so what do I get out of this?´´ the cat looked lost at her words ``hey hey you cant just expect me to do this for free!´´
the cat's expression became strangely calm, almost condescending in a sense, it looked up at her and spoke slowly ``you will get to have Wendy to yourself for an entire day... and she will also call you big sister-´´ ``DEAL!´´
Narukos cheeks were red and she had even put her hand up when she shouted deal. She looked over at Wendy who sat on a couch with Natsu next to her. Naruko began drooling a bit and her face became even more red. A cute little girl like Wendy calling her big sister! ``uehhee... hehheee.´´ Naruko wiped some drool from her face and Wendy felt like she was about to be eaten by a monster.
Then the door to the batroom opened and one of the Lucys came out wearing nothing but a towel ``hey guys check this out even our bodies are identical!´´ after her came the other lucy also only wearing a towel ``hey don't just run out like that! Put some clothes on!´´
Naruko looked at them as they got into an argument with Natsu, she looked down at the white cat again ``are you sure you guys are going to make it?´´
the cat only sighed and started drawing a small map on a piece of paper.
XOXOXOXO
The next morning Naruto woke up and the first thing he saw was his own face, why was there a mirror above him? Then his reflection started talking to him.
``hey get up little me! We got some stuff to talk about... like how you totally stole my personality!´´
The only thing Narutos mind could come up with at that moment was ``what?´´ then what he had thought was his reflection grabbed his shirt and pulled him up. His mind cleared a bit and he got a better look at the other person who looked like him. It was a girl, older than him by a few years, spiky blonde hair that barely reached her shoulders. And armor made from thick leather plates with orange paint splattered on it here and there. For some reason he felt like he was supposed to know who this person was.
She stared at him for a moment, then she pointed to her cheeks, or rather the whisker like marks on them. ``oooh so YOU are the alternate ME!´´
``took you long enough! Now explain why you are one of the kings personal guards!´´ she looked pretty mad at him.
``well... everyone thought that I was you, so I just played along and I ended up here somehow.´´
``that doesn't explain shit! Tell me why!´´
Naruto looked at his counterpart for a moment considering his words ``well... I watched this movie once... and the hero guy infiltrated his enemies base and messed things up. And I thought I could do the same thing now ya know?´´
Naruko was silent for a moment before speaking again ``that is actually a pretty good plan.´´ Naruto nodded ``whatever, just listen. I met with your buddies Wendy, Natsu and Lucy and their cats yesterday, they said that the king might know how to turn the lacryma back into people or something so they should be sneaking into this castle about now. Got that?´´
Naruto nodded slowly ``yeah but... what do I do?´´
silence reigned in the room for a minute before Naruko finally spoke again ``well... you could... uuuh. WAIT! I got it! You're a general now right!? So then you can order a lot of soldiers around. Tell them to go somewhere to get them out of our way!´´
``yeah! I cou-´´ Naruto was interupted by a knock on the door to his room. He looked over at Naruko, or rather, where Naruko had been. He was now alone in the room, damn ninjas were cool. He walked over to the door and opened it, revealing a soldier who nervously stuttered out.
``m-m-miss Naruko... the k-king has requested your presence.´´
Naruto simply looked at the soldier for a moment and then asked ``is that all?´´ the soldier twitched and walked away from the room. A 'whoosh' came from his right side and he looked over at Naruko who was beside him once again.
``ill go look where the others are right now, ill find you later.´´ Naruko said and then disappeared again. Naruto had no idea how she had done that but he HAD to learn how to do it as well. Before he left the room he went and picked up his legion mask and put it on.
``ready to go!´´ he said to himself and then headed towards the throne room.
XOXOXOXO
Naruto stood in front of the king, beside him was none other then Erza. Though it was not the Erza he knew, the woman beside him was Erza knightwalker. It was quite weird for Naruto to see Erza like that, mostly since this Erza had almost no armor on, only a metallic bikini top and gauntlets and leg guards.
He snapped to attention when the king started talking ``Erza! I want you to take care of the prisoner who we have no use for. Go now and take care of it quickly.´´
``yes my lord!´´ Erza responded and quickly left the room. Naruto looked after her, wondering just who the prisoner could be.
``Naruko!´´ Naruto looked back at the king who seemed strangely wound up. Like he was waiting for something. ``there have been invaders in this castle this morning... but you had no hand in apprehending them... explain yourself!´´
Naruto felt like his hearth had stopped, he was so screwed now! He had to think of an excuse quick! ``my king... I apologize for not being on alert this morning. But uh... you should cut me some slack ya know... since it's my first day and all!´´ he laughed nervously and scratched the back of his head. Yup he had just fucked up bad!
The kings intense glare pierced into his soul and he felt himself starting to sweat heavily. Then the king finally spoke again ``i will not forgive negligence like this twice, assassin. Important times are before us and a mistake on your part could be disastrous for us. For now I need you to patrol the castle, kill all invaders who dare to enter.´´
Naruto held back a sigh of relief as he nodded and walked out of the room, now he had to come up with a new plan. He walked aimlessly through the castle and thought of what to do now.
XOXOXOXO
Naruko moved soundlessly through the shadows of the castle, after splitting up with Naruto she had passed several groups of soldiers, checked a dozen rooms and had still not found team Wendy. She had decided to call the other group 'team Wendy' since her lovely angel was in that group. She was already planning what to do with Wendy when this was all over, it would start with a date in the park and then they would go to a hotel and then they would... do things.
She shook her head, no time for erotic thoughts now! She had to focus! But seriously where the hell was team Wendy?
She knew that the castle was enormous so aimlessly searching would do little good. But there was no other way to find the others, unless someone important just so happened to walk by.
She looked at the large cat-man who rushed past her with a large following of soldiers. This could be good, they were going somewhere in a hurry so they were probably worth following. She slipped after them completely unnoticed for a while and then they seemed to reach their goal.
They had arrived at a walkway with one side open to the outside, in the middle of the walkway stood Erza knightwalker. Hovering in the air outside were two cats, one of them holding the Lucy from Wendy's world. Then suddenly the large cat man yelled out furiously ``those exceed are rebels! They were outlawed by exteria!´´
The two cats and Lucy flew off the second they heard the big cat man's shout and the soldiers could only watch as they flew away. Naruko wondered to herself where they were going, but maybe she could find out.
She walked out of her hiding place and simply stood next to some of the soldiers ``heey~´´ a few soldiers looked back at her and she made a cute face ``where do you think they weeent?~´´
mutters of 'wait what?' were drowned out by a single mans voice who said ``they're probably going to the prison tower over there.´´ an armored finger pointed to a tower in another part of the castle.
Naruko smiled widely and half shouted ``thanks!´´ as she dashed in the direction she thought was the right one.
The soldiers stood still until one of them turned to the one that had given Naruko directions ``why the hell did you tell her that?´´
``what? It was just a girl asking for direct-oh shit she was an invader wasn't- mmmph!´´
The soldiers panicked voice was muffeled by another mans hands, he spoke slowly as he looked at all the men who had just seen Naruko ``we saw no one... no one asked for directions.. no one gave directions.. and no one will be punished by Captain Erza or anyone else. Got it?´´ the others nodded slowly and turned their attention back to the two captains who were still discussing something.
XOXOXOXO
Naruto had been walking towards the area where all the Legions were kept, he figured he would be able to make use of Buster to create a big distraction for the guards while the other group did their thing. Though he was forced to stop when his path was blocked by a single man. A werry strange man.
The only clothes he had on his body was a pair of black pants, no shirt, no shoes, only a set of thick leather straps that held a large object to his back. The mans lips parted in a smirk revealing his teeth that had been sharpened like a sharks.
Then he spoke in a deep intimidating voice ``you are the one who calls yourself Naruko right?´´
Naruto had a sinking feeling in his gut, he could practically feel the bloodlust coming of the man. Yet he steeled himself as best as he could and said ``yes´´
The man smiled wider, making his face look all the more demonic and he chuckled slowly for a second. ``he he he.. this is good.. for a while I thought that that bimbo had actually turned traitor on us. But it seems it was just some stupid wannabe kid, fooling the mad king.´´ he paused and Naruto took a step back when the man with only one arm pulled the object that was strapped to his back up and over his head. Then held it out in front of him.
The object, was an enormous sword. It was similar to ones Erza had once showed him during training, though this one was bigger than all he had seen before. And the man held it with only one had like it was only a stick. Naruto flinched when the mans voice came once more ``don't be mad at me now kid but i'm gonna have to kill you for making me go through all this trouble.´´
Naruto snapped out of his fear at seeing the giant weapon and drew his twin blades. Though as soon as the man saw his action he laughed loudly ``so you want to challenge your fate kid? Then let me introduce myself! I am Zabuza the assassin.´´
Naruto stood silent for a moment, having trouble comprehending what the man was saying. ``i'm.. uh.. Naruto uzumaki.´´ he barely finished speaking before being forced to bring his blades up and guard to avoid being split into two. The blow was so heavy that Naruto barely managed to keep his guard up. The massive sword was then lifted up again and Zabuza laughed.
``Kahah! Kid you might just prove to be fun.´´ his smile turned wicked as he wound up for a decapitating swipe ``lets see how long you live!´´
autors note
it took a while to make this chapter, mostly because Im lazy but also because i've had tons of ideas that I wont be able to write down until later in the story.
The next chapter will be a bit longer and will have a lot of action!