Disclaimer: I do not own Mahou Sensei Negima nor its characters or Mana Khemia. All I own are my OCs Isaac, Xak, Az and their familiars.

Chapter 13: Parting Gift.

"T-took Xak's magic!? You mean.." Negi realized what had happened, We're too late... His insides churned, feeling a bit of regret, until a hand landed on his shoulder. He looked up to see that it was Xak.

"Don't worry about it.. Just because I don't have my magic.. Doesn't mean I can't fight." Xak smiled, Negi felt his stomach relax a bit. Gripping his staff he faced the violet haired boy again. Who started playing, once again causing black mist to form all around the room.

"He's summoning demons.." Az stated, he couldn't do much with only one gun. Xak couldn't do any thing at all, he lacked his cards which he used as projectiles, Isaac's bombs were not to be seen in the room they were kept it either. "This could be trouble."

Isaac was tugged in one direction by Setsuna, "Isaac-kun, there was a bag, guns, and a deck of cards in the other room.. and.. is this yours?" Isaac realized that they were his possessions as well as Xak and Az's, he took what she handed to him, which he made out to be his glasses, he smiled and replaced them back on to his face acknowledging the items were his with a nod, "Very well. We shall hold him off while you regain your possessions."

"Alright. Xak, Isaac, let's move." Az declared, passing into the next room. The other two followed, leaving the 10 year old wizard, ninja and samurai to fend against the violet haired demon summoner.

"Master!" Carbon cried, jumping into her master's arms. "Are you okay!?" Isaac cradled his familiar petting her head.

"I'm just fine, don't worry Carbon." Isaac chuckled, he raised his eyes and noticed the two girls watching him smiling. "Good to see you again Asuna-san, you are... Konoka?"

"Tch. Nice to see you're popular with the ladies Isaac." Xak joked, grabbing his deck of cards from the table, putting them into a side pouch. Snapping it to the side of his waist by the belt.

"Yeah yeah.. Wait.. Why aren't you and those two girls affected by that love spell..?" Isaac remembered, slightly backing away from her.

"Oh, don't worry about that, before we left, Chachamaru had us drink some sort of purple liquid, she said it was sweetener, then she told it was an anti-love potion."

"Then.. why bother calling it a sweetener?"

All the girl could do was shrug, which was enough of an answer for Isaac. "Okay, let's get back in there and hel-" He was interrupted as the door opened up from behind them, Setsuna, and Negi came tumbling in, their cuts and wounds looked worse than they could have anticipated. "Setsuna-san! Negi-bouzu! Asuna-san, Konoka-san, help me out here.." Isaac knelt down next to them. "What happened!?"

Konoka rushed to them, using her artifact to heal their wounds. "That demon he summoned.. it's too powerful.." Setsuna explained, forcing the words out. Xak and Az nodded to each other, rushing into the field of battle, their familiars stayed in the room though leaving them with Isaac with the others. "Be.. careful of it's claws... tox...in..." Setsuna had fainted, even Konoka's advanced healing abilities could not cure Setsuna's fatigue, but she atleast managed to remove the poison.

"Secchan is exhausted.. Negi-kun is unconcious too.. I hope you're careful." Isaac nodded, taking his bag from the table. He walked through the door to join his friends.

The door shut behind him, he readied a few bombs in his hand as he stared up at the giant dog-like creature, which Xak managed to scratch a few times using the edge of the playing cards, his alternative weapon due to his lack of magic.

Az had to stop his waves of attacks to help Kaede who had been injured, Isaac helped by distracting the demon with bombs as Az lead her away from the fight and over to Konoka in the next room.

"Xak! Watch out for the claws!" Isaac shouted to his partner throwing another bomb at it. They seemed to be doing little damage, the burns on it were hardly visible.

"Got it!" Xak shouted back, narrowly avoiding a slash from the beast. He jumped back landing beside Isaac, drawing another card. "We'll flank him. You go right, I'll go left."

"Wait." Isaac interrupted, reaching into his bag, passing him a flask, his eyes shadowed. "Pour it onto your cards, it should compensate for your magic."

The two stayed silent for a bit, finally splitting up to go their directions as a claw came crashing down where they once stood. Isaac barely heard a 'thanks' as he parted ways, Isaac smiled as he threw more bombs.

Xak flew to the left, opening the flask and pouring it onto the pouch that his cards were kept in. He drew a card and aimed for the beast's side, he launched the card at it, watching as the card bursted into flames upon impact, singeing the side of the demon as it howled in pain. Heh.. I gotta get him to teach me how to make this solution later.

"Think you're tough now huh!?" Leon shouted from his position, staying behind the beast he continued to play, giving it a 'power up'. "Like to see you try now.." he stopped playing for a split second and revealed a container, a bright light swirled around inside it, it glowed orange, to red to blue, and continued shining. "Let's see what happens when this guy has the power of a Gambit Magician!" He held one hand over the container and with the other, he strummed the strings, The boys noted the beast looked as if it got stronger by a considerable amount. Using it's claws it aimed at Isaac who was slammed into the wall. Isaac grunted in pain as he dropped a bomb nearby him, only slightly damaging the claw of the beast.

Isaac screamed out in pain. Blood started to seep through the demon's claws as it dug deeper into his side. "F-FUCK YOU TOO!" Isaac yelled as he threw another bomb towards the demon's face, causing it the stumble back in pain, causing Isaac to drop onto the ground breathing heavily. He barely managed to raise his head to see the beast trying to land another hit but was showered with bullets. His vision became slightly blurry, but he could faintly see Az's figure blasting away at it, as well as Xak's cards.

"I told the girls to get the three out of here. Where's Isaac?" Az called out to Xak, he noticed Xak's small gesture as he tilted his head in Isaac's direction. "Woah.. Don't worry, I've got it." Az moved in quickly, lifting Isaac up from his position. The pair managed to get closer to the door, but were swiped away by the beasts large claws. Isaac's condition worsened, not only was he bleeding from the side, his arms and face were now covered in cuts. Az suffered no less, sans the cuts from the side.

"AZ! ISAAC!" Xak called out in terror, watching his friends slammed against the wall again. Something inside him stirred, he felt his insides tighten, he felt his rage slowly pent up inside him as the demon scratched at them again.

The demon raised it's claws, ready to release the final strike, "You see this power boy!? This was yours once!" Leon laughed, strumming more and more releasing more of Xak's energy into the demon. The claws came crashing down and the dust was flung into the air. "It's over for you three. Even if I only got one of your powers, that's good enough."

The dust cleared. Leon felt his stomach churn, and the demon's claws were stopped. "You can't be serious.." Xak stood, his left arm stretched out at the claws, a faint aura was glowing around him, they took the forms of wings, blocking the strike. "What the hell!?" Leon strummed more and more, releasing more energy into the beast, but to no avail, Xak didn't move a budge.

Xak didn't say much, but with a swipe of his arm, the aura looked as if it pushed the demon backwards, he brought his arms into a cross around his body, and as he did this, the aura wings started to cover him. He quickly separated his arms so that they were at his sides, the aura wings followed but caused a gust of wind to form into a twister, he snapped both his fingers, and the twister grew to an admirable size, but it radiated the same aura of the wings that Xak emitted. As the twister approached the demon, cuts and gashes started to form on it, implying the damage was being caused by the twister itself.

The demon howled in pain as it was surrounded by the twister, being cut endlessly and mercilessly, as blood poured out everywhere. Finally the twister had cleared and the demon was left, lifelessly standing until it flopped forwards, Xak reached for one of his cards, but in his hand, he transformed it into a feather, and shot it at Leon, purposly missing and impacting the Container with Xak's magic. "It's over for you." He sighed, as the container shattered, releasing Xak's magic into thin air.

"Y-YOU IDIOT!" Leon screamed, "Now the magic is lost! Gone forever!" He glared at Xak, who was holding another card, ready to through.

"Tch. If that's all my magic is good for.. Providing power. Then I don't need it, nor do I want scum like you getting your hands on it." His eyes were now a deep red, glaring holes into Leon, he felt Xak's eyes pierce into his soul, losing control of his body as he couldn't even move his arms, or legs. Xak took another feather out of his pouch, throwing it into the air. As it connected to the ceiling of the room, it caused a small crack, which grew and grew, eventually causing the roof to collapse. "This place should never be found again.." Xak turned and lifted his friends, placing each of their arms over his shoulders. He held on to them as he jumped towards the collapsing ceiling, his wing-like aura causing him to levitate. Before disappearing, he glared back at Leon who finally managed to control his body again escaping.

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The night air was calming, it was just about midnight, everyone took a full day to recover, Mahora seemed like a ghost town when the lights went out.

"So.. you're seriously leaving?" Az asked, seriousness taking over his voice.

Xak chuckled a bit, "This is the first time I've seen you so serious, but.. yeah." He clenched his fists, "This power.. It's feels good.. But I can't control it.. I'm worried I might cause problems."

Az stood up from where he was sitting, and crossed over to his friend, putting a hand on his shoulder. "Come on man.. You know you're the most controlled person I know." Az smiled, causing Xak to smirk.

"You're a good friend Az.. That's why I want you to watch over that guy Isaac for me." He folded his arms, "If he's not stronger by the time I come back, you're gonna get one hell of an ass whooping." Xak playfully hit Az on the shoulder.

"Xak.." a voice called out. The two boys turned to see Isaac slowly walking towards them.

"Isaac!" Az called, "Shouldn't you be in the infirmary?" It was plainly obvious that Isaac had not completely recovered, his bandages were visible all around his body.

"I'll be fine.." the black haired boy sighed, "But are you really leaving?" his gaze shifted over to the blue haired magician.

"Yeah.. Until I can control these powers, I'm just a danger to all of you." Xak sighed to himself. "But I'll be back, so you'd better be tougher by then. Got that?" He smirked, he turned and walked off.

"When you come back!" Isaac shouted out to him, getting his attention. "Let's fight to really see who's gotten stronger!" He watched as Xak just waved back, never once looking back.

Xak walked further towards the entrance of the school, but stopped in his tracks. "You can come out you know.." He sighed, and turned as the small black and red wolf stepped out of the shadows.

"Hey, I can't let you have all the fun out there.." The wolf slyly smirked, "Now come on, if I have to spend one more day talking to that cat I'll kill myself." The boy laughed as they both walked out of the Mahora grounds, not to be seen again..

For now.

A/N:

From this point on, there will be two stories to read from:

Cynical Guilty Pleasures – Chapter 14 and onwards is the main plot of the story.

Broken Wings and Dreams – The series's subplots. Connected to the main story, will explain details about certain aspects in it.

Look forward to both stories, and thanks for reading!