WolfGear Presents: Negima? The mage and the Gunslinger
Pairings: Negi X ku-Fei Kaede X OC
Chapter nineteen: Festival part 2 Sayo's rebirth
I don't own Negima!
It was early morning when Rubi returned to the dorm rooms, she had listened to Sayo's story like she promised then stayed up all night with the ghost chatting about anything and everything; it was a rather interesting experience for the mercenary she wanted to do something to help the ghost girl's situation. How she was going to do that was another question all together.
Rubi sat on the couch thinking off anything that could be of help she alright thought of numerous spells that would let the ghost be seen and heard to normal humans but she wondered if there was something better, something like dare she say it give the ghost a second chance to have a human body again. Her eyes fell on the numerous magic books stack against the wall. Maybe they could provide some answers after all what was the harm in looking, she pick out a random book, it's was an old leather bound book with a phoenix on it. With the book under her arm she sat down on the couch again and began reading and started a fresh brew of coffee, she could tell it was going to be a long day.
Jack yawned as he stretched his arms being sure not to disturb the sleeping beauty beside him, he glazed at his girlfriend beautiful body, last night she had been more excited than some of their nights, but as much as he would love to go another round he smelt the scent of coffee in the air meaning Rubi was up and about plus Negi wanted to talk to him about Chao's plans for the festival.
Gathering up some clothes he pulled on a black t-shirt with cowboy up written in flames on the back it was a gift from Kaede. She said he needs more casual wear then his button shirts plus longs sleeves are hot in the summer heat. He walks towards the door and sees that Rubi is passed out on the couch with one of his books clasped in her hands on an empty cup of coffee on the table.
Did she stay up all night reading? He questioned covering her sleeping form with one of the spare blankets, he also bookmarked the page she was reading but not before taking a quick look at what his dear aunt was studying.
"The Phoenix Rebirth ritual? What would she want to do with something like this?" he thought putting the book on the table, his phone beeped at him a text from Negi asking where he was. Deciding to question his aunt later he hurried off to the court yard where he was supposed to meet with Negi ten minutes ago.
Negi sat at one of the many benches around campus, he had just got done deciding what his class was going to do for the festival, and he suggested they do an old western saloon setting. The girls loved it and began working on it right away, though Haruna and Kazumi tried to pervert the idea into some kind of brothel theme. He agree to let the girls do what they wanted as long as they kept it within the bounds of the school rules, hopefully it wouldn't be like the house of maids by the time he checked on them.
The teacher checked his watch again; Jack still had yet to show up, Negi figured the cowboy was still lying in bed with Kaede and sent him a text message. Out of the corner of his eye he spotted Kataro hiding in the bushes hiding from what he did not know, but decides to stick his noise in it just to pass the time.
"Kataro it's not very manly to hide in the bushes," the young wizard taunted the Hanyou who walked out of the greening shaking the sticks and leaves from his spikey black hair.
"Shut up! I wasn't hiding I was just searching for my um ah wallet! Yeah I lost it well I was running around," the Hanyou fibbed as he searched the area for 'her' the damn woman just wouldn't leave him alone! He heard a feminine voice shout out his name and quickly jumped back into the bushes telling Negi to keep quiet, just as Chizuru and Natsumi walked around the corner.
"Kataro! Kataro where are you?" the pumpkin chested woman yelled she had been searching for the boy for over an hour now, she wondered why he ran away when she said he was staying with her and Natsumi.
"Hey Chizuru look its Negi. Maybe he knows where he is," the shorter girl pointed at the teacher sitting on the bench. Chizuru agreed if anyone knew were the elusive hanyou was it would be Negi the two were friends weren't they?
"Negi-Sensei! Have you seen Kataro anywhere around? I wanted to show him where he'll be staying," the elbowed girl asked the little professor as she approached the bench.
"Sorry Chizuru-Chan, Natsumi-Chan, I haven't seen Kataro anywhere. I'll be sure to tell him you're looking for him if I see him." Negi responses deciding it would be easier just to have the girls move on; he would make sure that the hanyou spoke to the girls after their talk though. The two girls sigh and continue their search for the Hanyou when their out of sight, Kataro jumps out of the bushes, landing on the bench.
"Thanks man I owe you one!" the hanyou pulls out a flyer from his coat packet "but forget about that for now have you seen this? There's a fighting tournament taking place, finally we can see who's stronger!" the hanyou exclaimed excited about fighting the other boy he may even get to fight Jack or Kaede! Yes he would show them how powerful he gotten since their last fight!
"He's over here! Told ja I could find him," Jack said to Chizuru and Natsumi, walking towards the younger males. The two girls were desperately looking for the hanyou and being the nice guy that he was he followed the Hanyou's Ki like Kaede had taught him and tracked him down like a bloodhound. He also secretly wanted to tease the dog-boy, seeing the kid suffocate in between Chizuru's breast was just too funny to pass up.
Chizuru dragged the struggling Kataro away spouting how she would be his mother figure and take care of him from now on, with Natsumi shaking her head at Chizuru's antics. Jack and Negi got in a good laugh before settling down to business.
"Did you really have to do that?" Negi asked the cowboy though it solved the problem of him making the hanyou go himself, he wondered if he shouldn't have tried to do something.
"No, but the kids needs someone to look after him. It will help him from being so reckless if he as someone waiting for him at home, enough about that though, what's your plan to deal with Chao?" he wondered how you fought someone that could bend time and space to their will and also had an army of robots at their command.
"That the tough part last time I had the student fight the army with magical weapons and told them it was part of the festival. This time I afraid we may have to something similar. Even if we confront Chao she is bound to have a backup plan. Is there any chance that Rubi could give us a hand?" He asked Rubi did fight in the magical war twenty years ago and trained Jack so she must be on his father's level of power or close to it. It would be real helpful if he didn't have to use the students like last time.
"No chance in hell she'll help us," Jack said "unless you have about 300 million American." The cowboy sighed his Rubi maybe his aunt but she would never ever do a job unless she was getting paid and let's just say her rates were fairly high even for family.
"300 million American! What on earth could she possibly need all that money for?" the young mage exclaimed.
Flash back to Rubi's last black-market deal
"Let's see that's 15 million for the f-16 jet, 120 million for the tank equipped with 50 caliber machine gun and 30mm cannon, and about 100 million the shipment of M-16's, 50 caliber anti-tank gun, 3000 rounds of ammo and a bazooka. Is that all ma'am?" the UPS man asked Rubi as she signed the papers for her delivery; he need a semi to get everything here and there was more coming!
"Yup that's everything! Thanks for coming all the way out here for me," she said handing over a brief case with the money she always like to pay in cash, the best part she just forges the documents saying this stuff is farm equipment for the 4000 acres around her land and she doesn't have to pay tax on anything!
End of Flashback
Yeah his aunt was quite a card got stuff cheap and charged the most she could funny with all the money she as and the things she buys, she never once thought about moving out of that crashed Boeing 707 and buying a mansion somewhere, but that's Rubi for ya. Jack was also hesitant to ask for her help because he still didn't know why she was here, even if she was worried about him she would never just hop on plane to go yell at him in person, maybe a ship but not a plane. It was Ironic that she brought a plane and lives in a plane when she hates to fly.
"I see you're point perhaps we should just ask her not to interfere because I'm sure Chao has enough money to pay Rubi off if she can afford Mana." Negi stated he remembered that Chao also paid out of her own pocket the prize money for the tournament, Mana, and finance the building of a 4000 strong robot army.
"That might work for now, then enter the tournament so Chao will think everything going according to her plan and when she tries to do that cyber war thing we'll crash the local severs with a virus to stop her for the time being." Jack said to the wizard he figured nothing short of blowing up the internet severs would stop the genius, he and Negi maybe adapt at fighting and magic but computers they pretty much knew next to nothing about. "Well that's enough of this serious talk for now. I'm going to go get some breakfast now if you don't mind."
Before the cowboy was even three feet away, Rubi showed up Sayo floating beside her, she was also carrying a book under her arm. The mercenary grab Jack by the arm and told him to fellow. Jack tried digging his feet into the ground, but Rubi pulled harder pulling the cowboy along as his boots slipped on the pavement unable to get any traction. Negi watched the site with mild fasciation as Jack was dragged away by a woman much smaller than the cowboy.
Rubi finally release Jack by the base of the world tree about half way up her nephew finally stopped struggling and followed his aunt willingly not like there was any point in resisting, Rubi always gets what she wants it doesn't matter how much you complain or bitch it's better just to go with the flow. He mused catching the book Rubi threw at him.
"What's this?" he asked confused though his Aunt could use magic, she never once took interest in learning anything outside of stealth and attack magic, so it didn't make sense that she would want to learn ritual magic now. Perhaps it has something to do with that ghost girl floating beside her.
"Page 777 the Phoenix Rebirth Ritual, I want you to preform it on Sayo here," She said pointing at the ghost for emphasize. "I want it done as soon as possible too. Also you're not going anywhere till it's done!" Rubi held up a second book that Sayo was holding on the cover it read Jack's most embarrassing moments.
Crap, she really has me by the balls this time, he cursed throwing open the book and began reading the instructions. The ritual was simple enough just draw the circle pattern on with the subject in the middle and burn him or her with mystic fire well summoning a Phoenix spirit. No problem except he needs a second fire beast thing like himself?
"I can do it but we need another fire class demon or else the ritual is pointless," he told her he really didn't want to be doing this when there were a million other things to do but it never hurt for his aunt to owe him one.
"You just start the damn ritual I'll take care of the fire," Rubi said with a cat like smile it kind of creped Jack out a bit but surged it off and got to work. Transforming his hands to their demonic form so he could make the marks, the book said they had to be burned into earth. So he summons a small but extremely hot flame that turned the earth black, such a shame to destroy such beautiful land scape but that's fire magic for you.
After about three hours Jack had the circle done. In its center was a smaller circle surrounded by flame like runes and pictures of various birds to represent the phoenix. Jack fully transformed letting his body be engulfed in flames his nails changing into claws, his hair turned orange and lengthened and two short horns emerged from his head. He looks at his aunt to see her reaction to his surprise she shrugs it off like any normal day accordance.
"What? You thing I didn't know what you would become when you got older? You don't look much different than your father except his hair is silver when he goes demonic," She said walking over to the opposite side of the circle, positioning herself right across from Jack than motioned Sayo into the circle, the complied and floated over the runes till she reached the middle, she looked nervous but that was to be expected she was about to be burned alive or dead technically.
"So what about this other fire demon? Where is it?" the cowboy asked there was no way he could power the circle by himself and control the flames that it would produce the whole campus would be turned to ashes!
"You're looking at her dumbass," Rubi said pointing to herself "You father may have the Elemental eater gene but it's the mother who decides with element." To Jack's surprise and embarrassment Rubi striped herself of her clothes standing completely naked before him.
"What the fuck are you doing!" he exclaimed covering his eyes, it didn't matter how hot she was, it was never fun to see the woman who raised you naked.
"What are you whining about? We used to take baths and showers together don't tell me you're embarrassed to see your aunt naked? Hell I walked around nude most of the time if you remember," Rubi teased as she removed her panties, seriously when did he get so uptight about such little things?
"I was five! I have some code of ethics to keep too you know?" Jack shot back a healthy blush spread across his face.
"Well do you want me to burn my clothes off? I happen to like that Jacket you know?"
"Wait what?" Jack asked stupidly, what was she talking about now? Rubi face palmed it would be easier just to show him then try to explain it, besides the wind was picking up and the air from the lake made it kind of chilly even though it was summer.
"Just watch ok," Rubi's pupils turned to slits, her eye color changed to amber, the nails on her nails and feet sharpened and lengthened into claws, orange and black fur grew over most of her body barely covering her privates and breasts, a tail sprang out from her lower back and two cat ears on the top of her head. Overall she was the perfect combination of dangerous and sexy.
"See what I mean now? Your mom and I are descendants of Fire cat demons. Now let's get this over with shall we?" she asked building up her power, Jack took the hint and did the same two pillars of flame shot up into the air well the circle caught fire and slowly made its way around the runes to the circle in the center where Sayo stood frightened. When the flames reached the middle the flames engulfed the ghost. Sayo screamed as the flames shot into air taking the shape of a bird before crashing into the ground. The flames died down leaving nothing but a pile of ashes in the center, Jack and Rubi quickly rushed to see if the ghost girls was alright, neither one was sure how the ritual was supposed to work, Jack hoped he didn't send the girl into oblivion! His fears where unnecessary as an arm reached out from the ashes then a head of black hair, Sayo was now completely solid again and naked too. Jack turned away from the now living girl transforming back to his human form so he could get the girl some clothes.
Sayo stared at her hands unable to believe she was really alive again; she threw herself in to Rubi's lap wrapping her arms around the mercenary's waist, rubbing her head against her exposed stomach crying thank you over and over.
Rubi patted the girls head effectually "Welcome back the living Sayo," she said pulling the girl closer a strange feeling filled her chest but it felt good in a way, the mercenary felt a connection to the girl that was just unexplainable. That could wait for now though she had something to tell the former ghost, she had too know why she wanted to help her so badly and what was going to happen to her now. Rubi carried the girl over to the base of the tree setting her beside her it was going to be long explanation so they might as well get comfortable.
"Sayo I want to ask something of you," she began nervously she never had to deal with these kind of emotions before so it was scary for the hardened mercenary to express herself like this, "Would you want to live with me as my daughter?"
Author's note
That's the chapter people next we'll find out more about Rubi's past and Negi as some trouble on his hands see ya next time!