Chapter 25

(The World Breaker)

The three slayer mages were walking up a long mountain trail with Morrigan in front of the other two who was talking as things was pretty normal, Isadora slightly warmed up to Xavier and was now able to have words with the older slayer mage with slightly less insults, Morrigan on the other hand hardly speaks to him unless she is talking to the both of them. Isadora knew how Morrigan was around people she didn't like so she took it on herself to be nice to the former Dark Mage as they was going to need everyone's help to beat this beast. From the legends, rumors and stories they got during the trip, Morrigan believed she knew where they would find Deviljin and it was near a small village you'd never find on a map but luckily Master Wulf had a map, somewhat a map anyway. The Slayers soon reached the peak of the mountain trail to find the sight of a small village, behind it was more mountain with a trail leading up, it was really back water in Isadora's eyes as everything was made of sticks and… furs?

There was many huts made of animal skin and fur, a wall made up of logs with spikes on top of it, and a bonfire right in the center of the tribe. There small Village didn't take up to much of the Mountian's space as there was more than enough space outside the village to walk around and even get lost as there was a nearby forest, on the other side was the cliffs edge. The tribe people was walking around in fur and/or grass skirts, yes the men too, and tops covering the women's private areas of the chest. They saw as the village was working together to get little jobs done, some men was carrying the kill from what Isa guessed was a hunt, as other was doing labor like making tools and weapons. Women were carrying baskets of things and helping with other small task, both men and women was training with weapons as one was yelling at them and giving orders, children were playing with a small sack that they was kicking around and it soon landed right into the three outsiders, which got the kids attention.

"PAPA!" One of the little girls screamed which got the full tribes attention and one of the warriors was quick to attack the outsiders by throwing a spare at them as hard as he could. It fly with great might behind it heading towards Morrigan who simply reached her hand up and catching the spare and it whizzed past her pulling her arm backwards dragging her about five feet as she slowed to a stop, The tribe looked in slight awe as the War Goddess kept her arm in the same place, she spun the spare in her hand and threw it back with all of might, It was too fast for the villagers eyes to keep up with but the gust of wind behind it quickly knocked a lot of them to the ground, Isa give a thumbs up at the war goddess as Xavier shook his head as they saw a cloud behind the village high in the sky go from being a solid to a giant hole appearing in it.

"So… does anyone else wish to test me?"

The tribe just stared at the short redheaded woman as she stepped closer to with a smile on her face and the red glowing in her eyes, slowly everyone heard a clicking sound as an older woman stepped forward, she was short with gray hair covered in a robe, she had a walking stick to assist her movements. She slowly got closer to the three outsiders and stopped just in front of them.

"Ahhh… Yes… Yes…" She said as she looked up at Morrigan. "You three must be here to destroy the Beast, Deviljin…"

"Yes ma'am." Morrigan said as X and Isa moved closer to her, looking down at the small woman.

"Two Demi-Gods and a Burning Bird." She said as she was looking close at the three Wolves Mages, she had a small smile on her face. "Come, Come… Make yourselves at home in my Village, you will need your rest for your upcoming battle."

The elderly woman led the three mages to the middle of the tribe where all the people gathered, she watched as everyone sat or stood, she didn't care much. She looked back the Slayer mages and smiled before turning to her people. "Today we have guest, these three outsiders have come to defeat the monstrous Deviljin." Her words got gasps from most of the tribe as some of the warriors chuckled.

"You all know they we must treat them with respect and give them all the best of our wishes." She continued until one of the warriors piped up.

"I don't know why we keep doing this; they're just going to die like the others." This got the three mages to face him as did a lot more of the village, The man was tall, a little taller than X who was the tallest in the group, the man's skinned was tan and scars covering his arms. "I don't think we should waste our time with them."

The people begun to whisper among themselves until a young girl stepped forward and spoke up.

"It matter not, they have come here to help us rid the world of this beast." She said to all of them, she had to been somewhere in her 20's, she had short green hair that was slightly messy and amber eyes slightly like Morrigan but darker, she was wearing a skirt and top made of animal fur which looked to be tiger. Her skin was lightly tanned by bathing in the sun and her body was slightly toned by what had to be training. "If today will be there last day, we should at least help them enjoy it!"

Isadora slightly leaned over to Xavier and whispered. "I really don't like them talking as if we are going to die…"

"No worries, the three of us got this."

"Enough!" The elderly woman yelled as she slammed her cane to the ground. "You Princess spoken and as of order of the queen, my grandchild's word is the last."

The woman turned to the three mages and smiled up at them. "Will you three mighty warriors please step forward and give your names to the people." Morrigan nodded at the request and she looked at all of the tribes people as she stood in front of the burning bonfire, the sun was still high in the sky.

"I am Morrigan Wrathblade."

"I'm Isadora Tenebris."

"Xavier Hearthome."

"We are all Mages from Wolves Pride." The three of them said proudly as they looked at the tribe who was once again in a whisper, the last few people who tested the beast we're also mages, and a lost more… intimidating.

"If you three need anything, please ask." The older woman said as she looked at them.

"Thank you Ma'am, I do have one request." Morrigan spoke up.

"Oh and what might that be?"

(Hmmm)

"Morrigan! We should be relaxing!" Isadora yelled as she blocked the attack by Morrigan, the sound of their blades clashing filled the air. Isa was trying her hardest to push Morrigan back as she was one handing her sword, X was sitting on a rock watching the two female mages train. He had a small smile on his face, he enjoyed training and watching people train, it just got him pumped.

Morrigan asked the elder for a spot for her to train and if it could be outside the village to make sure they didn't destroy anything important. Some of the villagers came to watch but some of them hid hoping not to be noticed as others just didn't care, mainly the warriors. X could tell that Morrigan and Isadora was holding back as this sword play was just a warm up and not even a good one, maybe Morrigan didn't want to hurt the pride of the people.

"Xavier!" The voice of Isa got his attention and he saw a red slash coming right at him, and he was quick to roll out of the way as the rock he was on was split down the middle.

"What the hell Morrigan!?"

"Do not think you will skip out on training, I need the three of us on our toes." She yelled as she rushed at him with a swap of her blade only to be met with his Trident. The two god slayers stared into each other's eyes.

"Think you can beat me little red?" Asked X as he was locked in a stalemate.

"I have already won once before. Doing it again won't even be a task."

The two kept glaring at each other as they tried to push the other back, Until they both heard Isadora yell "Holy Phoenix's Blazing Inferno!" The two mages saw the giant blue fire ball and they both dodged quickly as it the earth and suddenly turned into a spire of flames for a moment. The God Slayers looked at the Phoenix who had a smirk on her mouth and her blade in hand, as the villagers looked in shock and awe as the youngest did so much damage.

"Fine then Isadora, if you wish to test your magic you should've asked." Morrigan said as she sheathed her blade and Isadora did the same as X's trident turned back into water. "Come then, too the Cliffside, hopefully you will not be blown off the mountain it is a long way back up."

X watched as the two girls left to the cliffs, he turned to see that the villagers that were there was still in slight shock; he could only chuckle by the sight. He then noticed one of the children slowly coming up to him from his left side, it was a little girl in a fur dress with black hair, she seemed to have trouble looking up at him as she move closer, he just guessed she was shy.

"Umm…" The little girl slowly looked back and X followed her head to see two other small girls trying to hide out of sight, he looked back down at the little girl before him and smiled as she turned to look at him, both of her hands was behind her back so X slightly kneeled down so he was closer to her height so he couldn't peek.

"Hello, what's your name?" He asked the small girl.

"K-Kara."

"Hello Kara, I'm Xavier. But my friends call me X." The small girl smiled at him. "So what's that behind your back?"

This caused the girl to jump slightly as she believed it was well hidden, but she slowly pulled a small red flower from behind her back and showed him.

"Oh, what a pretty flower." X smiled at the kid, he didn't even notice that the girl slightly stood on her tippy toes and placed the flower into his hair slightly sticking out the side. "Hmm."

"It's a lucky charm, for when you go and defeat the monster." She looked at him with her wide eyes. "You're going to beat him right?"

Xavier couldn't help back give her a smug smile as he petted her head gently. "Of course, that monster won't stand a chance against me." This got the girl to smile more but then a sudden bright light got her attention and her eyes opened in fear, X noticed the look in her eyes and turned to see a giant torrent of blue fire headed towards him and the village, he could hear the panicked voices coming from behind him as they all saw the beam of destruction headed towards them. He was quick a take a deep breath as he felt something cling onto his leg and felt someone come onto his side.

"Water/War God's Bellow!" was heard as two beams, a blue one and a red one clashed with the light blue one, the three beams slowly mixed turning slightly darker as the energy of them come together and then-

BOOM!

A giant pillar of energy dark purple shoot up into the sky causing blowing the clouds in the area to get blown away, the wind was strong, any stronger it would have blown all of the hunts off the mountain if it wasn't for the wall protecting them, the air became heavy for all the people as they watch and the beam of energy disappeared. The whole village pretty much was now near the field where the two Slayers stood as the third one ran over, they was all in shock from what they witnessed by the outsiders.

"I'm so sorry!" Isa said as she ran over. "I sneezed when I was practicing my Screech."

"I told you to face the Cliffside you idiot!" Morrigan yelled and then hit Isadora on top of her head knocking the younger girl down giving her a lump.

"Oww! I said sorry!" Isa yelled as she rubbed her head. X could only sigh at the sight with a small smile on his face. "Damn that going to leave a mark you Jerk!"

"You gotta be more careful kid, just think what would have happened if you went all out." Xavier said to her.

"It wasn't that bad geez." Isa said with a small pout as X turned to Morrigan.

"Why did you help?" X asked. "I had it covered."

"You were slow and the little girl was on your leg." She said. "I wasn't going to risk her life on you."

"Thanks for the boost of confidence…"

"You've failed to best me, so why should I have confidence in your abilities?"

"Well it's both of your faults that there is a giant hole in the ground." Isadora yelled as she pointed to where the beam was just a few moments ago and was now a hole in the ground slowly filling up with water.

As the three mages kept talking the villagers looked on slowly coming out of their shock, the might of the three outsiders in front of them was outlandish but to them it seemed like child play, just the way they was talking like it was nothing but a mistake, If that was a mistake then what would happen when they went up against Deviljin. The Princess could only watch on as the male of their group petted the head of the scared Kara as the Redhead yelled at the young girl who slightly yelled back. Her face slowly warmed up as she now fully believed that they would be rid of that monster once and for all.

(I sneezed.)

"I would like to thank you for allowing us to stay the night Elder Kirin." Morrigan said to the elderly woman who sat near her.

"No need my child, I should thank you and your friends, if not for you we wouldn't have a new well nearby and would have to track back and forth up the mountain for water." She explained as she looked over to see her workers still building a well around the hole. The elder slowly looked around to see that Isadora was playing with the children as they watched a small blue fox with wings fly around and do tricks which made her smile once more. The boy of the outsiders group was leaning against a log with his eyes closed and a bar of chocolate sticking out of his mouth as he slowly ate it, she noticed a lot of the women of her tribe was looking at the man most likely attracted to him, he was in his outsider clothes which was a sleeveless blue shirt that revealed his chest, abs and arms to the world which was slightly putting some of her warriors to same, also showing his red wolf tattoo to his tribe or guild which every they called it, she knew as the other two members of his group had the same tattoo and showed it proudly. He also had on black pants, and protecting his feet was black boots. She could see why some of the woman was attracted to him, as some of the men kept looking at Morrigan and Isadora.

But she did notice someone who really couldn't take her eyes off the young man all day; she looked over to see her granddaughter taking peeks at the young man as she was trying to help other and she couldn't help but chuckle lightly as she knew that even though the princess was one of the best warriors her village had to offer, Princess Miri was shy when it came to boys, mainly powerful boys and he was surely powerful.

"Isadora, Xavier, Time for bed. We need our rest for the morning." Morrigan said to her two guildmates as Isa groined but X didn't care, he was already tried and it was starting to get dark.

"So what's with the flower X?" Isadora asked as she looked up at the oldest Slayer.

"Oh one of my fans gave it to me." He said with a smug face which got her to roll her eyes.

Elder Kirin made her way other to the Princess as she watched the three outsiders go into their own huts.

"You know, those three might need a guide making their way up the pass." She said with a sly grin. "It would give you a chance to talk to them before their battle."

"But grandmoth-" The sound of the cane clicking on the ground made her quite as she looked at the small woman. "You need not worry about the village; it will be fine without you my child."

Miri just looked at her elder walk away and she nodded her head, she wouldn't mind getting to know the three brave souls that was about to risk their lives to defeat a monster they had nothing to do with. But a little ways away stood the Warrior from before gritting his teeth as he looked at the huts where those Outsiders stayed, they come to kill the Beast, the beast he was sworn to kill… Not on his watch.

And Cut, I hope you lot are enjoying the Three Slayers because this could be their last team-up if Deviljin is really that deadly, also we got to meet a small tribe of warriors which is always cool.

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