AN: Yo my loyal readers. I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I'm back to bring you an update after several days of not updating. The bad news is, this might be the last one for a week. That's all they gave us for our Winter Break. Today is the last day of school and then there's next week and the Monday after. I'll barely have time to write possibly but I know that I won't have any time to update. Anyway, I'll stop talking and let the story commence.
Chapter 43
*Third POV*
Grey and Kurotsu stared each other down. Kurotsu had missed with her attack on purpose to show Grey her strength. The black ball she had in her hand was still there. The three Rune Knights behind her let out a slight grunt. She nodded to them and they all charged. Grey prepared for them. "Ice Make: Lance." The attack hit all of the Rune Knights but just pushed them back a bit. Their armor may not have been the best but it was powerful to keep them safe from his attack. But something seemed odd about them. Grey thought he heard the sound of bones hitting each other.
He didn't have any time to think it over as the one with the sword charged at him and tried to stab him. Grey barely dodged and got grazed on his left shoulder. The wound began to turn a little purple so Grey froze it, suspecting the sword was poisoned. But he got a close up of the sword when the same person tried to slash his face, dodging it completely. He saw that the sword was rusted.
He took the opening he had and delivered a kick to the knight's face, separating it from the body entirely. The body didn't seem fazed and kept on attacking him. Just what was going on? If the head separated from the body, shouldn't the body die? Before Grey could react the Rune Knight with the hammer charged forward and slammed the hammer into Grey's stomach and also punched Grey in the face, sending him flying backwards.
Grey hit the wall and the last Rune Knight pulled out a pistol and shot at Grey. Grey barely had time to react as he made an ice shield to block the bullet. The other knights began to hit the shield as Grey began to figure out exactly what was going on. "You want to know, you should just ask," Kurotsu told him. He looked over at her to see her just standing there, moving the ball around in circles in the air. "I'm a necromancer. I can animate the dead to make them do what I tell them to. For instance I can make them do this." She snapped her fingers and the knights began to do that Russian dance thing where they kick out their legs one at a time with their arms crossed over their chest.
She snapped her fingers again and they went back to what they were doing. She smirked as the shield began to crack. "Don't worry; they'll be the death of you. I hate taking part in violence so I let my slaves do the work." She walked over to a rock and sat on it, waiting for the fight to end. Grey thought about what she said. The only way to stop them in his mind was to freeze them, but with the armor on he couldn't do that. He began to think of other possibilities, but it was too late. The shield fell and he had to dodge out of the way when the sword almost cut his arm.
If they're wearing magic resistant armor, I just need to attack until the armor breaks, Grey thought as he began to use his magic. "This better work," he said. "Ice Make: Lance." The attack hit the armor and cracked it a bit. He kept up the attack until the armor shattered on all of them. "This should do it. Ice Make: Cage." He created a block of ice around the skeletons and froze them where they were.
Kurotsu looked over and saw what happened. "Over already? Too bad for you," she said as the ball turned into a ball of energy. She threw it at Grey who dodged. He looked at where he was and saw that the ball turned the area that it hit into dust. "Oh, did I forget to mention that I am a tri-mage of Wyvern, Necromancy and Black magic?" She sucked in a breath and let out a burst of cold air at Grey, who wasn't affected.
She noticed that he wasn't affected and changed to a stunned expression. "My teacher, Ur, taught me my magic in the coldest mountain in Fiore in only my underwear. You didn't even faze me with that warm attack." He prepared to use his magic again. "Ice Make: BAZOOKA!" He blasted a chunk of ice at Kurotsu, who was sent flying back into the wall behind her. She looked at Grey and let out a slight laugh. "What's so funny?" Grey asked her, confused at her sudden outburst.
"You are this powerful and I couldn't even harm you? One of your friends should have stayed back," she said as Grey gave her a confused look. "I'm only a C-class mage. If some of those mages are weaker than you then they'll die. We've been arranged in order of weakest to strongest. I'm the second weakest in our guild so your friends will die if you're this strong." She was being a bit repetitive. Grey turned to walk away but was hit with a burst of shadows and fell to the ground unconscious. Kurotsu stood up and looked at him. "Looks like I'm not to kill you, so you're lucky. But I will see you around." She snapped her fingers and the bones of her skeletons turned to dust. And in a flash she was gone.
*Izaya T POV*
I turned off the lacryma and stretched. "Well it seems that Sophia doesn't want anyone killed yet. Your partner was always troublesome," I told Lacy. A knock on the door caught my attention. "Come in." The door opened revealing Termina Aoi, Whisper, and Terra along with two other people. One was a male standing at 5'9" with dark brown eyes and was dark skinned. He wore a long sheet of cream color, a matching head cloth to stop the sand from going into his hair, and a matching bandana over his mouth. He had dark brown eyes and was dark skinned. He carried a curved sword with the phrase "Kill only what you can defeat in the afterlife" written in Asarabian. The other was 5'3" with copper brown ear-length hair, dark violet eyes, and pale skin. He wore a pale green shirt with a large, dark green, x on the back, a light brown cloak over it, khaki shorts, and black shoes with wisp-like patterns on the sides. He also carried a brown shoulder bag. "It seems that we'll have to move ahead of the planned schedule. Aoi, you know what to do." She nodded and left the room. "Everyone but Hamar and Ian, go to your respective areas." Whisper and Terra nodded, walking towards a pair of holes that were at the back of the room on the floor. The only people left were the Asarabian and the guy with the shoulder bag.
"May I ask what it is you wish to say to us?" The Asarabian, Hamar, asked. I walked over to a device near the door and pushed a few of the buttons on it.
"I need you two to stay here. There will be 3 people remaining after Aoi sends the rest away. She'll take the weakest while Natsu and Izaya R will remain." I turned towards them and they seemed to step back a little. "Hamar, I want you to take Natsu. Your probably the best suited to fight him out of the remaining people. Ian, halt Izaya R. I want to make sure that he is thoroughly exhausted by the time he gets here." They both nod but don't move.
"Is that all Master Izaya?" Ian asked. I nod and the two of them walk out of the room, going to where their respective battles would take place. I looked over to the door on the opposite side of the room and tapped on it with my fingers.
"You can come out of there you know," I said to the door. There was a muffled sound, almost like the owner was getting off of a stool. The door opened to reveal a girl the same age as Lacy. She had long blond hair tied up by a red bow into a pair of pig tails, brown eyes and pale skin. She wore a black tank top that only reached above her stomach, a black, leather, mid thigh length skirt that frayed at the end and a choker with a cross on it. She also wore a black arm band on her right arm and a pair of black silk fingerless gloves. "Sophia, what a pleasant surprise. I suppose now you're going to get bored as well and start annoying me?" I ask her.
"Nah, I'm not in the mood for doing that to you today," she said as she walked over to Lacy who just noticed her. The two of them let out a slightly mischievous laugh and hugged. The two had been best friends since Lacy joined. Sophia helped her gain her current S-rank status and the two were rarely seen without the other. "Me and Lacy will probably just annoy each other to relieve the boredom until the people you want us to fight get here."
"OK, but remember, you need to keep up your strength. We wouldn't want them to defeat our legendary Disastrous Duo." I turn and walk out of the room, the sounds of screaming and laughs filling the room. Those two were a real handful. Their power was the only reason I tolerated them. I just sat outside and waited for my 'brother' to arrive.
*Izaya R POV*
It felt like hours we had been running. Not a single mage had come to stop us. They couldn't have been that careless to only have 2 guards. And just as I thought that they were, Termina Aoi came out of the shadows and blocked the path. She brought out an ocarina and began to play a light melody. When she stopped playing, Erza, Zero and Makarov all vanished in a flash of light, leaving a few feathers were they once were. Lucy, Natsu and I were all that remained. She looked at the group and let out a slight sigh.
"I must be losing my touch. Only a few feathers remained. Oh well, that's all I needed anyway. Natsu and Izaya, go on ahead. The guild master wants me to take care of your female companion." The ocarina changed into a sword with a glowing green blade.
Lucy reached for her keys. "Go on ahead, I'll take her on. She doesn't look that tough," she said as she selected one of the golden keys. I looked at her worried and Natsu just nodded and ran forward. She gave me a confident smile and turned back to Aoi. "I'll be fine. You have someone waiting for you right?" I nod and run on ahead. I felt guilty for leaving her, but she seemed confident she'd win. I just hoped that she wasn't being over confident.
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AN: And that ends it.
Izaya: You know you're cruel right?
Me: Why do you say that?
Lucy: Well you're making Grey and Sadon looking kind of weak compared to me if I'm going to be battling the third strongest mage.
Me: Well, who says you're going to win?
Lucy: You wouldn't dare.
Me: You only have Taurus, Aquarius, Cancer, Virgo, Horologium, Crux and Plue. I'm sure that the readers wouldn't mind seeing you lose at your weakest.
Izaya: And that's exactly what I was getting at.
Natsu: At least I'm not being shown to be weaker than you Lucy.
Lucy: Come on. Don't I get some respect because of later chapters in the manga?
Me: Yes, but we aren't there yet. We've only reached after the battle against the Lullaby.
Izaya: And not to mention that we now have room for only us now.
Roxas: Yeah and I'm enjoying the time I've gotten to relax.
Me: It won't be much longer hopefully. I plan, but probably won't get it done, to have this story done in 10-13 chapters. If I upload a chapter a day minus weekends, it should be done mid January. I'm almost getting sick of this thing. I mean I like it but it's the only thing I've been having inspiration for so if I get this done first I may be able to get more done on my other stories. Anyway, hope you enjoyed the chapter and I want to know if you guys understand this fully because I didn't really explain it: What is a necromancer? Again, hope you enjoyed the chapter and I'll see you guys in a couple of weeks. Roxas if you please.
Roxas: You know the drill of reading and reviewing so please do so. We will see you later. So until then, ciaossu.
