Sorry for the late update for such a short Chapter. Blame Ohyaocon for that. I GOT TO HUG HANGE(Jessica Calvello cosplaying as her Attack on Titan character)! Thats right, I hugged 100% HANGE!
Aside from that, I'm going for shorter chapters for the action to try and get them out faster. Not saying there is leaving development out but this is a guild war. The Development is just going to happen during the fighting and I'm going to try and focus on the characters that haven't had a lot of focus yet. Starting with Team 5.
By the way the Lunar Knight Team names are:
Team A
Team Beta
Team Triangle
Team Quarter
Team 5
And Team that other group.
And If you haven't seen the character artwork done yet, Go and Check it out on Naomi Tachi's Deviantart account, now properly renamed NaomiTachi. You can find it by looking up her account, searching for Asharu Skyler in search, or find my account LordoftheRoses and clicking on the 'Lunar Knights Collection'. All artwork is done by Naomi and she does a great job! :D
Review Below, Let me Know! ^^
Guild War Arc
The Sophia Church, the Rune knights had built up a small defense around the building with boxes and sandbags. The area had been deserted in preparation, all except for the lowly priest inside of the church. All solace was removed with the sound of an explosion in the distance. The sound of the blast made Ina Averina, of the Rune Elite, run up to the front of the defenses.
"What was that?!" Ina asked.
"An explosion." A Rune Knight replied.
Ina gave him a glare. "No shit! It was probably Black Fang! Get ready to move out and-"
"...eeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAARRRRRRRRRGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Right down the street, a carriage carrying several people on board soared through the sky and crashed into one of the pillars of the church.
"THE ACTUAL HELL?!" Ina shouted as she ran to the crash sight.
The first thing she saw was Lenalle rolling off with a green face and dizzy eyes.
"Wow! Woo! Let's go on that ride again!" Rhysander cheered. The second he stepped off, he was introduced to several Rune Knights pointing their weapons at him. "... Well, shit..."
Ina made her way in front of the soldiers and pointed her finger at Rhysander. "What the hell are you doing here?"
"I'm here with my guild." Rhysander answered.
As soon as he said that, Lenalle got up, went to a bucket and threw up in it.
"Oh, God, this is so disgusting..." Lenalle groaned.
"Yeah, great, well you guys gotta clear out." Ina said. "We got everything under control."
"Oh really?" Rhysander asked. "So, your entire convoy getting wiped out and Black Fang trying to free whoever's in this makeshift prison cell was part of your plan?"
"What?" Ina asked. "This is all your fault!" She pointed at Rhysander.
"Fantastic! Just blame me for stuff I had nothing to do with!" Rhysander sarcastically exclaimed.
"Because of your guild!" Ina said. "Your little guild war made Commander Barca order us to set up operations to draw out Black Fang!"
Spiral got in between Rhysander and Ina. "So this was all just a ploy to lure Black Fang out?"
"Yeah." Ina moved over to the carriage and banged on the side. "The VIP here is the leader of a notorious Dark Guild. We found out he made a deal with Infinity that if they broke him and his guild out of prison, they would pledge their service to him. So we carried him in a convoy around town for a little bit to draw them out."
"And you decided the place to do this around was MY hometown?" Spiral questioned, clearly pissed.
"Hey, it worked!" Ina interjected. "Now we can go because we don't need the help of low level wizards from illegal guilds and murderers!"
"I DIDN'T KILL YOUR FATHER, INA!" Rhysander snapped.
Spiral had to hold Rhysander back a bit, but then suddenly-
SMACK SMACK!
Lenalle smacked both Ina and Rhysander in the back of the head.
"You two need to put your bickering aside now!" Lenalle demanded. "We have Black Fang coming down our tail right now! We need to be ready and fight them, not each other!"
"Who do you think you're talking to?!" Ina snapped.
Lenalle stepped up and got into Ina's face. "I am talking to a Corporal Second Class and you will watch your tone when speaking to a superior officer!"
Ina shrunk down a bit. "Sorry, Staff Sergeant..."
"Now we got about five minutes until they get here." Lenalle said. "You have three to tell me everything about your orders from Commander Barca. Go!"
Lenalle walked off while Ina talked really fast following her, leaving Rhysander and Spiral staring dumbfounded.
"... Wow..." Spiral said.
Rhysander just put his hands in his pockets and turned away. "Figures they're still a bunch of assholes."
"Well, it can't get any worse." Spiral said.
"Ahem..."
Spiral turned around and the two girls they encountered at the caravan. The well-endowed one was more in his face while the five-foot tall tanned one leaned to the side so she would be seen and waved nervously at him.
"Oh, right... You're those girls..." Spiral said. "Right..."
"You seriously don't remember who I am?" The girl in his face asked.
"I seriously don't." Spiral said. "Please don't hurt me."
Spiral winced, ready to get punched in the face.
"Momo..." The girl simply said. "Momo Nishimura (Age 16)..."
"... Momo? Momo?!" Spiral asked. "You mean the same Momo-"
"So you do remember!" Momo clasped her hands together in happiness.
"... Not at all." Spiral said.
BAM!
Momo kneed Spiral in the groin, making fall to the ground.
"Well... I'm Ylissa (Age 15). Don't worry. You don't need to remember me because we've never met."
"Good to know..." Spiral groaned in pain.
"So why are two unknown wizards hanging around a war zone?" Rhysander asked.
"Well, the Rune Knights actually sent a job out to unaligned wizards, those without a guild, to come here." Ylissa answered. "It pays really well. See? We're not the only unaligned wizards here."
Rhysander looked around and saw there were a few standouts in the Rune Knights that looked like wizards preparing for battle.
"So they all hired you to fight in a battle you could die in?" Rhysander asked.
"It's different for me." Momo said. "I live here."
"Yeah, I was just passing through and had nothing better to do, so why not?" Ylissa replied.
"Look, this isn't a game." Rhysander said. "You need to-"
The sound of magical attacks and screaming filled the air.
"The Black Fang is here!" Someone outside shouted. "They're attacking!"
Lenalle came running back up and looked into the hole they made when they crashed.
"We need you guys out here, now!" Lenalle ordered everybody in the church. "Primary directive: Keep them away from this carriage and prevent them from removing the rune I enchanted on here! Let's go!"
Back at the park, Mokkan continued to blow into her oboe to create seismic blasts aimed at Shin. Shin's barriers would hold up against three blasts from the oboe, but then would shatter and Shin would roll to the side and create a new barrier with his magic. This process would repeat itself three times.
*These barriers are taking up way too much of my magic.* Shin thought. *I need to take the offensive.*
When the barrier broke down and he rolled to the side again, however this time, he cast a magic circle.
"Guardian Magic: Silver Sprinkle!"
Slow, silver streams began to emerge out of the circle as Mokkan snickered and dodged the first stream by stepping to the side. She dodged the second one by stepping back only she stepped back into the original beam and it singed her side and arm, causing her to bounce back into the second stream.
"Ah!" Mokkan groaned.
She saw that another stream was aiming for her head, so she requipped the oboe away and replaced it with a cor anglais. She blew into it and the beams began to slightly bend around and avoid her.
*She's created a barrier to redirect the magic around her.* Shin thought. *This is my chance to get in close!*
Shin dispelled his magic and ran quick to rush her. Mokkan quickly requipped the cor anglais away to switch out for her piccolo. She blew into it and Shin's ears popped in pain. He felt himself losing his balance as he felt dizzy and tried to slide to keep his momentum toward Mokkan going. As he got close, Mokkan stepped aside, stomped him in his face with her sandal and slammed him into the ground. As Shin's face was pinned by her foot, and his ears bleeding, he could barely hear what Mokkan was saying to him.
"-y W- -d-in- -a- -c f- - us- - -n -isr- - ti- - y- -r -ou-d. M- p- -col- -n pa- - - cul- - ca- - -use - - ur br- -n to -x- - -de. - -nna s- -?"
Mokkan began to reach her piccolo to her lips again to blow. Shin thought quickly to create seals inside his ears. When Mokkan blew into the piccolo again, no sound was heard. The dizziness and ear-splitting pain disappeared then.
"GUARDIAN MAGIC: FIVE STAR STRIKE!"
Shin formed a magic seal in his hand and threw it upward, knocking Mokkan in the chin and forcing her to drop her piccolo and stumble off him. As the beam went up, veered down and to Mokkan's right before smacking into her, making her spin as it flew right past her. Then it circled around to strike again and she requipped her cor anglais, blow into it and causing the magic to bend, but it bended and smacked right into the cor anglais, causing it to explode. It then flew past her again. Mokkan panicked to requip another instrument when the beam smacked her from the back of the head, almost knocking her down. It was moving so fast, it almost knocked into Shin who had gotten back on his feet. While she was down, she requipped her oboe and blew into it to create a seismic blast aimed right at Shin. The blast hit and sent him back, but he held his hand out, caught the beam on its return trip and pulled him with it as it wrapped around his arm. Mokkan tried to blow into her oboe once more and the blast hit dead on, ripping Shin's clothes apart, but couldn't stop the momentum. Shin, with the beam of light around his fist, flew right into Mokkan with his fist knocking hard into her face. As the magic disappeared, Mokkan fell back and sprawled out on the ground half-conscious and in pain.
Shin, now in his ripped up to his knees trousers, looked down at her with pity. "I'm really sorry. I don't really like to fight against women."
Mokkan just cried. "You just silenced my music... My beautiful music..."
"Well, the only song you'll be playing from now on..." Shin said before putting on sunglasses. "Is the song of the jailbird."
Mokkan groaned at the bad line and just passed out.
"Well done, Shin."
Shin looked over to see Reo, laying down in front of the lake dripping wet and gnawing at a raw fish.
"You could've helped, you know!" Shin exclaimed.
"Shin, you asked me to teach you the magic." Reo said. "But you must gain experience on how to use that magic on your own and there is no better experience than fighting for your life."
"Yeah, that's great and all, but can you get me a shirt to wear, please? People are starting to stare."
After the fight had ended, people started to peek out of their houses and the young girls around began to swoon at the manly hunk that won the victory.
Reo just laughed. "Get him while he's hot, ladies!"
Back at the church, the fighting began to heat up. Spiral managed to take out a few Black Fang pawns.
"Sonic Waltz!"
Spiral delivered a powerful punch to one of the pawns right in the face, then followed up with two more weaker punches to another pawn. Another apprentice appeared behind Spiral.
"Gotcha!" The apprentice said. "Gah!"
The apprentice fell over and Spiral saw Momo with a sword in hand.
"Thanks for that." Spiral said.
"I didn't do it for you." Momo scoffed.
"Can you please save your issues for after the fight?" Spiral asked. "We need to focus."
"I am fo-"
"Blood Shot!"
A buckshot of blood smacked into Momo, hitting her hard and sending her flying back ten feet.
"Dammit!" Spiral shouted before looking toward the familiar blood wizard. "Javert..."
"Ah, I see you remembered my name." Javert smirked.
(To be continued...)
Sorcerers Weekly Interview: Epsil
Epsil: Scuse me lady. Are you going to interview Epsil now?
Marie: I...don't see why not. Your name is Epsil?
E: Yup! Epsil remembers Epsils name.
M: Where are you from little one?
E: Epsil doesn't know. First thing Epsil remembers is Papa's voice. Then Papa found Epsil in the box.
M: A box? What's this about a box?
E: Mean people were trying to hurt Epsil! Papa saved her!
M: You keep pointing to Asharu Skyler when you say 'Papa'. IS he the one who found you?
E: Epsil loves Papa!
M: What an interesting little girl.
E: Will Epsil grow to have Balloons like Sister Angel?
M: ...I'm sorry what?
