Kushina and the group left the house with disguises. They all looked like normal people with normal bodies, some smaller than others. Yukikaze looked down at her chest as she jumped up and down causing many men and women to blush as she did that. ''Wow, I feel so light and faster than my normal body.'' She turned to Kushina and asked her, ''Is this the reason your faster than me? Because your boobs are smaller than mine?''
Kushina stopped moving as she slowly turned her head to Yukikaze who has an innocent face as Kiriko smacked her face and sighed and Hikage shoulders started shaking from trying to contain her laughter. Kushina gained a tick mark and smacked the back of Yukikaze's head for that comment as she yelled out embarrassed with people looking at them, ''Baka! That's not it at all.'' She quickly covered her breasts when she felt people looked at her chest and glared at everyone.
They all quickly left the area as they took a good look at their surroundings. They all see similar houses and buildings like in their own universe, but without any magical equipments or warriors. People are walking about with their children, going somewhere early in the morning. As they walked around, they found a copper haired teenager walking as he muttered while holding a list. They ignored him and walked by him; until he said something that got Kushina to go all Nine tails on his ass.
Shirou siged as he scrathced the back of his head as he made a list of groceries. Taiga ate all his food when he accidently went home late, yesterday. He needed to get more before she would come to his house with Sakura. He looked up at kushina and relized her face almost looked like a tomato. He mutter out as he went past her, ''I forgot about the tomato paste.''
Kushina didn't pay much attention to him, until she heared him mutter the two forbidden words... 'Tomato face'. Her face darkens as she stops, surprising them. The group slowly backs up away from her as they could feel her bloodlust starting to form. Shirou shivers and looks around, feeling scared all of a sudden; he slowly looks behind him at the red head who has her head down as her hair covers her face. He saw her hair moving up into 9 'tails'. He slowly takes a step back, as she slowly steps forward and cracked her knuckles, ''What did you call me?''
He shakily said, ''I-I-I s-s-said, to-tomato fa...'' He trails off as he saw her friends shake their heads, warning him to not say anything at all, but they were too late.
Kiriko yells out at him, ''Run! Run you idiot. She'll really hurt you for saying that.'' Hikage grabbed his shoulder and started to force him to run. Yukikaze grabbed Kushina's arms back and Kiriko grabbed her stomach trying to hold her back and said trying to calm her down, ''Kushina calm down! That kid is not worth it.''
''Dont endanger the mission that our guild leader gave us.'' Yukikaze added. It worked, Kushina started to calm down slowly, but Hikage wanted to see some violence said in a sly manner, ''I heard that he called you crazy old tomato face lady under his breath as he ran away.''
Everyone froze for a few seconds as they processed what was said. Kushina fell down to her knees as she kept hearing the 'old tomato face lady ' over and over in her head. Sadly, that was the comment that caused her to to lose her mind. She broke free and started to chase him all over the streets. It took her 10 minutes to catch him, which surprised her and the group, even though Kushina wasn't going all out, this kid managed to stay out of her reach.
She finally reached him when he tripped over a piece of rock. She slowly walked up to him as he turned around and tried to crawl backwards. The people are just watching everything with baited breaths, pretending to do things while they waited for the show to start. Kushina grabbed the front of his shirt and started to shake him a few times, saying she's not an old lady, before she started to pummel his face for a minute before her group pulled her off of him.
Kushina managed to finally calm down when Kiriko splashed cold water at her face. Kushina took a good look around and saw people looking at her. She blushed as she rubs the back of her head emberrassed and said, ''I'm so so sorry. When I hear that word, well... I lose it. I'm sorry, I overreacted a little.'' Everyone that heard her sweatdropped and thought, 'That is her overreacting a little?!'
''It's fine. No problem. I only said that because...'' He trailed off not want to continue what he was about to say, 'Your face reminded me that I needed tomatoes.' He learned his lesson on not saying the 'T' word and 'old lady' near her.
''So, is there anything I can help you with?'' He asked the group as he looked at their bags and the city map in Yukikaze's hands.
Yukikaze shows him a 'map' given to them by Merlin and asked, ''Yes please, we're new to this city. Can you tell us how to get to The Angelic Pond?''
Shirou took the map and looked at it. He raised an eyebrow and points out, ''Its the wrong map. This map is of Yugashihoro. You need the map of Fuyuki City.''
''Oh.'' Kushina said, and she turned to Hikage and the rest, ''I told you, that was the wrong map, but you didn't listen to me.'' She turned back to him and said, ''Thank you for your help. Can you tell us where we can get the correct map of the city?''
''Yeah no problem. Happy to help,'' He said and gave detailed directions to them to the train station. After that, they went their seperate ways. He went back to the grocery store near his home and they left and crossed the corner.
He arrived back home to see Sakura waiting with Taiga next to his house front door. He greets them and let them inside with Taiga and Sakura concerned why he had bruises all over his body and his hands too.
The group went to bus transit station and got the maps of this city and a few nearby cities aswell. ''Ok, now we'll split up and mark down where all the locations with any prana sources are. They nodded as they walked away from each other and disappeared into traffic. They decided to take the buses to get an accurate details around them; eventhough it's time consuming, they don't have to report in until later that night.
Kushina arrived a few miles away from the church since she could feel something or someone there that is dangerous. She felt multiple pairs of eyes looking and examining her; it made her skin crawl when she noticed a few bug like creatures are staring at her. She carefully took a few pictures and videos of the spells surrounding the property with her Glasses of Insight at the church and the strange creatures. She relaxed when they left her alone and she was about to leave the area when a male voice spoke behind her, ''Well well well, I see something that caught this king's attention. Who might you be, strange one?''
Kushina tensed up for a micro-second before she turned her head around in surprise. She looked at him and silently wondered if he saw her tense up, which the guy caught if his grin widened a little more as his response. She thought, 'How the hell did he sneak up on me?! I didn't even sense him!' She slowly backed up away from him and stealthly took out a few surprises from her master for emergencies. She said, ''Oh I'm Kushina and I was just passing through. If you'll excuse me.''
She slowly moved backwards away from him, while keeping a descreet eye on him. Her instincts are telling her that this person is dangerous. Before she could leave though, she just notices that there were no people near the church anymore and there were no sound. She turned around as the person smirked cockily.
Kiriko arrived to a large, old building located on northern end of Miyama, and a Japanese-style buildings. She spotted some weird worm like beings around the place with her Glasses of Insight. She spotted a faint prana signature in the shed away from the main area of the house. She marked it down and soon left. Unknowingly she was spotted by a raven familiar of a twin headed girl who was watching the place. She took note of the strange woman in her head before she turned back to stalk- she means 'watch' her sister and Emiya.
Yukikaze arrived a couple blocks away from a two story mansion, which has such a strong prana signature with the spells covering it. It seems like no one took care of it for a long time. The grass is mostly overgrown, but leaving a small trail from the gate to the front entrance. The windows look dirty and a few are broken and there are multiple birds living in the trees. She spots some weird bugs with the same prana signatures and takes pictures and videos and marks down everything important and leaves inconspicously.
Hikage feels something is watching her as she slowly walks by a mansion that looks old but well kept. She spots some barriers using the Glasses of Insight and recorded them. She looks around the arrea and then looks down at her map to show the thing inside she is a normal person. She can feel something so revolting in there, she is so thankful for her expressionless face. If she didn't have it, she would of been throwing up nostop from such stench. She quickly left the area not noticing an old man giving her a creepy smile through one of his familiars.
Hours later, Kiriko found some weird weapons in the river. She took them out and examined them. It felt familiar to her, but she couldn't quite place where. She just shrugged and went back to the meeting point at the bottom of the mountain. Yukikaze met up with Hikage and Kiriko at the mountain. They had a small talk about what they saw in the city as they waited for Kushina to show up, but she never did. They instead felt her activate her emergency talisman.
Authors Note: Here's an omake.
Merlin's and Morgan's (Mis)adventures : How Merlin lost his bed.
Merlin sighed as he tried to gain Nimue's trust/ loyalty by giving her food, but it didn't work. She just shakes her head and glares at him in anger. Even though he captured her in a familiar contract, he doesn't feel fine forcing her to battle against her will. He sighed, ''How many times do I have to say that I'm sorry? I didn't know that your level would go back to 0.''
Nimue just glared at him harder as she tried to use her magic spells to kill him. Sadly for her, it just washed off of him like water from a duck's back. He sighed again and put away the food as he heard a snicker behind him, but he ignored it. He thought, 'I would be pissed of if I had all my hard work go back to 0 too. Let's see if this would help.'''How about this, I help you gain back all your levels and you'll try be nice to us, ok?'' He asked.
She stayed silent for a minute before she spoke with her musical voice sweetly, ''No deal peasant, I am a queen and I deserve to be treated as such; not a familiar you could order me around. I want my dungeon back and I want to kill you and the dark one until you both are level 1. How's that for a deal, Master?''
I rolled my eyes and replied, ''Not possible. How about this, I'll give you a say on how I build the guild base, I won't summon your people to protect this place and I'll raise your level all the way to 100 if you agree to be my partner, instead a familiar. Is that fine with you?'' He put his hand out, waiting.
She was thinking about what she knew the difference between familiars and partners, 'Familiars are monsters that are forced to listen and follows the chosen one's will in battle and out. They get stronger after each battles, but if the familiars die in battle, they won't be revived unless they allow it and lose a few levels. She heard a few rumors from other monsters that most male chosen one's and a few females are major perverts. They tried to capture humanoid monsters to see if they can touch them and if not, them check if it's possible for the monster to remove their coverings. Thank goodness that the gods prevent that and stops them from ordering anything else perverted
Partners on the other hand are similar yet different to familiars. They don't have to listen to the chosen one orders in battle and can ignore them if they want to. They get stronger after each battles and quests they complete, and if the partner dies in battle, they will revive but it would take some time and they lose a level. Though she hasn't heard any news about that contact being used.'
Shedecide on the second one and grabbed his hand. A magic circle appeared underneath them and Merlin started to chant as wind started to pick up surrounding them,
''In this dark night and shining blue moonlight
We call upon the spirits and the gods
Nisoi, Henja, Vytrix, Gotrix
We call ye forth to this circle, as witness
Earth and Air, Fire and Water
come and join your son and daughter
Body, Mind, Soul, and Heart
Make sacred, a contract being formed
Gentle Mother of Earth, Firm Father of Sky
Join our souls together as one
Great Spirit Belesse, Creator of all
Please answer our call
The circle is cast, our contract is complete
By our own will, So mote it be
As soon as he finished the chant, a message displayed infront of them both.
Congradulations Merlin and Nimue for being one of the first pair to sucessfully make a contract between each other. You gain 1 level and 20 Fame and 10 Luck.
''Wha..at?'' Merlin blinked shocked and turned to Morgan for an explanation. She just stared blankly and said nothing. She finally regained her voice as she spoke, ''Well...'' She trailed off not looking at his face. He felt his eyebrow twitched in his real body but he ignored it and said, ''Well what? Was I supposed to fail?''
She did the tiniest nod which made him do a double take to make sure he didn't see things.He was about to yell at her but decided to stay silent.
Merlin just sighed and took Nimue to see where she would stay in the castle. Morgan followed along as she tried to explain, ''Nothing bad would've happened to you both, you know? All it would have done was lower the casters levels by 5 and you can't try again until 2 days later. It would have been funny for me, I even recorded it for laughs. You know, it was supposed to have been a joke the devs made, right?''
Merlin and Nimue turned their heads towards her in surprise and waited for her to continue. ''Yeah, it was supposed to be a joke. The chance of actually completing it is less than 0.1%. You need to have a higher level than the monster you want to capture, get the monster's level back to zero and they have to have a high AI to agree to be a partner. That's why there is a beast tamer class in the game, it's easier. Not many people would try it and they can't force a contract so they left it alone.''
He thought about it for a minute as they navigated to his room. 'No wonder the game gave lousy rewards. It wasn't supposed to work. He looked at her, 'Should I stay mad at her, still?' He then remembered all the weird things she blamed him for
and got in trouble with his parents. The porn that wasn't his, the messy house and drawing things all over the house.
'Yes definitely...for a little while longer.' He thought, clenching his fist as he remembered all the spanking done to his ass. They finally arrived to his room; he opened it and turned to Nimue when she sped passed him and jumped on the king size bed. ''It's nice. I really like the bed, it's so soft and big.'' She said excidedly, coveing her body with the blanket.
''Uhh, that's mine. Your bed is over there.'' He pointed to a smaller twin sized bed. Nimue looked back and forth towards the two beds and she pouted. She said, ''Nope it's mine. I'm a queen and as such I deserve this big bed. You don't even need to use it. I heard how you don't need sleep, so it's mine. End of discussion." She glared hard at him and he gave up. Morgan started to snicker then she laughed out loud at his misfortune.
He tried to take the blanket but she just glared harder and pulled back. They started to fight but he gave up in the end. He sighed and left her have it. She smiled happily and ordered while waving her hand, ''Now get rid of that bed. This is now my room. I want you to change it. I will need some maids to cater to my will. Chop Chop.''
''Nope. Not gonna happen. I'll get rid of the smaller bed, but this is still my room.'' Merlin said. A few minutes later, he changed the room to her whims. He could feel the smug grin on both of them. He left to kill things a few hours later.