I realize from Maho Tsukai Tai that real magic spells should be in Latin.
Unfortunately the only Latin I know are roots, prefixes, and suffixes to
English words. I can only use English, sorry! By the way, I do recommend
Maho Tsukai Tai. It's really cute, and if only Abe would see reason and be
a man, everything about it is so nice. ^^ A little on the mushy side, but
mush never hurt anyone, right?
Thanks for coming back. Hope you like this next chapter.
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Kaoru pounded and kicked at the force field imprisoning herself and the redhaired wizard.
"Save your strength, milady," Kenshin told her, calmly seated on the floor. "He will be back shortly."
"We should be gone when he returns!" she continued kicking.
Unfortunately Aoshi materialized just then, and Megumi with him. He opened a small hole in the force field and pushed in the snow prince's magician.
Megumi did not let them ask the question in their heads. "It's not good back in the castle. The prince is on a rampage. We managed to stop him for a few hours, but he's awake again. I'm afraid of what will happen to the princess." She pounded at the field herself, and screamed at the black mage. "You heartless fiend! The man did you no wrong! He did not deserve to be hated by his people!"
The black mage looked them silently.
"I stayed with you, because I believed in you!" she continued. "Now, I only obey you because I fear you. I want things the way they were before!"
"Too late, Megumi," he answered.
"It's not too late!" she pleaded. "Let's go somewhere far from here, far from bad memories, far from a family that rules your life! You can be your own man! And I'll be with you!"
Aoshi turned his back on the prisoners, and looked through the tower window, at the soldiers readying for battle.
"I just wanted to stay with him, when everyone ignored him, when everyone saw only you," Megumi sulked. "Why did it have to be this way?" She then knelt and allowed two streams of tears to fall.
Quietly, Kenshin took Megumi's hand, and placed her memory ruby in it.
She looked at it with wonder, and embraced the wizard. She held it tightly, and placed her other hand on a wall of the force field. "The ruby was the last hold he had on me. Now, he can't stop me. I have been in this force field before; I know what to do." With a determined face, she chanted. "Jailbreak."
Aoshi was too late to counter it. He turned around to see the field glow a bright yellow and inflate to bursting. The force field shattered, and released the prisoners.
Megumi stood in front of the other two mages. "Goodbye, Aoshi." She waved her hand in a wide circle, and all three disappeared from his presence.
The black mage bowed his head, and contemplated.
Misao kicked and screamed, as the monster above her continued to undo the buttons and laces of her gown. "GET OFF ME!"
"I have to thank you for the many times you deceived me, and for almost killing me tonight," he hissed. He tore at her petticoat.
"Remember the kindness of your heart!" she chanted desperately.
"That doesn't work on me anymore!" he laughed above her.
"Maybe this will!" and she gave him a powerful kick in the groin.
The prince cowered in pain, while the princess pushed him away and ran to the door. She shut the door behind her, and locked the prince in his bedroom. Then she flopped to the floor in the hall, her back to a wall. She simultaneously laughed in relief and cried in terror. She had a blank stare, a pale face, and an insane smile. Her gown was torn in too many places.
It was then that the three mages materialized before her.
As Kenshin and Kaoru looked at the princess in alarm, Megumi dropped to the floor on hands and knees, exhausted from the teleportation.
"Who did this to you?" Kaoru bent down and hugged the princess. Misao pointed at the door with a shaking finger.
"Your highness," the wizard bowed before her, "with your leave, I will see him now."
"Are you sure about that?" the princess asked, still breathing heavily and sweating cold beads. "I don't know the man in there anymore!"
"Precisely why I have to get in there, milady."
"But if I open the door, he'll charge out!"
He did not answer. He just passed THROUGH the door.
The ladies looked at each other and the door, speechless.
But their expressions turned to fright as they heard shouts and clanging from just beyond the door. Worse, they heard furniture being overturned, as more shouts came from inside.
Kaoru stepped forward, and put her hand to the doorknob. "I'm going in. He needs our help."
"Are you crazy, Kaoru?!" Misao held her dress from behind.
Megumi stepped forward as well. "If you do go in, rookie, take me with you."
Kaoru nodded, and turned the knob.
"Don't leave me!" Misao pleaded, entering cautiously behind Megumi.
The ladies found the bedroom topsy-turvy, Enishi at one corner and Kenshin at another. Pillows and books were scattered between them. Only a defense field prevented the fiery-haired wizard from being hit by the various swords and daggers thrown at him.
"Why is his majesty so angry at the Crimson Master, anyway?" Megumi asked.
"They go a long way," Kaoru explained, looking at the prince and not recognizing him. The classy man was all but gone, replaced by someone with tattered royal clothes and a terrifying vehement demeanor.
But she did notice that he was not wearing the dreaded Eyes of Malice, and guessed at who had them. "Megumi, let me have the glasses."
The palace magician took out the spectacles from her cloak and gave it to her. Kaoru thanked her, took out the turquoise from her inside pocket, and ran to Kenshin. She quickly gave both objects to him and returned to the far corner of the room with the other two women.
"My thanks, milady," he said, as he took the memory turquoise in one hand and the purple spectacles in the other.
The wizard looked the prince in the eyes. "Initiating invalidation sequence........."
"In case you haven't noticed, you redheaded murderer," the prince countered, "magic no longer has effect on me! I'll kill you here before you cast another spell!"
But as he threatened, his eyes aligned completely with the wizard's, and the initiating spell connected. The prince froze in place.
The wizard began to glow, and began to chant. "I am Kenshin, a descendant of those born of fire. I shall break the curse on Enishi, prince of the realm. I am removing the Eyes of Malice."
It was as if the heavens gave permission to the execution of the spell. The prince fell into a trance, and floated a few inches off the ground, before the wizard.
Kenshin held both objects in front of him. "Restore the stone to its original state." The spectacles glowed and cracked. Soon little fragments passed from the glasses to the turquoise. After a lot of fragments had returned, the stone gave out a nice warm radiance, then dropped back into the wizard's hand. With a smile, he placed the turquoise into his pocket.
He held the remnants of the Eyes of Malice, and turned it into a small crystal ball. He floated it between himself and the entranced prince, then positioned his hands in front of it. "Eliminate the evil."
A glow passed from the wizard's hands, through the crystal, and to the prince's heart. The prince convulsed from the initial volley of magic, and as the curse reacted to it. Dark substances began to leave the prince from all points of his body. Soon the crystal ball started to fill with all the dark substances.
This was the longest phase of the spell, and it drained the most out of the wizard. After five minutes of holding the position, the crystal ball was only a quarter filled, and already the wizard's hair was flickering. The wizard himself began to breathe heavily and sweat profusely.
Kaoru realized that without help, Kenshin would be unable to complete this long phase of the antidote spell. He was already weakened by the fight with the black mage. Megumi, while of higher rank, was also weak right now. There was only one thing to do, and she had to do it.
"Megumi, what do you call that spell, where you pass your power to another mage?" she asked.
"Transfer," Megumi answered. Kaoru nodded and ran to the redhaired wizard.
She stretched out her hands, her palms facing Kenshin's back. She closed her eyes, and cast the spell. "To the Crimson Master, Transfer!"
A glow appeared out of her hands, which became a light passing from her hands into the redhaired wizard.
The added power restored the color to the wizard's hair, and increased the power he released from his own hands. The crystal began to fill just a little bit faster.
Another five minutes passed. Still the ball was not full.
"Aoshi will hear from me," Megumi clenched her teeth, "I swear he will!"
"All that evil," Misao gawked at the ball, not three-quarters full yet, "crammed into just one man? I'll kill that Shishio personally! I'll kill him!"
But as both looked at Kaoru, vengeance turned to deep concern. The magician was heaving and staggering. The magic that came out of her was released more slowly and in intervals. She was reaching the end of her power.
Two more minutes passed. The ball was finally getting full. The prince was beginning to look more like his normal self, as he floated. The wizard still had full control, but the magician behind him was panting hard.
"Pull back, rookie!" Megumi pleaded. "It's too much for you! Pull back!"
"Not...........just yet, Megumi," she answered as she panted. "He............He's not finished yet............" She took a deep breath, and chanted, "Continue the Transfer...............as long as it takes." Her magic came out more evenly afterward, but still with difficulty.
Thankfully, it only took another minute.
At just the moment Kaoru felt she could hold it no longer, the magic from Kenshin's hands stopped flowing, and the glass ball between wizard and prince stopped glowing. "Disintegrate!" the wizard chanted, and the ball with its contents broke into a million pieces. Another wave of a hand collected all the fragments and made them disappear.
Finally, the wizard of fiery hair placed his hands over the prince's heart, and made the finishing spell. "I have removed the heart of malice and the eyes of hate. Return to your true heart."
The wizard released the snow prince from the trance and stepped back. Kaoru dropped to her knees with relief.
The prince screamed as he gripped his head tightly, and curled up on the floor from some pain in his head. Finally, he stopped moving, eyes open and blank.
Megumi ran to the mages, Misao ran to the prince, and asked the same question: "Are you alright?"
Kenshin nodded. "Although, I could not believe I am still standing." He looked behind him, and stared in shock at Kaoru, pale and faint.
The prince blinked a few times, then held his head as he stood up. "Aside from a terrible splitting headache, I'm fine." He looked around. "Where are Soujirou and Saitou? You all were saying something about an invasion?"
Misao scolded the man. "That's only one of your problems! The whole kingdom wants you dead! If I didn't know about the Eyes of Malice, I would want you dead myself!"
Enishi took a good look at his princess, clothes torn by his hand, and took a step back. "I...........I..........did this to you..........I..........can't even..........apologize..........for this............Misao........." He shook a fist in the air. "I WILL have Shishio's head! Exasperating nuisance! Just get Speedy for me, and somebody call back Saitou!"
He was still hard to live with, but he was back to normal.
"Enishi-sama!" Kaoru greeted weakly.
"Nice to see you again, raccoon," he smirked at the magician.
She smiled back slightly at the prince's hazy image. "You're............back............your highness..............I'm............glad." She began to fall forward. "I'm................gl---"
Kenshin managed to catch her as she fell. He saw her eyes had closed, and that her breathing was slow and relaxed. He lowered himself, and rested her head on his lap.
"Will she be alright?" Megumi asked, feeling just a little faint herself.
"She just went to sleep, milady." He looked down at her peaceful and smiling face. "She put too much into the Transfer. She will be fine after she has rested." He stroked her long and flowing black hair. "Thank you, Kaoru."
Misao looked around at the three mages, all weakened by great exertion of power, and glared at Enishi. She darted at him, took him by the collar, and yanked him down to her level.
"Take a good look, Enishi. Take a good look at them! They risked their lives to save you! You, who have only been cruel to them, normal or not. You, who never thought of other's feelings! And you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to them?!"
He looked at them as she asked, and lowered his head. "I............I............have nothing to say."
"Did you not understand what I said?!"
"Oh, I understood," he answered sadly. "I have nothing to say, sufficient to thank them. Especially Kenshin."
Kenshin slowly shook his head with a smile. "No thanks necessary, your---"
"Enishi, like before," the prince interrupted.
Kenshin nodded, and returned his memory turquoise. The prince resurfaced the memories for a few minutes, and watched his sister and him playing as children. He smiled as scenes of a picnic between him, his sister, and Kenshin appeared.
He gripped the turquoise tightly in his hand, and took on a look of determination. "I will not have another war, like the one that killed my sister. I will stop the invasion from happening." He took out his sword and other princely clothes. He opened the bedroom door. "Come, Misao, I have to undo a lot of things...........beginning with the mess in the bedroom.........."
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Almost done, almost done. JML, again, my thanks. Thanks for reading, and I hope you come back!
Thanks for coming back. Hope you like this next chapter.
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Kaoru pounded and kicked at the force field imprisoning herself and the redhaired wizard.
"Save your strength, milady," Kenshin told her, calmly seated on the floor. "He will be back shortly."
"We should be gone when he returns!" she continued kicking.
Unfortunately Aoshi materialized just then, and Megumi with him. He opened a small hole in the force field and pushed in the snow prince's magician.
Megumi did not let them ask the question in their heads. "It's not good back in the castle. The prince is on a rampage. We managed to stop him for a few hours, but he's awake again. I'm afraid of what will happen to the princess." She pounded at the field herself, and screamed at the black mage. "You heartless fiend! The man did you no wrong! He did not deserve to be hated by his people!"
The black mage looked them silently.
"I stayed with you, because I believed in you!" she continued. "Now, I only obey you because I fear you. I want things the way they were before!"
"Too late, Megumi," he answered.
"It's not too late!" she pleaded. "Let's go somewhere far from here, far from bad memories, far from a family that rules your life! You can be your own man! And I'll be with you!"
Aoshi turned his back on the prisoners, and looked through the tower window, at the soldiers readying for battle.
"I just wanted to stay with him, when everyone ignored him, when everyone saw only you," Megumi sulked. "Why did it have to be this way?" She then knelt and allowed two streams of tears to fall.
Quietly, Kenshin took Megumi's hand, and placed her memory ruby in it.
She looked at it with wonder, and embraced the wizard. She held it tightly, and placed her other hand on a wall of the force field. "The ruby was the last hold he had on me. Now, he can't stop me. I have been in this force field before; I know what to do." With a determined face, she chanted. "Jailbreak."
Aoshi was too late to counter it. He turned around to see the field glow a bright yellow and inflate to bursting. The force field shattered, and released the prisoners.
Megumi stood in front of the other two mages. "Goodbye, Aoshi." She waved her hand in a wide circle, and all three disappeared from his presence.
The black mage bowed his head, and contemplated.
Misao kicked and screamed, as the monster above her continued to undo the buttons and laces of her gown. "GET OFF ME!"
"I have to thank you for the many times you deceived me, and for almost killing me tonight," he hissed. He tore at her petticoat.
"Remember the kindness of your heart!" she chanted desperately.
"That doesn't work on me anymore!" he laughed above her.
"Maybe this will!" and she gave him a powerful kick in the groin.
The prince cowered in pain, while the princess pushed him away and ran to the door. She shut the door behind her, and locked the prince in his bedroom. Then she flopped to the floor in the hall, her back to a wall. She simultaneously laughed in relief and cried in terror. She had a blank stare, a pale face, and an insane smile. Her gown was torn in too many places.
It was then that the three mages materialized before her.
As Kenshin and Kaoru looked at the princess in alarm, Megumi dropped to the floor on hands and knees, exhausted from the teleportation.
"Who did this to you?" Kaoru bent down and hugged the princess. Misao pointed at the door with a shaking finger.
"Your highness," the wizard bowed before her, "with your leave, I will see him now."
"Are you sure about that?" the princess asked, still breathing heavily and sweating cold beads. "I don't know the man in there anymore!"
"Precisely why I have to get in there, milady."
"But if I open the door, he'll charge out!"
He did not answer. He just passed THROUGH the door.
The ladies looked at each other and the door, speechless.
But their expressions turned to fright as they heard shouts and clanging from just beyond the door. Worse, they heard furniture being overturned, as more shouts came from inside.
Kaoru stepped forward, and put her hand to the doorknob. "I'm going in. He needs our help."
"Are you crazy, Kaoru?!" Misao held her dress from behind.
Megumi stepped forward as well. "If you do go in, rookie, take me with you."
Kaoru nodded, and turned the knob.
"Don't leave me!" Misao pleaded, entering cautiously behind Megumi.
The ladies found the bedroom topsy-turvy, Enishi at one corner and Kenshin at another. Pillows and books were scattered between them. Only a defense field prevented the fiery-haired wizard from being hit by the various swords and daggers thrown at him.
"Why is his majesty so angry at the Crimson Master, anyway?" Megumi asked.
"They go a long way," Kaoru explained, looking at the prince and not recognizing him. The classy man was all but gone, replaced by someone with tattered royal clothes and a terrifying vehement demeanor.
But she did notice that he was not wearing the dreaded Eyes of Malice, and guessed at who had them. "Megumi, let me have the glasses."
The palace magician took out the spectacles from her cloak and gave it to her. Kaoru thanked her, took out the turquoise from her inside pocket, and ran to Kenshin. She quickly gave both objects to him and returned to the far corner of the room with the other two women.
"My thanks, milady," he said, as he took the memory turquoise in one hand and the purple spectacles in the other.
The wizard looked the prince in the eyes. "Initiating invalidation sequence........."
"In case you haven't noticed, you redheaded murderer," the prince countered, "magic no longer has effect on me! I'll kill you here before you cast another spell!"
But as he threatened, his eyes aligned completely with the wizard's, and the initiating spell connected. The prince froze in place.
The wizard began to glow, and began to chant. "I am Kenshin, a descendant of those born of fire. I shall break the curse on Enishi, prince of the realm. I am removing the Eyes of Malice."
It was as if the heavens gave permission to the execution of the spell. The prince fell into a trance, and floated a few inches off the ground, before the wizard.
Kenshin held both objects in front of him. "Restore the stone to its original state." The spectacles glowed and cracked. Soon little fragments passed from the glasses to the turquoise. After a lot of fragments had returned, the stone gave out a nice warm radiance, then dropped back into the wizard's hand. With a smile, he placed the turquoise into his pocket.
He held the remnants of the Eyes of Malice, and turned it into a small crystal ball. He floated it between himself and the entranced prince, then positioned his hands in front of it. "Eliminate the evil."
A glow passed from the wizard's hands, through the crystal, and to the prince's heart. The prince convulsed from the initial volley of magic, and as the curse reacted to it. Dark substances began to leave the prince from all points of his body. Soon the crystal ball started to fill with all the dark substances.
This was the longest phase of the spell, and it drained the most out of the wizard. After five minutes of holding the position, the crystal ball was only a quarter filled, and already the wizard's hair was flickering. The wizard himself began to breathe heavily and sweat profusely.
Kaoru realized that without help, Kenshin would be unable to complete this long phase of the antidote spell. He was already weakened by the fight with the black mage. Megumi, while of higher rank, was also weak right now. There was only one thing to do, and she had to do it.
"Megumi, what do you call that spell, where you pass your power to another mage?" she asked.
"Transfer," Megumi answered. Kaoru nodded and ran to the redhaired wizard.
She stretched out her hands, her palms facing Kenshin's back. She closed her eyes, and cast the spell. "To the Crimson Master, Transfer!"
A glow appeared out of her hands, which became a light passing from her hands into the redhaired wizard.
The added power restored the color to the wizard's hair, and increased the power he released from his own hands. The crystal began to fill just a little bit faster.
Another five minutes passed. Still the ball was not full.
"Aoshi will hear from me," Megumi clenched her teeth, "I swear he will!"
"All that evil," Misao gawked at the ball, not three-quarters full yet, "crammed into just one man? I'll kill that Shishio personally! I'll kill him!"
But as both looked at Kaoru, vengeance turned to deep concern. The magician was heaving and staggering. The magic that came out of her was released more slowly and in intervals. She was reaching the end of her power.
Two more minutes passed. The ball was finally getting full. The prince was beginning to look more like his normal self, as he floated. The wizard still had full control, but the magician behind him was panting hard.
"Pull back, rookie!" Megumi pleaded. "It's too much for you! Pull back!"
"Not...........just yet, Megumi," she answered as she panted. "He............He's not finished yet............" She took a deep breath, and chanted, "Continue the Transfer...............as long as it takes." Her magic came out more evenly afterward, but still with difficulty.
Thankfully, it only took another minute.
At just the moment Kaoru felt she could hold it no longer, the magic from Kenshin's hands stopped flowing, and the glass ball between wizard and prince stopped glowing. "Disintegrate!" the wizard chanted, and the ball with its contents broke into a million pieces. Another wave of a hand collected all the fragments and made them disappear.
Finally, the wizard of fiery hair placed his hands over the prince's heart, and made the finishing spell. "I have removed the heart of malice and the eyes of hate. Return to your true heart."
The wizard released the snow prince from the trance and stepped back. Kaoru dropped to her knees with relief.
The prince screamed as he gripped his head tightly, and curled up on the floor from some pain in his head. Finally, he stopped moving, eyes open and blank.
Megumi ran to the mages, Misao ran to the prince, and asked the same question: "Are you alright?"
Kenshin nodded. "Although, I could not believe I am still standing." He looked behind him, and stared in shock at Kaoru, pale and faint.
The prince blinked a few times, then held his head as he stood up. "Aside from a terrible splitting headache, I'm fine." He looked around. "Where are Soujirou and Saitou? You all were saying something about an invasion?"
Misao scolded the man. "That's only one of your problems! The whole kingdom wants you dead! If I didn't know about the Eyes of Malice, I would want you dead myself!"
Enishi took a good look at his princess, clothes torn by his hand, and took a step back. "I...........I..........did this to you..........I..........can't even..........apologize..........for this............Misao........." He shook a fist in the air. "I WILL have Shishio's head! Exasperating nuisance! Just get Speedy for me, and somebody call back Saitou!"
He was still hard to live with, but he was back to normal.
"Enishi-sama!" Kaoru greeted weakly.
"Nice to see you again, raccoon," he smirked at the magician.
She smiled back slightly at the prince's hazy image. "You're............back............your highness..............I'm............glad." She began to fall forward. "I'm................gl---"
Kenshin managed to catch her as she fell. He saw her eyes had closed, and that her breathing was slow and relaxed. He lowered himself, and rested her head on his lap.
"Will she be alright?" Megumi asked, feeling just a little faint herself.
"She just went to sleep, milady." He looked down at her peaceful and smiling face. "She put too much into the Transfer. She will be fine after she has rested." He stroked her long and flowing black hair. "Thank you, Kaoru."
Misao looked around at the three mages, all weakened by great exertion of power, and glared at Enishi. She darted at him, took him by the collar, and yanked him down to her level.
"Take a good look, Enishi. Take a good look at them! They risked their lives to save you! You, who have only been cruel to them, normal or not. You, who never thought of other's feelings! And you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to them?!"
He looked at them as she asked, and lowered his head. "I............I............have nothing to say."
"Did you not understand what I said?!"
"Oh, I understood," he answered sadly. "I have nothing to say, sufficient to thank them. Especially Kenshin."
Kenshin slowly shook his head with a smile. "No thanks necessary, your---"
"Enishi, like before," the prince interrupted.
Kenshin nodded, and returned his memory turquoise. The prince resurfaced the memories for a few minutes, and watched his sister and him playing as children. He smiled as scenes of a picnic between him, his sister, and Kenshin appeared.
He gripped the turquoise tightly in his hand, and took on a look of determination. "I will not have another war, like the one that killed my sister. I will stop the invasion from happening." He took out his sword and other princely clothes. He opened the bedroom door. "Come, Misao, I have to undo a lot of things...........beginning with the mess in the bedroom.........."
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Almost done, almost done. JML, again, my thanks. Thanks for reading, and I hope you come back!