Author's Note: Well, this is my second fic. Hope you like it! Btw, I'll be putting in the date of the specific event. (i.e. march 31st, something like that.)
The Legend of Sliversbane
-Chapter I-
March 1, 2157
Decipher and his pet poring, Vermillion, went inside the principal's office in the Schweicherbil Academy. The principal was a mysterious person, and he was currently by the window, looking outside.
"So…….Why did you call me here?" he said.
The principal didn't reply. Moments later, there was a knock on the door, and another professor entered the room.
"Deoxys?" Decipher said, taking a step or two backward.
Deoxys was Decipher's cousin and co-professor. He gave him a pat on the back, as the principal sat down on his chair with his hands on the table. Decipher knew he was about to speak. He removed his fashion sunglasses from his hair and put them inside Vermillion's backpack.
"The reason I called you here is……" The principal began speaking…
"Hm?" Deoxys said, although he didn't mean to say it out loud.
The principal opened his drawer and drew out a piece of paper which seemed to have a schedule of events for the school.
"….is because I want you two to teach the whole batch at the Sage Castle later at 12pm. You two are by far the best professors we have, and as you may know, we've been doing this for three years now. But this year, we'll be adding an open forum."
"WHAT?" They both said, while looking at each other.
"But…but….but.." Decipher said as he turned his head to look at Deoxys.
"I know this is an honor but….." Deoxys was cut off by Decipher, who continued his statement.
"…our fields of expertise are different: WE TEACH DIFFERENT THINGS!" Decipher said….a vein slightly protruding from his head.
"It has to be done. Unless one of you would want to pair up with Helga!" The principal threatened, as he stood up and encircled the two of them.
"No!" They both shouted.
Helga, in the opinion of everyone in the academy which included students and faculty alike, was a pig. She was fat, had bad breath, B.O., you name it! Of course she doesn't know what others think of her.
"Fine. I accept." Deoxys said, with a long face.
"Me too." Decipher said, with a tinge of disgust in his face.
"Ok then, it's settled. 12pm later at the Sage Castle! DO NOT BE LATE!"
The two nodded their heads.
"Off with you!" They strode off, towards the teacher's lounge where they would pass the time. As they passed the hall, they saw many students being taught by some of their friends.
They opened the door of the lounge, and were bombarded with sarcastic compliments.
"Congrats! You got the job! Hurrah!" Scythie, a female professor who was a very good friend of theirs said, as she shook their hands. She was sort of giggling.
"I just wish it was me who's going to be up there on the stage….." Helga said, and as she did, the fish in the fish bowl next to her died.
"Decipher! You're part of the Bloody Rain exorcism guild right?" Zan, another one of their friends said.
"Yes. Why?" He replied.
"I'm gonna tell the whole guild about this! This is really something!" Zan said, trying very very hard to hide his giggling.
"What? Nooo!" Decipher replied.
"Oh glee." Deoxys said. Decipher heard him.
"You're in this with me!" he replied.
Time had passed, as Decipher and Deoxys were being teased, although somehow, Decipher found it funny, and usually laughed at jokes intended to insult him. He was, after all, a happy-go-lucky person. The clock struck 12, and they all left the room and head towards the castle, as did the students.
Deoxys and Decipher went up the stage on opposite sides, with the students cheering for them. It seems they were very popular with the pupils.
"Umm….ok, as your exorcism professor, I will talk about the undead….." Deoxys stole the mike, so that he could speak."
"And I, as your loving biology professor, will show you the effects of metamorphosizing."
Decipher took back the mike.
"Right, anyway…let's start."
He turned to Vermillion and said "This won't hurt a bit. I swear."
"What? What are you going to do? Noooo!" Vermillion twisted and turned. He grabbed unto a near post. Wait a minute, he had hands now. And feet. But wait, they were decaying. Ugh!
"Ok, so….to kill an undead, we either have to…." Decipher turned once more to Vermillion. He murmured something, and made a copy of Vermillion.
"Right, so we can either use the element of fire or holy, but holy does better damage. Now, if you don't have one of those, you can enchant the land…" He murmured something again, and a blue mist engulfed the stage.
"…..then cast a spell that would be amplified. In this case, I should use cold bolt as this blue mist better known as Deluge amplifies ice spells." He drew out his wand from thin air and pointed the snake tip at Vermillion's body which was now in the shape of a ghoul. Bolts of ice fell down and exterminated it. The crowd cheered for him.
He then made another clone of Vermillion.
"For those of you who can't do either, you can follow the way of the exorcist." The lights went out to give a better atmosphere. He summoned a fireball which then encircled him and lit the whole castle.
He started chanting in Latin out loud. Everyone could hear him. Vermillion's clone just stood there. It wasn't moving. Then again, it wasn't blinking, breathing, nothing at all. It was closely paying attention to Decipher. He then opened his palm towards it, and said a few more latin words.
Deoxys stole the mike and said "…or you could do this!" with a snap of his fingers, Vermillion's clone as well as Vermillion himself turned back into their poring selves.
It was too late. Decipher finished the incantation. The clone began to bubble. Then stopped bubbling.
"Hah! See? No stupid incantation work on porings!" Deoxys said through the mike.
"Of course not! It's not a demon!" One person in the audience said. Then the rest of them agreed with that guy. Suddenly, the clone exploded, and the pink substance flew everywhere. Decipher lifted his hand up into the air, and all the slime vanished.
"Woooow" The audience said, looking around the place in awe.
"I knew you were going to do that, so I cast an exploda-exorcism chant, one which strangely works on all types of monsters. In other words, Holy Light." He said. "Others say only Acolytes can use them, but as long as you know the incantation, YOU CAN TOO!"
The audience began talking, as they had never known this piece of information before.
"Pshhh…all you need to do is to turn it into a poring then kill it with a spell." Deoxys said, as he grabbed the mike.
"That just proves you're weak." Decipher replied.
"EXCUSE ME?"
"If you were really strong, then you would be able to kill it without turning it into a poring." He snapped his fingers and Vermillion changed into a ghoul once more.
Deoxys drew out his wand as well and pointed it at Decipher. Tons of porings appeared and began headed towards him. In the middle of all of them, he saw a poring larger than the rest.
"Try out a mastering!"
"Hmph!" Decipher replied, and with a wave of his wand, a large lightning bolt fell from the ceiling, destroying it, and hit each one of the porings and killed them all, including the mastering. The pieces of the ceiling went back into place just before hitting Decipher.
"Poring!" Deoxys snapped his fingers and Vermillion changed into a poring again.
"Normal form!" Decipher shouted, snapped his fingers, and Vermillion changed into a ghoul.
"Poring!" Poring.
"Normal form!" Ghoul.
"Poring!" Poring.
"Normal form!" Ghoul.
A sweat drop fell from Vermillion's head, with a vein bulging out.
"Poring!" Poring.
"Normal form!" Ghoul.
"STOOOOP IT!" Vermillion shouted. The laughing audience and the two arguing professors stopped. The whole castle was quiet.
"Change me back into a poring…OR ELSE!" Vermillion threatened Decipher.
"Yes, yes of course!" He snapped his fingers, and he turned back into a poring. He hopped down the stairs and Decipher followed him.
"Okay, since Decipher is gone, and Deoxys hasn't taught much, he will be the one to answer your questions." The principal said, as he appeared from behin the curtains. He handed over the mike, and went back.
"What if we mispronounce a word in an incantation?" One of the pupils said, through a mike set-up in the aisle before the stage.
"Erm….one moment please." He turned and looked at the principal who was now smiling.
"Hellllp!"
Decipher stepped out the doors of the castle. There was a warm breeze that filled the air. He went over to his hover-convertible and inserted the key. Vermillion hopped in, and Decipher strapped on his seatbelt. He twisted the key, and the car started hovering. He took out his glasses from Vermillion's bag and wore them on his hair. They left, the wind blowing Decipher's fuzzy, red hair.
"Look, I'm sorry." Decipher apologized to Vermillion.
"It's okay. You make great lasagna anyway!"
They were headed towards Geffen, where he lived. School was out. It was officially the beginning of summer. He could see the deep, blue sky, which clamed him. The plants were also greener now, and the streams were also bluer.
They saw the Geffen tower. They were near Geffen. They twisted around through Mt. Mjolnir, crossed the bridge that connected to Geffen City's Island, and they finally arrived. They went over to the south-east corner, where his humble abode was, and parked his car in his garage. The two went in. Vermillion sat on the couch, turned on the tv, and before Decipher realized it, Vermillion had dozed off. He then went upstairs toward his room, grabbed a book from his shelf entitled: Exorcism through the ages, and lay down his bed while reading his book.
As he was reading, he heard a ringing. It was his phone. He looked at the screen, it read "Constantine", their guild master.
"Hello? Decipher speaking." He said into the receiver.
"Yes, right, anyway, could you come to……" Decipher heard a monster's scream.
"Is there anything wrong?"
"Come to the clocktower! Quickly!"
"Hello? HELLO?" No use. The phone was put down.
"Something is definitely wrong! Vermillion!"
Decipher ran down the stairs and out, then went inside his car. He drove at top speed towards Al de Baran. He drew his cellphone once more, went to his phonebook and pressed "Magnus", his partner and best friend.
"Magnus! I need backup! Come to the clocktower!" He didn't give him a chance to reply, as he put down the phone immediately. They were now at Mt. Mjolnir.
-Bloody Rain guild HQ at Al de Baran-
"I wonder what's up with that guy?" Magnus said to himself as he walked towards the clocktower. He looked up at the massive structure. A loud, banging sound signaled that it was 3 o' clock. It did that every 3 hours, or 12, 3, 6 and 9.
He went inside the structure and walked quite casually, blasting anything or anyone that came close to him. He was now on the third floor when he remembered he needed a key to open the door to the 4th floor.
"Oh damn!" A pack of alarms approached him.
"Guess I'll have to find one myself huh?" He turned his back at the alarms from one second, then faced them again. Green lights filled the space they were in, in the shape of a box, protecting both the alarms and Magnus. He held a talisman on his right hand which seemed to hold together the lights. He drew out another talisman and began to chant in latin. The moment he finished chanting the words, the lights disappeared, and the alarms dropped dead, and one of them dropped a key.
"Here we go!"
He picked up the key, then went over to the door at the upper-left corner. He inserted the key, and turned it clockwise. He ventured in, and after a few steps, he saw Constantine, his guild master.
He was holding something in his hand. A tablet.
"Oh! Magnus! I see you came too, but as you can see, I no longer need help." He scratched his head while a large sweat drop trickled down his face.
-Al de Baran-
Decipher reached Al de Baran and parked his car near the clocktower.
"Vermillion! Hurry!"
Vermillion hopped down the car and followed Decipher as they ventured inside the clocktower. It was dark, especially on the third floor. But Decipher seemed to know his way inside pretty well. He went towards the door in the upper left corner which led to the 4th floor. It was open.
"It looks like Magnus got here before me…"
The two of them went inside and saw Magnus and Constantine talking to each other.
"Oh! Decipher! Guess we were too late, the boss has already taken care of everything!" Magnus shouted out as he waved his hand.
"Get out of here now! You're in grave danger!" As soon as he said that, Constantine was grabbed by a large hand. Magnus and Decipher ran towards where the hand brought him. They saw a large demon holding Constantine in one hand, and the tablet on the other.
"Magnus! You ready?" Decipher looked as his partner while he said this.
"You betcha!"
"Vermillion! Hide somewhere! This is going to be ugly."
They both drew out gemstones and began their assault.
….to be continued
Author's Note: I hoped you all liked it! Lolz. R&R, if ever you wish to flame me, do it a little bit politely….please.
