Sorry for my bad English. I would have ended this soon, but I found some distractions. And when I mean distraction, I mean more videogames and made some extra hours on the job to buy a Nintendo Switch because here on Brasil the price is high as the clouds. Holy Hell!
Anyway, the service slow down for one day so I spend the evening writing this chapter. My ideas keep coming like the bathrooms break and I'm becoming really impatiemt with myself for not upload this fic sooner, but my time keep short and this is a problem. Well, I will upload this more often since I give a break on my OC based fic until I decide how to do a reboot of the story.
Enough of my personal issues. To the fic!
The gates of Hell
Is easy to make Rodin angry, but have a few thing that make the bartender very angry. One of them was the man in red sitting in front of him. The man didn't felt intimidate by the gaze of the bartender, on contrary, he keep with a lazy smile while wait for the bald man speak.
-You really are a shameless mother fucker for just come here, sit down and wait for me offer you something, you know that?
-Still mad at me for get rid of some of your clients? -The man asked.
-Say at once what do you want and leave.
-Well, since you said with such kindness, I want to know what is going on in this town. Have any clue?
-Even if I knew, why I would say to you something? -Rodin asked a little annoyed with the smile on the man's face.
-For your business not to get worst?
-Your shameless son of a bitch. -Rodin growled. -If you want to know something, go find by yourself. I not have time to deal with hunters like you.
-Not have time, huh? -The man in red smirked. -Why? Are busy with something? -He get his afirmation when Rodin growled. -Your partner is pretty quiet lately.
-You have something to do with it?
-Me? No. You know that we don't meddle in each other business. -The man sighed before continue. -Y'know who is the person with divine powers? If I remember well, the sages are extinct since your partner killed the last one.
Rodin know about that and this make him curious too. The only different thing he saw on the town was the teacher who is like his business partner. But then he remember that something about Glynda was different from his partner. Could it be?
-Leave. I have some business to take care.
Before the man could say a word, Rodin dissapeared from the balcony. He sighed.
-I doing this for a very low price. -He grabbed his sword and leave the bar.
Paradiso
How come end up like that? Glynda wonder again how come in one day she is teaching combat to her students and another she was drowned and didn't know if is dead or not. To make things more strange, she was wearing only torn pieces of clothes that one of her students give to her from his own cloth. The worst is that she couldn't help but blush in embarrassment for her body be so exposed and for feel be stared by a teenager boy. Everytime she look to Jaune, he avert his gaze from his teacher to hide his red face. For the blonde's defense, is not easy either keep his eyes away from his teacher when she is wearing only two little pieces of torn clothes and the intoxicant smell of oranges coming from her skin is too distracting. So Jaune have to use all his willpower to control some of his hormones to not make something raise and got in more trouble with his teacher than he already have.
Again, the vision of Glynda's gorgeous bare body never will left his mind.
Putting those toughts aside, Glynda put her mind to work in a more important matter, like where she is and how Jaune get there. According to him, he just went to sleep then wake up in that temple. The place was empty of any life besides them, but Glynda feared the possibility of angels appear and she have to face them not only without her crop but also defend Jaune while battling them.
She notice in the last combat class that Jaune improved his skills, but wouldn't be enough to deal with those angels. They average angels were more stronger and smarther than the average grimms and if what Rodin say is true, fight and protecting him without her weapon would be a almost impossible task. She still remember the hard time she have against Grace and Glory, if stronger angels appear? She will able to protect Jaune while fighting them?If she not be strong enough to deal with them? If...
-Your soul... -Glynda's thoughts were interrupted by a deep voice who spoke from nothing. -I see. So there's no option for you, right?
-You are hearing that too? -Jaune asked looking around for the source of the voice.
-Don't worry. I gladly will offer my services for you again. -The voice said. -Just know who you really are.
-Who I really am? -Glynda thought and was sure that the voice was talking to her. But she need to have sure. -Do you know anything about what that voice said?
-Did you understood that voice?
-You not?
-Only some words like something about services and remember about something. -Jaune answered. -Why? Did you understood what that voice said? What language was that?
-I think was Enochian.
-The angelical language?
-Do you know what Enochian is? -Glynda asked surprised because she actually not only didn't know that she can read enochian like she didn't know really what enochian is.
-Like I said, angelical language used by angels to comunicate.
-And how do you know about that?
-My grandfather used to sing in Enochian when he was alone. I think is like that I know a little of Enochian.
So one of Jaune's grandfather know how to speak Enochian? She need to remember about that information once she is out of that place. Then Jaune look to behind Glynda with a curious expression. She turn around and see that the blonde boy is looking at two statues of a man and a woman. Probably statues of the Lumen Sages and Umbra Witches.
-Mr. Arc. Do you know something about those people?
-No.
-So why are you looking at those statues like that?
-It just... they did seems... I don't know... sad?
Now that he talk about, Glynda notices that both statues were with a sad expression. Looking closely, she notices that the man is not using the attire of the Lumen Sages, meaning whoever he is, not is related with the sages. She look around the statues and notice another board writen in enochian.
They said that didn't planned that. Of course not, but happened.
The child born and to protect her, Ragnar run away from the sages to rise his child away from the sages and the witches. They hunt the child and Ragnar keep running away from them protecting his child with his life. The child grew up and become a powerful user of the celestial magic and have some of the most powerful Auditios as support. Soon the outcast become impossible to even the most skilled Lumen Sages and Umbra Witches to defeat.
The Lumen Witch was just too powerful.
-Lumen Witch? -Glynda asked to herself.
Outside of the temple
The witch look at the temple.
She grab a feather that the Dark Knight give to her and throw on the hair. The feather become pure light before assume a female form. The angel look at the witch and she knew that she was frowning even not being able to see her eyes, but she wasn't bothered by that.
-Your master have a job for you. -Reluctant, the angel nodded. -She is somewhere in that temple. Just find her.
The angel turn around and start to walk in seductive way, trying mock the witch who just ignored her attempt to mock her.
Back at the temple
A dead end. After walk for who knows how long, Glynda and Jaune just reach a dead end. She sighed angrily.
-Great. -Glynda said. -What do to now?
-Maybe find a secret passage? -Glynda look at Jaune with a eyebrow raised. -The place seemed bigger from outside. Maybe have some secret passage somewhere.
She thought about what the young knight said. She too see the temple from outside and really seemed bigger from outside. She start to look around for anything that can be a sign of a secret passage. But instead she see golden circles running on the floor. Her eyes widen in panic.
-Mr. Arc! Run! -A little confused, Jaune just look at his teacher but understood what she means when affinites appear from the floor. One of them prepared the axe to split Jaune in half if a purple shock wave stopped him. -I said run!
-What about you?
-I'll be fine. Listen your teacher! -Jaune was reluctant at first, but start to run to the exit only to hit face first in a barrier covering the door. -What?
Glynda didn't have time to wonder because have to duck down a swing from a spear and jump away from a mace coming down in her direction. When Glynda's feets touch the floor she notices more circles on the roof what assumed the form of little angels with a big one on the middle. They all have statues heads with golden wings and halos on the top of their heads, however the one on the middle is bigger with a beard and golden wings colored with red and purple colour.
Third Sphere Angels
Dear and Decorations
-The situation is already bad enough. Now new types of angels have to appear. -Glynda said in low voice, trying to keep calm.
She give a look on Jaune who put himself in two feets after hit the barrier. Then she look to their opponents. Five again, two with spears, one with a trumpet, another with a sousaphone and the last one is holding a black halberd and with his body engulfed in flames? She look at the ones who are flying, Dear is in the middle with sever Decorations surrounding him. She have her semblance but don't have any dust to use and she know that Jaune have improved but didn't think that he could fight without his sword. In less words, the situation was bad for them.
Far from the temple
The sage dropped on the grass and his expression frowned for how away he is from the temple.
-Life never is easy, isn't it? -He start to run on the direction of the temple, but stopped when notice the light circles on the floor. The angels appeared as he espected. -Yep. Never is. -He said getting his rapier from his belt. -I don't have time for this.
The sage charged against the angels.
Back at the temple
Yep. The situation was worst than Glynda expected. In the moment she is using both her hands to hold the barrier what is protecting her and Jaune from the angels who cornered both of them on the wall. It is becoming very hard to keep the protection each time the enemies weapons attacked the barrier. She need a plan, but didn't know what to do, but Jaune on the other side...
-I have a idea. -He spoke in low voice to only Glynda to listen. -I notice that the one with the sousaphone need to charge his attack, so when he start to charge, push those guys away and run to the right and I will run to the left.
-What are you planning to do? -She asked while being pushed by the head butt from one of the Decorations.
-Use his own weapon against his allies.
She didn't know exactly what he mean by that, but she remember that Jaune is quite smart-and Oobleck finally stopped to complain about him-and that he show to be a very good tactician. So she wait for the one with sousaphone charge his attack and then, push all the angels away with her barrier. She run to the right and Jaune to the left. The affinity point his instrument to Glynda and have his head engulfed by a vase. He fall on the floor trying to remove the vase and is kicked on the butt and separated from his intrument.
Glynda motion with her hands and throw whatever she could on the room against the angels, only holding them for a mere second, but some seconds is only what Jaune needed to his teacher to get. While throwing another vase against one of the affinities, she notices that Jaune is about to blow up the instrument. Then she remember when she jump away when from the sousaphone come a beam that moved across the room. Discovering what jaune have planned she create a distraction. Using both her arms, she used her semblance and levitated every breakable object and smashed them to dust, creating a dust screen, distracting every Affiniy, Dear and the Decorations long enough to Jaune blow up the instrument and hit almost all of them with the beam.
Three Affinites and four Decorations were taking down by the beam. Dear suffered great damage and part of his stone like skin have dissapeared and the two remaining Affinites are the one with the spear and the one with the halberd. The Decorations start to spin in mid air and throw themselves against Jaune who jumped the three firsts and kicked the last one agains another Decorations, taking them both down.
Dear went after Glynda, trying to head butt her and she just raised a little barrier to defend herself. While blocking the attacks, she notices the trumpet of the defeated Affinity on the floor. She feels a sudden heat and knew that the one with halberd was on her side. She move the barrier to block his strike but this make her be hit by Dear on the side of the body and throwing her to the floor. She rolled away from the halberd coming down to her head and she jump the attack from Dear. She grab the trumpet and blow up the instrument sending a gold orb against the affinity who jump away, but the orb hit Dear weakening him to the point he cannot fly anymore. Glynda make a moviment with her arm and a bolder fall on the weakened angels, smashing him.
Back to Jaune, he didn't thought that would be so thankful about know how to dance. Not knowing how to deal with his enemies, he decide to observe them before do something, so he start to dodge the Decoration's attacks with some moves he learn while helping one of his sister practice her dance skills. While dancin-I mean, dodging, he notice Glynda having some troubles with the flame monster. One of the Decorations tried a frontal attack, Jaune kicked him to the air and kicked him on the face of the monster, distracting him enough to Glynda gain some space.
The teacher jump away from the distracted angel and blew again the instrument, hitting the Affinity with force enough to send him to the wall, while her opponent was recovering, she spotted a spear what belonged to one of defeated foes, before the Affinity could try another attack, he have his chest perforated by his ally's weapon. Glynda calmly walk to the angel who was still alive and trying to free himself from the wall. She grab the lance, take off from the wall with the angel still impaled and point the trumpet to her opponent head and blow the intrument, exploding the Affinity's head. With her foe defeated she turn her attention to her student who is dancing to dodge his opponent's attacks?
She take that idea off from her mind and decide to take Jaune's enemies. Before the knigt could kick again one of his enemies, his teacher just jumped in front of him with a spear on her arms and hit the strange monster with force, then she kicked the one on her right and hit with the spear the one on her left and kicked one in front of her.
The angels were send to the wall, but still wanted to fight.
-Mr. Arc. Stand back. -She ordened and he obey.
The angels start to run around the teacher, probably trying to confuse her, but she not going to fall in a simple trick like that, especially with a spear as a weapon. She wait for the right moment and with a impeccable timing, hit them one by one. The first one she hit with the point of the spear, the second she hit with the opposite side of the weapon, the third she kick again to the wall and the last one she impale with the spear and throw him to the one she kicked. The four angels stopped to move.
They won.
-We did it! -Jaune Cheered.
-Don't celebrate just yet. -Glynda spoke. -Can have more of them around this place.
-Aw. So I think that we can use those weapons since they not gonna use anymore.
She couldn't agree more with him. Glynda give a look on the trumpet, then to Jaune.
-Is not a bad idea. You don't mind use this, do you? -Glyda asked handing the trumpet to Jaune. He took the instrument and forever to the teacher's confusion he start to play a song that she reconize like a trumpet version of Misty by Aebersold, and yes she enjoy listening jazz, but is not the time for this, so she shove the finger on the instrument hole, interrupting the song. -Nice to know that you have some more talents, but is not what I mean.
He could only chuckle in embaressement.
-So, since when you could use a spear like that? -Jaune asked.
Glynda wanted to give the answer of that question, but like almost everything on her day, she don't know. She is sure that could match even Pyrrha with that skill. Her day was so confusing and even in the night she can't have a break. Before she could say to Jaune anything, she notice that the barrier didn't dissapeared.
-We still need to deal with that problem, Mr. Arc. -Glynda said.
Jaune look to the barrier and start to think a little. Then he look to the sousaphone. He take the instrument and Glynda notice what he is planning and moved to behind him. She nodded to Jaune and he blew the instrument. The beam hit the barrier and after five second hitting the barrier, nothing happened.
-Didn't even make a scratch. -Jaune commented.
-It seems that we are stuck here.
-This is just a point of perspective teacher.
-What do you mean?
-I mean if the entrance is blocked, we just need make another one. -Jaune said point the instrument to the floor. Glynda is actually surprised that something like that come from his head. -Nora's words, not mine. -And she remove her last statement.
But before Jaune could try another shot the barrier dissapeared. Teacher and student look to the entrance and heard footsteps, then appeared a woman wearing a yellow bodysuit covering her body from neck to toe and a hole in the middle of her ample bosom. Her arms covered by long gloves and a long black scarf reaching to her ankle. She have three earring in each ear, she have a pair of green eyes a black domino mask, her red hair tied in a ponytail. Glynda and Jaune notice that she have with her four guns, two in her hands and more strange, the other two she was using in her feets like heels. She eye Jaune then Glynda and her red lips adopted a smile.
Glynda knew that smile means trouble.
End of the chapter. Jaune and Glynda work together against the angels in a short fight. I never see them acting together in a fight in any other fic. Glynda's interaction with Jaune can be a little hard to write since they lack of interaction on the show. I will try make them work together more like you readers notice since he is part of whatever is happening. A witch make a appearance and what will happen? You readers may know already.
Until next time.