This is finally the last part to this arc. YAY! Again, it is quite long so sorry about that.
A food that is mentioned in the story are Steamed Buns and so you don't have to go and open an extra tab while reading the story because you have no idea what they actually are, I've given you a short and simple description. Steamed Buns are basically steamed buns that are usually filled with pork and is part of Chinese and Hawaiian cuisine. You are welcome.
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Arua Lansen made by Lethargic Witch Taki-Tan
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"Koan, do you ever leave the guild hall even?" Kikyo asked the question after realizing that she has never seen him leave before. "I do, but that isn't of your concern. Shouldn't you be hanging out with your new found friend?" Koan glanced over his shoulder to see that Kikyo wasn't with Terry for once. Sure he was messing with her but it still was kinda interesting that she wasn't following him around and fawning over him. He looked over at Kikyo again to she that she was bright red and looking down at the ground.
"What's going on over here?" Terry joined in on the, well sorta, conversation. His voice startled the poor girl, making her jump and run next to Koan. Terry looked at Koan with a bit of jealousy in his eyes. "Nothin, just learning a bit more about of Kikyo over here." A small chuckled escaped his mouth while he was speaking. Terry hardened his gaze and kept it, leaving an award silence between the three. This ended when someone finally spoke up, but it was't one of them.
"Does anyone even know how this supposed war is supposed to start?" The person speaking was Ayano, since Fang, Natalie, Pocket, and herself had returned about an hour or so ago. "Yeah, who lands the first punch or whatever?" Questions started to arise and they were all directed to Fang, who was completely clueless about any of it. "You're the living lacrima, so you should know all of this stuff." The question was from Marshal and was directed to Fawn. Her face fell as to being called a lacrima due to her magic.
Fawn finally perked up after a few minutes of everyone rambling on. "WAIT! SOMEONE ELSE IS HERE!" Fawns words were loud enough to shut the whole entire guild hall up. "I hear it too." Fang only mumbled it to Ayano, not wanting to concern everyone else. Wait, they're gone. Fang projected the though to everyone that was in the guild, leaving them to calm down and continue bickering.
Where I Left Off Last Chapter...
Get everyone out of here safely. Fawn used her magic to project the though to Fang, who already knew and was using his magic to try and figure out who it was. JUST USE YOUR MAGIC TO TELL EVERYONE TO MOVE IT! I'm going after who ever this person is. He rolled his eye's before turning into a wolf pup and running out of the guild. Fawn did what he said and projected the thoughts to all of her guild mates in the vicinity. Everyone did as she instructed as they went into the underground tunnel that flowed throughout the forest incase of emergencies. They were lead out by Kireina.
After running for about half a mile, Fang finally realized that he was a puppy. WHAAA?! WHY THE FUCK AM I TINY? Huh, that's why the ground seemed closer than normal. This must be The Cursed Moon. He shook his tiny head, ridding him of the thoughts and allowing him to continue following the voice that came from the stranger. He suddenly stopped once he remembered something very important, Lilly. When the Cursed Moon is out her physical body, no matter who is controlling her body, alters into one that resembles a demon. It never happened to her when she was young but once her brother attacked her it started happening. Fang could only imagine the pain that she was suffering from turning by force of the moon.
Meanwhile...
"What the fuck was that?" Mizuki stopped in his tracks as he heard a scream from a female human. He was about to continue walking but then he heard the same exact scream again, making him curious. He rolled his eyes before turning around and heading toward the forest. He got really confused when he finally realized that it was in the direction of his apartment, he put in his mind as a coincidence.
Meanwhile...
"FUCKING HELL!" Lilly was speaking to herself as she kneeled down and buried her pounding head in the sleeves of the hoodie. She started to rock back and fourth to distract herself from the pain of changing, and it worked for a while. It came to the point where she ended up digging her nails into the sleeve to keep from screaming, leaving them to rip through it and pierce her skin. She lifted her head a bit and watched as the once light grey hoodie began to change colour as her blood seeped through it. Some spots on the sleeves were now a darker grey as well from her tears.
"Lilly?" Mizuki recognized the light purple ears that poked out of under her dark purple hair. Lilly ignored him and continued to rock while sinking her nails into her arm. At this point she could barely breathe. "I'M NOT GOING INSANE! STOP THINKING!" He jumped back when she finally lifted her head and spoke, and knew what he was thinking. He then noticed that her face was a bit different as well. Her eyes seemed more red than normal and they were somehow glowing as well. She also had, what looked like a crescent moon on the other side of her left eye. The moon had a lace pattern within it making it look kinda majestic, that and the fact that it's wine red colour kinda made her creepy looking eyes pretty.
"Are you-" He was about to ask if she was ok when she cut him off completely. "Do I look ok to you?" She looked up as she snapped at him, causing him to get even more confused than before. Mizuki actually felt bad for her, even though she kept yelling at him for strange things. He walked next to her and sat on the other side of the tree that she was leaned up against. "Two pair of ears look kinda strange on you." His voice was quiet as he noticed that she was wearing one of his favorite hoodie. The words actually made Lilly laugh a bit, which made Mizuki smile. Sadly Lilly couldn't see it.
Mizuki leaned his head to the other side of the tree and looked and Lilly, who had reburied her face. "WAIT, TAKE THAT HOODIE OFF RIGHT NOW!"He actually scared Lilly and caused her to jerk her head up immediately, "Umm, ok..." She looked at him in confusion as she pulled the hoodie over her head and handed it to Mizuki. "YOU GOT BLOOD ON MY FAVORITE HOOIDE!" He held up the jacket to reveal a dark red blood stain. "Sorry." Lilly laughed the word rather than saying it with sympathy.
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"Why are we hiding, couldn't we just go and get this battle thing over with already?" Karin seemed really bored as she asked the question. "Yeah, lets just go out and take them already." Orpheus decide to chime into the questioning as well, leaving Fawn in the spotlight, completely clueless of all of it. "I'm I the only one that is confused about Fang, when he turned into a wolf he was a puppy?" Koan was the one asking that question, leaving the rest of the guild to think about it as well.
"You have beautiful green eyes." Natalie confused Koan when she taped his shoulder and thought out loud, not actually meaning to. "Thanks?" The both just stood their silently for a few awkward moments, leaving some of the guild mates to stop thinking about Fang and just stare at them in utter awkwardness. "I FIGURED IT OUT!" Kikyo went through her books after Koan made his statement about Fang and decided to see if there was anything on the Cursed Moon in it, over hearing the conversation between Lilly, Fang, and Ayano a few days ago.
Everyone looked at her confused as to what she found, leaving her to tell them what she found. "Apparently when the Cursed Moon rises, anyone effected by the cursed of it should stay in their given human form. When one turns into a wolf while the moon the moon is still rising to it's apex will experiences such as time alteration. So basically he turned into a little kid and that also effected his wolf form making it a wolf pup." Some were still confused and had her re-explain it to them but others actually understood, and were happy they weren't Fang.
"Wouldn't that effect his magic as well?" Elizabeth asked after she thought about it for a minute. "Sorta, it would only be was good as magic as he was when he was a little kid. The sudden change could possibly make him very ill though if he uses to much of his magic." Kikyo read more on it before she answer Elizabeths question. After reading though she laughed a bit as she noticed Natalie staring at Koan while he was still processing it all in his mind.
Meanwhile...
"Where are we supposed to be going?" Sally pouted as she twirled the ends of her pigtails in boredom. Everyone else in the group ignored her and continued looking for the Spirit Fox guild hall. "Did you guys hear that?" The little girl jumped when she heard a growl from behind a few bushes that scared her. "Quit asking questions. Where is this guild hall supposed to be?" Aura directed the first part to Sally, leaving the question to be answered by Leinos. "We are only a mile away from the location that Mizuki directed us in." His answer was short as he continued to follow the hand-drawn map that Mizuki made earlier that day.
"A PUPPY!" Sally jumped up with excitement as she saw a small wolf pup run across the field behind them. "I'm gonna go look for the puppy, you guys are ok with that right?" She wanted to make sure she wasn't needed before she went to go and play with the puppy that she saw just a second ago. "Go ahead." Aura answered Sally's question with out actually listening to it, leave the little one and them to split up.
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WHY WORLD, WHY MUST YOU DO THIS TO ME?! Fang continued to cry and complain in his head as he tried to find a place to hide from the little girl hat spotted him just moments ago. "Here puppy, I got some treats for you!" Sally continued looking around the field for Fang, holding out the trail mix that she had brought with her when she went with Arua and Leinos. Ohh Trail Mix... Fang was sure to get the thought out of his head before he went running to his favorite snack.
I GOT IT! I'll jump and turn back into my human form the next time the girl looks my way, she'll then get scared and run away. He was proud of himself for finally coming up with a plan, sadly for him though, while he was thinking to himself he got caught. "Aww, such a beautiful puppy! Yes you are, yes you are." Sally picked him up and hugged him like he was a plush toy, squeezing the life out if him. For the sake of his life, he changed back into his human from right then.
"Eww, you're a boy! You'll pay for tricking me like that!" Sally dropped him and ran a few feet away. "WHAA! I'M A LITTLE KID AGAIN?!" Fang looked down to see that his feet and hands were smaller and he was much closer to the ground, that and his clothes were now really big and baggy. He fell to his knees and started to cry. "Why are you crying?" Sally tilted her head in confusion as she looked at the little boy who had created small puddles of tears in the grass.
Fang then looked up as a sudden thought hit him, what if other people saw him like this? He then started to imagine all the different reactions;
Lilly's reaction; "Aww you're so cute and tiny!" Lilly said as she kneeled down to his height and gave him a noogie.
"Oh that wouldn't be too bad, I could probably deal with that. WAIT, WHAT IF AYANO SAW ME LIKE THIS!?" Sally stared at him in confusion at he talked to himself and imagined Ayano's reaction.
Ayano's reaction; "Eww, kids are just not my type, sorry." Ayano looked at him in disgust and walked away, leaving Fang all alone.
"I MUST TURN BACK NOW, WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME?" Fang stood up and turned to face the confused little girl that stood in front of him. "I didn't do anything, I swear!" She started to cry a little from Fang yelling at her like he did. When he heard that him being a kid actually wasn't her doing he fell to the ground crying again, making Sally stop crying and become confused again. In the middle of the field was now two little kids crying.
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"Do I hear crying?" Ayano stopped walking and listens for a second to, what sound like two little kids crying. She realized that it was two kids crying so she then started to run in the direction of the crying. She stopped on the edge of a field and to her surprise, there were two little kids crying for some reason. She decided to stay hidden on the rim of the field to see what would happen. She sat down on the flat rock that was behind a few trees but still gave her a clear view of the small little grassy field.
Fang looked up when he caught scent that he recognized immediately, it was Ayano's. He wiped the tears off his face and pulled himself together as he stood up. "Since you are a member of a dark guild, I have no choice but to defeat you and put your guild in its proper place." Fang's voice was much higher in pitch before, making him sound like a pipsqueak. He waited for he to stop crying so that he could have a proper and fair battle with her.
"One rule, if I win you get to be my new friend." Sally gave him a devilish grin as she nodded her head in agreement to a fair fight. "If I would, you will never attack Spirit Fox again, deal?" She nodded her head again to his term. They both got into their fighting stance and began their battle on Fang's signal. Fang sat down with his legs crossed and meditated while Sally started a spell, even though she was confused as to why he wasn't fighting.
"Doll Magic: Grim Reaper!" Sally shouted out the spell, causing Fang to stop for a second and see what it was. When he looked up he was frozen in fear, his worst nightmare had just come to life. A creepy doll about a foot in height was standing in-between the two. He had a creepy smile and eyes that seems to stare into your soul. The little doll also held a scythe with him as he walked in the direction of Fang. Fang finally put his fear aside long enough for him to continue meditating, well what looked like meditating. What he was really doing was staying in the stance for quite a powerful spell.
"Wound Mender!" Fang shouted out one of his healing spells before doing the spell that he was in the stance for. The spell was for the doll, not for Sally. To the little girls surprise, the spell changed the doll into one that looked like a prince instead of its normal creepy self, the doll then vanished in a glowing silver light. "WHAT DID YOU DO?!" Sally asked the question in amazement before starting up another spell. Fang was quick enough to read it though as he finally started his own spell.
"Devils Puppet." His words were soft as he spoke them and were barely loud enough for Sally to hear. He then lifted his right arm over his head as he stood up. To Sally's surprise, her arm also lifted over her head without her willing it to. "What are you doing?" She was too amazed that he was able to control her actual movement to fight back. "I am terribly sorry for what I am about to do." Fang had the decency to look her in the eyes before casting his Fear Seeker spell.
"What is that?" Sally was very confused about what she was seeing. Around Fang was sparkly black lights that outlined every feature of him, at least every feature that was visible with his clothes still on. She then started to scream and back away as if something was attacking her, and something was. Fang had summoned a projection of Sally's worst fear, only she and Fang could actually see however. Dolls? She is a user of Doll Changer Magic yet she is afraid of dolls? Fang was very confused until he actually understood what the fear what. She was being attacked by the very dolls she sees as her friends, the only things that actually loved her.
"STOP IT! I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING BUT STOP IT!" Ayano ran into the field when she saw that the little girl that curled in a ball, crying and shaking. "But Ayano, she was trying to kill me?!" Fang's words were mostly a whimper as he complained. He was actually smiling when he defeated Sally using her own fears. "How do you know my name?" Ayano looked straight into his eyes as she asked the question that rendered Fang speechless. His face went completely blank and turned very pale, causing Ayano to worry a bit. She really worried when Fang over reacted and fainted.
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"Why did we sneak out of hiding again?" Kikyo had to jog to keep yup with the small group that had left the hide out. "Because it was getting boring and we are all craving some action, well I'm not actually sure why you and Terry came along." Koan turned and walked backwards to he could have a proper conversation with Kikyo, who was still behind them with Terry staying by her side. Terry stopped behind everyone for second, causing everyone to turn back when his stomach growled really loudly. "Here, I brought some steamed buns." Kikyo rolled her eyes at him as she handed him a small box filled with steamed buns. "Thank god you are here." He gave her a warm smile as he opened the box and took a few of the breads, then closing the box and putting it in one of his large pockets.
Karin and Orpheus laughed at the three behind them. "Would you stop chit-chatting and hurry up? If we're quick enough we might be able to get a fight." Karin said it as if they were gonna get a prize for shutting up. "Well, your wish is our command." All of them were startled when Aura pitched into their conversation with a grim smirk on her face. Leinos was told to give Aura the win so he started walking off. "First one to find the other one gets dinner at a fancy restaurant, on me." Karin kept eye contact with Arua as she told the other to leave. They all ran off in the direct of Leinos in hopes for free food, Kikyo and Orpheus were left in the dust by Koan and Terry though.
"Just so you know, I show no mercy." A sadistic look took over Karin's face as she got into the stance of one of her spells. "Fire Devil Rage." She inhaled before releasing a cannon of fire from her mouth that was equivalent to a dragon slayers roar.
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"You're finally awake!" Ayano practically jumped out of her chair when Fang's eye's finally fluttered open. "Where am I?" Fang sat up immediately when he didn't recognize where he was. He really didn't care why he was, he just wanted time to think about why Ayano didn't recognize him while she explained what Ayano was explained that he fainted and all that, Fang finally realized why she didn't know who he was. "Are you even listening to me?" She shook his shoulder while he stared off at the wall behind her. "What do you want?" Fangs voice was harsh and rude as he spoke, probably because she interrupted his thoughts.
"I found some clothes that looked like they would fit you, they are on the end of the bed." Ayano gave him a small smile before she left the room to let him get dressed. Fang pushed the soft blanket that was on top of him to the side and swung his, now tiny, legs over the side of the bed. He looked around the room for a second before he accidentally fell off the really high bed. I really shouldn't have stayed so close to the edge, ouch. He rubbed the top of his head as he started to stand up. He fell back to the ground though when Ayano swung the door open, scaring him half to death. "What was the bang?" Ayano looked around the room and quickly noticed that Fang wasn't to be seen at all. "EEEEK!" Fang threw a pillow at her face when she screamed in fear as he jumped up from behind the bed.
"What the hell was that for?!" Ayano threw the pillow back at him, sadly he dodged it before it got close to him. "You're screaming was quite painful to my highly sensitive ears." He rubbed his ears as he picked the pillow up and placed it neatly back on the bed, or tried to since he was actually too short so he had to climb onto the bed to place it. "What was the crash?" She narrowed her eyes at him in annoyance, due to him acting like a brat. "If you must know, I fell. The bed you had placed me on was too tall for me to safely descent from it." He stood up on the bed as he spoke, in order to finally be able to see the set of clothes placed on the end. "Ok, just be more careful." This time she didn't smile but instead left the room, still annoyed.
Fang grabbed the clothes off the bed and jumped off the frame. This is very soft carpet. He wiggled his toes in the carpet before noticing that his shoes were gone, as well as his shirt somehow. He shrugged his shoulders as he pulled the purple hoodie over his head. He also put on the small pair of skinny jeans that Ayano left for him. Fang looked around the room for a bit so he didn't have to go out into, what he thinks is the main room. He spotted a full body mirror that was placed on the back of the door. He walked over to see why Ayano might not have recognized him.
I look exactly how I did before I could control my changing. Maybe that's why I appear different to her. He though to himself when he realized that his hair had reverted back to the dark, almost black, brown it had been when he was a kid. He also could see that his eyes had their former purple glow to them. He sighed before be backed up and opened the door. "I prepared some tea and rice if you want any." Ayano was currently carrying a small bowl of rice to the circular table that was next to a kitchen island. He simply nodded to her as he made his way over to the table.
"Are you going to tell me who you are at all?" Ayano placed a cup of tea in front of him as she sat down in the chair that was directly across. He sipped the tea, then he spit it out all over her face. Ayano's face when blank, then showed rage. "Sorry, you didn't put ice in it to cool it down. The tea simply burned my tongue." He lower the cup can pushed it forward toward Ayano. Her face was still filled with rage as she whipped the tea off it. "I guess you deserve to know my identity, though I truly am offended you couldn't tell who I was. My name is Nathan but Lilly, and yourself for some reason, call me Fang." He spoke in a proper manner as he placed his hands on his lap.
Ayano stopped whipping her face and stared at Fang in disbelief. "You're kidding right?" She truly hoped the kid was lying, but alas he shook his head and put Ayano is shock. She sat staring at him for a few minutes till it finally processed through her head. "YOU'RE SO CUTE AND TINY!" Ayano had a bright smile are him face as she stood up and walked over to Fang to pinch in, now tiny, cheeks. His eye filled with hatred as she pinched and poked his cheeks while teasing him about of adorable he looked. He finally had enough of it as he raised his hand and slapped her face to get her to stop.
"Why do you have small male clothes in your house? Uh-" Fang kept a straight face, until Ayano became enraged by being slapped, then his face showed actual fear. Ayano calmed down in order to answer his question. "They were my brothers clothes, they are all I really have left of him." Sadness washed over her face as she explained the whole thing to Fang. "Uh- Smile, you are too kind to feel sadness in your heart." He pulled a chain from under the hoodie as he spoke.
"Here, you can have it." Fang unlatched the chain and handed it to Ayano, who took it to see what it was. It was just a silver chain with a emerald heart pendant hanging from it. "Why do you have such a famine necklace?" Ayano chuckled as she held it up for him to take back. "A good friend gave it to me before she died, she said something to be when she did, something that I never thought she knew. "Your smile, it tricks everyone around you into thinking you're ok when you have something in the past that will never be let go" I though she was insane." Fang tried to cheer himself up, but failed in the process.
"Wha-" Fang was completely caught off guard when Ayano lifted him up and pulled him into a hug. Fang took the opportunity to latch the necklace onto her and seal it with a spell so she couldn't remove it.
The Present(The beginning of last chapter)...
"Why are all of our wounds healed?" Karin tilted her head in confusion as she noticed everyone else in the group up and able to fight again, well not completely, Lilly's spell took away everyones will to fight. "What ever let's just go back to the guild hall." Kikyo and Terry both followed Koan, who walked off in the direction of the guild hall after making his short statement. Leinos was crying behind them as he sheltered Aura, who wouldn't wake up. During Aura and Karin's battle she lower her guard in order to protect Leinos, giving Karin a clear shot.
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"What happened?" Fawn stood in the middle of the guild hall as everyone started to flood in. "Lilly increased the magical power of everyone if both, Spirit Fox and Shadow Blade as well as healing all of their external wounds. She abused her power and needs to go to the infirmary immediately." No one could actually take Fang seriously as a kid, actually if it wasn't for Ayano's note on his forehead that read, in big bold letter; I'M FANG, no one would've known it was him.
Marshal walked out from behind the bar and led Mizuki, who carried Lilly in, to the infirmary to wait for the guilds care taker. Mizuki laid her on the bed then sat himself on one of the chairs next to her. It was only a few minutes before the healing dragon slayer walked in. She cast a magic circle over Lilly to see what her fate would be. She closed the circle and faced Mizuki and Fang, who had also joined them after getting information about what happened to him by Kikyo. "She'll be fine, she won't wake for a while though. As for you, I'll try and see how to change you back to normal." She smiled at the two and went over to Kikyo to get more information and possibilities on how to change Fang back to his normal size and age.
"I'll be going now, this small body gets exhausted too quickly. I trust you will keep Lilly safe?" Fang had to stand on the chair in order to be the same height as Mizuki, who was still sitting. Mizuki nodded to him and watched as he jumped off the chair and left the infirmary.
"It seems you got yourself into a bit of a pickle." The man chuckled at Fang as he kneeled down to his height. Fang looked up at the stranger. His eyes widened when he saw their face. "Niko?" Fang was barley able to speak. Niko gave him a bright and kind smile. For the first time, Fang's face lit up as he ran to give Niko a hug.
To be continued...
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that is the end of The Lost Battle Arc finally! The next arc is a filler arc and will be quite short luckily so that we can move onto some other arcs and just get this one out of the way. I will now be opening submissions for another dark guild called Fallen Warriors, which will be in a few of the arcs. All submissions for Spirit Fox and Shadow Blade will not be accepted!
Until next time...
