Bang! Guess who is back?
So Magi belongs to Shinobu Ohtaka, my OC to me, there might be references to this world, music etc, spoilers for those who haven't read the manga this far and some spelling mistakes.
Even so, have a fun time reading!
Thanks to Curlyfr13s now with 130% less grammar and spelling mistakes!
Day 30 Fighting the Medium
Shun Ra gulped when a feeling of dread gave her goosebumps. She looked up at the starry sky then at her companions.
"What was that?"
Lenka didn't answer immediately, her gaze was fixated on something she couldn't see, far, far in the distance.
"Miran, Shura, get to the city and help the magicians save as many as you can. Don't risk your life doing something stupid. You might be safer there until Yunan and the Alliance arrive, we will probably direct the fighting away from the civilians."
The boy next to her nodded then wrapped his arms around the blonde while the girl frowned at the word 'probably'.
"Don't you dare die, Lenka."
"As if something like this would kill me," she chuckled, pecked his cheek then gave Shun Ra a short hug as well, before handing her the white scarf.
"You will need it more than me, I believe."
The feeling returned, causing Shun Ra to look up, and this time she could spot several black figures shoot towards the east, where just minutes ago a white light had flashed.
"Lenka, really, what is this?"
The woman sighed and rubbed the biceps rings on her left arm.
"This is war."
And then she disappeared in a flash and a wave of heat that pressed the grass down in ripples. The girl blinked surprised then looked up again at the two white stripes that crossed the heaven, then at Miran who had started stretching his arms and legs then jabbed the air a few times.
"And what's wrong with you now?"
"I'm going to fight, obviously," he answered with a flat stare that made her blood boil, simply at the complete obedience that was going to kill him! Shun Ra wasn't sure when she had started caring for the strangers she traveled with, but they had been nice to her. Really nice.
"You know that you are going to die, don't you?"
"You will first if you don't follow me," he replied with a shrug and the feeling of attachment disappeared and was replaced with annoyance.
"Hey Alibaba, nice get up," Lenka greeted one of her surrogate siblings. Alibaba nodded his greeting back and she had to squint because he was wrapped in bright, hot flames and the rising sun behind him turned her friend into a yellow, red and orange ball.
"Yeah, finally got my full equip. You know what's happening?"
"Magnostadt, black djinn creation furnace, cooperation with Ithnaan, you know, the same as usual."
"Aladdin told me the same."
"So you know it's the end of the world if we fail?"
Alibaba nodded again then narrowed his eyes when the army of Kou came into view, or to be more exact, the three black djinn standing on a giant scythe, trying to get past the barrier that was Ren Kouha and squat the vanguard flat.
"I take those, you the other four?"
"Of course."
And then he shot forward with even greater speed, cutting off the legs of his targets in one fiery swipe while Lenka engaged the others. Orias' power was interesting to wield, the black holes she could create worked like drains and pulled in everything attached to them without fail. Struggle was futile, even for the black djinn as they were sucked into a pocket space, another dimension or whatever was on the other side of the hole. She didn't really want to know at the moment.
The immense pressure in there will crush them and I can bring the Rukh back into your own system, the djinn offered and Lenka almost fell from the sky when despair and anger and guilt and black hit her like a sledgehammer, her vision blurring and contorting while the voices of depravity screamed in her ears. Her eyes throbbed madly and the sheer pressure on her chest made breathing hardly possible.
"Slow down!"
Immediately the stress lessened, the noise turned into a dark hum in the back of her head and the world was sharp again, showing her that more djinn had appeared, twenty, thirty... a lot more than before. An almost blinding light to her side caused her to turn away from the enemy and towards Alibaba, holding the smaller version of Amon's sword over his head where the white circle of forming extreme magic had appeared. Noticing that Aladdin was close to him Lenka lowered her altitude – and grinned when a white flash from behind the army felled the closest three djinn.
Kouen and his household had arrived and started the counterattack.
Kouha is hurt, Foras spoke up and directed the dungeon capturer's glance to the small purplish white and lilac figure on the ground. She nodded and landed next to him, canceling her djinn equip in the second her feet touched the ground. The prince's eyes widened while his magicians slash fangirls huddled closer to him.
"Lenka?"
"Shut down the equip, Kouha," she smiled then turned towards the carnage Kouen's household caused under the black djinn. The man himself landed in front of the army, stepped from the carpet and walked towards his brother whose right arm was swollen and tinted in different shades of purple, red and blue while the palm was twisted in a direction that was normally impossible.
Kouha bit his lip and lowered his head before addressing the first prince, his voice a pained rasp.
"My brother and king... please forgive me, I volunteered to take the vanguard and... caused a great loss..."
Kouen blinked then unsheathed his sword and pointed on his brother's injury.
"Heal, Phenex."
The pendant dangling from the hilt glowed and an astral creature, similar to a bird, appeared, illuminating the forms of the two before it sunk into the bruised skin of Kouha's arm. The cuts disappeared with the swelling until the limb looked unscathed again. As soon as the glow faded the magicians and Kouha started bowing and thanking the man, who nodded shortly and began ordering the vanguard to retreat into the mountains to join the rest of his army.
Lenka smiled at Alibaba who had landed on the ground, having canceled the extreme attack to to the interfering of the transformed Kou household members. He nodded at her then stared at Kouen's back until the man turned around and faced him. It took a few seconds before the fiery armor faded and together with Aladdin he walked towards the older man.
Miran and Shun Ra had almost reached Magnostadt, using the flying scarf to overcome the distance at a faster speed, when the influx of visible black Rukh stopped and a tremor shook the ground. Looking down the boy could see that the plaza in the middle of the city cracked then broke, similar to a lizard clawing its way out of the egg shell, and a giant dark ball rose from the hole, countless giant eyes staring at everything moving in the vicinity.
"The sky!"
The clouds formed a maelstrom, and from the eye of the hurricane black tentacles descended, wriggling as if they wanted to connect with the sphere. Despair overwhelmed the people on the ground when the black Rukh streamed around, their songs magnifying the effect even more. A pillar of pure evil shot upwards from the orb of darkness and illuminated the world in a light of impending doom.
And somewhere far in the distance the witch queen wept in joy as the entity she called 'father' prepared to descend on the world again.
Lenka wanted to introduce her face to her palm for a longer stay. Typical Alibaba, blubbing out his name before everything else. On the other hand this was a way to intimidate people, but not if you had no country and thus no military or economical power any more. As she was now standing out of the view of the other blonde and the small Magi, behind them, with Kouen's household, she could hear the whispers in the rows of the soldiers that had formed a circle around the dungeon capturers. The monster men had successfully dispersed the black djinn and her eyes followed the black trail of the Rukh rising from the burning ashes. Her stomach churned when she thought of Miran and Shun Ra who were probably now in one of the most dangerous places on the world, and she had sent them there. Would it have been better if she had taken them with her and left them with the Kou army?
She blinked when Alibaba took a few steps forward, until he stood right in front of Kouen, and pointed on the still kneeling Kouha.
"I stepped on the battlefield in order to protect the life of the third prince of the Kou empire, Kouha!"
Face, meet palm.
Brass balls, Foras murmured and snickered at the startled faces of both Kouha and Aladdin.
This idea is so suicidal it might work, agreed Gusion. A slight frown appeared on Kouen's face.
"Aren't you looking down on me? Since you have already lost your country."
Point for the goatee, Orobas scribbled a line under a doodle of Kouen on a flip-chart.
Alibaba blushed bright red in his self-caused embarrassment and looked down, fingers clenched into fists. The man walked past him and patted his back.
"But I have to thank you. You did a good job in saving Kouha. You did too, Lenka."
Aladdin and Alibaba both flinched around to gape at her before the small Magi blurred into motion, raced around a startled Kouen and jumped at his surrogate sister to hug her the first time in more than a year. He had grown, and even if he was wearing a dress now he was still Aladdin, cheerful, hungry and with a huge fixation on boobs.
"Big sis!"
Lenka grinned even more when she heard Kouha's surprised yelp then both she and Aladdin froze and turned west where the sky darkened at an alarming rate. The boy instantly freed himself and hurried over to the princes.
"Old man Kouen!"
"O-old man?" the warriors around the unfazed man screamed in shock while Lenka and her djinn snickered because this form of address was simply Aladdin.
"Please sent your soldiers back, I beg you! If the people around here continue to fight they will die!"
"Listen to him, Kouen," the blonde growled, her fingers twitching uncomfortably for her sword. Aladdin raised his hand and she noticed that his staff was missing; instead his fingers gripped a small twig tightly.
"We don't have time! If you don't believe me I will have this situation explained by your djinn!"
The three marks with the eight-pointed star on the man started glowing before the djinn emerged, hovering over the army in all their blue and scary glory.
"We are here to serve you, our king, and the reincarnation of our past king!"
Hell yes, he knows how to make a good show! Orobas cheered and added around seventeen marks under a scribble of Aladdin. Kouen on the other hand showed more expressions than Lenka had seen on him before, shock, amazement, curiosity, as he raised his arm to signal the soldiers not to attack.
"Show yourselves, everyone!"
Aladdin raised the twig and in a flutter of white Rukh the other djinn appeared, Lenka's six, Amon and Leraje joined Agares, Astaroth and Phenex in the sky.
"Did you call us, Magi?"
Their voices boomed over the area and sent the soldiers into shock while more Rukh shot towards Aladdin to feed him their energy. Kouen stared at the boy in grim awe.
"So you are the fourth Magi Judar talked about."
"Our kings...," Amon announced, the words causing the dungeon capturers to look at the spirit, "You have to close the dark spot. Otherwise this world will be annihilated."
Lenka and Kouen were the only ones not to voice their thoughts, but she could see that his eyes lingered on her for a few seconds. The djinn turned his giant body towards Magnostadt.
"In the far western skies a giant hole has been opened. From there the incarnation of evil will descend on us... Anything that its hands touch will have their white Rukh stolen and erased. Menfolk, animals, plants... even light and sound will die out, nothing will move, and in its wake would be a black sun, shining down on a world without life."
Lenka had to admit that the description sent shudders down her back, both of fear and anticipation. This was it. She had prepared a whole year for this.
Leraje leaned forward, black tears streaming down her face.
"Don't let the world die, guys, or else it will be the same as Alma Toran!"
"Leraje," Astaroth cut off her words.
"That's a taboo. The humans of this world shouldn't even know of the existence of the other world."
"Lenka knows," Orobas said and the other inclined his head.
"The warrior is not from this world, nor from the other."
"All hail the Multiverse theory," Lenka murmured, aware that now everyone sans Aladdin was looking at her, and moved towards the boy.
"Destroy the Medium, capitalized," Gusion said and the attention was back on the djinn. Alibaba tilted his head.
"The Medium?"
"The incarnation of evil, a high order being from another dimension that is originally not supposed to exist in our world," Amon explained.
"And the trigger to bring it into our world is the Medium, a crystallized body of an unbelievable amount of depraved Rukh and magoi."
"Al-Thamen wants this to happen and thus they cause the abnormalities in the world," Orias added with a short nod. Ronové rolled his three eyes.
"Well, the fanatics have simply no sense for aesthetics. A black sun is so not sexy..."
"And now I've buried the hope that Lenka would ever capture a sane djinn beside me again," Orias not exactly murmured, causing the woman to facepalm with a sigh.
"I blame Yunan."
Foras shook her head at the antics displayed by the males.
"Look, kiddies, just destroy the Medium, then the hole in the sky will disappear. Granted, it will not be easy but we have to stall time until the back-up arrives.
Even with the warrior and Solomon's proxy here it will be hard."
Aladdin nodded slowly then turned around when Kouen spoke up.
"What is this abut Solomon's proxy and a warrior? And is it possible that this other world is King Solomon's destroyed world?"
The boy blinked surprised at him.
"Are you familiar with Alma Toran, uncle?"
He yelped when the man grabbed the front of his magician robe and lifted him into the air, growling "Tell me everything. Right now!"
"Lord Kouen, don't be so rude towards the Magi!" yelped his three djinn, panicking for the sake of the boy, until Lenka stepped forward and waved her hand in front of his eyes to get his attention.
"Bad Kouen! If you don't let my brother go I will sic Orobas on you! And seal your scrolls under thirty meters of crystal!"
"Hey, that's right, I still haven't forgiven you for proposing to Lenka! I kill you!"
"No, you can't attack our king, he might hurt the Magi!"
"It hurts already!"
"Kouen," Lenka growled and the ring on her right hand started to glow an eerie red. The man narrowed his eyes and grabbed her wrist.
"I want to know your story. The truth. Out with it."
"I kill you!"
"SHUT THE FUCK UP."
Everyone flinched and turned to Gusion who pointed with her flipper-turned-claws at the Magi.
"Prince Aladdin has to say something."
"That's right!" he yelled and glared back at the way taller man.
"If you sent back your soldiers and help us destroy the medium I'll tell you everything!"
"WHAT?!" ten djinn yelled while Gusion stretched out her claw at her fellow spirits.
"Pay up."
"A-are you sure about that, Magi?" Leraje questioned nervously while handing Gusion a golden coin she had pulled from her skirt. Amon nodded in agreement.
"If we tell them about Alma Toran the normal flow of destiny created by King Solomon will..."
"I am here, the normal flow doesn't exist any more," Lenka answered while Aladdin added:
"We are in an extreme situation already. We can't worry about that any more."
Kouen on the other hand smirked.
"Fine."
He inhaled deeply – Lenka noticed that his household was covering their ears and followed their example, not a second too late.
"KOUMEI! HAKURYUU HAKUEI; KOUGYOKU! COME FORTH IMMEDIATELY!"
The sound waves vibrated through the army and knocked the ones close to the prince down, and even through her makeshift earplugs the booming voice of the prince was WAY too loud.
"Have you finished treating the injured? As soon as the treatment for the heavily injured soldiers is finished Kouha and I will depart!"
Swaying slightly, because even Kouen's commando tone was too loud to be normal, Kouha stood up and straightened his hat that had almost fallen from his head at some point.
"Are you going to believe this..."
Lenka didn't hear his answer, she was busy checking if her friends' eardrums weren't shattered. Aladdin blinked up at her.
"Did I do okay?"
"Perfect," she smiled and ruffled his hair which caused him to preen slightly then hug her again to satisfy his perverted urges.
"We are going to beat this thing and then celebrate. You know, I have found a household member, Miran. He's ten. I think you will understand each other pretty well, he's a fanalis."
"Er, Lenka, may I ask where you were after the dungeon conquest with Muu Alexius?" Alibaba asked while scratching his head nervously.
"He came back alone and looked seriously pissed. As in, he mowed through all his opponents in the arena like it was nothing."
She paled and looked around in panic until she caught a glimpse of Foras and pointed at the djinn who waved back with a shit-eating grin.
"Her fault, she warped me to Kou!"
"He almost skinned me alive when I said I didn't know where you were! You owe me!"
"Still her fault!"
"I don't care, Lenka! I so don't care!"
"Magi!"
Kouen stepped towards them, a slightly crazy glint in his eyes and his household behind him.
"I will lend you the power of the metal vessel users of the Kou Empire. But in return, after all this is over you will tell me the truth about this world!"
Aladdin gulped audibly then glanced upwards at the two blondes next to him who exchanged pained smiles with each other then comforting with the boy.
"And you too, Lenka, about the world you are from!"
Oh fudge.
Hey, you've forced that onto yourself, you know?
I know, Orobas.
"Hakuryuu, will he come too?!" exclaimed an excited Alibaba. Aladdin was confused how their friend could hear the screaming and one of Kouha's fangirls kindly explained the way of their long-distance communication to him – until her master suddenly appeared and clasped her mouth shut to stop her from revealing important secrets. Lenka on the other hand had a hard time focusing on the real world due to thinking about Alibaba's question. Hakuryuu. Would he come to help them? Or would everything follow cannon? Had he given in to the corruption already?
I think you have to kill something, dear, Foras said with a chuckle. Lenka nodded and activated Orobas' equip when the three males did theirs.
And in flashes of light they followed the fourth Magi to Magnostadt.
Miran did his very best.
Like a red blur he raced and jumped over the debris, dodged the giant black feet coming down from the sky and picked up citizens on his way to deliver them to the small group of magicians clad in their shiny borg armor. They were doing their best to defend the populace, but with beings made from the black Rukh they could only do so much, as could he.
This was like a dungeon, he had to survive because getting killed was not an option. Using his household vessel to burn through the leg of one of the giants, throwing pieces of walls and the floor at the seemingly endless assault from the black floating sphere up in the sky he waited for Lenka to arrive.
Shun Ra on the other hand had never been more scared before in her entire life.
Not even the thrice damn dungeon that was the root of all her problems had been as abysmal as the situation now. Explosions and screaming people all over the place, dark multi-limbed giants in the air and on the floor and magicians who were completely useless – and she was even more useless than them.
Even the crazy red-haired kid was more useful than her, darting around and causing white fiery booms whenever he got close enough to the black giants. How he did that was beyond her understanding, but the white flames would consume them until they were gone. Up until now she had seen three of the giants disappear this way, but for each defeated six new ones appeared and tried stomping the humans to death.
She thought she knew the feeling of despair – until today. Now she knew despair. Kneeling on the sidelines of the battlefield with her fingers gripping her dress so tight that her knuckles were bone white and shaking like a leaf Shun Ra once again wondered how she could survive. Every blow shook the earth, spells were flying around as were the magicians and there was so much chaos – she couldn't. There was no way she would. Absolutely no way. Only a miracle would save her. But when had she ever trusted in miracles? Her parents had told her to do things on her own, not to wait for help if the chance for it to come was minimal. If no one was there beside to do a job, to save a life, to offer help, she should do it. Her honor would forbid it otherwise.
No one would help the people down there if she didn't do it.
She inhaled deeply to calm herself but the sobbing made it difficult, as did the dust that made her eyes tear up, or maybe it was not the dust but her own incompetence?
"No. Stop crying."
She willed her hand to let go of her dress, to slowly rise and then to hit her. The sudden pain was not enough, so she slapped herself again and a third time until she was sure she could stand up again.
"I will stop crying."
No good came from crying. She had cried for days when her parents had disappeared, until her voice was gone as well, but that hadn't brought them back. Her own efforts had done it. And the crazy blonde that had brought them to war, but not to die. To help, because she trusted her and the kid to be strong enough to help those who were too weak to help themselves. Even if this was not the truth, she could live with the half-lie, get herself together and do something.
Her legs were weak and shaky, but somehow, somehow they carried her weight when she moved them apart to a stable stance. Shun Ra looked around, destruction everywhere, death and despair and pain, cries and tears. Oh so much despair. But if she didn't help them...
Her hands wandered to her back and suddenly she was holding her bow, firmly, an arrow nocked on the string, pointing at the giant eye of one of the monsters.
A strange calm filled her while her eyes followed the being that stomped on the floor near the incredibly big hole from which the ball of dark must have ascended, trying to squish the citizens running away from the four feet.
She had received help, now she would do her best to return the favor.
Inhale. Her pulse thrummed in her ears like thunder but she still catched the voice speaking to her, offering her...
Do you want power?
Yes. Yes, I do. Oh please, give me the power to help. Please please please I need it so much...!
Exhale. Time seemed to slow down when her fingers let go of the arrow and the projectile shot from the string, through the air, towards the black giant, towards the pupil, was too far away for her to see, but she was sure, sure that it had hit the target-
Jade green crystal shards grew from the eye, impaled the being, then a shell covered the thing, connected it with the floor that broke under the weight and the enemy tumbled down the hole, a flick of verdant in the dark.
Shun Ra noticed that her bow was glowing, or rather the part wrapped in worn-out leather, the part of which she knew was actually a metal connection between the two wooden parts of the weapon. A bow was an expensive thing to have in an area where there were no trees, only grassy plains, and her father had given it to her when she was old enough to wield it. She had hunted with it, wounded, killed, but never before she had encountered something like that – until she saw what Lenka had done in the dungeon. When she had wiped out the monsters in the ruin city.
Her legs were about to give in again when a wave of exhaustion washed over her, blurred her vision for a moment or three as the voice spoke again, coming from a glowing white bird she could somehow see, somewhere inside her head.
I am a member of the household of friendship and reconciles, Gusion. You have been chosen to serve our king!
"Oh shoot."
Kang Shun Ra suddenly got the feeling she was destined to be following a certain blonde that she had perceived as crazy, reckless and absolutely megalomaniac around for a very long time.
Almost on the other side of the plaza Miran heard the voice of his own familiar, sickeningly cheery in the chaos.
A new household vessel has been declared by Gusion! It's the mean girl.
"Oh fudge," he murmured, flipped back in the air to turn around and get to her before she exhausted her magoi in a pseudo-heroic attempt to prove that she could do better than him. He found her atop of the wall they had landed on minutes earlier after a mad dash to reach Magnostadt, standing upright and inspecting her bow which gave of a faint green glow. She looked up when he landed and almost instantly started yelling. As always. So she was more or less alright, if maybe a bit frightened.
"What did just happen? Tell me what happened to my bow!"
"You have been chosen as a household member by one of Lenka's djinn. Gusion gave you power because you demanded it. Activating your household vessel feeds on your magoi and strains your body, and the more power you use and demand the faster it will turn you into a monster.
Don't worry, as long as you don't exhaust yourself too much nothing will happen."
"Fantastic!" growled Shun Ra and scrunched her nose at the black djinn that popped up like worms after rain. No, cockroaches was a much better comparison.
"Go ahead and save people, I'll guard your back."
Miran gaped at her then raised his hand.
"Did you hit your head? Are you feeling dizzy? How many fingers am I showing?"
"Just go, kid!"
He nodded and jumped down, back into the danger of getting flattened by giant flailing limbs and collapsing buildings. Zigzagging around holes and piles of rubble he made his way over to a civilian family. The father was doing his best trying to pull his child out from below something that seemed to have been a piece of the floor, either way he was going to rip the little thing apart while his wife was already unconscious. Miran landed in a crouch next to them, reached under the debris and pushed upwards to get the other child free.
"Watch out!"
The sunlight was blocked by a large black foot and the fanalis cursed inwardly for not checking his surroundings. He would not make this mistake again, he decided and focused magoi in his right household vessel, but he was too slow, not enough magoi, too-
The telltale 'boom' of something connecting with a magician's borg was heard and Miran blinked surprised at the girl with the long blonde hair, white dress and golden staff that stood protectively in front of them. He knew who she was.
"Lady Magi!"
Scheherazade nodded sharply and pushed the barrier away from her, effectively covering the whole field devoid of cracks and broken homes while a second shield appeared around her. Miran gritted his teeth and continued to free the civilians before they were caught up in the battle even more, but everything seemed to happen so fast and he was slow, too slow.
In moments like this he hated that he was still a child, limited in what he could do.
Hey, wanna have more power? I could give you some, you know?
Not in a million years.
Aw. Meanie.
A pained cry caused him too look at Scheherazade, and again he was too slow to prevent her arm getting pierced by what seemed to be a black tentacle. Solomon, what was were these things if they were able to injure a Magi this much?
Luckily the dungeon capturers arrived in this moment. Alibaba seemed to appear out of thin air, covered in flames and severed the tentacle with a swipe; the part that had pierced the Magi of Reim dissolved in a flutter of black Rukh and Miran exhaled relieved. Lenka was here.
Said blonde hovered over the city of Magnostadt and examined the orb of ogres, which somehow reminded her of the black ball used in snooker. Or a strange fungus. Or a sphere spawning black ugly ogres with the intention to destroy and kill all living on the face of the earth. The Medium, capitalized.
"Now I'm not entirely sure if praying to be transferred here was a good idea."
No shit, Sherlock, Orobas snickered.
The chance of dying a painful death was a hundred times more realistic than ever before, and to be frank, it scared her to no end. She was close, so damn close to death she could almost feel the cold breath of the reaper down her neck.
It was intoxicating.
A howl of wind and several loud booms directed her focus to the Kou dungeon capturers that had just teleported to Magnostadt. Hakuei had used her djinn powers to pull the enemy out of the city and her siblings had taken care of them, now dramatically levitating over the settlement. A few seconds later Aladdin and Alibaba joined them and the excited voice of Kougyoku wafted over to her. Lenka lowered her altitude and nodded at Koumei, who nodded back.
"Ready?"
"I fear my brother is."
"The truth and the knowledge of history beyond that... will be mine."
He is a bit of a history nerd, isn't he? Foras asked with a chuckle.
It's almost Ugo-ish.
Less talking, more attacking, Orobas growled and Lenka nodded and charged the black djinn.
It was a mess. So much depraved Rukh filling the air, so many enemies and whenever she had cut down or scorched one three new came down at her and the circle started anew.
Eligos!
The fiery armor vanished and Lenka dropped from the sky like a stone while her body contorted, shrank until the weight from her torso disappeared and reappeared on her back as giant dragonfly wings glittering like jewels growing from both sides of her spine and gravity was lifted from her again. She rushed towards a black djinn and the reflection in the giant eye showed her that she had the physique of a child now, with flowing amber hair held up in pigtails and orange irises, in a triangle top and a slitted skirt, jewel clasps in form of the eight-pointed star holding the fabric together. Green paint streaks led from the third eye on her forehead to her own and when her palm connected with the exterior of the ogre a spark of orange electricity hit the being that turned stiff for a moment before it attacked one of it's brethren. Lenka grinned viciously and began darting around, every enemy she touched turned into a puppet of hers.
Insensitive Rule.
From the corner of her eye she saw Koumei using his djinn equip, amazed of the efficiency Dantalion had then perked up at Kouha's yell of "Then thousand?!"
Wait, we have to kill that many?
Be glad you're only dealing with one black spot, we had to fight against half a dozen during the fall, Ronové said and directed her gaze towards Kouen who rushed forward and zigzagged through the enemies like a confused lightning bolt, explosions following in his wake. Several djinn changed forms and a multitude of hands and arms reached out for the man and covered him in a layer of matter – only to explode a few seconds later.
I counted six.
Aladdin did as well.
Ho hoo, Eligos whistled and wriggled her eyebrows.
Djinn equip change to Agares. Eligos says he is cute like that.
"Holy fudge in the oven!" Lenka yelped when the first prince reverse-drilled a column from the ground and shot the several kilometer high pillar in the air while Hakuei kept the enemy at bay. The earth trembled and shook until magma spouted from the hole and burst open the ground while lightning shook the sky.
Her eyes widened and she used Orias' black holes to absorb red-hot globs whose trajectory was much too close to Magnostadt for her liking but luckily the lava flow curved around the city walls. Lenka hissed and released the magma over the next black djinn then started yelling at the figure down in the volcano pit.
"Fucking hell, Kouen, you can't do terraforming this close to cities! My household is there you rabid bastard!"
Growling angrily she concentrated her energy for the extreme magic, words flowing from Eligos to her to focus easier.
"Grant me thy favor, oh sovereign.
Thy orders are sacrosanct, thy tactics impeccable.
Chaos Reign!"
The black djinn caught in the light of the magic circle turned against each other and it was a disaster. Lenka smirked satisfied as the ten or twenty ogres started beating their brethren up, the air was filled with black Rukh returning to the medium or getting filtered through her own system and thus increasing the nausea she got. A blast of heat shot past her and she caught a glimpse of Kouen who was darting around and incinerating again, magoi refilled from his visit at his personal volcano.
And then back to the volcano. And in the fray again.
This is not good for his health, murmured Foras at the back of her mind. Lenka nodded and caught a few more black djinn with Eligos' power and sent them on suicide trips back to the blob. They were very creative in their way of passing away.
No, I mean, his mental health as well.
She frowned and tilted her head to listen to what he was screaming. At first it seemed like the babble of someone who had clearly lost his marbles but then he was probably really angry... right?
"Once I get rid of you I will finally obtain everything I desire! Fucking fools who can't even talk will die! Hurry up and let me talk with the Magi!"
"Oh God," Lenka murmured and dodged a giant palm, thus maneuvered to the outskirts of the battle.
"Lenka! Don't you dare run away! I will always find you!"
"Shut the hell up you creeper!" she yelled back and kicked her enemy against the head, who then turned around and slapped another black djinn, who in turn buried his fists in her minion's eye, causing him... it to disperse. Creative.
Damn Eligos, stealing my idea, Ronové complained as Lenka brought another djinn under her control.
Eligos did nothing like that.
Well yes you did. Yes, yes, and I will never let you live in peace until you admit that you stole my aesthetic idea of submitting enemies and forced me to do something else.
Nuh-uh.
"Wait a second."
Lenka stopped over Magnostadt and prepared another extreme magic.
"So you are now telling me you have both the same power and I conquered a dungeon for nothing but Shun Ra?"
Eligos is much more useful! He bites people!
Kinky, Foras giggled while Ronové scowled and crossed his arms to sulk more efficiently.
Well, it is not. I can bite people and have them obey me, but it is much more complicated-
Talk faster.
He is a drain and can suck people dry of magoi.
"Chaos Reign!"
Cue black djinn massacre over the city, people screaming from down below and – was that a cheer? She saluted at the magicians and then blinked at something whizzing past her, hitting the last giant and turning him into a very nice block of green crystal that dropped from the sky and into the giant hole in the middle of Magnostadt.
Lenka shrugged and shot back to the blob of doom then remembered her conversation with her djinn.
That draining thing would be very useful right now, I'm running out of juice fast. Ideas, children?
Me! Pick me! Orobas cheered and rubbed his hands while his twin nodded.
Use him and Mount Kouen.
She nodded and made her way towards the volcano, then stopped as she was about to pass Kougyoku.
"Vinea is a water djinn, isn't she?"
Her friend shot her a confused look then followed Lenka's outstretched finger pointing at the ocean. Her pink eyes widened comically, then she nodded fast and set off to get a free refill, yelling at her half-brothers that she was recovering magoi now.
"Brat from Balbadd! Get over here!"
The imperial mountain-maker seemed to have an idea including Alibaba, the volcano and refueling, so she changed her equip in mid-flight and dipped her sword into the lava. Kouen joined a few seconds later and unceremoniously dipped her fellow blond into the molten rocks then glared at her.
"Extreme magic."
"Oh, great plan. Super destruction times awesome and hotness."
Since when is Alibaba hot?
Sh, he can be destruction.
Kouen nodded once and pressed Alibaba's face for a few more seconds into the admittedly rather unhealthy ground until he thought the other had recovered enough magoi then threw him into the air, grabbed Lenka's arm and dragged her up with him. She freed herself with a twitch and called upon Orobas' power.
"Spirit of faithfulness and truth..."
"Spirit of terror and meditation..."
"Spirit of politeness and austerity..."
Three luminous circles appeared in the sky, aimed towards the black spot, the air started thrumming, shimmering with heat and power as the dungeon capturers spoke their incantation. A giant white reptile dragon burst from Kouen's, wrapped around the globe and incinerated the djinn emerging from the barrier. The flames were fanned higher when a white and blue flood shot from the one Lenka had evocated that joined and fused Astaroth's fire snake, granting it wings and the power to sustain the scorching temperature on the surface with a flap.
And from Alibaba's circle a warrior came into existence, both him and the broadsword he was holding made from the blaze that could melt everything, and swung the weapon down at the barrier. Ripples formed where the sword connected with the shell. The giant eyes underneath squinted in what seemed eerily like a smirk, as if the matter was self-aware, and then they bulged outwards, a burst of pressure accompanying the act that made the fire warrior flicker and the flames lower. Veins pulsated on Alibaba's face as he struggled to finish his attack.
Kouen pointed with his blade at the other.
"Lend him your flames, Astaroth."
Lenka nudged her own djinn to help the younger blond and the flaming snake left the blob to wrap around the fire spirit's sword, melted into it and the weapon enlarged with a roar as the flames started to whirl, it seemed like the air was burning when it was brought down again. The resulting boom when the barrier finally cracked was like music in her ears.
"What's wrong? You're pathetic. Put your back into it," Kouen commanded and Alibaba growled back, both of them sweating in concentration.
"Shut up! I know!"
"Boys."
Lenka rolled her eyes when Alibaba yelled and struck out with his sword, the figure conjured through joint extreme magic doing the same. The following explosion filled the sky with white, heat, a thunderous, booming field of utter annihilation, the tendrils of the fallen god from above ripping like silk strings.
It was one of the most beautiful things she had ever seen up until now.
"Dig it, bitch!" she whooped and gave Orobas a mental high five. And then:
"You have to be kidding me."
She flew next to Kouen who seemed a lot more strained than before and was staring at the ball with unwilling admiration.
"To think that even three extreme magic couldn't break it's barrier completely..."
"That's one unholy though fucker. Don't tell the others, but I almost wish Judar was here to absorb some black Rukh for us."
And admire your djinn equip?
Nergh. Foras.
Kouen smirked for a moment then continued to glare. Alibaba was more enthusiastic that the two of them, even though he was the one who had exhausted himself the most.
"We were able to break the pillar connecting the Medium with that thing inside the hole!"
"But for how long?"
"How aren't the flames dying down?" Aladdin asked as he swooped closer. The first prince of Kou almost smiled at the boy, or maybe he was already thinking of what he would ask from him.
"The flames of Astaroth's extreme magic will burn for all eternity unless I order them to disappear. The emerging djinn will be burned when they try to crawl out. The Medium will exhaust its magoi either way."
"Our magic will cleanse the Rukh and return them to the great flow."
Lenka reached out to snatch a tiny white bird from the air and the small burst of energy it gave her, albeit a bit unwillingly, came without the clamor she received from the tainted ones. The others nodded then Kouen turned towards the volcano.
"Let's recover more magoi, now that we have some time."
The other two fire users followed him, but halfway to the mountain hands reached over them, giant, black hands that sucked the Rukh out of the ground. The lava cooled down immediately, the smoking stopped, but the most devious thing was that there were no Rukh, absorbed upon contact with the thing. The arms retracted and the random black djinn that had attacked the humans on the ground flew back to their origin and fused with it.
And while the others stopped in the air to gawk at the transformation Lenka shot past them to attack the distinctly human form of the one that ate the Rukh, screaming her challenge at the enemy.
The darkness of her mindscape was like the sky at night, dotted with small shiny lights. Her memories, Lenka realized when she reached out to touch one of them, pictures filling her conscience like a sip of hot coffee.
Lenka shook her head and smiled.
"Orobas and Gusion really hate Zagan. Be careful, Aladdin."
"I will," he said and turned to hug her tightly. Sudden footsteps announced the arrival of another person and Morgiana appeared in the kitchen. She blinked in surprise when Lenka stretched out her arm and pulled her into the hug as well. Mor instantly wrapped her arms around the other two and the traveler started to hum happily.
"You know," she said after a few seconds, "you two have become family to me. I love you both as much as my siblings by blood."
Aladdin nuzzled his head into her blue blouse.
"You're my big sister, Lenka. Love you too."
"... me too."
"Aww," Lenka intensified her hug and Mor smiled and hugged back until Aladdin started to cough.
"Too tight!"
He wriggled free and the two girls squeezed each other until the blonde gasped for air.
"You win!"
"Guys? Are you here?"
With a loud rumble Alibaba popped up and looked at Aladdin for information.
"What are they doing?"
"Group hug!" Lenka cheered and dragged the other girl towards Alibaba.
"Group hug!" repeated Aladdin and hugged his male friend tightly, who yelped in surprise as the girls joined.
"Can't … breathe!"
Lenka started to laugh then stepped back.
"I wish you as much luck as you can get and come back safe!"
"I try!" the Magi chirped happily, Morgiana nodded with a smile and Alibaba grinned brightly.
"Sure!"
She chuckled then sighed at the reminiscence of her saying goodbye to her friends who were going to leave for the dungeon of Zagan. So much time had passed since then, and now it was like it had happened seconds ago. Lenka was not sure if she had ever visited this particular place inside her head, but if she had it must have happened long ago. She looked down and wriggled her toes, the movement sending ripples over the surface of the clear floor, disturbing the image of the outside world.
"You know, up until now I haven't spent a single moment thinking of why I don't regret killing," she mused aloud then picked another memory from the air, from her time in Balbadd shortly after her first falling-out with Sinbad.
"Kill people like him," she said and, in the same move punched the Al-Thamen guy on the other side of the flame wall in the face. The nose broke under the impact with a satisfying crushing sound, his head flew back while blood turned the scarf he wore crimson red. Alibaba screamed in surprise and shock, Cassim as well but she ignored them, her expression a manic grin. Her left fist hit the man's temple while the other punched him in the guts. She started to laugh, a fierce, mad sound that echoed with another persons voice.
"This is great!"
The mage staggered back and came in contact with the flames. His clothes didn't burn but the flesh of his leg started to melt like hot wax and he screamed in surprise and pain.
"Scream more!"
Her punches were like the fire of a machine gun, fast and hard.
"More!"
Blue scales grew up her arms, turning her jabs even heavier.
"Fiend!"
Wrath flooded through her body like fire, not only hers but that of her djinn as well.
"Answer me!"
Their voices merged and turned into one, not male nor female. The man coughed, spat blood while bones cracked under the vicious blows he received.
"Why did you betray our king?!"
Their fist hit his chin, the head flew back and with a loud snap the spine broke. The corpse slumped and turned under a flashing light into a small doll that fell on the ground, jumped up and rolled to the shocked fog troupers.
Lenka/Orobas growled and picked the clay figurine up.
"Filthy doll soldier."
"I never really thought about it. Very strange."
"You have never taken a human life before."
She nodded and turned to her djinn twins that were with her in the seemingly endless space. Orobas was sitting cross-legged on the floor, slightly hunched over due to him having his chin propped up with one hand while the other was drawing on the ground. Orias had sat down in the same way at first but straightened when Lenka started talking, and he had been the one to answer her. He was smiling softly at her, understanding her situation.
"Al-Thamen dolls, dungeon monsters, undead, yes. But until now I have yet to see you take a human life. I find that quite admirable in you."
"The zombies in Ronové..."
"The idiot returned the living to the village afterwards," Orobas drawled and flipped against the floor to create ripples. The other djinn nodded in agree.
"True. Those left alive were brought back here."
"Are you worrying for the human inside the medium, dearest? The magician?"
Lenka sighed and walked over to them, small waves forming with her steps. The floor was both cool and warm, first the one, then the other, a contradiction, but smooth and distinctly water-ish.
"Perhaps. I don't know. But thanks that you have been with me up until now. I couldn't ask for better comrades."
Orias blushed happily and Orobas preened while sitting up straight.
"We love you too, Lenka, and will protect you as good as we can."
"Are you ready then?" she asked and sat down between them, holding her hands out to her friends. Both took them without hesitation and the tingle of energy flooded her arms.
"I am."
"Pf, I was born ready."
"You know the risks?"
"Paralysis that will eventually turn permanent the longer I use it? Piece of cake. Twin djinn of faithfulness, dignity and truth, answer my prayers. Unite your households once again..."
Lenka's scream turned into laughter as her body morphed again, golden chains turning bronze, cloth strips wrapping around her torso to cover her, accompanied by a burning itch she ignored, and then she slammed against the kneeling form of the Medium, slicing upwards with her sword, but the deep wound mended itself seconds later. The enemy twitched nonetheless and several hundred hands reached for her.
"You did not just say that," she thought amused and opened a black hole that started sucking them in – and cursed when the stick figure leaned back and its head, or where the head should have been turned into a gazillion of hands that shot upwards in an attempt to catch the black tendrils and pull the dark god down to earth. Alibaba was there to meet them with a war cry and a swipe of his weapon, but one of the palms deflected him.
"Don't let it touch you!" she yelled at him and went for the kneecap instead. The leg buckled under her attack but then a healthy – or to be more precise, unhealthy – amount of freaky fingers came after her and Lenka had to dodge them, while the other hands were used to support the body and suck more Rukh from the ground.
An explosion obscured her vision for a moment when Kouen intercepted a hand that would have crushed her sword arm. Instead it grazed his leg and he hissed in pain when his djinn equip was ripped from his calf with a sound similar to tearing paper. And not only his skin, a good chunk of muscle was absorbed as well. Blood splattered through the air and pumped from the severed veins and arteries. More palms came his way but Lenka summoned black orbs to shield the wounded man.
"Get healed, it eats Rukh! The hands can deflect attacks as well."
A multitude of water spears was shot at the Medium as Kougyoku returned to the battlefield, and to say that she was livid was understatement. She was a goddess of pure rage, the magic she used the power of the ocean, wild and untamable, directed at the one that had hurt what belonged to her.
Ah, now I know why you befriended her in Balbadd, Orobas hummed in Lenka's ear. She is truly a force to be reckoned with.
"Koumei, direct them," Kouen bellowed from the ground and his brother nodded and flexed his fingers.
"Acknowledged, I will teleport them. Princess Hakuei, Kouha, Kougyoku. Magi, Lenka."
With a flicker Hakuei appeared in front of the Medium, her extreme magic a slicing tornado pillar that lifted the body high up into the air, cutting its limbs and the earth. Kouha was there to meet the falling body with his own attack, and Solomon, Leraje's magic was awesome. The body was catapulted towards Kougyoku and the ocean, the princess turning the waves into one giant spear that pierced the figure and then Aladdin who got it with his favorite heat attack.
And then it was her time to try the double equip's extreme magic, the words having flowed through her mind like a song, focusing the power she needed in the glowing circle.
Feel the heat of the sun,
The cold of space,
perish under their onslaught.
"Monochrome Disruption!"
Eight black holes opened in the fabric of the world and white flame torrents shot outside, a contradiction to the nature of a black hole, but the laws of physics and logic had been defied so many times today that Lenka didn't care if the attack was in theory not possible. It worked, and blazing white flames were awesome.
Pyromania, pyromani-ah, pyromania-
Stop, Orobas, just... please. Not Cascada in a situation like this.
Feh. Ungrateful.
She chuckled and continued to fire regular attacks at the Medium until Kouen and Alibaba joined them again. Lenka hadn't noticed he had been missing, but maybe he had been wounded as well? No matter how much she tried to change the future, some things stayed the same, were bound to happen one way or another. But they looked a little less weary than she had thought they were in her memories – and less wounded, especially Kouen.
"We have to stop it before it regains its magoi!" Aladdin cried and the dungeon capturers nodded in agree then fired off their attacks at the same time to have them united by Koumei in a blast of pure obliteration. And still it would not be enough.
"Damn Yunan, hurry up and get the others here!" Lenka yelled at no one in particular when the waves ceased, causing her friends and comrades in battle to stare at her.
"You mean it's not over – still not over?" wheezed Alibaba and she shook her head and pointed with a claw – she noticed it was a warm bronze color with a darker spot pattern now instead of azure – at the hole that formed in the ocean. The hole that widened and finally the Medium rose from the bottom of the sea, larger than ever.
"It's stealing Rukh from the sea!" Aladdin shouted, terrified and angry. Lenka snarled at the enemy, at the waving hands that were like algae or hair and that sucked the power out of everything.
"Can we really win against it? We can't use extreme magic any more, and our djinn equip is at it's limit..." Kouha murmured.
Is there any difference from the double equip to the normal one?
This will sound ridiculously overpowered now, but attach holes to the others, said Orias. Quite a lot of the Rukh I have absorbed have been cleansed by now.
She nodded curtly and summoned the globes that were so different from the crystallized body of the Medium at the beginning of the fight. A warm energy radiated from them, similar to the sun.
"We have to win. I refuse to die in a place like this, by the means of Al-Thamen, without them paying for the pain they have caused. I have a quest to fulfill and this sick fuck is. In. My. Way."
Hakuei and Kouha were clearly the ones most drained as they had had no chance or way to refill their magoi before, with Alibaba and Kouen a close second. The relieved gasps and pleased moans were a little disturbing but it showed Lenka that the transfer worked, even though she herself was suffering. Her left leg was slowly numbing, almost as if it had been in iced water for too long, or out in the cold.
"Lenka is right," Aladdin agreed with her and sent his own prayer to the Rukh to receive energy. "The same thing happened in Alma Toran. But the shape of the Medium then was totally different from this one. Either way, King Solomon and the seventy-two people that formed his household and became djinn attacked it one after another."
"My djinn told me they had to deal with several globes, so there amount of people working on one is almost the same – Hakuei!"
A giant fist slammed down at the princess who yelped and tried to dodge while at the same time a space portal appeared over her that sucked the attack inside and Aladdin summoned his borg around her as he was the one closest to Hakuei. From another hole a burst of flames was fired at the Medium and Kougyoku had the ocean obey her again.
"Dodge!"
Too late, a hand grabbed the girl's leg and several more wrapped around her until Kouha was able to cut his sister free, and then they targeted him. Lenka snarled and covered him with her black holes and spatial distortion while dodging her own pursuers.
And then Koumei dropped the top of a mountain on it.
That's fucking badass, Orobas agreed with her. The Medium leaned back as if it inhaled deeply and unleashed its power. The sky darkened with the sheer mass of the hands now in existence that reached up for the second prince of Kou and she couldn't move a finger!
Lenka gave a startled yelp and released the equip, again dropping from the sky like a stone or a very stupid blonde dungeon capturer that should know the law of gravitation.
Plans!
Gusion jolted into action around her and the sudden pins and needles in both legs and right arm along with the unbelievable burn of her limbs felt so good, so alive. It hurt like her skin was ripped off, her muscles twitched uncontrollable as well, but Lenka was just grateful for having feeling in them again.
How many are out?
Kougyoku and Koumei. The others have recovered enough to be of use.
"Right," she said then the air was knocked out of her when the Medium reached up again, finally grabbed a tendril and pulled. Instantly the uninjured dungeon capturers jumped into action, firing from every direction at the blasted embodiment of evil that was about to destroy everything they had been fighting for.
God damn it, she cursed when another shard fell useless into the sea, another gust of wind easily endured, another high-pressure attack shrugged off like it was nothing.
And then a lighting bolt shot from the sky and severed the connection again, followed by another blinding electric attack.
Lenka's shoulders sagged in relief.
The Alliance had finally arrived.
"About bloody time, Yunan!"
The Magi straightened his hat and chuckled.
"Have we arrived on time?"
"Kougyoku and Koumei are wounded and I don't know how long Alibaba will last," Lenka informed him as she hovered closer. He smiled warmly at her and pointed at the figure entering the battlefield. Her eyes widened surprise then she sighed in relief.
"Morgiana had become quite strong under your tutelage, hasn't she?"
He nodded happily while the girl caught her male friend in the air and brought him to the ground safely before the Alliance's assimilated household members crashed the party in showers of fire, electricity and light beams. Lenka chuckled when she caught the fanalis girl's plans on becoming powerful like that in the future but Yunan was not as enamored with assimilation.
"I have already told you, Morgiana, once assimilation is achieved you can't turn back into a human any more. As far as I know the warriors sadly called it 'the ultimate measure' in Alma Toran..."
All capitalized, Gusion corrected the Magi while Mor jumped and used the hot air created by her household vessel to fly, causing Alibaba to yelp surprised.
Yunan smiled at the young man.
"It's alright, Alibaba. Now-"
"Yunan. Now that I think of it, it's been ages since the last time you showed up."
Lenka froze when Sinbad flew closer to them while her thoughts started spinning. Sinbad, Reim, a letter, Scheherazade, distrust, accusations – she really wanted to hit him. Sadly it would be not a good move to make now, in a battle to the death, but later.
Revenge is ours, Orobas cackled devilishly and rubbed his hands, Eligos raised a stick blender – "Vroom, vroom, he he he he." – and Ronové seemed fairly interested in their endeavor to make Sinbad suffer.
So she smiled sweetly and watched Morgiana pull a variation of Fiery Bondage Chains of Doom – blame Eligos – Version Extreme Saw Fire Wing – she enjoyed this way too much – on the Medium and then the Alliance dungeon capturers and household members continued to try and crack the barrier. It was very nice seeing others try and do what she had tried already and knew it was useless, but why tell them? They should figure this out on their own.
"If an uninvited guest comes to our world, we will erase it. No matter what kind of sublime 'god' it is," Sinbad declared, apparently to no one. Lenka sighed wearily then blinked. Now that was a familiar presence. Three, two, one...
The barrier broke with a huge crack when a certain dungeon capturer from Reim tore through the Medium's shell like a hot knife through butter and her heart fluttered at the sight of Muu Alexius in his djinn equip.
Well, he's hot, Ronové stated, causing her to blink again before her brain processed what her newest djinn had said.
Err, mine!?
And three more seconds to realize what she had answered but only one to blush bright red and hide her hand in her face.
Solomooon, noooo...
Shoo, it's okay, we understand perfectly.
Fudge you, Foras. Seriously.
A flutter of Rukh caught her attention, and the feelings it transferred. Warm, almost immeasurable in their depth, honesty, trust, adoration, love. So much love. Hope, confidence in that the future they would form would be the one she had imagined as well, once upon a time, when she was much younger and inexperienced, but full of passion and ideas for a world that opened all doors for her.
Lenka's breath hitched and even though she tried to stop them the tears were falling freely with the rest of Scheherazade's life force filling her own reserves. She wiped them away and joined the other dungeon capturers high in the sky over the Medium that formed the symbol of power, the eight-pointed star in a circle.
"Extreme magic!"
The call from fourteen of the most powerful mortal individuals that were no Magi was followed by a blast of destruction, blinding light of obliteration, the force comparable to a bomb from her own world, capable of so much pain and despair.
The sight of the Medium getting ripped into tiny pieces was entirely satisfying to Lenka and she was not ashamed to confirm that she liked the sight. The woman looked around to see if her friends and honorary siblings were alright. Koumei seemed to want to sleep through ten days straight, but when did he not, Kougyoku's legs looked raw despite Kouen having healed her and the other Rens suffered from major magoi depletion. As soon as they touched the floor they collapsed in a way rather atypical for royals, coughing and wheezing. Muu and Ignatius landed more dignified but they were exhausted as well.
"It was attacked by fourteen metal vessel users who used extreme magic it at the same time! There is no enemy that could survive such a thing!" one of the Reim soldiers exclaimed. Lenka shook her head and hovered between the Kou and Reim parties, not trusting her legs to carry her weight already.
"We have ripped it apart several times while it hadn't sucked so much Rukh from the ground but it came back again and again. Nasty little thing. I mean, Koumei dropped a bloody mountain on it, Kougyoku turned the ocean against the thing, I tried to counter-drain it but hell, just look, there it is again!" she yelled and pointed with her weapon at the figure emerging from the sea, again, turned around to stare at the soldier, Muu, Ignatius, all while waving her other arm.
"See? Oh no you don't!"
The Medium reached out to get a hold of the tentacles again and now Lenka was livid again, absolutely, utterly angry, ready to pull a Kougyoku and fuck the thing over again. She inhaled deeply to begin her intonation when the figure hesitated, lowered its main hands and clutched the part where its head would have been, if it were a tad more human. With a sigh she landed, stomped the spear in the earth and leaned against it, much to the confusion of the people surrounding her.
"Okay, the main part of the deal is done."
"Lenka?"
She looked down at Aladdin who cocked his head to the side.
"I'll go and try to save the chancellor."
"I know. Whatever happens, I believe in you, Aladdin," replied the woman with a weak smile. He nodded once then sighed.
"Can you use your power as well, please?"
"I don't know how well it works. But I will do my best," she confirmed and followed him to where Yamraiha, Morgiana and Alibaba were waiting for them, changing her djinn equip to Orias again. Aladdin took his former teacher's hand and fixated the medium, then his power spiked considerably, thousands of white Rukh turned visible around him.
"Solomon's wisdom!"
Super power of knowing everything and turning people back to good! Eligos yelled in agree. Lenka inhaled slowly and mentally reached out for the tainted Rukh swarming the Medium, imagining she was a filter, or a washing machine, they would get in black and come out a shiny sparkly white.
She didn't know how long she was standing there, trying not to break down from all the incredibly painful, devastating, sad memories accompanying the black Rukh when a sudden influx came that made her legs buckle, and a voice speaking to her.
No one is superior to the other.
Yes, she agreed and opened her eyes to look at the white and black birds in the sky. We are all human beings.
They had won the battle, but the war would continue.
Thanks for your patience! The aftermath of the war will be posted on Sunday, 13th of March!
And aw, Kronos Magniratha, Jihanz0411, Handara, redneckswagger: your reviews made the process of writing this monster less stressful :) sparkles and cookies, sweet dreams and success for you!
Thanks to the new favorites and followers of Second Chance! I'm still overwhelmed of the response to my story! I hope you can live with Shun Ra as new household member, because I have fun writing her so stuck-up and troublesome around Lenka *evil cackle*
Next time: Sinbad receives punishment, Lenka throws a tantrum, Titus gets better and Foras knocks some sense in her queen.
Yours,
TheMultipleMeExperience