Tales of the wizard
Chapter 3, mission.
Raiden surprised the tribe members.
In ten years, he had dedicated himself in most of the available practices.
While his physical condition wasn't much in the beginning, he worked hard.
Some time ago, he had found and equipped a strange red exsphere, one that was different from the others.
Five years later he found out it had stopped his body from ageing.
He was a match for almost everybody in Mizuho, despite that he was a slightly more than average fighter.
His ability to adapt to different fighting-styles was his greatest strength, but his ability to do magic was awesome.
The exsphere boosted his already powerful magic to new heights.
His wand was useful but as Raiden realised too much of a handicap in really dangerous situations, and the exsphere loaned him a power that would be able to burn out his wand.
As wand magic wasn't available for him, he searched for other means of magic.
The green-eyed ninja had devoted hours in studying the theory of Mana and sometimes the world's politics.
Most of the time he was found looking at pages with the uses of magic.
Just like now.
"Raiden, are you reading AGAIN?"
The boy in question looked up, "Hey, Sheena. So how was practice?"
Sheena sighed as she sat down, "Great, really great."
Raiden looked at the now-seventeen year old teenager, "What's wrong, Sheena?"
"What makes you think something is wrong?"
Harry smiled, "I have known you for ten years, that sigh means you have something on your mind."
Sheena laughed, "You can read me almost like a book, can't you?"
"I had some experience on the subject of depressing thoughts myself."
"Yeah, those thrice-damned Dursleys. If I get my hands on them, I'd give them a taste of Mizuho justice," Sheena said, remembering Raiden telling his life to her.
"I am sure you would, but what is wrong?"
"I..I..I just think I do to little damage to creatures to be of use to the village," the girl confessed, "Almost everybody does more damage to creatures, I am just not powerful enough."
The-Boy-who-lived looked at his companion, the seven year old had grown quite a bit and turned in into a beautiful woman. One who compared herself to others, and thought very little of herself.
"Sheena, what weapons do you use?"
"Seals, useless pieces of paper in my hands."
"Sheena, do you know the abilities of seals? What their main purpose is?"
She looked at him, "No."
"Seals aren't used for attack, but for support. You can drain the mana around the enemy, making them weaker in both defence and offence. You can slow them down, making it easier to hit them," Harry said, "Don't sell yourself so cheap. You always attack first right?"
Sheena nodded.
"You lower the attack and defence of the creature, making it easier for the others to kill it."
A knock cut off the conversation..
"Come in," Raiden called.
A ninja entered, "I am sorry to interrupt you , but the two of you are summoned by the chief."
"We will be there shortly," Raiden said, looking at Sheena who had nodded.
"I'll let the chief know," the ninja said.
Raiden stood up, "Shall we go?"
"Sure."
The vice-chief was also known as the chief, since the real one still lay in a coma.
He looked at the two, "Today I received a letter from the elemental research institution. It seems them would like to do an experiment with summon-spirits. They asked to if we could loan somebody to them. I chose Sheena seeing her experience with the spirit Volt and this could help you to get over the trauma," The chief said, directing the last part to Sheena, "Raiden, you are our most powerful magic user, you might pick up one of two things by observation. After that I have another mission for you."
Raiden's eyebrows rose.
"The king has asked for Mizuho to attend a matter concerning a possible drainage of mana in the near future. As magic and Spirits are connected to mana, this concerns you more then others. I'll arrive around noon tomorrow in Meltokio, I will be waiting at the central square."
"And our mission?"
"It starts in the morning, so I want you to rest up and get ready."
Raiden and Sheena nodded, "Yes, sir."
As soon as they entered Raiden's house, Sheena screamed and started crying.
"Why, why did he sent me? I hate spirits. I can't do it, I just can't."
Harry help her tightly as she cried a million tears, "You can do this, Sheena. The vice-chief believes in you and chose you. I believe in you too."
"But Volt.. I killed so many."
"Sheena, you didn't kill them. Volt went on a rampage, you couldn't stop it. I couldn't stop Voldemort and his followers in killing others."
"SHUP UP! This is different!"
"In what way, Sheena?" Harry spoke softly, " Volt attacked your village, Voldemort killed my parents, because I was born. Cedric was killed when he followed me with the Tri-wizard cup. Sirius because he came to rescue me, the same event caused my friends to get injured."
Sheena calmed down, "I am sorry, Raiden, I shouldn't think like that."
Raiden smiled, "I'll be with you tomorrow, I will defend you should something happen."
"You should probably defend somebody from me," Sheena said.
"Who? That Bryant character. He is a very skilled person."
"The Duke isn't the person who hits on women everywhere."
"So you plan on killing the Chosen? That's one way of getting killed yourself."
"What do you mean? Killing Zelos would only make the world a better place."
"He does remind me of Lockheart but he wasn't somebody who has the world on his shoulders. Killing Wilder only causes hate against Mizuho, and his friends are only around him because of his fame. I can know because I have the same position. Maybe I should drop Ron, when I go home. He is a jealous prat."
Those words stuck something in Sheena. In ten years in company of Raiden she had forgotten that he was actually not of this world, despite the conversations. He could return at any given day.
"Do you intend to leave?" Sheena asked, "To go back to your world?"
"I must return one day, Voldemort must be killed. But I do not know if I want to stay. Every year I've been lied to. Every year I fought to keep friends. Every year I'd return to the Dursleys, unable to train in the magic like I should be doing."
"When that day arrives I'll go with you, we are a team."
"Yeah, we are unstoppable as team, partner. But we need to be awake early in the morning so I suggest you get some sleep."
"Fine," Sheena walked to her partner and kissed him on the cheek, "Good night."
As Sheena retreated to her room, Raiden gently rubbed the spot she kissed him and smiled, "Good night, Sheena."
Had he looked back he would have seen a tomato-red Sheena as she blushed.
A fast forward, Harry has been in the tribe/clan for ten years.
He has an exsphere, and yes, this will become a Sheena/Harry pairing.
Some romantic scenes here and there, but nothing major.
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