Chapter 3 win Illusions! Did We Really See Madrigal?
Dr. Stein walked into the coffee shop in Death City and found Harry sitting at the table drinking coffee and chomping on a few donuts. He went over to him.
"I guess the ggreat wizard didn't want to be in office full of beakers I take it?" he asked as he turned the bolt in his head.
"Do you want me to short circuit any computers you might have?" Harry asked.
"I'm guessing your magic would do that to any piece of technology you encounter?"
"You got it on the dot Bolt Head!"
"Interesting, maybe I should experiment on you someday, so what did you call me for?"
"It's about the assignment that your pistol meister and my gauntlet meister has chosen."
"You mean the illusionists Abra and Kadabra? What about them?"
"They are a pair of skilled illusionists and I have a feeling that our students won't make it out alive when they go up against them." Harry answered as he took the coffee and drank it.
"Yes, I think so too, but Lord death's son is a very skilled meister and he will get that Kishin out of them."
"Hold on, you have the Grim Reaper's son in your class?"
"Yes, he is a very interesting character and I know he will take those twins out unless you have something up your sleeve."
"I do and it has to do with my apprentice."
"Hmm?"
"Just listen what I have to say."
"I'm listening." Stein said and turned his bolt again.
Later on that morning on the training field, Baki and his weapon partners, Miaka and Aria, were standing with Harry and Stein waiting.
"Okay, how long do we have to wait for this guy and your apprentice?" Miaka asked.
"Molly is getting some things I asked her to look for and this guy is…well…um a little help Bolt Head?" Harry asked.
"Knowing Kid, he is rearranging everything in his apartment again." Stein answered.
"Rearranging?" Aria asked.
"Some kind of master of Feng Sheu I take it?" Baki asked.
"Sort of." Stein answered and turned the bolt in his head and saw Kid and the Thompsons coming. "Finally you arrived!"
"Sorry, but I had to make sure everything was symmetrical." Kid said and noticed the three vampires. "Why are they here?"
"I am guessing you haven't heard that these three will be accompanying you on your lattest assignment." Harry answered.
"Wait a sec, you're the teacher in Blood Fang?" Kid asked.
"You got it, the name's Harry Dresden and my apprentice will be here soon." He answered.
Molly finally appeared carrying a bag with her and said, "Sorry for the wait, I had a hard time getting some of the things, but I managed."
Kid noticed the piercings she had in her face and ears and said, "Disgusting!"
"Huh?" Molly asked.
"Your piercings…they're not symmetrical! If you are going to have one in one eyebrow you should have another in the other eyebrow! Same with the nostrils!"
"Will you give it break!" Liz yelled and hit him. "You're such a brat!"
Patty laughed.
"I see, he hates it when things are asymmetrical." Baki said.
"And Lord Death had someone give birth to him?" Harry asked.
"Okay Kid, calm down! We need to train you guys." Stein said.
"Train? Train for what?" Patty asked.
"Your next assignment has to do with twins that use illusion magic and they ate a Kishin egg and they might have powers that might have increased and might go after pseudo-illusionists or humans and in order to prepare you guys, we are training you against Miss Carpenter here." Harry said as he pointed to Molly.
"How is she able to fight against us when she is not a meister?" Aria asked.
"I don't have to, I use illusion magic myself and like what my master said, you're training against me." Molly said as she took off her jacket to reveal a sleevless shirt and short shorts and pulled out two small wands.
"I guess we should prepare." Aria said.
Baki nodded and held out his arms.
Both Miaka and Aria transformed and landed on his arms as two gauntlet gloves with claws pertruding out of the tips and covering the fingers.
"Whoa! Those look so cool!" Patty exclaimed.
"Let's follow suit!" Kid exclaimed.
Both Liz and Patty also changed and they got into Kid's hands as pistols.
"Now you two, you will be fighting Molly while she is using her illusions, got it?" Harry asked.
"Yeah." Baki said.
"Got it!" Kid exclaimed.
"Ready Grasshopper?" Harry asked Molly.
She nodded.
"Go for it kid!" he told her.
She nodded and disappeared.
"What the? How did she do that?" Kid asked.
"Don't ask questions, try to find her." Baki told him.
"He's right! In order to find someone who is using illusions against you will be hiding from sight, so try and use your senses!" Dr. Stein said.
"You sound like you know what you're doing." Harry said.
"I did some research on illusionary magic and what I found what was pretty intense and I am trying to give my students guidance." Dr. Stein said.
Both Kid and Baki were trying to find Molly and try to take her down but she teased them by reappearing and disappearing and throwing lights at them to confuse them and taunted them by throwing rocks and balls at them. Even she tried to trip them on marbles.
"Damn it, what's with this farce?" Kid asked.
"Kid, a light is coming from my side!" Liz yelled.
"Right!" Kid exclaimed and started to shoot at Molly and she got hit.
Her veil fell down and said, "Not bbad! What will you do next?"
"this!" she heard and Baki charged at her and tried to take a swing but he hit her shield.
She laughed and disappeared again.
"Damn!" Baki yelled.
After a few rounds, both Kid and Baki breathed heavily.
"How long will this take?" Liz asked.
Patty laughed.
"Damn it, I think I have to feed after this!" Baki growled.
"Hold in there a bit more." Miaka told him.
"You two tired yet? Why not give up now?" they heard.
"She is invisible and she could possibly appear out of nowhere." Kid said.
"The only thing we can do is rely on soul resonance, do you think yours can lock on her?" Baki asked.
"I think so." Liz said.
"I know so! Come on girls!" Kid exclaimed.
"What's the plan now?" Aria asked.
"You'll see." Baki answered.
"Soul resonance!" Kid, Liz, and Patty yelled.
Kid's guns glowed and transformed.
"Receiving feedback!" Liz exclaimed.
"Locking on target!" Patty exclaimed.
Kid locked in where Molly would be.
"I think we got her." Liz said.
"death cannon!"
"fire!" Patty yelled.
Kid shot and the attack hit Molly and she fell over on the ground.
"Hurry Baki!" Kid yelled.
Baki appeared and hit her as well.
"Ah!" Molly yelled and felt her cheek and took it and saw blood on her fingers. "Not bad, you two passed."
The weapons changed back and both Baki and Kid went to their knees.
Both teachers applauded.
"Way to go!" Harry exclaimed.
"Never thought a soul resonance would get someone out of hiding." Dr. Stein said.
"It looks like we will be going to see the Illusion Twins right?" Baki asked weakly.
"Yep, just rest up before you go." Harry told them.
Baki nodded and got up and said, "Come on you two."
Kid watched them go and asked Harry, "Will he be alright?"
"He needs to feed off some emotions and he will be." He answered and followed them.
Molly also gathered herself up and followed.
"Good job Grasshopper, you came a long way!" Harry exclaimed as they headed back to the sub basement of the building they're staying in.
"Thanks." She said.
"I need a ffavor though." He said.
"Hmm?" she asked.
"Go with them."
"What?"
"You heard me, I have a weird feeling about their encounter and Thomas thinks the same thing and he thinks that those two need help with it." He answered.
She nodded and said, "I will help them the best I can, but you know I am not a meister like you."
"I know, but you maybe one." He said as he walked ahead.
"What is that supposed to mean?" she wondered.
Meanwhile, Madrigal and Madeline Wrathe were with the Illusion Twins.
"So, The Samamura girls and their meister, Baki, will be coming here?" Madrigal asked.
"It seems like it and not only that it looks like they will be bringing the grim reaper's son with them." Abra answered.
"Sounds like those Ishida brats and their comrades have joined the DWMA, how pathetic!" Madeline exclaimed.
"Now, now sis, I think it's a good thing." Madrigal purred.
"What do you mean by good? Those DWMA brats are trouble especially when they go after those witches!" Madeline yelled as she tossed cigarette ashes out the window.
"I am trying to say is that we can use the DWMA as a way to feed off those kids, whenever they go out, they get the usual fear inside of them and with Ryo, he wouldn't resist but feed." Madrigal answered.
"Hmm, that does sound good." Madeline said.
"Let's let them come and we will see what the grim reaper's kid has and Baki as well and we will move from there." Madrigal said.
Madeline nodded.
"Girls, do your best in putting on a good show!" Madrigal told them.
"Yes sir!" both of them exclaimed and then bowed.
He smiled and said, "Come and get us DWMA!"
Later on that evening, Kid, the Thompsons, Baki, and the Samamuras, and Molly arrived at the location where the Illusion Twins were. It was in a big fun house.
"This is where they are?" Liz asked.
"Yeah, where else can they put on illusions? A fun house of course." Aria answered.
"Well, we should head in if we want to get their souls." Kid said.
They nodded and went inside. They noticed that the place had a lot of mirrors and went into a room where it was dark and empty.
"Weird, this room is never in a fun house before." Patty said.
A spotlight came on and they saw two girls in the middle of the room.
"Huh?" Liz asked.
"Is that them?" Molly asked.
"Welcome DWMA, you made it without getting lost!" both girls said in unison.
"They know where we came from?" Miaka asked.
"I have a bad feeling about this." Aria said.
Baki nodded in agreement.
"You're correct! I am Abra and this is Kadabra and we came to take you take our souls!" one of the twins exclaimed as she took out a fan and the other did the same.
"What the?" Miaka asked.
Molly noticed that they swung their fans and a chandelier started to grow spikes and yelled, "Look out!"
They saw it as well and ran out of the way before the spikes came down from the chandelier and formed cages around everyone that separated the meisters from their weapon partners.
"Damn it!" Kidd yelled.
"This is not good!" Baki exclaimed.
"What should we do now since we are trapped from our meisters?" Liz asked.
"Guys, this is an illusion, usually something like this is easy to break out of!" Molly told them from her cage.
"How?" Patty asked.
"Hmm, just hold on." She said and took out her wands and muttered a spell and she vanished.
"What the hell?" Kadabra asked.
Molly shown up in the Thompson cage and told them, "Hold onto me!"
"What?" Liz asked.
"I am going to try and get you back to Kid!" she answered.
The both of them took her arms and they all vanished and they reappeared in Kid's cage.
"I brought your girls!" she teased.
"What do you mean by my girls?" Kid asked.
"You know what I mean, hurry and take them and wait for my signal and that's when you'll attack." She answered.
He nodded and said, "Girls?"
"You got it!" Liz exclaimed as she and Patty changed into their gun forms.
"Now to get the Samamura girls." Molly said and vanished and appeared in the cage. "Now grab onto me!"
They did and vanished and reappeared in Baki's cage.
She explained the plan to him as the girls turned into his gauntlets.
"Ready Kid?" Molly yelled back.
"Of course!" Kid exclaimed.
"Now!" Molly yelled.
Kid started to shoot at the cage and Baki charged and attacked it as well, which caused the glass to shatter and they got out.
"What the?" the girls asked.
"You think we would fall for a trick like that? You thought wrong!" Baki yelled.
"You escaped our trap very well, but it's not over yet!" Abra yelled and they waved their fans again.
The chandeliers started to send glass shards at them like icicles falling from a tree. They started dodging the shards. Kid even shot at some of the falling glass shards while Baki jumped and broke a few of them with his claws.
After a while of dodging, Kid asked, "How long are we going to be dodging and taking out shards?"
"Good question, I think forever or until one of us or all of us die from these illusionary tricks!" Baki answered.
He got hit by one of the shards and screamed.
"No Baki!" Aria yelled.
He found one of the shards was sticking out of his upper arm where it missed Miaka by a little.
"Miaka, are you okay?" Baki asked.
"Yeah, how about you?" she asked.
"Will be." He answered and groaned.
They heard a cackle and saw the girls coming at them.
"Hey illusion fakes, why don't you come and see a real illusionary show?" they heard Molly yell and a bunch of lights came flying out of nowhere.
The girls covered their eyes and screamed.
"Guys, hurry up and take them out!" Molly yelled.
"We better take this!" Kid exclaimed and shot at the girls.
"Hey wait for me! I am not down yet!" Baki yelled and tried to get up but felt the shard go deeper.
"No you don't!" Aria yelled.
"Yeah, you need to sit back or that wound will get worse." Miaka told him.
"What about you girls? Don't you two need the souls?" he asked.
"That doesn't matter right now, if our meister is not able to fight due to injury, we make sure they're okay." Miaka answered.
He nodded.
Kid took out the twins and the Thompsons ate their souls. They went over to where Baki and the girls were to see if they were okay. Molly also shown up from her veil and breathed heavily from the amount of magic she used.
Suddenly, they heard someone applaud and they turned to see two people with the same pale complexion as Baki and the Samamura sisters had.
"What the hell? Madrigal?" Baki asked.
"Very good, you remembered who I am and not only that your meister skills have improved." Madrigal said.
"Madrigal?" Liz asked.
"He's a white ccourt like us but unlike how we feed off of love and affection, he feeds off of fear and his sister is starting to do the same." Miaka answered.
"On top of that they tried to get Ryo and Kyo to do the same, but Ryo is trying to become a Deathscythe himself so he wouldn't do it anymore." Aria said.
"How selfish of him, he only wants to get away from something that would make him powerful and his brother as well." Madeline said.
"Tell us, how are the brats doing?" Madrigal asked.
"It's none of your business you bastard!" Baki growled as he kept his hand on the wound.
"I bet those idiots over at the academy are hiding them from us, maybe we should visit sometime!" Madeline said.
"don't you dare, my father won't allow you come close to my friends!" Kid yelled.
Madrigal smirked and came over and grabbed him.
"Let me go!" he yelled.
Madrigal sniffed him and said, "Your fear smells delightful! Maybe I should feed off of you."
Kid tried to struggle as he felt something starting to feed.
"let him go!" Baki growled and his eyes turned white and he tackled Madrigal, which caused him to go to the floor and drop Kid.
Kid coughed.
"Kid!" Patty yelled as she and Liz ran over to him.
"Are you okay?" Liz asked.
"Yeah, but I felt something go into me." He answered and looked over to see Baki get thrown against the wall.
"Baki!" Miaka yelled.
"We should get out of here or his weapons decide to get a piece of us as well." Madeline warned her brother.
"Very well," he said. "it looks like we will see you another time and it won't be lucky next time."
They watched them leave.
"Why didn't we finish them off?" Madeline asked as they got to the car.
"I just wanted to see how the students at the academy fight that's all and now that's done we can start the plan." He answered.
"Baki!" Miaka yelled.
Baki opened his eyes and looked at everyone else and said, "Get me back to the academy…"
"We will, just hang in there!" Molly exclaimed.
He closed his eyes again and fell into unconsciousness.
"We better help him up and get him back there." Molly told them. "Help me."
They got him up with his arms around each of his weapon partners' shoulders and they left the place and headed for the academy where Baki was taken into the nurse's office to be checked on.