AN: Early chapter because its not the best idea to start around 8pm and finish about midnight
Wonderways-secret underground passages that open by a trigger (ie pulling a book on a bookshelf and the floor disappearing under your feet. The wall are usually enchanted slow the gravity, but its best to have a spell ready to break your fall when they don't. Were made illegal because of safety hazard and caused to many deaths.
Trailer- tracking device that leaves a trail of magic. Can be connected to a PaigePad. Usually used by bounty hunters
Obsity Powder- turns into liquid when in contact with lukewarm liquid and solid in warm temperature
Sense Alchemy- taking two or more senses and creating a new feeling. Here, the cursed stone had the feeling of burning embers and needles and grew in power when it felt movement of magic
CaseChest- a piece of enchanted piping that contains the words written with a Luminary Pen. It sucks of the words like a vacuum. The spill out like a bottle of champagne when opens
" So there are several Wonderways weaving in and out of Serin. Some go straight down, others are twisty. I couldn't keep track of where I was going in that maze, so I had a some replications with Trailers run around in them. My PaigePad was connected to the Trailers, so here's a rough map of the Wonderways in Serin." Kise handed his leader a linen colored map with various hued lines twisting and circling each other. The blond returned in the evening, when the sun was close the the horizon
"Nicely done,Ryuota." Akashi complemented. Kise grinned widely
"So, where'd Kurokocchi go?" He asked, scanning around the room.
"Kuroko...chi?" Kuroko questioned, pulling over his sleeveless indigo shirt, fixing the oversized, loose collar (AN; ok so ya know how turtlenecks have the extra going around the neck? well that but really loose and not knitted. idk if you can see what i see , if not, just imagine a non knitted turtleneck)
The blond scout shrieked, jumping back from the voice behind him. "W-w-when did you get there?!" Kise exclaimed. The cerulean mage readjusted his fingerless gloves with indifference. " I have been here the whole time, Kise-san." He stood up and stretched with a wince. " I'm Kuroko Tetsuya. It's nice to meet you, Kise-san. I've heard a lot about you from Akashi-san. I hope we can have good relations." Kuroko gave a slight bow in his introduction. " Ah, l-likewise."
" Are you ready to go, Tetsuya?" Akashi asked, glancing up from Kise's map
"Yes, sorry to make you wait." Kuroko responded,shifting the gloves charcoal black fabric around his right thumb.
"Wait, where are you guys going?" the scout asked, plopping onto the settee. Having all his clones run around and keeping track of them was tiring. " We need to visit Momoi, and pick up some documents. Hold the fort, Ryuota." the flamethrower informed. Kuroko grabbed his and Akashi's coats. Akashi picked up a Passage Quarter and flipped it with the tip of his thumb. It flew high, just barely missing the support beams above. "One more thing; discuss the notes I left you in your PaigePad with the others."
Ting. Akashi hopped in and Kuroko soon after, leaving Kise by himself.
Books flutters and flapped around the bubblegum word weaver, flipping their pages as ebony ink peeled off their yellow and frayed edge pages. Words and letters swirl around, glowing when read by the weaver. Behind the whirlwind of characters and numbers, pink tinted phrase floated obediently against blackboard, which cover the entire wall.
Momoi pushed a strand of hair behind her ear and pulled the rest of her elbow length hair into a loose bun. She figured out the stone was really dense Obisity Powder and what enchantment used. The spell casted onto the powder was made someone with the ability to combine feeling of hot embers with needles and the detection of magic might. That requires SenseAlchemy, and that is a very complex magic… Momoi let out a deep sigh in frustration, causing the " *sigh* " to knock over some books.
"Momo-chan? Are you alright?" a voice called her attention to the shorter girl at the doorway. She drifted toward Momoi, her ink black flats hovering over the floor, and surveyed the room. With the flick of her wrist the fallen books reset themselves to the bookcases they should have rest on.
"I'm alright, Hoshi-chan, I just really dislike SenseAlchemy." Momoi to her friend
"Maybe you should take a break, you have guests waiting for you outside ." Hoshino informed, watching as the text from the many books started to return home as Momoi realized what she said.
"Guests? At this time?" Satsuki wondered who could be visiting at such an hour. Strawberry dyed question marks danced around her head.
"Your cousin and his friend. Shall I let them in?" the young woman offered.
"Oh Aka-kun? If you would." Of course he would come at the oddest of hours.
The gravity-defying girl glided down the small set of stairs and around several corners to retrieve the guests.
Akashi sat while chatting with his friend. Hoshino watched as they tried to figure out a puzzle she had given them while they waited. It was a translucent cube with a metal ball, some obstacles and several connect portals inside the point was to get the ball out, but everytime it went through a portal, the environment inside appeared to change.
"Momoi can see you now, Akashi-san." He looked up from the game at the sound of his name. Kuroko was still wrapped up in it, so he left him with the shorter girl. "Thank you Inka." Akashi showed himself the way/
A small pop! sounded 10 minute later. Hoshino watched with interest, floating just a little higher (she always had trouble controlling her weightless when she's excited) as the small metal ball rolled across the cherry floors. She pulled the ball into her hand with a flick of her index finger. " You actually solved it! Someone actually solved my puzzle~~!" Hoshino cheered as she twirled in the air with delight.
"Hello, up there?" Kuroko called to her, slightly amused by her reaction. She whizzed down to his height upside down from the excitement. "Sorry, sorry, it's just no one else has solved it before." After readjusting her circle glasses and straightening herself, she lowered as close as she could to the ground, but still didn't touch it. "I'm Hoshino Inka, Momoi-chan's friend/assistant." Inka formally greeted.
"I am Kuroko Tetsuya, its nice to meet you. I hope we can have good relations"
They made small talk as they approach Momoi's door.
"Knock Knock. Momo-chan? We're coming in."
"Ah, is this Tetsu-kun?" Momoi asked as the two entered her room. She dragged Kuroko over to a cleared spot of her desk where a thin book laid open. " Hello, my name's Momoi Satsuki. I wanna go over the symptoms of the thing you coughed up. Please correct me if I'm wrong." Kuroko just went with it, seeing it as the easiest thing to do in this situation.
" So after consuming the curse stone, you felt great pain like " fresh embers and needles" every time you move. The pain grew worse when you tried to use magic. After the stone is remove from your body, you felt no pain whatsoever." Momoi read off her notes, looked up for a response.
" Um… it was a couple of days after eating it, not immediately. What is it anyway?" Kuroko asked. "I see…. Hoshi-chan, can you explain to him our findings? I need to correct this data…" the informant began to mutter to herself, tiny text followed her around the room.
" Right, but before we start on that, I'm gonna tell you some primary facts to connect things. First, enchantments are positive additives to an object; curses are negative, but not always harming. Take me as an example. I accidently read a curse of weightless aloud when searching for a Wick enchantment. It's unpleasant, but I'm not going to die from it. So the thing you swallowed was Obisity Powder that was cursed with SenseAlchemy. SenseAlchemy mixes and misses with the human senses. Its not a popular thing because the casters can die if the exchange isn't enough."
"So it was indirect cursing?" Akashi concluded. " Yep, that's why Tetsu-kun isn't suffering from the effects anymore. Here are the documents you requested." Momoi handed Kuroko the CaseChest; it was no bigger that the length of his arm.
"Thank you Momoi-san, Hoshino-san." "Thank you Satsuki."
" No problem, now off with you both. It's already nighttime. Mido-rin is probably worried."Momoi said, flipping a Passage Quarter. "Bye bye~" Hoshino called out before they descended.
AN: Sooo I added an OC because
- I want Momoi to have a female companion who is just as quirky as she is
-I dont want her to live alone in their lil hidey-hole
-I already have plans for Takao, Himuro and Nigou\
-I want Momoi to be mature in this fic, being a role model fro someone younger will help
No one said no the character profile thing sooo
Name: Momoi Satsuki
Age: 21
Height: 161 cm
Weight:
Magic: Word Weaver,
Class: Informant, Researcher
Known Relatives: Akashi Seijuuro (cousin)
Notable Talents: limited telekinesis
Likes: New Books
Dislikes: SenseAlchemy
Name: Hoshino Inka
Age: 15-17 (she won't tell anyone a definite answer)
Height: 155cm
Weight: lessness
Magic: Cell magic
Class: undetermined
Relatives: Non known alive
Notable Talents: Potion brewing, Dreamwalking
Like: Magic
Dislikes: Disorganization
( I really want to write a little separate story about Momoi and Hoshino so bad )
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