"Well...seems like they're done." Tao descended to the ground, and once he did so something had happened to Yin and Yang.
"..." Yin, while still caught up in the blast of Seth's Bellow of the Flame God spell, slowly started to deteriorate.
"W-what the..." Seth looked confused as Yin was gone.
"..." Both halves of Yang's body that Sterling slashed in half were able to flip over as they took one final look at Sterling, before they also began to deteriorate.
"No...don't tell me..."
"Yupp! They were mere illusions of two mages that I'm associated with. Very accurate too, I'm very thankful for what I'm able to do." Tao said as he started walking towards the Excalibur Edge duo.
"Those were just illusions? Well...I can't wait to run into the real things then!" Seth roared, "Then I'll really burn them down!"
"Hmph, if that's what you believe."
"Believe? It's what I know!" Seth snapped, "Now with them it's just the two of us!" Seth's fist were consumed by flames once more.
"Don't think you can pull some stupid trick like that and get away clean free!" Sterling said while preparing his blade for another fight.
"Well then..." Tao removed one hand from behind his back and looked at the two, "I'll take you both with one hand."
"T-two with one hand? W-what about t-three?" A voice asked.
"Hmm?" Both Sterling and Seth turned to see a woman who had seemed to be at least in her early twenties of age. She had an average sized bust, and was standing at an estimated five foot six, her long and messy hair is black, while covering her eyes. She is dressed in an all black sailor suit, with the skirt reaching her knees, black stockings, and black shoes.
"Tsumiko Vanderclair?" Sterling raised an eyebrow in interest.
"Wyvern Wing..." Seth hissed.
"Wyvern Wing? Hmph, handling two of them would be easy. Now they're gaining assistance from a Wyvern Wing member?" Tao thought.
"Maybe I'll come back later...my job does not require me to fight more than two people. With three, I must leave for other things." Tao then vanished.
"Wait!" Seth shouted, "Great now he's gone."
"Y-You guys caused a lot of d-damage here. Y-your guild is going to have to pay for the d-damages." The young woman had informed.
"Hmph...whatever." Seth pouted, "We didn't need your help, we had it under control."
"A-apparently not..." Tsumiko looked around and sighed, "But it's fine by me." She then began to turn around and walk away.
"Hmm..." Sterling just looked on as Tsumiko walked away and so did Seth. Difference was, Seth watched in disgust as he hissed:
"Wyvern Wing..."
Chapter 4: The Escorts?
"I see...so you guys had trouble fighting off illusions?" Volker said as he stifled his laughter.
"Master...I think you're seeing past the bigger picture." Sterling sweat dropped.
"Oh, uh right." Volker nodded, "Well glad to know that you two are okay. I honestly haven't heard of this Tao guy or The Trio before...maybe they are part of some new Guild or something? Maybe they just wanted to see how strong you guys were, being apart of Excalibur Edge and all..." The Master suggested.
"Well what should we do? Should we look into it?" Sterling asked.
"Sterling! Seth!" Starphire ran into the Guild Hall.
"Hey sis.." Sterling nodded.
"Hey Star." Seth waved.
"I saw the blast from the party land it just kept bugging me so I came here to check with Master."
"Seth was under attack at the docks and luckily I showed up to contain the damage."
"If that's what you'd call it." Seth rolled his eyes.
"I knew it was you guys." A voice said with a slight chuckle.
"Hmm?" The group turned towards the doors to see a young eighteen year old man appear. He had pitch black hair that seemed gelled and was rather spikey, he stood around five foot two. The young man is dressed in knight like armor, and on his back his silver cloak was flowing behind him.
"Hey there Axton." Master Volker waved, "So you saw the blast too?"
"Yes sir, I figured it was just Seth being stupid again."
"Hey!" Seth growled.
"Calm down Seth, if I know you guys were under attack you know I would've been there in an instant." Axton told his Guild Mate.
"Yeah yeah..." Seth rolled his eyes.
"Well...seems like The Trio has stirred up some trouble for sure then."
"What should we do Master?" Starphire asked.
"I'll look into it, so you guys don't worry about it...but in the meantime...Seth, Axton I want to see you guys tomorrow. Understood?"
"Yes." The two nodded.
"Alright then, you go and head on home. All of you, you need your sleep being young and all." Volker smiled, the group nodded their heads in compliance and left.
"So..." Volker thought, "The Trio...they must really want him...well I'm not going to let that happen."
The Next Afternoon...
Seth and Axton were standing side by side as Volker had walked up and had a slight smile on his face.
"So...how well do you guys think you work together?" Volker asked.
"Uhh...I don't think we've ever really been on a mission together." Axton pointed shrugging his shoulders.
"Yeah, why?" Seth asked raising an eyebrow.
"Well I'm sending you guys out on a mission, a very important mission."
"What is it?" Axton asked.
"Well ya see, there's this royal family that's having slight problems. One of their members is here in Fiore and needs to get back home enable to return their family heirloom."
"A family heirloom?"
"Yeah, a magical and very powerful family heirloom. If it gets into the wrong hands it can put a lot of people in a lot of danger. So I need you guys to make sure that this person gets their safely. This person is also the heir to the throne." Volker explained.
"Okay, sounds easy enough." Axton shrugged.
"I'm fine with it."
"Cool, you guys will get one more partner."
"Who?"
"Me!" A voice said cheerfully. The two turned around to see a girl with long lavender hair, with a porcelain like skin tone, and lavender eyes. She is wearing a sleeveless dress shirt that reveals her stomach, a violet tie, along with a black sleeveless collared cloth with red trims, being left only with a pair of black gloves with studs, she also wears a black mini skirt, a belt that has two large holsters that were carrying two guns, red knee high socks, and white boots that have silver armor plating on the heels, and has zippers on the toes of the boots. The two guns she was carrying were pure white, and appeared rather thin almost paper like, with black along the sides, red handles, and wings on the side.
"Hey guys!" The girl waved.
"Izanagi?"
"Yupp, she'll be your third person on this mission."
"Ummm...okay." The two didn't seem to have a problem with this, normally when getting ready for a surprise from Master they were expecting something they would not like. So far everything was okay.
"Alright, well I'll let you guys go gather your stuff for the trip and I'll meet you at the front of the town later on today with the one you shall be watching over on this mission."
"Okay, no problem."
"Alright later!" Volker waved as he left onwards to his office.
"So you guys ready for this mission!" Izanagi asked cheerfully.
"Yeah, sure." Seth shrugged.
"It sounds easy enough, wonder why he needs the three of us." Axton began to ponder.
"Who cares, a missions a mission." Seth yawned as he placed his hands behind his head and began to walk out of the Guild Hall, "See ya guys later on!" He waved.
"Alright!" Izanagi cheered, "You guys ready for this mission!" The trio had gathered once more at the front of the town patiently awaiting their Master.
"Yeah! I'm ready!"
"I'm glad you guys are so excited." Volker said appearing before the trio.
"Hey Master." Axton greeted.
"Hey there Axton. Alright so...you guys ready to meet who your escorting?"
"Yupp!" Izanagi and Seth cheered.
"There's no backing down at this point so let's get to it!" Seth smiled.
"Well here he is! The royal heir...Maximus!" From behind a small child, appearing around the age of eleven had walked from behind Volker. The boy had peach skin, with short blonde hair that was parted , big blue innocent eyes. He wore a white t-shirt underneath a pair of jean overalls, and black galosh like boots, and then around his neck was a golden chain that had a golden pendant at the end in the shape of a genie lamp that had three stars on it. One big star, and two little ones on either side of the big star.
"Awww!" Izanagi said looking at the adorable child.
"Figures..." Axton said with his eye twitching.
"What in the world?!" Seth deadpanned, "This is a baby sitting mission?!"
"Nope it's still a very serious and deadly escorting mission."
"Not if we're escorting a small child! This kid is probably like eight! He doesn't barely reaches up to my knees!" Seth said angered that he got caught up in babysitting some royal child.
"You really want us to watch over this little royal kid?!" Seth asked poking the kid's cheek. Maximus reacted quickly and jumped up and spun around slamming his foot across the face of Seth.
"Haha!" Izanagi pointed and laughed at Seth. Axton and Volker stifled their laughter. Maximus began to bow an immense amount of times as a sign of apologies for his actions.
"You little royal punk!" Seth dove at Maximus, but Axton quickly held back his Guild Mate.
"Calm down Seth! He's just a kid!"
"I don't care! I'm not doing this mission!"
"L-look..." Volker said while trying to stop his need to laugh, "You already said there's no backing down now right?"
"Eh...uhh..."
"You did just say that Axton reminded.
"I know what I said..." Seth pouted, "Fine, I'll do the mission."
"Awesome! Well you guys have fun! He belongs to the Royal Family of Eire. So just get him to the Eire Kingdom safe and sound and everything should be fine."
"The Eire Kingdom? Where the heck's that?" Seth asked.
"I know where it is." Izanagi informed.
"Wonderful! Well, like I said! You guys have fun!" Volker than vanished. The trio looked at each other than Maximus. Seth squatted down and looked at him dead in the eyes.
"Listen kid...you already got on my nerves by kicking me in the face...I highly suggest you don't do it again...ya hear me?"
"..." Maximus nodded, then raised his knee up slamming it into Seth's jaw.
"Crap! You brat!" Seth was going to punch the kid, but Izanagi had swept him up before Seth could make contact.
"Seth! Our job is to protect him not hurt him!"
"I don't care! He struck me twice!" Maximus began to bow once again apologizing for his actions.
"Look he's sorry!" Axton pointed out, "Now, let's get moving."
"Grrr...whatever." Seth stood up and glared at the kid, "You better be glad Izanagi is here to save you." Both Izanagi and Maximus stuck their tongues out at Seth.
"Well...off to the Eire Kingdom!"
Next Time: Seth, Axton, and Izanagi are off on their mission to escorting little Maximus back to his home kingdom of Eire! The job seems easy enough, but upon realizing where the Eire Kingdom is the trio thinks that they might have been in more than they had originally bargained for. But there's no backing out now! Also, does the trio know they are being followed?
Find out Next Time on...Fairy Tail: The Broken Destiny!
Signed
~The Emperor