Author's Note: As a personal goal, I am trying to finish this story before I get to chapter 50. Please wish me luck. On another random note, the story is 230 some odd pages in length on my word document. Sorry for the lateness. I'm entering week 10 out of 11 of school so please wish me luck.
The Story So Far: Hiruma has a small army assembled to take out this bad guy named Blake.
Hidden
By: Bar-Ohki
Chapter 39: Sakuraba of Oujou
Sakuraba woke to the most unpleasant sensation of having something land on his stomach.
"Elec! Coru setika boree!" [1] A harsh, male voice roared from it's position on Sakuraba's stomach.
"Ungh…." Sakuraba moaned.
"Sorry!" Elec called from his place across the room.
"Dammit Elec!" Malhavoc roared again, climbing off Sakuraba to go and storm over to his son. Sakuraba sat up and stared as the short man with spikey black hair appoarched the taller version of himself.
"I said-!" Elec began only to have Malhavoc grip his shirt and pull him down to his level.
"You do not throw me around. Ever." Malhavoc told Elec with a growl. "Is that clear my son?"
"Y-yes!" Elec squeaked. Malhavoc shoved him away, knocking Elec over.
"Oh, you're awake now." Malhavoc observed as he turned around. "I am Malhavoc and this twit here is my son Elec."
"You're the father!?" Sakuraba gasped. Malhavoc was smaller than the shorties from Deimon and Elec was easily as tall as himself; it made it a little hard to swallow. Sakuraba just now noticed Malhavoc's red eyes and Elec's purple ones, he couldn't help but to shiver.
"Aye." Malhavoc answered with a roll of the eyes. "We've been waiting for you to wake."
"What?" Sakuraba looked around the room. "Where am I?"
"Sakuraba!" Shin poked his head into the room and was pleasantly surprised to see his old comrade awake.
"Shin! Who are these people?!" Sakuraba asked the one person he knew would know what was going on.
"Allies, youngling, allies." Malhavoc answered. "Shin, you should inform him of all the happenings and the plan."
"Okay." Shin nodded. Malhavoc and Elec left and Shin began his explaination of the Underground, Upground, Hiruma's true heritage and all the chaos surrounding it, and the whole issue with Blake.
"So in an hour we're all leaving to go kill this Necromancer guy?" Sakuraba asked.
"If it comes to that, yes." Shin answered with a nod.
"…What does Takami think about all of this?" Sakuraba asked, having heard that his team captain was awake.
"He said he's willing to help." Shin answered.
"…Can I help too?" Sakuraba asked. "I don't want anyone else to be under that magic again…."
"You can." Shin nodded. "Come, we need to get you some armor."
"Armor!?" Sakuraba gasped as he stood up and followed Shin.
"Hiruma-shi's blood has some magic absorbing properties, so we wear clothes that have some of it on it to protect ourselves." Shin explained. "It should keep you from getting cursed again."
Sakuraba was a little disturbed by the fact that Hiruma's blood was centered around so much of the plans. He simply nodded and followed Shin out the door only to be asked to put on his football uniform. Notcing that the others from Deimon were also in their uniforms comforted Sakuraba. He saw that there were several men and women wearing blue armor looking at Elec and Hiruma intently.
"You should wear the clothes your mother left you." Another elf told Hiruma, this man Takami explained was Malhavoc's younger brother Zeke.
"When's the wife going to show up?" Sakuraba muttered.
"T won't be showing." Malhavoc remarked, not having turned around to answer Sakuraba.
"T?" Hiruma muttered, a bit baffled by that.
"It is what she likes to be called, yes." Malhavoc told everyone quickly. "Now my dear child, is your Unit completely ready?" The last comment was directed at Elec.
"Yes sir." Elec answered, standing at attention.
"I'm not attacting as your superior today, so cut the crap." Malhavoc almost growled at Elec.
"Let's fucking go." Hiruma announced and started walking outside without the small army. It did not take long for everyone to follow.
Once outside everyone gathered in a circle around Sena. The mages gathered in an inner circle with Doburoku who just touched Sena's back. Sakuraba felt a little silly holding hands with Musashi and Shin.
"Will this hurt?" Sakuraba asked.
"No, it's just startling." Musashi assured the wide reciver. Sena picked up his leg, light flashed, and then they were at the foot of Mount Fuji.
"Are we near where the two of you got attacked by the spell?" Elec asked Takami and Sakuraba quickly.
"I-" Takami began, "don't really remember where it was."
"…We're kind of close, it's a little that way I think." Sakuraba answered pointing to their left. With a nod a few of the blue armored men jumped back into the trees and dashed away from the slight.
"We'll wait until the scouts come back, then proceed." Elec announced. Several people nodded, including Hiruma. Hiruma had a hand on his nose and looked particularly perturbed by something really fowl smelling.
"It's all over the place…." Shin muttered referring to Blake's magic.
"…Worse than I thought." Zeke had his hand against some sort of invisible barrier.
"A lot worse." Dalboz agreed, still frowning.
"We move out." Elec announced suddenly and the group followed Sakuraba's direction to the front of a small cave. Zeke nodded and crouched down on the ground in front of the cave.
"I'll need an hour." Zeke announced. "I can have the barrier completely altered within that time." With that he brushed away a few leaves and started etching some circles into the ground with his spear. After he was done drawing he pulled a few crystals out of his coat and set them in specific places on the drawing and then sat down in the middle. Then there was no movement from the elf.
"Is he breathing?" Sakuraba asked, disturbed by the stillness of the elf.
"Necromancers don't have to partake in the needs of mortals if they don't want to." Malhavoc answered crypitically.
"He's not." Zork answered more directly. "But he won't die, so don't worry about it."
"We have company!" One of the blue armored soliders gasped and pointed at Otawara and Shogun. Several more of the White Knights came out from the trees, surrounding them.
"That's her!" Takami gasped, pointing at the lady who had led them into the cursing in the first place.
"…She isn't magical." Shin commented.
"That's because she's fucking hiding it." Hiruma winkled his nose.
"Let me try them." Kali stepped forward, two little knives in each hand.
"Wha-!?" Sakuraba gasped when Kali threw both blades without hesitation. They nicked Otawara and Shogun on the face. Both men started yelling and scratching at the new cuts. Shin observed that the green magic was literally burning away, but it wasn't being quick about it.
The woman only frowned and raised a hand in Kali's direction, preparing a magical attack.
"Slow acting?" Malhavoc frowned.
"You can't tell that until you use it." Kali sighed. "Would you mind doing something about the magic that woman's about to send my way?"
Malhavoc only smiled, dashed forward and grabbed Sakuraba then threw him in front of Kali as a human shield. The spell was sent by the time Sakuraba was in place. The woman didn't say anything but only looked at them, curious.
The enhanced football uniform did its job and absorbed the woman's spell.
"What the hell!?" Sena gasped. He knew how fast a 4.2 second dash was and what that looked like when it was ran, but Malhavoc had just surpassed it.
"Elves are not bound by the limits of a human body," Elec reminded Sena, "because they are not human."
"Now why don't you idiots with armor make yourselves useful and pin that woman down?" Malhavoc suggested as he pulled out some darts. "Me and Kali will take care of these 'White Knights'."
Sakuraba found himself being pushed forward to tackle the lady. Shin just dashed forward, not needing any help. The woman got spear tackled into a tree. Moments later the three brothers from the Deimon line were on her arms and legs, keeping her in check. During this time Malhavoc and Kali had manged to get some of the poison into the system of the rest of the White Knights team. Elec's Unit moved in and restrained the suffering members of the Knights.
"Who are you?" Malhavoc demanded, glaring down at the red haired woman.
"God will kill you all." The woman told him with a wry smile.
"…She's the one that weakened the Seal in the first place." Dalboz commented, annoyed. "Clearly she's got some sanity issues."
"She thinks our enemy is a god?" Sakuraba was slightly disgusted by the notion.
"There are some very deranged little isolated villages in Vent that worship me." Malhavoc shrugged. "It's no different."
"Please don't remind me." Elec rubbed his temples.
"Do you want me to interrogate her?" Kali asked Hiruma.
"How profitable do you think it will be?" Hiruma asked, eyeing the woman wearily.
"At best we'd know how the enemy came back into power and maybe a bit about where his current ablities are. At worst we'd find out just how messed up that woman is." Kali paused. "You don't like the idea of me torturing her."
Hiruma nodded once.
"I'll only do psychological damage, if I need physical torture, I'll call in Malhavoc." Kali smiled. "That's his specialty, not mine."
"…That's not particularly comforting." Suzuna muttered.
"I kill people for a living girlie," Kali reminded Suzuna, "you should find that a comfort."
"Comfort!?" Sakuraba gasped.
"Let me at her," Kali montioned the linemen to step aside, "you're not going to want to be apart of this."
"Wait-!" Shin began to protest when Sakuraba took off his jersey and dropped it on Kali's head.
"You should have that."
"…Thanks kiddo." Kali pulled on the jersey, grabbed the woman and disappeared into the trees.
"…What now?" Shin asked.
"We wait." Hiruma answered.
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Ya, done.
[1] – This is Ventish elfin and translates something like this: Elec! That technique was improper!
And if you must know they were training. Malhavoc shouldn't have gone flying, that's why he was pissed.