The Fallout 3
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A Mysterious Man
Lucy was looking for her friend, Levy. Yesterday, she learned her mission. She was to deliver something to the King of Hell.
This was going to be no easy mission. No demon would let her slide. They would definitely notice her wings and halo. And even if she hid them, they would know she wasn't a demon.
How long would this take? And would she even make it? If she failed, she'd have to redeem herself.
She needed to ask think about food, and a good disguise. But right now she was going to ask Levy to teach her a spell.
Lucy walked into the library, the first place she'd expect Levy to be. Unlike mortal libraries, the shelves were thick and around two stories tall. No ladders were used since angels could fly.
The shelves were filled with all sorts of things. History of the world, information on angels and other creatures, fiction books, and other assorted categories as well.
As usual, Lucy found Levy in the 'Spell Books' section in the library.
"Levy-chan! Please help me!" Lucy exclaimed as she pleaded to the blue-haired girl.
"Of course! What do you need, Lu-chan?" Levy smiled at her friend.
"How do you create a space pocket?" Lucy asked.
A space pocket was a magical pocket in an alternate dimension that was completely empty. Depending on your amount of magical power, you could store numerous things in there and summon them when you want.
"Well, there are two ways to. One of them is drawing a symbol, the other is getting the symbol marked on to your skin through magic, though it takes a while and mastering it is harder to start," Levy explained.
Lucy nodded, "Well I don't have much time, so maybe drawing the symbol will be easier."
"Right, well the symbol looks like this," Levy tool out her Light Pen. Levy's ability was writing words and spells in the air with her pen. However, unlike other magic, Like Gray or Jellal's she needed to learn from books or other sources to broaden her magic.
The symbol was quite simple. It was a circle with a vertical line through the centre of it. Over the line was an 'S'.
"You can draw this symbol on anything, with anything. As long as it roughly looks like this. Then you say the word, aperio*"
"Alright let me try..." Lucy took the pen from Levy's extended hand.
She wrote the symbol in the air and then said the word 'aperio'. The word shone and made a small humming noise and...nothing happened.
"Levy-chan! Did I do something wrong?" Lucy asked her friend.
"Uh, well, try and focus more on the symbol and the act of opening a pocket in the dimension," Levy suggested.
"Uh, ok..." Lucy raised her hand and began drawing the symbol again. Lucy thought of a rip first. An inter-dimensional rip. She imagined it opening.
"Aperio."
The line in the symbol started to glow. The glow started to grow until you could see black in the centre. It hung there for a while before disappearing, as did the symbol.
"You did it Lu-chan!" Levt cried in happiness, "Now, when the blackness is there you can put things into the rip. Be careful though, depending on your power you'll only be able to store so much," Levy warned, "Oh! And you can take things out the same way."
"Uh, Levy how do I even put things-"
"Miss Levy!" A guard came bustling into the library.
A minor guard by the name of Horologium, he was mostly a messenger, but he did other things as well. He had a strange body, like many of the other gods. Horologium was a grandfather clock.
"Miss Levy, we have a problem! Capricorn-sama has fallen ill due to some spell! We believe it's a curse, however the person who did this is a mystery. The symptoms Capricorn-sama is showing is unknown to us. Please, help!" Horologium, who was quite boxy and his knees were very close to the ground, awkwardly bowed down to Levy, causing quite a commotion at the library.
"O-of course!" Levy smiled, "See you later Lu-chan, good luck!"
"But-" Lucy shouted (receiving quite a few stares) "...how do I put things in and take things out...?" Lucy said a little more quietly.
She sighed, Looks like I'll have to figure it out myself...
"Capricorn-sama! Miss Levy is here!" Horologium shouted, throwing open the door to the mans room.
Capricorn was one of the Twelve Guards of the Zodiac. He was The Goat. Because of this, he had fur instead of skin and also had horns growing out of his head, though he had hands like a human and walked on two feet.
He was supposed to be elite, a great fighter.
"How did this happen Capricon?" Levy asked rushing to his side.
"I..." he croaked, then coughed, "I was fighting someone. And he..." Capricorn coughed again, "...he cast a spell on me."
Simple as that.
Not really.
"Who is this man? Was he a demon? What did he look like? How is your-"
Levy was cut off mid sentence when Capricorn let out a violent cough.
"Capricorn!" Levy shouted, worried for the guard.
"His face...it was covered, by a mask," Capricorn mumbled.
"Alright, I'll do what I can, please relax," Levy said politely.
The door opened. Another guard named Virgo was there with a small blue haired angel.
"Capricorn, I have brought Wendy on orders from Nii-san," the pink haired angel said, her voice a monotone. "She is a healer and will attempt to heal you. Levy, Nii-san asked you to search for what this illness is as well as a cure," Virgo bowed and left.
"Nii-san?" Levy muttered to herself. Virgo was always an oddball. Of course, Levy respected her. Virgo was an amazing fighter, but she had her quirks, especially towards Lucy. Whenever she spoke to Lucy, she would call her 'hime' which meant princess. Not only that but she would ask Lucy for punishment in a strange, almost suggestive way.
"Umm, Levy-san," the blue haired girl said quietly.
"Yes, Wendy, right?" Levy smiled at the girl.
Wendy nodded and blushed a little. After all, she had heard so much about Levy, it felt like an honour to meet her. "Nii-san is Loke-san," Wendy mumbled.
"I see," Levy smiled, but raised an eyebrow. "Anyways, you can get straight to work on Capricorn, I'll
be right back, I promise. I'm going to go pick up some tomes and other things."
Levy reached into her pocket and grabbed a white crystal, about the size of Wendy's palm. "This is a communication Lacrima, a friend gave it to me, if anything comes up when I'm gone, please use it," Levy set the Lacrima down in Wendy's hands.
"You just speak into it and I'll come flying, okay?" Levy said as she opened the door. Before Wendy could respond, Levy was already out of the door, well on her way.
"Capricorn-san, I will try my best, please bare with me," Wendy bowed before resting her hands in front of Capricorn. They slowly began to glow light blue.
"Arrrgh!" a scream of frustration came from a light pink house. Lucy tugged at her hair because, for the eighth time, she had failed to retrieve something from the space pocket.
After Levy had left the library, Lucy decided to go home and practice the new spell. She went to visit Jellal-who was luckily in his house-for a pen. Putting things into the space pocket was easy. You just tossed it in and it would be stored there. However getting things out was a different matter.
After her first failed attempt she realized she could not just simply put her hand in the rip. It would hurt, as she was a living being (well, as living as an angel could get...), having part of herself in one dimension while the rest of her body was in another was dangerous. The different dimensions would rip her body apart, fighting where she would be. It would only end in which her arm was left in the other dimension while the rest of her stayed in Heaven.
She then tried countless ways to get the item-an apple-out of the pocket dimension. None of them worked. By the seventh try she decided that the only way to get the item out was similar to summoning magic. A power that she used. She had to focus her power on the item, visualize it in her hand, and eventually the item would be there. Of course, it was far easier said then done. If you weren't used to it, the summon would take a long time, and even when you did summon it, the item-or whatever you're summoning-would sometimes not appear.
"Okay, I can do this!" Lucy proclaimed, she drew the symbol for the ninth time and closed her eyes. She focused on the apple, she imagined it in her hand. She imagined feeling the smooth surface of the apple. Lucy opened her eyes and saw the apple in her hand. She had done it!
Lucy smiled, but a flash of light came from her hand and the apple disappeared. Something had gone wrong.
Lucy sighed, "May as well use the pocket dimension, I can work it out later. Now I need to train!" Lucy fist pumped the air and flew out of her home.
"Constellation: The Archer, Sagittarius!" Lucy screamed lifting her whip up, swiping it side then down, creating a crack!
Lucy was training. She went after a fairly difficult soul, and she was fighting a difficult opponent.
Before her, dots of light-stars-appeared and they formed a man in a horse suit, holding a bow. "Moshi moshi Lucy-dono, what may I do for you?" the man asked.
"Sagittarius, diamond formation!" Lucy cried, her opponent-a terrifying demon-charged at them, claws open.
Eight twangs! could be heard as Sagittarius released eight arrows in a diamond shape. One arrow hit the demon in the head, another in the shoulder, one in the hip and another in the thigh. The rest of the arrows whizzed past him. They stopped in midair then turned to dust, as if they knew they had missed the target.
"Good job Sagittarius, you're dismissed," Lucy said, gripping her whip tighter than before and walking towards the fallen demon. Sagittarius gave her a silent salute and faded.
"You're pretty good, Freed," Lucy hissed. Her opponent was Freed the Dark. A demon who used runes to fight. Runes were basically spells written out, similar to Levy's magic, but it took longer the cast, however they were very specific.
Freed's demon form disappeared, revealing a green haired man. "You are good as well," he said calmly. Lucy was about to turn around when she noticed him finger his sword, despite his position.
"Blade's edge!" Lucy shouted before Freed could do anything. The whip became as sharp as a sword. Lucy struck Freed with it knocking him unconscious. "Nice try," Lucy sneered and walked towards the soul and began collecting it.
The evening came, two hours before dinner, then, tomorrow Lucy would be going into Hell, on her mission. If she completed it, she would become a Golden Angel.
Lucy left Freed where he was and flew back up to Heaven. Unbeknownst to her, a strange man in a camouflage mask walked up to Freed.
"This is the work of an angel named Lucy," the man said. He held up his hand and revealed a communication Lacrima, "She is an angel who fights with the stars and a whip. She can summon the Twelve Guards of the Zodiac to do her bidding, as they are the mythical creatures who became constellations."
"Good job, right now, your job is to infiltrate Hell and gain the trust of everyone there," the voice from the Lacrima ordered.
"Of course, Shagotte."
Natsu was so very bored.
Bored to the point where he was wasting his power and making something he called fire art. Natsu had stood guard for about fifteen hours and. The floor was uncomfortable so he didn't get much sleep. He had to pack his own food, but he ate all of it and was already starving.
Oh, and he was in a prison.
Natsu had already managed to make a tree, a bird and his guild mark. Jeez, he was bored.
Why did he have to guard the prison? It was the most boring, and deserted. Nothing much came around here. Gajeel was guarding the main entrance to Hell, Mira was in their main town, Crocus, Laxus was patrolling the palace, and lucky Erza was walking around the outskirts of Hell.
The most amusing thing that had happened was when he and Gajeel fought through the communication Lacrimas, screaming at each other until Erza cut in.
Natsu didn't think he could take this much longer. (Though, he was there for barely a day) he decided, against his better judgement, to sneak out of his post and go do something. No one came around there anyways.
Natsu had managed to sneak through Gajeel. (Admittedly, he spent longer than he wanted trying to do so) Natsu planned to go into the mortal realm. Maybe try and capture a soul, anything more fun than standing in a boring damp dark prison.
Natsu wandered around the mortal realm for a bit, trying to find something interesting. Nothing seemed to catch his fancy. All the angels around were boring and not that powerful.
Until he found a man walking around.
Man was not uncommon to be seen walking around. But they couldn't see the angels and demons.
But this man was looking at all the angels, demons, souls and battles. Like he could see them.
"Who the hell are ya?" Natsu said as he came up to him.
He turned around with wide eyes. His mouth was covered with a camouflaged mask. He said nothing but stared at Natsu. It was an odd silence. Natsu sighed, ready to just walk away.
"I could ask you that very question," he said finally keeping his eyes down.
"Well, you're a pain in the ass, aren't ya?" Natsu sighed turning around, beginning to walk away from the guy. He was probably being a wuss and hiding his wings or whatever 'cause he was weak.
"Fight me."
Natsu turned on his heel, facing the weird dude. "Huh?"
"I want to fight with you. If you win you can do whatever you want with me. If I win, you do what I want," he said, drawing some sort of fancy stick from his back.
"Sure, I'll have ya know. I ain't your run-in-the-mill demon, I'm Natsu Dragneel of Fairy Tail," Natsu cracked his knuckles as he lit them on fire. "You better put up a good fight!" Natsu shouted and charged towards his opponent.
The masked man hit his staff on the ground. It created a strong defensive wave, flinging Natsu back. Then he lifted his staff and spun it around in the air. Around it, a dark circular disk formed. It was flowing with dark static energy. Taking the staff in one hand and the disk in the other, the man flung the disk at Natsu.
Natsu dodged it with relative ease. He jumped over it and let fire come out of his foot, hitting the disk.
Grabbing the now flaming disk, Natsu flung it back at the masked man. It left a trail of flames behind it, and the flames surrounding the disk grew bigger, making it virtually impossible to dodge.
The masked man mumbled something and held his staff to defend against the disk. While he was occupied with that, Natsu created a small ball of fire.
He shot the ball at his opponent, but it stopped a foot before the disk that the masked man was trying to block. It split into six small balls of fire and went in different directions before all hitting their target, the man.
After the smoke cleared, you could see the man panting, his skin bruised and burned. He took his staff and placed it behind him.
"Meteor."
A dark 'light' engulfed the man, and before Natsu could react he whizzed past him, punching him in the gut. The man turned around quickly and hit him again in the back.
Natsu took a few more hits like this before exploding, literally.
"Annoying pest!" Natsu shouted, flames licked his skin. He closed his eyes, "Demon Technique, Dragon Slayer! Eye of the Hunter!"
Natsu opened his eyes to reveal that they were no longer an onyx colour but a glowing yellow.
"There!" he shouted and punched the speeding ball of 'light' that was coming towards him.
"Fire trap!" Natsu shouted and a dome of fire surrounded his opponent. "You're pretty good," Natsu said to him from outside the dome.
"I admit defeat," a voice responded. Natsu released the dome of fire, and his eyes changed back from yellow to onyx.
"I keep my promise, what would you like to do with me?" he asked.
"Well, you're pretty strong, how about you become a part of my guild?" Natsu asked. After all, Fairy Tail had a reputation to uphold as the strongest demon guild, and with all sorts of new strong people in other guilds, they're power was decreasing. They could use someone strong like him. After all, he lasted a whopping three minutes and forty five seconds against the great Natsu Dragneel.
"Alright. Will I...will I become a demon?" the man asked, a hint of hesitance in his voice.
"Well, yeah. It's a demons guild. You're not afraid, are you?" Natsu raised an eyebrow at the man.
"What? No! I'm a man of my word, I'll do as you say," the man stammered, "I just...wanted to check."
"Well, after some boring ritual-y stuff, you'll get your horns and tail. They grow outta ya by the way. It's really weird. And, you already have some sorta power so I guess you won't have to do that boring ceremony thing," Natsu explained as he took the lead in walking towards the nearest portal to Hell.
"Say what's your name?" Natsu asked not looking back.
"My name?" the man asked. He didn't really have a name. After all, he was created through magic, he was a copy of somebody.
"Yeah."
"It's..." the man stayed quiet for a while. Unable to talk. If only he was given a name! His cover couldn't be blown now, it should be easy to come up with a name! But he was having a blank.
"You gonna talk mystery guy?" Natsu said as they neared the portal.
Mystery guy? What a strange name the man thought to himself.
Mystery guy
"Well, we're here," Natsu said. Deciding not to worry too much. After all, how was he supposed to get through the gate without Gajeel noticing him?
"Mystogan,"
"Huh?" Natsu looked at the guy.
"My name's Mystogan."
"Lisanna?" Lucy asked as she flew into the dinning hall.
"Lucy?" a sweet voice replied.
The dinning hall was filled with tables and at the back was the kitchen. There were windows that opened the kitchen to the rest of the hall. A head popped out of one of the open windows.
"Lucy! It's been so long, how have you been? I've heard that you're going on a mission to become a Golden Angel!" the white haired girl rambled.
"Yes! Well, you're always cooking in the kitchen, no wonder we don't see each other much," Lucy smiled at her friend.
"Well, what brings you here? You know that dinner isn't for another two hours..." Lisanna pointed to an 'hours' poster to the right of Lucy.
"Ah, well...I was wondering if you could spare some food. I have to go somewhere for my mission and I have no idea how long it's going to take!" Lucy explained.
Lisanna smiled, "Of course Lucy! Here let me grab you some stuff. Just wait here, do you need something to carry it all with?"
"No, I've got something," Lucy said as Lisanna disappeared into the kitchen.
As Lisanna disappeared, Levy came flying in.
"Lucy, what are you doing here?" the petite girl asked between pants.
"I'm here to pick up some stuff. What about you? Why are you here?" Lucy asked
"I did some research on Capricorn's condition-"
"Capricorn! Is he okay?" Lucy asked worriedly.
"Yes. Anyways, it's a simple curse called **Venenatus that suppresses his magic, as you know, when a Zodiac doesn't have their magic, their energy starts to drain. This healer girl named Wendy helped him feel better, but it won't last long," Levy explained so quickly that it took Lucy a few seconds to process everything her friend had said.
"Oh, Levy? How are you?" Lisanna asked as soon as she realized the bluenette was there as well. Lisanna's hands were filled as she carried multiple different types of foods and drinks.
"Lisanna! Quick, I need an ambrosia soup!" Levy shouted, despite being only a foot away from the white haired angel.
"Of course!" Lisanna said and quickly turned on the stove, recognizing the panic in her friends voice.
"But I thought he was cursed...?" Lucy questioned as she began to draw the symbol to open her space pocket with the Light Pen she borrowed from Jellal.
"Yes, well, I've already removed the curse, but he needs the soup to strengthen his magic or else he'll suffer from ***Medeis Amissus," Levy said breathily. Tapping her foot impatiently.
"I see," Lucy nodded.
"Well, Levy here's the soup," Lisanna brought a steaming pot to the window.
Levy barely got out a 'thanks' as she zoomed out the door.
"Well, good luck on your mission Lucy, you best get some sleep tonight. Tell you what, I'll make sure I make your favourites tonight," Lisanna smiled at the blonde who was finishing putting the food and drinks in her space pocket.
"Thanks Lisanna. Remember, I like my chicken pot pie with extra gravy and my berry crumble with strawberries!" Lucy grinned back at Lisanna.
"I know! Good luck!"
Well that's it
Here's a little lesson for y'all
*Aperio=Latin for 'open'
**Venenatus=Latin for 'poison, venomous and/or magic'
***Medeis Amissus=Medeis is Latin for 'magic' and Amissus is Latin for 'loss' so it literally means 'magic loss'
Finally, ambrosia is depicted in ancient Greece as a food of the gods.
Thanks for reading!