"Ah, I'm glad you two could make it! It seems like more and more of these cursed Stone minions are appearing." Lieutenant Standish chewed his paw before looking at the two blondes in his fields of hope. "Please say you'll help me out here!"
"Um sure, no-"the theurgist was cut off when a feminine war cry that turned into a scream caught their attention caught their attention.
"Come on!" Connor unhooked his staff while clutching his deck as he sprinted down the torch lit hallway. The duo came across two stone minions cornering a girl, who was on the floor.
"Tara, tend to her while I make a circle and deal with these guys!" Connor yelled, blocking a hit from one of the minions.
" 'Kay!" Tara rushed over to the girl when the minions where drawn away. She laid a girl with long blonde hair and crystal blue eyes like hers, on the floor as she kneeled next to her. "Please don't strain yourself." She whispered as she raced through her card deck.
Tara let out a relieved sigh when she found her pixie card. She held it up in midair and let it go to draw the appropriate symbols for the spell to be cast. In a burst of leaves, a pixie floated in front of Tara, waiting to do her biding. "You summoned me?"
"Please lend me your healing power!" she gestured to the girl who's arm was severely wounded.
"As you wish." The pixie then sprinkled green dust upon Tara's hands and they soon began to glow a bright green. She immediately got to work on the girl's arm.
"How is she?" Connor asked, walking up behind them; returning his deck to its case.
"I'm right here! Don't act like I'm dead or something." The girl sat up and leaned against the wall, ignoring Tara's protest. "You have my gratitude." She smiled.
"I'm Tara Ravensmith, and you?" Tara's hands dimmed as she returned her card to her deck.
"Emma Emeraldblossom, nice to meet 'ya."
"Connor Frostbreath." The Ice mage lifted his sleeve.
"Yeah so, um thanks for healing me and all. Please allow me to pay you back somehow." Emma stood and offered Tara her hand.
The theurgist took her hand and eased herself off the aged ground. "So, um what school are you?" Tara curiously watched Emma pick up her sword, which on contact, sparked to life.
"Isn't obvious?" Connor took two steps away from the girls. Connor resisted the urge to slap his forehead when Tara gave him a lost look. "I forgot you can only see the aura of the element you're opposed to. Anyway, she's a Pyromancer; her aura makes her look like a campfire." Connor stuck up his nose.
"And yours makes you look like the tundra." Emma raised her brow as a green ring appeared around her neck.
"You know we have a job to do, right?" Tara drew her sword.
"It's going to take a lot of magic to kill these rock-butts…" Emma took out a small whistle and blew in it.
"You guys can handle them; I need to go finish this order quest the lieutenant gave us." Calling his hound to his side, Connor set out into the ancient hallway. "Call me if you need anything Tara, Emma." The Thaumaturge called before turning the corner.
"What's got him in a rush?" Tara pulled out her deck.
"It was probably my heated aura, but right now that Ice cube is the least of our worries." Emma drew a circle with her wand while mimicking Connor's stuck up face.
"Ready?" Tara gave a laugh, as she looked at the fire mage from the corner of her eye.
"Let's roll!" Emma moved her wand downward making the circle she drew out of manna, settle and expand on the ground. They raced in, drawing in 3 minions with them.
"Okay, I've got a meteor strike up, but I'll have to wait a couple of rounds so I'll just blade instead." Emma scanned the 7 cards that floated in front of her face. She plucked out her fire blade spell and the remaining cards rushed off to their case.
"Hmmm," Tara browsed her cards carefully. "I've got nothing but heals." She complained, throwing all but two back in the case. "Pass."
Luckily for them all 3 of the minions passed, making the dial swing to point at Emma.
Emma smirked as she traced out the symbols for the fire blade that began to circle around her head.
"Do you think Connor's okay?" Tara fidgeted as the dial swung past her and the cards flew in front of their faces once more.
"I'm sure he's fine. He seems like a guy who can handle his own, 'ya know?" Emma gave the life mage a reassuring smile before taking out a fire trap spell.
Unsure if she would need it or not, Tara pulled the life blade card from its place in front of her. Her remaining 6 cards wizzed past her face as they went into resting. The first minion started to draw fire symbols and soon in a burst of flames a fire cat appeared. Using its claws, it pounced on Emma. Some flames bounced off her robe; unfortunately a few small flames grazed her skin.
Emma let out a low hiss as the dial swung to the second minion who put a fire trap on Tara. The third stone minion ended up fizzling on a storm spell.
"I'll heal you if you want…" Tara gasped, as Emma slightly winced as she casted her trap spell.
"No, it's fine. This is exactly what I trained Duke Harley for." As if on cue, the dragon, that Tara hadn't noticed till now, did a little dance as he casted a sprite spell for Emma.
An aroma of nature filled the mold smelling hallway as an orange haired Sprite appeared in the middle of the battle circle. Using its tiny wings, it flew towards Emma circling around her before disappearing in a cloud of green smoke. Suddenly a small leak started to circle around Emma, healing her slowly with each round.
"Looks like we have some training to do, huh Snoopie?" Tara mumbled to her pet as Emma casted her spell.
"I would but uh… let's wait tills we'sa get back to'a Wizard City…" Snoopie said with his thick Irish accent, picking at his nails.
"Alright let's do this!" Emma grabbed her meteor Strike card as a fire-y aura surrounded her. (Not that Tara could see.)
Seeing her all worked up, Tara decided to pass, fortunately so did the minions.
"Prepare to be burnt to a crisp!" Tara grinned evilly.
With a flick of her wand, Emma smirked as the ground started to rumble. Portals opened above their heads as giant, flaming rocks exploded from the sky. The fire mage raised and pointed her blazing blade at the first minion. A meteor shot from the sky, landing straight in the stone warrior. After the space rock landed on the monster, it crumbled away leaving a rubble pile of remains from the minion. The same thing happened with the other two as well, and soon the enchanted circle disappeared.
"Alright, let's head back to the Lieutenant." Emma winked.
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Connor raced down the historical hallway in search of lost paperwork. When he turned the corner, Connor crashed into something hard. He cursed inwardly when he fell to the floor.
"Oh my! I'm sooo sorry! I should have been looking where I was going! Oh man! What if I killed him, then I would have to become a rouge wizard! Oh man, what will my parents think? Now they'll never get that new wand!"
Connor's facial expression twisted when he felt small, heated hands grip his shoulders, as he was shaken violently. "Hello? Heellloooooo? Can you hear me? Are you breathing? Are you-!"
"I'm FINE!" Connor yelled, brushing off the stranger's hands. "Um sorry for yelling at you, I'm… uh… Connor…" he shakily held out his hand to the chestnut haired girl.
"Donna! Donna Dragonflame!" the smaller girl chirped, her big brown eyes flashing.
"Um well, I've got to…uh…go…that way… you know that's way from…this..uh…spot…" Connor rose up off the ground before starting to walk away.
"Wait!"
Connor turned his head slightly to look tenderly at the limping girl.
"What is it?" the Thaumaturge looked down at the girl.
"I need your help."
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"Ah yes, you two have done an excellent job. But it seems the wizard I sent to defeat the Krok that's controlling them, hasn't returned yet. So could you two maybe do the job?" Lieutenant Standish twiddled his paws.
"Um… sure why not…" the two blondes said at once.
"Good, good, good! I think his lairs at the end of the hall."
"Hmm, with the two of us it should be simple. Hey, maybe we might even run into Connor along the way!" Emma sang as she started down the hall.
"Emma! Tara!" a deep voice yelled down the hall, which the girls were traveling down.
"Connor?" Tara squinted her eyes to see her male friend running toward her. His hood fallen off and a small girl on his shoulders. His staff and pack in her waving hands.
"What is it, we're kinda busy…" Tara pointed to the door down the hallway.
"That's what me and polar bear need help with!" the small girl on his shoulders chirped. "I'm Donna by the way."
"Polar Bear?" Tara and Emma snickered together.
"Don't ask…" Connor said under his breath, as her blushed lightly.
"So Connor, you're getting it in with the ladies now huh?" the life mage nudged his elbow as they continued to walk down the hall.
"N-no! I just bumped into her and decided to help her. That's. All."
"Mhm…" Emma hummed in her two cents as they came upon the giant door. "Alright let's do this!" she yelled, throwing open the large door so the rest of the team could step in.
"Ah, it's about time that stupid Mutt feed me!" A slimy voice rang from a throne at the far end of the room. A giant deep green Krok stood and threw back his arms as he cocked his head to the side. "So, which one of you munchies is first?"
"Dude, what the fuck is this?"
Slitted eyes narrowed at a petite girl with dark skin. As she mumbled something about air conditioning, she removed her green hood from her head, making two blonde ponytails spring up from the sides of her head.
"What, mere wizard?" the reptile hissed.
"Yeah so Emma, I think we made a wrong turn about here…"
The Krok grew furious when he saw the other mages surrounding the wizard with the ponytails, looking at a map.
"How dare you ignore me, you piggy-tailed bitch!" the Krok threw his golden spear at the fuming theurgist.
Thanking his fast reflexes, Connor quickly deflected it with his trident, sending the spear into a nearby wall.
"Bastard! I've had enough of you pest!" the reptile roared, summoning 3 stone minions and charging at the group.
"I've had enough of this talking purse…" Tara smirked at Donna, a glint of red flashing in her blue orbs. "Let's kill him."
…
Connor twirled his staff in a circle before charging at a stone minion, Rex at his side. "Frost Bite!" he pulled out the designated treasure spell card and slapped it on his pointed wand. In a flash of blue and snowflakes, his trident turned into solid ice before he stabbed it into the gut of the stone warrior.
…
"Union raid: Wyldfire!" Emma and Donna shouted together as Emma threw the treasure spell card in the air. Large amounts of fire burst out of thin air and surrounded two stone minions. Donna slightly limped through the ring of fire, dragging her staff through the flames. Using both hands, she gave a powerful swing of the staff, brining half of the ring's fire with it, into a minions head; smashing it to pieces.
On the other side of the ring, Emma dragged her sword through the flames; in one swift swipe of red and orange, she sliced the minion in half.
…
A petite hand threw a golden Seraph card into the air. Tara slashed her sword across the card, making it disappear in a burst of leaves as a blonde woman with a sword in a long flowing white dress took its place.
"Hey…Hey now I was just joking girlie! Can't we work things out?" the Krok sweated through his scales as he looked into deadly blue orbs with splashes of red.
"Your command, Theurgist?" The God-like woman batted her wings to keep her a float.
"Hey! You're an angel right? Snap her out of this!" the Krok snapped at Seraph.
"I am far from an angel…"
Tara's angered face never wavered as she pointed her finger at the reptile. "Kill. It."
"I am merely her tool…" Seraph kept an emotionless face as she brought her sword down on the Kroks head, slicing him in half.
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Blood red lips puckered in a mirror, a black brush designed in webs, brushed through silky black hair.
"So the let her in that wretched school, huh?" A woman picked up a picture frame of a dark skinned girl with two curly blonde ponytails. She gave a grim smile as she kissed the corner of the picture. "You should know Merle… apples don't fall too far from the tree. You may have sealed off my major magic but just you wait…" she gave a sinister laugh before doing a simple Polymorph, turning herself into a hazel eyed, thick curled blonde before she grabbed her purse and dashed out the door.
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Wow how long have I been gone? A very long time that's what. It's just my brain won't let me write until I get these new ideas for stories written down so yeah I'm going to be having a bunch of new side stories soon to come I'll only be updating the on the side though; they're just… time fillers I should say. I have to say I'm iffy about this chapter… I mean it IS 3:30 am here so there is my excuse if you find it crappy. I noticed… Connor is all by himself! Only one boy, but I'm sure he's fine with that. Oh that name calling… it was supposed to be friendly… but I guess it didn't want to come out that way so… yeah. *looks around* Well you know the drill review, review, review! Let me know your comments, what you like, what you don't like, my wonderful grammar problems lol, and it's really early/late doesn't really help either. I'm pretty sure I have like 10 run-on sentences. Eh, you people love me anyways. Oh yes… looking for side Characters! Next time on Naruto- errr I mean A Wizardz Tale they leave the fire pyramid and are headed to the Ice on I… believe… Stay tuned my wonderful fans!