Chapter 29: Negatives

Amelia's View

My legs kinda hurt from that toss. Good thing she tossed me at an empty field, having no humans to be cautious of. I got up and saw a large pink flame being hurled at me. I took a step to the side. The fire dissipated, probably reaching its maximum distance. I looked at the sky and saw a pink meteor diving down toward me. That Household member is trying to crash into me. The 'meteor' reached me quite quickly, crashing into my body before I could move.

She dragged my body through the earth, making a large crevice. She mounted on top of me and threw a few punches to my face. My face was barely dented due to the scales on my face. As soon as she charged a pink flaming fist, I threw a scale-covered fist toward her face, knocking her away. She was tossed a set distance, giving me time to get up. I ran toward her downed body and threw a powerful stomp right next to her head, launching her upward. Her launched body floated for a few seconds and I grabbed her legs and tossed her behind me. Her body bounced up and I grabbed her again, but this time, tossed her above me and threw an upward kick while planting my hand on the ground. Surprisingly, she gripped my foot with both hands and exploded a large plume of pink fire on me. Next thing I knew, I was down again, with Crystal standing above me. I gripped the air tightly, forming a black lance of lightning and quickly lunged it at her. She dodged it with a simple lean to the left. I quickly turned my body and threw a spinning kick at her feet, causing her to stumble into the ground, causing a brief quake.

An exchange of fists, black lightning, and pink fire stormed the battlefield. Crystal's pink flames are quite powerful, but she's too reliant on using her pink flames. If I can utilize my superior agility, I can beat her quickly. What's strange is that she's still running and seems to be in peak condition, as if she's tireless. I have a feeling AZRAEL might be behind this replenishment.

"Look at you," she threw a body blow, temporarily stunning me, "A Household of Franklin? How?!"

"Why don't you just ask nicely?!" I grabbed her neck with my left hand and threw multiple body blows.

I engulfed my final fist with electricity and threw it into her gut. Her hand blocked it, but I threw my head at hers, knocking her away. She really needs to work on CQC.

"Well, if you're so nosy, how about telling me about YOUR King Vessel?"

Kristina's View

Zalam is usually... eccentric with her creations. First of all, she was the one who developed extremely advanced technology, some of them involving magic with technology. She managed to get a great sample of Anima's blood, which she reproduces through genetic cloning. If she has this blood, she can cast extremely amplified Life Magic to not only heal people, but also bring people back from the dead. Because our soldiers are strong enough to face the already primitive armies of this world, we only hand-picked the best, the beautiful, and the most nasty of dead men. Her greatest and latest invention is the Sin Engine, a nanomachine program that can force a Djinn to serve a person. Living up to its name, the Sin Engine requires a certain Sin to fuel the Engine. Hakuryuu is one of our only living creations, with him utilizing Wrath. My good friend, Serket, is soon to be a recipient of the Sin Engine. Her Lust for Ramses is strong. Her zombie strength plus two Djinns can make her quite a force to be reckoned with. A strong lady like her needs a Djinn from a strong person.

"Hello, Kristina~," a cheery voice said.

I turned to see my master. Elegant, eccentric, and happy as usual. A small smile formed from my lips.

"Hello Lay," I said.

"Well then, what are you doing by the Observation Deck?" she asked.

"I'm watching my friend fight my old friend's Household," I pointed at the screen, showing a birds eye view of a gigantic Crystal fighting a girl with dark hair and serpentine features.

"Oh, so that's Franklin's Household," she commented, "She's quite strong in close quarters."

"Crystal may not have technique, but she sure has passion and determination to fight for her friends," I said, "She may spit out a few taunts, but she's a strong fighter nonetheless."

Leila (I prefer it over Zalam) smiled warmly and looked at the screen again.

"Well, I'll cheer her on, but remember you also have a mission to attend to,"

"Yes."

Amelia's View

"Household Vessel, Ahmar Selseila!"

Her necklace's chains erupted into tentacles and she began shooting them at me. Some of them managed to impale my arms, causing my blood to boil from the extreme heat the ends of the chains produced. She glared at me and reeled me in. She drew back her fist and did some sort of backhanded fist as if she was Bruce Lee. The pain of the chains was relieved, but my wounds were still open. I gritted my feet into the ground from the knock back and retaliated with a knife formed from black lightning.

"Household Vessel: Kahraba Khanjar!"

I stabbed her shoulder and sent a large surge of electricity into her. She experienced extreme shock from the pure power of my black lightning. As soon as the full voltage was put on her, I backed away from her and put my hand on the wounds of my arm. I can still feel some of the extreme heat from the pink flames. Despite that, I'm still strong enough to move.

She seems to be downed and exhausted. I was about to strike her down with a stomp, but she held my foot and lifted it up, causing me to trip. I fell on my back, causing a quake.

"I'm not going to lose to you," she looked extremely pissed.

She started to stomp continuously on me. My chest hurt so much from those stomps. What caused her to be enraged like this?

"You really think that I'd lose to you?!" she continued her frenzy upon me, "Why are you even friends with such a loser? He never spoke, he wasn't a jock, and all he did was watch anime and read those stupid manga!"

The pain is unbearable. Physically, of course. I've been with Frank for a year, and she thinks I don't know who he is? How does she think I became his Household? Sucking his dick?!

"You probably blew him just to get hi-"

"PROBABLY"

I grabbed her leg and threw her down. I threw a dropping elbow to her chest, causing her to spew out blood from her mouth.

"What do you know about him? He was never at your school, why are you showing such ill will toward him?" I mounted on top of her and kept throwing fists at her face.

"You think he has no friends?"

*smack!*

"You think he's useless?!"

*pow!*

"WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK HE IS?!"

Her eyes were dilated from my comeback. This girl just irks me so much. She thinks she knows all about my friend. I was about to throw my fist into her bloodied face, but I was pushed away by another pink meteor. This time, it was smaller, but much more powerful.

"Don't you dare hurt my friend!" she said.

I was knocked back into the ground, causing a crater to be made as well as a small quake. On top of me was a human sized girl with a pink fire dragon surrounding her neck. She wore rather skimpy yet "rich" clothing. This girl is the Metal Vessel user of Amy!

"Who would have thought that you, a girl, could actually be a Household Vessel of Franklin," she sighed, "Well, I really wished you were my Household, otherwise I would do THIS!"

The noise of thunder was heard, the girl in scanty clothing grappled by a man clad in black lightning. He pushed her into a rocky hill, destroying it and creating a large crater. The smoke cleared and revealed a man with two scissor blades.

He wears some sort of Buddhist-styled robes colored in black and green, with his left sleeve being the only sleeve. His right arm is fully exposed, revealing black scales, toned with a lime green similar to his eyes. Three large spikes protruded out of his shoulder, and his forearms have turned into black gauntlets with green trims, surging with black electricity. His hair has gained a green fade at the tips of his hair as well as being noticeably spikier. His pants are black with green metallic skulls as knee pads. The top part of the skull acted as his knee-pad, while the jaw hung on his upper shin, where it's close to the knee. His black boots have now changed into green metallic boots. Most of his legs are covered by a long green and black robe coming from his main torso article. On both arms, he wore a bangle, each connected to each other through a long green ribbon-like cloth. Franklin's scissor swords now resemble large kitchen scissor halves rather than two curved blades. The blunt edges of each blade have green spikes protruding out of it, and the hole where the axle is suppose to be is now replaced with green gems each with the eight pointed star symbol. Franklin, my King Vessel, friend, and unrequited love interest, is in full Djinn Equip.

Franklin's View

This lady, I've seen her before. She has that same relaxed face, but now much more forlorn and angry.

This girl is wearing a pink fabric strip that goes diagonally downward her chest, covering her left breast, as well as connecting to her pink right sleeve. A white fabric strip crosses under her pink diagonal tube top, going the opposite diagonal direction and covering her right breast. Her hips and abdominal area are wrapped by pink fishnets. She wears a short white skirt that reaches up to her upper-middle thighs. She wears a light pink garterbelt that connects to her light pink knee high stockings, veiled by moderate pink heeled boots. She wears some sort of golden choker and three golden necklaces that transition from smallest to largest, each with pink diamonds. Her hair is colored pink, with white hair ornaments on her bangs. Her arms are splattered with glowing pink veins, and her hands are covered in pink armor. On her right hand, a pink estoc with a guard with fiery motifs was held.

"Hey Franklin," she said with a sultry voice, "Do you remember me?"

"Kristina?! Are you in cahoots with AZRAEL?"

She nodded simply as she floated toward me. She seemed to want to talk to me at a closer scale. I kept my guard up, but didn't show it physically.

"Why so serious about this? Aren't you glad to see me?" she said as she held my chin, "Don't you miss me?"

I politely pushed off her hand, much to her surprise. She's my childhood crush, and even I see her on my FaceBook sometimes. She's beautiful, true, but being with AZRAEL may have corrupted her.

"No... and I'm pretty sure you're expecting that kind of answer," I said calmly.

"Looks like you learned to move on, huh?"

"What, are you going for me now, now that I look like one of your many boyfriends you courted with?" I said calmly once again, much to her surprise.

"What's not to like about you?" she put her left hand, her soft gentle left hand on my chest.

"You're a King Vessel, you're quite toned, and..." she inched her face close to mine, "You're one of the first people who talked to me you know."

I had a little blush, but I still overcame her lustrous beauty through a gentle push. I sighed and finished her stream of compliments with a dam of truth.

"But I don't love you,"

*CLANG!*

She attempted to swing at me with her rapier, but I blocked with my other blade. Her eyes seemed dilated and furious, compared to my calm yet serious face. I kicked her away and reversed the grip of my right hand sword. The guard of my sword extended outward while keeping its curve, revealing a hook. The hook separated from my handle, tethered by a magnetic chain. I did a quick spin and swung the hook outward, grabbing Kristina and pulling her to me. She yelped as she was pulled closer to me. I threw her down to the ground and dove toward her. I quickly threw an extremely quick meteor attack, using a dropping punch, supported by both dark lightning and my scissor blades. When I hit the ground, a massive lightning bolt shot into the ground and created a large crater. My swords impaled the ground, and I was doing a sort of martial arts pose after I threw a flying chop to the ground. I realized that she wasn't impaled by my blades. I heard a fire erupting behind me, so I quickly dodged it and realized she was behind me.

"Nope."

I felt my back being slashed by an extremely hot sword. I can still stand from just one slash. I turned behind me and saw her attempting to stab me with her sword. I managed to dodge most of them before I retaliated with a lightning field. In case she creates doppelgangers, I need some large ass AOE. She got paralyzed from the shock, giving me time to swing her abdomen. She fell down to the ground and disappeared into flames. I sensed her sneaking behind me, but I secretly extended my blade into a whip, shooting it to the ground and erupting behind me, hitting her chest. I turned my body toward her and pointed my right hand sword at her, splitting open to reveal a vial of black electricity. Two thick lightning bolts danced around with each other, one being red, the other being green.

"Kahraba Lawn Sei"

Two large beams of electricity completely consumed her body in pitch black lightning. This isn't my strongest magic, but this power is enough to weaken strong opponents into submission. I managed to expect her to disappear into a pink flame, probably trying to attack me from somewhere else. I extended both blades and magnetically controlled them to orbit around me, acting as a barrier. A clang was heard above me, so I commanded the blades to ensnare her. I threw my palm into her head and began absorbing her Magoi. I'm surprised that she's human and has a high amount of Magoi; possibly on par with Sinbad's.

"GRRRGH!" I felt something immoblizing me. I got out of my Djinn Equip as soon as I got hit by a strange bullet.

"FRANKLIN!" Amelia shouted.

Kristina smiled and transformed back into human form. She wore her usual white shirt with black yoga pants. A pair of sneakers covered her feet. Her Metal Vessel is a simple balisong. I suddenly saw three more people appearing beside her: A female sniper, a man in a robot suit, and a man holding two pistols.

"You have such an interesting Djinn~" the sniper said, "Who knew that a loser like you would end up like this."

"If you're wondering if Nila is involved, she has 0% involvment," the leader said.

He aimed a pistol at me, shooting a silenced shot. It stung, but I found myself sinking into sleep.

"Amelia..."

A month later.

Someone's View

After that little training session, I gripped my new staff: a smooth metallic pole dyed in my favorite color: yellow. The ends of the pole have metallic red orbs, used for discharging my magic. You see, I'm a pretty capable magician, but through training in my mind, I managed to master this quite easily. My new goal is to gather up my friends and prepare for what Holly and Yunan predicted: a world-wide war. AZRAEL's influence is increasing as if it was an infection; a black plague.

Holly told me to go to the Kou Empire, where Amihiha and Ramses are currently in. Casually riding on my magic carpet, it was nightfall, so I just let it fly me while I took a rest. Little did I know, a certain magician would bar my progress.

"Hey, so you're that Magi from the other world?" the black haired exhibitionist said.

I woke up and saw that man. Judar. He has the looks most girls would kill for. I have different tastes; I don't prefer malicious and nasty men like him.

"So, what? What do you want, Judar?"

"What the hell are you doing here?" he asked calmly, yet with a snarky tone.

"I'm trying to visit my friends here. What's your problem?"

He smiled an evil grin and formed an ice giant that resembled a Black Djinn behind him. He pointed his wand at me, commanding the Ice Giant to charge at me.

"Why do you even want to fight?"

"Heh, you have such an interesting power, I just want to see if I can kill you,"

I smiled too and raised my staff. A giant golem made of stone rose out of the ground and clashed with the ice giant. Judar raised his brow from my magic.

"Heh, this is the same magic that chibi used," Judar said with a cocky smile, "What makes you so different?!"

The sound of shattering was heard, as the Judar's Ice Giant's arm was destroyed from the hand of the rock monster.

"One big difference is..." the rock monster spoke; his voice being deep.

"What?! You can talk?!" Judar shouted.

The rock monster headbutted the ice giant. Judar grunted in pain as he felt his Magoi get drained from the damage the giant absorbed.

"You're giant is but a puppet of your Magoi, while I'm..." he reeled in his fist and threw a devastating punch through the ice giant, "Truly living."

I floated on top of my monster's head.

"Thanks Erde," I said as I pet him.

"Being a piece of Earth is boring," he commented.

"Thalg Al Salos!"

Ice bolts rained down on us heavily. I went into combat position, but a huge slab of ground already blocked the projectiles. Gaias was the one who blocked it.

"I've got your back," Erde said.

"Thanks for the help, Erde, but I can handle this by myself right now," I leapt off of Erde's head and charged at Judar straightforward.

"What the hell are you doing?" he fired a blue beam of concentrated liquid hydrogen.

I dodged it by doing a front flip. As soon as I front flipped, I was already close to Judar. I threw my staff down at his Borg, which managed to cause a slight dent.

"Heh, trying to fight close, huh?" Judar said with a smile, "I prefer having some space."

His Borg's aura turned cyan, shooting out ice spikes around him. I managed to fly away from the spikes in time. As I was a good distance away, I raised my staff and formed five orbs. One was blue, having water jets orbiting around it. Another orb is coloured orange, engulfed in fire. Another being yellow, this time emitting a bright light. The fourth one is white, having a small tornado surrounding it. The fifth one was purely black, with an eerie purple glow.

"Zorlf Qathra," Judar was soon dropped down to the ground by a gravitational pull to the ground.

He landed with his Borg absorbing the fall. Before he could get up, I was already close, lunging my staff into his shield. He was pushed back a little from my strike. I made my staff float in front of me and tether to me as I dashed to him. I grabbed the staff and used the end pointing at the ground to uppercut his Borg. Judar was too focused on keeping up his Borg from my strikes; I don't plan on letting him counter attack. I shot a white orb toward him, creating a large tornado as soon as it hit him, launching him high. He's still in his Borg. He pointed his wand at me.

"Thalg Rasas!" a series of ice spheres were summoned behind him and he launched all of them at me.

"This is why I'm starting to hate generic magicians," I said with a sigh.

Erde's fist rose in front of me, blocking the ice balls. He uncurled his hands, revealing his palm. I jumped on it and leapt toward Judar. My black orb went infused itself into one of my staff's orbs, dying it a deep purple. I threw an overhead swing with my staff on Judar's shield. A little black orb was left on his shield as I front flipped over him. A black explosion was left in my wake. I'm not sure how strong his Borg is, but I'm sure he might sustain some injury.

I looked behind me and saw Judar with a rabid smile on his face. He laughed wildly from the performance.

"Wow, you sure are an interesting girl. I won't kill you when I beat you, I'll force you on a DATE!"

I sighed from his crazed laughter. Guess I have no choice but to fight him. I entered a martial arts pose I learned from Anima. I entered a generic orthodox stance, my left hand being forward, and my right hand being in the back. My left hand had my palm pointing forward and my other hand having a claw-like formation. My staff floated behind me, as if it was a sheathed sword. My orbs remained in a slightly clumped group, floating behind me. Magicians these days are all about chanting and spell casting. It's time I showed 'em magic meant for combat.

A/N

Well, it's Saturday, and I wasn't typing yesterday due to it being my Birthday. Also, I'm way too immersed in Dark Souls 2; I think I'm only like 1/3 done. So yeah, for the next two weeks, it's Spring Break, so I'm going to be on a two week Hiatus. Not much to say, but maybe I might plan a Dark Souls fic if I feel like it.

As always, thank you for reading, and review if you want to. See you in two weeks~.

As for Manga readers, I'm just in love with Falan, she's probably my favourite of Solomon's group, mostly because she has the largest breasts :P. My favourite male character is a tie between Ithnan and Ugo (he friggin' looks like a hipster).