SBS Time!
Kite Lanford: If the other 6 weapons are not made by the Hands, are they made by humans?
Game2002: The origins of those 6 aren't exactly known, though it is safe to assume that humans with strong magical powers made them, thus making them as powerful as the other two which are made by the powerful Hand Family.

SlashMask: What is the difference between your interpretation of Negima series and the original manga?
Game2002: Negi's status as a mage is known to his whole class rather than only selected ones. Since this world is full of supernatural stuffs, there shouldn't be any reason for him to hide his real identity.

Chapter 5
I will not give you anything! Let's take down this sorceress together!


"What do you want from me?" Negi asked Cackletta. "If I have something that you want that much, I'll give it to you! Let go of my students! They're innocent! And where are they?"

"You really do care about your students, don't you?" Cackletta said. "They're over there." She pointed to the side to show him a blue see-through dome where Nodoka, Yue, Ku Fei, and Kazumi were imprisoned.

"Negi sensei!" they cried.

"Everyone!" Negi gasped. "Don't worry; I'll get you out soon! And… why are you all naked…?"

Nodoka and Yue were the only ones that felt embarrassed and tried to cover themselves with their arms but the other two didn't seem to mind all that much. "We were ambushed while in bath!" Kazuma replied.

Suddenly, the three slimy puddles formed out of nowhere from the floor in front of Negi and they molded themselves into the form of little girls, though they were only eight inches tall (as tall as Kirby).

"We were the ones who captured them," said the one with twin ponytails. "We are the Slime Sisters. My name is Slime by the way."

"I'm Amee," the one with eyeglasses said.

"I'm Pudding," said the last one, which had long hair that reached the floor. "Your students are now imprisoned in a special barrier that can only be broken by strong level magic. Be happy that we weren't given the order to dissolve them."

"Geheheh! As you can see, your students are all right at the moment!" Cackletta said to Negi. "You better comply with me properly or else…"

"What is it that you want?" Negi asked her.

"There is only one thing that I want from you, and that is… your blood!"

Negi was surprised at this, as well as the four girls. "Why do you want my blood?" Negi asked.

"Your ancestors were the ones that extracted the spirit of the Cruncher from its body and sealed it away, right? The sealing magic used is a very powerful one and it cannot be unsealed using any sort of known magic. However, after intensive research, I have found that it is possible to unseal the spirit from its container and let it run free once again. And that method is to dip the container in the blood of the people who sealed it. Since your ancestors have obviously died all those years, the blood of their descendents will also do. How convenient that one of their descendents would be standing right in front of my eyes right now! Therefore I'm going to extract your blood and then use it to release the spirit from its container!"

"I won't let you do that!" Negi shouted furiously. "My ancestors fought hard to destroy the evil monster, so as their descendent; I will not allow you to ruin their efforts! Plus, the body of the Cruncher is no more, so there is no point even if you free the spirit!"

"I'm aware of this, so I had my followers go look for the body," Cackletta told him, much to his surprise. "I have every reason to believe that the body of the Cruncher is still hidden somewhere in the continent of Elibe. Very soon, they will be able to find the body of the Cruncher and then I will return its soul to it. After that, I will make the monster fall under my control and with its power at my disposal; I can easily take over the world! Geheheheheh!"

"You villain!" Negi said angrily. "I will stop you!" He rushed forward but immediately the Slime Sisters leaped at him to attack. He countered by swinging his staff at them and knocked them away, but they didn't look like they were hurt by it.

"Physical attacks won't work on us!" Amee said. "We don't have a definite body after all!"

The slimes jumped back from being swatted to the floor and then leaped at him again. Negi gripped his staff tightly and was about to chant an incantation to use a spell when Amee quickly grabbed onto his staff and then Slime hit the staff from below and knocked it away into the air and it landed a few yards away. "My staff!" he gasped.

"Western mages like you are in a disadvantage if you do not have a partner to protect you while you chant incantations for your spell," Slime said. "And we have the number advantage here to take you down!"

Negi got into a kung-fu position and decided to go with close range combat instead. When the slimes approached, he did a palm thrust using his right hand and released a burst of energy that blew them back again. The slimes then ran off in separate directions and tried to close in on him from three sides. Negi quickly leaped up to avoid getting hit and then rushed at them when they collided (and fused) with each other accidentally and attacked them with fists and kicks covered in magical energy.

Despite taking all these hits however, the slimes weren't harmed in any way other then being bounced backwards, and then they charged in for the second attempt again. Negi got into fighting stance to take on them again, but he suddenly noticed an energy ball fired at him from above, and he quickly leaped out of the way. "Taste my fury, you brat of foolishness that refuse to comply with the greatness that is my master Cackletta!" Fawful said. From the air, Fawful's headgear kept on shooting green energy balls at him from the tube-like mouthpiece. Negi ran and jumped around to avoid getting shot.

While he was busy avoiding them, the three slimes leaped at him again and he quickly repelled them with a roundhouse kick and then immediately jumped out of the way to avoid another blast from Fawful. "They're all coming after me together…" he thought. "I'm really at a disadvantage…"

"Geheheheh! You're very good for a kid!" Cackletta said. "But I don't believe how much further you can resist!" She snapped her finger and then a ball of electricity suddenly formed out of thin air above Negi. A lightning bolt dropped down from it but he barely leaped aside to avoid it. However, he failed to avoid an energy ball fired from Fawful and was blasted under the feet and blown back.

"Ow!"

"Gaha!" Cackletta snapped her finger again to form another thunder ball above him. This time he was unable to escape and was zapped badly by the thunderbolts.

ZAAAAAAAAAAP!!!!!

"AAAAAAHHHH!!!"

"NEGI SENSEI!!!!" gasped the girls.

As Negi knelt down with burnt marks all over him, Cackletta walked up to him and said, "There is nothing you can do now! If you let me take some of your blood quietly, I will allow you to get away alive!"

"I will… never… give you any!" he replied angrily.

"If that's the case, I will also kill you so that you will not interfere with me again!" Cackletta lifted her arm and magical energy started to form at her palm.

Suddenly, a pair of vines caught her by that arm much to her surprise and she was yanked towards the source of the vine forcefully. "What the heck!?"

She thought she saw herself being pulled towards a frog-like creature with a flower on its back, and then a mustachioed guy appeared in front of her and gave her a sock across the face.

POW!!!

The vines let go of her arm and she tumbled across the floor. "Your nastiness!" Fawful gasped in shock. Everyone turned to look in the direction of the entrance and saw Mario, Red, and a Venusaur standing there. "Treat a little kid nicer, can you?" Red said.

Negi recognized those people and said, "It's you guys!"

Cackletta got up and rubbed the part of the face that got hit by Mario and said, "Tsk! You're the ones that showed up to take out Dragohoho! How did you guys find us here?!"

"We just-a happened to see da kid coming over here and we were curious," Mario replied. "And we heard-a da part-a where you said about-a wanting to use hiz blood to free da spirit!"

"And we're definitely not going to let you do that!" Red added

Mario turned to Negi and said to him, "Don't-a worry; we're on your side! We'll help-a you!"

"Thanks! Just when I needed help!" Negi said to them.

-

Back at the hotel, Chamo was pacing left and right across the floor and was very worried about Negi. There was a knock on the door and Asuna's voice could be heard. "Negi, are you in there? Open up for a minute!"

Chamo panicked and said to her, "He's busy at the moment! He's… taking a bath!"

"Oh, I see… I'll come back after… Wait a minute… Negi doesn't like baths! How can he be taking one?"

"He's using the toilet! Yeah, that's it! He's using the toilet! He can't open the door now and I don't know how to open the door too!"

"You sound nervous…"

"You're just hearing things…"

"Are you hiding something from me?"

"What are you talking about? I'm not hiding anything from you! Can you come back later?"

"Hmmm… Fine then…"

"Phew…"

-

Asuna was about to return to her room when two random people came walking past her and one of them was saying, "I swear! I saw someone taking off into the air sitting on a stick!"

"You mean you saw a witch?" the other guy said.

"I think so…"

Hearing this, Asuna rushed back to the door and pounded on it shouting loudly, "Chamo! Open the door at once! Negi isn't inside, right?!"

-

"Anyone who gets in my way shall die!" Cackletta lifted her arm and launched a thunderbolt in the direction of both Smashers but they quickly leaped out of the way. "I'll help-a Negi!" Mario said to Red. "You try to rescue da girls!"

"Count on me!" Red said. "Saur, let's go!"

"You're not having things your way!" the Slime Sisters said, and they jumped at the Pokemon trainer to stop him. Saur quickly turned to them and lashed his vines at the slimes and swatted them away, but they merely hit the floor with a splash before getting back up again.

Red ran up to the front of the blue dome while Saur was dealing with them, but when he found out that the girls were all naked, his face turned red (like his name) and quickly looked away in embarrassment. "Yikes! Sorry for looking!"

Saur continued to deal with the slimes, but Pudding managed to slip away from the Venusaur's sight and then sneaked up to Red from behind and forcefully pushed him right through the dome and inside.

"Hey!"

"Now you're also trapped inside!" Pudding said. "You can go into this dome but not come out!"

"Damn you!" Red growled as he got up, and he saw Kazumi right underneath him while the other three were standing next to him with surprised faces. "Um…"

"I know you're enjoying this…" Kazumi said with a blushing face, "but would you mind taking your hands off…?"

Red realized that he had fallen on top of her and both his hands were grabbing onto her breasts. He quickly backed off and looked away while apologizing over and over. "I'M SORRY!!! I DIDN'T MEAN IT!!!"

Meanwhile, Mario and Negi took on Cackletta together. The plumber rushed up to the sorceress and did a sliding kick, but Cackletta hovered backwards very fast to dodge it and launched a thunderbolt at him. Mario reacted fast and pushed himself off the floor and into the air to avoid it and then spun vertically in midair for a few seconds by unleashing a flying kick in her direction.

Cackletta moved out of the way but then Negi charged up to him and slammed a fist covered in magical energy forward. She quickly pulled her cloak in front of her and softened the impact. "This cloak can absorb magical spells as well as physical attacks to a certain extent!" she explained. "Don't think you can beat me so easily even if there are the two of you fighting me at the same time!"

She fired another thunderbolt at Negi and he quickly leaped out of the way and held up to fingers in front of himself and said, "17 Arrows of Light!" Then 17 glowing light balls appeared behind him and they shot forward like laser beams. Cackletta quickly blocked the incoming attacks with her cloak again and managed to protect herself.

"I thought you can only use spells with your staff?"

"That's not entirely true. I can still use certain spells without it!"

Mario ran up to Cackletta from the side and threw a punch at her but she quickly hovered out of the way and then lifted her arms and a swarm of bats came out from underneath her sleeves and charged at him. "Mamamia!" Mario cried. He quickly shielded himself from the bats using his arms as they flew around to try and bite him.

Negi ran over to Mario to help him but some of the bats went over to him and started to harass him also. As he covered his face from the attack of the bats, he suddenly felt his nose itching, and then he unleashed a sneeze that whipped up a strong gale. "ACHOOOOO!!!!!!!"

The bats were all blown away along with the ones that were harassing Mario and they disappeared afterwards. Mario was also sent rolling across the place a few yards before coming to the stop, and he said, "What-a happened?!"

Negi rubbed his nose and said, "Sorry, but that always happens whenever I sneeze…"

"Watch-a outta!"

Cacklettle appeared behind Negi and she had her hand raised up and covered his magical energy. "Die!" she shouted. She brought down her hand but Negi quickly countered by slamming his palm into hers. When their hands came in contact, there was a burst of energy and they both leaped back some steps. "Tsk! You're starting to annoy me, kid!"

"And he's not-a fighting alone!" Mario added. "We both are going to take-a you down together!"

Meanwhile, Red and the girls were all stuck inside the dome and Red pounded against the dome wall from inside rapidly to try and break out while Saur continued to put up an effortless fight against the Slime Sisters. "Dammit! How do you get out of here!" he shouted.

"It's useless!" Amee explained while still fighting Saur. "The dome can only be broken by strong magic or if it becomes too crowd inside, and then it will burst due to being unable to contain everyone. But of course, five of you inside aren't enough to be considered crowded, so there's nothing you can do to escape!"

Red suddenly came up with an idea when he heard. Without turning his head to the girls, he said, "Okay, I'm going to get you all out of here right now."

"What are you going to do?" Yue asked.

"Crowd up this place," Red replied, and he reached his hand to his Pokeball.

The slimes continued to leap at Saur and pounded him from all sides of his body at fast speeds and the Venusaur was having a hard time trying to hit them with his whips, and even if they do hit, the slimes were immune to the blows. Suddenly, they were all surprised by the sound of some breaking apart, and the slimes turned to where the dome was and were surprised to see that it had been destroyed and there was a Snorlax standing at where the dome used to be. "What?!" they gasped.

The girls and Red were lying down on the floor next to Snorlax and Red got up and said, "You said this dome will break if it can no longer contain the things that are inside, right? Guess what, I have Pokemon of large sizes with me that are too big for this dome to contain."

"Uh oh, they broke the dome," Slime said.

"But they cannot do anything to us. We will just dissolve them all then!" Pudding said.

Red got out a Pokeball and used it to call back Saur, and then he commanded for Lax to charge in for the attack. The Snorlax ran towards the slime and jumped up to do a body slam. He fell onto the slimes and crushed them against the ground really hard.

SLAM!

Lax got up and moved back to reveal splattered puddles on the floor, but they instantly reformed themselves again. "Told you that it's no use," Amee said. "Physical attacks won't do anything to us!"

"Oh really?" Red said. "Then how about this?" He got out another Pokeball and sent out Pika this time. "Use Thunderbolt, Pika!" The Pikachu ran forward and released electricity in every direction and the slimes were all zapped by it badly.

ZAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!!!!!

"YEOW!!!" And they were knocked out at the floor from the zapping.

"This numbing feeling… Electric…" Amee cried.

"Works best on liquid entities like us…" Pudding continued.

"Haha! Guess you guys are really unlucky to run into me!" Red said to them.

"Mr. Red, watch out!" Nodoka shouted to him. "Above you!"

"Uh?" Red looked up and saw an energy ball flying towards him. But Lax quickly pulled his trainer out of the way and took the energy ball to his own face instead..

BANG!

"Whoa! Lax, are you all right?" Red asked him, but the Snorlax was fine.

"You brat! The hostages who are like fish ready to be thrown into the boiling water have escaped thanks to a fink rat that is you!" said Fawful, who was hovering up in the air. "I have fury!"

"Wanna take on me?" Red taunted. "Bring it!"

-

Meanwhile, Asuna and Chamo were running through the street as fast as they could. "Why didn't you tell me about this?!" Asuna asked. "This is a serious situation! He's going to get himself into danger!"

"The letter said for him to come alone," Chamo replied. "That's why he went alone and told me not to tell anyone…"

"You should at least tell me! Anyway, where is he?"

"I think we're getting near! He's supposed to be at a stadium or something like that."

-

"Hiya!" Mario kept on throwing punches and kicks at Cackletta who hovered slightly off the floor left to right at a fast speed to avoid getting hit. She swung her arm at him and unleashed an energy blade that Mario managed to avoid by ducking down. She brought down her hand over him next but Mario quickly rolled aside and then did a sweep kick, but Cackletta hovered higher to avoid it.

"Take this!" Cackletta made a thunder ball appear over Mario and it dropped a thunderbolt at him. Mario barely got out of the way to avoid the attack. Mario then jumped at her with one hand pulled back and then swung down his fist at her very hard, but Cackletta zipped behind him very fast to avoid the attack and then smacked him in the back of his body and made him fall down face first.

"Doh!"

"Geheh! Now for the kid!" Cackletta said. She turned around to see Negi charging at him and quickly dashed out of the way to avoid a punch by him. Cackletta attacked him with an energy blade but he bent down and rolled forward to safety and quickly turned to her and thrust both his arms forward and released a burst of energy from his hands. Even though she moved back, Cackletta was still struck in the stomach by an invisible force and she crashed across the floor. "OOOF!!!"

"You're good!" Mario said after getting back up.

"I had Chinese martial art lessons from one of my students," Negi told him while glancing in Ku Fei's direction, and she waved back happily.

"You're really not just-a a simple kid!"

"You're very strong yourself too!"

"Yeah, though some of my friends are still several times stronga than me."

Cackletta got back up and held her hand over her stomach and said, "Curse you, brat! You've really pissed me off this time! I'm going make the both of you regret this!" She lifted up both hands and they glowed with yellow light. This caused several thunder balls to show up in the air above Mario and Negi and thunderbolts began shooting down from them.

The duo panicked and ran and jumped around to avoid getting zapped, but the numbers of thunderbolts were too much so they were eventually zapped by some of them.

"Geheheh! I'm not giving you a chance to fight back!" Cackletta then pointed at the floor and a black beam shot out from her finger and became a black spot on the floor, and the spot traveled over to Mario who had been knocked down by a thunderbolt. When the black spot went underneath Mario, he fell into it as if it were a hole.

"Waaaa!"

The black spot floated into the air and became a black ball, and then bounced up and down in place over and over and then shook around in air for a few times before disappearing, and then Mario fell back out and was badly beaten up. "Doh…"

"Mario! Are you all right?" Negi asked him.

"You don't have time to worry about yourself!" Cackletta said as she sent out another black spot after him.

Negi quickly jumped up to dodge it but the black spot flew into the air to go after him. It was about to touch him when Mario quickly jumped at Negi to push him away, and he got caught by the black spot and found himself facing some bouncing and shaking again before being released onto the floor. "Doh…" Negi ran up to him in concern again but Mario told him, "Don't-a worry about-a me; I can still stand. Watch out yourself however!"

"He's right! You have no time to care about other people other than yourself!" Cackletta said.

Negi turned to her angrily and then reached into his pant pocket and whipped out a wand with a star at the tip. "You're going too far with this! I'm going to defeat you!"

"Nice toy you've got there, kid. But I can tell that it's a magical artifact!"

"17 Arrows of Thunder!" Negi pointed the wand at her and electricity appeared all around him before launching forward in the form of 17 thunderbolts.

Cackletta quickly protected herself using his cloak and after the spell ended, her body turned black and basically became a blob that multiplied itself into several pieces and each of the blobs transformed into a replicate of the evil sorceress herself. "Geheheh! Which one is the real me? Can you guess?" said all them together.

"A body duplication spell!" Negi thought. "I'll just attack of them then!" He used the same attack again and the thunderbolts struck all five of them at once. The bodies exploded when they were hit but all of them transformed into bats afterwards that flew at him. "What?! None of them are the real one?!"

The bats flew around and tried to bite him, but then Mario ran into the scene with one hand on fire and swung it across the air and burned down a number of bats and scared away some of them. "How did you go that?" Negi asked him.

The fire died down and Mario showed him his hand saying, "Gloves made-a with parts of a fire flower!"

Suddenly, a black hole appeared underneath Negi and Cackletta's hand reached out from their and caught him by one leg and started to pull him down. "Ya!"

"Geheheheh! You're mine!" Cackletta said from below.

"Let-a him go!" Mario said, and he kicked the sorceress's hand and made her let go.

"Yeow!"

Mario threw a fireball into the hole before it closed and the hole reappeared in front of them and Cackletta leaped out with her head on fire. "Ow! Put out the fire! Good kids don't play with fire!"

Mario then charged up to her and gave her a blow to the chin using a fiery uppercut and she was knocked up into the air and fell back down several feet away on her head.

BANG!

Cackletta crawled back again and growled, "Argh! You've really done it this time!"

"O Great Cackletta…" said Fawful.

"What is it?" she asked. She turned to him and saw him trembling in fear as Red called out all his Pokemon and they were looking down at him with evil glares.

"My legs… They are trembling like jelly… Jelly that is the flavor of beans…" he said while trembling violently.

"Scared, aren't you?" Red said with his arms crossed in front of his body.

"Forgive my words as I fear that I am about to speak what should not be said! I fear that our condition right now is at the worst of the worst. In front of me are eyes of awfulness that are piercing into my soul in the same manner as that overused fad and your greatness is now being trampled on by two annoying fink rats in the form of a kid and a mustachioed plumber in red!"

"I'm not going to give up here!" Cackletta growled angrily. "I can still fight and I will show them not to mess with me!" She turned to Mario and saw the plumber running up him. "Take this!" She swung her arm and unleashed a cutting wave but Mario jumped up to dodge it and then landed a blow into her face. "Doh!"

POW!

Mario then held his right arm to the side and a ball of fire was created at the palm and started charging. "Eetz yours, Negi!" Mario shouted to him, and then he leaped out of the way while Negi ran forward.

Holding one hand over his head, he chanted an incantation that caused electricity to form around his hand. When he was done, he brought down his hand very fast and shouted out loud, "Thunder Axe!"

The electricity on his hand was thrown up into the air and it came crashing back down onto Cackletta, zapping her with high voltage electricity.

ZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!!!!!

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!" she screamed. After she was fried up by the lightning bolt, Mario ran at full speed towards the burnt sorceress and he had a ball of fire the size larger than a baseball in his hand.

"Take-a theez! Firebrand!" he shouted, and he slammed the fireball into the body of Cackletta and the ball of fire was shot forward and pushed the sorceress across the place really fast.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

She was pushed into the wall on the side of the arena and the ball of fire exploded.

KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!

"O GREAT CACKLETTA!!!!!" Fawful gasped in horror.

"Good one!" Red said with a smile. The girls were also amazed at what they saw.

When the smoke cleared, the wall was torn down and Cackletta was lying on the pile of rubbles all beaten up and burnt up almost beyond recognition.

Negi held up a fist in triumph while Mario jumped and punched the air saying, "We did-a eet!"

TO BE CONTINUED

I hope I pulled off this fight well enough. And before you ask, this IS NOT the end of the story yet. It's not anywhere near the end, so don't get any wrong ideas.