WolfGear Presents: Negima? The mage and the Gunslinger
Pairings: Negi X ku-Fei Kaede X OC
Chapter seven: Journey to library Island!
I don't own Negima!
A mouth as past since the vampire incident and things where finally settling down for our heroes. Jack and Kaede have been officially been declared a couple, their 'dates' usually consisted of the them alone in the woods training, with an occasional heated make out secession at the end of the day, Jack even started showing Kaede the basics of fire magic, but so far they have made little progress. But they have made great progress with their artifacts.
Kaede figured out that her rosary beads could be used as whips and fire energy blasts, the latter drained her energy far too quickly for her tastes. Jack's artifact it turns out were actually exploding swords, he could activate the explosives by clapping his hands or snapping his fingers. Overall they have been having a very good time.
As for Negi and Fei-Ku their relationship hasn't developed as far as their friends, though it was getting there. The two continued to train together in the morning and afternoons, in the evenings Negi would give Fei-Ku private tutoring lessons to help with her poor English grade, by teaching her in Chinese; something that the martial Artist was truly grateful for. Right now though the two foreigners sat in Kaede's room discussing a very important topic.
"So Negi aren't those exams you told me about coming up soon? The exams that if you don't get your class above the last place spot you're fired right?" Jack asked fiddling with Mana's guns; he was making sure he got them back to 100% performance. He even went as far to order replacement parts from a friend of his in the US army and ordered some special mercury bullets from an independent company in England as they talked about the exam they never notice two certain Baka Rangers passing by the door.
"Negi-Bouzo is getting fired if we don't get out of last place?" Fei-Ku said in concern, looking to Kaede for guidance. The ninja waved her away from the door and pulled her down the hall to where the other members of the dummy force would be. "Come on, we'll discuss this with the others." She said dragging the martial artist down the hall.
"Yes, but I'm not worried. I'll just have to do my best like I should have done last time; hopefully there won't be any need to go to Library Island for that silly book." Negi said organizing today's lesson this time he wouldn't let the girl tick him in to letting them play for the whole day.
"Oh yeah, I almost forgot to tell you Negi. I'm going to be gone for the next few days." Jack said pulling on his trench coat then his satchel bag and the holster for his sawed off shotgun, which goes on his back.
"Really, where are you going?" Negi asked curious at where the cowboy could possibly be going.
"To Library Island" he said loving the look on the small teachers face "I heard rumor of a powerful artifacts stored down there and I'm going to get them!" before he forgot he placed Mana's gun in a box with the ammo he got for her and gave it to Negi. "Give that to Mana and make sure you get my guns back!" then he walks out the door, leaving Negi sitting there with a feeling of foreboding.
Meanwhile Kaede and Fei-Ku just got done explaining what would happen to Negi if they got last place again this year, to the rest of the Baka Ranger plus the library club.
"I believe our only chance is to go to Library Island and get the legendary magic book of spell." Yue (Baka Black) said taking another sip of her drink green tea and cola juice box. She then went on to explain on where the book supposedly was located and how dangerous it would be to get or if it even existed.
Kaede and Fei-Ku knowing that magic actually did exist, motioned for them to go find the book, with assistance of Konoka, Haruna, and Nodoka; who would help guide them from the surface viva radio. It took a little persuading to get Asuna to come along, but after arguing that there was a good chance that Takahata would not be their teacher even if Negi was fired; she reluctantly agreed to come along.
Negi was happy as he walked into class, he was going to give it his best and prove that he was good teacher without magic, though he noticed five certain sits were empty but brushed it off at them being late as he approached Mana's desk.
"Here you go Mana-san your guns." He said presenting the box to the mercenary, who in return handed over Jack's pistols and rifle. Which were conveniently hidden in a guitar case, after the two exchanged their packages Negi walks to the front of the room to address the class. He took attendance and noticed that the five members of the dummy force where still missing.
"Where are Fei-Ku, Kaede, Yue, Makie and Asuna?" He asked the class he noticed the members of the Library club wouldn't meet his eyes. Using an improved version of the mind reading spell that required no physical contact, he found his answers along with some disturbing images from Haruna and Ayaka that made him shutter.
"Ok, you girls start studying for the exams till the end of the period. Oh and Mana I'll be counting you to make sure they do." He ordered as he picked up the guitar case and walked out the door; leaving the class stunned and Mana happy as she jammed a clip of rubber bullets into her newly restored guns.
Negi walked back to his room, throwing open the door then slamming it shut. He walks over to the dresser that he kept his clothes and more importantly his battle outfit. Negi's pulled on his combat boot and cargo jean. Then his sleeveless t-shirt and a jacket, and grabbed the gun belt that Jack gave him as present after he learned how to shoot. Placing Jack's 45's in the holster along with some extra clips that Mana was kind enough to place in with the guns and finally placed the Winchester in the holster on his back. Now he was ready to get those girls out of there and hopefully not almost exposing himself as a wizard like he did last time.
Meanwhile with the Baka Rangers lead by Yue, where making good time thanks to the fact that someone already disabled all the traps, but their luck ran out as whoever was there before them took a different route, If the giant hole in the wall was anything to go by, but Yue just took it as a sign that the other adventurer wasn't after the book.
"Come on, just a bit further!" she said marching bravely on, with the others in tow.
Jack looked at the hole before him; after he blew that wall down earlier he came across some stairs that took him to some kind of Lake Bottom. He threw a flare down to see how for it went but it disappeared appeared almost instantly into the darkness.
"Well nothing left to do but to do it the old fashion way" he said pulling out his rope from his satchel bag, then summoned a small green flame that floated around him and began his climb his way down the shaft.
Negi ran down the floated hall ways as fast as he could, earlier he came across a hole in the wall which was most likely Jack, so he continued on past it. He was hoping that he would catch up with the girls before the golem appeared, but that was starting to look less and less likely.
They found it! The found the book of spells at last! It was up on the altar, right in front of them! They all ran towards it, happy to have been able to find it at last. It took them a little longer than planned because one! (Makie) had to keep touching the books triggering the traps! They were just able to the altar when Negi arrived.
"No Girls it's a trap!" He yelled just as they fell through the trap down onto the twister board.
Jack finally made it to the bottom of the hole and found himself in some sort of tomb, litter with bodies of dead Samurai still clad in their armor. Up on an altar stood what looked a samurai General and in front of him was a scroll.
"Must be what I'm looking for" Jack said to himself as he approached the altar, just as his hand was about to touch it a hand of rotten flesh grabbed his wrist. He looks at it and saw that it was the general who grabbed him; it eyes glowing red as it stared at him.
"Zombies huh" he drawled as the undead bodies grabbed the weapons they wielded in life and staggered towards him "And here I was hoping something interesting would happen." He said dully as if he was talking about the weather and not about to fight a horde of undead samurai. With skill and precision he drew his .357 pulled the trigger and got busy blowing every single zombie's head off!
Grabbing his sawed off from his back he fires a buck shot right into an attacking zombie's skull! Then spun around charging fire magic into his guns and fired scorching hot flames on the undead burning a majority of them live I mean dead again.
"Anyone else?" he asked as more zombies mourned as they arose out of their resting place. "Guess I shouldn't have asked huh" he said before he started slaughtering them again.
After Negi and the girls lost the game of twister thanks to Asuna, they were dropped down into the lake bottom with various bookshelves here and there. Right now what they were doing was looking down a long deep hole with a rope tied to a nearby rock. Deep down in the hole they could hear the moans of the undead, gunfire, and what Negi assumed was most likely Jack as they swearing gave him away.
"Yeah come and get some you undead motherfuckers! Take that you prick!" explosion "suck it!" more gunfire.
They decided to just stay away from the hole as far as they could, but as night drawled on they could still heard the noises echoing through the night. In the morning the sound where still coming out! But Negi with his fierce determination not lose his job pressed on!
"Ok girls I'm going to tutor you all on what going to be on your exam for the next three day then I'll get you out of here." he said cheerfully as screams of agony echoed from the hole. "And please ignore whatever is going on down there."
And so they hit the books though most (Makie) were going to be scared for life, after this at least they knew they wouldn't be responsible for Negi losing his Job.
Meanwhile back on the surface the class has been studying for the past 20 hours straight.
"For the love of god, Mana class ended hours ago, it even dark outside!" Ayaka yelled at the mercenary pointing out the window to prove her point. Mana just looked at the girl well polishing her gun, the fire right next the blondes head!
"Get back to studying Negi-Sensei said to study till the period was over and he has yet to return to dismiss us, which means nobody is going anywhere!" she said shooting the cheerleaders in the legs as they tried to rush the door "there's one door and we're on the third floor take your pick class president."
Back in the hole Jack finally killed all the zombies! He was about to take the scroll when loud moan echoed throughout the chamber, behind him was a giant ten foot zombie that crawled towards him.
"Oh come on! This better be the last one!" he shouted firing into the gaint undead's head. The shots did little more then leave six small holes in its skull. "Looks like I'm going to need a bigger gun." Jack said as he calmly rummaged through is satchel bag.
"Let's see here no, no, not that one, ah here it is!" He yelled victoriously, pulling out a Gatling gun! "Merry Christmas Motherfucker," He yelled firing the mini gun at the giant with flame empowered bullets.
It was day three, Negi and the girls prepared to leave, the noises finally died down sometime last night and they were relieve to have a peaceful night's sleep, but even that was too much to ask for as the gunfire pick up again this time louder than ever before!
"MAKE IT STOP" Makie cried covering her ears trying to block out the noise. Negi just shook his head whatever Jack was doing down there he wanted no part of it as he lead the girls to the stairs that would take them out to the surface world.
After getting chased by the golem again and going through a series of stone walls with questions on them. The girls made it to the elevator.
"Wait what about the book!" Yue asked all the trouble they when through they were going to leave it behind anyways.
"Don't worry about it! It's a fake anyways!" Negi shouted as he pushed them into elevator, but not before shooting the golem for good measure causing it to fall down the stairs.
At the top they ran like hell to get to the school, they saw the other girls waving out the window encouraging them to speed up. Negi notice they all had dark circles under their eyes. "Must have been up all night studying I'm so proud of them." He thought to himself; he knew he could rely on Mana to keep them on track. With the girls settled into desks Negi did a little spell to ensure they were all energized, he even stopped by the rest of the class to help them for all their hard work.
Back underground Jack finally managed to destroy the giant zombie's head, amazing what a little dynamite and a lot of bullets can do, now the moment that he's been waiting for as he wrapped his hand around the scroll. A bright light enveloped the area; standing over the scroll was a floating specter.
"I'm Musashi Minamoto creator of one of the greatest sword styles ever! Do you seek power?" The ghost asked the cowboy. Jack looks at the specter, he was dress in traditional samurai armor with a ragged trench coat and head band; long and short sword to his waist.
"Well I don't go out my way for it but a little boast of power here and there is always good." He answered the specter readying his .357 at him just in case.
"A toy such as that will never harm me! If you want my power I shall test you with this blade!" Musashi said drawing his katana then his watashi, moving into his legendary two handed sword stance.
"Well if it's a sword fight you want then it's a sword fight you'll get!" Jack said putting away his gun and drawing his knife, with a bit of fire magic the blade extended by at least a foot, then in his left hand he summoned a sword of pure fire! "Let's dance!"
The two danced around each other, the blades clashed causing sparks to fall after every slash! Musashi slashed low, catching Jack off guard as he tried to block, then with his watashi he thrust in to Jack's middle section.
Jack was able to side step, but the blade was able to leave a cut deep enough to draw blood. Bringing his fire sword around he blocked the katana from slashing him in half, but the attack wasn't done as the specter stabbed his watashi into Jack's leg, and then gave a twist so the wound wouldn't close. Jack retreated trying to get some distance between the two. He wasn't expecting the specter to throw his sword which entered into his stomach; causing a world of pain for the cowboy as he tried to pull it out.
Musashi rushed in grabbing the hilt and twist it making the cowboy scream out in pain as the blade ripped at his flesh. The ghost samurai looked on in disappointment. He thought he had finally found a worthy successor when he defeated his pupils, but he was wrong. He readied the finishing blow as he placed the tip of his watashi at the cowboy's throat.
Jack running on instinct grabbed his gun and unloaded it into the specters skull, howling in rage and pain stabbed his knife into the specter's neck almost severing it from its body. The sword disappeared from his gut, but the wounds remained as he tried to stop the bleeding with his hand. A clink of a sword made him look up. There standing above him was Musashi unharmed!
"You going to finish me?" he asked looking at his executioner, he remember Negi telling him that his treasure hunting would be the death of him, looks like the kid was right. He thought as his blood continued to pour from his wound, not that they would matter soon enough, to his surprise though the specter shakes his head no as he hands over the scroll.
"I don't understand?" the cowboy said in confusion, he used his gun he tactically cheated.
"No, you did what you had to do to win. That is the true purpose of my style. It doesn't matter as long as you win and live in the end, right?" The specter said winking at the fallen cowboy "Open the scroll it will give you the power to get out of here alive and back to your woman," then he faded away in a storm of fireflies.
"Wait how did you…" he began but the specter was already gone "All well got nothing to loses I guess." He said opening the scroll, it glowed bright blue then circled around him enveloping him till he look like a giant paper ball then receded. Standing there in the specters clothes with swords at his side was an unwounded Jack.
"Alright!" he yelled as he jumped easily from one side of the hole to the other, slowly climbing out of the shaft. Reaching the top he collected his rope, and then a golem crashed down from the ceiling. It laid there for a minute then jumped to its feet and swung its hammer at Jack!
Jack simply touched the hilt of his sword and in a flash of lightning fast moves, cut the golem into little pieces and sheathed his sword walking away from the pile of scrap metal.
Using his newly acquired speed Jack was able to reach the surface using the stairs right next to the elevator the girls use a few hours before. Then deactivated the scroll switch returned to its original state. He had returned just in time for the party.
Next chapter Kyoto
Author's notes
Sorry if the ending was a little rushed but I was running out of stuff for the chapter. Also if some of you were wonder why Jack was acting so crazy it was because Kaede wasn't around (to his knowledge) to keep him in check, he doesn't swear in front of girls usually. See ya please review!