WolfGear Presents: Negima? The mage and the Gunslinger
Pairings: Negi X ku-Fei Kaede X OC
Chapter twenty: Festival parts 5-bukokai tournament
I don't own Negima!
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"The most humbling experience is when someone thoroughly kicks your ass,"—by Jack K. McCoy
It was finally the second day off the Mahora Festival, our heroes where spending the day in Evangeline's resort to recover from last night's expurgations, meaning they partied to hard and now they were paying for it, well mostly Jack was he had gotten into a drinking contest with Rubi and both drunk themselves under the table. The others were just catching up on some zs; it was about 4:00 am before any of them got within ten feet of bed. The twins who seem to have an infinite amount of energy explored the resort at their own discretion, somehow they wondered into Eva's private library were she kept her most important artifacts and spells she collected over the years, where she got them no one knows, but she had them now and that's all she cared about.
The twins scoured the massive volumes of texts all of them had titles having some sort of relation to magic mending or spell craft, but what really got their attention was two pink scrolls, the scrolls seemed to draw the girls towards them, despite their fear of the vampire they took the scrolls from their place and opened them.
A blinding pink light shined throughout the room, the twins quickly covered their eyes at the intensity, when the light died down they lowered their arms to see a beautiful brown haired woman in a light pink Kimono stood in front of them, the woman gave the twins a warm smile and waved to them.
"Hi there, I'm Oichi-hime of Owari. How may I be of service to you?" The woman asked the awed twins, the site of them with their mouths agape was truly humorous. She could tell that she had finally found someone, make that two someone's, playful and mischievous enough to inherit her powers; unlike that blonde girl that rudely took her from her temple, then threw on that shelf to collect dust.
The twins' mouths were still agape; they had just seen a woman appear out of a scroll, not something you see every day, they wondered if that made her some kind of genie, or wish granting fairy like in the stories Kaede read to them before they went to sleep. Whatever she was they thought she was most beautiful person ever!
"Wow your pretty! Can you make us as pretty you?" The twins exclaimed, causing Oichi to blush from their praise, no one had complement her like that in about three hundred years, but there was time for that later, right now she was on a mission.
"Sorry I can't do that," the twin's faces dropped with disappointment. Oichi gently grabbed their chins and had them look straight into her soft brown eyes, "I can however give you the strength to fight alongside your friends. You won't be at their level but you won't be a burden either, is that acceptable?"
Fuuka and Fumika nodded their heads in agreement, they secretly wanted to fight alongside Jack and Kaede but knew they would never let them, but if Oichi spoke the true they would be able to help.
Oichi saw the determination burning in their eyes, she release them from her grip, and stood up straight, she gathered her power a light pink aura surround her, then took shape, in her right hand was a red hoop with saw blades surrounding the edge, in her left was a Kendama.
"These are the weapons I used when I was among the living. Take them for you own now." Oichi handed the girls the items, a bright pink light shined through the room once more, when it died down the twins were clothed matching pink battle Kimonos. Fuuka held the blade hoop in her hands; well Fumika held the Kendama, both did some practice moves with their new weapons, spinning and twirling them around like they had them for years.
When they were done their outfits disappeared into scrolls, the twins bowed to Oichi who bow back then disappeared in a cloud of fireflies, the twins looked at one another, both sporting a grin, they started jumping around excited, till a sharp voice pieced their very souls.
"What are you fools doing?" Evangeline cold voice asked as she leaned against the doorway, the twins stood frozen terrified by the vampire's presence. Eva scoffed annoyed by their stares, "Whatever its time to go so hurry up, you twits" then left her long blonde hair swaying to an unseen wind. The twins stumbled after her not wanting to be left behind; they silently agreed to tell the other about their discovery, after the tournament of course.
Once everyone assembled at the teleport they existed the villa, and walk to the tournament grounds, where they would have their fierce battles with destiny, others will realize their limits and some just where there to kill time.
At the area the stands were packed with fighting enthusiast, martial artists, and the rest where Ku-Fei's fan club. Kasumi dressed in a sexy red dress, stood on the stage with a microphone.
"Hello everyone and welcome, today where starting things off with last year's champion Ku-Fei and her challenger the gun gal of class 3-A Mana Tatsumiya! Please enjoy," the reporter announced, meanwhile in the waiting room Mana and Ku conversed a bit before their match.
"I'll be heading in first," Mana said walking into the area.
"Ku can you defeat Mana?" Negi asked the Martial artist, he already knew the answer but he believed things would be deferent this time, last time Ku did have any real battle experience yet, but after fight the demons in Kyoto and some heavy sparing with Jack. He believes it was possible to win, and continue in the tournament.
"Impossible" was her response she still felt uneasily about fighting the gun user, but she was glad that she had finally found an opponent to go all out on, she placed her hand on Negi's shoulder and gave the young wizard a reassuring smile, "But that won't stop me from trying Aru," she let go of the mage and walked out the entrance.
The crowd cheered as the fighters entered the ring, most were rooting for Ku-Fei of course, but there were a few Mana supporters, mostly from the shooting club.
"Is this alright? If you lose your fans will be disappointed," Mana stated coolly.
"I only want to fight strong opponents. I have no desire for fame, so don't hold back Mana," Ku-Fei answered sliding into her Kempo stance.
"Very well, originally once I'm in battle there is no such thing as holding back," the mercenary declared, the sound of coins jingling was heard by the more sharp eared being meaning Kataro, Jack, and Rubi. So they were not surprised when Ku-Fei was shot down but Mana's 500 yen piece.
"What is this right from the start contestant Ku-Fei was blown away…?" Kasumi was awed at the display before her; the crowd behind her cried out for the downed martial artist, the reporter saw the something spinning on the ground near the down Ku-Fei, "…is that a 500 yen piece?" she asked baffled, she turned to Chachamaru and Goutokuji for help.
"What we just saw right now was Rakansen, a deadly technique developed in china, though it simply a technique that throws coins that can be found anywhere, a master is able to throw five at once and with enough force to rival that of a punch." Goutokuji explained.
"I see, but still this…incredible Tatsumiya," the reporter mumbled
"Stand up Ku-Fei I know you lowered the damage, by jumping back at the last second," Mana called the blonde girls bluff, on the ninth count, Ku-Fei jumped to her feet a small trickle of blood ran down from Mana's coin.
"I just get started," she declared, throwing boards from the area floor she block Mana's barrage of coins, she desperately dodge the flying money at all costs, trying to get close enough to attack the mercenary. The crowd watched in awe as she dodged the rain of bullets, till finally she was in her range.
"The is no weak distances for me," Mana proclaimed shooting a coin point, shooting the blonde high into the air, then crashing down on to the hard wood floor of the area, "I won't give you time to recover!" Mana fired another barrage of coins at the downed martial artist, erecting scream of pain as the bullets hit her skin.
Ku-Fei lay on her back; she knew there was too big of difference in strength between her and Mana, she was almost ready to except defeat when a voice called out to her, struggling and in pain she turned her head to see Negi yelling for her to get up; there was no way she was going to be embarrassed in front of her love! Ku felt her strength return to her tired body, she reached for the tail of her dress and threw it at the mercenary wrapping her left arm and head in the spear cloth, but she wasn't done grabbing her Pactio card from its place in her clothes she summoned the staff of the Monkey king.
"Adeat," a staff with a red shaft and golden ends appeared in her hands, using her Ki Ku-Fei forced her tired muscles to move, extending the staff, she slammed the end into Mana's unguarded stomach, than lifted her high into the air. When the dark skinned warrior was about three stories in the air, Ku retracted her staff and jumped in the air after Mana, than used her staff to slam the mercenary hard in the back and into the area floor.
When she landed the countdown had already started Ku-Fei leaned heavy on her staff, the seconds seemed like hours to her, as she waited for the count to get to ten, she was positive that if Mana stood she was finished for sure; surprisingly the mercenary did not stand.
"And that's ten ladies and gentlemen; Ku-Fei is the winner!" Kasumi announced, the crowd went crazy as Negi and the others rushed to the area to congratulate Ku on her victory. When they got there Ku-Fei collapsed from exhaustion. Negi picked her up bridal style and rushed her to the Aid station, where the doctors said she would be fine. She had some heavy bruising where she was hit but nothing was broken and she would be able to rejoin the tournament if she woke up by her next match.
"Wasn't that exciting ladies and gentlemen! We received word that contestant Ku-Fei will be able to continue on if she is able to wake up before her next match, but let's get the second match underway. The mysterious Thomas vs. the fighting clubs own Daigouin! Please give them a hand!" The contestants walk out on to the area Thomas's face was still covered with the bandana concealing his identity across from him his opponent threw cheap taunts.
"Is your face so ugly you have to hide it from us? Well don't worry I'll make sure not to mess it up too much." the teenage boasted, his taunts however seem to have no effect on the new cowboy as he just sighed at his opponent, wondering why he had to face such and idiot right of the bat.
"All right begin!" Kasumi shouted thought the microphone, the crowd gave a cheer as Daigouin charged forward fists posed to attack.
"I'm going to show everyone your ugly mug then pound it even uglier!" the teen yelled throwing a punch only to miss as Thomas disappeared to the other end of the area.
"You're slow boy, I've seen slugs move faster than you," he taunted it seemed to have the desired effect as Daigouin's face light up with anger. He charged again jumping across the area as fast as he could, every time he got within striking distance, Thomas would disappear again, they repeated this till the teen started to tire.
Daigouin panted harshly, saliva spilt from his mouth, causing the onlookers look at him in disgust. He tried to move but his muscles burned and spaz from all the running, when he looked up Thomas stood right in front of him with his hand in the flick position.
"You know I don't usually pick on weaklings like you, but I figured I would show you what true power is," he said flicking the teen's forehead. Daigouin went flying out of the area smashed through the wall in the stands then out the other side and into a passing hotdog stand. Thomas tipped his hat to the downed teen and waked out of the area, leaving the crowd in awe at his little display.
"Well…that's it for the second match…will be right back after we make sure Daigouin alright," Kasumi said still recovering from what she just saw, then ran outside the area with several medical personal. After five minutes or so Kasumi came back announcing that Daigouin was being sent to the hospital, but was expected to survive, "Let's move on to the third match shall we? This match is between Mahora's own Kaede Nagase and the foreigner from somewhere in Texas Rubi Malone! Let's give them a hand everybody!"
"Well looks like where up, Kaede-Chan. I hope you brought you're A game." Rubi said sweetly walking out to the area, Kaede followed behind her the crowds cheered with excitement as the two took their places across from each other. Kasumi raised her hand above her head, and then swung it down in a chopping motion, "Begin!"
The two combatants charge are each other in a hurricane of fists and kicks, Kaede was showing everyone the power of the Kouga ninja producing dozens of shadow clones at once trying to overwhelm the mercenary.
"Is this all you got?" Rubi taunted waiving in and out of the ninja's attacks with ease, she grabbed one of the clones by the wrist, and chucked into three of the others causing them to explode into smoke, "I was expecting something more from my nephew's girlfriend," Rubi gathered her energy around her, an aura of orange flames surround her they expanded outwards towards the clones engulfing them in flames.
Kaede jumped away from the hot flames, she quickly patted out the fire on her shoulder, with the flames extinguished the ninja charged again producing four more clones this time they were denser, than before.
The clones quickly surrounded Rubi on all four sides, "Kaede Ninpo: Four body Hazy cross," the four clones attacked from all directions launching the mercenary into the air, were the real Kaede was ready with a large Ki blast.
"Well shit," Rubi cursed, Kaede threw the ball of energy hitting the mercenary directly in the chest, and sending her crashing down to the area floor, Kaede landed away from the crater well her clones went to inspect the crater, she was surprised when all her clones were destroyed by a clawed hand.
"That was a good one, it's been awhile since I've had to use this form in battle, so please don't lose to fast honey," Rubi said emerging from the crater in her fire cat form. The crowd was shocked to see the black haired beauty, change into a fierily red headed minx with the ears and tail to match.
Rubi flexed her new demonic muscles even though she used the transformation just a few days ago it's tough to jump from human to cat form instantly, it's better to in steps then all at once but sometimes that just not an option; she wished she could have taken off her clothes at least she really liked that jacket.
"All well, don't go crying over spilt milk, I suppose," She said grinning, raising her clawed hand small fireballs formed on the tips of her claws, "you're technique was pretty good, now let's see how you handle mine!"
The fireballs erupted into five columns of fire, shot towards the ninja incarnating the ground below as it traveled across the area. Acting quickly Kaede jumped out of the way, just barely avoiding the flames, but she was blindsided as Rubi appeared right next to her and delivered a hard right punch that connected with her jaw and sent her flying across the area crashing multiple times against the Area's hard floor.
"Damn, I knew she would be powerful, but nothing like this," Kaede muttered from her position on the ground, she could feel blood tickle down her forehead and into her left eye blinding her, also she could feel some of her ribs were cracked from her little tumble, and of course the numerous scorch and burn marks she received from dodging the flames, but that did mean she was done yet there was still one more card she could play. It may not be enough to defeat the mercenary but it would prove she gave it her all, focusing Ki into her limbs; she forced her tired body to stand than pulled out her Pactio card.
"Adeat," the card shined then materialized into the familiar bead bracelets that floated around her limbs, and then she grabbed the two by her hands and snapped them like a whip towards the transformed Rubi, catching the mercenary of guard as the beads wrapped around her arms. Using the last of her strength Kaede pulled the fire cat towards her, till they were only a few inches apart. With a mighty yell, Kaede delivered a head butt right on the mercenary's temple, unfortunately the blow took the last of the ninja's strength from her making her loose her grip and fall to the ground.
Rubi staggered; even if she was transformed a blow to the head still did quite a bit of damage. In background she could hear the announcer girl starting the count down, it was clear she had won, and she still have yet to really use her true power, but she respected the young girl that lay at her feet even in a fight against a Halfling like herself she didn't give up and that was something to be proud about, she was happy that her nephew had found someone so special.
"And ten, that's it ladies and gentlemen, Rubi Malone is the winner of the third match! Please stand by as we take a short break to repair the area," Kasumi announced, behind her Rubi picked up Kaede and carried her to the aid station, where she could get some medical attention and herself some new clothes.
Kaede awoke with a pounding headache, when her vision finally cleared she saw Jack standing above her, with a cocky smirk on his face, but she could see the worry in his eyes, she gave him a smile to tell him she was alright, in the background she could hear Kasumi announcing his match with Kataro, asking the contestants to report the area.
"You better go, can't let the kid think you chickened out," she smirked, her injuries won't too bad and with Konoka's healing power she would be up and about in no time, so there was no need for Jack to fuss over her; not that she minded.
"Yeah, your right I'll see ya later," He said standing up then walked to the area, he knew Kaede's life wasn't in danger but it's hard to watch the person you love get hurt and be able to do nothing about it, perhaps he could take some frustration out on Kataro before he gets to Rubi, he had whole lot of pay back for all the years of torment the woman caused him, and he was going to pay her back for that stuff later, right now he had other business to attend too. He reasoned as he stepped out on to the stage.
"Thanks for the wait everybody! Let's move on to the fourth match of the day, it's a battle between bloods as Kataro McCoy faces of against his older cousin Jack McCoy. We'll find out today who is the real McCoy!"
Author's note
WolfGear: I've decided to try something different with my notes.
Jack: Mainly because he sucks at writing them, seriously he should go take a class with Negi he needs the help, but we're not here to talk about the authors horrible writing skills.
Kaede: That's right De gouzu, WolfGear recently has been watching Negima abridged on YouTube, and was inspired to do an interview show at the end of future chapters, so if you have a question for some of the characters here on Mage and Gunslinger just post them on a review and we'll answer, bye!