WolfGear Presents: Negima? The mage and the Gunslinger
Pairings: Negi X ku-Fei Kaede X OC
Chapter 49: perverted Elves
I don't own Negima!
The elfin village of Ve'shi was a peaceful village located in the vast forest of Dragovia; here almost the entire population was made up of elves and mix breed elves of various races. The tall trees of the forest helped protect the people of the forest from outsiders. That's not to say they couldn't defend themselves when necessary, the elfin people were actually very adapt warriors, mostly archers to be exact.
Recently though a group of monsters have entered the forest, ugly black ink colored creatures that moved swiftly through the shadows, and avoided the deadly tip of elfin arrows. The death toll has already reached over twenty and that is in just a week after the first spotting of these creature, which the people have called the shadow beasts.
Fate was on their side though for from the sky two beams of light fell and crashed in the center of the village. The villagers hurried around the crater wondering if it was a blessing or curse.
From the crater emerged two forms, both female, one was tall with a hug chest that made all the single (and not single) men of the village stare like idiots. The other was much shorter and darkly skinned much like a dark elf minus the pointy ears and blonde hair.
"Oh wow I wonder where we are Aru?" The shorter one asked the taller one. "I mean look at all the trees! There's so many!"
"Settle down Ku-Chan, we might not be in a very safe area for all we know." the taller one said to the shorter one, both of them seemed to be so engrossed in their surroundings that they didn't even realize they were standing in the middle of the village with over a hundred elves staring at them.
"Um excuse me," the village elder kindly interrupted the two girls conversation. "Who are you two and what are you doing here? If you have come with the black creature I'm afraid we will have no choice but to force you out of our home."
Now the two girls noticed the hundreds of shiny steel tipped arrows aim on them. "Ohhhh," They said.
"Um Kaede I don' think they're too friendly." Ku whispered. Under her long sleeves she had her Pactio card ready, but she knew that it would be suicide to bring it out now. Instead she looked to Kaede to handle this situation, perhaps if they keep looking at her boobs they'll forget what they were doing, or something like that.
Luckily Kaede had a real solution to their problem. It was talking to them and explaining that they weren't their enemies. "Um hi, my name is Kaede Nagase, and this is Ku-Fei and we are not with those black creatures or whatever you're talking about?"
"You say that but how can we be sure you're telling the truth?" The elder eyed them suspiciously; he didn't want to take chances they we already up to twenty bodies and the grave yard was getting kind of full, mainly because Elves have a long life span and they didn't think it was going to be a problem, but now they were going to have to start burning the bodies or start clearing trees.
Kaede scratched her head, there was no way they could prove they weren't with these black creatures the elder spoke of, it looked like they may have to fight their way out of this after all… then suddenly one of the trees where the archers were based exploded into splinters and the archers fell in bloody heaps of flesh to the ground.
"They're here!" One of the lead archers shouted just as one of the shadow beast's razor sharp claws gutted him, ripping him in half, and then tossed his remains away. The rest of the unit tried to avenge their fallen comrade, but their arrows simply went right through the creature.
The elder watched in horror as his kin was violently torn apart one by one, so far the creatures have stayed away from the village, but it seemed they wished to finish them off once and for all and there was nothing he could do to help… then an idea appeared to him.
"You two!" He pointed to the two girls. "Save our village, please!"
"Already on it!" Kaede saluted jumping into the air and activating her rosary whips, the beads glowed with light that tore through the shadow beasts with ease. "Ku their valuable to light magic!" The ninja yelled down to her companion who was holding off ten of the creature with her staff.
"Gotcha!" Using the little magic she learned, Ku added light element to her staff and swung like a wild monkey bashing the skulls of the beast right off, while the bodies faded to dust. "Come one everybody!" Ku encouraged, and soon enough the elfin mages were adding light magic to the archers' arrows, now that they knew how to harm the beasts, the elfin forces along with Kaede and Ku were able to dispatch the shadow beast in a matter of minutes.
"Thank you for saving our village!" The elder bowed deeply to Kaede and Ku as did the rest of the village, making the two feel a little awkward, they just did what was right it wasn't like they were expecting any thanks. "And to show ours thanks we will erect naked statures of you throughout the forest so future generations may know of your valor." The elder continued.
Kaede and Ku sweat dropped, what kind of thanks was that? "Um that's not necessary really, if you could just give us some directions and food that will be enough." Kaede said. Besides she was pretty sure that if Jack ever found out about the statues the elf population would drop down to extinction.
"You sure, Alvar over there has already started." The elder pointed to an elf craving Kaede's face and chest into a tree. It was kind of creepy.
"Yeah we're sure and Alvar we already have boyfriends just so you know." All the single male Elves moaned out load and went back to their daily business; well the wives of the married ones viciously pounded their husbands over the head with a frying pan for ogling at the new comers.
As the other elves started cleaning up the mess the creatures made of their friends, the elder invited Kaede and Ku into his home to eat and talk. "Sorry for all the commotion, those creatures have been stirring things up lately, so when you two came barreling out of the sky, you can see why we were a little jumpy." He said then realized he hadn't given his name yet. "Where are my manners, I haven't introduced myself yet I am Elgar leader of this village, and I give you my deepest thanks for your help this day."
"Really it's nothing really, Ku and I were happy to help." Kaede said, well the martial artist was busy digging into a chicken leg, grease and BBQ sauce dripped from her lips as she smiled widely revealing gunks of food stuck between her teeth.
"Kaede you got to try this stuff it's delicious!"
Kaede sighed at her friend behavior. You would think after spending months with Negi, who was at the top of the food chain when it came to manners, you would pick up something, course maybe Ku is the one demannerizing (Not sure if that a word) the British mage, or maybe it was Jack, he didn't have a reputation for manners either.
"Sorry for my friend's manners, Elgar, she gets excited when she sees food." Kaede apologized.
Elgar shrugged her off. "Its fine, you saved our village a little thing like this is nothing. Now there is something I would like to ask of you two girls, if you would hear me out."
"Sure what is it?" Ku asked breaking from her food, but still tried to suck the remaining meat from her chicken leg.
"KU-FEI!" Kaede yelled.
Ku bowed her head and dropped the bone on her plate. "Sorry." She said, meaning it, it wasn't like she was trying to insult Elgar or anything, but she just loved to eat, plain and simple, they didn't have fancy manners were she came from, and she never bothered to learn any either.
Once again Elgar brushed the matter aside. "It's no problem. Now I would like to ask you two to stay with us in our village for a few days, to help purge the remaining shadow beast from our forest, in return we will personally guide you to wherever you want to go."
The girls rolled the offer over in their minds, sure they would lose a few days, but on the other hand they would get a guide that could take them directly to Jack's ranch, because even with the compass crosses that Jack gave them, they didn't know how long it would take and plus it's not like the crosses told them there was a cliff or mountain they would have to cross which could lead to an endless amount of detours that would set them back even further, plus they couldn't just leave these people to the wolves, or Shadow beasts.
Kaede nodded. "We'll do it, but you have to take us to the McCoy ranch as soon as all the shadow beasts are gone."
Elgar agreed. "This is no problem. Now please it is getting late and we have much hunting to do in the morning. You may use my daughter's old room for you chambers." The elf pointed to the room with a pink tarp as a door. "Good night," He wished and when to his own room with was across from the girls'.
With nothing else to do the girls followed Elgar's example and went to bed, though the bed was a little crapped, apparently girl elves' weren't very tall. Kaede's feet went over the bed and Ku barely managed to squeeze in, luckily though Kaede was used to sleeping in a cramped bed, and was able to adjust herself so that Ku could lie comfortably, and soon enough both girls fell to sleep with Ku wrapped in Kaede's arms like teddy bear.
Morning came quickly for the residents of Ve'shi as clouds of black smoke spread throughout the whole village! The warriors of the village searched desperately for the source of the smoke, but no houses were on fire, or any of the trees. It was a puzzling matter. Finally one of the observers stationed on one of the high trees that acted as a watch tower found the source.
"Elder Elgar the smoke comes from the wastes!" The young elf yelled from his perch.
The old elf rubbed his long white bread in puzzlement. What could possibly be burning in the wasteland? There was nothing to burn, plus the smoke the fire produced, he could smell magic with in the fumes, so this was no a natural fire.
"Get me Miss Kaede, and Miss Ku," Elgar ordered one of the female warriors, if this was a trick by the shadow beasts then he would want those two by their side.
"At once Sir," The female elf whose name was Tári saluted.
Inside the girls' bedroom, Kaede violently tossed around in her sleep knocking Ku to the floor with a loud crash! The blonde was about to demand and explanation, but the sight of her friend's unknown pain, frightened her. Could she have injured herself in the battle yesterday, she wondered, but she saw no wounds on the ninja's body that she could see. And the only indications that something was wrong were Kaede's cries of distress and the solid grip she held over her chest as if her heart was being yanked out.
Kaede struggled to breathe, it felt like some on had light a fire in her chest and it was burning her alive! The pain was unbearable, so much that tears began to fall from her eyes, but even with it the pain sheering through her body she could feel a tug at her pinkly, and through her blurred vision she saw a thin red thread that seemed to go on forever as it went farther than the room.
On the thread she could barely make out tiny black blotches that turned solid the farther away it got from her side of the thread. Suddenly the pain stopped, and she could breathe again, and the thread had regained some of its bright red color, and then faded away.
Carefully Ku touched Kaede on the shoulder, she seemed to have overcome whatever it was that was bothering her, but still Ku was cautious. "Kaede are you ok? She asked worriedly. Kaede blinked her eyes and jumped to her feet.
Kaede examined herself, every seemed alright. "I guess I'm ok…" She said uncertainly. It wasn't like her to be like this, she knew she wasn't harmed, but still something felt wrong. But there wasn't any time to try and figure out what as Tári the elf warrior sent by Elgar entered the room.
"I am sorry to disturb you Lady Kaede, Lady Ku, but Elder Elgar request you presence." She said.
"Is something wrong?" Ku asked. She had a feeling that Kaede wouldn't be up to talking right now, so it was up to her.
Tári wondered that herself, but shook it off, if this was indeed a threat then she should treat it as such. "Were not sure, smoke made from magic has covered the entire village. We don't know if it's the shadow beasts or something else entirely." She answered truthfully.
Ku nodded. "Ok we'll be there as soon as we can." Tári bowed and left the two alone.
In five minutes Kaede and Ku dressed, and rushed to the elder elf's side. The smoke which covered the village dissipated with the winds that blew, but you could still see faint traces of grey in the air, giving the bright and beautiful forest a gloomy look. With ease of cats Kaede and Ku climbed the watch tower that Elgar had entered to get a better view of the forest. They were amazed that such an old man could climb a tree of this height, he must have a secret way up, for there were no stairs or ladders for the elder to climb and there most certainly wasn't an elevator.
"Glad you could join us Miss Kaede, Miss Ku." Elgar greeted. "As you can see something strange is happening in the wastelands that border our forest. I have already dispatched scouts to investigate. We should be hearing from them at any moment." A green hawk flew from the dense forest and landed on a peg and presented its foot with a messaged tied to it leg.
"That was quick," Elgar said retrieving the messaged from the hawk. Elfin scouts may be fast but those boys couldn't have gotten more than thirty miles with even at their maximum speed, it was troubling, he hoped that they hadn't encountered another wave of Shadow beasts; he didn't think he could handle any more of his kinsmen dying so soon.
The message read: Spotted strange figure in woods, investigation suggest IDS and one human.
End of message
Elgar shook with fear and excitement, Doll soldier was the term used to describe The Dark King's immortal Doll soldier. He would know he helped build them.
In the following of the Dark King's disappearance, over 4000 of the 10,000 immoral Doll soldiers remained. Many became sleeper agents, changing their appearance and hiding along the people waiting for their master's return, others took the role of barren woman and lived lives of peace adopting orphans of the war as their children, and finally some are said to have deserted to the wastelands and disappeared from the face of the planet. It could be that one of the units could have deserted to the wasteland and happen upon some poor traveler and is simply bringing them for aid here in the village, or it could be the king himself… no he didn't want to even imagine that! It wasn't that Elgar hated the dark King, in fact he would almost call him a friend, but he didn't want another war to start again, after so many years of peace.
"Intruder!" One of the archers Elf's yelled from his position, all eyes turned in the direction he was pointing and said a green haired figure carrying another in it arms. Elgar could tell that this being wasn't one of the immortal dolls or at least none that he had seen. The ears were the same, but the skin looked almost human, and from its scent was made of metal instead of wood. What really interested him thought was the man the green hair girl carried, his eyes weren't what they used to be but the lad looked dangerously similar to the dark king, but he was much too young to be him.
"Chachamaru! Jack!" Kaede yelled excitedly. It was good to see that they were both alright. She jumped down from the watch tower, slowing her descent by griping on to the side, and landed on the grounded with a soft "thud" and quickly ran to embrace her boyfriend, but stopped short when she saw his condition.
Chachamaru feverously squirmed under Kaede's blank glaze, she knew what she was thinking; Jack looked ready to die at any minute. The gunslinger's skin was covered with black blotches on his arms, legs, torso and face. These marks appeared not long after Shihime left them, and from her medical scans the blotches seemed to be a hardened carbon element, mixed in with forbidden black magic, that not even Chao's vast futuristic achieves could name. All she knew was that Jack need help and fast!
"What… What happened?" Kaede's voice trembled with emotion; the black blotches that covered her love reminded her of the same ones she saw on the red thread this morning.
"We were attacked," Chachamaru began. "Are opponent was way beyond our level, and you know how Jack could never avoid a fight, not like we could have gotten away even if we had run. He got pretty beat up, and I was pinned down with the enemy coming close to destroying me, and… and then Jack he pushed himself far beyond his bodies limits and fire a high level attack while taking the shot that would have destroyed me. He… he saved my life." She said solemnly, tears fell from her eyes.
It was at this time that Elgar and Ku arrived. Ku was horrified to see Jack in such bad shape and Elgar was relieved that it wasn't the dark king. Now with a clear mind the old elf examined the young lad before him. This was defiantly black magic the worst kind too; it would take some think extremely powerful to break this curse, but that wasn't all, from what he could tell the nature of this curse was to enslave the victim, but allowing the darkness with in them to eat away at their soul till there was nothing left, but darkness.
"This young man doesn't have much time," Elgar said breaking the silence. He turned to Kaede and bowed. "Your friend is in danger, it would be wrong of me to keep you here well he suffers, please go to Estarla city and speak with Timaius, ask him for the soul flask, it is the only thing strong enough to break the curse on this lad."
"Thank you," Kaede bowed.
"Don't thank me yet, Miss, don't thank me yet," He told them grimly. "Now get moving, head west towards Estarla, I will send one of my elves behind you with supplies, Now go for you friends sake!"
Once again Chachamaru carried Jack in her arms with Kaede and Ku following after her as she moved full speed through the dense forest. They had to move for time was short and it was getting shorter by the second.