WolfGear Presents: Negima? The mage and the Gunslinger
Pairings: Negi X ku-Fei Kaede X OC
Chapter 65: The hero returns
I don't own Negima
Somewhere deep in the darkness of the shadow realm Shihime otherwise known as Asta McCoy waited patiently for her knew accessories to merge one hundred percent with her body. The silver claws fused between her fingers reminded her of a movie she once saw clawed X-men. The character Wolverine had a similar set of claws that could cut through anything. She couldn't help but wonder if her brother got the idea from that or vice versa? In fact she wasn't sure which was one was created first. Putting some deeper thought into matter though was pointless, all that mattered was that she could finally rid herself of the cursed bond that basterd Mage had forge against her will and free her servants the four lords of darkness, Lycus lord of the beasts, Pumpkin King lord of monsters, Swunga lord of the underworld, and of course Dracula lord of the undead. Once all four were free the real battle could begin.
"Dracula," Asta watched with amusement as her servant emerged from the shadows and take a knee before her.
"Yes my lady,"
"How goes the battle between the children and those upstarts?" She imagined that her brother's offspring have dealt away with the majority of the trash.
"Very good, my lady, soon the Mage of beginning will have no choice but to call on my brothers in arms and that is when he will be most vulnerable. It takes a lot a magic to undue the seals even for one such as him." This would be it all the years playing the lapdog where about to pay off, and finally his princess of Death could become queen!
Kaede and the others landed at the base of the tower. The plan was for them to travel up and find Jesse. More than likely they would have the McCoy girl in a special chamber, but where would you put it? Ray had suggest at the top as it would the most apple place and the classic choice, but on the other hand Jesse's power is earth so having her deep underground would make it easier for her consumed the worlds magic if she was in direct contact with it.
"We will split up into two teams, Ku, Sayo, Fuuka and Fumika will come with me to the top, and the rest see if there is a bottom or something where they would be holding Jesse." Kaede ordered, but before they could break off the wall in front of them exploded, and out of the smoke came another set of fates only these ones where much different than the others they had faced.
There were three of them. They all had blackish skin and hair that looked similar to Magica Erebea, but each one had its own unique color mixed in, one was blue, another red, and the final was pure black.
"We are the Berserker series, I am Obscurum," The black one introduced, "The blue one on the right is Unda, and the red on one the left is Flamma. We are charged with the task of stopping you."
"You guys are berserkers? You don't seem to be raving mad to me." Ku piped up. All three of them looked rather calm, but the slight smirk on Obscurum's face was anything but calming.
"You seem to miss understand. We are not called berserkers we are in raged during battle. We are called that because we are invaluable to all most magical attacks holy, normal, or hellish, and also we are 50 times stronger than the mass produced models you have been facing."
"50… times… stronger" Kaede shuttered out, normally she would be vamped to face such an opponent, but this was way too much. So she did the only thing they could do. "Attack with everything you got!"
Summoning her rosary beads Kaede whipped them around with tremendous strength and power but when she aimed for the berserkers they bounced off of some invisible wall. Using a strength enhancement spell Ku extended her staff to its maximum size and swung it with all her might, but she was faced with the same results as Kaede, in fact her staff broke right in half!
"This not good," She sheepishly said looking at her destroyed weapon. Instinctively Kataro and Setsuna charged forward auras a blaze, but they were interrupted by Chacha-002 Vela and 003 Kata. The two Kataro was about to voice his complaint but the dolls shut him up before he could.
"Go, we will hold them off of as long as we can, and investigate their powers and transmit our findings to Chachamaru." Vela said activating her combat system. The best she and her sisters could do is find a weak spot for the others to exploit or at least hold of till help arrives. "If you do find Miss Jesse, try to free her if you can. Her power would be very useful." Kaede nodded as she and the others sprinted for the entrance of the tower. She couldn't help but look back feel a sense of lost. They may have just met but the bravery of those dolls was something to admire.
Obscurum watched the humans run. He didn't bother to chase after them. What was the point of going after kittens when there were lions in front of you? Course even these lions as threatening as they were, were no threat to him.
Not one to mince words Vela fired of a proton laser shot in fused with magical energy. The attack exploded before reaching its intended target, but before the smoke covered her vision, Vela caught a flash of purple sphere around the three berserkers.
"Did you see that?" She asked her long time comrade and sister Kata, who nodded.
"Yep, a magical distortion barrier, I saw a yellow one when Miss Ku and Kaede attacked. I think their immutability is because of that, and by the looks of it, they can't make any aggressive actions. That is the price of absolute protection." Kata said analyzing the three, but continued on to say. "This is only a theory. They may be able to attack while in this state, the probability of that is 40%."
This would be a problem if that were true, but the only way to be sure was to attack with both magic and non-magic attacks and see what happens. Vela gave the order and three of the other Chacha dolls leap forward well three charged a Flame Lance spell. The results were as expected. Flamma raised a magic barrier, well Unda raised a physical barrier in front of Obscurum, which proved another theory Kata was working on the two Flamma and Unda where puppets rather than individuals like Obscurum. He most likely used a mental link to control the two and use them for defense and when necessary attack.
"That is a good theory, but your only half right," Obscurum whispered in to Kata's ear. The Chacha Doll didn't even a chance respond as the berserker tore her in two. The other Chacha dolls stood shell shocked as they watched one of their most powerful sisters die right before their eyes, but none were more hurt then Vela as she watched her best friend of the last sixty years lay helplessly on the ground. Another sickening snap was hurt, and Vela looked up in horror as Obscurum walked passed her sisters smashing them to pieces in an instant with a fist covered in blackness. "Any last words you pathetic puppet?"
She looked into the berserker's eyes with no fear. "I may have not been born unto this world as a real being, but I never once was anyone's puppet. I make my own choices and I regret none of them. Unlike you a being who will forever be nothing more than a puppet. Between you and me I lived my life, but you will never get to know what life is about."
"Shut up!" Obscurum screamed. Vela smirked as the berserker literary when berserk and she continued to smirk as her body fell to the ground. The soul long ago sealed within set free, and another joined it.
Obscurum seethed that inferior being dare talk to him like that! Why would he want to live a pathetic existence as that of a human, or more a over a dull pretending to be human. He was perfection! The ultimate creation the perfect being, far greater than any human, magical beast, or even his brethren, and to prove that he would irradiate all things living starting with those humans that escaped earlier.
"Flamma, Unda, hunt them down." He ordered his fellow berserker's. Those McCoy's have also insulted him by daring to interfere with his master's plans so the proper punishment would be to kill the ones they hold dear, starting with the white haired one.
Sayo sprinted down the winding corridors as fast as she could somewhere in all the confusion she got separated from the others. Now she was alone inside the bad guys hide out!
"You're not alone we're here." A dark voice said freezing the ghost girl in her tracks. Obscurum and his two silent friends Flamma and Unda materialized in the hall in front of her, their fists glowing with a sinister aura. "Now it's time to you join those foolish dolls." Statically Flamma raised his arm and searing column of flame erupted from his open palm and engulf the poor girl.
"Come on lets go get the rest," Obscurum commanded, but Flamma did not heed the command instead kept his sight on the burning corridor. "Come now she can't be anything but ashes now." Suddenly though the flames died away and the air quickly chilled, he saw but couldn't believe the girl had survived!
Standing there in the mist of the cooling flames was Sayo, only she wasn't the same as before. A pair of car ears adored her head and a tail to match. This is the result of the phoenix rebirth ritual that was used to reincarnate her body, it now shared both Rubi's feline transformation and Jack's fire magic mixed with her other worldly ghost magic. In simple turn she could control the chilling flames of the undead, ice so cold that it burns.
"Unsent spirits of ages past gather now to exec your revenge on those who have wronged you, let you burning rage freeze them in fear, Gelu incendia (Cold Fire)" Icily blue flames exploded from Sayo's out stretched arm like a well a flamethrower, because she was still a beginner she couldn't fire a spell from her finger tips like Jack could with his Rabidus incendia.
Flamma was perplexed as to why he couldn't absorb the blue flames or why instead of intense heat, he felt as if he had frost bite. He looked to Unda who was an ice user, but the blue berserker had no answers for him, even if the flames where cold he could not absorb them either.
Angry that the girl wasn't dead, Obscurum ordered his two brethren to attack her again together. "What are you waiting for go get her, straggle her if need I want her dead!" Flamma and Unda wordless obeyed their brethren's commend and instant movement right in front of Sayo and grabbed for her only they could not grip her.
"I used to be a ghost, and I can still use my powers to enter my spirit from meaning you can't attack me, but I can still attack you, or your astral forms at least." Sayo chirred reaching into the two berserker's chests and tugged hard and began pulling their astral forms from their physical forms. "And when I doing this,"
"I can do this!" Kataro finished smashing his way through the wall claws bared, slashing and hacking away the red and blue berserkers' petrified forms. Without their astral forms to give their bodies energy they were nothing more than empty husks, and since he had just shredded their false bodies to nothing, they had no physical from to return too and thus their spirits disintegrated, "Alright your next asshole!"
Obscurum shook his head these simple minded fools. His arms suddenly glowed with red and blue auras and then detached from him and reformed into Flamma and Unda. "These two are but extensions of my power even if you manage to destroy them I can just respawn more to take their place, and each time they do they'll more powerful than the last. In fact why don't I show you all of my brethren?" This time green and yellow aura appeared and out come to more berserkers. "The green one is Aero, and the yellow is Humus. Please enjoy." He smirked evilly as all four berserkers attacked the duo. However both Kataro and Sayo grinned at the coming attack, confusing Obscurum as to why, he realized too late that it was another trap as numerous chains with kanji seals broke through the wall impaling his brethren and sealing them in place.
"Everybody hit him hard!" Kaede ordered gripping on to the chains. "Kansai rensa (Fire Chain)" The chains binding the berserkers erupted into flames engulfing them in an inferno searing molten metal. As the sealing chain melted the berserkers stiff like a bunch of statues, a pair of Ki blasts courtesy of Kataro and Ku Fei blasted the metal stiffs into shrapnel as Setsuna unleashed one of her many sword techniques to blow the metal shards at only remaining Berserker Obscurum with Sayo throwing in a Rabidus Gelu incendia and Chachamaru unleashing a full out barrage with all her weapons at the maximum settings.
"Did you get him?" Fuuka asked from her hiding spot. She and Fumika didn't have any insanely powerful attacks like the others, so they thought it safer to stay in farther away from the battle with Konoka and not get in the way. This of course was not by choice, but Kaede was firm in keeping them safe and what better place to be then right next to a healer and barrier caster.
"There's no way he could take all that right?" Fumika wondered looking at the cloud of smoke. Kaede and the others had poured everything they had into that attack. They breathed heavily like they just got done doing the laps around the entire school, even Chachamaru who couldn't get physically tired was panting as her circuits overheated from the server over charging of her weapons.
"I don't know. I couldn't sense his aura before so it's hard to tell." Konoka couldn't help but feel it wasn't over. This was just like those scenes in the movies were the bad guy emerges laughing at the good guys unharmed.
"Ha, you think your puny attack would harm me? You humans are more pathetic than I thought." Obscurum laughed has he emerged from the smoke unharmed. Konoka was really regretting jinxing them with that movie reference.
"Stay back you two," She ordered the twins as she summoned her most powerful barrier around them all. With every else exhausted it fell to her to protect them, although she wasn't sure how she was going to do that exactly.
Obscurum chuckled at the white mage's pitiful display of resistance. Pressing his hand against the invisible barrier he began to push like one would a door and as easy as that he stepped into the barrier.
"It is time you humans die." With a raise of his and hand Obscurum unleashed a deadly black wave of energy at the three girls, but a large shuriken flew in front of the attack saving the three from harm as Kaede desperately jammed her kodaichi to the hilt in the berserker's side making him scream in pain as he ripped the ninja from him and threw her to the side injuring her badly as she scraped across the ruined stone ground.
Kaede watched with one eye as Obscurum approached to finish her, dimly in the background she could hear the twins screaming her name as Konoka tried to hold them back. She had to emit it was very heartwarming, but this was it for her, it may not have looked like it, but that throw had really done number on her. Blood was staring to get in her eye so she much have got a cut on her head, and she couldn't move her arms or legs, but cause of the pain, that was good thought that meant she wasn't paralyzed. Not that would matter in a few moments because she was going to die, but at least she gave the others a small chance to escape. A very, very small chance, but it was the best she could do.
"You foolish wrench I'll make you suffer a long death for that." She heard him say, that was good the longer he took with her the more time the others had to escape. This wasn't how she wanted things to go, she wanted to live a long life with Jack and have some children, but it looked like that future was no longer an option, she thought as Obscurum summoned a strange black cloud from his hand. The cloud began to descend on her and she braced herself for the pain, but it never come, she opened her eyes and saw Obscurum's left arm lying on the ground beside her and its owner clutching hold of the severed stump growling at someone in the distance.
Kaede's eyes widen. Standing there at the end of the hall his finger smoking from the attack he had just used to sever Obscurum's arm was a tall man, three claw marks on his right cheek a face so much like Jack's but more mature and aged, the tattered vest he wore was easy to recognize after all she'd seen it many time when looking through Rubi's photo album.
"Lay another finger on any of these kids and I won't just take your arm next time I'll take your head." The man threatened. Obscurum shivered in fear as the man drew closer lightning dancing in his hand.
"Who are you?" He stuttered.
The man smirked. "You really don't know? I'm the one who put you out of business twenty years ago, but I guess since your new I might as well introduce myself names John McCoy and I've come to bring down the hammer on you assholes."
Author's note
Well this chapter is finally done. Sorry this is taking so long. I'm typing another story alongside this one and right now the words are just flowing for the other one. But yeah anyways John is here! Next chapter will get to see Nagi's rival in action and maybe start wrapping this thing up and moving on I now you guys must be getting tired of this. Also I'm going to be on a job search and if I do get a job updates will be a little hazy to say the least.
Obscurum means darkness