WolfGear Presents: Negima? The mage and the Gunslinger
Pairings: Negi X ku-Fei Kaede X OC
Chapter 66: Family ties
I don't own Negima
John McCoy the second son of the infamous Jake McCoy rest by the cool river side near some ancient runes of some forgotten race. Ironically this race worshiped cats. The broken statues reminded him of his wife Abi, who was of the fire cat race, perhaps these cats were her ancestors.
He shook his head. Now wasn't the time to be thinking about what was long gone. The more important thing was the fact that he didn't know how in the hell he had gotten here. The last thing the remembered was fighting the eye patched man through the portal and appearing in the waste lands. Eventually he had passed out due to magic depletion, and when he awoke he was here.
"You are finally awake I see," A raspy voice said as the clunk, clunk of a horse's hoof rapped on the cobble stone road that spread throughout the ruins. "This is good. You are indeed of my blood."
John turned into surprise expecting to see his father, but instead he got a specter. The rider was a skeleton with two colors of eyes one blue like his and one green swirling with mystic wonder, beside the rider was the eye patched man he had been chasing chained to a holy rock and boarded with enough seals to close the gates of hell seven times over.
"No need to be alarmed John. I am simply one of the three pieces of your father that were scattered by throughout the world. I am Oracles Eye that was fused with our father's soul after his battle with me so many years ago. I am called the rider of the wastes. This one here is your father's elemental power and fighting instinct, he is called Render."
"That's two. Where's the third?"
"He will be here soon," The rider answered curtly, "and once he is we will be one again, and finally this world will be brought into reality, once all McCoy's are gathered together."
"What going to happen then?" John asked jumping to his feet lightning flashing in his hands. He had mauled it over in his mind for a while now, and realized his entire family has never been together in one place once in all of his memory. The question was why? A better question to is why hasn't he gone to visit Ray, Thomas, or even his own son Jack since Abi's murder. He would like to say he was looking for Jesse and finding his wife's killers, but that didn't mean he couldn't have dropped by once in the past sixteen years. Every time he thought about it or even tried something always detoured him, a voice whispering in his ear, his father's voice!
"You," John seethed angrily, "answer me why have you been keeping from seeing my son!" The rider remained silent. "Answer me dammit!"
"All will be answered in due time." The ride said looking up at the sky. John looked up to and saw a blue light soaring towards them for the direction of the old capital if he had his coordinates right. The light settled above them and descended between the Rider and eye patch, engulfing both in a blinding sphere of light. When the light finally died down one figure stood in place of three.
"Howdy John, been a long time." Jake said tipping his hat, if felt good to be whole again, though he could live without the constant vision of the oracle following into his mind, it drove him absolutely crazy!
John growled as he grabbed Jake by the collar of his shirt. "What was the point to all this! Keeping us apart, making sure we couldn't save Jesse, what was the fucking point!" John was pissed, but he was even more pissed off at the clear less look on his father's face.
Gently Jake removed John's hands from him his neck. John tried to push back but he just ended up sliding back in the dirt from trying. "I know you angry. I'm angry too, but things had to be the way where. Perhaps if Jack and Negi hadn't traveled through time things would have been different, but they aren't so deal with it."
"What?" Traveled through time, so does that mean…
"The Jack here is your son and my grandson as Negi is Nagi's son. They're just older then they look by a few years. When they appeared here history corrected itself to fit their memories, but they also reset the future, because nothing ever happens exactly the same twice." Jake explained reading his son's expression. He wished he could say he understood but none of his sons ever traveled through time, so yeah that was a new one.
Suddenly Jake's left eye snapped open the swirling green cleared for a moment leaving the eye blank and then returned. Jake became serious.
"You have to go." He said simply, by the expression on John's face he was not done talking yet, but that was too bad, live hung in the balance. "Look I promise next time we meet, which will be soon by the way. I'll explain everything, but right now you have to go save your future daughter in law!" Jake barked pressing his forefinger to John's head. "This all you need to know, now go."
John staggered back from the touch the vivid images of dead children on the ground pushed the horrid memories of the war to the forefront of his mind, he was too late last time but not this time he swore taking flight. He was so preoccupied that he didn't notice Jake slip something into his pocket before taking off.
"Don't worry son, soon this will done with and you won't have to worry about the world's problems, course the trouble that will follow after may not be worth it." Jake said grimly staring at the small seed in his hand. A gift from someone high above, it was amazing the power that flowed through such a small thing, but then again it was the seed of the Yggdrasil tree. Pocketing the seed Jake returned to his steed and patted on side the head. "I guess it's time I get to work huh?" The horse snorted and nodded its head. "Sometimes I wonder how smart you are." He said mounting the horse, tapping his spars into it side Jake stirred the beast south, the opposite end of the world.
The sky was a blur as John soared through the skies hell bent on saving Kaede and the others. Strange how he knew their names now, not only that but he felt as if he had sat down and spoken with each of them as if they were friends. He knew Sayo was Rubi's adopted daughter and very happy not to be a wondering spirit anymore, and that she enjoyed karaoke with strange girl named Zazie. Kataro was his nephew by Thomas; personally John was starting to get a little worried that he was the only one who was going to continue the McCoy line. Interesting enough the hanyou had thought of Jack as an older brother before finding out that they were actually related. Ku Fei, Nagi's boy's girlfriend she likes eating pork buns, especially the ones made by her granddaughter Chao, who was also his great granddaughter, though Jack and was also a time traveler. "What the hell did I miss?" Next was a Robot girl a new model of the ones that his father had made with Evangeline, she apparently had budding feeling for Jack and was the clone/daughter of a AI program in Jack's eye in the future. Holy crap his head was going to explode if he heard any more time travel adventures. Now it was two pink haired girls that were often missed seen as Jack's kids when he and his girlfriend went out on dates and they happened to tag along. The next girl was Konoe's daughter there wasn't much about her other than her overly exaggerated powers and her love of a samurai girl named Setsuna, who also shared similar feeling, if the mental vision of the brunette naked wasn't enough to clarify that. Finally the ninja girl Kaede, Jack's girlfriend to be more precious, they had already took the leap into a true Pactio and are now bond together forever, he could vaguely remember seeing her when he had entered Jack's mind during that tournament, back then he was so busy prep talking Jack that he didn't notice how HUGE the girls breasts where, she was as big as Abi and only fifteen! Jack sure could pick em', he chuckled then became serious, he hadn't been there for Jack, but he would be there now, by his word those girls would not die at least today.
He landed on the outside of the tower, he had come from the south and could sense Ray to the east with Jack not far behind. The ground was covered with remains of the Chacha dolls, he recognized two of them Kata and Vela, it sadden him to see them gone, but knew that this is what they wanted in the end.
"Don't worry I'll avenge you too." He swore marching forward. A spike in magical energy sent him sprinting into the fortress. The building rocked from nearby explosion he was getting closer. He stopped at a hole in the wall and saw them. The girls from the vision lay unconscious on the floor but alive, more pressing was the black version of the puppets he fought many years ago advancing on his son's girlfriend!
"Oh no you don't you basterd Atom splicer" blades of lightning shot from his finger, cutting the attacker's arm clean off! "Lay another finger on any of these kids and I won't just take your arm next time I'll take your head." he threatened. The black puppet shivered in fear as the he drew closer lightning dancing in his hand.
"Who are you?" The puppet stuttered.
John 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."
In a flash of light he disappeared and reappeared in the same spot only with Kaede in his arms. He turned his back to the puppet and walked over to where the twin's laid. "I'm going to set you down here. I'll be back in a minute." He reassured the girls.
John turns and faces his opponent "What's your name?"
"Obscurum," John laughs.
"Darkness huh, that wrinkle old mage couldn't name shit if it came out of his own ass, or is that where you guys come from? Speaking of which were do you guys come from? I always thought you were made in a test tube or something creepy like that." John chuckled at the look of pure rage that marred the berserker's face. He had faced many of these things and they were usually silent or arrogantly loud, he guessed by the look of outrage on Obscurum's face that he was the latter. A spike of magic pulsed. Grimly John tracked it source to Jesse. To make matters worse the gate in the ruins was open, how long he did not know, but then again there was also good that come of it. "You know I was thinking of betting the living shit out of you myself, but I think these guys have more of gorge against you then I do right now. Isn't that right Thomas, Rubi?"
"You bet your ass we do! No one hurts my little girl and gets away with it!" Rubi threatened cracking her knuckles loudly. "I'm going to scratch your eyes out and then shove your intestines in your empty socks and tie them in a nice bow and send you back to you master as a gift."
Thomas nervously scratched his head at his brother's sister in law, it was clear to him were Jack go his sadistic side, Not that he didn't feel the same way. "I don't know about what crazy (ouch!) Here, but I won't be holding back for what you've done to my son." Thomas said rubbing the spot Rubi had hit him. Woman had quite the arm on her.
Obscurum growled as the three chatted like he wasn't even worth their attention. He gathered Flamma and Unda in his arms, the two incarnations too shape and launched their most powerful attacks at the fire cat and ice user. Only it didn't do shit. In fact both Rubi and Thomas didn't even turn away from their augment about who was going to attack first as the water fire attack canceled each other out when hitting their respected targets.
"Tell you what you roast the top half well I freeze the bottom." Thomas suggested charging a Rabidus glacies on the tip of his finger. Rubi nodded in agreement as she charged her own spell Flaring Cat claw. Together they unleashed their attacks the searing flames consumed Obscurum's upper body while the lower body froze in a block of ice that did not melt despite the raging inferno right above it. What was left was mortified berserker as he tried to heal his burns and the frost bit but the two elements had scrammed his nerves and senses leaving him helpless as he could not focus enough to do any real help.
"We don't have time to waste on this push over." John said charging another attack, but before he could a flash of lightning arced over him and disintegrated the berserker in an instant.
Standing up and pile of rubble was Evangeline A.K McDowell more precisely his and Thomas's mother. "Really now my children playing with a waste of space like that, Tch, you take after me." The vampire smiled maliciously. Just then Ray, Jack and Negi landed, causing Eva to smile again. This was going to be good. "Now that we're all here lets go get my granddaughter."
"What!" Negi exclaimed looking between Evangeline, Jack, John, and then Thomas. "You're Jack's grandmother Evangeline? When did this happen?"
"About forty years ago when I gave birth to the two men standing over there," Eva said bored, it really wasn't that big of deal."
"Jack did you know this?" Negi stuttered.
Jack shrugged "The hell I know what's going on anymore and well were at it someone what to tell me what you are all doing here?" He pointed to Rubi, Thomas and lastly his father John. "Or more preciously what are you doing here dad?"