WolfGear Presents: Negima? The mage and the Gunslinger
Pairings: Negi X ku-Fei Kaede X OC
Chapter 69: Oh bury me not
I don't own Negima
"Who have got to be kidding me? There is no way I can bring back the dead! It's impossible without server punishment from the heavens." Jesse screamed at her grandfather, who even more convinced that she got her personality form Eva, course her mother Abi was the same way. But that was beside the point.
"Ok listen closely. I'll explain it better this time. You are not bringing back the dead, when Jack burned the magical world and its inhabitance, their fake bodies where destroyed, but their souls were transferred into the world tree of light and are now in the form of golden fruit, apples to be specific. And since Jack is your twin brother you can take the ash of their bodies and molded them with the earth to create a new body for them, after that the world tree will turn their golem bodies to flesh and return their souls." Jake explained, even though there were a few more details he had skipped over, but Jesse didn't need to know that the saints of heaven were coming to put him in the ground after he did this. "While you're doing this with your power of earth I'll be restoring the land to something people can live off of with mine. Now if your done questioning me, we can being."
"Alright fine," Jesse huffed. If it got her back to her father and brother quicker then she would help.
Jake slipped his hand over hers and let his aura flare. "Good now connect your aura with mine and we can being."
Back up top, everybody else waited in silence for the last ritual to begin. Nothing had happened for a while now, and some were begin to wonder what the holdup was when suddenly the earth began to shake cause ripples to branch out over the vast waters from the flood.
"Look there!" Ku pointed to a raising peak far off in the distance, then another peak emerged and then another, till entire mountain range sprang for from the deeps of the sea. All around them was land once again with little buds of green peeking out of the ground, and it didn't take long for those buds to start growing into saplings and then into trees, along with a variety of other planets that any of them could identify.
"What's going on?" Thomas asked memorized he had never seen such a vast amount of nature such as this, it was beautiful.
Ray grunted. "It's probably pa's handiwork." The old man was always showing off and turning an entire plant green in just a few minutes was just another indirect way of him saying "I'm better then you!"
"Yeah so what are we supposed to repopulate this place ourselves? If so we'll need more women." John joked making the four girls glare at him. He rose his hand up in surrender. "Chill I was just kidding."
"What's happening over there?" Negi wondered directing their attention to the world tree of light. The golden fruits that grew on the trees many branches began to fall and soak into the earth. A few moments later thousands or perhaps millions of human sized dirt balls shot into the air; one in particular few away from the massive horde and landed next to them. They watched as the ball twisted and turned till it molded into the shape of a young woman.
"Nice to see you all again," the woman said her earthy skinned turned peach and her hair purple, "While you all glad to see me again?"
"Brigitte!" They exclaimed surprised to see the Doll soldier alive and well and naked for that manner, though she didn't seem to mind, the men still turned away out of courteously, while the woman fetched the doll something to cover herself up with, but in the end Eva used her shadow magic to forge a cloak for the Doll.
The vampire paused when she placed the cloak on the doll or what should have been a doll. Poking Brigitte's side Eva was surprised to find that instead of harden iron wood, she felt soft squishy skin!
"What happened to you?" Eva exclaimed.
"Huh would your looked at that." Brigitte curiously examined her new body. Everybody stared as the former doll who took it all in stride. "While this was interesting but I think I'm going to go check on the rest of my sisters, see you later."
Eva watched the doll fly off. This had to be one the most amazing things she has ever seen in her entire life!
"Even more amazing then me," Jake asked appearing behind everyone with Jesse in tow. The female McCoy was sleeping soundly in his arms after receiving a dose of earth magic to keep her alive. Carefully not to wake Jesse from her sleep Jake handed her over to John and stepped away from the group. "Now if you'll excuse me I'm off to have a civil chat with my sister, bye."
On the very tip of the Dark world Tree waited Shihime. The time has finally come. Finally she and her brother would battle. She remembered the last time they fought; it was just after he had acquired the oracle's eye. The power to see the future has proved to be a deflect fight and even with the help of her minions they had been beaten and left valuable to the Mage of the beginning.
She griped her fist in anger remembering the day the vile wizard force her into a contract and sealed her minions, but want angered her the most was the fact that Jake her own brother had sat back and allowed it to happen, before he sealed himself a flask. "You cannot see what I see, there for you will never understand." That is what he had said to her before disappearing.
The familiar aura of her brother quickly alerted her of his arrival. Wordlessly Jake floated on to a nearby branch and waited.
Shihime was the one to break the silence. "You're a real basterd. You know that? We could have finished this petty game so many years ago, but you chose to go and fall for that woman and then the vampire."
Jake looked on with sadness for his sister. "Asta…"
Shihime exploded with anger. "No! I am not that weakling! I am Shihime, the princess of death, and you better remember it." She sneered summoning her scythe. "Come at me, so that I may bring you the death you deserve."
"Whenever you want to start," Jake said reaching for his pistols. Just as he touched the butt of the gun Shihime charged forward with her scythe posed to cut him down. He blocked the attack but crossing his guns in an X and held the blade back while sparks fell from the fiction. "It doesn't have to end this way Asta!" Jake yelled pushing the Death princess of balance and jumped to a lower branch, while firing his pistols.
All of the bullets were deflected and he knew that he would have to step up his game. "Hear me voice of the wind, the breath of the flame, the sting of the cold, the blinding light of thunder, and fist of the earth form together the void that consumes all, Void Stance!"
"Gore technique Disemboweler," A quick thrust of his hand Jake pieced the death princess's stomach and ripped out her guts, but something was very wrong. What was in his hand didn't feel like guts, but hay. He looked up at his would be victim and instead of his fallen sister was a scarecrow with a pumpkin head? Wait he thought I remember this thing its Pumpkin King lord of Monsters!
"Gore technique Decapitation," using his left hand Jake severed the monster king's pumpkin head from his shoulders, only it proved ineffective as Pumpkin's body burst into flames and then reformed. Leaving Jake nothing to show for his efforts except some burns, this would not heal because of Void stance negating his elemental magic.
Before he could think of way to deal with the monster, Jake felt the tale tell signs of a beasts claws gouging out his back. "Fucking A!" He cursed madly swiping around to face Lycus the lord of beasts.
Grabbing the wolf man by the muzzle Jack used a smaller scale version of Void crush to implode the wolf's head into oblivion, only to growl angrily as the beast head grew back like a hydra's.
"The hell," Jake blinked at the wolfman's new ability he couldn't do that last time they had fought, but he didn't have time to ponder that, because the oracle's eye in his left socket flashed him a vision of Swunga and Dracula impaling him from behind. So he did the natural thing and sidestepped the attacks and countered with Disemboweler ribbing out the undead vampires liver. He was aiming for his heart, but Swunga lord of the underworld saved the undead king from being turned to ash.
Jake cursed under his breath as the four lords of darkness descended on him. He faced them before and had won, but they were a lot stronger than they were before, and it was proving to be a challenge keeping up with them. Course if he hadn't wasted the majority of his energy reviving the planet these four would be a cake walk, but he did and now he has to deal with it.
The best course of action he could take would be to use the Oracle eye to see what their next move was going to be, course if he did that the eye would constantly drain his remaining magic down to zero little by little. He didn't want to resort to this, but he had no choice.
"Pandora," He whispered and the silver brief case appeared in his hands, "Advent." Pandora shined with a blinding light as the seal containing its power was broken allowing access to all 777 weapons.
"Weapon number 547, Solomon's spear," Pandora morphed into a long silver spear and at its master's command extended to over a mile long and impaled Pumpkin king! "Void thunder!" Purple lightning bolts electrified the scarecrow, causing electro shocks to ravage his body as he fell to the ground. "Weapon number 239: Gabriela's sledgehammer," once again Pandora changed its shape. Wielding the hammer with expert skill Jake delivered a punishing blow to Lycus next causing the wolfman's bones to turn to dust from the impact. Dracula tried to sneak up behind him, but with the sight of the oracle's eye on his side Jake turned and deflected that attack. "Weapon number 732 lion's mane," this time Pandora infused with its master's hair creating a long mane of razor sharp hair stronger then steel. Curling up into a ball Jake allowed the mane of metal to surround his body making a human sized steel spiked ball. Spinning with the speed of sonic the hedgehog the metalized Jake connected with vampire and shredded him armor and all into ripens. Coming to a stop on top of a branch Jake returned to normal and faced down the final lord Swunga.
"Weapon number 120: Apollo's bow," Drawing the sting Jake infused the magic arrow with void fire and let the arrow fly. Swunga tried to deflect the arrow with is hand, but the flames incinerated it and continued to swallow the underworld lords body whole.
Jake fell to his knees exhausted. Using Pandora and oracle together really drained him. He wanted nothing more than to lie down and sleep, but he knew he couldn't, Shihime was still around and he had no idea where she would strike. Figuring what was the harm in one more peek Jake activated the oracle and looked into the future and what he saw disturbed him.
Normally the eye showed three possible futures, but now there were only two. One was Shihime stabbing him in the back with the slayer's claws, and the other was Shihime killing his sons and grandchildren.
"You are still strong brother, but I know your weakness!" Shihime boasted from above. He could feel it a magical attack so powerful that it would kill anything with in range. He should know it's his attack Void crash. He could sense its trajectory; it wasn't coming at him, but at his loved ones below! In a spilt second Jake knew what he was going to do without looking into the future… he jumped in front of it.
Ray watched the battle from below. This is the first time he has ever seen his father fight this hard, it was amazing the way he avoided his opponents attacks with ease and wielded the power of Pandora at the same time. He knew this must be a real treat for John and Thomas, hell it was a treat for anyone who hadn't see his father fight and live to talk about it, and that was a very small number of people.
John didn't know what to think. What he was seeing right now was something he'd only ever heard about in Ray's bedtime stories. His father the man was taking on the same opponents he had once lost to before. They were the ones that had taken Nagi when the Mage of the beginnings last vessel gave out. He had fought with everything he had and lost. Now his father weakened was managing to do was he couldn't, it made him feel both pride and jealously. He knew Thomas felt the same, while Rubi seemed indifferent.
Eva smiled at the gabbing faces of Jack, Negi, Kaede, and Ku. Never before had they seen just a display of power. Not even Nagi could hold a candle in comparison to the ones fighting up above. Things got even better when Jake starting eliminating the lords of darkness one by one using Pandora, but Eva felt worry enter her heart when she saw him fall to his knees in exhaustion.
That however wasn't the worse of it. From high above she caught sight of Shihime holding a huge sphere of dark energy, it was an attack she knew all too well, Jake's killer technique Void Crash!
"We have to get out of here!" Eva yelled to everyone, but it was too late the attack had already been thrown and there was no escaping the void. She closed her eyes and waited for her eternal life to end, but to her surprise it didn't. Curious as to why she and everyone else in a 100 mile radius wasn't dead, Eva took a peek up at the sky and saw Jake holding back the void crash with one of his own, but he didn't have the time to empower the spell with the same amount as Shihime and slowly he was being sucked in to the void.
He struggled to pull free of the void's gravity but it was pointless. He was going to die no if what or buts about it, using the oracle had confirmed it, all that was left of his future as the grim reaper.
Pulling his left arm free of the void Jake fought with all his might reaching for the green eye in his left socket, it was of no use to him now, but it could still help his children at least for now. Placing the mystic eye within the confines of Pandora, Jake let the artifact disappear knowing that Eva could still activate it even if he was gone.
Looking down at his children one last time Jake felt pride for the men his sons have become and for his grandchildren who would continue to move forward into a brighter future and to Eva his second wife and love after the first had been taken away from him. He was happy that he could find another to love in his life time and bear him two sons.
"Good bye, I love you all." He said his final words and let the void take him. In the center of the chaos he let his own void crash go and the two cancel each other out. This was the only way to stop the attack, but he would be torn apart by to two forces.
Eva felt her heart break as Jake's bond was severed once again this time for good. This time he was really dead.
Author's corner
Ok finally finished this chapter. I think there are some good parts and lots of bad part. I feel so bad about making these chapters in such poor quality, but I'm having bad writers block for this story. My other story new lagoon is going great! Ideas are flowing like a river. I'll keep trying to update this story regularly and with better material I hope. I seem if I don't finish the chapter in a week things just go so bad. Well see ya next time and thank you to those that have been reading, sorry to make you wait.