Chapter Six: Chrysanthemum's first job Part ||

"Thank you. I'm so very grateful for your help." Amber thanked.

"First, we need to scan the whole house for any clues. Chrys, we're going to need to split up." Fudo ordered.

"Right." The celestial mage replied. She then left the room that they were sitting in and made for a small corridor. Fudo went the opposite way.

Fudo headed left into a small room. It appeared to have been used as a storage room at one point. The dark red paint coated almost every wall in every room of the house. He definately felt the presence of something magical, but even with his astounding senses, he couldn't work out what it was. All he could make out were some small indents in the walls. But other than that, it was just an empty room. He tried searching in other places. The same magical presence was there, but everything was still empty. The family had just moved in. There can't be any magic item of some sort enchanting the place if they haven't even unpacked yet.
"Think, Fudo..." He almost said aloud. There's obviously some sort of explanation for this.

Chrys headed right, into the kitchen. Most of their stuff had been unpacked by now so the room was fairly full. Knifes hung up on the walls and on the floor sat checkered floor tiles much like the ones back at the guild. She couldn't really feel anything. It was just an ordinary room to her. First, she checked the draws. All there was was cutlery. Knifes, forks, Spoons and sporks. Then the cupboards. Plates, dishes, and glasses. Chrys was scared. That's probably the reason to why she didn't notice a blue light shimmer in the corner of her eye. It was then she noticed a perculiar box. As she started hobbling towards it, she felt slightly dizzy. her head automatically tilted to one side and she felt tired. She could feel her mind slip away from her.

Fudo was on his fourth room now. All he could find was a magical prescence. All he needed to do was find some sort of object. Nothing. There's some sort of possesion spell going on and he needed to find the cause. Steps could be heard from the other room.

"Ah, ha! It must be over there somewhere!" Fudo felt somewhat triumphant and followed them. It lead him along a corridor and right. It was coming from out of the kitchen. He then took another sniff... He recognised that smell from somewhere... Chrys!

"Damn. I thought I was onto something for a while... Hey, Chrys, found anythi... Are you okay?"

Her brown eyes darkened and lost all shine. She stared right through him.

"I'm... Fine." She murmered as she drew a large kitchen knife from behind her. "I'm gonn'a have to fight you now... I hope I can kill you... If I don't I'll be sad..." She said, speaking it all in one tone. Obviously there was something wrong. If he remembered correctly, Amber snapped out of it. If her could just do the same thing to Chrys... Before there was any time for him to think it through in more depth, the possesed Chrys lunged towards him, the knife outstretched in her arm. Fudo doged, but it was close.

Chrys didn't know what she was doing. She lost control over herself. Her possesor lunged again, this time just missing his left arm.

"Chrys, I know you're in there!" Fudo shouted. "Beat it. It's taking over you, overpower it's mind. We should then be able to beat it in it's true form together!"

"Shut up. I'm going to kill you, then the residents, then this girl. She has the opportunity to die last. Go on. Attack me, I like it when my prey struggle." Her possesor laughed in a deep voice. Chrys could tell Fudo didn't want to hurt her.

"Fine. Kill me. But first, tell me who you are. Why do you want to kill us?"

"I am one of 4. I am a demon of Lord Zeref's. I am the house. I've told you too much. Time to die." Chrys' possesor started to levitate. Grasping the knife in her hand tighter.

It was an empty room. The walls covered in thick red paint and floor tiles much like the ones back at the guild. Fudo started to wish he hadn't taken Chrys on this job. He was scared that if he attacked, he would hurt her. Her eyes were full of bloodlust. Chrysanthemum Lilica would be an empty shell if he didn't do something. He needed to attack. Slowly, he lifted his head.

"I've not known you for that long Chrys, but I feel like it's my duty to get you out of that state. And to do that, I must attack you. Forgive me... Roar of the cosmic dragon!" Fudo's cheeks puffed out as he lifted his hands to his face in a sort of tube shape. A pink blast of power shot from his mouth. It looked like a pink, swirling sunset.

Chrys' inner self yelped as she could see the large amount of magic power shooting towards her. She struggled but she couldn't move. She shouted but it couldn't be heard. She'd had enough.

"GET OUT OF MY BODY!" She screamed. She looked down at her hands to reveal the dark aura that had enveloped her escaping, just as she ordered. She was almost relived enough to forget she was in mid-air.

"Crap." she said as she looked down. She felt herself falling, she could feel her possesor laughing from infront of her. But one thing she didn't expect to feel were the arms of a dragon slayer wrap around her body and cusion her landing.

"F..Fudo?" Chrys looked up, and when she regognised him as her new found friend, "Thanks..."

"You're welcome. You're really heavy you know." Trust Fudo to ruin the moment. Chrys sighed as he chuckled. "He's finnaly revealed his true form. We can attack him together now."

"You think this is my true form? You fools... You want to see my true form? Here it is." Zeref's demon stated. The demon was a black blob. They couldn't really make out what shape it was or whether or not it had a face. The blob started straining. The straining soon turned into roars of pain. The roars of pain turned into the house quaking.

"Evacuate!" Fudo yelled, concerned for the resident's safety. Amber ran into the room, wondering what was happening. She screamed when she saw the demon.

"Get you and your family out!" he shouted again. The quaking became more vigorous when they all managed to escape the house. Amber's 6 children started to cry.

"What's happening to our new house?" They wailed, still half asleep.

"Something not nice. But it's okay, we can always move into a new one. Anyway, the wizards are fixing this one for us. In the meantime, I think we should get out of here while they do. I don't want to get in their way." Gary, Amber's husband answered. The family rushed across the freshly trimmed grass in thier pajamas and boarded thier four-wheeler that was parked near Fudo's.

The house started to move position. It's purple arcitecture changed. More roars of pain could be heard coming from the core as bricks turned to legs, roofs turned into shoulders, and walls turned to arms. Soon enough, a large figure was opposing them.

"ROOOOOAR! I haven't been in this form for 400 years! All these years, I have been trapping people in my dormant figure, possesing them and killing them. But this son of a bin had to report me to a high-ranked wizards guild!" The demon screached.

"Chrys. I'm sorry for taking you on this job with me. But we really need to beat this thing." Fudo sounded concerned.

"I really don't care. I've enjoyed this expirience so far. Let's go!" She confidently replied while grasping the key around her neck and one of the keys attached to her belt. "Open, gates of the chained princess and gate of the shield, Andromeda and Scutum!" Two magic circles appeared before her as two female spirits gracefully stepped out from each of them.

Scutum was a heavily armoured spirit with black hair tied into two buns. She possesed a large shield and determination filled her purple eyes. Andromeda leaped along-side her, stood in battle stance.

"Wing slash of the cosmic dragon!" Fudo shouted as he jumped up close to the giant house demon. A pink aura enveloped his arms and took the shape of wings.

"So he's a dragon slayer... I've only ever heard of such things..." Chrys stated in awe as she watched said dragon slayer hit the demon across the left shoulder. The roof tiling it used as a guard snapped in half. Fudo landed triumphantly next to Chrys.

"Your turn!" He ordered.

"Right, Andromeda, tie a chain around the demon's ankles to prevent it from moving, then attack it directly! Scutum, go with her to protect her from any hits!" She commanded. The spirits did as they were told. The flexible chain tightened itself around the monster as Andromeda and Scutum grasped eachother's arms, then each using their right legs, jumped up onto the demon's shoulder and struck. They didn't quite manage to break the intricate tiling in half, but severed it slightly.

"Chrys, get your spirits out of the way, I'm going to finish this in one shot." Fudo panted.

"Forced closure!" Chrys followed out her orders, wondering what Fudo was about to do. Her spirits faded away, returning to the celestial world.

"Stand back." He sternly told her. Once again, she did what she was told, still excited for the outcome. Her feet scraped across the stubbly grass and waited.

"When two planets align, I draw power," His body began to shine brilliant colours, it was as if fireworks had been set off inside his heart, "Ancient dragon slayer art, Gas Giant, Jupiter!" he chanted. A beam of power darted visciously from the night sky and encircled his muscular body. The dragon of space was close to full strength. His blue eyes turned a harsh yellow, and his wide pupils turned to nothing more than a streak of black. His blonde hair that tufted up on one side turned a hot pink and his hands turned to talons. Small scale-shaped marks could be seen all over his skin. Fudo Fubara lifted up his sharp claws and formed a small orange bubble. Chrys watched in utter amazment as the bubble grew larger and larger until it reached no bigger than that of the terrified house demon. She had never before seen this sort of strength. Even her older sister's magic couldn't compare. Zeref's demon had enough of being intimidated. It formed a beam of darkness near it's bedroom window and fired. At the same time, Fudo sent the massive ball of poison gas hurtling towards it. The two power sources collided, resulting in Fudo's spell devouring the darkness and crashing, causing the house to smash into tiny fragments of wood.

The resident's possesions' flew everywhere. From clothes to furniture, they all landed on the grass, damaged. China and ornaments were smashed in the ruble and debris of what was once a magnificent-looking house. The only thing that stayed intact was a perculiar looking box. Upon recognising it, Chrys moved from her open-mouthed position and ran toward it, picking it up. It resembled that of an old, red jewelery box. Delecate designs covered it's exterior.

"So... We defeated it. Didn't I look cool?" Fudo asked, jokingly as he limped over upon using so much power. He turned back into his original form.

"I suppose you were okay. It was a bit over the top though, I'm sure that lump of wood would've went down with a much easier hit." The celestial mage replied, trying to hide the fact that she was flabergasted. She did a good job, seeing as Fudo looked slightly disappointed when she replied. As soon as they finished talking, the box opened with a start. The demon that once possesed the house revealed it's damaged self and used the box as a vaccum to suck what was left of it inside. The box then closed tightly, never to be opened again.

"What is this thing?" Fudo and Chrys asked in unison. They turned to face eachother and let out a small smile when they realized they said it at the same time.

"We'd better take this box to Master Bob. On the contrary, what are we going to do about this mess?" Fudo enquired.

"Well, we're getting paid to do the job, so we may aswell clean it up." Chrys replied.

"This is going to take hours!" Fudo exasporatedly sighed.

"Well, if you hadn't used that massive attack, then there wouldn't have been this mess, would there?"

"If it wasn't for me, we'd still be fighting that thing!"

"Not if you'd used a smaller attack!"

"You're so ungreatful!"
"You're so big-headed!"

Just then, the magic council's boar-pulled karts interupted their argument and slammed to a stop near what used to be the entrance of the mansion. Officials leaped out and ran toward the mages. Chrys just managed to hide the box in her bag when the leader of the council, along with the tired family strolled up to them.

"Greetings, Blue Pegasus members. I am the chairman of the magic council, could you please give me a brief description of the recent events?"

"The family claimed that the house they'd moved into was haunted, so we came to investigate. It turned out that the demon of the house has been possesing and killing unknown families that had moved in to it for the past 400 years. We managed to defeat the demon and retrieve few of the household belongings." Fudo carelessely informed.

"We will clean up this mess for you while you make your way back to your guild. It's extremely late. Don't think you've got rid of us though, we will be having words with your guild master to decide on what to do with all the broken possesions."

"Okay. Thanks." Fudo tiredly said.

"Thank you very much!" Chrysanthemum bowed. Just then, Amber exhaustedly hobbled over to them.

"Please accept these jewels. You have no idea how greatful me and my family are to you." She said as she held out the cash reward. Fudo reached out and gently took it.

"Thank you, Amber. We're always happy to help!"

They said their goodbyes to the family and walked up to were they'd parked the four-wheeler to realize that Fudo's massive attack had smashed it to pieces. Chrys and Fudo stood wide-eyed at the severe damage that had been caused, and at the thought of Hibiki's reaction.