Huntress Mage Chronicles
Chapter 6
Disclaimer and Warning: I own nothing. This chapter includes tentacle rape. If you don't like, skip the first three paragraphs.
Over the next month, Quidditch and flying lessons are cancelled for the safety of the students and Justice House holiday plans are finalized while Emerald updates her animagus registration and enjoys the remaining classes. Unfortunately, while the students of Hogwarts are safe from the Zerg, the same can't always be said of their families elsewhere in the world. On the morning of Sunday December first, owls deliver notice to Ron and Daphne that their sisters are missing and possibly captured by the Zerg in Ottery St Catchpole.
After setting the destination of Emerald's portal, Daphne and Ron take one look at the tentacle and egg filled Zerg hive that Ottery St Catchpole has become and immediately return to the Hunter's Spear, leaving Emerald to search for survivors on her own. With her support gone, Emerald releases a technique called bankai even as she notes a few details about the Zerg hive. First, the captives are treated differently depending on if they are male or female. While the male captives have their genitals milked to death, the female captives are force bred and filled to overflowing with pre fertilized eggs resulting in massive egg clusters concealing scraps of human flesh. Second, clothing is useless against the Zerg. Last, only three captives are still alive. One blonde is bloated as a beach ball and is no longer restrained since the Zerg know she is in the final stage before death. The red-head and a second blonde are still wide awake, fully restrained by tentacles and trying to scream through the tentacles shoved down their throats.
"Blood is my blade, honor is my shield: prowl across the blood soaked skies, Heavenly Dragon: Hunter's Moon," Emerald recites, summoning an army of magical draconian clones to purge the Zerg presence from Ottery St Catchpole. As the constructs battle the Zerg troops, Emerald uses her blood claws to shred the tentacles raping the two girls while checking the health of all three survivors to see if they can be purged of Zerg eggs. After explaining their survival chances, Emerald performs the blood adoption ritual as the tune of 'Time to Say Goodbye' from season two of RWBY fills the air while Emerald's magical constructs continue butchering the Zerg. Unfortunately while the ritual purges most of the Zerg eggs from the former captives, all four girls are tainted by a small amount of Zerg blood giving them access to the Zerg hive mind.
In the final weeks before winter holidays, Emerald gets her bankai registered as a third animagus form and gets to know the newest members of her clan. As a side effect of the trauma from Ottery St Catchpole, Luna Lovegood has permanently become so loony that her official name changes to Loony Death. Ginny Weasley and Astoria Greengrass are less affected, but can still use counseling and like their older siblings in Clan Deathbringer have added Death to their last names. On the flight to Longbottom Manor, Emerald plans a minor prank with Neville Longbottom-Death.
"She needs a new home. Can I keep her Gran?" Neville says to Madam Longbottom as he exists the Hunter's Spear naked laying between the shoulder and back spikes of Emerald's yaut hound form.
"Where are your clothes young man. I expect you to take care of everything that creature needs," Madam Longbottom says before welcoming the rest of Clan Deathbringer to her home with a slight scowl when she notices they are all nude.
"The lack of worn clothing is part of Clan Deathbringer culture and part of Justice House as I am sure I mentioned in at least one letter home Gran," Neville says before giving his new family a tour of the manor and greenhouses. In the days leading up to Christmas, everyone has fun training their Yautja skills and tending the plants in the greenhouses as well as nearly giving Madam Longbottom a heart attack when she goes to wake Neville the first morning and finds Clan Deathbringer in a nude puppy pile at the foot of Neville's bed.
On Christmas morning, everyone wakes early and surprises Madam Longbottom with breakfast in bed before moving to the main hall to open presents together. Most of the presents tend to be rather generic. For example, everyone gets at least one blood forged weapon from Emerald, most people receive chocolate from Ron while he gives Emerald a wizarding chess set. For some reason, Mrs. Weasley sent Emerald a sweater knitted from emerald-green wool. Hagrid sends Emerald a wooden flute that appears hand carved. Hermione gives everyone tooth flossing string mints. The most individualized gifts however are probably the set of wizarding etiquette books Emerald receives from Susan and Daphne or the magical paint set from Astoria, Ginny, and Loony.
After the presents have been opened, Emerald leads everyone to the Justice House common room where her adoptive parents have setup an experimental game system and suggests everyone pick a game to test. After a few minutes discussion, everyone decides to try Spira Fantasy based off the muggle game Final Fantasy X/X-2 first. When the game finishes loading, everyone is pulled into the game world.
When their vision clears, Clan Deathbringer finds themselves in a vaguely crystalline forest with a cold breeze coming from one side and more obviously crystalline trees in another direction. "Stealth protocol everyone. We appear to be in northern Macalania Forest, but I don't know when. Ron, Ginny, you can come with me to scout out what should be the city of Bevelle. Daphne, take your sister along the thin area of trees away from the cold and scout what should be the Calm Lands unless we are in a time before they received that name. Padma, take your sister through the heart of the crystalline forest and scout the Thunder Plains. I'll probably regret this, but Neville, I'd like you to take Loony to the source of the cold and scout Lake Macalania. The rest of you should setup a camp here and we all try to meet up at the camp in… four hours," Emerald says.
Five minutes after splitting from Loony and Neville, Emerald and the Weasley-Deaths enter a city that clearly specializes in advanced tech. Listening to the conversations of the inhabitants, they learn the city is Bevelle and is in the middle of a war with the city of Zanarkand. Entering a cathedral like building, Ron stupidly breaks stealth and is killed as an assumed spy by the soldiers patrolling what turns out to be a military command center. Shaking their heads at Ron's pointless death, Emerald and Ginny head deeper into the command center exploring the sublevels until they see a clearly foreign athlete sneaking from shadow to shadow as if in a spy movie.
"I suggest you return to your home before you get yourself killed," Emerald says as she shifts her stealth magic to let the athlete see her without any soldiers who might be nearby detecting her.
"If I don't do what I came here for, summoner Lenne will be dragged into the war and I refuse to lose her."
"And how do you think she will feel if she loses you? Despite the sword on your back, you don't look like the warrior type," Emerald says as she notes the athlete hasn't reacted to her lack of clothing.
"Shuyin!" Turning to the source of the shout, Emerald, Ginny and Shuyin see a young woman dance up to them holding a microphone stand as though it is a summoner's staff. After professing her eternal undying love for Shuyin, the woman introduces herself to Emerald and Ginny as Songstress Lenne, novice summoner of Zanarkand. With introductions out of the way, Emerald creates a portal back to Macalania Forest and leads the lovers to the Clan Deathbringer camp.
A full hour before everyone is scheduled to meet up at camp, the Greengrass-Death sisters rush in to warn of a flying whale the size of a city approaching the mountain north of the forest. Once the rest of Clan Deathbringer returns, a watch is set until the next morning. Just before they set out to protect the beast men of the mountain, Clan Deathbringer and the Zanarkand lovers encounter a mysterious young boy in purple robes who offers a gift to help in a coming war before hitting Lenne and Emerald with orbs of holy power that teach them a summoning ritual. When Shuyin and Hermione turn to confront the boy, he vanishes into thin air.
"With the war, I didn't expect to meet him. If something has gone wrong in Zanarkand, meeting the friends of Bahamut's Fayth might prove easier than meeting the Zanarkand Fayth." Lenne says before following Clan Deathbringer east to the plains at the foot of Mt Gagazette.
At the eastern intersection leading either south through the forest to the Thunder Plains or northwest to the future Calm Lands, the group is ambushed by fiends of the canine and helm families. When the fight is over, Lenne moves to perform the Sending but pauses when she notices there are fiend corpses missing. "You Deathbringers are crazy fighting without protection. Any idea why some of the corrupt spirits that were slain are missing even before a Sending?" she says to Clan Deathbringer.
"Our magic works a little differently. You'd be surprised how easily it can be used for passive defense. As for the missing corpses, I can only guess that my soul-forged weapons are imbued with the equivalent of your Sending ritual," Emerald says.
"A soul-forged weapon? That sounds comparable to an Aeon like Hydrosia or Druidia. Perhaps you could have a practice duel against my Aeons when we have more time." Lenne says as the group leaves Macalania Forest to see a scandalously clad woman using an Aeon to battle the flying whale on the southern slope of the mountain while the plains at the foot of the mountain are overrun with fiends of several varieties.
Initially, Lenne summons a gravity type Aeon named Druidia to fight the seemingly endless waves of fiends, but she quickly switches to a support role after seeing Emerald's Bankai. As Emerald and her blood clones use blood waves to destroy the fiends hundreds at a time, Lenne uses her skills in the Summoner's arts to adapt a ritual and tells Shuyin to fall back and allow the Deathbringers to hold back the tide of fiends. As the modified ritual completes, two things happen. First, the Aeon battling the flying whale kills it before turning on and killing its Summoner. Second, the Zanarkand lovers turn into a ball of crystallized energy and absorb into Emerald. With the sudden knowledge of a new Summoning, Emerald uses a final blood wave to cover the retreat of Clan Deathbringer while they learn more about the land.
AN: Thanks for reading and please review. I could use suggestions for more non canon Aeons, spells/techniques, and dress spheres for later in the arc. Would my loyal readers prefer returning to the main storyline after the Spira arc or jump into another game dimension arc?
