The Namesake and The Demon Bow
A young male carrying a grey bow leapt down from the rooftop he was staying on. He was wearing a green military jacket and camouflage pants. He stayed as low as he could as he ran throughout the streets of the city. The sky was pitch-black and it was no later then 1 o'clock in the morning. He was investigating a recent attack in the city of Loew. His instructions were to keep a low profile as the citizens of Loew hated Magic Weapons and Meisters for some reason.
This was his first official assignment from Lord Death himself since he was paired up with his partner. They were accompanied with a professional, their teacher Canary. The young man hid quickly into a pair of bushes as a person walked by. A single sighting could result in his mission being a total failure. A Kishin Egg was supposedly wreaking havoc here and the chances that they'd successful get out of here without any casualties went up with everyone person they avoided.
A scream rang out and pierced the dark skies.
"Michael," said the man's bow. If it weren't for the shadows covering them the green swirls running down the sides of the bow would be obvious. The bow appeared to be rough and made out of stone, but in reality the bow was made of something closer to steel.
"Don't worry. I heard it, kind of hard not to," he said as he leapt back up into the air and onto the houses. He darted in the direction from where the scream came. He kept a tight grip on his bow. He heard the rumors of Meisters who dropped their weapon and were killed quickly, that wasn't going to happen to him.
He stopped on the top of a rooftop with a huge chimney. He peered around the chimney and down onto the ground. There was his target. A large hunchback man. His hands were replaced with large claws. His mask was one straight out of a horror movie. The man was no longer human, he was closer to a monster. His long tail flicked out from underneath him.
"This is going to be fun! Just shoot and hit him with everything you got," said the bow. Michael sighed. He could feel the bow vibrating in his hand, he wanted to say it was from fear as he wasn't exactly very happy at the moment. The tried their best to pass the preliminary rounds and even Lord Death said they had potential, but that didn't make him feel any better.
"We can do this, May," said Michael, reassuring himself more then his bow. "He still doesn't even know we are here. It'll be a simple job, we shoot him and kill him." As he said that last word the chimney was cleaved straight off by a row of threatening claws. Michael swallowed hard.
"I THINK HE KNOWS WE ARE HERE!" shouted May as the top of her voice. Her reflection in the bow became clear. She was a young woman about age sixteen. She was currently naked (back off pervs!), but her blonde hair bounced around her shoulders. She had on a minimal amount make-up today, just lipstick and some blush.
"Change of plans!" shouted Michael as he hoped down and onto the ground. His eyes fell upon the body of the man. The monster had just killed him. He was lying flat on the street his body covered in blood and riddled with three holes in it, "prepare for Attack Plan Q."
"Okay," said May, her voice seemed to be higher and more excited then before. The monster leapt from its place up on top of the house and straight down. It lashed out with its claws at the same time. Michael brought his bow up to block the claws. The monster's face was a mere five inches away from Michael's face.
"Ahem!" said Michael, "Marco James! You are in violation of Death's law of consuming human souls…" he was cut off by May.
"I think you should wait on giving him the speech, You know, maybe try again when he's not trying to kill us!" she shouted at him. Marco, the monster, delivered a kick straight into Michael's chest forcing him to stumble back and away from him.
The monster spun around and made another drive for Michael's throat using his claws. Michael spun the bow around and blocked the swipe. One hand on the bow above the claw and the other one lower.
"He needs to know what he had done is wrong, if we kill him before he knows he won't repent!" shouted Michael as he charged forward thrusting his bow at the monster's gut. The monster jumped up and back on top of the rooftop avoiding the thrust. Michael grunted with frustration, "GET BACK DOWN HERE, YOU SWINE!"
"Swine?" asked May with a chuckle in her voice, "you sound like an old man."
"What else am I supposed to say?" asked Michael ignoring the monster on the rooftop to engage his own weapon in an arguement.
"I don't know!" said May, "try something hipper? Maybe…" she was unable to finish her saying as just as her word was about to come out the monster jumped back down with another downwards swipe. Michael rolled to the side letting the monster's slash drive itself a foot deep into the solid concrete.
"Not very big on manners, is he?" asked Michael, "don't you know it rude to attack people while they having a conversation?" The monster swung its tail around wrapping it around Michael's leg and pulled him to the ground. Michael fell to the ground with a thud. The monster redirected its attack with a straight downward thrust with its claw.
Michael brought his bow up and blocked the dive using the bow. He pushed back forcing the monster up and off of him. Michael quickly returned to his feet and prepared for another attack.
"I don't like being used as a shield, Michael," complained May, "you could ruin my good looks."
The Kishin wasn't about to back off, however, it ran forth with another sweeping motion from its claws. Michael brought his bow back up and blocked the downward swipe. He quickly manuevered the bow and aimed at the monster's gut and fired. The arrow lodged itself into the monster's gut. It roared back in pain.
"Attack Formation Q!" shouted Michael as he jumped up into the air. As he came back down, he grabbed the tip of the bow's black string and pulled back. A small glowing arrow with a four-angled tip appeared in his finger. He fired an arrow straight down and into the monster's shoulder, a desperate attempt to disarm it.
Michael landed closely to the monster's immense body and pulled back his bow once more. The monster roared and swung its tail around, bashing the appendage into Michael's head forcing him to let go of his arrow, resulting in a lost of an attack. The monster backed away warily. Its tongue flicked out as it glared menacingly at Michael and his weapon.
"Two wounds, so far," said Michael announcing their progress thus far, "how are you holding up May?"
"I already said I'm getting tired of being used as a shield," said May calmly. She was getting tired of blocking the claws of the monster, but since Michael took a blow to the head she was lucky so far.
"The monster is really resilient," said Michael as he brought May into a defending stance once again. "I heard that he has only swallowed 10 human souls. Normally, that would've been a cake-walk for most weapons and meisters, so why are we having such a hard time?"
"This is only our first hunt," said May, "our second will be more successful." She didn't want to mention that they may not get a second chance if the fight continued like this.
"Okay," said Michael, "any suggestions on how to finish this?"
"Aim for the head?" suggested May. She never tried to kill a Kishin before, which meant that she had no idea on how to finish them off. Her only guess was to do what they always do in movies and manga, blow the head off
"On it," said Michael as he dashed forward. He quickly drew two more arrows and fired them both. The arrows missed the monster's head, but both of them made contact with its right shoulder, the arm slumped. The arm took too many hits and was out of commission. The monster reared back and made another swipe that barely nicked Michael's face. The swipe, however, still drew blood.
Michael stumbled back. "May, Attack Formation Q, once more!"
"Right!" the bow lengthened itself out to increase the strength of its next shot. It was a rudimentary technique. Most weapons could increase the size of their blades with ease, but May still had some trouble with it.
"DIE!" shouted Michael as he ran up close to is. He put the front of the bow against the monster's open neck and pulled back on the bowstring. A small black shaft with a green line on it appeared in his hand. The arrow's tip rested comfortably at the monster's neck. Michael released the string and watched as the arrow drove itself through the monster's neck. "Messy."
The bow glowed a green color and flew out of Michael's hands. The color soon took the shape of a young, voluptuous woman. She stood about 5 feet five inches (one whole inch taller then Michael). But the most eye-catching part of her body was her hips and her chest, both of them being blessings from a greater source. She wore a dark green blouse with a black cloth covering it. Her black pants seemed to meld with her black shoes. She wore a jade necklace around her neck, and her fingers were covered with golden rings.
A red soul came out of the monster's dead body.
"One down...ninety-eight to go," said Michael as he sat down on the ground as he watched his partner eat the soul whole.
"And then there is the witch's soul," said May as she distracted her gaze upwards away from the pool of blood.
"Sorry about your face," said Michael, "it looks like you won't be the prettiest girl in school any more."
"What the hell do you mean?" shouted May as she quickly pulled a small hand sized mirror out of her pocket. She sighed heavily as her face was left in its normal perfect condition, "hah, hah, very funny! You know my face is my moneymaker." Michael was too busy laughing to notice that the Kishin rebounded back up with surprising speed. The Kishin then turned it surprisingly sharp claws over and made contact with Michael's soft neck.
Did you know that a second to a normal human is like a minute to a miester? A Kishin can rip through someone's head in just two seconds? Most importantly, that a person can be completely alive and active while his head is being ripped off? So, stand still for two whole minutes and imagine someone sawing through your head during that entire time. Not pleasant.
Michael woke groggily from his sleep. His entire body felt dull. Like it was still asleep or on drugs...heavy drugs, as he couldn't even feel the blanket beneath him. He turned over and stood up. His feet collided with the ground and echoed throughout the entire infirmary. It sounded…odd?
In seconds May was up and in his room staring at him. Besides her was an older woman mid-forties, but still attractive. She was in a yellow dress. Her yellow hair flowed around her yellow eyes. She stood there and stared at Michael as well.
"...nice to see you again, May. You too, Canary-chan," said Michael, "What am I doing here?"
"You don't remember?" asked May sounding concerned.
"The last thing I remember is having my head torn off," said Michael, "but if that was true then I wouldn't be here now, would I?"
"You could be," said Canary, "you were in Loew, remember? The place where they can enchant golems to move and protect a certain object. They can also move souls from one person into another, however, this is a very hard thing to do and only two people were ever recorded as capable of doing this."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah," said Michael, remembering the lecture on how Giriko, a chainsaw magic weapon, was able to transfer his soul/memories into his children to live for eight hundred years. "So, you are saying that a Kishin killed me after, I killed it and my partner ate its soul, and that then some dead enchanter transferred my soul into a golem? HAH! Really, May, I understand that you'd want to get back on me for that joke I pulled on you with your face, but couldn't you make it more believable?" He crossed his legs only to be answered by the sound of metal clacking against metal.
(-In Lord Death's office-)
"Sid," said the high and squeaky voice of Lord Death as he talked to the blue zombified teacher, "what have you discovered about that kid's, Michael, latest mission?"
"Apparently the Kishin, he and his partner were attacking, was a Siamese twin," said Sid, "Siamese twins are a pair of children who while fetuses molded together to form one human, often with a special deformity. This created the being to have two souls and two separate brains. When Michael dealt the finishing blow to him he destroyed one brain and released one soul."
"But the other one," questioned Lord Death.
"The other one took a few minutes to gain control of the body and then struck him down," said Sid, "he was quite fortunate that this Cham guy was there to bind his soul to an incomplete golem or else he would've died."
"Yes," said Lord Death, "which brings me onto my next issue. Begin to research and observe this Alfred character. Canary stated that he had an unusually strong soul...and the power to bind actual SOULS to an object is rare..."
"Yes, Lord Death," said Sid as he disappeared from the room.
"I…think I should retire soon," said Lord Death.
The namesake of my story has been revealed. 'An Unsound Body' was in reference to my main character who lost his body, yadda yadda yadda, and his soul infused to a golem, yadda yadda yadda. Interesting though, no? May and Michael are the first weapon/partner pair. Michael is my character, but May is the work of stormling. So everyone give her big hug and a thank-you letter.
Also, the other two main-partner teams have not yet been decided. So keep sending in OCs. Also, through a rather shocking revelation on my part I realized that there are currently no staff members at DWMA (asides from Lord Death and Sid), I need staff members, too! I have edited the first chapter of the story to include them!
Finally, I want to say this for those of you whose weapons/meisters are chosen your duty is still not done. You still need to design a soul resonance technique for your character, if you do not I will do so. Soul Resonance has no real limitation except make it like your weapon and don't make it overpowered. (ex. A sword becomes capable of shooting out death lasers that kill a Kishin and witch on contact.)
EDIT: I apologize for my numerous May/Eliza and Bow/Trident mistakes. These were all errors and if you see any more throughout the story please let me know.