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Hot Temptation
He felt his body heat up when he saw the rain woman. She looked just as delicious as he'd heard. He let his raven bangs hood his face.
He swaggered toward her, grin widening at the shy face she made; he poured out more of his special curse power. She gasped and he bit his lips to stifle a moan of desire.
"Juvia thought- Juvia didn't know"
He tilted his head a little; he'd have to fix the third-person speech issue. He felt sweat on his palms and he ran a hand down her backside. He breathed against her skin and whispered.
"I need you."
He pressed his mouth against the pale skin of her neck and scraped it with his teeth.
He had a feeling he'd enjoy using her magic.
Cana swatted another handful of imps aside. She glanced back up the street she'd finished clearing; Warren stood in plain sight on the guildhall's roof. The arrangement had been as close to a substitute for his Magic Radar as the telepath could manage.
The card mage considered finding a higher perch in hopes of locating her target; footsteps from an alley behind her demanded her attention.
The brunette mage found Gray, or at least someone almost identical in appearance, giving her an awkward grin. She wrinkled her nose and took a step backward; he stank like nothing she'd encountered.
"Didn't you go with Erza?" She asked.
The grin on his face dropped and he leered at her.
"You're immune. No fair~," he said. In the next instant, Cana found herself on the ground, her wrists held over her head, and one of her assailant's legs on either side of her hips.
"We'll do things this way then," he said. "Hey there, I'm Ink. And you are downright sinfully hot."
In a different scenario, Cana would have laughed till her sides hurt at such a line.
"Now that we've met," Ink said, licking his lips. "Let's get to know each other."
The creep dropped his face down, mouth open, aimed for Cana's neck.
The card mage introduced his groin to her knee. His face contorted in pain and his grip loosened. Cana shoved him up by his face and shot to her feet. She jammed her elbow into his throat. She stepped back and swung her leg up toward his face.
"Well, if you're going to be a bitch about it."
Cana's foot stuck in his face; Ink's head had taken on the appearance of water, locking her foot. His form melted and she suppressed the urge to gag as he slid down her outstretched thigh. He reformed behind her, one hand behind her head.
"I can learn to like feisty," he said into her ear, shoving her face into a lamppost. "Just don't struggle too much. I really want you in my harem."
Cana ignored the pain in her forehead and pulled out her cards, whirling around.
Summoned Lightning!
A magic circle lit up the cobblestone. Ink jumped back as bolts of electric current shot toward him from the ground. Cana huffed.
"Can't have a harem with a total of zero women," she said. Ink laughed, using the flexibility of his partial water form to avoid her magic.
"I've already got one of yours helping me scout out talent," he said, crooked grin grating on Cana's nerves. "I can't wait to find out what new conquests she'll have for me."
Cana glowered, her cards splayed out in both hands. She threw down a combination of three.
Icicle!
Spears of ice flew toward Ink. The raven-haired freak sighed, turning his body into water again. Cana activated the cards she'd attached to the icicles.
Explosion!
In a fierce eruption of fire, each of the icicles shattered midair and exploded, the shockwave rattling Ink. Cana murmured, quiet to avoid alerting her opponent.
"Warren," she said. "Where's Juvia?"
A moment later, the telepath answered.
"Um, right now, it looks like she's fighting Levy."
Cana sidestepped a shot of water that came barreling toward her.
"Can you talk to her?" She asked, training her glare on Ink. He lifted his hands in a lazy motion, feigning an attempt at placation.
"Don't mar your pretty face with a scary expression like that," he said, shrugging. "Can't hate me for doing what I do; I'm an incubus, babe. I was made this way."
Ink drawled on the last sentence. Before either of them could make another move, a column of water broke into the skyline, a short distance away.
"Uh, doesn't seem like it." Warren said.
Ink groaned and shuddered, running a shaking hand over the waist of his pants.
"Gods," he said. "I love a girl that obeys."
Cana grimaced and set her teeth.
"Warren," she hissed. "I have a message for Levy."
Solid Script: Guard!
Levy managed to throw up a barrier between her and Juvia's water magic before being swept away. The flood of water broke through it a moment later, but the script mage had enough time to take a gulp of air before she submerged beneath the tide.
The blue-haired wizard let her body go limp; she resisted the current just enough to avoid serious injury. She looked up through the water's surface.
Solid Script: Chain!
The word chain materialized in front of her and the 'c' hooked around a windowsill of an apartment building. Levy pulled herself up, gasping once she broke the surface. The extra drag on the windowsill caused a crack in the frame.
Solid Script: Helium!
The word, comprised of the element she named, appeared under her and rose up out of the current. Levy jumped down from her new platform onto the nearest roof.
Before the script mage could regain her feet, Juvia appeared on the neighboring roof, lashing at her with a whip of water. Levy rolled out of harm's way while the water mage advanced.
"I must do as my master bids," Juvia said in a monotone, both of her hands transformed into a water whip. "Gray doesn't have any interest in flat che"
"Yes! You mentioned that already," Levy said, yelling in between dodging the barrage Juvia threw at her. The letter wizard ducked and wove, catching more than a few cuts on her arms and face; she contented herself with retaining an attachment to her limbs.
Levy lost ground on the roof as Juvia pressed forward, nearing the edge of the building. Jumping back into a low pouncing stance, the blue-haired mage dove toward Juvia, writing as she skirted under the onslaught.
Solid Script: Oxygen!
A text form of the volatile element went flying toward Juvia.
Solid Script: Fire!
Before the first word made it more than halfway between them, flames shot forward and collided with it. The resulting explosion rocked the building; Levy covered her head with her arms. Juvia, despite her liquid state, flew backward and down to the street.
The roof of the building tilted as the foundations shook; Levy rolled with gravity and bent her knees before landing and running out of the path of the collapsing structure. She ducked into the nearest shop and vaulted over a counter. She slid down to the floor.
"Hey, Levy," Warren said in her head. The script mage tore her charred jacket off and replied with a hushed yell.
"Kind of busy!"
"Sorry," Warren said. "Cana had a message for you; she found the other demon. Said he's an incubus."
Levy held the remnants of her jacket out beside her as she processed the new information. Her mind raced to think of how she could use it.
"Thanks."
She poked her head up and peered from behind the counter out the window. She checked for suspicious pools of water in the street that she could see. A strategy formed in her mind, and she felt grateful that she'd hid inside a weapons shop. She wrapped her jacket around one arm and picked out a specific tool.
Moments later, Levy ran outside; one hand held a copper blade, the other glowing with concentrated magic, poised to write.
Within an instant, a cannon shot of water came careening toward her. She rolled out of the way; she almost got her foot blown off by a solid column of water that erupted from one of the puddles in the street.
The script mage spotted Juvia on the opposite side of the road.
Solid Script: Darkness!
At her command, the text Levy wrote in the air surrounded Juvia, blinding the water mage to her surroundings for a moment. The former elemental soon broke through the spell, but in those seconds Levy sprinted across the distance between them and wrote another spell, directing it toward the copper blade.
Solid Script: Thunder!
The tip of the weapon reached the water mage's neck. The dagger itself didn't affect her liquid body; the lightning from Levy's magic that it conducted did.
"Sorry." Levy said, even as her guild mate cried out from the electric current that zapped her body. Levy skid on the cobblestone, scraping her knees before she turned around. Juvia swayed on her feet, one arm outstretched and waving for balance.
She blinked several times before she focused on Levy.
"Levy-san," she said, her other hand pressed to her forehead. The script mage let out a heavy sigh, plopping onto the ground. "Juvia is- Juvia was"
Realization, followed by guilt, played across the water mage's features. Levy waved her hand in front of her face, mustering up a wan smile.
"Don't worry about it," she said. "You were under the influence of pheromone magic; it's potent to the point of illegality. It's the incubus' fault, not yours."
Juvia's eyes still regarded the script mage with concern, though she tilted her head.
"Incubus?" She said. Her expression darkened a moment later and she lowered her head. "Juvia sees now."
Before Levy could say anything else, Juvia turned from her.
"Juvia begs Levy-san's pardon."
In the blink of an eye, the water mage vanished from sight, though Levy caught a pool of water moving at an alarming speed up the wall of the shop she'd just been inside. The solid script wizard asked Warren to warn Cana, though a small smile spread onto her face.
Juvia scowled once she found her prey, reverting to her natural shape.
Gray's impostor seemed to sense her presence; he had the nerve to shout at her.
"Bitch! What's with cutting me off? Where's my portion of your magic power?"
He pointed an accusatory finger at her; Juvia's body temperature spiked to dangerous levels.
"And who told you to show your face empty"
Sierra!
Juvia smashed into fake Gray's stomach as a powerful blast of boiling water. She reformed in the next instant while he stumbled and clutched his torso.
Water Slicer!
She slashed at him from every angle with blades of her magic. Cuts formed on his arms, legs and chest. He sputtered and coughed.
"Babe- babe, what"
Juvia ignored him.
Water Nebula!
Twin columns of water shot forward in a helix formation and crashed into the imposter's body, launching him into the canal. Juvia used her magic to raise the canal's water up into the air, manipulating it into a monstrous, spinning force.
Water Cyclone!
Juvia's magic pounded the faux devil slayer into the concrete of the canal with the power of a super concentrated tsunami.
Minutes later, the faker lay as an unrecognizable, motionless mess at the bottom of the modest hole Juvia's attack left behind. The water mage's temper soothed somewhat, and she let out a long, slow sigh.
"Juvia hopes Gray-sama forgives her mistake."
A/N: To quote one of my favorite graphic novel series, "Women are not a game." Ink can be described as my 'tribute' to sleazebags the world over. Yes the title is somewhat sarcastic.
Well, I didn't technically fulfill the promise I made to my dear readers, but that's only because I care too much and refused to post something that I found less than satisfactory. I cut much more out of this one between the *cough* first and second draft, and I think the flow of the story will thank me for that.
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