War I: Rivalry Begins, Not Quite Ends

Job Start!
As Mago and his sister Nobya stood on the rooftop of the bustling city, they watched the citizens on the ground continue with their everyday lives as they remained oblivious to the overseeing eyes of the prince and princess of their kingdom of Mys. "Well this sure is a perfect day..." Mago said out of nowhere as he threw his arms to his side in preparation for an exercise warm up. "Perfect day for what exactly?" his sister asked curiously as if she had a bad feeling about what her brother had just said. "A perfect day for a fight you silly cu-" Mago carried on excitedly before feeling the pain of Nabyo's hand as it swiped toward's Mago's face, hitting it with such force that it knocked Mago down, leaving a noticeable red hand print straight on his cheek. Stunned by what his sister had just did Mago looked in disgust and shock at his sister who looked down on him, "Sorry, just felt that a certain someone might've gotten offended by that word of yours." Nabyo said as he looked back into the city. Still hurt from the smack Mago pushed himself up and joined his sister as they both gazed upon their city of Kabisara. "Ha, to think I gave ALL this up. Just to become a mage in a land that my father despises..." Mago thought out loud, only to be met with the grunt of agreement from Nabyo.

"Oh, that's right!" Mago exclaimed after a long period of quiet and silence, turning to his sister ecstatically, "I have a surprise for you little sister, just close your eyes and open them on three...two..." he carried on as he turned Nabyo around and closed her eyes with his hand. "This better not be a stupid prank." She said with suspicion, it seemed that everything that Mago did was suspicious activity to her, and she didn't like it one bit. "One! Open your eyes..." Mago proclaimed as he moved his hand away from Nabyo's eyes to reveal a metal giant clad in armor wielding a red tipped spear in both hands as his cape flustered in the wind. "Hey, isn't he cool? We met eachother in Stella where I have to hold a base there and apparently, he's an associate with my boss!" Mago said with a smile on his face. "Sh, don't need to speak anything yet. I already sense something coming up." The man said as he held up his finger infront of the helmet's mouth. "The name's Mörter and I'll be escorting you both today." He said before noticing a strange magical aura in their location. "Fresh meat..."

The strange magical aura led to two strange females, laughing and jumping for joy while two less cheery females who were almost huging - and strangling - the younger of the two females and a male, being dragged by them all, he looked like he had been though hell.

The youngest female owned the less cheery females who were in fact celetrial spirits, Aquarius - the tutor of the girl - and Marion - a cursed spirit who had been abonded for many years. The two almost forced into this situation thank to their master. Only Marion was really asked to be out and taking very little of Lena's magical power since Aquarius key, even though the girl had it, was not owned by anyone but herself.

The little girl smiled and cheered, her name being Lena, almost like what they were doing was fun, though they were simply traveling. Lena looked like a frog mixed with a rabbit with her ususal outfit on, Aquarius dissing it as they walked, but she didn't seem to care much bout what she weared as she tried to skip, not really getting there thanks to being used to swimming everywhere.

The last female was none other than a wanted crimal, Cassie Turner who was getting paid to look after Lena, this did not bother Cassie as much as she expected since it actually entertained her a lot, and since she was used to acting, pretending to be happy and jolly for the girl made things easier as she tried to learn Lena how to skip properly. The poor man who made the bad idea of trying to rob Cassie and Lena was just some prisonier they had taken after Cassie sent lightning though his body and the guy had promised money in return for his bad behavouir. He was wishing he never decided to rob or wake up this fine day.

As the strange people walked around town, many stared and questioned but none dared to come up and ask what they were doing, the man who looked dead to them seemed to put them off. They walked, skipped and dragged around the city before Lena suddenly stopped in the middle. She turned around to the others, usered them with a big smile, waved her hands out to almost seem like to say "Ta-Da!" before giggling a little. ""We are here," Marion said simply as she bent down to the man and looked at him. The man only smiled crookedly before he was punched by Cassie and hit a wall. He didn't live to tell the tale...

""Ah, erm..." Cassie wistled and took out her umbrella, trying to blend in like a lady rather than a cold-hearted killer who just punched a man for no other reason than his smile annoyed her. Aquarius and Lena said nothing, instead they stared at Cassie, pondering if she really was a good idea to recruit as a body guard.

Mörter stood there shocked since tracing the location of those auras, being the leader of Sakukri which Cassie herself formed one third of the team, Mörter couldn't bring himself to words to describe how shocked, surprised and regretful he was in those three seconds of realisation. ''Where did I go wrong. She's hanging around little kids now? You're joking you've got to be.'' He thought to himself before to Mago and Nabyo who had followed just behind him, "Alright, honestly I was thinking of fighting them. Because you know what? Why not. Who doesn't love a good fight?" He said to the others, "I think we we can start off by going in head first, how bout you two?" Mörter said as he started to look at his spear in preperation for combat. "Yeah I'm up for a good fight.", "Sure. Why not." Both of them answered in their pwn timing to Mörter's question, with Mago clapping his hands together as fire began erupting from and engulfind his hands, his Divine Flames hasn't been activated in a very long time so it was good for him to bring it out now. Nabyo on the other hand kept her calm and serenic vibe in check as she was secretly building up energy for the first strike of their little confrontation.

Walking together in a group Mörter, Mago and Nobya in a pack suddenly,walked up straight to the distressed Cassie after having murdered a man in cold blood just for the way his smile seemed to irritate her, with the man's blood staining the wall behind him it was no question that a murder had just happened here in broad daylight. "Well, well, well Cassie. Fancy seeing you here with such a child. Is it yours?" Mörter said jokingly as he held both of his arms crossed over into eachother, acting very caasual for a man known to unexpectedly kill anyone he meets. "By the gods, she really has made a mess over there hasn't she." Mago said in disgust as he viewed the blood and the body of the man just out in the streets for the populace to see, "You know, if we are going to fight them we need an extra member. I count that they have four right here and it's only us three." Mago said out of the blue as he had just started taking notes of the enviornment around him, noting the amount of combatants that stood here in the arena. "Good, then I guess I can bring out my spirits huh? Nabyo said in response as she lifted her hand up and swiped down to summon some entity that began glowing white and blue shimmers of light from out of nowhere. "I present to you Manda. Her title is just a mouthful of words believe me." She carried on as a woman with black bat wings and hair appeared out of the light wielding a black sword in one hand greet the opponents with a sinister glare.

Cassie stared, get trouble filling her. "No, Mörter, doing one of the jobs we got asked to do... fancy meeting you here although seems you are playing body guard as well."The tension was clear, after all, this was Cassie's boss in a way, the leader of her team. Lena stared at Cassie then at Mörter. She wasn' quite getting the vibe off them. She stared to tugon Aquarius, at first she ignored er but quickly snapped and turned round to Lena. "What do you want, pest!" The vemon would give most people the chills and tell them to back off but Lena had grew up with such talk off Aquarius, it was now second nature to her. "I need to pee!" Aquarius and Marion looked at each other and sighed while Cassie countied her stares at the peoplewho had come down the spirits and the little girl fought over if she could pee or not.

"So, what do you want? I doubt you came down here to learn me to stop punching people or just say hello..." Cassie took a step forward, she was treading carefully. The flames from the boy was what bothered Cassie the most, his flames weren't normal fllames but they are still flames, Cassie was sure she and Lena and Aquarius could take them out easily since all weild a kind of magic that could take out flames but she doubted it would be that easy. The girl didn't worry Cassie as much, Marion could easily deal with her, however, the thought of fighting Mörter worried Cassie. She knew he would spilt into a one-on-one and attack her or go straight for the girl. Lena, finished and was now crying after losing her argument, was rather powerful for a young girl yet she was naive, her magical power out there and seemed to attact quite a lot of attention.

"Frog Girl, this pay better be worth it!" Cassie mumbled under her breath, sighing at just how hard her job had got within a few minutes.

"Friendly" Fight Begins
"Well if you haven't noticed, I can sense that aura right here. You know, the aura that most legal mages give off. I don't think it should be surprise why I'm here Cassie, as your leader I'd expect you to know that." Mörter said as he knocked on the ground with the blunt side of his spear, though however when he did that a bright glow began to take over his body, Elder Magic: Deus Semis he exclaimed before blasting area around him, as the ground around him was crushed underneath his feet with the people around him starting to take notice of the confrontation. With the light fading off after temporarily blinding the others, except for Mago, Mörter reveals his ultimate form as huge wings sprout from his back and claws begin growing from his feet while he still retains that glow that he had before the transformation, making it seem as if Mörter was some sort of deviled angel. "Me and my accomplices just want a little fight, that's all. But with the little girl I'm going to have eliminate her, you know? Because why not." He carried on before signalling Mago and Nabyo to get ready, because if Cassie wasn't going to initiate a fight it was definitely going to be Mörter who will. "At this rate you should just hand over the girl now actually, we don't need no fight and I get an extra kill for my list. It's very simple and important that you understand this Cassie, and as your leader I order you to hand her over."

''Jeez, looks like Mörter is just as worse than that Cassie lady. To kill a man in broad daylight with many people watching is something, but to kill an innocent child is another, just hope the organisation I joined doesn't turn me into something like that.'' Mago thought to himself before being signaled by Mörter to get ready. Nabyo however, did not like what was going one single bit, ''No, I can't allow him to do this. Would he really just kill an innocent child just to satisfy his hunger for blood?'' she thought before her summoning turned her head to Nabyo. "I know how it looks my lady, but it's probably best that we stay out of this man's way. I can sense that he s too powerful for even me to handle, and I'm one of your strongest summons. That pink one though is really getting on my nerves, we can occupy our attention to her whilst that metal man handles whatever business he has with the child." Manda said to Nabyo after sensing distress in her summoner to the news of Mörter's want to kill a child. "I hope, why'd I even get into this mess in the first place? And why isn't he targeting me aswell? I'm a legal mage aswell you know." she asked Manda before turning her head to her brother Mago. "Its cause you're my sister, and being related to me gives you a safe card little sister. Anyone that holds great power this man holds the upmost respect for them, and anyone related to them also share that same respect he offers." Mago said while the flames still engulfed his hands, ready to strike at the given moment and open opportunity to initiate this fight.

Cassie sighed, putting down her umbrella. "There is no talking to you, if you are taking the young girls life I guess I'll take that pretty mans life over there," Cassie said, waving with her fingers towards him, even though she just killed a ransomer, it didn't stop her flirts. She doubted they would work although, he didn't seem like someone who would go for her type. "Just stay back Frog Girl, get your little toys to do something for you, 'kay?" Cassie said, the sky was pretty clear which made Cassie frown, who ever liked the sun? With a small whisk of her fingers clouds formed around the sky of the city and rain started to fall. First, small rain falls before becoming a small storm, it wasn't really bad but it did start to form some puddles. While Cassie was trying to get serious, her eyes were distracted by Mörter. She knew what he could do, even so, it didn't help her.

Lena loved the rain, it reminded her of the moist sea. As she waved over the Manda, Aquarius stopped her sighing. "Just, try and fight like I told you too, Pest!" with that Lena groaned but listened, she nodded over the Marion, she would be able to get Manda out of comission quite easily. Song Magic was quite the useful magic for Marion to bear, however, getting Marion to use it was something that was harder to do than anything else. As normal Marion shook her head and Lena smiled over to her, "Sing me a song, a song about some brave heros or.. or... A SONG... abou-" with a small slap from Aquarius, Lena stopped and Marion took a deep breath. Marion started to sing, her voice soothing and beautiful as always. The song was about a war, a war on which the enemies of four had bother to see though the rainy battlefield. Lena, happy with what she claimed she did to force Marion into battle, listened and watched the song to take effect before jumping around in the rain, looking Nabyo, then taking a deep breath herself. A wave of water came rushing from Lena's mouth as she performed the signature skill that most slayers seemed to have. "Water Spirits' Wail!" The words seemed delayed but it didn't seem to bother the magic. Aquarius started to get to work herself, she went to pour water over Mago, trusting Cassie could deal with Mörter.

"Mörter, you always seem to wear things that truly delight me!" Cassie said, hissing softly, almost in beat the the patting of the rain. "Shall we begin?" with that Cassie moved round Mörter and aimed some lose bolts at Mörter to simply see the effect they will have on him. He was wearing metal, wet metal at that!

"Well done my dear, it seems you have made yourself an advantage. Though I am not sure if my speed is just as or even faster than your bolts, I am surely confident I can get to you in time." Mörter said with a calm tone before speeding straight at Cassie as he now stood infront of the smaller mage with his spear right up at her neck, prepared to slice if she was to counter this strike, in which this case she would be too slow. "Oh, well look at that. Guess I am." He said with a sinister smile that was concealed by the expressionless mask that he always wore over his head. Now with Cassie under control in just the few seconds all that left for the intense fight was Mago and Nobya who had to deal with Aquarius and Marion, which seemed to worry both the royal family members as they stood battle ready for the attacks coming their way. "Manda! Take down the pink hair, quickly!" Nabyo ordered the summon before shouting back at Lena's attempt of a strike, Darkness Dragon Roar Nabyo yelled at the top of her lungs as a massive blast of black energy shot out straight from Nabyo's mouth and right into the slayer's attack, effectively deflecting Lena's attack as Nabyo was now ready to begin their fight. "You know, I know that what that man is trying to do is wrong, so I'll make sure that you'll get to a safe place after I have beaten you ok?" Nabyo asked the little girl in redemption for siding with Mörter in this battle.

As Aquarius tried to come and pour water over Mago, the mage suddenly looked straight towards Aquarius with an unhuman look in his eyes, there was nothing but a beast locked away in his soul and Mago was ready to let it out. "Elder Magic: Esse Violentum" Mago yelled as purple scale began forming over his body covering every inch of skin on his figure, as well as growing long sharp claws from his finger nails along with razor sharp teeth that he displayed confidently with a sinister smile growing on his face. Now with a threatening appearance the now transformed Mago ran deep into the streets out of the view of Aquarius, scaling the walls and heights of the buildings as he began playing around with Aquarius' fear of what Mago had become. Nearing closer and closer after having fled for a brief moment, Mago from ontop of the roof jumped down still with his Divine Flame activated as he attempted at striking Aquaries with both falmes fro both hands as he clenched them together to unite them in the attack. Manda on the other hand used her Aera magic and wings to fly straight at Marion in just mere seconds as she tightly gripped her blade, holding it so that when the time would come sh would slash downward at the Cursed Spirit. "Just die..."

Looking down on the paused Cassie who was assessing the moment Mörter was beginning to wonder if Cassie was planning something else, but showed no sign of worry as he retained the spear's position on her neck, so that if he was to be hit by a bolt of electricity the metal of the spear would also conduct the electricity and pass it onto Cassie at he presumed it would electrocute her aswell. "Don't move now, I'm not afraid to behead you right here, right now no matter if we're on the same team."

Cassie grined at Mörter, "your always too quick for your own good!" she tutored him as she stood there, calmly. Cassie started to laugh at the face of danger, she did love the challenge. "I doubt you will behead me, how you ever gonna kill all those men with your unslightly appearance?" With that she went back to laughing.

Lena looked at Mago and Mörter, staring at there rather weird appearance. "That isn't normal right?" Lena asked to Nabyo, almost like they were best friends or something. Lena was one of those kids that just couldn't get the right situations at the right time... Marion sighed as she watched her master as she stepped to the side to avoid the oncoming blade, her master troubled her. The movement made her stop singing. "I don't want to die, so I won't," Marion said, her voice sounding quite monotone which would seem weird after hearing her heartfilled song. Marion was never one to talk much but when she did, it never sound happy nor sad. "You have a master to protect? So do I, unwillingly she has my key, out of everyone one she doens't usually get me to fight, you must be something..." Marion was being simple, staring at Manda before moving her hand. "Be my puppet!" Marion almost seemed to ask Manda, her Doll Play Magic xoming into effect, she could only help but think that with her, she could maybe tackle her enemies.

Laughing still Cassie looked deep into Mörter eyes. "You really gonna behead me?" Cassie asked, no fright in her voice. Cassie bashed her eyebrows, knowing full well Mörter knew her tricks, and bashed another charming smile. "These kills are going to catch up to you... Right about now..." with that, the clouds grew larger, a bolt stuck the ground below, about 20 yards from Mörter. As fast as it was there, as fast as it was gone as well as Cassie, she made her move by letting lightning form on her hands, feet, body, everywhere and allowed it to travel where ever it wanted, she moved freely. Mörter would have to deal with lighting but she was immune to her own lighting, she could over herself in it as much as she wanted but she would still be uneffected by it. "You are quite naive at times Mörter..." with that she moved over to Lena, going as fast as she could. "GET THEM WET!" she screamed as she ran though the rain, her dress becoming see-though.

Lena smiled and nodded, creating a tornado or water from the rain and her source and allowed it to go wild. Cassie smiled at the work, she would let lose her lighting but it was most likely that Lena and the rest would get shocked too, it was now really wet on the ground. "Better stay where it's dry Frog Girl!" with that Cassie smiled, she was on home terft and she could easily zap anyone who was in her way.

Meanwhile, Aquarius was occpained by Mago, he was going at her full-blast, annoying her. "Do you mind?" Aquarius ask as he cut her blue hair a little. "Okay, last straw buddy! I was planning of cutting that hair soon bu-!" Aquarius started her rant, doging far more swiftly, she was pissed off already. Aquarius let own a wave of water from her jug before walking away, her long leg with scales were still weird for her but she manged well. "You should be more bother by that thing before you come back for me!" Aquarius shouted at the tornado drew near.

Mago watched as the tornado formed in the distance, made out of entirely water made from the rain of Cassie's weather magic. Sure their combination of abilities seemed amazing but to Mago and his friends it was nothing more than a simple waste of magic energy that could be disabled easily with a simple wave of the hand. Though all Mago could do was chuckle as only part of his teeth showed up from inside his jaw, it wasn't as impressive as what he plans to do later during the battle, "Yeah, sure. But I think I'll just focus more on bringing you down than a simple tornado." Mago said as he continued to lunge towards Aquarius though however the flames from his hands disappeared, and instead Mago was travelling quicker through the air now due to him currently wielding Divine Winds, a form of the Art of Mystan Monks that he was well adapted in. Nearing closer into Aquarius' position Mago swiped both his arms from a distance to the Celestial Spirit sending two sharp slices of wind straight at Aquarius'position. Still noticing the tornado Mago knew that his friend Mörter already had something planned for this before. ''Is it that little girl's power? If it is I am most impressed. She does look like a capable opponent, despite her age, but I'm sure that it just means less experience to us then.''

"No way... Manda." Nabyo exclaimed quietly in shock to how easily Marion had taken over one of her strong Spirit summons as well as one of her closest things to a childhood friend. "Manda can you listen to me? Please, I'm going to send you back alright?" nabyo said in distress as she held out her hand in order to send Manda back into her realm of existence, however the only response that Manda gave was pure silence as she awaited for the orders of her current controller Marion. Saddened by the sudden change it would be only seconds that Nabyo had realized that Lena had created a water tornado on land from the water of the rain that Cassie provided from above, vulnerable and angry Nabyo released another Darkness Dragon Roar straight at the tornado in hopes that it might kill off the elemental disaster. Meanwhile with Cassie and Mörter, he had noticed the tornado rising from a distance whilst he kept his blade pressed against Cassie's neck. "So, I'm going to go and guess this isn't the only card you have right? Takes alot of power to do something like that but knowing you, you've got something else planned for me. Oh well, I guess we'll talk later." Mörter said before speeding off as he grabbed Cassie by the neck with his spear in the other hand as he sped into the direction of the tornado. Still gripping his spear and Cassie in both hands Mörter violently threw Cassie at the direction of Aquarius before holding the blade tip right infront of him as he rushed into and out of the tornado still pointing the spear infront of him however, he was pointing in the location of Auqarius and Mago.

Noticing that the tornado was being pulled down Mago knew who exactly was doing this and proceeded to jump back as a means to give off plenty of distance between him and Aquarius as he knew what was going to happen. Within Mörter's spear was a special lacrima that can manipulate liquid elements to follow the commands of the wielder and so using this great advantage against the mages that had magic involving water, Mörter thrust his spear towards Aquarius while still holding on which caused the tornado to sink into itself as it followed the direction and aim of Mörter's spear, shooting as a humongous wave of water as it came rushing and shooting towards Aquarius at lightning speed along with the fact that Cassie was forcefully tossed towards the spirit in hopes it may knock her down ALONG with the sharp blades of wind coming her way she was definitely between a rock and a hard place as the Celestial Spirit little to no time to react to such an attack.

Marion looked at Aquarius and then at Nobya, although she did feel sorry for the girl it was life or death at the moment, she flicked her hand towards the onslaugther of people and Manda just nodded, used her Aera magic to boost herself she then stepped in front of the attacks, becoming a spirit shield while Aquarius made a run towards Marion. The last moments, Manda cried for Nobya, asking her to save her but it was too late for the spirit. She disappered, crying and leaving her masters' side aganst her will. Cassie landed on the ground, looking at the dust and steam of attacks of where Manda was standing. "I thought me and fucking Mörter was bad when we killed people..." The battle field went silent. No one dared to move expect Lena who walked closely to Nobya, a safe enough distanc eincase she attack.

"I'm... sorry... Marion never done that before..." Lena said, her words soft yet harss. Cassie was the first to go back to action on Lena's side, throwing into a fray and standing her ground hard, moving some dirt and cobble before letting out a breath of lightning towards Mago. Lena didn't move away from Nobya, even though she knew it was dangours and Aquarius was shouting at her too. Aquarius sighed, holding Marion's hand who felt emotionless. "You did fine, don't let your emotions get to you!" she slapped Marion hard and fast before moving over to Mörter, letting out a huge wave of water and summoned a water sword in her hand, drogging her jug on the ground. She rided the wave, if the wave didn't hit him she was ready to hit him.

Lena stayed still. Marion looked at her before sighing. She disappered into her key.

All that Nabyo could do was collapse as she fell to her knees on the ground next to Lena, as streams of tears poured down the sides of her cheeks as she kept her wails silent as possible and contained her screams of anger and despair to erself as she remained to keep her head down, avoiding to meet eye contact with even Lena. "Why... Manda..." A feint voice could be heard from the down girl, "Please... Don't leave me..." Nobya said to Lena as she grabbed onto the young mage's arm, hugging it close to her as she silently weeped. ''How could she do something like that? I can't... I can't let something like that happen without punishment.'' Nobya thought to herself, hearing the last screams for help before Manda was violently hit with all the attacks that were meant for Aquarius. All Nobya did was cry as she held on tightly to Lena's arm. Meanwhile Aquarius was heading straight for Mörter with her wave and water sword which did not seem to other the dark mage at all, due to having a helmet that concealed any facial expressions to show how he truly felt abut the situation that just happened. "Pitiful really, I had no idea that your little girl was this ruthless Cassie, you should hand her over to me for punishment." Mörter said with a serious tone before holding out as he pointed the spear at the incoming wave aswell as Aquarius' sword, swiping the blade's tip to the side which caused both the sword and the wave to violently move to the side that he had thrown the tip's direction to, disabling and vanishing both the wave and the sword as it left Aquarius vulnerable.

"You're the reason she's like this you bitch." Mago yelled out while speeding towards Aquarius' location, having activated Divine Flames once again as his flames this time were huge and deadly as they flickered in the wind, haing consumed nearly his entire arms as he sped through the wind and attempted at delivering a massive strike against the Celestial Spirit's head. A hit like that would be fatal as not even wyverns had survived strikes like that, but Mago has never been this angry since a past incident concerning his father. "Go to hell!" He yelled out as the fist came flying straight for Aquarius' face as she was right there vulnerable to any incoming attack. Choosing whether to accept her fate or carry on fighting for the sake of Lena, Aquarius did not have much time to decide as Mago's fury was too much and that it seemed to have greatly upgraded his abilities.

Lena went down on her knees, and started to almost pet Nobya. "Don't worry to much, you were lucky in a way, if that was you, Manda would have no one at all and no longer exisit really and imagine how your brother would be... He would be cosumed by those flames. Please don't cry so much, would Manda want you to cry so? I very much doubt it!" Lena said, hugging the girl close to her. She may be young but she understood what it was like to be in great pain.

Cassie sighed, most of her attacks were getting easily dodged by the pair, espically since Mago was angry bout the girl, the way it seems they were brother and sister or really close friends. Cassie lend more to the brother and sister as she looked at Mörter and spat. "Your very, very, very naive..." with that simple tone she came running at Mörter, clouds thickening even more and becoming dense. "I could desotry this town... however I already am!" Wind kicked up, the rain chucking it down. The weather reflected the two spirit owners feelings.

Aquarius, now really conflicted thanks to Lena just leaving her, was not having fun with Mago. Quickly she created a ball of water, it was thick and was intended to at less calm the flames, she knew she wasn't fast enough to dodge Mago and the attack on the ground would send shockwaves, causing worse for Aquarius since she would be on the ground and flopped like a fish out of water. There was no other way for her. As Mago hit her, she winced and her right arm staretd to bleed gold.

"Naive? You dare come running at me without even a weapon..." Mörter said disappointed as he gripped the blade of his tightly with both hands as he sped almost in an instant to the rushing Cassie and in just seconds Mörter not only charged into Cassie but had also wounded her as he had landed on the other side with blood staining the already red tip. Giving a chuckle Mörter turned back his head to look at Cassie, only to realize he did not even cut deep into the female mage but only just a scratch. "Well, guess I didn't think about this fast enough." Mörter sighed heavily as he turned back to face Cassie awaiting for her next move so that he may retaliate back in a fair manner, "You're move then Cassie, impress me please...". Mago noticed that he was able to make Aquarius bleed, but to bleed a strange color of gold was something new to him as he did not know that Celestial Spirits bleed gold, let alone even bleed, "So you do bleed, that's very interesting. I wonder if I can make your head come off..." Mago said with a grizzly voice as he still had his arms engulfed in flames, clenched both fists together as he stood over Aquarius and slammed down aiming to smash open Aquarius' head in his state of mindless violence and vengeance for his sister's depression.

Meanwhile Nobya held onto Lena as the two mages hugged it out while the remaining last tears escaped the eyes of Nobya, who curled up to Lena to be comforted in the arms of a small child, "Manda... Manda..." she said faintly as the last tears finally dropped from her face and burst on the dusty ground. There was just silence between the two for a long period of time as they both remained close to eachother as Nobya refused to let go of the only thing comforting her in her time of need, as the last screams for help echoed throughout her mind before she snapped. Well, not entirely but enough for Nobya to wake up and realize what is happening around her, noticing that Lena had knelt down on the ground next to her as she patted her back to tell her that it was enough for now, "Thank you, I'm sure our friends will be expecting us to be helping them so I guess we must go back to being enemies. I really do appreciate the help though, honestly," Nobya said with such kindness in her voice as she went in to hug Lena one final time before the two became enemies again. Walking off to her partners Nobya held out her her hand as magic built up inside it, causing two more strange figures of bright light to appear right next to her. As the light settled down two new Summoning spirits appeared on both sides of Noyba while she walked to her location. "Mezu and Gozu, bring me Aquarius dead..."

Cassie hissed at the pain, she usually enjoyed the feeling of pain but this was different, it was from Mörter. Cassie stared at him, rage taking over her body. "Did I say, you could touch me Mörter?" Cassie flicked her umbrella, a point appearing and it became a weapon. The small drops of blood fell onto her dress, the rain smudging it. "You even made my dress red, where are you manors!" Cassie body seemed to flicker, her eyes turned cloudy much like the sky. Random stray bolts of lightning flickered from her body, most forming at her feet and hands. She ran for Mörter, shouting like she was some warrior and she needed the war cry or something to win, "The umbrella is better than the sword!" she screamed, lighting pulsing every which way of her body. She was pissed off. Her plans was to just touch Mörter, if she touched him, it would be game over as he would be fried-terkey - No Dum Dum Tiss cause it triggers Guy!

Mago was seriously worrying Aquarius, he was fast, faster than her, and his bloodlust was clear, why he had it for Aquarius was what really annoyed her. It was Lena's spirit not her spirit! As she sighed and tried her hardest to dodge the oncoming flames she couldn't help but scream at him. "For crying out loud, why don't you go to the person who was control the bloody spirit and not the poor victim who has to train the Pest!" With that Aquarius couldn't help but groan as she saw Mezu and Gozu coming her way. "For fuck sake..." Aquarius sighed once again, knwoing it wouldn't be the last sigh, she created a wave of water to try and slow down some of the spirits but she kenw she couldn't keep this up. "LENA! BE A GREAT MASTER AND DO SOMETHING!" with that Lena moved away from Nobya.

"Open the gate of the Moon: Nyx!" A girl is mainly black came out. "You called m'lady?" Lena said nothing she just ran and she quickly following notcing the distress on Lena. She just pointed to Aquarius and Nyx instanly read the situation. She came running, grabbing Gozu from behind and atempted to make them fall onto the ground. "Get down, leave Aquarius be, your spirits too right? Let's not do this!" Nyx said, the situtation was worse than she thought. Lena came rushing over to Mago. "Do you mind we fight instead?" Lena asked before weaving in and out random, she was worried in case his rage would make him instanly try and attack him. She lifted her hands up, smiling a little. "Sorry, can't have much time here..." she went silent, moving in silence trying her ahrdest to concentrate. Aquarius knew what she was doing and only groaned, "Of course she does the ahrdest spell..."

A urn appeared as Lena's eyes turned sea green and seemed to flow like the sea. Lena stopped and the urn started to bubble. It height was unrachable but that didn't bother Lena. She closed her eyes. "Spirit Slayer Seract Art: Aquarius Boiling Rage!" The urn tipped and boiling water came rushing out, plenty of it at that. It's target was Mago but it was rushing everywhere, most likely the only hot on the battlefield expect Mago's flames. Lena opened her eyes, she felt dizzy but was happy to mange to do the attack. "I got more...." was all Lena said ready to counter Mago.

"Are you fucking kidding me? To be honest it was the blade that touched you and not me, so if you're gonna get angry at something get angry with the fucking spear yeah? Oh an by the way, you said manners wrong." Mörter said as he threw his spear into the sky and caught it back into one arm as if he was ready to throw the spear as if it was a javelin, and in the few seconds of grabbing onto his weapon threw the spear with such great force that it instantly shot out at the incoming Cassie. ''She's even running at me like she thinks she can catch me. Didn't she see me those last two times today speed fast as fuck?'' Mörter thought to himself before an idea hit his head, using his speed Mörter sped up to the spear as he proceeded to kick the spear with the bottom of his foot, causing the spear to speed up evenmore as it flew through the air as it aimed to hit Cassie. "So that's what your umbrella does? Kinda makes sense cause your an assassin." Mörter thought out loud as he watched Cassie and the spear head towards eachother with the spear coming in lightning fast, with only seconds for Cassie to try and avoid such a quick missile.

With seconds to react Mago leaped out of the way of the boiling water before he could get burnt, just missing the extremely hot stream of water as it splashed on the ground infront of Mago, who gave out a deep sigh of relief before turning his head towards Lena. "You know, I guess she is right. You are the master of that pink haired one yeah? I guess giving you to Mörter wouldn't be such a bad idea at all." Mago said with evil in his tone as the flames encasing his arms still remained violent as he continued to picture Nobya crying for her spirit Manda. "You better not fucking touch her Mago, we're not killers okay?" Nobya yelled from the sidelines before turning her head to Gozu and Mezu who were confronted by Lena's spirit Nyx, "Gozu. Mezu. I still need you right here now! Tell your friend to move along please.' Nobya said with a demanding voice as she turned back to watch the fight between Mago and Lena. "Fine..." Mago said with distate in his voice as he turned his head back to Aquarius, "You're the closest thing I can get to punching Lena, so I guess I'm gonna be burning that pretty little scalp of yours then.' He said as he then lunged towards Aquarius still with Divine Flames except this time the flames were more intense and hot than they originally were.

"You should let go of me, our master needs us to fight for her side." Gozu said as he looked straight at Nyx with a blank expression, "We saw Manda come back to the realm after that incident which we watched from above, and we saw how bad her damage was after all that.". "That strike was too much and for a spirit Manda is close to death, meaning that her bond with Nobya would be broken and Manda would cease to exist. You must understand how bad of the state that Manda has returned home in, so the least we can do is follow our master to avenge Manda's wounds." Mezu carried on with Gozu's sentence with the same blank expression on her face, "Though if you must get in the way, then I guess we will have to fight then." The spirit siblings said in unison as they stood up now towering over Nyx, with Gozu preparing his strength magic and Mezu with her wind, for a private showdown of one against two.

Chaos was everywhere. Nyx sighed, her eyes uneven like the moons surface. "I cannot do that children. I also have orders, to make sure no one hurts Aquarius, she is Lena's only parent pretty much, looking after her for so long..." Nyx tighted her grip on Gou. "You dare take that away, your as bad as Marion then, however, I havve no rights, only a way to protect my master, she is all that matters!" with that Nyx shedded a tear before twisitng Gozu's arm as much as possible. A crack could be heard and a smile formed on  Nyx. "Don't miss with somone who is akinned to night..." she dumped Gozu on the floor and started to move towards Mozu. Nyx licked her lips in sheer delight.

Cassie was shocked, the speed was insane but as quickly as she was shocked lighting formed around her and she formed a body, a Lighting Body and zoomed past the spear with ease. She was far from done with this battle. "Oh dear, doesn't matter how fast you seem to make things go, I seem to dodge them~" Cassie said, going into a giggling fit. "Ya know, your not suppose to kill me right Mörty?" Cassie asked, pretending to yawn in sheer boredom. If you heard her tone but not her looks she would seem bored but her eyes were still cloudy and the lightning around her was still all around, it puslated in time to her heart. Cassie took a step back, and jumped up high, her lightning almost making her guilde as she smashed herself into one of the higher buildings. I guess tis will do since there is no skyscapers here... "COME GET ME!" she taunted as she ran inside the building, as far as it would let her as civilians ran for the door in fright.

Aquarius couldn't handle it. Too much. Deep breaths. She winced at the pain she was in. She turned around to see Lena miss. "See Pest, don't do things till I learn you them!" she huffed and puffed. Lena could only shrug before staring in horror. Mago. He was coming too fast for Aquarius. She went to move her arm, in atempt to make anything shield the blow a little but she instanly winced and placed her hand on the wound. "AQUARIUS!" Lena screamed, tears already running down her face as she sped towards her spirit and tutor. "DON'T YOU DARE HURT HER!" Lena screamed more and more at the top of her lungs. She used the rain to let her skid over the Mago making a small water shield before Mago flames came crashing down onto Lena. Lena went flying, the strike a lot stronger than most thing she has encountered in her life. She flooped on to the floor, moaning and groaning in pain.

"Your such an idiot!" Aquarius said, running towards her, wincing at every step! "You knew that was a strong move, you felt it you idiot!" Aquarius went onto her knee and shook Lena with all her mind. "Now your urt, Nyx can get sent back if you do something stupid like that! Get up, or we might all die here!" Aquarius shook and shook her, ingoring the gold and the fact her hand was disappering, she didn't have any more time. "GET UP YOU PEST, I WAS A LOST CAUSE ANYWAYS!" Lena did not reply. Aquarius screamed, tears going down before she disappered into gold. She would live to see another day, she just needed time to heal. The same could not be say for their tutoring and contract as a spirit. Aquarius moped in the Celestrial Spirit World. She had nothing better to do.

Nyx hissed as she saw her master go flying past her. "This is your fault!" Nyx screamed at Gozu and Mozu before chasing down her master and watching Aquarius leave. She must live, I demand it!

"Mago you idiot..." Was all Nobya could say as she watched in horror her brother send Lena flying into the air as his flames still flickered in the wind that flew through the city, just at the moment that Lena collided with Mago's fist. The wind seemed to oxigneate the flame of his arms, and so had caused his Divine Flames to grow bigger in size as they now resembled wings as they danced in the cool breeze passing by. "Why..." She said again before covering her mouth and clenching her eye lids as she tried to prevent tears from dripping out but to no avail, as a single tear drop ran out from the corner of her eye and slipped down her cheek just as her pegs gave in and she fell to the ground onto her knes, muffling the whimpers as she tried hard not to cry yet again. "Sorry sis, today is just not your day then." Mago said in the same grizzly monotone voice as he watched Lena fly through the air, Time to bring out the big guns then... Mago thought as he clenched his hands tightly before casting his next spell Elder Magic: Regium Mago yelled out as he threw his hands and opened ghe, up to reveal a sepentine dragon hiding between the hands as it poured out from the combined hands before flying into the sky with such ease and grace. "I need a new Celestial key anyway, I think I'll take them straight from Lena's pocket..." Mago thought sinisterly as he threw his index finger to point straight at the running Nyx and with just the single movement of his wrist the dragon opened it's mouth and a built up force of magic power bursted from it's jaw heading straight for Nyx and Lena at lightning speed.

"Really now Cassie, call me Mörty again and I'm gonna cap you..." Mörter yelled in disgust as he sped now to retrieve his spear which was flying at the same speed as him, making it quite easy for him to grab hold of the weapon and turn back to Cassie who proceeded to flee Mörter for the next part of her plan. As he neared Cassie's location in just seconds Mörter carried on to hunt her down by smashing through the walls in order to catch up to her, which he did as not for long Mörter stood right front of Cassie in a flash as he pointed his spear right at Cassie's neck, halting her in place as she didn't want to right into his spear. "Now where do you think you're going? I don't think Diabllo wouldn't mind that you're dead, we can just resurrect you so that you can serve us forever. Since I didn't get to kill the little girl yet, I'd say you owe me." He said as he pulled back the spear to the side of his head and slashed foward with such speed that not even her lighting magic could help Cassie inside this building, Mörter was planning to bring back Sak's head as a trophy and that was all that sat in his mind.

Nyx could only groan as she noticed a light coming towards her, looking bakwards she noticed Mago's blast. "The stars did warn me that today was going to be a shit day!" She had no idea what to do so she did the next best thign she thought she could do, she reached out with her Telepathy those affilcated to Nobya and Nobya herself. ''I plead to you, I know I have done things in vain, but save my master! ''She weeped to them, the setence becoming more into one word with the sheer speed she sent the message. Giving up going faster than the blast, it was far more faster than her, she slided and faced it, only a few inches away from Lena anyway and positation herself to use her magic. She closed her eyes and when she reopened them, they flected the stars and the moon. With her magic, she remembered the night she first saw the moon, it was the closest it could be to Earthland, being larger than normal and brighter than normal. The day was centuries old but she remembered it well, well enough to let her connect with the moon.

With quick speed Nyx made a shield that would ward off the blast from her Darkness Magic before moving onto her more offensive attack, her Moon Magic. Nyx gulped a little, taking in the damp air before smiling. "Moon, grant me the powers to be just as bright at you, just like the day I first met you..." Nyx mumbled to the sky, the moon nowhere to be seen in the clouds, and above, the blue sky. Nyx seemed to glow softly as the moon hid her wishes. Nyx left arm raised slowly, a glow appearing like it was requip magic. A soft cream spear formed out of the air, it's tip uneven and was much like the moons surface with some creaters in it. "Super Moons' Spear..." Nyx said silently chanted to herself, her eyes sighted Mago. "I will ask you once, and ocne only, leave my master and let her rest!" with that Nyx came rushing towards him with new found speed and strength, her voice and apprance seemed to change. No longer did she seem scary, but young and happy. Youth came with strength old could not hold.

Cassie spat up the blood that raised in her throat onto the floor after the sudden shock of the spear going onto her neck. Again. Her bolts seem to disapper, her eyes still cloudy. As always Mörter was annoyed at Cassie. As Cassie tried to get her head striaght she found herself swirling about the thought of Escandor, her other team mate, and how he would feel if she died, Cassie only sighed. He wouldn't care less, reiving her just like Mörter said. "Mörter, let's not get hasty here..." Cassie started to fear for her life a little, not many could make her feel such emotions. She looked at Mörter bloodlust, he wasn't going to stop, another sigh escaped Cassie. "Mörter, look down and see the war down there, it's a mess, a ten-year-old girl - though she is a pest - is knocked out, going and stop them before it's too late..." Cassie wobled on her feet. She laughed to herself. "I thought I could tear down thi building and kill you with me, here you go with your spear, stopping me again, your sure annoying for a leader!"

All that Mörter could do was chuckle underneath his helmet, his deep voice laughed at the violence that went down blew with Nobya and Mago, the little girl Lena was right there vulnerable for the kill, and here Cassie was aswell vulnerable for the kill. "Pitiful, it's alright though child. You will serve Diablo forever once we ressurect you back into our ranks." Mörter said before pointing his spear downward to her leg, Mörter wan't going to let Cassie run away like that again, but something in the back of his mind yelled for him to keep her alive. "God damn voices..." Mörter exclaimed as he rust the spear foward and right at Cassie's leg which he hoped would disable Cassie from running away or walking at the very least, he would decide what he would do after he had killed Lena himself.

"Huh? C'mon now, that's no way to approach you're new master." Mago said confidently has he threw his index finger once again straight at her, to which the dragon responded by opening his jaw once again to let out it's dragon roar once again however this time it was much more different than the first, as the first blast was only a warm up for the dragon to get ready for battle, this second one wasn't. As Nyx sped straight for Mago the dragon on e again let out a mighty blast of power as this time is was double the amount, size and speed of its other blast as Mago smiled sinisterly, "You're dead now Nyx. You, Marion and Aquarius will belong to me!" He yelled out at Nyx. The flames from his arms died showing his purple scales of his arms for he was still in Esse Violentum, Mago widened out his mouth to reveal razpr sharo teeth lining his mputh however this time they were more sharp and red due to the effort that Mago went through to sharpen them. As Nobya kept her face in her hands she looked up in seconds only to realise Nyx heading straight for Mago her brother, yeah sure he just merked a little girl but he was still Nobya's sister, and Nobya treated family with more loyalty than her friends. Pushing herself up from the ground Nobya dusted the dirt and sand the fell onto her attire when she gave out before looking straight at the running Nyx before opening her jaw, Darkness Dragon Roar Nobya let put as a massive blast of black energy came shooting at Nyx. Now with two attacks coming right at her filled with powerful magic energy and at quick speeds Mago grinned at his sister's loyalty which she influenced her power in order to protect her brother. Meanwhile in the back, Gozu was being treated to by his sister Mezu who comforted her brother by helping him out to safety, they'll go back once Nobya is done with her businesss there.

Cassie just listened to Mörter, she didn't protest at the fate of death, she was pinned, smart talk was going to get her death but as Mörter seemed to not kill her after all his big talk Cassie could only snort. "Fearless leader, you too scared to ki-" Cassie gasped in pain as the spear hit her left leg. Blood came out and she looked at Mörter horrified. Cassie stop a moment to let the pain go before she hissed, clentching her teeth. "You dare kill that little girl Mörter, you can feel it, the magic power, she is a good weapon that girl, so naive to the world too..." Cassie paused, the pain worse than she thought yet she did not scream or cry. "Your a fucking dirty bastard ya know, killing everyone just 'cause you can, at least I kill for a reason... You have no reason other than the fact your a man!" Cassie took a breath, her she went. Cassie was going full femist. "Your an ugly man who hides himself in that helmet, killing woman, children, other dirty men just because you feel like it, sometimes you do it without even a client! No wonder people want to rid the world from your kind!" Cassie spat blood at Mörter, she was finished her rant as she breathed heavily.

Nyx looked back at her fallen master. Her keys were in her pocket, she knew that. She had sent Nyx, Marion and Aquarius out, forcing them out on a saturday where Aquarius doesn't work on to show us the pocket she made. It was so bad, the keys didn't even fit. Nyx welled up t the thought, her grabbing Lena's dress and fixing the key, they were so close to her heart and when they asked she was so cheesy about it. "You guys unlock my heart and poitential so you deserve to be there..." Nyx cried and cried on the spot looking at the blast of darkness and whatever that monster Mago had created. She gritted her teeth making her mouth bleed.Time seemed to slow for Nyx as she stared at the blasts, she opened her arms wide. She wanted to take the blast and ensure her master had no harm but looking at her fallen master, she couldn't help but feel like whatever happened, she might not see her again. She couldn't give up... Lena needed al lthe help.

"You wicked humans, fighting a ten-year-old!" Her voice had raised, her aura around her seemed to change. The soft warm white glow turned black, black just like a night sky. "What's worse is she is a ten-year-old I care about!" her arms were wide, she didn't have much time the blasts where closer than ever. "SUPER MOON NIGHT'S BLAST!" she screamed with all her might. A black blast appeared from Nyxs' chest with small white dots. Nyx cried as they blasts hit super close to her, she went flying backwards but she kept her ground standing strong. Her clothes were in pieces but that didn't seemt o care Nyx. All she cared about was her master was safe. "DON'T YOU DARE TAKE OUR KEYS! I WOULD RATHER FALL FROM GRACE OR DIE THAN SERVE YOU PITIFUL HUMANS!" with that Nyx huffed. She was not going to move from her masters side. Not until she was forced.

"Then die..." Mago muttered under his breath as he watched Nyx dodge both dragon roars returning to her master as she challenged Mago's authority to her, Mago did not care anymore about Nobya or Lena but the fact that Nux had challenged him triggered his inner beast as he began sprintign towards Nyx with such speed that it could have nearly matched Mörter's. Nearing Nyx closer and closer the dragon turned his head towards Nyx just as Mago was sprinting to the Clestial Spirit, the dragon flew in the dorection of the cursed spitit though this time having it's tail light up with energy, speeding past Mago before halting and swiping it's tail downward onto Nyx's location, where both Nyx and Lena stood or laid down as it came in at an alarming speed. Mago still far away from the distance quickly halted himself as well as he pushes against the front of his position, dirt and rocks flying off to the sides as Mago's foot slowed down his skid. Perfect he thought with evil tainting his heart that he gave an even bigger smile revealing his razor sharp teeth, licking the blood straight off the fangs which he swallowed without a shred of humanity in his actions.

Mörter was greatly disappointed in Cassie as he continued to shove the spear deeper into Cassie's leg causing much more blood to seep and burst out, creating a bloody mess on the floor that Cassie's dress absorbed in, from a pink fancy dress to a scarlet red rag Mörter scoffed as he processed a response to Cassie's questionable statements. "My kind? We are the same, we are both infused with the power of the Spirits. Thoguh I do know what you mean, but I don't just kill because of the fact that I have a third leg dangling between my thighs, but for the fact that I just like it, to know full well that you are able to decide the fate of a person with just one simple action, and that they are never prepared to die which gives off that fear that I most of all desire from a victim. As far as I have known about you, is that you only kill men am I not wrong? Maybe you won't be this annoying once you have been resurrected into one of our zombies..." Mörter exclaimed in a controlling voice before proceeding to strike the bottom of his foot against Cassie's face, pushing the younger mage down as she hit the floor violently. "When did you become so fond of a mere child? Let me show you what true power this little rugra has then." He said as he proceeded to smash the building's wall with his bare fist and flying out into the sky in order to look for Lena.

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