Haruhi Kanashimi's Secondary Magic Training [Private]

Haruhi had spent a few weeks, traveling across the country looking for stronger and more motivating enemies. She tried persuading them, bribing them, and breaking what they loved to increase her chances of having them fight her. All, to no avail. She had been working hard herself, to increase her power. Every moment looking down into her hands, becoming more and more bored with what she could do. She knew that random creatures would be no challenge. She had heard rumors, though. Of a land filled with large, robust monsters with great strength. She decided to start her way toward the land. She had to head through a few small cities, one being very familiar to her. She remembered the city from her first mission. She had to steal a couple passports with her partner.
"I remember, I got trampled right over there!" She pointed into the distance. "And that's where I pretended to be part of Sabertooth!" Haru was proud of her mockery of Sabertooth. It was a powerful guild that had made a strong nuisance for he many times. She had heard they were under new leadership, for the time. "I wonder if the new guild master would actually believe I'm part of the guild!? Hahaha." Haru continued her travel through the town. She snuck onto a train, headed toward the town nearest her destination. She laid in a stolen seat, not knowing or wondering the dangers that were ahead. She simply rested her eyes and fell asleep.

Ryo sighed softly as he fiddled with the item in his pocket. It was something that he had discovered and he wasn't happy with what it was. Still it was an item that he needed for what he was going to do. He was very determined to fix something that had happened. Word had just reached his ears of a pair of mages who had destoryed the passport station in Rose Garden, and they had claimed to be Sabertooth mages. Ryo was certain the magic council would have words with Zenshin and may even deem that the guild was dangerous or was starting to turn into a dark guild.

This wouldn't stand on Ryo's watch for as long as he lived. The special item in his pocket would help him end one of the mages who had done this terrible deed, and he would use it to find the location of the other one. As he walked back to his seat on the train he frowned to see a rather familiar if albeit unexpected face in his seat. The young girl known as Haruhi was asleep in his seat. He frowned deeply and took the seat opposite her crossing his arms. He reached into his sleeve and pulled out a playing card throwing it at her to hit her with it and hopefully cause her to wake up and see what she was doing. "Really miss Haruhi? I haven't seen you or your friend since our meeting so many months ago and now you just steal my seat. Have you gone mad?!" he chided her like the little girl that she was.

Haru opened a single eye a hairs width, peering at the man across from her. She closed it and continued nuzzling her pillow. Within moments she screamed and jumped to the top of her seat. She looked at the man, not recognizing the power.
"You.... you seem familiar. Who ar..." Haru interrupted herself. The train stewardess walked by offering drink. "Grape juice, you drink wench!" She screamed. Haru got her juice, trying to jam the straw into the box, she managed to explode the pouch and splashed her and the man with grape deliciousness. Haru looked up at Ryo and laughed. "Wait, wait wait. I know there is a juice pun here. hmmmmm." Haru continued thinking to herself. Ryo looked less than pleased. "Oh, whatever. Anyway, who are you again? I know we have met? Are you in my guild?" He seemed confused, possibly not knowing her guild. "Okay, just so know old guy, it's very impolite to just sneak up on a girl that is trying to sleep. I bought these seats so I could be away from the other peasants that are gallavanting back and forth across this car." Haru stopped her short speech and pulled out a flask. She opened the top and took a sip. "Nothing soothes the irritated mind like some nice rum. Want a drink?" She handed the flask toward Ryo. She waited a few moments before taking her offer back and downing the remaining beverage. "C'mon Grandpa, don't be such a stick in the mud. What's so fun if you don't ignore some rules and do what you want?"

Ryo watched Haru with incresing irritation. He didn't like her random insane attitude, but he wouldn't berate someone for being who they were. He jumps from Haru's shouting at the poor stewardess. He rolled his eyes and was about to speak when he got sprayed with juice from the exploded box. As he cleaned himself off the best he could he shook his head "My name is Ryo Knetegawa. I'm a mage from Sabertooth. We met with your friend Kiku and played go fish in teams. It was at a bar where a bunch of insane stuff went down. Ring any bells?" he asked clearly becoming more annoyed.

He then frowned deeper at being called grandpa and took out his own flask taking a huge drink from it "Look here. fun and games is fine, to be honest it was good to see you again, but you just are too chaotic to be left alone unattended." A sudden thought struck him and he frowned "No I paid for these seats for a much different reason. I wanted to be alone. I didn't want someone to accidently get hurt. " He put the flask away and pulled out the round sphere from his pocket and looked at it sighing softly as he held it "Well whatever. I have business I have to take care of so I can't exactly baby sit you right now either." As he looked at the orb he remembered something that Haru said "What guild are you in anyway?" he asked curious now for the first time since meeting her.

"Babysit!?" Haru screamed. She was insulted by being thought of a mere infant. Haru shook off the insult and continued wiping the exploded juice off of her seat. She heard Ryo speak, ignoring it to continue the mourning of her juice. Haru suddenly stopped and raised her head slowly toward Ryo when he asked "What guild are you in anyway?". Haru stumbled on her words. She hadn't been listening, and that was a huge mistake. "I'm from...ummm... Sabertooth!" She exclaimed. Haru continued what she was doing, trying to scrounge the remaining nectar from the seat. She was at this point staring out the window, waiting for the train to stop. Being on this mode of transportation was killing her. Haru suffered from severe motion sickness, and the effects were starting to kick in. Haru slumped down in her chair and began to get wheezy. "This has to stop!" She screamed. "Hammer Fissure!" Haru screamed as she leaped up and ran down the aisle. The train car split down the middle. Screaming was heard throughout both sides of the cars. Haru stumbled outside, avoiding the wreckage and crawled toward the nearest boulder. She flew herself over it and hurled on the back of the rock. She lifted her head, woozy and tired, and looked into the prairie. Off in the distance of the water, she could see her destination, Fat Monsterland. "Whew, that stupid death trap is over. Time to get going." Haru got to her feet and wobbled her way toward fat monsterland.

Ryo watched her outrage and wasn't quite sure why she let it die off so easily if it truly bothered her. Still he wasn't going to complain about how quickly her temper seemed to be aslated. As he waited for her reply he looked at the orb that was wrapped in his hands. Upon hearing her answer his heart leapt and he snapped his gaze towards Haru his eyes cold and merciless "Sabertooth is it? I see. Well seeing as how I am the second in command of that guild. I would've remembered seeing you there."

He didn't have much time to think of anything further to say before Haruhi threw her tempertantrum. As the Train was split in half Ryo was astounded. Being on one half he managed to regain himself faster than the rest. He looked out to where Haru was walking away and threw his green card as hard as he could. He needed to ask this young girl something, and he was going to do it. He put one card to his forehead and winked his eye. He appeared a few meters behind Haruhi his eyes filled with rage as he tucked his card away "HARUHI! TELL ME TRUE! It was you who destoryed Rose Garden wasn't it!? You attacked the passport booth and destoryed most of it with your dangerous Crash magic!! You then miss named yourself a mage of my guild during the event and let Sabertooth's good name be besmirched!!! It was you wasn't it?! Speak clearly and speak true Haruhi!" He held the orb in his hand a bit tighter his anger boiling up inside of him.

Haruhi lifted her head again. She, yet again, fell over a rock and puked. She suddenly noticed that Ryo had appeared behind her. She listened to his demands. Ryo, being the second in command of Sabertooth, had demanded the truth of her guildship. Haru halted her hurling and replied quickly, "Nope. Wasn't me." Haru laughed to herself, knowing the lie that had passed her lips. Haru wanted to avoid a fight. She had no intention of exhausting herself against the second head of Sabertooth. Haru continued walking toward her destination. Taking a quick peak over her shoulder, she noticed Ryo was still behind her. Why does he insist on my answer.... she thought.
"So old guy, why are you only second in command? Why not first? Someone able to beat your card magic?" Haru was hoping to poke at his emotions. She continued her strides and plopped herself on the ground. "Why are you so concerned about the Rose Garden incident in the first place? From what I heard, it was actually pretty cool. Outstanding actually!" Haru suddenly drove her fist into the ground. The force released a large plume of dust to cover the area around her. She turned her heel, and bolted. "I have to get away from him. If he finds out it was me who destroyed Rose Garden, that would cause a real problem for me. I'm looking for a challenge, not a complete blunder. There is no way I could beat an S-rank right now."

Ryo's eyes lit up with rage. He knew the lie even from the distance he was at. He walked over to her closing the distance even more. He decided however that he was going to play the game she was until he could get close to her and force the truth out of her. He heard her questions and knew that she was trying to get under his skin, but Ryo wasn't like that. He simply responded "The guildmaster of Sabertooth is one of the ten wizard saints. Even with my power now I couldn't hold a candle to that kind of power. It is nothing to be ashamed of, it gives me something to work towards."

He listened to her talk and when she took a moment to breath he spoke "Because it disgraced the name of my family. My guild is my family and no one makes my family look bad." when she drove her hand into the ground Ryo was already throwing one of his cards. As the plume of smoke appeared Ryo pressed the matching green card to his hand and appeared outside of the plume destorying Haruhi's plan of creating a breathing room. As he appeared on the other side he wasn't far behind her and he wasn't going to let her increase that distance either. He took off after her running even faster. As he began to near her however he pulled out cards looking at them really quickly. He was grateful he had drawn two cards he wanted so in turn he filled out his hand with playing cards keeping only the combination he needed.

He got as close as he could on foot before he swiped the cards in the air. From a spell circle emerged six bolts of lightning. All of which were heading for Haruhi. They formed a pattern that would make it near impossible for her to get away from all the strikes. If she was hit by even one of these lightning bolts it would allow Ryo to catch her.

Hmmm, there are several Sabertooth members who make your guild look bad. Haru thought to herself. Haru had tried to use the dust cloud to escape Ryo. SHe wanted to avoid a fight. She darted away, peeking over her shoulder to assure he wasn't following. Haru didn't see him, thankfully, but all she saw was his attack. Six bolts were soaring towards her. "I can't let these hit me. But if they are too strong, I'm toast."

Haru halted herself quickly, spun around, and held her hand out sternly. "Blinky, feast!" Air around Haru's hand swirled, and appearing from the dust, a large vacuum with an open mouth. The mouth stretched open and swallowed a large rock Haru was next to. "Spit Turret, Blinky!" The vacuum swallowed the boulder and began spitting chunks of the boulder at the bolts of lightening. She had managed to knock four out, but missed two. Haru quickly jumped into the air and pulled Blinky in front of her, using him as a shield from the bolts. She peeked from behind it's tank, and regained her stance. "What is your problem! You scratched Blinky!" Haru decided a fight was inevitable. "Gate of Emergence, open!" Haru crashed her first physical barrier, releasing more magic power into her body. Her strength swelled to that of a powerful B-rank, along with her speed. She held out her palm and spoke her most famous phrase "Eradicate the world around me. Leave no trace!" Harus magic swirled into an orb and began erupting magic in her palm. She reared back and hurled the orb toward her opponents direction. "I was the girl who destroyed Rose Garden! I did use Sabertooths name. And may this tarnish your guilds pathetic name even more!"

Ryo quickly pulled up some of his own cards "Playing card combo: Card wall!!!" using one of his playing cards and a shield card he summoned a wall made of cards five meters in front of him. It was directly in the path of her orb and as it hit the wall it shattered and caused an explosion. This caused Ryo to take a few steps back, but he didn't falter. Before the dust cleared Ryo was already preparing the next attack. Ryo pulled up the rest of his playing cards and a full moon tarot card. He spun these in a circle and threw them towards Haruhi. From the cloud of smoke emerged a giant beach ball sized card ball. It sailed straight for Haruhi, but Ryo wasn't done yet.

With a twitch of his fingers he sent three cards from their floating place over the palms of his hand and flew in the direction of Haruhi. One followed right behind the card ball and there was one to the left and right. As they flew they became liquid showing their water element, but then as they neared her a link formed between them made of water magic to form a solid line coming at her at just about her chest height. With his spells cast Ryo was ready to cast any futher spells he would need, but for now he would watch to see what Haruhi's reactions would be. He knew that the orb in his pocket was meant for her, and this was both sad, and upsetting, but she needed to be taught a lesson.

Haru wanted to dodge the attack, but she would not be able to. She quickly pressed her hands to the ground. When she did, three large walls erupted from the ground in front of her, one slightly in front of the other. "Absolute Deformation!" The walls took the attack, falling to the ground and creating large bellowing clouds of dust.

Haruhi used this. "Gate of Succeeding, open!" Haruhis power soared once more. She stood tall and kept still while the dust covered her. Haru raised another wall in front of her. She continued raising walls all around her, five layers thick. Haruhi, although knowing that her power had increased beyond any mage of her rank, she still had no chance of beating Ryo. Her only chance was to prove herself and make him realize her power. Haruhi took several deep breaths. Her unlocked power was straining her body. Haru raised her head a tad, glimpsing at her walls.

"My walls, I know you can break them, but do you want to?" Haruhis voice, shaking more than usual, was loud and prominent. "You may be an S-rank mage, but I am past A-rank in strength. And I'll come..." Haruhi stopped talking for a moment, "CRASHING DOWN ON YOU!" Haruhi blurted out in laughter. "Hey old guy, get it? I'm a crash mage.... and I said "Crashing down on you? God, I am so funny." Haruhi stopped her laughing. Using her bungee gum armor, she stretched up to the top of the wall and peeked over the top at Ryo.

Ryo watched as his attacks did nothing. This was to be expected sure, but he wasn't about to give up without a fight. He was the Knight of Chan ce in the sabertooth guild he was going to make this girl pay. He slowly reached into his tarot card deck and drew the three cards on top "Well then. I guess since you are as strong as an A rank mage then I have to be even stronger. I'm sorry little girl. I have to punish you for what you've done to my guild. For what you've done to all those people. Magic should be used to help people not hurt people." He reached his other hand into his back pocket and pulled out two decks of playing cards. The three tarot cards began to orbit him and as they did the three began to spin faster. Ryo let the cards down and they began to surge to his back forming into two great wings made entirely of cards.

With one flap of his wings he lifted off of the ground holding more cards in his hands and letting more float around him. Several cards fell down to the ground and from the cards two identical clones of Ryo appeared both armed with full hands of cards. Ryo meant business now and he saw her peaking over with her head "I am sorry Haruhi. I do not want to do this to a little girl, but you've left me no choice!" He summons up several other cards and from the two cards emerged a serpentine dragon and a great white tiger made out of cards. The two animals made out of cards lunged for where Haruhi was hiding one going right one going left both of them were joined by one of Ryo's clones and they were going to attack her with all they had.