Mashyuu and Erica in: The Fourth and Fifth Musketeer!

"I believe I did tell you that I can make weapons, I did say I can use them, I suppose it was a bit too indirect, though, had to be safe just in case you got captured, thankfully you didn't."

Erika stated giving a sigh of relief, just to try and keep her little appearance working out fine. Still though Mashyuu thought the kid should be gone, he was probably going to get captured, but Erika didn't feel like arguing right now, else she would give away her true persona in full, which would be a shameful display on Erika's part, and that just wasn't possible, a shameful display that is. Instead, she would have to let the boy go who apparently just gave a nod to Mashyuu and started to move off. He was safer with them, especially because Erika didn't make mistakes, she just made the right choice at possibly the wrong time, for others, never herself as well she couldn't, again, make a mistake.

"We could go in and start shooting at everything, but that would prove a tad inconvenient, especially is that annoying wizard decided to make a fuss, and teleport in front of the family, so a better plan to simply attack everything, BUT him, and then get the family out of there, once they are within grabbing distance of us, things should be easier, of course, he might have a bunch of goons, but we will cross that bridge when we come to it."

"Why would you think that I would get captured? I'm not some rookie ya know!" Mashyuu responded swiftly, raising a fist in anger before calming himself and clearing his throat. The child had escaped and while Mashyuu thought that they did the right thing he got the feeling they were being watched. It didn't matter the the Earth Slayer, if there were others in the room then it gave Mashyuu a chance to deal some real damage.
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"That's fair. If I clear a path to the folks do you think you can get them to the door? Mashyuu started to ask but the three women who had came with the Wizards arrived on the scene, dragging a thug with them. Mashyuu waved at them, glad to see they were doing better than they had been when they were captured. They must have triggered a trap when they entered the room.
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The three women dropped the body at Mashyuu's feet and pointed at the door. "If you can clear a path we will make sure the targets get clear. We can leave the fighting to you two." Mashyuu glanced over towards his Rune Knight partner and shrugged his shoulders as if asking if she agreed then nodded up and down. "Lets do it."
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Mashyuu walked up to the door and lifted his leg, kicking at it hard, knocking the door inward, revealing a large den with seven men and the teleporting Wizard all standing at the ready with aimed guns. Mashyuu went wide eyed for a moment and shot his arm up at a ninety degree angle. A massive wall of earth shot up from under the house and blocked off the doorway, bullets hit the wall and bounced. "Behind the desk, a man and woman are tied to a pair of chairs." Mashyuu called out and commanded the wall to slowly move forward.

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"Oh I know you are, but anyone can make mistakes and this is a fairly different style of operation. If you don't expect partners to be captured, then you are living unrealistically, I'm surprised you didn't expect me to be captured."

Erika stated though she didn't know if he believed she would be captured, she said it anyway, because well she wanted to, Erika did that very often. Still the action was now getting heated up the other three barged in, it would have been so much easier if Erika was just allowed to solve the problems, but nope this was a 'team" effort. Erika would give Mashyuu this, at least, he was trying to form a team attack pattern rather than just rush in and punch something, or shoot them, or whatever. This is why the other girls had gotten captured, they rushed in to handle the situation rather than acting cautious about it.

Now there was a massive gunfight and Erika had to try and solve it all, what a horrible situation was she was in, always the one doing the work, well okay Mashyuu was doing some work too, just the three bimbo's urgh, they could have handled it, if they were her minions she'd have them fired, from a cannon... into the sun.

"New plan, you advance with your wall, I'll shoot them down."

She didn't want to do it, but Erika created from the walls in the room a few guns, on the same side that Mashyuu had his wall, and began to shoot out towards the opponents within the area. It was mostly just covering fire, and to protect him from a random teleport behind his back.

"Go, you have some cover I'll be in the room if you need any help."

In a flash the doors burst open, Mashyuu advanced into the room, following Erica's advice and before he knew what was happening a series of guns sprouted from the stone wall, opening fire on the men and clipping most of them. Mashyuu glanced back at the beautiful woman and raised a brow Sharply as Rocky followed behind. "Nope, I got it. You three, get in here and grab the hostages!" He shouted.

The trio of women followed Mashyuu as far as his wall would move then together all four of them broke away while Rocky remained behind the wall to watch and act when needed. Mashyuu rushed to the right and delivered a heavy superman punch straight into the jaw of one of the men, making the thug drop his gun and stumble backwards out of a window. "Not the way I thought he would go down....but effective." Mashyuu mused to himself before spinning around and ducking a bullet that whizzed by the brown haired Wizard.

His ears perked up at the sound of a hammer pulling back and Mashyuu jumped up and back flipped over a man just before he could fire the gun. A loud echo filled the room and Mashyuu landed behind the man who shot. In a single fluid motion Mashyuu kneed the man in the back then gripped his neck and brought it down across Mashyuu's leg, cranking the man's head back and leaving the gunman laying still. Mashyuu felt a piece of rock hit him from an earth mage and turned around curiously at the thought of a Wizard using earth Magic against him. The Earth Slayer raced towards the man and drove his left knee straight into the man's groin then tossed him into another. In that time the three Minstrels managed to make it to the hostages and start untying them.


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This was going well, could have gone better, but for what it was, it was going fine. If Erika had actually been in her uh "normal" form, she probably would have been completely in rage at the screw-ups that had gone down, but really right now Erika was feeling just fine about the whole situation, it's not like the teleporting mage had tried to teleport and shoot her in the back of the head or something. Of course speaking too soon was one of her strong suits, mostly because she never shut up about just how great she was, or at least never did in her head anyway. So yes, the blasted mage who wished revenge upon the slender, tall, and perfect girl appeared behind her, teleporting through the wall to simply fire a bullet right into her brain. Thankfully everyone on her team was currently in the other room, which meant that they weren't there to witness the bullet go straight through Erika's head, or rather what would normally have been considered her head, as it formed into threads and avoided the bullet being shot at her. Abruptly turning her head, almost possession like towards the mage, her body tossed threads out towards him and impaled several parts of his body, each piercing being in the shape of a bullet.

"I think you made a bit of a mistake there, thinking that I would ever make myself vulnerable, only a fool would ever take theirs eyes off of their enemy, or allies. Goodbye."

Falling over due to his wounds, possibly not even hearing her full little "speech" Erika continued to provide covering fire for Mashyuu and the girls, what little left that they needed.

"We got them!" One of the Minstrels shouted and jumped out of a window, leading the way for the other two women and the hostages. Mashyuu smiled to himself while he ducked a fist from a thug. To his left a spell was starting to be cast but Mashyuu managed to aim his left arm out and call up a monster from his hand. A snake like creature jumped out from his palm, clamping down the the casting Wizard and caused the man to lose his spell. The stone wall Mashyuu had up, swang hard at a ninety degree angle and smacked into the back of a thug who started to charge Mashyuu, knocking the thug over.

Mashyuu leap't high into the air and spun, swinging his foot into a man's face while his right arm started to spark with electricity. As Mashyuu landed his right arm extended forward. "Thunder Flash!" He shouted and a bolt of electricity lanced across the office, smashing into a wizard and slamming him into the wall. Without thinking about it, Mashyuu glanced over his shoulder and checked to make sure that Erika was doing o.k. The blue eyed Slayer hadn't seen the teleporting Wizard in some time and was starting to worry.

For a moment the room went still. Wizards and thugs who had been fighting Mashyuu, Rocky and the newly summoned Sin took a moment to asses what was going on around them. The teleporting wizard was on the ground behind Mashyuu's ally. The hostages had been gone and Mashyuu was mostly making quick work of the men inside the office who had holed up, thinking they could take the Earth Dragon Slayer. "Is this really something you want to keep doing?" Mashyuu asked.

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"Give up and your sentence might be more lenient than it was originally intended, you certainly won't end up like the others that decided it was a good idea to kidnap a more illustrious family."

Erika stated, appearing fully from behind the wall, and with her guns along the wall becoming silenced. She was perfectly happy with just killing all of them, after all, they were traitors tot his nation right? Which meant they had to be dealt with like a traitor. Still Erika wasn't really the law here, but would that stop her from making a bit of a threat towards this group of ruffians? Absolutely not, Erika wouldn't stop performing this little threat even if they were threatening her, after all, Erika wouldn't be intimidated, she was intimidation incarnate, or at least, a very imposing and egotistical woman who could kill with but her words. Her tongue was sharper than most blades, thankfully her blade could also match the edge of her tongue, or else she might actually get into trouble, not that she would ever admit she could get into trouble, since all the trouble she gets into was just as planned.

Regardless the men seemed to surrender, their leader dead, the family freed, and Erika and Mashyuu not very keen on letting them go free. You could say that so far, it was a job well done, well for two who had just met anyway. Perhaps they could do more in the future, though if that happened it would be random chance rather than a purposeful meeting, at least partially on Erika's end. She was incredibly busy after all since everything was important that she did.

It seemed everyone had given up. Men dropped to their knees with hands up and behind their heads. Mashyuu and Rocky glanced around the room where hired thugs had been fighting just a few moments before. Mashyuu had been breathing hard for most of the fight but Erica seemed to end it with just a few simple words. It was only then that Mashyuu noticed that the teleporting Wizard wasn't moving. The Slayer stalked past Erica and dropped to a knee next to the man. Carefully the brown haired Wizard prodded the man. When he didn't move Mashyuu rolled the man to his back and checked the Teleporting Wizards pulse. "...You killed him. In what world is that alright?" Mashyuu asked while looking back at the woman who had been helping him.

Mashyuu spun around and rose to his feet while hoisting the Teleporting man up over his shoulder. "Take these guys to whoever handles criminals around here. I'm going to check on the clients. We can talk back at the well." Mashyuu somewhat suggested while Rocky howled loudly. The pair walked out of the front doors and met the trio of Minstrels and the family taken hostage near the well. "Everyone alright?" Mashyuu asked. The head of the family extended his arm to shake Mashyuu's hand. "Oh yes, thanks to you Wizards and these fine Minstrels we are all doing just fine. Thank you for your help. We honestly have no idea what would have happened without your help. As agreed by the Minstrels, your jewels will be put into your private accounts and we have here these fine suits as a way to say that you are always welcome here." Mashyuu was presented a suit of fine green and he accepted them with a warm smile. "Thank you, I wouldn't return home for a few days and be sure to clean things up. Good luck to you all."

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"He was an obstacle in the way of completing the job, of course, I finished him off, three others decided to not fight and potentially die. Save a few extra lives for the cost of one that organized a high-level kidnapping, reality deemed it was the best choice, sorry if it was offensive to your belief's, don't think any worse of the Rune Knights, though, we have the best interest at heart."

Erika stated frankly, she wasn't going to beat around the bush, that and the enemy mage had made quite the annoyance of himself, and Erika couldn't stand the stupidity of it all happening to her, she didn't wish to be defeated by him, and since he had teleportation magic and was so skilled with it, she didn't want to risk him escaping later and coming back for revenge. So she put him down just like that, thought the rest of the family was safe Erika wasn't too concerned with it all, she only cared that the job was done and that now she could potentially head home.

Giving the ones who surrendered over the authorities, Erika supposed she should, at least, say goodbye to Mashyuu, at least, he was helpful during the job and hardy, even if his morals were getting the way, at the end. Maybe one dsay he would get over such fickle little concepts, but not everyone could be as perfect as Erika and just recognize situations for what they are, still he did handle himself far better than the others, seriously they were some of the best? This country was in trouble, and maybe she chose the wrong one to try and infiltrate after all, oh well her choice was already made. Walking over to where Mashyuu was Erika would congratulate him a bit.

"Good job Mashyuu, You handled yourself fairly well."

Mashyuu sat at the well, a coin rolling between his fingers while the Wizard looked down at Rocky. The woman had made him so mad that he could barely contain it. It was like she had no regard for the value of life. Then again, while Mashyuu wasn't an outright killer he was planning on killing someone... The one who had killed his ex, and his mother. Mashyuu was so lost in his thoughts that he almost didn't notice it when Erica spoke to him. His eyes looked up at her and a half smile crossed his face. "Thanks Lissica." Mashyuu replied.

The Earth Dragon Slayer sniffed the air and raised a brow towards her. "Look... I'm sorry. I didn't mean to judge you like that. What you do is up to you. You did a good job too and there would have been more lives lost if you hadn't been there. At least it wasn't one of the good guys....Just one thing. What are you hiding? I can't put my finger on it but I feel like there is something about you that you aren't telling anyone." Mashyuu asked outright. He didn't want to seem blunt but the Wizard had always been a straight forward kind of guy.

Mashyuu smiled at her and nodded up and down for a moment while his eyes locked on Erica for a moment. "Oh, these are for you." Mashyuu handed Erica the jewels and the clothes then winked at her. "I think it's time I hit the road again. I have a long, terrible trip back home. Here's to you." He flipped the coin into the well, causing it to splash. "If you ever want to do a job again, find me at the Sabertooth guild house." The man turned and walked off towards the docks and home...

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"What am I hiding? The only thing that I could possibly be hiding my young man is my deeper sense of justice, and perhaps the further actions I may have taken to save the family. Thankfully you were here and I didn't have to take such actions."

Erika stated with a bit of a happy inflection within her voice, this boy was starting to suspect something about Erika, or rather Lissica, so Erika supposed that she would have to either change up her attitude or change up her appearance. Perhaps a little bit of both would be needed, she'd have to ponder this little challenge back and forth for a bit in her brain, and then come to the conclusion later, but for now, she, at least, got the job done and in an effective manner. it was then that mashyuu explained a bit, and handed her the rewards from the job, she didn't really care about them, but it was nice to receive a reward, after all, Erika should get rewarded for her efforts since her efforts were always perfect and flawless.

"Sabertooth huh? Interesting, I'll remember that."

Sabertooth, she knew of that guild, it was an interesting place, a bit strange though, so heavily fortified for just a simple guild, perhaps they wee planning something bigger than what they expected, though really the various different guilds all were trying to either one up each other or to increase the power that they held for various reasons, the Rune knights had to keep them in check after all, though Erika had a few little inside tips on the various different guilds, the perks of being just so charismatic, though in the end she didn't care about them beyond a passing fancy and a laugh. Now she'd have to head home, and see just what Faeral had gotten up to.