Scare Away Those Thugs! (Job, Mitsuo and Kanix)

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Hargeon Town had the salty scent of ocean water constantly on its breeze, and it was a smell that Kanix greatly enjoyed. The scent reminded of her beaches, and beaches were a favorite thing of hers because of the sand between her toes. She had some of her most favored memories at the beach, especially of the time she learned how to build her first sandcastle. That had been the most amusing time for, until it ended up in a nosebleed with her friend that she didn't entirely know how to take care of. Handling blood wasn't something she enjoyed; blood was meant to stay inside of the blood, not come out of it. In which, that moment could be said that it ruined her liking of beaches, but no, no it had not ruined beaches for her. So, she breathed in deeply the salty ocean air of Hargeon Town and made her way to the restaurant for the job with Mitsuo.

He should be there already, as he had gone ahead of her, probably because he didn't want to wait on a blind person. She couldn't blame him though; as a blind person, she liked being able to take in the details of her surroundings, so she could better remember it. Not to mention that it was basically a maze for her to walk around, between, and through people who crowded the sidewalk. That was the most difficult part of being blind, especially when her staff didn't help much in her seeing things. Plus, people often times kicked her staff out of her hand or knocked into her, which caused her drop her staff. However, she eventually made it to the restaurant, and could sense the magic presence of Mitsuo not far off. A smile laced over her lips and she'd wave to him, to show that she had made it unharmed to the place of their meeting.

"Okay, so what are we supposed to do exactly? Just stand outside and wait for the thugs to come around?" Kanix inquired when she was closer to him.

While it was a decent day, the breeze still had a nippiness to it that made goosebumps slightly crawl on her skin. Mitsuo had a cloak, what did she have? A bone necklace. She had made a great choice of attire today. Maybe she should've reverted to her favorite coat. Fortunately, she could handle the cold.

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Her head swiveled in the direction of footsteps, quite loud as if they were not trying to hide their advancement at all. While Mitsuo had the advantage of sight, Kanix had the advantage of a heightened sense of hearing. Surely, his was strong as well, hers not nearly as strong, but she wanted to feel special just this one moment. Swiveling on her feet, she'd face the direction that the footsteps were coming from, trying to listen distinctly to them. How fast were they coming in? How close were they? How big were these enemies going to be... these thugs? She twisted her staff on the ground, digging its sharp end into the cement of the sidewalk, waiting, waiting... Kanix whirled around again, facing Mitsuo, staring him dead in the eyes with her sightless orbs, but not looking at him.

An odd birdlike screech rang in her ears, but she didn't react to it as oddly as she had the ranging footsteps. They were nearing closer too, and soon, their presence crawled along her back, and she twirled back around. Her staff went up, and the ram horn's slammed into the chest of a thug, blood splattering to the ground from the impact. With her enemy impaled on the horns, Kanix's eyes glowed along with the emerald stones on her staff. She gritted her teeth, and electricity sparked first at the nostrils of the skull, then coursed its way, until it became too strong. In which, the woman released the lightning bolt into the body of the thug she had trapped, electrocuting him. His body convulsed at the shock, sparks of electricity running along his limbs and through the blood on his body.

Prying the horns loose from his body, she'd hear him stumble backward, the shock of the lightning dissipating. The two other thugs were going after Mitsuo, while she had been busy taking care of this first thug coming after her. She frowned though, her attention slightly diverted by the other two thugs, and after a second's hesitation, she slammed her staff into the ground. It cracked a deafening sound to her ears, and the gems in the eyes of the skull started to glow again, along with her eyes. Noxious green gas spilled out from the nostrils of the skull, weaving down to the ground to surround the five of them. This noxious gas, while dangerous to the thugs, wouldn't harm the two Fairy Tail mages in the least bit. A spell that was designed to hurt only the caster's enemies, but never allies, to poison and burn their innards.

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The noxious gas was one thing just filling the air with potent, diseased chemicals, but it was another once inhaled. For those poor, unfortunate souls that had breathed in the toxic fumes, they would begin to feel as if their innards were melting. Their eyes would burn, and they would have an insatiable thirst that would parch their tongue, lips, and throat. At which point, their skin would begin to swell and boil up the more they inhaled the gaseous poison, and their throats would clog. They would not be able to breathe so thoroughly now, left struggling for the air that just couldn't pass through. Hands would drop their weapons and grapple at the one thing they wanted, but was just out of their reach. Soon, their knees would buckle, their eyes would roll to the backs of their head, hands grabbing their swollen gorges.

As for the bird that had tagged along with the thugs? Well, not much was seen of it before it took one whiff of the gas and turned tail.

The gas would disperse with the passing breeze, and as it did so, the boils on their skins disappeared, and their swelling of the skin went down. Any longer in the toxins and they would have died, but unfortunately, the wind was the weak point of the spell. Kanix also knew she wasn't supposed to kill people, yet it was a spell like this that often brought her back to the darker side of things. Maybe she would have to learn how to control her magic better, so as not to unintentionally kill people with it. Trained, after all, by the dark guild of Basilisk Fang, she still had a bit of that urge to kill inside of her, even if it meant hurting herself. A hand reached up and lightly touched her upper lip, feeling the blood that trickled down from her nose. Quickly, she'd wipe it away and take a step back from the three unconscious thugs, fearing the worst of herself.


Was that the end of it? Was that all that they had to deal with? Heavens no, it was far from being over. Kanix coughed a little, blood spattered onto her hand and she'd groan before rubbing her curled hand on her hip. It was never the best thing to go too far with a spell or she faced the consequences of feeling the pains of those who were close to death. Those thugs? They were only on the brink of death, but what she had done with her spell affected her the most. She feared that it would only get worse as the mission progressed. The more she fought, would She come back? The thought of her other half taking over again caused the goosebumps to come back and she shivered. However, the thought didn't last long, as her ears picked up the horrendous sound of something coming closer.

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The clashing of steel was what alerted Kanix to Mitsuo's struggle against the bodyguard, and she'd intervene momentarily. Her feet silently carried her toward the offender and the defender, reaching out and aiming to place her hand on Mitsuo's arm closest to her. "Mitsuo, let your Savage Rage show," she whispered to him, her eyes taking on a glow effect with the emeralds of the skull. What Mitsuo would feel is a power surge through his body, Kanix's magic sparking at the reactors in his body to strengthen him. A second later and she would pull away from him, taking a step back to face the opponent currently obliterating them. She narrowed her eyes at him and pointed her staff in his general direction, "your pain is just now beginning." From the eye sockets of the skull, a black mass spilled out, trickling down its face as if it was crying.

That black mass hit the ground and it was crawl to the bodyguard and clamber up his armor and to his face. Where the man would bat at it, the mass would weave around him and suck up through his nose and ears. "And yeah... I'm fine," she lied, listening to the man squirming and writhing as the curse was place on him. Just have to keep myself from injuring them too much she thought to herself, lowering her staff as she did. A sudden pain enveloped her, causing her to collapse to the ground in agony, squeezing her eyes shift as her spell backfired. So, this is what pain felt like when she cast this spell on her opponents? How could she do such a thing? She'd let out groans and estranged noises from her throat, feeling as if her innards were being pulled out of her.

To her misled luck, she'd be incapacitated for a bit, curled on the ground, dealing with the same pain the bodyguard was. Only her was on a smaller scale than his, but it still felt like she was being tortured by the hounds of hell, themselves. Creatures just tearing at her innards and pulling them free of their place inside her, that was the agony she felt.

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Gritting her teeth, the woman struggled to her feet gripping her stomach with one arm and using the other to lift herself up. Mitsuo had, unfortunately, taken care of the bodyguard on his own, much to Kanix's own dismay of things. She had wanted to help out, but with the backfire of her spell, it hadn't done much good and letting her do so. Feeling useless at the moment, she'd merely nod her head toward her partner, not entirely denying she wasn't okay. Having him worry over her was the last thing that she wanted, though her magic was often tough on her. Again, she wiped away the blood from her nose, frustrated that her magic decided now was the time to stop cooperating. Later she would have to have a discussion with those damned spirits because it was clearly them who were doing it.

"I'm fine... that spell just backfired is all..." Kanix explained to Mitsuo once she was standing. "I guess the spirit that I get the ability from decided that I wasn't holding up my end of the bargain and did that to me. Sometimes, it happens; other times, I'm lucky to be able to cast a spell and get away with not holding up my side." There wasn't much else to say about her spells, other than that they could often be really cruel toward her. "I appreciate the offer, Mitsuo, but when it comes down to it, there's nothing that you can do to protect me from it..."

It was just something that she had to face, and unfortunately, their little conversation would come to an abrupt stop.

Kanix picked up the sound of more footsteps heading toward the little restaurant, already exhausted with them coming around. Perhaps, they would be easy people to deal with? Just more thugs and not that damned bodyguard they just dealt with. She'd listen intently though, frowning and waiting for the men to appear, so that they could beat their asses. Her head turned in the direction the footsteps were coming, anxiously awaiting them, but unable to see the thugs. What was it about these people? Why did they want to ruin the reputation of a quaint, little restaurant in Hargeon Town?

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It sounded to her like Mitsuo wasn't having the best of luck with this armored man, and that it was taking a lot out of him. She felt bad about that, for at the time, she had still been resting, though ever alert to her surroundings. A grimace appeared on her lips as the sound of metal clashed with metal and rang annoyingly in the air. The noise of tearing flesh nearly made Kanix throw up and the strong metallic scent of blood wasn't helping either. Mitsuo had been injured, she figured out, and she narrowed her eyes in concentration, trying to get her enemy's location pinpointed. However, it proved to be slightly more difficult when the two of them were making a dance of their own. Eventually, her senses locked onto the bodyguard, the clang of sword's metal on defensive shield aiding her.

Mitsuo was a conductor of electricity, thanks to being the Metallic Dragon Slayer, but it was her only option right now. Kanix had to take that risk of possibly electrocuting her partner if she wanted to slip in a C rank's worth of damage. So, she called upon the spirit of the wolf as quickly as she could and darted around the bodyguard, so that she stood behind him. She'd tap him on the shoulder, grab his attention, and quickly backhand him with the horns of her staff. The man stumbled backward, toward Mitsuo, then lift up his shield as he caught his balance and swing his sword at her. Her mind quickly raced with all the calculations in her head as he swung that sword, then she disappeared from her place. Reappearing to his right, the shamaness flipped her staff around, so that the sharp end of it face him, and rammed it into his shield.

The man, confused by how she had moved so quickly, didn't catch on until he felt the force of the staff against his dented protection. When he looked, Kanix was not there anymore, but instead, she was now in front of him, greeting his shield with another hit. Thereafter, she looked at him with her hazed eyes, and she twisted the weapon, so that the horns face him again. From the tips, a lightning bolt blasted out, striking against the armor of the man and coursing over its entirety. She smirked at him, then tapped the temple of her head, and the man's actions halved themselves as an effect of her Soul Trapping ability.

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She felt injured, but she wasn't injured; it was the man that Mitsuo was attacking that she could feel the pain from. Oh, the agony of it. How she pitied the man whose life was slowly draining from him, despite the knockout. Kanix shook her head and looked away from the fell bodyguard, cleared her throat, and focused on everyone else around her. Now was not the time to be fretting over deaths, not when this bodyguard was their enemy and she shouldn't care.

Luckily, the pounding footsteps of those thugs filled her ears and she rather focused on that than anything else. Tapping her staff on the ground, she called out, "Call of the Wild: A Door To Hell!" So as she said this, an ancient, crypt-like door rose from the ground. It creaked open and a blaze of fire rushed out, but this fire was only cosmetic and did no damage to anything. From those doors would come a black creature, beady eyes so red they bore into the souls of those it looks at. This creature let out a horrifying screech and launched itself at the nearest thug that came running to them. Tackling the thug to the ground.


Kanix sat back and listened as her little "pet" slashed and parried the attacks of the thug, but she was soon apprehended by another thug. The thug had her hands behind her back and kicked her staff away, leaving her powerless for the time being. She gritted her teeth, slammed her foot into his, then as he bent down to grab his foot, whacked the back of her head in his. He stepped back and grabbed his broken nose, and Kanix rushed away from him, grabbing her staff in the process.

As she twisted around to face her attack, she pointed her staff at him and shouted, "Call of Wild: Guardian of Nature!" A bright light shot in front of her and formed a stag, whose antlers were lowered as it charged and impaled the thug. The thug stabbed at the stag, but the knife only went through the water body of the creature and did no damage. It wouldn't take physical damage to get rid of her stag, but rather the means of magic to kill it off.

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As the thug fought off the stag, the woman turned back to the other thug that had tried capturing her. With her staff, she slammed it into his gut, knocking him backward, until she had cornered her against the wall. There, she took the skull of the staff and hit him over the head with it, careful to avoid getting him hooked on the horns. She maneuvered away from his attack as he thrust out his knife to stab her in the stomach, and whacked him with her staff again. Kanix danced around him once more as he lurched forward for another strike, then smacked him on the back of his head with the staff. A smile was brought to her face as the sickening sound of the bone hitting against bone rang in her ears. The thug's blade nearly scraped her side as she whirled around him, lifted her staff, and gutted him with the horns.

Blood trickled down her side, but it was nothing to worry about, as it was just a flesh wound and nothing more. She pulled her staff free from the man's stomach, then twirled around stylistically to pin his arm against the wall. Staff embedded in the wood of the restaurant, her eyes narrowed and she let go of the stuck weapon. Without her staff, she couldn't use her magic, so she took to the only way that she knew how to get away. As the man reached toward her with his knife, she grabbed hold of his arm and twisted it, forcing the direction of the knife to change. With this knife now facing toward the man, she regretfully stabbed it into the forehead of the man, killing him. Kanix took a step back, wide-eyed at what she had done, and in that moment, her own gut wrenched at the feeling.

The shamaness let out a pained yelp, like that of a trapped fox, and a pulsating feeling surrounded her. Hunkered over, the woman tried to regain her stature and grabbed her staff from the wall, ripping it free. As the limp thug fell to the ground, she turned away from it and faced the guardian of nature still fending off the other thug. She stood back as the stag bent its head down and rammed the thug, pushing him backward and pinning him as well. It jumped backward, away from the dagger that the thug had, though the weapon would only run through its watered body. One of its limbs shifted form as it reared to its hind legs, turning into a whip that wrapped around the neck of the thug. Pulling at the opponent, the stag threw the man across the way, and the thug's body hit the wall of the restaurant, knocking him out.

It wouldn't be the final thug that they would look to, but it would the bodyguard that Kanix and the stag rushed at. Her demon, who had been alongside her, rushed at the thug as well, and together the stag and demon worked. The stag rammed its hardened horns into shield, but was pushed back by the force at which the shield had. Where the demon focused on the armor of the bodyguard and clawed at it, gauging streaks into the tough metal. They twisted and turned around the bodyguard, keeping him preoccupied, but attacking what guarded his body. Kanix's monsters bashed heads into steel, quickly wearing away the strength of the armor and the shield. With the stag taking down the shield, and the demon stabbing, clawing, and tearing at the armor, it wouldn't be long before he was taken down.

Soon, the shield was down, clattering from the man's hands to the ground, where Kanix kicked it away. Now, all that was left was taking down the armor that protected the bodyguard's body, and then the guard, himself. This time, Kanix would join in, she battered the man over his helmet, denting the mental with the ram's skull. Despite how strong it looked, the metal wasn't all that thick, and even the horns went smoothly through it. Enough so, that it pierced the skin of the bodyguard before Kanix ripped it out and attacked from another angle. Her demon launched itself at the bodyguard and dug its claws into the metal, tearing away another gauge. She had to pull back, however, as she was beginning to run out of the strength that she needed to fight back.

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"Well, something is making them really want this restaurant shut down, and honestly, I'm quite curious to know," Kanix responded to Mitsuo. A smile was on her lips at the mentioning, but it wasn't like they were going to be able to figure such a thing out. They were constantly being attacked from all sides, and the bodyguard always happened to be the strongest of them. For some odd reason, that bodyguard was always with the thugs, so it was a lot harder for them to battle. This thought sparked an idea in her head, just as three thugs came out from behind the building to charge them. Not far behind them was a bodyguard, lugging his heavy shield and weapon, covered in that difficult armor to break. Her blind eyes darted between the trio of thugs, ears listening to their footsteps as they rounded closer to them.

In that moment, her staff lifted and blocked the pathway of the demon stationed on her left, then guided it toward one of the thugs. It flipped sides the moment the demon charged at one of the thugs, and guided the stag stationed on her right to another of the thugs. The beast charged her opponents, and she run at the lumbering guard behind them, leaving the third thug open for Mitsuo. Her "pet" demon slashed at the chest of its opponent, its claws raking through the cloth and against the skin. Blood splattered to the ground as the man cried out in pain, and in retaliation, rammed his dagger into the stomach of the spirit. However, the weapon merely went through the demon's body, and it went wild over the man discovering his weakness against him. Thus, a frenzy started with the creature; its claws reaching out to rip and tear at the skin as quickly as it could.

One strike would hit, then the thug would parry the next attack of the demon, though he was quickly being pushed into a corner. Another blow to the thugs face, blood splattering against the wall of the restaurant's alleyway, hindering the thug useless. Dagger gone, the demon let out a maniacal chuckle, and with a final raise of its claws, brought them down upon the man. The thug cried out in pain as the talons tore through his chest, his eyes clouded over, he coughed up blood as blood spilled from his wound, fell to his knees, and collapsed to the ground. With his opponent gone, the demon would look for the next thing to do, but had no time to as the gate to hell rose back up. Creaking, the door swung open and a sucking wind force pulled at the demon, dragging it back into the fiery depths. Now, the focus was on the stag, who fought a ragged-looking, but rather strong woman for a thug.

Her "pet" stag lowered its head down, enough that its watery antlers were pointed toward the stomach of the womanly thug. It scratched its hoof against the ground, then charged at the armed lady, ramming its horns into her upper body. With its victim strung on its antlers, the beats lifted its head up, then wildly shook its head, until she flung off. The woman's body hit against the wall of the restaurant, slumping to the ground as she regained her mobility. However, the stag was on top of her now, lowering its head once again and ramming into her, though missing her by an inch. She stood to her feet and with her small knife, lashed at the beast, only to have the weapon go through the watery body. A frown appeared on her face, and the deer turned around, hardened its antlers and impaled her once more.

It tore its antlers from her body, and instead of striking with its antlers again, it reared to its hind legs. Mortified by the elemental creature, the woman stared up at its hooves, then braced for impact as they came down. She let out a cry of pain as the hardened hooves smashed against her arm and broke it, leaving her with only her other. With her one good arm, her knife came swinging upward into the chest of the stag, hoping that it would do some damage. Like last time, however, the weapon only slid through the animal, and the beast opened its mouth and bit down on her. Another scream of pain as the stag battered its hooves against her a final time, and fell unconscious to the ground. The stag, as its body lowered to the ground and its hooves touched, dispersed into a puddle of water.

Kanix was left running toward the guard, letting out a battle cry as she lifted her staff and aimed toward his shield. A reverberating sound rung out as the two items connected, a dent appearing where the staff had struck. She swung her staff toward it again, but missed as the man pulled his shield away and countered her attack with his sword. With the end of her staff, she blocked his attack, pulling the sword free of his hand and knocking it away. Determined to quickly take the man down, she flipped her staff around, so that the sharp edge faced toward her opponent. Afterward, she rammed it forward, cutting through the armor he wore and even spilling a bit of blood from the skin it touched. The woman smirked at him, then yanked her weapon free and bashed the top end of her staff into the shield again.

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In the heat of battle, Kanix was a leader, not a follower, and the inner demon activated in her when she heard Mitsuo fell the bodyguard. He started chatting to the ill begotten man, and she scoffed at the legal mage's action of trying to get information out of the thug. These men had no hope in her eyes, so she didn't understand why Mitsuo was trying his damned hardest to keep himself from killing the guy. Kanix frowned at her partner, her opalescent, blue eyes staring at him with their cloudy nature before she looked away from the younger mage. She expertly flipped her staff aruond, with the horned skull facing upward, blood dried and trickling down from the caked horns of the ram. "You're not going to get an answer out of him, Mitsuo, why are you trying so hard to?" the woman seemingly mocked the other Fairy Tail mage. Quietly, the blind woman sauntered over to the captured victim, stood solemnly behind him, sightless orbs gazing down, then flicked her staff.

The sickening sound of blood splattering on the cement resounded into the air, the man's head lolling forward, against Mitsuo's blade as red liquid oozed from his mouth. Placing a foot against the dead man's back, she jerked her staff with both hands, causing more blood to splatter onto the ground as well as freeing her staff. Kanix set her staff down, sniffed the blood on the weapon and silently licked it off, enjoying the taste of her victim's life blood before grinning at Mitsuo. How beautiful was it to her to take the life of a man, who wasn't so innocent as he was made out to be, she liked the thought of that. "Man up and kill a bit, Mitsuo; life isn't fair! And when life isn't fair, you give it a dose of its own lethal medicine!" The dark shamaness cackled and turned away from him, walking over to the steps of the restaurant and hopping up onto the railing. She ran a hand through her hair, raking her fingers through the silken weave, and stared quietly at Mitsuo after her little outburst.

In all of her life, she would never have thought Mitsuo had the capability of being able to kill, not with all that good mage mumbo jumbo. She sat Indian-styled on the railing, with her staff propped up against the wall to her side, and she smiled again at Mitsuo. "I didn't believe you to be one of killing intent, let alone kill them so mercilessly; I would've taken you for a dark mage, like I had been." The woman giggled mischievously and tapped one of her feet against the wooden railing, as if she found it all entertaining to her. "I doubt anymore of these thugs will be coming around, especially with the bloodbath we created, so why don't we just sit here and relax?" Kanix fell silent and watched her partner, curious to know how he would react to her sudden change in personality from sweet to mildly psychotic. "So, have you been to this restaurant to eat before or is right now your first time even coming close to this restaurant?" she inquired quickly. She didn't want to seem to him like she had gone completely insane, as that wasn't the truth and wouldn't ever be. It was just that living as a dark mage for so long had a great impact on her, and dropping habits was a lot harder than it seemed. Nor did she really want to deter Mitsuo from ever doing a job with her again, but even so, his own reaction was mildly surprising to her.

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