Mashyuu in: Action Figures!

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The sun was setting on Toylaten as Mashyuu and Rocky came to the front of the town. From afar Mashyuu had assumed the town was just small but when he got close he was amazed to see that everything was actually miniature in size. Mashyuu's blue eyes were wide in shock to see that every thing here was a toy. It hadn't always been this way, what could have possibly happened? The Earth Wizard and Rocky stalked the city that they towered over until Mashyuu's sharp ears twitched in response to two targets coming up behind the Slayer.

Mashyuu twisted on his heels and turned to face a pair of small children who wore blue school suits and had amulets on their necks. Both boys had blonde hair and identical facial features. "You aren't supposed to be here. Maybe you want to be a toy too? Yes. Come play with us." The boys said at the same time while grabbing the amulets on their chests. Mashyuu started after them with Rocky at his side but soon found himself smaller, maybe a foot tall total with Rocky about half his size. He slowly lifted his head and heard the sound of plastic rattling. His blue eyes narrowed on his hands and his mouth dropped. "Rocky... We are toys.." Mashyuu whispered.

The twins smiled down at Mashyuu and each of them lifted a foot then slammed them into Mashyuu and Rocky, sending the toy Sabertooth Wizards sailing across the village and into a small home. Mashyuu groaned and pushed himself up to look at his surroundings. Bright blue walls surrounded the Wizard and his friend and a green door slowly shut and locked in front of them. Plastic furniture surrounded them and a toy man with a red suit stood watching the pair. Mashyuu waved slowly and pulled himself up to this feet while touching his hair. It was still real. "Sorry about breaking in like this. I'm Mashyuu, I came to try and help. I'm still going to do it too. I just gotta figure out how to get my body back to normal."

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The Toy man in red tilted his head towards Mashyuu and Rocky, it's small eyes darting about rapidly while a toy clock ticked with every passing second. "You must be insane. Ten Wizards have come here and tried to stop those kids and they are all dead. The fact that they are letting you live right now means they have become sure that they can take any Wizard. What makes you different from the other Wizards?" The man asked while walking up to Mashyuu and poking Mashyuu with a plastic finger.

Mashyuu's toy face twisted in annoyance and he removed the man's finger from his chest. "What makes me different is that I haven't lost yet... Not without being taken by surprise anyway." Mashyuu commented. Rocky yelped as loud as a toy dog of plastic could. The man frowned at Mashyuu and pointed to his seat, as if to suggest Mashyuu needed to take a seat.

Carefully the Slayer did as he was told and wandered over to the seat, blue eyes glancing about. "If you're gonna have to defeat not only the twins but their toy wolves and Pirates. These things are lined with metal and have been ripping apart others, I don't think you have much of a chance friend. But if you really feel you can do it I'll let you stay here today." The man stated flatly. Mashyuu nodded up and down then lifted his hand up to shake the man's. "Thanks old man. I promise I won't let you down. Nor will I let you come to any harm." Mashyuu said with a stern tone to his voice.

Mashyuu and Rocky climbed a set of toy stairs and found a bed that he found very comfortable for being a toy. The Earth Wizard placed his head to the toy pillow and closed his eyes. He honestly wasn't sure how he was going to deal with the kids but he could sense his magical power still deep inside his body. The boys were going to feel the wrath of a Slayer because if not his daughter would grow up without a father. That was something Mashyuu wouldn't allow at all in his life.

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The sun rose over the small town made of toys, birds flew over head and due to the size of the town, the birds seemed unnaturally large. Their wings cast massive shadows over the city, nearly blocking out the sun. Mashyuu sat up straight, his plastic arms locking in place with a soft rattle and causing the man to swear under his breath for a moment. He was used to having bones creak and crack when he moved but this time it was simply plastic rattling and clanking around. He threw his legs off the bed and looked over the orange paint on his strange glossy plastic. "This is going to be hard to explain if I don't beat these kids." Mashyuu muttered. At least his clothes couldn't get ripped up from the fights he was about to have.

Rocky stood up and shook it's body out and spread it's brown plastic wings. That made Mashyuu wonder if it was possible for the animal to fly and the Earth Wizard lifted his plastic hand up with a frown, and motioned for Rocky to fly. Curiously the once stone Golem spread it's wings and jumped up while flapping the things. Try as it might Rocky couldn't get any lift and remained on the ground shortly after jumping. Mashyuu furrowed painted on brows and stood up. "Come on boy, lets get this over with. Luckily Fred bought some supply trains and we have extra gear to help us if we need it. Then we are gonna beat the crap outta those kids and send em packing." Mashyuu mumbled then stopped for a moment. His gear.... Would any of it work under these conditions? He had no clue but he was afraid to try and summon up a sword that could crush the house he was in if it remained the same size that it was when Mashyuu arrived.

Without much urgency Mashyuu and Rocky strolled down the steps to the old man's house and glanced at the man while he sat in a chair, looking out the window. "The Wolves are out there already, it's an open field from here to the watch tower, and that is where the Pirates are. Good luck boy, you're gonna need it." Mashyuu frowned and then smirked. "Bah, you just wait and see old man. I'm gonna save your village if it kills me." Mashyuu replied and opened the green door. Rocky ran out from under the Wizard and hit the street, slowly followed by Mashyuu. Together the two walked towards the center of town, Mashyuu's shoulders were squared up and his stride held meaning while a pack of six wolves made of plastic but lined with metal teeth and claws all surrounded the Wizard and his pet Rocky. The two came to a stop and looked at their surroundings with grins on their faces. "You guys didn't bring enough friends."

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The Six wolves barred metal teeth at Mashyuu and Rocky. The Sabertooth Wizards wen't back to back. If those teeth caught hold of the plastic the pair were made up of then they were screwed, the Wolves would be able to drag either of them to the ground and easily rip them apart. Each of the wolves took a half step back and crouched low. Mashyuu wasn't sure how much energy he would need to finish everyone off so he was going to start off small. He let his left hand drop down and slam into the ground hard. "Earth Staff." He whispered.

Mashyuu pulled his hand up and with it a long staff of solid stone. He whipped the weapon around in his palm and aimed it at the monsters. "Good to know that I'm still able to use my magic the right way. No need to worry about that. Now lets hope my gear works the same way." Mashyuu said to himself and slammed the staff into the mouth of a wolf that had jumped at the Earth Wizard. It was similar to his first job but the man was stronger now, these Wolves wouldn't stand a chance against the Earth Slayer. As hard as he could the Wizard twisted his hips and threw the Wolf into another that was leaping at Rocky.

The former Stone Dog charged at a Wolf and slammed it's left shoulder into the plastic and metal animal, knocking it over to it's side and forcing the creature to roll over. Rocky ducked just in time to watch Mashyuu send a wolf sailing over the creatures body and into the dirt. With a loud roar Rocky sprang up and landed on the wolf Mashyuu had thrown to the ground. Suddenly a loud thwack filled the air as Mashyuu whipped his staff about like a baseball bat and smashed it into the face of another wolf, causing it to yelp in pain.

That was when the other Wolves started in on the pair. Four had been tossed aside but all six got up and ran away, they moved into a strange formation almost like a V but with the sixth wolf behind the lead wolf. Mashyuu stepped in front of Rocky and braced himself with his staff and slammed it down atop the spine of the lead wolf, shattering the animal to pieces with his blow.

Swiftly taking it's place, the wolf behind the lead one rushed forward and jumped at Mashyuu, grabbing the Wizard with it's teeth and digging into the plastic arm of the Wizard. Mashyuu took a half step backwards and twisted with anger while hurling the Wolf away as hard as he could. The Wolf hit a near by building and bounced, barely able to pull itself up from the ground it started to growl at Mashyuu and Rocky while it began to strafe around the Wizard to try and attack yet again. Before it had the chance Rocky grew a set of stone spikes and slammed into the Wolf, crushing it and splitting metal from plastic while Mashyuu brushed chipped paint off his arm and spun around, slamming his left foot into the next wolf's side.

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With two Wolves down there were only Four to go and Mashyuu was feeling strong. His staff was holding up more than fine and the Wolves were taking a beating thanks to Mashyuu and Rocky's joint efforts. Three Wolves stalked Mashyuu while the Wizard took a step back and let his eyes flick over to the beasts. He snarled at the animals and looked as the one he kicked had gotten back up and started to fall into the formation with the other wolves. Mashyuu smirked while Rocky came up to join his side. The two were a pack all their own and these wolves didn't stand a chance against the Sabertooth members. "Too bad you guys can't understand me, you would more than likely run." Mashyuu joked. His shoulders slumped forwards and his legs tensed up as much as plastic could. His orange panted legs rocketed forward and carried him swiftly over a little patch of grand that seemed larger than it really was to the smaller toy Wizard. Mashyuu planted his staff to the ground and leap't up over the wolves and landed behind them. The wolves slid to a stop and watched Mashyuu fly over head. One yelped in shocked pain when Rocky drove straight into the side of a wolf, cracking the beasts plastic.

Mashyuu followed this up by sweeping the legs of the beasts and taking the legs out from under them. All the wolves hit the ground and scrambled to get up while Rocky bit one of wolves and dragged it away from the back. Rocky growled low and angry while it's tail shook frantically. Plastic snapped and flaked away under Rocky's grinding bite while the dog whipped it's head from side to side to try and break the monsters body as best as Rocky could. In the mean time Mashyuu spun his staff around in his palms and brought it up and grasped the end of the weapon in one hand and jammed it into the eye of a wolf. The beast howled in pain and stumbled back while Mashyuu pulled his staff away and spun around while spinning the staff behind his back and knocking a wolf across the face with the whipping staff. Mashyuu twisted around on his black painted feet and sprang backwards while holding the staff up and blocking two wolf bites at the same time. Mashyuu dropped down low and put all his strength into the drop, snapping the wolves jaws in half in the process.

The Wolves cried out in pain and whimpered while backing up from their now missing bottom jaws. Both of the creatures spun around and started to run in a straight line. Mashyuu smirked and hurled his staff like a spear, ramming them both through with the staff while a Wolf lunged at Mashyuu. The Earth Wizard took a half step back and started to wince, knowing a second wound was coming when suddenly Mashyuu found that his Earth Golem friend had launched a line of stones straight from it's mouth and into the Wolf, knocking it dead from the blast. A wide smile spread over Mashyuu's lips and he waved at Rocky. "Thanks for the save buddy. What do you say we go find these Pirates and see what they know about the twins?"

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Mashyuu and Rocky took off as fast as they could for the clock tower across town, a little trail of dirt kicked up in the wake of the pair making way to the massive (For their size) tower. A set of double doors rested, painted brown and made to look like fake wood, shut firmly in a doorway. Masyuu jumped up and harnessed the strength of the earth around him. His fist lit up as he superman punched the doors and splintered the plastic into hundreds of pieces. Rocky slid into the tower just after Mashyuu's solid blow, A wolf waited by the door ready to pounce but Rocky was just as ready, now that the Wizards knew what they were dealing with the wolves would offer no challenge. Rocky sprang forward and pounced upon the wolf, driving it into the ground while Mashyuu lifted it by the mouth, forcing the beast's jaw shut. He spun it in the air then dropped down, slamming the plastic beast on a step, sending a spider web crack down it's base as it twisted in pain and howled. Rocky bull rushed it from the side, smashing it to pieces against the wall of the tower and ending it's life.

Swiftly Mashyuu and Rocky made their way up the tower to look out to the city below. How he missed it before was anyone's guess but around the city was set of legos, making up a river of water. Three Pirate ships sailed the water and Mashyuu knew that these were the men keeping the other toys from going to get help. Mashyuu looked to Rocky and patted his head. "I know you can't fly buddy but do you think you could glide to one of those ships, we got some Pirates to take down." Rocky yelped and spread it's wings. Taking that as a yes Mashyuu lifted the window of the clock tower open and jumped to the window frame. Rocky jumped up and focused hard on it's wings, suddenly they lit up with magical power and gave the animal proper lift. Rocky grabbed onto Mashyuu as hard as it could with plastic claws and took off towards a ship of brown legos, it's sails of flimsy plastic billowed out and held a skull and crossbones pattern. Ten Pirates of various lego models all aimed toy guns and fired at Mashyuu and Rocky as they drew closer and closer. Rocky swept in low, launching a stream of stone as cover fire while Dropping Mashyuu onto the helm of the ship. The Earth Wizard sprang up after rolling and drove a knee into a man at the nose of the ship while Rocky dove down on the man in the crows nest, keeping him from dropping fire on Mashyuu.

Ten Pirates and nine of them were on the deck that Mashyuu was on. A bullet whizzed past Mashyuu's head and the Earth Wizard glared at the man who fired it off. His plastic fingers twisted into the shape of a talon and he pulled his right arm back. "Earth Dragons Talon!" He called out while swinging his arm forward. It created a shock wave that dug into the man in front of him and knocked him to the ground while causing a wave of plastic to shoot up. The shock wave continued on hitting three more men and knocking them over but really doing nothing else to them. Still the Pirates found themselves unable to move for a time. "I'm here to free this town and that means taking you guys down!"

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While three pirates were down and struggling to pick themselves back up another one rushed Mashyuu with sword drawn. The Wizard couldn't help but smile and call out to his silvered sword. The Wizard met his attacker head on, swords sparking in the early morning sunlight. His weapon drove the Pirate back while a second pirate joined the fray. A wide smile spread over Mashyuu's face while he ducked a slash from a curved blade and smacked this weapon into the toy gun that was being leveled at his face. The gun flew overboard while Mashyuu drove his black foot into the Pirates chest and kicked. The Pirate tripped backwards and fell over one of his downed allies. Mashyuu danced around the man he was fighting and drove his elbow down into the back of the Pirates neck. The man stumbled forward for a moment then spun around, swiftly deflecting one of Mashyuu's sword strikes and countering with a punch of his own. to Mashyuu's left the Pirates that weren't down were trying to help their friends up and watching as the Slayer fought off a Pirate to some degree of success.

Above Rocky floated about the crows nest, evading strike after strike from the Pirate who was stabbing at the dog with a short spear and by short it was short for a spear, still offering reach. Rocky weaved in and out of the spears path and slashed his magical claws at the Pirate. One claw struck, forcing he toy to turn to stone. With a great push Rocky knocked the toy over and watched as it struck the plastic below, breaking off a large piece of the ship's rail in the process.

Back below Mashyuu had stepped forward just in time to watch a stone slam from above into the rail of the ship and rattle about. Mashyuu pointed back with his left plastic hand and the stone lego man floated to Mashyuu's finger. He pointed his finger out towards the Pirates who were getting up and launched the lego man into the others, slamming them back to the ground just before the lego man had a chance to recover. The Earth Wizard spun about and deflected a blow by using the mast of the ship then kicked his black painted leg out at the sword, knocking it away while he moved forwards towards the man he was fighting.

Mashyuu chopped at the man's shoulder and fired off one of his pistol rounds, slamming him in the chest with magical power and sending him overboard in one fell swoop. "Good fight! I hope the others put up such a struggle!" Mashyuu shouted over board and turned to face the other nine Pirates who were starting to get up.

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Nine Pirates all took aim at Mashyuu with pistols and the Wizard smiled playfully while they pulled the hammers of their guns back. Mashyuu let stones fall out of his painted on gloves. Bullets shot out, Mashyuu's hand came up and with it a pillar of stone to block the bullets before it fell to dirt at his feet. "Oops... sorry about that. I didn't mean to completely block all the shots. I guess that means you guys have really good aim. I have good aim to ya know. Here look." Mashyuu pointed to the dirt at his feet and watched it form into a massive fist of stone and rocket out at the nine men, slamming into two of the toy Pirates and knocking them into some near by stairs.

Mashyuu chuckled at the men who seemed to all be going down left and right but knew he needed to reserve some of his magic for the bigger fight at hand with the kids. Rushing to the nine men with his blade he let the magic kick in, allowing for him to move faster than someone else in melee range while his ring gave out positions of those around him to keep the Wizard safe. A swift ducking of his body had Mashyuu avoiding a freshly drawn sword while his leg snapped out and kicked into a pirate's chest. The Pirate fell into the wheel of the ship, causing it to lurch to the left and throw everyone over aside from Mashyuu who suddenly felt very sick. "Rocky I need you to fly me in this fight... I forgot it's a vehicle!" Mashyuu shouted while hurling up toy vomit and looking at it like he could live with that.

Rocky swept in and grabbed Mashyuu by the shoulders, lifting him to a position that his legs were dangling over the ground just barely. He slashed his blade down atop one of the men who had fallen at his feet, keeping the Pirate at bay for a moment until another went to stab at him and Rocky backed up to help Mashyuu avoid being stabbed through the chest. Mashyuu smirked and thanked Rocky while blocking a blow from a sword and whipping his blade out in a wide arc to fend off all nine targets at the same time. The resounding clank of metal against metal echoed in the air and caused Mashyuu's sharp ears to hurt a bit but not enough to cause him true pain.

Rocky flipped Mashyuu in a spiral, throwing the Earth Wizards legs into the jaw of the first Pirate to go for a follow up attack. Mashyuu couldn't help but grin at the man getting his face caved in nor could he help but follow up the attack with a blast from his pistol barrel and sending the man overboard. Things were going well for Mashyuu and Rocky, wolves they didn't fight often but guys like Pirates were a different story, they could fight pirates all day and never get tired. What was a pirate aside from a bandit on a boat?

Suddenly the boat quaked and caused the Pirates to look back at the ship behind them. A second pirate ship had spotted the issue and started to fire at the ship Mashyuu was on, apparently trying to take down not only Mashyuu but the other pirate ship as well. "One moment please.." Mashyuu said while holding his hand up. Rocky reacted by soaring high into the sky and going right for the massive sail of the other ship. Mashyuu extended his blade as slashed through the black sail with no effort. The wind fell out of the now fallen sail, slowing the ship drastically.

With no time to lose Mashyuu and Rocky turned around and started soaring back to the boat with eight men to finish the job...

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Mashyuu swept back low with Rocky while opening his jacket that was a soft cloth, he pulled out a small ball and tossed it to the pirate ship, engulfing the deck with a dark smoke. The Pirates started to choke and cough on the fumes while Mashyuu and Rocky took down the sail of this ship as well to make sure that they didn't sail right into another ship. Spinning back around Mashyuu sailed into the smoke, using his enhanced smelling and sense of hearing Mashyuu led Rocky to barrel straight into another Pirate and threw him overboard, a loud crash filled the sky as the Pirate screamed and shattered on the lego water below. One Pirate had been expecting the tactic however and was able to slash his blade across Mashyuu's shoulder, drawing plastic flakes and what the Slayer assumed would have been blood if he wasn't a toy.

Annoyed by the strike Mashyuu ordered Rocky to take off into the sky and wait for the smoke to clear. Instead of having to wait though the Pirates all found their way out of the thick fog and shouted out swears at Mashyuu. The Earth Wizard smirked at the thought, of course they would do that. Mashyuu pointed down at the men and dragged his thumb across this throat as if to tell them they were dead. Rocky moved to the front of the ship so that the Pirates couldn't all surround Mashyuu while the Earth Wizard pulled his sword up to a fencing posture. A single Pirate charged at the Wizard and made rapid stabs towards Mashyuu, each of witch were parried and swatted away with almost no effort. Mashyuu suddenly reached out, grasped the man by the sword wrist and dragged him close to the Wizard. "Go on, get outta here." He said playfully and tossed the man overboard after lifting him up over his head.

The man crashed below the ship and the numbers lowered even greater. "Eh these guys are no fun. I thought they would put up a better fight Rocky. We can actually dick around with these dudes." Mashyuu said in very light hearted tone. He cracked his neck.. Or at least he would have if there was anything to actually crack. Rocky roared as loudly as a toy dog of stone could and swept in to slam into a Pirate with it's back while growing spikes out of it's wings and back. The Pirate gasped in shocked pain and found his hand was swiftly severed from his arm by Mashyuu's swing of his sword. The Pirate dropped down low and grasped his wound screaming in shocked pain. He had no idea if the stump would grow a hand back if he ever became healed but he was already hopping for the best before he passed out from the shock. "Hey at least you're not bleeding out right?" He asked while a pair of Pirates charged Mashyuu...

The Earth Wizard laughed and let sparks fly off his body while his right arm charged up with power. "Thunder Flash" He called out and sent super heated electricity through the boat, breaking and melting the plastic. Toy water started to fill the ship causing it to sink and rock hard. "Can you guys swim?" Mashyuu asked and the remaining Pirates started for a near by life raft. Mashyuu couldn't help but laugh and let the men escape. "Rocky, lets get back to town to see if this has drawn the kid's attention yet. I bet we got em."

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The remaining Pirates watched as Mashyuu and Rocky sailed back into on the wings of magic. Mashyuu wasn't sure where the kids were but he could hear the foot steps of the children as he entered town. Rocky let Mashyuu touch down again next to the splintered doors of the clock tower while the golem flew around and landed at the side of the Earth Wizard. "...They know what we did, we have to be ready for the kids to show up, and they are gonna be big partner. They are gonna be angry, and they are going to start kicking us around. We need to ambush them. Why don't you take up a spot in the clock tower, attack after I do. Stay hidden until then." Mashyuu ordered Rocky.

Doing as he was told, Rocky turned and darted into the clock tower while Mashyuu made a b-line straight for a small house that looked like it was once a shop. He pushed the doors in and placed his back to the wall to his right. Blue eyes darted around. A young child no older than seven peeked up from behind a toy counter and a hand came up, pushing the child's head back down. Mashyuu's jaw sagged a moment while he tried to find the words he needed. "Umm. Hi. I'm Mashyuu, Earth Dragon Slayer, Sabertooth's Paragon of Protection and Rising Star of Fiore." He started with while glancing out the window as the ground trembled in the distance.

"I'm not here to hurt you, I'm actually here to help this town. I'm going to defeat those kids and return the town to what it used to be. I've already taken out their Wolves and a set of their Pirates. Can you come out from behind that counter so I can at least see who I'm talking to?" A few moments later an older looking toy made of cloth and stuffing stood up from behind the counter, in his left hand was a toy baseball bat and at his right was the small child that had looked up to see who Mashyuu was. The Earth Wizard took a step forwards and smiled warmly as yet again the ground quaked. "I'm sorry, I thought the shop was empty, I just need a place to hide until I'm ready to strike the kids." Mashyuu explained. The old man looked at his child then whispered something into the child's ear. The kid ran off and left the pair alone to speak.

"If you're here to take down those kids I'm sure you already know that everyone who came before you failed. Granted they didn't make it past the wolves, so maybe you have what it takes. You can stay here if you need to in order to win. Just please don't let my shop get destroyed. This is all I have left in the world. At least until we go back to a normal size." The old man explained. Mashyuu wanted to frown and tell the man that he couldn't promise that but this shop was where he had chosen to hide. "Yeah, you're home won't come to any danger, just go hide somewhere and wait for the smoke to clear. If you know a basement that can hold the town's folk or something please get the villagers there and tell them not to come out until the ground stops shaking for at least ten minutes." The old man nodded his head and took off, leaving Mashyuu alone for now.

WC: 5243 /12000

Alone Mashyuu waited in the small one floor shop, his blue eyes darted about from building to building while he watched the town quiver under the force of the twin's steps. The sun was now halfway to it's apex in the sky telling Mashyuu it was roughly ten in the morning. He was already not happy that he had been a toy for more than an hour. He was wounded and without being a real human he wasn't even sure if his few healing powers would work on his toy body. At last a set of heads came up over the tallest buildings in town, the blonde boys looked about their created world and glared. "Someone has been being bad. We should teach them how to act when they aren't being played with." The twins said in unison. The simple act made Mashyuu quiver in what most would call fear but really it was just very creepy to Mashyuu. The Earth Wizard licked his dry lips and smiled while the children stepped into the center of town. From the way they seemed to look Mashyuu could tell they were trying to find him.

"If you don't come out we will just have to bury the entire town under our sand box. We heard you were the Dragon Slayer of Earth but can you save an entire town before we bury it?" The twins asked. Mashyuu knew he wasn't at that level yet and decided that he needed to do something about the kids. As fast as he could, the toy Wizard ripped the front door of the shop open and stepped out to face the twins. "Alright, lets have it out right here and now. If I win, you let these people go. If you win, I'll stay here as a loyal toy for you. No questions asked." Mashyuu reasoned, but really there was no way he would ever do such a thing. Still children were easy to trick and Mashyuu's ploy seemed to be doing just that. The boys looked at each other and nodded up and down. "A deal it is then. Get ready because we won't hold back." The twins stated while Mashyuu walked towards the center of the town that had been turned into a village of toys.

Birds flew over head, their beautiful songs filled the sky while the sun beat down on the Wizard and his foes. Two against one. But it was likely the boys would act as a single unit based on the way they were never more than a foot apart from one another and how they seemed to always say the same things at the same time. "Oh yeah, this is gonna be fun..." Mashyuu whispered while slipping to his Mountain stance. His legs bent at the knees and hip to distribute his weight in the proper areas, making it impossible to barrel him over or push him aside. His sky blue eyes shifted to a dark blue and his arms moved out just a bit and bent at the elbows like he was about to catch a large ball with both arms and his chest. Mashyuu let his face twist into a dark grin while a group of thick clouds moved over head to provide some shade from the burning sun.

The twins rushed at Mashyuu while the Wizard started to spark with golden electricity. The magic jumped off the Wizard at random spots until one of the boys went to kick Mashyuu. The Wizard vanished in a bolt of electricity and appeared on the very boy that tried to kick Mashyuu. Standing on the boy's shoulder mashyuu pulled his right hand back while continuing to glow with golden sparks. "That was my lightning leap, now tell me how this one feels. Thunder Flash!" He shouted and threw his right hand forward with his palm open. A large blast of golden electricity lanced forward and smashed into not only the boy Mashyuu was standing on but the one next to him as well, smashing into their faces and causing each child to yelp in shocked pain.

The boys fell back a few paces while Mashyuu sprang off one of the blonde kids shoulders and flipped backwards seven times and landed safely on the ground. Using a building for support both boys caught themselves and rubbed their faces while sparks jumped off of them for a moment. "Hey, you aren't supposed to play rough. We play rough!" They both shouted with a clear tone of anger to their voices.

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Mashyuu could feel his blood pumping hard, the fight was going his way thus far but after only one god move could he really say he was winning? His blast of electricity normally had his foes reeling in pain but the blast seemed to not be as effective as it normally was. Mashyuu took a deep breath while the seemingly massive kids glared at Mashyuu and grabbed a bird that was flying by. "Toy make, Birdarang!" they shouted and hurled a plastic bird at Mashyuu.

The Wizard jumped back and watched as the bird whipped by the Slayer, cutting air and soaring high into the air. Mashyuu watched as the plastic toy came back around and he swiftly realized that the bird had somehow locked onto Mashyuu's magical energy. "Ah hell..." He whispered to himself and started to run, no longer concerned with the children but with the fact that he needed to figure out how to get rid of that flying bird. Mashyuu pointed to the ground behind him as the bird came flying faster and faster at him.

"Earth Wall!" He shouted and placed a stone wall behind him. The Bird ripped straight through the wall, barely slowing at all. "Oh come on.... You have to be kidding me." Mashyuu muttered to himself as he jumped up and over the bird before it could cut his legs out from under him. He pointed to a stone on the ground and let it float up to his finger. "Rock Bullet!" He shouted and fired the stone like a bullet out of a pistol. It cut through the sky and smashed into the bird, shattering the toy into pieces while Mashyuu glanced up at the clock tower, wondering where Rocky was.

Up in the clock tower Rocky had ran into Wolves that were standing next to their fallen friend. As Rocky slipped inside the animals all turned their attention on the golem and barred their teeth at the creature. Rocky whimpered and stood up on it's back legs, letting it's claws out and it's teeth show as well. Rocky rushed a Wolf and picked it up, slamming it over it's knee and shattering the beast. Grasping both it's halves in each clawed hand Rocky started to swat at the Wolves with the pieces of metal and plastic.

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A loud crash came from the clock tower, prompting both the children and Mashyuu to look at the tower with concern. The Wizard of stone knew something was wrong wit Rocky and he had to help the golem before it was to late. Slowly closing his eyes Mashyuu summoned up the darkness inside him and summoned up one of his most reliable creatures. "Summon: Sin." He whispered and a massive (In comparison to himself) Snake of pure darkness came up out of the ground and started to whip about while glaring down at Mashyuu. "Don't even think it! I die, you die. Remember that!" Mashyuu shouted to the creature who had tried more than once to eat Mashyuu for simply keeping it stuck inside him to long.

Sin, ever the wise creature looked up to the Twins and understood what was happening. "Yes, yes. I'll keep the boys busy while you help your favorite pet. See you soon." Sin muttered and launched itself like a cobra at the boys. It's mouth opened wide and clamped down on nothing as one twin pulled the other out of harms way so that the serpent wouldn't be able to kill the boy by ripping his throat out. Sin chuckled darkly and licked his shadowy lips while a dark mist started to form around the creature. Sin snaked it's way slowly towards the boys while the end of it's body curled up for a moment. Suddenly it lashed out, not with its face but it's tail, slamming into both boys and stunning them from the sudden strike. Before they had the chance to react again Sin shot forward and let it's jaw clamp down on the leg of one of the children, offering some of the boy's life force over to Mashyuu, who's paint and cracks started to magically heal from Sin's effort.

Sin laughed darkly while one of the boy's went to grab the monster but all they managed to do was grab smoke. The snake let the child it had go by yanking his head back and tossing the boy through the air. With an earth shaking thud the boy hit the ground and laid still while he struggled to catch his breath. The other child who was still standing showed the fear in his face for just a moment then pulled out a top from his jacket. "Toy make: Explosive top!" He shouted and hurled the toy at Sin. A large explosion went off, blowing part of Sin away from the sudden blast of intense fire.

Reeling from the sudden blow Sin coughed up blood and started to shake his head. The snake didn't expect for the boy's to have magic powerful enough to deal any real harm to the creature but Sin was very much wrong. It glared back to the clock Tower Mashyuu had entered and snarled in anger. It should have ate the Wizard when it had the chance. "Your magic is impressive young boy, but...." Sin slipped back to the child who was starting to sit up and smacked him down with his tail again. "I'm willing to bet that those explosions will harm your brother as well. Are you really willing to risk that?" Sin asked and bit down on the boy's face, drawing blood and healing Mashyuu yet again.

The boy screamed in pain, writhing on the ground while his brother looked on in terror. Slowly he reached out to the monster and screamed. "Okay, what is it you want!? Just let him go please!" Sin smirked with evil intent as his teeth let the boy go by ripping a chunk of flesh out of his cheek and forever making it so that the twins would always appear different from one another.

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While Sin fought the boys Mashyuu raced into the clock tower and twisted to see Rocky batting Wolves around using two different halves of a dead Wolf. The Earth Wizard almost started laughing at the site before him, never had he seen such a funny thing. Granted if this were not happening with toys Mashyuu wouldn't have found the situation nearly as funny. Mashyuu ran at a Wolf and grabbed it by the tail while he lifted up his right palm. "Earth Dragons War Hammer!" He shouted as a hammer of stone formed in his palm. He brought it down atop the Wolf Shattering it at the same time Rocky had dropped the last of the Wolves. A concerned whimper came out of Rocky but Mashyuu simply shook his head from left to right. "No worries buddy, just a change of plans." He said. "Sin is keeping the kids at bay, when you didn't come out during my first scuffle with them I knew something was wrong. So what do you say we go give these kids hell from above?" Rocky barked happily and strode over to lift Mashyuu up by the shoulders and fly away with him.

Sin let the boy in his mouth go and smacked the child's hand down before the kid could grab the snake. "I want you to restore the town. If you don't you will have to both die." Sin spat out with venom in his tongue. "But our magic can't be reversed!" The boys shouted. The sudden and blunt outburst was enough to cause Sin to become stunned for a moment. How could they not have control of their magic to the point that they couldn't reverse it? Sin was about to say something else, to ask a question or call the boy's liars when he felt a hand grab his neck. "Toy make: Snake!" The boy under Sin called out. Soon Sin had shrank to the size of Mashyuu and was made out of cloth and stitching. "Damn it... I let my guard down." Sin shouted and vanished into a could of shadows, no longer wanting to be part of this world.

Feeling fear surge through them both the boys swiftly huddled together and started to look about for Mashyuu. Neither of them could see the Wizard and neither of them knew the hell that snake was. But the boy missing part of his face was looking like he was going to pass out at any moment. Before they knew it a small toy Rocky holding Mashyuu came into view, smashing his hammer straight into the same wound that Sin had made just moments ago. The bone in his face crunched and fell to the floor out cold.

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As one of the twins went down and remained motionless he started to glow a soft pink light, the act made Mashyuu look at him strangely for a moment but nothing more. As far as the Earth Wizard knew it was just a side effect of his magic or a magic that the boy had active when he went down. The other boy however was clearly angered by his sudden outburst. "You hurt my brother! I'll rip your arms off!" The boy shouted and swatted at Mashyuu and Rocky while they made a pass for the child. The force of the boy cutting air pushed the Wizard duo back an entire meter while also causing Rocky to almost lose his grip on the Earth Wizard. "Rocky, let me down, lets split up and take this punk down." Mashyuu called out.

Rocky made a move to seemingly charge the boy but instead dipped low at the last moment and released Mashyuu. Carrying the momentum from Rocky's fling, Mashyuu soared through the air towards the boy's chest. "Thank you Fred..." Mashyuu whispered and hurled a small explosive at the boy from Mashyuu's jacket. The small object went soaring through the air and slammed into the boy's chest as it exploded, knocking the child back and causing him to cry out in pain. Mashyuu hit the ground while and rolled to his knees, his blue orbs dancing with joy at the sight of the child tossed back from force of the explosion that came from the small tool. It seemed that even though the boys could shrink things into toys they couldn't get enough control over their power to reduce the kind of damage magic items could produce.

Even though it took a moment for the child to recover he managed to pull himself up and glare at the Earth Wizard. Mashyuu extended his palm and let a massive fist of stone rise up out of it. "Earth Dragons Stone Fist!" he called out. At the same time the boy drew a circle in the air and formed a shield of thick legos. Mashyuu's spell smashed into the shield and shattered the protective barricade that the boy had created. It wasn't enough to do any harm but the real trick came with Mashyuu's next spell. He rushed forward, his arms forced behind his back from the rush of wind that caught them. With a powerful show of force he jumped through the air and slammed his foot into the ground. "Earth Dragons Blasting Stomp!" He shouted. The force of his landing rocketed thick stones up into the air, one of them slamming into the jaw of the child while the rest all shot into the boy's torso.

The boy rocked backwards and almost fell over, hitting the ground. He fell to his knee and snarled while touching the ground. The boy seemed like he was pushing himself harder than he should have been. His face twisted hard in stress while drops of sweat hit the ground fast. "Toy make: Toy land!" He called out. The ground under Mashyuu twisted into building blocks and plastic stuck firmly in the earth. Rocky swept low and grasped Mashyuu to pull him up before anything could happen to the Wizard.

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Under Mashyuu the ground changed into toys, cutting off his connection to the ground, if not for his gloves he would have been cut off from magic in general. Still he had his hammer in his hand and that would do him some good. The Slayer moved his free hand in a small circle to let Rocky know to circle the young boy to make a swift series of strikes. Rocky lit up with magical power and took off for the young boy. Mashyuu raised his hammer high and slammed the weapon into the back of the boy's head just before he managed to stand up. He cried out in pain, feeling the magic of Mashyuu's weapon dig deep in his body, slowing him down. The boy stumbled forward and shook his head in annoyance. It was apparent on his face that the child wanted to cry from the frustration he was feeling. Slowly he started to walk over towards his brother while Mashyuu came in low and clipped the back of his knee. The boy hit the ground and the toy land faded away. Weakly the boy reached out for his brother and started to laugh. "Wake up, playtime is over..."

The twins lit up with a dim pink light and their bodies fused together, shifting to create a large eight foot tall toy robot. The creature was a glossy red and hand a light up center in the shape of an triangle. Mashyuu swallowed hard and motioned for Rocky to let the Wizard down again. Rocky let Mashyuu down and the Slayer rushed the robot. He could see sitting in each of it's arms was one of the boys. "Take down the kids, destroy the arms." Mashyuu said to himself in order to assure that he knew what needed to be done. His body sparked again and he leap't into the air as a bolt of electricity. The Wizard appeared at chest level with the robot that was taller than Mashyuu was normally. He pulled his arm back and through it forward to blast the bot with a bolt of golden magical electricity. The robot let it's chest light up and blasted a beam of pure magical energy at Mashyuu. The light enveloped Mashyuu and burned him terribly. The Slayer hit the ground rolled about to try and relieve the pain surging through his body. "OH god! What the hell is that! I need to do something about it and quick."

Swiftly Mashyuu rolled to his knees and let his head slump. Mashyuu get up. Deal with this like you have everything else. Don't let these people keep you here, your child will be born soon and you have to be there for her. Ux said into the Slayers head. Mashyuu started to laugh softly. "You have been here the entire time and are only now saying something?" "You have been doing well, but this is a real threat to you. So I'm here to make sure you are alright." Mashyuu couldn't help but chuckle and look up to Rocky. "Lets take em boy!" Rocky made a figure eight in the sky then darted at the robot. Blasting it in the face with a spew of stones, and causing the boy's to shout at the small dog. Mashyuu pulled himself up and realized that the hammer he was carrying had been destroyed by the robot's blast. "Alright, fists it is then."

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The robot swatted at Rocky, batting the dog through the air, but not knocking it out of the sky. Amazingly Rocky managed to spread his wings wide and catch himself before he fell to the ground. It howled in anger and took off into the sky again while Mashyuu started to charge the robot. He summoned up his sword and came to a sliding stop, dragging his silvered blade across the ankle of the bot. Small sparks flew from the slash while Mashyuu twisted around and aimed his barrels at the gash he created. The Wizard pulled his trigger twice and blew a hole into the ankle with a resounding crash. Mashyuu felt the arm above him open up and charge something. The Wizard sprang backwards and watched a super heated beam hit the ground and rip it to shreds where Mashyuu had just been standing.

"Damn, that almost really sucked. HEY YA BIG DUMMY! YA MISSED!" Mashyuu shouted and lifted two fingers. A large spike shot out of the ground and ripped through the foot of the robot and exploded. "Secret Art: Earth Dragons Exploding Spike." Mashyuu muttered smugly. What he didn't expect was that the robot would simply twist and kick Mashyuu hard. He rolled backwards and hit a small building hard. Air was driven from his lungs and his vision blurred for a moment while the Robot turned to face the Wizard. "...God I don't wanna get hit by him again. That thing hits hard as hell." Mashyuu spoke mostly to himself. The ground trembled for a moment while the Robot dropped to a knee and glared at Mashyuu. It reached out to grab the Slayer but he called up stone to wrap around him and drag him under ground. He came up a few feet away from the Robot and took a deep breath.

Rocky came barreling down at the Robot and grew spikes, slamming into the spine of the bot, driving it down for a moment before Rocky flew away. Mashyuu took the chance to rush the Robot and jumped up onto it's back. He flipped his slivered sword in his palm and aimed it down on the back of the Robot. He slammed the weapon in and caused the massive arm of the Robot to reach back and grasp for the Wizard. Mashyuu pulled the blade out of the wound in the plastic and jumped off the robot before it could grab him. The massive creature came up and whipped about while panels slid down the plastic all over the place. Small toy rockets streaked out of the Robot and soared straight for Mashyuu. The Earth Wizard raised his hands up and called out to the Earth and let stone pillars come up, blocking the blasts from the rockets and keeping the Wizard safe.

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The boys inside the robot started to cackle and the robot pointed at Mashyuu. "You're really good. But you're not gonna make it out of this with a head on your shoulders." They said. Mashyuu twisted his head to the side with shocked anger. Who the hell were these kids to be able to say something like that to him. "Ughh I should have freaking learned how to summon that Earth Dragon sooner. I'll keep that on my list of things to do." Mashyuu swore under his breath. The Earth Wizard rushed forward and darted to the left, then right while beams of energy struck the ground where Mashyuu was every time he bounced. The kids couldn't seem to get a fix on the Slayer and he was about to make things worse.

Slipping in under the legs of the bot Mashyuu called up a fog of dirt then spread his hands out to call stones in the ground to rip up. "Hail of Stones!" He shouted. The ground erupted and pelted the robot under the groin and between the legs. The robot stumbled back and scanned for Mashyuu but couldn't pick him up in the thick fog of dust. Mashyuu glared up at the robot and could feel it walking through the ground it was to easy. Suddenly the robot slammed it's fists together and materialized a massive sword between the bot's palms.

"No fucking way.." Mashyuu swore and made a run behind the robot while it swung it's blade in front of itself, cutting the ground and spreading the magical fog. Mashyuu could feel the wind that was kicked up from the force of the swing and his eyes went wide with worry. "This is not gonna be something we should get hit by?" The brown haired wizard pointed to the ground, lifting a heavy stone to his finger and pointed at the gash Mashyuu and Rocky had made. He took careful aim then fired the stone like he was shooting a gun. It whistled through the air and dug into the robot, causing it to move a pace forward then twist around to face Mashyuu. Beads of sweat would have rolled down Mashyuu's face if he weren't a toy but he still felt the worry rush through him. "Dark One, I could use some help." He called out and the creature jumped out of the shadows. The Dark One looked up at the robot and instantly teleported away. "Good idea!" Mashyuu shouted then teleported away as well, just before the sword smashed into the Wizard.

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Mashyuu vanished in a cloud of dark smoke and appeared at the robots side, slamming his fist into the ankle of the robot but did next to nothing to the massive toy machine. The Robot backhanded at Mashyuu and hit only air as he teleported atop the shoulder of the robot and placed his sword between the shoulder trying to pry it off from the bot. Without warning the shoulder Mashyuu was standing on slipped open and a toy missile was revealed. The Wizard jumped back while pulling his blade out from where he had slammed it into the bot. The missile came up to try to hit Mashyuu and just barely missed the Wizard as he started to free fall. He grunted softly when Rocky flew by and grasped Mashyuu by the shoulders, taking Mashyuu to the ground safely and landing next to the Slayer. "Nice save buddy." Mashyuu said while patting Rocky on the head.

The Dark One appeared next to Mashyuu holding a small rocket and laughing. "Master, I teleported to the rocket and grabbed it out of the sky what I do with it?" Mashyuu swiftly motioned towards the Robot and the Dark One aimed the rocket and let it go. The rocket soared through the air and slammed into the Robot, causing it to quake and rattle from the force of the strike. Mashyuu couldn't have smiled wider at the sight when the robot fell backwards. Still the blasts couldn't seem to knock the creature off it's feet. Mashyuu shook his head and patted the Dark One on the back "Good job buddy, lets get to finishing this thing off eh?" Rocky rushed forward with the Dark One at his side the two split off in two different directions. Rocky flew up and to the left while the Dark One moved to the right. It jumped atop the foot of the robot and started to rapidly slash at the foot of the bot.

Rocky soared high into the sky and slammed into the collar of the Robot and forced it to twitch for a moment. The Golem could see the kids looking at him with annoyance while it leaned backwards and fired off a blast from it's chest, slamming into Rocky and knocking it out of the sky with almost no effort. Mashyuu focused on the ground under the robot's right leg and violently through his hand up, with it a stone wall came up and knocked the Robot onto it's rear hard. The Robot shook it's head and kicked the Dark One off of it's ankle violently.

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The Dark One soared through the sky and landed next to Mashyuu, kicking up dirt with its landing. Mashyuu chuckled a bit at the creature as it pulled itself up and shook the cobwebs out of it's skull. The Robot stood up, dusting itself off and twisting to face Mashyuu and the Dark One. Together they both said the same thing. "Uh-Oh." "Uh-Oh." The pair both waited while the robot charged up a large beam of light and fired it at it's targets. Mashyuu and the Dark One vanished in dark clouds and re appeared atop the shoulders of the Robot. Swinging his sword Mashyuu clipped the machine in the face, the Dark One jammed it's claws into the side of the machines head, if it were a person the person would have been deaf from the strike.

Mashyuu slammed his knee into the side of his targets head and caused it's sensors to go haywire from the blow. Just barely able to keep their cool the boys inside the robot threw the robot forward and tossed the pair of Mashyuu and the Dark One off the robot. The duo were about to touch ground when Mashyuu dove through the earth and swam around the robot like he was in water. The Dark One wasn't so lucky and exploded from the impact, becoming nothing more than a shadow that melded with Mashyuu once more. The Earth Wizard came up out of the ground and slashed his sword across the back of the monsters ankle. The Robot groaned with annoyance and swung it's leg back and at Mashyuu. The Earth Wizard rolled backwards and threw a bolt of electricity from his arm into the massive toy. The Earth Wizard could hear the children screaming in pain for a moment.

The pause in combat let Mashyuu scan the area for Rocky, after he was hit mid air the Earth Wizard lost sight of his ally and friend. All he knew for sure was that the creature hadn't been killed. Rocky was strong and could take a real beating, almost as well as Mashyuu could.

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The pause in combat wasn't enough, the Robot got up off it's back and the boy's glared at Mashyuu, light glinted off the plastic visor and it grabbed up it's blade in two large hands. Behind Mashyuu stood the home of the man that had helped him, let him rest for the night and put what little faith he had in Mashyuu. The Earth Wizard could see what was happening, could tell that the boys were about to throw that sword in a similar fashion to the way they tossed the bird at the start of this very long fight. Mashyuu couldn't let that happen. He took a deep breath, knowing that sword was going to hurt.. Legs bent at the knee and hip, arms moved to use his body to catch the blade. You aren't serious right now are you? Ux asked Mashyuu, sensing the Wizard dismiss his blade and setting up to defend himself.

"Have some faith in me Ux, we got this on lock." Mashyuu muttered through his painted on mouth. "Stone Wall, Earth Dragon's Stone Pillars, Armor of Stone, Earth Dragons Dome..." As he spoke multiple spells went off, draining Mashyuu of most of his magic. First a large wall of stone came up some five meters away from the slayer. Next massive pillars shot up out of the ground and lined up in front of Mashyuu. Stone slabs followed that and wrapped around Mashyuu's body like a second skin. Finally he grabbed the ground behind him and pulled it up and over the Wizard like a blanket until it created a dome. The last thing Mashyuu saw was the toy blade coming at him.

A loud crash shattered the stone wall, then each of the pillars one by one, barely being slowed down as the large toy sword ripped through Mashyuu's defensive spells. He felt and saw the red and silver toy when it crashed into Mashyuu's dome, it ripped through the ground and collided with Mashyuu who absorbed the blow with his armor, watching it crack and crumble from the force of the throw. Even in his mountain stance the sword pushed Mashyuu back into the end of his dome, barely staying up. Mashyuu twisted around at the hips and started to whip around with the blade and leveled his own dome, releasing it and hurling it straight into the chest of the Robot.

Slamming into the Robot's chest, the toy sword cracked plastic and shattered the center of the toy's beam, destroying it's most powerful weapon. The toy creaked with stress and the boys gasped when they saw what came next. "Earth Dragons Tomb!" He shouted while clasping his palms together and letting the ground rocket up and swallow the massive Robot. Violently the ground dragged the Robot under, churned and crushed the toy like the cheap plastic it should have been made of.

The Wizard dropped to his knees and swiftly started to eat the ground in order to keep himself from having no magical energy at all, just in case. The ground gurgled and spit the Robot up and settled below it. A moment later the toy sparked and exploded in magical power, dropping the boys from the Robot's arms. They hit the ground and their amulets shattered in thousands of small pieces, shooting rays of magical energy all about the town.

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Mashyuu, you did it. The kids are down. Ux muttered to the Wizard in order to force the toy to look up. As he did so a beam of light struck the Wizard and started to change the man back to his human form. Mashyuu watched as his hands grew along with his arms. He could feel plastic shift back to skin and bone. A low groan escaped his mouth from the sudden discomfort he felt as he struggled to not pass out from the terrible pain of changing. He figured he didn't feel like this when he changed the first time because the kids had changed him willingly and swiftly. When it was all said and done, Mashyuu was his normal six foot something self with a mop of dark brown hair and stunning sky blue eyes.

The Wizard pushed himself up off the ground and rubbed his suddenly dry eyes. All around him buildings started to rise up, change from plastic to brick and wood. The Wizard took a deep breath while even the ground seemed to start spreading around the Wizard to make up for the lack of space in town. Off in the distance he could hear water crashing against the shore. "Freaking Pirates..." He whispered under his breath but could hear the flapping of wings above him and his blue eyes looked up to see Rocky soaring high and proudly over head. "ROCKY! Get over here ya beautiful stone dog!" He called out and caught the animal as it flew straight into his arms. "I'm glad you're alright buddy, come on lets tie these kids up and see what we should do about them."

The Sabertooth Wizards strolled up to the kids and Mashyuu picked them up by the back of their shirts. Mashyuu shook his head at the kids with a sad look on his face. "Some crazy magic you kids got. If you had someone to teach ya you two could be something great." Mashyuu scolded the knocked out kids. Suddenly his ears tweaked and he dropped down fast. Three bullets zipped past him where not only his head was but the heads of the kids. Mashyuu flipped to his back and looked around, unable to see the killer. "Nice try! I know you're invisible!" Mashyuu shouted to the sky, knowing that his foe had either left or was watching him. When he was sure that he was no longer in danger Mashyuu threw the kids over his shoulders and headed into the shop he had come from before the fight started.

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The boys hit the counter of the shop with a soft thud. Already the old man, no longer a toy, was downstairs and grabbing up some rope. "Eh that was an amazing job you did there. Thank you for helping us. I'll make sure the kids are turned into the Rune Knights and never heard from again." The man said while tying their arms behind their backs. Mashyuu shook his head and placed his hand on the man's shoulder. "No, I'll deal with it. Just contact the Knights for me please." Mashyuu wasn't about to let these kids rot in prison because they made a few mistakes. The old man looked at the hand on his shoulder than sighed with annoyance and nodded his head up and down. The Wizard watched the man walk away and placed the kids on a bench near by.

Softly he slapped the kids in the face until they came too. "Hey, who told you it was okay to do this to an entire town?" Mashyuu asked while glaring at each of the boys. The kids looked at each other and saw fear in their twin eyes. "Some guy in grey robes and a mask of white with black facial hair painted on the mask." The boys stated at the same time. Mashyuu thought for a moment. Not the guy who lured him to his hometown of Beanstalk Village and tried to kill everyone there. Likely related though since as of late the Wizard had been hunting these people down and making sure they didn't harm anyone anymore. "Alright, well it's wrong. You guys are gonna spend some time with the Rune Knights but I'll make sure you don't get hurt and that you get back to your family." Mashyuu assured the kids.

About an hour later the Rune Knights arrived on the scene, two men garbed in deep blue armor entered the small shop and looked to the kids. "This the boys?" The knights asked. After a few minutes of talking the knights took the kids and left town using a lacrima to teleport back to the Rune Knight guild hall. Mashyuu stood with his hands at his side and watched the children leave town. "Well Rocky, another town happy with our work. I think we have the highest approval rating in the guild." The Wizard said to his friend and grinned down at the golem.

Mashyuu could hear someone calling his name from the other side of town and the Wizard twisted to see the first man he met here running towards him. Mashyuu smiled and waved to the old geezer then took the man's hand in a shake when the two met up. "Hey old man, thanks for letting me stay at your place yesterday. Means a lot me." Mashyuu expressed while running one of his hands through his hair to keep out of his face. "No, please allow me to thank you sir. You saved our town when we had lost all hope! There is no real way we could ever thank you." the man replied. Swiftly he dug into his back pocket and produced a pair of toys, one made to look like Mashyuu and the other made to look like Rocky. "It's not much and they are made of wood but it was all I could do on such short notice." Mashyuu accepted the gifts and placed them in his jacket pocket. "Thank you, this is more than enough of a gift for me. I'll keep these safe. If you ever need anything just look me up at the Sabertooth guild hall. I'll be here as soon as I possibly can." Mashyuu offered to the man.

Snapping Mashyuu looked to Rocky and the stone golem spread it's wings far, yelping and taking off into the sky. Rocky grasped Mashyuu by the shoulders and took off high into the sky, spinning around and taking in the fresh air until the sun filled their eyes. Rocky took aim towards Ace of Spades and launched the pair back home.

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