Mashyuu and Kira in: The Lair of the Geomancer!

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One week ago, while Mashyuu was on a job with his team Sacred Gaia the earth opened up under an old shrine to a god like creature and released elemental's. These creatures roamed the land of Talonia and started causing odd weather patterns. The moment Mashyuu learned about it he headed out to try and fix the problem before the Cult of the Hell Fire Lord made it on the scene. It was possible that they could get all the offerings to the Demon Lord they needed by destroying enough Elemental's.

Black boots of thick leather crunched down on lose gravel as Mashyuu neared a set of steps that spiraled under ground into darkness just outside of Talonia. The land was barren, but clearly once held a large alter or shrine of some sort. The Blue eyed Earth Wizard glanced down at his stone Golem friend Rocky and he frowned. "Buddy I think you should stay here. Apparently another Wizard had already asked about this place and might already be down there. If that's the case I'll have help. If not make sure to let him know I"m down there. I'll be back in a day at most." Mashyuu assured Rocky and patted the stone dog on the head with his red and black leather, fingerless gloves. Without another word Mashyuu started down the steps that spiraled into darkness...

At a point the high noon sun was no longer visible and for some reason the Wizard felt more at peace here, like he belonged under the ground, that made sense as far as Mashyuu was concerned since he was the Dragon Slayer of Earth and he had found his teacher inside a dark cave similar to this. Now he wore Ux, the spirit of the Dragon who taught him earth magic, on his right index finger in a golden dragon claw ring.

It was strange to Mashyuu that no matter how deep he walked down the steps he never seemed to not be able to see. It was as if the only reason he couldn't see the sun anymore was due to some sort of magical protection on the land and not because he had gone too deep. After nearly an hour of walking Mashyuu found himself standing some seventy meters away from a large building of stone that seemed to run on for miles. Mashyuu ran his hand through his brown spiked hair and let out a long breath of air. He pulled his grey leather jacket over his shoulders and patted his right arm that had no sleeve. "Ya know I better wait for that other Wizard, just in case I can't handle this place alone." Mashyuu whispered to himself and looked at the strange looking building once again. It had a large almost glass looking dome at the top of it, the corners of the building made of rich marble and the walls looked to be shaped from black onyx. He could barely see the doors of dark red wood standing proudly in the center of the buildings front wall.

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Silently Mashyuu stood with his hands on his blue jean covered hips and took a deep breath, he was about to take a step forward when he felt the ground around him tremble. Swiftly he took a step to the side and twisted to face the coming danger that blew out of the wall next to him. Mashyuu pointed to a stone that was flying through the air and let if float to his finger tip. Without a word he aimed at the figure that was coming out of the wall until the dust settled and the man before him spoke. Mashyuu let his jaw go slack and he stood up straight. "No, it's not the Wizard Saint's Vault. I cleared that out like.... four months ago." Mashyuu stated flatly while he tried to figure out who this character was.

The man explained he was doing two different jobs and Mashyuu narrowed his eyes at the man, trying to understand what the hell was going on. "Dude... Are you crazy? Taking on two jobs at the same time... I can't believe your supposed to be my job partner for this." Mashyuu motioned towards the church like structure. His blue eyes glanced at the black building then to the man. "I'm Mashyuu.... This is the temple you are looking for and we are on a job together. Tell ya what, stick with me. Help me with this job and I'll go help you finish the other one.... Something tells me you aren't an Earth Wizard right?" Mashyuu was confused by the entire situation going on around him but he wasn't about to turn down help where he could find it.

Mashyuu waited for a long moment then started to walk towards the ebony building. He glanced back at the man then stated firmly. "You got a name man?" The Earth Slayer walked to the large doors and pushed them in, letting what little light was in the room spill into the temple. "Say Simon, do you feel more at home down here? Like maybe we are stronger under ground for some reason?" Mashyuu voiced his feelings and looked to see if maybe he wasn't alone in his thought process.

Carefully he stepped deeper into the temple and looked in the center of the room. A large set of steps spiraled down into the ground, leading under the hard concrete of the temple. Surrounding the spiral steps were four basins that radiated magical power. The Earth Wizard swallowed hard at the thought that something could come out of the basins. In two of them were light pools of water, still seemingly untainted. The other two held dirt and rock, prompting Mashyuu to wonder what on earth they were for. Perhaps they were some sort of key to keep others out but the elemental's had kept the stairs open.

WC: 481

"Ghosts? When I was dealing with it there were bandits trying to rob it. That place needs better security, at least some Strong Rune Knights to patrol the area every hour or so." Mashyuu mumbled. "A Magma Wizard? I can't wait to see that. Maybe we can make a volcano or something if we need a unison raid." The Earth Slayer's face lit up at the thought of it. He had always wanted to make a volcano and this guy could have been his ticket to doing something fantastic, so long as the cocky guy didn't get them both killed. After a moment of thought Mashyuu started to regret not having Rocky come down into the cave with them.

Simon introduced himself as a former Wizard Saint and his brows furrowed in confusion. The Earth Slayer had never heard of him before. "...Sorry Simon, never heard of you. But to be fair up until almost a year ago I haven't been following the events of the world, just traveling and trying to master my magic. It wasn't even Dragon Slayer Magic at first. I didn't even know we had aura's the way you do." The Earth Slayer took a deep breath and sniffed Simon, memorizing the guy's scent in case they got split up.

Inside the temple Mashyuu's sky blue eyes looked over to Simon and cocked a smile. "...Maybe. Maybe it's because I've been closer to the temple for a longer time than you. If Elemental's are crawling out of this thing then it could be making elemental magic stronger than it should be." Mashyuu reasoned. Inside his mind his ring went off and commented on the subject as well. Good thinking Mashyuu, it's good to see you using your head more than you did when we first met. The Wizards eyes narrowed even though he remained silent, unwilling to respond to the comment. Simon's next train of thought made Mashyuu snap back to the task at hand. "Yeah maybe, but wouldn't your lava melt the basin? maybe we should find something to light on fire and drop in there. Why don't you do that and I'll empty two of these things out, make sure we can get all four elements... How do you get wind?" Mashyuu continued to reason.

Mashyuu lifted his foot and kicked over a basin holding rocks and then knocked over a basin of water, causing them to both crash into the ground and clatter hard. He just started to bend over to pick the basins up when the water and earth started to swing about and come up in the form of humanoids. The Earth Wizard went wide eyed and jumped back, facing the water and Earth Elemental's.

Sky blue eyes darted from the Water Elemental on his right, and the Earth Elemental on his left. He couldn't help but smile at the two and pulled his right arm back. It crackled with golden electricity until he through it forward into the Water Elemental. The Water Elemental stumbled back from the massive blow he sent into it then he lunged at the Earth Elemental, his mouth open wide as he inhaled. The Stone creature whaled in shock as Mashyuu literally inhaled the creature in one gulp and powered himself up a good deal. "Simon, water and I don't get along all that well, got anything to help with it?" He figured water might disrupt his power too but maybe his secondary magic would do well.

WC: 588

The Wizard inhaled the Stone Elemental and infused himself with it's energy, making him feel like a million jewels. Just after he finished asking for help with the water elemental, Simon came up to Mashyuu's side and wrapped the water up in his arms. He burst into a lava like armor and evaporated the monster in one fell attack, leaving the area between his arms a simple steaming area of hot air. The Earth Wizard looked at Simon in awe, so that was the power of a former Wizard Saint, Mashyuu could keep up. Or at least Mashyuu thought he could. If anything Simon was just a step ahead of the Earth Wizard and it was something Mashyuu could work towards.

Mashyuu cleared his throat and picked up the basins, then kicked the tile under him so hard a large piece of stone came up under his foot. He dropped down and picked it up then placed it in Simon's hand. "Here, light it up and lets get this going." He suggested to the Lava Wizard. Once the heated stone was in the basin Mashyuu chewed his bottom lip and watched the ground between the basins. After a moment the elements all flashed in the basins and the ground folded up in four angels, revealing a step of stairs that led down deeper into the temple. Putrid, rotten and moldy air hit the Wizards hard, forcing Mashyuu to drop to his knees and cover his mouth.

"Oh gods, that is terrible. Give me a minute to get used to that..." He asked of Simon. The Slayer pulled himself up and started to wander down the steps, each of his foot steps echoing out around him while he traveled deeper down into the darkness. His right hand ran along the wall while he descended the steps, bringing to mind a fun fact to Mashyuu. "...So do you know why stairs spiral in places like this so close to the walls? It's to keep attacking forces in most armies from using their sword arm and keeping defenders free to attack." A soft grin pressed across Mashyuu's lips when he came to the bottom of the steps.

On three sides of the steps were strong red oak doors. Mashyuu's nostrils flared while he faced each of the doors, his head shook his brown hair and he narrowed his eyes. "...Each door smells terrible, all burned too. I wonder how these things aren't rotted or falling apart. Think someone is down here keeping things kept up? Maybe that God thing is is actually around here and controlling the Elemental's. Could be planning something." The Slayer was starting to theorize more and more, something he didn't normally do. Hell he barely thought ahead more than a few steps but now he found himself worried about trying to open any of the doors.

WC: 481

Mashyuu's blue eyes narrowed, then glanced over to Simon. "Yeah, I could have but this was more fun." He muttered in response to Simon's off handed comment about the pair being able to simply smash through it. "Besides, if I would have eaten stone that was holding that smell back I might actually be dead right now." The Wizard said while he started down the steps.

"Maybe, but having a single soldier that is left handed can ruin a formation so it's not likely." Mashyuu watched as Simon smashed all three doors in at roughly the same time and went to work on one group of elemental's, forcing them together to make a fire like tornado. At his suggestion to toss the others inside Mashyuu reached both hands out and pulled up two shadows from the ground. One shadow was a six and a half foot long, three foot wide snake, the other a flying bat like creature that screeched loudly at the Earth and Water Elemental's. Thanks to residing inside of Mashyuu the beasts knew the job was to throw the Elemental's into the whirling vortex being held together by Simon.

Mashyuu looked to one wind Elemental and pointed his right hand at the beast, then closed the hand. A moment later the ground erupted up around the wind Elemental and started to not only cut off air but swallow the Elemental while crushing it. The Earth Wizard looked on at the fire Elemental and let his left arm reach behind him. His glove lit up and poured thick stones, dropping them to the ground until he clenched his fist and let them all float up and form a war hammer in his hand.

Deftly Mashyuu started to swing his hammer about then tossed it into his right hand while stalking towards the fire Elemental. The Earth Wizard slammed the hammer into the monsters head, causing it to go out and stumbled backwards. As the Elemental regained it's footing it's face lit back up, only to find Mashyuu spinning around and driving his weapon into the heated chest of the Elemental and straight at Simon at the same time.

Over with the other two Elemental's, Mashyuu's summoned creatures fought hard, Brood, the bat like creature circled over head, firing blasts into each of the Elemental's while Sin, the snake like beast drove it's tail into the legs of each monster. The combined attacks drove the two Elemental's into the room with the stairs where Mashyuu waited and brought up a wall of stone with his free hand, pushing the Earth Elemental into the vortex that Simon had built up. Lining up his shot Mashyuu pulled his right hand back and dropped his hammer. Pointing his hand he unleashed a bolt of thunder straight into the chest of the water Elemental and blasted it right at Simon to finish the job.

After the Elemental's were down Mashyuu took a seat on a step and looked to Simon. "Alright buddy, where do you think we should go from here on?" Mashyuu asked and took a big bite out of the wall next to him, trying to recover some of his magical energy.

WC: 535

Mashyuu's blue eyes narrowed, then glanced over to Simon. "Yeah, I could have but this was more fun." He muttered in response to Simon's off handed comment about the pair being able to simply smash through it. "Besides, if I would have eaten stone that was holding that smell back I might actually be dead right now." The Wizard said while he started down the steps.

Mashyuu blinked rapidly while Simon started to pace and go over where they should go next. "Si- Uhhh.... Simon?" Mashyuu started to say as he heard the ground start to crack. He could feel the ground tremble thanks to ability to sense tremors in the ground. Suddenly the ground gave out and the pair started to fall rapidly. Mashyuu grumbled about not being able to deal with this right now and snapped his fingers. His flying partner, Hell Brood swept in low while Mashuu shouted. "Grab Simon and let him set him down safely." He ordered.

The Hell Brood clamped down on Simon's shoulders with it's talons and drifted down to set Simon down safely. Mashyuu sparked golden bolts of electricity and teleported in a flash of lightning to the ground and stood next to Simon. He drew a short breath and let his voice silently carry through the darkness. Using the echo location that was granted to him from Hell Brood Mashyuu could sense the tunnel they were in went some twenty feet up and about four hundred feet long. Mashyuu let his body sag in annoyance while he sniffed the stale air. "Ya know, I'm getting sick of this job already. We need to keep moving and find the thing causing these stupid Elemental's to torment the town above us. How did the guy doing this even hollow out all of this place anyway?" Mashyuu muttered under his breath.

He lurked forward, letting his sharp eyes strain while trying to get used to the darkness of the tunnel with no real luck. Giving up on simply seeing he put his left hand out and felt the stone wall until it suddenly started to feel like wood. His hand splayed on the door, his fingers pressing into the wood so he could be sure he wasn't going crazy. "Hey, there is a door here, and one ahead of us. This one is warm, I think that this is someone's sleeping room." Mashyuu whispered softly.

Gently his hand moved to the door and grasped the handle, slowly turning it until he heard a click. His blue eyes narrowed and glanced down at the handle for a moment. When nothing happened for a moment he pushed the door slowly. It slipped open and a dim light came out of the room. A large bed, made with dark red sheets sat in the far corner of the room while a long dresser sat against a wall to Mashyuu's right. "What is making that light?" He asked while looking up into a glowing brick in the top of the wall across from him.

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Simon barged into the room that Mashyuu was being careful about walking around in and plopped down on a bed. The brown haired man winced in concern, thinking the bed might have been trapped but thankfully nothing happened. "Wha- No. this isn't a pantie raid." Mashyuu responded swiftly while turning a light red. He glanced over at the glowing stone again while Simon rattled off what could be causing it to light up. "Yeah, your probably right. We should take it so we can see." Mashyuu added and started to eat the wall around the glowing stone until he could reach in and pull the glowing brick out of the wall.

Gently he tossed the glowing brick up and down in his left hand while Simon asked Mashyuu to go over his past with the Lava Wizard. His blue eyes narrowed at the former Wizard Saint then Mashyuu walked over to a dresser and flipped it over. He dragged it over to a rest in front of Simon and plopped down atop it. His head hung low while his forearms rested on his knees. The Slayer took a deep breath of air and looked into Simon's eyes. "What do you wanna know? There is a ton to tell." Mashyuu said in a flat tone. How did he start?

"... When I was eight my mother, also an Earth Wizard, was murdered in Beanstalk Village defending it from a bandit raid. This jacket was hers, and some of her secondary magic clung to the jacket. Hence why I can use a few electrical spells. After that I dedicated my time to learning magic, I traveled Fiore and honed my skill before joining Sabertooth a year ago this October. After that I traveled back to Beanstalk Village and met Rocky, my Stone Golem pet. Then I met a dragon, Ux, and was taught Earth Dragon Slayer magic and developed my secondary magic, shadow summoning. Since then I've been been fighting against a demon summoning cult that has been murdering powerful elemental Wizards to raise a Demon Lord." Mashyuu stated calmly. "Oh, and I've been gunning to become the most powerful Wizard in Sabertooth as well. I'm getting there too." Mashyuu said in a dark tone.

Mashyuu pushed himself up to his feet and dusted his hands off. "Oh and I met the woman of my dreams, we are having a baby so I can't die. I need to make sure my daughter is a strong, healthy baby." He muttered and placed the glowing stone in Simon's hand. "Alright lava man. You lead, I'll keep your back safe. But your magic seems to be more effective against these Elemental creatures."

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Brown haired brows furrowed as Mashyuu glared at the Lava Wizard. He wasn't sure what was wrong with Simon but he was starting to show high levels of aggression for what Mashyuu figured was no real reason. He lurched forward as Simon rolled off the bed and came to a slow stand. The Earthen Fighter tensed his body up and started to shift into his familiar Mountain Stance. "Hey hey hey. I didn't want to bog our time down telling a story. We might be here for a while and we don't know if we are on a time restraint here man. Come on pull it together." Mashyuu shot back while his hand balled up into a fist. The leather of his gloves cracked softly, while his nose flared up with anger. He could feel his pulse pounding. Was Simon trying to get under Mashyuu's skin? The demons in his body seemed to think so.

"Hey, nobody said you had to come along on this job. And nobody asked you to pace so hard you dropped us down into a random hallway! I'd much rather have a hottie at my side but I got you. We need to both play to our strengths here and not let this extra magical power effect us the way it clearly is!" Mashyuu shot back at Simon while twisting his neck to let bones crack. Large sparks flew off his body every time he spoke a word, matching his mounting anger perfectly. Suddenly Simon lit his hand with flowing Magma and Mashyuu grinned ear to ear. He couldn't help it, stones flew up to his arms and wrapped around his forearms and hands tightly, forming strong gauntlets. "You might have some hot hands but I promise you will find my stones harder to break than anything you have come across in your life." He warned the man standing before him. Mashyuu pulled his arm back to start a fight that he was sure as hell gonna finish when the roof above the two fell down upon them. Reacting fast by sheer instinct Mashyuu grabbed up the ground under him and flung it over both himself and Simon. The ground moved like a blanket, wrapping the pair up in a dome that swiftly hardened and protected the two from the floor that fell upon them. A clear feeling of more than fifteen of the elemental creatures surrounded them. Mashyuu grinned at Simon and his lava covered hand. "Tell ya what. We both finish this job together, then we can kick the hell outta each other. Sound good?" He asked with a light tint to his voice as he pulled his shield down and jumped over Simon to tackle a fire elemental...

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Jumping past Simon, Mashyuu shoulder blocked a Fire Elemental, forcing a burst of flames to rush from the creature and explode out around the Wizard. The Earth Wizard almost hadn't noticed Simon rushing about the room, or the fact that he was already starting to attack not only Mashyuu but the other creatures in the room. It was gonna be one of those fights... An earth Golem came rocketing at Mashyuu and the brown haired Wizard started to laugh. His body pulled back and his mouth opened wide. He drew a sharp breath, dragging the creature at him even faster before Mashyuu caught the Elemental in a bear hug and bit it's head clean off. Holding a lifeless monster in his hands Mashyuu tossed the beast into a water elemental and forced it to stumble back. He clapped his hands together and whispered. "Mother, guide my magic, help me to bring Simon back to his senses." He prayed then shouted out. "Earth Dragon's Stone Golem!" Mashyuu scooped up a piece of clump of earth and blew into it like his mother used to do, giving the earth life as it expanded in the air and hardened into a massive beast made for war. In it's hands was a massive two handed morning star, it's brown eyes lit up an it lumbered at a fire Elemental that wasn't ready for Mashyuu's golem to smash into the center of the room and destroy the magical creature with a single swing of his club like weapon.

Mashyuu's eyes never left the Lava using Wizard who thought he was the bees knees while running around the room. Mashyuu took a deep breath, then feeling his lungs create stones inside them unleashed a spell he had been trying to use since he became the Earth Dragon Slayer. "Earth Dragon's Roar!" His voice echoed out, launching sharp stones and sand in a cone shaped torrent. Weather it hit Simon while he ran around the room or not, his breath weapon managed to smash into all the Elemental's and Mashyuu's Golem, but luckily Mashyuu's Golem was easily able to absorb the blow.

Anger and joy both hit Mashyuu at the same time, more than one of the Elemental's had been destroyed from Mashyuu's sudden and powerful roar attack, even Ux, the spirit in his ring went silent for a moment while it tried to process the fact that Simon was bringing out spells from Mashyuu that he hadn't been able to use on his own before this very moment. The Earth Wizard ran a hand through his brown hair and grinned ear to ear. "Oh fuck yeah! It's about time man!" He shouted, then swiftly realized that Simon might not be as excited as Mashyuu was if he had been hit with that Dragon's Roar.

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