Enter Guy Stratus...? [Job/Solo]

It was just an interesting idea, to begin with. Grema had simply been looking for a job to do and when she couldn’t find one about technology or making something, this was the next best thing before going for simple monster slaying jobs. Grema had never been interested in history, archeology or anything of the sort and hasn’t even opened a book on the subject since her school days, but only when it was mandatory for her to do. After all, Bosco and her passion were all about technology, the future not the past. But ever since leaving her high-tech former home Grema has been more curious about such things since living in Fiore was almost like stepping into the past for her. So for academic reasons the magitech mage accepted Guy Stratus’s job offer.

That was how Grema found herself in a smoldering hot dessert escorting an over-excited archeologist who forgot to be intimidated by her as soon as the ruins he had been searching for came into view. The man actually put Grema at ease a little since he looked like people she had surrounded herself with for years, the timid, wiry academic type of people, though this nerd was more cheerful than she was used too. Also very weak, which was probably why he hired a mage for protection.

“Beautiful! Marvelous! Grema, come see here this is from the 3rd dynasty with its scripture almost fully intact! How fascinating!” Guy, as he insisted to be called, gushed. The scientist tried to share his enthusiasm, but it was hard while being so grumpy and tense so all she did was nod. She was grumpy because of the heat and her personality, but the tense-ness was something else. This was her first real job that might involve danger of the combative type, which she had no experience for. Grema had her magic and magitech but has never seen combat. So she was a tad nervous about her abilities to keep this man alive. But Guy seemed to have this weird illogical faith in her, considering they had just met.

“Follow me, I’ve already scoped out the entrance a bit, but I hit a snag on the first trap which I need magical help with…” Guy told her, his excitement waning by the end of his sentence. He was probably reminded of the dangers within such a place. While they descended Grema attempted to distract him with questions on his favorite subject, which she had been doing ever since they first met up. They were both enjoying conversing with a fellow intellectual when they reached the first trap.

In the wide hallway in front of them was filled with multi-coloured tiles. Grema could take an educated guess as to what this trap was. Sure enough, Guy stopped her and threw a small stone onto one of the blue tiles, where it hovered in the air for a moment them promptly exploded.

Guy gave a small jump and explained the traps mechanics to you while adjusting his glasses nervously. “The blue, red and green tiles give you damage of different sorts so I would, er, recommend not touching them. It seems only the yellow tiles do not show any danger and there should be a way to disarm the trap on the other side but…” He trailed off with hesitation, and Grema could understand why. While at the beginning the few yellow tiles are close enough for a normal human to dare a jump, there was a large gap of no yellow tiles in the middle. Either someone would have to just take the damage and hope it doesn’t kill them or find a way across.

This was both easy and hard for Grema. "I have a solution, but will need some help practicing.” She said to Guy and he looked are her curiously. Without much further ado Grema took off the cheap bandages around her left arm and leg to reveal her magitech limbs. She then took off her mask to show her one regular red eye and her other glowing mechanical red eye and scarred face. “I am a magitech holder mage, and my limbs give me greater strength and speed to jump that length, but I would rather do a bit of practicing first.” At his positively gawking look, Grema felt a bit defensive. “I cover myself as to not gain unwanted attention, not due to shame. I am rather proud of my creations.”

“And you should be!” Guy gushed out of nowhere, stars in his eyes. “I have never seen such advanced technology before, though I admit I don’t know much about magitech but you must be very skilled to do such fine work!” Grema looked away, mouth in a straight line from trying not to smile and an embarrassed blush on her face. In her head she was repeating ‘I’m not happy, I’m not happy, I’m not happy, I’m not happy, I’m not happy.’ Over and over in her head. She was beginning to like this man more and more.

They tried to give an estimated distance between the two yellow tiles on either side of the gap and went back out of the ruins to practice leaping. After about a half hour or so they guessed that she had practiced enough and headed back inside (or maybe it was because of the heat). The beginning wasn’t so bad, Grema had surprisingly good balance for someone with prosthetics, one eye, and a hunchback. Aka, she barely saved herself from falling over after each jump. “you're not helping!” Grema yelled, for each time she jumped Guy gave out a small girlish scream. He promptly apologized and stuck his knuckle in his mouth.

Then it was time for the big leap. Grema braced herself, pumped some extra magic inter her leg and just like they had practiced before and jumped for the yellow tile on the other side. The good news is Grema made it safely with both feet firmly on the yellow tile. The bad news is that the sand above hid the fact that Grema’s landings had a lot of force behind them, causing a small localized earthquake. Which set off the rigged traps all around her.

Guy screamed loudly, then yelled out a worried “Grema!!” for all he could see was shooting force, flame, lighting, and spikes in the exact area where the mage landed. ‘Oh gods above she’s dead!’ The archeologist thought with horror, sinking to the ground. He looked away from the scene as the traps died down, expecting a charred corpse and not wanting to see it.

But he was wrong. “Guy! Are you okay?” He heard and looked up in shock because there was the magitech mage, on the yellow tile completely unharmed. “Am I okay?! I should be asking you that!” He yelled back, almost in tears with relief.

Grema could hardly believe it herself and was still covered in cold sweat. As soon as the traps went off she went completely still and closed her eyes from the sudden light. During that time one of her main worries was Guy after hearing him scream and yell, then how she would get out of this mess. Then the chaos stopped. Turns out yellow really was the ultimate safe square because not even her clock was harmed. After explaining this and reassuring Guy a bit, Grema easily finished leaping from tile-to-tile until she finally reached the end. There she found a plate it a vague inscription of a hand and after yelling at Guy to take cover she put her own human hand on it. The tiles promptly flipped over and after testing it then finding it safe she escorted a very relieved Guy to the other side.

“No more unhappy surprises?” Guy asks her timidly.

“No promises.” Grema replies grimly as they move forward deeper into the ruins.

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It was a long corridor, that’s it. It seemed to go on and on for forever. They both attempted to keep conversations going, which was actually pretty easy considering their interest in each other academic fields, but even that grew exhausted due to their own apprehension.

“Hey Guy…” Grema started after a longish silence, wanting to keep the conversation going. Or at the very least question him on how freaking long this corridor went on for. She trailed off as she looked to her side where Guy had been walking along with her, up until now. Grema immediately stopped and looked around her, her heart rate skyrocketing.

Just as he was about to call out him name she heard a slight rumbling. The mage stood stock still and clenched her fists in preparation because around her intimidating figures seeped out of the stone walls, made of stone themselves, one in front of her and two behind. Grema immediately activates her Eye of Magitech which tells her the creatures in front of her are earth golems made of magic and stone, able to move and fight on their own at their masters bidding. Very durable and hard to take down due to them no feeling pain, thus can go on even at the loss of limbs. They usually have a magical core to attack for actual damage.

“Where is Guy? The other human I was with?” She questions what she assumes to be the tombs guardians while looking over the data given to her. The golems either didn’t hear/understand her or ignored the question entirely as they pulled out large intimidating hammers for their back. “Not telling hun? Well you guys are going to regret messing with make because I’ll give you a rocky time.” The magitech mage gloats as she tends to do when nervous.

The golems spring forward with their actions just as Grema jumps into the air, reached over to her left arm to push a button and yells out “Magi Shift: Sword!” causing her left mechanical arm to change form into a short sword.

Before landing she hacks at the Golem in front of her causing a bit of damage, but is hit from behind by another one while still in the air, causing her to go flying over the Golem in front of her, down the hall.

The scientist rolls to avoid some damage but grimaces at the pain in her back. “I’m probably going to need to be boulder about this, huh guys?” She jokes as the Golems slowly approach her. “I probably need a more concrete plan.” They were unaffected by her bad rock puns, but they helped clear Grema’s mind from the hazed panic of her first true battle and a plan began to form.
She rushed them and managed to hack at the same one as before and another one before being flung away by a hammer swing to her side this time. Grema landed on her side with a grunt, far away from them again, all according to her short and simple plan to get some good damage in.

“Magitech Bomb: Ignite.” She said a bit weakly as she pressed a hot key, causing a sudden explosion coming from the formerly unharmed Golem standing in between the other two. While covering herself from debris the holder mage continued to grin for she silently planted that bomb while taking her swings. Now there were only two Golems left, one looking worse for wear.

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The two injured Golems seemed to exchange looks and to Grema’s complete surprise one charged forward while the other (the less injured one) began to cast a spell, magical glyph glowing below him.

“Oh no you don’t! I’m not going to take you guys for granite!” She growls as she charged forward, using her magitech leg’s speed/strength boost to get past the one charging her. Grema took a swing at the casting one but just before she landed a good hit the spell released.

The mage got her hit in, but a moment later vines sprouted all around her paused for one moment in slow motion and before Grema could even think of moving lashed out at her.

The next moment was a blur. The vines swung around her legs, her arms, her torso, and even her head. It spends the next moment pulling her upright and turning her to face the two Golem’s, standing in front on her now.

The only good side was that the vines accidentally pushed the hotkey for her shield and was even polite enough to position it in front of her.

“Well now I’m the one in the rocky situation huh guys?” She says in a gruff shaky voice, for her first battle was not going well at all. “Maybe we could start with a clean slate?”

In response one of the Golem’s raises their hammer and takes a decisive swing at her. The shield took the damage for her, but she could see it’s magic flickering and the mage knew it could only take one more hit before breaking down. She tried to break the bindings but with her strong mechanical arm busy defending her and her legs being the most severely bonded, she wasn’t having much luck.

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To her confusion, the Golems now seemed to be arguing. The one who hasn’t swung at her yet was walking further away while gesturing for the other one to back up. That one was insistently shaking its head, and when the other one insisted, even more, it did what it’s fellow asked and even put a stone hand to its helmet, seemingly in exasperation. Grema was now completely confused and a bit amused at their show of emotion. Then a bit grumpy, since if they can have emotion why the hell weren't they reacting to her jokes?!

“I think you made it crystal clear that you guy are super-“ She yelled out angrily but stopped in horror since at that moment the Golem was coming at her, spinning in circles with its hammer out in front of it. Grema was able to move her shield a bit just in time to catch the crazy Golem’s attack, though it caused her and the vines to reel back a bit. “-stone hearted to ignore my puns.” She finished off with a wheeze.

The crazy golem had fallen to the ground after it attacked and was now seemingly too dizzy to attack. The other one shook it’s head at it and approached Grema for another swing, only to paused while it realized something was wrong.

While that last attack did break her shield it also freed Grema’s arms. It actually freed her enough to reach over, press a hotkey and charge an attack. “Believe it ore not, I still get some coal spunk in me.” She says with a savage grin to the surprised Golem, then yells out “Tech Fire Shot!” causing a ball of flames to shoot out of her magitech hand, hitting the Golem and causing it to explode into pieces.

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Grema’s grin faded as she heard the other Golem get up. She forgot about him, and unless she wanted to cause herself to explode she was out of spells to use. She tried to pull at the vines with no use.

After spinning the Golem had dropped its hammer and after a long look at the pieces of its fallen comrade, some of the more mosey parts still burning, it went to retrieve it from the wall the weapon had buried itself into. The crazy Golem then stood in front of Grema and turned to face the mage. And while it was hard to tell in a being made of stone with no ability to have facial expressions, the mechanic could tell it was pissed.

It made a show of preparing itself while Grema struggled to pull off the vines with her magitech arms, probably enjoying the futility of it.

“This situation is making me quarried…” Grema mutters in her panic, and this seems to be the last straw for the Golem for it charged forward, hammer raised. But Grema wasn’t just going to take it. The good thing about such big and heavy weapons was that they were rather slow, thus easy to dodge. So with what little room she was given Grema leaned as mush to the side as possible to dodge the Golems downward swing. Then ducked to avoid it’s upward swing. She kept dodging until she saw the opening she was looking for, then promptly took it, swinging her strengthened magitech arm for a melee punch.

It hit the Golem in the side, making it crumble a bit. This was a small victory for Grema, but ended up as a loss when the punch left her open, causing the Golem to successfully land a hit on her. The human mage saw stars and choked on air as it landed on her stomach, and she blithely wondered how she was going to survive this.

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Seemingly knowing Grema was at her last straw the Golem swung wide for another hit, one Grema barley managed to dodge. She knew that she in her wind-blown state she wouldn’t manage to dodge another attempt, but prepared anyway. She hadn’t hit her halfway point yet as far as she could tell, her regenerative blood was helping, but this next attack could change that very quickly. But to her surprise the hit didn’t come.

Looking up Grema was almost exasperated to see the crazy Golem walking away and preparing for another spin attack. The magitech mage was just going to let it happen and prepare to dodge when a small pulse went through her magitech arm. She glanced down at it then grinned because it told her that her bombs were ready to be used again.

Wasting no time Grema pulled a bomb from under her cloak, charged it, and with a gleeful feeling threw it at her enemy. The feeling was quickly wiped away when the mage realized that she shouldn’t have thrown without looking first because the Golem was already beginning to spin at high speeds.

The woman watched in almost slow motion as the bomb soared toward the Golem and even while reaching for the hotkey she knew she wouldn’t reach it before it hit the Golem. If she was lucky her worst fears wouldn’t come true and it would land safely on the other side of the Golem where she would detonate it at it’s back, causing no harm to her.

Unfortunately for her, she was rather unlucky at that moment for the bomb was hit mid-air by the Golem’s hammer, causing it to explode while it was a mere 3 meters away from her.

The good news was the Golem was completely obliterated. The bad news was Grema was currently coughing up smoke and debris, for the bomb's blast had hit her as well.

“Ouch.” She grumbled, flat on her back from the explosion, but free of the vines at last. Now it was time to find Guy.

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Grema limped down the hall to bit to find Guy curled on the ground, hyperventilating. At the sound of her footsteps he looked up at her, leaped to his feet, yelled out her name and gave her a tackle hug. Grema have a grunt of pain at this display of affection, her blood still working on healing her wounds.

“Oh I’m so sorry! Your injured! Are you okay? Should we rest for a bit? What in the world happened?! One moment you were there and the next you disappeared! I was so worried!” He wailed, fretting around her like a worried bird. Grema replied with a simple acceptance of the apology, yes she was injured, no she was okay, yes a break would be nice, then a good explanation of what happened to her. She was just relieved that Guy didn’t have to face any Golem’s himself, though she didn’t know why.

“Hmmmm…” The archeologist said to himself. “From what you told me they were indeed most likely guardians of the tomb, but as to why they only attacked you well, maybe they were testing our worth through combat and since you’re the only one who can fight they only tested you?” He theorized to her. Grema accepted his explanation, too tired to think one up herself.

After a period of time Grema felt she had rested enough and got up. “Come on, we still have a tomb to explore.” She says to Guy who had being observing some runes written on the walls while she rested. He nodded and eagerly followed her as they continued down the hall.

Thankfully this hall wasen’t as long as the last one; they could tell they were going the right ways when murals began to appear displaying a story Grema didn’t know the context to. Guy obviously did though and he attempted to stop and study them a few times, causing Grema to bodily pull him onwards, claiming that the archeologist could study them later. She wanted to finish this job already.

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Guy squealed at the sight of a large ornate door with very pretty markings and stone patterns on it. Grema had to grab the back of the archeologist’s collar so he would stop and let her check for traps first. After doing so and finding no deadly trap to be had and as suspicious as Grema might think it is she allows her client near.

“Guy wait!” The mage yells as he opens the door and bounds in. The scientist rushes inside and finds herself inside of a large domed room with a sarcophagus in the center of the room laid at the feet of a giant marble statue. The statue depicts an old man clutching a huge shield with many gemstones on it. There are also six other stone coffins around the room. But rather than awed like Guy, Grema feels wary since the floor is nearly filled with ancient skeletons and their armor.

“I can’t believe it! I finally found it! The tomb of King Gen'atoh and his six Prism Knights! Yes!!” Guy whoops and turns around to look at his bodyguard with an excited grin. At her curiously wary look he begins to explain.

“This-“He gestures to the shield “is the Kings Prismatic Aegis, a shield that holds six stones of great power, that gave his knights their power so that if one were to fall then he could bestow the powers to a new knight. And, well, this is the shield, so this must be the stones and here is his sarcophagus and there are his knights and YES this is exactly how I envisioned it! It’s marvelous-!” He than began ranting on how the gems could be ancient forms of larcima (which Grema was genuinely interested in but was still feeling to tense to appreciate it), and the different things that could be garnered from the tomb. His excited talking and ranting didn’t stop and kept him busy enough to not notice how he had gotten too close to the statue, until he accidentally stepped on its foot.

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The statue of Gen'atoh seemed to take offense to this because it’s arms suddenly swin open, causing the shield to drop. Grema immediately sprints toward it and Guy attempts to catch it but it stops in mid-air. They both stop in their sudden actions as they watch the shield, transfixed, as time seems to reverse on it as the rust, dust and grime that once covered it appears to fade away, leaving an even more impressive shield in it’s wake. It then begins glowing a gentle yet radiant light.

“Grema? Can- can you hear that?” Guy asks you with wonder in his voice.

“Nooooooo…” The mage replies cautiously, eye still fixed on the aegis. This wasn’t a good sign.

“I can hear it! A voice!” He says breathlessly and begins to walk toward the shield. Hearing voices compelling him to do things, bad sign confirmed.

“Wha- Guy no! Don’t touch it! Stop, are you even listening?!” He obviously wasn’t because his hand was outstretched toward the glowing object and Grema could feel herself start to sprint toward him.

The holder mage’s run stops halfway through the room as Guy makes contact with the shield and the skeletons around her begin to shake. While trying to keep her eye on two things at once Grema see’s the red gemstone fly off the shield and into Guy’s chest.

“NO! Guy!” She yells, attempting to run forwards to help the researcher but is stopped by a skeletal hand around her ankle. Suddenly Grema has to cover her eye’s from the sudden light around Guy and defend herself from the skeletons getting up around her.

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“Son of the skies above and their dammed-“ Grema begins to swears as 8 strong looking skeletons get up from their former place on the ground, pick up their various weapons and surround her. Guy, at the moment, was levitating several feet into the air and was competently surrounded by light, obscuring the man himself. As much as Grema would love to help him, she had her own problems as the skeletons began advancing on her, yelling various things in creaky voices.

“We will end the reign of Gen'atoh!” “He and his knights will perish!” “Die puny mortal!” “You will not live to see the sun meat bag!”“Perish weak one!”  Are a few examples of what they yelled, which Grema found to be very weak compared to the mocking jeers and threats she was used to. She was still intimidated though.

Grema took a ready stance as one of the grinning skeletons advanced on her. “Magi Shift: Sword!” She calls out, causing her magitech arm to change into a short sword once again. She engages her sword with the skeleton’s axe and they parry for awhile. Grema begins the wonder why they all didn’t rush her when she lands a hit on the skeleton, causing it to stumble back into the circle. Suddenly she feels the air behind her change and barley dodges a spear to the back. The skeletons cackle as she changes her weapon to a whip and disarms the skeleton but before she could land a hit gets knocked aside by a club.

‘Their playing with me!’ She fumed as they all once again cackle as she rolls away from another club attack. ‘They think their victory is assured so their just playing around!’

“Ugly human, you think you can win?” The club bear skeleton laughs. ‘Oh. No. He. Didn’t.’ Grema thinks, fury flashing across her face, hidden from them as she is on her hand and knees, head down. ‘No one calls me ugly and gets away with it! No one!’  A plan begins to form.

“Heh heh heh…” The mage chuckles ominously along with them, causing their laughter to stop in confusion and a club swing to hesitate. “You guys are jokesters huh? Well, would you like to hear a joke? Want me to tickle your funny bone?” She asks them and they exchange confused glances.

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“What kinds of art do skeletons like?...skull tures.” She jokes, eyeing the challengingly. They just look even more confused. “Don’t get it? Fine. What did the skeleton say while riding a wild horse?... That he’s bone to be wild. What’s a skeletons favorite instrument? A trum-bone.” By that point two got the jokes and began to explain the meaning of them to the others, and they all began to laugh. She said some more and they began to laugh harder. Grema hid a devious grin.

“Do you know what I call these skeletons? Numb-skulls. Or do you know why skeletons don’t fight eachother? Cause they don’t have any guts. Or why they can’t just attack girls? They don’t have the stomach for it. Or why they can’t get a date? Because they have no body.” By that point the crowd stopped laughing and began to glare at her sinisterly.

They exchanged glances. “Calling us weak? Cowards? Idiots?” One hissed. “Well how about this? Get her boys!” And they all charged at once. Grema grinned, grabbed a bomb from under her cloak, and muttered “Magitech bomb.” Under her breath before planting the charged bomb on the floor.

A skeleton with a sword jumped at her first, but landed on a small ball instead. All of the skeletons stopped in a small group as they watched the mage jump high into the air, yell out “Sheild!”, watch her arm change into a shield, but missed most her saying “Ignite!” because that’s when the small ball exploded, sending them all painfully flying backwards.

Grema in the air positioned her shield downwards to block her from the blast and began to fall down as it dissipated. While the skeletons were still stunned Grema yelled out “Sword!” And ran to the nearest one and hacked as it while it was still down, causing it to fall apart.

“Well that must have gotten under your skins. Wait whoops, you don’t have any!” She jokes as the skeletons regain themselves.

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The skeletons were officially pissed, thus sloppy. This was probably the only reasons Grema survived the next few minutes as they as one hacked and slashed at her, causing damage. Unfortunately Grema was too busy blocking and dodging to get a good hit. Her plan both succeeded and failed. Succeeded in the effect she wanted, failed in that she thought it would do more damage to the brittle creatures. They were more durable than she thought.

Once they began to calm down and realized they weren’t doing as much damage as they could. Two of them exchanged glances and then both started emitting violet smoke from their mouths. The others quickly caught one and stopped their attack for a moment and did the same until the smoke covered Grema.

“What *cough* is this? Dammit it’s poison!” She coughs out and the skeletons cackle. She could feel them approaching and lift their weapons as one. Grema knew that her vision was too obscured to dodge or defend so she pumped magic into her leg and she yelled out “Magitech Smash!” smashing her fake leg into the ground, causing a sizable crater and a magical shockwave. This made the skeletons fly away into the domes walls and the haze to dissipate.

Grema then took aim at one of the skeletons and grunted “Tech Fire Shot”. The ball of flame hit the skeleton, making it fall apart.

Grema fell to her knee’s with a cough, weak from both the damage she took and the poison. The skeletons got up and slowly began to approach. “I felt that in my bones, haha… looks like I’m bone dry with mana… too bad, I have a skeleton more jokes…” She said grumpily, knowing this was the end. But she still stood up, held out her sword and faced them.

They cackled they dry laugh and charged at the weakened mage. But just as they were about to hit her, light reigns in the room.

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“Stop!” A voice rang out as the light caused Grema and the skeletons to fly back and hit the dome walls, though with less force than the mages spell caused. “You shall not harm her!”

Grema looked up from her flying practice to see a man of similar build to Guy in an embarrassingly skin-tight red suite, a shield on his back and a spear in his hands. This figure runs toward the mage as she realizes that she’s in danger. Taking a guess from what the strange man yelled she begins to sprint toward him and he sprints toward her, and the scientist could hear the skeletons following.

She dodges the sickle of an enraged skeleton just in time for the red person to yell “Ignite Spear!” and in a blaze of red flame stab something over her shoulder. “I need some room!” The man asks her and Grema gives a tried nod and runs toward the kings tomb. She glances behind her just in time for the man to yell “Burning Sweep!”. She witnesses the warrior grabbing the end of his spear and spin it and himself in a circle of flames, killing the remaining skeletons.

Grema almost collapses in relief, but instead ust puts her hands on her knee’s and gasps short breaths. Her healing blood was new negating the poisons effect, but she could still painfully feel it inside of her body.

“Um, Grema? Are you okay?” The man asks and it instantly clicks.

“Holy magitech, Guy?!” The mechanic gapes. The red suited man she now realizes to be as Guy Stratus gives a small laugh and rubs the back of his head sheepishly. “What in the world happened to you?”

“I… don’t really know.” He confesses to her, now looking even more confused and worried than the mage. “But wow THIS IS AMAZING!!” Which he obviously got over very quickly as he began to examine his body and weapons.

Grema used his amazement to recover some and after a while he stopped and just starred at his gloved hands. At some point he had taken off his ridulous looking helmet so Grema could see the thoughtful look on his face. “Guy? Whats wrong?” She asks just for the sake of asking.

“It’s just… according to my studies, this means I have been chosen as the Red Prism Knight… and the rest of the jewels flew away.” Grema had totally missed that part, but now that she noticed the other gems on the shield were gone. Guy continued to speak. “The ancient king spoke to me while I was in the light… he told me to five the other five knights… he said the stones should have found them already but I need to help them awaken their powers…” He starred at his hands some more, thinking of the possible quest in front of him. Grema could sympathize with a very sudden change in fate, though at least he wasn’t banished from his homeland. Still, the scientist sympathized with the large decision before him.

“Grema!” Guy yelled suddenly, bringing the mage out of her thoughts. “I’m going to do it! I will gather all of the Prism Knights back together!” He had a determined sparkle in his eyes and Grema knew his decision was made. This show caused her to give him a faint smile and say. “Good for you. I wish you the best of luck and will provide any aid I can.”

Looking at her battered state he dimmed a bit. “You really look…” He trailed off. Grema couldn’t see what was going on behind those eyes. “No! It’s okay! I know you have your duties as a mage so I will not ask for your help in this task! It’s fine!” He insisted at Grema’s frown. “I’m not weak anymore, I’ll be okay!” He grins at her and the wizard suddenly realized that with this power came stubbornness, meaning that Guy will not back down from this.

“If you insist… But I have a feeling our paths will cross again.” She informs him doubtfully, hands on her hips.

“Possibly!” The red Knight laughs and hands over her reward. They then say farewell to each other, not knowing when they will ever meet again.

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