Strange Vulcans P1 (Chaos, TehDMCManiac)

Venom woke up on a fair and sunny day. It had not been too long since he had joined Fairy Tail. He was taking a few days to adjust to the guild before actually doing anything that would be of service to them. With many nerves put aside, he finally welled up the courage to pick a job. He got dressed up and slid his leather jacket on him. He went to the guild, for he didn't live there quite yet, and as usual, he opened the doors to be greeted by brawling. He closed the door behind him and went past the people screaming at him to join the brawl, which he had refused.

He didn't delay to go to the job board to pick out a job. Extermination... Well I suppose I'll go do that. Though he couldn't say that he liked the violence too much, he went on ahead with it. Also, he read on the job details that it required two mages, though another mage had already taken on the job as well. He simply put the piece of paper in his pocket and went off to the Magnolia Train Station.

He boarded the train silently, not really speaking much. He was nervous. So I'll be meeting another mage, eh..? Hope I don't harm him by accident. The trip was long and boring, nothing really happened and Venom didn't speak to anyone, though when he did arrive and got off the train to a nearby village of the Spooky Forest, he saw a sign reading "WIZARDS FOR HIRE AGAINST VULCANS!" He saw a man already speaking to the person with the sign, and joined in.

"I'll be one of the mages who takes part in this mission... I hope none of you mind." He said this so suddenly, and out of nowhere handed his piece of paper to the client.

*sigh* Honestly...
How he ended up in such a bazaar he still couldn't understand. Aegis was in the middle of a crowd of mages, standing infront the man who Aegis originally intended to go and offer his services to. Sadly, it seemed that his client had chosen to take a more public approach to his pleading for help and so that has lead to the current development.

The knight didn't really like crowded places that much for a couple of reasons. One of them was that his unusual attire often stood out, resulting in a lot of strange glances thrown his way. Another reason was, that he generally preffered quieter, more secluded places. It was just his nature, perhaps he was a loner by heart.

Just as the knight was considering what his options were, a young man's voice stood out from the rest as he stated something which, in the given situation, seemed outrageous.
"I'll be one of the mages who takes part in this mission... I hope none of you mind."
Turning towards the origin of the voice, Aegis noticed a young man, perhaps somewhere around his age, with crimson hair wearing a leather jacket. Indeed, a rather stylish look.

For the next few moments there was complete silence. Everyone was stunned by the sudden bold proclamation, considering how the people there had been argueing pointlessly over who gets to do the job for over an hour now. But while everyone was staring at this man dumbfounded, Aegis just could not hold it any longer...
"...BWAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA."
...and just broke out laughing. But he wasn't laughing at the bold man, he was laughing at everyone else.
"Oh man... What are you all staring at him? Instead of argueing eternally over who gets to do what, you should have just done that instead." - explained the knight while facing the still utterly dumbfounded crowd of mages.

Turning back to face the client and the red-haired mage standing next to him, Aegis walked forward with a broad smile. Upon reaching the two before him, the cyan knight stopped and introduced himself.
"Hey. My name's Aegis and I'm a knight, aswell as a mage, of Sabertooth. Would you let me assist you in the fight?" - said Aegis in a friendly tone while handing his own copy of the job request to the client.

Venom's bold statement seemed to drop utter silence to all of the arguing mages, till one of them who stood out from the rest began laughing. The man seemed to like wearing blue, black and armor on his clothing, his hair and eyes would also resemble his appearance, which happened to by cayan colored. Venom was interested in this man as he approached Venom and introduced himself.

"Hey. My name's Aegis and I'm a knight, aswell as a mage, of Sabertooth. Would you let me assist you in the fight?" Aegis interested Venom greatly, though they wouldn't get anywhere if Venom did not introduce himself. "Eh, I don't mind. My name is slightly twisted, being Venom. I am a mage from Fairy Tail. It should be interesting to see what we can do." He extended his hand and shook it with Aegis.

Before they could do anything else though, the client began to speak. "Right, Aegis, Venom, you two shall be the ones to do this job! Okay, so here is the problem. There have been vulcans coming from the Spooky Forest and stealing food from the nearby villages. We all gathered together and decided it was best for a pair of mages to exterminate them. Kill or find a way to get rid of every vulcan you two come across! I'll be waiting in the center of the village every day around noon time for your return. Vulcans are strong with absolutely no brains, a deadly combination, so good luck to you two!"

Venom looked at Aegis for a moment and asked him, "Alright Aegis, when should we go to the forest and begin?"

"Uh..."
Looking over his shoulder, Aegis could see the small army of mages and mercenaries as they were brandishing their weapons while glaring towards the two who were now allies. As he slowly turned his head back towards his partner, the knight started looking around in a way that would be unnoticable by the people behind him. What he was looking for was salvation, or to be more precise, something very very solid.
"Alright Aegis, when should we go to the forest and begin?" - asked Venom, apparantly oblivious to the happy bunch that was standing menacingly close behind Aegis.
"Oh, well..." - he started saying, but paused as a hand grabbed the slightly worried knight's shoulder.
"Oi, buddy, come here for a lit..."
The words of the unknown man were never finished. Feeling the danger, Aegis quickly grabbed the man's wrist and twisted himself as he moved under the hostile's arm, eventually possitioning himself behind him. From there the cyan-haired mage did a backwards roll while still holding the man's arm, placing both his feet against his back and kicking him away into the crowd of angry mages. Recovering from the roll into a lowered possition, Aegis finished saying what might end up being his final words, his mouth probably reached speeds of up to mach 30 as he did so.
"Let's do that after a quick stroll around the best hiding spots here, yes? Excellent!"

Not even waiting for a reaction, let alone a reply, Aegis hastefully grabbed Venom by the arm and pulled him with himself as he broke into a run for his life.

Venom heard one of the mages say "Oi, buddy, come here for a lit...", though he was clearly unfinished. He turned around to see a group of mages, and Aegis kicking the one who had recently spoke to tumble them down, soon to be grabbed by Aegis and Venom being forced to go with him, also Aegis to say "Let's do that after a quick stroll around the best hiding spots here, yes? Excellent!"

Venom was slightly annoyed by this, he had wanted to have his first brawl with mages so he began complaining. "Wha..? No! I want to fight those guys, they clearly wanted to as well! Hey, Aeigis, wait. WAIT!" His words were to no use, Aegis was determind to continue running with Venom being dragged along with him. Venom cursed many foul words, clearly unhappy.

Oh well... At the very least we get to work on our job quicker. Venom thought to himself. When Aegis stopped running, he began panting. Venom gave him a second to catch his breath before speaking. "Geez... Well, it's time for us to head to this so called "Spooky Forest". Let's go. I know the way." He lied about knowing the way, but signaled Aegis to come regardless.

Despite his lying, it wouldn't be too difficult to reach the Spooky Forest, since it was clearly visible a few miles away from the town. Aegis clearly was tired after running for so long, and dragging Venom with him, he wasn't a light man, so to return the favor, he would carry Aegis! Well... He would drag Aeigis.

He grabbed Aegis' arm and said "Come on, let's go already!" Venom wasn't usually one to speak much, though he felt strangely comfortable with this man. With that, he headed to the big and noticable forest while dragging Aegis.

So, dear reader. Imagine you have a scale infront of you. The scale's highest value is 3000 and the smallest one is... well... one. Now imagine a certain knight whose name shan't be spoken. Imagine him run while dragging someone. He's sprinting, trying to escape an angry mob of mages, but he actually forgets to friggin breathe while running. Now imagine the scale I described as one for ranking people based on how big idiots they are. Where'd you rank Ae... *cough* the anonymous knight? Over 9000, right? Yeah, exactly.

I...*pant*... really ought to... *pant*... learn how to run properly...*pantpant*
Despite being dragged by his newest ally, Aegis still could barely walk. Well, pretty normal, considering they were probably running for atleast 10 minutes. I mean really, what kind of idiot forgets to breathe...

Looking ahead, they had already reached the entrance to the oh-so familiar forest. It appeared they had arrived at the southern entrance, a fact Aegis found quite convenient.
Having finally managed to calm down to a point where he was no longer anticipating an attack from the shadows, the knight could finally focus on the situation and what they had to do.
"Vulcans..."
Yes, indeed, their enemy was a potentially large group of vulcans. It would generally take them quite the effort to find them, however the knight wasn't going to just blindly seek them, especially when what he had to find was as simple as that.

"Venom, there's a pond around a couple of hundred metres from here, we should go there." - spoke Aegis without warning nor explanation. He just broke away from his ally, who until then was still pulling him onwards, and went to walk towards the newly set destination.
There just wasn't something right with how he was and he knew it. He reacted in an incredibly odd manner to a situation which could be defused. It was as if he was scared.
"Even so, was it trully the mages that frightened me, I wonder..."

"Venom, there's a pond around a couple of hundred metres from here, we should go there.", Aegis had said almost immediately after they arrived at the Spooky Forest. Venom didn't bother questioning it, since it had come so quick. Venom assumed Aegis simply knew his way around the forest, and so he just went on without question.

The forest wasn't too bad. It was fairly quiet, peaceful and nice. He didn't hear or see anything that possibly seemed to him out of place, though there were an unusual amount of trees and stones everywhere. Venom didn't say anything as they traveled; he simply wanted the job over with, since he didn't like harming things at times and he wanted to sleep.

After walking for about a minute, he began smelling something very strange. Eww... Smells like donkey sperm and dog piss mixed or something... Venom thought to himself. The ground also began shaking, though Venom wasn't sure why, he assumed it was the vulcans they would soon encounter, and his guess was an accurate one.

After walking for a few more minutes, Venom spotted a pond, with four vulcans around it. They were the cause to the horrible stench and shaky ground. He signaled Aegis to move slowly, and hide in some bushes. As they were now stalking the vulcans, Venom used his elbow to bump against Aegis' ribs, and whispered "Hey, surprise attack them, it will be great."

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As the two slowly approached their destination, a repulsive stench grew in intensity. If the knight hadn't already faced vulcans before, he would probably assume it's the smell of several thousand rotting corpses. But for better or worse, he knew what it was.
The two partners reached the location of the pond and right there, right next to it, there stood 4 of the things Aegis did not want to see to greet them.
"Why. Do I always have to. Find thiese things. Right next to the most beautiful places I know?" - whispered the knight to himself while facepalming, wondering if it's his luck or just mother Nature hating him that causes thiese events.

Following Venom's signal, Aegis lowered his posture and moved to some relatively tall nearby vegetation. It was a peaceful spot, even though there were the vulcans standing roughly 25 metres away. It really was peaceful. Until a wild elbow appeared.
"Hey, surprise attack them, it will be great." - the abrupt order came swiftly after the crippling strike. 2 hit combo!
Giving him a surprised look, Aegis couldn't help but smile. But then he thought about it. His ally had never been on a mission with him before, so he probably wanted to study the knight's fighting style, hence the sudden suggestion.
"Oh? Hehe, alright then. It's been a while since I got to spar properly. This ought to be fun."

The blue knight closed his eyes and peered into the place he was. What was transpiring there was an event, meaning that it has it's own entity. And that means it can be read.
"Recreation art: Origin Perception."
He didn't really need to speak the name aloud, but he often did, as it helps him direct his focus on the thing he's "forging", thus making recreations easier to produce.
In this case, it was not a physical existence, though. It technically wasn't even a recreation. What the knight did was perform the one spell he knew from the first day he was born, the ability to see into an object beyond just it's existence. To perceive it's entity.

Looking into an existence's entity is not the same as looking at an object. It's more like an out-of-body experience. You feel as if you're detatched from the world and you can see as if you're floating through the primordial sea of magic, observing soundlessly as the desired entity forms out of it. And somehow when one watches like so, they see a lot more than they should be capable of.
Translating what he saw into thoughts comprehensable for him, the blue knight began forming his battle plan.
Analysis initiate.
Entity name: Incomprehensible.
Names associated with it: "The God damned monkeys. Again."
Analysis of terrain and presences, initiated...
As his mind drifted through the vast information laid before it for what he felt an eternity, Aegis actually merely closed his eyes for a moment. But that moment was more than enough for him to figure out everything he needed.

With a slight smirk, the blue knight raised himself from the ground, though still keeping a low profile, and looked around.
"Ah, this would do." - he said while reaching for a fist-sized stone. Having picked it up, Aegis then looked towards the group of distastefully indiscrete apes, his entire stance screaming the words "Ready, Aim, Fire!". Having marked his target, the left-most vulcan, the knight threw the stone and immediately dropped on one knee, hiding behind the thick bush, though it still didn't seem like he trully intended to hide.
"One."
The sound of a blunt impact.
"Two."
Some angry roaring.
"Three!"
The sound of another blunt impact, or to be more precise, the sound of a fist hitting a primate's face.
It trully was fortunate that his enemies were vulcans, for if they were people making one of them think he was just hit by the other one would have been much harder. They probaly wouldn't immediately punch back without thinking, either.

As Aegis spoke the word signifying his start, he instantly broke into a sprint towards a relatively small and tilted tree, roughly 12 metres away. He kept his body low as he did so, making him seem less like a man and more like a cyan ribbon flying alongside the winds.
Having passed 9 metres without that much discretion, the fact he still wasn't spotted was proof that vulcans really were easy to manipulate, considering two of them were still smacking eachother around while the others sat there disinterested and watched, utterly oblivious to the knight's intentions.
11 metres passed, Aegis' dash was clearly not going to be noticed. He used his momentum to slide under a fallen trunk, then raised himself and leaped towards the tilted tree. With two light steps he reached the desirable height and used his foot as a break, instantly halting his movement and turning around. Shifting the direction of his momentum, he jumped off from the slanted plant and grabbed a branch, using it as a swinging pole to reach another. From that point on he just hopped from branch to branch until he reached the place he was aiming for, the tree whose crown leaned menacingly above the group of unsuspecting vulcans.

Aegis quietly traversed the obstacles as he made his way towards a particular branch which stroke his fancy as it seemed like a perfect possition to initiate a surprise attack. Who would have thought that that exact one would actually turn out to be the only rotten branch in the whole tree?
Standing ready to pounce, the knight's concentration was suddenly broken by a rather disturbing sound. Crack. Crack crack.
"Oh you have got to be kidding me."
Snap!
"WHY ARE YOU NOT KIDDING ME?!?"
A brilliant terrain traversal ending with a magnificient plummet towards a few smelly monkeys? Yeah, I'd be kind of mad too.
As the knight began to fall he noticed how the vulcans were standing right below, apparantly preparing to "greet" their guest. Not something he wanted to experience.
Seeing no other way out, Aegis visualised the blueprint of a technique which proved itself a lifesaver many times before, Layline Traversal. The technique was initiated by him, temporarely giving Aegis the ability to see the laylines in the world around him, thus allowing him to link himself to one and trace it, essentialy rapidly traversing the empty space it passed through. In this case, the layline he chose passed between two of the enemies and ended a couple of metres behind them on ground level. In other words, a conveniently perfect one.

Suddenly appearing behind them with a trail of blue light, Aegis stood up and dusted himself while sighing.
"I guess surprise attacks aren't really my forte. I don't really like them and it seems the feeling's mutual."
Turning back to face the hostiles, the knight shrugged and then smirked. "Oh well, can't be helped. I guess I'll have it my way."
He wasn't really complaning, though. He would have probably chosen to fight them head-on anyway.

Venom didn't know what exactly happened. Whilst he was hiding in the bushes, Aegis did a series of events which ended up in the result of him getting screwed, or so it seemed like. He really didn't know just how to put his action into thoughts or words, it all seemed bizarre to him. Nevertheless, he was going to give credit to Aegis for trying, and now standing up to the four apes, ready to begin battle at any given moment.

However, the vulcans were only aware that Aegis was there, and not Venom. It would be the perfect time for Venom to show his partner exactly how it is done. He punches his fists together gently, so that the vulcans could not hear, his fists engulfing themselves in his own corrosive flames. He was about to really use his magic, for a battle, for the first time, and he was excited.

He burst out of the bushes, and before any of the vulcans had time to react, he slammed his fists on every single one of the vulcans, quickly too, due to his spell. He couldn't help but but out a small chuckle as every one of the vulcans had a dumbstruck look on their faces as they got back up and rubbed their faces. "Stoopid Hooman! You pay for dat!", one of the large brutes blabbed out.

"And that, my friend, is how you surprise attack these apes.", Venom said to Aegis.

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"Bahaha, that's not how you really do it, you know. A surprise attack is supposed to take out the enemy before they have time to react, not hit them lightly and annoy them further. That's the whole reason I didn't rush out the bushes like you did. I was going to instantly deal with 2 of them, had the branch not gave weight." - explained the knight after a friendly laugh.
"Well anyway, it's more fun having a head-on fight. I'll take the two on the left. Be ready, I like to create openings for my allies."

Moving Fervour to his side in a quick brandish, Aegis charged towards the two farthest vulcans, one of which seemed to be stronger than the other. Upon nearing the stronger one, which was closer, the blue knight spun around as he sidestepped to the left, avoiding taking the full blow, but still having his shoulder hit.
As he did so, he ended up standing to the side of the enemy with a perfect opportunity to strike. Utilizing the rotational intertia he had, Aegis did a full-force one-handed horizontal swing towards the right leg of the monkey, in a failed attempt to cut it's hamstring.
As he did so, the knight caught with his peripheral vision that the other vulcan was charging towards him. How convenient. Aegis extended the sidestep, his footwork remarkably nimble, and quickly moved half a metre to the side as the fist of the charging vulcan flew through the air where he was. He then did an uppercut with Fervour whilist tracing the blueprint of the one technique powerful enough to completely trow off the punch's trajectory. Glowing in a brilliant white, the blade Aegis swung left a trail of light as it cleaved through the vulcan's forearm, the blow containing so much physical power that it made the monkey stagger back and fall down. What was curious was that the knight did not chop the hand off, but merely wounded it to a point where it couldn't be used for a long time.
Noticing how the stronger monkey had managed to turn around and was just about to try and crush Aegis with it's huge fist, the cyan-haired mage used his already raised sword and brought it down whilist performing a backstep, striking the incoming fist down with the still empowered sword, driving into the ground with great force.
"IUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU" - screamed the vulcan as most of the bones in it's hand turned to dust. With it's fist dug into the ground, the foe was completely defenseless. Behind Aegis the second charge of a very pissed-off ape could be heard.

A smirk.

How perfect a situation.
Stepping on the bigger vulcan's forearm, the knight leaped forward and stepped on it's chest, twisting his body to face the incoming enemy. Following that, he tensed up every muscle in his body, as if trying to compress his blood vessels. But withing those vessels lied a hidden power, one which Aegis would tap in at that time.
"Venom, strike!"
Unleashing the hidden strength locked within him, he kicked himself away from the large vulcan in a 45 degree angle while at the same time launching his "platform" backwards with great force, towards the location where his ally was.
Flying over the charging monkey, the blue knight tossed Fervour into the air and summoned another blueprint, Dual Force. The pair of guns, each wielding a powerful enchantment of an opposing affinity, formed within his hands.
"Let's rock!" - his energised yell. The cyan figure turned upside down and began firing both guns. Exactly 8 shots were fired before he landed on the ground with his back turned to the enemy, breaking the fall by kneeling. Six of those shots hit the vulcan's back, 3 from each gun.
As the brief moment of the landing passed, Fervour fell to the ground blade-first, driving itself halfway in and seemingly signalying Aegis to say what he wanted to. Not a coincidence.
"I'd suggest you don't charge at me a third time. Your in an unfavourable situation."

With those words, Aegis began watching the vulcan over his shoulder, Dusk and Dawn, his guns, still held in his hands.

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