Petty Scientist

Akily looked at the paper she had received at her door in the morning. She wasn't one to usually get mail from people since everyone she's ever known is most likely dead or killed by her. As she shrugged, she opened the little envelope to see what was hiding inside of it. It seemed to be what looked like a letter with the Basilisk Fang insignia at the top of it. The letter seemed to be freshly made, maybe about a few hours ago. She could even still smell the strength of the ink as though it was in its container. Akily looked towards the note and saw that it was directed by the guildmaster himself. Even as she thought of him, she just had to roll her eyes at his very existence. She couldn't believe she had to take such demands from him. Well anyways, Akily thought it best to continue on reading the note.

On it, was the words, "Hello there Miss Darksol. I'm glad to see you opened this later, and I'm here to inform you about a little job we at Basilisk Fang need you to do." Akily stopped there and said to herself with a voice of interest and said, "Hmm...I bet this could be fun. I hope I can kill an adult or two for the Universe Spirit." She began twiddling her umbrella as she continued onto the note, "We have a request for you to help us get a newly formed weapon that will help us in our quest to help towards our goal. There's a Scientist in Bosco who needs to be removed from this world so we can take his work for ourselves. He has apparently figured out ways to artificially create golden keys and we need them for ourselves. We will award you greatly for this task and don't forget that saying no would lead to some great consequences." Akily rolled her eyes once more at this comment but knew that she would have to do it anyways. After all, this is another adult she gets to kill for exploiting what the universe spirit has brought to us. To have its most prized possession, celestial spirits, artificially abused by a scientist is worthy of death. The only way Akily could ensure that this wouldn't be abused is for her to take it into her own hands and watch it closely in the hands of her guild.

As she put down the letter, she took one of her basic cards into her hands. As she raised it into the air, she slammed it into the letter and stared off into the distance. With a serious voice, she looked into the distance to say, "Get ready to be punished for your sins. The Universe Spirit will have loads of fun with you." With a smirk on her face, she walked out of the door and into the cold stony area of the Basilisk Fang guild hall.

Akily may live in the guild hall, but she made sure that she had a room away from everyone else in the guild. She didn't like social interaction too much, but she knew she had to sometimes. Which, was annoying for every time she had to walk towards the main Basilisk Fang area. With a sigh, she knew that she had to be prepared for a long walk before she could even get outside of the hall.

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It was the next day, but Akily finally made it to Bosco, where she found a mask awaiting her side. The whole trip was sponsored by Basilisk Fang, which made things nice. Akily took her beautifully designed mask and put it on her face. It seemed to perfectly fit her head which was odd because she never let Basilisk Fang measure her head before. She didn't care too much, because she knew that there was a job to be had, and blood to be fed to the Universe Spirit. Akily moved forward, almost robot-like as she walked towards the fortress of the scientist...yes, fortress. The scientist was a very paranoid man, so he decided to lock himself into a fortress that he believed no one would be able to find him in. He was always so paranoid about someone forcing his life's work out of his possession. Funny thing was, was that very idea was happening to him right now and Akily knew that his silly fortress stood no chance against her.

She arrived only an hour after she left the plane, to see a stoney fortress that looked worn out and old. It had the strange feeling of being similar to the Basilisk Fang guild hall, but it was no matter. She tried looking around for a door, but there was none. Almost as if the rumors of this scientists paranoia was even bigger than Akily thought they would be. As she kept looking, she saw that there were no windows, doors, or any way to get in or not. Akily stopped her foot on the ground in anger as she gritted her teeth. She knew what this needed...force. She knew, that f this tactic worked on all the other conflicts she's had, then it should probably work here. As she got out a basic card from her deck, she raised it up and with one swift movement, she sliced through the crumbling stones easily. The cuts were so fast and precise, that right as her hand came back to her side, the stones immediately crumbled to the ground. Proud of herself, Akily smiled and patted herself on the back as she looked around the area.

She turned her head to see tons of lab equipment everywhere, but they seemed to have not been used for a while. It was odd, but Akily realized that he must have another area in this place that allowed him to work on the projects he did. She looked above to see there were torch holders, but once again, they didn't seem to have been used for weeks, maybe even years. As well as this, the area was extremely chilly for a place like this. It wasn't too important, but it just felt so odd for Akily. She just pondered to herself, "Where is that darn scientist I was told about." She didn't realize it till now, but as she tried to search around, the fortress she once thought it was was just a huge one block room. She gasped at the realization and stomped the floor in anger. She couldn't believe she was led on a stupid goose chase for no reason at all. She wondered if this was a lame prank that idiotic adult of a person she called her "guild master" had pulled. She stomped one more time, making a crack in the ground. For some reason, she saw a light coming from it. As she bent onto the ground and looked through it, the floor collapsed under her as she began falling to the floor below her. She screamed and wondered what the **** was happening.

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She hit the ground, and hard. Although there were no major wounds, she still felt the pain of falling on the rock-hard floor made of chiseled stone. She grabbed her back in pain as she began to breathe really hard. She began to wonder why there was a secret tunnel beneath the fortress in the first place. Did the man who inhabited this place really have so much paranoia to build a fortress with no doors or windows just to have a tunnel with no other way in beside falling through the floor of the building? She muttered to herself judgingly and said, "Why are adults, such idiots. Is this really the type of people the citizens across the planet choose to rule over them? Shameful, pitiful, and so much more. I can't wait till they will be begging for their lives as the children will rise up and kill them all." She began to maniacally laugh as the halls filled with it. She hoped the scientist could hear her because, with a yell, she said, "I'm coming for you, and you better hope those dumb keys can save you or I will have no mercy!"

Akily closed her eyes and searched for the source of magic she said she would hunt down, and tried to center her senses onto it. With a loud cheer, she could feel the magic feeling panicked, as though it heard her threat. With a mischevious smile, she said to herself, "Perfect."

She walked down the halls as she took a basic card and scraped it down that wall as she was walking to the source of the magic. She then began to whistle the beautiful song of the Universe Spirit, Flora Vena. She could hear as her shoes clomped onto the ground as she began to hear the frantic cries of her target become even louder than before. She could hear as his artificial keys clanked together, making it even easier for her to find him. It seemed like he was done collecting his stuff, but that didn't stop Akily because as he was about to leave, she walked through the gateway and said to the scientist, "Why, hello there. Glad to see you're packed to leave, but I think I have another place for you to travel to..." With a scream, he dropped his papers to the ground as his keys fell with them.

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As he scrambled to get onto his feet, he grabbed onto a key and raised it up into the air. A blinding light stopped Akily's vision of the man, which made her cover her eyes to keep them safe. As she uncovered her eyes, what she opened her eyes to was a centaur with a bow and arrow in hand. He didn't seem to be too real in a sense that he was actually in front of Akily. Something about this spirit felt off, maybe even fabricated. She realized this when she felt a tingling in her soul, coming from the Universe Spirit itself. Before she could answer all her questions, the centaur shot 3 arrows at her. Luckily though, Akily was quick and dodged the arrows masterfully. As she looked around for cover, another arrow was shot. She wasn't as lucky as she was earlier since the arrow did actually hit her. She gritted her teeth in pain as the knick the arrow left started to bleed. She ripped a piece of her dress as she began to wrap it with a card. The card was able to add pressure while it soaked up blood. It was extremely effective since Akily couldn't even tell that she still had the wound. She wanted revenge now, which meant that it was her time to shine.

As she looked at the centaur, she took out a requip card. As the card touched her hand, she immediately turned to steam. She began feeling more light as she saw her body slowly turn into the watery air the world called steam. She felt so wonderful and refreshed as she quickly dashed towards another area of cover. She constantly heard the centaur shoot arrows towards her because of the whizzing sound they made as they got near. As he shot one more arrow, he began to reload. This was the perfect opportunity for Akily to go in, so she felt as her body quickly dashed towards the centaur. All of a sudden, the centaur yelled in pain as he evaporated into golden dust. She looked to her left to see the scientist clearly in fear as she walked even closer to him. As Akily got right into his face, he got the stack off papers he dropped earlier and slammed them into her face. As he began to run, he grabbed the 2 other golden keys that he made and tried to get to the door, but she quickly ran towards him, hoping to actually kill him this time but she was stopped as she felt the ground rumbling with some sort of earthquake.

With a questioning look on her face, she stared right towards the scientist and saw that one of his keys were missing. With a deep sigh, Akily glared at the scientist as he was trying to undo the lock he had put there to keep others from getting into his little area or something. Which meant, that there was another way out of here besides going back to where she fell. The idea made her think deep, but right as she began to go in thought the thing shaking the ground came out and ready to fight.

The entity that burst through the ground seemed to be what looked like a maid with shackles around her arms. Her hair was pink and silky as though it was fabric itself. Akily looked at it in awe, which was her first mistake. As she was captivated by the hair of the lovely spirit, she punched the ground to create a cone of rocks coming up. The rocks were flat but they were able to knock Akily up into the air with ease. As she looked down from the high height she was at, she saw as the spirit used her chains and lengthened them as they tried to smack Akily down from the air. Luckily though, Akily was actually paying attention this time, so as the chain came for her it missed and headed straight for the roof of the building. The chain seemed to be stuck there because the pink-headed celestial spirit was struggling to get the chain out of the roof. She tried pulling but it didn't work, which made her the perfect target for Akily. As Akily took out a card, electricity seemed to run through her as though it was coursing through her body, which it was. She began to feel invigorated as the powers of the card spread to her legs and made her extremely speedy. Right as she equipped the card, the spirit got her chains out and began to viciously attack Akily with her chains. Thanks to the speed Akily received, the chains were to slow to hit her. She dodged every single chain and allowed the little maid to be stuck in her trap. As Akily looked across the room, chains seemed to be scattered everywhere, tangled together, and even stuck into the floor and walls. Using this to her advantage, Akily bounced off one of the chains and jumped straight towards the spirit. With a troubled look on her face, the spirit seemed to realize her mistake as Akily cut her with the card of haste. Every time Virgo was hit, it was like she was hit the second right after because after 1 bounce Akily would bounce again from another chain. It was sort of like a deadly pinball that made the spirit feel weaker and weaker as Akily decimated her. As the maid fell to her knees, her chains and her body began evaporating into the same golden dust the spirit before turned in to.

With a loud scream, the scientist yelled out in fear, "Whyyy! Why me, I don't want to die at the hands of another person! " As he scrambled for the door, he tried to do one last desperate plan before he died. It wasn't long before Akily saw the final spirit of his keys were formed. The spirit seemed to be what looked like a mermaid, like the ones in the stories her parents used to read her as a child. She felt a pang of guilt as she saw the creature. She remembered what she used to be, an innocent fun loving child that wanted to explore the world. That's when she said to herself, "That girl is dead. I now have a cause and that means that I must erase my past self like I must erase this spirit." She looked down in sadness as she walked over towards the mermaid. Now that she only had 3 special cards, she had to pick out of them extremely carefully before it was too late.

As she got out her card of love, she quickly moved back her shoulder to try and dodge the rsuh of water that come from the jug the mermaid spirit was holding. As Akily looked to see what happened to the water, she saw a huge dent in the wall that wasn't there before. She couldn't believe so much water could cause so much damage to a stone wall like that. She was in awe, but she couldn't get distracted now. It was time for her to strike. Akily used her card sort of like a grappling hook swinging to the torch hilts around the tunnel. She knew the spirit's water was too slow to catch her at this speed. So, she just kept swinging until she wasn't anymore. As she let go of her card, she got out a basic card as she sliced it across the neck of the spirit. She didn't bleed, which was disappointing to Akily, but she did dissolve into golden dust.

Akily walked over to the scientist as the old man scrambled backward. He finally had a glimmer of hope when the door actually began to open for him, but that was crushed as Akily came along. She began walking slowly to him and in her hand, the card of silence. As she raised it up, she said, "You adults and your idiotic paranoia. You're all scared of something but kids, we rise higher than you. We will advance way more than your dumb cheats of life that you have now. We will prosper and you will all die. Be lucky that your life is ended now than when I am in rule of this world." Fear was on his face, and no matter how hard he tried to scream, he just couldn't. Akily's card of silence made sure she had no interruptions. As she raised up the card even higher, she slashed it downwards as it precisely cut the air between the card and the scientist. With that, there was a deep gash in his neck. Slowly, he began to bleed out and Akily could hear his gasps for air but she just laughed. She took it in like how the Universe Spirit will take in his blood.

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