Kyll's D -> C exam

ES Guild Job - Kozato's Sins
https://www.fairytail-rp.com/t2792-eclipse-soul-kozato-s-sins-part-1-the-snake-s-dagger-kyll-n-clipse

250 EXP

Zeno awaited Kyll's arrival at the training grounds. Her exam would be simple in description but more difficult to perform. What he was looking for was physical control and emotional restraint. Kyll had grown a lot, even with all her problems. Zeno knew she could get very far, but she would have to impress him with improvements from time to time.

No doubt that she will.

Today was such a day: her C rank examination.

Kyll walked in. She wore her same Asian influenced outfit. Instead of the one covered pony tail she had placed her hair in low pig tails held together by two blue ribbons. She put a hand through her bangs. She smiled when she saw Zeno. She walked up to Zeno and jumped up and down happily. "So what's going to happen today Master Zeno!" Of course she was happy to be ranking up finally. Kyll had tons of issues with herself and now it was time for her to see if she was ready to go further and get stronger. She looked at the exam area. This was going to be great. Just some simple punches and kicks and a rank up. Yes, this was going to be great.

Zeno couldn't suppress a smile when Kyll walked in. She seemed very excited and eager to begin. Good.

Zeno's cape waved in the wind. He was wearing his combat outfit, white cloth and brown leather with black and red touches here and there, all held together by plenty of straps. It was flexible and strong material that allowed for optimal movement and it was well isolated. Heat didn't get in very well from the outside, but it didn't get cold either. His chain with silver handel did not hang loosely around his waist this time, it was strapped around it firmly. His deck of cards was hidden somewhere out of view.

He took two steps forward and two cards appeared in his hand out of nowhere.
"Well Kyll. All you need to do.. Is impress me. I want you to go beyond my expectations." Zeno spoke as he approached her step by step.

"Begin." He continued, voice loud and serious, still walking closer to her bit by bit.

Kyll thought for a minute. Impress him... How would I do that? Kyll thought for a moment. Then she saw him walk towards her with two cards. Oh crap... She thought. Kyll thought about the cards. Zeno's tests were based on each members strengths and weaknesses. Kyll's main strengths were speed and strength. Kyll gripped her right hand with her left hand. Kyll's posture straightened as she held her hand to the sky gathering as much celestial energy. "Heaven's Palm!" Kyll shouted folding her thumb into her palm and then moved her hands so that the were in front of her. The ball of light released from her palm then moved straight towards Zeno's hand. The force she sent would knock the cards out his hand.

As Kyll extended her hands towards him to release her Heaven's Palm, Zeno quickly switched to a sideways stance and lifted his arm up. The ball of light passed him by.
He then relaxed for a second, before suddenly grabbing the silver handle from the chain around his waist. The cards in his hand had disappeared and the handle flew apart into segments of silver that attached themselves to Zeno's right forearm. It turned into a metal gauntlet with what that looked like an extended butcher knife made of blazing green energy attached to the side.

Then, the green energy from the blade burst and projected more energy into the shape of a bladed gauntlet. The energy gauntlet was an exact replica of the one Zeno was wearing and hovered forty centimeters away from his arm.

As soon as the projected weapon was ready, Zeno jabbed forward. His real arm was still a good four meters away from Kyll, but the projection flew forward aimed at the right shoulder.

((So I'm going to start using font colors due to SOMEONE who says I lack "finesse" jkjk I love you Omega))

Kyll backed off in a leftward direction. Her arm was scratched by the gauntlet. Luckily it only scraped her suit. Kyll thought about what to do next. She figured she would stall for time on this attack. Jumping backwards she held her hands to her left side making a magic circle with a star in it. Out of the circle came ten beams of light straight for Zeno. Then it hit her. "Wait a minute..." Kyll giggled as she thought back to something her mentor told her. That Meteor wasn't just a simple strength spell. She gripped a fist and smirked. "Meteor." A yellow aura grew around Kyll. This time the aura was a little stronger than the last time she used it in front of a mage. She looked around her and jumped around. Wow... I feel lighter than I did last time! She thought.

Kyll managed to remain unharmed by Zeno's quick jab and she retaliated with a series of lightbeams. Zeno threw his bladed arm to the opposite side of his body and the astral projection of Retribution did the same. The energy gauntlet struck through the beams of light in a row and shattered them before they got close to him.

As Kyll jumped around after the activation of her Meteor spell, Zeno quickly swung his arm in an arc again, immediately after disrupting the light beams, and the blade of the astral gauntlet cut through the air horizontally as it made its way for Kyll's waist fast.

Come on, girl.

Two cards appeared in his left hand again, as he watched his projected energy blade close in on Kyll's body.

Kyll immediate ducked dodging the attack to her waist. Oh right... Fighting now.. I need to focus... focus... She thought. Then it hit her. Heavenly Palm was the best push back spell she had at the time, but now she was stronger. I need to get him far away first. Kyll sent an upper cut straight for Zeno's chin then sent the same fist flying down to the ground. Her yellow aura turned into a dome spreading out all around in her hopefully shoving Zeno away from her if he was going easy on her. The ground beneath her began to crumble and send her down about six feet into the ground. After she finished her attack she looked up to see that she was in a crater. Kyll's eyes opened revealing the glowing green irises. Kyll wanted to fly up in the air. So up.. Up.. Up. Higher and higher she flew in the air. She stayed up there awaiting to show Zeno what was coming into her mind next.

Good.

Zeno flipped backwards, following the line of Kyll's uppercut to dodge it, he could feel the radiating aura from the fist scratch his skin. As he landed on his feet, he dashed off backwards again as Kyll slammed into the ground. Backing away from the crater, he decided on allowing Kyll the space that had developed between them. She was learning to control her increased powers, once she would get the hang of it he would put some pressure on her performances.

Zeno's cape waved the wind to the right. His posture remained unmoved as a solid rock, his face showed no expression or emotion. Eyes set on Kyll, following her every movement with clear focus. As with every exam involving him fighting, he was holding back tremendously, but he had to sell the act to make the fight as real as possible in the moment so that the performance of his mages would be maximized.

Kyll placed her hands on top of each other only extending her middle and index fingers. She took in a deep breath as the words came to her mind clear as day. Her voice seemed to morph as she spouted each words to the incantation. The aura around her began to increase even more.


Seven yellow magical seals formed in front of her. They formed the shape of the Big Dipper and were connected by a line of yellow. "SEVEN STAR SWORD!" Kyll shouted and the seals began to spin spreading to a 50 meter radius. "Grand Chariot!" The seals fell from in front of Kyll down to Zeno. The each exploded as they landed with a force of a meteor. As soon as they landed her aura thickened and raged like a fire. Her eyes began to change to a bright yellow.

Kyll's sight immediately changed to a picture of the past. She was sitting in her mentor's dojo. She saw him walk up to her and pat her on the head then walk away leaving her with the man she feared the most. The vision then flashed over to her standing in the center of a crater and a bloodied hand. Was it her mentors? No... it was someone else...

Kyll had lost control as she was stuck in her mind trying to figure out what had happened. Kyll was gone at the moment it was just her fighting spirit out. Kyll's body landed and the raging aura looked at Zeno. Just then it flew straight at Zeno at an alarming rate and started sending ten hard and powerful punches all over Zeno's body. All of the punches were pretty sloppy and easy to dodge or block. Once the monster was through with her attacks she sent a round house kick at Zeno's neck. Each punch and kick did not feel there was any anger to them. Each blow she sent out revealed more and more sadness and guilt to Zeno. The aura around Kyll exploded even more as she backed off and stood there looking at Zeno. It seemed that even her eyes had a yellow fire coming out of them.

What happened? What did I do? Am I liar? Were the main thoughts that went through Kyll's mind because she was stuck in this scene frozen in this moment in time.

As suspected, Kyll spoke an incantation and released a rain of meteors onto Zeno. The guildmaster had fought a Heavenly Body user years ago. However, Kyll was different. There was something more to her. He couldn't exactly place what it was, but there was something.

As the meteors came crashing down, Zeno jumped from one spot to the other safely escaping each impact of the meteors. His eyes shot up as Kyll's aura blazed, and an alarmed look entered his eyes. What.. Is going on?

He then planted his feet firm on the ground, releasing a bit more power than before, eyes locked on Kyll and determined not to let go. Kyll flew forward at him at a higher speed than he had expected and unleashed a fury of punches. Zeno slammed his right palm into Kyll's first punch to break the force behind her dash and to slow down her movement. His arm then continued to move from left to right, from up to down, repeatedly in a very quick motion to block ten sloppy punches. The punches did have power behind them, but the inefficiency in the technique made it go to waste. Zeno stared straight into her glowing eyes and he could see something wasn't right. There was an emotion present that shouldn't be there.

Guilt?...

Yet the emotion was trapped in a furious cage. She wasn't herself. Zeno couldn't let her carry on like this... This was not what he wanted. He wanted to see her take control of her powers. He knew she could do it. Maybe more practice was in order. Maybe... He didn't know. All Zeno could do was pin her down and see if he could enter in conversation with her so she could tell him what was wrong.

As the roundhouse kick was sent his way, a card dissolved in his left hand and arcane energy swirled around his arm. He then ducked, and when the kick passed over his head, he grabbed the leg overhead and pushed it upwards. The push would throw her off balance, lift her in the air and momentum would force her to back off in a predictable path.

When Kyll backed off, Zeno threw the energy at the ground where Kyll was going to regain her balance. As it took impact on the ground, there was a bright flash and crystals rose from it. Kyll stood there, looking at him, as the crystal rose beneath her feet to encase her entire body up to the neck in an arcane crystalline prison. Kyll was not strong enough yet to be able to break out of it, and it would allow Zeno a brief period of time to talk some sense into her.

Kyll was still stuck in her mind. The area faded to a black. There he was, Harrigan. "If you didn't leave me, you wouldn't be going through this right now..." Kyll fell to her knees and her emerald eyes looked forward. Her eyebrows twitched as she started to place her hands on the ground. "How could you Kyll Wei. You were in the best position ever and you just ran away from me and divorced me." Kyll didn't move as fear came over her. "Kyll... My wife... Why did you do it?" She looked up and the man was in her face. "Why did you destroy your home village? You only wound up exiled in the end." Kyll looked into his glowing blue eyes. The man put a hand on her cheek then put it through her hair. He put his lips on her forehead. Kyll screamed and shoved the vision off. She fell back to her knees.

"No..." Kyll said looking forward. She tried to shove the man off of her, but she fell through him. All she heard was his cackle and her vision began to blur.

Kyll's crystallized body began to struggle getting out of the trap. Her aura began to fade back down to normal then slowly fade away. Her eyes faded from yellow back to green. Kyll looked around and then raised an eyebrow. "Did I do it again?" She asked herself. Then she looked around to see if she had left a crater just like the one in her old village. No it wasn't there just the damage made form her two new attacks. "I didn't do it again... I... didn't... do it again." She was shocked. The last time she had a rank up exam was when she lost complete control and let the aura consume the village. Kyll laughed out loud. She felt she really had made a huge accomplishment.

Yet, Zeno's face did not show such relief at all.

"What the hell happened?"

He approached the crystal tower and looked Kyll straight in the eyes. The glow had faded, and so had the aura. Zeno had already connected the dots in his head. The reason why she had come to him, the cause of Flandre's troubles, her... 'issues'. Kyll held great power, without control. A power that is to be contained within a strong mind. A mind she didn't have, because of unfortunate events from the past that had created wounds that haven't healed yet.

He knew all this, he could see it. But Zeno saw and realized she had not told him the whole truth. There was more to it. The mumblings as she came back to her senses had confirmed just that. At first Zeno though Kyll's "Did I do it again?" meant losing control of her power, but she then assured herself that she did not do [b]it[/i] again, which means it has to be something else. Something related to her going berserk.

"Tell me. Now."

Kyll looked at Zeno. She was still a bit dazed from her vision. After all the dream state she was in was all over the place. "Hold on," Kyll said, "I need to gather my thoughts..." Kyll sighed and tried to figure out where to start. There was no need to start at the BEGINNING of the whole thing with her family. However he probably remembered that she was a socialite anyway. There still was the issue of what to say about her vision. Kyll thought back and sighed. "What you know is I'm from Master Flandre's Sprinting Fox Village that has remained hidden until discovered. The law is once the village is found by someone, that person will never leave and must never do anything to reveal the village." Kyll thought about her next sentence as a look of shame came over her face. "What you don't know is... that this is my second exam to go up to C rank. I failed my first one miserably and was exiled from my village because the crater I left was far bigger than this and revealed my home village to all of the world. Everyone left me behind and Master Flandre sent me to you." Kyll knew she was leaving parts out. The was obviously a habit. She only wanted to put out the information that was pertinent first then be approached with questions after ward. On top of that, this crystal was very uncomfortable.

Zeno raised an eyebrow at her story.
That's a strange village... And a strange way to get exposed too. A crater large enough to expose the village, how much of the village was left to be exposed?

More questions appeared in his mind, but Zeno decided to let the issue rest. He didn't know of a reason why Kyll would lie to him, and her story made sense... Somewhat, at least. If she did lie, he would find out at some point. Maybe finding Flandre would be a good idea.

Zeno released Kyll from the crystal with a snap of his fingers, letting the prison crumble into smaller and smaller pieces until they had disintegrated into nothingness.

"I see. Well, you passed your exam in that case." He said as he turned his back to Kyll. There had to be more to the story, but she would have to tell him voluntarilly. "At least you didn't destroy any facilities. But.. I want you to be able to control yourself completely in battle by the time of your next exam..." The guildmaster spoke until he calmly walked back to the guildhall.

"At least you didn't destroy any facilities."

Kyll flinched. "I will have to go to the Spooky Forest to find out whether I did destroy anything or not," Kyll bowed in respect when Zeno announced to her that she passed. "Thank you and I will come back to you with my findings." Kyll turned around and began to leave from the area and then stopped looking at the ground. "I would like to know what is in store for me later on."