The Green Fairy & The Major (Job)

The view from above this small river village was amazing. Arcadia still couldn't believe one cute little kitty... Exceed... one Exceed was strong enough to lift her, let alone carry her all the way from the nearest train station. The young slayer wasn't bulkiest or heaviest human. She was still highly impressed, because she would be hard-pressed to lift someone to scale larger than her as she was larger than an average Exceed. That's even with the strength of a dragon in her.  

Arcadia was no stranger to gliding about on her own. The last time she had this grand of a bird's eye view though, she was riding on Khione Glacier's back in the skies above Dragnof. Also her heart just couldn't see any of these cute little kitties as vehicles. That made her stomach feel a thousand times better than it had on the train ride from Magnolia to the  train station nearest the village.  

Word Count: 157
Total Word Count: 157/1500

Health: 375
Magic Power: 300

The young slayer called out to the Exceed holding her aloft, "Thanks again, Ellie! This is hella more awesome than a stinky ol' train."

Ellie was black furred Exceed with a blaze of white up the middle of her nose and a white left forepaw/hand. Strapped to her back was a size-changing katana. Ellie was a full-fledged officer in the Rune Knights, ”My major sent me. I'm sorry  I wasn't able  to fly you all the way from Magnolia. The major's life is in great danger, and well... I better let him explain the rest. Hold on, we're going in.”

Ellie wheeled  around, circling down into the village below. The black and white  Exceed set Arcadia down in the middle of  the heavily guarded  plaza in the village center. The Exceed hovered and saluted a man in the armor of a Rune Knight major. ”Sir!  Sorry for any delay. This is Arcadia Fairchilde, the ice dragon slayer you sent word for.”

Major Tanaka  nodded to Ellie and returned the salute. “Very good, Lieutenant. I brief the young lady, myself. Return to your squad on the perimeter. Our scouts have reported signs of the assassins just outside the village. Keep an eye out.”

The Rune Knight Exceed nodded, ”Aye, Sir.” She remained hovering, turning to offer a smile smile to Arcadia, ”Take care of our major. Hopefully these dark wizards will not get past my squad or the other knights, but if they do we're counting on you.”  Ellie flew on off to join her squad.

Major Tanaka now turned to Arcadia and bowed solemnly, “I wish we were meeting under less dire circumstances. Captain Akiyama's report of your training session with the recruits was quite impressive.  This was supposed to be a visit home. Instead, here we are looking for the infamous assassin, Kangaax. He specializes in ice make magic. He's rumored to be leading a team already in the area. That's why I sent for you, an ice dragon slayer.  I just wish we knew which dark guild put out the contract he was given. That's why we must take him alive, if we can.”

Word Count: 356
Total Word Count: 513/1500

Health: 375
Magic Power: 300

The idea of sparing the would-be killer brought a frown to Arcadia's face. The young slayer was far from blood thirsty, but with her personal history, the idea of murderous scum escaping karma was not her favorite. The major was correct though, it was more important to learn which dark guild was behind sending the assassin.  She lifted her deep green gaze up to the major, "Alright, hopefully w-"

Shouts and commotion just outside the village plaza meant there was no more time for talk. A woman, a feline woman, older and taller than Arcadia shouted out the warning to all the Rune Knights in the plaza. "They're here!" The feline woman was Ellie, she had her voice and the same black fur with the same white markings.

Arcadia watched Ellie lead her squad against four or five dark wizards. She didn't waste any time using a little spell of hers to bend the light around her and the major to make appear the two of them were standing a few meters from where they really were. "I think we should hold right here, Major Tanaka. I smell more than are over there.  I have a feeling they'll be coming to us soon enough."

Meanwhile, Rune Knights from all across the plaza poured over to reinforce Ellie and the other Rune Knights already engaged in combat. In the middle of the developing chaos, from a side of of the plaza now empty of Rune Knights a small swarm of hummingbirds made of ice sped toward Arcadia and Major Tanaka. Or rather, the five icy hummingbirds flew straight to the empty space where their image had been refracted to by Arcadia's spell.

When she saw it was an ice spell, she dove and rolled in  among the hummingbirds. Each of the icy little birds exploded into thousands of icy bits of shrapnel. Breathing deeply, the young slayer inhaled cloud of sharp icy bits, and taking its magical power for herself. Before she could make out the wizard responsible for casting the explosive ice spell, she felt telltale vibrations through her bare feet. Something was coming up underneath her.

The young slayer back flipped about 5 meters just before a giant  ice mole burst up from the ground where she had just been standing. Arcadia readied herself to charge the icy mole as it climbed out of the ground. This ice make assassin meant business with two sneak attacks like that, but so did the young slayer.

She leaped and sunk her little fangs into the ice mole, its digging claws digging back at her. Arcadia took a couple chunks out of its icy hide, crumbling the mole to bits as she consumed its magic.

Word Count: 452
Total Word Count: 965/1500

Health: 318.75
Magic Power: 300

Stats:

Spell:

Refraction - No cooldown

The major looked on horrified as the young girl dove right into the bursting ice creatures, and was just as impressed as she seemed to anticipate the next one bursting up from underneath where she had been. Tanaka was still alarmed at how things were starting out, drawing out his sword. “What're you doing?!”

Arcadia growled back over her shoulder, ”You brought me out here to use this guy's own magic against him, right? Well... that's what I'm doing. Just hang tight.”

Her dress was scuffed, and she was looking some worse for the wear. Arcadia felt ready for anything this monster could throw at her. Ahead she finally saw the wizard who'd fed her so nicely so far. Seeing a pair of mages step up alongside the ice make assassin, she recast her refraction spell, pushing her displaced image a few meters to her left.

Ellie and the rest of the Rune Knights were slowly gaining the upper hand against the underling mages that had been sent to distract them. Arcadia figured, she just had to hold out long enough for them to come back. Truthfully though, for once she was feeling like she had a shot to end this before Ellie and the others were finished mopping up across the plaza.

The wolf charged ahead first, falling for the same trick the ice make wizard did. It pounced right on Arcadia's refracted image, leaving it open to three icy darts, she had grown from her fingers and whipped away as she sped by. Each one struck deep and true, dropping the take over mage to the ground back in his normal human form.

The second underling mage blasted a freezing ray from a ring. The young slayer had been laying off her own ice magic much as possible, not wishing to give her adversaries reason to stop feeding her their ice magic. This time she threw in a little play acting to hide that she was eating the ice ray. Arcadia cried out, and rolled back on the ground. Having consumed the magic of the ray, she pretended to be slow in getting up in hopes of inviting a couple more blasts.

The underling mage obliged with a wide-angle cold blast, and the ice make assassin unleashed an ice panther to finish off the young girl who had dared rush at him. Arcadia consumed the wide-angle cold blast, and rose to meet the panther. The two assassins' delight in impending victory was instantly turned to dread.

As the panther's icy body crumbled from being consumed, an aura of raging, freezing mist erupted all around Arcadia. Her deep green eyes frosted over into the palest, purest blue, as did her long pale blonde locks. The girl's little canines growing more prominent with the predatory grin that grew across the slayer's face. Dragon Force achieved.

Word Count: 475
Total Word Count: 1440/1500

Health: 319.25
Magic Power: 270

Stats:

Spell:

Refraction - No cooldown
Ice Dragon Frozen Claws – Duration 1/2, Cooldown 0/3

Arcadia pressed her advantage on her stunned opponents. Breathing in deep, she unleashed a roar of swirling freezing mist filled with glinting razor-sharp shards of ice. The assassins were both too slow in reaction to avoid the young slayer's freezing breath. Forming a frozen blade on one arm, Arcadia parried the underling mage's punch as she close in at blurring speed. The chill of her icy aura seeped straight to their bones, slowing each of the assassins in comparison to the battle-raging slayer.

Her dragon force enhanced punch struck down under the odd angle she held her ice bladed arm at. He was knocked cold to ground, and Arcadia managed to cut through one of the ice make assassins' weaker spells to slice down his chest. She followed with an extra punch up under his chin.

The young mage sneered looking down over her unconscious foes, reluctantly letting her icy blade melt away. Ellie was leading her squad on over to help arrest the defeated, would-be assassins. Arcadia called back to Major Tanaka, ”He's all yours, major.”

Major Tanaka chuckled and beamed in relief and satisfaction, “Excellent work.”

Word Count: 188
Total Word Count: 1628/1500

Health: 319.25
Magic Power: 240

Stats:

Spell:

Ice Dragon Roar - No cooldown
Ice Dragon Frozen Claws - Duration 2/2, Cooldown 0/3
Ice Dragon Frosty Blade – Duration 1/3, Cooldown 0/4