by Mura Kensho 13th April 2020, 10:58 am
Good question… about the treasures, that was. Mura assumed that this place was unofficially some kind of memorial, but then again, no official notes about that. Besides, who would hold a memorial this far into the glaciers? Clearly, they were allowed to just take any treasures from this place… but first, they would have to deal with the wolves and the reindeer.
Another good deduction made by Shigeo was the note of the wolves being undead. Perhaps some entity was controlling them from deep within the cave tunnel, since the wolves didn’t react realistically to the cold waters. The reindeer had suddenly charged right at the shaman, and he used his hand to brake it in its tracks, sliding closer to Shigeo’s position with the reindeer trying to stab him down.
While the reindeer was temporarily bound by his free hand simply holding its forehead back from him, he answered: “Undead… you’re right. I don’t sense any life force from them… only magic.” He pushed the reindeer back with his hand, and before the reindeer could find its foothold again, he briefly manifested a wall of fire in front of it. That was enough to scare the living creature away, but the wolves were still trying to maul Shigeo.
With Shigeo’s telekinetic powers, he pulled down large chunks of the ice ceiling above them down towards the wolves, causing them to lose a few limbs but not knocking them out completely. With undead creatures, it’d take a lot to kill them, but Shigeo didn’t hold back. Right after the ice chunks had landed, he made them shatter into millions of tiny ice shards that rained down on the wolves, drilling into their bodies. And at last, they were turned into quite a mess with the ice blending technique, where Shigeo turned the ice shards into a cold blender and made short work of the wolves that were no more.
And with that, they were fairly safe once again… for now.
Some of the fleshy juice from the wolves had landed on Mura, but he quickly washed it off by turning a surface of ice into floating water, pulled the water up like waterbending, and washed his face and jacket with it. “Woah, there… I see that you’ve improved since last time. Good job, Shigeo!” he thanked the young Fairy Tail Wizard, “You had a good point about the treasures… maybe we can snatch a-“
The wolves had turned into a rather mushy pool of flesh. From the flesh, however, red flames emerged. They were small and bright, but they soon rose up and revealed to be orbs of fire - classic, wrathful hitodamas. So they had controlled the wolves from the inside, huh? The red orbs burst forth, turning into the ghastly bodies of fallen sailors who used to dock in this cave for shelter. Their faces were full of rage and anger.
Mura grabbed the handle of his ninjaken, Harusame, and in the meantime, Kyuken had merged into Mura’s body from his back. With the sword, he jolted it once just enough to reveal some of the sharp metal. From that metal, a wave passed by Shigeo without harming even a hair on his body, but it burst out as a small, windy shockwave once it hit the middle of the red, burning ghosts of sailors. The shockwave cut the ghosts down to good size - to dust that pulverized in the wind. That was the three of them.
Unfortunately, from the icy walls and floor, more hitodamas came forth; all red, burning and full of wrath, they turned into the fallen sailors who saw their end in this cave, all wielding harpoons and short swords along with angry grins on their faces.
“Might be a few more than I imagined,” Mura expressed, watching groups gang up on him and Shigeo separately.
WC: 643
TWC: 1501