Two Wizards and a Black Flag [Shuhei & Naraku]

Shuhei might of been sailing towards the island a sleep so had no idea what was going on, but he wasn't the only powerful mage with no knowledge of what was happening. Zack Rose, self proclaimed Sky King, the sky demon slayer was also on the island. Yet the reason he wasn't aware of what was happening wasn't due to sleep or anything of that nature. No, he was too busy fighting off a giant three-faced tiger known as the Asura Tiger. It was quite a tough opponent and he was refusing to use any of his magic to take it down. This was a test of skill and strength, much like when he fought in the Annual Monster Festival of the Neutral Grounds. In each of his hands he wielded a sword, in his right the black sword the Nobility of Notus and in his other hand the teal sword bravery of boreas. Both of these were long swords and were his favoured weapons.

He backflipped, dodging a blow from the tiger's claws and then lunged forward slicing its central face's nose. The beast leapt back yelping in pain and Zack grinned broadly cracking his neck. "I heard you were fast, but...this seems slow. Show me what you've got cat." he said and lunged in for a head on strike. At the last moment though he changed his mind and rolled around to the left and leapt upwards slicing into its side. The beast had struck out at him and his roll had dodged the blow. However, the roll was not meant as a block. He had just changed his mind as to how he wanted to attack at the last moment. It was a habit of his and one that had saved his life by accident on more than one occasion. He shook his head absent mindedly and placed a hand over his one eye. The tiger roared in anger swinging its tail at him, but he merely leapt back. Even without sight he could sense the beast through its displacement of air. "Time to kick things up a notch." he said to himself. He was growing bored of this creature. If it had provided more of a challenge he might of spent longer fighting it, but that was not the case. He dashed forward again, this time going faster and the beast swung out both paws to strike him. However, it once again missed because Zack had leapt using his demon slayer strength and landed on its injured nose causing it howl in pain. "Sorry about that. Meant to get onto the head in one jump, but you moved." He kicked off the nose causing another howl of pain and the beast to swat at him. It missed narrowly and he landed on its back holding a sword out to each side. "It was fun, but we are done. Death by scissors." he said and then swung down both swords with all his might. The strength of his blow was so great it cleaved the beast's three faced head clean off killing it instantly. Before it hit the ground though Zack had leapt off its back and into a tree where he stood sniffing the air. There had to be something else around that would be fun to test his swordsmanship on. He couldn't smell any so he decided to head towards the sea.

Unfortunately, for the villagers anyway, the direction he was heading was away from their village. Fortunately, he would be meeting up with someone who would make saving their village a lot easier. Also, as they would have to travel across the island to get to the village it was going to make the mission a lot more fun for Zack. As he walked towards the sea he lifted his eyepatch, a trademark item, revealing a green orb into which he poured a tiny amount of magic power and then one after the other slid his swords into. They seemed to vanish entirely and as soon as they were gone he dropped the eyepatch and shook his head shaking the spike red hair held up by a green headband.

Surprisingly, he hadn't managed to get any blood onto his black leather jacket or his black jeans. Quite extraordinary really.

Zack had been meaning to challenge the strange gorilla lion crocodile thing himself, but before he'd had a chance it had struck out at a man who seemed unfazed by the blow. Not only did he seemed unfazed, but he moved so fast when he countered even Zack's enhanced eyesight could barely follow. This guy was fast. Even faster than Zack, though perhaps not faster than Zack's swordmanship. He wasn't sure about that point. It was a hard comparison to make.

"Nice punch." Zack commented and then considered the question. The Grey Settlement? Not a place he'd heard of, but he did remember seeing a village on the other side of the island when he flew over. "Well, it might not be the settlement you're looking for, but there's a place on the other side of the island. Looked pretty grey to me. " He shrugged and made a vague gesture pointing behind him. "Why do you want to go there anyway? Looked pretty dull to me." He hadn't seen anything interesting when he'd arrived a couple of days ago. Of course, he'd been quite high up at the time and had been going quite fast, as usual.

As he was waiting he sensed something behind him and leapt forward. The ground where he stood splattered and hissed. Zack turned to see a large lizard like creature with a green liquid dripping from its mouth. Everywhere the liquid dropped hissed and splattered. A giant lizard that drooled and spat acid. An annoying opponent and he'd just put his swords away. He would either have to use magic or use his slayer physicality. He didn't like using his magic unless he had to so he'd go physical. "Excuse me a moment." Zack lunged forward and the lizard spat at him once more, but he flew straight upwards avoiding the acid totally and dropped down with an axe kick to its head. The force of the blow was apparently strong enough to cause the beast to bite its own tongue as it wailed in agony spraying out a mixture of blood and acid. Zack grinned and ran down its back where he grabbed it by the tail. "Let's see if you can swim." he said and using his strength began to spin it round rapidly before throwing it into the sea. It flailed about, but couldn't turn its head enough to shoot acid at him so that was why he succeeded. Zack sighed deeply.

"I was hoping it would put up a bit of a fight." he said shaking his head. He walked over towards Shuhei, leaping over the small puddle of acid. "Now where we?" he asked with complete honesty. Zack actually had no idea. He had a bit of a memory problem with topics that didn't hold his attention totally. He paused for a moment then he managed to remember. "Oh yeah the grey island settlement. What's there of interest to a super speedy S rank mage like yourself?" He was quite good at telling a person's magic power.

As the large reptlian creature flew through the air a mixture of acid and blood fell from its mouth. The man dodged easily, which was good, but something happened that wasn't good. It wasn't good at all. The acid had damage the guy's boat. He hadn't meant to do that. No, that wasn't in his intentions at all and now he felt quite guilty. Particularly, when the man spoke in a low tone of voice about his boat. "Errr....Sorry. I'll save..." he was about to say he'd save up and buy the man a new boat he spoke about one they could take in the nearby village. It was an ideal solution and a lot cheaper than purchasing an entire boat to repay the guy. He paused and considered the situation. "Sounds like a plan. I'll lead you to the village I saw." he said and turned away and began to walk through the forest towards the other side of the island. Suddenly though he turned and looked at the man again. "The name's Zack by the way and this..." he said as a small green orb of light came out of his pocket. "is my partner Devon."

"Nice to meet you." the small orb said and then quickly expanded in size, the glow fading, to reveal a beautiful 5ft6 woman wearing green and white clothing. She had green, translucent, bug-like wings which faded into nothingness. She could summon them up again at will, but most of the time she didn't use them in her larger form. It was too much effort to fly in her big form for extended periods of time. She was a demon fairy from the kingdom of Malkariss, but that wasn't important. "Whats your name Mister?" It was a good question and one Zack hadn't even thought about. He'd almost forgotten to introduce himself completely. His mind generally was on overdrive so small details like pleasantries were often forgotten. Besides, after this journey he might never see the guy again and unless he did some more extraordinary things Zack would forget him anyway. Though the speed of that initial blow would keep him stuck in Zack's memory for a week or two at least.

"Who are we taking the boat from?" Zack asked as another afterthought. Was there a boat he had being built at this Grey Settlement? Or was he purchasing one or what? It was an interesting point that he was slightly curious about. He didn't have a problem stealing a boat if necessary providing it wasn't something like stealing a fishing boat from a poor fisherman or something. Though he felt that any fish that were caught in these waters would need more than a boat and a few men to catch considering the size of some of the bugs around here. A few made elephants look small though they were in the deeper parts of the island. The fish around here would likely be the size of whales. True beasts of the sea. Vicious and deadly like everything else on this island.

Shuhei's reaction to Devon wasn't one he hadn't seen before. It was quite standard when the tiny fairy turned into a beautiful woman. Even with the wings she was still beautiful and those faded soon after. He recovered quite well despite his initial reaction. Probably the fastest recovery he'd seen for this type of reaction to Devon. The man's name was Shuhei Kisaragi. The name was at least familiar to him. It was ringing a bell, but for Zack he didn't really remember people unless he met them and even then he only really remembered them if they did something impressive and even then only for a while. He liked to live in the moment. What was the point of remembering someone you might never meet again? Unless they were impressive. The fact that his name even rung a bell showed that something Shuhei had done in the past that he'd heard of was impressive. What it was or who he was Zack wasn't sure, but he was still impressed at the impression just the name had left. Few could claim such a title.

When the two of them heard where they'd be stealing the boat from they looked at each other and grinned. Fighting off against insane odds to do something insane fitted in with their nature perfectly. "Sounds like fun." Zack said and lifted up his eyepatch. "I'm gonna go double sword for this. You want Ambition or Zeal?" he asked Devon. She seemed to consider this for a few moments and then spoke.

"I think i'll take Zeal. I am feeling a bit springy." she said. Zack nodded and lifted his eyepatch to reveal the green orb known as the Eye of Emptiness. He reached towards this and pulled out a full sized 6ft long halberd, which he handed to her. Shortly after this he pulled out two long swords. One was known as Bravery of Boreas. Its grip was a darker color than the rest of the blade and was completely straight. It lead up to a hilt that was exactly perpendicular to the grip and was designed to look like a pair of conjoined dagger blades. At the centre of the guard was a large aquamarine gem. The blade itself was a deep aqua color, the base of the blade had a light-aqua attachment that caused the blade to have a natural indentation when one traced its length due to the angle that the attachment bended at. The second was known as the Nobility of Notus. This had a black handle connected to a hand guard that was longer on the right side. Attached to this elongated area of the hand-guard was part of the Nobility's blade so as to better aid the user in retaining their grip on the sword when it was being used. The blade was completely black like the rest of the sword and said blade was outlined in a light gray. A small cross was embroidered on the flat of the blade, just beneath the tip. He held these loosely by his side.

The halberd which was known as the Zeal of Zephyrus looked strange in the hands of Devon. It wasn't her preffered weapon. She preffered to wield the Bravery of Boreas, but it was a weapon she was proficient in using. It just looked odd seeing a beautiful woman wielding such a dangerous looking weapon, that was in fact taller than her. Zack meanwhile looked perfectly at home wielding the two swords and looked like a real swashbuckler with the eyepatch, which he'd pulled down after getting out the second sword.

"Let's pick up the pace. Walking isn't my style." he said and broke into a run with the swords held at his side so if you took his head into account he formed a rough triangle. Devon chuckled and too broke into a run the weapon held at her back so she didn't stumble on it. The two of them moved through the woods easily as if they'd been born there.