Job; Blockade [Shaku, Naraku, Kyll Vie]

job info:

The nobles across the cities of Fiore, especially so in Era and Oak town, knew his face. Scientists and scholars knew of his discovery in the Forgotten Desert and now he was going to save an important part of the land's economy with the help of two other mages, phase one was nearly complete and Shaku couldn't be happier. Of course that happiness blended into his overall cheerful expression that always lit his face up, deceiving anyone who would find some reason to distrust him. This went the other way too, as some would use his happy demeanor to demonize him somehow, but they'd be brushed off as conspirators. Things were progressing smoothly and everyone to this point just thought he was just being a helpful and polite mercenary, as with all low ranked mages. He had made a bit of a name for himself, but he was nowhere near as big as the leader of Eclipse Soul of revered as Lichborne. As soon as he and his partners on the job were recognized for saving the Clover Town railway, the second phase of his grand scheme would be ready to commence.

But first thing's first, he needed to wait for the two other mages whom he was going to partner up with to do a job like this. He was no fool, he knew that this was a bit more than he was used to, and because of this, he needed some extra help. Not only that, but it would be more efficient with multiple people, logically thinking of course. I hope they don't take too long, I can barely contain this thirst for some action! he thought while tapping his foot hurriedly. It was true, he hadn't fought in a while, and getting rusty was the last thing that he wanted. Also partly why he knew he needed help to dispatch of the monsters that plagued the station. Any minute now...

Zack was one of the two mages who would be joining Shaku on this particular task. He was a very powerful mage by most people's standards. However, he rarely flaunted his strength preferring to rely on his skill in combat and instinct. With the train to this area being shut down Zack had made his own way there. Rather than walking or running like most people he was soaring through the sky. It used a minimal amount of magic power and no physical power at all. Plus it was a hell of a lot more fun. He dropped down from the sky like a stone on arrival generating a small thud. He stretched out his arms and looked about. Now where were the two people he was meant to be meeting? He closed his right eye and concentrated on his left. The eyepatch he was wearing was not merely to cover his missing eye. No, it had its own properties. He looked at various people in turn and then saw one person who had some discernible magic power. His power was quite low though, that of a D rank mage. He couldn't quite identify the type though. It seemed that some of it focused on his eyes as a bit of magic power seemed to be concentrated there. However, the rest seemed to flicker between shadow and light. Not something he'd seen before. Quite interesting. Particularly as it seemed to have the metallic quality to it that he associated with metal mages, requippers and weapon mages. A truly difficult thing to determine.

"Hey there." Zack said with a wave as he walked over to the mage. He was approaching from the man's left. "You here to deal with the blockade like me?" He hoped this man was one of the two as he was intensely curious about the man's magic now. He always found unknown things somehow thrilling. It was strange then that he had an item that allowed him to potentially gauge an opponent's magical strength and type. However, rather than using it to alter his combat to defeat the opponent he used it to alter his combat to prolong the combat. Of course, he couldn't judge physical strength or skill. Nor could he judge ingenuity, but it was still enough in most cases. It was particularly useful as he didn't like to kill so by judging his opponent well enough he didn't destroy them.

What was odd though was that he didn't think of it like that. He went by instinct more than rational thought. So scanning a target and altering his combat to suit was purely subconscious.

Kyll sighed as she held a map in her hand. She hated these things. Maps were hard to read and make out, but Kyll was willing to do what she could to find her way on foot, because after all she could not afford to pay for a trip by "train" or even by car. Kyll was restricted to her knowledge of terrain more so than ever now. Kyll sighed as she crumpled the map in her hands. She finally saw two other mages standing as if they were meeting up. Kyll didn't think she was going to team up with other mages this time.

Kyll's smile began to grow as she walked up to the two. Her long black hair was bound in a cloth, but it swayed back and forth. Kyll was wearing her normal attire for missions. A blue and white sleeveless kimono top sat loosely on top of her black body suit. She held one of her white gloved hands up and waved as she came closer showing that she was friendly. Finally she came closer to the two and stopped. "I thought I was going to get lost on my way here, but I guess I finally made it. I'm Kyll. From Eclipse Soul. I'm here to help out with the mission. I guess you guys are here to work too?" Kyll said with a smile. Kyll never blinked when she spoke. In fact, she never even opened her eyes. She pushed her glasses back with her index finger.

"I thought I was going to get lost on my way here, but I guess I finally made it. I'm Kyll. From Eclipse Soul. I'm here to help out with the mission. I guess you guys are here to work too?" "You here to deal with the blockade like me?" they both said, pretty much introducing them to him. "Yep! I'm Shaku, a guild-less trying to earn a name in different cities." he said, smiling at the two of them. This was obviously a lie, but they didn't know that. Since Shaku didn't really know what guilds they were from, he just went the old "guild less" introduction. The more he progressed with ruses like this, the better he got, but the better he got, the colder he became. It's a necessary sacrifice... he thought before observing the man with an eye patch a bit closer.

He looks a bit weathered, as if he's seen things. Maybe he's stronger than meets the eye he said before letting an audible chuckle out. Shaku walked over to the station conductor on the platform of the frozen train, gesturing for the two others to follow him. "So. All you need is for us to clear the railway?" he said, fully confident that all three of them could do the job rather quickly. "Well when you put it like that, you make it sound easy!" the man yelled, sounding like he was in a state of panic. "Don't worry sir, it won't be long until you can start your trade again" Shaku reassured the old man, hopefully he'd be right about that.

"Hey there Kyll, Shaku. I'm Zack. Currently guildless since the destruction of my guild." he said with a slight sadness to his tone of voice. However, that quickly faded as he grinned and spoke again. "But enough about that. Let's get on with the mission." Once more he scanned his new teammate, the one called Kyll. Her magical power was higher than Shaku's, about that of a C rank mage. Her aura was a bit more distinct as well though it was harder to define too. It was not a magic he was familiar with. It was similar to that of his friend Ebony, but different as well. He assumed it was somehow related to space. It reminded him of stars with a shining light, but he noted a darkness as well as if the magic wasn't quite pure. No, it wasn't a magic he knew well. He wondered what it was. There didn't seem to be any other magic aura's mixed in so it seemed she was focused on one magic unlike many mage's he had met.

He listened to the conversation between Shaku and the train conductor. So the task was simple enough. Go unblock the track and then deal with those responsible for blocking it. A vulcan and a goblin. Not too bad a job and it shouldn't take long particularly with someone as strong as Zack here. Not that he was going to go all out. He wasn't even planning to use a weapon unless he had to though he was tempted to do so if only to test out some of his new sword magic abilities. Devon had come on this mission too, but he had asked her before arriving to only intervene if necessary. He was in the mood to do some fighting.

Kyll looked over at Zack and smiled. She kept a happy aura around everyone she met, no matter what. She then looked over and cracked her knuckles. When she heard the words Vulcan and goblin, she jumped up. "ARE YOU SERIOUS?! ANOTHER VULCAN ISSUE?! AND GOBLINS?! YES!" Kyll shouted aloud. She then looked around and blushed. "I mean... that's bad.. yeah that's real bad." Kyll giggled to herself. She loved fighting Vulcans. They were stupid and she loved fighting stupidity. Goblins on the other hand were crafty stupid to her. They were tricksters. Goblins were not afraid to sacrifice one of their own for the sake of getting to their goal. Kyll looked over at the train tracks. "If we find grafiti, I'm certain you're going to find the goblin. They love writing all over everything. We could use their love for shiney objects to our advantage so that we can separate the separate the goblin from the Vulcan." Kyll thought. She smirked. "Goblins love to be around rotten food and old scraps of paper." She cracked her knuckles again and smiled to herself. "I love fighting vulcans too. They make me laugh."

The pirate seemed like he wanted to get right down to business while the woman was trying to find different ways to abuse the goblin weaknesses, visibly and audibly excited to fight these creatures. He liked her, as he was also quite ready to take down the things troubling the railroad, though he wasn't so excited as to express it as he had. She's right though, shiny objects attract them and graffiti is how they mark their territories. That means she has experience in the field. That, and she announced loudly that she's fought other Vulcans. That'll be good for when we actually start trying to take the damn things down. "I love your attitude Kyll. The best way to start a challenge is with a good mindset." he said, giving her his thoughts on her bright way of looking at things. "No sense just standing around here. Let's get to it" he said, jumping off the platform and onto the steel tracks, beginning to walk forward towards the tree.

Shaku held out his hand and an ethereal sword appeared in his hand, increasing his speed significantly. Let's tango you Vulcans he thought with a determined expression washing over his face.

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Zack heard the words of Kyll, but didn't pay much attention to it. Thinking things through wasn't his style at all. He lifted up his eyepatch revealing a green orb with a mystic symbol on it. He reached towards this with one hand and removed a black longsword. With his other hand he pulled out from the eye a green longsword. He then lowered the eyepatch with a slight movement of his head. He didn't care what the others thought about this. He had his reasons for bringing out the swords. They had reached the log that was blocking the track. It was quite large and as Kyll mentioned it was covered in graffiti. As they got closer two vulcans leapt onto the log with a goblin between them.

Zack grinned to himself. "One target each." he said and looked at the other two then suddenly lunged forward with his swords at the ready. Suddenly he seemed to drop the swords, but they stopped and began to rotate about him rapidly. It was going so fast that it appeared there were a dozen swords rather than two. This spinning blade of death was then launched at one of the vulcans. The vulcan however, was fast enough to jump over the blade. Zack frowned slightly as his two swords returned to his hands. As they did though the three opponent's all threw things at him. The goblin threw a stink bomb, but Zack deflected it. As he also did with a rock thrown by the first vulcan. The second however, managed to hit him on the cheek. He sighed and rubbed his cheek. It was bruised briefly, but it suddenly seemed to vanish. "That all you've got? Really?" Zack asked incredulously.

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Kyll looked at the monsters. She stood in a ready stance and held her arms beside of her. A magic circle with a star in the center appeared and spun around fast. She moved her arms up then forward. The circle began to spin faster and three beams of light flew out of the circle straight for the monsters. [color=yellow]Let's see which one does what now... She thought. Immediately the goblin jumped forward for the burst of light and flew back into a tree dazed, but the vulcans crossed their arms.

The first vulcan looked at her and laughed sending a Haymaker punch at her. Kyll blocked and slid back about three feet. The other ran straight for her sending an upper cut. Kyll kept her arms crossed and blocked. She was sent up into the air about two feet and landed on the ground. She giggled and looked over at the goblin who was still koed on the ground. "Looks like he's done..." Kyll laughed and hopped side to side on her feet. She looked over at Shaku. "Shineys are always my specialty." Kyll smiled. She loved making stars and comets with magic and she loved her innate abilities with the magic, even though it was not her own. She hoped both of the mages would not notice the unpurities to her magic. She tried to make it her own ever since she discovered it.

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Shaku took the opportunity that his to allies provided to speed past the enemies and take care of the other problem that the railway faced, the enormous tree blocking the trains. Even if they took care of all the monsters, the tree would still be there, so he had to do something about it. After speeding up to it as fast as he could, he swung his sword down as hard and quick as he could, slicing the tree in two. Next, he pushed off both halves with all his might from the steel tracks, and then only one problem remained, the Vulcans. So he was off, flying down the track at high speeds aiming for the vulcans that had now taken notice of him. A horizontal strike was thrown at one of the creatures, who simply held up both forearms to get cut instead of its solar plexus.

His next strike was on the unaware Vulcan, and it was a bit different. He brought his weapon up as if going for a vertical cut downwards, but instead brought it down has if he was cutting a row of wheat, in more of a cleaving fashion towards the back of his enemy's legs. When he did this though, the previous Vulcan had recovered from the shocking move an was able to move into a position to block his weapon with its meaty palms. It didn't matter, this thing had taken so much punishment that it didn't quite matter the next attack, it would go down. But apparently, not without a fight, because at that moment, it swung its fierce meaty palm at him! The palm strike through pushed him back a few feet, but his sword was used to block it, inflicting yet another cut to the monster's bloody hand, causing it to become even angrier.

It beat on its chest angrily as it charged at him like a steaming train, out for blood. The sight of the liquid excited him enough to use a spell of his which affected his vision and eyes. He closed his eyes for a second before opening them again, they were altered, a deep red with a dark grey circle around his pupil filled his pupils. So useful, it's almost as though the Vulcan is getting slower he thought as he awaited the monkey beast to launch an attack. As soon as it got close enough, it lunged at him, both its hands ready to strangle him to death. But that's not what happened, no, what happened was that Shaku gracefully spun clockwise around the creature as he tried to tackle him, leaving it in a trail of dust behind him. This is getting fun he thought with a merry expression on his face, his sanguine eyes fixated on the liquid drops on the dirt that the monster traveled on.

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The goblin was already out for the count and one of the vulcans was so badly damaged it wouldn't last much longer. The other was still quite fighting fit and that Zack couldn't allow. He was being shown up by these other mages and that again he couldn't allow. Even the vulcan seemed to see him as less of a threat for it turned on him and launched a powerful punch, but Zack caught this in his hand without even moving an inch and leapt back. He then lunged forward and slashed across it. Sure the beast was tough and it blocked it reducing the impact, but Zack was far stronger than this beast. Even though it blocked with both arms those arms were severed off by the impact. The beast would likely die of blood loss shortly so Zack had pretty much won. However, he wouldn't just let it bleed to death. No he'd finish this properly. He wasn't a dark mage who tortured an opponent to death.

"This one's pretty much down." Zack said preparing for the finishing blow. There was no way it could block now, only dodge his attacks. Yes, it wouldn't be long now before this vulcan was down. This had been to easy. The magic that Kyll had used had peaked his interest slightly though. It seemed that she had some star-based magic as he suspected, but there was still something off about it that he couldn't quite put his finger on. Shaku however had not used any magic until the last moment and that only seemed to change his eye colour and increase his reaction time. A useful ability. However, he wondered if that was the man's main magic or it he was hiding its true nature.

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Kyll looked at the Vulcan who had been 'disarmed.' Kyll giggled at her thought. She knew that was wrong to laugh, but that was just too good to pass up. Then the Vulcan who looked at her in a that could only be recognized by animals. Kyll sensed it and she waved her hands in front of her. "I'm sorry I just thought of a particularly funny pun..." Kyll said. "Please forgive me... I didn't mean to laugh about that." The vulcan however hit shock and lost consciousness. "Sorry..." Kyll said with a sort of half cocked smile. "I my thought was you disarmed the poor thing." Kyll giggled again then cleared her throat. She clapped her hands and bowed her head in prayer to the universe wishing the two vulcans a wonderful journey. "I didn't... kill the goblin." She said pointing towards the knocked out short creature. "If he comes to, we could use him for information.... or we can make our way further to this blockade." Kyll put a finger on her chin and looked at the goblin. "I never heard of goblins and Vulcans working together. This is very interesting... I wonder what they are capable of when they put their trickster brains and brawny strength together."

His sword was about to disappear and he knew it too, so as much fun as he was having hurting the monster in every which way, their game had to come to an end. It was his turn, he rushed the creature and swung horizontally at its abdomen, which it dodged with ease with a simple hop backwards. Then he came up, the killing blow. The weapon was jerked upwards, aimed at the bottom of the creatures chin, and despite the desperate attempts to move its hands in the way of the blade, it was no use. Shaku's weapon slid through the monster's beat up hands like a hot knife through butter, eventually piercing its skull and taking it down for good.

Although he was full of adrenaline at this point and he wished there was more things to kill, he had to behave himself and this of the job at hand, which was essentially complete. "Looks like that's all of them. I expected more, though" he said with slight disappointment in his voice as he walked over to the man with the eye patch. "That's a really nifty thing you have under there" he said while dropping his blood stained weapon to the ground. As soon as it touched the dirt, it disappeared, didn't even have to use my chaos magic he thought, again, slightly disappointed that the job had ended to quickly. Oh well. We'll just grab our jewels and never have to deal with this again

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The basic mission was done. Shaku had dealt with the blockade and between the three of them they had easily dealt with the opponents that had caused the blockade. The two vulcans were well and truly dead from their quite bloody attacks and the goblin was unconscious. What was quite interesting was Kyll's idea. Goblins and vulcans were not the type to work together. Particularly vulcans who normally posessed other creatures bodies rather than working with them. "I can agree with you there Kyll. It seems odd a vulcan would work with a goblin rather than just taking over the body" Zack said with a nod as he lifted up the eyepatch and returned both the swords into the eye of emptiness, which seemed to have impressed Shaku. His comment distracted him from his train of thought enough to make a comment. "It comes in handy. Means i'm not carrying around heavy weapons all the time." However, once that comment was made he turned back to the unconscious goblin considering why they might of been working together with the vulcans.

"Its possible, I suppose, that the goblin had the plan, but not the muscle so used its brains to persuade the vulcans. Vulcan's are normally not that bright after all." he suggested, but that was his only contribution. Thinking things through like this wasn't in his nature. "I doubt its too big a deal. Let's just make sure the track's clear and go get the reward. I think we're done here."

Kyll walked forward to find a tree in the middle of the train tracks with graffiti all over it. Kyll skipped toward the tree and took a stance. Her feet were held out more than shoulder length and she was leaning on her left foot. She held her left hand in a fist almost right near her cheek. She opened her eyes slightly revealing glowing green irises. Kyll held her hand in front of her palm facing out and all of her fingers aligned together. Kyll took in a deep breath. As soon as her lungs filled to capacity, she held her breath for a couple seconds. Then she took another deep breath. Kyll took another deep breath and then her aura began to glow around her. It flashed on and off like a dying flash light battery, but then it began to shine. The yellow aura seemed more chaotic like it was a trickle from a dam with a crack in it. However, this time the aura didn't come flooding through. As soon as Kyll began to release the air she inflated her lungs with, Kyll sent a powerful fist forward. One could here the bang against the wood all through the forest. It seemed like thirty seconds went by, but a crack appeared in the trunk. The crack then rapidly made it's way all the way around the trunk. The tree fell apart into two peices. Kyll smiled and then walked up to the trunk calmly and grabbed one side of the tree and tossed it aside. She walked up to the second side and shoved it down. She dusted her hands off and walked up to Zack and Shaku. "Interesting magic you two have," she said. She looked at Zack and giggled. "I thought the patch was there for a fashion statement. Thus I was wrong." Kyll giggled again and her aura faded away.