Hello again! I'm very sorry for the late update! I started reading Homestuck again and... yeah. Anyway! Here's the next chapter! Oh and I forgot to mention last chapter, reveiw which characters you would like to be on your characters team/friend, if anyone, or if you want your character to be on their own! Enjoy!
Demure moved her spiky black bangs out of her face, rubbing her bright pink eyes. Envy and Riza had asked her to meet them outside the guild hall at six in the morning, so there she was, waiting, at half six. Suddenly Demure spotted a flash of purple and Riza randomly appeared in front of her.
"Sorry i'm late! I had to feed Blaze!" the purple squirrel thing appeared on her shoulder.
"Ok... But where's Envy?" Demure asked slowly looking around, expecting her to appear like Riza. Demure turned around and saw Envy's gray hair swishing around as she ran over to them, waving.
"Sorry! I overslept!" she scratched the back of her head, grinning.
"Anyway! Now we're all here! We need to head down through Magnolia and go to the train station, then we need to take the train to Shirayuki and that's where the job is!" Envy explained and picked up her bag off the floor.
"Let's go!" The trio were walking through Magnolia when a blonde haired girl came running up to them,
"S'cuse me! Have you seen a pink haired boy spitting flames run past?"
"No we haven't, are you a Mage by any chance?" Envy asked, spotting the keys hanging on her waist.
"Yeah I am! The names Lucy Heartfillia, from Fairy Tail! Anyway I must run! Gotta find that flaming idiot!" Lucy shouted and ran off. A black haired Mage then appeared behind her, sighing then chasing after her.
"Odd..." Demure muttered.
As the three mages neared the train station they heard sounds of shouting and struggling. They turned the corner quickly and came face to face with one of the train guards trying to hold of a rather large muscly man. The guard seemed to be having a lot of trouble holding the man back, and signs of sweat on the mans head indicated this. Riza took mattered into her own hands, she liked to help people, and that's what she does best. A serious expression came onto her face as she came up to the two men,
"Excuse me sir, are you having trouble with this man?" she asked politely.
"Yes! He was harassing a group of young girls by the train and refused to stop!" The guard explained quickly, as the large man grunted and finally yanked away from the guard. Riza nodded and pointed her left hand towards the man,
"I shall ask you to stop now!"
"As if!" the man shouted and Riza sighed, she raised her right hand beside her left as a large, powerful jet of dark blue water came rushing out of the gap between her hands, knocking the large man backwards onto the floor, K.O. This outbreak had attracted a rather large crowd, the fact that a small girl about 17 had beaten up a huge bulky man, probably around 28.
"Ummm Riza" Envy said, glancing up at the train times,
"Yeah Envy?"
"Out trains leaving!" Envy grabbed Riza's and Demure's arms running down the stairs and round the corner, flashing their train tickets and the man at the stand and quickly jumping through the closing doors. The three girls stood their panting for a few seconds before Riza started laughing,
"That was fun!" She laughed as Demure shook her head.
"Even though you could've made us miss the train..." Demure muttered and turned round, looking for some seats.
The train journey took two hours, by the time they got off it was already half past nine. Demure stepped out of the train with the two others behind her, she straightened out her shirt and looked down at the map and the job description,
"It says we need to go to the town hall, to meet the mayor who will explain it further." Demure said quietly, Envy nodded and headed off in the direction the map pointed to. As they passed by the houses they could plainly see it was quite a dirty town, some of the windows were smashed and the paint on the walls peeled. Several people pulled their curtains shut as the trio passed by, making sure they couldn't see inside the house. As they neared the large town hall in the centre a loud bang and a flash sounded from one of the dark alleyways in-between two houses. Envy ran over to the alleyway and peered down it, there was nothing there. She sighed and walked back,
"Probably one of the mages we have to catch!" She exclaimed and caught up with the other two.
The three mages knocked on the large wooden doors to the mayors room, it opened a crack and a short mans head popped out,
"H-hello, how may I help?" he squeaked,
"Hello sir, we're the three mages from Sky Reapers, the ones that came for you job?" Riza stepped forward and the door opened wider to reveal a short, plump bald man.
"Do come in! I shall explain more inside!" the man led them inside the small office. "Sit down! Sit down!" he beckoned to an orange sofa sitting in front of his desk, the three girls squeezed onto it and listened to the man.
"So! My name is Allen and I'm the mayor of Shirayuki! As you probably saw on your way here, this town is quite dirty and somewhat terrified. We want to clean up and lead a nice happy life, but we cannot! There are a group of scary evil mages that come here everyday! Demanding payment for nonsense things or they will take our woman and children!" Allen wiped a tear from his eye, "That's where you come in. We, I would like you do get rid of these mages! Until you catch them, we can offer you a place to stay, although its not much..." Riza jumped up from the sofa, obviously bored,
"Ok! Thanks for the information, we should go and find them as soon as possible!" She ran out of the door and down the corridor with a swish of her purple hair.
"Umm ok, the place you can say is marked with a sign! Good luck!" Allen said as the other two left after Riza, calling a thanks behind them.
A few hours later, they still had no luck in finding them, the trio had searched everywhere they could for the rogues but they couldn't find them. It was getting dark do they decided to head to the place they were aloud to say, knocking on the door and saying who they were. The inside of the house was surprisingly clean compared to the outside. The floor was covered in a light green carpet and the walls in a creamy coloured paint. The lady that owned the house introduced herself as Airi and said their room was upstairs on the left.
"Have a nice sleep!" Airi smiled up at them as the mages went into their room.
"Damn... Didn't think we'd have to stay in this house, I thought we'd catch them before now! Oh well, try again in the morning!" Riza flopped down onto one of the single beds and quickly fell asleep. Envy rolled her eyes and laid down on another bed, falling asleep a few minutes later.
Demure sat on the edge of her bed, looking out of the window, she glanced over at the two others and sighed, usually she was a quite girl and rarely talked at all, so how come she'd agreed to come on a job with these two then? She sighed again and laid back on the bed, before noticing a quick flash go by the window, followed by a loud bang. Getting up again she walked to the window, brushing some of her black bangs out of her eyes so she could see. She stood there a minute before deciding it was nothing, taking a step back and turning. It happen again. Only this time the window of the house was flung open and several black figures jumped through the open window. Demure jumped and spun on her heel, facing the five hooded people, lit up by a tiny flicker of candlelight. Before any of the figures could move she jumped backwards and shook the nearest person to her awake, Envy.
"Huh...? What?" Envy rubbed her eyes and sat up, noticing the five people in their room. "Hey! Who the hell are you! What're you doing in here?" she jumped up, awake now. One of the figures pulled down his hood and revealed a highly tattooed head, with one particular mark standing out from the rest. "Nightmares Revenge!" Envy exclaimed and jumped back.
"Hehe well If it isn't little Envy! The little be-" before he could say anything else Envy shouted something and a rather large tornado hit the man, knocking him out of the windows along with a few chairs. The other people took down their cloaks (Rather dramatically) and revealed more men, with more tattoos and the same mark standing out. Demure glanced over at Envy with a questioning look, but decided not to ask anything, rather to beat up these people first. Demure looked back at Riza, who somehow had seemed to sleep through all this, oh well, don't want to make too much of a mess now. She whispered something and two shiny crystal blades attached to her wrists appeared. Running at one of them, she knocked his over, effectively knocking him out, this seemed almost too easy. One of the men jumped and turned into this weird black blob thing with eyes.
"What the hell?" Envy shouted as it ran at her, spreading out to cover her and trap her in the middle of its black blobby body. Demure whispered something again and a large crystal hammer appeared in front of her, she grabbed the handle and swung it into the side of the blob, only for it to bounce back and hit one of the other men, sending him flying and making a hole in the wall. Her hammer shattered and tiny bits on crystal flew to the floor, creating a sparkly effect. The last man apart from the blob knelt down and placed his hands on the floor, a second later large green plants shot from the ground, wrapping around Demure's body. She struggled but the plants grip was too tight. The blades appeared back on her wrists and she started to hack her way through the plants stem, finally cutting through and falling to the floor. The stem fell on top of the unsuspecting man, who was busy thinking he got victory, it crushed him and maybe broke a few bones.
BANG! Demure turned to see Riza on the floor, rubbing her head.
"Owie..." she muttered and stood up slowly, realising the scene in front of her, "Wha...?" she stared dumbfounded at the large black blob and the giant plant on the floor. "What happened here?"
"...Just help me get this thing off Envy."
"Envy's in there? Snap! Ok I'll help!" Riza jogged over to the blob that was holding her friend inside and shot a powerful jet of water at it, was that a fish? The blob seeped onto the floor as though it was melting and revealed Envy in the middle, rubbing her back. The black heap on the floor turned back into the now soaked tattooed man and laid still.
"I think we found our rogues!" Envy smiled and poked one.
"We should take them back to the mayor!" Demure knocked on the mayors wooden doors, the plump bald mans head appeared again, opening the door wider now that he saw who it was. Opening the door revealed he was wearing bright blue duck pyjamas and a blue nightcap.
"Excuse my clothing! I was in bed, now I hope you've come with good news!" Allen the mayor sat down at his chair and beckoned for the trio to come inside.
"Yep we have!" Envy smiled and led the two others inside, each of them dragging one of the men and Airi (who seemed stronger than she looked) dragging the last two. Allens jaw dropped as he clapped,
"Well done! Well done! Thank you do very much! Do tell me what happened!" Envy proceeded to explain what had happened with a little help from Demure.
"Well that went quite well!" Riza grinned as the three young mages stepped off the train back in Magnolia. Each of them help a bag of 80,000 jewels. Gladly they headed back to the guild, finishing their mission.
