Guardians of the Aura
Chapter 6: You Had One Job, Scarlett...
Previous Chapter Next ChapterHonestly, their expressions didn’t surprise me in the slightest. Most of the room facepalmed or stared at Scarlett; a few didn’t even know what a Magma Warriors was, but did understand that Scarlett did something stupid. Some reactions were hilarious to see; Spike just stared at Scarlett with the biggest ‘what the fuck?!’ face he could manage, Luna sank on her chair with both hands on her face while groaning, and Eclipse actually stood up and started to bang his head on the nearest wall.
‘That would be pretty much my reaction, if I was on their place.’ I thought, chuckling. “Yeah, yeah, she’s an idiot. But she did fix things for us.” I said with a shake of my head.
“How so?” Eclipse asked, a small trail of blood pouring from his forehead and between his eyes.
“Well, after her fuck up, we got ready to fight, and...” I trailed off, looking at the door with narrowed eyes. I looked at Scarlett and raised an eyebrow; she nodded in confirmation.
“Three, two, one…” We said together, the doorbell chiming when we trailed off, making us grin and fist-bump.
“I take you know who is at the door?” Spike asked, standing up to answer the door.
“Sensing other’s auras isn’t my forte, but I can recognize when an aura is one of my friends’.” I shrugged. “The only thing I can say for sure is that two of the seven outside are my sisters.” I looked at Twilight. “May they come in?” I asked with a growing smirk.
“Sure.” She responded with a nod.
I snapped my fingers and seven girls were teleported inside the room, a few feet above the floor. They just had time to look down before they came crashing down.
“Ugh…” The groaned together before they got up and glared at me. I just waved with a shit-eating grin. “Dammit, Fairy. If you weren’t Aguion’s sister you'd be dead now.” Niner Blaze growled, her hair igniting in a display of fury and power.
“Come on, hothead, it was funny.” Scarlett snickered. The Fire-wielding unicorn stared at me for a moment before relaxing, her hair going back to its usual state.
“You’re an asshole.” She huffed, crossing her arms.
“And that’s why you love me.” I grinned, getting up and walking towards the new-comers. “Every one, those are my sisters Lightning and Amber, my soon-to-be-sisters-in-law Niner Blaze and Dranitta, and my friends Bella, Flora and Metta.” I said proudly while pointing to each of them. I got slapped on the back of my head my Niner, making me let out a laugh.
“Fuck off.” Niner Blaze hissed.
I calmed down a bit before talking again. “Oh, wow; I never understanded how the nickname ‘Ire’ went to me instead of you.” She growled again, and I felt her aura's power spike. I rolled my eyes and waved to her. “Ok, ok, sheesh. Anyways, those are the Aspects of Harmony, Princess Celestia, Shining Armor, Starlight Glimmer, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, Eclipse, Soul, Spike, Sapphyra and Mirror.” I said, pointing at everyone; they waved back, saying ‘Good to meet you.’ or something along those lines. “Ok, so, what are you all doing here?” I asked the group.
“We were seeing the town; the only thing that we haven’t see until now was the castle. Then we remembered you were out with Spike and decided to see what you were doing.” Dranitta responded with a shrug.
“We was telling them my last quest. I was going to start talking about how Scarlett un-made her fuck up and almost- wait, no spoilers.” I said, sitting back at Scarlett’s side. I looked at Twilight. “Can they stay for the rest of the story?”
The alicorn looked around the room. “There isn’t anywhere for them to seat, but sure.” My friends all nodded with smiles on their faces.
"We were going to return after checking on Fairy, but I guess we can stay a bit." Sunshine said.
I saw them walk to different sides of the room; some leaning on the near wall, some stood near us, etc. The only thing that caught my eye was that Flora put a hand on Eclipse's wound, curing it with a quick spell. I smiled and shook my head. “Ok, where was I? Oh, right. After Scarlett summoned the Warriors…”
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“I fucking hate you…” I said, preparing my Chasers once again.
“Sorry…” She said, trying to apologize before I could cut her beak off.
“Just shut up and kill them, and maybe I won’t kill you when we get back.” I said curtly.
We just stood there, waiting for them to make the first move. Suddenly, one of the warriors ran and tried to slash at Scarlett with its long sword. She ducked under the swipe and slashed the demon’s armor, but her attack bounced off effortlessly. The demon tried again, and she pulled out on of her pearls before pointing it to her attacker. “Blood Claw!” She shouted and the pearl turned into a bloodstone claw that parried the blow. she used the remaining blood to attack with a Blood Swipe, and made a great deal of damage on the warrior.
Another demon ran towards me and I shielded myself, the shield cracked with the mace’s impact, but still held. Yeah, I always sucked at defensive magic; my shields can stop a powerful energy attack, but physical attacks crack it like it’s made of wood. I dropped the shield and pointed my palm towards the demon, preparing an attack. “Arcane Missile!” I shouted, a blast of energy firing from my hand and impacting the demon’s armor, sending it flying back and into the cave’s wall.
I turned and sent another blast towards the demon that were attack my sister, taking its head off. “Thanks!” She said.
“You’re going to die, but not here. Carrying your corpse to our home would be a bit hard." She winced at my tone and turned to our enemies.
“They’re not that resistant to magic. Looks like this fight is yours, my magical strength is shit. To fight them I would end up activating my passive.” She frowned.
“Yeah.” I said, looking back at our opponents. Most used weapons like maces, spears and long swords, which meant that if they tried to come all at once, they would end up attacking each other more than us; the bad part is that they knew that. “They’re sending one by one to tire us out. We need to kill them fast, or we’ll die here.” I noted.
“Yeah. Any ideas?” She asked.
“No.” Was the only thing I could say, since another demon ran towards us and I had to evade its attack. I jumped over it and sent another blast, but this one blocked the spell with his mace. My eyes widened and I kicked him back with full force before jumping towards him again while releasing another spell. “Vault Breaker Kick!” I kicked the demon warrior, who was obliterated when the spell activated. I jumped back towards Scarlett, who was fight another demon, and kicked her adversary on the torso. The warrior stumbled a bit, giving Scarlett enough time to release her own spell. “Crimson Rocket!” She hurled her Fang at the demon, and the dagger destroyed the demon’s armor. I panted, trying to come up with a plan that would save our feathers.
“They learn our moves and are resistant to physical attacks. I think this is the real boss fight.” I commented with narroed eyes. “Or a Dark Souls level side-quest.”
“I’m going to attack them with my full strength. I summoned them here on the first place.” Scarlett said sorrowfully. “When they’re dead, slap the shit out of me until my passive deactivates.”
“No, that’ll be our last resort. I’ll come up with something, just hold on.” I said. I had to think fast, I was getting tired too quickly; my spells may be powerful, but my mana pool isn’t that big.
Another two ran toward us. We traded enemies and threw our spells. “Blood Storm!” Scarlett shouted and a vortex of blood went forwards, destroying the demon and two behind it. “Arcane Storm!” I sent a volley of arcane blasts that deleted my enemies’ life, as well as two more behind him.
I fell to my knees and panted hard. “This shit is taking too long…” I mumbled. Scarlett looked at me with concern, offering me a hand. I took it and nodded. “I’m ok. But we really need to end this now.” I said while standing up. When I got up I felt something coming from my cutie mark and smiled. “There we go…” I said, before my eyes went unfocused. When I returned to reality, I saw Scarlett throwing two bloodstone pearls that morphed into shields, protecting us from two demons that tried to attack.
“I really hope your passive gave you something useful.” She said in a strained voice as the warriors tried to smash their way in.
“It did. Remember the platform? It’s made out of metal; it’s the perfect weapon against them.” I said with a smirk, pointing upwards.
"Wait, you…" Scarlett trailed off when I nodded, and she smirked. “Fuck'em up.” She said as she let her shield fall and slammed both demons with the same spell. “Blood Fest!” The spell went to every direction around us, but it wasn’t strong enough to kill them, just knock them back. “Blood Dash!” She jumped and her blood carried her towards the ceiling, where she held up using her Fangs.
I stood up and prepared my spell, reaching for the platform above. “Copycat.” A pink aura covered my entire body. “Sarah.” The aura turned to a bright green. “Magnetic Storm!” The platform was covered in a green aura and was shred into pieces, the metal pieces spiraling around me and continuously attacked the demons around, cutting them open.
And that’s my passive! At any random moment, or when I’m in deep shit, I’ll copy a random spell from a random friend of mine, except for their Callings. The thing is, every spell I copy will cost a lot more than normal, I dare say the cost is double than normal. And since I already had too little mana, and this spell already costed a lot even when Sarah – Sarah is the girl I copied the spell from, by the way – is using it… Yeah I’m surprised this spell lasted more than three seconds.
I groaned and fell to the floor, completely out of mana. I looked around and saw that the warriors number’s had been diminished from eleven to five. “Fairy!” Scarlett shouted, dropping to the floor and running towards me.
“I’m okay…” I slowly got up, groaning when I forced my exausted body to move. “But I can’t fight anymore.” I frowned.
“They already learned most of my attack spells, and the others won’t do much damage…” Scarlett grumbled. “Shit.” She looked to me, I sighed and nodded.
“Kill them. They won’t be expecting repeated attack to be so strong.” I said. "But if you lose control and die, I'll ask Shadow Talon to revive you so I can kill you again myself." I growled.
She smiled and nodded, taking hold of all her pearls. “I just have eight. It’ll be enough to kill them, but I’ll activate my passive too. It won't fuck with my head that much, but I’ll protect you with a shield first, just to be sure.” She turned two of the pearls into blood and used them to push me into the far wall and create a dome of bloodstone to protect me.
‘Two? Those pearls are a manticore worth of blood.’ I thought. I looked at the side of the sphere, where a small entrance was located, big enough for me to pass but small enough that the demons won’t enter. I then located a small gap on the barrier so I could see what was happening outside.
I saw that the five demons returned from to this reality and were walking towards Scarlett; she smiled and threw all her pearls to the air. The six pearls turned into liquid blood, the blood spiraling above her.
She closed her eyes started giggling, I felt her aura's power spike so hard I winced, even if I was feet away from the griffoness. “Well, well, well. So you five wanna play with me?” Her eyes opened and I noticed that they were glowing a blood red, her irises were so thin you'd mistake them for her slitted pupils, and a red haze emanated from her eyes; the power was so strong it physically alterated her body and still seeped out of her, too much to stay channeled. “Then let’s play.” She said with a cold smile, making me shudder in fear again.
She jumped towards a near warrior and shot a spell mixed with a punch. “Blood Swipe!” She shouted with a crazed smile, the combined force completelly annihilating the demon. She looked at where the demon used to be and let out a sigh. “Ah, looks like he didn't know how to play...” She sounded actually disappointed. Then she looked at the other four, murder and insanity on her eyes. “Let’s see if you four do!” I swear I saw the demons take a step back. Well, if I were on their places, I’d be shitting my pants too.
She ran towards them and launched the spell again, the blood impacting their weapons and sending them on the wall; when they stood up, their arnors were completely cracked. “If you can’t even resist that, then I’ll just end you already.” She sighed and said with disappointment heavy on her voice. She pointed her palm at them, just like I had done earlier, and all the blood formed a ball on front of her. “Blood Storm.” The ball lurched forwards and turned into a vortex of incredible proportion, destroying the demons and creating a new tunnel on the wall they had impacted earlier. She looked at her work before looking around, I ducked to avoid her gaze, and when she saw no one else, she just pouted and started making forms with her blood to pass the time.
‘Ok. A lot of blood was lost to power up this attack, so she won't attack me. I still have to snap her out of it, though.’ I thought before nodding. I walkedbtowards her quietly, and when I got close enough I put a hand on her shoulder. “Scar?”
She turned towards me, still with a look of craziness, and smiled warmly. “Fairy! Good to see you. Let’s go home? It’s boring here.” She stated.
“Sure, but it would be better if you turned all this blood into pearls again.” I smiled. ‘Come on…’
“Nah, it’s ok! I feel so alive and powerful near it! I won’t turn it back to pearls ever again!” She said with Pinkie levels of excitement. Yeah, she turns childish when she’s affected by her passive. A crazy child with the power to control two hydras worth of blood and has a murder intent.
I shuddered for a third time at the tought.
‘Yeah, didn’t think that would work, either.’ I sighed. “Listen Scar, it will be better if you turn the blood into pearls, it really will. Please?” She just turned and started walking away. ‘Ugh, I’m too tired for this shit!’ I screamed mentally and facepalmed. I checked how much mana I had and decided to use a little trick. I pushed her to the floor and she fell on her chest. She tried to get up, but I turned her so she was facing upwards and put a knee on her chest to hold her down. “Listen here, you little mind-fucked bitch! You’re going to turn all of this blood into pearls now, or I swear I’ll make you death the most painfully slow possible, shove all my knives plus both your daggers on your corpse's chest and have Talon revive you so you can feel the pain.” I put magic on a last spell and made my eyes glow pink like Scarlett's did before. “Got it?” I growled.
Y'know, I sometimes forget why we're called psycho twins, since I'm the only one who get's brain-fucked. Thanks for reminding me.
She nodded rapidly and I saw all the blood turn into five pearls, one of them being a bit smaller than the other four. She blinked before her eyes widened and I fell on top of her. I rolled to her side and we just lay there for a few minutes in silence, staring at the cave's ceiling “I really hate you.” I hissed when I gathered enough energy to be angry before standing up.
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“After that we just sent a message to our boss saying that the mission was over and walked back home, I being really pissed with Scarlett for making us fight those warriors and having to activate her passive to save us.” I finished my story.
Spike whistled. “That was quite the mission.”
“One of the hardest we ever had.” Scarlett nodded. "Normally we don't need to get as violent as that one."
Dranitta clapped her hands to get our attention. “Well guys, it’s getting late. Better go home.”
We looked at the clock on the wall and saw it was already 5:49 pm, almost night. “Well, you all have any other question before we go?” I asked.
“I have one, how many spells do you two have?” Twilight asked.
“I have twenty, with six of them being copied, and Scarlett has seventeen.” I replied for the two of us. I paused for a moment and turned to our friends. “And you five? I know for a fact that Dolph has twelve and Viper has sixteen, but I never stopped to count your spells.”
They stopped to think before they replied. “I have fifteen, but most are repeated, with just the element changing.” Eclipse shrugged.
“Thirteen. Not that much, for a mage.” Sapphyra seemed down because of that. She was a self-proclaimed mage; has been since I told the Guardians about the classes.
“Sixteen.” Soul said simply.
“Twenty seven. And I’m just counting the auric spells.” Luna said, grinning smugly.
“Five.” Spike grumbled.
I looked at him, almost sensing the disappointment in him. “Hey, it’s not much but I can teach you a spell right now.” He looked at me and I stood up. “Go there.” I pointed to a wall, and he walked there. “Put energy on your arm, and hold it forwards, hand open.”
He did like I told him to, a green aura covering his hand. “Now what?” He asked.
“Now? Hehe…” I chuckled before activating my own spell. “Think fast! Arcane Missile!” I sent a blast of magic towards him, making everyone gasp. He went wide-eyed and put his hand on the way of the projectile. The blast made contact, but instead of exploding, Spike’s green aura covered the blast, holding it into place on his hand. Everyone was wide-eyed, staring at the spell.
“What?” He asked astonished.
I smiled. “This spell is called Reversal. If you’re strong enough, you can grab any projectile and send it flying towards anywhere like it’s you that’s casting the spell, firing the arrow, etc.” I explained.
He proved it was true when he shot the blast towards me, and I didn’t even lift a finger to stop it. It just impacted on me and sent me skidding a bit, making me chuckle. “What? Did you really think I would fire a strong spell on you? Come on, Spike, you know me better than that.” I said with false disappointment.
He chuckled. “Suppose not.” He said, smiling brightly at me. “You’re going to play tonight?”
“Of course, see you five later.” I waved them goodbye, and teleported my Chasers from Rainbow’s and Twilight’s hands, Scarlett doing the same. My family and I walked towards the door before Amber suddenly stopped us.
“Autumn Windstorm.” She said, summoning her weapon. It’s very large fan, Temari-like; it was beige with the inside part – I always forget the name – being white. She smiled to the others. “I thought you would like to see a high-level Wind spell.” When everyone nodded, she turned to an empty space near us, and prepared herself, the orange glow of her aura covering the Windstorm. “Wind Portal.” She waved her weapon, a gust of wind was sent forwards and created a circle in front of us. Our house’s image appeared inside the circle and everyone looked at it in amazement.
The others stepped through the portal, leaving me behind. I turned to everyone else in the room. “High-level my furry ass, I already copied this shit.” I said, pointing to the portal. I smiled cheeckly and jumped into the portal. “See ya!” I shouted before the portal closed.
I chuckled and turned toward my friends, who were already entering the house. “Come on, Fairy!” Scarlett called me. “Aguion said dinner's ready!”
“Ok!” I shouted and ran towards them, deciding to eat a bit before playing for the rest of the night.
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