Looking for the Missing/Stolen Jewelry (Chaotic Dance Party only)

Chapter One: The First Fight

Axos looked at the (somewhat) clean work ahead of him. Every gang member was either incapacitated or... well, dead. The last one was the big boss himself. He was the one standing in their way to finish this mission Axos felt the fear and anxiety from him perish as some sort of magical haze got over him. He calmly walked up to the big boss himself, the aura still enveloping him. It was has grown stronger, the nothingness that surrounded him. That combined with the aura from Ana gave Axos a massive boost in power. He looked at the massive man in front of him who was searing with rage. He started taking longer strides, throwing his long arms behind him, gearing up for what would be a very powerful punch. The boss man, at the same time, reared back his weapon, swinging with the force that could cleave a bull in half. Axos saw this coming, as even though it was incredibly powerful, it was not very fast. And so, with one swift foot movement, Axos delivered a quick 3 punches, one straight to the neck, knocking the boss out. Axos looked back at Ana, and smiled. This mission was finally over. "That was a toughie, wasn't it? Now we can just take this jewelry and finally get back..." Axos sat straight down, his body aching. It was a tough battle, and getting bruised and beaten was not his idea of a good holiday with the beautiful girl. "Maybe next time we can go to the beach?"

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OOC: MY B BRO

Tammy hadn't been a part of the guild terribly long and she had already failed her share of missions due to her....flaws, but when she was called in to deal with a mission that sounded rather easy she couldn’t resist but jump at the chance to prove herself to the guild. As she left the guild she checked to make sure she had everything, as forgetting any of her cards would be pretty disastrous situation where she would find herself completely incapable of using any of her magic or at least so she is currently still aware at least, so once she was sure she had everything she left clover town.

After a while she finally arrived in Hargeon Town where she would meet up with Anastasia another member of the guild who she was actually quite late meeting up with and had to find out where she was rather fast. It didn’t take that long however as she walks past a pawn shop she looks in and sees several bodies on the floor, a Large man wielding a rather large mace and, Why is Anastasia Fighting this butt ugly guy in the middle of a Pawn shop anyway. “Aldebaran Come out and Grant me your strength!” Tammy yelled out rather loudly as she held up a card into the air and within a flash of light a large armored figure could be seen charging towards the pawn shop.

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Mistakes had been made when the contract accidentally seemed to take someone who wasn’t in one these trusted guilds. Nevertheless it was up to Nao to accept the job to get into the habit of accepting this line of work. His family had been into the whole “eye-magic” crap for generations now, but only Nao was getting into it now. Only problem was, was that by not being in a guild he was inviting himself into jobs where people may have known each other for some time and thus had maybe some friendship bias that would dictate how the group would be lead. Simply put: Nao wasn’t going to standby and let some snot-nosed brat order him around unless it was someone worthy.

The great thing about having this eye magic of his was that he was able to view people and objects from afar. Being able to look into the distance and see what’s coming up at a vision of up to 20/2 was actually pretty useful. He wondered if he would be able to use it to find the actual location that he needed to get to. He seemed to have lost the other people in this contract a long while ago and was only just trying to find them once more. If he was going to actually get to them then he would have to activate his eyes.

The sclera would start to change from white to a swirl of different colours, covering over the iris with a flood of different varieties of colours. Some of these colours would be so unique and new shades (mostly just new reds and blues). This would be a juxtaposition of Nao’s usual dark brown eyes. Now lit up with new vision, he would start looking around the place to see if anyone matched the bill of either his allies, or the missing jewel. If there were going to be a jewellery thief then they would have to have maybe tried to get rid of it quickly to avoid suspicious. But there would be so many more places to actually look to find such places.

Looking for suspicious activity in the town wouldn’t prove too difficult (due to the power of plot convenience no jutsu), as Nao would be able to scope a street urchin trying to limp slowly away from some kind of scuffle they were in. A short interrogation would prove that he wasn’t only troublesome but also a little dim-witted as he so pointed out the pawnshop… again. Didn’t really matter to him anymore, not like without his knees he could go into thievery.

With Nao on the pursuit of the pawnshop to catch up with the job, he would use his eyesight to remember the shops around the town just in case he needed to come back here again for some freshly baked bread, or a fast food chain or something. It didn’t’ really matter, just that he recorded his locations so he could find them again sometime.

His eyes would finally find the sign of the pawnshop in the town with bodies all over the place, starting to fall through the entrance as if there had been an explosion in it. Nevertheless the magic user would creep up to the door and enter, seeing a few figures in the shop, including a guy with a giant-ass mace to match his giant-ass figure. And he seemed like a giant ass to match his body type perfectly as he attacked a dark haired lady.

He would pull out his bow and cheaply made arrows and lock his eyes onto the target. The swirling in his eyes bouncing and changing colours like a lava-lamp had created twin babies together and replaced Nao’s eyes with them.

In Nao’s vision, however, he was starting to see more information on his target. A few vitals here and there, predictions of well being based on wound severity, and a couple of weak points here and there. It was a shame it couldn’t reveal more, but as a novice to his own magic it would only take practice and development into bettering his work.

”Looks like I’m not too late,” he murmured as he notched an arrow, drawing it back and launching at the man, hoping to hit at least somewhere first as a start. He didn’t want to really mess up his very first shot since that would give such a bad first impression. And first impressions were incredibly important when meeting people. That was written on the very first page of Nao’s journal, that and a recipe for pretty good brownies he had saved a long time ago.

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As Aldebaran bull rushes through the front of the pawn shop and crushes it to pieces Tammy can’t help but notice an arrow zip past her head and impales the large man Anastasia had been fighting. “Huh where did that come from?” Tammy said as she would turn around to see a person standing not far off from the ruined wall with a bow in hand.  “Hey! Nice shot!” Tammy would call to Nao as she returns her attention to the fight going on in the pawn shop. ‘Ok so big guy, prob…….’ Tammy was starting to blank out as she almost always seemed to do during missions lately, though this time it seemed to be much worse than any other time before. Her vision had started to changed to bit larger view ‘what…in the world …is going on?!’ she thought to herself as her body suddenly screams out in pain as she begins to morph into a new, more down to earth form, quite resembling a horse, but with her same blond hair, and a tail to match. ‘Wait this isn’t right!’ she yelled to herself as she was the only one who could hear her own thoughts that she knew of. Was this the reason she had been blacking out so much lately, was this a power that had remained dormant without her knowing up until now, and now she felt better, faster, stronger. “Ha!” she said as she would suddenly race up to join Aldeberan who was now trying to hit the enemy with a strong two handed uppercut while at the same time Tammy was bringing her back legs to try and hit Smirnoff clean in the jaw with her powerful legs. “Take this you dorknard!!” she said laughing as she watches to see what the other two combatants

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The arrow had pierced into the shoulder of the boss, making him drop the mace that he was carrying. Nao couldn’t help but give a little smirk as he was appreciated by one of his teammates who suddenly, and quite surprisingly, somehow morphed into a pony right in front of his eyes. Damn sure wished he didn’t have photographic memory at this point because he didn’t even know ligaments could bend and morph that way…

While trying not to physically feel sick, the boss “Smirnoff” (Probably named for his appearance to be liking to some kind of Russian wrestler of some sort, and the author was pandering to stereotypes) was taking his to the head from the body and its companion. Brushing them aside to go for the bowman as most people would seeing as they usually tend to be pretty weak in melee (not in Brawl though despite Sakurai putting in tripping for fuck’s sake >:c).

“You’re a pain in the arm you know that right?” he said, swinging at the archer with his left arm, the only one really functioning at a useable capacity. “You’re going to know what it’s like to deal with a real boss instead of a little targeting dummy.”[/b] In truth the man really was a target dummy. For one thing he called it a “targeting dummy” which wasn’t actually the right turn (it was either training dummy or target dummy). Second of all he was the target to all the attacks. So yes he was in fact a “target dummy.”

Nevertheless the punch managed to hit Nao in the left arm, leaving it feeling dead and bruised but not disabling his ability to fire an arrow or two into the man. But he definitely needed to jump back to disengage since his close combat prowess was lacking at best. He was wincing from the pain because of how surprisingly powerful his punches were.

”Damn dude why have you got a mace when you throw punches like a pro boxer?” the novice mage would ask, jumping back from the man before launching another arrow at the man’s body, catching him in the side this time, piercing the appendix. Being this close meant he didn’t really have all that time to actually decide where to hit him. After all it meant drawing an arrow, notching an arrow, pulling back and then actually letting go.

Nao’s eyes would keep a watch of the man’s vitals, though the information was a little hazy. He wasn’t quite near the point of being knocked out but he certainly would bleed out if he didn’t treat any of the wounds he was receiving from the arrows among other attacks that he was sustaining. After all, an uppercut, plus being hooved by a horse was certainly painful and to any normal goon could knock them out.

His eyes would also finally take note of the people around him. A young lady, petite in size with incredibly long blonde hair and donning a weird purple mask. Not only that but she was accompanied by some kind of weird black… slime? Also a pony of some sort that seems to be able to talk (now where had he heard a story of a talking pony before…), also accompanied by an extra figure but a knight in shining armour. Was…. Was Tammy his mount? Ugh… not one to think about. And then there was Nao with his coloured eyes that could be comparable to a desktop screen saver. Yup… this was surely the weirdest team that he had come across in his short time as a novice mage. If this was how all the world was then he really couldn’t wait to grow up.

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Tammy felt strong; this new form was quite magnificent even if it seemed to make bystanders watch in awe or some staring in disgust wonder just how it was that the young wizard could contort her bones to take on the form she just did which made it all the more disgusting to think that a chesty blond female had just become a small furry orange horse in front of their eyes.

“Yee haw Aldebaran! Let’s take this foul cowpoke down!” Why was the horse speaking in a country accent all of the sudden, had she always spoke like that even before this mission?

Suddenly her ears would perk up, and she would hear a fairly soothing tune flow through her, it seemed to have a very nice effect on her, she felt stronger than ever before and well faster it would seem.

Anastasia interested Tammy now, she had the power to not only play very nice music, but she could make people feel stronger and fast and generally made her feel good “Wowee that was better than cold lemonade on a hot summer day!” Tammy said as she would smirk looking up at Smirnoff and takes in his size and… extremely oversized shoulders “That’s It!” Tammy cheers out as it seems Smirnoff is busy trying to turn Nao into bloody pulp orange juice.

Suddenly Tammy would reach around behind her and grabs a card from the pouch around her waist and raises it into the air. “Star shine!” she yells as a bright light would burst forth from the card temporarily blinding Smirnoff, even if just for a moment. This created enough of a distraction so that she could put her plan into action.

In a magnificent feat of athleticism Tammy would spring up from the floor, “YEEE hawww!” she yelled out loudly as she would now be mounting Smirnoff’s massive neck. This seemed to alarm most likely everyone to see a horses role in life suddenly reversed to a horse riding a person. “Settle down Varmint!” she said laughing and kicking Smirnoff in the neck with her strong hoof. “This is more fun than a cattle drive in January!” she yelled out yet another rather strange countryism.

Tammy couldn’t help but have fun as Smirnoff continues trying to shake her off yet she had a rather strong grasp on his hair and every time he would try to force her off, be it jumping around or moving violently she would just grasp tighter onto his disgusting Mohawk.

Woosh! Thump! Suddenly he managed to get enough leverage to send Tammy flying through the air from his shoulders, causing her to go through yet another wall. Spitting out a small bit a blood she looked rather miffed as she looks back in at Smirnoff re-engaged with Anastasia and Nao. “Hey Don’t ignore me you Spoiled Sow!” she yelled in just such a way that it would sound both rude and lewd at the same time.

“Do it Aldebaran!” she yelled into the building as the massive knight created an orange ring of light in his hand, “Show that dirty mongrel who is the boss!” she cheered out loudly as Aldebaran would toss the massive ring of energy towards Smirnoff’s rather bare midsection, and since there was very little there to stop the ring of energy, this was likely going to hurt a lot whether he tries to catch it or if it actually hits him.

He caught it. “Tarnation he’s a fool!” she said as she ring would cut into his hands leaving several large cuts in the palms of his hands.

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The big bad boss could take a hit that’s for sure. If he didn’t know that this guy was sentient he’d have thought of him as one of those zombies that could only be killed in the head. Maybe he was one of those zombies that could only be killed in the head and it had gained the ability to talk. The problem was for this guy was that Nao could easily put an arrow through the knee face to the brain and just end it all but, due to some kind of morality or something to do with getting paid properly, he couldn’t.

Instead what he found was that the black goo above one of the two allies tried to attack the boss and missed horribly. Something about a slow moving projectile made it pretty obvious to dodge. Instead Smirnoff retaliated with throwing rocks, hitting the masked woman in the face and knocking her far back. Nao would hide behind cover, feeling the rock wiz by him. He would reload his bow, or as someone who doesn’t play fps games he would notch an arrow onto the bow.

He heard a song from behind the cover, feeling that somehow he recognised the song from somewhere and somehow it was empowering his strength to… pull his bow back harder? In fact it would have been physically impossible to pull his bow back any further. All it would do is just make his attacks become a lot quicker since he couldn’t physically hit harder without damaging the bow’s wood or string. But in some kind of world this would make sense that it would do more damage so he would just guess he was doing more damage without having any logical sense. Because hey, balance>logic.

The novice magi would come out of his cover to launch an arrow but stopped when he saw something he had never seen before. A horse trying to mount a person instead of the other way around was definitely a sight to behold and also remember because of his magic, dammit all! This wasn’t the kind of story he wanted to tell his grand kids in the future when they would probably ask what his first missions were like. Not easy to say he met a lady who turned into a talking horse and tried to mount a seven-foot muscleman.  He couldn’t help but lower his weapon and watch as the man would fight the horse before flinging it away.

The knight however would begin to throw a destructive disc, which the large man would catch effortlessly. The blood from his hands wouldn’t shake him too much as he would start coming towards someone else now. This would be the perfect opportunity to do a shot on the man to impede his speed.  Something about that rhyming made Nao smile a little as he began to aim his shot.

He pulled back, bringing his hand to his face and aiming down the arrow to where he was going to hit the target. It looked like a clear shot now that Nao wasn’t being attacked.

”Calling this shot to the left leg!” he called out, calling his shot as he fired it, though instead Smirnoff would just move his left leg out the way, making the shot dodge. ”Dammit!’ Nao cried, ”Why does that never work in any situation! The man would hide behind cover and begin to notch another arrow as the boss started to run towards his cover.

“I’ll get you, you little snot-nosed brat!” Smirnoff said as he picked up his club and moved towards the mage.

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Tammy was actually having a lot of fun beating up the muscle bound moron even if he had thrown her through a wall and caused yet another wall to collapse. “So…..we might want to get out of here before this haystack falls down upon us like Leaves in autumn!” Tammy-horse said as she would watch Anastasia fight with Smirnoff.

The whole time she was feeling strong up until the moment that Anastasia got knocked out and Smirnoff decided to taunt the group. “Hey….Ugly! You need to shut up and die!” Tammy said no longer speaking in coutryisms, as it seems like this transformation of hers was slowly fading away until she was back in her normal form of a blonde female with a hat and rather country looking outfit with a card pouch strapped to her hip.

“Wow….that didn’t last long at all did it” she said as she would slowly try to transform again but is completely unable to do so.  “Well dang this is not a good thing to happen right now!” she yells loud enough that Nao can hear her even while outside past the crumbling wall.

At this point while Smirnoff was gloating Tammy had to think up a plan to take down this giant of a man, rescue Anastasia and get everyone out of here before they are late returning the jewels to their owner.

“You know what muscleman! I got a nice surprise for you this time!” Tammy said as she was gloating a bit much than what was needed and she really had no actual idea of what she was going to do to stop him. That is when an idea came to her and she reaches gracefully into her deck pouch and pulls out yet another card, this one obviously not like the other two depicted a glistening silver centaur wielding a beautiful golden bow seemingly attached to one of his hand.

“Archer of the stars I summon the forth! Kaus!” she called out loudly as the card would start to glow bright as the monster in the card shows itself for all to see. “Kaus take her outside and fight from outside!” she said as she would help Kaus lift Anastasia up onto his back so that he can carry her outside. “Now Mr ugly buff….body builder man we have a score to settle!” Tammy said with a shrill laugh as she made sure Kaus had a nice line of sight to shoot Smirnoff.

That was the moment she heard Nao shout something as an arrow flies past Smirnoff and sticks into the wall beside him “HEY Calling out the name of your attack doesn’t help too much you know!” Tammy yelled out at him as she would once again turn to Smirnoff and suddenly cracks a smile as she cracks her knuckles.

Within a few seconds Tammy was trying to fight hand to hand with the big guy, thankfully for her, he was big and couldn’t move as easy but every  time he hit her she really felt the blow with all of its might. “Dang he was right you do hit like a freight train!” she yelled as she would wipe a bit of blood from her lip

“We cant start allowing you to land so many powerful hits now can we” She said laughing as she would start to take a different approach and starts to evade the hits as much as she could. “This isn’t going to get me anywhere at all!” she yelled as Kaus knocks and arrow and fires it into the room, however due to the close range of the attack she found herself in a rather odd situation that she and kaus had never before found themselves.

“Dang it Kaus shouldn’t you be further away when you go to use such a strong attack as that you big dumb centaur!” she yelled as the arrow had flown through Smirnoffs other arm came out the other end and crushed the last structural supports “Bah why are you so stupid! You could of gone off to the roof over there but no, you are right outside!” she yelled yet again as she would feel a bit of stone fall onto her head.

“Well that is not good at all, the whole building is going to collapse on me” She said kind of worried as she would turn to Smirnoff who was now grabbing at his last arm that was bleeding profusely. “So….I have to beat you and get out before the hole roof collapses down onto me” she said angrily as she would rush around him trying to kick his legs out from under him, but due to impressive muscle mass she wouldn’t be able to bring him to his knees that way but that is when she got an idea.

“ Well this was all fun and what not….but I really have to go and get out of here so im just going to take this box……” She said as she would try and grab the box of jewels that he had been messing with recently. With a smirk on her face as a piece of the ceiling collapses behind her she would do the worst thing she could do to any male ever, as Smirnoff screams loudly in a squeaky tone as he collapses to the floor, rubble falling around him as Tammy rushes out of the pawn shop, “Seems we broke this building I hope we still get paid” Tammy said as she would strap the chest of Jewels onto Kaus’ back.

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As the giant brute started to walk towards him, he tried to nervously notch another arrow, as he knew he would feel the mace break his body. He knew it was probably all over now but at least he lived a good life.

However he was saved by one of the ladies he was working with, who tried to knee the man in the face. It was only a distraction as she was smacked into the wall with the mace. Her mask seemed quite cracked at this point. Hopefully her magic worked without that mask. The mask did seem oddly specific to wear…

It did seem to inspire fervour inside the pony mage thing as she started to attack the man with frenzy. She also seemed to summon an archer in the middle of the fight while she continued to attack. With her being so close in combat he couldn’t help but wait to see an opportunity to hit him without hitting his ally.

The fight lasted a little while, with powerful arrows hitting the walls and knocking parts of the roof down. He didn’t feel save while inside the shop but he couldn’t just leave them in there while he escaped. Instead he would plan on how to save Anastasia before she got trapped underneath all that rubble.

He would leave the once-was-a-horse and the… half-horse to fight the horse-brained man, sneaking around behind them to make sure that the rubble would not hit anyone else. He would fire arrows at debris falling down, causing it to fall elsewhere while moving over.

He would see Tammy grab the jewels and let the rubble cave over Smirnoff, causing him to be trapped under what was the roof of the jewellery shop. Had he not thought about it, he also realised that a ton of harmless minions were also going to be trapped, unable to level into the idiotic tyrants they could be.

His eyes would return to the dark brown they once were, returning his sight to normal. It was a weird feeling returning to normal sight but at the same time it felt normal. Magic was definitely draining on the body that’s for sure.

”Hey wake up,” he would say softly, putting a hand out for her to grab onto if she was actually awake yet. Otherwise he would just give her a little prod to make sure she was fine. He wasn’t exactly… compassionate, however he did want to make sure people were living through these missions.

His mind was wondering about how they would explain the huge damage to his pawnshop now that the mission was over. How did guilds compensate structural damage caused by mages? It actually didn’t really make all that much sense. Next time he was going to be fighting in a field or a desert with no one else around!

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Tammy was actually quite proud of herself even though this was the first mission she had managed to succeed in, “Well shall we go turn this…..Lovely box of …..Very nice jewelry….” She said seemingly enthralled by the box of jewelry that she had just placed on Kaus’ back moments before hand.

Tammy would then turn and look at Nao “So….they thought we needed even more help it seems, say wasn’t there another person with you on this mission Anastasia? Where did he wander off to anyway?” Tammy asked with a bit of interest as she kept her eyes on the box of jewelry so that No one could steal it and cost them more time in the mission.

“Oh yeah Hello my name is Tammy I guess you helped us quite a bit in there with that bow, but I think Kaus here could of covered the marksmanship role if we really needed him to do so. But ehhh you kept that big guy busy long enough for us to kick the crap out of him so yeah there is that in your favor” Tammy said holding out her hand towards Nao.

After all the introductions were well and done Tammy saw no reason to walk the whole way to deliver the jewelry to their client. “So….do you think they would notice if….we took like one or two of these lovely trinkets Anastasia?” Tammy asked as she would open the box before climbing up onto Kaus’ back. “Oh don’t take me seriously im not really the jewelry type anyway.” She added with a laugh.

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Seemed the blonde haired lady could actually talk. She was a little confused on what had happened while she was knocked out but otherwise content and grateful for the help. She did seem a little shocked by the damage that the summons caused huge structural damage to the shop. How were they going to be able to explain to the shopkeeper about all the damage? Maybe they would just pin the blame on Smirnoff? After all it was his fault for stealing the jewels.

He would just listen as Tammy would question where the last person went as well as deciding to go turn the jewellery in with her summon holding it. He didn’t really care for it all that much after that. In fact it didn’t really matter if he was there or not now. He had signed up to the job, he had made sure the cargo was found, and there was people there to make sure it was delivered. Looks like he was able to just go.

He was then bombarded with introductions from the two of them. One was outright from the Blue Pegasus guild, while the other he assumed she was from the same guild just because of how they knew each other. He would return their outstretched arms with his.

”I’m Nao, and I’m not from a guild,” he would say to them. Probably a disappointment because going as a guild group seemed to yield better rewards so… sorry? ”It was fine. Glad I was able to make it before it was too late.”

He would give a slight bow and turn away. ”I’m sure you both won’t need me to deliver the box with you. Take care. And with that the novice mage would depart from the destroyed pawn shop. He figured that he would be able to collect his reward later on since he was a part of the mission. He didn’t’ really need to go with them, and in fact it would be better if he went a different way just in case there were more people waiting to ambush them. At least then he could distract a few people until then.

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