Ghosthunters! | Job | Aedre & Zack

The magic council really were getting cocky. You help them once or twice and instantly if anything went wrong it was like 'Hey can you go fix this?'. It was like they thought he was their errand boy or something. Not that he cared really. Due to his rank as an S class wizard and his title as Wizard Saint, plus a few other things, he tended to only be sent on the really interesting jobs and this was one of them. A being known simply as the Lich was possessing people and causing them to wreak havoc as well as summoning some monsters and what not. Normally pristine and beautiful the charming little town of Oak was a place of darkness and fear now. It was strange that the mage's of this town, and he was almost certain some were around or nearby, hadn't dealt with it before it got out of control. Or perhaps they were the ones being posessed? Not that he cared really. All he knew was that he had to go rescue them and beat up this Lich. He had brought with him his partner Devon who was a useful ally and his closest friend. They'd been friends for years and he remembered her name and everything. That was a feat in itself. If you didn't stick in Zack's mind for some reason he could forget you in minutes. Even some of the best wizard's in the world didn't hold his attention for too long.

It seemed he was meet up with some other mage and with their help deal with the situation. He guessed they must be pretty powerful to be sent on a mission like this and he was curious as to who it was. Someone he had met before? Or a new temporary ally? It would be interesting to see. He flew through the air with Devon by his side till he came close to the town. Using his eyepatch he saw below him a strong aura of magic. It was mostly water based and had an internal feel suggesting a water slayer to him, but there was also an aura of internal darkness. It wasn't a demon slayer like himself or a god slayer. There's gave a more corrupted aura to the water aura. No, this was like two auras in one person. Thus this person must have a secondary magic of some kind. He guessed she was a water dragon slayer with shadow dragon lacrima. An interesting combination. He guessed her magic would be like ink or oil. He shrugged and dropped down like a bullet.

]"Look out below." he shouted and struck the ground nearby denting the ground slightly and sending up a cloud of dust. Somehow though when it cleared his clothing was entirely dust free. He shrugged and looked at the woman he had identified. "You here to deal with this possession business? Me too. The name's Zack Rose and this is Devon." he said as the insect winged girl landed next to him.

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She didn’t introduce herself, but that didn’t bother Zack. He’d probably just forget it anyway. Devon was slightly irked, but decided not to let it bother her for the time being as it was not relevant to the mission.  Besides, what caught both their eyes were the weapons that Aedre was wielding. Their attentions were even more aroused when she drew the weapons in response to the enemies arrival. Zack focused with his eyepatch. They looked like his swords, but one had an aura of water magic, the other an aura of shadow magic. He quickly lifted his eyepatch and reached in pulling out his two swords: Nobility of Notus and Bravery of Boreas. Swords that looked identical to those Aedre wielded, but possessed aura’s of wind instead. So she hadn’t stolen his swords and somehow changed them. No, she had her own versions. Physically identical, but magically different. ‘I knew I was famous, but people are mimicking my swords now? Plus she’s using two…is she mimicking my sword style as well?’ he thought but was snapped out of it by Devon.

“No time to think about that Zack.” she  said as if reading his mind. Zack nodded in agreement they had two opponents now. One with an aura of flame and darkness and the other with an aura of ice and darkness. The ice one was the stronger of the pair. Still, only two opponents. That was disappointing when there were three of them.

“Hey. We use the same swords…let’s see who uses them better.” Zack challenged as he charged the stronger of the opponents. Devon shook her head in disbelief, but stood back for now. She was here to help Zack and right now he didn’t need much. She would wait and watch for an opening. As Zack charged the mage a blast of black ice was shot towards him. A few icicles in fact. Zack grinned and with little effort used both of his swords to smash through the icicles causing the ice wraith to scream out in anger. Zack just grinned and moved forward not stopping until a huge wall of dark ice formed in front of him and then began to surround him. He grinned. This was going to be more fun than he thought. He could of flown straight up, but that was no fun. He instead leapt at the wall and propelled himself upwards via wall jumping.

Zack neared the top and propelled himself out, grabbing hold of the edge and flipping himself round so he went down towards his opponent like a spear from heaven. The wraith, surprised by how easily Zack had escaped its prison threw up a barrier of shadows and ice which Zack hit like a hammer. The barrier was enough to stave off most of the damage, but not enough to prevent it all. Whilst the barrier held Zack off, the damage caused to the wraith caused its magic to falter briefly and the large ice pillar fell to pieces revealing Devon flying at him. Zack, sensing her presence, leapt upwards, using the barrier as a platform. The fairy warrior of Malkariss' spear hit the wraith hard through the chest and impaled him on the wall behind, but it wasn't enough to end its life. The wraith laughed and seemed to fade into a pool of shadows before reforming behind her. There was a gaping wound in its chest, but it was laughing as its icy claws reached for her. It was then that Zack came back down with a double slicing blow. "Nobody hurts my friends." he whispered as the dark icy creature faded into nothingness.

Devon turned and grinned at those words and then both warriors turned to watch Aedre in her battle. They had missed most of it, but saw her swat away the fireballs as if it was nothing. That was good. If such a weak attack phased her then she wouldn't be much fun at all if he used his full capabilities. He wouldn't have to hold back by the looks of it. That was good. He wasn't cocky when it came to his strength. He was just aware of his power levels and how they stacked up. He made sure he knew his limits and always tried to break those limits. That was one of his things. "All done over here." he called and began to look around. The magic of the Lich was quite impressive. He'd made it night so quickly. Yet, if Zack looked far away enough he could see sunlight. It appeared the night only covered the town and a bit of its surrounding environs. Still, an impressive display. He was looking forward to THAT fight.

He wondered how Aedre would use her swords. Would she fight like he did, relying on speed and agility to overwhelm an opponent, or would she use something else. He'd seen people use one sword for defense and another for attack before, but he wasn't really the defending type himself, unless it was to defend others.

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Three more ice wraiths. Interesting opponents to say the least. Particularly as once they were in range the three all launched a giant beast's head made of dark ice, one at each of them. They were huge, at least the size of a house. "These guys really do favour ice." Zack murmured and then his black sword began to radiate an intense aura of heat. "Let's see how strong it is." he said and flew straight at one of the large beast's heads swinging his sword. The intense heat the blade generated caused the ice to melt slightly, weakening it. Surprisingly, it didn't melt entirely, but combined with Zack's own strength it was enough to split the head in half and with a powerful split kick he sent the two items flying off into empty areas. The ice wraith's whose attack he had blocked let out an almost deafening shriek and launched a flurry of ice shards. Zack however, ignored them almost entirely and flew straight at the wraith. As he did so many of the shards melted due to the heat radiating from his black sword. The rest of the shard's that would of hit him were blocked with skillful and swift maneuvers of his green sword. As he got near the wraith it generated a pair of darkness blades that were strong enough to stop his attack. He grinned and began to battle the ice wraith in the air.

The intense heat generated from his black sword was what eventually broke through the powerful darkness swords and allowed him to score a powerful hit. It wasn't enough to end the beast, but it did cause it to vanish briefly and reappear at a distance surrounded now by an armor of darkness and wielding a powerful shield and sword. The shield looked like it was made of ice, but there was something odd about it. It was like a mirror. When Zack flew at the beast and struck it, with his weaker sword, the blade bounced back and out of his hand. It was a reflection shield. Zack's grin broadened as his sword quickly stopped flying away and game back to him. "Looks like you'll be fun." he said.

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Devon meanwhile had her own giant ice beast head to deal with her. Unlike Zack she had no way to immediately break through the ice attack. However, like him she was swift and had freedom of movement so quickly flew off to the side narrowly avoiding it. The only reason Zack hadn't done the same is he wanted to test his strength against such a powerful projectile. It seemed that his destruction of the head had also served another purpose because when the head landed the ice and darkness spread forming an actual beast made of the dark ice that let out a roar and charged at her. It was like a black lion with a mane of snow plus ice spikes all over it. A tough opponent. Plus there was the other wraith who floated down and launched a powerful beam of darkness which she narrowly avoided. Yet that put her in danger of the mighty beast which swept its claw at her. Fortunately, she was swift enough to defend herself with her spear avoiding cutting damage, but she was sent flying by the power of the blow and launched through two buildings. Today was not her day.

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Zack flew forward and parried a blow from the dark sword of his opponent. However, rather than trying to strike he dropped one of his swords causing it to float next to him and grabbed hold of the shield. "No hogging the fancy shield." he said and used all his strength to tear it from the wraith's hand and tossed it at the head of the other wraith, the one attacking devon, who was momentarily dazed by the strike. "You have to share these things with your friends." Zack however had not ignored the wraith he was blocking and his other sword, the one he was controlling telekinetically had moved and struck at the back of the wraith's leg, a weak point in the armor, and sliced the leg clean off. The wraith howled out in pain and that was when Zack struck ramming his hot blade straight through the wraith's face. It dissolved and reformed in a much weakened state. It wasn't yet dead, but it was so far weakened. He lunged forward and stabbed with both blades again. The wraith tried to raise up a wall of ice, but Zack's hot sword slashed through it like a hot knife through butter. Unfortunately, the wraith managed to dodge the blow and conjured up another one of the ice beasts that was facing Devon before it dissolved. It seemed it had used the last of its magic to create this beast. Strange that it didn't dissapear on the wraith's death. IT was if it had created a living organism rather than a spell. Very interesting.

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Devon meanwhile was less luckly. The dazing of the wraith had given her the chance to focus entirely on the beast, which she would have to thank Zack for later, but it was still difficult. Her strength was not enough to penetrate the ice beast though. Yet she could change that and with a flourish and a glow her spear changed. "Seven Virtues: Diligence." she stated. The shape of the spear's head changed to a spear possessing a triangular-shaped blade with two curvy, yellow lines located at the center. The red edges of the spear started out wavy, but straightened up around the middle section of the spear-head to form a sharp point. The red triangular-shaped blade was being supported by an invert diamond-like shape, which surrounded a light, silver color and a much darker shade at the center. This was the Diligence spell. It boosted her strength by 30%. She flew at the ice beast and struck it directly in the face. The force of the blow was enough to shatter off a large chunk of its face. Sure, it wasn't dead, but it was hurt badly.

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Zack's opponent was not a wraith, but the wraith's magic. An ice beast and a powerful one at that. He flew forward like a bullet at it. The beast swung its claws and roared, but Zack merely roared back and swung the blade with the burning blade enhancement. It was like a hot knife through butter shearing the icy claw straight off the beast. As he sliced he spun and kicked the icy shard straight at the dazed wraith that Devon had been facing. The blow was enough to send it crashing into the ground. He paused briefly thinking about it. He wouldn't of liked her to interfere in his fight and she normally wouldn't like him interfering in hers. He hadn't meant to interefere, but he had done it by instinct. It seemed it had helped, but it was perhaps something she wouldn't appreciate. The brief pause was also not his wisest move. The ice beast used the opening to strike him with its other paw and he went flying into a roof and straight through it. The beast did not let up and lunged at him smashing into him once more. "I thought karma was meant to reward good deeds." Zack said and exerted his strength ramming the burning blade into its head slicing into it. It leapt off and let out a roar. "I'll show you who the real beast is."

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Devon's wraith opponent really was dazed now. It had been hit by that shield earlier and now it was hit powerfully by a huge shard of ice. Sure it was an ice wraith, but the weight of it would hurt like hell. She had to grin when she saw him pause briefly. "Idiot." she said before launching herself at the ice beast stabbing into the head and smashing it further. It wasn't enough to bring it down quite yet, but it was enough to do some serious damage. "I'm the real demon here." she said and then swung the spear again faster then the beast could react and smashed the head destroying it entirely causing the beast to crumble into pieces. Now all she had to do was deal with the final opponent, for now at least. The ice wraith. A tougher opponent if she could judge it in the same way Zack's had been. Then again he'd been fighting his at full strength. Her's had been dazed quite badly. It would be interesting to see how tough it was. She flew at it ready to strike.

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Such fury, such power, such...a waste of potential. Zack lunged forward a look of determination ons his face. His speed was more than enough to deal with this beast. Besides it was a beast of ice and his sword was one of fire. What chance did it stand? Now normally Zack would hold back and let the battle play out. He wouldn't even go for the kill unless he had to, but this beast was not going to come back again to challenge him and there was no time to waste. He lunged forward at blistering speed and with a single powerful blow sheared through the head of the ice beast. To his surprise it split into two beasts and both attacked him. He grinned, perhaps they would pose a challenge to him, and spun slicing both into pieces. This time they did not split again. This time both were destroyed. He shook his head. He had been hoping for more of a challenge once they split. He had expected more from the wraiths final spell. Still, there was no time to waste. They had citizens to save and a powerful entity to defeat.

He turned to watch Devon as she fought against the ice wraith. Her skill was not as high as his, nor were his physical abilities, but she was far smarter in battle. He relied on instincts and skilled honed through years of fighting. She relied on analysis and timing combined with the power of her spear. She lunged forward using the fact the ice wraith was dazed to her advantage and stabbed at him. Her blade hit him in the chest, but did not pierce the flesh or whatever the wraith had in place of it. No, instead it launched the wraith back into a wall. It shook its head recovering slowly from its daze, but she would not allow it that chance. SHe lunged forward this time smashing it through the wall with a blow to the head. Her attacks were precise and brutal. She was showing no quarter. In desperation the ice wraith through up a wall of ice, but it was not enough to stop her, merely slow her down. She smashed through the wall and that was when she struck the final blow piercing it straight through the stomach. The shadowy ice creature let out a piteous moan and then faded. The wraith had fallen now.

"Zack is not the only demon slayer here." she whispered as she spun her spear and turned to see how the others were faring. It seemed to her that the battle was done for now, but she did not relinquish the magic on her spear. No, she might need it yet. She watched as Zack descended his clothing still pristine despite the fight he had just been in. She nodded to him in affirmation. The battle was won for now. "We shouldn't waste time here." she said and began to head off towards the center of the town. Zack nodded and headed after her at high speed. They had a job to finish.

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Zack raised an eyebrow as from out of nowhere five new assailants arrived. Two were humanoid and their auras were that of both darkness and ice with a strange shape to to it. It seemed that both of them were grotesque, faces drawn and sunk in and flesh hanging out. Yet that appeared to be just a trick of their possession. Or so he hoped anyway because if it wasn't then when these lost their possession they would likely die unless it somehow reverted. Aedre was facing one of these, but the other was staring directly at Zack with a hunger to it as if it wanted to devour him. There were two ice wraiths as well as some kind of demonic creature of fire. He paused briefly. A hell fire demon. "The hellfire demon is yours Devon." he said preparing his swords. He had to destroy the ice wraiths swiftly so he could focus on knocking out the possessed human to free them from the dark one's control. He lunged forward suddenly, fire still on one of his blades.

"Death by slicing." he shouted and in the space of a second he sliced one of the ice wraiths seven times leaving a rough heptagram which blasted them back adding to the damage. An artifact grade weapon with s rank fire enhancement was far too much for the ice wraith and it melted away. The other however had moved away and the possessed human leapt at him punching him in the face hard and sending him flying through several walls.

"Ice make: Vambrace." it had hissed for its already super strong arm had been enhanced by an icy arm which was why it had successfully sent Zack flying. It laughed as did the remaining ice wraith. Zack emerged from the rubble and shook himself off. Despite the damage he had just received there was a grin on his face.

"Looks like this is gonna be a bit tougher than I thought." the flame on his sword dissapeared. It would be a while before he could use it again. Oh well, he had other tricks up his sleeve.

Devon lunged at the hellfire demon with her spear at the ready. It was still in the power form and using it she smashed into the demon. It roared out and held against her blow, but it was clear it was injured quite heavily. She smiled. "So you aren't weak...perfect." she liked a good fight as much as Zack and she had been worried this guy would be too easy compared to the ice wraith and beast she had fought earlier. She was happy.

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It seemed that the other ice wraith would not be an opponent for Zack to deal with and instead it would belong purely to Aedre. That suited him down to the ground as he could spend some time fighting this possessed human and try to bring him down without hurting or killing him. He lunged forward suddenly, but as he did the human formed a hand gesture and then slammed his hand to the ground.

"Ice make: Wall." he stated and a large barrier of ice formed. Unfortunately, Zack no longer had his fire swords or he would of just cut straight through it. "Shadow Make: Wolf." the man stated and as if from nowhere a wolf sprang into existence and straight at Zack. Zack sliced through it with ease and then focused and seemed to vanish. The man looked about wildly trying to see where Zack had gone. It was then that they were kicked from behind straight into the wall. They hit it hard and turned to see Zack surorunded in a red aura. "Ice make: Spear." the mage said and from the wall extended numerous ice spears that launched themselves at Zack. He grinned and exhaled surrounding himself in an aura of green. With the boost provided by that he easily deflected and destroyed the ice spears. However, it seemed it had just been a distraction because suddenly there was a cry of "Shadow make: Dragonfly ." And he was hit with a barrage of large dragonflies composed of shadow. He shook off the blow and grinned broadly still.

"You're a tough opponent." he said with a chuckle. "Much more fun than those ice wraiths. Shame I can't go all out really"


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Devon meanwhile was against the hellfire demon who was surprisingly tough. After the initial blow it had leapt back and slammed its hands together before a huge array of fire balls were launched towards her. She was hard put to block them, particularly with her spear in this form. If she'd been in the speedier form it would of been easy, but as such it was tricky. The beast kept up this seemingly endless array of fireballs as if trying to keep her away. It would not succeed for with a battle cry of 'For Malkariss' she charged forward ignoring many of the fireballs and battling away more. The beast yelped out in surprise and fear but was rammed through the chest by her spear. "Nice try." she said, but was forced to leap back, dropping her spear in the process as it shot a breath of fire from its mouth. She flew up into the air on her fairy wings and dropped down. Not onto the beast, but onto her spear. Thus, the spear blade sliced upwards effectively bifurcating the hellfire demon. "But I am from Malkariss and your fire is weak."

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Zack raised an eyebrow as he heard the battle cry and glanced over to Devon. It was at that point that the man came charging forward once more covering his arm in ice to enhance his strength. This time though Zack was ready and without looking sidestepped and spun kicking the man in the head. The force of the blow was added to because the man ran into the foot and Zack was insanely strong at the moment. So powerful in fact that the man went flying backwards straight through his own ice wall leaving a comic-book style hole. Yet the possessed man wasn't done yet. With a roar the ice wall fell and he stood there with a ball of shadow in hand and threw it straight at Zack. "Shadow make: Devil's hand grenade." As the ball came towards Zack he attempted to slice it in two, but that just triggered it and the explosion sent him flying through several walls.

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The dragonflies had hit him quite hard, but what this mage didn't know was that Zack posessesed the blood of an ancient mercenary. His blood was called Immortal Blood and as such it healed him at an accelerated rate. Plus he was a slayer so his endurance was naturally higher than most. He shook himself off and then lunged at the target before he had a chance to react. He had dropped his swords now, though they floated beside him, and when he got close he struck with a powerful palm strike to the mage's face sending him flying backwards once more.

"Shadow make: Teddy Bear." the mage said and a large plush animal made of shadows formed behind him preventing him from receiving the full extent of the blow, which would of been him launching through several walls. It was however not the most intimidating or fearsome of attacks and Zack could not help, but laugh. The man did not seem pleased. "Shadow Make: Grizzly." The bear transformed changing from that of a lovable stuffed plushy into that of a fearsome grizzly bear. It charged at him, but despite its fearsome nature it was quite slow and Zack dodged past it. It did however seem that this was as the man had expected for he grinned grimly and spoke the words. "Ice make: Turret."

Zack leapt to the side, but was too late and was hit by a huge blast of cold air that not only hit him hard, but seemed to freeze him solid. The possessed man grinned as the bear turned, a large ice turret upon its back. "Its over demon of the sky." The beast rose up with its mighty paws ready to strike at the frozen Zack, but it was then that the swords took action. One flew at the beast slicing it across the face and pushing it back whilst the other struck at the ice beginning to break it apart. Eventually it had caused enough cracks that with a huge burst of strength the ice shattered sending shards everywhere.

"You almost had me there." Zack said with a chuckle. It had been quite close. It was fortunate his swords had not been frozen with him. He lunged suddenly at the beast both swords going to his hands and in a blur he sliced it to pieces. "You still gonna keep fighting?" The mage growled and formed another gesture. Zack nodded. "Just the way I wanted it."

"DARK ICE MAKE: DRAGON KING" he roared and from out of nowhere a huge dragon like figure formed. It was formed out of a black ice that looked like the rare gemstone known as jet. Zack raised an eyebrow, but grinned preparing himself. It seemed he was destined to fight giant ice beasts today.

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