Setting: A path in a forest.
Narrator: A large group of men with green hair are walking together.
?: And so I said; "Getting this close was a BIG mistake, dude!"
??: And we knocked that guy out SO hard!
???: Boo-Yeah.
?: It was awesome.
??: Totally...
Setting: The Soul Well clearing.
Maho: The Great One... The one who mastered White Magic?
Sensei: The very same. Only this man want's to become his equivalent with Dark Magic.
Maho: He want's to be a tool to The Darkness?
Sensei: Not at all. He believes that he can possibly collect enough power to make The Darkness his tool.
Maho: That's insane! Nothing has that kind of power; The Darkness is a collection of magic with a mind of it's own.
Sensei: So are the Crystals.
Maho was silent as he began to realize where this was going.
Maho: He thinks if he has enough Crystals, he can control The Darkness?
Sensei: Not enough; all the Crystals.
Maho: So you're trying to tell me that from the moment the Blue Beast was given to me, I was put directly into danger's way?
Sensei: Yes.
Maho: BUT WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT!?
Sensei: Because the Crystal on its own cannot defend itself, and I sure as hell wasn't going to unleash the Blue Beast!! That Crystal needed a Capsule to stop this man's plans.
Maho: Why didn't you do it?
The clearing goes silent as Maho waits for a responce.
Maho: Well?
Sensei: I suggest we stay here for now. I'll set up shelter the hard way as my magic is low, and start getting some food ready. Maho, I want you to put up some simple defence spells around the area; take a look around while you're at it. If we're attacked again, you should know everywhere you can go to escape.
Maho: Yes sensei...
Maho left the clearing, going several yards out into the woodland to get a good distance away from camp to place protective spells.
Setting: Ruins of a stone building in a forest.
Maho: How interesting... I think this would be a nice place to try and get to quickly if we're attacked. Of course, I would stay and fight before comming here.
Beast (To Maho): And what would that prove? That you can disobey your sensei? That you are in fact the person they're after?
Maho (To Beast): Shut up!
Setting: Within Maho's mind; at the Beasts cage
Beast: Do you understand why Sensei isn't my capsule right now?
Maho: No, because he won't tell me!
Beast: I'll tell you. Capsules are often chosen when they are young so they can take on the Crystal at a young age. This way, they can be trained to fight alongside their Beast, or at the very least how to tap into their power, during their basic training. Sensei is too old; he's already learnt how to fight without a Crystal, and so it would be more difficult for him to learn now than for you to.
Maho: Are you serious?
Beast: That's one reason why a few are chosen; your exact reason may not be that, but it might be.
Setting: The Ruins
Maho (To Beast): Just let me set up these spells, alright?
?: ...and then I punched 'em in the face!
??: OH! He'll feel that in the morning!
???: I made him feel it then!
Maho (To Himself): Who's there? What if it's another ambush?
Maho quickly stepped behind a crumbling colum, and watched around it to see the large group of men with green hair, all worn differently.
?: ...So I gave 'em one of these!
The man kicked a nearby stone wall, smashing right through the rock.
?: About that strong, too.
??: Aweso-
???: There's someone here.
??: Yeah, dude; it's us.
???: Someone else.
????: Who, bro?
???: There!
The man who sensed Maho punched the ground, a green energy flying towards the colum Maho was hiding behind through the ground. Maho leapt onto the uneven top of the colum, and then into the air as the stone structure shattered on impact.
?: Whadda'ya know? You were right.
???: Of course I was, you moron!
??: Get 'em!
Maho: NOW! Stone Colli-
????: Back here!
Maho spun around in mid-air just in time to see the fist make contact with his nose. As he hit the ground, Maho did a backflip off of his hands to jump over another one trying to tackle him. The blood from his nose seemed to almost make a string from Maho's face to the fist of the man who punched him.
Maho: Blood Binding Seal!
The man jerked, and obviously attempted to move his right arm, unable to because of the blood flowing from his knuckles to the shoulder joint. Then the string of blood formed a chain connecting the two. Lightning sprung up around Maho's right hand and the green-haired man flew towards him, drawn by the chain of blood. Maho's lightning fist flew through the man's face, turning him into a burst of sparkles which dispersed towards the rest of the group.
Beast (To Maho): It's a clone barrage!
Maho wiped blood off his face with his right hand, small sparks leaping off as the lightning faded.
Maho (To Beast): Obviously! I'm not blind.
Beast (To Maho): There are a lot of them...
Maho (To Beast): We started with at least nine, but now I think it might've been ten.
Beast (To Maho): Some green-haired kid who's mastered the Clone Spell. This'll be a fun fight...
Maho (To Beast): He's close-combat, too...
Beast (To Maho): ...and we're long-range. With the clones he has, we'll never get to where we need to be.
Maho (To Beast): Unless...
As three of the men threw themselves at Maho, he grabbed one of their shoulders, and lifted his feet off the ground, kicking another one. He then pushed himself onto the third's head and leapt into the sky, magic propulsion sending the clone into a burst of sparkles.
Beast (To Maho): We're not very good airborne.
Maho (To Beast): Hopefully neither is he.
Maho exhaled a breath of flames down onto the group of men, incinerating all but two of them, whom began to dash between trees to fly higher and higher into the air. As they neared Maho's height, they dahsed across the air to where the other was, punching Maho at the same time to both hit him and keep him in place mid-air. As they went higher, so did Maho. Unable to defend himself from the fast, powerful strikes, Maho soared higher and higher until there were no trees high enough for the men to jump off of. So when the trees ran out, one man appeared over Maho as the other appeared behind him. The second man turned into a burst of sparkles, which surrouned the soles of the first man's feet, and his right first. The man leapt off of the magic in the sky, and slammed the rock-solid fist into Maho's gut, sending him staright into the ground and destroying the area even more.
Beast (To Maho): I felt that!
Maho coughed blood onto the ground, and then glanced up to see the last man standing creating more clones still.
Maho (To Beast): That's not a bad idea...
Setting: The Beasts Cage
Maho: Beast!
From inside the dark cage, two deep red eyes peer out curiously.
Maho walked up to the cage, and placed his hand on the ancient lock. There was a soft click, and a set of white teeth gleamed from within the darkness.
Maho: It's your turn!
Setting: The Ruins
Demon (To ???): This is our pistop?
???: You don't reconize the signature hair?
Demon (To ???): Ah... So that Green-Haired kid is our target?
Maho crossed his arms in an X in front of his face as the diamond on his forhead was revealed.
?: What're you...?
The blue diamond exploded in a burst of energy as Maho threw his arms by his sides, blue energy flowing around him as his hair flew everywhere, now the same blue as the Beast he held.
???: Well what do you know? It's a whole family reunion...
Narrator: A large group of men with green hair are walking together.
?: And so I said; "Getting this close was a BIG mistake, dude!"
??: And we knocked that guy out SO hard!
???: Boo-Yeah.
?: It was awesome.
??: Totally...
Setting: The Soul Well clearing.
Maho: The Great One... The one who mastered White Magic?
Sensei: The very same. Only this man want's to become his equivalent with Dark Magic.
Maho: He want's to be a tool to The Darkness?
Sensei: Not at all. He believes that he can possibly collect enough power to make The Darkness his tool.
Maho: That's insane! Nothing has that kind of power; The Darkness is a collection of magic with a mind of it's own.
Sensei: So are the Crystals.
Maho was silent as he began to realize where this was going.
Maho: He thinks if he has enough Crystals, he can control The Darkness?
Sensei: Not enough; all the Crystals.
Maho: So you're trying to tell me that from the moment the Blue Beast was given to me, I was put directly into danger's way?
Sensei: Yes.
Maho: BUT WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT!?
Sensei: Because the Crystal on its own cannot defend itself, and I sure as hell wasn't going to unleash the Blue Beast!! That Crystal needed a Capsule to stop this man's plans.
Maho: Why didn't you do it?
The clearing goes silent as Maho waits for a responce.
Maho: Well?
Sensei: I suggest we stay here for now. I'll set up shelter the hard way as my magic is low, and start getting some food ready. Maho, I want you to put up some simple defence spells around the area; take a look around while you're at it. If we're attacked again, you should know everywhere you can go to escape.
Maho: Yes sensei...
Maho left the clearing, going several yards out into the woodland to get a good distance away from camp to place protective spells.
Setting: Ruins of a stone building in a forest.
Maho: How interesting... I think this would be a nice place to try and get to quickly if we're attacked. Of course, I would stay and fight before comming here.
Beast (To Maho): And what would that prove? That you can disobey your sensei? That you are in fact the person they're after?
Maho (To Beast): Shut up!
Setting: Within Maho's mind; at the Beasts cage
Beast: Do you understand why Sensei isn't my capsule right now?
Maho: No, because he won't tell me!
Beast: I'll tell you. Capsules are often chosen when they are young so they can take on the Crystal at a young age. This way, they can be trained to fight alongside their Beast, or at the very least how to tap into their power, during their basic training. Sensei is too old; he's already learnt how to fight without a Crystal, and so it would be more difficult for him to learn now than for you to.
Maho: Are you serious?
Beast: That's one reason why a few are chosen; your exact reason may not be that, but it might be.
Setting: The Ruins
Maho (To Beast): Just let me set up these spells, alright?
?: ...and then I punched 'em in the face!
??: OH! He'll feel that in the morning!
???: I made him feel it then!
Maho (To Himself): Who's there? What if it's another ambush?
Maho quickly stepped behind a crumbling colum, and watched around it to see the large group of men with green hair, all worn differently.
?: ...So I gave 'em one of these!
The man kicked a nearby stone wall, smashing right through the rock.
?: About that strong, too.
??: Aweso-
???: There's someone here.
??: Yeah, dude; it's us.
???: Someone else.
????: Who, bro?
???: There!
The man who sensed Maho punched the ground, a green energy flying towards the colum Maho was hiding behind through the ground. Maho leapt onto the uneven top of the colum, and then into the air as the stone structure shattered on impact.
?: Whadda'ya know? You were right.
???: Of course I was, you moron!
??: Get 'em!
Maho: NOW! Stone Colli-
????: Back here!
Maho spun around in mid-air just in time to see the fist make contact with his nose. As he hit the ground, Maho did a backflip off of his hands to jump over another one trying to tackle him. The blood from his nose seemed to almost make a string from Maho's face to the fist of the man who punched him.
Maho: Blood Binding Seal!
The man jerked, and obviously attempted to move his right arm, unable to because of the blood flowing from his knuckles to the shoulder joint. Then the string of blood formed a chain connecting the two. Lightning sprung up around Maho's right hand and the green-haired man flew towards him, drawn by the chain of blood. Maho's lightning fist flew through the man's face, turning him into a burst of sparkles which dispersed towards the rest of the group.
Beast (To Maho): It's a clone barrage!
Maho wiped blood off his face with his right hand, small sparks leaping off as the lightning faded.
Maho (To Beast): Obviously! I'm not blind.
Beast (To Maho): There are a lot of them...
Maho (To Beast): We started with at least nine, but now I think it might've been ten.
Beast (To Maho): Some green-haired kid who's mastered the Clone Spell. This'll be a fun fight...
Maho (To Beast): He's close-combat, too...
Beast (To Maho): ...and we're long-range. With the clones he has, we'll never get to where we need to be.
Maho (To Beast): Unless...
As three of the men threw themselves at Maho, he grabbed one of their shoulders, and lifted his feet off the ground, kicking another one. He then pushed himself onto the third's head and leapt into the sky, magic propulsion sending the clone into a burst of sparkles.
Beast (To Maho): We're not very good airborne.
Maho (To Beast): Hopefully neither is he.
Maho exhaled a breath of flames down onto the group of men, incinerating all but two of them, whom began to dash between trees to fly higher and higher into the air. As they neared Maho's height, they dahsed across the air to where the other was, punching Maho at the same time to both hit him and keep him in place mid-air. As they went higher, so did Maho. Unable to defend himself from the fast, powerful strikes, Maho soared higher and higher until there were no trees high enough for the men to jump off of. So when the trees ran out, one man appeared over Maho as the other appeared behind him. The second man turned into a burst of sparkles, which surrouned the soles of the first man's feet, and his right first. The man leapt off of the magic in the sky, and slammed the rock-solid fist into Maho's gut, sending him staright into the ground and destroying the area even more.
Beast (To Maho): I felt that!
Maho coughed blood onto the ground, and then glanced up to see the last man standing creating more clones still.
Maho (To Beast): That's not a bad idea...
Setting: The Beasts Cage
Maho: Beast!
From inside the dark cage, two deep red eyes peer out curiously.
Maho walked up to the cage, and placed his hand on the ancient lock. There was a soft click, and a set of white teeth gleamed from within the darkness.
Maho: It's your turn!
Setting: The Ruins
Demon (To ???): This is our pistop?
???: You don't reconize the signature hair?
Demon (To ???): Ah... So that Green-Haired kid is our target?
Maho crossed his arms in an X in front of his face as the diamond on his forhead was revealed.
?: What're you...?
The blue diamond exploded in a burst of energy as Maho threw his arms by his sides, blue energy flowing around him as his hair flew everywhere, now the same blue as the Beast he held.
???: Well what do you know? It's a whole family reunion...