'The Rising...'
Several of the City Guards all stood in front a large metal red building that had suddenly appeared at the edge of the city.
Nobody knows how it got there. It just showed up randomly out of nowhere...
The building itself was made out of a weird shinny red metal, as in it was made entirely of this substance. No wood, no widows. It did have a door but it was made out of the same metal as the house. At the very roof of the house, the head of a metal red lion could be seen who's jaws were open mid roar.
From the outside, they could hear yelling coming from the inside but it was to quiet to understand. Something about donuts.
"Is this the place..." One of the guards muttered a little on the edge.
There were around five of them in total. None of them were Arcane Knights, and only two of them even had magic. Despite that though they were all confident in their skills. Some would even say too confident...
"Yeah." The Guard who stood at the lead said nodding his head. "This is the place we were told to inspect by that one Guild Guy..."
"To think an Arcane Knight actually came to us with a quest!"
"Still... Where did this creepy metal house come from? And it's so far at the edge of the city... I mean the edge of the Mountain is only a few miles from here. Maybe even only a mile." The Guard shook his head as he slowly raised his hand up to the door. He loudly knocked on it making a loud bang. "This is City Guards Open up!" He yelled loudly.
The yelling stopped for a moment and finally, they heard. "Damn it, Oliver, now they know we have drugs! Did you guys come for the coke?"
"We... What?" The guards all looked at each other in shock for a moment. "Holy sh... Did? Did he say he has drugs? Did this become a drug bust?"
Suddenly they heard a loud bang as the wall to the left literally exploded out!
"Everybody scatter! And no body snitch when if Ya get caught! I ain't going back to jail!" Davi yelled jumping through the hole in the wall. Athena and Oliver also followed as all three, two boys, and one girl, ran forward heading towards the woods in the distance.
"Hey! They're getting away!" All the guards pulled their weapons out and ran towards the three teens.
It didn't take long before they all entered the forest. Davi, Athena, and Oliver, all scattered in different directions, each heading for a different corner of the woods, forcing each of the guards to split up.
'Why the hell don't they just beat them up?' Oliver thought shooting the guild members a dirty look as he separated from them.
They all ran as fast as they could ducking and weaving through the many trees causing them to practically vanish.
One of the guards, the one who was leading the group earlier, found himself lost. He ran forward at high speed and felt a branch slap his face causing him to stumble forward. He broke past the forest and came to a sliding stop nearly flying off the edge of a cliff.
His eyes went wide as he looked around. He now stood at the very edge of a cliff that was just barely past the edge of the forest.
"Wow! That was super close..." He laughed. He stared down the cliffside seeing a massive forest of trees below. The drop was massive and would kill any guy who stepped off.
A loud bark echoed out from behind the man making him jump and let out a yelp.
He turned around and looked left and right but didn't see anyone. In fact, all he saw was a strange looking black wolf, that had six eyes, and was super small.
"Huh... What a weird dog?" He muttered staring down at it. "You look so weird and strange? What's up with those six red eyes, and black fur? And what are you-"
The beast jumped up slamming both of its legs into the guard and threw himself off the side of the mountain. He screamed as he flew over the side of the mountain.
"Holy shit dog, did you just kill that guy!" Jakey slowly turned around seeing a wide-eyed Davi staring at him. "Nice." Davi held his hand out for a fist bump which the small dog returned using its ears. "You're a pretty cool beast aren't you."
"There you guys are!" Oliver said running out of the woods. He was breathing heavily as he nearly collapsed. He held his arms out as Jakey hoped into them once again and he began to pet the strange black beast.
A few seconds later Athena also ran out of the woods. "I... Think... I lost them..." She breathed heavily. "Whatever the case. I definitely lost that last guy. He looked kind of like the leader. No clue where he went."
"Oh, we lost him all right," Davi said casually.
"Ominous." She said.
"Yep!"
"So what now?" Oliver asked looking around.
"Not too sure. No idea how to get off the side of the mountain?" Davi shrugged.
"I can help with that." A low voice said in a quiet growl. From behind the three of them there was a flash of blue light as someone began to activate their magic.
"Oh crap-"
"Mana Blade! Mana Cutter!"
A wave of blue light slashed into the cliffside they stood on as it was completely split in half.
Davi, Athena, Oliver, and the Devil-Beast all flew off the cliffside as it broke away.
"Well we're dead," Davi said casually. "I'll play us a quick song." He yelled pulling his guitar out and playing a jam as they fell.
"Can't you do something!" Oliver yelled in a panic.
"I don't know probably."
The three disappeared out of sight falling towards the forest floor below.
At the very edge of the cut cliff a man stood. Four of the guards stood behind him all with wide eyes. The man had a large smirk on his face and had long black hair, brown eyes, and wore black robes. He held a long wooden staff in his hands, that glowed with a blue light. At the back of his robes, a symbol could be seen.
A Silver Raven...
"I... Is that the power of an Arcane Knight?" One of the guards muttered.
"D... Did you kill them?"
"Of course not." The man smirked. He walked towards the edge of the sliced cliff. "Those kids are Wizards. I recognized two of them. They tried to join my Guild but weren't able to cut it. I'll deal with them here and now, and show them why they aren't worthy to gain the title of Arcane Knight!" He stepped off the side of the mountain falling off the cliffside at a high speed. A large smirk crossed onto his face as he spun over the side of it. "I wonder how much they'll entertain me!" He laughed.
At the very bottom of the cliff, Athena spun catching Oliver and breaking their fall sliding along the side of the mountain with her feet ripping it apart as she fell down. Davi just kind of slammed into the hard ground at high speeds fast first as his head sunk into he ground.
"Oww..." He said his voice muffled from the fall.
"You kind of deserved that." Athena nodded dropping Oliver onto the ground.
"Well screw you too..." Davi said pulling his head out from underneath the ground.
"Who the hell blew us off the side of the mountain!" Oliver yelled.
Davi began to dust himself off as shake the rocks out of his hair. "He looked like a member of the Silver Ravens."
"Are they strong?"
"There weakest member once beat me to an inch of my life." Davi said shrugging.
"So we're screwed?"
"Maybe."
"Why are they even attacking us!" Oliver asked.
"Setting the ocean on fire, cashing a boat into the beach, turning the beach into a glass floor, not paying for a train ticket, eating all the food in a restaurant, causing public disturbance, using your magic in a fight which is normally not allowed when you're not an Arcane Knight, and possession of drugs..." Athena sighed.
"Criminal trash!" A loud voice announced.
Oliver panicked and jumped at Davi grabbing onto the teen and holding him out in front of him, right as the Arcane Knight landed on the ground slashing out with his staff. They all just barely ducked down as the blue mana blade slashed through several of the trees.
From the trees the lead guard fell out landing on the ground as he let out a panicked yell.
"Ahh! Don't hurt me!" He yelled backing up with wide eyes. Everyone ignored him.
Davi, Athena, and Oliver, were all three on the ground. Oliver was holding Davi out in front of him as every tree fell over.
"Did you just try and use me as a human shield!" Davi yelled with wide eyes.
"I panicked!" Oliver yelled.
Davi, Oliver, and Athena, all stood up as they turned to face their opponent. Davi frowned as he stared up at the man.
"I feel like I know you?" Davi said scratching his chin.
The man's smile grew as he pointed his stick at Davi and Athena. "I am Alion of the Silver Ravens!" He smirked. At the tip of his staff, a blue blade of mana slowly formed out. "And I! Will be your opponent! You freaks are always causing trouble in this poor city. Luckily I Alion happened to be in the area at the right time to hear about it! I rounded up this cities guards and have come to take you three criminal scums in!" He raised his staff up as it began to glow. "My Magic allows me to create a sword of mana to slice through my enemies. Still though. For the good you did I won't make your deaths painful."
"The good we did?" Athena asked.
Alion gave a small smirk for a moment. "Of course. You three took down Kaen a former member of my Guild. It is only natural I should thank you. He burned one of our members down to ash and got away before we could arrest him. That is why I was here. The man he burned to ash was a dear friend of mine. As such I took it upon myself to take him down and have been on the hunt for him ever since."
"I see." Davi took his jacket off of himself and threw it over Oliver as he raised his guitar which took shape forming his first weapon. "In that case. Honor me with a fair one on one fight so I can test my metal against a real Arcane Knight."
"He's planning on fighting him one on one?" Oliver asked shocked.
"Seems that way..." Athena said.
Davi stared Alion down as he readied his weapon. "There's no need to get you two involved in this." Davi said. "Against a powerful Arcane Knight, and brave warrior like this I'll fight him in a fair one on one fight."
"I see you too are a brave and powerful warrior." Alion said also smirking. "Perhaps I was wrong when I called you criminal scum. In order to honor you in this decision I will fight you alone. If you can beat me I'll let you all go as my sign of respect to you."
"Whoa..." Oliver said watching them both. "So they're gonna have an honorable duel. So cool."
"Get ready." Davi said bringing his blade up. "Here I come!"
"Well them come great warrior!"
He launched forward slashing his sword down, as Alion raised his staff up forming his energy blade out and blocking the strike. The two danced around each other at a fast speed clashing their blades as they moved fast enough, and hit hard enough, to send waves of wind out in all directions as their blades met over and over again. Davi jumped back and stabbed his sword forward sending out his lengthened blade as Alion side stepped the strike and slashed his own blade out sending a wave of blue energy out towards the teen. Davi's sword shrunk back down to normal size as he raised it up blocking the strike.
The energy wave was strong enough the cause his arms to shake and push him back as he gritted his teeth.
"Second Blade!" His sword glowed forming the curved great sword as he sliced it down sending out a wave of explosions. The blast slammed into Alion as he attempted to block, but it was kind of impossible to block a straight up explosion.
"Not to bad." Alion smirked flashing forward and slashing his blade down splitting Davi's shoulder open. "You're strong but I'm far beyond the power of Kaen." He yelled slashing his sword down as it grew in size forming a massive energy blade he dropped down on Davi slamming him into the ground.
"Oww..." Davi groaned sitting back up. "This guy is tough... Far stronger than Kaen..." Davi lowered his blade as it began to glow. "Alright. I'll use my strongest attack..." Davi said.
"I see." Alion smirked. "Then in that case I'll use my own strongest attack to-"
"Ahh screw it." Davi said. "She should have charged up enough by now."
"What?" Alion asked.
"Athena now!"
"Lighting Magic! Beast Kings Roar!" Athena announced slamming her strongest attack into the shocked man. It exploded in a hail of yellow lightning slamming the man into he side of the mountain and shaking it so hard the other four guards at the top slipped and fell off. As this happened Davi raised his explosive sword and blind sided Alion who was still being shocked by Athena's attack.
"Chain Blaster!" He yelled using his strongest attack sending out waves of explosions into the mountain side and pushing Alion deeper into it.
Alion was buried into the side of the mountain by the attack as it literally exploded. His staff flew into the air and landed in front of Oliver.
"Holy crap!" Oliver said with wide eyes. "Can I have his staff?"
"Sure," Davi said throwing his arms behind his back. "I don't see why not. I mean is he even still breathing?"
"What happened to fighting him fairly?" Olive asked.
Davi shrugged. "That guy was way stronger than me. Athena and I have a set up. If someone strong fights us I offer to fight him one on one while she charges up her strongest attack and then blind sides them with a burst blast. Scum bag tactics for sure but never said I was an honorable knight."
"We should probably get out of here..." Athena muttered.
Oliver picked the staff up as he smirked. He felt it light up in his hands. "Oh, I like this."
Davi walked a few feet into the broken woods as he pulled his thumb and pointer finger up to his mouth. He let out a loud whistle as he slowly turned back towards the other two.
"It's time to set out!" He said again placing his hands on his hips.
***
Alion's set up breathing heavily. He looked around with wide eyes at the four guards that were around him. He was buried in the side of a collapsed mountain and covered in burn marks and injuries from the double explosions. He looked pretty beat up.
"Are you okay sir!"
"Oh!" He looked around with wide eyes. "Ha! I'm still alive! Take that you damn bas-"
'Boom!'
From above them, large lion made out of red metal, that was being ridden by Davi, Athena, amd Oliver, crashed down throwing all the men around in shock.
"You! You guys are still." Alion stood up looking for his staff only to notice it was now in Oliver's hands. "You bastards! Fight me like a man! You only won because you teamed up and played dirty!"
"Nah!" Davi laughed throwing another explosion out with his blast sword. "You'd probably win in a fair fight even without your staff. We're just gonna leave!"
"Cowards!" Alion screamed as he was knocked down by the mini blast.
"Yep! That's us!" Davi laughed, as the Lion ran forward. "Just a bunch of cowards."