The Rescue Mission

'The Rising...'

The water hit the side of the boat splashing against it and rocking the boat, no doubt throwing most people who stood on it over... Oliver pressed his back up against the ships wall as he silently began to move through the ship at a slow speed making care not to to trip or make a sound...

He barely had any mana left after pulling that stunt earlier, and he doubted he could even produce another spark again let alone that powerful wave of gray magic he had used to shatter the magical cuffs. He used If only those pricks didn't burn his sword down to ash... Without the magical blade was just useless... Barley able to manage his mana or bring it forth. That sword was what he used to control and manage it so he didn't use to much or to little. So without it... Maybe he should just quit-

No...

He couldn't quit now! This boat was an illegal vessel filled with kidnapped victims. It had to have some magical trinket lying around somewhere. A magic sword, or a wand or something. Anything that could help out and allow him to cast his spells again.

He just needed to find some kind of magical trinket to cast his spells.

Luckily for him, this boat wasn't all that big. Unluckily for him, that meant it was way easier to get caught by the two extremely powerful Wizards who were on the boat who could easily beat him even if he had his sword with him.

"Damn it..." Oliver whispered folding his arms. "If only I had Jakey here... If I could use his power I'd win for sure... Jakey alone could beat the snot out of those guys..." Oliver took a deep breath for a moment as he rested up against the back wall of the metal ship. Past that point, he could see the two random wizards, not the two, that had captured him both quietly chatting about something.

They seemed to be complaining about their boss.

"Damn that Kaen asshole..." One of them muttered leaning back and taking a swig from his mugs as the liquid dripped down his chin. "He's a real piece of work ain't he. Him and that Pako guy who worships him... Those two can piss off for all I care! If not for the money I'd just say screw em both!"

"Shh! Are you an idiot." The second guy hissed out. "Pako will hear us... They say he has an electric field around this boat that allows him to hear all... Don't dare insult his Master or..."

"Right right I get it..." The man rolled his eyes as he leaned up against the wall. "Hey. Check it out. A wand. I haven't seen one of these in a while. Don't only babies use these to cast spells? There are a lot of crazy stuff in this box?"

'A wand!' Oliver thought with wide eyes. 'Yes! If I can just get my hands on that...'

"Yeah. I heard we picked up a... Well... You know. One of those kids from the village we burnt down. Some little girl apparently... She was the only one left alive after our boss burnt that entire village down to ash. I tell ya he's a scary one laughing the entire time as he burned family after family down to ash."

The two men laughed for a moment before they went back to searching through the piles of stuff they had.

"Damn..." Oliver said under his breath as he ever so slightly glanced into the room where they were... The two of them were sitting down on wooden chairs and had a wide variety of stuff laid out in a box. No doubt things they stole from the other victims. Among the pile several trinkets that could definitely come in handy. One of which that caught his eye was a short glowing sword. Shinny things were nice. "How the hell am I gonna get in and grab that..." He wondered.

"Yes." A loud voice exclaimed from behind Oliver making him jump slightly. He whipped around and saw Pako, was standing directly behind him with a small frown on his face. He reached out placing a hand on the boys shoulder as he stared Oliver down. "How are you going to get your hands on that? And better yet how are you going to stop me from shoving you back into the hull with one attack?"

"Y... You! How did you know-" Oliver jumped back but felt his back collide with the two men who were now out of the room when they heard one of their bosses. They both grabbed a hold of the young boys arms squeezing down and gave wide grins when he hissed out in pain.

"Wow!" The first one laughed. "You weren't kidding. Those blue eyes, and that murderous look he is giving us... He is one of 'them' isn't he. I think I might just crack his head open and let his brains out for what his family did! Would serve him right wouldn't it."

"Now now." Pako raised his hand up as lighting covered it. "No need for that. After all, we can sell him. But it is a bother that he managed to escape." Pako placed his hand on Oliver's stomach as it began to glow, lighting flickering off of his hands. "Give me a moment so I can snap his spine and make sure he doesn't walk again-" Pako stopped for a moment as his mustache twitched. "Why do I hear yelling-"

"Look out below!" A pair of voices yelled.

'Boom!'

The roof of the ship caved in as something slammed into the boat nearly flipping it over. The force was so strong the boat began to split in half, and a massive tidal wave slammed into the boat blowing it back. It began to crash into the docks as the entire thing shook and everyone was thrown to the ground. The boat slammed into the sand flying out of the waters.

Pako let out a growl and lunged forward with his lighting covered hand intending to impale Oliver with his lighting blade, only for a hand to reach up and grab it seemingly unaffected by the lightning..

"Got you." The voice of Athena announced cheerfully.

Everyone began to process the fact that Athena, and Davi, now stood in the room. Davi held Jakey, as well as Athena's stuffed animal, and Athena herself now stood in front of a shocked looking Oliver holding the lighting covered hand like it was nothing. The electricity covered her but she didn't even seem to flinch from it.

Lighting seeped out of her body clashing against Pako's own and shocking everyone but Davi.

"She... She's a Wizard!" Oliver said shocked. "Not only that but she also has Lighting magic!" Oliver felt herself fall back as he stared up in shock at the two strangers from earlier. They had once again saved him from certain doom. "Who are they!"

"You can have this back," Davi said handing Jakey back to Oliver. "Your dog is an asshole by the way. Next time it bites me I'm biting back." Davi announced giving a smile which showed off his many fanged teeth. It was like seeing a shark smile.

"Hey who the hell are you two-"

One of the two men tried to say but in a flash Davi appeared behind them. He hit them over the head with both his hands delivering to powerful karate chops to the back of their necks causing them both to fall to the floor with their eyes rolled in the back of their head both unconscious.

Athena herself slammed her fist into the head of the shocked Pako making the man slam into the bottom of the boat as hard as she could. The entire boat wouldn't stop shaking as it slammed into the port and nearly flipped over. It crashed down onto the beach of the city slowly collapsing down and nearly shattering.

"Whoops." Davi laughed stepping off the side of the boat. He fell a few feet down landing on the sand. Unfortunately, he had his hand on Oliver's arm dragging him over the side of the boat as well.

Oliver let out a yell as they crashed down into the sand. Athena quickly stepped off the boat as well and landed on Oliver sitting on the boy.

"Oh God..." Oliver groaned face down in the sand as Athena rested on his back. "Plase for the love of God let me turn over."

"Looks like we found you," Davi said casually.

"Don't sound so casual!" Oliver yelled.

Lighting exploded out of the side of the boat as Pako crashed into the ground in front of the three boys. He was huffing and puffing as blood trickled down the top of his head from where he had been hit.

"Oh cool, he's still alive," Athena said without any emotion. "I guess he's sort of strong."

"A... A single punch and did that..." Oliver muttered. "I... I'm starting to suspect these two aren't normal people..." He let out a nervous laugh and hugged Jakey closer to his chest.

Pako growled as waves of lightning exploded out of his wrists. "That's it..." He hissed out. "You two have gotten in my way one to many times..." He grabbed his robes and ripped it off leaving him in just his long pants. He showed his chest off which had several powerful abs, and toned muscles. He flexed slightly as lightning seemed to cracked around him and he pointed a finger at Athena. "Lighting Magic! Thunder Gauntlets!" He hissed. The lighting covered his arms and hands like blue liquid gloves. The Lighting flowed more like water, and seemed to be quite literally dripping off of him despite the fact that it was still lighting. "You two are dead!" He yelled.

"Alright! Cue that cool music that should be playing!" Davi laughed. "Pretend like Athena's theme song is playing!"

"What?"

Athena stepped forward walking towards the man as she gave a half smirk and placed Davi's sunglasses on her face. "Davi! Give me Sir Fluffulaton!" She announced as Davi threw the toy over to his friend. Athena caught it as the lion began to glow. It grew in size and seemed to almost change and form over her entire arms. It formed a pair of red gauntlets that went from her finger tips all the way to her elbow forming her powerful armor. Lightning crackled around her new gloves as she punched her fist together and gave a smile that could rival Davi's shark tooth grin. "Let's do this!" She hissed out.

Pako let out a roar and jumped into the air spinning around and clasping his hands together making a large electric lance which he stabbed down. "I'll turn you to ash! Blue Thunder Cannon!"

"Tell your friend to move!" Oliver yelled in a panic. "That dudes overflowing with Mana! He's going to vaporize her if she-"

"Relax," Davi said casually. Pako stabbed both his hands forward as the lighting literally exploded in front of him with a bright blue flash unleashing a massive beam of hyper death right in Athena's face as the beam washed over the girl and turned the very sand into glass as the beam blew up the beach. "Lighting attacks... Those don't work on Athena." He said casually. "Not when she absorbs it at least. That last time was a fluke."

The beam cleared showing Athena standing perfectly still. Small gust of steam seemed to rise off of her body over and over again. Other than that she was perfectly fine not even harmed in the slightest.

"W... What!" Peko said in horror and shock. "How... How the hell did you do that!" He yelled. He brought his hands up pushing them together as a ball of lightning formed and he thrusted his arms forward sending out another massive blue energy wave. "Die! Die, die, die, die, die! Die!"

Athena's hand came out of the energy wave grabbing Pako by the front of his shirt. Everyone but Davi stared in shock as the lighting slowly began to die out. No... Not die out...

The energy was being pulled into Athena getting smaller and smaller as her skin seemed to soak it up like a sponge in water.

Her eyes changed glowing a bright yelled as small black claws stabbed out of her finger tips and some of her teeth changed becoming fang like. Her hands gripped around the mans throat making him gasp. Pako stared into her eyes in shock. It was like looking into the eye of the storm.

"Thanks for the Mana," Athena smirked.

"You! Absorbed my magic! How dare you-"

"Lighting Magic! Beast Kings Fist!" Athena announced smashing her free armored hand into the face of Pako as hard as she could easily shattering his jaw and nose. The lighting exploded out of her fist slamming into Pako and shocking the man as he let out a loud cry of pain and shook from the lightning covering his body.

Pako slowly fell back hitting the sand with a loud thud as he laid there unconscious not moving at all. Steam rose off of his body as he spat up.

"I win!" Athena announced stomping her foot down onto the mans stomach as hard as she could breaking a few of his ribs. "Another victory for Athena Dawn, Ace Future Arcane Knight! I'll a Guild Master in no time at this rate!"

"A... Athena... Athena can... Absorb magic." Oliver asked with wide eyes.

"That's right." Davi smirked giving a large shark toothed grin. "Just like me Athena isn't technically a human. At least not fully."

"She took him out in one attack-"

"Yeah she is pretty cool. Anyways how about we call it a day and leave-"

Flames exploded out of the boat from behind the group. They slowly turned around and saw all the captives were now free and running off in a panic. And standing at the top of the boat was a very, very pissed off looking, Kaen who glared down at the group of three below.

"You three are..." Flames began to hiss off of his body covering the boat as he got a crazed look in his eyes. "Dead!"