The Dance of Hearth and Wishes
Somewhere underground, a group of people in robes were gathered around a ritual altar, preparing for a summoning. "Brothers, Sisters. Today we carry out the Traitorous will, and bring agents of evil to crush the oppression! We shall call forth the strongest of all abilities, and all shall return to darkness!" a man yelled to the crowd. He started to chant over a golden chalice, filling it with his own blood. Suddenly it began to freeze, but then a bright blue flame swirled around it. The room then froze over entirely, and blue flames engulfed the walls. Everyone looked to see two people standing on the altar, one clad in a black hoodie and a scarf with a snowflake pattern, and black pants with black boots. He also had blonde hair. The other had snow white hair, a black shirt, blue pants, and held a folding fan in his hand and a demonic oni mask on his head. "Yes! We did it! You have come from beyond the veil in order to carry out our will! You shall kill all that opposes us, and serve our-"
The man was cut off with a furious blast of cold that froze his body completely. "You really thought we would obey a cult? You've got the wrong guys. Now it's time you all did one thing. Freeze." the blonde haired boy said as he reached his hand out, blasting everyone in the room with an intense frost and froze them all where they stood. The white haired boy just walked outside, and noticed that they were in a futuristic city, and that he had no idea where he was going. "Okay....where is this? I remember falling asleep in my dorm, now we're in a city. Did we just get Isekai'd?" he asked himself. The blonde boy followed him, and noticed Merlin holding Shikom by the arms on a wall. He ran up and drop kicked him off, much to Shikom's surprise. Merlin got up, clutching his side.
"What in the fresh hell was that for?! That hurt dammit!!" he yelled, still clutching his side that was frozen in that spot. "You must be Apostles then, okay square up bitches. Shikom, get the white haired one, he might be a pain in the ass to deal with later." he said as he got into a stance. "W-wait wait wait! This was a misunderstanding, Chris didn't mean to-" the white haired boy was cut off with a swift kick from Shikom aiming for his neck. Merlin went to attack the blonde boy, not giving him a chance to attack back. However he managed to grab Merlin's fist, causing a flash freeze to his forearm, but it quickly melted. "Okay, maybe we got off on the wrong foot. I thought you were bullying that guy, chill man!" the blonde boy said, but got a forceful palm to the gut and a swift kick to the side. "I might've deserved that one...but look we're not any Apostle or anything. So can we put the fists down and talk real quick?" he said. Shikom held the white haired boy's arms behind his back firmly.
"Shi Shi, you can let him go. They won't try anything funny, I'll make sure of it." Merlin said. Shikom let him go, and stood next to him in a protective way. The white haired boy introduced them both. "My name's Weiss. This is my friend Chris. We were summoned here from our school by some cult underground. And sorry about that drop kick, the way it looked you were sorta bullying him." Weiss said. Merlin looked a bit pissed, muttering under his breath and tapping his finger on his arm. "That doesn't excuse cock blocking me dammit!! I was gonna get my freak on and you both totally blew it! Now I can't get back in the mood due to the flash frost on my ribcage!" he yelled, making Chris just flick him in the nose. "We said sorry, don't hold a grudge. Besides, I know it feels to be cock blocked...." he said with a look of regret on his face. Shikom giggled and had them all shake hands. "I'm Shikom, this is Merlin. How about you join our team for now, we're crashing at Merlin's place for now." he offered. They both agreed and went to Merlin's house, and sat in his room and met everyone.
"Hahahaha!! Way to get cock blocked by a couple of new guys, nice job novice!" G laughed, making Merlin hit him over the head with the blunt end of his scythe. Morgan had his mouth stuffed with food, and was listening to music. "Okay, so we're on a planet called Teratrix, you guys are a group of misfits kicking ass and taking names, and the shark is the only one that got laid. Somehow that's pretty badass. We came from a world that has beings called Transients, and we had gained powers from a phone app." Chris said, as he checked his phone, seeing that the app was apparently still there. "So strange though, what kinda world ending crisis is currently going on now? Cults, dictators, government fucked around and found out the hard way?" Weiss asked. G explained the Dark Lords and Dark Traitors, and the conflict that was going on. "Oh. Okay yeah that sounds fun actually. So do you have any idea about what to eat? It's been about a few hours and I'm already starving." Chris asked. G smiled, pulling out a menu full of really appetizing meals. As they ordered, Shikom was talking with Weiss.
"So, your fighting style. It looked different than what I know of. Like dancing." Shikom said. Weiss explained his ability, and that it was dancing that he uses for combat, and he could create bright blue flames. Suddenly, they felt some sort of disturbance, like something was coming at them at a rapid speed. Morgan held her hand up, stopping the projectile within space and seeing it was a spear made of bone. The owner walked forward slowly, and held out his hand to telekinetically pull Chris out of the room by his neck.
"You dare to freeze my entire cult...YOU GOOD FOR NOTHING PAWN!!!" he yelled, but Chris wasn't phased at all. If anything, all he showed was annoyance that he was yelling, and looked like part of his body was bleached. In a swift motion, ice spikes jutted out of the man's arm, swiftly freezing the blood before it spilled out onto the ground.
"Look, I don't give a fat fuck about what you wanna bark at me. I'm no one's pawn, and people like you really get on my nerves." he said, creating a sword of solid blue ice. The man gripped his arm in pain, but ended up cutting his arm off with a swift chop, letting it move about freely. Chris wasn't sure what he was trying to do, but he extended his blade in order to impale the moving arm. However the man began to go into a berserk state, his eyes bulging and red, and threw Chris with incredible force into the air with his remaining arm.
But Chris wasn't rattled or even bothered, and just stopped himself in midair, as if the air was solid for him. "Now that was just rude. Time to end this." he said as he took a single step and instantly vanished, reappearing behind the man, with blood dripping from his blade. The man was stunned for a moment, then felt piercing cold cuts ripping through his body, freezing him solid as he was already dead from a slash to the neck. Chris went back inside and sat down, melting his sword into water, then having it evaporate into steam along with the blood.
"Wow. Never knew our new friend was such a badass too. How's about we team up and put these dick lords down yeah? Kinda tired of em and I really want to do anything other than deal with the shit ramblings of eons old grudge boys." G asked. Chris and Weiss laughed that he was so blunt with his proposal, but agreed to help fight. But for now, they just rested as the day drew to a close.