chapter 17: Little reunion and Ourborous
Salem's POV
We had finally stopped at Dreoon town and the place was pretty massive and packed with a hell lot of people on the streets. As we got out I wrestled with Morrigan to get my phone back as she started to get hooked on subway surfers.
"Excuse me ma'am am sorry to bother you but you and your son are kind of blocking the door." A random man said to us. At least he was being polite about it.
"His/She's not my son/mom." We say at the same time as we exited the train staion.
Now Dreoon town was pretty big from what I could see. A lot of people filled up the streets, a lot of shops and I could see some magic shops here and there. There town also seemed to be a little dragon themed like Bellhall village in as some of there buildings had some dragon decorations.
"Hey Morrigan before I go to the Griffin wing guild can I ask what business do you have here." I asked her.
"Well, I need to get my mage license. In this kingdom for you to actually get good jobs as a mage you need a license permitted by a magic council agency."
"Wait how come you don't have one?"
"Oh, because am not originally from Pergande kid but luckily on of the agency workers owes me for an um 'thing' so am going to get a license now." She explained but the way she said thing made me raised my brow. "Okay junior the do you want me to hold your hand and drop you off at the guild I know this is your first time in the big city so I understand if you're scared ~." She teased and I just flipped her off and she laughed.
"But honestly though if you get lost just do follow my scent to find me."
"Got it chief see you later." I said and the two of us went our separate ways for now. I was walking around and decided I asked around about the griffin hall guild and I began to walk towards it which didn't take that much time.
The guild building was a little big, painted with at the top with a feather like pattern, brown at the bottom which I don't know how but looked like fur and the very bottom was painted yellow. The more unique thing was the two wings on both sides of the building. I went inside and it seemed to be similar to the guild buildings, I've seen in other fantasy works but the difference is that it had some few TVs. As I walked in most people didn't pay me mind as they were busy eating, drinking, or watching TV but some did look as I reached the counter.
"Oh, hello their cutie what's your name and what can I do for you~?" A pretty blonde haired bar tender asked.
"O-oh my name is Salem Shupiwe I looking for a group called the Saberwolves." I told her and she hummed.
"You're in-luck cutie they're all on that table over there." She pointed in the direction they were and I thanked her and went over to them and they were all wearing casual clothes this time. "Come to me if you need anything else." She waved and I just waved back. I walked over and they so me coming.
"Yo Sabers it's been a hot minute!" I waved at them and was in front of their table.
"Hey Salem good to see ya kid!" Leonardo grinned.
"It's good to see you Salem-san." Whisper said and she scouted a bit and I sat beside her.
"Hello Salem-san its good to see you." Maroon said as she sipped her drink. "So what brings you here in Dreoon besides visiting us?"
"Oh, right am here with my um mentor I guess." I still wasn't sure what to call Morrigan. "She went to do her own thing and I decided to visit while am here."
"Oh got a mentor to help you out with you're magic huh go for you." Leonardo said. "Anyway, welcome to the griffin wing guild! Its pretty cool am right!" Leonardo said and I nodded I mean the place did seem pretty cool.
"So, Salem-san what have you been yup to this past month." Maroon asked me.
"Oh, you know just received a message from a buddy of mine who asked me to do a monster hunting gig for him so am just wandering around slaying monsters and finding treasure." I answered them.
"Monster hunting that sound really exciting so what type of monsters to be exact." Leonardo asked me.
"Well, you can say there really out of this world." I chuckled a bit and the three didn't get my little joke. "But what about you guys what have you been up to?"
"Nothing much just taking jobs and practicing my gun magic." Whisper answered.
"Yeah, for the most part we've been taking jobs but since the new horsemen have been elected, I will be training for the upcoming s-class Exams." Maroon said.
"S-class exams huh so how does your guild conduct s-class exams?" I asked them.
"Well here in Pergande the s-class exams are an event decides whether you're fit to be an s-class mage or not. For mages to enter they are required to have recommendations from there guild master or government officer." She gave the gist of it.
"Damn it must be a pretty hard test if with a hell lot of mages entering huh."
"Hm master Elizabeth our guild master told me that thousands of mages are assigned to the exams but only an estimate of twenty below actually pass the tests. Even if you retake it multiple times there's still not a high percentage that your pass." Whisper explained and damn these games must have been hell of hard.
"You must have some powerful magic if your qualified Maroon."
"I realized we know your magic but never told yours. I mainly use wind godslayer magic." Maroon said her magic and safe to say I was in awe. "From your expression I guess you already know what it is." She smirked a little.
"Yeah, so where you like taught by a wind god or something?" I asked all excited.
"Its's complicated." She said looking down and holding her chest in sadness and I didn't press any further
"I use reinforcement magic." Leonardo said his quickly most likely wanting changing the topic. "Its pretty use full when you want extra kick in your equipment and fixing stuff." He boasted a little.
"Gun magic." Whisper said her straight forwardly. "It lets me use different types of guns and special bullets. Its not really all that." She said a little shyly.
"Oh, a new." A female voice asked and I turned and saw a beautiful green haired woman in her 30s or so with purple eyes wearing a black dress. Beside her was a tall man in his 30s as well with black hair and brown eyes wearing glasses and a black tuxedo.
"Oh, hey boss lady what brings you to our table?" Leonardo asked her and guess she was the guild master than but than got a slight bonk to the head.
"How many time do I have to tell you to show some respect to Stella-sama Aston-san!" The tuxedo man screamed at Leonardo.
"OW! Jeez am sorry happy!!" He cried as he nursed his head.
"Its okay Frederick-kun and to answer your question Leo-kun I was actually coming over to inform you and Marron that you have a special requested mission than I saw a new face in my guildhall." She than looked at me "So young one who might you be?"
"Oh, am Salem Shupiwe um Miss Elizabeth." I answered her.
"So, you're the young animal take-over mage the saberwolves talked about."
"That's right." I and just gave myself bunny ears and a tail. "That's me." Before I knew it am begin pulled into her bosom and being hugged tight.
"OH, YOUR SO ADORABLE WITH YOUR LITTLE BUNNY APPERANCE A CUTIE LIKE YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY JOIN OUR GUILD!" She squeezed me harder in her boobs.
'This is a good way to die but am not ready to meet Morpheus again.' I thought as I ran out of but full transformed into a snake and slipped out of her grip and transformed back to normal and used Whisper as my shield human shield.
"Oops sorry little one I couldn't restrain myself." She sheepishly said.
"Miss Elizabeth you should refrain from doing that you might have killed the young man" Federick said tilting u his glasses like a classic glass wearing anime character.
"Don't be so grumpy Freddy-kun here I'll hug you too." She said opening her arms to him and he turned from her hiding his blushing face.
"M-Miss Elizabeth we're in the guild hall have some modesty!" He stuttered a bit.
"So, um the mission?" Maroon asked her.
"Oh right it's really urgent that you and Leo-kun follow me and Freddy-kun to Hercules city for this as it was epecailly request to you by the red horseman Calvin Armstrong but I decided to bring Leo-kun too for extra back up." She said seriously.
"Oh, right master." Maroon said getting up from her sit. "Sorry to cut the reunion short Salem but me and but me and Leo have to go guess that leaves Whisper all to yourself." She said to us.
"Have fun kids we'll see you later." Leonardo said waving goodbye.
"Goodbye Salem-chan hope I'll see you again soon or maybe I should just take..." Elizabeth didn't finish her sentence as Frederick pushed her out.
I turned my attention towards Whisper and she also turned to me not knowing what to do know either.
"So Whisper what do you do for fun around here?"
Nighttime
I hang out with Whisper all day and it was pretty fun despite her shy personality. I really didn't care about that though I was a little introverted too in my past life so we clicked a little well. She showed me some spots around town I and now we were just in on a tall building looking down at the town.
"Got to say the nighttime really and the lights really make the town look pretty." I said looking at the scene and sure it wasn't as pretty as twilight slopes but it was still pretty good.
"I-I really enjoyed spending time with you today I don't have many friends a little close to my age." Whisper said to me.
"Yeah, I really enjoyed spending time with you to." I said than took out my phone. "H-Hey do you mind taking a picture with me." I asked her and she looked at my phone curiously.
"What is that?"
"It's a portable communication lacrima I got from a friend of mine." I said and she looked at it in awe. "So little pic what do you say?" She than nodded and we took about three pictures of her holding me from behind and just smiling at the camera. I was my long cat tail to get a better shot.
"Well Salem I…" She but before she could finish, we heard as we heard the sound of someone yawning a little loud from the shadows causing Whisper to get her guns ready and got in front of me while I transformed my hands into claws.
"Easy Junior it's just me and damn I always knew you preferred older women~." Morrigan came out of the shadows with her hands up.
"What the f… How long were you there?" I asked her a little annoyed.
"Am about six minutes." She answered. "Can you tell you'll friend to stop pointing those please." I turned to Whisper and she seemed nervous when she looked at Morrigan for some reason.
"Hey Whisper it's okay that's the mentor I told you about at the guild so can you please lower those things." I asked her and luckily, she did but she still looked on guard.
"What are you?" She asked Morrigan.
"Who me am just a woman who is just here her to get her mage license." She answered nonchalantly.
"Wait didn't you get it?" I asked.
"Oh I did but the bastard demanded one more favor from me before I got the license so I refused and left but he got on his knees and started begging me pathetically till I said yes." She cringed at the memory.
"What's the favor?"
"You see there as been a little sub group of a large dark guild called Ouroboros trap are around here and he begged me to take care of them." I saw Whisper's eyes widen in complete shock.
"Am mind dumping a little lore on me here?" I asked.
"Salem-san Ouroboros Trap is THE most powerful dark guild in the country they basically run a crime monopoly and if they business here can only it can only spell trouble." Whisper explained but there was some distress in her usual quiet voice.
"Right and since the man who owes me can't send out a proper mission to deal with them he asked me to do it because am on the low and I was going to ask you to come with me because I need your animal senses to track some of them down." She told me.
"I don't know we getting paid."
"Yep!"
"Alright then but I can't really track these guys unless I know what they look or smell like"
"Don't worry I got that covered now say good bye to your girlfriend here and let's go for our first job." Before I could say anything to Whisper though.
"Wait if Ouroboros Trap is here than please let me help you." Whisper asked Morrigan.
"Hm, I don't know if anyone from your guild tries to helps it could turn bad." Morrigan said to her.
"I-I'll try to keep my identity as much as possible plus I know Dreoon town well so I could provide much assistance."
"Kid am not going to be responsible for what happens to you if you decide to come with us if you die than that's your own fault." Morrigan said to her coldly and I so Whisper flinch a little.
"Come on Morrigan just let her come with us she's got gun magic so she could act as our sniper for this mission." I jumped and Morrigan just sighed rubbing her head a bit.
"My god fine let's go kiddies." She told us jumping off the roof and we followed her.
A little time later
We were all sitting on the outside tables of a small restaurant and we all ordered some drinks and discussed a plan of the mission.
"So got anything I could use to track them with?" I asked her and she just brought out a pouch.
"Yep, you see this back before I came to find you, see I asked the man for any something that would help in the case and he said some local Pegasus knights accidentally caught them but they got away before anything happened but one of them did drop this pouch in the struggle. So work your magic kid." She said handing me the poach.
'Animal nose: Rabbit.' I morphed my nose into that of a rabbit but I should get a dog transformation to make things easier. As I sniff away the two females went into a conversation.
"S-so um Morrigan-san why do you think Ouroboros trap is here do they have like a base of operations here." Whisper asked Morrigan.
"Hm I don't know much about Ouroboros trap myself but I do know it has multiple sub-groups and bases all over the country but nothing about Dreoon town." She said as she took out a pack and began to smoke. "Junior, are you done yet?"
"Am working as fast as I can here." I said it was hard to pinpoint exactly where to the scent matching the bag. "And got it!" I spoke.
"Good lead the way." She told and the two began to follow as I followed the scent of the poach. After some minutes we got to the dock where no one was around and we saw a shady meeting with about ten men happening like a gangster movie but we were far away for safety measures. I than turned my nose back to normal and morphed my ears into that of my rabbit form to listen in better and I saw Morrigan also shift her ears making them look like an elf making me snort.
"Something funny junior?"
"Yeah, you look like a dark elf." The comment also caused Whisper to chuckle a bit and Morrigan flicked my forehead and raised a brow at Whisper causing her to quickly cover her mouth.
"Just concentrate on the job junior I can't properly make out what they're saying so it falls to you." She told and rubbed my forehead a bit
"So did the Emerald miracle get safely transported to the blue scale district?" One of the men asked.
"Yes, by the end of this night they would have safely transported the whole shipment to Hercules city with no interference." Another said.
"Good the next other shipm…" Suddenly his mouth was shut.
"Hey enough with all that we how many times do I have to tell you dumbasses we can't talk about stuff like that in the open like this.
"What did you her Salem-san?" Whisper asked leaning in on me.
"Well from what I heard they were getting something called Emerald miracle and they sent it to the blue scale district to be shipped off to Hercules city." After I was done, I heard Morrigan gasp much to me and Whisper's confusion.
"Emerald miracle are they crazy!" She whispered harshly and turned to us. "Were taking them done now after that Whisper could you be a dear and guide us to the blue scale district?"
"Y-yes I can."
"Thank you."
Whisper than re-quipped a sniper of sorts and shot and fired some projectiles hitting two men but not killing them.
"WHAT THE FUCK!!" One of them said and light some fire on his palm but than Morrigan punched him hard to him ground causing a crack and knocking him out. I transformed into my hybrid rabbit form and jumped on two men's head smashing them to the ground with extra force. The remaining five got read for action as three to out swords, one a gun and one a stuff.
"Anatomy transmutation: Dark tendrils." Morrigan transformed her arms into tendrils and started whipping the hell out of the men before they could fire their spells and left only one conscious and held him tight with her tendril. Whisper had used a binding like bullet spell to hold the other nine men. "Alight little man mind telling us where the rest of your guild members are making this trade. ~" She used that sweet/scary.
"F-Fuck you b-bitch you really think that…" He didn't finish his sentence as Morrigan actually began shocking him with electricity.
"You know lighting magic too?"
"What oh now Junior am just manipulating my bio-electricity." She said as she shocked him again. "Talk." Her voice got a little darker and the guy refused to say a word and she repeated the process and I was got uncomfortable watching the scene and I decided to go through the rest to see if they have something.
"M-Morrigan-san p-please stop he want talk if you keep torturing him like that." Whisper put a stop to her and she just clicked her tongue. "L-Lets just find another way to get some information out of them." After that Morrigan smirked deviously.
"Okay than dear." She then dropped the man and he just twitched on the ground. "I didn't put that many volts in to that attack so here's the deal unless you want and extra electric session with the addition of spiky tendrils going inside your ass you better start talking." She threated and Whisper just looked at her.
"I-I c-can't." He said and Morrigan sighed and Whisper glared at him. "N-N-O-O! P-PLEASE W-AIT I REALLY CAN'T I CAN'T TALK ABOUT GUILD BUSINESS WITH OUTSIDERS!!" He begged with tears in his eyes.
"Okay maybe just say the location were the Emerld Miracle is being transported." I said ang he looked unsure. "Look either that or my teacher her will fulfill her threat earlier."
"O-okay! Okay! Blue Ne…ARGH!!" He didn't finish as he screamed in pain and he chest began to glow and he fell down on the floor lifeless and causing Whisper and I to gasp in shock.
"What happened to him!" Whisper freaked out a little.
"These Ouroboros people are crazier than I thought they use I seems like they use there guild marks as a secondary curse which causes death to anyone who talks about guild manors to outsiders." Morrigan said inspecting the man's body.
"D-Did I basically c-caused his death?" This was my first time actually seeing a person die violently right in front of me and I was not taking well especially that I was main catalyst to it.
"No junior the one who put the mark is." Morrigan put a comforting hand on my shoulder but it really didn't do much. "Whisper did you know what he was talking about?"
"O-oh r-right he was talking a bout the club blue nest its in the blue scale district of town come on!" She said and we all ran at high-speed following Whisper.
We didn't take long to get to the club despite it being far away and we let Morrigan do the integrating as was still processing what I just witnessed. Whisper was beside me not saying anything just offering me company and hesitantly wrapped her hand around my shoulder while we wait for Morrigan outside.
"Sons of bitches already took of to Hercules we're too late." Morrigan come out of the club a little frustrated and started blowing a smoke to relax.
"W-What is Emerald Miracle anyway." I asked her hoping that subject would distract me a little.
"Huh it's a drug kid. A special type of drug that not only makes you feel good but also increases a person's performance. When a mage uses it boosts their magic capabilities and also lets them use their magic more effectively. But it also slowly fucks up your body and magic system making if taken repeatedly and so if a person wants to function properly, they will need to take it till it well completely fucks you up and kills you." She explained. So, it's like cocaine mixed with steroids.
"We should contact the government office about this and about the ones we captured." Whisper suggested and we nodded.
Next morning
After the Pegasus knights come to get the dark guild members last night, I had said goodbye to Whisper and Morrigan rented us a room to sleep which I barely did as I was still getting used to the scene I saw. Next morning Whisper had visited me before me and Morrigan left for the station for our next destination. She gave me a hug goodbye and a magic gun for a present?
After that me and Morrigan boarded a train but I wasn't sure where it was going as my head wasn't in the game yet.
"Salem please listen to me." Morrigan said softly. "Comforting people isn't my specialty but I have to tell you this death is something you have to get used to. There might come a day where you might kill someone either intentionally or by accident especially on this road you walk if you let those emotions your feeling consume you than to will lead to lack of focus letting someone or thing getting a lucky shot and doing you in." She lectured and I just nodded.
"Chin up Junior me and you are taking a little break and going for a little spa date!"
"Wait what." I