The Group Meets

'The Rising...'

In Arthur City a man could be seen with his back pressed against the stone wall. The man had jet black hair and light yellow eyes. He was dressed in what looked like a black business suit and had a red tie with a strange dragon skull for its symbol. At the mans waist rested a slick katana.

The man let out a small sigh as he walked forward and placed his hands on the railing. A tiny grin seemed to slowly form onto his face for a moment.

"I'll admit... I didn't think you would be here Davi..." The man sighed running his hand through his slick black hair. "Despite that though. I already set it in motion... Good luck."

Meanwhile...

"See! I knew you were a fake. Master Grimval isn't a lightning mage he's a- Oh you're gonna kill me aren't you. That's a lot of magic... You uh... You're not seriously going to unleash that all on me right?" Oliver asked letting out a nervous chuckle as he stepped back.

"Time Magic is rare you know... I didn't think anyone in this damn place was worth a damn but after seeing you... I'll have that magic one way or another! Vil Thunder Ball!" He yelled throwing a ball of lighting towards Oliver as hard as he could. The ball scattered forward splitting into a massive ball of lightning.

'I don't have time to block it!' Oliver realized as it soared towards him. 'Am I gonna... Die-'

"This is the greatest plan!" A massive sonic boom went off followed by two bodies that flew forward right as the lighting was about to hit Oliver.

The lighting hit the two bodies, causing Davi, and Athena, to drop out of the sky and crash into the ground lighting covering them both...

"Oww..." They both groaned.

"What the hell!" Oliver and the Fake Grimval said in shock.

'Davi!' Cath the cat announced letting out a bark and jumping off of Oliver's head to land on Davi.

"C... Cath?" Davi asked with wide eyes.

"No seriously what the hell!" Oliver asked.

"Who the hell are they?" Grimval hissed out as he stared at the two teens who were shaking on the ground.

"Cath knows one of them? More importantly though... That was perfect timing." Oliver said with wide eyes. "A second later and I would have been a goner for sure! Those suckers saved my life!"

"These suckers have names." Davi said as stars went around his head. "Oww..." He groaned as he rolled over. Small flickers of blue lightning still covered his body as he shook. "That hurt... Like a lot. Like a lot, a lot... Ouch..."

"I'm in a lot of pain..." Athena said as stars formed above her head. "I didn't absorb it in time... Who knew lightning hurt." She coughed groaning out in pain. "Get him Lion!" She made an attempt to throw her stuffed toy but slipped on Davi falling and hitting her head on the stone cracking it. "Oww...'

"Dumbass." Davi muttered.

"Shut up."

"No you shut up."

"Those damn brats actually blocked my lighting blitz wave! It was more than enough to kill a normal Hunter in a single blast... No. Not just kill an Arcane Hunter... It would reduce any normal person down to ash in seconds! They shouldn't even be breathing! They must have lucked out somehow!" The Not Grimval hissed out raising his hand. "I'll just recast it and blast that damn time brat straight into-"

Oliver grabbed his new golden sword raising it above his head and once more slashing it out and sending out a wave of grey time energy. It sliced into a building as it became grey and aged breaking apart and falling. "Row Arking Time Wave!" Oliver announced as loud as he could yelling it up to the heavens. The entire building aged as it snapped off and fell towards the fake Grimval causing his eyes to go wide as it dropped towards him.

Grimval stared up at the large rock as it dropped towards him at a fast speed. "Oh... Oh sh-"

It broke away and slammed into the faker, knocking him out in one blow before he could even react. He rested under the large rock not moving at all. He was completely out of the fight.

"I... I actually did it! I actually managed to beat someone! And I only needed to use one spell! Wow! I can't believe it! I knew my dad was wrong when he said I was an utter failure and would never achieve anything good in life, and might as well off myself!" Oliver said in shock as his eyes went wide and filled with excitement. "Guys did anyone see how cool I was-" His smile dropped as he looked around and realized everyone had already left once the fighting began. "Oh..." He said giving a sad smile and a small hiss. "I guess nobody cared... Darn. I bet I looked so cool too..." His cat, who was still on Davi, let out a small yawn as it stayed on it's new spot, as if nothing happened. "Oh well." Oliver spun his golden sword around sheathing the blade as he let out a sigh. "Maybe next time? I'm just glad this Demon Blade was so strong!"

"Demon Blade?" Oliver jumped and looked down to see Davi was getting back up Cath on the top of his head like some weird hat. Davi was resting on his knees breathing heavily as the steam rolled off of him. He looked up finding Oliver's hand was held out towards him.

"It's my cool new magical sword a shop owner gave me in terms of most of my money. Oh and I'm Oliver by the way. I think that would have killed me if it would have actually hit me so thanks for that I guess?"

Davi slowly took the hand and pulled himself up as he scratched the back of his head. "Believe me... It wasn't on purpose... That really, really, really, freaking hurt..." He said making a bit of a face. "Geez. His lighting sucked... Still... It's not the first time I've had a bolt of lightning dropped on me so silver lining I guess?"

"How is that a silver lining? And what do you mean that isn't the first time!" Oliver asked in a concerned voice moving away from the strange boy.

"Oh and I'm Davi. She's Athena."

"Real question... How does Cath know you... And like you?"

"What?" Cath the strange puff ball black cat had its stubby little arms wrapped around Davi's head clinging to the side of his face and holding onto him tightly. Its tail was wrapped around the boys throat and it seemed to be purring. "Oh this..." He let out a nervous laugh rubbing the back of his head. "Well. I kind of know Cath. It's a long, long story... She was with me back home. I lived on Wasteland Island. I doubt you heard of it. It's far out and remote not in any of the four great Kingdoms. Cath was... I guess my pet? Really it was my sisters. But when I set out on my Adventure some stuff happened and long story short I got separated from them. Guess they found you."

"Right..." Oliver nodded a frown covering his face. Cath let out a meow and jumped off of Davi's head landing on the top of Oliver's and resting in his hair as if it was some kind of nest.

"Yo Dawn. How you doing?" Davi asked raising his hand up and waving it towards the still downed girl.

"I had no idea lighting could hurt so bad... Still wasn't like anything like my Masters, but still..." Athena frowned hugging her red lion closer to her chest. "That really hurt..."

"Well... Still. Thank you?" Oliver looked the strange boy, and girl up and down for a moment. "Are you two new here?"

"Yeah... We are new to this city." Athena said slowly standing up thanks to the help of Davi. "We're just stopping by, we actually have business a few towns over so this was just a quick stop on our way over there."

"Okay..." Oliver said slowly backing away from the two strangers. "Well... Thanks again for saving me but this is starting to get a little weird so if you don't mind I think I'm just gonna... Leave okay? me and Cath have a big adventure to go on."

"Adventure?" Davi and Athena both asked.

"Oh... Yeah haha... It's a long... Long story." Oliver seemed to shrink down for a moment as thoughts went through his mind. "This girl though..." He held Cath up. "Well she's going to help me reach my goals. No matter what happens... Cath and I will... We will reach that sword..." Athena held her Lion plushie up making the two creatures, one living, and one stuffed, meet eyes. They stared each other for a few moments each trying to assert dominance on the other. Being a living creature and not a stuffed toy, the cat of course won.

"Cool cat," Athena said, poking it slightly. "It's all black and stuff? What does it have magic or something? Can it talk or do anything magical?" She joked.

"It barks a lot, and requires a lot of food and attention?" Oliver shrugged. Cath let out a dog like bark and began to lick Athena's cheeks making her let out a laugh and pet the beast. "Right... Well sorry to just end this conversation but..." Oliver turned away from the two weirdos and began to walk away slowly. "I need to go..." He said causally. They were starting to weird him out. Oliver walked a few feet away but stopped when he heard footsteps behind him. His eye twitched and he let out a sigh and slowly turned around seeing them both following after him. "W... Why are you two following me?"

"Oh uhh? We don't have anywhere to go. We just got here." Davi laughed. "So... You know... Feed us."

"W... What?"

"We saved your life by accident. That deserves a reward. I'm not running a charity. I wanna be rewarded!" Athena announced. "We don't do things for free!" Athena said loudly pointing at Oliver who backed up.

"That's right! My sister always taught me... Better to have someone owe you one, then for you to owe someone." Davi announced. "Pay up! We accept payment in food by the way so you can buy us lunch in order to pay us back." Oliver shivered slightly when he saw Davi's many rows of shark like teeth that looked like they could bite through anything.

"I... I..." Oliver let out a sigh. He reached into his bag for a moment feeling it was full of coins. "Alright. How about this. You guys did save me earlier so how about I buy us lunch?"

"Yay food!"

"And then after you'll both leave me alone right?" Oliver asked staring at the two weirdos.

"Food!"

"Gods I hope that's a yes..." Oliver sighed as Cath let out a bird like kawing sound. "Thankfully there's a-"

Athena's nose twitched for a moment and she let out a growl her hand going over her black eye patch. "Davi!"

"Is there one here?" Davi asked.

"Yeah. It's coming. Any second now."

"Uh... What are you guys talking about?" Oliver asked frowning. "You're acting like something is about to-"

The ground shook and several civilians that had been walking on the side walk stopped. They all turned and many of the magical cars on the road slowly pulled to a stop. Then suddenly the ground exploded as loud screams rang out. Pulling itself out of the ground was a large brown creature. It looked almost like a giant brown worm but had the head of a shark large razor sharp fanged teeth in its maws. It let out a loud roar a bust of lightning exploding out of it.

"T... That's a... A Dirt Shark!. A Viscount level Oddity Beast!" Oliver said in shock stumbling back. "Why is one of those in a city! These are monsters the Arcane Hunters have to handle-"

There was a fast burst of speed for a moment as something seemed to slam into the head of the beast a large dent smashing into the top of its head. The beast began to crash down and Oliver swore he saw a burst of flame for a moment as the monsters head was blasted off. The body of the creature dropped down landing into the ground now unmoving.

"W... What just..." Oliver said slowly his eyes wide.

"Now that that's over with." Davi said rubbing his hands together. "Let's eat?"

Oliver turned to look at Davi, and Athena, his eyes going wide. Davi's leg was covered in purple blood, the same kind that was oozing out of the monsters head, and smoke was coming off of Athena's hands. The two turned away from him and began walking down the street both talking about their next meal.

Oliver stared at them with large wide eyes.

"...Who... Who the hell are these two?"