Magic And Bonding

'The Rising...'

Far, Far Away...

Across the seas lies a massive County known simply as Avalon. A County absolutely filled with magic. So much magic, in fact, it has become commonplace. In nearly every home, or every store you're sure to find something that has to do with magic.

For most magic is something that is used to make their life just a tiny bit easier.

Something that makes cleaning a little bit faster, or setting up a shop just a little bit easier.

But for others...

For others, magic is has become something more...

Those who worship the Mana, study under it, train with it, mold it... Wizards. Those who tap into the Mana and unlock their Magical Abilities.

These are the people who hold the title of Arcane Knight! Powerful warriors of untold skill. A Single Arcane Knight is said to have the power of nearly a hundred wizards, and a thousand knights.

They truly are mighty warriors serving the King and their Country going on all manner of Quests, and exploring powerful Dungeons...

Nearly four thousand years ago a war wagged on with a mighty black beast, said to have control over each of the holy ten elements of the world, fire, water, earth, air, lightning, light, dark, spirit, time, physical... The ten elements that make up the world giving, life, sound, food, and energy to the world, as well as providing the dreams they live in. Four Thousand Years ago this beast wagged its war and fought the strongest Arcane Knight known to the world, Arthur Pendragon, the first wielder of the Sword of Selections Excalibur.

This war was so great that several Arcane Knights were ordered by the King to come together in order to even stand a chance.

The Magic Guilds!

Groups made up of powerful Arcane Knights!

During that battle Arthur fought the black beast four ten days, and ten nights in a none stop battle. When it was all said and done he cast his blade through the beast splitting the creature in half. He banished the beasts upper half to the realm known as 'the other side' however the beasts lower half fell to the floor. The lower half was said to split forming ten mighty beasts of the skies.

The dragons...

Lighting, fire, water, earth, wind, light, dark, time, spirit, and physical. These ten beast wagged a war on the rest of the world. This was the main job of Arcane Knights during this time. To be Dragon Slayers.

Now four thousand years later, after the defeat of the Black Beast and the ten dragons, they now mostly work for their King, going on Quests and Adventures, solving problems for the common folk of Avalon.

They truly are heroes.

But...

Of these Guilds, one, in particular, stands out.

A Guild said to be led by a demon, who hires anyone, be they a criminal, a nobody, a non-human, or even another devil... A Guild said to have a filthy Beast-Folk, as their Vice-Captain. A Guild said to cause more problems than they solve. A Guild... The public knows all to well...

Phoenix Flight.

The family of outcasts!

Despite all the names, and foul things it has been associated with this Guild has held its head up high doing everything they could. This Guild for new upcoming Heroes! Phoenix Flight Fight On!

***

"Why are you telling me all this?" Davi asked making a face. "Typically a person doesn't bring up the negatives of the Guild they want to join..."

"I just figured you wanted to know what you were getting into." Oliver laughed. "You should just know that there are way better Guilds you guys could join." Him, Davi, and Athena, all rested at a large red metal table. Jakey the strange dog rested on the table looking around curiously. The room they were in seemed to be made out of the same red metal as Athena's fist weapons from earlier. And strangely enough her stuffed Lion was also gone.

"Well then why do you want to join it?" Athena asked cocking her head to the side. "Seems kind of like you're just being an idiot?"

Oliver shook his head for a moment. "Why are you guys even here?" He asked. "Are you on a mission or something? I mean if you wanted to join a Guild you could have just gone to it, but instead you stopped in this city?"

"Uh sort of?" Davi laughed. "As I said, we're looking for Athena's dad."

It had only been a few hours and they managed to get to the very edge of the city and were currently waiting it out before they moved on. At the table they rested out there were several powdered donuts but none have been touched yet as Davi had made them and who knew what could have been in there.

Apparently, the guards disliked them setting the ocean on fire, ramming a boat through the docks, and turning the beach into a glass floor. During that time Oliver had decided to go into detail about the Guilds, and their history with King Arthur the first and greatest Arcane Knight for some reason.

Oliver let out a slight sigh as the strange situation he found himself in. Though he had to admit. He kind of was enjoying himself. These two were odd and yet cool.

"So..." He was quiet for a moment as he fidgeted awkwardly. "What was up with the whole... Absorbing Lighting and that changing magic sword stuff?"

"Ahh..." Athena gave a small shrug. "Well. That's a bit hard to explain. Magic is weird sometimes so..."

"It is?"

"Yeah... Well for me at least... To put it simply..." Athena reached up placing a hand over her chest for a second and making Oliver blush and look away. Her grip on the table got tighter as she went silent. "My heart is... Unique... It gives me access to a very rare kind of magic. Ancient Magic much like yours."

"A... Ancient Magic?" Oliver frowned. "I don't really get it?"

Davi picked up one of the powdered donuts up and took a bite of it swallowing it. "Wizards are able to tap into the Mana within them to active Magical Abilities." He stated grabbing a second and biting into it. "Much like your Time Magic, is your magical ability. They use these magical abilities to make Spells, which can either require a verbal communication, or a wand, and often depends on the skill and power of the user. Every magic has a type that falls into one of the ten elements. The six elements of man, which are Fire, Water, Air, Earth, Lighting, and Physical. And then the four Elements of Gods, Darkness, Light, Time, and Spirit. But every kind of magic also posses one more tag that helps distinguish it. A... Almost ranking system. These are Common Magic, which you can find in almost every book, Rare magic which is extremely rare magic to find, Ancient Magic, which is typically a one of a kind type of magic, that either doesn't exist anymore, or is thought to not exist anymore, and finally, Item Magic, which is magic found in items that Wizards use to cast spells for them, think of my weapons as an example of this, and of course Forbidden Magic, which is banned magic. So, for example, you Oliver posses Time Magic, which obviously falls into the Time elemental group, and is Ancient Magic. That Kaen asshole we all fought, had Fire Magic which is a fire elemental magic, and fell into the Common Magic. Certain elements can cancel others out, and a magics rarity doesn't equal its power. It is certainly true that Ancient and Rare Magic tend to be extremely powerful, but even Common Magic can be Godlike in the right hands and used by a skilled user... And then there is that dog of yours."

"Jakey?" Oliver asked raising an eyebrow.

Davi let out a hum and reached up wrapping his hands around the ears of the dog. He lifted it up and held it in place eying it. The dog eyed him back.

"You are a very strange, and weird, magic, puppy aren't you mutt..."

Jakey let out a small bark licking Davi's cheek and making the boys eye twitch.

Davi threw the dog behind him. It spun around and landed on its feet causally.

"For the most part that's all you need to know." Davi nodded. "Athena here posses a very rare and unique magic that hasn't been seen in ages. In fact, only a total of ten of her magic exist in the entire world."

"That rare," Oliver said surprised. "Well, what about you? What was up with that sword stuff? And... I... I think one of your slashes exploded?"

"Davi has a very... Unique fighting style..." Athena said shaking her head.

"If Unique means badass then hell yeah I do!" Davi pushed his chair back as he began to stretch. He held his hand up and pointed the guitar up to the sky as it glowed and shifted into the first sword, the big claymore.

"This is the power of one of the Devil Orbs I posses!" Davi announced as he gave off his trademark shark toothed grin. "You see there are ten Devil Stones that exist in the world each having its own weapon within. A person can usually only use one Stone, but I have two. It's actually my mission to harness and collect the power of all ten Devil stones! This sword is Long-Calibur. A powerful claymore able to extent its blade at the speed of sound. The entire blade can stretch out to one mile long. That second sword you saw is known as Explosive-Calibur. A curved sword that when swung is able to send out gusts of powerful explosions." As he spoke the blade changed becoming the curved great sword. "Each stone has its own magical weapon. I will have all ten of them someday."

"Cool..."

"It is pretty cool. I can also just swim through the ground as if it is water." Davi said proudly.

"So you can always just blast people away right! It's gotta be like really impossible to beat you!"

"Not exactly..." Davi laughed. "You see... These weapons put a toll on the body and if any person were to use even a single stone they would begin to suffer damage if they weren't strong enough. A normal person couldn't even use more than one, so me being able to use two is super rare and people haven't ever liked the fact that I can use two at once. Wait until they see I can use ten! I hope... I could actually blow up if I get all ten but yolo am I right?"

"Lovely..." Oliver let out a sigh and reached for one of the powdered donuts.

"I wouldn't eat that if-" Athena tried to say but Oliver stuffed it in his mouth before the girl could finish.

His eyes went wide and he quickly spat it out. "Eww! What was that? Nasty!" He shook his head at a fast speed and shuddered. He wiped at his tongue and hissed. "And why do I feel weird after eating it?"

"Oh, I ran out of supplies for the donuts like milk sugar for them so I used whatever I found on that destroyed boat." Davi shrugged. "For the milk I used Béchamel sauce, and instead of sugar, I found a bag of white powder and thought it would be good enough but looking back on it now I think it might have been cocaine?" Davi asked picking up the Donut Oliver spat out and biting into it and swallowing it.

"What the f##k!"

"Language!"

"You put cocaine on donuts!"

"And you lost your magic sword so you can't even cast spells! Don't yell at me!"

"You! Put! Cocaine! On! Donuts!"

"Well then don't eat them! They're for decoration anyways! they're suppose to be eye candy." Davi yelled.

"Then why are you eating them!"

"Stress! I stress eat!"

Oliver shot Davi a dirty look as he pushed the food into the trash. Or at least he tried but Davi reached out catching one and put it back on the table sticking his tongue out at the boy. "How have you guys not been caught yet you jacka-"

Loud banging echoed out on the metal door making all three boys jump and let out yells.

"This is City Guards Open up!"

"Damn it, Oliver, now they know we have drugs! Did you guys come for the coke?"

"We... What?" They all heard quiet mumbling from outside the door and the banging got louder.

"Why would you say that!" Oliver yelled.

Athena sighed and slowly stood up scratching her body out. "Well it seems like once again Davi has caused us nothing but trouble."

"Alright," Davi said sliding his chair back. "It's time to head out..."