//------------------------------// // Magic 10. Engage // Story: Tales from a displaced Wizard // by shenadri //------------------------------// Breathing deeply, I move towards Rose to help her, Sylph simply made an upward movement with the swords, blocking my way. "You do not understand, right ?, I will not let go, so you can not seal this Gate, Wizard, now face me!" He roared, jumping to me. "Surrender Sylph, I may not be the hero that many say I am, damn, I just found out that in this universe I am apparently the son of royalty, but in my conscience I can not allow you to hurt innocent people, I will be the hope of them, if they want to call me hero, so be it. " I said, unknowingly Twilight was smiling at this little speech. Meanwhile, I took one of my rings, putting it over the buckle. "CONNECT, PLEASE!" Taking the WizarSwordGun from the magic circle, I jumped back, shooting a few times to ward off the Phantom, after this, simply modify my weapon to fight with the sword to try to fight on equal terms against the elusive monster, meanwhile , Sylph began creating several bursts of air to try to hit me and hurt me, but nevertheless, moving from side to side, I managed to prevent all attacks and also I got closer to him, putting my sword in reverse position, then I proceeded to make an upwards slash , knocking him back and doing some damage to him. "Why, Wizard, why fight for them, after all, you are a phantom, the only difference is that because you did not fall into despair, you couldn't evolve and you acquired the gift of magic in return" Sylph bellowed, trying to beat me with his swords. "No more Sylph, I do not want to fight anymore, but still, you're forcing my hand, besides, you are not going to stop because you guys NEED more Phantoms, and in this universe, magic is a constant." I said, doing a few jumps and rolls in the air, ripping the topaz ring from my chain belt. "LAND, PLEASE! Dododo Dododon, Don Dododon!" The familiar runic circle emerged from the floor, and flew trough me, when it dissapeared, my suit had changed into the topaz themed wizard, the edges of my coat now sporting a few square shaped stones. "What does this mean!?" Sylph exclaimed, confused, "the last time I saw the memories of Ox, you can just switch to a weird Wind Form!" the aerial Phantom squeaked, his voice showing a new fear. "A Wizard never reveals all his tricks at once Sylph, it is time for the finale," I replied, opening the hand on the hilt of the sword, and running my hand over it. "Come on a Slash, Shake Hands!... LAND, Slash Strike!, the best!" Running, I jumped staring at my opponent, my sword glowing with the energy of the very earth, even a couple of rocks materializing on the edge of the sword before hitting Sylph from side to side, after a moment, Sylph just exploded, disappearing in a white puff, sighing with satisfaction, I switched to my standard fire form before approaching the two lying mares in the grass, when I approached to Roseluck, I grasped, the purple markings and cracks covering her almost completely. "Roseluck, please do not give up in despair," I said, raising her hand gently, she opened her eyes, a look of utter sadness in them. "The work of my mother, the secret garden, lost in the fire," she said, her gaze lost in the smoldering embers. "Roseluck, look at me," I said, when she turned her head, pulled out a ring of contract from my belt, "no matter how hopeless the situation, always ... ALWAYS is hope, look carefully to the greenhouse, tell me what you see "she simply turned his head, staring, then we all see several sprouts of different plants trying to emerge from the ashes. "Roseluck, let me be your hope" fitting the ring on the middle finger of her hand, I moved it at the buckle of my belt. "ENGAGE, Please!" "Please take care Michael," Twilight suddenly says, "I don't wanna lose... the best way of protecting my ponies" she blurted out, a faint blush on her cheeks. "Dont worry Twilight, I will try my best to finish the Phantom inside her, so I can also close this gate." I said, before jumping into the rune circle and dissapearing from her sight. "So this is Roseluck's underworld ," I said to myself, watching a scene in which Roseluck and her mother were entering the now destroyed greenhouse, from one moment to another, a large crack manifested in the image, exploiting towards me, covering my face, I could only watch how a monster emerged from the crack in the memory of the young mare, its deformed body resembling a hand, a large bloodshot eye in the center of the palm. "Come here ugly" I said, calling the attention of the abomination, taking another ring, I put on my right hand, the image of a portal and a dragon emerging from the surface of the jewel. "DRAGORISE, Please!" A great portal opened behind me, a magnificent red, black and gold dragon coming out of the portal, but the majestic animal suddenly began to move erratically, hitting random spots in the memory, increasing the number of cracks. "Dragon, be my servant!" I exclaimed, pulling the Machinewinger and causing the motorcycle to win revolutions, I began to pursue the two rampaging monsters that were fighting in the memory, seeing a little chance, I jumped with the motorcycle, transforming it into a pair of protectors for dragon's wings and landing in the back of the beast, turning the handle, making my mount to face the monster, spitting a couple of fireballs, dragon gets some distance from the hand monster, seeing the chance, I took the ring again and passed it trough the buckle Kick strike, the best! Jumping backwards, dragon transformed on a giant claw, i just kicked at the end and it falls forward the other monster, effectively destroying it. Twilight's PoV I almost jumped out of my fur when another circle appeared, blurting out gouts of flame, suddenly a strange machine burst from the portal all the strange cracks on roseluck dissapearing, on top of the machine, a smiling Michael was looking straight at me "Pretty darn impressive, if I can say so myself" he smugly remarks, only for us to stop dead in our tracks when we heard a muffled groan, when we turned around, a little dragonid was sprawled in the floor, its eyes swirling and his face a little green. "Never do that again, Michael," the little dracokid says, loosing conciousness after that.