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Revolution 1-10

Revolution 11

Spoiler for Blood That Flows - Revolution 12:

"So, this is it?" Nove asked as the group found a rather small, non-descript shack, late in the afternoon the next day. "Doesn't look too impressive..."

"Most wizards build their laboratories underground." Lyos pointed out to her, he then pointed to what looked like a large box that was connected to the shack. "Besides, I said he made magic weapons, didn't I?"

"Among other things." Nove said as she walked ahead of the group towards the hut.

"Stop staring at her, let's go." Pokota grumbled as the group made their way to the shack.

"Halt." A female voice spoke up as a woman in a reddish, long-sleeved maid outfit stepped out from behind the shack. She had her eyes closed, but her red hair was only down to her shoulders. "What is your name?"

"I'm Lyos," the blue haired man said as he stepped forward. "These are my companions."

The woman nodded. "What is your business here?"

"To see the old man about some seal-breaking items. He should have gotten my letter a few days ago."

She nodded again. "What is your..."

"Ozel..." An older voice spoke up as the door to the shack opened up. "What's going on? Do we have guests? I like guests."

"No." Ozel turned to look at him, despite not opening her eyes, "now get back inside and write me into your will."

The man was wearing dark pants and a ratty, dirty colored white coat, he had a mostly bald head, except for a ring of hair around the side of his head with long hair that stuck out at odd angles behind him. He had a weird monocle on his left eye. Well, it looked like a monocle that was combined with several magnifying lenses. "Ozel," the man's high pitched voice sounded amused, "now, now, is that any way to treat me after I found you and fixed you up all those years ago?"

Ozel gave him a flat look. "I would say something rude, but you are not worth the effort, Masha."

Masha sighed and shook his head. "I swear," he looked at Lyos and gave the young man a smirk, "if you ever encounter a doll that has shut down, word of advice, don't fix her up and give her a more interesting personality, it comes back to bite you in the ass."

"Yeah," Lyos nodded at him, "can we come in?"

The man looked surprised, before laughing. "Of course, of course... Though, I only expected two of you, not this group."

"Can't be helped, we're here now." Lyos shrugged as he followed Masha into the shack.

"Wow!" Vivio, Ixpellia and Corona couldn't help but gasp in awe as they saw the various beakers and chemicals all around.

"I wouldn't touch that if I was you." Masha warned Ixpellia as she got close to a large flask that had liquid that was changing colors rapidly. "The last person who did got turned into a toad." He smiled as Ixpellia's eyes widened and she backed off from it quickly.

"Yes," Ozel nodded, "however, he got better."

Corona looked at the chemicals and frowned. "This seems more like a chemistry lab than a weaponsmith's lab." When Masha opened a large door in the back, she could only blink at the small hallway that had two doors in it. "What?"

"Well, I may be a weaponsmith, but I'm also a magic user, little girl." He chuckled as he walked to the end of the hallway and opened the door. Most of the group grimaced at the heat that rushed out of the room.

"Ooooh!" Ixpellia's eyes widened as she saw what was in the room. "Shiny!" Her eyes started to sparkle as she walked into the room.

"I think I'm going to just go wait outside." Arashi spoke up and looked at Vivio and Einhart. "You two coming with?" Einhart nodded and he looked at Corona and smiled. "Hey, come on, it'll probably be boring in there anyway."

Corona nodded and followed after him.

Vivio looked at Ixpellia as she looked around the room. "Ixy, are you going to be okay?"

"It's Ixpellia..." The young girl muttered as she looked at the various swords lining the walls. "Shiny!"

"I wouldn't touch them." Nove warned her and turned to look at Masha. "Tell me something, I'm not really up to date on what you use for chemicals around here, but wouldn't having chemicals that can turn people into toads be kind of dangerous if they get too hot?"

Masha smiled at her. "Well, I dabble with chemicals and sometimes when I'm forging the swords, I use the chemicals to give a sword a bit of an edge." He chuckled at his own joke before coughing. "Sorry, I'm just getting old." Sighing, the old weaponsmith walked over to the far wall and pulled out a long, thin blade. "As for you, Lyos, I hope this works for you."

"Hmm?" Lyos looked at it, it didn't look that remarkable, but he knew better than to doubt the man who had fixed his Banisher a few times over the years. "So, this is supposed to break seals?"

"Without damaging anything under the seals, I admit, that was hard, yes..." Masha nodded and jumped as he turned and saw Ixpellia holding a white short sword, well, short to most people, but it was almost a full sized broadsword for the young girl as she moved it around while looking at it in awe.

"Wow... This is so light, but it's beautiful... And this cross guard, it looks like a flower..." Ixpellia could only stare in awe at the sword. "What is this?"

"Well," Masha rubbed his chin, surprised that the girl knew what a cross guard even was. "About eight years ago I came across the ruins of a city, I can tell you this, I was shocked that such a beautiful city so destroyed, not to mention the giant tree." He sighed and shook his head. "So, as I looked around, I found pieces of a sword that were on the ground and I've spent the past couple of years trying to fix it up, but, well..." He sighed and shook his head. "I haven't had much luck other than putting it together. I'm just not sure, it seems like it needs something else." He shrugged his shoulders and winced when they popped. "Well, you can have it if you want it." He blinked as everyone stared at him in shock. "What? It's a magic sword, it's meant to be used, and I just put it together on a whim."

Before anyone could say or do anything, Nila walked over and took the sword from Ixpellia and ignored her shout of disappointment. "...Blessed Blade..." She whispered softly.

"Blessed Blade?" Ixpellia blinked as Nila handed it back. "What's that?"

"Isn't that the sword that was said to be able to weaken and contain miasma from the Demon Beast Zannafar and even minor Mazoku?" Masha looked around the room, getting shrugs from the people in the room. "Well, if that's what it's called... How did you know that was the name, young lady?"

"...Familiar looking."

Ixpellia tilted her head as she focused on the voice. Nila didn't speak much, but for some strange reason, she could have sworn that her voice sounded somewhat familiar.

"Anyway..." Lyos's eyes widened as an explosion rocked the shack. "What the..?"

"The kids!" Nove was already rushing out of the room, followed by Lyos, Pokota, Nila and Ixpellia.

"Sir?" Ozel looked at Masha.

"Well, I didn't rebuild you just to hear you make annoying comments." The old man waved her off. "Show them why you're my bodyguard."

"Of course." The maid nodded and crossed her arms over her chest before extending her arms out to the sides, blades taking the place of her arms. "They can bite my shiny metal blades."

"Why did I have to mess with her personality when I was drunk?" Masha rubbed his forehead. "Oh right, I'm brilliant when sober, but a mad genius when I'm smashed." He still had no idea how that was possible. He just hoped that his place was still standing when the excitement was over.

Spoiler for Comments:

That took way too long.

I know what I want to do, but the words aren't coming out easily anymore, despite having the scenes in my head.

Spoiler for MST3K review:

Dante: Man! There's a party getting started and I'm not even Invited over.

Odin: I know how you feel, Dante.

Me: Like getting skewered into a pin cushion?

Odin: Vergil never got turned into a barbeque in his life... Why his reincarnate getting the Dante treatment over the sharp, pointy objects...

Reia: Is that Sword is the Excalibur for Ixy?

Ixpellia: It's IXPELLIA!!!... *sighs* Why I'm blessed with a mouthful name anyways?

Reia: You can blame that to your parents, but that's another tale.

Iris: At least we saw the childish side of Ixy that we haven't seen till this point of the story.

Me: What do you expect? She was forced to grow up during her reign.

Val: If there's a expy of a certain personification of death... Is there a expy of the personification of the Void around there? Bar the pink haired sorceress who's being VA'ed by Rie Kugimiya?