Tales of a Ninja Magician: Of Where We Come From

Requiem for a Chase

"If you are Mana's friends I have no reason to fight you. I have seen and helped much younger than you find their deaths during my quest for survival." Regalia exclaimed in anger when it appeared like an inevitable conflict would erupt between them.

"Oh yeah? I see Mana-chan passed out and running out of time with you above her lifeless body, that's shadier than I am willing to overlook. What did you do with the real Box?" Kouta yelled back at the woman angrily clutching his fist and focusing what little he had of chakra into it making it glow in a blueish flare.

"That chakra focused punch... You're a medical ninja? I suggest you save your chakra for helping Mana and not waste it for pointless..." Regalia couldn't finish her sentence because Meiko kicked right at the center of the woman's spine from behind her. The body of the woman in the red dress dissolved into sand as if the genin kicked a large sandbox and then reformed when the grains of sand re-entered her body.

"What the?" Meiko's eyes shot wide open in surprise and confusion. She had never seen an opponent like that before. Usually, even when her opponent was stronger they merely augmented their body to be incredibly hard so that her fist never really did any damage but she had never seen a ninja become sand before.

Regalia's hand extended to the side firing a blindingly fast wave of sand that slammed Meiko to the wall and held her there.

"I am running out of patience, how such a kind soul could find friendship inside such brutish and numb-skulled kids is beyond me" the woman growled almost like this outburst was more meant to herself than the kids attacking her for no reason.

"Ice Style: Freezing Wolf Blade Jutsu!" Shimo roared out letting his hands flash through a couple of hand seals as a blinding sandstorm covered the entire area extending to the corridors and rooms much further to where the scuffle was going on. 

The blizzards were shaped like a dozen of smaller scale vortexes of cutting wind with knife-sharp icicles inside, the winds were cold enough to also freeze whatever they passed through. At the same time as those roaring winds of absolute frost collided at Regalia's location, the young swordsman leaped over the woman with a wolf-like figure shaping from solid ice around his sword making his blade appear several times larger and much more impressive in length and appearance.

The attack itself only lasted for an instant as Shimo's figure appeared behind the woman. Regalia's entire body froze into a solid chunk of ice that then split into three pieces and collapsed onto the floor, the same also happened to the stream of sand that held Meiko pressed to the castle wall crushing her chest slowly so that the blacksmith did not resist.

"Enough!" Regalia screamed out in anger as her body reformed. She was breathing much heavier as she had beaten many much stronger opponents that day and spent quite a large number of chakra on them, she wanted to stay there and slowly explain everything to these kids but frankly they were surprisingly much more capable than ordinary genin and she had little chakra to spare on them after wasting so much on that Jashinist and his team leader.

Regalia's golden sand exploded violently all over the room, avoiding only the small spot on the floor where Mana's body was laying and blasting all three of her friends off their feet and bashing them mercilessly into the castle walls breaking all of them through them. The woman remained standing for a brief moment just to see if the kids still had some fighting spirit in them but all of them appeared to be quite battered by that blast of sand. It appeared like these kids also had very little chakra to spare as even such a weak blast injured them quite heavily decimating their clothes and opening a bunch of nasty looking wounds.

Slowly the woman walked up to Kouta and lifted his body off the ground holding the youth by his hair, she turned his bruised and battered body at Mana. "She is your priority, not me. This girl is a remarkable youth who is ready to sacrifice her own life and dream for a total stranger on a whim. There aren't many people like that. I don't know where the box is, nor do I care. The magician girl has convinced me to reach for my dreams using my own power and not some fairy tales and legends. As the medical ninja of the group you have the responsibility to heal her, if she dies I'll hold you responsible"