"Noble Phantasm." Charles spoke. As a blob of Chaos energy had formed a bit away from them. Charles took a deep breath. Slowly a second blob started to make. But then both of them were blown up. A cloud of snow covered the field.
"You okay?" I yelled down from the sky. The snow slowly settled. Charles was sitting with a smile on his face. He was laughing as if he was insane.
"Yeah I am fine it seems that when I take a step forward I take two back." Charles said with a somber smile gracing his face.
"Okay then." I said hovering Noble Phantasm must be a more complex technique than I expected. Charles has been having trouble learning it.
"Noble Phantasm." Charles said as a blob from some distance away from him. It slowly began to circle him floating around Charles. His eyes were closed in consternation.
"Hey." Gabriel said. From behind as that made the blow up as the snow slowly settled showing the figure of Lobo. This made Charles furious.
"I am going to kill you." Charles snarls, sounding more like a monster than Lobo did.
"What's wrong?" Lobo said using Gabriel's voice. He let out a loud barking laugh. "Leon attacking your friend." His voice was full of pride.
"Leon? I now know how to hurt you." Charles said his eyes became a glowing yellow.
"Is killing my family with Noble Phantasm not enough?! You are a monster!" Lobo howled. Rage was flooding out of his mouth. Charles seemed to laugh like a mad man, his eyes radiating insanity.
"Do I have fangs? Do I have fur? So shut up you flea bag." Charles said dangerously. He slowly stalks towards Lobo. Lobo was baring his fangs.
"What are you?" Lobo asked the second after he took a single step back.
"I am human. Maybe who knows?" Charles said with a laugh that sounded more like insane giggling. "Your friend Leon will die by Gabriel's hands." He said his voice was ice cold. His eyes changed back to an arctic blue. Charles fangs were akin to Lobo.
"What he was made to kill Gabriel he is D038!" Lobo howled as he disappeared into thin air. As Charles dusted himself.
"Noble Phantasm." Charles said as a blob of translucent Chaos energy had formed slowly moving around Charles. He sat down closing his eyes. Letting out a long breath. It was half way around Charles.
"Okay you have full control over it." I said with a small smile looking at Charles.
"Yeah-" Charles said he was cut off by the explosion of the clear blob that was behind him. I was hearing heavy breathing. It was the rage of Charles.
"Okay so you have not even learned how to stabilize the technique." I said landing on his shoulder.
"Yeah it's rough okay." Charles said with a snarl.
"Yeah but you're getting better." I said with a small smile. Rubbing against his cheek.
"That's an odd show of affection." Charles said, looking at me with a small smile. His eyes gleaming with something akin to warmth.
"Okay then." I said my voice was now measured. His muscles tightened but barely even moved.
"Noble Phantasm." Charles spoke with a small twitch. As I took the air above him. The blob of translucent Chaos energy. As it slowly moved around. Circling around him like a wolf would prey.
"You okay?" I asked, waiting for the ticking time bomb to explode in his face.
"Charles!" Gabriel's voice called out as the Noble Phantasm exploded in his face. As the blanket of snow fell we saw Gabriel having a smile on his face.
"How did you find me?" Charles said looking back at Gabriel's smiling face.
"The explosions are really hard to track." Gabriel said with a roll of his eyes.
"Fine, I will give you this." Charles said as he winced in pain.
"What's wrong?" Gabriel said with worry in his voice. A small growl in Charles throat.
"Just some pain in my shoulders. It feels like bones are scraping against my shoulders." Charles said as he slowly stood up.
"Okay then." Gabriel said his worry was lacing his voice. Charles shows a smile and shows his fangs. His body seemed to go extremely pale. But quickly flushed back with blood. His paleness was gone.
"Don't worry about that." Charles said as a small growl of pain.
"You should get back to the base." Gabriel said with a nod as he turned his back and slowly walked back to the camp.
"Fine but only because you asked." Charles said grinning. Walking just behind Gabriel his smile was being shown. Hands holding the back of his neck.
"I'm curious when will we build the Ichor bath?" Gabriel asked as that was the fair question. Charles shrugged. But frowned.
"Ichor baths are built by Chaos Beast so I am waiting for us to have a surplus of strong Chaos Beast for us because ours will be special." Charles said his eyes flashed yellow filled with bloodlust but just as quickly with a single blink it was gone.
"Okay that makes sense." Gabriel said as I sensed some was watching. Looking at the trees I saw it was watching the shadow of the tree. Its ruby eyes were boring to Charles.
"What would you want made of the Ichor bath?" Charles asked.
"I don't know of something that gives me powers over ice." Gabriel said with a smile.
"Cool." Charles said did he just crack a joke? Since when did he crack jokes? This day has been so weird. Finally we were back at the camp. Humans were hustling and bustling about like busy buzzing bees.
"Welcome back boss." Flambé said with a huge warm smile. He was kneeing his head held low.
"Thank you Flambé. Flambé is my hunting partner that has been working for me." Gabriel said with a smile as Charles slowly, like a wolf, circled the fiery man. Then Charles let out some giggles at Flambé's face.
"Just messing with you, thanks for helping him." Charles said, reaching out a hand.
"Thanks." Flambé said, taking his hand and stood up. Having a handshake between the two.
"Don't worry about it." Charles said his small smile was real.
"Yeah." Flambé spoke with a small nod.
"Well it's getting late so let's go to sleep." Gabriel said as Charles and Flambé walked behind him. Charles was walking nearly beside Gabriel but Flambé was trailing farther behind.
"Yeah." Charles said, letting out a yawn. That was cute. No wait what. I am not infatuated with him. He is an idiot. Yeah he is an idiot.