Chapter 53 - 53: And your name is...!

I needed to give this being a name and fast, otherwise who knows what would happen. Not sure what to name it, I decided to just tell Voxea a series of them to see what would stick.

[Alright, names... Daisyslayer]?

[Lame], Voxea quipped.

[Reaping Willow]?

[Monster looks too humanoid and I think that name is in use...or was it Wailing Willow...].

[No tangents! What about Whirlwinja]?

[By the gods, okay, let me try coming up with something], she said in exasperation.

[Be my guest, but I suggest you do it quickly. I only have so much aether right now and doing this is rather draining].

As Voxea pondered (leading to me hearing her humming in my head) on what to name the forming majimonster, I redoubled my efforts on supplying it with aether...and locking it in place.

I could feel that the majimonster just wanted to break free from the aether flow and just go wild. However, I had the gut feeling that an "incomplete" majimonster running wild would probably not end well for itself and for the area it goes wild in. I'm not sure how long I could keep the creature in place unt-[I got it!]. Nevermind, thank you Voxea.

[Alright, what am I naming this thing?], I asked in a hurried tone. I still had some aether left, but any longer and I'd be using smoke as a fuel source.

[Okay repeat after me, but outloud].

[Uh...okay sure].

[By the laws of magic, the will of the aether and my authority as a maji...]

"By the laws of magic, the will of the aether and my authority as a maji..."

[I bestow this name upon you to anchor you to this plane].

"I bestow this name upon you to anchor you to this plane".

[Bushinado]!

"Bushinado!...Bushinado"?

A few moments after uttering that name, I felt the aether flow suddenly stop and an invisible force pushed me away from the majimonster. I was launched into the air and was sent flying until I was caught by my mother and father.

"Silvia! Are you okay? Did whatever seal you in that forcefield hurt you?", my mother asked whilst panickedly looking me over.

"I'm fin- wait, forcefield", I asked a little dazed.

Wordlessly, my mother and father pointed back to where I was originally hugging the incomplete majimonster. I gazed in the direction they were pointing and saw what appeared to be a sphere of multicolored light about the size of a donkey. Apparently a forcefield surrounded me and my incomplete monster when I went over to it and I didn't even notice. I'm either very dense or very focused, I like to think it's the second.

As we watched the sphere with confusion and awe, it suddenly shrank to be about the size of a pumpkin. A single crack appeared on the sphere, which soon began to spread to all over it. In the next moment, a loud sound rang out as the sphere bursted open and a bright light flashed out. We instinctually covered our eyes, but I managed to see a familiar humanoid figure bust out of the sphere before I had to cover them.

The light soon faded and standing before us was a fully formed humanoid majimonster. The monster that stood before us looked nothing like the Grassassin or the Agustus from before, rather it was something entirely new.

[Huh...I was right about calling it Bushinado. It looks a shinobi...wait no... a kunoichi], Voxea commented.

[What's a kunoichi]?

[A class of assassin and spy from a land beyond the Empire's borders. Technically the term is ninja by the Empire's tongue, but I prefer the original pronunciation. Shinobi referred to male ninjas while kunoichi referred to females], she explained.

The majimonster that stood in front of me looked like it did when it was just a a shapeless figure of aether, but with more defined features. Standing at six feet tall, it looked like a suit of... ninja armor that was moving on its own, but instead of legs it had a small cyclone of twigs and leaves. The b.r.e.a.s.tplate, pauldrons, gauntlets and faulds all appeared to be solid pieces of wood, with intricate designs and markings. All of the armor pieces were on top of what appeared to be a suit of clothes made entirely of leaves and vines. The horns and hair that I saw from the silhouette from earlier turned out to be rather different than what I had presumed. The horns weren't growing from a skull, rather they were part of a simple, patterned wooden mask that made up the face. Lastly, the hair turned out to be a series of leaves and branches that reminded me of a berry bush of all things...

[Be honest with me Voxea. Did you decide on the name Bushinado because of the hair bush thing]?