DanMachi one shots

Sword Spirit

Long before Gods descended to the mortal realm they created their own race, Spirits. There was a whole assortment of spirits, ones born from pure lightning, others born from pure fire. But among all those there was one that stood on top. Sword spirits, spirits that had the ability to become a weapon. The sword spirits lived in harmony until cities started waging wars. Sword spirits would be used as mindless weapons, this greatly affected the spirits's mentality and wellbeing. All of them were thought to be extinct until a sword princess made a discovery.

Ais POV
I was looking around for a new weapon, my swords always seemed to break every time I use them, I wonder why..maybe my skill has something to do with it? I continued to walk to a random sword shop. All the swords looked nice, but nice wasn't what I was looking for. As long as the sword doesn't break then it would be perfect.

"Hello, do you have a sword I can buy?" Ais asked. The store owner was thinking for a second before going to the back and grabbing a sword, it was gold and decorated with gems

"This is the best one I got" the owner said

"I'm sorry, but I'm looking for something that can help me, not something that will grab more attention" Ais said. The owner opened the back door again and Ais saw a sword sitting there in its shelf, it was rusty but something inside her wanted it. She ran inside and took the sword

"I'll buy this one" Ais said while swinging around the sword, "it's perfect" she thought

"Hahah, are you sure missy? That sword has been here since I bought it and still it hasn't rusted away like the others" the owner said

"Then that's more of the reason why I should get it, the blade is durable" Ais said

"Okay, you can take they useless junk, don't come crying to me once it breaks" the owner said

Ais ran out the shop quickly, she wanted to clean the blade. After cleaning it she saw that the blade made some sort of ringing sound such was pretty odd, but the blade was majestic it looks as if it was new, it's silvery white blade and it's red hilt, the blade was certain better than others. She was fixing it up a little more until she heard a sound coming from her blade. She looked over then

-poof-

In place of the blade was a boy that looked as old as her, his white hair and his red eyes, inside those eyes were eyes that had seen and felt pain.

"Hello master, what do you command of me today?" The boy asked

"Where's my blade!?" Ais asked in a surprised manor

"Oh? Your not my last master, very well then. My name is 'thing' I am yours to command, if you want me to be your weapon I'll be your weapon, if you want me to die, then I'll die" Bell said with a dead look in his eyes, "so what do you command of me master?"

"Please stop with the master, call me Ais" she said while holding out her hand

The boy looked at it with a look of confusion, what was she doing?

"What are you doing? Are you attempting to give me the feeling of freedom only to take it away from me?" The boy said, "if you plan to use me then just get it over with"

"W..What no! I just want a handshake" Ais said

"What is this handshake you speak of? Is it some sort of binding magic?" The boy asked

"Well, if you won't give me a handshake can you at least tell me your name?" Ais asked

"I told you, you can either address me as it or thing, don't treat a weapon used for mass murder so casually" the boy said.