If someone was to look at him, no one would be able to say that there were any distinct factors about the person's appearance that made him memorable. This was something that the person in question knew about himself ever since he was born. He was just an average Japanese male who, up until the age of sixteen, lived the life of going to school, doing chores for his parents, and maybe did some homework when he felt like it.
At least, that was until he woke up the "sight" a month ago, as the recruiters from the guild told him. His parents had to be told of this awakening as well, but what exactly did he awaken? He awoke the only worthwhile trait about himself. At least, that would be what he, Zaku, would believe is the only worthwhile trait. He awoke the spiritual awareness to react with the "other side", which was the realm that held passive and aggressive spirits within that, every now and again, broke through the hidden barriers to explore the human world. Some caused chaos beyond all measure, while others simply came to spy on humans or even to play pranks on the unsuspecting!
Despite waking up this awareness, Zaku still found himself doing the chores, attending school like a good little boy, and had homework that he barely wanted to look at, let alone actually work on! But, despite all of that, he found himself immersed in the new world of the Ghost Agents, and enjoyed one particular benefit of being an Agent: Free Lunch!
Unlike normal lunches, may they be his mother's own or the school's stock, the Ghost Guild provided each of their Agents with a special lunch. What made these lunches so special was that they were brought to the Agent by a Daemon, giving them a hint as to what kind of lunch may be waiting for them. If you liked either the Daemon who brought the lunch to you, or the lunch enough, you could claim the Daemon as yours free of charge, which for new Agents like himself, was great. The best part of these lunches were that there were rare chances to obtain rare Three-Star Daemons, which were hard to find and purify in the city, could very much become his by this very manner!
"Master, will you not head to the roof now that it is lunch time?" The voice of his current leader, Pipe Fox, gently found its way to his ear. Pipe Fox was currently in its silver fox form, which allowed him to lay on his shoulder without a care in the world, though there was a second purpose to keeping him on his shoulder. If anyone else was an Agent, he would know since they would have been following the rather, ahem, eccentric movements Pipe Fox made when he came to school.
But those were tales for another time.
"Yes, time for lunch." Zaku whispered to himself and hurried to the roof of the school. Though it was near the start of summer, no one took the advantage of using the roof to eat their lunch, which became the perfect spot for him to eat and, hopefully, obtain a good Daemon to boot. When he was sure that no one had followed him, he opened the doors to the roof, smiling at the sight of the bare, open plain white roof tops that many a anime shared between them, and quickly closed the doors behind him. With a big grin upon his face, he pulled out a slip of paper out of his breast pocket. A seal, he was happy to note, was glowing a dull yellow, signaling that it was truly lunch time for Ghost Agents.
"Are you excited again Master?" Pipe Fox, who took the opportunity to shift into his human form, asked him with a small smile.
"I am!" Zaku replied with a look of determination suddenly claiming him. "Do you know how unfair it is that other Agents have much stronger Daemons to fight alongside them, yet we, one of many new Agents, are given simple purifying missions which do nothing but allow us to fight weak Daemon, find Magatama, and suffer the humiliation of not being able to take out wandering Three-Stars and up! Agents like me are the seventy-five percent, and I pray to the almighty to allow this lunch to grant us the passage to lower that percentage to seventy-four percent!" Zaku could faintly hear the light clapping of his leader, and smiled at the support he was given. Despite how handsome his silver-haired friend looked with his pale blue eyes, he was a fully maxed One-Star Daemon that was more than ready to boost the defense of Phantom Daemon that were used by him.
Unfortunately, none of the Daemon in the area, nor any of the Daemon that brought him lunches, were accepted by him, which made the Pipe Fox his only Daemon. A problem, Zaku thought to himself, he hoped that the free lunch would change for him. He wasted no time to activate the seal in his hand, and quickly placed it on the ground. The seal itself pushed itself a foot away from him, allowing it to expand itself to a massive array of blue lines and kanji that brought about sparks of electricity to dance around itself. A large, glowing, rectangular pillar that reached his height raised itself from the array, flicking from darker to lighter hues of the same color, teasing him for the few seconds that the array was activated.
Then, as soon as the pillar was suspending a few inches from the array, it became the card of the Daemon that would be giving him his lunch today. The Daemon was his height, though had long, light brown hair that nearly reached down to her ankles in his opinion, though he could tell just by looking at her cherry red eyes, which nearly matched her pink dress, was an innocent Daemon. She had a few characteristics that made her unique, such as an apron for the lower half of her dress, the overall outfit reminded him of what women in England would normally wear to a formal party, and, the most unique factor about her, was her gigantic, sterling silver spoon.
Yes, he had summoned Sylvia Spoon, an Anima Two-Star Daemon that, up to his knowledge, had no skill, which made her worthless in his eyes. And yet, despite her uselessness, he still smiled, grabbed the bento box that she held in her arms, and looked down to see that she gave him fried rice with some little sausages to the side. He saw her pull her gigantic spoon towards the bento, which made him lean away from the gigantic utensil before it could hit his arms.
"What are you doing?" Sylvia Spoon looked at him with a blush upon her face.
"I want to feed you Master." Though he loved the way she called him master, Zaku knew without a doubt that he wouldn't be keeping this Daemon today, he smiled at the girl and sat down, ignoring the light chuckles from Pipe Fox as she dug out a tiny bit of his rice to shove towards his face. 'I mean, not many guys my age can say that they're being fed by a girl now can they?'
-Author Note-
Daily Lunch Summon is a small series that I've personally played with myself while I've been playing the app game Ayakashi Ghost Guild on my android device. Essentially, in the game you have a chance, from 11:30 A.M. (U.S.A. Central Time) to 1:30 P.M. (USA Central Time), to use your Free Summon to get a free Daemon. What I did was, whenever I summoned something during this time, I'd joke to either myself or to my girlfriend about what kind of lunch the Daemon would bring to me, which eventually made me actually write this out instead of keeping it as a silly joke.
I suppose that, other than to keep me on my toes in terms of writing stuff, my main reason to write these lunch summons out is to bring more attention to the Ayakashi Ghost Guild Fanfiction section and hope that, to the fellow players of the game, will end up making their own stories to bring attention to the game/Fanfiction community. This story will, more likely than not, include Daemon that can't be obtained from the Lunch Summon; however, these particular Daemon will be more relevant to the plot, when there IS a plot, than the actual summoned Daemon itself. So, with that said, please don't expect this to be a serious tale. This is mostly for fun, humor, and overall testing my limits of writing short, unusual scenes. It is also as to why Zaku's overall description isn't, well, described. He is just a generic stock Japanese male that, maybe with time, will truly gain details to make him grow into a true main character instead of a stock character; however, that may just have to come with time.
So, until next time everyone, stay golden!
Kazikamikaze24