Disclaimer: If you recognize it, it's not mine.
I know I should get back to my other stories but this ones been bugging me for a while.
This is an Alternate Universe fic, so some things are going to be tweaked. 1. The government already knows about the Resistance in the first book. 2. There will be two kinds of "demons" the ones from the Other Place, and the ones that survived the feudal era 3…. You'll just have to wait and see. Oh and most of my characters will use bits of Japanese.
Hanyouhalf demon
KitsuneFox
It was a pretty warm day, for fall anyway a few leaves were still falling. A tall woman with black hair was walking back to her mansion, or as she called it "The House Far from Home." She picked up the bunddle of letters, until she came upon a certain unwanted letter.
"I've got a WHAT!" exclaimed Mizu Shiroi, staring at the letter in her hand with disbelief, "Don't they realize I'm trying to destroy them from the inside?" asked Mizu leaning against the door to her home. At the question a level 15 djinni who had taken the form of a small, blue Asian dragon, settled on her shoulder.
"No, oh master," his voice was in the most sarcastic tone her could muster. The girls hands clenched into fists.
"Oh for my mother's sake WILL YOU PLEASE STOP CALLING ME MASTER," she calmed down after the short yelling session, "I have an odd (and somewhat crazy) family, and you know it. The only reason I can even summon you was that my dad was a magician, lucky for him he didn't work here. Now why 'no'?" asked Mizu annoyance almost radiating from her body.
"Because last week you helped them catch three of the Resistance," mocked the djinni.
"That was an accident and you know it. They should've moved when I jumped into the ally, it was morning," growled out Mizu.
"Right, and the day humans can see in the early, early morning like a hanyou, will be the day that hell freezes over," said the dragon its face twisting into an odd sort of smirk.
"Be quiet or I will be forced to hurt you," said Mizu, a vein popping on her left fist.
The djinni decided to change into a white kitten, "Nya? Do I sense a touchy subject?" A smirk made its way onto Mizu's lips.
"Yes, no, maybe so," he sang in her most irritating voice.
The djinni stared at her with big baby-blue kitten eyes, which slowly irritated the ebony haired teen into hitting her on the head three times. The pain and shock forced him into the closest thing that he could get to its eminence; a sloshing thick blue liquid that oddly smelled like charcoal.
"You should really pull yourself together, Karaues, or you'll wash away into the sewers," said Mizu cackling slightly, as Karaues shifted back into the Asian dragon's form.
"Not funny," growled the dragon, flying up to Mizu's shoulder.
"Yes it is," cackled Mizu.
"We're off subject; another reason they think you're trying to help them is that you took a job as a secretary for the P.M.," snapped the dragon.
"That's so they don't get suspicious. And how the heck else am I going to get money?" asked Mizu, stroking the dragon's head lightly.
"Get a job in a bookstore?" suggested the djinni, wrapping its tail around Mizu's arm.
"That wouldn't work, I'd end up reading the books instead of selling them, and same thing with anything that involves any kind of book," said Mizu opening the door to the mansion. The colors of most of the mansion were blue and black and purple, gold tinted a few rooms. Books, paper, pencils, and magazines were strewn around Mizu's house. She walked to the living room with the dragon still on her shoulder, and plopped herself down on the couch.
"You're right, that's how you got fired from the library," said Karaues.
"Don't remind me, or you won't get your break this week," snapped Mizu, glaring at Karaues. Karaues gave a less intense glare back at Mizu.
"You'd better not keep me here all week, you know how my essence is," growled the blue dragon, as the two of them glared at each other. Suddenly Mizu burst out laughing.
"I know, I was just kidding Karue, after all, if you strain too much we both get the. It hurts when you can't be in your real home," said Mizu, sadly hugging the dragon to her chest.
"You should know because?" asked the dragon.
"Because I haven't been home in a while," muttered Mizu, blankly staring at the ceiling.
"Then why don't we go back now?" asked the djinni.
"Because tomorrow we're picking up my little apprentice," said the hanyou, deciding to drop the Illusion for now.
In place of the tall, nineteen year-old human with blonde hair, pale skin, dark blue eyes, and an hour glass figure, was a half demon that looked about twelve, with black hair, and black wolf ears on the top of her head, a black fox's tail also came out of hiding, she still had her very pale skin, her canines were an inch longer, and sharp enough to punch a hole through steel. Light silver eyes, took the place of the dark blue ones, her pupils were now slits of black.
"Do what you want, but I'm taking a short trip out," said Karaues, who had changed into the kitten again.
"Fine, just don't let anybody pick you up and take you home, like last time," said the hanyou, walking into the kitchen, with the tail swishing behind her, "And don't make me put up the posters!"
"That wasn't my fault, that kid wouldn't let me out of the house!" exclaimed the kitten, as it jumped out into the town.
"Sure," muttered Mizu, not noticing that Karaues had already gone out, until she looked around the room.
She sighed and got a bottle of coke out, opened it up, and finished half the bottle, and stuck it back into the fridge. Mizu sighed again and looked around at her messy house.
"Oh joy, I have to clean the place up, and with out any help…Or maybe not!" Mizu cheered up considerably when she noticed a summoning book lying on the floor next to her feet.
The hanyou picked up the obviously old black book, and walked down to the basement…
"What is all of this stuff?" asked the hanyou, picking up a box that said 'Dad's inheritance to me', "Oh that's right I didn't have enough room up for all of my inheritance, so I had to put it in here." Mizu proceeded to push her way through to the clearing in the middle of the room.
She opened up the book to page eighty-five, and read it for about fifteen minutes, sighed, put up the Illusion spell again, got up, and started drawing the pentagons in chalk on the floor, and double checked them, and then put down candles around the pentagons. Nodding the 'blonde haired woman' walked to the smaller pentagon, and started chanting.
Blue smoke slowly filled the darkened room, as the candles burned. The sent of lavender took hold of the room. Glowing red eyes glared out through the smoke. Large leathery black wings became visible with the eyes.
"Good entrance, however the red eyes are used too often, and black wings are depressing for the phoenix form, the phoenix form doesn't even have leathery wings," muttered Mizu, her face emotionless.
'Hey, I like this form; it's impressive, isn't it? Ah, well magicians are weird,' thought Bartimaeus.
"Did you call me weird, little phoenix? If you did you would be ashes in a minute," snapped the hanyou, one could almost see the fiery red aura surrounding her.
'But I didn't say that out loud,' thought Bartimaeus, staring at the woman.
"True, but you have such a loud mind," said Mizu taking in a deep breath, "I order you to not destroy my house, don't injure anyone that resides in this house, don't annoy me while I'm working, don't bother Karaues, nor injure anyone from work, and help me clean my house," the blonde said all of this in one breath, but didn't turn blue, not even the slightest tinge. Yet again the demon stared.
"You are dismissed," said the calm blonde, as the djinni was pulled upstairs.
'I really hate doing this, it zaps my energy for two hours,' thought Mizu, as the Illusion was cast aside, and a white cat was reveled. That was curled up against a box, and sleeping.
(Five hours later)
"Nnngh?" muttered Mizu, who was now a blue haired girl, with silver eyes, big, feathery white wings were folded, and the black fox-like tail was swishing back and forth.
"Good you're up, now let's start cleaning, or do you want that poor djinni to work all by his lonesome?" asked Karaues, in a silver four tailed fox's form.
"What, he's started, by himself? He can't the place is too big, I'm going to go help him," stated the winged girl. Karaues stopped her from going up, by trapping one of Mizu's legs with a tail.
"And you're going to help him like that? What if he figures it out?" asked Karaues sighing.
"Uh-uh, he won't suspect a thing. The only reason you know was that you were my mom's assistant with almost everything, besides I could be one of my assistants for all he knows," said Mizu, grinning.
"You've been alive for eight-hundred years, and you still act like a six-year-old," muttered Karaues, loosening his grip on Mizu's leg.
"So, you don't have a problem with that do you?" asked Mizu.
"Not many, but maybe Bartimaeus does," said Karaues, one black tail pointing upstairs.
"So, he doesn't even know what I'm like, right? He just thinks that I'm like any other idiotic, snot-nosed, magician, so I'll be safe. You worry too much," Mizu explained, stretching out her wings.
"Something tells me today is not going to end well," whispered Karaues.
"What is it with you, always worrying? Just act like normally, no calling any of my forms 'Master' though, alright?" said Mizu cheerfully, opening the door, door and skipping upstairs, with a black fox following behind her.
The two of them both changed into children. Mizu decided on the twelve-year-old black fox/ wolf hanyou. Karaues took the guise of a thirteen-year-old dragon hanyou. Dark blue eyes replaced the green ones, and leathery black wings unfolded. Both were about five feet tall.
(In a bedroom)
"Hi! I heard you're new, do ya need any help?" asked Mizu, bursting in through the door. A black haired boy was on the other side picking up random books and pilling them on whatever table had space. Karaues decided to stay out of the way, for now.
"What are your orders?" asked Bartimaeus.
"Cleaning, like yours," Mizu smiled softly, picked up a pile of books, and walked over to a bookshelf.
Bartimaeus became suspicious, "How do you know my orders?"
"I am Mizu's personal assistant, not that I want to be. But the idiot tells me everything. Although she doesn't know the birth name," Mizu lied; she was used to doing this after all, the spirits that stayed in her house were not trustworthy.
"To bad, she didn't charge me with 'not finding out her birth name'," sighed Bartimaeus.
"Oh well, you could try to find her parents."
"They're no longer here; they always run away after leaving the kid."
"Sad truth isn't it."
"Not really, according to the magicians, but they're greedy bastards."
"Something I agree with wholeheartedly," agreed Mizu picking up a new stack of books.
"So how long have you been here?"
"Since she became a magician, but she lets be back every other week."
"She actually lets you go back?"
"Yes, only because I'm only eight-hundred, and I run out of energy quickly."
"Lucky you," murmured Bartimaeus.
"I heard that, once the room's clean, do you want to spar? There's a training center down stairs."
"Why not, there's no silver in there, right?" asked Bartimaeus.
"Only in two of the blades, but they're locked up in a vault."
"Alright then," agreed Bartimaeus, as Karaues walked in to the room with a broom.
(An hour later, in the training center)
"This form isn't good for battle," murmured Mizu turning into a fourteen-year-old, female, kitsune-hanyou, with a long black tail, and black hair to shoulders, she was wearing a lose black T-shirt with jeans and sneakers.
"This one isn't either," said Bartimaeus, and Karaues at the same time. Karaues chose a silver haired teen, with black, feathery wings. He was wearing dark green pants, and a long sleeved shirt. Bartimaeus chose a teenaged human, with black hair. He was wearing white shorts, and a blue T-shirt.
"Three way battle then?" asked Mizu with a demonic gleam in her eyes.
"Done," agreed a demon, and a djinni.
"Then pick you weapon."
Mizu chose an obsidian blade encrusted with emeralds in the golden hilt, a dragon's tooth was underneath the center emerald. Karaues a crimson blade adorned by sapphires, a phoenix feather, and three ruby bells. Bartimaeus chose a jade blade with crystals, a dragon scale, and a bronze hilt.
"Got them? Good, now let's go!" exclaimed Mizu, her blade came down upon the jade blade, a loud metal-against-metal scraping noise was heard as Mizu pushed with all her might down. Karaues jumped in and crashed the crimson blade into the other two.
"Not bad, not bad at all…however," Mizu let the words hang as she jumped away, spinning the hilt of the sword and pointing it at Karaues. A smirk was on her face as she teleported behind Bartimaeus, slamming the flat of her blade against his mid back.
"Wha?" was the shocked reply from the djinni.
"Obviously you've never been in a three way battle before, or have you," one eyebrow lifted up with curiosity, "Just because I pointed the sword at Karaues, doesn't mean I'll go for him." She jumped back and crossed her blade with Karaues's, soon after Bartimaeus joined.
"Kataraku," whispered Karaues, tendrils of flame wrapped around his blade.
"If you're gonna do that… Sakarudaisak!" exclaimed Mizu; fire was flickering onto the obsidian blade, tendrils of shadows also formed.
"Bartimaeus you have no idea what we are doing, ne…I mean right?" asked Karaues.
"Um...Yes?" answered Bartimaeus unsurely.
"All of these swords have an activating word, nobody uses this one often so it doesn't have one programmed into it yet, feel free to make one up," said Mizu.
"Akaurtha!" exclaimed Bartimaeus as a rush of water enveloped the sword.
"Nice, the last user had roses blooming out of it," a cocky grin was back on Mizu's face.
"Who used it before me?" asked Barimaeus, rushing against Mizu's blade.
"The magician's cousin, I believe her name is Nia," said Mizu calmly stepping out of the way, "Work on the thrust, it's a weak point." Mizu, throwing her sword at Karaues neck, it left a shallow cut.
"You meant to do that you filthy little hanyou," hissed Karaues ramming her sword through Mizu's arm.
"Fire that runs through my blood, running through out me unleash your power!" Mizu's body was surrounded by a tornado of burning flames. Fiery red wings spread out burning both Bartimaeus and Karaues. They flapped them a few times and lifted her up high into the air.
"You idiot! You haven't gotten fire magic down yet!" exclaimed Karaues as he put up a water shield around Bartimaeus and himself, "What the heck is wrong with ice!"
"Shut up you were supposed to teach me LAST WEEK! Now let me DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!" exclaimed Mizu struggling with her magic.
"I can't, once you summon your magic you're the only one that can control it!" exclaimed Karaues, just so Mizu could hear over the crackling flames.
"So what do I DOOOOOOOOO!" exclaimed Mizu, the fire now blazing an almost white color.
"Calm down or you'll burn us, count back words, that helps," said Karaues ruffling his wings, followed shortly by stretching them.
"Fine, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one," the fire died down to a dark red color, "Now what?"
"Remember how we controlled water? That works with fire to," said Karaues, slowly weakening the water shield.
"Some help you are…Calm water douse the rampaging fire that threatens to destroy all," a few seconds after Mizu murmured the spell water made a small whirlpool around her, then was slowly sucked back into the body as Mizu began her decent as blue wings stretched out.
"See, it worked!" said Karaues in his confident tone.
"You could have told me more!" exclaimed Mizu adding, "Idiot," under her breath.
"I heard that!"
"So?"
"Take it back you ungrateful apprentice!"
"Why should I you evil teacher!"
"I'm not the evil one!"
"What are you implying than?"
By this point Mizu and Karaues pretty much had a verbal fistfight as Bartimaeus set his blade on the ground and left quietly.
"Hey where'd your visitor go?" asked Karaues managing to realize the djinni had gone.
"To the garden it is then," said Mizu grinning, and dragging the poor demon with her.
(Garden)
The garden was pretty simple, a garden for food here, and field of flowers there, and a few scattered trees here and there. The centerpiece was the crystal blue lake, it was perfectly clean. The pond didn't ripple at all, even when the wind blew.
'It's nice to know that some people still like nature, the last time I was summoned…I rather not think about that,' thought Bartimaeus walking through a field of tulips.
"HEY BARTIMAUES!" yelled a black haired teen, her black wings still attached, as she dragged a black fox behind her, and dropping it unceremoniously on to the ground, with a soft thump.
"Hello, so how do like the garden, Karaues persuaded her to keep it," asked Mizu.
"It's alright, could use a little more room, but it's okay," said Bartimaeus.
"Do you have any idea how much we fought over the land, you might as well appreciate it," murmured Karaues.
"Eh, are you taking your captors side?" asked Bartimaeus.
"And if I am, what will you do?" asked Karaues.
"Nothing, because of her orders, I hate orders," muttered Bartimaeus, under his breath.
"I heard that you know," I was in the corner of the room, while you were being summoned, I also heard that the magician is bringing her relatives here," said Mizu, removing her wings.
"Really, are any of them magicians?"
"No, but I heard that some of them are wizards."
"Magicians, wizards, what's the difference?"
"Only the magicians use our energy, and wizards feed on their own."
"Okay, then why should I care at all?"
"Exactly why she shouldn't have said anything," said Karaues, a scowl appearing on the fox's features.
"Oh, what do you care, you're only here half of the year!" exclaimed Mizu, this time the water from the pool lashed out, and hit Karaues, then pulled the water back.
"Ah, at least I taught you something."
"That's what you think, I really don't get you… more than half of the time really, why are full demons such idiots…I sound like Nia," the last part Mizu mutter to herself.
"I heard that, and it's true you sound like your sister."
"Bleah, I don't care."
"You ARE the older one…Right?" asked Karaues, a questioning look on the fox's face.
"So I don't want to grow up…I'll mature…eventually," a smirk spread across the hanyou's face.
"In a century more like it," exclaimed Karaues, the smirk erasing itself from Mizu, and attaching itself to Karaues.
"Humph," said Mizu, with an annoyed tone, and spun around "I'm not talking to you."
A/N: So what do you think? Our student will show up next chapter, along with some others.