Well here we go chapter one of part two. Let's get this train wreck underway shall we? By the way in case you are worried it is not Siesta/Saito you will have to wait and see what it is but do not make snap decisions!

"Speech"

//thoughts//

Dramatic Stuff

Otherworldly stuff

The Story.

"Saito why do my spells still keep failing? I mean they're not blowing up anymore but just fizzle out instead." Louise asked and Saito stretched a bit. It was a clear day and a couple weeks since the Fouquet and Rocket Launcher debacle so he was nice and relaxed.

"It could be any number of things but it's probably your mana reserves. You see Spiritual and Magical powers have a ton of parallels. To cut to the chase you're mana has an extra kick but you still burn through it to use magic. So you need to keep practicing spells to up how much mana you have. It's like a muscle, use it often and it's stronger for it and can be used more." Saito explained barely looking up from a rather thick history book he had been reading. He had once told her that the self glorification in that book both made him a little sick and made him laugh at the same time.

"Well, is there an exercise you can show me?" She asked and he sighed and picked up a glass on the side of his table taking a quick sip to moisten his tongue he gave a slight cough getting ready for a slight lecture.

"Yes however, you must listen. What I am about to show you is a universal ability known as ESP or Extra Sensory Perception. In this you are using your internal energy, Spirit in my case and Mana in yours to refocus one sense to change what angle and position you perceive from as well as see only the type of energy you are using to perceive this. Due to these effects I will be invisible to this sense and in this world it is utterly useless to me as I am the only living being with any spiritual power due to those moons threatening to blow up any other spirit user. To use it focus your mana into your eyes and close them, imagine your mana filling them up as if they were made of hollow glass and you were pouring water in through a small hole on top. Fill them up completely but do not let them overflow. When you have done this imagine your eyes leaving your head and flying around through walls, through the air unhindered by the physical and as fast as you desire. This will allow you to see from anything pertaining to magic from anywhere. However if one is more powerful then yourself then you may be blinded by the brightness of it so be cautious. Again I must stress that this exercise is about seeing magic. You will not see much in detail, think of it in a way that the only light you will perceive is magic itself. If it has no magic it will be in darkness." Saito explained before taking a bit of a breath. Hey it was a long speech. Louise blinked a few times.

"I'm sorry could you repeat that?" she asked and Saito face palmed and groaned. It was going to be one of those days, he could feel it.

After explaining it about three more times before she got everything again she was finally trying it for the first time. "Wow... this is so amazing..." Louise breathed as she no doubt had her eyes flowing everywhere. Saito's somewhat developed ability to sense mana could feel the eyes fly quickly out of range and no doubt all over the school. "Everyone has their own coloured light it's like they're made of fire..." Louise intoned utterly fascinated.

"Yea it is pretty hardcore isn't it?" Saito asked casually going back into his book.

"Yea it's totally bodacious." Louise said and he double blinked and sighed.

"I never should have explained surfer lingo." Saito muttered to himself turning the page sniffing in distain at the disgusting amount of lies and so called 'clever subtlety' which in truth was nothing but backbiting and murder. Like most Therians he valued the truth above his own feelings and would rather be told straight up that he was an ugly bastard then have someone walk around the subject like he was made of eggshells. He kinda like Guiche because of that, he was straightforward and bad at lying. Kirche too, she thought she was subtle and she was subtle a little less so then a chainsaw but still points for effort. Montrancy also tried to be subtle but like her beau had no luck at it. Their emotions might as well be neon signs hanging over top of them for how much self control these kids had.

Siesta though was in a league all her own. Sweet and kind there was no deception there, beautiful and graceful she was one hell of a catch. She also seemed intimidated by him unfortunately, it did stand somewhat to reason she didn't have any combat skills or magic so to her he must seem like a nightmare incarnate. Wolves spawn an almost primal fear in humans and the fact that he had grown so huge that she would barely reach his calf at one point must have been something straight from a nightmare. Not to mention she had already been basically enslaved by magic users so his spiritual powers would add even more to the fear factor. Still he couldn't get her off the head and he knew it wasn't lust, it was... something else. Something hauntingly familiar.

"You really have to try this out Saito!" Louise exclaimed and he chuckled at this. She had a knack for getting caught up in things.

"Alright I'm not above being proven wrong." He said with a slight chuckle at the poor quality of her short term memory. She really was like a homebrewed schoolgirl. He took a lotus position and focused deep into himself allowing his silver white fire of energy fill his whole body in an advanced form of what he had explained to Louise. Gently pushing up and out of his body he looked around a little and as he expected total darkness and silence except a tiny pinprick... Wait. What?

He shot down to whatever it was, it made no sense anything that could use spiritual power would be filled beyond mortal capacity in little to no time at all. Then they'd either go berserk or blow up, but still something other then him had spiritual energy, he had to find out who or what. He shot down his form composed of nothing but silver white fire invisible to anyone without spiritual power. Through walls and woodwork until, air and earth until... "Siesta?" he asked and she gasped staring at his form.

"Oh my goodness!" She exclaimed backing up. She was the only source of light outside of himself and she illuminated the nearby area with a pale blue light that looked like mist was pouring out of, there was a symbol on the back of her neck that had a different light though. It was pure spiritual light the silver white flame that Saito was currently made of, it was in the shape of a crescent moon surrounded by ten stars. A power dump tattoo... //how the hell did I miss that before?// he thought dispelling the Astral Projection and standing up.

"Louise, I think I'll be rather busy the next few days. If you'll excuse me." He said putting a slip of parchment into the book to mark the page and tucking it into a small bag before walking out. She didn't even notice he had spoken or left as she was so enraptured by what she was seeing with her mage sight.

It didn't take him much time to get down towards the kitchens were Siesta was, the cooks dutily ignored him as he walked up to her. She didn't notice until he had a finger on the tattoo on the back of her neck. "So when were you going to tell me that you were a Therian with a tattooed power dump?" he asked carefully.

Author's Notes

Thought I'd leave you in suspense. Don't worry though like in the first part this story will have progressively longer chapters so this is just to get the ball rolling. MY original idea was to have Saito notice a colossal energy source and have it be Kaito his brother being imprisoned and have him go on a huge rescue of him then nearly kill Kaito to vent his feelings of rage for being forced to be all alone thanks to the guy. But it fell through and I also noticed that pretty much no one wanted to meet Kaito in the story so hey, who am I to piss on your hopes?