Prologue - Cauldron Chantings
There had once been a rumor that there had been a Fourth Music room, which was also fairly abandoned. Or so it had seemed. The location of this music room was directly across the hall from the other seemingly abandoned Third Music Room, yet it was the most widely used room, since it was the home of the host club. While many people frequented the third room, only one person was seen entering and leaving the fourth room on a daily basis.
Everyday, the person entering the fourth room would be simply go into the room to do their studying about Black Magic. They wanted to learn about the various items and how they could be used. In an attempt to further expand their knowledge, they also began learning a bit about the Wiccan practices. This process went on for the whole month of September. The actual potion making
Kanazuki Reiko, age 13, was hoping to brew up a special cauldron full of love potions. After all, Halloween was only a few days away. The love potions were suppose to be the easiest thing to do for a beginner Black Magic user. She hadn't given much thought as to the location she was in. She didn't think that anyone would be remaining in the school, but she was oh so terribly wrong. This particular day, the Host Club was having a meeting. Simply put, the meeting just finished, considering that the president had been derailed from the topic at hand many times.
Reiko was in the second music room, which was just down the hall. She had everything she needed to get started all in a neat pile. Her love-lust items: A single apple, a pile of Chamomile leaves, Raspberry Essence, and some Rosemary oil. As well as her other creepier items: toadstools, an eyeball that she had minced a few hours prior amongst two other items.
From here, Reiko started to add in each item while starting to chant. First items in were the creepy ones. A minute later, she started to add in the love-lust items. the raspberry essence was first. Nothing changed. Next, she added the Chamomile leaves. Unsure how much to really put in, Reiko only put in 4 leaves. Nothing happened, so she added in a few more leaves. When nothing happened, Reiko ended up putting in the rest of her entire stock of leaves.
When nothing happened once again, it was time to start on the Rosemary oil. Trying to save a moment in the future, Reiko took the lid off of the bottle. The chant for this ingredient was three parts in length. At the end of the third part, was when she would add in the oil. Midway through the second part of the ingredient chant, the door flew open, and three people whizzed by her desk she was occupying. The first person, which was Nekowaza, bumped the ingredient table, causing the bottle to wobble back and forth but not tip over. Reiko hoped it would settle down, but that would be a miracle since the chasers were a second behind her senpai.
The second person also bumped the table, which only increased the momentum. Reiko was never the brightest in her reaction time. Had she been thinking, she could have just grabbed the bottle, but she was also in the middle of a chant. One wrong word could through the potion into chaos. What she also didn't realize was that too much of an ingredient, that would also be added in at a larger quantity than required, could also be a cause for chaos.
When the third person, bumped into the table, the momentum was too great, and the bottle tipped over. The entire oil bottle had emptied into the cauldron quicker than Reiko could grab it. There was nothing more she could do about the potion but to continue the final part of the chant, and hope for the best.
At first, nothing happened. Reiko breathed a sigh of relief. However, she let down her guard too quickly. There was pink foam starting to bubble it's way up and out of the cauldron. However, it only covered as high as Reiko's feet, and it didn't spread out all across the room. The foam was just figuring out who had summoned it, basically.
"Why on earth were you guys running through here?" Reiko asked calmly. Though, knowing that she was thoroughly peeved. She had intended to give the infused apple to Nekowaza-senpai in two days. At least, she hoped he would recognize her then. She had fallen smitten with him back in their elementary days, and couldn't get him out of her mind since then.
"We didn't know this room was in use." One twin answered.
"Besides, trying to figure out if our Black Magic user president really is afraid of the light or if it is a ruse." The other twin answered.
"Also, we were bored." They both replied in unison.
Reiko wanted to say something along the lines that people really weren't toys, but her thoughts got cut off when a different voice bellowed.
"Who dares to disturb my slumber?"
Reiko looked around for a moment, before realizing the voice came from the cauldron.
"I- I'm sorry sir. I was just trying to make -" Reiko stuttered a bit, but she was cut off by the same voice.
"Names! I don't care for excuses or what you were trying to do!"
"Reiko Kanazuki. Hikaru Hitachiin. Kaoru Hitachiin. Kyoya Ootori. Tamaki Suoh. Mitsukuni Haninozuka. Takashi Morinozuka. Umehito Nekowaza." Reiko complied to giving everyone's names, whether they wanted to be included or not.
"Thank you. Now, as I understand it, Reiko, you were the one calling the potion." The voice bellowed again.
"That is correct sir." Reiko answered automatically.
"Very well. You are going to be embarking on a journey with the other six. As a payback for disturbing my slumber." The voice said.
"Six, sir? I listed eight altogether." Reiko protested.
"Unehito Nekowaza could do more to me than I to him. So, I dare not cross him." The voice stated.
"Very well." Reiko said, not really understanding.
"Now, you have five hours to complete each task that I will set out for you guys. I suggest that you get going." With that, the fog cleared and the foam receded back into the cauldron.