Chapter 1
Dawn of a new Tournament

Rain started pouring, lightning flashed in the sky, and thunder boomed in the distance. A mamodo walked down the dirt road with his spell book tied to his back. He walked by the baseball field and saw the last part of the game.

"Strike three, your out!," yelled the umpire.

The crowd went wild, the pitcher struck out eight people in a row. Now he was going for his ninth. Another batter stepped up to plate. The pitcher clenched the ball tightly in his hand, he aimed dead center for the catcher's glove, and threw a knuckle ball. The batter made contact with bat, but it didn't go far because the pitcher caught it as fast as he threw it.

"Your out, game over!," yelled the umpire.

The crowd cheered as the players carried the pitcher off into the dugout. The players got their stuff and left the dugout, the pitcher was the last to leave. The mamodo was waiting for him outside the dugout. The pitcher observed the mamodo. The mamodo was almost half his size, his clothes were all ripped, he had spiky brown hair, he had orange colored eyes with lines going down from them, and a light blue spell book on his back.

"That was an amazing throw," said the mamodo.

"Uh…thanks kid," replied the pitcher.

"What's your name?," asked mamodo.

"Zack Sunochi," said Zack.

"I'm Yukai Bell," replied Yukai with a smile on his mouth.

"Bell…the name sounds familiar," muttered Zack.

Zack started walking off to his house, with Yukai following close behind. He walked into his house, his mom was cooking in the kitchen and his little sister was playing her DS at the table.

"Hey honey, who's your friend," asked Mom.

Zack turned around and looked down, he didn't notice Yukai following him.

"What do you want," asked Zack kind of annoyed that Yukai followed him all the way home.

"…I kind of need a place to stay," said Yukai.

"Don't you have parents?," asked Zack.

"…no…," muttered Yukai.

"Oh, come on in out of the rain," said Mom.

She walked over to Yukai and brought him to the table. She got a towel out of the bathroom and put it on Yukai's shoulders. She got some Macaroni and Cheese from the kitchen and gave some to Yukai.

"Your welcome to stay here for as long as you like," said Mom.

Zack's sister got up from her chair and walked over to Yukai. She observed him very carefully.

"Mom, he's got some weird lines under his eyes," said Zack's sister, Layla.

Mom looked at the lines under Yukai's eyes, she passed her finger across the lines, they weren't cuts.

"Weird," remarked Mom.

"What's that book?," asked Layla.

Zack swiped the book out of Layla's hands. The writing on the front was weird, he opened the book and read the first page.

"Kyron," said Zack.

The books started shining and Yukai shot several giant ice shards out of his mouth. The wall had been turned into swiss cheese.

"Whoa," remarked Zack and Layla.

"My wall!," screamed Mom.

Zack took Yukai and high-tailed it to his room to avoid Mom's fury.

"What the hell was that?," asked Zack.

Yukai just shrugged, he didn't know what happened in the kitchen. Yukai walked over to the window and looked around.

"Did you hear something Zack…," asked Yukai.

Something jumped into the their window and pinned Yukai down against the wall. The arm he was holding Yukai down with was solid black, with spikes coming out of it. The rest of his body was snowflake white, with long black pants.

"Finally caught up to you Yukai, now I can reap the reward from Hanon," said the Mamodo.

Zack grabbed his bat and knocked him against the wall.

"Who the hell are you," yelled Zack.

"Lunix, Master of Shadows," said the Mamodo.

Lunix's partner jumped onto the window sill and shouted something out of a book. It was the same book as Yukai's, but black.

"Ruruk," shouted Lunix's partner.

Lunix's shadow came off the floor and coiled around Yukai and Zack.

"Let's finish them off Troy," said Lunix.

"Ruruga," yelled Troy turning the page.

The spikes on Lunix's right arm combined into one giant spike. Lunix charged for Yukai's head, but Zack broke free from Lunix's shadow and stopped his giant spike with his metal baseball bat.

"Impressive…," said Lunix.

Zack knocked Lunix's giant spike away and grabbed the spell book and opened it to the first page. Troy and Lunix chuckled, they figured Zack didn't know anything about the book.

"Kyron," yelled Zack.

Yukai shot several large ice shards at Lunix and Troy. One of them severed Lunix's right arm and another one stuck in Troy's left leg. Troy threw himself out of the window, but Lunix stayed for a bit.

"Why did you attack us?," asked Zack.

"The same reason that every other mamodo will attack you two, to become King or Queen," said Lunix holding his bloody shoulder.

"King or Queen," repeated Zack.

"Yukai might know, now if you excuse me, I have to go," said Lunix as he got on the window sill.

"You mentioned Hanon or something like that when you were choking Yukai, who is he?," asked Zack.

"Time will tell. Yukai, we'll finish this fight when I have my full strength back," said Lunix as he jumped out the window.

The shadow disappeared and Yukai was free.

"Yukai, tell me everything," said Zack.

"Okay, every thousand years we mamodo come to Earth to battle for the title of Mamodo King or Queen," said Yukai.

"How many mamodo?," asked Zack.

"…100," replied Yukai.

"98 more people like him are running around!," yelled Zack.

Zack's mom walked in and saw all the holes in the wall and screamed at. Zack and Yukai for causing them. Outside in the darkness, Troy was limping home with Lunix right beside him.

"I didn't expect a weak mamodo like him to hurt us so bad," said Troy.

"Me neither, but we will beat him, and I will rightfully take the title of King," said Lunix as he grew back his right arm.

"Should we tell Hanon about our failure?," asked Troy.

"No, he doesn't need to know," said Lunix.

Spells

Kyron: Yukai shoots giant ice shards out of his mouth.

Ruruk: Lunix's Shadow coils around the opponent

Ruruga: The spikes on Lunix's arm form one long and sharp spike.