"Oh! Look at this spell book!" Aria called out to BFF as she walked through the old book store.
"Look at this book on battle strategy." Justice countered.
"Why so you read that stuff? It's so boring!" Aria whines as she walked up to buy her book.
"It's better than the fairy tales you're always reading." Justice added as h paid for her own.
"Have a good day, girls!" The friendly old man who owned the shop said as they walked out. Those two were regular customers to the old book shop, so he was very familiar with them.
"You excited for the camping trip?" Aria asked over her shoulder.
"Yep! It's really exciting that we finally can go by ourselves for once. By the way, great idea stopping by the shop to grab a book each to read on the way up." Justice complimented her friend. "Do you want the first shift of driving?"
"Not really, It'd be better if I drove at night since I'm the night owl in this relationship." Aria gave her a cheeky grin.
"What do you mean? I stay up late, all the time too!" Justice pouted a bit.
"You only stay awake for two things. To study or to be alert in case I try to do something to you in your sleep." Aria stuck her tongue out.
Justice tried to argue, but she really didn't really have anything to prove her case, so she sulked as they walked back to her house.
The two girls were greeted by their mothers. Aria's mom came over to see her daughter off and get one final inspection of what they were taking with them.
It was noon when the two were finally able to leave. Each time they tried to before, they got entangled with their parents teary goodbyes. With the water works they were giving them, you kinda would have thought they were going to war or something. But in all reality, they were.
After two days of driving and many driving switches later, they arrived to the small cabin their families bought together when they were small children.
"Ah! Fresh air never tasted so good!" Aria breathed in deeply as she exited the car.
"You say that every time we come here." Justice rolled her eyes. "Come on and help me put our stuff in the cabin and clean it."
"Yes ma'am." Aria saluted as she raced to the cabin to unlock it and start cleaning. "AAAAHH!" She screamed when she saw a spider. "Justice, save me!" She jumped behind her friend and cowered in fear.
Justice narrowed her eyes at her enemy and drew her weapon of choice. Wasp and spider killer. "This is war." She said as she gritted her teeth.
After a long, hard battle, which resulted from heavy casualties in both sides, the spider menace was gone, and the cabin was peaceful once more.
"My hero!" Aria cheered as Justice emerged from the hell's gates themselves.
"We lost many cans, but we won." She said wearily as she slowly raised up her can.
"Well I'll get started on the rest of the clean up. You relax for a bit then get dinner started." Aria called over her shoulder.
"I will." Justice immediately reached for her book and continued reading. She drove for most of the trip, and when she wasn't driving she was mostly sleeping so she didn't get much of a chance to read.
After a while, her strawberry blonde/red hair fell looser around her face, so she took a pale hand and put it into a low pony tail. She got up and looked into a mirror with her blue eyes and noticed the hints of green, showing she was in a good mood. After checking her hair was decent, she got to work on dinner.
Justice looked over at her crazy green eyed brunette. Aria's short hair kept getting in her face, so she put on a black and white bandanna.
While Aria slaved away at the rest of the cleaning, blasting the cd player to the highest it could go, Justice opted to make it a campfire dinner. She got out the hot dogs, bratwursts, and marshmallows as well as buns and condiments.
Next up was the fire. They still had a good supply from when they were up there last with their family, but they would need to chop more eventually. As justice set up the fire, Aria came out while reading her 'spell book'.
"This book is so cool! It believes in the principle of the 8 basic elements: fire, water, light, wind, lightning, sound, power, and life, but not in that order. Isn't it cool! This is the first I've seen of this theory of magic, but this book is so old that it must have been around for ages!" Aria babbled on and on.
This luckily gave Justice enough time to finish the fire and set up everything for dinner. "So are you gonna tell me about before or after dinner?" She gave her a flat look.
"One spell, please!" Aria gave her the puppy dog look with sparkling eyes and the pouty lip.
'Damn, she must be excited.' Justice thought with her poker face very much intact. "Only one." She said firm.
"Ok, ok. Let me find a really good one." Aria skimmed through the book until she found the right one. "Ariza Manten!" She shouted out.
"Told you." Justice rubbed it in while Aria sulked.
"Excuse me?" A random man's voice rang out from the tree line.
"Ack! It's a person!" Aria screamed.
"Who are you?" Justice said as she got into a defensive position.
"I am Solomon. And you summoned me." He walked right up to them. His blue, braided hair swished behind him and his Arabian styled clothes stood out.
"Oh my god! The spell worked!" Aria jumped up and down in glee.
"That's not possible. There is no such thing as magic and spells." Justice adamantly argued.
"I am considered a God, magic does exist, and I would like your help." Solomon said as he stood directly in front of the two.
Justice would humor Aria, but the moment hings got a little sketchy she would make him leave. "Oh, and what do you need help with?" Justice said as she crossed her arms over her chest.
"There is a darkness that looms over the future of my world, and I need help destroying it. If it is not destroyed it surely will be cast into death and darkness."
'Well he doesn't know sarcasm when he hears it.' Justice thought to herself. "I'm sor-"
"We'll help! I swear it!" Aria said with the fire of determination raging in her eyes.
Solomon smiled, and soon the group was surrounded in little glowing birds, traveling in what looked like space. Then in an instant he was gone. As the two entered the atmosphere, they were separated with the glowing birds splitting and following them in their fall.
This is where their adventure began.