A/N: Hello guys! My appologies for the long absence, but well ya'know, school and stuffs. Anyway, this is something I wrote to get over my writer's block (Sucks T-T) and uhh this is not a crossover, I assure you, it's just something I had in my mind for some time, there's still Alpha and Omega elements(?) though, so yeah rest assured.
Numbers of life
Chapter 1: Arrival
Through ages, human has improved society and invented technology, dominated the earth with their wisdom, and led lives with their power. Life was easy, it all went smooth like a well oiled machine; outerspace exploration, teleportation, flying pool table, etc. etc.
Basically, they finally get how does magic works. And they also found a way to make their lifespan a little bit longer. But life and death is not related to magic, it is a factor of lifestyle; and the matter of lifespan is more related to gene actually. Now the question is, how long is "living your life a little bit longer?"
"Eh?" I blinked twice and stared at the unfamiliar scene before me, pink walls, pink doors, pink closet, pink everything. I was sure I was about to drink my coffee-Ah wait, why is it pink?
"Eh? Eeehhh?" Before I realize, I've gone all pink. Omigosh why~!?
"It works!" A young girl with long dark hair clapped her hands and hopped back and forth "Yay! It works!"
Ahem, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Ignis Wüstegeist, as my name suggested, I'm a desert ghost. But actually, rather than ghost, it's supposed to be spirit but whatever. "Elemental spirit" is what I am technically, but the people there called us "Djinn". Yes, of-course there are other like me, and from other element, too.
"Now, introduce yourself, Djinn!"
"No, where's my coffee?"
"Wha-? What?"
Freedom! As I thought, this girl is not suit for a master. She doesn't even know how to bind a summoned spirit. Give me freedom or give me back my coffee! Huuraaah!
Spirits and Djinn are actually different, but there's some similarities between us. For example, when a Djinn or a spirit is summoned, you must offer something worth of the service you asked, and then do some sort of ritual and spelling rites or mantra, and finally your wish is my command. Though in the case of spirits you don't have to spell mantra or rites, but you must sacrifice your body as a vessel for the spirit to live. And while Djinns' service are "terms and conditions" contract, spirits are free to stay or leave if a) the spirit's original habitat (the place where the spirit came from) is at harm, or destroyed, b) if the spirit wishes to. So basically, spirits have more freedom than Djinns
And since I'm a spirit who hail from the Sahara desert, there's no need for concern
"Yeah well, bye then"
I waved at the girl and head for the exit
"Oi! Wait a sec! I summoned you!"
Yeah so?
"So?"
"Muu~! Show some gratitude!"
Hmm, she's right. I was not exactly comfortable at home
Home
"Ignis! When are you going down!? Dinner's ready!"
"Ignis, where is your sister!?"
"Ignis, go down already!
"Hilda! Where are you!?"
"Onii-chan, one word and you're dead"
Since when did we became Japanese!?
Haaah~ (；一_一)
"Here" I tossed her a Date palm (Kurma/Korma fruit) "It's... not edible though"
First rule of summoning a spirit or Djinn, [Don't accept free gifts]. Accepting gifts or free offer from your summoned Djinn or spirit means that you've given your soul to them, and so when you die... Well, you don't. I'm sure it's a common knowledge of this era, but few realize that if you don't die eventually you'll be desperate and become something... Inhuman. Human may not understand it, but when we gave you something as a gift, it's actually genuinely a gift. We have nothing to hide from the human.
"Wha? What's this?"
"That's a token of gratitude, d'uh"
You can't... No, you shouldn't accept it though
"A-ah... Th-thank you-"
"Haruna-sama!"
Nice timing. A little bit more and she'd be doomed
""Ah,""
The familiar face, the twintails, the preference for clothes-eh wait, why is she wearing a Yuukata? "Hilda?" Dumbstruck, I can only called out her name. What is she doing here?
"What are you doing here?"
Hildegarde Wüstegeist, goes by the name "Hilda", the typical run-of-the-mill little sister of mine, or imôto if you prefer calling it that. There's actually no excitement in having a little sister, no, you don't go head-over-heels over her cuteness. You don't get anything but a hindrance and annoyance. The only charming point of hers are her adorable physique. Though I must admit, that Yuukata she's wearing scored some points on her cuteness
"Ara? Onii-chan, I know you're slow to follow but I never thought you're this dense"
Oi, what's with the Onii thing? You're not Japanese y'know
"Onii-chan, I work here"
Oh, so that's why "Eh, is that so? Welp, okay then"
I just wish she would drop her Japanese act
"Oi! Just where do you think you're going?"
The human girl ran to the exit and blocked it
Ugh... If only you had coffee, I'd gladly stay for a while
"Listen to my request!"
"Hey, little human-"
"-I'm not little!"
Whatever
"Unless you have something worth for your request, I wont-"
"Haruna-sama, here's the Arabica coffees" Oi oi, I'm not finished yet
"Hilda, why?" I asked in desperate tone
"Hehe, good luck!"
"Haah~" I let out a sigh "Well then, what do you need, human?"
"Uu~, why you..!" the human girl's face reddened "I'm Haruna, Ishiki Haruna! Daughter of the Emperor of Japan!"
With a snap of her fingers, Hilda brought in another cup of coffee for me
Yes yes, you're the daughter of the emperor, I get it already
"Please, hear out my request"
And with that cup of coffee, the daughter of the emperor, whose name is Ishiki Haruna, became my new master. And thus, my short lived freedom had ended
Haah~~ I'm beat XP
Thanks for reading guys. I plan to continue Hard Rain, but I keep accidentally deleting my docs... Uu~ I'm so clumsy T-T
Oh and I plan to keep writing this, I just can't publish it above 9PM due to data plan limitation
Once again, Thanks for reading! XD