Chapter 2: Routine
Three weeks had past since the fight with the white haired kid. Crystal was acting a little nicer to him. A little, meaning she only electrically shocked him three times an hour. Kai guessed it was mostly his fault; he did have a big mouth and a very sarcastic attitude. Crystal had made it clear that she did not appreciate sarcasm from her slave. She continued to make him do all the laundry, clean the room, and even went as far as to make him help her change clothes, which took a lot of electric shocks to make him do that. The only time he got to see Jake was lunch break, which was when they practiced their sword fighting. Kai still didn't know what had happened at that fight, he had felt so much more powerful, and he had jumped over a six foot tall kid! That's not normal.
He was getting used to Crystal being his master. He now knew that there was no getting back to Earth. Besides, Jake didn't want to leave anyways. When Kai confronted him with a plan of escape, Jake had told him that he didn't want to leave, that he wanted to stay here with Felicity. That basically made up Kai's mind for him. He wasn't about to leave Jake in this crazy place. Besides, Kai was beginning to kind of like this place, despite all the electric shocks he got from Crystal. Crystal. Just today, Crystal had asked Kai to help her practice her magic. Kai didn't know what she was doing, but it turned out that he got out of it with a bunch of scorch marks and officially demolished clothes. She wasn't getting any better with her magic. Kai had marks to prove it.
Kai had also learned that all the animals, including Jake and Kai were called Shikigami, which literally means summoned creature to do their bidding. He seriously doubted that Jake was being treated like a slave, or a dog, which is what Crystal was beginning to call him. He bet that jake got to sleep in an actual bed, eat good food and not left overs like he did. Oh well. Kai had learned that to get good stuff, he had to do what Crystal said, without talking back. That was insanely hard for Kai to do, especially with the stuff she gave him to do. Kai had sucked up enough of his pride that he had earned a blanket with his hay bed.
"Dog, get in here." Crystal said, poking her head out the door.
Kai walked in the room, "You know I don't like being called a dog. You might as well just call me a slave, that's what I am to you anyways."
ZZZZZZAAPP!
He collapsed on the ground "Ow. I thought you were done with the zapping! You blow me up everyday anyways!"
ZZAAAAPP!
"OW! Jeez, ok I'll stop!" Kai pushed himself off the ground and looked at Crystal, who was holding her wand.
Oh god, here we go...
"Put this on." Crystal said, handing him a blindfold.
"Yes master..." he said, wrapping the blindfold around his head.
Great, now i won't even see it coming, literally. He heard Crystals footsteps, then her warm hands grabbed his and she turned him around and wrapped a rope around his hands, trying them together.
"Crystal, I didn't know you were like this!" he said, cracking a sly smile.
"Shut up, dog." she said as she shoved him into the chair. She then proceeded to tie him to the chair.
"What is it this time? Going to burn me to a crisp, or just blow me up?" Kai inquired.
"Did I tell you to talk? No I didn't, so why are you talking dog?" she asked.
"Well seeing as how I'm about to blow up, I'm thinking I have the right to talk." Kai retorted.
Crystal then walked over and shoved a something into his mouth to keep him quiet. "I said shut up dog."
Crystal started an incantation, "liberare funes ligat hominem hunc." Kai could feel the ropes start to move and untie themselves, then something went wrong and the ropes tightened and then blew up.
"AHH crap! What the hell Crystal? Are you trying to kill me?" Kai shouted.
"You're not dead yet." Crystal said on the verge of laughing.
Kai heard her chuckle, "You're laughing aren't you!? Dang, I feel so loved..."
Crystal laughed as she came and untied him.
"You have to admit that was kind of funny!" She said cracking up.
"Not from my point of view... but I'm glad that you crack yourself up!" he said rubbing his wrists.
He turned his back on her and went and sat on his hay pile.
"I'm going to bed now." he said and laid down.
"Hey!" Crystal said as she walked over and kicked him in the side. "Did I tell you you could go to bed?"
Kai just rolled over and put his hands on his ears.
"Hey! Get up!" she protested. Kai then pretended to snore, acting like he was asleep.
"Fine, go to bed you dumb lazy dog." She walked over to the dresser and pulled out something wrapped in a towel. "I waaas going to give you this, but lazy dogs don't get any presents from their masters."
Kai cracked his eyes open.
"Oh? Did this get your attention? Good." She walked over to the trash can.
"OK fine! I'm awake!" Kai said as he jumped out of bed.
"Ok, but you aren't getting it until you do my laundry, then scrub my floor, then apologize for being a dumb dog." she said smirking.
It took Kai awhile to scrub the floor since Crystal decided he would do it with his toothbrush. Dumb lazy ass girl. She has me do all her crap. What does she do? Oh, that's right, she blows me up. Such gratitude! I would be at home enjoying my life but nooo, some ass decided to screw up my life and send me to this dumb rock.
"Dog, that's enough. Now I want you to read the apology note I gave you." Crystal said putting her hands on her hips.
Kai sighed and grabbed the note she had written.
"I, Kai Hill, am a very dumb, lazy dog. I only get in my masters way and don't do anything good. My master is the best master in the world. She was generous enough to give me a nice pile of hay and a squeaky toy to play with outside. I love my master very much. Without her I would be nothing. Without her I would go crawl in a hole and die a slow painful death. Master is very nice to allow me to stay with her. I am sorry Master."
Kai put down the note furious.
"Very good! Now here is your reward." Crystal said handing him the thing wrapped in a towel.
Kai grumbled as he opened the towel but stopped when he saw what was inside. Inside the towel was a matching pair of swords with jewel encrusted hilts. They were each one and a half hand swords, meant to be able to be used in any situation. Kai had only dreamed about having swords like these. Crystal silently gave him a belt with two scabbards.
"These used to be my dad's when he was younger. I thought that you should have them." she said.
"Oh so you're saying you care about me eh?" Kai said.
"N.n. ! I just thought that you should have weapons that are reliable." She stammered, "Besides they are only meant for you to protect your master with, like a reliable Shikigami should." she said proud of herself.
Kai stood up and put the belt on, adjusting the scabbards for easy removal of the swords in case of an emergency. Then he put the swords in the scabbards.
"Thank you Crystal." He said and kissed her.
"Wh-wh-what the hell was that for! You stupid perverted dog!" she yelled. "You're sleeping in the hall today!"
"You're the one who said I love my master very much!" Kai said picking up his blanket. He then stormed outside and dropped his blanket.
He unbuckled his belt and dropped it to the ground, swords and all.
"Who does she think she is." He muttered to himself.
"Shes a noble, duh." a mysterious voice said.
"Yeah duh!" a second voice said.
"Shut up! I was talking first!" Said the first voice.
"Your advice sucks!" said the second voice.
Kai looked around dumbfounded, the hallway was empty.
"Who said that?" Kai asked looking around.
"We did!" the voices said in unison.
Kai looked down at the swords. "No way, that's impossible."
Suddenly the swords hilts moved, "No it's not impossible!" Said the first sword.
"Ya," said the second sword, "You live in a world of magic now boy. We talk!"
"I'm Ignis." said the first sword.
"And I'm Fulgur!" said the second sword.
Kai grabbed his head. "Oh man, this is too much. I'm going to bed." He said as he laid down and went to sleep.