Chapter 2:

I slowly brought my face out of the ground and looked up to find the stupid book that struck me in the head. I picked up the book and looked at the two boys who were looking at me curiously. The first boy had a pretty bored look on his face. He was tall had black wavy hair and had an interesting necklace on.

The other boy was kinda short, but he was packing some serious muscles. He had Greyish white hair and was pretty roughed up. They were a weird duo but that didn't matter as I was furious. I grabbed the stupid book that hit me in the head and I threw it at them. The taller boy dodged the book while the shorter one got hit in the face.

"Hey! What's the deal! Why'd you throw your grimoire at me!?" The short boy jumped back up and yelled at me.

"What do you mean why! One of you assholes threw that book at me when I was already down! So of course I'm going to throw it back at you two."

"But we didn't throw it at you!"

I tilted my head and sneered at them. "Oh you didn't? Well I don't see anyone else other than you two around. And it just so happens that the both of you already have a book in your hands. So I'm led to believe that either one of you two threw that book at me or that it magically flew on it's own and hit me on the head." I said that last part sarcasticly.

"Ah!!! That's exactly what happened! Right Yuno!" The taller boy nodded his head.

"You must not be from around here if you don't even know what a grimoire is."

I looked at the two with shocked eyes, not that they could tell thanks to my face being hidden by my hood. "Wait seriously? A grimoire as in a magic book?"

"Yes. A Grimoire stores a magicians spells. Each grimoire is different from one another as they can vary from their size to the number of pages they hold. The more pages their are in a grimoire the more unique spells a magician can cast."

The shorter boy looked at Yuno with a surpised face. "Woah!! Yuno since when did you talk so much!" Yuno then frowned and kept his mouth shut after that. Meanwhile I was trying to wrap my head around all the things I learned. 'Grimoire, magic, Magic knights exam having something to do with Yami.'

I looked back at the two boys. "So if I learn how to use magic I can join the magic knights right?" Both boys interest were piqued when I said that. Yuno's eyes narrowed catiousely. "And why do you want to be a magic knight?"

"Oh I've been looking for someone, and I was told that I would find them at the magic knight exam. And the next thing I knew I was here getting hit in the head by a book." Yuno sighed as he relaxed his body while the short boy was hopping around.

"Ohhh! That's great we can go together then. Yuno and I are going to join the Magic knights too. And then I'll beat Yuno and become the magic emporor and propose to Sister Lily!"

Yuno narrowed his eyes and grinned at he shorty. " I'm the one who'll become the magic emporor Asta."

Asta dropped to the floor and started to do push ups. "Uooooooh! I'll show you!!!"

After I played the third wheel on Asta and Yuno's broship moment, they took me to their home. Apparently both of them are orphans and they grew up in a small old church. I was introduced to Sister Lily, Father Orsi, Nash, Recca, Aruru and Hollo.

After our little introduction Father Orsi started to cry over having another mouth to feed. Yuno and Asta looked a little guilty as they didn't think about the financial side of things. Luckily I had a spare gem or two from my journey so I gave them to Foster Orsi as payment. He cried once again but this time in delight.

An hour later we had dinner which consisted of something called a Tato? It was dry and had no real taste but it reminded me of Potatoes. The food was good and I thanked Sister Lily for making it for us.

Oh and I found out that the people in Hage village or technically the Clover kingdom believe in God. It wasn't as main stream as it was back in my last world as their was no Holy wars or seperate branches. The churches held little to no power over their believers as the Monarchey reighned supreme. I guess the nobilities didn't want a second entity that rules over the public as Government and Religion don't mix well.

Anyways after dinner we cleaned up and headed up to bed. Yuno, Asta, Recca, Hollo, Aruru, and Nash all shared the same room and slept together. They offered to let me sleep with them but I rejected it as it looked uncomftorable enough without me. So I leaned up against the wall in the corner of the room and fell asleep. It wasn't the first time I did this as I normally slept while leaning against a random tree these last two years.

I woke up and looked around the room and I was surprised to see it empty. I am pretty good at getting up early but it seems that I let myself sleep in for once. I pushed myself up off of the ground and headed downstairs to greet the rest. And what a waste that was as no one was there, so I went outside to look for someone.

I found Yuno in the back yard practicing his wind magic while Nash and Alulu watched. I walked up to Yuno and pat him on the back to get his attention. He turned his head and looked over his shoulder and glared at me. "What?"

"Wow that was cold." He continued to stare at me as if he was still waiting for an actual reply. " Fine whatever I just wanted to say good morning to you." After that his glare stopped and he just nodded his head and then ignored me as he went back to his magic training.

Feeling annoyed I turned and walked over to where Alulu and Nash were standing. "Good morning Nash and Alulu."

Alulu waved at me shyly while Nash grunted at me. I frowned at the boys response to me. "Why are you also being ride towards me Nash?"

The boy raised his head up at me and glared. "Why wouldn't I be rude to some sketchy guy who just shows up and tries to join our lives. I mean we haven't even seen what your face looks like with your hood covering it. Plus to top it all off you look weak."

I laughed at him. Like really hard. I couldn't help it the kid was right that I looked sketchy, but of all the things he could've called me he called ME weak. I'm the dumbass princess who went and took down four huge ass mythical creatures by herself and I'm weak.

Nash started to blush becoming discomforted at being laughed at for no reason at all. He got all defensive and started to panic. "What are you laughing at ugly!?"

'... What did he just call me?' I grabbed the top of his head and I lifted him up off of the ground and I glared into his eyes. "What did you just call me?" Nash started to sweat all over and his body started to shake from fear.

The boy didn't respond to my question as he was mute from fear. So I dropped him back onto the ground and turned to leave but there was a tall body standing in my way. Yuno was blocking my way while he wore a determined look on his face. I tried to walk around him but he just blocked me off once again. "What?" I said a little to venomesly.

Yuno looked down ar me. "Apologize or else."

I smirked back at him. "Or else what?"

Yuno then held out his hand to the side and sent a blade of air that cut a tree in half. Yuno's face didn't change into one of arrogance or anything of the sorts as it remained the same calm face as before. I then looked over to Nash as he wore a surprised face but I could see a bit of arrogance appear in his eyes as he stared at me as if waiting for me to grovel and beg for forgiveness due to Yuno's power.

I clapped my hands. "Impressive. But I will still not apologize to him."

Yuno raised an eyebrow while Nash let out a high pitched yell. "What do you mean you won't apologize, didn't you see Yuno's magic aren't you afraid?"

I smiled and leaned back. "Nah."

Yuno then held his hand up once again and faced his palm towards me this time. "Are you sure?"

My grin became even wider as I saw this. My left hand shifted down and grabbed Akai Fuyu's handle in a reverse grip hidden inside my cloak. "Yeah I'm sure."

Yuno then sent out a wind blade at me. The blade of wind was pretty fast but it looked like it was moving at a snails pace to me. I unsheathed my blade and cut the wind blade perfectly making it cancel itself out. Then I launched myself at Yuno appearing next to him only a second later with Akai Fuyu's blade resting inches away from his throat.

The scene was quite as you could hear the breeze blow against the leaves on the trees. I backed the blade away from Yuno's neck and resheathed the blade. I looked up to see Yuno's shocked eyes as I heard Nash fall onto his butt behind us. "You shouldn't demand anything from anyone even if you think you have more power than them. I've met a lot of arrogant people throughout my life and I know that you aren't one, but that doesn't mean you don't have a large amount of pride."

I locked my eyes with Yuno's. "I didn't hurt the boy nor did I insult him. You can protect him all you like but by protecting him from everything will ultimately destroy him."

Yuno continued to stare into my eyes. "How so?"

"He looks down on others to ignore his own weakness. I saw it yesterday when he looked at Asta and I saw it just now when you threatened me with your power. It's gross and disgusting but I undersrand that he is just a kid so I blew it off, but his thinking is warped so there is now way in hell I would apologize to him and make it worse."

Yuno turned his gaze towards Nash and I also turned around to look at the boy. His but was on the ground while his hands were clenched into fists while snot and tears poured down his face. He let out a whimper as he mumbled out a few words that no one but he himself could hear.

Not putting up with the crappy response we were given I questioned. "What did you say?"

The boy looked up with defiance in bis tear filled eyes. "What do you know? Magic is everything, People with strong magic are stronger than everyone else and get to live better lives than everybody. While people like us are cast aside as if we're trash because we have less magic, less power. So why is it so wrong for me to do the same!"

I walked up to Nash and gave him a hard slap across his face. The slap echo'd off in the distance as his eyes grew wide in shock. "You're an idiot. Just because someone has more magic then you doesn't make you worth less than them. There are tons of ways for someone to grow stronger, some through their inteligence, some through their bodies, and others through their bonds with others. Those who grow complacent will eventually fall behind the idiot who didn't give up. So before you give up on yourself, let Asta or Yuno prove you wrong when one of them eventually change the way your kingdom works."

The boy started to cry while Yuno watched with an unreadable expression on his face. I walked by him and stopped in my tracks. "Oh and by the way I didn't use any mana or magic in that fight against Yuno there." I let that sink into their heads for a few seconds. "So it looks like I already helped to prove that mana doesn't mean everything."

I started to walk again while giving my goodbye. "Also I'm still not sorry. You really shouldn't call a girl ugly. Bye bye."

Later that evening dinner was a little weird. Asta was the same as ever all loud and choking on his food while everyone else were quite. Yuno was just silently eating his Tato's while Nash had a contemplative look on his face. There was still a red hand print left on his cheek from earlier this morning. Sister Lily tried to heal it but Nash refused to let her. And so the atmosphere during dinner was ackward to say the least.

After dinner we went upstairs to go to bed. I returned to the same corner of the room I slept in previousley and started to meditate. It was around two in the morning when I finished. Noticing the time and how everyone was still asleep I snuck out of the room and went outside.

There was a full moon out that night amd the sky was filled with stars. It was strange how I admired them and compared the night sky from my first life to my current lifes. On a good night in my previous life you were lucky if you could see a dozen or so stars out at night. The view was nothing compared to the hundreds if not thousands of little stars that lit up the sky I'm staring at right now.

Time passed by slowly as I stared at the night sky while sitting on the roof. My thoughts were blended together as I felt a calming feeling wash over my mind. And when I woke up from my peacefull stupor I found Yuno sitting next to me also gazing into the sky.

We remained quite, not saying a word to eachother as we continued to gaze into the ocean of stars. An hour or so passed by and I felt the warmth from my left side dissapear as Yuno got up and started to leave. Right before he jumped down off of the roof he said. "Thanks."

Later on that day I decided to go off into the woods to try and practice my magic. From what I gathered from Asta, the next magic knights exam would be in six months. So not having much to do until the exam I decided that I would learn how to use my magic and what my grimoire can do. I took my girmoire out and examined it for any clues that would help me figure out what sort of magic I can use.

The grimoire had a five pointed white star on the front along with blue wave patterns below it. 'The star was out of place though, wasn't there suposed to be a clover in it's place? Eh it doesn't matter it's not like i'll find out what it means by staring at it.' So next I opened the grimoir and started to flip through the pages. Every single page in the book was blank, which made sense as I still didn't know any spells yet.

'So I got nothing from the book. I mean I don't even understand how to learn magic spells. Do you have to learn them from someone else, or does it just appear randomly. I can't even train my magic like other wizards because my mana is pure and doesn't convert into any element.' I started to play with the book in my hand as I thought. 'And how do they even float in the air? Whenever Yuno or Sister Lily used a spell the book would just float there on it's own and open to the page with the spell they were casting was on?'

I tossed the grimoire up in the air to see if it would float but twelve seconds later the book hit the ground. 'Nope throwing it up in the air doesn't work.' I picked the grimoire off of the ground and dusted it off before I went back to brainstorming. 'What if I put mana into the book? I mean it's a magic book so maybe mana makes it work?'

I poured my mana into the book and the star on my grimoire started to light up. The waves on the cover seemed to look like they were actually moving as a bright white aura surrounded my grimoire. The book levitated out of my hand and snapped open flipping to a random page. The blank page then lit up as strange symbols I couldn't recognize filled the entire page. Once it was all said and done the book stayed open hovering an inch off away from my hand.

I didn't know what the spell could do or how to use it. Not knowing what else to do I tried to guide my mana into the grimoire once more only this time I concentrated on storing it on the spell page. A bright light flashed and I heard a loud poof. My surroundings were covered by a giant cloud of smoke making it so I couldn't see.

"Eh so my magic is smoke magic? Or would it technically be considred cloud magic?"

"Neither you dumb ass bitch!"

"Hey who are you calling a bitch!" I yelled out. A small ball of red light was approaching me as the fog was slowly starting to clear.

"I did. I don't know which is sadder the fact that you didn't reject being a dumb ass or that I actually lost to you." The fog finally cleared out and the figure of a chibi red bird was floating infront of me.

"Wait are you that phoenix that I fought? How are you not dead?" The red bird started to flap it's wings at a faster rate as it's face looked irritated.

"What do you mean "how are you not dead?" Did your brain go straight to your chest you dumb bimbo!"

"Well sorry if I don't get how magic works. Your right I should just go and look up why mythical creatures show up in a grimoire and how to make it where they're not an ass to you." I said sarcastically.

"Well I doubt you'll find that book their but maybe you should go to the library you could use it. If you were any dumber I'd have killed you ages ago."

I glared at the tiny red bird. "Actually if I was any dumber the white tiger would have killed me before meeting you. Plus you did try to kill me, you just failed."

"Yeah well whatever bitch! How the fuck does that fight even count you just bullshitted in that last attack!"

Well screw you too. I was minding my buisness and breaking through to the swordelder stage when you just popped up and attacked me."

"What was I supposed to do let you get stronger?"

"Preferabley yes."

"Well screw that! You were pretty much dead and then oops power up cheat. Cheater! Cheater! Cheater!"

"That's not even the worst part you did it again when you fought the stupid battle junkie dragon! How come you always cheat when your about to lose!"

Well in my defence I like to live by a certain family saying."

"Oh and what would that be?"

"Simple it's surpass your limits."

"What do you mean surpass your limits! Are you an idiot!? Limit means that's as far as you can go, there is no way to surpass something you can't do!"

"Well whatever you say you can't deny that it worked against you and that giant floating snake."

"So basically your family saying is to bullshit, and pull a power up out if your ass."

"Well when you put it that way then yes." I said cheerilly. The chibi phoenix started to peck at my face.

"Owowowow stop that! What do you even want!?"

"Fuck how do you still not understand? You summoned me here you idiot."

My eyes grew wide in shock. "How did I do that! Was it the spell from my book?"

"Yeah it was. Didn't you see that whenever you defeated one of us four mythical animals that we turned into mana particles."

Ah! Those small white lights you guys turned into!"

"Yeah those. To sum it up for an idiot like you basically whenever you beat a being with a strong soul they are bounded to you and are linked to your soul."

So that's why some Yokai turned into white lights while others didn't."

"Yeah pretty much. And now thanks to the fact that you have a grimoire you can harness and use our power to aid you."

"And umm how do I harness that exactly?"

The phoenix became irritated at me again. "How the hell am I supposed to know!? Magic grows and changes with the user. So unless you grow as a person you wont have any new spells to use."

"Okay then do you mind explaining to me how this spell works then?"

"How useless are you? Whatever the spell you have now can summon us into the physical realm. Right now you suck at the spell which shows as my form is that if a small bird."

"Interesting. Can I summon more than one spirit at once?" I asked the chibi phoenix.

"I don't know why?"

Hehe do you happen to want to help me get revenge on a stupid floating snake." The chibi phoenixs's eyes grew sharp and it's beak raised into a smile.

"I think it looks like we'll actually get along pretty well." I nodded my head and while I poured atleast twice the amount of mana I used to summon the Chibi phoenix to summon the Azure Dragon. Another puff of smoke appeared but this time it was much smaller. A figure started to dash away immidiatlly after it was summoned.

But the chibi phoenix was prepared for this as it clearly grabbed the Chibi Dragon by it's neck using it's talons.

"Where do you think you're going pal." The phoenix said in a demeaning tone.

I also walked up to the small dragon woth a pleasent smile on my face as I was cracking my knuckles. "Oh Azure-kun it's been forever, like what a year since the last time I saw you. The gift you left me was so pleasent that both Phoenix and I felt that you should experiance it as well."

The small dragon started to shiver in place. "Ca-can't you take a joke?"

I looked over at the Phoenix while it stared right back at me and we both smiled at the same time. "No!/No!"

We then proceeded to beat the lousy dragon for awhile. The phoenix burnt him a bit while I just kept punching him untill my anger wore off. When we were done my mana reserves were almost completely empty. The tiny beat up Azure dragon was unsummoned due to the fact that I couldn't support the mana cost, while the Phoenix was starting to faze out. But before it left it dropped a bomb on me.

"Oh and just so you know due to the fact that you were the first person other than gold jiji to beat me you are now this emproress's bride."

And then poof she was gone. I didn't feel like thinking about it as the it had been a long day and I needed something to eat. So I called it a day and headed back to the church and made it there just in time for dinner. We had Tatoes fir dinner once again, and they are still pretty dry and tasteless. But suprisingly they fill you up nicely so it was better than staying hungry.

Halfway through the meal Asta asked me a question that made me feel like an idiot.

"Hey uhh I've been meaning to ask you but it slipped my mind due to training and all. Can you tell us your name?"

Pfffff* "Ehehehe. Sorry now that I think about it I really didn't give you my name. My name's Yama."

Everyones eyes grew slightly larger and Alulu and Rekka looked confused. "That's a weird name." Rekka said out loud.

Sistler Lily leaned over and pinched Rekka's ear. "Rekka-chan that's a rude thing to say about a person now say your sorry."

Rekka's head dropped. "I'm sorry for calling your name weird Yama."

I laughed and waved it off. "It's all right it's not a name from the clover kingdom anyways."

Asta jumped up and was super loud. "Ph yeah Yama you said you weren't from the Clover kingdom!"

I nodded my head. "Yep that's right I'm from a certain island country very far from here."

"Is that why you wear a cloak?" Yuno asked calmly.

I shook my head. "No I just don't like stares so I feel more comfortable wearing it nowadays."

Yuno and Sister Lily nodded their heads while Asta tilted his head in confusion. "Why would they stare?"

I took a minute to think of a way ti explain it to Asta. "Asta what if I said that I looked exactly like Sister Lily."

"WHAT YOU DO!!!" Asta shouted getting in my face. His nose was only mere inches away from mine. I reached my arm out and pushed him back a bit.

"Too close. And no it isn't. What I wanted to say was what if Sister Lily walked around and people gave her inappropiate looks."

Asta flexed his muscles at me. "I'd beat them up of course!"

I laughed at that. "Yeah I bet you would. Anyways the whole point is that I don't have to deal with that if they don't see my face in the first place."

Asta frowned. "But that's not fair to you."

I played with the Tatoe on my fork. "Yeah I guess it really isn't. I'll try to get over it eventually."

Asta nodded his head and bumped his hand on his chest. "Alright! If anyone tries to mess with you Yama I'll take carenof them."

I let out a small giggle. "Hehe thanks Asta I'll leave it up to you." After dinner we cleaned up and went to bed to end the day.

The next five months I spent there were filled with a lot of sweat and fun. The first month I practiced summoning all of the creatures linked to my soul. The Tengu I defeated was one of those creatures. He looked all cute in his chibi form as he kept his staff and wore a doll size blue yukata.

It turns out that I had to name the spirits connected to me as well. So I named the Tengu 'Kage' because apparently he uses shadow magic. I also gave names out to the chibi Kyuubi, Kapaa, and Kirin. I named the Kyuubi Sakkaku, the Kapaa Mizumi, and the Kirin Sanda. They all liked the names well enough. On the other hand I couldn't think of any good names for the four mythical creatures so I left that alone for now.

On the second month I focused on trying to summon the creatures while they remain in their original size. It was extremely tough but in the end I can do it now. Well not really but sorta. The mythical creatures I can summon them at full size for only around a minute before I run out of mana while the lesser creatures can last for five minutes.

On the third and fourth month of training I focused on fighting with and against my summons. It was neat how each one of my summons used differrent kinds of magic and that they could use them to support me in various ways. The fights were either one on one rematches against me or tag team battles. For the battles I had to make sure I was far enough away from Hage village so that I wouldn't attract any attention. Also when we had tag team matches my summons were all in their chibi forms.

And finally on the fifth and final month I just relaxed and played with Rekka, Nash, Alulu, and Hollo. Alulu and Hollo were cute, and were easily entertained with simple games like hide and seek, patty cake, and tick tack toe. Rekka was a pretty chill girl herself as she was the oldest of the bunch. She had fun telling me all the gossip in hage and her interests.

Finally Nash has grown more humble and well confident in himself after that one time. Lately he's been diligently training his magic and body more. The other day he apologized for calling me ugly and I forgave him. As a reward for him apologizing to me I carved him out a chess board with their own matching pieces. I made the board out of dark oak and balsa wood along with the pieces.

He picked up the game pretty fast and you can see him playing it if he isn't helping out his siblings or practicing magic. I told him when I first taught him the game that the game is a great way to train your mind how to stratigize properley when you find yourself in different scenarios. He thanked me for the game and I could tell he really cherishes the gift.

Anyways tomorrow is the day that Yuno, Asta, and I set off to the capital to take the Magic Knight exam.

AU: I was surprised to see that a lot of people actually liked the story so far. And that made me release this chapter a little earlier than I was planning to. I wanted to try and make each chapter around 10k words long each but I think at minamum I'll make them 5k long.

Also if you were surprised at how dirty the Phoenix's mouth was so was I. When I wrote the scene where Yama asked if it was cloud or smoke magic, my fingers juat naturally typed it out. I then looked back and realized that the Phoenix never actaully said anything before in the previous chapter. So I liked the thought of imagening the Phoenix go all 'Shit, Fuck, that's Bullshit before fading away.'

Naming Ideas:

What should I name the four Mythical beasts. Originally I wanted to give them all dragon ball names like naming the turtle Roshi and the dragon Shenron. But then I thought what will I name the white tiger or Phoenix. Should I name the white tiger Yamcha?... No that is a fate worse than death. So in the end I decided to see if the readers have any good names. So leave a comment behind for any suggestion on what you think would be good names for them.

Thank you for reading.