Chapter 2

The trip to her apartment was peaceful compared to her day job. It was the usual honking angry citizens on the road. Rena had her music blaring from the radio while she tapped her fingers to the rhythm and nodded her head to the bass.

As she pulled into her driveway she looked up briefly to push her visor up, just when she trailed her eyes back to the front she let out a death shriek as she slammed on her brakes when a round pale face with green short hair that had a spike at the crown of its head and pointed ears that peeked from its hair, and lime green eyebrows and eyes that looked back at her. A white sucker handle moved to the left of its crooked smile, and its eyes closed as a pale hand with black nails waved bye to her. Rena sat stiff in her chair as she tried to recollect herself. "What the heck was that?" A laugh followed her question; she blinked her eyes as she slowly turned her head to the left. A small green bubble with wide eyes and a red clown nose looked at her, its club-claw hands waved at her. 'Noooooo!' Rena yelled in her head as she recognized the hobgoblin. "The hell are you doing here!"

The hobgoblin's smile vanished as its eyes grew big and it disappeared the instant it appeared, a flash of silver glimmered, "Shhhh. She doesn't have to know." Laughter rang out from the hobgoblin and some other being.

Rena pinched herself to get out of her daze, she took a deep breath, "Aright little goblin and friend!" She turned her body to the left and pointed a finger at the air, "you may have fooled me once shame on you, twice, shame on me, but a third time," she held up three fingers, " I will kick your butt so hard," Rena balled her right fist and hit it hard into her left palm, "that your parents will feel it! Show your self!" Rena armed her fists with a thin invisible layer of her special power. "Trust me, you don't want me to bring ya out."

The same face appeared followed by its body: A maroon trench coat with buttons on the upper right and left of its chest, it wore a forest green long sleeve that covered its hand only to have its pale fingers and long black claws peeking out, inside the coat a casual vertical striped pink and purple dress shirt was underneath a buttoned up white vest and a two-tone yellow tie hung loosely down the center of its chest. Its shorts then appeared with a loose small yellow diamond scattered pattern on a maroon backdrop, the same forest green tights showed as its feet finally appeared with elf like boots with white shoelaces and a skull on the front of its shoes. The hobgoblin from earlier poofed in and landed itself on its masters lap like a well-trained puppy. Rena held her fists at bay as she looked at the being from head to toe, 'Elf shoes? And green tights?' Rena unconsciously gave a smirk at the thought as her hands fell to her knees, 'elf shoes and tights….' Rena let loose as she laughed out loud.

The said being cocked its head to the left and scratched its head. Rena continued to laugh when she saw the creature's reaction. The being took out the white sucker handle from its mouth and flicked it to the floor and pulled out a piece of grape candy and popped it into its mouth. Rena looked up to see what the creature was doing, the creature lowered its head to her level and looked into her pale grey eyes, "what's so funny human girl?"

Rena cleared her throat to answer, "well this and your shoes and tights." She chuckled as she leaned back and rested her back on the door.

"I see. You think my shoes," The creature sat up straight, "and my tights are funny." He's eyelids slanted down, and the hobgoblin whimpered. It looked to Rena and shook its head as it dropped to the car floor. "My shoes and tights…" The creature let go of the chain that was tied to the hobgoblin.

Rena now caught off guard, shook her head and armed her self, "well you're no elf and you're definitely not Santa's helper. So yeah, it's funny."

It scowled as it started to growl and raised its fist, and Rena readied herself. 'Geez this guy or whatever can't take a joke.', She thought as its fist collided with her palm. Her palm sizzled as smoke rose from their hands. The thing brought its hand back and its eyes grew wide as it saw the smoke and Rena's power. "You're no ordinary girl are you," It said as it threw another punch at Rena, this time aiming for her chest.

Rena crossed her arms and raised a shield with her energy, "Well duh!" She threw the things fist back to itself. "I'm not one to toy with!" She smiled.

"Hmmm." The thing smiled, "My goblins were right. You are fun." The hobgoblin looked up from the floor and nodded." Rena glanced down, 'Right. The goblin.' Rena thought as she sighed. "What's the matter?" The thing asked as it exited the car, "you don't wanna play anymore?" It cracked its knuckles.

Rena got out of her car and looked at the streak marks she left up her driveway. "Ya know you're going to have to scrub that off the pavement." Rena smirked as she turned to her house. The thing jumped up and floated over the car. Rena turned around to see the thing land on the ground. "You," she pointed to the creature, "wash that off." Rena continued to her house, the being shrugged off the chore and teleported in front of Rena, "You're not my ani-san." It stood in its spot and poked her chest and smiled again. Rena forced a grin, "Look elf-boy, it's your," Rena flicked the being's ear, "fault that those streaks are there, so. . . " Rena snapped her fingers and a bucket with a big scrubbing brush appeared, "you wash…. or else." Her hands crackled with power as she shoved the items to the creature's chest. It looked at the items, grabbed them and dropped them, "No."

"Fine." Rena walked pass the thing and to her front door, "go away." Rena drew a sutra on her door and placed her hand on the symbol, the door lit up and soon the house glimmered as her energy covered the exterior of the apartment. Looking back to her tormenter, "Try to come in and you'll be fried like a bacon in a skillet." Rena entered her house.

"A protective barrier with her own spiritual energy, and no papers." A guy dressed in a white suit, with knee high brown boots that curled at the tip, at his neck he wore a scarf with white polka dots with a pink background, his purple-blue-ish hair fell to his pointed ears and curled up in the back, holding his chin with his purple gloved hand, he chuckled, "My, My. My dear Amaimon looks like you have your hands full if you wish to tease this girl any further."

"Huuh? Ani-san, she's fun to tease, and I'm bored. Little brother Rin doesn't want to play anymore. And my goblins seem to enjoy her." The goblin at Amaimon's feet nodded.

"I see. Just be careful. You don't want to play with fire, dear little brother." The taller guy patted the shorter one.

"Eh? Do you know something about her, ani-san?"

"Eh." The other shrugged his shoulders and disappeared.

"Be careful huh." Amaimon walked to the door, he grabbed the doorknob only to grimace as smoke emitted from his grasp. The energy became more concentrated as it reddens. The smoke grew and Amaimon took off his hand, his skin had charred where he touched the doorknob, "don't play with fire is what they say." His mouth stretched into a wide grin.

Rena shuddered in her chair, 'stupid demons.'