I haven't updated in a while. A bit of advice, DON'T TAKE ON THREE ONGOING FICS AT THE SAME TIME!!! By the way, if anyone has trouble with history, there's a fun little SnS analogy in this chapter. Enjoy!

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The phone rang, and Sydonay rushed to answer it. He picked it up, and Hecate's stomach twisted sickeningly. "Ah, my lovable goblet, Margery Daw," he cooed into the phone. His face suddenly turned red. "Oh, to whom did you wish to speak?" Pause. "Yes, she's right here." He covered the bottom end of the phone. "Some Keisaku Satou wants to speak to you, Hecate." Hecate blushed a shade of bright crimson and nodded, taking the phone from Sydonay.

"H-Hello?" she stuttered.

"Hi…" Satou greeted curtly.

"Hi, Satou-kun!" Pause.

"Right. Anyway, you're insanely old, right?"

"Um… what?" She heard Satou sigh on the other line.

"I'm failing history. Ike has officially given up on me, and Sakai, Shana, and Yoshida all 'suggested' that I ask you. So… can you tutor me or something?"

"Um… sure!" Hecate's face was red as a tomato. "Did you want to do this at my place, or your place, or—"

"How about the library after school tomorrow?"

"Sounds good!"

"Thanks Hecate. I can't believe I'm saying this, but you're a lifesaver! See you tomorrow!"

"B-Bye Satou-kun." After she hung up, Hecate uncharacteristically smiled. If this is how human emotion felt, it sure felt good. And she owed it all to the faux vessel, Konoe Fumina.

The next day…

"Satou," Ike said in between bites during lunch, "didn't you want me to tutor you in history or something?"

"That's not necessary," Satou replied. "Hecate's tutoring me." Ike's eyes widened.

"Hecate?" Satou smirked as he put his arm around Hecate and pulled her close to him, causing her face to turn red as a tomato.

"Yup. She's a natural when it comes to history." Ike cocked an eyebrow.

"Really?"

"Um…" Hecate mumbled. "Yeah… I really like history… so… yeah…" Ike's eyes narrowed into slits.

"So you're tutoring Satou." Hecate smiled sheepishly and nodded. "This means war." Hecate gulped, and Yuji laughed nervously.

"You don't really mean that, do you Ike?" he asked. Ike glared at Hecate, causing her to shudder.

"Yes I do," he replied dangerously.

"Ike-kun, you aren't jealous, are you?" Kazumi asked.

"Jealous of Hecate, of all people?" Shana added, smirking. "How embarrassing." Her eyes flickered towards Hecate. "Jealousy is never a good emotion to have. Right Kazumi?"

"Right!" Ogata burst out laughing, but she turned it into a coughing fit when Shana stomped on her foot.

After school…

"The Magna Carta," Hecate started, hoping Satou would finish her sentence.

"Gave people their rights or something like that," Satou finished. Hecate slammed the history textbook down on the table.

"No! That's wrong!" She groaned in exasperation and dropped her head down into the book. "The Magna Carta is the document that limited the king's power!" They sat in silence for a few minutes as Hecate tried to figure out a way to explain this to him. "Magna Carta… MC… You know that MC stands for Master of Ceremonies, right?"

"Right…"

"Well… I'm Master Throne Hecate, but there's no possible way I can work alone, because I'd be dead a hundred times over without Sydonay and Bel Peol." Satou threw her a puzzled look, and she tried a different example. "Ok. Here's a different example. Let's pretend Alastor is the king and Shana-chan is the Parliament. Shana-chan cut Alastor's power because he can only function through her. Likewise, the only way Shana-chan can function is through Alastor."

"Oh! I get it now!" Hecate smiled, already coming up with different examples.

In some random store…

Ike glared at the screen in front of him. His glasses slipped down his nose, but he didn't bother to push them back up. He was too absorbed in his game. Suddenly, his little sprite thing died, and he reached into his pocket, only to find out that it was empty. He stood up, but just as he did so, someone grabbed his shoulder. He whirled around, only to see a strangely beautiful woman with one golden eye, an eye patch where her other eye should be, one large eye on her forehead, and long violet hair. For some odd reason, she made Ike's eye twitch. "Excuse me, little human boy," she said softly, her voice velvety smooth. "I hear there's something in this store called 'music'. Can you direct me to its location?" Ike pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose.

"Well…" he started, not exactly sure what he was supposed to say. "Did you want that in a CD?"

"CD?" she repeated.

"Compact disk." The strange woman nodded slowly. "It's—" Just that moment, a bell chimed as the door to the store opened, and Yuji entered. Ike waved, and the woman glared at him. Yuji waved back at them.

"Hi Ike!" he greeted. "I thought you had cram school or something!"

"Canceled," Ike replied smoothly, smirking.

"I see you've met Hecate's Aunt Bel Peol." Yuji leaned in closer to Ike and whispered, "She's from out of town, so don't mind her." Unfortunately for him, Bel Peol heard him, and she lifted him by his shirt and throttled him.

"What did you say, Mystes?!?!" she screeched, causing several other customers to stare.

"Um…" Yuji mumbled.

"This is all new to me, ok?!" Then…

"Miss… Bel Peol, is it?" a man asked from behind her, tapping her on the shoulder.

"Yes, what do you want?" she asked rudely. A wide grin spread across the man's face.

"I'm afraid we have to ask you to leave," he said pleasantly. Bel Peol's eyes narrowed into slits.

"What?"

"You're causing quite a ruckus, and you're scaring all our customers." Bel Peol glared at the puny man, and he laughed nervously.

Later that day…

"Hi, Bel Peol!" Sydonay greeted her as soon as she entered the apartment.

"Hi," she replied stiffly, her face still twisted into a glare.

"So," came Hecate's monotone from the couch. "What's this about you beating the crap out of the manager of the media store?"

"Um…"

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I'm thinking of adding random segments like the one about Bel Peol beating up the manager at the end of each chapter. Anyway, HELP ME!! I'M RUNNING OUT OF IDEAS!! So give me some ideas in your review!