Hi! Here is my second chapter! Though I do have to worn you I did make this one very boring
so if you would please put up with this because it is an explanation of magic on Earth. if
you don't want to just read the ending.

Magic on Earth is kind of a mixture of Pagen(?), eastern, and some Native American. I kind
of squashed it all together.

Well please enjoy.

Chapter 2
As Lina began to explain their world, Karen began to feel slightly out of sorts with the world.
Everything was so different from home that this world could have been its exact opposite, magically
speaking of course.
It's like Earth is the strict younger sibling or something, Karen thought as she took notes
furiously. We would never be able to travel the astral plains unless we wanted to die.
Lina stopped in her head long pace to allow Karen to catch up with her. "How are you
understanding things so far?" Lina asked, truly curious on how the young magic user was doing with so
much new information.
Karen looked up after a moment of frivolous scribbling and smiled. "Fine I guess," Karen
answered. "Though it is a bit over whelming for me. I think because you all known things that our people
have known, but not been able to do, makes things a bit easier."
Zelgadis looked a bit confused. "Like what?"
Karen looked at the Chimera and smiled. Who would have thought that a guy like that could be so
self-conscious about his looks. "Well like Shamanism, you are able to travel in the astral plains when we of
Earth are not allowed on punishment of death."
Amelia, Philia, and Silphiel all choked and stared at her.
Lina just yelled, "WHAT!?"
When the ringing in Karen's ears stopped she smiled at the others, to find only Xellos smiling
back at her. Fruitcake. "I said it is on punishment of death and I meant it. Lina-san you have to understand
that my world is very suppressed compared to here. There are eight different magic's that my people can
use but we can not use four of them on fear of being killed. That's the reason for my caution on using my
powers."
"So what can you do?" Silphiel asked quietly, so as to not wake the sleeping Goury.
Karen thought for a second as she put her paper and pencil down. "Well we can only use five out
of the eight magic's that we have identified on Earth. And even then only one of them to their fullest
extent."
"Which one?" Amelia questioned Karen as Zelgadis got up and moved forward more so he could
hear her.
"Fire magic of course," Karen said with a small smile. "That is why I used it instead of any of
the others. Fire is the only one you can use defensively, and offensively, in both the passive and active manner.
Water and wind are two that you can use only defensively, in both the passive, and active. Earth must only
be used in passive defense."
Lina shook her head in wonder. "How do you survive?"
"Easy, there aren't as many creatures that we have to defend against," Karen said. "And those we
do have to defend against are in other dimensions or they can't be defeated by magic. Like the beings
called Shadow Men. You can't actually defend against them, nor will magic work on them. The only way
to defeat them is to cut their name out from the Rune Stave."
"'Cut their name out from the rune stave'? What do you mean by that?" Philia asked.
"Shadow Men are not born, but they do have a beginning, that beginning is when someone writes
their name on a Rune Stave. A Rune Stave is a very powerful relic on my world. The only reason why
Shadow Men aren't that big of a thing to me is that I stole the Stave through a Game that we were playing."
"Game?" Xellos seemed interested in that.
Well no wonder, he is the stinking Trickster Priest of the Mazoku. Gee I wonder why he's
interested. Karen nodded to Xellos with a wicked look in her eye, "You would like them Trickster Priest.
They play games with mortals to win bets. My Game was a chase game where I had to run from
the Shadow Men as they threw my worst nightmares in my face. In the end though, I had the upper hand."
"They sound like Mazoku in the worst of ways," Philia said in a shocked horror.
"Even worse," Karen said looking at everyone. "When they are young, they look like they are
gods, but as they age they begin to look as ugly as their hearts. Some of them have pieces of animals for
body parts, and some of them have parts that can't be described as even normal."
"In short they are ugly as sin?" Lina stated in a bored tone though her eyes were glittering with
interest.
Karen nodded her head. "They are useful when you want to punish someone for a crime that they
committed. I remember that I had to call on them once to torture a killer."
"Karen-san!" Amelia gasped in shock. "How could you?!"
Philia and Silphiel both stared at her in total shock and horror.
"Easy," Karen said with a sigh. "The guy was the one to kill my parents. He deserves all the pain
he is receiving from the Shadow Men."
"'He is receiving'?" Xellos asked in curiosity. "Does this mean he is still alive?"
The others looked sick, and looked apprehensively at Karen.
"Maybe," she said shortly. "I do know they like to play around with their food before they kill it
finally."
"'Their food?'" Silphiel gasped out.
Karen nodded. "They are most remarkable little buggers in existence, except for maybe Mazoku."
Karen looked at Xellos. "You guys are for more resilient to things than the Shadow Men. They get affected
by the weirdest of things and can be driven insane by them."
"And who said he was sane?" Lina stated with a raised eyebrow.
"He is far saner than the Shadow Men that I know," Karen said with a strait face. "Those guys
are just right down crazy."
Most of the people listening to her shivered, because if Karen thought that Xellos was sane in
anyway, that meant that these "Shadow Men" were truly scary.
"Karen-san?" Amelia asked in a hesitant tone as the silence became too much. "Why do you say
'God, and Guardians'?"
Karen chuckled and blushed slightly. "Oh that? Well God is just out of my own repetitive nature
and Guardians. . ." She stopped and tried to think of a way to describe the Guardians. "Well see
because there are four different magic's that we use on Earth, with exception to the newest one. That is
the same number as the main compass points, right?" Everyone nodded in response. "Well there are Guardians
that guard the gates of the four corners and the four elements. There is Lord Suzaku of the South, Guardian of
the gates of fire. He's a very big fire bird. Next, to the north, would be Lord Genbu, Guardian of the gates
of Earth, and he is a huge turtle. Then to the east would be Lord Byakko, Guardian of the gates of wind. He
is a beautiful tiger. Last, but not least, is the dragon lord, Lord Seriyyu of the West, and Guardian of the
gates of water." She smiled at them. "Those four are the ones that give us the ability to be witches."
"Witches? You mean that you all are females?" Zelgadis asked in his usual quiet tone.
Karen rocked her hand back and forth in a motion that said "some what." "Most of the magic users
on Earth are female so to generalize I say witches."
"You said that they are the ones to give you your abilities. What did you mean by that?" Philia
asked with a confused look on her face. "And why did you say 'dragon lord' when you told us that you did
not have dragons on your world?"
Karen sighed. "What I meant by 'dragon' is the Western dragon, which is what you are, are not on
my world. Lord Seriyyu is an Eastern dragon. He is less like a lizard and a lot like a snake with stubby
legs. He can also fly without wings."
"'Snake with stubby legs'?" Lina repeated with a laugh.
Karen nodded. "See he is very touchy on several different areas and I like pushing them all."
"You don't revere him, like any who follow in the side of goodness and love?" Amelia asked.
Karen snorted in contempt. "The day I revere Lord Seriyyu is the day Hell, and everything else
in it, freezes over."
"So what about your powers?" Amelia pressed, trying not to look to surprised.
"Oh! That is easy to explain!" Karen said with a laugh. "The day you are born you have what is
called a 'pre-disposition.' That means that your abilities that you are aloud to do, at birth. Like myself
for example, I had all eight magic's."
"Hold it!" Lina said in an authoritative tone. "Eight? You only told us about four."
"That is because three of the eight are forbidden, and the last one is the most difficult for those
of us who are connected to the Guardians," Karen said with a brilliant smile on her face.
"What good is it to be born with the ability if you can't use it?" Lina rampaged on.
Karen shrugged. "Don't ask me. I just do as I am told." Karen re-shifted herself on the ground.
"Anyways, one of the four lords will come to you when ever they think you are ready and release the gate on
your abilities."
"I thought they were of only one Element?" Silphiel asked quietly.
"They are!" Karen assured her quickly. "I am just talking about the most common event of this type."
"Most common?" Xellos asked from somewhere.
Karen looked about for him but could not see him. She shrugged and nodded. "See the most
common of all is to have just one element in use. I am one of three in, my entire world, to have all four
of the Elements and the only one of those to be able to use the last type of magic."
"What is that last type?" Zelgadis asked.
"Well WE, of Earth I mean, call it Primal Magic, because it is used in the most primal of ways,"
Karen said. "Such as, and I am just giving an example here, calling for a favor from a superior."
"Like the Shadow Men?" Lina asked.
Karen nodded. "Exactly."
Philia frowned a bit. "You said there were eight types of magic on your world what are the other
three?"
Karen chuckled, "You mean the three that I wish I could use but are not aloud?"
Philia nodded.
"I don't see how there could be so many types," Amelia complained.
Karen just shrugged her shoulders. "I don't make the rules. I just follow them," she smirked, "with
as much bending of them to flare a few tempers and keep the guardians on their toes." She smiled wickedly
and chuckled. "Well to answer your question Philia there are Light, Dark, and Spirit Magic's. Light and
Dark are at total opposite ends of the spectrum that the Guardians band in from use of us mortals. Spirit
Magic is the only one with an exemption rule. That is because when the Guardians were making the rules
there was one group of humans whom had set up there own set of rules to keep this magic from getting out
of control. They are called Shamans."
"So you have Shamans as well?" Silphiel asked in interest.
"Sure but they have just as strict rules as we do," Karen stated in a matter of fact tone. "Their
power allows them to pull the spirits right out of the bodies of some of their enemies if they didn't
have the rules."
Everyone stared in horror at the girl in black.
Karen looked back at everyone with a critical eye. "You know what?"
"What?" Zelgadis asked trying to hold off the darkness that wanted to bring him into sleep.
The others were no better, except of course Karen.
"I think we all need to go to bed and we can talk some more in the morning," Karen said with a
soft smile.
The group nodded, especially Lina.
"I think you're right," Lina said with a small yawn hidden behind her hand.
Karen began to get up and collect her things, until she noticed her note book was missing. "Hey
you guys? Have you seen my note book? I could have sworn I put it right next to me."
Lina and the others looked at her and tried to recall what the note book was.
"Oh that thing that you were taking notes in!" Amelia said excitedly.
Karen nodded as she looked about where she sat.
The others looked about for a while to no avail.
"I think I must have gotten blown away," Philia said tiredly.
Karen shook her head in total denial. Then a thought popped into her head, exactly like
lightening had struck her. "Oh Xellos dear?" she called so sweetly that the others in the group
shuddered, even Amelia. "Xellos dear? Where are you?"
Out of no where Xellos appear looking as innocent as a spring morning. (In which the rest of
us know he is defiantly not, but we will just pretend.)
"Incendium Razzo!" called Karen and Xellos went up in a ball of fire.
Karen ran over to where he lay and collected her un-scorched note book. "HA! You Nothus Baka!
Caught you red handed as the saying goes!"
"Karen how did you know it was Xellos?" Lina asked.
"He disappeared soon after I put my note book down, and he's been trying to read it over my
shoulder the entire time I was writing in it," Karen said in an exasperated tone.
Philia was laughing quietly behind her hand as Xellos picked himself off the ground.
"I do have to say that there is some power behind your spells Karen-san," Xellos complimented.
"Why thank you Fruitcake! I knew you would survive it so that is why I use a fairly simple spell
on you."
"How did your note book survive?" Amelia asked in curiosity as everyone got ready for a good
nights rest.
"I spelled it so if a fire was ever started, it would never catch fire," Karen said taking out a large
black cloak and wrapping it around her before settling down for the night. She chose to sleep with her
back up against one of the fallen trees, and her bag in her lap, under the cloak.
"Good night everyone," Amelia said tiredly.
Everyone answered in their own way as they too settled in for the night.
"Zel?" Lina whispered softly before everyone was completely asleep.
"What?"
"What do you want to bet Karen won't get any sleep like she is?" she whispered.
"Then you have already lost your bet Lina," Zel said back.
Lina looked over at the young girl (Okay I know Karen is older that Lina but this is for sake of the
story.) and there under the cover of the cloak she could see the even breaths of someone who was asleep.
She chuckled. "That girl is amazing."
Zel snorted. "You just figured that out Lina?"
Lina grumbled as she turned over and went to sleep.