CHAPTER 4: Let those pranks in the Magicians' Gill commence

In Chapter 3, Kitty and Miyuki successfully killed the Ichanis due to their cleverness and luck, and coincidentally, High Lord Akkarin of the Magicians' Guild found out about it. What would he do to them? What misconception would he have about them? Would this Ichani wipeout change Kitty and Miyuki's lives forever? Why not read on to find out? And oh yes, prepare to laugh till you cry!

"Tell me, how did you kill the Ichanis?" The High Lord's scary eyes bored onto them. "I spent years trying to kill the Ichanis and the two of you killed them so effortlessly that I didn't even detect any use of strong magic!"

"Um…" Miyuki stammered. "What Ic… Ice kacang?"

Kitty interrupted, proudly announcing, "We use MAGIC! We are so powerful that we killed them with magic! That'll show the Magicians' Fish Gill for being so arrogant!'

The High Lord's eyes widened and he scanned Kitty and Miyuki in great detail, as though they were samples from a museum.

'Where do you come from? Did you know the Guild do not allow rogue magicians to exist outside of its control? Who is your teacher and why are you here?"

Miyuki blinked. "Huh? What are you talking about? I don't know. I woke up on bed this morning and found myself in this dirty fish gill. We don't have any teachers. We train ourselves."

"Ah, a natural." There was a faint smile. "Show me what you can do. This is rare you know."

Kitty took out her mobile phone which was switched on. There was a light from it, shining brightly.

"See! Magic!" Kitty exclaimed. Then, in a softer voice, she mumbled, "Hopefully, they have no idea what is technology."

A look of surprise crossed the High Lord's face before he commended, "That's a very strong globe light." Then he reached a hand out to them. "Can I test your magic potential?'

"NO!" They yelled at the same time. "Don't molest us! We don't even know who the hell are you. You suddenly popped out from nowhere in this horrifying black robes."

"I am High Lord Akkarin, from the Magicians' Guild. Look, the two of you may not understand how powerful the Ichanis are but —"

Miyuki laughed her trademark laugh. "You are a magician? Show us some tricks, like pull a rabbit out of your hat. Or robes. Whatever lah!"

"Why is your name so weird?" Kitty asked. "Ah Curry?"

The High Lord sighed and repeated, "Let me test your magical potential…" He held out his arm once more towards Miyuki and kitty.

"MOLEST!" Kitty shrieked.

Miyuki, without thinking, smacked the High lord's outstretched arm with her palm.

A menacing look of fury washed across the High Lord's face then. He roared out, "No one has ever tried to hurt me physically before except the Ichani! And my own mother who smacks my ass when I'm a baby!"

Kitty and Miyuki sensed that something was not right and their instincts told them to back away…

As they edged away from the black-robed figure, Miyuki nudged Kitty. "Kitty, when I count to 3, both of us takes out our hand phones and blind him with the flashlight, okay? If that is not enough, we take out our water bottle and splash water at him." She whispered. Kitty nodded rigidly as she trembled in fear. "And then, we would run away before he tries to injure us or something," Miyuki added on.

The High Lord's expression unexpectedly softened at this moment. He tried to explain to them in a smooth voice now, "I apologise for that outburst. But it is my duty to test how strong the two of your magic are. You see, the Ichanis are really powerful and I myself couldn't kill them. Since you two helped to do the world a huge favour even though you do not understand the danger, I wish to give you a place in the Magician's Guild. But you must tell no one about the Ichanis. Only 9 Ichanis have been killed. There's still Kariko and a few others."

Both of them let out a gasp of shock when he mentioned "Magicians' Guild." Kitty screamed out, "I don't want to end up in the Magicians' Gill! Are the magicians a fish or something? Why do they have gill? Are you sure you are not a terrorist?"

Miyuki nodded too and her instinct made her turn in the other direction and dash away from the perverted magician who want to send her to that horrible place. "As if I had wanted all this to happen! Blame it on the bookshop assistant who sold us those cursed books!" Miyuki murmured as she ran for her life while cursing the bookshop assistant. Kitty followed suit behind her.

Both of them skidded to a halt as they encountered something invisible blocking their path. Kitty tried to get through but let out a surprised cry as the invisible blockage stung her and pushed her back.

Before Kitty and Miyuki could understand all that was happening, somebody from behind gripped their arms forcefully and they spun back, bracing for the worst. Sure enough, that "somebody" was the High Lord.

"Follow me back to the Guild now. At there I would test your magical potential," He told the two of them in a cold voice before dragging them down the streets. "And don't attempt to try out any magic from now on. The two of you had not mastered Control yet and your magic might endanger yourselves and others," He continued.

Kitty was trying desperately to struggle out of his strong grip then while Miyuki turned to the High Lord and snapped, "What crap are you talking about? You control your own sexual desires first! You better let us go now or I would punch you in your face!"

Their attempts were of course useless. The High Lord tightened his grip on them as they twisted and turned through numerous corners.

Kitty began to whimper and ignoring the curious stares the slum dwellers were casting on them, she shouted out, "I don't want to be an ingredient in his curry!"

Miyuki, whereas, was trying to spit on the golden incal on the High Lord's black robes out of anger, and also in an attempt to escape by distracting the High Lord.

But all their efforts were useless. As they stepped through a gate and the High Lord introduced to them, "This is the Guild", they knew that all hopes were lost. The gigantic buildings loomed before them, as if wanting to swallow them up.

As they passed a garden, Kitty stopped weeping and instead began to examine the surrounding in curiosity before remarking, "So this is the Guild after all. Well, I finally got a glimpse of how the Guild is like."

Miyuki snorted in disgust and replied, "The Guild is so ugly. My toilet is a thousand times better than this!" She then heard the High Lord, who had all the while been quiet, mumbled an "Arrogant" under his voice.

The High Lord led them towards the direction of a grey stone building. Along the way, lots of people in robes who passed them stopped and bowed. "Wow, they are bowing towards us ah!" Miyuki cried out in amazement. Kitty let out a triumphant "Oh really? I wonder why everyone is in bathing robes. Ah, but I'm so honored people are bowing to me. I must look more handsome than the High Lord."

They heard the High Lord mumble something in disgust at that.

Kitty was observing the robed figures now, apparently interested. "They are all either dressed in brown, red, purple or green," She pointed out, her eyes widening.

The High Lord answered then, "Very observant of you. They are—"

"I know I know!" kitty interrupted. "Purple for international gay, brown for mud, red for sexual purposes and green for... Frogs?"

Miyuki let out her trademark laugh at the Kitty's reply. "Are you crazy? I bet those robes are of low quality so they all can afford so many right? I bet I could tear them into shreds! How many times do you wear the robes before they have holes everywhere?" She commented. "Ah, I know why you are in black robes. You are mourning for the death of your armpit hair."

"Very soon you all are going to wear brown robes," The High Lord said, ignoring Miyuki's comment.

Both Miyuki and Kitty fell silence at that as they were immediately reminded of the truth: They would be joining the Guild soon and they would have to wear those stupid robes like the rest.

A rather handsome man with blonde hair walked past, fanning himself. When he saw the High Lord, he bowed and greeted, "High Lord."

"Lord Fergun." Akkarin greeted.

"Fur-Gun?" Kitty repeated. "Is he such a furry gun? And why did you call him Lord? Is he your husband?"

Fergun yelled in disgust. "Who are you calling..."

His words were cut off by Miyuki's laughters. "Oh my god! You sound like a sissy! Why is your voice so high-pitched? You addicted to helium arh? Is Mickey mouse your idol?"

The High Lord quickly dragged them away.

They were feeling so helpless and upset about joining the Guild. So much that they did not notice they were in the High lord's residence already.

"Sit." The High Lord commanded as he gestured to a few chairs. Both of them grinned when they saw the chair, immediately remembering the Chair Aerobics lessons they always have in school.

As they settled down in the chairs reluctantly, a man in light-brown skin filled out three glasses of water and handed out one for each of them before giving the last one to the High Lord. He then bowed and strolled away.

"AN ICHANI!" Miyuki yelled. "Crap, I ran out of ideas to kill another Ichani. Maybe I can show him the bodies of his dead friends and make him be frightened to death."

"This is Takan, my servant," The High Lord explained.

"Well, isn't he going to propose to you now? What does he do as a servant? Shave your armpits or something?" Miyuki asked gleefully before bursting into laughter. Kitty covered her mouth and tried hard to stifle her laughter.

The High Lord's grim expression warned them to be quiet and as they did so, he began his questioning. Miyuki and Kitty tried to answer truthfully but the High Lord seemed to think that their answers were crazy. This was their conversation:

(First, High Lord Akkarin made a globe light.)

Miyuki: "Wah, you won't burn yourself? Your hand got put battery right? Later short circuit, then the whole fish gill explodes! Then everyone has to wear black robes for mourning!"

Akkarin: "Erm, first tell me your names."

Kitty: "I am Kitty and she is Miyuki. And…we BOTH LOVE TWILIGHT!"

Akkarin: "Twilight? You mean the period of time where there is the dim light before the sun rises or set…"

Kitty: "I don't mean that! You mean you never heard of Twilight before? Facebook have A LOT of Twilight fan pages! Why didn't you notice?"

Miyuki: "Oh yes Ah Curry! Do you have Facebook? Add me as your friend! Just one more friend and my Facebook friend list would hit 1000!"

Akkarin: "What is Face book? We don't have a book called "face" here. We only have Alchemy books, Warrior books and Healing books."

Miyuki: "What century is this arh? You don't know what is Facebook? This is the dinosaur era right? So you must be a caveman! Ah Curry! Now you cannot add me! Go create an account, and then I add you."

Akkarin: "Anyway… you all were speaking about Twilight? What is it then, since you all said it is a different meaning?"

Kitty: "It is about Edward Cullen! He is a vampire and he has MASSIVE STRENGTH! I love him!"

Akkarin: "I have massive strength too."

Miyuki: "YOU? Don't blow your own trumpet lah! I want to puke!"

Akkarin: "Now stop all these. Please tell me what Houses are you all from?"

Kitty: "House? I live in a HDB flat!"

Miyuki: "Me too! 4-room flat!"

Akkarin: "I assume that you are not from any Houses?"

Miyuki: "What Houses? You think you are what? Salesman arh? You want to find out the price of our houses so you can compare and see which one worth more, right?"

Akkarin: "Well, I guess you are not from any Houses. I am Akkarin, from House Delvon, Family Velan."

Kitty: "Wah! What a joke! Ah Curry from House Devil, Family Valency Electrons!"

Akkarin: "How dare you disrespect my House and Family!"

Miyuki: "Why should we respect a house of devil electrons?"

Akkarin: "You... Never mind, the Ichanis must have given you a fright and you are still confused. You may stay in one of my rooms in the residence."

Miyuki and Kitty protested strongly in staying over at the High Lord's residence. "I don't want to stay with a curry! It is too spicy!" Kitty exclaimed in dread. The High Lord still ushered them up to their room upstairs nevertheless.

As they climbed up the stairs, they noticed portraits of some men in robes hanging from the walls.

"Who are those ugly men?" Miyuki questioned in unconcealed disgust. Then, she pointed to one with a very ugly wrinkled face and said to Kitty,"Hey this is your future husband!"

Kitty grimaced and pointed to another one with a lot of pimples. "Miyuki, that's you future husband!"

The High Lord's voice turned abruptly stern, "They are the men who had once been the High Lord of the Guild. They dedicated their whole life into serving the Guild and must be well-respected. They may be dead now, but their hearts remained with the Guild."

Miyuki sneered and pointed to the most recently-dead High Lord portrait, "Eh Ah Curry. This one is your ex-husband. While you were sleeping with him in bed, you rolled over and then crushed him with your fats. That's why he died."

The High Lord closed his eyes suddenly and Miyuki let out a scream of pain as she felt something striking her chest forcefully.

The High Lord reopened his eyes then and warned Miyuki and Kitty, "Anymore of these nonsense and the two of you would have to suffer my strikes."

The High Lord's warning was scary enough to keep the two girls silent as they were led into a room which they had to share. Before leaving the room, the High Lord turned back to them and told them, "I would test your magical potential tomorrow."

Immediately Miyuki and Kitty let out a loud shout of "NO!"

The High Lord sighed and stared at them, bewildered over their reluctance.

"Well, you had already seen us kill the Ice Kacang or whatever. That means we are already very strong in magic. Why the hassle over the stupid testing?' Miyuki explained smoothly. Kitty nodded in agreement. That was no way they were going to let Akkarin know that they weren't as powerful as they said they were.

The High Lord gave in, "Alright then…" He was about to step out when he turned back once again before informing them, "Just to let you all know, I am the first person to discover your magical potential. Thus I am going to be the guardian of the two of you in the Guild. It is late now, so questions tomorrow." He headed out then, without bothering about Miyuki and Kitty's replies. The door clicked shut behind him as his footsteps faded into the distance.

"Guardian? You mean the pharmacy shop ah?" Kitty asked Miyuki in confusion. "I buy my make ups from Guardian."

Miyuki nearly fell off the bed. "Not that, Kitty! It means he would be the one taking care of us!" She snapped at Kitty in exasperation as Kitty let out a huge gasp of shock.

"No! I don't want! I don't want to stay here and I don't want Ah Curry to be my guardian! Imagine him selling beauty products to me!" She cried as tears began to stream down her face again.

Miyuki looked confident as she replied, "For the escaping part I am not sure. What I am sure about is that Ah Curry is going to have a hard time from now on."

Kitty's eyes widened, "What do you mean by a "hard time"? Do you mean… you are going to play pranks on him?"

Miyuki nodded as she took out her notebook.

"Prank number one…" Her voice trailed off as she started explaining the pranks…

Side note: Dear readers, stay tuned to find out what pranks Miyuki have in store. And by the way, we love Twilight very much!