"Millie? You want her to meet Millie? Yukia have you lost you Blonde mind?"
Come to think of it I never really described Yukia in words. He was about my height. His ash blonde hair complemented his green eyes. It wasn't a green, it was emerald green. The that makes you want to forget anyone you've ever known and say he was your lover. He wore a black leather jacket, not a biker one. One that went down to your feet. Black pants, but they were more like jeans. His bracelet looked like a choker. The bracelet was encrusted with pink and purple amethyst, And maybe some pink sapphire. It was very worn. It looked like something a girl would wear.
"I just hope nothing bad happens."Hibiki said.
"Huh? Oh. Well, anyway let's just meet Millie."I said snapping out of my reverie. I wonder what they were talking about though.
"Good luck but I refuse to stay near her. Goodbye Lucy." 'poof' And he was gone.
"Look Lucy, Millie is very hard to, ... agree with. You will probably have to impress her first."
"Uhh. Ok I guess. Well where is her key, and what do I say?"
"Open, gate of the Timer, Millie."
"Kay kay. Open, gate of the Timer, Millie."
~Poof~ Love the special effects!
"Who (pops a bubble gum bubble) are you?"
In front of me was a hard core goth. She had black hair with purple tips, a winged heart necklace(the fake kind of heart like the ones you see in stores), she wore a onyx bracelet. Just the onyx on a chain, but her shirt was plain black with frayed ends, her jeans were black, the faded decals gave her the old century lover look. Her gum was grape(no surprise, it seems everyone in the world likes grape, except me), her shoes were very odd though. They weren't the standard combat boots of a normal goth. No, her shoes were bright red heels, and oddest of all the tip of the heel showed her toes.
"Hey, you, the person who just summoned me. Stop staring at me it's very rude, and you still haven't answered my question, who are you?
And apparently she was a smart mouth.
"My name is Lucy Hea..."
"Actually nevermind I don't care who you are, just why did you summon me? No don't answer that. Why do you think you have the authority to summon me?"
"Yukia gave me your key to summon you."
"That explains why he's here in a way. But I want to know why you thought you could."
"Because I need to get stronger."
"That's not an answer. What makes you think I won't hurt you? Like I did with Jack."
"Jack, who's he?"
"You summoned me here without knowing what happened to my last owner? I would've thought Yukia or Orion would have told you. Interesting. I'll tell you my tale. All stars weren't created at the same time, but when a star is named a spirit attached to it is born with the same name. Back in ancient times they believed when a great person died they were reborn as stars. The principle is similar. I had been born the day my star was named. A year later to me at least, someone had found one of my keys. His name was Jack. Silver keys appear once the spirit can handle it. I only had one. Jack was my first and last owner. We were each others first summoning. Later Jack found Orion, but by then Jack and I had faced many battles together. He was quite the fighter, but he always needed an opening. I would stop time for a second or two, to give him the opening he needed. We had been winning all our battles that way. When he got Orion, we decided to take a harder job then usual. The mission was going smoothly, until a man came. He fought with us for hours. Jack was exhausted, and I was close to dead. I stopped time once more, but this time I had caught Jack in the blast by accident, but immediately after the blast I fainted. Orion took me back to the celestial world, to see if they could awaken me. It took me twelve days to awaken, but Jack and the man had be frozen in time for three years. And as such Jack had been considered dead. His life was destroyed. His girlfriend left with another man, because she thought he left her. When I brought time back together, he died about two weeks later, because his heart couldn't take the shock."
"That's horrible, but also not your fault."
"What do you mean?"
"You tried to help, and you fixed it as soon as you could. And everything that happened to Jack afterward was just bad luck."
"But."
"You didn't mean to destroy his life, so it's ok. Jack ended up fine."
"You're not even worried it could happen to you?"
"No, because I trust my spirits and would stop you before that happened."
Disbelief crossed her face.
"Really?"
"Yes, really." Then Millie started crying.
"I never would've thought anyone one would trust me again."
"Someone once told me that trust is like paper, once it's crinkled it can never be perfect again, but if the piece of paper wasn't ever crinkled it is still perfect."
"But you heard what happened."
"Paper and trust, have neither eyes, nor ears."
Millie wiped her eyes with the back of her hand, then stood up.
"You know," she stuck out her hand,"I think you would make an awesome master, will you accept me as your spirit, is the question."
"Do I need to answer?"
"Lucy's right, I think her answer is pretty clear, don't you think, Millie?"
"Yeah. I do. And umm Lucy, take this," She pulled out her pocket a pair of earrings.
"Back before when I worked with Jack, he accidentally ran into dragon. The dragon was very nice, she gave these earrings to Jack. She told him if he ever ran into a girl he loved to give these to her. He was going to give these to the girl back then, but when he died he handed these to me. He said I was the one he loved, but back them I couldn't forgive myself for partially causing his death. I want you to have them."
"Why? Don't they prove Jack loved you?"
"That's why though."
"I don't understand."
"I believe you can change this world, and that you change the past, and the future."
"I don't think that's possible."
"Maybe not, but if it is, you can do it. I believe in you, and if Jack was here he would too."
"How long ago did Jack die?"
"To you, about 5 years, but to me, about 20 days."
"Millie, I accept, officially this time."
"That's a relief, I was sure she was going to kill you at first."Yukia inputed.
"Yukia, you have no faith in me, do you?"
"What? I was the one telling Orion to have faith in you! Oops! Forget I said that."
"Orion was here?"
"He left right before you came."
"Oh, he probably doesn't want to see me."
"Well I think you can fix that. Lucy, would you be so kind?"
"Sure, Open, gate of the hunter, Orion."
(POOF)
"So Lucy, you and Millie made a contract?"
"Yeah, and she wants to talk to you." I grabbed Yukia's hand.
"Let's go Yukia."
I dragged him to the nearest tree, which was a good half mile away.
"Lucy, do you want to start training? Or did you want to give them, their space?"
"Both, so Orion's power is the same as Hibiki's, right?"
"Yes, it is since they're the same person. Millie's power can pretty much slow or speed up time for anyone or anything. We call it... actually we always just called it a 'time skip'."
"A time skip? But you don't really skip through time. She can't go back, right? so wouldn't it be more of a 'stretch'. Since she only changes how long it takes to get to a certain point?"
"Guess it is. Maybe we'll just adopt the 'stretch' idea. Anyway, she can 'stretch' time, so you can probably understand why she would be useful for training."
"Umm, not really."
"She can make one minute be ten minutes to any person or any group."
"Oh, so she can make one year be seven, or vice versa."
"Yeah, but it's not recommended to keep using it in front of other people. You look either really slow or kindof fast. Let's say you stretch time so one second is two seconds. Now you go up the the market. If you go a little slower and talk sortof slow you look pratically normal, but if you forget you go a naticable amount faster. What would normally take you thirty minutes, becomes 15 minutes. So if its a ten minute run you'll be ok, but you have to be aware of the people around you."
"Oh that could be a problem."
"Millie can disable the effect of time instantly, if you tell her telepathically. So you'd have to sense the person first."
"I can't do that."
"And you'll learn with Velvinda. The first thing you'll probably be taught while the other dragons are still getting here is sensing, and getting used to dragon senses. It can drive someone crazy, by just smell alone. Imagine if a mile away, someone sprayed a horrible perfume, you could currently still smell it, especially if the scent left trails in your nose. You would still be able to smell it. The other dragons are going to be here within about a regular week. And if we stretch time so one second is three seconds, (one week is three weeks) you'll have three weeks of training with me and Velvinda. Velvinda with help you twice a day with your senses. In the morning and in the afternoon. This way you get time for both of us. Also I forgot to mention, Millie's stretching abilities, the magic used for long term stretches comes from the owner, so once a month you'll have to take a day off."
"Is that everything? Hey look Millie and Hibiki are coming back."
Millie and Hibiki were walking toward us. They were holding hands. I bet they regained their friendship, not that it was ever gone.
"For now, do you want to meet them halfway?"
"Sure." Yukia and I started walking toward Millie and Hibiki, for once Hibiki didn't look perverted or jolly. He looked serious, but very light. In the way a really good friend makes you feel.
"Lucy, just so you know, your everything I hoped you'd be."
But, before I could respond Millie quickly jumped in.
"So, Yukia, you filled Lucy in on what I can do right?"
"Yes, I did. Anyway, so you two are friends again?"
"Yeah, so Lucy do you have an idea of what kindof stretch you want?"
"Yukia mentioned one second for three seconds, I think I'll go with that. But he also said around people that you could undo the magic instantly. Is that literally instantly?"
"Yes, I can undo it instantly, even in the spirit world. There is a slight sting, when the magic is put on and released. I can put you through a test run real quick so you know what it feels like."
"Ok, go ahead." Millie raised a hand, she wrote down some invisible numbers in the air. A warm feeling arose in me, then everything went black.
And I'm late and i just finished this. These are twice as long they eventually will be so please, cut me some slack. And Thank You Minna! you guys have been so kind to me.