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Danny let out a long yawn as he sat behind a desk at his new base of operations, a balding mage bowing over and over again in front of him as he talked without saying anything. The building used to be a dentists office, but was closed down when it couldn't make back its investments and the business had to declare itself bank-robbed.

Danny had used the 'do not murder us all' money to buy the place to act as the headquarters for his new kingdom of sorts. Something that had proven to be a lot more work than he had originally thought it would be. Who would have ever guessed that setting up a pseudo nation would be so hard.

So far just over a hundred Divine Beasts had decided to take him up on his offer of sanctuary, most of them being those who he had dealings with before and understood that this wasn't some kind of trap. So he had to stand there as such names as Skulker, the Box Ghost, the Lunch Lady, Ember, and several others moved in to his town. It was so strange to have his former villains walking around in front of him that Danny usually thought he was in some kind of strange dream.

There had been a few small problems with behavior, but none that required more than just a slap on the wrist. But even so Danny was up to his ears in work.

He was in the process of setting up a sort of trade federation between the American Mages and the Divine Beasts so that the Divine Beasts could exchange magic artifacts, and knowledge for some monetary funds to spend in the human world. The amount of negotiations that had to go into it was down right insane. Each group not trusting the other, and Danny himself had to regulate the kinds of items and who they would trade them too.

Another group he was having to form was a police department. He had named Wulf as his first knight and had made him in charge of the keeping an eye on things, hiring several other Divine Beasts to work under him, including Skulker, Technus and some of the Divine Beasts who had been freed from the McDonald's slavery. It was a little ironic for Wulf to be the head of police, but Danny trusted his judgment, Wulf was a lover of freedom, and wouldn't imprison another unless there was good grounds for it.

And finally the most troubling of all was the issue of immigration, most of which Danny had to deal with personally. He had to lay down the ground rules for the new arrivals and get them to agree to his terms, setting up contacts and people they would look to for help adjusting and getting employment if needed.

"Tell your heads that if they agree to at least agree to an open meeting to discuss the possibility of future trade, then I will personally oversee security and the safety of their representatives." Danny said to the newest mage to stand before him. He hated dealing with these mages. Each and every one of them begging for his forgiveness and favor, but at the same time too scared to actually do anything.

"I... I will inform them at once my lord." The balding man said as he quickly took his leave, walking backwards into the door because he was too busy bowing again and again to watch were he was going.

"Gods, I hate politics." Danny mumbled as he rubbed his temples. "None of them say it to my face, but they think I am building up my own personal army to take over the world."

"Let them think what they wish. In the end, I think they will be desperate enough for the magical artifacts to give in to your terms. Without access to the Broken Beasts to defend their lands, they will need something to replace that lose of power." Yuki said as she reached around his chair to give him a shoulder rub.

"It that going to happen this year or next." Danny said with a sigh. "How many more meetings do we have today?" Danny asked, looking over to Tucker who pulled out his PDA.

"By the looks of it, four." Tucker said yawning himself. "You know at first I thought that all these grown men peeing themselves at your feet was funny, but it sure has gotten boring." He pressed a few keys. "Looks like the next meeting is with Princess Dora though, so at least it won't be more of the same."

"Huh? Dora?" Sam mumbled, stretching as she woke up from her nap. "I wonder why she wants to come to the real world."

"Only one way to find out." Danny said as he rubbed the on coming sleep out of his eyes. "Yuki, could you let her in?" The snow woman nodded, passing down through the floor before coming back with Princess Dora of the Kingdom of Aragon.

Dora was a relatively tame Divine Beast, until she got angry. Though when she appeared before them, with two hand maids by her sides, it had taken Danny a moment to recognize her. Her long golden blond hair was no long in its French braid, and rather than being in a pale white dress, she was clothed in a short skirt and a t-shirt reading, 'I am the blood of the dragon' with a picture of three western style dragons on it. Each of the hand maids were also dressed in extremely casual and modern clothes.

Tucker's jaw dropped as he stared at them. "Holy momma." The nerd said in disbelief. Eyes going from chests to butts and back again. All and all, the three looked like fairly ordinary seventeen year old girls.

The three Divine Beasts went down on one knee in front of Danny who was only slightly less surprised than Tucker. "It is an honor to see you again, my King." Dora said with a smile before turning her head to Sam. "I hope you have been doing well too, Lady Manson."

"It's good to see you too, Dora. Liking the new look." Sam said looking up and down at her old friend. Dora blushed a little, seeming a bit sweet.

"Well, after you and our King turned out my brother, we have started to take greater interest in the modern world." Dora admitted.

"It's good to see you Dora, but please, stand up and knock off all this king stuff. We are old friends after all." Danny said with a grin.

"Oh, but you make such a good King." Dora said with a chuckle as she stood up. "As much as I wish to catch up, I'm sure you must all be very busy. So how about we get down to the nitty gritty work and then we can talk about everyone's personal lives." Danny nodded his approval and the princess continued. "As I have said, my people have now taken a much greater interest in the modern world, and as such we would like to open up trading. Mostly for cultural goods; food, books, TV, cell phones, clothing, you get the picture. And in exchange we will offer magic swords."

Danny nodded. "I understand. Unfortunately we are having some problems setting up trade lines with the Sorcerous Sacrilege Investigation guys, so it might be some time before you will have a market for your swords." Danny said explaining the situation. "We can see about finding you a loan of some kind in order to last you until the market is up, but understand that at the moment our resources are limited."

"I see. That is unfortunate, but my people have waited for a thousand years. A few more days will not change anything. You need not worry yourself about finding use loans, we will simply wait. Thank you for the kind offer though." Dora said with a small bow that made Danny a little embarrassed. "Though I would like to ask for something else that is more... personal." Dora said, a little nervously. "I was hoping that... I would like your Highness's permission to enroll in a school."

The room was quiet for a second before everyone asked the same question. "Huh?"

"It's just... I wish to experience school life for myself. I know it is a rather silly desire, but I hope that you will not turn me down." Dora said with a hopeful look in her eyes.

"I don't see why not." Danny said a little confused before glancing to the side at Sam. "Sam could you help Dora sort this stuff out. It would be a good chance for you two to catch up anyways. We can try to make sure she is in the same classes as Jazz, so that there will be someone to watch out for her."

Sam seemed a little reluctant to leave at first, but eventually she left with the dragon princess to go and sort things out for school. "Well... didn't see that one coming." Tucker said as he scratched his head and penciled in the results of the meeting in his PDA.

There was a knock at the door. "Come in!" Danny shouted to make sure he was heard.

The door opened and Tucker froze his PDA sliding out of his hand as a beautiful woman in her early twenties dressing in a high class gown entered the room. She had long wavy platinum blond hair and bright green eyes, and an extremely warm and comfortable smile. "I think I'm in love." Tucker mumbled weakly.

Danny's first thoughts were slightly different. "That's an impressive projection. Is it solid, or did you use some other method for opening the door?" Both Danny and Yuki could sense the ectoplasm that made up this person's body, though she wasn't a Divine Beast, not nearly strong enough, though she didn't seem to be a true ghost either.

"So you can tell, huh? Oh poo, that takes half the fun out of it." The woman said puffing out her cheeks in a very juvenal manner. "And I went through all the trouble of using telekinesis to open the door too." She mumbled before doing a curtsy. "Oh well, I am Alice Louise of the Witenagemot organization of Great Britain. It is a pleasure to meet you, King Fenton."

"Alice Louise? As in, Princess Alice? The most powerful Princess Shrine Maiden in the world?" Yuki said in a bit of shock. Danny gave out a low whistle, sounded like this girl was important.

"Oh stop it, you'll make me blush." Alice said waving the names off. Tucker was just starting to drool.

"To what do we owe the pleasure?" Danny said, trying to at least seem polite. It was true that this girl seemed a lot different than the other mages he had seen so far.

"Oh I don't want anything from you if that is what you are asking. I just wanted to see what this newest king was like. You've already caused a lot of waves with your actions, so I've got to say that I am interested." Alice said in her bubbly manner.

Danny blinked in surprise. "Oh... well... what do you want to know?"

"Well!.. I suppose your intentions would be a good start. A Campione declaring themselves as a pacifist always seems so strange." Alice said tapping her fake foot on the ground.

"Sorry, I think you got me confused with a different Campione. I'm no pacifist." Danny said with a chuckle.

"Oh, but haven't you declared your land to be one of peace? Or are you saying that is just a front?" Alice asked.

"You sure are a lot more direct than the rest of our visitors." Danny pointed out.

"That's probably because I have had dealings with Campione before. I learn not to give you all too much credit after that stupid self rightous moron." Alice said seeming a little angry at whoever this 'moron' was.

"If only everyone had this attitude, then maybe we could get something done." Danny said with a sigh. "To answer your question, I am not a pacifist. If someone is going to cause major damage and I can stop it by giving them a swift kick between the legs, then I won't hesitate for a moment. But at the same time, I'm not going to go hunting down every single Heretic God and Divine Beast, because I have no proof that they are evil. Its an equality thing. Just because they are different from us doesn't change the fact that they have a right to life."

Alice watched him for several moments before breaking out into giggles. "How strange, a Campione who worries about the rights of his natural enemies. This is every interesting at the very least. Though I can't see the rest of the world taking your view very seriously when you have already killed two gods."

"I understand, but with time things might change. This is a long term kind of deal." Danny admitted with a shrug. "Though it would be nice if I could get some of the mages here in America to agree to set up a trade union with the Divine Beasts here, but they all seem to scare for it. Even with all the help it could offer them."

Alice 'hmm'ed a bit. "Have you tried taking that business to Italy?" She asked. Danny frowned and shook his head. "While there is only one magic origination in America, there are seven in Italy that all compete with each other, and now that the seventh Campione is working along side the Copper Black Cross, the other six are trying to find ways to bridge the sudden gap of power. It would be easy to convince one of them to agree to this trade scheme in order to boost there own standings."

Danny scratched his chin. "I hadn't considered going to any groups outside of America since we would have to then deal with a second exchange of currency, but it is an option. I thank you for the advice. I will take it into consideration." Danny said.

"Glad that I could be of some assistance, but now I think I have been projecting her long enough. I'm going to take a nice long nap now. Bye bye!" She said giving a little wave before her body disappeared into mist.

"Italy huh? What do you think?" Danny asked.

"Do you think she really looks like that in person?" Tucker said in a love struck voice.

"Do you like girls with bigger boobs?" Yuki said holding her hands to her chest with a small pout.

"Right." Danny said tilting his head in a sigh.


Just a little connecting chapter to explain why Danny is going to be going to Italy. As well as give you an idea of how his group is going.