-White Moon, Floor 99: The Leader's Office-

"Astral-dono, you need to breathe. Relax. Take a deep breath, now.. inhale, exhale.. good, good, like that." Horus instructed his mistress' friend, who was hyperventilating out of nervousness. His hands were on the shorter boy's shoulders, and he was carefully shaking him to calm him down. "Snap out of it, Astral-dono. It's time to demonstrate your magic power. If you want, I can ask the leaders to stay beside you during the procedure." He offered.

Astral shook his head, tears flowing from his eyes. "No! No.. I don't want to involved you in my abnormalities any longer, Horus-san. It's my fault you were turned into human in the first place.. as a human, you can get hurt more, and you can get sick. I don't want you to be a test subject, so.. p-please.. don't go near me anymore. I will be the death of you.." He covered his eyes, and sobbed quietly. The five leaders only looked at him with blank expressions.

Horus had learned of a gesture that Alan did with Rinko, and Yuma did with all of his friends. He carefully wrapped his arms around Astral, and hugged him. He heard from Miharu that this was supposed to comfort someone, and Yuma did hug Astral once. Maybe it would calm him down as well. "Ah, I have no idea how hugs are supposed to work. Sorry, but I seem to remember Alan-dono doing the same to my mistress long ago. Has this managed to calm your soul?"

Astral pulled away, his breathing becoming normal. "I guess.. t-thank you, Horus-san. E-Ena-san.. I'm ready for the process." He walked to Ena, who had dragged him to a metal table. Near the table was a bunch of machines, some of them having plugs. On the table was a white pillow, obviously flat. There was another table, filled with items such as knives and medicine.

Ena knelt down Astral's level. "Astral, dear, take off your shirt, alright?" She told the crying boy. "We need to put the plugs on your skin, see. It's the easiest way to detect the problem in your body. We'll try to get it over with, I promise."

Astral nodded, and carefully unbuttoned his shirt. Horus went near him to hold his clothes, while Hokai approached the younger boy to carry him up the table. Once Astral was on the table, he pushed him back, making him lie down. Eliphas then sat on his chair, as the other leaders do their job. Eika took a small knife from the table, and Miharu seemed to got a hold of a syringe of some sort. Seeing the needle scared Horus a bit, but Hokai was blocking Astral's view to prevent him from panicking.

Miharu stabbed Astral's arm with the needle. At first, Astral's eyes widened, and his mouth opened to let out a scream, but eventually, he passed out. Eika then approached Astral, and slowly inspected his arm.

Horus felt his non-existent dragon tail twitch a bit. "Excuse me, leader Eika.. what has a knife got to do with the procedure of testing magic levels?" He asked, his voice raising a bit. He felt a bit scared of Eika after she just poked him on the stomach a few hours ago, but approaching someone with a knife was a natural reason to be cautious.

"You don't get it yet, Horus. You may be a dragon, an old one, but you act like a naive human. What we're doing is testing him. We need to see if he's actually normal." Eika explained. An insane grin crept on her face, and her eyes darkened. "See, when you're different, everyone tends to act negative towards you. Astral is that little seed who was planted differently, and thus, sprouted differently. But we're seriously doing this for his own good." She said, as she made a rather large cut on Astral's arm.

The unconscious soldier made a loud cry, and attempted to pull his arm away from the red-headed woman. Miharu then took a little bottle, and let the bottle be filled with the blunette's blood. "Horus.. we really mean no harm. There isn't a way to test him without his emotions going berserk."

Horus' eyes widened. "What do you mean..?"

Ena made a sad smile. "Astral.. has demonstrated more than enough insane magic for today. He wasn't really normal to begin with, sad to say. I sensed his aura ever since he got in this company.. he was in too much pain. Too scared." She helped Hokai, by wrapping a bandage around his bleeding arm. "Despite the painful process he's going through, White Moon will find a way to get rid of Numeron inside him."

"WHAT?!"

Without even noticing, Hokai grabbed Horus by the neck from behind, choking the dragon-human with his arm. "Keep your voice down, you little dragon. We don't want any interruptions." Hokai covered Horus' mouth with his gloved hand, and pulled himself back as Miharu and Ena study Astral's blood. From his seat, Eliphas could see something wrong. It seemed that something was causing the room to glow..

Oh no.

"Astral-dono!"

Ena and Miharu were immediately blown away by some unknown force, while Eika was literally tossed around the room. Hokai lost his grip on Horus, who had also been lown away by the unknown power. Eliphas tried to stand up, only to end up being pushed back. Astral arched his back, and suddenly, some of the light materialized into a form of a human.

"Who dares to hurt the wielder of Numeron?!"

Horus' eyes widened. "That voice..! It can't be!"

The figure released another wave of energy, knocking Hokai back. The masked-man seemed to have passed out, because he didn't bother to stand up after being knocked down. Miharu tried to reach out for his own pocket to summon Aegis, only for him to get lifted above, and tossed right over Eika. Ena ran to Astral's body, only to have her neck grabbed by the figure.

"Stay away from him!"

He threw Ena to Eliphas, and both adults passed out. Horus tried to stay still, but with the sudden wind inside the large room wasn't helping. Astral's screams went louder, as the figure forced some furniture in the room to break or be tossed around the room. Horus felt dizzy, as his back suddenly felt sore. It felt as if something was piercing against his skin, and his vision was getting blurry. He knelt down, panting heavily. "Oh no.. Astral-dono is in danger! What can I do in a situation like this?! I can't get near Astral-dono, unless.."

Horus forced himself to stand up, screaming as loud as he could. "MY MISTRESS!"

"Here is your spirit partner, Rinko. He was summoned to this world by you, since he's your ace card and everything. He's a cute little dragon, isn't he?" Ena cooed at the gray dragon beside her.

In front of the dragon was a young girl, by the age of ten. Her eyes were dark brown, and her hair was colored like fire, tied back into a ponytail. Beside the girl was a gray-haired boy with green eyes. The girl seemed to be holding a card.. his card, on one hand, and her other hand was clasped to the hand of the gray-haired boy, who grinned. "Told ya you could do it, Rin-Rin!" He chimed. "Say hello to your spirit partner!"

Their hands separated, and the fire-headed girl, or Rinko, knelt down in front of him. She looked at him for awhile, before showing her gloved hand to him. "Hey there. I'm your partner. You're my spirit partner, so I rely on you to help me with a few things, alright? My name is Rinko. Yutora Rinko. Nice to meet you, Horus."

Horus..? Was that his name?

"I'll be relying on you, so you can rely on me."

When Horus opened his eyes after what seemed to be his first nap on ages, he couldn't believe what he was staring at.

Yuma and Haruki were assisting Hokai and Miharu, while Kotori and Alit were checking up on Eika. Chris and Taimi were checking up on Eliphas and Ena, whose heads were bleeding. In front of Horus was Sei, her gun pointing towards the illuminating figure. Selena had her sword pointed at the same direction. Alan's twin blades were both raised, and he was panting loudly.

In front of all of them was Rinko, Salamandra on her hand, while the other was raised, preparing a fireball from above. Her hair was messy, and the ribbon she used to tie her hair with, was on the ground, ripped and burned. On the middle of the room was Astral, still shirtless, slightly unconscious, and his face scrunched up in pain. He seemed to be on the arms of the illuminated figure, who was dimming.

"You're an asshole." Rinko spat. "You put up a fight, haven't ya? For the last time, we will never hurt Astral. Those bastard leaders may have tested him or something, but in a way, my partner didn't do anything to hurt you. You freaking ass, lower your defenses, we're gonna lower ours. And maybe I won't burn you or kick you straight to hell, you little punk." She hissed.

The figure carefully placed Astral back on the floor, standing up. While the figure was completely white, Horus could see it seemed to have it's hair spiked up like Astral's, and it's eyes were luminous gold. The figure made a scoff, as the floating objects in the room slowly went down. Alan sighed in relief, slumping on the floor with a content look. "Good, you can understand us after all.."

Sei crossed her arms. "Thank goodness.. I would rather have my head rammed by Black Star's soldiers, than have my head rammed by a ton of books." She growled. Selena assisted her sister, and calmed her down.

Horus slowly stood up, wondering what just happened. The last thing he remembered was screaming for his mistress.. what the heck happened? Maybe he passed out..

"I cannot let them hurt the wielder of Numeron. That is my purpose in life." The figure clarified, waving his hands to emphasize his words. "They have hurt the wielder, which is a crime punishable by death. I cannot let them go unpunished."

Rinko glared at him. "We're one and the same, you ass. His brother told me to protect him, that's why I'm here. Mind you, I do not lie. And I most certainly don't like Eika, that's for sure." Stepping forward, she compared herself to the illuminating figure. "Stop glowing. It's hurting my eyes. You have a normal form, don't you? With all the shit I've seen and heard today, I won't be surprised if you do."

Alan placed his hand on Rinko's shoulder. "Rin-Rin.. after this, you need to rest. You're more cranky than usual, and you're swaying badly."

Rinko grunted. "Fine. Hey, flashlight. Turn the damn light off. Next, explain. Third, make yourself known to us. Especially Astral." She demanded. Turning her head a bit, she stared at the remaining members. "Yuma. You guys bring the leaders to the clinic. We'll explain everything afterwards. Kotori, please bring Horus with you for a check-up as well, alright? We'll stay here to ask this guy a few questions, maybe fix the room, and bring Astral to the clinic later."

Horus wanted to argue, but Kotori had already dragged him out of the room. Yuma lifted Ena by slinging her arm around his back, and Haruki did the same with Eika. As for Hokai, Taimi lifted him a bit with Alit's aid, and Chris did the same with Eliphas. Miharu was being carried by Kotori, whose hand was gripping Horus' arm.

When they left, Alan pulled what remained to be the sofa, and let Rinko sit on it, before sitting himself. Sei and Selena both sat on the edges, as the figure stopped floating, and allowed his feet to touch the ground. "First things first; what the hell are you?" Rinko asked bluntly.

The figure looked at her. "I am Chaos."

Well this chapter barely had anything, besides a flashback and a new character, lol. XD