A/N- Sorry for the near-month delay, lol I didn't have any internet plus I had a writer's breakdown. I'm back now and that's all that matters! Oh and I changed Gregory's spells in the last chapter, they weren't meant to be copied off of Zatch's spells they were intended to be used as a generic lightning spell. Here's the next chapter!
Ishimaru washed and conditioned his hair; the mid-length brown hair with black streaks looked great. He ran his fingers through it, the silkiness was heavenly. Ishimaru wore a black t-shirt and some dark blue skinny jeans. He slipped on black and white Converse low tops. As he began walking out of the hotel room, Chainz cleared his throat, causing Ishimaru to turn around, he turned around as Chainz threw a black and white plaid button-down shirt and the green spell book. He smirked as he genuinely forgot about the book. This caused Ishimaru to grab his black messenger bag and placed the book inside of it. As he and Chainz left the hotel, Ishimaru pulled out his cell phone and plotted the points on his GPS app as they made their way to Haley's apartment. Since the hotel and her apartment were both by the campus, except on opposite sides, it wasn't long before they were at Haley's door. After nearly six minutes of standing at the door waiting for an answer, they were greeted by Kai who surprisingly got up and opened the door.
"Sorry about the wait, I was making up for the lazy time I lost due to fighting this afternoon." He replied
"Haley will be out in a sec." Kai said as he flopped back down on the living room couch in front of the TV.
Ishimaru and Chainz hopped on the couch with Kai. As he took the remote off of the table, Ishimaru asked Kai how many channels they had.
"Haley thinks we only have 60 channels because she wanted the basic package. I actually order the Platinum package, so 700 regular channels, 80 movie channels, 25 pay-per-view channels, 45 music channels and 105 cooking channels, so almost 1,000 total channels."
Ishimaru and Chainz's jaws dropped when they found out that there were almost 1,000 channels on the TV.
"Where have you been all my life?" Chainz said, hugging the television.
Kai and Ishimaru laughed as Haley finally came out of the room. She let her long red hair down which glided across her shoulders quite nicely. She wore a white spaghetti-strap top and black Capri pants. To compliment it all, she had white sandals on her feet and a black purse strapped across her shoulder. Looking towards her ears were small silver earrings. She looked amazing.
Ishimaru and Kai's jaws dropped when they saw her.
"Dammmmmnnn." They said in unison
Chainz, who was too busy flipping through the hundreds of channels didn't initially notice until he turned his head and saw the other two older boys staring.
"Who's the cute girl in the living room?" asked Chainz as he took a long swig of the sports drink that was sitting on top of the coffee table
"That's Haley you—HEY! That's my drink!" exclaimed Kai
"It WAS your drink." said Chainz coolly as he continued drinking
Ishimaru chuckled as he and Haley left the apartment. As they were walking down the busy street, Ishimaru looked around and liked what he saw. It was as if the city or the district at least, catered to college students. Haley was quiet for a while and she broke the silence saying, "What do you want to see first?"
Ishimaru's stomach began growling and Haley nodded as if it was a response.
"I know a restaurant I think you may like."
Meanwhile, on top of a nearby building, there were three kids standing on the roof. One of them had long white hair and azure eyes and appearing to wear a nun's outfit, except it was only a partial covered one, there was also a cross on the center of it as well. The other kid was a much older girl at about 5 feet and 5 inches tall, with long, dark violet hair, a black undershirt and a violet vest with feathers all over it. She wore a purple miniskirt, with its edges carved out in feathers. To top things off, she had a pointy witch hat on her head. The third kid appeared to be Adella, the red-haired mamodo girl from a few weeks ago.
"Sola…I'm a bit scared to be standing up here." Said the one in the nun outfit
"Azure, we'll be fine up here and I'm not going to let you fall anyway." Sola replied as she glanced over towards Adella's direction
"So what do you want to talk about Adella?" Sola asked
"Well…I…I…I really like being here and I don't want to go away anytime soon. So I was thinking of a way to stay here without having to fight all that much but still be strong at the same time." Adella said as she moved closer towards Azure
"I understand." Sola said as she began to rub her chin. Sola loved logic and thinking logically, it was a part of her and what she did best. Aside from training and enjoying birds, she was fiercely loyal to Azure and to a lesser extent, Adella. It was going to be a cold day in Hell before she would let anything happen to them. Suddenly, Sola had an idea.
"I think we should form a 3-person team, considering there are strength in numbers, also, this way we can spend more time with each other and I'll be able to protect you guys better." She said looking at the two smaller mamodo children
Azure and Adella looked at each other, appearing to be considering Sola's proposal. They then turned and nodded their heads at Sola. Sola simply smiled as they looked up at the nighttime stars.
Ishimaru and Haley were being seated at The Samurai, a famous Osaka restaurant that was popular among many of the university students throughout the city. It resembled a typical Japanese grill; however there was a distinct feudal era theme. Ishimaru and Haley stared at each other for a few minutes, not really saying much,
"I honestly have no idea what to even talk about, she answered pretty much all of my questions before we even got here." Ishimaru thought as he kept staring
"Why is he staring at me like that? Then again, I'm doing the same thing!" Haley thought as she followed suit
Haley finally broke the silence blurting out, "I-I wonder what Chainz and Kai are doing?"
Ishimaru then blinked at Haley
Back at Haley's apartment, Chainz and Kai were still on the couch flipping the channels. Chainz had never been a big fan of television, back in the mamodo world; he was more entertained with his motorcycle and causing destruction and mayhem. He wanted to kick himself for missing out on the glowing box that contained dreams and magic. Chainz suddenly came across a commercial showing a guy on a motorcycle.
Biker Max: Hey Biker Bob, let's go grab some sandwiches!
Biker Bob: Sure.
Biker Max and Bob go to a sandwich restaurant.
Biker Max: These triple deluxe sandwiches are packed with six different cheeses, 2 types of bacon, American turkey and ham, eight slices of bread all stacked and deep fried with a vanilla cake batter.
At this point, both Chainz and Kai's mouths were watering. Much to their dismay, a second commercial came on.
Announcer: Do you know what's extreme?
"WHAT?" exclaimed Chainz and Kai in unison
Announcer: Xtreme Mayo is what's extreme!
Announcer: This isn't your average mayo. Xtreme Mayo is Xtremely spicy! Flavored with jalapenos, habaneros and ghost chilies! Now made with real fire.
Announcer: Now go get some Xtreme Mayo for an extreme taste!
"I want some Xtreme Mayo now." Chainz said scratching his head
"Go figure, that's what a TV ad does." Kai said
"Let's go get some then." Chainz said as he was making his way towards the door
"With what money?" the older boy asked
"Who said anything about money?" Chainz asked as he began turning the knob only to turn and see Kai lying on the couch
"As much as I would like some, I don't feel like walking all the way to the store and getting a jar off the shelf."
"But the store is only 6 blocks down the street." Chainz said
Kai simply rolled over on his side and closed his eyes, he already had his exercise for the day, he wasn't going anywhere outside of the apartment tonight. Chainz then had another idea.
"We can always just make some Xtreme Mayo ad put it on the triple deck sandwich." Chainz said as he grabbed Haley's laptop that Kai swiped from her room earlier and began searching for a recipe on the internet. Chainz then smirked at something he found.
Haley and Ishimaru were walking through the park they went to earlier that day, she had showed him a few malls, the main hangout restaurant, a couple of stores and now they were relaxing before they went back to her apartment, because Ishimaru had to grab Chainz and head back to the hotel so he can get ready for his campus tour.
Ishimaru sat on top of the hill and Haley sat next to him.
"How long have you and Kai been fighting in this battle?" Ishimaru asked
"About a month and a week." Haley said looking at him
"That's two more weeks than me and Chainz."
Ishimaru and Haley then talked about various things, from their mamodo partners, to politics, to of course, soccer to throwing rocks and blowing spitballs and surprisingly, the weather. It was funny how after a night beginning with a long silence, could end with endless conversation. Ishimaru figured that tonight couldn't get any better.
Back at Haley's apartment, Chainz had collected a bunch of assorted hot peppers and a bunch of egg whites. He pulled out his lighter and cracked his knuckles as he looked over to see Kai snoring on the couch…
Thirty minutes later, Ishimaru and Haley were back in front of Haley's door. He had a great time and wanted to do this again as soon as possible.
"Ishimaru, I haven't enjoyed myself like that in quite a while. I'll be happy to be your tour guide again…if you want I mean. Um…I'll s-see you later." She said as she began to turn and unlock her door.
At the second, Ishimaru felt like his body was on auto-pilot and he turned Haley around and pecked her on the lips. Haley was a bit shocked and was about to bring her face closer to his once more but the door flew open and Chainz and Kai were standing right at the door, smirking.
"Oh shut up." Ishimaru said as he and Haley came in
"So…what did you guys do?" Haley asked
Chainz didn't say anything, he simply held up a jar of Xtreme Mayo. Kai, who had fallen asleep earlier, was shocked.
"Did…did you make that yourself?" exclaimed Kai who was in shock
"Pfft…no. I was trying to make a snack earlier, but I burnt all of the peppers and egg whites so I put them in Haley's toilet, which was weird because they had knobs on them…
"That was the sink!" exclaimed Haley
"Then what did I wash my hands in?" said Chainz
"Anyway. We need to go, so I'll catch up with you sometime." Ishimaru said as he grabbed Chainz and hurried out the door and back to the hotel.
Meanwhile, out on the Ryukyu Islands…
A girl with straight purple-blue hair and purple eyes, wearing a Purple overcoat, a pair of Black Jeans under the leg armors, and wearing a pair of claw-like gauntlets and a pair of Leather and armored boots walked on the beach. She was going towards Chase, who was sitting on a ridge overlooking the waves. As she got closer, she handed Chases a folder filled with a few papers
"Thank you my queen. These files will help me out quite a bit."
"For the last time, my name is Myth and I'm not your queen. I don't even know why, but I gathered data from the pawns and knights who were spying on other mamodo. From what I read, two of our pawns were defeated by a mamodo named Kai. Rose also reported that he defeated her in her Rakuruk form and almost burned her book had she not fallen over it within the last second. "
"I see." said Chase as he continued staring at the waves
Myth then turned and left. Chase wasn't worried too much bout Kai because all he had to do was tweak his plans a little to make sure he didn't get too much in the way. Chase then looked through the papers and closed the folder. He then smirked and said,
"Now is the time to begin the operation."
A/N- All right that's it for this chapter. I know there wasn't any fighting in this chapter, but there were a lot of important things in this chapter though. (See if you can pick them out!) Read and Review because I do love reviews! Till next time!