Rini was growing increasingly annoyed with Peruru, and a little with Elios; she wanted to say, "Grow up!" Being the Princess that she was though, she didn't say anything. She turned to Elios, and was about to say something when the butler said, "Master Alex is here to see you miss."

"I'll be right there, Elios, I need to speak to you for a minute." Peruru started to follow them, "Alone." They went into a room, "I have to pretend like everything is normal between Alex and I, please keep Peruru away, I just know that he will want to say something stupid, and I want to let Alex down without causing him too much anger and unhappiness. I cannot say which one of you will be my final choice, but I know that you have slightly better instincts than Peruru."

"I will try." She nodded, "I know that you will, and don't worry if he does somehow get past you."

They left the room, and then Rini went to answer the door. Alex smiled when he saw her, "Hey, are you okay? Everyone seemed so weird when I asked for you."

"Long story, I will tell you when I have more time on my hands."

"I have your homework, all of the teachers insisted that I bring it to you, I tried to tell them that it was a bad idea, but hey, what can you do?" She took the stack of papers, and let Alex kiss her for the second time that week, "Hey, get your hands off of my girl!" Peruru was in the doorway, "Who the hell is that guy?"

"A friend, nothing more." She said, trying to sound convincing. "I said, back away from my girlfriend." Rini winced, oh this was fun. "I am not your girlfriend, just your friend." She turned back to Alex; "Another long story to tell you later, you'd better go before he does something weird." Alex was actually used to this kind of thing, so she wasn't worried about his reaction.

Elios could have cursed, but he did not, as he wasn't about to give Peruru something to use against him. He had forgotten how well fairies were trained in their gift, and that, with the right amount of force, they could disarm anyone, as Peruru had done to him. While he wrestled with the invisible bonds on his wrists and ankles, he hoped that Peruru wasn't doing anything too stupid. Elios finally broke free, and ran towards the door, flinging it open and his gaze immediately darkened.

Peruru was leaning in to kiss Rini, but she slapped him, "Stop it! You really do not get it, do you? Whatever idea I gave you when I kissed you on the cheek five years ago is different than what I meant. It is a gesture between close friends here in Tokyo, and I'm sorry that you love me and that I don't return your feelings."

"Does this mean that you love Elios?"

"If I say that I love him, it will be to him, not anyone else."

"He said the same thing about you."

"I bet that he did."

"Is there a chance at least that you might reconsider?"

"You should leave before I say something that could hurt one or both of you."

Despite the truth of her words, he did feel pity for the young fairy, and still yet, he couldn't help feeling thankful for the fact that he was not Peruru, "As you wish milady." Elios heard a crack, and thought, "If I didn't know any better, I would say that was..." He looked up, "The balcony!" Peruru was already flying away, so he had to give up his hiding place.

Rini didn't seem to notice when it crumbled, and huge chunks of stone started falling towards her. Not until a slab of stone crashed down next to her, did she look up, suddenly quite aware of her position. Elios launched himself at her, catching her, and rolling until they were clear of the entrance, "Oh gods! What happened?" She whispered, as he helped her to her feet, "I do not know, but I have a hunch."

Elios flew up to Peruru, and froze him into an impenetrable bubble, "What the hell are you doing Elios? You won, and now you have to punish me further?"

"First of all, I have yet to 'win' anything, but I think that you have an interesting ability of compulsory emotional spells."

"What?"

"Yesterday, you were feeling a storm of emotions, because Rini wasn't acting like she loved you. Hence the thunderstorm, which is irregular in the middle of spring. Today, you were angry at me; you just wanted to tell Rini that you loved her, but you had to go through me."

"Yeah, and I just stepped around you when you fell on the floor."

"So you cast a spell of disarmament without meaning to. Then, just now, Rini told you that she didn't know if she loved you, and you felt like you wanted to destroy something."

"True enough."

"Look down at the balcony above the entrance." Peruru did as he said, and his eyes opened wide, "Is Rini all right?"

"I saved her, but my point is that you put her in danger by having an untamed ability of your emotions acting on themselves. I am guessing that this doesn't happen at your home?"

"Never, everything is calm and peaceful there; I've experienced more negative emotions in the past two days than I have since the fight with Badianu."

"I think that you were different five years ago, you have just let your pride inflate too much since then, but do not worry, it will all go away when you are older."

"How old are you to be giving me that kind of advice? You look about the same age as me."

"I am close to two thousand three hundred years old, but that is irrelevant."

"Whoa!"

"Did you not know that Rini is eighteen hundred years old? Everyone ages much more slowly here."

"I'm only eighteen!"

"I figured as much." Suddenly, there was a pink poof of smoke, and Caira was there, "What in the name of Elysion... Oh hello Mr. Elios." Elios blinked, "Caira, what are you doing here?" Elios let Peruru out of the bubble, "Elios, who is this?" He asked, "My assistant."

"Priests have assistants?"

"The more precise term is 'apprentices'."

"Mr. Elios, I was hoping that maybe you could tell me why I am here." Elios raised an eyebrow.