I LIVE!!!!! Ducks rotten fruit. Hey thats not very nice. Im sorry but I had exams, had to stay with

my grandmother for a week and she wont let me near the computer, and I got a puppy. Shes sooo cute,

she 6 weeks old, her mom was a chocolate laba dn her dad was albino lad. Shes mostly chocolate with a

little bit of white and she has 1 blue eye. Love her to pieces. Oh well sorr. Ill try to hurry but

if my grades are bad itll be next year until I can even look at the computer. I love all of my reviews

but Id really apreciate some questions or suggestion. Anything is loved though. This is still

flashback mode. Im moving really fast so sorry if I stumbel , tell me if you want me to reexplain any

thing. WIhtout further ado .... the story.

PS: About the whole ownership thing, never have, dont and if I ever do Ill discontinue the story because

Ill be too busy having fun with my new captive... er... pet.... un FRIEND Yoko!!!

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The sprite, Gimi sat calmly runing her hands through her freshly washed hair. Sprites are not

the most attintive creatures in existance. Gimi for example, had forgotten how old she was the day she

was born, had given birth to a sprite, but after a day wandered off and left it, luckily this is normal

so her baby was already fairly mature, and chances are that had the forest caught on fire she wouldnt

have noticed until after she herself was on fire. Gimi would actually be considered fairly smart for

for a sprite considering she knew enough not to wait around after she was on fire. She had the regular

sprite appearance, a long almost strait body, eyes with no pupils or whites that glowed a faint pink,

ears that were long and pointed, almost rabbit like, and hair that was storm cloud grey that floated around

and behind her to mid back. All these things taken into perspective what happened next was more of a

miricle than imaginable.

Gimi heard a strange sound. Desideing that her hair was getting boring she looked up and saw a

baby. Seeing that the little ugly little red thing wasnt very pretty and therefore not worth her time,

she started to walk off. She had gotten about three steps when another earsplitting wail broke through

the air. Gimi turned to see that the baby was caught on a few twings. Guessing that if it didn't go

away its screaming would keep her up all night she picked it up. She was about to throw it back into

the river when she got a good look at it. The little demon baby was deffinitly a bitch puppy.

Unfrotunatly, it want Gimis maternal instinct that convinced her to take the welp, but the babies the babies

pretty colored fur, and eyes. Forgetting that babies need milk she grabed a few squirels broke their

necks and gave them to her. Once again it was only luck that saved the little pup when she saw that the

warm blood trickling from the dead creature was nourishing. A few days after that once she could crawl

Gimi left her to track or catch her own food. And so the years progressed.

After a time the pup learned to bring down bigger game and eventually how to change between

humaniod demon and animal demon forms. From Gimi she picked up the Irish tongue. However it was from

infrequint interactions with other deamons hat she pieced together the Makia language. Though every

species had their own variations Makia bisic was understood everywhere. Gimi was defenitly still a

sprite to the soul but except for a few occasions she always remembered not to leave her anywhere akward

like a desert or a bar fight.

It was when the welp now refered to in a sentance as, "Mini, hun,...." was about four years old

that Gimi was at her current flings home, in the Mountains. While Gimi was having her fun Mini, hun,

found a rabbit and ate it, before curling up near a frozen river to sleep. The next morning everything

changed. Aparently Gimi had wandered off, and for the life of her, Mini, hun could not find were she had

gone. She was uncharictaristicly sad, for despite the fact that Gimi was far from a mothering figure,

she had many time stoped aruements that might have gotten Mini, hun hurt by offering to spend the night

with any number of demons. Given she might have done this anyways, but now the young pup was

defenseless.

Its fair to say that the next events were just as strange as Gimis adoption. She was

interupted from her thoughts by a growl of frustration.

"Now what in all the hells am I sapossed to do with a runt pup sleeping in the middle of my

training area?" the man who Gimi had stayed the night with questioned to himself. He was definitly not

a striking man in body so much as spirit. He was as most elementals were true to his element, ice, both

physicaly and mentaly. He had a saved head covered in tatoos to increase his control and power. A chin

length, wel kept beard betrayed his hair color to a pure snowy with. His skin was a light chocolate

color. Except for his eyes, wich were purely elemental, blending from black to dark grey to ligh grey

to white in a way that you couldnt distinguish were the puplis and whites began, he could pass as ningen.

Until you saw him move. He always seemed to be moving to the side even when he was advancing. If he

wanted to he could just slip into to a pocket of icy nothingness and reappear were ever there was ice.

"Just proves me right," he continued after a moment, "hanging 'round those sprites is enough to turn my

brain into a rock. For I must be at least that stupid to have let her leave the stupid little thing

nosing around, when I knew good and wel that sprites cant keep their minds on a thing unless its

sitting on their heads."

All the wile Mini, hun just sat there and looked at him. This was annoying. "Well brat," he

barked, "why dont you just go find your mother your aunt or what ever. Just so long as its away from

here."

She just tilted her head to the sid and continued to stare at him like he was about to do

something important.

"Look brat I dont know who you are but you will be leaving NOW." he said his eye starting to

twich in frustartion.

She, at this point, was also getting anoyed. "If youre gonning to be screaming at me an ye

cannot be speakin in me own language din you could considr yellin in a language dat ive at least herrd

abot." she spat in a highly accented Makia.

"You mean to tell me that in your life youve never heard Japanese?" he said switching to

Makia. "Whats the name that that sprite called you?'

"No" she said, "I 'avent, an Gimi been callen me Mini, hun when shes wanting me to do sometin."

"oh kami" he prayed, "I cant let you walk out here without even knowing one of the most common

tongues in Makia. You being so little I doubt that you could even get a high demon to escort you outta

here for your "companionship". Fine then, as long as you stay out of my way and shut up you can follow

me around. At least that way I wont step on you."

What should I call you?" she asked whith the ability that all children have to take everything

in stride no matter how strange.

"You arent going to be speaking to me, whelp. But my name is Bracken. From now on youre only

to speak to me if it is of the upmost importance. Then, youre only to speak Japanese, unless its life

or death when you will speak Makia. I dont want any more of that Irish until you know the others and

once you know them youre gone. Got that?" She nodded. "When I ask aquestion," he said cuffing her

lightly "youre to reply "Hai" or "Iei". Now I despise calling anyone a hun, mini or not, so Ill call

you something else. Mehiru. Can you remember that?"

"Hai." she said having learned her lesson.

"Good. Now find something to eat and stay outta the way." he said in Japanese. It took her a

moment of two to understand but she caught the drift when he cuffed her to get her to go away and

started to look for his own food. ~Woonderful~ he thought ~Im getting soft in my old age letting some

little whelp run around.~

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Did ya like it?? Im working on the accent. If anyone could translate no and retai Tantia for me I use

to know but I cant remember. Thanks. R and R

YokoYuyGal