"Ahh! Not again!" yelled Yumi as a flame sparked on her skirt. "That's the third time this week!" she groaned after she soaked herself with a water-ball. One, which had gotten bigger than she wanted. She began to sop up the water and went to change. She put on a white tee and a black skirt. Once done, she looked in the mirror. Standing there was a young teenage girl, about 5 ft. tall. Her eyes and hair changed color, most times just shifting in no apparent pattern, but if her emotions ran high, her hair and eyes turned a color related to that emotion. Though she is very pretty, she frowned at her reflection. She turned to stare at her annoyingly empty back. sigh "Couldn't I at least have gotten wings?" she mumbled. "If I'm going to be a giant among my people, I could at least have gotten wings to look somewhat like them."
She walked out into the main room of her little hut where her mother was sitting on the kitchen table. The size of her mom and the shimmering semi-transparent wings sticking out her back just aggravated Yumi further.
"Could you grow to my size for awhile or hide your wings or something?" she asked.
"What's wrong Yumi dear?" Mab, her mom, asked as she fluttered over to settle comfortably in Yumi's cupped hands.
"I'm a giant wingless freak, mom!"
"Dear, you know the human blood from your father is much stronger in you."
"Yea. But I don't live with humans, do I? I live with fairies! No not even. I live in a hut out side the kingdom. Do you know how many times I wake up in the middle of the night to find little children spying on me to see 'The giant'?" she yelled.
"Dear, you're going to light something on fire if you don't calm down."
Yumi glanced at her hair to see it was blazing red and orange. She took a deep breath and set her mother back on the table. Another glance told that her hair was back to normal though it did have a reddish tint to it.
"Speaking of your powers, we really need to do something about them. It's only a matter of time before you burn down or flood out the kingdom."
" I can't even use my powers right." The disgruntled teen grumbled under her breath.
Mab ignored this comment and continued. "You know, I've heard of a wise woman named Genki. She has amazing spirit energy like yours and she may be able to help you to control your powers. Not to mention, it'll give you some time away from the kingdom and you'll be around people your own size. You can make new friends and who knows? Maybe you'll come back with a boyfriend."
Yumi flushed deeply and her hair and eyes turned pink. "Mother! Please. What makes you think that anyone would like me? I'm a mutant fairy, I look all sweet yet I love killing demons and killing them slowly at that," Mab paled a little. She was always a little scared about this. Fairies were supposed to be peaceful. "and I've got one of the biggest weapon collections in the world."
Mab gave her daughter a stern look. She hated it when your weapons were mentioned.
"Sorry momma." she sighed.
"I'm sure you'll find someone who'll like you for who you are."
"Whatever. Well I guess I'll go see this Genki."
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Three days later, Yumi arrived at the dojo of Master Genki. All she carried was a small bag about the size of a soccer ball. In it were contained food, a few flowers and herbs for healing and some threads for making clothes. Yumi could use her powers to elongate the thread and then make it weave itself into clothing. She was wearing a white T-shirt and black comfy sweat pants. She had two belts on: one for her sword and one stocked with throwing stars.
As she was approaching the place, she had heard a rumble of voices. Now a very large sweat drop appeared on her head as she found herself in among a giant crowd of large, powerful looking men; at least a hundred of them. She seemed to be the only female there. They were all eyeing her suspiciously.
I didn't think anyone else would be here, or at lest not this many. she thought. She knew that something was up but she didn't know what. She walked around asking people but they just shoved her off and ignored her. She approached a man with spiky, platinum blonde hair and black symbols all over him who seemed to be the leader of a small gang. He didn't even let Yumi talk. He walked up so that he was only an inch away from her. His close proximity scared her. She'd heard stories about the horrible things some guys do to young girls. The man spoke.
"So? Are you here for our enjoyment or does the little lady plan on competing against the men? Be careful that you don't break a nail." Before she could say anything or react he pushed her down so that she landed on her butt. The surrounding crowd laughed as she blushed. Though she did love to kill slowly and painfully, but she normally killed low class demons and she preferred to hide her fighting abilities so that people would underestimate her and she could then catch them off guard.
As she was trying to keep her hair from turning pink, (she don't want anyone to know that she was a junior wizard) she felt a hand grab her arm but it was gentle and it helped to pull her to her feet. "Thank you" she said as she turned around to see to whom the hand belonged. Standing there was a boy about Yumi's age. He had brown eyes and black, slicked-back hair. Next to him stood another teen boy. He was very tall and had orangey-red hair that sort of flopped over his forehead in a weird cone like shape. He looked a few cards short of a full deck.
"No problem" said the black-haired boy.
"Hey pretty lady. Are you ok?" asks the other.
Yumi nodded with an 'Is-he-seriously-hitting-on-me?' look. She realized that these two would probably be her best bet for figuring out what's going on. "Um. What exactly are all these people doing here?"
The shorter boy replied with, "You mean you're not here to compete? People are coming here to try to be this Genki lady's apprentice."
"Oh really? I just came here to get help with my powers, but maybe, if I become her apprentice, I could get the help I'm looking for. By the way, my name's Yumi."
"I'm Kuwabara," says the redhead while trying to look all manly.
"And I'm Yuskae." Said the other.
At that moment, the doors to the dojo slid open and out stepped an old women. She introduced herself as Genki. Some men laughed at how old she looked and tried to jump her but she just blew them away with her mind. An excited hush fell over the crowd. Genki smirked and turned back to the crowd.
"Welcome everyone. Time to start the games."