TALE II. Why Did I Do This Again?

"So, what have we learned?" Senka asked Elwood cheerfully. He raised an eyebrow.

"I should build a time machine and stop myself from becoming your apprentice?" he replied dryly. She looked at him curiously.

"Hm. I guess that works too, but I was thinking more of robbing a bank...," she replied thoughtfully. Elwood's jaw dropped in shock.

"What!" he shouted, hoping maybe he'd heard her wrong.

"Ya...a time machine is good and all, but robbing banks is just, ya know, more fun..."

"For who!"

"Everyone of course! Especially me!" Senka replied cheerfully, as always. Elwood was getting sick of this same routine almost every minute of every day.

"That's it, I quit! Senka, you're no longer my master!" he yelled, crossing his arms and turning away from her. She shook her head, still smiling and with no concern on her face at all.

"'Fraid you're mistaken. Didn't you read the fine print?" Elwood turned back and looked at her nervously.

"Fine print...?" he stammered nervously. He definitely didn't like where this was going.

"Yup. Look-you can't quit. I must disown you. And I must say, you are the funnest slave...er...apprentice I've ever had!" she nodded. Elwood sighed. Of course...the reason his life was doomed was because of something so stupid as he hadn't read the fine print of a contract that he didn't even remember existing.

"Wha-! Why did I agree to this?" he cried out to himself.

"If I recall, it had something to do with your life story..."

"Oh yeah...There was that day five years ago when..."

LATER...

"...so then it really seemed like a no brainer," Elwood finished. Senka, who had been falling asleep, quickly snapped awake.

"Fascinating, really," she smiled. Elwood felt like he was forgetting something...

"Funny thing-I can't remember what we were talking about...," Elwood said, still trying to remember what it was he forgot.

"Really? Shame." If Elwood hadn't been so busy thinking, he would have noticed Senka smiling even bigger now.

"Hm..." Elwood still couldn't figure it out, and was starting to think it must not have been important.

"Anywho...let's go Elf Wood," Senka said finally, getting up from the rock she had been sitting on to listen to his story. Elwood immediately twitched.

"EL-WOOD! Not elf wood!"

A/N: Yay, I'm getting faster at writing these outta script format so... Ah, but dang it...I forgot that around tales 30, 31 they start getting pretty darn long...drat. Ah well. The first ones aren't the funniest. The best are yet to come.