Hello all you peeps, hope you have had a merry Christmas! I am so happy.. i got my nano iPod and am telling everybody i know that! n.n I love that thing so much... but i haven't even got any songs on it yet 'cause i gotta get my mom, who i will see tommorow, to show me. (sigh) Oh well!
Anyway, here's an update! Enjoy your reading! XD
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Chapter 7
A Second Time
To put it bluntly, the past few days were hell. Sherry wouldn't follow my instructions for training without a fight. There ere times where she'd sit on the ground and just stay there while she refused to listen to a word I said.
If I could just kick her around like I used to do in order to make her do things I would have done that but… I couldn't ever bring myself to do that. Ever since that one battle back at her mansion, I've started to feel sorry for her…
Damn it, what am I thinking? How could I feel sorry for her? She's a human! A worthless, lowly, little…
No, no… not lowly. What the hell is wrong with me?
I watched silently as the woman slept over to the side. It was late at night and we had been training all day. She was exhausted and required some rest if she were to be in top shape the next morning. My Black Book was still wrapped in her arms...
At least the rain stopped the other day. Sherry complained too much about how she hated being outside while it was wet and it had become rather annoying.
I sighed and directed my gaze elsewhere, my mind still focused on Sherry. I shifted my position on the ground, since I was sitting on it, and leaned my back against a tree behind me. The sounds of the night kept ringing through my ears until I heard a soft murmur.
To the side, the ningen stirred in her sleep. I watched as she rolled over, now facing me, and shivered in her sleep. "Brago…" she mumbled. Hearing my name being called from her surprised me, and then I noted to how she was shivering.
It became much cooler during the night, so I stood up and walked over to the blonde. Quietly I removed the fur cloak wrapped around my shoulders and threw it onto the blonde. I don't know why I did that… seeing her uncomfortable like that bothered me oddly.
As soon as it hit her body she stopped shivering and settled down. A satisfied smirk crept upon my lips as I turned away. Suddenly there was a bright purple light behind me and I spun around.
Either my eyes were playing tricks on me... or I just thought I saw my book glow. For now, it was my decision to forget about it. We could check the spell book in the morning... Sherry was too content where she was and I didn't want to bother her.
As I headed back to the tree where I was before, I thought I heard the woman mutter something under her breath. When I looked back, she was the same as she was before.
Odd…
I sat back down and sighed once again. We would wait until morning and check… We would see what would happen then. I decided to go into a deep meditation, so slowly I closed my eyes and my mind became blank.
-o-o-o-o-o-
As morning drew near, I began to gain consciousness. Wasn't I in mediation? Then how did I end up asleep? Damn it, I guess I was too relaxed… but… how?
It came to my immediate attention that there was warmth beside me. My eyes snapped open and I quickly looked over only to see Sherry leaning against me. As quickly as I could I jumped up but began to feel slightly dizzy from moving so quickly.
Since there was nothing to support her, the other fell down with a small thud. That woke her up. Slowly she opened her eyes and rubbed them for a few seconds, and then her attention was brought to me. There was a tiny shade of pink on her cheeks as she stared in my direction; I suppose she must have realized that I found out she was against me.
"Uh… Good morning," she said shyly now gazing at the ground. I looked elsewhere. I could hear a yawn in the background and then finally turned back to see her rubbing her eyes once again.
We were both quite silent after that, but then I remembered something from last night – the book!
"Sherry," I began as I stared down at her.
"Hmm?"
"Open the book," I commanded. She didn't seem to get the picture yet. "Open my spell book."
"Oh… this thing," she muttered, now holding up the one thing that kept me in this world. As she opened the book, the glow returned again, brighter than before. Sherry stared at the thing long and hard before she muttered, "The… second spell?"
It was like we had just won a battle and received some sort of great prize – except this time there was no battle. The prize…
Gravirei…
So clearly… I remembered it so clearly… Sherry's strong, determining voice shouting out my second spell. It was what she used to keep the reader of the Red Book and Zatch Bell from attacking us while she explained the Battle for Mamodo King.
At long last it returned… It was the second time I saw this spell come back.
"So, it's returned now, eh?" I stared down at her and her up at me. There was a large smile placed on her face as she beamed.
"We did it!" she cried. "You told me – you told me we had to get them back and we've already gotten a new one!"
"Good. Now we can begin our training once more." I turned away from her and I could hear the blonde stand up.
"Doesn't this mean anything to you?" I heard her inquire. "This is your spell book after all! Don't you care?"
"I care," I began, "but you have no knowledge of anything. You don't care as much as you should."
She was silent. "Brago, I…" She was cut off by a spell in the background. Both of us turned around only to be met by ice. The sharp shards scraped against mine and Sherry's skin as we both fell backwards to the unexpected attack. Sherry screeched and I merely growled as I looked up to see our opponents.
One was a human of course with black hair matted down onto his face. His mamodo was a strange looking creature that almost looked like some sort of beast - or a wolf. It had white fur and a brown face, its eyes covered by its hair. Their book was a light color - perhaps a light blue or cream colored green. I couldn't make it out.
Quickly I grabbed my cloak on the ground and threw it back on and immediately looked down to see if my bookkeeper was alright. She was.
"What – what is that?" she questioned, pointing over to the team on the other side of the area.
I answered her. "It's another mamodo team, and they've come to fight."
So, can anybody try and tell me who they think this team is? I've written a one-shot about 'em before... I will give you another hint: They appear in the 3rd manga! Buwahahahaha! And i also believe we'll see them around episode 50 something as well - manga and anime! Whoohoo! XD
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G'night, y'all!
