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Chapter4
"DAMN IT! DAMN IT! DAMN IT!"

"Setsuna-san…"

"NO! Asuna-san…just…" Setsuna continued banged her fists on the floor over and over again. "Argh!"

Negi noticed that the black barrier surrounding the room started to fade. "You guys…the barrier…it's starting to fade…" Indeed the barrier was starting to loose it's effect but they couldn't go after Konoka. They had absolutely no idea where they went or where they were going in the first place. Of course, at the same time no one was actually listening to the young wizard.

Mana closed her eyes wrinkled her eyebrows.

Setsuna's banging continued to echo in the room and it was starting to make everyone guilty. Kaede kneeled and placed a reassuring hand on Setsuna's shoulder. "Setsuna-san, calm down. We WILL go after Ojou-sama once we get out of this mess."

Setsuna lifted her face, full of frustration and anger. "How?(!) We don't even know where they're planning to do! All we have is a name!" She shouted as loudly as she could. Then, it registered in her mind. They actually had a name, the name of whoever planned this whole scheme to kidnap Konoka.

Then it hit her, quite hard actually. Pathetic, that's what she was right now, just plain pathetic. She didn't know if Konoka was still alive or not but the fact that she thought it was all over was just plain stupid. For a while she just kneeled there, saying nothing at all.

Kaede looked over to Mana, Asuna and Ku-Fei and together they shrugged and sighed.

Setsuna picked up her sword from the floor, stood up and sheathed it. "Let's go, the barriers gone."

Negi rolled his eyes. "FINALLY you notice…"

Everyone followed Setsuna out of the damaged room and there stood Eishun who seemed to know what had happened. Setsuna and Eishun stared at each other, both with serious looks in their faces. After a while Setsuna finally spoke up. "Eishun-sama, I'm sorry, they…got away with Konoka Ojou-sama."

Eishun closed his eyes and inhaled deeply. "Setsuna-san, you do know that I have to inform the Kansai and Kanto Magic Associations about this…unexpected event."

Setsuna nodded. "Yes sir."

Tarahuno entered the hall still carrying Konoka on his shoulder and Kitesei followed him from behind.

Tarahuno laid Konoka on the floor in front of him and kneeled. "Ryuujin-sama, we have that girl you wanted."

The masked shadow followed Tarahuno's actions and kneeled down as well.

Ryuujin was leaning on the back of his throne with a wide smile spread across his face. He emerged from the shadow of his throne clapping and laughing. "Very good, very good!"

Tarahuno and Kitesei glanced at each other and Ryuujin continued, smirking. "I thought that you would come back empty handed! It seems that I was wrong then!"

Both the lizard demon and shadow demon remained silent and Ryuujin continued once more. "Very well then, you may leave." They both bowed and left the hall.

The room was quiet and no one had the guts to break the silence. For the first time Ku-Fei thought she had never seen Chamo so quiet.

Asuna thought she was going to die, silence was not a good atmosphere for her. Setsuna had her eyes closed, looked like she was meditating. Well, Kaede…Asuna couldn't tell if Kaede was awake, Mana had no expression on her face, as usual. Negi looked serious…something that wasn't normal in her eyes. He looked kinda…cool. Asuna freaked out at her own thoughts. 'Wait, scratch that last thought…'

They were all waiting, waiting for Eishun-sama to come through that door and tell them what the hell's gonna happen to them. They obviously failed their very important task, it HAD to have some consequence.

Slowly the shoji doors opened and Eishun came walking in. The temple head didn't even bother to sit down. He wanted to have this conversation as short as possible. They all looked up at him, expecting bad news.

"I have just received news from Kirei. It seems that you will all be suspended under the Kanto and Kansai's elders decisions." He paused and looked at Setsuna. "Until further notice you are to stay in the head temple." Setsuna nodded in understanding but Mana noticed Setsuna had a rebellious look on her face.

Eishun then shut the shoji door behind him and his footsteps started to fade. Setsuna stood up and headed for the door and left.

Asuna sighed. "Setsuna's taking this too hard."

"We all know she has feelings for Konoka, Asuna. She can't help feeling guilty."

Asuna was surprised at Negi's knowledge. "I never knew you knew that much. Must be the media."

"You must really be maturing Negi-bouzu." Ku-Fei forced a grin.

"That's not a very good sign for us de gozaru."

"We must be growing old."

"Don't say that Mana-san, were only 15 after all! And this brat is only 10!" Asuna retorted.

"Well, maybe Negi-san is catching up then."

Negi just smiled and they all left it at that.

Setsuna was walking as fast as she could without looking suspicious. She had to get to the temple's archive room, FAST. Once it reached nightfall she was sure that the temple would be more secure, meaning more guards and stronger barriers. She decided to look for 'Ryuujin' in the archives. She was suspended from her duty and she couldn't just stay and let some other people handle this. This was nothing personal, only about duty, she told herself, and yet it WAS personal. At this moment waiting and doing nothing wasn't an option for her.

She reached the archives and opened the shoji door, her eyes adjusted to the darkness of the windowless room and a hundred bookshelves were revealed. She got the small flashlight from her pocket and opened it.(You know those really small flashlights, puny ones?) 'These had better be in alphabetical order…'

Konoka did not dare open her eyes. If she remembered correctly, she was knocked out and taken away by some lizard demon and by a mysterious shadow humanoid thing. It was obvious she was lying down on a long chair…or something like that, her head was leaning on an armrest and her legs were hanging off the opposite side. She felt a pair of eyes staring at her. Maybe if she was lucky, all those things she remembered were just a nightmare and maybe those eyes she felt staring at her were Setsuna's. Konoka knew that she had to open her eyes sooner or later, and maybe now that she had hope she could open her eyes. Too bad who she saw wasn't someone she wanted to see. Instead she found herself staring at an unknown face, grinning and smirking at her at the same time.

"Ah, you finally woke up."

Konoka didn't say anything but sat up. Ryuujin was now standing up still looking at Konoka. He had long alice blue hair, cobalt eyes and was dressed like royalty.

"What do you want?" Konoka was straight to point.

"Let's see, nothing much actually."

That didn't work. "Who are you?" She continued.

"My name is Ryuujin, I'm a descendant of a dragon god."

Konoka cocked her eyebrow. "What?"

Ryuujin laughed. "I guess you wouldn't understand."

She then glared at Ryuujin, who looked her in the eye.

"R…R…" Setsuna muttered while walking through the shelves. She was already in M…after 30 minutes of walking. She started her search at three in the afternoon and it was now three thirty. After another thirty minutes she finally reached the R bookshelves.

Apparently there were a lot of books under M.

"Finally…" She started to browse the books for about fifteen minutes and finally found the one she was looking for. She grabbed it by the spine and brushed the dust away.

She read about 'Ryuujin'. Apparently he had a castle somewhere north of Kyoto. Of course she had never heard of such castle but continued reading. 'Lived in an underground castle, which can be accessed through a cave in Mt. Isoki. Guarded by four temple guardians.' 'Underground?' She raised an eyebrow, closed the book and placed it back on the dusty old shelf.

"Setsuna-san?"

Setsuna turned to see who called her and saw Asuna and Negi looking at her with curiosity.

"What are you doing in this dark, dusty and not to mention, scary room?" Asuna asked her while shaking some caught web off of her hand.

"Well, what are you guys doing in here?" Setsuna asked with suspicion.

"You see, we saw the door open and we never even noticed this room before so we decided to check it out." Negi replied with an innocent voice.

Asuna looked at her still waiting for an answer. "Well? What are you doing in here?"

"I was searching for the name 'Ryuujin'. I don't actually plan on just staying here and doing nothing while Ojou-sama is somewhere in an underground temple being held captive by some dragon god who wants to do god knows what to her."

Chamo had his perverted ermine look and sniggered. "You sound like he's going to do something weird Setsuna-neesan"

In a blink of an eye Asuna had Chamo under her foot begging for mercy. "Shut up you perverted ermine!"

"Ack!"

In a flash Setsuna was out of the room. "Ah! Setsuna-san! Wait!" Negi called out and ran after her.

"Oy! You guys!" Asuna started to dash after them.

Setsuna had to hurry, it was four fifteen and she planned to get to Mt. Isoki if possible, before nightfall. While running she found that she wasn't alone.

"What do you plan on doing?" Mana asked Setsuna and Setsuna immediately stopped running.

"Let's wait until Negi-san and Asuna-san catch up."

Negi and Asuna finally caught up. "H-Hey, Setsuna-san, why did you run off like that?" Asuna asked.

Setsuna didn't seem to listen to Asuna's question. "Okay, my plan is to go to Mt.Isoki, enter the underground temple and get Ojou-sama back."

"You make it sound so simple gozaru…"

"I know it's not that simple but if your coming with me then let's get going and if your not then I'll just save Ojou-sama myself."

"Fine, I'm with you Setsuna-san but obviously Eishun won't cover my bill so…"

"I know, I will."

"Ah, then I might as well go to de gozaru."

"Ku-Fei is coming too!"

"Huh!(?) What?(!)" Asuna looked confused.

"But we were told not to leave the head temple!" Negi argued.

"It's up to you if you want to come along but I'm not forcing you too, Negi-san."

And with that Setsuna, Mana, Kaede and Ku-Fei started running out of the Head Temple.

"H-hey! Wait up you guys!" And Asuna dashed after them even though she was confused.

"AH! Asuna-san! You guys! Wait up!" Negi then decided that maybe he too should tag along.

Konoka found herself being hypnotized by Ryuujin's cobalt eyes against her will for she did the mistake of looking him in the eye a while ago.

He led her to one part of the hall and she noticed that there was a circle with some signs that were unfamiliar to her. They now stood in the middle and Ryuujin tilted Konoka's head up and she found herself dreading what would come next. She felt his lips against hers and she couldn't do anything about it. 'Secchan…gomen…' She felt her eyes heating up and tears started trickling down her face for kissing someone who was not the one you loved hurt.

A glow started emitting from the circle that they stood in and a card appeared and gracefully fell on the floor.

He pulled back from the kiss and picked up the card and showed it to Konoka who looked at it with emotionless eyes, which were still spilling out tears. "This is a pactio card. This means I can use your power now."

Konoka did not say anything.

"Ah, well, I didn't expect you to appreciate it in your current state. Now, now, why are you crying? You should be ecstatic that you have made a pactio with me! Those in the Kansai and Kanto magic associations wouldn't even know how to use your power! At least here with me you have a purpose."

They were all out of the temple perimeter now and Setsuna led them to the bus stop.

"Bus stop? Why are we going to ride a bus?" Asuna looked at Setsuna with a 'I thought we were going to go save Konoka' look.

"Unless you want to risk our abilities being seen then I suggest we take the normal way to Mt. Isoki."

"It would probably take a little bit more than two hours to reach Mt. Isoki so while were on the bus we should get some rest." Mana told them.

They got on the bus quietly and got off at Kita bus stop.

"From here we'll just have to walk to Mt.Isoki. Negi-san can probably fly by now without being noticed."

And at that they all started to run except Negi who preferred to fly. If one would get tired they slowed down. They eventually reached Mt. Isoki and Setsuna found the cave mentioned in the archives. They reached the end of the cave and just as the book said there was a secret passage.

Asuna tried to open the gate but did not succeed. "Hey! It won't budge!"

"I didn't expect it to, Asuna-san."

"Look, there is four holes on gate." Ku-Fei pointed out for Asuna who didn't seem to notice this.

Kitesei appeared from the shadows and showed them a small orb. "That won't open unless you have all four of these."

"Huh?(!) You again?(!)" Asuna shouted.

"Asuna-san, please calm down."

"Yeah, you should calm down you know." Tarahuno agreed while stepping out of another shadow and immediately grabbed his axe from his back and charged at Asuna who blocked it with her Demon expelling sword.

"Ah! It's not the harisen!" Chamo shouted out shocked.

Another two appeared one who seemed to be a fairy and one fox demon.

Mana grabbed her guns. "We are obviously not going to have an easy time fighting these guys Setsuna-san."

"We aren't outnumbered but I'm afraid we are overpowered gozaru"

Setsuna drew her sword. "Yeah, I think I can tell Mana-san,Kaede-san."

And with that they blocked the attacks which were thrown at them.

Kinda like a really long filler chap eh? There actually IS a Mt. Isoki in Kyoto and it kinda will take long to walk there if riding a bus will already take you 2 hours. Mehz, anywaysRead and REVIEW. hahahhaha