AN
hey! I'm not dead!
Three weeks have passed since that faithful visit to the stable and the beginning of my friendship with Astrid. I've started to find her antics amusing and maybe even a little cute... maybe... but my feelings for Astrid aside. This day was a major milestone in my journey: my first battle.
It was a Tuesday night I had just gotten home from a night-time religious school, and before you ask, I go there of my own free will, I consider myself to be relatively religious. Anyways, my friend dropped me off and I walked to the house and someone came out of the shadows. I hurried to get my key out of my pocket so I could get inside, of course, my friend had already driven off, not that he'd be able to help me much with what was about to happen.
"Are you the bookkeeper of one of the demons in that house?" asked a woman, probably in her late twenties, maybe early thirties, I'm bad at guessing peoples ages, She was dressed casually, in jeans and a zipped black jacket, but the most distinct thing about her was the cyan book she was holding, I couldn't see the design due to it being night and all, but it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out it was the same as the fuchsia one in my arms. It was made even more obvious when a tenish-year-old girl came out from behind her, she was a pink sleeveless dress with black trim and black leggings. Even in the dark, I could tell that they didn't want to be friends.
"You're the bookkeeper for the demon in that house right?" the girl demanded an answer.
Not trusting my self to speak I simply nodded. I was even too nervous to wonder how she knew that there was a demon in my house specifically.
"Good," the girl responded with an evil smirk, "come back out with them and meet me in your back yard, you have ten minutes before I destroy your house. And you better not tell anyone else," she punctuated that with a snicker; with that, she and her partner walked to my backyard a large plot of land that was just flat grass, with some tree in the back.
Shaking I unlocked the door and entered. Once inside I sat down against the wall and looked the dark fuschia book in my arms. My first fight, I didn't know how it would go never in my life had I ever gotten into a physical fight, and now I was about to get into a magical one I was not prepared.
After I composed myself, I got up and put down my notebook, and called the twins to explain the situation.
"I guess we have to fight," Siona said with a shrug, neither of them seemed too phased by the situation.
Steeling myself I led them out back, book in hand, but not before grabbing a book of matches...
"Aw, they came... I was really looking forward to destroying the house and forcing them out"
Not really knowing what to do, I stood across the yard from them, the twins in front of me.
"Where's the other bookkeeper?" asked the opposing demon.
"There is no other bookkeeper, they share a book, I cast spells for both of them," I responded, my voice was probably shaking a little for the girl started chuckling.
"They must be new, this is probably their first fight!" she laffed, a smirk appeared on her face, and it stayed there.
I don't like being laughed at, so that filled me with emotions that I channeled into the book, making it glow brightly.
Her book began to glow as well. "Amupooru!" the older girl shouted, and the girl's hands and arms grew to ridiculous proportions, she stretched her arms and giant hands towards us; then her smirk turned into a look of confusion. I guessed that she wasn't used to having three targets to grab with her two arms. I tried to take full advantage of her confusion.
"Twins!" I shouted, "Siona left, Azoth right!" I had the beginnings of a plan forming.
Though we did not have any attack plans, lucky the twins were smart and knew what to do. Azoth ran to the left keeping a good distance from the girl while looking at her, Siona did the same but from the right. I took the time to catch a glimpse of her bookkeeper who didn't appear to be paying much attention to the battle.
Her hands went to chase after my demons. "Gikeru!" I shouted as ice launched itself at of Azoth's hands, he aimed that at her giant one. She was not used to fighting multiple demons at once, or at least not multiple demons with the same bookkeeper, this caught her off guard, allowing the icy blast to make its mark. this caused her full attention to go towards the boy. "Gikeru!" I shouted once more. But she was prepared this time, knowing where the attack was coming from she was able to dodge it. Siona looked at me quizzically, I gestured for her to go to the trees, it took a few tries, but she did get it and followed my direction, I really needed to come up with code words. I looked over to see how Azoth was fairing, so far he had yet to be captured, "Gikeru!" I shouted she dodged and grabbed him. Then her other hand grabbed me. This must have been the one that Azoth was attacking, for it was very cold. Her grip was very rough, and tight, I might add, I felt like the air was being squeezed out of me, as she raised me off the ground. "Siona!" I called out, "now!" once again we were on the same wavelength and she sprinted right towards the girl I watched her ger close as the opposing girl looked confused for she was out of hands, "faikeru!" I called out with my remaining breath, sending knocking the girl off her feet. That sent her arms flailing sending me and Azoth flying, landing on the cold hard ground. Still to this day, I have no idea how I didn't break anything, though I did blackout for a second for the next thing I knew the twins had pined the girl to the ground.
On shaky feet, I walked over to the other human, "welp, that's that," she said with a shrug and just handed me the book. I was going to have Siona use her fire to burn it when I realized that I left it on the other side of the yard. Then I remembered the matches in my pocket, with those I burnt the book, and I watched it burn as I fell to my knees. With the adrenalin wairing off I noticed how injured I was, nothing serious but not pleasant. As the book finished burning the twins came over to me each putting a hand on my shoulders.
"It was crazy lucky that we were able to communicate that well but we need to be more prepared for the next one," they agreed as we headed inside to tend our wounds, only then did it dawn on me how lucky I was that my mom was out that night.
I thought about calling Ruby and Astrid to tell them about this but that was exhausting. I decided to call it an early night, I would tell them the next morning. I didn't know at the time was why I felt so drained, the spells draw energy from the bookkeeper, Astrid and I called it our SP, a stat that we needed to level up.