Chapter two

The purple clad women tapped her sandaled foot impatiently. "What is your wish?" she asked again.

Ruby stared in utter disbelief at the women before her. She looked about twenty years old, and had a slight Arabic accent which sounded weird when the language was Japanese.

Finally the witch was able to collect herself. "Who are you?"

The woman give an annoyed sigh. "Great, just great, five hundred years I've been stuck in that stupid lamp and I get an idiot for a master. Oh that's just wonderful." She said to herself.

"HEY!" Ruby yelled, annoyed.

The women looked at Ruby, her expression looked tired and bored. "What? Oh yeah, my identity." The girl sighed and seemed rather reluctant to say more now. She instead snapped her fingers and great spots of light like sparklers lit up the room, each light a different color; red, green, purple, orange and yellow. The sparks circled the women for a bit and then formed an arc over her head. "I am the great Azin, a powerful Djinn as old as time. I have powers beyond your mortal comprehension. And I can grant any wish your heart desires." Suddenly the sparks explode and bits of confetti fell to the ground in little tornadoes before they dissipated.

Ruby simply stood there in complete shock. "Y… you're a genie?"

*Monsterpedia: Djinn, more commonly known nowadays as Genie. They are an extremely rare breed of monsters, almost considered spiritual entities like lesser kami. They are beyond that of S-Ranked, able to grant amazing, reality-altering wishes to a person who finds their vessel, most commonly believed to be a bottle or oil lamp. They are considered to be tricksters though, sometimes twisting around a person wish so that it turns out bad or just granting the wish within the letter rather than the spirit. Once a Djinn has been summoned they will not leave until all of a person's wishes have been granted, whether they like it or not.*

The women now known as Azin sat down on Ruby's bed and stretched her arms. "No, I just did all of that stuff to impress you. I'm actually a goblin taking magic lessons."

"Alright, jeez, no need for all the sarcasm." Ruby frowned. This genie was nothing like ones she used to see in animated movies as a kid.

Azin rolled her eyes as she looked around the room. "Judging from the great interior décor you have, I am going to guess that you're a witch."

Ruby nodded as she sat down on the floor trying to relax and collect her thoughts.

"I've had a few of your kind as Masters before. Their wishes always having to deal with preserving of nature or wiping out a small population of humanity. Interesting bunch, but not really creative on the wishes though. Not that surprising, since witches to a degree can grant their own wishes, but not like I can. Hey, what centaury and country is this?"

"The twenty-first and the island nation ofJapan, why?"

"Because the last place I was in was 16th century Constantinople entertaining the Grand Vizier of theOttoman Empire. I really get around."

"Then how the heck did you get here?" Ruby asked.

Azin shrugged. "I have no idea. When I'm trapped in the lamp, I don't know anything that's going on in the outside world."

"That must get boring quickly."

The Djinn nodded. "Now for the third and final time, what is your wish?"

"I… I don't know, really." Ruby said, having almost forgotten about the wishes.

"Oh come on, you have my lamp, you summoned me, so you have to have some wish. Here let me guess, bigger breasts?" Azin snapped her fingers.

Ruby suddenly felt a tingling in her chest, and suddenly her breasts began to expand and grow from her nice ample B-cup to a full blown D, the top of her outfit strained and looking on the verge of bursting. In fact, a few seams already were slowly tearing.

"Hmmm not bad not bad, I also do really good work on butts and hips too." She was about to snap her fingers again when Ruby yelled out. "STOP!"

Azin paused, a look of surprise on her face.

"Make my breasts normal again please." Ruby said, her face very red as she thrust her chest out.

"Hmmm... never got a request to do breast reduction before." The Djinn said as she snapped her fingers and Ruby's breasts returned to their normal size, but her clothing felt a bit looser now. "What's the matter? 9 out of 10 times I get that wish from a female Master."

"I am quite fine with the way my body looks." Ruby told Azin. 'Although maybe I should find a way to do something like that myself later, if it pleases Tsukune-kun of course.'

"Well then, what do you want? You have three wishes to waste on yourself. Just consider yourself lucky that little demonstration didn't count." A little known fact about Djinn was that they were allowed to grant a single 'sample wish' as a way to prove their power to a disbelieving Master.

"So I really get three wishes? I thought that was just a default number."

"Yeah, if we gave people unlimited wishes then we would never get to change masters. And without some variety we would go completely insane. Now come on, there must be something you want. Money, power, immortality, or maybe a boy?"

"A boy?" Ruby curiously repeated.

"Ah, so you do want something." Azin happily stated. "Let me guess, you care deeply for him but he doesn't know you exist, right?"

Ruby shook her head. "No, he knows about me quite well. The problem is... several other girls are better at making themselves known." Images of Moka, Kurumu, Mizore, and even Yukari flashed thru her mind.

"So you want me to get rid of them?" Azin asked.

"No!" Ruby said in a brief panic. "No, he would never forgive me if he knew I was responsible for something like that."

"Ah, so you want him to only have eyes for you instead right?"

Ruby thought it over. 'Would that work? If Tsukune still has his friends but he only wants a relationship with me?'

"Well do you want that?" Azin impatiently asked with her arms now crossed in front of her chest and her crossed legs now kicking air as she waited.

"I'm thinking it over. From what I've heard, wishes have a tendency to go array so I'm trying to predict what could happen." Ruby answered.

"Smart girl, but just to warn you, EVERY wish comes with risk and consequences."

"Even if I phrase it carefully and specifically?" Ruby asked.

"That will help limit it, but nothing can eliminate risk completely." The Djinn replied.

"Okay, I think I got one. But I need a minute to say it the right way." The witch declared, making the genie smiled. Suddenly Ruby got suspicious. "Wait a minute, is there a catch to this?"

Azin's smile disappeared instantly. "A catch?"

"Yeah, what's in it for you? Do you get my soul or something?" Ruby insisted, remembering a horror movie or two where wishgranters did something similar to the people they interacted with.

Azin threw her head back and made an annoyed groan for a moment before looking back at the young witch. "You can't be serious, right?" Ruby just gave a demanding look. "I spend almost all my time in a cramped lamp for crying out loud. What good is a witch's soul going to go me? What could I possibly do with it?" She then stood up, looking a little angry now. "You think I do this as a job? Djinn are prisoners and slaves! I grant wishes because it's the only reason I exist! It's what I was born to be! You think I like it, having a life but not allowed to live it? Having power but only able to use it how others ask me to? I hate it, but I can't do a damn thing about it!"

"Okay okay." Ruby said defensively with her hands up before herself like a shield. "I just wanted to make sure I wasn't better off not making any wishes."

"If you're not careful, then maybe you will be." Azin warned. "So what's this wish you have?"

"Wait, one more question. Are there any wishes you can't grant?" Ruby carefully asked, hoping what she had in mind wasn't out of the question.

Azin looked surprised. "I usually don't get asked that. Okay, well, in no particular order, I can't resurrect the dead, turn back time, predict the future, or alter free will."

"Alter free will?" Ruby asked. 'So I can't make Tsukune-kun love me?'

Azin nodded. "Yeah, I can't make people do something that goes against their nature. At least not for long. What I can do is make a person act in a way that is within their character, but in a more specific direction. So if you want a boy to like you, it'll only work if he already could like you without the wish's influence."

Ruby sighed in relief. 'That's great. I know Tsukune-kun could love me.' "Alright, I think I'm ready for my first wish."

Azin smiled and sat back down. "Perfect."

"I wish..." Ruby started, pausing just to make sure she was going to say this right, and then it came to here "I wish that Tsukune while he still had feelings of friendship towards the other girls of the Newspaper club, he would seek to grow closer to me emotionally as a girlfriend and then over time want to become physically intimate with me, as lovers, and that all effects of this wish would take place tomorrow morning with Tsukune showing up and wanting to walk with me to the Academy." Ruby said finishing her wish.

Azin stared at her for the a moment and then smiled "Pretty detailed, alright then Mistress, so you have wished it, and so it shall be."