So to recap, Eve's in the dungeon's, Ren's in the girls bathhouse, and Hibiki is stuck with Kylie. Let's see how they're doing now...
Hibiki glanced down at Kylie to see she was yawning, struggling to hide it.
An idea hatched in the archive mage's brain.
"You know, Kylie, it's real late, I think you should go to bed now."
Kylie shook her head stubbornly.
"B-But I'm not t-t-t-t..." She was cut off by another wide yawn.
Hibiki smiled kindly at her, she was, quite frankly, adorable.
"Tell you what, if you go to bed and don't tell your parents I was here, I'll give you this."
Hibiki pulled his lacrima torch from his belt.
"What is it?" Kylie asked as she took the large device, fiddling with it for a moment.
"You can push this, and..." Hibiki reached over and hit the switch, activating the torch.
At once, the two of them were bathed in multi-colored light.
"Pretty!" Kylie sang, a glow in her eyes as she stared into the glittering orb.
"It runs on lacrima battery, so if the battery dies, just ask your parents to buy you a new one and it'll work again. Ok?"
"Ok!"
Kylie than threw her small arms around Hibiki's neck.
"Nighty, night, Mr. Rabbit!" She exclaimed.
Hibiki was surprised for a moment, before returning the little girls hug.
"Ok, sleep well." He said.
"Kay! Bye bye!" Kylie than skipped off down the hall, switching the lacrima on and off, watching the light flash and giggling.
Hibiki stood up and put a hand on his hip, sighing with a bemused sort of smile on his face.
He then straightened his shirt with another sigh and took off into the hall, heading the opposite direction as his small new friend, unsure of what to do next.
After several minutes of dodging through the halls, studying the pictures on the walls and trying to find his way to his teammates, he saw something that made him freeze.
Behind a large set of double doors, carved with a dragon on either side, and a thick iron ring for a door knob on each end, he caught a flash of bound spins of paper.
He stepped through the doors, and swore that he'd just died and gone to any bookworms heaven.
The library took up four whole stories, huge floor to ceiling bookcases made up the walls on all sides, the ground was carpeted with thick red, several sturdy wooden tables were spread at even intervals across the space.
The amazing thing was that the four story book cases were not covered with ladders or stairs to reach the higher books.
Hibiki walked slowly inside, turning round and round in awe.
All around him were groups of comfy armchairs and plushy couches in red velvet and gold, with claw footed designs of deep dark wood.
Beneath each piece of furniture was spread a simple red rug with gold tassels.
Weird...
Hibiki thought, curious, as he deeper wandered into the behemoth room.
Why are there rugs under the chairs and couches when the floor is already carpeted.
He turned again and gaped at what he saw.
One of the couches was floating, suspended by magic, halfway between the ceiling and the floor.
The carpet beneath it is some sort of levitating mechanism!
Hibiki thought, astonished.
The rug was dropping though, and Hibiki had already turned to one of the shelves, wanted to take a quick peek at the books a lost guild like Draconem Heart may have in stock.
The rug had landed with it's couch, but Hibiki didn't turn around, he was already totally engrossed in a book he'd pulled from the shelf.
That was when he heard a loud snorting noise.
"YAGGH!" He wailed, spinning and chucking the book in his hand at the strange noise.
"OW!"
Hibiki gulped when he heard a female voice echo through the room.
He stared at the figure now rubbing it's head as it sat up on the couch.
Apparently, she'd fallen asleep up in the air on her couch while reading, and when she'd snored, she'd been struck by book.
Hibiki stared at the head of frazzled pink hair, fair eyes, eyes glinting with fury, wearing a tight button up blue pajama shirt with little hearts on it, and matching pants.
She leapt to her feet, donning blue bootie slippers, and turned on the offender who'd hit her in the face with a book.
Hibiki was gone, he ran for his life down the hallway.
Meredy chased after him, shrieking.
"I'LL MURDER YOU THIS TIME STING!"
She thinks I'm one of her guild mates! Help!
To late, Meredy, with a herculean throw, managed to chuck her book into Hibiki's back, the giant 1,000 plus paged epic knocked the dark blonde haired wizard to the ground.
"Take that you idiot lamppost!" Meredy cried triumphantly, than she let out a yell.
"Y-You!"
Hibiki rolled over just in time to see the point of Meredy's summoned sword at his neck.
"Why. Are. You. Here?" The girl demanded, her hair slipping down her shoulders.
"P-Please, Meredy, you remember me f-from the games, r-right?"
Hibiki stuttered.
"Sure I do. Hibiki Lates. Member of the trimen. Blue Pegasus archive mage. Key words, Blue Pegasus mage. You shouldn't be here, this is our guild, Draconem Heart, right now your trespassing on property no one but a guild member has ever touched in 30 years."
Meredy growled dangerously.
"I-I-I..."
"Get up." She ordered, seizing the front of his shirt and dragging him to his feet.
Hibiki stumbled to keep his balance.
"Where are we going?" He demanded as Meredy's sword in his back caused him to begin moving forward.
Meredy gave him a little half smile.
"We'll talk this over with my superior, of course. Personally I don't think you'll give us away, although you hitting me in the face with a book doesn't do you to good for me vouching for you. But it's not my choice."
Hibiki already knew the answer, but that little flicker of 'what if' caused him to ask.
"Who's choice is it?"
Meredy tilted her head, her wild mane of bubble gum pink hair making her look rather crazy.
"Why, Master Dracoya's, of course."
Meredy rapped on the door to the clock tower that served as her Master's office and home.
The pink haired mage heard the door to the apartment above the office creak on it's hinges and the sound of soft footsteps coming down the stairs.
The door opened to reveal Master Dracoya, a scowl on her face.
Her green hair was in a hastily done ponytail, she wore a tightly tied red bathrobe with red slippers.
Her green eyes flashed with annoyance, she looked absolutely pissed.
"It's very late, Meredy, what's wrong?" She asked shortly.
"This guy..."
Meredy began, prodding Hibiki in the back with the flat of her sword.
"...is from Blue Pegasus, he broke in, was looking through the castle, hit me in the face with a book, and I captured him before he could escape."
Master Dracoya looked at Hibiki, and under her gaze Hibiki felt like he was going to spontaneously combust and explode into dust.
The dangerous Heavenly Dragonslayer snarled, and Hibiki was afraid he'd accidentally awakened her dragon force by awakening her.
Now, the woman had to deal with quite a lot in the daytime, just yesterday she'd had to repair the entire lake with the help of several of her water and earth wizards, rebuild the dock, and send Misty, Sting, and Natsu to remedial classes, which she'd than had to teach. After that Kylie had run up reminding her of how she'd promised to let Kylie train in the courtyard. She'd had to monitor that, watching Kylie doing super speed laps around and around the field, dodging small, harmless targets. After that Sting and Natsu had broken into another fist fight at dinner, prompting her to ship the two of them off to yet another class to teach them a lesson about using their magic in a dining hall brawl.
All in all, another usual, run of the mill, completely exhausting day for the guild master of Draconem Heart. All she needed was a good nine hours of sleep and she'd be ready to do that all again, but now, someone, someone stupid, was waking her up during her much needed sleep.
And nothing was worse than a pissed off sleep deprived dragonslayer.
Master Dracoya glanced over Hibiki once, than said.
"Take him to the dungeon."
As Hibiki sputtered in panic, Dracoya yawned, her hand running through her tangled mess of pale green hair, and grumbled.
"I'll settle it all in the morning."
The door slammed in the poor archive mages face and Meredy shrugged.
"Well ok then."
Hibiki got to see Eve again a whole lot sooner than he'd expected.
Well, there you go, Hibiki and Eve are down, Ren is the only one who remains, will he rescue his comrades? Will he survive the terrors of the girls bathhouse? Will he teach Kylie some new vocabulary words along the way? We'll see! Please favorite, please follow, please review! Thanks!