Chapter Three – Explanation
"Hello." The boy said in a small voice, "I'm Tanjit."
Dylan immediately noticed the boy's surprising resemblance to Jacob. He, too, was short and small, and had big, mint green eyes.
"Uh, Hi!" Dylan said to Tanjit
"So, Dylan, how did you meet Jacob?" Victor asked.
"You won't believe me!" Dylan said.
"C'mon! Sure I will!" Victor said.
"Okay," Dylan said, "Jacob...flew into my plane, and caused it to land. That's where we met."
"What? Really?" Victor asked.
"Yeah! Isn't that amazing? I didn't believe it at first, but then I realized he was being serious. He even gave me this book!" Dylan pulled out the Dark Orange book Jacob had given him earlier.
"Hey! I gave the same kind of book to Victor!" Tanjit stated, excitedly.
"Then your a.." Jacob said to Tanjit.
"And your a..." Tanjit said to Jacob.
"A mamodo!" Both Jacob and Tanjit said.
"A mamodo?" Dylan asked.
"Yeah! Every thousand years, one hundred mamodo descend upon Earth from the mamodo world to engage in the ultimate battle. The winner of this battle will become king of the mamodo world! Each mamodo needs a human partner to activate the powerful spells contained in their spell books! You have to aim at the your opponents' spell books and hit it to win a battle; it'll send the book's mamodo back to the mamodo world!" Jacob explained.
"Whoa…that's some interesting stuff!" Dylan was amazed.
"And the last one standing is the new king of the mamodo world!" Tanjit added.
Dylan opened the book. It was full of symbols that made no sense to Dylan.
"How do you read this?" Dylan asked.
"All spells are powered by the book owner's heart. The more you believe, the more powerful the spell!" Jacob explained.
Victor opened his light green book.
"Hmm..." Victor thought as he scanned the book.
"I see…Victor, this means even though we're related, and best friends, we're rivals now! We should make a promise to each other: We will try our best to stay in this fight to make sure it's us in the last battle. That way, one of our mamodo will become king!" Dylan explained.
"That's a wonderful plan!" Victor exclaimed.
It was settled. Later, Victor and Dylan took a walk around the block at sunset. Victor and Dylan were remembering old times, and Jacob was filling Tanjit in on the whole game Dylan had played while on the plane.
Dylan and Victor - who were in front - stopped as soon as they saw two figures standing in front of them, casting long, dark shadows with the sun setting behind them. One was a man with a mamodo spell book in his hand, and the other was a gray mamodo with very sharp claws – and it was in a battle stance!
It had begun! The mamodo battles had started!