While Jing a Satoshi were on their little adventure. Kiretta had just stepped into her room and was almost plowed over by Jackie.
"You get this CREATURE!" She yelled, pointing at something behind her.
Kiretta flailed a bit so as not to fall over then looked in the direction Jackie was pointing. There standing behind her was an abnormally skinny Dog like creature with glowing red eyes, and the fur pattern of a germen Shepard. "It's been following me around ALL WEEK!" Jackie raged on.
Kiretta looked at the Demon Hound as it looked up at Jackie with a "Don't you call me a creature" look. "It's a Demon Hound Jackie," Kiretta said, and the Hell Hounds attention snapped instantly to Kiretta. It's Ears suddenly perked and it shoved Jackie out of the way to it could look at Kiretta. They were almost to eye level. Almost.
"Can I…" Kiretta nodded toward her room, signaling that she'd like to get in the room.
The Demon Hound nodded and moved a side and followed Kiretta to her room. "So you're my Guardian," She said opening the door and letting him pad inside.
"Yeah," He said in a slightly high yet distinguishably male voice. "I trained for years. I was beginning to think I'd never been chosen to protect a Summoner,"
"What's your name, or do I have to name you?"
"Names Roven,
Satoshi and Jing arrived in front of a rather large, expensive looking hotel. As Jing pushed the door open, Kir was immediately sidetracked by a group a sorceresses sitting on one of the plush couches on either side of a marbles table. "Shouldn't you stop him?" Satoshi asked Jing, who simply shook his head.
"There's really nothing I can do when he gets like that. We'll just have to get him on the way out," Then he added, "Besides Those girls practice magic. I'm sure they've seen weirder things then a talking Albatross,"
Suddenly and without warning, Jing grabbed a boy with messy brown hair, who Satoshi was immediately able to identify as Derek. "You!" Jing said spinning Derek around to face him. "Where is Kiretta's Dorm?"
Derek looked as if someone had just smacked him hard across the face. Not only had this strange boy in a rather bright yellow over coat randomly grabbed him but now he discovered that someone out there actually cared to speak to Kiretta. "What the hell could you possibly want with that mutt?"
Satoshi was instantly enraged by the mutt comment. Although at the moment he couldn't quite comprehend why. Well, he knew why. He simply didn't want to admit it. As much as he and Kiretta argued he was in no hurry at all the admit it. But, despite this, he couldn't help but feel a bit of satisfaction at the fearful look in the boys eyes as Jing's blade erupted from the sleeve of his over coat a few inches away from Derek's face. "If I wanted you to know what business I had with her I would have told you," Jing said, in a menacing way that Satoshi didn't think Jing had in him. "Did I tell you?" Jing lifted Derek off the floor by the front of his shirt.
Derek shook his head, looking at Jing with wide frightened eyes. "Now. Answer. The question," Derek gulped, "Room 309 on the left wing of the third floor," He squeaked. "Thanks," Jing said in his usual cheery voice and dropped Derek on his ass and started towards the stairs.
Satoshi followed silently behind even though he wanted badly to go back and knock a few of Derek's teeth out, he figured Jing had done enough damage.
"305... 307... " Jing counted off as they neared Kiretta's room. "309," Jing pounded hard on the door.
"I'm coming!" Called a rather aggravated voice, then the door flew open to reveal a rather aggravated, brown haired girl, with a toothpick in her mouth. "What?"
"We're looking for Kiretta," Jing said trying to look around her.
She studied them for a moment but then seemed to recognized Satoshi. "Oh! You're the blueberry!"
Satoshi sighed and rolled his eyes as Jing gave him a questioning look. "Blueberry?"
Jackie shrugged. "She's called him many things. Blueberry is the only one I remember."
Jing shook his head. "Anyway, is she in now?"
Jackie shook her head. "She went out with her creature to wander the place,"
"Any idea where she might be?"
Jackie thought for a moment, "It's possible she's in the study getting ready for her tests next week end,"
"And the study is…?"
"Very end of the right wing,"
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Almost immediately upon entering the study they heard Kiretta's voice from somewhere near the back of the study. When she finally came into view they saw her sitting at one of the three long tables near the back. She was sitting with her arms crossed on the table and her head buried in them. Across from her was, what looked like, a malnourished germen Shepard, standing up on it's hind legs so as to get a clear view of the book laid out on the table before it. The Shepard pushed that book aside and flipped open another using freakishly long dark purple claws, read a bit and asked a question, and Kiretta would give a muffled response. Satisfied the Dog would flip through a few pages and the process would repeat.
"See? What did I say? Weirder then a talking bird," Jing said as they walked up behind Kiretta.
As they neared the Dog stopped mid word and watched them closely. "Something wrong, Roven?" Kiretta asked looking up slightly.
"Now, if only you would put this much effort into tests at your other school and you might not be failing," Satoshi said, cause Kiretta to emit a small yelp and fall out of her chair.
"Commander!" She squeaked "You shouldn't be here! You either!" She rounded on Jing, who was looking at the books on the shelf behind him. "Do you hear me!?"
"Uh-huh," Jing said absently pulling out a book on the magical properties of gems and other common minerals. "I need some help, of the magical kind," He said, flipping through the book. "I need a sealing spell,"
"First," Kiretta said, snatching the book from Jing "I only told The commander about this place but I didn't tell him were it is. So how did you find me? Second, Why do you need a sealing spell? Third, It doesn't matter because I won't be learning how to seal anything until I get into higher summoning, which I can't do unless I pass the test, which I can't do unless I study, which you two are preventing me from doing!"
Jing held up his hands in defense. "I understand why you're upset. But I just want to know if there is a way to seal a soul inside an item,"
"I've heard of it being done in stories… But I don't think any of them are true. But I can't help but notice that, I only have a partial answer to one of my questions!"
Jing sighed and watched as a group of students entered the study. "Is there anywhere with a bit less… life, we could discuss this?"
"Fine," Kiretta stood up and left for the door with the Demon Hound close behind.
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"So you're not from this world and there's an evil money monster that feeds of desire that is now lose in this world that's originally from your world and now you need me to seal it back into the coin you put it in back in your world," Kiretta said after hearing Jing's explanation of why he needs a sealing spell. "and you're the King of Bandits?"
"Well, I guess that explains how you managed to outshine Dark," Satoshi mumbled.
"Hello," Kiretta said "Least of our worries. So," She turned to Jing. "What does this Piggy bank man want in this world?"
"I honestly don't know. That's what I meant to find out when I broke in," Jing didn't say anything more after but did send an almost accusing glance in Satoshi's direction, that Satoshi chose to ignore.
"So you want me to help because you think that he's being somehow escaped that coin?"
"Yes,"
"I suppose that makes sense, but I don't know how much help I'll be. The most I can do at the moment is try to find a soul sealing spell somewhere in one of the books. Until then, you try to find out more on money man's intention,"
Jing nodded slightly and then looked over at Roven who was watching him carefully. "Well," Kiretta said, getting off the couch they were sitting on, "Now that we have this all planned out… I must kindly ask you both, to get the fuck out," She said with false kindness and rushed them both out "I have to spells to practice,"
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As the two boy were making their way down the hall and towards the stairs poor, poor unfortunate Derek exited his Dorm and bumped right into Satoshi who, suddenly overcome by the same urge he got when they first met, caught the boy's shoulder in a tight grip and slugged him hard in the jaw, causing him to stumble back a few feet, now dazed and confused.
Jing watched Satoshi walk by with and air of pride and shook his head.
After about 15 minutes of practicing the summoning of her decaying samurai and finally doing it success fully Kiretta decided she would take Roven on a tour of the school under the hotel, and as she stepped out of her dorm she watched Derek pass by, not until he was right in front of her did he notice, he not only looked very frightened by also that half his face was red, like he had decided it was a good idea to run, full speed, into a brick wall. She watched as he passed glancing over his shoulder a few time and shook her head, deciding, no matter how badly she wanted to, it was best not to ask.