Ryu woke up and stretched, feeling great for once. He got up and cook up the breakfast for five of them. He put down the bowls for Bast and Warrior, small meal bowls and water bowl for Moonsong and Ikuto, and a plate of healthy meal for him,
He ate his meal as the familiars are eating rather noisily in the background. He put his bowl and the animals' food bowls in the sink. He refilled the water bowls for the birds and canines.
Ryu took out the cards from under the futon. (That idea came from the author who wrote Banished Destiny in Harry Potter and Gundam Wing crossover.)
The card has yellow diamonds, clovers, hearts, spades, jokers, queens, kings, and numbers on it while in the background has the transparent yellow sun that reflected under the light. The edges around the cards are made with metal to be razor-sharp. It will never wear out or lose their sharp edges.
Ryu can infuse wide variety of flames into the cards, making them a dangerous weapon to use with. He put the cards in the Celtic tattoo in colored purple and indigo that was created to store his weapons in. He decided to remove his magical tattoos and move his weapons to his Celtic knot tattoo.
He sighed as he left the building and headed to the school.
Ryu sat down at the table to do his homework with the animals sleeping in the perches and beds. He look at the clock to see it is almost time for the sun to set.
He shifted to his chibi form as result of his angel blood.(Idea came from the CLAMP manga Wish. Go look it up.) Ryu flew around, his clothes change as well.
He wore long sleeve turtleneck sweater with fake coins hanging from the hem of turtleneck, long dress-like garment with slits, thin pants, and sash around the waist with bow on back. He landed on Warrior who look at him with amused glint in his eyes.
Ryu yawned and went to sleep, curled up in warmth by Warrior.
He woke up as he felt the sun rising. Ryu flew up, light blinding the familiars as he transformed back to his original size. He headed to the bathroom to do his business, take a shower, and brushed his teeth and hair.
Ryu cook the breakfast for the familiars and him. He put on the uniform, put his hair into bun with metal hair clip and few hairpins to keep the fringe to hide the scar in place, and put the wand holster in left thigh that holds his wand which is sakura wood(cherry blossom), core of fire kitsune and hair of sun unicorn(rare), and is about same size as Harry. He can use both hands for the hands.
He put three earrings in left ear and eight earrings in right ear, orange choker and chain necklace as usual, rings on thumb, ring finger, and pinky on left hand and rings on index and middle fingers on right hand.
He head to the school when he heard the sound of hurried footsteps with the sharp ears. He dodged and blinked as he realized it is Tsuna in boxers and flame on his forehead. He winced as he heard the screaming from the girls and few boys about Tsuna being 'hentai'. The right eye twitched in anger as he realized it was the Italian hitman behind this.
He glared at Reborn and left the school grounds. He muttered few curses in Italian, Arabic, and Chinese.
He flung his school bag into the corner of the building.
Ryu flung himself into the bed, not feeling well. The animals are worried. Pale skin flushed with pink color, showing he has the fever.
Warrior is quick to act. He used his magic to change the uniform to pjs. Bast pulled the covers over Ryu.
Ryu panted as he succumbed to the illness he had. Ikuto swooped down to nudge the cellphone opened and found the date. It is one day before his thirteen birthday.
The familiars look at each other and knew the time has come. They wove their own unique magic to make the wards and waited for their friend to wake up.
-Inside of Ryu's mind-
Ryu wandered around the green forest and look around. He heard the rustling sound and saw the Shiba Inu sitting next to the small shrine. He could feel the power rolling off the dog in waves.
"Welcome, Child of Sun. I am Inugami. I am impressed that you willingly accepted wolf as your familiar. I will give my gift and use it wisely." Inugami spoke.
"Thank you, Inugami-sama. I accepted all magical creatures as equals. I don't give a shit about them being a dark creƤture. I am not surprised if the werewolves rebelled against the damn Ministry fools who can't move on to twenty-first century. Quite frankly, I like Japan and Italy better." Ryu bluntly replied.
Inugami laughed his ass off at the interesting boy who was forced change into his gender and knew he is actually a female.
"I like you, Gemma." Inugami chuckled. "I will see what happened if the idiots who dare to piss you off. That will be entertaining!"
Ryu felt something in him stirred as Inugami vanished.
He felt Mother Magic is stirring again to talk to him.
"It seem the Dog God has give you the gift." Mother Magic spoke. "I wish you a happy birthday, little Gemma. I will grant you another gift which you need it someday but not now."
Ryu's magic gleamed white as Mother Magic put the gift in him.
"The time will come for you to show the true self of you, little Gemma." Mother Magic spoke. "You might want to train to control over Rain and Lightning Flames soon. You might need it."
Ryu nodded in understanding as the mindscape change to the barren wasteland to train while Mother Magic assigned the Bakeneko to help him.
Four days later, Ryu woke up as the illness passed. He winced as the muscled protested for being unused for a while.
Ryu carefully applied his Sun Flames to heal the sore muscles. He noticed the familiars are staring at him in amazement.
"Ok, why are you all staring at me like that?" Ryu asked.
"You felt slight different and not to mention you got the visit from the Inugami which is amazing." Bast spoke up. "Mother Maic, Inugami, and few other Japanese gods and goddesses has left you some gifts."
Ryu look beside the futon to see there are presents lying there.
"You had a fever, which is the result of the magic core to expand to accept the increased energy." Warrior said. "You were out for four days to recover. I already prepare the cake and they helped as well."
Ryu smiled and hugged the familiars in thanks. He turned back to open the presents.
He noticed the box with holes and look back at the familiars with raised eyebrow. The familiars shrugged their shoulders.
Ryu open the box and gasped as he saw it is the three dogs sleeping.
Two are Chihuahuas of different coat and color type. One of three is pomeranian-like Japanese spitz. The familiars look over the box as and gaped in shock at the sleeping dogs and realized the dogs are her new familiars. Ryu look around for the note and found it.
'Hello, I gave you the dogs as the gift.' It was from Inugami.
Ryu snorted to hold back the laughter bubbling from his chest. He continued to tear away the presents as well.
A black kimono with red butterflies was from Tsukiyomi.
Some books on understanding the youkai from Inari.
Battle clothes was from Amaterasu.
Ryu put away the things into his trunk and put into his tattoo. He look at the sleeping dogs.
He stretched and ate the vanilla cake along the familiars who love it very much.
Ryu sat on the roof, looking at the full moon. He could heard the song echoing in the night sky. He fell asleep.
