Mamodo and Ever After
Chapter 2
The First Spell is
The rest of the school day went on with nothing else of interest happening, until lunch that is, where Brago walked in halfway through the end of lunch. Raven was sitting with her friends, Maddie and Cerise, while eating the standard cafeteria food of disgusting inedible food when he walked over to the table while chewing on a chunk of meat.
"I see you chose to eat that terrible food dear sister," Brago commented as he stood behind her.
The other two went wide eyed at what the mysterious man just said while Raven turned to look at him and said, "could you say that a little louder, I don't think the rest of the school heard you."
His response was to smirk before yelling out, "I see you chose to eat that terrible food dear sister," much to her horror as the whole cafeteria turned to look at the two.
Ironically, the first to recover from the shock was the 'hero' of Raven's story and said, "please Raven, please say that you aren't related to this mean person."
"I would be insulted if that actually qualified as an insult instead of a appropriate description," Brago commented as he finished eating the meat.
"You went hunting in the forest instead of letting the woodland creatures live in peace," Ashlynn accused as she looked on in horror.
"I didn't go hunting, but when one crossed my path as I was taking a stroll, it was to weak, therefore it was devoured by the strong," he said as he cleaned his teeth with a toothpick.
Just than, little bo peeps daughter came in with a sad look on her face and asked Apple, "have you seen one of my sheep, he's missing and I can't find him."
All at once the entire cafeteria looked at Brago, who was still cleaning his teeth, the only one that didn't eat the food and came in with meat not on the menu. As if sensing the eyes on him, he turned to them with a board expression and said, "I saw a sheep go towards some kind of well."
The girl ran frantically through the doors and knocked down a few students while she was at it. Apple sighed and stated, "I thought you had eaten her sheep, sorry for just assuming you ate it."
Brago seemingly ignored her and commented, "so that was why the thing look so frightened, it was bred in captivity, no wonder it looked so stunned when I ate it."
"Okay, better retract that apology Apple, you lied to her and told her that the sheep ran to the well," Briar scolded with a glare for good measure.
"She never asked if it was alive when I left it, and she never asked if anyone ate it, therefore I didn't lie," Brago said with a smirk.
"You are just an evil person, nobody should just do what they want," Darling scolded with courage.
"I never said I was good, and what right does a weakling like you have to tell those that are stronger how to live," he said right back as he stalked up to her and looked her dead in the eye.
"If you actually believe that I am weak, than you have another thing coming," she warned with the eyes that Brago just loved to see, experience.
"Nice look in your eyes, but I have to ask, will it be enough to fight me, or will you need a prince to rescue you," Brago teased as he raised his right hand to initiate the first attack.
"BRAGO," Raven called out as she unleashed some magic power and sent an energy blast his way and struck his back. "Stop misbehaving, or do you want me to burn this," she said with a cold stare as she brought up a black book with strange symbols on it.
Now the audience they drew was just confused as why Raven would think that her apparent brother would care about a book, was it a part of his story?
"I thought you didn't want to play the villain, but you should now that stealing is a very villain thing to do," he accused as he turned to face his sister.
"This isn't like when we were little, I am far stronger than you know, and now I can beat you," she said with a smirk.
"You never could before, even while I still didn't have my magic and you did, but what makes you think it will be that easy," Brago asked as he got in her face now.
"Not easy, but I can still beat you, here Cerise, hold his book while we have a little sibling fun," Raven handed the she-wolf the book and flared her magic as she launched herself for her brother.
He reacted faster than the audience could see as he grabbed his sister by the collar and arm and judo flipped her into the table as food flung into the air and landed on her. She shot right up and shot random energy blasts at him so he wouldn't have time to counter her, but she forgot that he was always faster than her. He easily dodged the blasts and was able to get to a random piece of wood from the broken table and through it at her and forcing her to halt her assault for long enough so that he could get in close.
What came next was actually a clash of fists in hand to hand combat, and true to her word, she had gotten stronger, but not strong enough to beat him. Raven through a right hook while Brago judo flipped her again, but the time she was expecting it and twisted her body around to where she was in a perfect position to blast him in the face.
Brago's response to that was to bend backwards in order to dodge the point blank blast. He then used his superior speed to send a kick to her upside down form's gut, but didn't expect her to grab his foot and roll him into an ankle lock. It took him all of five seconds to get out of it as he used his own leg strength to throw her off of him. Raven quickly got up before going to attack him again with magically enhanced punches and kicks, but Brago countered with his own punches and kicks.
The other students all watched as Raven Queen and Brago squared off on relatively the same level, but if was clear to Darling that Brago was the stronger of the two. Her secret training made her battle instincts and keen eyesight better than all the other heroes and princes of the school. She could tell that even without his magic, Brago would probably be the toughest opponent she had ever fought if they were to go head to head.
She looked over and saw that the Cerise was just holding the book and not even trying to read it, so she walked over to the girl to ask if she could try. That was until Briar got in her way and asked, "hey Cerise, could I see that book that Raven gave you to hold onto?"
"I guess it can't hurt anything, it's not like you would openly try to destroy it just for the fun of it," she said as she handed her the book.
"Why would destroying the book matter at all," Apple asked as she appeared from nowhere.
"Didn't you see the way Brago reacted whenever Raven showed that she had the book, or hear that she said she would burn the book if he didn't behave," Maddie asked with a goofy grin.
"I think the book is an important part of his story, and didn't you hear him say that he doesn't have his magic right now, I think it is inside the book," Cerise informed them.
"Not quite right, but close to it," the voice of headmaster Grimm said from behind the girls, startling them. "Sorry to frighten you, but you girls should try and read from the first page, maybe you would find something there that would help with finding out his story," he suggested with a mischievous hidden smirk.
"Why aren't you stopping their fight, they could get hurt," Apple asked with such an upset look on her face.
Grimm frowned at this and told her, "because, dear Apple, this is a family affair, and on school grounds or not, your mother has forbidden me from interfering with any conflict between them. Besides, they are brother and sister, I don't think that they will actively try and kill one another, do you," he asked before he left with a smile.
"He's right, Brago wouldn't actually kill Raven, he may be a bit mean to her, but at the end of the day they are family," Briar said reassuringly.
"Briar, he is on her back while biting her ear," Apple pointed out as Brago was indeed on her back biting her ear.
"Get off of me, I don't know where you have been you demon," Raven yelled as she through him off and blasted at him before jumping after him.
"I would just like to point out how strange it is to see a drastic fight such as this," Cerise commented before opening the book in her hands to the first page.
Her, Maddie, Apple, and Briar looked in the book and found something surprising, nobody could read the language. "Do you understand what that is saying," Briar asked anybody near her in hope that her eyes weren't playing tricks on her.
"No, I can't read it, but why don't we pass it around and see if anyone can," Apple asked as she took the book from Cerise and passed it to Ashlynn. She couldn't read it either so she passed it to Dutchess who couldn't read it, she passed it to Cupid who couldn't read it. After Cupid came Daring, than Dexter, Melody, Kitty, Cedar, Holly, Poppy, Lizzie, Blonde, Hunter, and even Brooke Paige the young narrator of the usual stories couldn't read it.
"Wait a minute Brooke, why don't you know what it says," Maddie asked as she was the only one who was mad enough to ask.
"Sorry Maddie, me and the family are on vacation and won't be back until after this story. I only came back to check on you guys, but saw what was going down and tried to investigate, but even I couldn't read the language," Brooke said as she left to go back on vacation.
"Guys, the usual narrator said that even she doesn't know what was in the book," Maddie announced to everyone. Hearing that caused them all to stop in their tracks and look at her as though she grew a second head, Hunter even dropped Brago's book on the floor.
"You mean that even the voice that you hear that knows so much that you don't doesn't even know about the kids story," Daring asked while looking a little afraid.
"Why did you just stick that in my ear weakling," the all heard Brago yell as they turned and saw that he was trying to get a corn-dog stick out of his ear.
"You were the one that bit my ear, I was just returning the favor," Raven commented as she readied a huge ball of magic to through at her brother.
Brago could have easily dodged the ball, or take it head on and keep going, but this needed to stop soon. He only had to figure out how he was going to do that before some fool tries to read his book and actually succeeds. "REIS," he heard a female voice say as he instinctively brought his hand up and a small ball of purple gravitational energy shot from it and into his sister's magic sphere.
The sphere exploded prematurely and caused everyone to dive for cover from the debris going everywhere. Brago was the only one who stood as still as a stone statue, and when the dust finally cleared out of the way and everyone could see. He turned his head to see the one holding his book being none other than the one known as...