Ah, chapter 12. Remember, review, send in OC's, blah, blah.

"You'll pay for what you did to our brother!" Futuro and Adesso said together. Rico, Passo's bookkeeper, had run away while Quinn and Luigi stayed to help they're Mamodo fight.

"If we can take down your brother, than we can take down you, too! Jay, lets show 'em!" Alan yelled. But Jay wasn't in any condition to fight. His heart was pounding hard, and he had just run for his life! How could he even hope to take on these two? The two snickered.

"You look like you could take a break." Futuro said. That line sounded familiar…. Hadn't Rio said it in their battle with him?

"Gigano Braidon!" Jay yelled angrily, as the wet whip of hair started to flog Futuro and Adesso. He wasn't about to feel as powerless as he felt during the Rio battle. It knocked the remaining two of the triplets back. They were red all over, and dripping wet. They didn't seem to be hurting, they were more surprised.

"You don't know what you've gotten yourself into." Futuro said shakily. He looked at Luigi, his book owner, and nodded. Luigi than gave a scared look back.

"That one?" He asked. Futuro nodded again. Futuro than smiled slowly and mischievously.

"Meet your destiny." Futuro said.

"Gigano Avenir!" Luigi yelled. There was a flash bang, creating a small explosion, engulfing all of them. Where in time would it send them now?

Meanwhile…

There was a knock at the door of Prima's apartment. She had healed enough that the doctor allowed her to go home, but she wasn't fit to get out of bed just yet. So Hawke answered the door. He knew that he would probably be met by a scream, as they all did. How would you react if a six-foot tall birdman answered the door at a friend's house? Hawke saw a kid at the foot of the doorstep. He was surprisingly short, but his tall, spiky yellow hair made him almost as tall as Hawke. The kid let himself in, much to Hawke's surprise.

"I'm here because you burned my friend's book." He said nonchalantly, sitting down in the living room. Hawke closed the door, and looked at the kid.

"So what? We all have to burn books in this battle, and if I had to burn that little brats book, than so be it. Now, who are we talking about?" Hawke asked. There was only one person's book he burned, but he didn't want to provoke the kid. If his book owner was close by, than Hawke would be done for.

"Ever hear of a Mamodo called Mir?" The kid asked, slightly annoyed. Hawke walked into the kitchen.

"No, why?" Hawke replied. The conversation was a bit awkward, considering the kid had just barged in without introducing himself and then just announcing that Hawke had burned his friend's book. It wasn't the greatest of circumstances to meet. The kid sighed.

"I didn't think so. Let's see… um…. Have you met a Mamodo named Multos?" The kid asked.

"Again, no." Hawke answered. He didn't like what this kid was trying to get to, and didn't understand it so much either.

"Well, good, cause that's me. But I guess you would've of already figured it out if that was the case. What about Ramon? Ever met a Mamodo named Ramon?" The kid, Multos, asked.

"No. What's the point of all this?" Hawke asked, annoyed. Who did this kid think he was? Barging in there with a line of questioning fit for a criminal.

"My point is," He started, trying to find the best way to explain it,

"My friend was a shape shifter."

Meanwhile….

'2237' the holographic sign read. 'Celebrating the reign of Solarus III his death, and his successor Amadeus IV!' It was obvious they were in the future now. Jay and Alan looked up to find towering skyscrapers and flying cars. The sky was blue as can be, although barely seeable amongst the tall buildings.

"This is your world in 227 years." Futuro said, a smile spreading across his face.

"And the arena for your demise."

"I don't like this, Futuro! We could disrupt the entire space-time continuum! We really shouldn't be messing with time, especially in the future!" Luigi argued. This is why he didn't want to cast the spell; He didn't know the consequences.

"Shut up. We'll be out of here as soon as I burn his book." Futuro said with an evil smile.

"What about the book owner?" Luigi asked.

"Leave him here to rot, I have better things to do than to watch him walk away without a scratch, considering what he did to my brother." Futuro replied with a scowl. As the two proceeded to argue, Jay and Alan took advantage of the moment.

"Immobi Braidon!" Jay called, as a whip of Alan's hair attached to a flying car way up above.

"Well, don't let them get away! Use a spell!" Futuro yelled.

"Giga La Orentor!" Quinn yelled. Adesso shot a tornado out of his mouth at Jay and Alan, as they rode atop the flying car. Futuro was surprised. The mild mannered Quinn never assisted them in battles. 'She may be more useful than I thought…" Futuro thought, as the tornado caught the edge of the flying car.

"Um… uh… Oh! Braidon!" Jay yelled, noticing a pole hanging from one of the skyscrapers they were quickly passing. Jay held on tight, as Alan's whip of hair acted as a rope, propelling them toward the skyscraper. They knocked hard against the Plexiglas outer wall. Relieved but bruised, the two watched as the flying car died away with the tornado, falling at amazing speeds toward the ground. It fell with a thud and an explosion.

"How are we gonna get out of this?" Alan asked, trying not to look at how high up they were. Jay held on for dear life.

"I don't know, but at least they can't reach us up here." Jay replied.

Futuro didn't like the situation from where he was standing. Their opponents were hanging literally by several threads on a lock of hair, way above in the skyscrapers. "How are we gonna get them down from there?" Adesso asked. Even though Adesso was the only one of the triplets with direct attack spells, he was the most quiet and most gentle.

"Cast one of your wind spells, like the tornado one again. See if that could shake them off." Futuro said. Futuro, unlike Adesso, was extremely cold hearted and didn't care who he'd have to hurt to get to the top. Even though Futuro relied on his brothers, he was really the strategic leader of them. And if it ment he had to throw someone under the bus for the good of himself or 'the team', he would do it. Adesso was distraught at the command.

"I don't want to kill them, and that fall surely would." Adesso replied.

"Well, are we just gonna stand around and wait for them to fall on their own?" Futuro argued. And that was the spark. The argument started, and they were going at each other with fire in their eyes.

"I don't think I can hold on much longer, Alan." Jay said. His hands were sweaty, and he was just holding on to Alan's shoes.

"Me neither." Alan said with a smile on his face. He had tears in his eyes.

"What's wrong?" Jay asked.

"I was just thinking how much I'm going to miss you and all the nice fish." Alan said, licking his lips.

"At a time like this you're thinking about fish?" Jay yelled at him, waving his fists in the air. Wait. His fists?

"!" Jay was falling. Why did he let go? Over a stupid comment about fish. He felt so much pity and anger for himself that the book started to glow. Feeling defeated, he opened it simply out of curiosity.

"Just at the moment I don't need it, I get it. Figures." Jay said, almost unremembering of his near-at-hand fate.

"Might as well cast it while I still can." Jay said. He looked at the new spell, took a deep breath, and started to recite it.

"Buron Braidon!" Jay read. As Alan's Braidon spell disappeared, a red strand of hair fired from Alan's head. Looking at it closely, Jay realized why it was red. It was on fire! And heading straight for Luigi, Futuro's book owner.

"…And how do you suppose we'll beat them then? We need to strike now!" Futuro shot back.

"So you would rather kill them than let them get the upper hand?" Adesso said with a scowl, very disappointed in his brother.

"I don't care! Just focus!" Futuro said, unable to think of something good to retaliate with.

"Uh… guys?" Luigi asked, as he took a step back. The two kept arguing.

"Guys!" Luigi said louder.

"What?" The two brothers asked simultaneously. Behind Futuro, a flaming braid of hair punched him, and he fell down, on fire. The braid then started to follow Luigi. It launched the magenta book out of his hands, and sent it simmering unto the ground. Futuro started to fade.

"This is your fault! If you had reacted quicker…" But Futuro couldn't finish. He was gone.

Meanwhile…

"So you tell me that your friend's power could allow him to turn into things?" Hawke asked, a bit wary of what this kid was saying.

"Yes, but that's not why I'm here. I'm actually here because of why he was sent." Multos replied.

"Wait. I have a few more questions." Hawke said.

"No time. You see, Mir, like me, belonged to a group called the 'Grand Hidden'…" Multos continued.

"Well, who ever came up with that name wasn't exactly the most creative Mamodo," Hawke laughed.

"Don't laugh. The 'Grand Hidden' contains a fair amount of the current Mamodo." Multos replied correctingly. Hawke wasn't exactly intimidated, but started to listen intently.

"Mir was put in charge of trying to betray all of the Mamodo against each other so that there would be less Mamodo when the 'Grand Hidden' started its purge. Mir would impersonate different Mamodo; take on their personalities, looks and spells. He even had a spell to turn his book owner into the book owner he wished to impersonate. They were the perfect duo. But, in order to stay in character, they could only use the spells of the other Mamodo they were impersonating. So, if they had to fight hard, they had to fight hard with the Mamodo's spells and only that particular Mamodo's spells. So there was always a hint of danger." Multos said. He took a deep breath.

"This all must be hard to take in. Should I keep going?" Multos asked.

"Yeah." Hawke said.

"So, basically, after Mir's book was burned, I had to replace him. My first target was you, but I couldn't bring myself to it. I thought of you could beat a power like Mir, than you could beat anybody. I want you to join me in trying to destroy the 'Grand Hidden'. I've got some people to help us."

"So do I." Hawke said with a smile.

"I'm in."

Meanwhile…

"Just burn it! I couldn't last a moment without my brothers any way." Adesso said. Quinn and Luigi had run away in fear, and Adesso was stuck in the warehouse after a purple tornado sent them back to their own time. Quinn had left behind the book for Adesso to care for.

"Are you sure?" Alan asked. Adesso was surprised. After those two had burned his brothers' books in cold blood, they were thinking of sparing him?

"I don't need your pity. Burn it."

"Okay. Buron Braidon!"

And that was the end of the triplets.

(End of Chapter 12: 90 Mamodo left)

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