AN: Sorry that this update is so short. I messed up. I'll still try to wrap up this story before March 23, 2018. I'll do my best!

Haruka was studying, when she heard the door of her dorm room swing open.

"Hey Gin", she said.

"Hey Papa", replied her daughter.

Haruka looked over her shoulder. Hotaru was there. She looked tired. Really tired. Haruka got out of her chair and gave Hotaru a big hug. "How was school?"

Hotaru wrapped her arms around Haruka and hugged back, she squeezed Haruka really tight. "It was okay"

Hotaru let go. Haruka let go of her.

"Whats up?"

"I got in a fight. My math teacher was brainwashing students."

"She was?", Haruka asked.

Hotaru nodded.

"And my Ancient Runes class was really long. "

Haruka sat down on her bed. She motioned for Hotaru to take a seat. Hotaru shook her head.

"I just came here to grab Gin's Ancient runes book. He said I could have it. Because he already learned all the course material last semester"

Hotaru walked over to Gins bed. She knelt down and started pulling stuff out from underneath it. There was a stack of beat up magazines under the name Howlers. These had scantly clad monsters on the cover. One issue apparently offered "Hot Yeti on Kraken action".

After Hotoru cleared out that obstruction she had to move several bins worth of photographs. Most of these weren't all that appropriate. Some of them were probably taken from an area adjacent to the girls locker room. But some of the photo's were photo's of sunsets, the Youkai forest, and places Hotaru didn't recognize.

One photo in particular caught Hotoru's eyes. The photograph was a little torn at the edges. The color was starting to fade. And the woman in it was not in a state of undress.

She was peering into the camera. Her eyes were green, forest green. She had short bristly dark hair. She had a leather jacket on her, and a child in her arms. She was smiling. Beaming at whoever was taking the shot. She had frayed jeans on, and beat up sneakers.

Without thinking, Hotaru pocketed this photograph and continued her search.

A few old textbooks were underneath there. But not the one she was looking for. She laid flat on her stomach and really reached back. She pulled out another book. This one was an Youkai middle school year book. In haphazard handwriting, at the bottom right corner of cover, were the words "Property of Gin the Pevert".

Hotaru briefly considered opening this one. But she pushed that aside as well. And she went back onto her stomach. This time she extended her hand all the way till her finger tips were all the way out. She finally found what felt like a large leather bound book. She pulled it back, and examined it.

At long last she'd found her new used ancient runes book.

Hotaru started to put the other things away. Haruka came over to help her. And maybe Haruka gave a few issues of Howler a double take.

"All the Youma you could ever want or need?", murmured Haruka as she jammed another copy under the bed, "The dark kingdom had a swimsuit collection?"

She frowned, "Usagi told me their main base was in the Artic. How did they find time to make it all the way down to Barbados?"

"I think that most of them could teleport", Hotaru replied, "Like us"

"I'll have to ask Usagi about it", Haruka grunted as she pushed a big bin of photographs underneath the bed. Hotaru pushed another big bin underneath. And with that labor finished she grabbed her book and got up to leave.

"I'll see you tomorrow", she told Haruka.

"Stay safe sweat pea", replied Haruka.

Hotaru left the dorm. She closed the door gently behind her.

Haruka sighed. She went back to studying. And kept on studying till her communicator went off.

It was Usagi.

—00000—-

Usagi was in her dorm room. There were half a dozen books on the desk next to her. She hand't opened half of them. Usagi was sitting on her bed. She had activated her Communicator to talk to Haruka.

"Haruka, we have a problem"

"Whats up?"

Usagi raised her communicator up to her face and whispered, "I lost The Eternal Tiare"

"Fuck", responded Haruka, "where are you?"

"I'm in my dorm room"

"Whats your dorm room number?"

"Room number 444"

"Stay put. I'll be there in five minutes"

—-00000—

There was a Witch sitting in an abandoned class room. An extremely clever Witch. This witch didn't even bother with the school uniform. Instead she wore a witches hat, and an sensible dress with a yellow ribbon on the collar. Because she actually had a fashion sense. Unlike all the utter cretins at this stupid school.

At the moment she held something very very powerful in her hands. And this object made her wonder aloud, "Could there really be another witch at this school?"

Thats what Yukari Sendo, the youngest and smartest student at Youkai academy, wondered. Because she found this Unidentified Wand like object of unimaginable power. It had come to her when she was trying to channel excess love from Youkai Academy into magical energy.

"She's probably hiding", the hyper intelligent prankster reasoned, "If she wasn't hiding then the monsters that bully me would bully her. And she might not be able to defend herself without this. I should send it back"

Yukari drew a magic circle and placed the wand like object in the center of it. "Of course, if she did get this taken away so easily then she can't be as smart as me. So . . . maybe she doesn't deserve to have this."

Yukari Sendo pulled the Wand Like object out of the magic circle she'd placed on. In its place she put down her own wand. It was a simple thing. It had a pentagram on the handle. Her parents gave it to her as a starter wand. But she was so good with it that no one say the need to get her a new one. So she kept on demonstrating the same superb magic with it.

Now, with whatever after had given her, she could probably demonstrate some truly superb magic. For her first fantastical trick Yukari Sendo would send her old wand back to whoever the old wand belonged to. And she'd do it with her eyes closed.

Yukari placed her own wand in the circle and yelled, "Magic Magic do what you will!"

There was a burst of bright pink light. It was so bright that Yukari could see it through her eyelids. And it blasted out through all of the abandoned class rooms window. Lighting up her hiding place like the fourth of July.

Yukari opened her eyes, " I did it. I - well of course I did it. I'm a genius!"

The brilliant witch fist pumped with her right hand and . . . then she realized that something was missing. Namely the Wand like object that she'd used for the ritual.

"Its gone!"

Palm met face as she realized, 'and my wands gone too. All I have now is my Taro cards. If any of my bullies find out . . . I'm dead'.

"I have to find my wand. I have to do something. Maybe I can-"

She started to draw out another magic cirlce. This one would have to be at least five times the size of the other ones. To increase the chance of it picking up her unfocused magic. This might not work. It could make thins worse, or it could be a start. Yukari felt that she had try. She didn't want her obituary to read "here lies Yukari, smartest witch at Youkai Academy. Torn to death by brutes after misplacing her wand".

That would just be embarrassing

—0000—

"Ugh, this is so embarrassing" Usagi raged.

Her Eternal Moon Tiare was a priceless magical object. She used it in the fight against Galaxia.

And She'd lost it.

"Usagi", Miss Tsukino looked up. Here friend was here. She must not have even heard Haruka enter the room and . . . Haruka had something in her hands, "I found this on the table next to your bed"

"WHAT!", Usagi exploded.

Her eyes darted to the table. She stammered, " I checked there. It definitely wasn't there earlier and-"

something caught her eye. It was a small wooden object. Thinking it was a disguise pen she reached for it, grabbed it, and said "this wasn't here earlier"

Haruka frowned. Her eye brows scrunched together. She was concerned.

She suspected that this phenomena could be magical in nature. So she figured that maybe Luna or Artemis might know something about this. Alas Haruka also came to the conclusion that this event could be related to the magic in this monster world. And she didn't exactly have that many friends who were monsters.

Besides Gin, Gin her room mate, Gin the perverted were wolf.

Haruka grimaced.

"Haruka, are you alright."

"Just thinking", the Short haired blonde expand, "Michuru or Suna usually do the thinking. I'm honestly better at other stuff. This really is such a pain"

Haruka bunched her left hand, the wand that didn't have the Eternal Moon Tiare in it, into a fist.

"I feel like I can't do anything without them. I can barely protect you or anyone else. If something happened to you or Hotaur I'd . . I'd . . . ."

War tears ripped their way down Haruki's face. Her body started to tremble. When her legs felt week, and it felt like they were going to give out, Usagi rushed towards her and wrapped her up in an embrace.

"We're a team. We'll look out for each other. I'll call the others tonight."

"The others?", Haruka asked.

"Everyone"