Episode 4: Jimmy Riddles. (Pt. 1)

Allissia slammed open the two wooden front doors almost cracking the nicely done wood finish. We had been practicing a sort of formation with each others spells for two weeks. We finally get into a fight and I screwed everything up. We still managed to win but Allissia was not happy. Not in the least.

"Look, I said I was sorry." I said closing the door behind us. "How many times do I have to apologize?" I asked shrugging my shoulders. She kept walking down the hall ignoring me. Her dress torn and burnt in many places. Could it be about her dress?

"I'm sorry if your dress was ruined up in the battle." I said hopping that was why she was upset. She finally stooped in front of her room door.

"That's why you think I'm upset? Because of my dress?" She asked unlocking the door.

"Well. Yea." I said following her into the room. It was the same room she treated my wounds from our battle with John. I sat down on the bed and started to pat the spot next to me for her to sit next to me. She sat down and rested her head on my shoulder.

"It's not the dress." She said in a soft voice.

"It's because I keep messing up the formation. Isn't it?" I started to twiddling my thumbs. She placed her soft delicate hand atop mine.

"Lets just say you're not the best a working as a team yet." I looked at the curly brunette, stopped messing with my thumbs, and crossed my arms.

"What do you mean?" I asked. "Me and Spilon are a great team."

"That's because yours and Spilon's main tactic is brute force. Your plans have no thought behind them." I jumped up from the bed and tried to make a serious face. Unfortunately I couldn't really stay mad at her.

"How could you say that? Our plans have plenty of thought. Brute force is only a last resort."

"Yeah. First and last." She said under her breath.

"I heard that!" I yelled as I stormed out of the room. I made my way down the hall to the foyer and to the front door. I passed Spilon and Tali who were playing chess and talking among each other. I was so upset that I didn't really notice what they were saying. Slamming open the already cracked door got their attention.

"Trouble in paradise." Tali said moving one of the white pieces.

Allissia walked out after me trying to calm me down. She got to me before I made it all the way out the door.

"You know I didn't mean it like that, Ricky."

"Then what did you mean?" I asked as I turned to face her. Spilon and Tali were watching us. It must have been more interesting than their game.

Spilon and I arrived at my house a while after leaving Allissia's. I unlocked the door with my house key that hung from my backpack. I opened the door to see my mom cleaning. Not a strange sight. She was always cleaning.

"Well hello there, stranger. Haven't soon you in a while." She said in a joking tone.

"Oh come on, I wasn't gone that long. A few days maybe." I said putting my backpack on the hooks next to the doors. I made my to the kitchen and Spilon went down the hall to my room. I opened the fridge. It wasn't a surprise that it was empty. It was a surprise to see a birthday cake. I closely examined it and it had my name on it. I took the cake out of the fridge and closed it behind me.

"You were gone for about two weeks. Didn't even show up for your birthday." I completely forgot. My eighteenth birthday was last week. This whole Mamodo thing has been the only thing I've thought about. She walked in and took the cake and placed it on the counter

"Well I guess you've been gone for a good reason. So, whats her name?" She said giving me s sarcastic smile and poking my cheek. My face turned into a cherry.

"I have no clue what you're talking about." She laughed at how much I was blushing. How mothers knew these things was beyond me.

"Then why do you smell like expensive perfume?"

"Uhh..."

"Is that lipstick on your cheek?

"No! Its... its..." she placed her hand under my chin and lifted my head.

"And there's the matter of this little blemish on your neck." My eyes widened and I ran to the bathroom, knocking multiple things over while I ran. I closely examined my the 'blemish' my mom was talking about in the mirror.

"That's not a blemish that's a... a..." I turned as white as a ghost after figuring out that is wasn't a blemish at all. It was a hickie.

I pushed my door open slowly. Still shocked that Allissia left a hickie on my neck.

~When did she even do that?!~

"You look like you've seen a ghost." Spilon said snapping me out of it. I shook my head and covered the spot on my cheek. I moved all the things that were on my bed to the floor and sat down. Spilon was sitting in his usual position. Legs crossed on the floor.

"Hey, Spilon. Our plans consist of more that brute force. Right?" He looked up at me.

"Not really. Brute force has won us our battles. Has it not?" I smiled and rested my head on my pillow.

"Yea. Your right. Silly Allissia." I felt better. Now that I think about it I might have over reacted. That is until Spilon killed the feeling.

"Well if Allissia told you that maybe you should listen."

"Gee thanks." I said throwing the a pillow at him. He swatted it away with a simple motion of his hand.

About an hour passed. I had fallen asleep with the dark blue spell book open over my face. The sound of distant knocking, then the doorbell, then knocking, and then the doorbell again woke me up. I shot up and removed the book from my face.

"MAKE UP YOUR MIND!" I yelled as I stormed down the hall.

"WHAT!" I screamed kicking open the door. I looked around, not seeing anyone I was closing the door but then I noticed something on the welcome matt. I opened the door once more. It was a top hat with a question mark on the top of it. I picked it up and thoroughly examined it.

~Who leaves a top hat on someone's doorstep.~ I scratched my head for a moment. As I was going back inside something fell from the inside of the hat. Its was a note.

'If your finding this note than you must have answered your door. Very good!'

"What."

'I am the ingenious Jimmy Riddles! And we hear that you and your Mamodo, Spilon, are very strong! So if you accept this challenge meet me at the old school yard.

- The ingenious Jimmy Riddles'

I closed the note and went back inside. Spilon was leaning against the wall that held the hooks where I keep my backpack.

"I take it we've been challenged." He said in his normal brooding voice.

"Yea. He wants us the meet him at this address." I nodded. The the six-foot Mamodo stood up straight and handed me the spell book.

"Lets not waste any time."

"Genrai!" The beam fired towards the boy in the tuxedo and top hat but to no avail. They were faster than I could imagine. "Genrai!" I yelled as Spilon fired another shot. Again they dodged. I hated to admit it but... they might be better than us. Suddenly they stopped a few feet in front of us. From their constant moving I never got a good look at his Mamodo. He was naturally smaller than his human partner. Other than Spilon, all the Mamodo I've seen have been shorter than us. He wore a white button-up shirt and long brown cargo pants. His hair spiked and a deep shade purple. The same color as their spell book. His eyes resembled Spilon's. Only bigger and more... cartoonish. They've only used one spell so far. Rusenga. Giving him razor-sharp metal claws.

"Hey!" Yelled his Mamodo and snapping me out of my thinking. He pointed at us and gave a confidant smile. "There is no way you two will beat the ingenious Jimmy Riddles." He then pointed to himself. "Or me. His partner." The light from their book began to grow brilliantly.

"Very well put, Damio." He said opening his book once again.

"Bring it, tuxedo boy!" I yelled as I opened my spell book.

"Senzaruk!" As a result of jimmy calling out the spell Damio rushed towards us faster than my eyes could follow.

"Quick, Spilon! Gen-" But before I could call out the spell Damio had his hand covering my mouth. Spilon quickly grabbed him and threw him back. Damio landed on his feet and jumped back to his partners side.

"Are you alright?" He asked.

"Yea I'm fi-" Something was happening. I felt my face starting to tense up. Mainly the area around my mouth. I tried to speak but nothing came out. The tense feeling had stopped. I put my fingers to my mouth but I didn't feel the soft texture of my lips. But the indents of two lips on what felt like metal.

"I'm guessing you figured it out!" Jimmy yelled. "The Senzaruk spell causes whatever Damio touches to be encased in metal!" The two of them began to laugh hysterically. I dropped my book in the hopes of trying to pry off the metal. But the more I pulled only worsened the pain. It's as if the metal coating became a part of my skin.

"Ricky!" Spilon called out as he ran to me. "This is not good. You wont be able to cast any spells." I was lucky. The metal casing stopped at my mouth. This isn't good. There had to have been a way to break their spell. I looked over at the two of them. The were celebrating as if they had already won. That's when I noticed that their book was still open and faintly glowing.

"Hmmm..." I tapped Spilon on the shoulder to get his attention and pointed at their book. He looked at them and nodded.

"You want to close their book. Good thinking, Ricky." I nodded picked up our book. Even though useless now it was stupid to drop it in the first place. The six-foot Mamodo positioned himself and then darted straight for Jimmy's book. The two of them hadn't noticed until Spilon was about a foot away from them. The two instantly stopped celebrating and faced Spilon.

"Zerusen!" Damio extended his arms at Spilon. The Mamodo's hands grew into two large metal fists. Before Spilon could evade the two fists launched themselves and connected with incredible speed and power. I ran as fast as I could to try to catch him but his body, being bigger than mine, only caused us both to fall to the ground.

~This isn't good. I can't do anything with my mouth like this.~

Spilon managed to get to his feet but I could tell that he took a lot of damage. He was holding his chest and breathing heavily. I stood up shortly after and looked at Spilon.

"I'm going... to try again..." Spilon said. He sprinted towards them once again with the same speed, only this time he went for Damio.

"Coming back for more?" The young book owner held his purple spell book out in front of him. Spilon was only a few feet away from Damio when Jimmy read the spell.

"Rusenga!" Spilon came to an abrupt stop and waited for the spells effect. Nothing happened.

~What?~ I stood there puzzled wondering why his spell didn't work. Then I noticed that only one of Damio's fists had reappeared.

~Where was the other one!~ Spilon took the chance to counter. Instead of going towards like before, he jumped at Jimmy and swatted the book out of his hands. I smiled as the metallic feeling faded from my mouth and reopened my spell book.

"Nice job, Spilon."

-To be continued-

A.N. That took longer than i thought. For the longest I was stumped on how to continue this episode. That's why I made it a two-parter. Episodes five,six, and seven are still in the process of being done. Got three new games for PS3. Gonna be really busy. This story will take longer than i thought. but it will be finished. it'll just take some time. Might do some other pieces while this is in progress.