(Welcome to my latest chapter readers. I closed the poll on my Negima one shots ideas having enough results. So when I get into them I know who to do first before the others. Well enjoy this chapter.)
One afternoon, classes were ending as the girls were heading off to their clubs or to do other stuff. Negi and Dustin were leaving the school building seeing Alistair and Kotaro at the bottom of the stairs waiting for them, "Well come on you guys let's have some fun." Kotaro said.
"In a minute, Kotaro," Negi began, "Dustin and I need to go back to the dorms and change into our casual wear."
"Well then let's go over there." Alistair said as the four boys headed off.
Soon the two waited outside the dorms as Dustin and Negi came out in their regular attires, "So what should we do today?" Dustin asked.
"Let's head into town and grab a slushy." Kotaro suggested.
"That's sounds great, Kotaro." Negi agreed.
"Well then let's go." Dustin said as they started walking until a voice interrupted them.
"Hey guys." They turned seeing Yuna, Ako, Sayo, and Kaede.
"Oh afternoon girls," Negi greeted them, "Shouldn't you be heading for your clubs or something?"
"Change in plans, the gym floor is being cleaned right now." Yuna explained.
"And the soccer team doesn't have any upcoming games to prepare for." Ako added.
"Kazumi said she can cover the latest scoops solo today." Sayo explained.
"And I decided to let Fuka and Fumika go on a little walking club outing of their own. You know those two always beg me to let them go solo." Kaede explained.
"We understand." Dustin nodded.
"So where're you four headed off to?" Yuna asked curiously.
"We're heading into town to grab a slushy, wanna join us?" Alistair asked.
"That'd be cool." Ako admitted.
"What? Guys this was supposed to be our time." Kotaro complained to the boys.
"Kotaro it's just them," Dustin explained, "It's not like we're inviting the whole class."
"Besides if Natsumi were here I'm sure you'd let her join us." Negi added making him blush.
"Hey what do you mean by that?" the wolf boy blushed.
"No need to deny your feelings, Kotaro." Chamo piped up while on Negi's shoulder.
"Be quiet you stupid rat!"
"Hey I'm an ermine!"
"Now you two." Negi calmed them.
Kotaro sighed, "All right I guess they can come."
"Yay!" the four girls cheered.
"So let's go." Dustin said as the group started walking away from the dorms and headed for the town.
Watching them from his viewing screen was Ragnarok, "Ugh I'm so sick of those fools. Hmm, you know normally I've been trying to take them all out at the same time, but instead I should try taking one of them out and move onto another."
"Who do you have in mind sir?" Voltaire asked.
"Give me a minute," Ragnarok began as he eyed each of the eight before stopping on Sayo, "Ah there's a perfect target."
"The ghost girl?" Voltaire asked.
"Yes after all having a ghost as their allie makes them stronger even with all the other types of fighters with them."
"And how do you intend on doing away with her when she's already dead?" Thorn asked coming over.
"You do now that a spirit can also be dealt with remember?" Ragnarok asked.
"You mean you'll have to exercise her?" Voltaire asked.
"Precisely. However given the fact she is earthbound to the Mahora ground a simple exorcism spell will not be enough. I'll have to see if Diabound has something I can use." He walked off.
Back with the group, they got to town and were sitting at a table each drinking a slushy, "Ah slushy's the world's greatest invention." Alistair said before taking a sip out of his.
"Careful Alistair, don't wanna get brain freeze and all." Dustin warned him.
"Oh please you've taken more gulps than me. I'm surprised you didn't get brain freeze yet." Alistair counted.
"First one to get brain freeze is the weakest link." Kotaro challenged as they started drinking more while Negi was nervous about getting brain freeze if he partook in their challenge. The girls could only laugh at their childish bet.
Meanwhile, Ragnarok came out holding a spell book, "What luck. Diabound has just the exorcism spell that'll permanently send Sayo to hell."
Before Voltaire or Thorn could say anything, Pythor slinked over with Skales, Skalidor, Fangtom, and Acidicus, "Ragnarok, sir. Please allow me and my fellow generals to accomplish this task."
"Are you certain you want this, Pythor?" Ragnarok asked.
"Of course. After all with my fellow generals at my side we stand an even greater chance."
"Very well. You may go, but remember your objective is to exercise Sayo." Ragnarok reminded him.
"I understand." The snake dark warrior hissed.
"Then take this and follow the magic spell." The leader handed him the spell book.
"Well come on you four. We got work to do." Pythor ordered his fellow generals as he opened a portal which they passed into.
Back with the guys, they continued having their contest until Dustin groaned, "Brain freeze!" he clutched his head.
"Looks like you're the weakest link, Dustin-kun." Yuna teased.
"Oh shut it, Yuna." He grumbled.
"But she's right you know," a familiar voice said as they turned seeing Pythor and the other generals appear, "You are weak."
"Pythor!" Dustin gasped.
"And the rest of the Serpentine generals." Sayo gasped.
"Miss us?" Skalidor asked.
"Hardly." Ako answered.
"Now that's not nice." Acidicus replied.
"Niceties are reserved for those who deserve it. Sadly you all don't." Alistair countered.
"Enough of this! We got a job to do!" Skales called.
"Serpentine, go!" Pythor ordered as the four Snakes charged into battle against the boys and girls.
So the group split up with Dustin and Alistair facing Skales, Ako and Yuna fighting Fangtom, Kotaro and Negi fighting Acidicus, and Kaede and Sayo taking on Skalidor.
"Remember Alistair, don't look into Skales eyes." Dustin warned the dark warrior as the two avoided eye contact with the Serpentine.
"Don't worry I won't." Alistair replied as he jumped up to avoid a tail sweep.
Yuna tapped into her spirit energy and was firing spirit gun bullets at the two headed snake while Ako was dodging the snakes attempt to bite her, "Watch out for the fangs, Ako!" Yuna warned her.
"I know." The soccer girl replied as she dodged another bite and punched the head on the left.
"I can't wait to sink my fangs in you!" Fangtom's right head said as he continued attacking.
Negi and Kotaro were using their combination martial arts moves against Acidicus who spat his venom at them only to dodge, "Say it! Don't spit it!" Kotaro joked.
"Kotaro give me some support!" Negi called as Kotaro grabbed the wizard by the arm and flung him forward as he powered his fist up with magic and punched Acidicus in the face making him roll across the ground only to get back up.
"You'll pay for that!" Acidicus called as he attacked them again.
Kaede was using her ninja skills against Skalidor who defended with his staff. Skalidor quickly wrapped his tail around the ninja girl, "Gotcha now!"
"Not today!" Kaede replied as she vanished.
"What?!" the snake gasped and received a spin kick to the face courtesy of the ninja girl.
"Way to go Kaede!" Sayo cheered, but screamed as Skalidor tried to grab her.
Pythor meanwhile was concentrating on reading the spell from the book while keeping eye contact with Sayo. He was waving his hand around in a fashion as magical energy was surrounding him as he read the passage.
"And now my dear Sayo it's time for you to taste hell!" Pythor declared as he grabbed everyone's attention, especially Sayo's. Before he could finish the spell a voice called from out of nowhere, "STOP!"
Suddenly Pythor's body froze and started twitching with his eyes turning red and was straining. The other generals and the good guys saw this and were confused.
"What's going on with Pythor?" Kotaro asked.
"Are you ok?" Skales asked.
From Pythor's mouth came another voice, "I won't let you do that!"
"Get out of me!" Pythor's real voice came out and suddenly something was expelled from his body. Both sides suddenly saw what had just been expelled from Pythor. It appeared to be a ghostly apparition like Sayo only it had a darker aura surrounding it. It had short dark hair, pale ghost skin, red eyes, and was apparently wearing an old school boy's uniform.
"What's that?" Negi asked.
"Another ghost?" Yuna guessed.
Pythor frowned at the new spirit, "I don't know who you are, but you have the worse timing."
The spirit spoke back, "I won't let you lay a hand on Sayo."
The good guys gasped as Sayo asked, "He knows my name?"
"Boys get him!" Pythor ordered his fellow generals to attack only for the spirit to dodge their strikes and unleash a ghost ray on the snakes distorting them and Pythor.
"Come on, follow me!" the spirit ordered the good guys as he led them off.
When the five generals regained their senses they saw the group had up and left them. Pythor growled at their failed attempt and knew he'd have to face Ragnarok when they returned.
Elsewhere, far from where Pythor and the snakes were, the spirit stopped with the good guys, "Hey thanks. You showed up just in time." Kotaro thanked the spirit.
"No problem." The spirit replied.
"I appreciate your help, but who are you?" Negi asked curiously.
"You really don't know?" it asked, "Well I guess it should be understandable since it's been weeks since we last saw each other."
"We know you?" Ako asked.
"Of course you do, especially you, Ako." The spirit began as Ako studied the ghost's appearance and tried thinking back until she started getting flashbacks of her fight against Spicer the boy possessed by the wraith and realized who this ghost was.
"You're the wraith who possessed Spicer!" she declared while pointing at him accusingly. The others grew shocked upon realizing this as the ghost answered.
"See you got me."
"Negi quick!" Chamo called as he whipped out his staff ready to cast a spell.
"WAIT!" the spirit shouted loud enough to stop them in place, "Look you all have every right to hate me and I don't blame you."
"How the hell did you escape hell?" Dustin demanded.
"Believe me I'm just as confused about that as you." He replied while trying to ignore the hard glares coming from most of them.
"Why did you suddenly help us? And how do you know Sayo's name?" Kaede asked suspiciously.
"Look I'll answer all I can, but perhaps we should do this with all your other partners." The wraith answered.
"I suppose he's right." Alistair nodded.
"But just in case." Negi uttered an incantation and the wraith was trapped in a magical aura sphere.
"Hey!" he shouted.
"This is so you don't try going off on your own." Negi warned him.
"Very well." He sighed as they hurried back to Mahora.
Meanwhile back at Ragnarok's lair, the serpentine generals stood before Ragnarok who was pacing around them, "So you not only failed to exercise Sayo, but you were bested by another ghost?"
"I know it sounds farfetched but that's what happened." Skalidor explained.
"And it possessed me to keep me from finishing the spell to use on Sayo," Pythor added, "And what's more I could feel it was familiar."
"Familiar?" Ragnarok asked.
"Yeah like it was a presence around us before, but what other spirit have we been around besides…" Pythor trailed as he and Ragnarok looked at each other with a similar shocked expression.
"It can't be." Ragnarok gasped.
"What?" the four other serpentine generals asked in confusion as the two realized they'd have to have a long talk with them.
Back at Mahora, outside Eva's cottage, the boys, and all their partners stood around the wraith still contained in the aura sphere.
"Wow so that's the same wraith?" Kasuga asked.
"So he says." Ako answered.
"It's very unusual," Eva began, "Once a spirit is exercised into hell there's practically no way for them to return."
"So then how did you escape?" Mana asked the wraith.
"Like I told them, I have no idea, but I will tell you this I am no longer a wraith."
"You aren't?" the Narutaki's asked.
"Precisely."
"How's that possible?" Rin asked.
"I cannot say, but I believe whatever pulled me out from the pits somehow purified me of my wraith abilities and my maliciousness."
"I guess I can by that." Kotaro admitted.
"But why did you protect Sayo of all of us?" Yuna asked.
"Because she is special to me." He answered making the girls gasp while Sayo started blushing.
"Why all of a sudden is Sayo special to you?" Dustin asked.
"Because she and I had a bond years ago."
"But I don't know you." Sayo countered.
"Maybe not right now, but we were very close during the days we were alive."
"Alive?" Ayaka asked.
"Yes even a malicious spirit like a wraith started out human once." The spirit explained.
"So you were once a human that attended Mahora?" Chizuru asked.
"Indeed, back then I was known as Saku Seto." The ghost explained as Kazumi gasped.
"Wait, you said Saku Seto?"
"Yeah don't wear it out."
The girls looked at Kazumi who scrolled through her camera showing them a picture of the class yearbook from sixty years ago and they saw right near Sayo's picture was a boy that looked like the wraith as a human with the name Saku Seto under it.
"That's you isn't it?" Kazumi asked.
"Yeah, back when I had flesh." He admitted.
Sayo was pondering "Saku Seto. Saku Seto," She suddenly flashed back to when she and her sister would pray by the flower garden they made together and the ghost girl recalled a boy who would always join her but couldn't remember until her memory was coming clear and recalled Saku praying next to her, "It was you."
"What do you mean, Sayo?" Makie asked.
"Saku. You were the one who prayed with me and my sister by our flower garden." The ghost gasped as Saku smiled.
"Well done. You finally remembered me."
"Though I don't get it, how is it you didn't remember her back then when we first fought?" Setsuna asked.
"Like I said I didn't start off as a wraith," Saku began, "I was once a happy human boy who went to Mahora like Sayo did. I'd occasionally help her plant those flowers in memory of her mother. Then one day I heard what happened. Sayo went out one night to the clock tower and got sick inevitably dying. I was completely heart broken. I cared about Sayo more than I cared about anyone else. I thought I could move on from her death, but I was weak hearted. I gave into my own sorrows and hanged myself inside the clock tower itself."
"Jeez!" Alistair clutched his throat while several of the girls were gulping.
"I thought I'd be able to reunite with Sayo in the afterlife, but I never found her. Soon my emotions started twisting and warping inevitably turning me into a vengeful spirit. It wasn't long after I became a wraith and returned to the mortal realm by possessing multiple others only to get expelled or bored with the same body."
"With Spicer being your last host." Ako noted as Saku nodded.
"The more I fed on negativity the more my memories started fading until I no longer remembered anything from when I was alive, but when I was pulled out from hell my wraith powers were extinguished from me and all my memories restored. When that happened all I had left was remorse and guilt from everything I did as a wraith, even what I did to Ako."
"How do we know you're telling the truth?" Mana eyed him suspiciously.
"I know you have every right to judge me, but you need to trust me on this I only want to make up for my misdeeds."
"I say we trust him." Sayo spoke up.
"Sayo." Negi gasped.
"You all don't know Saku, but I do. I can feel it in his ghostly aura he has no trace of the wraith inside him. If you won't trust him then at least trust me. I'll even supervise him."
"Are you sure about this, Sayo?" Eva asked skeptically.
"I am." She nodded.
"What do you think, Negi?" Konoka asked the boy wizard.
Negi pondered on it before answering, "Very well Sayo, we'll leave him under your care." He released Saku from the aura sphere allowing him to stretch.
"Arigato, you will not regret this." Saku said.
"I should hope not." Negi said to himself.
Back with Ragnarok, inside his lair he had just explained to the other four generals about the situation with Voltaire, Thorn, and Diabound present.
"So the wraith we used before has somehow rose up from hell and decided to fight against us?" Thorn asked.
"So it appears, Thorn." Ragnarok answered.
"Why would this happen?" Voltaire asked.
"I don't know, but what I do know is when he tried to possess my body I could feel nothing of his wraith essence, meaning he's just an ordinary spirit now." Pythor explained.
"Then shouldn't he be less of a threat?" Skales asked.
"Not after how he managed to confuse us allowing them to get away." Pythor reminded him.
"So what should we do?" Fangtom asked.
"Simple, you'll just have to exercise both spirits." Diabound explained.
"And when they use this spell neither one of them will be returning to the mortal plane," Ragnarok smirked, "Prepare yourselves for tomorrow, serpentine." Pythor and his fellow generals saluted and slithered off.
That night, Sayo and Saku were flying above Mahora and landed by the old clock tower, "Place is still standing, even after all these years?" Saku asked in nostalgia.
"Yes, at first the dean thought about tearing it down and replace it with another building, but decided not too." Sayo explained.
"Good old Konoemon, even when he was our classmate he was a great guy." Saku admitted.
The two ghosts walked above the garden marveling at the flowers, "All these years and they're still here." Saku noticed.
"Yes, it makes me so glad to see they were saved after all." Sayo said with a smiled but noticed Saku walking into the clock tower. She followed him as he looked around.
When he looked up at a beam he started flashing back on a rainy night just like the one Sayo died on. He could see himself standing on top of it with a noose around his neck and the other half tied to the beam. He remembered how sad and distraught he was from Sayo's death and without a second thought jumped from the beam and hanged himself.
He snapped out of his flashback and shuddered, "I remember what it was like to die in here."
"I can't believe you committed suicide just so you could be with me." Sayo said in shock.
"Call me crazy Sayo but I did care a lot about you and not on an unhealthy level."
"Oh I know, but I'm surprised you went through all that just for me."
"People do crazy things when they're in love, Sayo." He smiled as they looked into each others eyes and embraced as the moon shined through a hole in the tower onto them.
The very next morning, the girls were in class as Negi and Dustin were teaching, half the class was unaware of Saku who was watching from the back of the class. Girls like Mana, Zazie, Evangeline, Sayo, and Rin however could feel his presence in the room but said nothing.
Saku watched the class and thought, 'Classes really have changed since my day. Even the uniforms look better,' He eyed the girl's uniforms before seeing Asuna dozing off. He smirked and flew under her seat and looked at her legs and right up her skirt seeing her wool bear panties. He groaned before turning away, 'I need to wash my eyes.' He thought to himself. When he calmed down he looked back and smirked. He took a deep breath and blew up her skirt.
Asuna suddenly screamed and jumped out of her seat feeling a chilly wind blow up her skirt. The girls laughed at Asuna's suddenly burst while the boys were confused but realizing what could've happened sighed that it wasn't something they thought would've been worse.
When class was over everyone was leaving the building as Saku appeared before Dustin and Negi, "Hey guys you know it felt good being in class without actually having to learn something." He said.
"Speaking of being in class, why did you do that to Asuna?" Negi asked.
"Hey she was falling asleep, besides that was funny wasn't it?" Saku asked.
"I do admit that was hilarious." Dustin chuckled.
"Dustin, don't encourage his behavior." Negi chided him.
"Morning, guys!" Kotaro called as he, Alistair, and Fate arrived.
"Morning." Dustin said as they each high fived each other.
"So what're we doing today?" Alistair asked.
"Why don't we go get a drink?" Dustin suggested.
"Sounds all right by me." Fate agreed.
"Cool, count me in." Saku said putting his arms around Negi and Dustin.
"If we're going to let you join us Saku then you're going to have to keep a low profile." Negi explained.
"I completely understand." Saku nodded and flew up with Alistair and Kotaro leaving Negi and Dustin to talk with their familiars.
"Are ya sure it's safe letting him join you, aniki?" Chamo asked.
"Yeah you remember what he was like not long ago." Domino reminded them.
"And you remember what he told us? If he really was trying to lead us on he would've done something by now." Dustin said.
"And he did save us from the serpentine if you recall?" Negi reminded Chamo and Domino of yesterday.
"Ok I'll give him that." Chamo admitted.
"Remember Alistair was no better and we gave him the chance." Dustin added.
Meanwhile at Ragnarok's lair, the Shadow Master stood before the five serpentine generals, "Ok serpentine generals, today you will pick up where you left off. And I expect better results than yesterday's performance."
Skales and the other generals scowled at his taunt only for Pythor to speak up, "We assure you, Ragnarok. We'll get the job done."
"Good. Then get going." He ordered as the five generals entered through a portal.
Back with the boys, they were sitting by a park area enjoying some refreshing beverages while Saku while keeping himself invisible to the public, "What a glorious day isn't it?" Negi asked the boys.
"Indeed it is." Fate agreed.
"Could use for a little excitement." Kotaro said as he kicked back lazily.
"And what sort of excitement did you have in mind?" Dustin asked as he took a swig of his cola.
Suddenly they heard screams and saw the serpentine generals, "Like that." The dog boy replied.
"Come on!" Alistair called as the boys rushed over.
"Pythor!" Negi called grabbing the general's attention.
"Well I thought you'd show up." Pythor chuckled.
"Enough of your games, Pythor." Alistair warned him.
"But you'll love this game, won't they boys?" Pythor asked his fellow generals.
"Oh yes," Skales began, "Because we brought some friends to play."
"You have friends?" Fate asked while crossing his arms.
"Friends, associates whatever you want to call them." Acidicus answered as the four generals whistled and burrowing up from the ground were multiple snake-like warriors each carrying weapons from swords and spears. They were the tribe of serpentine each of the generals minus Pythor led hundreds of years ago. Each group from each tribe looked like the generals of their respective tribe only instead of snake tails they had legs.
"What're those?" Kotaro gasped in shock.
"They're the serpentine tribes each of the four generals lead." Fate explained.
"They obviously must have the same powers their generals possess." Dustin noted.
"So we all must be careful." Negi said as he summoned his staff.
"All right some action!" Saku reappeared.
"You!" Pythor hissed.
"Hey there, Pythor."
"You have a lot of gall coming back from hell just to assist our enemies! You who had no problem with fighting them while on our side!" Pythor called.
"What can I say? I learned to roll with a nicer like crowd." Saku replied with a smug expression.
"Soon the only crowd you'll be with is one in hell!" Pythor called, "Serpentine, go!" he ordered as the warriors and generals took off fighting.
"Spirit Saber!" Dustin summoned his weapon.
"Shadow Buster!" Alistair summoned a giant buster sword made from his dark energy.
Fate drew his sword as Kotaro called, "Come on!" they charged into battle and started fighting against the army of snakes while avoiding the eyes of the Hypnobrai, the fangs of the Fangpyre, the venom of the Venomari, and the grasp of the Constrictai.
Saku flew around launching ghost rays at the snakes before flying right for a bunch of them, "Coming through!" he crashed into them giving off the sound of a bowling ball hitting pins as the snakes were sent flying around.
Kotaro and Negi were dodging some Constrictai warriors and Skalidor, "Man there's too many of these guys!" Kotaro groaned.
"We could really use some help right now." Negi agreed.
"Help you want? Help you got!" a voice called as Toothless flew down with Rin on his back releasing blasts of lightning on the snakes.
"Rin! Toothless!" Negi gasped.
"Don't forget us!" Zyphon called as he and Chachamaru zipped past the serpentine blasting them with lasers.
"Zyphon! Chachamaru!" Dustin gasped.
"And us too." Mana said as she and the rest of the partners stood ready to fight.
"Girls!" Alistair gasped.
"Hope we're not too late." Makie said.
"A couple minutes ago would've been appreciated." Fate answered.
"Well better late than never." Kazumi smirked.
"Let's get in there!" Ku called as the girls went into battle against the snakes using their pactio powers against them.
As Pythor scrambled through the fighting he saw Sayo fighting some Venomari soldiers and smirked, "Ah perfect." He pulled out the book and started reading the incantation.
Because the others were so distracted by the generals and their tribes, Pythor was able to read through half the spell before completing. Suddenly he called, "Now Sayo Aisaka say your prayers!" from the book shot out a blast of red lightning that was heading right for Sayo.
The girls gasped seeing it head right for her as Negi screamed, "SAYO LOOK OUT!"
"NO!" Sayo cried as she shielded herself.
"NO!" Saku shouted as he flew in and the red lightning zapped his ghostly body. He groaned before falling to the ground. Sayo gasped at this as the boys knocked the snakes they were fighting off them and ran over to him.
"Saku! Are you ok?" Negi asked.
"Oh yeah, groovy." Saku coughed up smoke.
Dustin noticed Saku looked as if he was starting to fade, "You're fading away."
"Well that's what happens when you're hit with such a powerful exorcism spell." He admitted as he watched his lower half slowly fade away.
"Saku please you can't leave me!" Sayo cried, "You're my friend!"
"I'll always be your friend, Sayo. Even if I'm not earth bounded like you are."
"Why did you do it, Saku?" she asked.
"Like I told you, others do crazy things for someone they love." He smiled and continued, "Promise me one thing, Sayo?"
"Anything." Sayo said with tears streaming down her face.
"Protect Mahora, that's what I ask of you."
"Yes, Saku." Sayo nodded.
Saku looked up at Negi, "And Negi. Look after Sayo for me."
"I promise." The boy nodded.
"Farewell my friends." Saku said as the rest of his body faded out of existence.
"Saku." Sayo cried as she watched his ghostly essence vanish.
Pythor spoke, "Well at least we took care of him, and now for the girl."
Sayo frowned and turned to Pythor with glowing eyes, "You took an old friend away from me. For that I will not let his sacrifice be in vain. I will make sure of that!" she screamed and released a green sonic vibrating shockwave that sounded like a banshee's wail. The force from the attack started making the serpentine fly off their feet or in the generals case tails and were launched backwards landing onto the ground.
"Wow look at Sayo go!" Ako called loud enough to be heard through the scream.
"I hope I don't go deaf from this!" Madoka called.
"What?!" Sakura shouted pretending not to hear only for Madoka to scowl at her untimely joking.
Pythor grabbed the book again, "I just have to reactivate the spell and…" suddenly the book was blasted by Toothless' lightning and it turned to dust, "NO!"
"Sorry snake face, but your spell days are done." Rin said.
"Retreat!" Pythor shouted as the warriors dove back into the ground while the generals retreated into the portal.
With the enemies retreating Sayo ended her banshee scream and started panting, "Oh wow. I don't think I've ever screamed like that before."
"Sayo that was awesome!" Haruna called.
"You sure scared those snakes right off." Yuna added.
"You were wonderful." Ayaka smiled.
"You saved us all." Chizuru put in.
"You rock ghost-nee!" Kotaro gave her a thumb's up.
Sayo smiled, "Arigato everyone, but I wished I could've done something about Saku though."
"Sayo," Negi began, "Saku gave his life for all of us. He wanted you to continue living on in this realm to protect it. His sacrifice will not be in vain. We will defeat the serpentine and Ragnarok together. I promise you."
"Negi-kun." Sayo smiled before embracing the boy professor as he comforted her with everyone else watching with smiles.
At Ragnarok's lair, the shadow master frowned before them, "So you once again failed to exercise the ghost girl even with your tribes fighting along side you?"
"It was not a full loss, we did manage to make the traitor pay." Pythor replied.
Ragnarok frowned at Pythor, "I'm warning you, Pythor. Keep these failures up and I'll lock you back in that insidious tomb I found you in, and the same goes for the rest of you snakes!"
"I understand, master.' Pythor nodded as he and his fellow serpentine left the dark warrior.
As they were out of his sight Skales asked, "Master? Have you really gone so low as to becoming this boys flunkie?"
"I am nobody's flunkie, Skales. Soon it will be he who will be serving us, but for now I will continue to follow orders until the time is right."
"And when will the time be right?" Fangtom asked.
"I will tell you. I promise." Pythor assured the Fangpyre general as they slinked away.
(And that's the chapter. Surprise return of the wraith that once fed off Ako's emotions, only to have actually been a figure from Sayo's past. Now with his last act of kindness he sacrificed himself to go back to hell so Sayo could continue helping Negi. Don't miss next time readers.)