Magi and Djinn World Tour! Student of the Dark Arts –
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Chapter 9: Livid Liars
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Zee knew for one how ridiculous this would be. Raku saw John walk through the door with a friend he guessed. She had blonde hair, a cool pair of red leather punk studded pants and a top that screamed "London Calling."
He was at the table stuffing a biscuit diwn his throat, while she stepped over and introduced herself with a shake of his other free hand.
Ignito raised a brow while Chas zoomed over to protect the kad, until Raku shook back " Nn – ghh… - nf- hn!"
He said as the thing in his mouth was hanging on fir dear like while John stepped aside, his hands around a tome from the House of Mystery. "Raku, the is Jenny Sparks. We've done runs in and out of the city –
"Country." Chas abd Jenny corrected in unison.
"Right, that too …we have a favor to ask of you, lad. Ignito might agree to it for a good laugh, actually." He flipped to a de – aging page, two lines. From there, Ignito did snicker under the veil.
"He thinks you're an idiot fir trying, but I believe I can do it myself."
"You won't have to I can cast it fine, lad. All I want is a way to prolong the effects. Jenny and I both will be going inside your school to monitor this Marcus, and to see what we've gotten ourselves up against."
~ Figured you to be the spying kind, tiny witted magi.~ Snorted Ignito as John just waves off the comment. Crass as it was to his ears, Ignito was Djinn. It was what they bleeding did to lead man astray into the wilds of their own tainted madness.
"Did the bloke say yes, Johnny?" Chas asked as Jenny tried to be as patient as her watch could tick on to.
"I have classes soon, so yes. We can begin right away." The boy seemed much better after a good night's sleep. John had crashed at Jenny's by one am so it was six now. Raku was going to be in the door before the bell. Knowing his timing, he would not have to wait that long to unlock the mystery that school hid.
Like the house of mystery, not just anyone could access it without a pass from the principal.
Zee would be their ticket as she would have the two; once changed in age, to go in for a tour of the school to enroll for later classes in the spring. It was fall right now, so there was no hope to start sooner. This was only to gauge abd find a loophole. They would try…
Or else, if it were that bad, Raku would be forced to stop going. The last thing John wanted was to break the kid out of his fantasy. Ignito would kill him on the spot.
~ You know it's not that simple. I care, just as he cares that you are still here. Constantine. I'm no enemy, you are just in the way of progress. It's a bother.~
~ My own mum had better insults. Run along now. We've work to do and you are slowing down the entire, process.~
Ignito smirked and chuckled at the magic wit. If Aiden could get on this demon's good side, so could he.
~ A hair, magi. He may have many without end, yet you have only one skull. One mind, while ours are limitless as the stars. Corrupt my descendent of the creators, and you shall know it. Thine ill hath only begun.~
"What did the shadow man say?" Chas sighed, John looking up with his smile coming back.
"He gave it an, okay. So? Then, let's return to our childhoods for a day. Shall we?"
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His coat was replaced for pants that were a might shorter …thing was, Raku had gone too far.
During the spell, he's evened out the age to thirteen, not fifteen. Jenny was around the same age, as this was a middle school of a sort . Magical.
John grumbled with his hands in his jacket pockets, while Jenny enjoyed her pleated skirt and reliving the old times she had abroad. "I feel ike I could ave' wings on my back! How bout you, Johnny?"
"I wallow in it, and the ground! I'm a tot!"
"Hello, Zee!" Raku moved quickly as he met up with Zee who guided them all to the principal's office. Raku however was excused to get to his first class.
Thankful again, that they were seeing a fellow of John's circle, not the stuffy, stiff staff of this establishment.
"I thought I'd seen it all. Are you insane, man? Don't you know h –
"There is someone focusing their attention on my, ehem…family." Grumbled the blonde boy. "I ain't leaving until I see fir myself what sort of school this as' become."
"Why is your accent, different?"
"I was let to come here by my dad, and you had better comply!"
"I get it, right! So, you can stand in on his class and lunch, but to promise you won't be, seen."
Not a word.
"Done." Kid John grinned back as he thanked his old ally, Jenny wanting to know how close he was as an alumini.
"For the record, I never graduated from this dumpster fire of an academy with high honors. They pick on me all the bloody time for it, even after Atticus..." He said that while walking to a stop, the halls breaching out as Ignito got his claws on this realty to lay on his demands thickly. As a swooping cloud of miasma or moonlit dusk, he was there with something in hand. Something tangible. "This talisman from my archives might reveal your perpetrator easily. You promised me now, John. Raku is here. So are you.~
Ignito vanished as the doors opened to let the students go to their next class. Raku was there with his red hatred miss and Borges was watching, coming over. "Lunch today, you in?"
"Ah…"
Raku swallowed as his friend soon swooped in to stall the advancing storm. "He's not decided on a place to sit. We'll tell you later, in the courtyard."
Court –
Duel.
As John went over to stumble into the boys, he mostly bumped into Marcus, his arm jutted up to hit the red headed girl next to Raku over. "Oh! You are a bit of a klutz…" She whined, Raku being a good soul to offer a hand.
"I don't think I've seen your face, yet you might as well apologize." Borges crossed his arms, eyes looking almost venomous. Wait…did he have a crush on one of them?
"He was not in the wrong, Michael –
"Oh, yeah he sure well was, and I'm going to remedy the fact." Jenny zipped over as she tugged John's arm up and swung one over his shoulder.
"Sorry about my kid brother. Jack is a dunce if ever you knew im." Chuckling in his ear, John might have just come to know Jen as a real con artist yet…
Raku's eyes held vivid shock, while Michael's (Marcus's) narrowed even further. The red headed girl that was fond of Raku by how she leaned over so close, had John cock a brow.
Jack, for now.
"Next class is starting, mates." Marcus's turned to the door behind them. A teacher with thin glasses at the bridge of his nose and a long unkempt brown beard and hair combo poked around to notify the students. "Wouldn't want your records tarnished fir first year."
"Michael is a second year, teach." The red-haired girl turned to toss her head over the side, Raku getting a whiff of her shampoo as Jack saw his eyes water.
No, not yet.
Raku had a phobia here if being to close to those –
"Rak –
The kid shoved through and didn't speak a word. He just had his head down, eyes shut as the sane scare from before was the boy's asexual stance despite being gay, though still one arm out of the closet since he'd been rejected by Aiden... He didn't know how to be either, just a hermit when he shut down.
"I'll talk to him. Stay put, please. No messes in the hall before class, alright?"
The red headed miss shouldn't try, yet Jen went too. She did smell something on that girl's skin and it wasn't a natural odor of a human in her eyes at seeing or feeling one.
John whiffed it too, while Marcus grunted for John to quit standing about.
"Raku is in our classes, you're just passing through."
"Do you know anything, bloke?" John snorted and just put hands to his pockets. "Raku went through abuse, he's family if I'm it sure you know our faces. Until I know who's brought you back from the great beyond, then stand down. Alright?"
Michael ( Marcus) stood as John walked away, seeing Zee shaking her head while they met back up. Raku…
Marcus ( Michael) was a puppet, but with some will. In other words, reinstated but not with a seam to him. Someone else was in that body. Someone with something left to add as the class by rung one more time.
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So, this is another soul is inhabiting a stolen form type of craziness? Raku is being called out of the blue and Jack or John may have to duel the fake Marcus?? Find out! Basing this off of a graphic novel with John being a young teen. Find out!