Magi and Djinn World Tour! Student of the Dark Arts –

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Chapter 12: Gathering Words and Curses of Thee

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Raku hiked up a trail where nobby brambles had hidden her red hair and green eyes from him. Amber cared…he could see something else in her as she giggled as Lulit might have done in his time. When she'd ruined him forever by her false desire.

Again, and again. He kept getting whisked away by those that claimed the same. What was the reason, the love in their words? Their parting answers to him?

All lies. But her, her smile….

He didn't let go of her pace as they stayed chained to their goal.

"I always thought Michael had little interest in this place. You'll love him. He's a former wizard himself! I came to be amazed by how his spells can even pass as alumni material. He said you'd be coming –

Raku tugged back. Wait. What??

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Michael was waiting as Jen stayed beside her mate, Jack. It wasn't a playground match on the swings. This, was a game of skill. Really dangerous skill that involved magi e magi. She didn't poke fun as her senses picked up electrical charges. Something was rotten, so as soon as the crowd came around, no teachers, she dashed off to see what Michael had up his sleeve only a few places to the power station that kept the school into modern times.

She saw a seal there. Summoning, like in the movies. Trying to peel it back almost made her fight her own powers. "Bleeding bloke is playing foul…Jack is in trouble…"

Her ears picked up another signal as she gasped and plucked something from her breastfeeding pocket. "Ah, the cavalry. Finally!" She groaned into the phone as John must have grimaced by her loudest complaints.

~ Quiet down a bit, lov. We've gotten ourselves into a right pickle. Raku is gone, so is his new crush. Zee can't sense them nearby. What about your twin monster? Jack, eh? Jill-

"Off of it, mate…damn. You owe me, Johnny. Michael is going to summon something. I'd take it so he can win the duel between your mini me? Oh, and I found a talisman paper like the one you've carried at times from the east. Movie prop? I don't think it is." She took a snapshot and sent it. The grumble of John's wasn't good at all.

~ It's a legitimate article. I'll notify Adam as soon as I can. Zee will look past the gates. There is a reason why we're being tugged in two.~

" Maybe, I agree that it was only one transition for little Jack and I. Yet, your pupil? Didn't you say he's been through abuse before?"

John didn't add much at all as he cut out of the conversation to locate a way to contact Adam. As if he needed anymore of John's mark ups piled onto his desk….poor guy. So much for olden favors.

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Jack weirded his wand as if it were a stick on the ground, while smug as ever, it was no reason this young sorcerer horrified poor Raku when he was a prefect.

John had plenty of similar memories. But never succubus puppeting young magi in training to sell off their own.

"Taking in the easy way it'll be when you're booted off campus, Jack?"

The prick.

"No, I'm thinking of how small an ego you'll have once I expose your secret. If I want you to not stay around and be pals? What ya say to that, mate?"

Michael ground his teeth and shoved the wand out as Jack crouched to avoid wind at his tufts of blonde hair.

"Nice. You could stand in for a hurricane if we came shy of any next year. I'd hire you on the spot!"

"He…"

The kids whispered as Michael rolled up his robe's sleeves.

"I won't you out without getting what's expected. You aim to break apart my friendships. Well? What have you got then? Better be –

Jack hopped up with his arms out in a spin. The wand and his voice in sync, the spell he cast was perfect Latin.

~ Sordes et terram ad faciem!!~

The next step that Michael took had a wad if earth fling up and hit him square in the briw. Coated as earth would on someone's complexion, Jack snickered back. "I told you to watch it, yerself. How about we call off this silly dual and be civil like true gentlemen? See who Raku wants as his number one –

"You're the problem! Not me!"

With a growl, Michael's wand plunged the sky in clouds of grey. "I'll show you who belongs and WHAT should go. That boy does. You, do not…"

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Raku's little pause finally had Amber turn her doe eyes to him. "We're almost up to the tip of this hill. Are you chickening out on me, Raku?"

"I might be."

"Well, don't. I don't trust Jack. He or that Jenny figure that you keep swatting off. I saw. You have a talent in our class and they'll just be loading over. What kind of…"

She stopped talking. A gust blew her down as Raku reached out and with eyes of gold….

He saw her real face and screamed to never let go. They tumbled down the hill, or do they thought.

But, UP it.

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Ignito rappedvas a raven at John's skull as soon as he'd reached the headmaster'sake office door. "Bloody, what?"

Hissed John, as the format changed. The golden windows were coated in doubtful shadows of an eclipse God's dis – ease. Agonizingly so, Ignito used to his books, but this very big book…

~ I'm stuck. You have to help me.~

" Stuck at life, mate? You seem to enjoy being a hermit? Why the –

~ Imbecilic human! My lord is in grave danger. A dark spirit of his lost aspect of lust is freed. You are what I called and thus –

" I'm a he, not a what. Use your words, spirit."

The daemon came to craft fires to whip at the magician. " Oi, oy! Enough if that, let me have a listen. What's-

~ THERE IS A SECRET SEEPING BY THE EARS IF THOSE YOU HELD IN GOOD GRACE. Ye shall find out. Open the door, Constantine. Open –

John did, back to his world as Adam was at his desk, head down as John ran over. "Adam, man…are –

Teeth. Tooth marks in his neck, dribbling away life.

Vampire.

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