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      A world like any other with fields, mountains, oceans, forests, and kingdoms. People live, they work, they die, and the circle of life continues on. However over two thousand years ago in this world's timeline a mysterious event occured, what had before been mere myths and folktales became stark reality has magic exploded onto the scene. 13 Temples appeared around the world as portals to and a means to communicate with the 13 Great Fairy Queens. The people learned how to produce capture cards to not only defeat but tame and use in battle the wild spirits of their world and even channel magical spirits known as "Battle Spirits" into cards to use like magic spells. The most prevalent of the wild spirits were the Mystic Monsters, which would vanish in puffs of blue flames when defeated, through the use of the capture cards summoners as they came to be called could not simply defeat but capture and command these Mystic Monsters, which now when defeated would simply return to the card to rest rather than vanishing only to reappear elsewhere a year later in the world. Beyond this they learned to capture ghosts; which are harder to control in battle yet show loyalty to the one that captured them at least; Daemons which display disturbing physical traits and vanish in red mists when defeated;  and the Eldritch which if left alone could become deadly threats to the peace of the world around them requiring them to be kept captured. Daemons and Eldritch both requiring not simply capture but contracts with the summoners and kept being passed down along a family line to keep them prisoner. Sensing a possible disturbance in the balance of the world the 13 Great Fairy Queens created trials and contests so summoners could align themselves with a new type of spirit, a partner spirit, Elemental Faeries. In time this process would be simplified thanks to the Grand Summoning School, and now today it is common place for Summoners to have a partner Elemental Faerie.

   One year ago a mysterious anomaly occured, several powerful Battle Spirit card types stopped working, and a never before seen Eldritch like Celestial Spirit was summoned at the Grand Summoning School by senior student Mirai Tanoka. This strange new spirit was recognized as an enemy of the Eldritch Spirit Daiyakisar under the control of Mr. Dominic Farns, an instructor at the Grand Summoning School. Regarded as a dangerous threat by the spirits Luminous and Royal Knight under the control of the head masters Vizor Vicks and Tabitha Grimm; however "spirit in-fighting" is a well known problem even among spiritis not previous seen.

   Mirai along with students Sakura Oko, Lance Arms, and Angela Maki were sent as one of many adventurer teams to find answers about the sudden depowering of cards and the possibility that such a magic rift may be allowing previously unknown spirits to enter the mortal realm. They traveled beyond their home of the Sain Kingdom to Azure Island to seek guidance from the Great Fairy of the Ocean Temple, resulting in a long and convoluted battle with the priestess there for such an audience. However in the end Mirai and her friends were still students, and another more experienced team had been sent to the Oasis Temple where the cards were known to draw their power from; finding there had been a temporary shifting caused by the Great Fairy there; and before long things would return to normal. Meanwhile at the school several more spirits resembling the one Mirai had summoned and named "Tempestia" would appear, each having a similar likeness and similar traits yet of different elements, prompting the possibility that trully a brand new kind of spirit was appearing; however once the Oasis Temple was realigned these other "Tempestias" including one that was openly trying to get rid of the Eldrith Spirit Daiyakisar, all simply vanished and in a year have not been seen again; Mirai's final mission as a student even being to defeat one such spirit turning "Dark Lord" at a circus.

   However, with the circus Tempestia defeated, the other Tempestias save the one Mirai summoned all seemingly vanishing from the world not to be seen for over a year since; Mirai and her friends have graduated and are now finding their new homes at guilds across the Sain Kingdom where new adventurs await them.


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  It surprising how quiet a house can be when one is so used to the constant noise of a dorm, and a roommate. The house is her family's home, a mansion with a very large property around it including a spirit battle training arena dating back to her great grandmother's time when for a few decades the economy of spirit battle had switched to an artificial adventure style. That being that spirit trainers as they were called then would journey around capturing and cataloguing spirits for a points based income via the League Guild which was dominant at the time and various renowned houses set up battle arenas where Spirit Trainers earned medals to show they had beaten the House Leader. Intended as a mock up of the much older quest for elemental faeries via the 13 temples. The League Guild went under however as they aimed at students far too young and after a number of fatalities caused by those youngsters desperate for points and House Medals went after extremly dangerous "Dark Lords" prompting a complete restructuring of the guilds into their present form. Her family forming the Sain Kingdom Adventurer's guild; while not the only adventurer's guild in the Sain Kingdom is now the oldest and largest; however her grandmother left that guild to start her own guild the Lobo Guild.

   Mirai watches from her desk as Tempestia is resting inside her fairy house, which now sits on a pedastal in a corner of the room surrounded by large leafy houseplants and returns to the diary she has been keeping per the request from the Grand Summoning School regarding any unusual behavior by her partner spirit. Her notes however are sparse, simply noting that the sub-summon Onryo vanished back to the spirit world around the same time the other Tempestias vanished, and that her mother's Daemon "Rhoan the Demon Butler" reacted aggressively; yet another case of spirit in-fighting, simply noting it seemed to know her and blamed her for its own current situation. Mirai thinks back to that conversation Rhoan's words echoing in her head the moment it saw Tempestia and how he had looked between the two of them, "You, of course i should have known, a girl named Mirai, a summoner; this is all your doing isn't it? I have been imprisoned on this world by this family for 500 years." and Tempestia's stoic response, "Is it not the rule of this world that you have to make a contract willingly, and negotiate the terms. I have only just arrived here demon general, all else is your own doing."

   Mirai's mother, Yuki Tokona in her business suit had been there to welcome her home and ordered Rhoan to behave. Mirai would ask Tempestia about this however, as she notes in her diary, "Tempestia is very vocal, mostly when speaking to other spirits taking on a condescening tone with most and being regarded by older spirits as some sort of frightening figure while being completly unknown by most others we have encountered, and being somewhat dominating over them as well. However on a summoner and spirit level she takes on a more submissive yet somehow still dominering tone, only speaking when asked a question and only going into length on intellectual topics. There is a clear aggressive side, and will give a display of strength when meeting other spirits, generally glowing eyes, electric sparks in the eyes, or increasing the temperature of the immediate area; all not uncommon tactics for spirits clearly coming from a position of power. Prior in this Diary it is noted how several powerful spirits belonging to Grand Summoning School staff either vaguely regarded Tempestia as a potential threat or had clear animosity towards her. While the situation doesn't seem as dire as with Mr. Farn's spirit, my mother (Yuki Takoma)'s contracted Daemon, Rhoan, who acts as the house butler and guardian when she is away, has some sort of animosity as well, however I get the feeling this comes from a different place. He seemed to accuse her of his current contracted position; which is ludicrous of course; and has shown a combination of submission and being argumentative with her until she seems to grow annoyed by his actions. Per a long term personal goal this is preferable; although I will be training with them both to work together. I will be inheriting both Rhoan from my mother and my father's partner spirit Jessica before long and...."

   Mirai crumples up the paper, "Too much personal information, stick to basics Mirai, no speculation, nothing personal."

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   -The Next Day-

    Mirai is awoken from her dream, that strange dream of towers of glass and people in strange garb running down the streets fleeing from monsters that while awake she can only write off as Daemons and Ghosts reimagined by her sleeping mind. Now awake the sound waking her is the message box for the mansion. Getting dressed and Tempestia rising from her fairy house to full human size to follow behind her, a habit she has had when venturing the halls; which Mirai imagines is to keep an imposing figure around Rhoan. She taps her hand on the box by the front door and an envelope materializes from the sparkling green lights emanating from the slot on top. Opening it she smiles, which fades and her brow furrows, "They heard about my handling of the circus at Yoko town; and afraid something like that is haunting their words...another Tempestia has appeared?"

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  Oboro Village, outskirts of the Oboro forest, a small village consisting of 15 houses, 1 inn, and 1 item shop for adventurers as the Oboro forest is a well known hot spot for Mystic Monsters, especially plant element ones. 10 years ago the village even had to be evacuated due to a particularly horrific Mystic Monster, a Grand Boss class, called a Najiraune appearing there and causing all sorts of deadly plant type Mystic Monsters to flood the area more so than usual, strong enough to move past the barriers that usually protect the town. So it is no wander the mayor is on edge as Mirai speaks with him. The letter stated that stronger than usual Mystic Monsters were appearing in the forest lately, including ones that normally only appear at specific times of year like the HoHoHo Slime, Jack O' Lantern Ghost, and more alarmingly Horned Wendigo and Krampus.

   "Our usual bounties are up," says the Mayor nervously, the small timid looking man sitting behind his desk that only serves to make him look even smaller, "and we've informed the guilds of the increase in spirit activity; however." he has a strange look as he eyes Mirai; "we believe a Dark Lord is behind this; and it...well...to be frank we sent a part of summoners after it, they returned saying the spirit declared only one summoner was worthy of it and it would terrorize the land till that summoner arrived; and well; it wanted the summoner that defeated the spirit of the circus at Yoko town; we did a little digging and while there was a team there; well...um...you were highlighted as the one that directly confronted the spirit and defeated it."

   "Excuse me," says Mirai, "I have to ask, did they describe the spirit? Did it look like this?" she gestures to Tempestia riding on her shoulder.

   "Hmm," says the mayor, "Oh right, I heard that the one in Yoko Town had been the same kind of spirit as your partner spirit, well...no, sorry if the letter was misleading Miss Tonoka; one of the summoners we sent was luckily a spirit photographer and took these pictures."

   He digs in his desk and takes out the photos, they show a tall muscular woman with shoulder length blond hair, wearing a white wool bikini top and bottom, a long tail with a lion's tuft, thick white wool around her shins and hooven feet, and around her forearms with five black segmented spikes for fingers sticking out of the wool which apparently is also on the palms. She has two curved black ram horns and a large pair of white demon wings; her eyes a blazing yellow.

  "Looks like some sort of Succubus," comments Mirai, "perhaps an ice succubus,"

   "Well," says the mayor, "miss Tonoka, well, um, we did have another summoner say that, but they um, said it didn't use ice magic, instead using, well, black lightning, and...well...um...insect...toid...transformations,"

   "An Eldritch Dark Lord," whispers Mirai.

  -she takes the job, the file with details of past encounters, information on the area and target-

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   Mirai smiles as she walks past the repel barriers located on the old wooden fence beyond Oboro Village's gates, "this takes me back, believe it or not Tempestia this forest is normally considered a beginner's training area for Sain Kingdom summoners. Mystic Monsters, especially very low level ones, namely water and grass ones pop up here so frequently that the bounty is really paid by the Sain Kingdom Guild through the mayor's office and summoners use it more as an oppertunity to boost their decks with numbers to get started. I got my Aqua Slimes and Green Leaf Slimes and..."

  She stops as she hears odd humming, like a woman humming a jolly tune to herself. Mirai sneaks through the bushes and find standing in a field is a woman made entirely of pink gel, her body semi-transparent, mostly opaque though, and she appears to be wearing a bunny costume with the ears and cotton ball tail, save that they too are the same solid pink gel as her body.

  "Woah," whispers Mirai thumbing her deck, "no way...here...and so close to Oboro village?"

   "I am not missing this chance," she grabs a special card from her deck and plants it on the ground; instantly a red line zips around the field encasing where the strange spirit is and forms a dome; instantly they are transported to a Battle Zone and a grid appears on the ground, this grid is only four by four. Mirai ascends to a platform behind the four space in a line in front of her, centered with two on her left and two on her right. The spirit stands in the center of its own square with one square appearing on each side of it and an empty short expanse of field between them, locking them into a turn based battle zone with fixed movements. A holographic screen in front of Mirai labels it as "Gummy Bunny Queen".

 *Summon round*

   "I summon," says Mirai, "Tempestia" (who appears in the space overlapping in front of her and to her right a little), she continues with, "and Stormion" which appears to the far right square, "and Fire Lamia", a red scaled snake woman with an Arabian upper body wearing a red with pink flowers motiff and tassels top with matching veil and wavy dark brown hair appears; her eyes are glowing red. She is in the space overlapping in front and to the left of Mirai, "and my final opening act, I summon for my left guard, "Mecha Slime"., a metallic grey jelly bean looking thing with random green and blue lights that turn at sharp angles appearing on its body, it has a glowing smily face which alternates between blue and green light.

  The Gummy Bunny Queen strikes a pose and her body glows for a moment with Mirai's screen saying, "Bounce skill"

  *Round 1*

"First my personal action," whispers Mirai to herself, "Battle Spirit, Floating Mine"

 A small mechanical object appears in front of the Mecha-Slime just bobbing in the air with blue blinking lights on it.

"Now," she says, "the spirits commands, Stormion use Electric Shock!"

 Stormion fires a blast of electricity from its claws protruding from its cloud like hands, the bolts shock the Gummy Bunny Queen, however some of the bolts are reflected back into the Stormion; however given its nature this only boosts its stats.

"Tempestia defend," Tempestia holds otu her hand and says, "Spirit Shield" erecting a circular blue barrier in front of her.

 "Fire Lamia, use Dragon's Breath." the Fire Lamia lifts her veil and spews out a sweeping wide torrent of flames that hit the Gummy Bunny Queen causing her body to glow pink a moment and a message to appear on Mirai's screen (Defense Down, Bounce lost),

  "Mecha-Slime, defend" the Mecha Slime stops wiggling as if stiffening up slightly.

  Now the Gummy Bunny Queen can act, and glows pink again, the screen reflecting this repeated action as (Bounce Skill), however the Gummy Bunny Queen can act a second time and does a little spin dance and to its right (Mirai's left), a Chocolate Bunny appears (a small dark brown rabbit holding a very orange carrot as if it were a sword and a pastel blue bowtie).



  *Round 2

   "I skip a personal action and Stormion use Electric Slash."

   Stormion charges the Gummy Bunny Queen with electric sparks firing between its claws as ti slashes the geletenous bunny girl, the shocks clearly doing some damage, however no marks are left on it, after all it is a Mystic Monster. Some of the electric force is sent back, however once again this only increases Stormion's stats.

   "Mecha-Slime, stay in defense mode, and Fire Lamia use Dragon's Breath."

  The Fire Lamia pulls back her veil and once again spews out a sweeping plume of fire hitting all opponents, the Chocolate Bunny vanishes in a burst of blue flames while the Gummy Bunny Queen once again just loses her Bounce skill affect and is inflicted with some damage.

  "Tempestia strike but try not to inflict too much damage."

  "As you wish my Princess," says Tempestia as she sweeps her arm sending a wind blade that strikes the Gummy Bunny Queen.

   The Gummy Bunny Queen is pausing a moment but then summons a Bunny Slime to its right side (Mirai's left) where the Chocolate Bunny at stood; the pastel egg looking slime with a bunny like face and ears just bobs there. The Gummy Bunny Queen then holds her hands in front her, palms facing up and down to each other focusing a pink fire between them and yells out, "Pretty Pink Fire Barrage!"

  Four pink fire balls fire forth, one hits Stormion causing a near half loss in HP, one hits Tempestia but doesn't do much damage, Mirai's screen marking it as 1hp loss, same with the one hitting the Fire Lamia; and the fire ball hits the floating mine in front of the Mecha Slime setting it off, it explodes in a blue electric ball damaging nothing and doing nothing for the Mecha-Slime; which confuses Mirai for a second before realizing that in this kind of battle zone proximity means nothing with the floating mines only direct hits and friendly fire for a defense isn't really a thing.

  "Head in the game Mirai," she says to herself.

  *Round 3*

 "Okay," says Mirai, "I summon Healing Fairies!"

  She uses a card that summons a small group of tiny green fairies that sparkle green dust over the four spirits restoring most of the HP lost, although Stormion comes up a little short of a hull gauge.

  "Now, Fire Lamia use Dragon's Breath!" Once again the Fire Lamia spews out a sweeping plume of flames that damages the Bunny Slime and the Gummy Bunny Queen.

   "Mech-Slime, shock ram the Bunny Slime!" the Mech-Slime emits sparks and rams into the Bunny Slime which pops into blue flames.

  "Tempestia strike!" Tempestia sweeps her arm sending another wind blade that strikes the Gummy Bunny Queen bringing her HP to below half." Tempestia narrows her eyes at how little damage her basic attack is doing to this spirit.

   "Stormion Electric Slash!" Stormion once again slashes with an electrified claw damaging the Gummy Bunny Queen further.

  The Gummy Bunny Queen once again channels Pink flames between its hands, however this time its more intense and changes from a pink gaseous flame to a concentrated pink energy, "Gummy Beam Sweep!" she shouts firing a sweeping beam, the Mecha-Slime vanishes in blue flames, returning to Mirai's deck, in a side stack indicating defeated and in need of restoring, the Fire Lamia sees a -50hp (started at 3000hp), Tempestia sees a -4hp, and Stormion is reduced to barely a smidge left on his bar. The Gummy Bunny Queen then leaps high into the air and comes crashing down with a pink fire kick down onto Stormion who vanishes into blue flames and back to his card and onto the defeated pile.


  *Round 4

   "I summon Acid Lamia," the far left space where the Mecha-Slime had been now has a green scaled Lamia with an green skinned human torso, with a dark green bra and yellow-green veil, her hair is dark green and unkempt, "and I summon Blue Slime Girl, "a blue puddle of slime appears in the far right space where Stormion had been, from the center of the puddle a humanoid woman's torso plops up with the apperance of short hair and a dripping body.

  "That's five," mumbles Mirai remembering that in this kind of battle zone there is a summon limit of EIGHT spirits in total not counting Battle Spirit cards.

   "Okay, Acid Lamia use Acid Shield," the Acid Lamia spreads out her arms and looks up with closed eyes as a light green aura comes over her body.

  "Fire Lamia use Fire Spit," the Fire Lamia pulls back her veil and spits out a small red fire ball that strikes the Gummy Bunny Bunny Queen.

  "Blue Slime Girl defend" the humanoid torso spins and retreats into its buddle.

  "Tempestia, use Telekinetic Hold," Tempestia holds out her hand and shouts, "Telekinetic Hold!" the Gummy Bunny Queen is held in the air with its arms pinned.

   The Gummy Bunny Queen is unable to move.

  "I should try now," says Mirai holding up a blank card as its her turn again, "Capture Card go!" the blank card flies across the battlefield and stops in the air sending out a blue beam that envelops the Gummy Bunny Queen, she struggles but is sucked into the card. it spins around a few times and then changes pink with pink circles around the boarder and a picture of the Gummy Bunny Queen on it bending over slightly and winking as if to a camera.

  [Gummy Bunny Queen captured, Battle Over]

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  Mirai sighs as she chants over the two cards in the grass, the battle zone gone, the Mecha-Slime and Stormion, sending them both back home to recharge and summoning two more to replace them in her deck, not the Gummy Bunny Queen as that one needs to recharge as well, instead a Fire Crab and Lava Slime and puts them in the deck.

   Mirai turns as she hears slow clapping, from the brush the very spirit she had come to find appears, "Now, now Emily...er...Mirai, let's not try to lock me in that turn style RPG spell; but if you're going to try and capture every cute fantasy monster you come across I figured I'd better come to you."

   Tempestia stands beside Mirai as the strange spirit speaks, "So, here you are, Mirai the Summoner, hmm," she tilts her head and smiles, "have to say in any form you are just as adorable."

   "Who are you and what do you want here spirit? I won't fall for any weird tricks."

  "Heh, you and I have met before, and yet we have not I guess. It is frustrating to think about. I guess in any case you wouldn't recognize me like this."

   There is a white glow and the spirit transforms into a woman with the same blond hair but no horns or hooves or claws or wings, instead wearing strange pants made of a material Mirai doesn't recognize, a blue woven cloth somewhere between ordinary fabric and leather armor, and wearing a thin black top.

   "Spirit," says Mirai, "you have been causing trouble in this region, the Oboro Forest is for low level spirits only, your presence alone is drawing much stronger spirits to the forest, I have been hired by the Sain Kingdom Guild to capture or defeat you."

  The strange woman smiles, "Are you not even a little curious about what I am saying to you? That I KNOW you, damnit, okay, I'll cut to the chase; you sang about a year ago, to summon a spirit to you, I heard you and I rushed across Hell to find you, do you remember Hell? Not like here, like our past lives, a world of black paved streets, cars, sky scrapers...giant buildings covered in glass windows."

   Mirai turns pale, she knew she recognized the clothes, and what this spirit is describing, her dreams.

   "I see it in your eyes, you do remember,"

  "I...I had dreams," whispers Mirai.

  "We met," says the spirit, "in our past lives...well...I guess two lives ago; I...its...okay, its a little too convoluted to explain as this is your current incarnation; but experiences like that leave an impact."

  The strange spirit looks at Tempestia and back to Mirai, "I wasn't alone following your voice, there were three ahead of me, among other lower fae and demons that flew out of our wakes; but she reached you first. So what's your name this time Mistress?"

   Tempestia only stands there stoic until Mirai turns, "Tempestia do you know this spirit?"

  "Yes my Princess," says Tempestia.

  "Tempestia," says the strange spirit, "Are you kidding me? That's not even subtle."

  "I named her," shoots back Mirai.

  "I see, well you may remember her after all, more accurate a name than MewMew."

  "What?" asks Mirai.

  "In your last life," says the strange spirit, "I did not find you before the world was destroyed and you had summoned three spirits to be by your side already; among them was her, our Mistress."

   There is a flash of white light and the spirit has transformed back into her fluffy succubus like form, she taps her neck with her claw and a ring of black glowing runes appear like a magic collar. Mirai feels an odd sensation around her own neck and summons from her adventurer item bag a mirror. She is about to ask what is happening when she sees similar runes appear on Tempestia's wrist, but rather than on her skin for Tempestia they are floating and turning slowing around her wrist a few inches into the air.

   "The soul marks," says the strange spirit, bound to us by her two life times ago...or rather when we were both between lives, With these we can track each other across dimensions and of course she can track us as well. She found you in your last life, a summoner there as well, shortly before the seven goddesses of destruction destroyed that world and...okay seriously you arn't even reacting to any of this, what the fuck Emi...*keh* Mirai?"

   "Spirits come from all over the multiverse" says Mirai, "they have tons of stories to tell, my father's Daemon claims to have originally been an artificial being created by people who sailed through the stars in metal boats, my mother's says he was the demon general of a Dark World; hell, one of the professors at school had something that apparently fought Tempestia in a past life, and another recognized her as some cataclysm bringer. I mean spirit in-fighting is normal, and personally its awesome having a spirit partner that is both new to our world and was some big-shot in their own spirit world. Hell one of the big-wigs in the Sain Kingdom guild has a spirit passed down through his family that was apparently the source of all evil magic on some other world, and Miss Oko's partner spirit claims she and Miss Oko were lovers in a past life too and that why a Daemon like Dominess appeared for her ritual summoning."

  The strange spirit gives Mirai a confused look, "Wha...what kind of fucked up planet is this?"

  She shakes her head, "Fine, whatever, Mirai, I am drawn to YOUR soul, our souls are lovers; I may not be your partner, but I have too much pride to be captured by you as much as I'd want the oppertunity to get between your legs again."

   "Definetly a succubus," says Mirai.

  "I am Overlord Victoria, Overlord of a Hell of city ruins and forests, we will meet again, in this life time, between, or the next."

  With that she vanishes in a flash of white light and the forest its self feels different, less powerful.

  "Well damn," says Mirai, "wish she'd have stayed somewhere deep in the forest, it feels like everything's gone back to normal. I really wanted to try and catch some rare high level forest spirits; but I got a Gummy Bunny Queen so there's that."

   Tempestia actually raises a brow and shrugs before shrinking down to ride on Mirai's shoulder as the young woman heads out of the forest to report what happened.


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chapter 2:

   "Knew me in a past life," thinks Mirai as she digs out her text books from school, "can't let them see you react to news like that but;"

   She finds the book and flips to her heighlights, "Power attracts power, some spirits may have built up a reputation in the spirit realm or another alternate mortal dimension they had visisted before resulting in spirits being drawn to spiritual signatures they recognize; resulting in both spirit alliances and spirit in-fighting"

   Mirai flips some pages, "On very rare occassions a spirit may recognize someone, looking past their physical flesh at their soul as the reincarnation of someone; possibly even another spirit such as a ghost; they encountered previously. Concepts such as time and death mean very different things to spirits; with some not even recognizing them as concepts and may become confused when they are not recognized back. Meanwhile others, particularly older spirits may use this as a way to impress mortals, even going so far as to awaken memories from a past life. It is important to maintain a calm demeanor when this happens regardless of the information revealed; as we are not now who we were then; even if our eternal reincarnating selves may have some attatchment. This is especially important if the spirit insists the summoner was their lover or subordinant (more common) such as a soldier or worshipper in a past life; you must remember you are the summoner and they are contracted to you; such older spirits are unlikely to hold your eternal soul accountable for this as they may regard you as a dream the soul is having."

  Mirai closes the book, "Okay, I...think I understood that."

   She touches her neck, "Subordinate, I wander if those others...that Onryo and the Tempestia at the circus both acted that way, as did that succubus. My Tempestia is sure building up a history."

  She smiles and thinks, "Just like Rhoan and Jessica,"

   "I know you tried to get her killed,"

   Its Tempestia's voice, coming from the hall, Mirai looks at the fairy house where she thought Tempestia was and sneaks to eavesdrop.

  "What of it?" replies Rhoan in the hallway.

  "I may not be able to access all my memories in this form, but I remember you Demon General of the Fifth Legion of Dark World; if you had succeeded it is not my wrath you'd have to face but that of her soul; I would not intervene on your behalf for interfering with her."

  "First off I had no idea who she was, and second, don't pretend to be a good guy. Don't forget this queen of giving herself amnesia, I know what you really are, past all the spells and forms and incarnations."

  "I fail to see how that is a threat?" replies Tempestia.

  "Its not, I know you are a villain, the worst villain to ever exist, these...strange people may be jaded to the concept thanks to centuries of spirit summonings and holding gods and demons as servants; but you are a world ender, a destroyer of civilizations...Cataclysm...the..."

   Rhoan stops unable to speak, the darkness in the hall throws thicker and Tempestia's eyes shine a brilliant blue, her hair waving about in the air through an ethereal blue light casting shadows upon the walls that move on their own and may be part of her still, "I will not be interfered with."

  Rhoan bows, "My apologies your majesty, I am...getting testy, it has been five centuries as a butler."

  The lights vanish and Tempestia returns to normal, "Then try dreaming sometime like everyone else. Take a vacation life, incarnate into a simple world."

   Mirai backs away from the door and *sighs*, "spirits,"

   Her brow furrow, "wait...answer to me...my soul?"

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