• Suichi stirred, they had placed him on his couch in his home; Mr. Hiro sat across from them

    “What happened?” Suichi asked sitting up and rubbing his head

    “You passed out from using such a strong attack twice in a row” Mr. Hiro scolded

    “How do you know all this?” Kouji demanded, Leiko nodded

    “And why are you active during the Darkness?” Leiko asked, Mr. Hiro held up a hand to halt their questions

    “All will be explained in due time, for now rest while I go home and ready a few things…I want you to bring everyone you know that is active during the Darkness to my house on the night of the full moon at the end of this month” Mr. Hiro stood and bowed his way out

    “HEY…THAT DIDN’T EXPLAIN ANYTHING!” Kinoko yelled as Mr. Hiro walked out the door and crossed the cul-de-sac

    “I told you he was a weird old man” Kouji smiled down on Leiko.

    The next few weeks passed by quickly for them, Miss Kagamesh recovered from her illness and returned to teaching the following week; Sota was substituting for another class.

    “Hey, I want to remind you guys that the full moon is tomorrow night” Leiko brought up during lunch, they all nodded as the bell rang for them to head to P.E. class

    “Ugh…I hate P.E…I think I’m sick” Leiko grabbed her stomach, faking sick

    “Suck it up, I’m your P.E. Substitute” Sota’s voice drifted from behind Leiko, Leiko immediately sat upright

    “Really?!” Kouji exclaimed with a large smile on his face, Sota nodded and smiled at them all as he walked off for the Gym.

    “Alright everyone, time for warm-ups” Sota clapped his hands together standing in front of the class as he forced Leiko, Kouji, Suichi, and Meicho to be models for the exercises

    “Alright, today we’re supposed to be running but I think we should make it more interesting, we’re going to have a race” Sota announced.

    Sota decided to race the boys first; Kouji, Meicho, Suichi and the other boys lined up on one side of the basketball courts

    “Your going down Kujo” Meicho said angrily as he shoved Kouji a little

    “What is your problem with me!” Kouji exclaimed as Sota readied the checkered flag on the other side of the basketball court, Sota waved the flag and the boys set off running across the blacktop, Meicho shoved Kouji behind him a little and took the lead.

    The Darkness silently crept up and covered the sky as Meicho crossed the finish line and turned around to gloat

    “I WON I WON, wh…why is everyone frozen? Where did the sun go?” Meicho exclaimed glaring at Kouji, Suichi, Kinoko, Leiko, and Sota standing around looking at the sky

    “NO WAY..YOU TOO!” Kouji screamed stomping his foot,

    “KIERA!” Suichi called out, Kiera came running around the corner to stand next to him, Sota walked over and pulled Gloria out of his duffel bag that was sitting next to the gates

    “It’s about time, I was cookin’ like Thanksgivin’ dinner in there” Gloria exclaimed as she shook out her short fur, Meicho gaped open mouthed at the talking rabbit

    “What did you all do to me?!” Meicho screamed at the top of his lungs as a large monster seemingly crawled out of the nearby field ground; the monster was almost two stories tall and had a long snout like an elephant, it was a dark purple color and had four dark orbs floating around it’s head like a halo, it had claws like a vulture and eyes like a drunken cat.

    “What is that?!” Leiko exclaimed as Biru teleported onto the blacktop with Chip as Leiko’s ankles

    “Alright everyone, let’s do it!” Kouji exclaimed as he transformed Chip into his spear, with Chip yelling a loud “WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!”.

    “What are you people!” Meicho yelled as he sat on his hutches against the gates

    “We’ll explain later! Just don’t die!” Kinoko exclaimed as she grabbed Meicho by the arm and pulled him into the sidelines.

    The large frog looking monster stomped it’s foot and crushed the nearest basketball pole under it’s large claw, the monster opened it’s mouth and a green mist drifted out joined by a horrible stench.

    “EWW!” Leiko exclaimed as she clapped her hand over her face, Kouji held his palm up at the monster

    “Deadly Gale!” Kouji exclaimed as the gust of wind slamemd into the large frog monster’s side slicing and dicing the monster’s side, Kouji watched as the monster’s wound closed before his eyes as if it had not been hurt.

    “This thing is healing!” Kouji screamed as he pointed at the spot that he had attacked

    “We saw that Kouji!” Leiko retorted sarcastically, with a smug smile Leiko held up a finger pointed at the monster

    “Phoenix Fire!” Leiko called out as a wall of flames erupted from her finger and engulfed the monster, as the flames encircled the frog creature it made a high pitched scream that echoed through the entire school.

    When the flames disappeared the monster’s charred scales immediately went to work healing themselves and a minute later the monster looked good as new

    “How the hell are we going to stop this thing if it can completely heal itself!” Sota exclaimed as he clenched his fists ready to fight the monster

    “If magic wont work on it, what makes you guys think that our weapons will?” Leiko retorted, Suichi gave her an angry look

    “Way to be pessimistic Leiko…” Suichi said as he dashed at the monster and struck it in a triangle formation and before the wounds could close up Suichi raise his hand and shot a magic attack inside the cut and the wound closed up around the magic attack, the large frog monster screamed in pain and stomped off towards the other side of the basketball court where a small turtle was making it’s way across the blacktop

    “Oh my god, someone save it!” Leiko exclaimed as she threw her shuriken at the monster to gain it’s attention.

    Meicho dashed forward and slid underneath the monsters large clawed foot and grabbed the turtle along the way, Meicho ran back to where he had been watching with Kinoko

    “Thank you” whispered a voice, a frantic Meicho looked down at the turtle in his arms, the turtle’s green little face turned a light shade of yellow and it retreated into it’s shell a little

    “Did you say that?” Meicho exclaimed looking down at the shy little turtle that he had cradled in his arms, the turtle came out of it’s shell a little and nodded slightly, Kinoko watched this in envy

    “WHY DO YOU GET YOUR SPIRIT GUIDE RIGHT AWAY? I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR MINE FOR WEEKS!” Kinoko exclaimed as she hit her hand against the gate they were standing against.

    Kouji jabbed his spear through the monsters side and fired his magic attack inside the cut just as Suichi had and the giant frog monster once again screamed in pain, Leiko followed suit and fired off her magic flame attack into the monster and the frog creature started to burn from the inside out

    “Everyone, take the Spirit Guides and get out of here” Sota exclaimed as the Spirit Guides changed back into their animal forms and followed Kinoko, Suichi, Meicho, Leiko and Kouji as they took them all and ran off for the locker rooms as the frog monster vanished in a large explosion of dark energy, Sota covered his face waiting for the aftershock but it never came; Sota was run over by the students resuming the race as the Darkness vanished from the sky unnoticed.

    “What was all that about!?” Meicho exclaimed as they sat in the boys locker room alone, Kinoko and Leiko looked around

    “I’ve never been in here…it’s really gross smelling” Leiko said as she made a disgusted face looking around as Kouji and Suichi explained everything to Meicho

    “Wait Yuki is in all this too?!” Meicho exclaimed as the two of them finished, Kouji nodded

    “Awesome, do you think this will make her want me?” Meicho said puffing out his chest, the turtle looked up at Meicho

    “are you all talking about that scary blonde girl?” the turtle asked, Suichi nodded confused

    “she stuck me in a hole that took me forever to climb out of…” the turtle said sadly

    “Why did she do that?” Leiko asked as she patted the turtles head

    “I don’t know I was just minding my business walking along the sidewalk and she kicked me into a ditch” the turtle replied with a defeated tone

    “Oh…poor thing, what’s your name cutie?” Kinoko smiled, the turtle retreated into her shell again

    “my name’s Aila, I’m Meicho’s Spirit Guide” the turtle’s voice echoed from inside the shell

    “Aila is a pretty name” Leiko complimented, Meicho looked down at the shy, scared little turtle

    “Why is it so pathetic?” Meicho complained, Suichi and Kouji smiled with triumphant smiles

    “Because she’s a representation of your soul” Kouji taunted, Meicho got into Kouji’s face

    “you wanna lose some limbs monkey boy?” Meicho exclaimed, Kouji glared at him and opened his mouth to reply but was interrupted by Suichi

    “Well, we should all get going…tomorrow night we all have to meet with Mr. Hiro” Suichi reminded them, they all nodded and went their separate ways.