• Suichi, Leiko and Kouji met up at Kinoko’s for their usual study session and they all hung out in their room as a snowy white owl flew down into the window

    “Hello Children” the owl announced to them all, scaring them to pieces

    “Did the owl just talk to us?” Kouji exclaimed as he bolted upright, knocking Chip to the ground

    “Who?” The owl uttered peacefully

    “Are you my spirit guide?” Kinoko exclaimed happily, the owl looked at her oddly

    “Who, are you?” the owl asked in a grumbly old man’s voice

    “I’m Kinoko” Kinoko replied, the owl twirled it’s head around 180 degrees to look out the window and then looked back at her and nodded

    “Yes, I am Bosatsu the Spirit of Intellect and knowledge” Bosatsu announced, Kiera looked up at Bosatsu and jumped up happily

    “BOSATSU! You’re Kinoko’s Spirit Guide?” Kiera exclaimed as she licked Bosatsu’s beak

    “Who’s Kinoko?” Bosatsu asked grumpily as he ruffled his wings and started to preen himself, Kiera laughed

    “Is he serious?” Kinoko asked as she pointed at Bosatsu sitting on her window sill, Kiera half frowned and nodded

    “Sadly, Bosatsu is getting older and slowly going senile…” Kiera laughed weakly, Kinoko looked at Kiera as if she were going to kill her

    “You’re telling me that I have a old man as a Spirit Guide?!” Kinoko exclaimed, jabbing her thumb in the direction of Bosatsu who was laughing at Chips antics of running circles around the room and then stopping at the bowl of sour cream and onion chips to eat a few and then run around the room again

    “What an entertaining little mouse” Bosatsu laughed as he flew over to Kinoko’s bedpost to get a better view of the ‘interesting mouse’.

    “He is the wisest of all of us!” Kiera exclaimed in a defiant tone, Bosatsu hooted loudly in the middle of laughing at Chip running amok

    “So you’ve been coming to me for MONTHS now and you decide to show yourself now?!” Kinoko exclaimed as she grabbed Bosatsu by the feathers, Bosatsu nodded

    “I couldn’t remember why I came here when you gave me that delicious food” Bosatsu announced as he snapped his beak happily, Kinoko frowned down at the large bird

    “How am I supposed to hide him at school?” Kinoko asked looking up at Leiko, Kouji and Leiko sitting around her room, they all shrugged.

    Exams were coming up and the four of them had much to do, there had been very little Darkness attacks during the exam time

    “Have you guys noticed that the Darkness doesn’t really attack us during exams, do you think that the Dark Master could be a student at our school” Leiko asked as they walked home from school one day

    “What if it were a teacher? Like Miss. Kagamesh, she’s mean enough!” Kouji exclaimed as he rubbed his hand that was all red from Miss Kagamesh slapping her whip down on his fingers

    “I was only drawing Manga…” Kouji said angrily as he lifted his backpack higher onto his shoulder

    “I don’t think it can be a teacher…they are thoroughly checked out before they can be around kids…” Kinoko replied knowledgably, Kiera was wlakign next to Suichi and Bosatsu was flying silently in the sky, Kiera looked up at him and thought that he was flying and sleeping at the same time, she wouldn’t put it past him

    “Kiera, I was wondering…you all know each other because you fought in the battle against the Dark master many years ago right?” Suichi asked looking down on his friend, Kiera nodded

    “Yes, Mr. Hiro was right, there were twelve of us; I was the dog, there was the rat, the pig, the horse, the snake, the rooster, the sheep, the Cow, the Tiger, the Rabbit, and we fought along side Suijin the Dragon and then when the Dark Master was at his weakest, Amaterasu descended upon him and locked him away with her power but her spell has been growing stronger day by day, so she sent us to help you all fight him again.” Kiera lay down next to the couch as they entered the living room of Suichi’s house to continue their studying.

    They had joined Mr. Hiro every week for their weekly training session to learn to use their power

    “SOLARFLARE!” Leiko exclaimed as she shot out a large ring of fire from her spot of existence that shot through the dummy that they were using for practice

    “Very good Leiko, you are progressing very nicely…you might be ready to progress to creating Armor with your Spirit Guide soon” Mr. Hiro announced as he turned to the rest of them

    “The rest of you slackers need to work harder, or you will never stop the Dark Master” Mr. Hiro scolded

    “Like you should talk, your Spirit Guide was killed” Kinoko retaliated as they all headed home, Mr. Hiro glared after her.

    “Master, they are advancing with their training…we should strike while they are weaker” replied the man in the shadows

    “No, I love a challenge…let them come to us, Hiro…” replied the large dark figure as he laughed maniacally and vanished in a large wave of dark energy

    “That’s kind of getting old…” Hiro replied, annoyed as there was a flash f dark energy again

    “WHAT WAS THAT?!” the dark figure yelled at him angrily

    “I said ‘that I’m getting old’” Hiro replied scared out of his witts

    “That had better be what you said” the figure yelled as it vanished in an even larger display of blasted dark energy.

    A short and thin woman came out of the darkness behind Hiro and stood there looking at his hunched back, holding a black and red coral snake in her hand

    “so what is the plan Sho?” asked the girl, Hiro turned on her

    “I am your supperior, you will refer to me as Greed!” Hiro exclaimed, the girl rolled her eyes and re-asked the question, Hiro hung his head in sadness and replied

    “I want you to kill them all, Envy” Hiro looked up with an Evil smile on his face as Envy joined in and they both laughed maniacally together.