• As Sota was driving home listening to his music loudly something darted out from the bushes in front of the car and a horrified Sota looked behind him and saw a small brown rabbit laying in the middle of the road, Sota quickly stopped and got out to look at the animal

    “Oh no…I killed a rabbit…” Sota exclaimed distraught, the rabbit lay there with it’s eyes closed as Sota took a closer look the rabbit hopped back into it’s hind legs

    “I was hoping that you would stop” the rabbit said with a southern accent, Sota stared down at the rabbit with a shocked look on his face

    “what?” Sota exclaimed

    “I pretended to get run over so that you would stop…I need to talk to you” replied the rabbit as she pushed his wide open mouth closed

    “But…you’re a rabbit…how can you be talking?!” Sota exclaimed looking around to see if there was anyone around but no one noticed

    “I am your spirit guide, my name is Gloria” Gloria stated through her thick Texan accent, Sota just stared at her as if he were a crazed person

    “Believe it Sota…there is a powerful Dark evil trying to take over the world and I’m here to help you and your friends fight them” Gloria smiled

    “well aren’t you cute, I have to take you home and show Leiko…she has a Chinchilla that you might like” Sota smiled broadly as he picked Gloria up and pet her in his arms

    “ok…ok too hard” Gloria exclaimed as she kicked his arm with her hind leg as Sota climbed back into his car to head home and wait for Leiko.

    As Leiko, Kouji and Suichi turned down their street they saw Mr. Hiro sitting on his porch glaring down upon them with his large round eyes that looked like two large blue stars off in the distance

    “that man is so odd…” Kouji whispered as they headed off to Leiko’s house, at Leiko’s house they were greeted by an overly excited Sota

    “Ooh…Sota, I thought you were at work today?” Leiko asked but Sota shrugged her off

    “Look! Guys this rabbit talked to me!” Sota exclaimed pointing at the brown rabbit sitting on the living room table

    “Oh?” Suichi asked looking down upon Gloria suspiciously as Kiera sat next to him, Leiko ran upstairs to put her things down and returned with Biru in her hands

    “Well, seeing at Kiera and Biru are here, there’s no point in hiding my true identity” Gloria smiled at them all; Leiko, Kouji, and Suichi’s mouths dropped.

    “GLORIA!” Kiera and Biru exclaimed together, Kouji looked at Gloria and then at Sota, then at Gloria again

    “But…he found his Spirit Guide before me!” Kouji exclaimed as an odd little squirrel tapped on the glass, Sota shooed the squirrel away

    “that thing has been running amok around the cul-de-sac for weeks now…” Sota exclaimed as he returned to their conversation

    “Well Gloria explained everything to me and I’m going to help you guys…” Sota smile at Leiko

    “Thank the gods…I’ve been stressing over lying to you about Biru…” Leiko said placing Biru on the table with Gloria

    “Leiko, you have lived here longer…tell me about that man next door, Mr. Hiro” Biru looked up at her with his light brown eyes

    “Well, all I know is that he is very rude, old and crazy” Leiko started

    “He’s always chasing his neighbor’s chickens off his law with a butcher knife…he is really weird” Leiko nodded as she took a drink from her soda

    “hmm…he is very suspicious to me, but he seems oddly familiar…” Biru said rubbing the fur under his chin as he always did

    “We must keep an eye on him” Biru exclaimed, Gloria looked at him like he were crazy

    “Biru, ya old geezer…you think everyone is suspicious” Gloria shot back, everyone laughed.

    As Kouji, Suichi and Leiko walked to school the next morning they noticed that the brown squirrel from the other day was following them

    “Hey guys…do you think that the bad guys have Spirit guides too?” Kouji said glancing into a nearby tree that the squirrel had just hopped into

    “They could” Kiera whispered back “We don’t know if they are human or just demons…” Kiera eyed the squirrel too as darkness engulfed the sky once again

    “Not again…I’ve already gone through too many uniforms…” Suichi complained as he and the others pulled off their jackets and lay them next to a bush, the squirrel jumped out and into Kouji’s shoulder

    “iknewthatififollowedyouthatiwouldfindyouandlookifollowedyouandhereyouareimsosmart!” the squirrel exclaimed excitedly as it ran circles around Kouji’s body

    “What? I didn’t understand a word of that” Kouji exclaimed as he grabbed the squirrel by the tail and held it up in front of his face, the squirrel had a broad smile across it’s buck-toothed face

    “Chip?” Kiera exclaimed looking up at the squirrel hanging from Kouji’s hand, Chip nodded her head frantically and quickly climbed onto Kouji’s arm

    “Yayifoundyounowthatifoundyouwecanworktogethertofightthebadguyswhoooo!” Chip rushed, Kouji looked down at Kiera

    “uh…translation?” Kouji asked as a group of lesser shadow demons leaped out of the darkness surrounding them

    “No time, she’s your spirit guide!” Kiera exclaimed as she joined Suichi

    “SCORE!” Kouji exclaimed as he held his hand out at Chip who was smiling the whole time

    “SPEAR EEKE!” Kouji exclaimed forcing Chip into a spear, Suichi and Leiko glanced at Kouji

    “What…it’s not like it’s hard…” Kouji smiled as he spun the spear and knocked the demons away from him

    “SWORD EEKE!” Suichi exclaimed, grabbing his Tai Chi sword and slashing into a couple of the demons

    “SHURIKEN EEKE!” Leiko screamed turning Biru into her weapon, then throwing it slicing through a few demons

    Suichi pointed his sword into the sky and screamed

    “Freezing Rain!” causing sharp icicles to fall on the demons once again

    “It didn’t do much damage” Suichi exclaimed as he swipped at a demon that dodged

    “these ones must be stronger” Kouji exclaimed as he knocked a demon down and stabbed it through the heart, it vanished in a wave of dark energy

    “Let me try…guard me..” Leiko exclaimed as she closed her eyes with two fingers held up in front of her face; Katen a large fiery phoenix appeared behind Leiko in her transparent form and placed a talon lightly on her head

    “Phoenix Fire!” Leiko exclaimed as she moved her arm in a sweeping motion, sending a wave of flames to engulf the demons, the Darkness vanished from the sky taking the demons with them

    “Whoa…that was amazing!” Kouji exclaimed as he watched Biru, Kiera, and Chip transform back into their animal forms.

    The three of them put their uniforms back on and continued to walk to school, as they got closer to the school gates Leiko started to walk ahead of them

    “Sorry guys…I uhh, need to go to the library really quick” Leiko exclaimed as she ran off quickly before Yuki could see that she was still disobeying her wishes

    “yoo-hoo Suichi!” Yuki called out as the two of them entered the school grounds

    “ugh…she won’t leave me alone…” Suichi whispered under his breath to Kouji, Kouji snorted but quickly regained his composure as Yuki walked up

    “Hey Suichi…I was wondering if you would like to go to the Mall with me after school today and get some Ramen…” Yuki said pretending to be shy and innocent, as Suichi started to say yes and nod he was interrupted by Kouji

    “he can’t…Swim tryouts are this afternoon” Suichi looked over at Kouji as if he had just saved him from a fate worse then death

    “yea sorry Yuki…another time” Suichi smiled politely and the two of them headed off towards class

    “Phew…that was close…luckily tryouts ARE this afternoon, haha” Kouji laughed as they entered Miss Taji Kagamesh’s classroom.

    “Everyone be seated…NOW!” Miss Kagamesh barked at them, causing them all to sit in unison, Miss Kagamesh started her lesson plan for the day; Miss Kagamesh was a stone cold woman that had a whip that she would crack on the desk of any student who dared to fall asleep in her class, she used to be the wife of a Japanese military sargent who mysteriously disappeared two years ago, no traces of him were found and Miss Kagamesh had a tight allaby, she was at a movie with the Pincipal of the school; Artimus Grim.

    “Now, to let you all know this Friday we will be having a class field trip to the Aquarium on the edge of town, you are all required to be there to continue our study for Biology!” Miss Kagamesh slammed her whip down on the desk of a girl in the front row who was dozing off in the warmth of the classroom

    “I’m sorry Teacher…I didn’t get enough sleep last night…” the girl instinctively exclaimed

    “excuses, excuses” Miss Kagamesh waved her hand for the girl to shut up and went on with her lesson plan, many students believed she had two eyes in the back of her head, as well as in the back of the class where the classroom pet sat; a lonely and tame black scorpion, which many students found very creepy.

    Suichi and Kouji attended Swim tryouts and would await for the results to be posted the following Monday, the two of them were walking home with damp hair and they were both very tired as a black and white calico cat crossed their path, strolling into the front yard of a large mansion on their right

    “Alberic, come” called a feminine voice at the doorway, it was Yuki calling to her cat which came instantly

    “Oh Suichi, I didn’t see you there…” Yuki fluttered her eyes instinctively, Suichi waved and the two of them continued on their way.

    “That was Alberic…he’s a Spirit Guide!” Kiera exclaimed as she looked over her shoulder at the mansion that Yuki lived in

    “is he really?” Kouji breathed, Kiera nodded

    “I wonder if he is that girls Spirit Guide, or if he is just being lazy about finding her…” Kiera thought hard as Chip looked around at everything excitedly

    “OOOHlookatthatnolookatthatthats AMAZING ohmygodiwonderwhatthatis?canigoclimbthattree,whydoyouguyslooklikethatohmygaaad…” Chip was crawling all over Kouji’s tired body, Kouji grabbed Chip by the tail and threw her into his backpack and zipped it closed

    “She drives me insane sometimes…” Kouji said as he shouldered his backpack and said goodbye to Suichi and they parted to their own houses.