The Accidental Warlock

Working Together

I slowly wake up and look around. Somehow I am back in the room Xiantha, and I share at the inn. I am alone, so I call out in my mind for Xiantha, she responds back "About time you wake up, you have been dead to the world for almost three hours. Tabby took Etalia to have her implant installed. I am here with her waiting for her to wake up if you want to join me. Knowing how long we were out I suspect that she will not wake up for another hour to an hour and a half so no rush."

I thought that was a good idea, so I went ahead and got up and took a shower. I then grabbed some food and headed to the medical center to wait for my new friend to awaken. I asked Xiantha about how her training had gone since I spent most of the day learning the summoning ritual. She told me about how they had her against training dummies, then an obstacle course, then sparring against others. She told me about the suggestions the trainers had given her and how she enjoyed being more mobile than trying to stand toe to toe with her opponent. She told me that they tested the poison in her tail and that it caused a weak paralysis that would make opponents slower and weaker.

After hearing about how she fights it honestly scared me. My imagination ran rife with images of her circling around her prey and injecting it with poison. She was a highly dangerous creature that I had known only a short time. I was just thankful that she seemed to like me, and that she needed me to stay alive. I guess that some of my thoughts got through to her because she reached out to me and said "You tried to save me, you are my friend. I will protect you as you protect me."

That did make me feel better, so I smiled at her and thought "Thanks." I then asked her "What do you want to do once we get our basic training done, we can't continue to live in the inn forever running up more bills. We need to start working on freeing ourselves and making a life we can enjoy."

She responded "I want a home. On my world, you go from shelter to shelter until you get big enough that very few can mess with you. Until then you are prey and must keep moving as much as possible. I want a place that no one can chase me from, somewhere to be safe. That means that we need to pay off our debt first and then we can be free. I think I want to try one of the other worlds though. I do not really care for being stuck underground like this. We need to check with Tabby and see what the requirements are to go to another world."

I certainly agreed with her. At first, this was an alien beauty, but even with the artificial lighting, it was still dark no weather and no stars. I missed being above ground. Knowing that on Earth my partners could not go to the surface, I had to agree that it would be best to leave my home planet. I could always visit in the future, I would just have to do it alone.

A few minutes later Etalia started to awaken. I said, "It's OK Etalia, Xiantha and I are here for you."

She quickly sat up and started waving a hand in front of her face I realize she saw the implant box and quickly explained what it was and about the implant, she calmed down after that and we headed back towards the inn to get sleep as it was close to midnight. We also explained about the telepathy, and we found out that we could all speak individually or to all of us at the same time. That was going to be really helpful when trying to coordinate while fighting. I also realized that sleeping would be an issue as our current room only had two beds, when I broached the subject Xiantha said "It will not be an issue tonight, the bed is human size, and we are not. We should be able to share a bed for now at least." Etalia had not eaten at all since her hunt had gone bad, so we went to the desk and asked for some food for her and snacks for Xiantha and me, then we headed up to our room to eat and go to sleep.

The next morning I woke up to my alarm at six, I sent a message to Tabby, and she met us for breakfast at 7. After greeting us, she said "I think I can safely say with two demons you need to focus on spells to empower and heal them more than damage abilities. In the meantime let's have Xiantha continue her training and help Etalia start training this morning."