The Summoner Guild (On Hold)

Morning Chaos with the Grandells

"What did you do?!" Kyle vaguely heard Shelly's shrieking voice before he awoke to someone kicking down his bedroom door. And by 'kicking', he meant that it was blasted apart by a fireball.

"W-what?!" Kyle asked in surprise thanks to his little sister's strange method of knocking. "Me? What are you doing?! What did the door ever do to-"

Pausing mid-sentence, Kyle only just now realized that his sister's hair seemed to be at least three inches shorter than it had been the night before, which was strange because she had been trying to grow it out. Though now that he looked around, even more things seemed odd as his room was now completely clean save for the smoldering pieces of wood from the door's remains that were scattered all over the floor. His books, which had been left out all over his desk with some even being on the floor had somehow all returned to their proper places on his book shelf with all of his discarded and dirty clothing siting in neatly folded stacks inside of a laundry basket in the corner of the room.

"Hmm... it looks like it happened to you to." Shelly said thoughtfully, though Kyle still didn't know what was going on."

"Uh, what happened to me?" Kyle asked, still slightly startled from the girls entrance before Shelly's hands glowed with magic and a mirror made of ice soon appeared in her hands. A mirror that she handed to Kyle so that he could see the horrors that had happened to his face.

"W-what is- this is terrible!" Kyle started panicking as he saw that someone had drawn whiskers and black eyes all over his face. "I have the summoner's application today! I can't go to the guild looking like this!"

"Then you'd better go wash it off." Shelly stated. "In the meantime, I'll find the culprit and make them wish that they'd never messed with my hair. Or that they'd never been born in the first place!"

"Get them back for my face to!" Kyle shouted after Shelly as she left, and he started to follow her out before a sudden thought struck him. Last night, he'd dreamed that he'd managed to finally summon a familiar, but it was just a dream, right? Which meant...

"Gaaah! I still haven't summoned anything yet!" Kyle yelled in despair to himself before he ran out of his room to go and wash his face. He figured that he would need to be fully awake anyway if he wanted to finally succeed in summoning something before the guild's deadline. Though when he reached the bottom of the stairs that led down into the main room, Kyle was greeted by another scene of chaos as both Brandon and Ryder were wrestling with each other on the floor of the main room.

"You're paying for my ax!" Rider yelled.

"I didn't touch your shoddy ax, old man!" Brandon yelled out in his defense.

"Shoddy?! That ax was your grandfathers!" Rider roared before both of them started rolling across the floor until they eventually passed through the wall that separated the living room and the kitchen. They broke through the simply wooden barrier easily, showering the immediate area with dust and splinters before Kyle followed them into the kitchen where the basin resided so that he could wash his face. Though when he got there, he now saw that both Aguth and Shelly were arguing to.

"I'm telling you that someone cut my hair like this while I was sleeping, I didn't do it by myself!" Shelly complained to Aguth, who seemed to be angry.

"No one in this household has any reason to (crash) cut your hair, and my detection spell would have woken me if there was an intruder." Aguth sighed. "I don't care what you want to do about your own fashion, but (thud) you at least need to consider (boom) your appearance to the others in your party. Other adventurers won't trust someone that looks like- (shatter) Would you two stop destroying the house already?!"

Turning to glare at Brandon and Rider, Aguth became silent what she spotted the shattered remains of the large plate that used to sit on top of the cupboard at the side of the kitchen. Instantly, the temperature of the room dropped, and Kyle turned and ran for his life as he knew that it had been his mother's favorite dish. He also knew that there would be hell to pay for anyone still inside of the kitchen when her anger reached it's climax.

"You idiots! Get out of the house, now!" Aguth roared from behind Kyle, and he ran out of the front door just in time before the entire house was skewered by thousands of spears made of ice. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to dodge all of them as one of the spears had lifted him up into the air by the back of his shirt collar, nearly strangling him in midair before the spear finally broke under his weight and he fell to the ground with a thud.

Getting off of the ground, Kyle sighed to himself, glad that he'd survived yet another morning in this house of strong adventurers. It wasn't often, but at times, conflicts such as this morning would arise. Their house was the one that paid the most for it, especially if both his mother and little sister got into a serious fight as they would fling spells at each other, which usually not only ended in the destruction of their home but a few of their neighbor's homes as well.

"Good morning, young Kyle. I see that your home is as lively as ever." Old Lady Manny, one of Kyle's neighbors, said sweetly as Kyle only just now realized that she was in front of him.

"Good morning Grandma." Kyle replied as politely as he could, knowing full well that she wasn't his grandmother though she seemed to enjoy the title so he still called her the title regardless. "Do you need any help with anything today?"

"No, but thank you for offering young man." Manny chuckled to herself. "It's refreshing to see lads grow up as well as you are. It gives an old woman like myself hope for the future."

"I'll try not to disappoint you then." Kyle stated with a smile before he lost his happiness as he noticed that the shadows seemed to be shorter than they normally would be in the morning. "Sorry, but can I ask what time it is?"

"Well, I believe that it's just about noon." Manny replied thoughtfully, and Kyle felt his blood draining from him as he knew that the Summoner Guild stopped accepting new applicants at noon that day.

"Sorry Grandma, but I have to hurry to get to an appointment!" Kyle said in a panic before sprinting down the street, hoping that he would make it in time. He didn't hear Manny's reply as he left her, though he did hear the string of angry curses that the townsfolk shouted at him as he ran past them and accidentally bumped into several. However, he didn't care about what they currently thought about him because right now, he was headed towards the church where the representatives of the guild were busy testing their new recruits. And upon the thought of the testing, Mike faltered slightly as he remembered that he hadn't managed to summon anything yet. Though, now he would just have to face that hurdle when it came.