!CANCELED! The Demon King(Zatch Bell)

DK chap 7 Gotta Tell my Friends

The next morning I went to school, by bus, as per usual. The busses dropped me off about twenty minutes before classes start I actually had to head to class so when I get off the bus and did my usual routine, go to my locker to get my morning binder, put away my coat and then to the cafeteria to get breakfast, hot chocolate, and a muffin...

Lately, there was a slight change, Astrid has been meeting me at my looker, and there she was, waiting for me, well playing on her phone in front of my locker. She didn't notice me until I was close enough to boop her nose, which is exactly how I got her to notice me. She was, as always, excited to see me. "I met a foe last night," I tried to keep my voice and hand steady as I opened my locker. She was silent, something that now was a rarity. I took that time to change hang up my coat and grab the right binder while putting away my afternoon one...

"Did you win?" she whispered. I chuckled a little.

"I would not be this nonchalant about it if I lost Azoth and Siona, come on, I'm hungry," with that I casually walked towards the cafeteria. After a moment she ran after me. Begging for more details, I told her that I'd tell her when we met up with Ruby. I got a pout and disappointed grumble as a response, causing me to chuckle and shake my head at her childish antics.

She followed me on the line, the lunch lady recognized me and got me my food without me having to tell her. Meanwhile, Astrid was about to explode from anticipation. It might be a bit sadistic, but I relished it.

In the cafeteria Ruby was waiting alone, so with Astrid in tow, I went over to her.

As soon as I sat down she blurted out that I had a battle.

"So, because you're not depressed, and seem to be uninjured, I'm assuming that you won," she concluded. I nodded mouth full of muffin.

"What was it like!" the older girl demanded, "Was it fun? Exciting?" she was bouncing out of her seat with questions, not that I'd finally answer them.

"Terrifying," I responded, and some demons can find the location of other demons. That girl was able to tell that the twins were in my house." I took another bite of muffin and continued, I am the gold standard of table manners, "it was crazy dangerous," I paused for a drink, "I think that the main reason I got away basically unharmed, was because I had two demons,"

"I only have one..." Astrid muttered.

"Yes and she is all by herself, and there are demons that can finde other demons," I stated, as a look of terror seeped onto her face.

"Regardless of where Luna is, all of you need combat training," my oldest friend pointed out.

"I thought of that, we need set attack strategies and code names for them, it was kinda lucky that Siona understood my gesturing which allowed us to win," I pointed out.

"Making strategies seems hard..." the other bookkeeper pouted, making my lips turn up into a slight smile, but before I could properly address that the warning bell rang, singling that we needed to get to class. Our first-period classes are on opposite sides of the school so we had to split up, lucky today was day five so we had gym later.

Fouth period came rolling about, I dropped my stuff off in my normal locker and waited by the entrance to the girls locker room, which I could enter, the school still has me registered as a girl and most of the people at the school think the same, but Astrid new I was a boy, so that would make it super awkward for her, so I just took out my book and waited for her to come out. I was so engrossed in the story that I didn't realize that she came out until I got poked.

I begrudgingly closed my book to talk to one of the only people that would randomly poke me. "Battles are really intense, no matter how much you dislike strategies we may need them if we come across strong foes or if some of the compositions join forces, they are not afraid to go after us to win," I could see the gears turning in her head as she fully realized what being part of this battle royal entailed.

"Where can we train?" she asked, for once her tone was serious.

"I haven't done any research on that yet, but we should also sign up for martial arts classes, we may need to protect ourselves."

"I wonder what my mom would think about me randomly wanting that?" she spoke absentmindedly.

"She does know about Luna, and the battles right?" I got a nervous chuckle in response. "She's going to need to know about this, and soon, because you need a safe close-by place to house, ideally at your house, in case of another demon that can detect other demons."

"How do I tell about this?" she started to look worried.

"I'll help.:

~~~~~~~~~~~That night we talked and Astrid's mom had taken it as well as can be expected, finding out that your daughter is a part of some battle royale for a for people in a different universe and that a talking unicorn was moving in with them, she may still be in shock or denial or more likely in disbelief thinking that Astrids just making this shit up, she hasn't seen Luna so she hasn't seen any demon magic yet so I suggested that she and her mom come over so I can show them Azoth's magic since it was night a big fireball would draw too much attention. She agreed and dragged her mom over to my house, this was the first time that Astrid would be at my house.