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Bab 7: Chapter 7 For The King!

The school week passed uneventfully, Lily and Kat had decided to finish up all their work as early as possible just in case this demon thing started eating up more of their time. As such they spent most afternoons in the school library attempting to complete assessment that would be due later this term. Even the bullies seemed to take a week of for some reason, though perhaps it was just because Kat was so serious about getting her work done and they thought they might cross the line somehow by interrupting them and staying away. It was Friday afternoon, Kat and Lily were sitting in Kat's room.

Normally they would go to Lily's house to hang out being closer to school and less noisy, but the idea of Lily's parents overhearing their conversation overrode that train of thought and allowed Kat to keep her tail out which was much more comfortable. After a week Kat had regained the ability to walk around comfortably without, without difficulty. It was still vastly less comfortable and required some level of concentration, but it no longer majorly interfered with her day.

"So Kat, are you sure you don't need me to stay over and keep watch?" said Lily.

"It's fine, we don't have a spare bed for you and even if we did your parents wouldn't be happy at all. They certainly won't let you stay out late and I'm not sure if they'd think staying overnight here is better or worse than you running around outside" said Kat.

"Fine, I suppose just, be careful whatever happens, will we be meeting up tomorrow to discuss things or do you have other plans?" said Lily

"Um, I think meeting up tomorrow will be for the best, I'll text you in the morning and try and sort things out ok?" said Kat.

The two hung out for a while, talking about nothing for the most part. A week of studying in the library together had made the two well aware of what was going on in each other's lives, so they just killed some time before Lily headed home and eventually Kat went to sleep.

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A flash and the sound of burning woke Kat. She flinched but kept calm, looking around more carefully this time. Above her was a rapidly spinning symbol of complex lines that seemed to shift as she gazed at them. It was time. Kat reached out slowly and just as her hand was about to touch the portal, she stopped. *This is probably a summoning portal. I think I must have brushed one last week when the light flashed*. Quickly jumping out of bed she got changed into one of her old outfits just in case something happened, deciding to leave her tail in full view this time before walking back over to her bed and pressing her hand against the portal. As soon as Kat's had touched the embers flickering off the portal, she was sucked in.

WE WELCOME YOU TO YOUR MANDATORY WEEKLY SUMMONING

BLOODLINE AWAKENING IS ON SCHEDULE NO CHANGES TO BE MADE

LANGUAGE MODULE CURRENTLY FUNCTIONING

CURRENT FUNDS 0

GOOD LUCK, AND MAY YOU HAVE A SUCCESSFUL CONTRACT

D.E.M.O.N.S.

Kat burned the message into her mind, she might have forgotten the first one but now that things were serious and a lot more real then she had initially imaged Kat knew that anything she could gain from the system would be valuable information. *At least the backdrop is exactly as I remember it, and the colours truly are stunning. If I had the option, I could stare at this for hours*. As if to spite Kat's wish, the summoning ended at that moment and she appeared in a radically different setting to the first time.

She was in a dark room with only a sliver of moonlight coming through a window somewhere behind her and a number of candles dotting the walls. The room looked misused and hardly ever cleaned and yet as if to spite that first impression she noticed two chairs in perfect condition off to the side, and a man standing across from her in one of the most elaborately designed outfits she had ever laid eyes on. He wore a thick coat with a number of beasts depicted on it in various stages of attack, they looked almost alive like they were ready to leap to the man's defence at a moment's notice. Under that he wore a mostly plain shirt with a crest emblazoned over his heart, but Kat struggled to make it out with most of it being obscured by the cloak. She looked up to meet the face of an old man, and the eyes of an ancient being. Two ears sprouted from his side and his greying hair hung low around his neck. *Is this old man an elf? Wait if he's an elf and he looks that old just, how old is he really? Why the hell is he summoning me?*

The old man sighed, flicking through the book he was holding in his right hand."I King Therius, Cladius, Maximillionas, Barehembleden the 2nd Slayer of the Ancient Bone Hydra Learnie of the Forgotten Mines and Defender of the Kingdom do so declare" the King started in a booming voice before trailing off.

"Um, I do so declare" Flipping through the various pages of the book "That if you accept this contract you will be bound to this room for the duration of two hours and um" the man flipped through more pages "you are unable to strike at me" more pages "or attempt to" the man flipped through yet more pages struggling to figure out what he needed to say "attempt to disclose this meeting to others for the duration of this contract. Do you accept?" the man finished.

*Um, do I accept? Is there normally a discussion here? Are we negotiating the terms or is he telling me the terms? Guess two hours is fine I can accept that. The notice before said I needed to do one contract a week and I don't want to get in trouble with that thing.*

"I accept" Kat said. She was going to continue speaking but at that moment a red chain appeared between the two, wrapping around each of them quickly before sinking into their skin. *Holy shit what was that. Damn, I think these contracts are a lot more binding than I initially thought. Ok it's fine I agreed to help the man for two hours. That's fine.* It was at this moment the King moved himself from his circle to one of the chairs before collapsing into it and gesturing for Kat to do the same.

Kat walked over and took up a spot on the chair across from the King, letting her tail curl around her and rest in her lap before looking up towards the King waiting for him to speak."I… I need advice, my advisors are all corrupt, my family is dead and I would like your help" said the King

*Ok, be calm, collected, we just need to give him a simple answer and pretend we are way more knowledgeable than an ancient elf*

"How is it that you believe I can assist you when your advisors cannot? I have even less a stake in your kingdom than the advisors?" said Kat

"Demons like yourself cannot lie, I plan to use this to get some answers for important questions" said King

*Wait what… I can certainly lie, or at least I think I can? Is he wrong or am I just not demon enough yet for it to matter.*

"If that is what you wish for Therius, please ask away" said Kat

"Ha, to cut my name so short, I suppose that is fair, I'm not much of a King anymore and I'm certainly not your King. First I want you to tell me which of my advisors truly is corrupt and which of them were forced into this by the others" said Therius

"Therius, I'm a demon not a god, I have no knowledge of your advisors" said Kat

The King seemed to sag at this and responded "I'm not surprised really, I had to try you know, but anyway I guess I'll continue. What are the chances my wife and son were murdered during my hundred year meditation"

"Therius, how am I supposed to answer that question, I don't have any information other than what you have just told me. With only that I could only make a poor guess" said Kat

"Ah yes, I suppose that's right. In that case let me ask you what are the chances that my kingdom survives my death" said Therius

*King, please you're killing me with these questions, how am I supposed to know any of this.*

"Therius, I have no more knowledge of the future than you, how could I possibly know the fate of your kingdom, I don't even know what it is called, I have only just entered this plane, and you have told me nothing of yourself of the state of the kingdom" said Kat

"Huh, I didn't really think about that" said Therius

Kat was dumbstruck *What was even your plan then? What did you think was going to happen when you summoned a demon? Is it just me? Am I the dumb one here? No surely not.*

"Um anyway can you share with me some demonic knowledge perhaps? Perhaps a way to keep the ancient forest healthy" asked Therius

*Oh, boy do I have an answer for this one* "Burn it" said Kat

The old man spluttered "What do you mean? How would that help the ancient forests? Wait you can't lie… hmm" The elf seemed to seriously consider himself for a moment. A minute past, then ten. The silence continued to stretch before the King said "I just don't get it, how does that make any sense?"

"All forests need something from the soil, this helps empower the growth of new trees and bushes which in turn helps the animals thrive. The charcoal and ash released when you burn a forest to the ground is extremely valuable" said Kat.

The King paused, and then started cackling madly.

"A way to improve the ancient forests, we've been researching for generations, thousands of years, and it's just handed to me. Hahahaha, I can get my kingdom back with this information." The King got up and sprinted for the door throwing it open and running down the hallway cackling all the way.


Bab 8: Chapter 8 So That’s Where the Advisors Were

*Ah…* Kat looked around, down at herself and back up again. *So do I like just sit here for the rest of the time limit or…*? Kat looked around for something to entertain herself with. The room however was bare, lacking any features that might provide her some entertainment except for the summoning circle and the chairs.

*Hmm, I guess I can look at the circles for a while*. Getting up and heading towards the circle Therius had been standing in when a thought occurred to her.

*Wait this looks remarkably familiar, I'm certain of seen this circle before or something similar and it wasn't last week when I was with those two wizards.* Stopping and moving over to her own circle she examined that as well.

*This also seems familiar. I'm certain I've seen this somewhere*. Scanning through her memory Kat couldn't recall anything specific just a hazy recollection just out of reach, giving her the feeling that if she thought about it hard enough the mystery would be solved by Kat knew that it wouldn't be so easy.

After getting lost in the strange patterns and lines of the summoning circles Kat started moving about *Hmm, is there anything else interesting in the room, I've still got plenty of time before the contract expires right?*

Searching the room for anything potentially interesting Kat kept thinking to herself. *I don't want to just leave; I'm sworn to keep this a secret and I don't know if demons are well received here.*

Kat continued casing the room until she noticed some of the stones under the window were misaligned. Kat stood next to them tapping her foot. *Hmm, do I start poking around, maybe there's a secret passage. Wait aren't I already in a secret room of the castle?*

Pausing for a moment Kat was about to keep tapping when the floor fell out from beneath her. Kat begun sliding down a sloped surface hurtling towards the darkness. After about a minute of sliding the slide seemed to even out a bit before throwing Kat against a painting. Before Kat could get her bearings, she started to hear voices coming from the other side. Dusting herself off she started to peak through the hole in the canvas and pay attention to what was being said.

"Look Strongham, for the last time, we can't just duel the King, he's still much stronger than us and sending a formal duel request just gives him a chance to kill us if he suspects anything." said the figure below Kat

"I agree with you Carenuis, a duel is much too risky. Poison has got to be the way to go" replied the figure sitting opposite the one called Carenuis

"Shut up Poffenuis, we've tried poisoning him in the past and not once did he even show any sign of distress or sickness and we've had over ten plans involving poison now" shouted the one to Caranuis' left.

"Speaking of failed poisoning attempts Baronuis, how is assassination attempt 237 going, any luck on finding that rare snake?" said the one next to Poffenus

"Honestly Sagitaruis I think we've been had, I've never heard of an Ekans so I doubt…" Sagitaruis stopped speaking when he heard a tearing sound, the group of elves all whipped their heads around just as Kat tore through the painting and landed on the ground.

*Shit, how am I going to get out of this*. Kat thought to herself staring up at the elves beginning to surround her.

"Shit, we've been seen, who is this peasant, do we kill her or torture her for information?" said Poffenus

Just as Kat was about to reply with the polite suggestion that murder isn't the greatest policy flames shot up from the ground engulfing her in a bright white light before she found herself back in the tunnel of fires again.*Welp, that's one problem dealt with.*

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR SUCCESSFUL CONTRACT COMPLETION

FUNDS WILL BE ALLOCATED YOUR ACCOUNT

ERROR, CURRENTLY REDIRECTING FUNDS TO FACILITATE AWAKENING

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATRONAGE SEE YOU NEXT TIME.

Before the text winked out of existence once again. *Well that's just great, at least I know I'm getting payed for my ridiculous escapades. Hopefully I can start profiting from them at some point but for now it's fine, I guess.* Kat started to relax, content to simply enjoy the passing lights as she was transported back to her room.

Ground rushing to meet her Kat found herself standing right where she was before she left, looking around the room and noticing nothing amiss Kat checked the clock and noted that it was 2:30am. *It seems like at least some time had passed during my transit and subsequent dealings with the King, or perhaps the portal had only opened at 2:30, I'll need to check the time before I leave next week.* Looking around once more Kat was about to climb into bed when she noticed her clothes were filthy, sighing she stripped them off and prepared for another shower hoping not to wake anyone.

A quick shower and much scrubbing to remove the cobwebs later Kat returned to her room with the orphanage none the wiser before curling her tail around herself and slipping under the sheets. Hopefully the wake up won't be as painful as last time.


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