Lucy Caldwell suffered a disaster in her childhood - her house was burnt, which turned fatal for her parents. She grew up in a children's house together with other orphans. She could never forget the fire incident and was sure her parents were murde...
Lucy walked into her dormitory room of the Warrior Spirit Host students and wanted to access the ninth bed which was assigned to her when she spotted her old friends and classmates - Rose and Lola. Both of them were dressed in their casual clothes, but she could notice some new accessories too, apparently their Bond Items - Rose, instead of having her long red hair fallen on her back, had tied it in a long braid, and at the end of it, three little golden pieces hung, with three eastern characters representing 'celestial' (天), 'emperor' (王) and 'dragon' (龍). Lola wore a shimmering silver owl necklace.
"Rose! Lola!"
"Lucy! You're here too!" Rose embraced her, "I'm so happy to see you again!"
"Good to see you, Lucy," Lola embraced her too, though a little reluctantly. She apparently didn't want to have affairs with her former classmates anymore, but here, they still happened to become her classmates anew... What a pain...
"Oh, my! It is so awesome to see you again, girls!" Lucy was no less happy than Rose, for she was a hard type to make friends in general, so seeing her old comrades was quite a relief for her in this new school. "So you made it into the Warrior Host Squad too?"
"Yup, we got in! Our spirits are really strong," Rose winked.
"Yeah, my spirit's a total beast," Lola grinned with pride.
"Wow, amazing! Who are they? Can you summon them to show me? I'm truly interested!"
"Hehe! Sure! Here goes!" Rose grabbed her long braid, touched the three golden pieces hung on her hair-tie, and yelled: "Brill and dazzle, Long Xiao-Hong!"
A large fireball emerged, shape-shifted, and turned into a young boy. He had long red braided hair just like Rose, with three gold pieces of the same eastern characters hanging on his hair-tie. His eyes were deep blue, and he was dressed in red kimono robes. However, he looked quite young for a spirit. He could be roughly one-hundred-year-old (which was quite a short number for spirit lifespan). Despite this, his eyes showed the whole wisdom of the high heavens. He was not an ordinary spirit - that was for sure. When Lucy looked closely, she noticed golden eastern dragons depicted on the boy's kimono robes.
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"A dragon spirit?!"
Dragons were the rarest among all benevolent spirits, and almost impossible to befriend and bond with, as they usually resided in high heavens. The eighth heaven was officially their residence, along with the guard army of the High Forces, the cherubim. Thus, with their strength and potency, they stood only below one single clan - the Huli, the tailed foxes themselves.
"Hehe," Rose got happy for her spirit to make such a dazzling first impression. "Not just any dragon, but the direct heir and representative of the Long Clan royal dynasty!"
"Wow! Amazing!"
"Hehe... It's nothing, really..." the dragon spirit, Xiao-Hong Long, shyly scratched the back of his head. "I'm just a normal boy..."
"Oh my, so modest!" Lucy beamed, more and more amazed by the young child. "You're a prince in the Imperial Court yet you stay so humble!"
"Hehe..."
"Yup, he's the best spirit in the world!" Rose lovingly hugged Xiao-Hong. The boy's cheeks flushed even more, and he grew red like his whole hair. He grinned and hugged her back.
Lola got angry instead - how come only Rose's spirit was being praised?!
"That's nothing in comparison with my spirit!" she touched her owl necklet, "Flap your wings, Evilia Hoot!"
A black sphere emerged from her necklace and soon formed into a tall, long-black-haired woman with yellow owl eyes, owl-like face, and feathered wings on her hands. She also had an owl tail. She grinned viciously with her sharp teeth, meaning she was a predator spirit who hunted not humans, but other, weaker spirits.
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Hearing the name 'Evilia Hoot', Lucy gasped in shock, as she instantly recalled Yuehong's words to the mommy squirrel, Sandy: "I know all about you, Sandra Nutts. You are that weakling woman who lost two brats to an owl spirit, Evilia Hoot..." So it was exactly this Evilia Hoot who ate Sandy's two kids?! Shudders ran through her spine. She made a little step back.
"Huh? Are you okay, Lucy?" Rose got surprised to see her go so pale in all of a sudden.
"Haha! I bet my tough spirit scared the hell out of you!" Lola instead laughed with triumph. She was pleased that her spirit looked tough and scary. It made her consider herself cooler than Rose whose spirit instead caused smiles.
"I... I'm fine..." Lucy shook her head, getting a hold of herself. "I just got... startled. I didn't expect Lola's spirit to be a night owl".
"Yeah but, you seemed rather... frightened..."
"Haha! Are you afraid of owls?" Lola laughed, "Or is it that your spirit is a mouse or a squirrel?"
Hearing 'squirrel', Lucy recalled crying Sandy again, and her blood boiled up from anger and incense:
"Oh, no, he's neither a mouse nor a squirrel, and having him by my side, I have no fear of owls, and neither of Long Clan, just to mention," she kindly smiled at Rose, who gasped in stupefaction along with her dragon boy, Xiao-Hong Long. Lola flared up - how she dared talk so cockily? Who the heck was her spirit anyway?
"Huh, I bet you're bluffing. Even if it's a wolf or a bear, they can't possibly be stronger than Long Clan, and to let you know, I sometimes am stronger than wolves and bears, if they're dumb enough," Evilia spoke in her high-pitched tone, apparently feeling insulted.
"Who... Who can be tougher than we Long Clan? Dragons are the highest celestial beings that accept to form bonds with humans," Xiao-Hong was sincerely surprised by Lucy's such claim.
"Yeah... Who is your spirit, Lucy? Will you show us?" Rose got interested too.
