After making a contract with a low tier elemental spirit that I gave the name Barky, I got home in time just before my parents starts to notice that I was gone.

It was reassuring to know that they didn’t notice me missing for a while, but that feeling quickly went away when I saw my father have finish upgrading the training ground.

Father put his hand on my right shoulder and smile

“times up, my boy” he said as he grabs me, lifts me up and throws me on the middle of the training ground.

Please Embrace me O, death-sama

A few days has pass

I am in a gloomy place with a small light source.

A peaceful place, a calm atmosphere and a good place to rest.

Finally, I can be one with myself.

" I can obtain inner peac- “I mumbled to myself but I stop when I felt a warm and heavy palm on my left shoulder coming from behind me.

I can feel as if someone breathing heavily coming from the back of my head and it came closer to my left ear, then it whispers “Found you”.

I slowly look behind me. With the dim light source, I can’t see it properly, but I can almost make up its facial expression. Its smiling menacingly.

What I saw is a DEMON. No, it’s much worse than a Demon its-it’s my FATHER.

I ran as fast as I can further inside, but I felt one of my foot gets grab losing my balance and fall on the ground face first.

“It’s time to go back” my father said as he drags me outside a cave.

I can’t believe that he would find my hiding spot.

He carried me back on his shoulder.

I don’t want to go back to that hell.

After a while, he stops and put me down where is the training ground located…wait this isn’t the training ground.

I saw flames coming out of what seems to be a magic device not just one but five of it. As I look around, I saw a bamboo pole under it is a pit of wooden spikes…what the hell is this an extreme Kung Fu training?! As I look further, I can see a room of what seems to be a resting room.

My father saw me staring at the room and said.

“Oh, that’s the best part” as he flips a switch near him.

The once peaceful looking room, became what feels like the deepest part of hell. The room’s roof opened up and huge axe descended from it, swinging from left to right. Another part of the room fills its walls with spikes and seems to move closer to each other…how the hell is this even possible?!

I look at my father with a face as if I were saying ‘please, I don’t want to do this’.

He just smiled and gives me a thumbs up.

Well fuck.

A day passes.

Finally, a time where I can finally rest.

Father went out for a while so that means I have some free time before he gets back.

I haven’t spent any time with the low tier elemental spirit Barky, because of my father’s training.

Maybe I can ask my mother for a way to bond with a spirit or something.

She probably on Gabriella’s room taking care of her.

I went to my little sister’s room to find mother.

I saw mother putting Gabriella to sleep.

I need to ask her when she comes out of the room.

I waited for a while.

Finally, she went out of the room. She notices me waiting on the side of the hallway and then said

“Oh my, seems like you’ve been waiting for a while”

“No, I just waited for a few minutes”

“So, is there anything little Gabriel want”

“Yes, there is something I want to ask and please stop calling me little I have grown up I am big now”

She smiled at me and said

“Then tell me what is it that you want, but I won’t stop calling you little Gabriel”

I sigh and said

“Ok you win, you can call me whatever you want. The thing I wanted to ask is, do you know any way on how to bond with an elemental spirit?”

“Now that you mention it. I remember a book about how to strengthen a bond with an elemental spirit, but why do you want to know a way to bond with an elemental spirit”

“Uh, because I want to enhance my knowledge about elemental spirits”

Her eyes gazes at me suspiciously.

Did I fuck up or something? Is bonding with a spirit bad or something. Am I going to be kick out and be disown? Am I going to be called a heresy and going to be burn to death in the middle of the village? Am I going to be toss in the forest with nothing and be eaten by the demonic beasts living there?

Sweats starts to dribble down on Gabriel’s face.

“Ah, sorry about that some dust went inside my eyes” she said

“Oh, I see” Gabriel said and looks like a heavy weigh comes out of his chest

“The book I mention, follow me I’ll give it to you”

“Ok”

She went to a room with bookshelves most of it does not have books on it. She grabs an old looking book with its title gone.

“This is it; I can remember that it looks like this. Its old so it looks like it’s been wearing down a bit” she said as she handed it to me.

“Thanks mom!” I cheerfully said and I ran out to the room with excitement, because I can’t wait to bond with Barky. As I almost got out of the room, I accidently bump on one of the empty bookshelves and feels like something fell from it but I don’t have time to notice that.

Gabi notice the thing fell down from the bookshelf. It was a book and it has the same design as the book she gave to Gabriel.

“Wait isn’t this the book Gabriel asked for. If this is it, then what is the other book that look the same as the one I gave to Gabriel” she mumbled

“Oh well, I don’t remember” she said as she tosses the book away.

-Gabriel’s perspective-

Now that I got a book on how to bond with an elemental spirit, maybe I should try it with Barky.

It said that make a bouncy round shape object…Ok… I think there’s seem to be the same description on an object I once received as a gift to me when I was little.

I looked around my room and saw it under the bed, then grab it. So, this is where it went to.

Now it’s written to throw the object and ask for it to be return… Wait isn’t this just playing fetch?!

No-no, this is a different world and it’s a book on how to strengthen bond with an elemental spirit so it must be the right way.

Alright I need to call Barky so I can bond with her.

“Barky, where are you?”

After calling her for a bit she appeared in front of me.

I throw the object on the other side of the room.

“Get it for me Barky”

She seems to just stand there for a bit, maybe she didn’t understand cause she’s a low tier elemental spirit after all.

“Ok!!” she cheerfully said.

Oh, never mind then. Guess she knows what to do.

She seems to use magic to get the object cause it’s floating as she brings it back to me.

Alright seems like this will work.

Time to do round two. I throw the object further.

I pointed on the object as I were giving a command to get it.

-Aqua’s perspective-

That bastard is calling me… why does it have to be Barky.

I need to prepare that bark mask

Alright it’s all set.

I appeared before him, after that he throws a bouncy round shape object at the other side of the room.

“Get it for me Barky” he said

What the fuck…is he trying to play tricks on me or something. I am not a fucking pet I am a great elemental spirit. No, he doesn’t know that I am a great elemental spirit, but not even lower spirit would do it. He must be playing tricks; he’s probably will say ‘ha-ha just kidding’.

I look at his face… which is serious… Fuck I am not a fucking pet, but I need to cooperate or he might do something more stupid than this.

I need to answer like I am happy to do it.

“Ok!!” I cheerfully said and went to pick up the object and bring it to him

After giving back the object to him, he throws it once more.

He points at it as if he were saying give it back to me.

Well Fuck.