Part 1

The bushes rustle as something emerges from them. Yen looks at the newcomer inquisitively.

Yen: [Mmm it is perhaps an elemental?]

A gathering of wind and water with shining eyes peers at Yen from the edge of the forest.

Yen: [Hmm should I try talking to it? I might want to just back away from it though…] “Hello? what might you be doing here?”

The elemental moves towards Yen while Yen backs away from the elemental. This repeats for a minute or so until the elemental becomes visibly upset.

Yen: [Uh oh.]

The elemental generates a spear made of water and propels it towards Yen with the assistance of wind magic.

Yen: [That is much much much worse than my water blade! It looks like it can pierce through at least 10 of me!]

Yen immediately starts to gather mana and fires off a spell.

Yen: “Wind Barrier!”

Yen forms a shield of wind in front of himself. The shield is swirling and sloped so that it deflects the water spear elsewhere.

Yen: “Hope this works!”

Yen hides behind his shield and hunkers as low to the ground as possible. The elemental fires the water spear at Yen and it hits the surface of the shield. It begins to go through but in the end is deflected to the right thanks to the swirling currents of wind.

Yen: “Phew that was close I should retaliate now though. How about this!” “Light Ray!”

Yen fires off a beam of energy at the elemental but unlike before when he tested it on ants he pumped as much mana as possible into the spell and then fired it. This resulted in a large beam about 3 feet in diameter firing towards the elemental.

Elemental: “GRUOOOO!”

The elemental evaporates into steam and all that remains is a gemstone with some blue and green swirls inside it.

Yen: “Hm? What is this? I wonder what happens if I try this…” “Identify!”

Yen gathers some light mana, shapes it into a cat head, and fires it at the gemstone. The glowing cat head swallows the gemstone and appears to chew for a second. Then a sound like an oven makes is emitted from the cat head. A glowing yellow screen appears before Yen with some information about the gemstone.

~Elemental Core~

This gemstone is the core of an elemental.

Can be used as an augment for wind, water or any sub-categories of those two elements.

Can also be used to summon a friendly elemental. The power of the summoned elemental is largely reliant on the summoner’s potential.

Elemental will be fully loyal to the summoner.

Elemental will usually be of an opposite gender from the summoner.

Summoner rights can be transferred to another individual after the initial summoning but the ritual requires more elaboration on the usual summoning circle.

Yen: [Summon a new elemental? That doesn’t sound too bad. I wonder if there are any books in the house about elementals.]

Yen picks the core up in his mouth and returns into the house with it.

Part 2

Yen is perusing the bookshelves yet again. He scans the bindings of every book on the shelf looking for a book on elementals. He finally finds one after two or three moments.

Yen: “Here’s a book that I might be able to use. This is… Elementals and Co.’s General Guide to Elementals.”

Yen jumps onto the bookshelf and pulls the book out so that it falls onto a cushion. He then jumps down and gingerly opens the book.

~Elementals~

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Elementals are masses of magical energy that acquire a soul. Despite possessing a soul, most elementals do not possess personalities. The only ones that have personalities are high elementals.

Elementals are separated into three known tiers by their strength or whether or not they possess a personality. Those tiers are: Low, Middle, and High. Now keep in mind that even if the elemental is weak, as long as it possesses a personality it will automatically jump to High tier. Also keep in mind that High tier can be reached by all elementals given that they possess enough strength.

There are elementals for each of the simple elements but there are also multi-elementals and complex elementals. Multi-elementals are elementals that possess more than one element. Complex elementals are a step higher than that and completely mix elements together to create complex elements. The High tier multi-elementals also often have more than one personality due to the presence of two elements as well as the fact that most elementals become multi-elementals by absorbing another elemental’s core.

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Yen: [So the tiers are not restricted based on strength. I should also look out for complex elementals and multi-elementals. All of this is interesting but it’s not what I am looking for. Onwards!]

~Cores~

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All elementals have cores. These cores are what store the soul of the elemental. When an elemental is destroyed the soul is released just leaving the core gem. This core can be used to augment magic or apply properties to weapons or armours. Armors and weapons can only be enchanted with a single core which cannot be taken off afterwards so be careful!

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Yen: [Armor and weapons don’t have anything to do with me and I still haven’t found anything that tells me about summoning. Oh? This next part looks useful.]

~Summoning Your Own Elemental~

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Summoning an elemental is essentially binding a new soul to an empty core. Despite how difficult this sounds it is actually relatively simple. All that is necessary is an elemental core, magic paint of the necessary elements (Just add elemental mana to some paint), some blood, and some feed for the elemental (some materials of the elemental’s elements. ex: fire for fire elemental, water for water elemental, etc.)

Once you have all the necessary materials paint the magic circle with magic paint. (In the case of multi-elementals, paint the magic circle with the differing elements equally. ex: wind-water elemental use half water paint and half wind paint.) The magic circle should be one larger circle with five smaller circle inside.

Once the circle is drawn you should drop blood in the center circle (just a small amount) and draw any images that come to mind in the other four circles. These images will help the new elemental get to know you better. After all of this is done just pump mana into the circle and wait for the ritual to finish. Congratulations! You are now the parent of a newborn elemental!

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Yen: [Oh… seems I found what I need to do. I should get started before Laia and Ai return I suppose.]

Yen begins his preparations to summon an elemental and looks around the house for the necessary ingredients.

Part 3

Yen has gathered all of the needed materials to summon a new elemental. He draws the circles and drops some blood into the center circle. He then stops and ponders what he should draw.

Yen: [Hmm what would be good to put in the circle? Hmmm.] “Well whatever. What goes in the circles doesn’t matter much anyway… right?”

Yen draws a cat in one circle, a pillow in another, a stick figure in another one, and a dagger in another.

Yen: “Meh too late to take these back now. I guess I put the core in the center circle? The book didn’t say anything about it.”

Yen places the elemental core into the center circle next to his blood and begins pumping ambient mana into the magic circle. The magic circle begins to glow in green and blue. The blood, the core, and the pictures float into the air and the pictures turn upright. The pictures start slowly swirling around the core and blood but gain speed with time.

Yen: [This is like a washing machine… is that what is was in my past life?]

The blood suddenly seemed as if it was being absorbed by the core and soon there was no longer any blood in the middle of the formation. The pictures began to slow down and finally came to a halt.

Yen: [What now? Is this all there is to it?]

Though there was no longer any blood, the symbols and core still floated in the air.

Yen: [Does it need more blood?]

Yen makes scratches on one of his paws again and drops more blood into the formation. The core pulsates as if happy with the offering. It slowly starts beating like a heart and absorbs the elemental mana from the elemental paint. The magic formation fades away as the mana is absorbed and water and wind gather around the core.

Yen: “Come on! It seems like you are so close to completion!”

The wind and water starts to form into a more humanoid shape and before long takes on the form of a small girl with 2 blue and 2 green quadrilaterals floating behind it.

Yen: [Isn’t this quite an intricate elemental?]

Suddenly Yen blacks out.

~Dream World~

Yen wakes up in a field with dandelions lazily swaying in the breeze. There is a huge lake before him and there is a bridge leading to an island in the center of the lake. Yen looks around and reads the sign that was in front of him.

Yen: “Come this way… It is pointing at the island too… This is somewhat suspicious but I suppose I might as well.”

Yen begins walking on the bridge as he feels the wind flowing around the area and sees the peerlessly calm lake that reflects all that is above it.

Yen: “This place is quite nice. If I weren’t still suspicious I might have taken a nap here.”

Yen arrives at the island and sees a white table set in the middle of a field. There are two people sitting there, a man dressed in an emerald green military officer uniform with wavy blonde hair that seemed to move with nonexistent wind and a woman dressed in a blue dress who had eyes that seemed as calm as the lake that the island was situated in.

Green Man: “Welcome to dreamland my feline friend! Would you like some fish? hehehe.”

Blue Woman: “Stop that Ventus. We welcome you to our little plot of land in dreamland Yen.”

Ventus: “But why Aquia?! I just wanted to have fun with him.”

Aquia: “Shut it my dear husband. Your eccentricity is what I love about you but please restrain yourself in the face of a guest.”

Ventus: “Fine~~~”

Yen: [Quite the interesting pair huh.] “So who are you two and what did you guys need me here for? I just finished summoning an elemental.”

Aquia: “Well Yen, my name is Aquia and I am the highest water elemental so you could call me the water queen and this man here is Ventus the king of the wind elementals. We have summoned you here today because it is about that elemental you summoned.”

Yen: “What about her?”

Ventus: “It’s our daughter! Yay! You just happened to create an optimal body for our little precious so we forcefully planted her consciousness into it! Rejoice! You get a high elemental right from the get go!”

Yen: “Is there any catch to it?”

Aquia: “Well, yes. There is something we want you to do for us.”

Ventus: “Teach our kid the outside world! She has no experience with life in general and has the mind of a child! So teach her about the world and other things!”

Yen: “I see… well I’m fine with just that.”

Aquia: “Thank you Yen.”

Ventus: “Yes, yes, have fun go away I have some business with Aquia right now!”

Yen’s vision starts fading but he can faintly see Ventus grabbing Aquia by the waist and flying away while kissing her.

Yen: [You are already going to make more children?! Isn’t it too early?! Your kid just left the house and you are already doing pervy things!]

While calling Ventus a bad father and cursing him out, Yen returns to the real world.

Part 4

~Real World~

Yen wakes up in the house sprawled eagle. A small girl (about 9 cm) is sitting on his stomach. She is more like a fairy than a small girl though. She looks into Yen’s eyes intensely.

Yen: “So… what is your name?” [Can she understand me?]

Fairy: “Yes I can understand you. I can also hear you through a telepathic link.”

Yen: “Oh. So do you have a name?”

Fairy: “Yes I am Mist, the daughter of Ventus and Aquia and elemental of water and wind.”

Yen: “Okay! Nice to meet you Mist!”

Mist: “I am pleased to make your acquaintance as well Yen.”

Yen: [How did such a spontaneous father give birth to such a well mannered daughter…]

Mist: “I would say that I have inherited more of my mother’s traits.”

Yen: “I see. So, what should we do?”

Yen looked at the room and discovered that the magic paint and other traces of the summoning ritual have disappeared.

Yen: “Did you clean up?”

Mist: “Yes. I determined that it would be better if we talked in a neater setting.”

Yen: “I see. Thank you for your help Mist.”

Mist: “My pleasure.”

Yen looks out the window and sees that it has become somewhat late already. The skies were already turning shades of orange and red.

Yen: “Ai and Laia should be returning soon I guess we’ll just wait for them to return and make dinner.”

Yen gazes at Mist.

Yen: “Do you need to eat or do you run off of magic power?”

Mist: “I only require magic power to stay alive but I wish to experience other forms of sustenance not found in the spirit world.”

Yen: “I see I see. Laia’s cooking is very good so you’ll be satisfied with it I feel.”

Mist: “I shall look forward to it.”

Mist nods her head and sits on Yen’s head to wait with him.

~A few moments later~

Yen hears the door open and sees Ai and Laia enter.

Yen: “Welcome Home.”

Ai: “Hoooomee!”

Laia: “We are home Yen. Were you lonely?”

They enter and pause for a moment when they see Mist on Yen’s head.

Laia: “Yen? What did you do while we were out shopping?”

Laia and Ai look at Yen questioningly.

Yen: “I’ll explain.”

Yen informs Laia and Ai about what happened during the day.

Laia: “I see. I suppose I should welcome you to the family then Mist.”

Mist: “Thank you. It is a pleasure to meet you as well.”

Laia: “Oh my. You are quite well mannered.”

Ai: “Mist?”

Yen: “Ah. You can think of her as a sister I suppose.” [That fine, Mist?]

Mist: “Yes, just think of me as your big sister.”

Ai: “But you are smaller than me though?”

Yen: “She is much older than you though.” [You are right?]

Mist: [Yen?]

Yen: [Yes?]

Mist: [Don’t ask about a woman’s age.]

Yen: [Okay.]

Ai: “Muu? Okay sissy.”

Ai still looks confused but quickly accepts the new hierarchy.

Laia: “Now that all of this is settled. Let’s eat dinner! Today we’ll have seafood gratin so wait a moment okay?”

All: “Okay!”

Author's Note: There will only be one romance partner. So those hoping for harem. (Yes you) Should stash your hopes away in some dark chest in the backs of your minds :3.