In the centre of the village, Kaito was busy at work drawing the teleportation circle. Thankfully he always carried a few writing crystals with him. The professors and bliss helped out too as Kaito gave them commands to what he had remembered.

  The others including the professors were amazed. A teleportation circle was complicated and this one was even more so. How Kaito was able to remember everything about the circle was beyond them.

  "So will we be able to go back home once the circle is done?" A student said.

  "I hope so, the longer we stay here the less chance I think we have of surviving."

  As Blake looked at the circle and the false hope the professors were giving the students, he couldn't stand it anymore and turned away in disgust. The professors had decided that it was best if they drew the magic circle anyway, even though they had no way to power it.

  They would draw the circle for now and try to solve that problem for later, but Blake knew this and knew they had decided to keep it a secret from the rest of the students.

  The circle had now gotten to the point where Bliss and the other professors could no longer help. It got far too complicated for them and they could only help with the start of the circle. They decided to make the rounds and check up on the students wellbeing.

  While Max and the others were lying on Noir using her as some type of pillow.

  "Hey, are you sure that thing won't eat you?" Bliss asked.

  "Relax will you, we're best buds," Max replied.

  The student's once in a while would come over to Max to pay their respects to the wolf and to get a closer look. Max at this moment felt like he was a king, rumours were going around that he had managed to tame such a powerful beast and he liked it.

  However, there was one student who was afraid to get close.

  "Van what are you doing come on," Max said.

  Van slowly started to move over but Noir paid him no attention, unlike last time. Van had bad experiences with beasts and he still felt like this one had come over for him, he was sure of it.

  As Bliss watched him, she realised there must have been a fear deeply rooted inside of him. This went a lot deeper than the rest of them thought.

  Then Van was finally close enough to the point where he held out his hand and started to stroke Noir's fur.

  "Nice dogggg d.o.g.g.y" Van said with a shaky voice.

  The other two laughed as they saw the scene. That's when a little girl had come over as well.

  "Do you mind if I pet the cute dog as well please?" It was Norah, the princess of another kingdom.

  "I don't think it's a dog but sure go right ahead," Max said, but as he said these words, he had another intention behind them. He knew girls couldn't resist cute things like this and soon they would have the princess of a kingdom over on their side.

  Then though, Max realised something, the wolf didn't look cute at all. In fact, although the other students had come over, it was more out of fear. Norah was the first one to call the thing cute.

  "Thank you for protecting us back there." She said in a soft voice. "You are my hero." Then she spread out her arm's wide and dived into Noir's fur.

  The other students seeing this and seeing no reaction to the thing, really felt strange. Their whole life they had been told beasts where dangerous. That on instinct they would attack and kill humans. On top of their useful beast cores, this led humans to always hunt beasts.

  But here, seeing a little girl hug a giant wolf beast so peacefully, they were starting to think that maybe what they were taught was wrong.

  Just then Flynn and Springett had finished checking up on all the students. Some were hungry but it was hard to tell if it was day or night here, for the sky was always a purple murky colour. If the beasts didn't kill them, they would soon die of thirst and hunger. They needed to find a power source for the circle.

  Springett started to look at Noir, and wondered if the beast core inside her would be powerful enough to power it. But she quickly gave up on that idea. The wolf was their saviour and after seeing it fight, even if they were all at full strength, she was unsure if they could take it on with all of them.

  "I wonder who's its owner?" Springett said.

  "What do you mean, isn't it Max?" Norah said as she now laid with her back on the beast next to Max.

  "No, you know as well as I do that the beast protected us and Max at first was just as afraid as the rest of us when he first saw it." Said professor Springett, "But for a beast to be this comfortable around humans, it must have a human owner. It's the only thing that makes sense."

  "Well, there is that kingdom that raises beasts as pets, right?" Bliss said, "Maybe someone from there is here, or their owner had died."

  "I don't think so, this beast is too powerful for that, only a few would have the power to control something like this and they wouldn't send their men out here on their own."

  Nori's eyes suddenly opened as she could feel something getting closer. She suddenly stood up on her feet causing Norah and Max to fall to the ground and bang their head.

  "What happened?" Max said.

  Noir's tail started to wag intensely as she could sense the man getting even closer. She then took off at lightning speed.

  "Do you think it's the enemy, are they attacking us?"

  The group stared into the direction of where Noir had run off to and all the students were now focused on it as well. Slowly a figure started to appear with Noir walking behind him.

  And into view came a red-headed spiky-haired boy, with gauntlets on his hand and a black armadillo chest piece.

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