Ariadne's POV

With a sigh, I closed the door and went to my room to get out of my uniform and into my pajamas. Now feeling more free in my pajamas, I flopped on the couch while using the remote to switch through channels. My focus began wavering as I continued flipping through channels until I eventually fell asleep.

"How long will you stay inactive...? When will you awaken to the truth and stop hiding? The time has come..."

I wake up to my phone alarm ringing. It's midnight... why was there an alarm set to midnight?

"So you're awake now."

That voice...! I look to where that voice is coming from and I see the boy from the other night near the window, looking at me with no emotion. "Wh-Who are you?! Why are you in my house!?!" I grabbed the first thing I can get and got ready to throw it at him. "You're really going to throw a cushion at me?" With those words, I look at my hand and that I am actually holding a cushion. "Put that down and let's talk." He walked towards me as I got more defensive. The dark haired boy sat next to me and looked straight at me. For some reason, I start to lower my guard, little by little. "Good, you seem to understand." He sighs.

"Long story short, I'm your guardian and have to protect you from magic beings." My face must've showed so much confusion because he started to look annoyed. "Ugh, great! I have to be a guardian for an imbecile..." He scoffs as my blood begins boiling. "What the hell!? You wanted me to calm down and now you insult me just because I don't understand this wacky looney toons mind fuck of a story? You're unreasonable..." I look away as he grabs my chin to move my face to face him again. He brought his face closer to mine until our lips met. That led me to push him away and slap him. "What the fuck!?!" I began to freak as a light came from my right shoulder, my gaze went to look at it. It looked like the outline of a shield with an hourglass design on it. "Huh?" There was a light from his right shoulder with the same mark.

"Now you noticed. That night when I kissed you, a seal was placed on me and you. That's the seal of my guardianship . Now do you believe me?" He asked as I slightly nod. "T-Then why did you kiss me now...?" I muttered with a red face, "It's the only way for me to reveal both of our seals. Look, I don't make the rules for this stuff. If I did, I wouldn't do that for a second time. Trust me, you're not my type." Wow, rude much... "So what does this mean, you're my familiar?". "No. I'm your guardian. Familiars are things you summon, we are assigned to certain people whose fates are tied with being in danger with magic beings to protect them. You're one of those people." So my fate is gonna be crazy huh... sounds like this is an anime or something like that... "Okay. Since you're my guardian, what's your name?" I asked as he sighs for another time, "You really are an imbecile... I'll give you a hint, I can shapeshift into a cat." Wait... "Damian? The cat...?" He nods as he shapeshifted into a cat. "Woah, woah, woah, woah! That's so awesome you can shapeshift into a cat!" My eyes begin to light up, "You don't find this strange? A guy changing into a cat?" His question made me shake my head no as I picked him up. "You're a strange girl..." I chuckled as I placed him on the floor and he transformed back. "So, you gonna be a cat forever or... what's the plan with you?" I asked, "You'll find out. For now, head to bed. You got school tomorrow, right?" Just as he mentions school I feel a wave of exhaustion hit me. I feel his arms scoop my legs and cradle my neck as he takes me to my room and places me on my bed. I immediately fall asleep.

~Timeskip~

I wake up to my phone alarm going off, it being 6am. Huh? I never wake up at 6am... "So you always wake up to your alarm? Even though you're a heavy sleeper..." Huh? I look up and see Damian leaning on my door. "So last night wasn't a dream..." My mumbles filled the room as he threw something on my bed. It was my uniform, neatly folded and pressed. "Get ready for school, I'll leave you to change." He exits my room, out of my sight. I sighed and began putting on my uniform and doing my hair. After a while, I step out to see a cup of coffee made on the counter with a piece of paper leaning on it with my name.

"Mroow!"

I jump a bit and see Damian in his cat form looking up at me. I see, he made me coffee. Petting his head, he hisses at me as he goes to scratch me but I retract my hand. "Geez... don't have to get all hissy on me..." I walked out of my house with my bag and began walking to school, sipping my coffee all the while. I also plugged in my earbuds and started listening to my music on random. Since it's so early, should I head to the Asian store and buy me some lunch? Before my mind made its decision, I was already on my way to the Asian store.

~Timeskip~

Class was about to start soon and I was already in my seat. The last day for the week... I can't wait to just sleep in tomorrow... "Class! I would like to introduce a transfer student! Come on in and write your name on the whiteboard, don't be bashful!" Miss Chisaya announces as a boy walks in wearing the full uniform. He had jet black hair and blue eyes... wait a minute... The boy wrote his name on the board and faced us and that's when I knew my thoughts were right. "My name is Damian Nys, nice to meet you all." He says in the most monotone voice I have ever heard, bringing everyone to have the same expression as me.

"He's kinda cute but his manner of speaking is so robotic..."

"Doesn't that make him mysterious though?"

"You are right there..."

The girl's gossiping made me internally gag. He's not that cute, I don't see what they see... "Hope you enjoy going to this school, I might give you private lessons to get you up to speed with our curriculum." She led her fingers going up to meet at the bottom of his chin as she lifted his head a little. "I will have to refuse Miss, I have better things to do." Damian brushes her off and walks towards the desk behind me, glaring at me as he walks past. Miss Chisaya looked shocked but restored her composure and started doing her job and teaching us. However, I wasn't paying attention. Damian's glare stuck with me, does he... hate me? But we only just met... though he was pretty cold when we first met... but he prepped my uniform, made me coffee. I don't know anymore...

~Timeskip~

The bell rings for lunchtime as I sit up, take my bag and make my way to the cafeteria where I would eat with Betha and Sachya. Sitting at our usual table, I pull out the stuff I bought from the store. A bottle of lemon soda, a bag of potato chips and a small loaf of kinako bread. I bit into the kinako bread with a smile, Owen used to buy a lot of these from that store and I would steal a few since they tasted so good. Though nowadays he doesn't go there. I wanna ask him why but I don't wanna pry when he chooses not to tell me.

Just then, I gotta text from Sachya saying she has something to do so she won't be eating with us today. Immediately, my eyes get covered by hands as I feel something soft at the back of my head. "Aria!" This time it was Betha's voice filling my ears. At least I know what's at the back of my head... "Betha! You forget, your boobs are way too big!" We laughed while Betha removed her hands from my eyes and sat on the seat on my right. The two of us started gossiping about random stuff until one of our phones started ringing. It was Betha's, "Ah, it's my agency. Gotta go, see you guys later!" And with that, Betha left.

"Ariadne." Jumping at the sound of my name being spoken, I look up and see Damian. "You need something?" I ask as I take a sip of my soda, he sits down next to me. Okay... nothing wrong with this but I barely know him. Maybe if he sat in front of me, I would be less weirded out. We didn't speak, we just ate food. I decided to break the silence, " So what are your hobbies?" he stayed silent. "What's your favorite food?" Again, he stayed silent. "Are you going to talk to me, or not?" My voice had annoyance in it which made him stop, "It's not my job to talk to you." and then he went back to eating. That just pissed me off, "If that's the case, then leave!" I yelled while most of the cafeteria started staring at us. "Fine then," With that, Damian took his food and left. The people who were staring started mumbling about what happened as guilt grew inside me.

Hearing all of this made me annoyed and feel even more of an asshole so I took my stuff and left the cafeteria and walked to the stairs to sit and finish my lunch. All I can do is pout while eating, I just felt even more of an idiot. Just then, a rumble made the stairs vibrate softly. "Woah..." The rumblings continued in parts like, "Boom... boom... boom...". It then suddenly stopped, "Okay... that was weird..." something in my gut is telling me to move so I packed my stuff up again to get ready to move but a weird noise came from the direction of the nearby door. Curiosity got the better of me as I walked towards the door to see where the noise was coming from and opened it. I looked around but saw nothing so I turned around to go back into the building but the rumbling sound returned.

Slowly and on shaky legs, my body turns around again and this time I see a giant monster... thingy? "Oooookay... I think I have to get to class so... see you later, monster!" Rushing back inside, I slammed the door but the claws tear through the door, initiating me to run back to the cafeteria. "Hmm? You okay?" I look up and see Damian look at me with worry as I hyperventilate. Just then, the sound of the doors to the cafeteria getting ripped from its hinges filled the room and everyone in the room started freaking out as the teachers tried getting the students out of the building. Damian pulled on my arm tightly and dragged me along with him to follow the other students.

Ugh, there's too many people in this hallway! I feel like I'm going to lose the others... wait, where's Damian!?! The whole school managed to get out of the school and the teachers continue to lead them into the school basement using the outside entrance. A male student screamed and pointed into the sky as I looked up and saw the monster falling above me. I don't know what came over me as it fell but I just stayed still while looking up. "Look out!" All I heard was Andre's voice as it allowed me to snap out of my daze but it was too late, it's too close for me to move. I close my eyes and brace for impact but instead I feel my legs getting scooped and my neck getting cradled along with a strong breeze hitting my skin. When the sensation was over, I opened my eyes and saw I'm on the roof and I'm being carried bridal style by Damian but he had a pair of cat ears and a cat tail.

"Are you hurt?" He asked as I shook my head. With a small nod, he places me on my feet. "Stay here, I'll deal with this." Damian goes to jump down but I grab onto his wrist before he does so. "What?", "I just wanna say... thanks..." my face flushed pink while he just scoffed. "I don't have much of a choice, just stay out of my way." His cold voice made me let go as he jumped down and started fighting the monster. Damian's fingernails became long and sharp, he used them as weapons. He was so fast and agile, in my heart I wanted him to win. But why am I up here? I should be helping him, he shouldn't do this on his own... yet I don't have the power to do so. I'm not trained for fighting either, how am I supposed to help him anyway?

Just then the monster got a hit on the ground where Damian was going to take his next step on, leading him trip and fall. "Damian!" I cried as the monster's attention switched to me. Oh fuck... it started charing towards me and I just started running while screaming. The only way I can go is downstairs so I went to the first floor and ran to the front entrance to where Damian was. "Ariadne..." Damian was sitting up and saw me running to him, "Look out!" he called out as there was a huge blast and I started falling and closed my eyes. The moment my eyes opened, I was in a huge crater near the entrance of the school with scrapes all over my legs and arms and the monster was in front of me. It got ready to attack me with its claws that made me shut my eyes in fear and scream in terror.

The sound of skin being slashed and blood being spilled were the only things I could hear but it wasn't from my body. I open my eyes to see Damian in front of me with some blood gushing out. "Damian!" I yelled as he fell to his knees. "Ugh..." Damian grunted, "Run... Ariadne... run...!". "I can't leave you now, Damian!" I called out as the monster readied another attack, "NO!" Just then, a bright light consumed my vision.

"Awaken... the time is now!"

The light began to dim, but stayed shining bright. The light seemed to stun the monster too which was convenient. The source of the light came from a small, floating, blue gem just from above me. "What is this...?" My question allowed Damian to look up too. I don't know what occurred within me, but I stood up and took hold of the gem.

"Now say... Primal Star, Power!"

"P... Primal..."

"Primal Star, Power!"

I held up the gem way up above my head as the bright light engulfed my vision again. Placing the gem on my forehead, I let the magic circle around my body. The light faded and I felt like a new person. My uniform transformed into a white outfit with a halter top and a pleated skirt, all with yellow accents. My hair was also changed to be in a large ponytail tied by a big white ribbon with yellow trim and on my forehead was the blue gem being held in place by a fancy silver lining. Lastly, on my arms and legs were white gloves and boots with a yellow edge. "What the..." Was Damian's reaction to my new appearance. I finally realised what happened and I shared the same reaction. "Holy crap!" "Watch out Ariadne!" I jumped at Damian's order, carrying him with me too.

"Repeat after me... Shockwave!"

What...? Who's voice is- ugh, who cares! I need to save us!

I place my hands over my stomach as if I was holding a ball as a ball of light appears between my hands. "Shockwave!" I clap my hands together while the ball of light spreads like a shockwave as it stuns the monster again.

"Now... say Stardrop Blast!"

Okay, one last time.

Grabbing onto the blue gem with my right index finger and thumb, I chant, "Stardrop Blast!". A bright light comes from the gem as it hits the monster. It writhes in pain before it fades away.

"You better heal that guardian of yours... go to him and place your hand over his wound. The stardrop will do the rest."

Stardrop? This is a stardrop? Ugh, there's no time to question it! I kneel down to Damian as he's clutching onto his wound to stop the bleeding. "Move your hand, I can help." My soft voice allowed him to slowly move his hand and my hand replaced it. A soft light came from my hand and after a while, it faded away and his wound was healed. "What...?" Damian was as shocked as me but I replaced the shocked look with a soft smile.

"Now to restore your school... place your hand on the ground and let the stardrop do the rest..."

I did as the voice told me and another light pulsated through the ground as it restores the school to its former glory.

"What's this? I thought that rogue magibeast was after was after that girl. I guess I was right but I never expected to see a magical girl..."

That voice...! We both searched around and saw a figure cloaked in black and had a white mask. The voice though... why did it sound familiar... "Who are you!?" I called out but it responded with laughter. "You'll find out soon, but for now you can call me Umbra. It's a pleasure to meet you, your fighting was truly astounding. We will meet again soon, I want to see you fighting more." And with that, he was gone. "I think we should get out of here too, c'mon." Damian wrapped his arms around me and jumped away, taking me with him while I just closed my eyes. Wind blew past me as it hit my skin and my hair flew in the wind.

When I opened my eyes, we were behind my house. "There, we should be safe now." He lets me go and I immediately fall to my knees in exhaustion. My uniform reverts back to its normal appearance and my hair is back to my half ponytail being held by not a ribbon but my yellow scrunchie. "You need to rest. Releasing all of your energy like that, you definitely need rest." Damian picked me up in bridal style, "N-No... I need... answers..." but I fell asleep in Damian's arms before we made it to my room.

Damian's POV

I placed her on her bed and pulled the covers over her but not before I noticed that her right hand was clenched tightly. I open it and see that blue gem that she had on her forehead. Was that the thing that made her have so much power? It wasn't shining nor was it radiating energy like before. Without thinking, I took it from her hand and pulled the covers over her once again. If this is hers now, it needs to be taken care of and to be with her constantly. I should make it into something that she can carry around easily. Hmmm... got it.

This is now the time for fighting, hell yes. Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter, I really enjoyed writing it a lot! Have a great day everyone!