CHAPTER 15, THE JOURNEY CONTINUES WITH NEW FRIENDS

As I open my eyes, I'm in a room, beside me Aria and Yue hold both my hands. I've made my two lovers worry to much it seems. I look at the calendar and it seems that I've been asleep for two days straight now. As I get up it seems the two have been woken up. "Un... Haru?" Aria asks rubbing her sleepy eyes.

"Haru-san!" Yue exclaims and hugs me, Aria does too. "We... we... we were so worried."

"Haru, don't scare us like that." Aria says.

The two of then have tears in their eyes, the look like they haven't slept in over two days, they must've stayed up to keep an eye on me. I slowly pat their heads and comfort the two. I wipe away their tears and kiss both their foreheads. "I'm sorry I made you two worry. Yue and Aria, I've made my two lovers worry it seems." I say and pat their heads again.

The two sit beside my bed and tell me all that happened, they told me about Leo talking to them and about the spell I used, about the power of my Blood or whatever and then Aria also tells me that Yue had already learned of our relationship and was happily accepting of it. "To be honest, I don't care how many wives Haru-san has. As long as I was one of them I am happy." Yue says with a smile.

"Yue-chan, I'm going to inform the members of the fact that Haru woke up. Can you come with me to get him something to eat?" Aria asks.

"Yeah, let's go Aria-chan." Yue answers, it seems my two lovers... no fiancees have gotten close since I passed out.

When the two depart from my room I stand up and try to change my sweaty clothes, the previous blood coated clothes have been placed on the desk and it seems they've been cleaned too. I feel like a bathes in order first so I go downstairs carrying extra clothes and when I descend everyone swarms at me at the stairs bottom. Everyone asks if I'm fine or if I need anything but I tell them I'll be fine. They eventually let me pass and I arrive at the bathroom safely. When I strip down and wear the towel, Storm enters the room. When I get to the bath it seems Aqua, Jade and Neph are already smoking while Rogue, Silver, Rain and Clover are cleaning up so they can soak in the tub as well. I join the three who are cleaning themselves and we are soon joined by Storm. We enter the water and I feel relieved, as we all soak in the cooling waters I feel like everyone is staring at me so I can't calm down. "What is it?" I ask the bunch.

"When's the wedding?" Rogue asks.

"There isn't going to be one just yet. We're going to strenghten the love we have first." I answered as I feel relaxed in the water. "Also, I don't think it's time just yet."

"Haru promise me you'll treasure Aria." Storm says with a serious expression, he has always been there for her. "If you make my little sister cry I'm going to bury you alive."

"Don't worry, I don't plan to make her cry, unless it's tears of joy. I won't hurt her, I want to support her, and not just her but Yue too." I say as I feel my face turn red. "I'll make it clear, I don't know if these feelings are love but that doesn't mean that I won't cherish it till it becomes love."

"So you do like the two of them?" Silver-san asks.

"Of course. I might no be able to call it love just

yet but I know I like the two. I'll treasure them and make sure they're always happy for the rest of our lives!" I shout at him and just then they all burst out laughing. "W-what's with you?!"

"The room next to ours is the girls' bath and today only I removed the sound proofing on the girls' side so that they could hear what you said." Clover says with a chuckle. "Basically you just declared your love when your two fiancees could hear it, along with the rest if the female guild members on the other side."

"Y-you guys set me up." I say with a blush on my face, I'm not mad but I just...

"Sorry, but we thought it was the best way to make you admit you like the two of them." Neph says still chuckling. "But to be clear it was the girls that asked us to do this. Dia wanted to ascertain how you felt about them."

"Yue, Aria are you on the other side?" Jade says as he holds his stomach from laughing.

"Y-yeah. We-we heard what you... said Haru." Aria's voice answers. "You better... be good to the two of us."

"Didn't I say that I will be." I say, I don't want the two to doubt my intentions.

After my bath I change into a boxers, a jacket with a blue and grey horizontal stripe pattern on it, joggers and the muffler Aries gave me. For some reason it doesn't smell like blood and it doesn't have stains on it, could it have been enchanted with protection spells and such? I walked outside and saw that it's already dinner time. When we all ate together everyone was rejoicing so happily at my recovery that they all drank and ate happily. I soon decided to get some fresh air so I went outside and I'm joined by two fiancees. Aria clings to my left arm and Yue to my right. I pull the two closer and hug them. "H-Haru, we're happy but..." Aria says as her faces reddened, she's wearing a red jacket with a white long skirt. Yue on the other hand is wearing a maid outfit, it seems rather warm in these conditions and the skirt has a lot of frills and ruffles, so does the hands.

"Just for a bit." I say and hug the two tightly, I may not seem like it but when Iike someone or something I can be rather affectionate to them.

"Haru-sama... how much longer?" Yue asks her face is bright. "I didn't think you were this affectionate."

"Okay then." I say and release the two with a bit of a frown, I want to hold them close to me but I feel like they'll get mad at me if I hug them any longer. "Then, would you two at least stay with me for a little longer?"

"Sure." The two answer and place their head on my shoulders. Just then the two of them let out a small sneeze.

"Here." I say wrap the two in my muffler. "It's actually really warm."

As we stayed close to each other I soon let out a yawn and we all return inside where everyone was either dead drunk or wasted. The only ones who weren't wasted yet were Rogue, Rain and Queen. The three of us leave them to their drinking, Yue apparently got a room here and has her father permission to go with us on our journey, Master has apparently approved it on the belief that lovers should never be separated. I feel both worried and happy at the idea of her coming with us. Well I'll always be there to protect the two so they have nothing to be afraid of.

As morning dawned we are prepared to depart despite the fact a handful members are dead drunk but we're not going to get anywhere if we stay here any longer. As we all bid farewell to the members of the Shining Star guild we all got on the carriages and headed for Padparascha Plains which leads onward to the Royal Capital. On the way I keep my senses peeled for any signs of minute spirits and enemies. Along the way as we crossed a tall bridge I could feel a spirits emotion on the other side of the bridge, it's something rather small. We all soon stopped as the sun began to shine on us, everyone wanted to eat to so they began cooking and it seems Yue can cook as well. I looked around for a bit to see if the spirit from earlier is around as up above me I say a bird, an eagle? But this energy isn't normal so I follow it. It soon rests upon a tall tree in a small clearing and goes down to the ground. "Hello, are you a spirit?" I ask it as I slowly and cautiously approach it.

"You are?" It asks, this language is Aerial Language.

"I'm Haru." I answer it in the same language.

"I see, you are Aerial as well it seems." He says in normal language with a laugh, I know it's a boy since it has a boyish voice. "I'm I'm Aquila the Eagle Familiar."

"I though so, my name is Haru Morganite Tsuki." I say and just then with a *poof* he turns into a human, with wings on his back, a coat similar to the one Lupus wears, black pants and a white shirt protruding from his chest, he's wearing an tie. He slowly walks towards me and steals a kiss. "It it okay?"

"Lately, the wind spirit has been saying things like spirits being attacked. By a dark guild called Shadow's Order. I prefer to be with someone who carried the Tsuki family Blood within him." He answers and hands me a hairpiece that's shaped like a feather. "Bye-bye, oh yeah! Further ahead there's a town know as Heliotrope Town, apparently it's been repeating the same day for a while now. You might want to check that out."

"Thanks." I say as he disappears.

I return to the others who saw me with the hairpiece still on my head, they know I met yet another spirit and simply told me to eat up. As we all ate together I told Master about the town called Heliotrope and she told me that that town was our next stop. To be safe everyone was told not leave the group. As we all went that way again we saw the beautiful scenery around us, the orange fields of grass that were being drawn closer to winter, the trees that were losing all their leaves and the cold wintery breeze that would occasionally pass by. When we were soon near the town we say what looked like a giant barrier surrounding it. When we arrived we were surprised that outside it was still the middle of the day but inside the barrier it was already night. We all entered the barrier and what we saw astounded us. The town was abandoned, no life could be sensed from within the town, but what I do sense are people, these auras, Shadow's Order. They beat us here? It seems they haven't found the source yet though. "What could've caused time to be reset?" Storm asks with a dumbfounded expression.

"Horologium, the pendulum clock familiar." I say, and I try to track it's presence but what I found surprised me even more, a higher spirit and five other minute spirits protecting Horologium from what appears to be enemies. "Libra the scales, Caelum the chisel, Corona Austrinus the southern crown, Pyxis the compass, Fornax the Furnace and Triagulum the Triangle. None of them have combat abilities."

"Is it because they've been attacked?" Aria asks.

"We better hurry, I think they're in trouble." I say.

Horologium the clock has the power to control time but it requires a summoner to use it's power without mishaps, Libra adjusts the balance between everything so she or he must be controlling Horologium's power but I don't know how long it will last. Triagulum the triangle can only only defend, Corona Austrinus the southern crown can only judge and measure ones magical power and such, it is an observer type spirit, Pyxis can use it's power to redirect a person's sense of direction, Fornax can use fire magic and Caelum can create for itself a weapon with three forms, Axe where it becomes a large axe, Blade which it becomes a chisel and finally it's Assault form where it becomes multiple blades. I tell the other I've found the source and they all tell me to guide them their. We need hurry, what we need to do is to stop the dark guild Shadow's Order from their goal of getting all the spirits.

I won't let anyone misuse spirits on my watch.