171 More Guardians.

( Yuuki's POV )

*RING* *RING* *RING*

As soon as I opened my capsule an alarm started ringing, I walked with some difficulty to the control panel to deactivate it and after stopping the annoying sound I tried to stretch my body but my left hand was not responding.

Yuuki: nothing too serious.

I threw some clothes on me and moved to the courtyard of the castle, then I called Byakko, Genbu, and Sif, telling them not to wake up the girls, after a few seconds they appeared.

Byakko: Master, shouldn't you be recovering?

Yuuki: I'm fine enough, I need your help to summon the rest of the monarchs.

Gray: Why so suddenly?

Yuuki: I want at least one of you with the girls in the other worlds, invoking the rest of you is the most logical thing.

My guardians understood and they helped me with the invocation process, after putting their energy in the circle a whirlwind of fire came out of there along with a giant flaming bird, She was quite pretty, the flame monarch.

Flame Monarch: who has summoned me?

Yuuki: that would be me, my name is Yuuki.

The flame monarch looked at everyone present and then set her gaze on me and landed slowly.

Flame Monarch: I am impressed that two other monarchs are with you, I suppose you are more than qualified to be my master.

Yuuki: oh thank you for being so understanding, your name from today will be Suzaku.

Suzaku: understood master.

Byakko: Suzaku, our master is searching for strange ruins, could you use your minions to find them?

Yuuki: you can do that?

Suzaku: Yes, that won't be a problem.

Suzaku let out a screech that I could barely hear and immediately countless small birds took to the sky, flying in all directions, then Suzaku took a cute little form just like the other guardians, she landed on my shoulder and I patted her head for the good work.

Yuuki: Thanks Suzaku, let's continue with the summoning.

I activated another summoning circle and this time a powerful and elegant blue dragon appeared, this was the azure monarch, Without saying anything, he stared at me and began to size me up, I approached her and I could feel her applying pressure to me but that didn't affect me.

Azure monarch: tell me your name young dragon.

Yuuki: my name is Yuuki, I want to form a contract with you.

Byakko: Don't make this difficult, you already felt how strong our master is.

Azure Monarch: White Monarch, I guess if he can keep you in check he is a suitable master.

Yuuki: don't fight OK, we are a family.

Azure monarch: I am civilized, what will be my name master?

Yuuki: you will be Seiryu.

When I finished with the summoning rituals I turned towards the castle, After days in that healing capsule I was eager to sleep in my bed but I stopped when I saw Yumina in the courtyard glaring at me, The moonlight and her hair flowing with the wind made her look beautiful and dangerous at the same time.

Yuuki: Yumina, you look beautiful tonight.

Yumina: Yuuki, what are you doing out here?

Yuuki: well as you can see, I'm better now.

Yumina: you are better? Yuuki can you move your hand?

To show her that I was fine I did as she told me and with a little effort, I was able to move one of my fingers.

Yuuki: see, no biggie.

After hearing my answer Yumina slowly walked toward me and I won't lie she scared me a little.

Yuuki: I think I've already spent enough time locked up, don't you think?

Yumina didn't answer me and she continued walking, I took a step back but at that moment she jumped towards me and hugged me with all her strength.

Yumina: I wanted to do this for a long time.

Yuuki: Yeah, me too.

We stayed like that for a while until she fell asleep, I picked her up with one hand and entered the castle, I smiled when I saw her beautiful sleeping face.

Yuuki: I love you, my mysterious princess.

Yumina: Yuuki, you should only say those things when I'm completely awake.

It seemed like she wasn't as asleep as I thought but I just smiled and walked into the castle.

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The next day many of the girls were upset with me for leaving my healing capsule early, Flora especially because she was in charge of my health, She banned me from any tiring activity but at least they didn't make me return to the alchemy lab.

After a morning of attending to my royal Suzaku appeared with news of a new mysterious ruin, of course, I immediately decided to investigate them and to my surprise, the girls did not object.

We flew to the place that was a small island, no one was living there but the place sure was full of monsters, When we got down to the island before I could step forward Barghest pulled me close to her and the rest of the girls walked in front of me.

Barghest: stay close to me Yuuki.

Yumina: You just stay safe while we search for the ruins.

After saying that a rhinoceros-type monster made a wild charge straight at Yumina but she didn't move, she raised her hand in front and golden scales grew on her body, She transformed just like me when I took my dragonewt form.

She stopped the monster's charge with one hand and then she gathered a huge amount of light magic in her hand and blew up half of the monster, Then she turned and gave me a bright smile.

The rest of the way the girls took care of all the monsters showing their new powers and the result of their training, It was good to see how far they had come but I also wanted some action, after a while of exploring we found the ruins and the girls finally let me go.