Chapter 11. Where did he go?!
In the meanwhile in heaven. Nagisa woke up slowly, looking at the bright light coming from her curtains. She stood up and stretched herself. Her silk pyjamas slowly stretching with her body. Ste stood up and walked to the bathroom to take a shower. After she came out with a towel wrapped around her body she dressed changed into the silk robed Rose prepared for her.
“Ahh... another day... Another chance of not making a potion blow up... I wonder how Joey is doing...” Nagisa said to herself. She walked to the men side of the house and knocked on the door.
“I’m coming in!” Nagisa said while she opened the door.
“Ah, good morning Nagisa, had a nice sleep?” Jin asked her.
“Of course Jin, have you seen Joey?” she asked smiling.
“Not yet, but I haven’t seen Marcus either so I guess he took him out for a run.” Jin said calmly while drinking a cup of tea. “Would you like some tea before you lessons from Rose?”
“Yes please, she’s still asleep so I have some time.” Se said while sitting across of Jin at the table.
“Seriously… she can be such a lazy person… her students are more alert then she is” Jin said while pouring tea for both of them. Suddenly the door slammed open and a window broke. Marcus was standing in the door opening.
“Marcus, how many times have I told you not to slam with the doors?! Now someone has to fix this again.” Jin yelled at Marcus.
“So what?! What even bigger is, that I can find Joey! I prepared my spiked knuckles especially for him!” Marcus yelled.
“Strange, well I guess he is with Krad then.” Jin said calmly. Suddenly the door to the bathroom opened and Krad walked out… alone…
“Ahh… that was refreshing” Krad said while coming out in his robes. The entire room looked at Krad. As if he did something.
“Why…is everyone looking at me? Is something the matter?” Krad asked.
“Yeah there is.” Nagisa said.
“Yeah!” Marcus yelled
“Where is Joey?” Jin asked calmly.
“Well... Uhm… I haven’t seen Tomoko either” Krad said not wanting to tell he pushed Joey through a portal.
“What?! He’s with HER?!” Nagisa yelled. Marcus, Krad and Jin looked at her, in a surprised way. “Well… not… that I care… or something…” Nagisa said while sitting down blushing.
“Right… now we had that… lets do something before we waste the day” Krad said while walking out a bit fast.
“Hmm… he knows more then we know…” Jin said.
“Agreed, he definitely knows something… maybe he made some pictures of Joey and Tomoko” Marcus said.
“WHAAAT?!” Nagisa yelled. “I mean... Uhm… that’s… nice…” She said while looking down.”
“Well enough of this. Let’s wake Rose up so you can start on your potion lessons. I’ll watch and so will Marcus”. Jin said. Nagisa gulped as she knew she always blew her potions up if she was doing something herself.
“Hey Rose, wake up! We have class now!” Nagisa said while rubbing her shoulder. As Rose turned her body the blankets fell of her, showing her naked body.
“Hmm... let me sleep...” Rose mumbled to Nagisa.
“For the love of God Rose! Don’t sleep naked!” Nagisa yelled while turning her head away from Rose. Rose sat up straight and wrapped the blankets around herself.
“Why can’t I sleep naked? It’s just us girls in here anyway…” Rose replied while yawning.
“Well… its… you know… not good…” Nagisa said while playing with her hair blushing a bit. She stood up and walked to the door. “Jin and Marcus are going to watch us making potions, so please help me out a little so I don’t look like a complete failure” Nagisa said while closing the door.
“Marcus and Jin are watching? Then where is Joey? Ah well, he’s probably somewhere having fun.” Rose said to herself. She stood up and dropped the blankets from her body and walked to the bathroom.
Several moments later Rose walked to the small shed in the garden. She opened the door and saw Nagisa, Jin and Marcus all sitting down waiting.
“You sure took your sweet time” Nagisa said to Rose.
“Yeah sorry, a woman needs her time in the bathroom” Rose said smiling.
“Is she always like this Rose?” Marcus said.
“You mean… blunt? And rude?” Rose asked confused.
“Yeah, maybe she should learn some RESPECT for her teachers like we teach Joey” Jin said. Nagisa gulped and felt like she was in danger between the two of them.
“I-I’m sorry Rose” Nagisa said sweating a little bit.
“Hey that helps” Rose said smiling to Jin and Marcus. “Anyway we’re starting on our first Guardian Potion today. Can you tell us what a Guardian Potion is Nagisa?” Rose asked.
“Uhm… a Guardian potion is a potion which heals you, and has side effects which gives you a defensive… uhm… protection?” Nagisa guessed.
“Ding, ding, ding! Correct! Well done” Rose smiled. “We’re going to be making one today! The easiest one of course”.
“Strange, according to the schedules she should be making advanced Guardian Potions by now… has her performance increased lately?” Jin asked. Nagisa swallowed and felt like something bad was going to happen.
“None at all! She sucks at alchemy!” Rose said not really caring what would happen.
“Rose! Don’t tell them that!” Nagisa yelled.
“Ah... So you suck at it right?” Jin said smiling a bit evil.
“And I thought you were doing good... That IS what you say every night at dinner right?” Marcus said to her. “It seems its time for me and Jin to have a good time with you. Teach you some discipline and stuff. Joey can do whatever he wants today”.
“He always complains you having a relaxing time. Now I see why he always says that. You’re not doing anything at all” Jin said. Nagisa felt herself really small between those two. She was about to see what Joey has seen in all these months. For her, the training… was only beginning.