Kilthalia
“Dad! Must I??!” the eldest son whined.
“Yes! I did it, and I want you to do it! Your brother will have to do it eventually!”
“But I don’t wanna go to Japan! I wanna stay here with you and mom!”
“*sigh* Lucifer….there comes a time in a Hudigan’s life where they must follow their own path. I’m merely showing you the way to the start yours,”
“Where’d you rip that saying off of?!”
“My master told it to me! You’ll have him too, so, give it all you’ve got, ok kid?”
“Yeah, okay,” Lucifer humored.
His father finished packing his son’s bag and dropped it to the floor. “Your first task, young grasshopper, is to carry this to the car!” his father jokingly ordered.
“Dad!”
“What!? He’ll be asking the most rediculas things of you, worse than this! At least you see a purpose in this exercise! Imagine when he pits you up against The Pit!! Eek.” He put his hands to his feathery cheeks. “I had the worst of times with that thing!!”
“The Pit? Yer kidding me, right?”
“Nope! See, it’ll be weird and a chance for you to open up your horizons! Take ME for example!” His wife rolled her eyes. “Imagine what kind of bomb you could make with house hold cleaning products!!”
“Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know!”
“I know you know! But guess who came up with the idea!”
“I dunno.”
“ME!! All because my master taught me that things are not always as they seem….”
“Yeah, that’s great Dad, make a mystery novel out of it”
“Don’t get fresh with me, young man! Your plane leaves in two hours. I want to miss you while you’re gone; appreciate how much I love you,”
The younger brother stuck out his tongue and squinted his eyes shut in disgust.
“I’m so proud of you, Lucifer. You’re a great kid and I know you’ll do well,”
“Thanks Dad,”
“Come on, let’s get a move on,”
Lucifer hefted his bag down the stares and met his mother and brother and sister at the bottom of the stares.
“I’ll see you later, Luci, ok?”
“Yeah, Mom, of course!”
“Oh!” she said getting misty eyed. She bent over slightly to hug her eldest son goodbye. Lucifer used on arm to squeeze a hug back. They parted and Lucifer headed over to his sister. “See you, Killer. I’ll miss you,”
“Luci!” she leapt to his waist and squeezed, Lucifer put an arm around her to hug back. Next was his brother. “And when I come back, I’ll bust your ass fer breaking my toys, you little creep!!”
His brother, Anthony went to hit his older brother, but his mother stopped him and Drake hugged his wife. “Don’t worry, Michelle, I’ll be back in a few days. I love you, honey.”
“I love you too, Darling. Take care,”
“We will,”
And with that they parted.
Drake and Lucifer panted after climbing the stares to the plateau mountaintop to the school. “Wow. I’ve forgotten how steep those stares are!”
“And you lived here for a few years, Dad?”
“Yep. I was younger than you, but, you’ll do well. How much you wanna bet you’ll have to climb those step twice a day!”
“Oh yer kidding me!!”
“Nope. Hey, someone’s gotta get the groceries!”
“Ug!”
An elderly duck with hardly any hair on top of his head, but had a long gray mustache padded up to the pair. “Ah, if it isn’t my old student Succotash,”
“Eh, heh heh…Hai. Konnichi wa Master Ki Kass. This is my son Lucifer.”
Lucifer was stunned hear his father speak another language, for he never has in his presence.
“Ah, and I trust I will be teaching him as I have you?”
“Please?”
“Ah well, I need a new student. Then he can spar with my ace student Yakoza.”
A real big guy came out of the building, absolutely towering over Drake and Lucifer.
“So, how old is Lucifer?”
“Nine,”
The old man’s eyebrows lifted. “H looks older,”
“Eh, takes after his mother,”
“And I certainly hope he does not take after his father…”
“Er, yeah.” Drake embarrassedly rubbed the back of his neck.
Lucifer asked, “What he do?”
The sensei answered, “He slept with my wife!”
“DAD!!!”
“But beware, young man, there is my daughter, and NO one here must touch her!”
“What about talk to her?”
“NO! Absolutely not! Don’t even look at her! She is only here long enough to grow up to be married to a very wealthy man, Yanokono. And if anyone breaks the rules, there will be hell to pay,”
“ok, ok, don’t get yer mustache in a knot,”
“Well!” Drake started, “ when does he start?”
“Now.”
“wow, really?”
“And you will leave post haste!”
“Aw! Come on!”
“I will not allow you here any longer! You failure,”
“My dad failed!!??”
“Well, Luci, not exactly, see, I passed, but he failed me cause I did sleep with his babe of a wife,”
“And she was beheaded because of you!!!”
“O-kay, I’m gone. Work hard Lucifer! I’ll see you when you’ve passed!”
“Love ya Dad! Bye!”
and his father was o his way, tripping down the stares.
“Now, I will call you….”
“By my name?” Lucifer snapped.
“No. Mealworm.”
“Well at least it’s not Succotash!”
“Come put your things in your room and we will begin.” He showed Lucifer his room. And opened the hinge door.
“IT’S A BARN!!”
“Yes, if you want a really room, you’ll have to fight and earn it. Now come. Time for Yakoza’s practice. You’ll need to wear this at all times.” He hands Luci the standard attire. He changes and follows master Kass to the building where Yakoza awaits.
Bows are exchanged and the sparing begins. Lucifer flips the bigger opponent in like two seconds.
Master Kass exclaims, “Meal worm! What was that!? I’ve been teaching Yakoza for years and you beat him in no time flat!”
“Well, Succotash and I practiced a lot together. I’m as good as he is and he’s been teaching me since I was old enough to understand!!”
“Impressive. Alright, now why don’t you two just spar it out.”
Yakoza jumped up and Lucifer dodged his attack and stood ready.