The Summoner's Daughter

Rain. It endlessly poured from a veil of dark clouds drenching everything in its path.  Its sweet harmonizing song buzzed through the cold wind among the trees adding music to this magical place. A young woman grabbed an overflowing bucket and doused herself in fresh water coming back to something she kept away inside her heart. The icy chill stung the gashes on her chest and upon her bleeding scar across a left cheek. "You should take better care of yourself." Caiden's melodic voice floated to Elena's ears. She giggled nervously underneath his glare. "What, this? It's nothing but a few scratches. . . . Those monsters never had a chance!" She paused closing her eyes and gave him a cheerful smile. She could feel his intense glare bore into her.  "Really, I'm fine." Elena assured then added, "My team was with me." Caiden shook his head, raindrops dripping from  the edges of his soft blond hair, "Those cuts say otherwise. How can I have a bodyguard, when she recklessly dives into battle?"  His voice was always gentle like the flowers even when laced with iron hot anger. Elena bowed her head like a scolded child. She looked back into those surreal violet eyes finding warmth after she felt something soft press against her cheek. Caiden gently wiped the blood away as his handsome face leaned in closer. "I don't want to lose you." Elena's eyes widened as she blushed and took him into her arms to whisper in his ear: "You won't." Water droplets dripped from the woman's face still holding the bucket over her head. With trembling fingers, she set the bucket down then witnessed lightning flash across the sky. Shiny droplets of water rolled down long strands of silky hair as she stared listlessly into the storm. Something heavy like a kitten pounced onto her shoulder and nuzzled her cheek that had long ago been healed. A fingerless gloved hand, which was  made out of silky material, petted the mass of white fur, "I'm fine." Akari closed her eyes and smiled at one of her pet spirit kitsune foxes. They had the personality of a couple of adorable kittens. Tsubasa closed her pink eyes smiling back, "Nyu!" The edges of tsubasa's four fluffy tails looked like someone had dipped them into pink paint. A pretty pink flower symbol had been etched across her forehead. Her twin sister Oka, whose four tails and symbol were painted in purple, must have been sleeping somewhere else. Tsubasa mewed  again happy that Akari was okay after all. Another roll of thunder made them look back at the raging storm. "Time to get her up I suppose." Akari's bare feet carried her across the wooden balcony leaving the bucket to fill itself up with rain water. "Nyu!" Tsubasa left magical sparkles as she phased through another room with ease. Akari giggled then found her black knee high heeled boots. Within minutes she was at the little princess's door. "Asuka, It's time to get up." Akari waited before knocking another time. "Come on you don't want to be late again. Your mother is most likely at the temple by now." An unsettling feeling was starting to gnaw at the warrior princess's stomach. Giving into her anxiety, Akari flung the door open to find an empty bedroom. There was no sign of a struggle and so that meant. "Not again." Akari cursed under her breath then ran out of the room. The little gnave, I mean Princess, had escaped her room again. With a sigh, she left the girl's father a note. Being a hired bodyguard had its terrible days. The pissed off, ex-soldier raced into the wee hours of another rainy morning.