I mulled over the decision for a solid minute before finally settling on which majimonster to bind. I took a deep breath and focused on the drajule that I had made in my hand. A familiar pair of glowing tines formed on the drajule, making the aether-made tuning fork (I learned from Voxea what it was called) I had used when I had bound Voxea and Rakka.
I rapped against the tuning fork drajule with my free hand while holding it aloft with the other. A clear tone rang out as visible rings of energy were emitted from the tuning fork and they began to float around me. With a wave of my hand, the rings left my side and surrounded my future companion, the Agustus.
My reasons for binding the Agustus over the Grassassin is based, as my mother mentioned earlier, on balance. Both the Agustus and Grassassin are Verdant majimonsters, meaning that either one could cover up for Rakka's weaknesses. However, I technically also had Voxea who was a "Blizabella".
I once looked over Voxea's abilities with the Dragon's Eye and it showed me that not only was she a gold grade high stage majimonster, but that her affinities were Ice, Mystic, Wind and a fourth affinity that was just a series of question marks. I had no idea what that meant, but I had the feeling I would understand or be able to decipher it once I grew stronger as a binder or as a maji. Regardless, even though Voxea had me covered with Wind and Mystic affinities as well as being able to use ranged techniques better than the Agustus and being ridiculously strong, I couldn't exactly call her out.
It's one thing to be able to control majimonsters, it's another thing altogether when one has a majimonster that is both incredibly strong and also used to be an equally powerful maji. For all intents and purposes, both my parents assumed I had lucked out by binding a majimonster that had high potential and a low grade. If I had to explain to them that I also made friends with a thought to be dead maji...I didn't want to think about the possible consequences.
The Agustus would be able to a long ranged attacker, technically fly and be able to cover up Rakka's weaknesses when I couldn't summon Voxea. It was an ideal companion to compliment Rakka's brute strength. The energy rings had completely surrounded the frozen Agustus now and began to enclose around it. Everything was going smoothly...until it didn't.
As I was binding the Agustus, I suddenly felt something change in the air. I stifled a scream as the air suddenly felt colder than before and my ears picked up a strange cry, like the deranged mix of a wolf's howl and a baby's cry. The scream ended up disrupting my ritual, and to make matters worst both the Agustus and the Grassassin broke out of their ice shells!
However, instead of rushing to attack Rakka or Bola, the two majimonsters started acting weird. Their forms began to flicker like candle flames in the wind and I could see threads of aether both leak out of them and seep into them. The threads of aether soon stopped going in and out of the two majimonsters and began becoming intertwined with one another. The two majimonsters ended up moving towards each other and soon overlapped with another, looking like two drawings places on top of each other in sunlight and very wrong.
I could feel that whatever was happening was going to be bad. Bola and Rakka stood ready to fight, while my mother entered a battle stance as well. I was about to enter a battle stance too...until I looked at the drajule in my hand and had a terrible terrible idea.
[You do realize this is a terrible idea, right?], Voxea quipped.
[Yes].
[You're going to do it anyways aren't you]?
[You're the one reading my mind, you tell me].
[Oh no...].
My mother, Rakka and Bola were getting ready to fight whatever was in front of us, they were not expecting my reckless self running pass the three of them. I went from a run into a somersault as I banged the drajule tuning fork against the ground. I quickly directed the energetic rings towards the amalgamation of a majimonster and watched as the rings encircle it.
The amalgamation struggled against the rings initially but slowly lost strength as the rings became tighter and tighter. I rapped against the drajule once more, causing a large white ring to form in front of me.
The ring let out a loud, deep sounding note that disrupted the majimonster and turned it into aether. The ring then started rotating, absorbing the bits of aether and changing from a blank circle into a summoning circle with colors and patterns indicating a Wind, Fury and Verdant majimonster was sealed inside.
The circle shrank into the size of a coin and was absorbed into my drajule. The symbols for the Wind, Verdant and Fury affinities appeared on the drajule, and the pattern for the summoning circle from earlier had engraved itself onto the drajule as well.
I had bound whatever that the thing of a majimonster was, but I had no idea what the result would be. I let out a sigh of relief and turned towards my mother and the other majimonsters. The three of them had a face of disbelief and shock. All I could response with was, "Well...that just happened".
[Smooth. Real smooth].