Chapter 8: Tailed Fox Spirit Guardian

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It was evening. The train swiftly moved on the railroad and advanced towards its destination which still lay far ahead. Lucy was sleeping on a chair, and motherly squirrel Sandy had dozed off too. Only Sam was awake, reading a book she had brought along, about basic squirrel spirit incantations. She suddenly felt her stomach grumble.

"Hmm?" she looked down at her belly, "I feel hungry..." she glanced at slumbering Sandy and Lucy and smiled: "Would be a pity if I woke them over such a simple thing. I'll go to the wagon restaurant myself". 

She stood up and silently slipped out of the coupé. She passed the door of her wagon and appeared in a glamorous wagon restaurant, where people sat at tables and enjoyed their dinner. Some of them even had their spirits accompany them. Sam walked up to one of the free tables and wanted to take a seat when a tall, sixteen-year-old boy with punk-like black hair and an arrogant smirk arrived with two coquettish girls, took the whole place, and pushed her away:

"Beat it, kid, I came here first".

"I came here first! You go away!" Sam frowningly put hands on her waist, not afraid of the robust lad. 

"Eh? Who do you think you are, ordering me around? I'm giving you the last chance - beat it before I've gone mad..."

The two coquettish girls giggled playfully, hearing their boy's 'brave' remark.

"Oh, so you won't move? Then you'll have it the hard way..." Sam proudly cracked her joints and touched her wooden bead-bracelet: "Twinkle, Sandra Nutts!"

Bright light emerged from her bracelet, and in a few minutes, stupefied Sandy appeared in the wagon restaurant. She blinked, glanced around, and then surprisedly looked at Sam:

"What's the reason for rousing me up, honey?"

"Sandy, this boy came after me and pushed me away from the table, claiming he came first. He was rude to me! Beat him up!"

"Oh?" Sandy furrowed her brows and looked at the boy now, "It is not good to bully a younger girl! Please, kindly apologize to Sam!" she put hands on her waist just like Sam before. 

Seeing she had called upon a squirrel, the boy and his two maidens burst out laughing:

"Oh boy! You think you can punish me with that mere little rodent?!"

Sam and Sandy flared up:

"She's not a mere squirrel! She is Sandra Nutts, the toughest of all squirrel spirits!"

"You are a very bad-mannered kid, laughing at strangers!" Sandy reddened up too and crossed her arms.

The boy still laughed hard.

"You both are grounded!" he grabbed his skull necklace: "Roar, Tigran Zverev!"

A fire-light emerged and soon formed into a tan-skinned, red-tiger-eared, red-to-black-haired, yellow-eyed man-like spirit with robust stature, muscular bare chest, blue trousers on bare feet, and a long, orange, black-striped jacket-coat. The people presenting there all gasped and began watching the interesting events, anticipating a battle to begin. Sam and Sandy widened eyes, seeing such a giant and what's more, predator-natured spirit before them. Sam now got truly scared and hid behind Sandy, shivering a little. The boy easily noticed her fear and chuckled:

"I gave you last chance but you didn't take it... Now fight!"

"S... Sandy... I'm scared..." Sam tearfully looked up at her squirrel spirit.

The boy and his girls burst out laughing again:

"Go cry off, you scaredy-cat!"

Seeing such an insulting behaviour of his towards her beloved child and hostess, Sandy flared up and clenched her fists:

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