<html> <head> <title>Wordplay</title> </head> <style type="text/css"> <!-- .style1 {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif} body,td,th { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } --> </style> <body> <p> <strong>Title:</strong> Wordplay<br> <strong>Author:</strong> Kristen Sharpe and SageSK<br> <strong>Date:</strong> September 8, 2019<br> <strong>Warnings:</strong> None<br> <strong>Continuity:</strong> Any - Early Series<br> <strong>Disclaimer:</strong>"Ao no Exorcist/Blue Exorcist" belongs to Kazue Katou, Shueisha, A-1 Pictures, Aniplex, and various other parties.</p> <hr> <p>"This place is crazy," Rin muttered. Yukio had taken a different route to the exorcist supply shop, and it only showed off even more of True Cross Academy's towering, brain-breaking architecture. "How did they build it anyway?"</p> <p>"As I understand it, Sir Pheles built the Academy."</p> <p>"The clown?" Rin stared at his brother's back. "What? With his own two hands?"</p> <p>"Likely by waving his own two hands," Yukio answered, swishing one hand like a magician.</p> <p>Rin snorted. "While saying, 'Abracadabra'?"</p> <p>"He seems to prefer German."</p> <p>"So, like&  Rin waved both hands over his head, "schnitzel!"</p> <p>Yukio didn't look. "Something like that."</p> <p>"Mmm..." Rin looked toward the distant gothic spires of the school and waved his arms wildly as he tried to remember every word he'd ever heard in German. "STRUDEL! SAUERBRATEN! BRATWURST!"</p> <p>Yukio finally stopped to give him a flat stare. "Are you done?"</p> <p>"Oh!" Rin waggled his fingers. "SONNENBLUMENKERNBROT!"</p> <p>There was an explosion of pink smoke, and Mephisto was suddenly standing in front of them.</p> <p>"Very well!" he announced. "You've forced my hand." He pointed his umbrella at Rin. "You will be my personal chef. I take dinner at six."</p> <p>Then, he disappeared as quickly as he had come.</p> <hr> <p><u>Author's Note:</u> So, ever since I saw the Ao no/Blue Exorcist movie with all the (completely un-commented upon) weird ruins beneath True Cross Academy, I've wondered about the school's origins and its connection to Mephisto, who is, after all, the King of Time. And, I want to write something about all that one of these days. This is not that something. 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