Lucy Caldwell suffered a disaster in her childhood - her house was burnt, which turned fatal for her parents. She grew up in a children's house with other orphans. She could never forget the fire incident and was sure her parents were murdered, so she wished to investigate the case when she grew old enough. Lucy, like all the other children, frequents a Spirit School, where children are taught to control their inner spiritual energy. When they reach 15 years of age, they befriend spirits that reside in the vast Spirit Forest in East Land and receive the Bond Item - an object from the spirits which permits to summon them whenever in need. Each person is able to form a bond with a single spirit. However, there are certain spirits that never approach humans, are known as man-eaters and have marked severe borders on their territory, eating anyone who trespasses on them. Such is the clan of the tailed foxes - the Huli. Lucy has already reached 15 years, so she goes to the Spirit Forest with her classmates to befriend a spirit and bond with them. However, while sitting around a bonfire and listening to her classmates' scary stories, she remembers the dreadful day of how her house caught fire in past, and, worked-up, runs off into the depths of the forest to cry off her anguish. But as elders often say, dense forests are definitely not a place for little children to run around, for the danger lies in every corner, as Lucy soon comes to realise...

The Guardian Spirit (The Guardians of Nine Heavens, Book 2)

 Since Huli Yuehong and Lutecia De Lapin had a child, 300 years had passed. The news about the fox-bunny hybrid princess of the Huli Clan reached the ears of the Usagi Kingdom too. The bunny nobles weren’t in a joyful mood at all. 


“That damn brat…” Feuer was fired up with indignation. “She did so much as to win that Blood Moon Fox’s icy heart and now even had a child with him, as if disclosing her hidden skills to him wasn’t enough!” 


“Hmm… I guess if we let them be, the new princess of the Huli will grow to become the first-ever fox who is able to jump as high as the De Lapin bunnies could, and will even be able to teleport. She will be invincible…” the young green-haired advisor of King Feuer, Hans, who had already become his son-in-law (as he and Princess Gretchen had married), said. “We must not let that happen. If we do, the Huli foxes, who hold a grudge against us, will obliterate us.” 


“Yeah, you’re right…” Feuer snarled and clenched his fists. 


Chapter 36: Mei's Birthday