Note: Shaaku mentioned Dangershipping bodyswap and I was like "frick ye" and so this happened.
dude looks like a lady
prologue
"Would you like to have your fortunes told?" A young lady's voice crooned. The lady is dressed in all black, a cloak covering her from head to foot. Her long, sharp nails were coated in dark purple nail polish, and her wrists were covered in chains and bracelets. A crystal ball is neatly placed in front of her, on a table covered in a long, black cloth. Students of Heartland Academy passed by her stall without even giving her a glance, some of them even whispered amongst themselves, 'Hey, a fortune teller, isn't that just a hoax?', 'Don't look at her, she's weird.' and she pretends not to hear them because she has no time for non-believers.
Magic is very real. These mortals don't trust her, they don't deserve her attention. Only the worthy are allowed to approach her, only the—
"Hey look, Kotori! There's a fortune teller here!" And her thoughts halt because there's a good approaching her. There's a kid whose aura is strong and she feels that she's found a mortal worthy of her attention, and she feels a strong magical power from him. And she's curious, wants to know what power he has. She feels drawn to him and waits for him to enter her territory, where she is more powerful, where she can analyze him, where she can—
"Yuuma! We have no time for fortune telling!"
And the boy, Yuuma, stops. He stops just before he can enter her territory, and she almost curses. Only a few more steps and the boy would have been in her grasp. His power could have been hers. She could have sucked his life force out, if she wanted to.
He looks back at his friend and laughs apologetically, "Sorry, Kotori!" And rushes back to her side, and she – that girl – she has the gall to berate him. "You know that fortune tellers are fake, right? They're not true at all."
"Ahaha, really?" He asks.
As they walk farther, she could steal hear their conversation, "Of course they are, idiot! They're going to steal your money just to give you a fake fortune!"
She feels anger and hatred for this girl – Kotori, was it? – because she kept Yuuma and his power away from her. This girl deserves a curse to be placed upon her.
Her hazel eyes catch a glimpse of a figure flying over Yuuma. A figure covered in an ethereal light, and she rubs her eyes carefully, and looks again. The figure is gone. Suddenly, Yuuma yelps, shouting, "Astral don't do that!" And then Kotori laughs. Leaving the girl seated there, in her stall. Still looking at the place where she she believes she saw someone.
Was that figure just a figment of her imagination?
A girl approaches her at the time of sunset.
No one else has garnered her attention, and she's still thinking of that Yuuma boy when suddenly she feels another pull. She feels power; this one was colder… and older. Shrouded in mystery. She feels it in the girl approaching her. Long, blue hair, ruby eyes. Was this girl blessed by the goddess of magic as well?
"Isn't it too hot to be sitting outside wearing that?" The girl asks.
And she's mystified because nothing happens. The girl doesn't faint, she doesn't even look weak, yet she's standing in her territory. This girl's powers were strong. Stronger than hers.
She wanted those powers as well.
"Rio," a voice laced with impatience, "we have no time for petty things like this. Let's go." And her eyes land on a boy that looks almost like the girl – Rio was her name – she makes a connection that they must be twins. She can sense power in him too. But his is… weaker. Subdued. She squints at the twins, curiosity peaking.
"Won't you stay for a while and have your fortune told?" She asked in a voice she knew would draw people to her.
"No thanks. We don't need any cheap tricks today." And he left without another word.
"Hey, Ryouga! Wait up!"
What a shame. She could tell that the boy was going to have a bad future soon enough. He was going to have to make a decision that would change his life forever. If only he had stayed longer, she could've warned him.
But his impatience wasted his chance to find out.
A third person arrives, and this one is big. He wears the standard uniform for sophomores, but he has wings on his back and it's weird, but he's powerful but she feels sick. It was almost like he was the one sucking all her power instead of the other way around.
His voice rumbles asking her if she wanted power, and of course she does. She wants to be the most powerful person on Earth, but before she could tell him that, he speaks again in that rumbling voice, telling her to swear her loyalty. He holds a card above her head and she stares at it, and she can't read the words because it's… it's written in some sort of language and her head aches but suddenly everything is clear and she can read the words and she opens her mouth—
"All for the sake of the Barian World." She says.
The man – Gilag, he calls himself – tells her that she must get rid off Tsukumo Yuuma and his friends.
She'll do it.
For power.
For glory.
For the Barian World.
She knows what she has to do.
Two people cross her mind. The boy named Ryouga, and the girl named Kotori.
End note: Haha. Wow. I swear this was supposed to be a one-shot. What what what