Disclaimer: I do not own Negima!, it is owned by Ken Akamatsu, who is a genius in my book.
A/N: You'll have to excuse me I'm new to this, and I have probably made a lot of errors. I am working on getting Microsoft Word for spell check and such, 'till then please point out any mistakes or errors with honor fics. Also I may change the rating of this story to M because I'm never sure what I may do with this story. Well here's the 1st chapter, enjoy.
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Five darkened figures stood together in a obscurely lit room, they were gathered in a small circle around the only object that gave off light in the room. Everyone of them was wearing a dark cloak that hid there face from view. They were very quiet and discrete and appeared to be discussing something of upmost importance.
"So these two will allow us to summon our lord?" asked the voice of a girl from under the hood, her voice was arrogant and spiteful but at the same time innocent.
"Of course they will Clare, Haru has never been wrong before," this voice was deep and of an older teenage male.
"Shut your damn mouth Sean! The question wasn't directed at you anyways," retorted the voice of the girl known as Clare.
"Why don't you both shut it, fighting slows any progress we could make," this one also belonged to a girl, but this one sounded more mature and cool.
"Now, now Triella, let them fight it's funny as hell to watch them argue over stupid shit like this," this voice came from a younger male that sounded really full of himself.
"Triella's right Souchirou, we need to get things straight," came the voice of the one known as Haru, his voice was cool and serious, "Our objective is very simple, the resistance we meet should be minimal and easy to dispatch, all we need is to capture these two girls. Konoka Konoe and Asuna Kagurazaki of Mahora Academy, and we set out at dawn."
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Evangeline's Resort
It was still the summer holiday in Mahora Academy, and Negi and his crew had made it back from the magical world with still half of it left. Of course not many of them were really having fun, most of them were spending their time training. Asuna and Setsuna were sparring most of the time, Ku Fei, Kaede, and Mana were refining and training their skills farther, and Konoka, Nodoka, and Yue had spent the timing improving their magical abilities. Of course Negi had spent most of his time practicing a bit of everything, and Kotaro had been training with Kaede.
They had all spent the majority of the time in Evangeline's resort, they were do everything possible to prevent an event like the one with Fate from happening again. Eva claimed an announced often that she was not a babysitter for them, and they should go out and train in their own places but they felt that she actually enjoyed the company. All the girls had a spell on them that prevented them from aging, but Negi and Kotaro said they didn't mind. They felt getting older would make them wiser, and they were now around 12 or 13.
Negi lay on the ground wore out from sparring with his master, Chachamaru, and Chachazero. He was now strong enough to last almost five minutes against, which didn't sound impressive, but to anyone who has seen the fearsome power of Evangeline A. K. McDowell knew this to be an impressive feat.
"You've gotten better Kiddo, but there are still a lot of people out there still stronger than you," said the chibi-vampire.
"That's okay as long as I'm able to prevent another Fate Averruncus incident it'll be fine," Negi responded back to her.
"Kiddo, your going to be caught off guard every now and then, I hate to break that to yah."
"Eva-san, I'm sure everything'll be fine," came the voice of Asuna Kagurazaki. Her and Setsuna were just returning from one of their sparring sessions.
"Whatever Kagurazaki, I'm just trying to make sure he's more prepared. Anyways, you all are finished here for today right?"
"Yes we will be leaving soon Evangeline-san," this voice came from Yue Ayase, Konoka and Nodoka with her.
"Just as soon as Ku Fei-san, Kotaro-kun, and Kaede-san get here," announced Setsuna.
"We're already here!" called Kotaro from a little off in the distance, accompanied by Ku Fei and Kaede.
"So I suppose I can expect you all again tomorrow?" asked Evangeline with a little annoyance in her voice.
Negi laughed a little at this, "Probably master, but I'm sure you'll be glad to have us."
"As if!" Eva looked away as she said this.
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Outside Eva's house
Up in one of the tree's five cloaked figure's stood watching the Negi party exit the vampire's house. They had no need to hide there presence, no one could sense them other than Evangeline, but in her current state she couldn't sense a giant heading right through her backyard. They discussed there plan further.
"It seems they've improved substantially since we last observed them. What shall we do?" asked the girl known as Triella.
"Hmmm we could shadow replicate them to see how good they are." suggested Sean.
"They would only have the strength of when we observed them during the school festival, so it's not like they would do any real damage," argued Clare.
"That's not the point Clare, it's to see how far they've progressed."
"Quit arguing with her and just do it Sean," spat an annoyed Souchirou.
"Yes Sean, make replications of them I want to see if I was wrong about the amount of resistance we'll meet," said Haru, who now sounded unsure of his information.
"Understood,Suscitatio meus veneficus! Umbra replicate illud nos electus ex nostrum memoria quod adveho pro nos!" with his incantation completed replications of Negi, Kotaro, Asuna, Konoka, Setsuna, Yue, Nodoka, Kaede, and Ku Fei appeared.
"Now, could each one of us please ditribute about one fifth of our power among them?"
Together all of them incanted, "Umbra replicas! Take a diapente nostri navitas quod adaugeo is ut vestri own!"
Haru ordered them, "Now, find your counterparts and fight them."
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Mahora Campus
"You think we could spend at least a little bit of our summer relaxing?" asked an exhausted Konoka, "I want to practice more but don't we need to rest every once in a while?"
"You all don't have to train everyday like I do," was Negi's answer.
"Konoka is right Negi-sensei, learning to relax is an important part of training too," commented Setsuna. Negi smiled at her, he knew she was probably right. He thought how much Setsuna had grown emotionally, she wasn't calling Konoka Ojou-sama anymore; and even though she wouldn't admit it openly Setsuna cared deeply for her.
"I suppose Setsuna-san."
"Then it's decided," interrupted Asuna, "tomorrow we'll start a three day vacation, and no training until then."
"A vacation sounds nice," Yue said.
"Indeed", agreed Nodoka.
"I know what we could do," Kaede began, "we can go up into the mountains and camp out there."
"Oh that sound like good idea," commented Ku Fei.
"I would like to see where Kaede-nechan first trained," Kotaro said now interested.
"Then can we all agree on that? Let me see a show of hands," Negi looked around to see everyone was in favor of it.
"Hey does Asuna-nechan's vote count since she'll just sleep?"
Asuna's face became contorted with anger, "You little mutt, how about I put you to sleep?"
Everyone laughed,"It's still obvious we're going Kotaro-kun," Yue interjected.
They were nearing the dorms when they heard a familiar voice call, "Negi Springfield party we challenge you!"
"Who said that?" shrieked Nodoka.
"Up here," came a voice that sounded remarkably like Nodoka's.
Everyone in the group looked up, to see a sight that made all of their eyes widen. What they saw before them was an exact replica of each one of them. Negi whispered in shock, "It's...It's us!?"
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Translations: Suscitatio meus veneficus! Umbra replicate illud nos electus ex nostrum memoria quod adveho pro nos! Awaken my magic! Shadows replicate those we chose from our memory and come before us!
Umbra replicas! Take a diapente nostri navitas quod adaugeo is ut vestri own! Shadow replicas! Take a fifth of our energy and add it to your own!
A/N: I planned to make this chapter longer, but I just really wanted to get this story up. Once again please point out any mistakes I may have made. I do welcome constructive criticism, but if your just going to bitch how my story is crap, don't even bother reviewing. I do hope though that you review, because i write chapters based on my mood, and the more reviews I get the quicker chapters will come. Next chapter should be longer, until next chapter thanx for reading.