Chapter One
Years ago, mysterious creatures called Neuroi have come to invade Earth and tried to destroy everything in sight. Luckily, girls with magical abilities called Witches came together and fought off every Neuroi attack. The war still goes on but everybody is lucky is to have the Witches protecting them and every Witch is lucky to have these powers to protect the citizens. Well, except for one person.
It was a normal sunny day at the 501st Joint Fighter Wing's base. Everybody was doing their usual routine: Yoshika and Lynne were cooking food for lunch, Francesca was sleeping in the hangar while Shirley is working on her Striker Unit, Trude is yelling at Erica, Elia is putting her clothes on while Sanya is sleeping in her room after night patrol, Minna is in her office doing the usual paperwork and Mio is training while Perrine stalking behind a bush.
While Minna was almost finish with her paperwork, she looked at one last paper that was on her desk. She picked it up and realized it was application. She picked it up and looked over it and smiled, "Looks like we found one." She grabbed the microphone, "Witches, report to the meeting room! Stat!" The other Witches heard the announcement and dropped what were they doing and headed toward the meeting room.
When everybody met at the room and sat down, Minna was in front of the room. She cleared her throat, "Now, you all gather here today because I have some news to share with you all. Do you all remember that I put up a help wanted ad in the newspaper? It looks like someone responded and sent an application." She smiled as she help up the application in the air. "I will be going into town and meet with the person and interview her."
"What was the help wanted thing for again? I kind of forgotten." Erica asked.
"Geez, you're forgetful as always Hartmann." Trude sighed, "Minna wanted someone to help maintain the base, weapons, and supplies of the base. Since all of us have been busy lately, we need an extra person to help around."
"Oh, I see." said Erica.
"Yes and if the person is the great person to hired, then we won't have to stressed out with everything. Now, while I'm in town, Yoshika and Lynne." She faced the two girls, "I want you two to prepare a room for the person. The person will be staying at the base for the time being." Minna explained.
"Yes, ma'am." Yoshika and Lynne said.
"Good. Now, dismissed." Everybody got up and left the room. While Yoshika and Lynne were preparing a room for the person and everybody else was training, Minna got ready to head for town. She looked at the application again, "Let's see if you're worthy of the job, Miss Makoto Takahashi."
Meanwhile in town, a girl is sitting in the waiting office of the guild. She looked at the clock as she was waiting for a response to her application. Then, the lady behind the called her, "Miss Makoto Takahashi. Minna-Dietlinde Wilcke will see you now." Makoto heard her. She grabbed her bag and headed inside to see Minna. As she entered the office, she saw Minna sitting at a desk looking at her application that she filled out. Minna saw Makoto at the door and smiled at her.
"Hello, Miss Takahashi. Please, take a seat." Minna pointed an empty chair in front of the desk. Makoto bowed to her and took the empty chair. When she was seated, Minna examined the young girl in front of her. Makoto has black hair that is tied back with a little bits hanging by the side of head. She wore a white bandana around her neck, a brown hoodie vest with a red undershirt with the sleeves rolled up. She also wore black shorts, brown boots and black gloves. Minna cleared her throat, "So, Miss Takahashi-"
"Makoto, please just Makoto." she said.
"Ok, so Miss Makoto, what made think of applying for this job?" Minna asked.
"I want to apply for this job because I love helping people. It's been always like that. If a person is in need, I will drop everything and will go and help that person out." Makoto explained to Minna.
"I see," Minna looked at Makoto's application again, "So for this job, part of it will be for you to check and maintain the weapons. It says here that you have an experience of handling weapons. This is true, yes?"
Makoto nodded her head, "Yes, ma'am. My uncle had a job as a gunsmith and engineer. In his spare time, he would often teach me these things and I would help him fixed weapons. So if any weapon is heavily damaged or broken, I can help you with that."
"Thank you, that's a nice offer." She smiled at Makoto. Then, she looked over the application once more time. Then, she put it down the paper down and looked at Makoto, "Well, Miss Makoto. I believe that you have found yourself a job."
"Really, thank you Miss Wilcke." Makoto said.
"Oh, please just call me Minna. No need to be so formal." said Minna.
"Thank you, Minna-san." Makoto reached out hand toward Minna.
Minna stood up and shook Makoto's hand, "You're welcome, Makoto." They let go of each other, "Now, you will start tomorrow. Please, come back here at the guild at 10 AM. I will pick you up and take you to our base. And don't forget to pack some stuff as you will stay there at the time being."
"Ok. Well," Makoto stood up, "see you tomorrow, Minna-san. It'll be a pleasure working with you."
"Me, too, Makoto." Minna smiled. Then, both of them left the room and waved goodbye to each other.
The next day has come, Makoto is standing in front of the guild building, waiting for Minna to come and pick her up. With her is two bags, one on her back filled with clothes and one she was holding with more clothes and some essential items. After waiting for a while, Minna finally came and met with Makoto. Minna waved at her and smiled, "Good morning, Makoto."
Makoto smiled and bowed to Minna, "Good morning to you, too, Minna-san. How are you?"
"I am good, thanks for asking. So, are you ready to go?" She asked.
"Yes, I am." Makoto replied.
"Then, shall we?" Minna started walking toward the boat with Makoto following her. After they boarded onto the boat, the boat started up its engines and headed toward the WItches' base.
Meanwhile, everybody at the base have gather at the dining room to eat breakfast. While eating breakfast, the crew was talking about who the new person will be like, "Do you think the new person will a boy or a girl?" Erica said.
"Does it matter? I mean it's just a person helping out around the base." Perrine said.
Then, Elia leaned into Perrine's ear and whispered, "Aren't you worried that the new person might come and steal Major Sakamoto?" She smirked.
Perrine dropped her fork and blushed really red, "N-No way! T-There couldn't be anyone good enough to take Major away. Right? Right?" She said Elia was laughing.
Mio heard the commotions and she cleared her throat, making everyone calm down. "Please, girls. No more commotions, we are trying to have a nice breakfast."
"Yes, Major." Everyone said.
"Good. Now, no more gossiping. Nobody likes to hear rumors, especially for the newbie." said Mio.
Then, the speaker turned on, "Attention all Witches. Please report to the meeting room. ASAP. Thank you." Then, the speaker turned off. After hearing this,everybody finished off their breakfast and rushed toward the meeting room.
After everybody has entered the room and sat down, Minna entered the room and stood up front. She cleared her throat, "As you know, yesterday I went into town and interview the person. The person has the requirements and will be working with us starting today. I would to introduce all of you to, Miss Makoto Takahashi." Minna pointed at the toward and there, Makoto entered the room.
She stood in front of the room and faced the Witches. She bowed to them, "Hello, my name is Makoto Takahashi. 17. I am from Fuso. It's a pleasure to meet you."
"From this day forward, she will help us maintain the base. She will check on the weapons and will fixed them if needed. And also, she will check up on our supplies and rations and will help us buy more if we on low or we run out." Minna smiled, "Please, get along with Makoto."
"Yes, ma'am." Everyone said.
"Good. Now, Yoshika and Lynne, please show Makoto where she will be staying
for the time being. Everyone else, go out and train. We're having a mock battle later in the day. Dismissed."
Everyone listened to her and left the room. Well, everyone except Trude. She still sat there, frowning with her arms crossed. Minna saw and she approached her, "Is something wrong, Trude?" Minna asked.
"It's Makoto. I don't trust her. There's something about her that I don't like." She sighed, "But, I don't know what is it."
"Oh, Trude. You're just being paranoid. Makoto is just here to maintain everything while we're busy training." said Minna.
"Yea, but that Makoto… she's seems familiar. Like I seen her before in the news or something."
"Trude, please get along with Makoto. We don't want to scare her."
"Fine." Trude got up and headed toward the door, "But I'm still keeping my guard up." Then, she left the room.
After leaving the room, Yoshika and Lynne introduced themselves to Makoto and showed her around the base and where her room was. After the three arrived at Makoto's room, Yoshika spoked to Makoto, "I hope you have a good time while staying here at our base, Makoto-san." She smiled.
"Yea, hope we really get along and become really good friends." Lynne smiled at Makoto too.
"Thank you, you two." Makoto smiled a bit and patted Yoshika and Lynne on the head. Then, Makoto tense up, "Wait, something's coming."
"Oh no, is a Neuroi coming?" asked Yoshika.
"That's impossible. An alarm would have set off." Lynne said.
"No, it's not a Neuroi. How am I able to detect that?" Yoshika and Lynne shrugged at Makoto. "It's coming from…" Makoto took a step to the side and came tumbling from behind was Francesa. "behind me."
"Owww." Francesa whined as she rubbed her head, "That was so mean."
"Francesa, you shouldn't jump people. Especially on new people, you might scare them away." Yoshika told Francesca.
"I'm sorry but I couldn't help myself. I just want to feel her boobs size." Francesca explained.
"Excuse me, Francesca. Please, refrain from jumping or touching me. Especially, the chest area. It's rather unweilding." Makoto told her.
"Aww, but I just want a little touch. Can you at least tell me your cup size?" Francesca asked her with an innocent look to her face.
"And why would I? You tried to jump and grope me." Makoto gave Francesca a stern look.
Then, someone in the hall was shouting, "Francesca, where are you?" It was Shirley. Francesca heard and jumped from the ground. She ran toward her and laid her head on her big boobs.
"Wahh, Shirley. Makoto is being me mean to me. She won't let grope her chest or even tell her cup size." She whined.
"Aww," Shirley pet Francesca's head and smiled, "don't worry. You'll always have my breast to play."
"Yay!" She shouted and hugged Shirley.
While that was happening, Makoto entered her room and put her stuff down, "Guess I'll unpack later. For now, I'll just go and check on the weapons. See what will I be working with." She stood by the door, "Can you girls show me where you keep your weapons. If I'm going to maintain and fixed your weapons, I would like to know what kind you have." Makoto asked them.
"We keep our weapons in the hangar." Shirley answered, "If you want, I can show where the hangar. I was about to go there myself."
"Thank you. Umm, Shirley is it?" She asked.
"Yep, Shirley is me." She smiled. Then, she lead Makoto to where the hangar is.
After arriving upon the hangar, Makoto was amazed at the weapon lineup they have. "Wow, those are some weapons. Amazing."
"Yep. I mean we're fighting so we need to stock up on some strong guns." Shirley explained.
"I see." Then, she saw something that caught her eye, "It's… a Striker Unit." She
pointed at it.
"Oh, yep. That's a Striker Unit. Specifically, my old one. My new one is over there. My magical powers became a bit too much for this one to handle, so they order me a new one. And the new one is a fast one, like me." Shirley said as she smiled and pointed herself.
Makoto looked at the Striker Unit and she clenched her fist. Before she could speak, the alarm went off. The speakers turned on, "WITCHES! GET INTO BATTLE POSITIONS! NEUROI IS HEADING TOWARD THE BASE!" Shirley heard the announcements and rushed toward her Striker Unit. She jumped in, her ears and tails popped out and she grabbed her gun and headed out. The other Witches came into the hangar and did the same thing. Mio went inside her plane and took off.
As they left to fight off the Neuroi, Makoto tensed up. "Oh no." She stepped outside the base and looked toward the sky, "Something not right." Then, she rushed back into the hangar.
In the sky, the Witches fought long and hard to destroy the Neuroi. When they finally burst their the shield and revealed the core, Lynne was about to shoot it. She had her aim but then, the Neuroi suddenly bolted out of the way. Mio growled, "Damn it." She grabbed her walkie talkie, "Shirley! Go after that Neuroi and destroy it!"
"Will do, Major." said Shirley. Then, with all her speed, she bolted out of there, trying to catch with the fast Neuroi. The other Witches followed her behind.
After speeding with all her might, she finally caught up with the speeding Neuroi. Shirley held up her gun and tried to aim at the core but something went wrong. Suddenly, she was hearing weird noises coming her Striker Unit. "What the?" Then, she started to swerved to the sides, making her losing her aim and speed. Then, the Striker Unit was stable again but the Neuroi was ahead of her. Shirley was in a tight situation. She wanted to speed up and try to catch up with the Neuroi but she didn't want something to happen to the Striker Unit while she is in it. Then, she had an idea. Shirley sped up a bit until she was at least shooting distance to the core. She aim her gun at the core and she saw that the Neuroi is starting to regenerate the shield. "I only have this one chance." As she tried set her sights, suddenly she began to swerve again. After she was stable again, she found herself under the Neuroi and the Neuroi is more ahead of her. Shirley started to feel frightened. She felt discourage. "I...failed. I'm sorry, guys. I couldn't stop it."
Suddenly, Shirley heard something in the distance. She looked up, "Gunshots?" She looked behind her and only saw that the others haven't caught up with her. "Then, who's up ahead?" She looked in front of her and tried to see who is ahead of her. While trying to see, she heard another gunshot. She looked at the Neuroi and saw that the opening was opened up more. Then, she another one and saw it go through the core, making the Neuroi disappeared. After the Neuroi was destroyed, Shirley looked forward to see who was firing gunshots and destroyed the Neuroi but she felt something that was burning her. She looked down and saw that her Striker Unit is overheating. She was panicking, trying to figure to detached and just drowned in the ocean or keep them on until she has reached the base.
The Striker Unit was really burning her legs, Shirley was really heating up. She has decided this is the only way. She couldn't handle the heat so she decided to detached from her Striker Unit. She detach herself from the Striker Unit and started to fall to the ocean. As fell to her doom, she closed her eyes and thought of all the good memories she had of being with the other Witches and smiled. Before she doved to her doomed, she felt someone catch her and flew up. "What?" She opened her eyes and was surprised at who has saved her.
The Witches has caught up at where the Neuroi was destroyed. When they have arrived at the spot, the Witches flew still at what they saw in front of them. In front of them was Shirley, her legs with burn marks and without her Striker Unit being held by… Makoto. All of them examined Makoto. She had ears and a tail popped out and she was using Shirley's old Striker Unit. Makoto had a sniper rifle strapped to her back.
All of them just stared at Makoto who holding Shirley in her arms, wondering what happened. Then, Makoto spoked, "Let's head back to the base. Shirley need some help." Then, she flew ahead toward the base with the others following behind her.
When all of them arrived at the hangar and detach from their Striker Units, Yoshika and Lynne ran toward Makoto and took Shirley to take of them. As they took Shirley to the medical room, the other Witches went over to Makoto.
"So, you're actually a Witch." Minna stated.
"Even with my magical abilities, I did see thing coming. The new girl is a really a Witch." Elia stated.
"If you told us you were a Witch, we could have recruited you. We have room for new Witches." Mio said.
As they kept talking to Makoto, she grinded her teeth and snapped. "SHUT UP!" All of them heard that and was silent immediately. Makoto glared at them, "Don't you dare call me that! I'm not like you guys! I'm not a Witch! I…I shouldn't have born a Witch!" She yelled at them out loud.
Then, Trude grunted and stormed toward Makoto. She grabbed Makoto by the shirt and pushed her against a wall. "How dare you yell at the others?" Trude said to Makoto angrily. "And what do you mean you're not Witch? What do you mean by that?"
Makoto sighed and said calmly, "Yes, I am really a you-know-what but I don't want to be because of who am I and where I came from."
"Who the hell are you, really? And be honest or I'll give hell of a pain trip." Trude asked Makoto.
"My name isn't Makoto Takahashi." She said calmly, "My real name is Akane. Akane Kinoshita. Little sister of the traitor, Akira Kinoshita."
Hello again, guys. Now, I know you guys are wondering why I am posting a new fanfiction while I still have the other continuing. I want to write another fanfic because I want to work on something different while writing the other one. I have a tendency to write a story and if I keep writing it, I will be bored and won't have the motivation to continue it. I will still be posting new chapters for Grimm Neighbors but I just want to write something else to keep me interested. Also, starting tomorrow I will be going back to school so expect these fanfics to come every week or every two weeks. Thank you and keep on reading. :)