Poetry of a Scientist
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Chapter 1 - Chronicles
It was a bright and wonderfully day in the town of Kuoh; The flowers were blooming due to the sunny weather, the birds were singing happily in their nests and couples, elderly couples and parents were enjoying themselves at the parks and other recreational facilities. Children were with their friends, laughing and playing various games while teenagers were out shopping or sitting down talking among themselves. Yes, it seemed like the perfect day to go outside, have fun and to take in the wonderfully taste of fresh air and enjoy life.
Though for some people and for one person that hadn't the time to enjoy life to its fullest.
For this young man, it was going home after a long day at school, getting out of his uniform and putting on his lab coat, black turtleneck, and black dressed pants, rush down to his lab and start inventing or experimenting various things.
Who is he? This young gent is Alvis Kagaku or as he has called at school; The Mysterious Scientist of Kuoh.
He was tall, standing at six feet and five inches (Why are scientists so tall?) and his silver hair reached down to his end of his neck and his skin was mostly pale due to the lack of going outside but you could see there was a tanned touch to his skin, surprisingly. His eyes were dark blue and due to his silver hair, his eyes stood out the most and the face that held those eyes was hidden mischief. And for being a scientist he had an uncharacteristically muscular body not overly muscular just enough to know that he works out regularly and that he did not genetically reform his body as that would be quite painful.
His lab was basic as one could get, he had two desks where he kept his equipment and many of his inventions (mostly unfinished) and experiments, while another table is where he kept his laptop and blueprints of his many ideas most of them being game related, he had a book shelf that held all his favourite scientific novels and his own written books on his ideas and their success or failure. What stood out the most was a secure vault door at the further side of the lab, one might wonder why someone would need such high classed security system in a basic lab. Alvis had created that door himself and used a hand-print system so that the door would only respond to him or his father.
But behind that secured door showed the secrets to what Alvis is capable of.
Alvis wasn't insane or anything related to mental health, he enjoyed creating and building to the point one might believe he is an engineer than a scientist. No, he indeed is a scientist. What he enjoyed the most was trying to replicate devices from games and for the most part, he succeeds in doing that, now he couldn't make anything like Mega-man that was still out of his reach as creating an AI and having to deal with Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics, which was a huge pain in the ass for Alvis.
He had his own originally creations and they worked brilliantly. Well, as brilliant as he could get them to work in today's society, the only set back was powering the bloody things. Even with that drawback, he had a success in robotics.
Sitting down on his chair he tapped his finger on the table. "Perhaps if I re-arraign the circuit board…" Alvis mumbled in thought.
The scientist was so lost in thought that he didn't notice the person leaning up against a desk smiling at him. "All right, Alvis. How are you?" The person asked with a smile.
Alvis whipped his head around and smiled in surprise at the person. "Dad! When did you get back to Kuoh?" Alvis asked as he turned around to face his father.
"Just now." His father shrugged. "I've seen you've been busy." His father lifted up his blueprints and notes showing that he had been reviewing his work.
His Father, Ivo Kagaku was the man that drilled science into Alvis, he was tall man standing at six feet and seven inches and his black hair was straight reaching down past his neck and had more tanned skin than his son, his eyes were dark blue and the face that held those eyes was hidden deadliness (In Alvis' words).
He thought him the many things about science and its mysteries from a young age. Ivo was never a man to settle down in the one place for too long so he was mostly away on trips to Europe and America and if Alvis was correct his father just got back from Russia, if he remembered correctly. It was conceivable that his father would leave again soon.
To where? Only Ivo knew.
"Looks like your robotic research has been going well." Ivo pushed himself off the table and started walking over to his son. "I made the right choice leaving you in charge." He smiled as Alvis chuckled lightly scratching the back of his neck.
"Your research notes really helped," Alvis admitted to using his father's notes for assistance as Ivo walked up beside him and looked down at the small robot on the table. It was more of figurine with a lot of wiring and coding within it, despite the size of the robot it took Alvis months to build it.
Ivo leaned down and smirked at the small robot and looked towards Alvis. "So, you can activate it now then?" He asked with his eyes noticeable narrowing and not in a bad way. Ivo was narrowing his eyes to scan to understand what his son was going to say, Alvis always had something stuck in his gears when it came to activating anything robotic of his own design, that might be entirely his fault as one of his own robotic creations blew up with Alvis in the lab when he was younger.
Sacred the boy shitless for months.
But he had grown out of it, it was the only hesitation that held him back.
"Well, anyone can activate it." The young scientist gestured to the power button on the head, a very small button. "The only problem is powering it… and sorta controlling it." He stated as he pressed the button.
At first, nothing happened and the tension was high, they sighed in relief as the robot shuffled along the desk but not before it fell and steam started to arise from it.
"Well, it's a start I suppose." Ivo chuckled as he brushed away the rising steam. "Oh! Cheer up kiddo, it happens to the best of us." He slapped Alvis on the back and ruffled his hair. Alvis looked to his father and smiled knowing that he'd be there to help him.
"Well, I have to deliver items to the Academy." As Ivo was walking to the stairs he stopped and looked back to Alvis and sighed. "Alvis, you're spending too much time in the lab either that or rummaging for scrap or junk in the scrap yard, it ain't healthy for a kid your age. That's why you're always looking so pasty; you should get out, get some fresh air once and a while. Anyways, I'm off." Ivo waved his son goodbye as he walked up the stairs.
The young scientist blinked as his father vanished from sight, sighing he leaned back in his chair making a creek sound to echo from it. Though it was hypocritical for his father to say get out of the lab when he himself kept Alvis in the lab all the time when the boy showed talent in science. Swinging around on his chair snatching a pencil and slithered paper across his desk to stop in front of him.
"I'll get this done quickly." He muttered as he started writing and for the next three days, he would be stuck in his lab to figure out what went wrong with his small robot.
Poetry of a Scientist
"oh…. fantastic…" Alvis slurred out as he slowly rose his head out of the heap of papers he slept on, his body slowing coming out of rest as he looked around, his lab was a mess; crumpled and torn pieces of paper surrounding his workstation and wires dangling off the side of his table.
"So much for going outside…" He would have slammed his head off his desk and went back to sleep. Alvis slowly stood up and stretched and cracked his knuckles to remove the stiffness from his body, he carefully walked up the stairs to the bathroom, his vision blurry as he opened the door and went to the sink, Turing on the faucet he splashed water on his face to knock away the sleep in his system.
After brushing his teeth and cleansing himself he started walking towards his room. Honestly, he didn't know why he spent three whole days in his lab it was bit extreme and had to be one of the worst experiences he had in that lab as getting shocked by wires isn't a fun experience. When it came to re-evaluating his work, it was only going to be a few hours from on now, not three days. But it wasn't in vain as he figured out what was wrong with his creation so there was a benefit but to the cost of three whole days.
Entering his room, Alvis sighed and rubbed his eyes 'Well I'm not dead, that's important.' He mentally chuckled to himself. As he was gathering his things for school he was in thought; he never knew to a degree how he got the nickname 'The Mysterious Scientist of Kuoh.' People at his school started calling him that when they saw how brilliant he was at science and when he was walking down the school halls or across the school yard they would be talking about him or whispering his name when he was walking by and when they thought he wasn't listening.
Sure, he enjoyed the art of Science as he had an interest in it from a young age and his father only helped him in further developing his talent. But he wasn't entirely sure what that had to do with the anything, he was still lacking in other subjects one of which being maths, surprisingly. He never fully understood the label he got, he understood the scientist part but the Mysterious part? He had no clue on that one.
Pulling his school uniform out of the closet he decided to dismiss these thoughts to a vault in his head, for now, as he took off his lab related clothing. His school uniform consists of a black blazer with white accents over a white long-sleeved dress shirt with black highlights that he left open revealing his black and white stripped turtleneck to go with the uniform, matching black pants and instead of the brown dress shoes (He really disliked the colour brown) he wore navy blue sneakers.
Another thing to know about Alvis was that his mother died when he was younger, she was coming home from a trip she was on and on the way back she died in a train accident. That left Alvis and Ivo devastated for months at the loss of a mother and a loving wife. He wasn't one of those characters from an Anime who get all rebellious or emotionless when one of their parents die, no he wasn't a cliché. While he did smother himself in his work for a period of time he pulled out of it and he and Ivo faced it together.
But to this day, Alvis did miss his mother very much.
Anyways, Kuoh Academy; apparently, the school used to be an all-girls school before it co-ed some time ago. He was a Second Year at the Academy, how old is he? Well, Alvis turned seventeen two months ago, that's beside the point! Since the school was an all-girls school there was a greater number of girls than boys….
….and sadly, most of the boys being massive prevents.
It baffled Alvis how they managed to get into the school if all they wanted to do was invade a woman's privacy, peeping on the girls and try to flick up their skirts all day, but even science couldn't solve it, either because it was one of the great mysteries of life or it was so idiotic that it couldn't be solved and Alvis was leaning on the latter.
As he locked the door to his house he seriously wondered why the Student Council wasn't taking this more earnestly but he knew and experienced how the Student Council President thinks and most of the students feared her more than any teacher. Her punishments knew no bounds and Alvis experienced one of them, that's unfortunate.
After his walk to the Academy he stopped outside the school gate taking a deep breath in 'I wonder if I should C.L.A.S.S for science again….' Alvis hummed as he tapped his chin as if this was a very serious decision, oh! C.L.A.S.S stands for 'Come Late and Start Sleeping.' Yes, Alvis had his little own codenames for school. It wasn't entirely his fault for finding science class boring, Ivo drilled everything into his head! He knew everything to do with science, it wasn't even funny.
Shrugging it away Alvis walked through the gate his dark blue eyes looked around the school yard with a completely relaxed and chill expression on his face; once again he heard people talking about him, he got used to it after a while and it didn't even irritate him. It was simply students socialising and gossiping not that hard to block out and Alvis really didn't care, it's the matter if you want to care or not that people are talking about you.
"Ah! His arrived, The Mysterious Scientist of Kuoh!"
"I guess I understand why people call him that…. But what's Mysterious about him?"
"Right? I hear his quite the vexatious student when it comes to science class!"
"His hair! It's so shiny and silver it makes him look more adorable!"
"His hair also makes his eyes stand out, I could get lost in them."
"It's like he makes his skin pale on purpose, it just shines with his hair and eyes!"
It was responses like these that made Alvis wonder why he left his lab in the first place. Only one of them had a fact about him, he was quite the troublemaker when it came to science class, that class was always filled with bad puns or just trying to get a rise out of the teacher.
Wait! What the hell did one of them just call him? Adorable, he's sure some girls would disagree with that statement.
Alvis shook his head as he puffed out air 'The wonders of this school and its students….' He smiled as he walked towards the main entrance. What was his first class again….? a right science and it looked like he would be a few minutes late, purposely.
Three minutes after the bell rang, Alvis decided to make his entrance to his science class. Opening the door to the classroom and remaining calm and chill as ever as he entered.
"Kagaku, your late! AGAIN!" The first thing Alvis was greeted by was a yelling from his teacher, Alvis wondered how that man's voice wasn't gone yet. "Do you have a reason?"
"Yes." Alvis slowly started to grin, not a good sign.
A short silence fell upon the room.
"Well! What's the reason?!" The teacher demanded, yelling as he did. In case it wasn't obvious enough, Alvis wasn't his favorite student.
"I heard oxygen went on a date with potassium and I wanted to see if it went OK," Alvis answered with a wide grin on his face.
This made the teacher's face blew up red with rage and his eye to twitched. "That's not a reason! You little smartass."
"You asked for a reason, you didn't specify TO not include jokes." Alvis back answered with his grin growing wider.
"Why does he always act this way during science?"
"It's bad enough that he tells puns, but now he's disrupting the class."
"It's interesting to see him rebellious like this though."
The students in the class groaned at Alvis' reply. This happens every day when they have science, granted some days aren't that bad, it was amusing at first but now the puns are just bad but oddly, it still made some people smile.
Well, Alvis got this kind of playful attitude from his mother, while his father was mostly serious his mother was a playful person and she was a joke making master and it was only natural that it would be passed down onto Alvis. His mother could do anything to make someone laugh, it was amazing and Alvis wanted to impress with his own joke making abilities and this resulted in success of making jokes.
The teacher banged on the white board with a clenched fist, his face as furious as a bull. "Alright you little smartass, take a seat! I can't be dealing with you."
Alvis shrugged and walked to the back of the classroom as soon as he took his seat, he folded his arms on the desk and rested his head there, he wanted to get some missed sleep in before the school day continued.
He didn't really care for the teaching of science within the school for obvious reasons. He wasn't trying to make himself sound better than anyone else, but he knew he was better that anyone in this school when it came to science as far as he knew, his father could only beat him in science and that wasn't him being arrogant or overconfident, he wouldn't care if someone came in and beat him science, that only meant he had to try harder.
Poetry of a Scientist
Rias Gremory, well known in Kuoh Academy as one of the Two Great Ladies of Kuoh Academy, with her best friend Akeno Himejima being the other. Was quietly eating her lunch on one of the benches in the school yard, she heard the Second-Year science teacher yelling again, she wondered what had got on his nerves
Rias was a beautiful and attractive young woman with a buxom figure, blue-green eyes and white skin. Her most distinctive feature is her long beautiful crimson hair that reaches down to her thighs, with a single hair strand sticking out from the top. Her hair also has loose bangs covering her forehead and side bangs framing her face.
She is wearing the Kuoh Academy girls' school uniform as standard, which consists of a white long-sleeved, button-down shirt with vertical linings, a black ribbon on the collar, a black shoulder cape and matching button-down corset, and a magenta skirt with white accents and brown dress shoes over white crew-length socks.
As she nibbled on her food she scanned around the yard trying to lock on to a particular person that had tugged on her interest recently.
Alvis Kagaku.
She heard students talking about him and tell tales and she decided to ask Akeno about the boy and discovered that he is known around the school as 'The Mysterious Scientist of Kouh' which both Rias and Akeno found the nickname to be funny and adorable, well adorable in the scientific kind of way.
Wait, is there a scientific adorable kind of way?
Rias had to meet this individual as she had not seen him in person before and was hoping to find him during the lunch break. Finishing her lunch, she stood up and went on a search for the scientist.
She started her search in the school's science lab as some students said that he was in there finishing off his project when she looked there he wasn't there. She had searched the whole campus and couldn't find him anywhere, it was if he just vanished, real mysterious. It took her the most of the break to find him and of course, she sighed, checking the last place which was blatantly the obvious choice to look first. He was lying under a tree behind the school's main buildings.
Rias shook her head for not checking this place first. As she walked towards him and saw that one of the rumours of him were true, he really did look mysterious; Silver hair reaching down to the end of his neck, dark blue eyes that glowed with interest and curiosity and she could tell that he was noticeably taller than her and he was handsome just like Yuuto Kiba, the Prince of Kuoh Academy.
As she got closer to the scientist she could see that he was occupied with reading some type of book, it was definitely a novel judging by how thick the book was and she had to commend him on finding such a good place to read a novel, right under the shade of trees and the lack of noise from the students was quite refreshing.
Closing her eyes and taking a deep before confronting him, when she opened her eyes he was gone! Rias was certainly baffled she had no clue where he went. Mysterious indeed.
"Hello there." Alvis calmly said.
Rias turned around to see him leaning up against another tree 'He's quick!' seeing that she was stuck in her baffled moment, she quickly composed herself. "Hello."
Alvis walked over to her and narrowed his eyes, wondering why one of the Two Great Ladies was doing here. He walked by Rias and looked her dead on. "How unusual…" He stated as he tilted his head to the side. "It's quite rare to see some of your calibre in this part of the school."
True to fact, this was a place none was supposed to be and Alvis took advantage of it and he didn't expect Rias Gremory to come over here, this was a rare occasion and Alvis wondered what she was doing.
Rias gave him an odd look and he gave a light chuckle. "I suppose you are wondering why I am here, then in that case." He put his right hand on his left shoulder. "Then permit me to introduce myself." He gave a small bow.
"My name is Alvis Kagaku."
Before Rias could introduce herself, Alvis simply stole them from her mouth. "It's Rias Gremory? Isn't it." The girl nodded and Alvis tilted his head to the side with a smile.
"I guess my reputation proceeds me." Rias chuckled, the young scientist was already interesting to her.
Alvis nodded his head knowing what that's like. "Rias Gremory, one of The Two Great Ladies of Kuoh Academy, the girl with the crimson-red hair." Alvis shrugged as this was common information in the school and smiled towards her. "The girl every boy wants to date and every girl inspires to be like. Your quite famous amongst all students." Alvis finished with a smile, honestly, there wasn't anyone in this school that didn't know Rias or Akeno or any titled person in the school for that matter.
"Anyways, am I in some sort of trouble for being back here or is it what I did to make my teacher blow a gasket?" Alvis asked and began to wonder what punishment he would receive.
'He did that? Surprising.' Rias decided to dismiss that for now. "No, nothing along those lines, I only came here to talk to you." She smiled.
Alvis rose an eyebrow and wondered what Rias Gremory would want to talk to him about as it wasn't every day someone like Rias would come up to you and say 'Hey there friend, what fires your furnace?' I mean, people can talk about him all they want but at the end of the day, he's still a scientist and nothing more.
"Really, what about?" He was just a mere individual that was interested in science and inventing machines… and also happened to work out on a regular basis as his father would scold him for not taking care of his health.
Rias smiled and crossed her arms under her large bust. "I want to ask-"
It would seem fate had different plans as the school bell rang signalling that the students should be getting back to class. And Alvis didn't want to be late to this class, it was geography and he had the best teacher for it!
"I do apologize Rias, but that is my cue for me to return to class." Walking away from the girl, he gave her a small wave as he left.
Rias clicked her tongue in annoyance. 'Damn it…. oh well it doesn't have to be today there are other days and another chance.' She had confirmed one of her suspicions, the moment they locked eyes for a split second she could sense it.
He had a Sacred Gear.
And that could get him into trouble with some very bad folk.
Poetry of a Scientist
Alvis arrived a bit early to class than needed but that gave him time to put in a power nap before the rest of his class entered the room. While his head rested on his arms, he wondered what Gremory wanted, she had to come to him with some type of reason behind it as it wouldn't make sense otherwise to speak to him. He wasn't a fool, she was the most popular girl in this school there was some type of motive behind her action.
Lifting himself off the desk and resting his elbows down on the table and rested his chin on his knuckles, showing that he was deep in thought. 'The only motive would be getting me to join the Occult Research Club, it's the only club people give two damns about joining, and it has the other titled people in school in it as well…. Interesting, but what would be the benefit of me joining?'
"Great display upon entering science class…." A voice walking down to Alvis held a huge amount of sarcasm.
"Well, what did you expect from him?" Another voice said as they came close to Alvis, but this one held more teasing and mischief than the latter.
Alvis sighed knowing who these two were, looking up he saw two students one male the other female. The first one was Genshirou Saji a young man with short blonde hair and grey eyes. He wears the Kuoh Academy boys' school uniform, albeit without the blazer and his sleeves are rolled up.
"You know Alvis, if you keep that up the Student Council President is going to give you a worse punishment." Saji deadpanned as he stared Alvis right in the eye, making sure that he got his point across to his silver haired friend.
The other person was Aika Kiryuu, a young girl with brown hair that she had tied into two twin braids that went past her shoulders, yellow eyes and over them she wore pink rounded glasses. She wears the Kuoh Academy girls' uniform, albeit with the black sweater vest over her dress shirt in place of the cape and corset.
"I expected nothing less! You really made him blow an artery that time and late as always and have puns to cover you up." Aika smiled fixing her glasses.
Either that was a compliment or that was teasing, both boys didn't know. "My day wouldn't be completed without you two, sup?" The scientist grinned as he leaned back on his chair and hooked an arm around the back of it.
"You know what's 'sup' Alvis if you keep acting that way you're going to get into massive amounts of trouble!" Saji was irritated at Alvis' chill and laid-back attituded, he needed to start taking things a lot more seriously. Every day he comes into science class and always puts the teacher in a bad mood and he for one was sick of it.
"I for one will no longer stand it!" He proclaimed. "For you see, I have been accepted into the Student Council and I have to report any inappropriate behavior to the Student Council President!"
'So, he finally got into the Student Council?' Alvis mentally chuckled to himself, that sounded like Saji alright to him. "Congratulations," the young scientist applauded. "But your shirt is on inside out, not a good impression."
"Huh?" Saji looked down at his shirt and to his horror, it was on inside out! "Why didn't you say something earlier!" He was completely embarrassed by how he let something like this slip-up and quickly ran out of the classroom towards the bathroom.
"Karma if you ask me." Aika hummed in amusement as she turned to face Alvis. "So, how is the Mysterious Scientist doing today? I heard that you were talking with Rias Gremory behind the school, what did she want hmm? Was there any touching? Any feeling~?" A smile of mischievous on her face as she adjusted her glasses.
Ah yes, even though there were male perverts, there was some female ones too and Aika was one of them and to Alvis, she seemed to have her head in the gutter twenty-four seven. "To answer your questions; no, she didn't get the time as the bell rang and no to the latter as well." Honestly, he just wanted to stick soap into her head and clean it.
At his answer, Aika pouted in disappointment. "Aww, really? I was hoping I could get good information, that soo juicy information."
Alvis saw the look on her face and he couldn't help but grin wider in delectation. "Better luck next time pervert."
"Shut-in."
"Creep."
"Science freak."
"Want to settle it in Smash? One vs one?" Alvis challenged
"You're on!" Aika agreed with a confident smirk on her face
"Ahem!" it was then the two realize that everyone had arrived in the class including the teacher and they were all looking at them whacking each other with insults.
The teacher was giving them a stern look, not a trace of irritation on his face. "If you two children are done mindless bickering can you please stay quiet and do some work."
After that Alvis sprung back into a normal sitting almost hitting Aika in the process not wanting to get into trouble again and thus gave his teacher an apologetic look "Sorry sir, won't happen again."
Aiki followed his example and gave her own apologetic look. "Sorry, sir…"
When the teacher turned around after accepting their apology to write on the board, the two students gave each other one more glare, sparks clashing as they met eye to eye before the lesson began, this wasn't over and it was far from finished.
Alvis rose a brow when he saw Saji walk into class with a downcast expression. 'That's the look of a defeated man.' The scientist wondered what happened to him. People must have noticed that his shirt was on inside out.
Poetry of a Scientist
"And the winner is…. Shulk!" An announcer shouted, declaring the victor. Making Alvis smile in victory
Alvis leaned with his elbows against the railing of a bridge that overlooked the motorway. It had a perfect view of the sunset in the distance, the sky was painted with reddish-orange that covered the horizon, making it beautiful scene to gaze at. Though the boy was more occupied on playing his 3DS, rather than staring at nature's beauty. He had already acknowledged the scene before whipping out the device. He was a Nintendo fan and that was plain and simple and especially a Super Smash Brothers fan.
"And she called Shulk bad." He deviously chuckled with a smile. "Little did Aiki know, Shulk's my boy. Better luck next time Aiki." He could almost hear the girl still stomping away from the bridge.
"E-Excuse me!"
Alvis snapped out of his winning moment at the sound of an unfamiliar voice, as he gently slipped his 3DS into his pocket.
"Eh?"
He turned to the source only to face a girl who addressed him, an attractive woman perhaps around the same age as him. She possessed long dark hair, almost a midnight colour. He was never one to look at girls too much, but that was not to say he didn't find her attractive and beautiful, she had curves and flawless skin that would make any model jealous. He had to admit, though, Rias was more beautiful than this girl.
"Strange…. I haven't seen her around Kuoh before; her uniform is different too. She must be from a different school around town. She's quite gorgeous as well.' Alvis leaned back further on the railing wondering what this girl wanted.
The girl twirled her fingers and blushed nervously. "Uh… are you Alvis Kagaku."
Alvis raised and shook his hand. "Just call me Alvis."
The girl smiled and happily nodded. "Right, Alvis." She then bowed politely "I'm Yuuma, Yumma Amano."
"There's no need to bow." He chuckled lightly at the girl's actions. There was a brief pause before Alvis decided to speak again. "So, is there something you need or...?"
Alvis watched as Yummas eyes went wide for a second as she seemed to remember why she was here before blushing up a storm in embarrassment. "I-I'm sorry, it's just the I've been watching you for a week now on your way home…"
'Not suspicious or creepy at all….'
"… and you seem like a nice person." She twirled her fingers faster as she burnt a fixed gaze upon the ground. She took a deep breath to work up her courage, before looking at Alvis with purple eyes with determination displayed in them with a serious expression on her face. "I-I'd like you to be my boyfriend!" She exclaimed with all the determination she could muster.
There was a silent pause on both ends, only the traffic under the bridge could be heard as the two stood in silence, that was until Alvis finally broke it.
"Huh?" Tilting his head to the side if Ivo was here, he would have accepted the offer from the girl so that Alvis would have an excuse to get out of the lab. But alas, Ivo wasn't here and that was a benefit for Alvis.
"Naturally…. Well, I'm off" Pushing himself off the railing, waving adios, he started walking away.
"W-what! Wait!" Running up to him and stopping in front of him, Yuuma looked with pleading eyes. "What did I do wrong?"
Alvis sighed, he may as well let her down easily. "Yuuma, it's not that you did something out of the norm, it's the fact that we just met a couple of minutes ago, just because you've been watching me the past week and managed to work up a confession and on such a beautiful evening too doesn't mean I'm going to fall for you and bubble out yes. Don't put me in the wrong girl, your beautiful and I'm sure any boy would be lucky to have you, but I need to know you first before I can accept you as my girlfriend, I simply can't do that since we just met and also…"
Alvis gave the girl a light flick on the forehead. "...It's common sense."
Yuuma put a hand to where Alvis had flicked, to say the girl was shocked would be putting it lightly, she did not expect an informed and detailed to why he wouldn't go out with her. From what she heard which is very little about the boy he was supposed to be a shut-in of some sorts and he only left his home for school or anything else important.
She couldn't do anything or say anything she wasn't prepared for this, not one bit.
Seeing the look on her face Alvis started to feel bad for the girl, he did not want to make her cry; making a girl cry would make him feel like the asshole for making a girl cry and especially when Yuuma had prepared her confession on such a beautiful evening. OH GOD, THE GUILT IS SETTLING IN!
Scratching the back of his head deciding he might as well give her a chance, Ivo would more or less kick him out of his lab after finding out he was in there for three days, plus he wasn't the one to deny a new friend, he has been lacking in that department, Saji was cool and Aiki he wasn't too sure, science hasn't come back on that one.
"Look, how about this; I won't be your boyfriend but I don't mind going on a date with you. Well…. It won't be a date, more of a get-together."
Yuuma looked at him with stars in her eyes. "You mean it!"
Alvis shook his head and smiled. "Why not?"
She smiled with a blush, stood on her toes and gave him a peck on the cheek. "Thank you!" She dug down into her bag and took out a piece of paper and gave it to him. "That's my number, call me ok?" Before he could mutter a word, she ran off down the other side of the bridge.
Alvis scratched the cheek she had kissed and scanned the piece of paper in the other hand and looked back in the direction the girl had run off. "Hmm, wonder what Dad will think…."
Poetry of a Scientist
"I should really maintain these…"
Alvis sat hunched over a workbench, hands busy reassembling the Medi-Gun, from game Team Fortress 2. Made from lightweight carbon plating and high-speed steel and its icon black tap, the black rubber tube connected to the box, which is where most of the magic happened. Now you might think something like this would be impossible to create? Not for Alvis and Ivo, creating the shape and design was simple to them but the wiring was dodgy at first (several fires occurred.) before they got it down. Now, I won't bore you with the amount of detail on how they got it to work, but it had to do with Biology and nanotechnology, even though both Ivo and Alvis have successes in robotics, they had little to work with when it came to nanotechnology.
But, inside of the box was where nanotechnology took place, they programmed the atom sized devices to speed up the healing process of the human body. The devices attach to red blood cells which help create collagen, which are tough, white fibers that form the foundation for new tissue and they speed up the production, thus allowing the healing process to be boosted. But something like Uber-Charge? By Alvis' eyes, it was impossible but his father didn't say, which made the boy sceptical.
It wasn't like the game, it couldn't heal quickly in real life. In the game, the Medi-Gun's healing rate is variable, with a minimum rate of 24HP per second in combat when healing players who have taken damage in the past ten seconds. If the player being healed has not taken damage in the past ten seconds, the Medi-Gun heal rate will increase linearly with time up to a maximum of 72HP per second healing for players who have not taken damage in the past fifteen seconds.
His father did something stupid to test the healing speed, he cut himself and Alvis scolded him for doing such a horrible thing, his wound was healed within the matter of three minutes, which was a breakthrough in its own sense but the only problem was producing nanotechnology and powering it, if it wasn't for that they would have made a medical breakthrough.
It was probably the best invention he had created.
Alvis was a scientist. He belonged in a lab, running experiments and making breathtaking breakthroughs that he would love to keep a secret. Alvis had no intention of creating more of these, let alone introducing a working healing gun to the world, do you know how the government would react? They would either give high prices to have it or send an elite squad team to his house to see what other creations he had and see his brilliance and bring him in and Ivo.
Then force them to create more of their inventions and come up with new ideas, which would be inevitably stolen by some other organization. In order to prevent this Ivo and Alvis created the vault to hide their creations. Ivo had also had Alvis make sure that he'd stay in secrecy, to not talk about what he does in his lab to which Alvis agreed on. But his father built a security measure just in case someone broke into their vault.
Looking behind him, Alvis saw one of his father's creations. Mecha, it was mostly a dark blue with silver joints, a mounted gun occupied one of its arms and its face was sleek and had a visor for its eyes. It was a bulky design and was more of a defensive robot. It had strong legs that rooted it to the ground and could easily break bone. It was designed for one thing, to defended the vault and nothing more. If anyone were to break open this vault, they were in for something else.
That robot scared the shit out Alvis sometimes as it constantly reminded him how better his father was at science than his was, it was frightening.
Hanging the Medi-Gun back up on a shelf and cleaning away his equipment, he walked out of the secure room and closed it securing every lock and detail they had on it. He had to get out of the lab for some fresh air, he had just found out that Ivo would be here for another few days and thus he had to stay away from his lab if he didn't want to get scolded.
Poetry of a Scientist
Alvis yawned as he rested on a bench. He had stayed up late, almost an all-nighter trying to work out an enjoyable date. He had a cup of tea in his hand as he looked around the street trying to find Yuuma, his quote on quote date.
Alvis was wearing a white turtleneck under a black leather jacket with blue jeans and white sneakers. It was the only presentable thing he could whip up.
'Where is she?' leaning back in the bench more, he merely hummed as he continued to search for the girl. 'She did tell me to come to this spot, did she get lost on her own directions? Or did she….' He took a sip from his cup as he scanned the areas around him.
While on the look for Yuuma he didn't notice a woman in some weird bat-themed cosplay outfit handing out flyers. The woman, in turn, walked over to him. "Hi handsome, please take this~" Alvis looked at the woman, giving her an odd look as he took the flyer.
"Thanks…?" Alvis looked at the odd flyer and tried to understand it he scanned the arranged letters in a specific circle with different designs around it and it was drenched in a crimson-red colour.
'Your dreams will be granted? Hmm, I'll look into it later.' When he looked up from the flyer to ask the woman what this was she was gone and he meant gone like she just pulled the world's fastest vanishing act.
'I think this town has more mysteries than students give me credit for….' Alvis mumbled mentally as he drank his tea.
"Alvis!" Alvis looked dead on to see Yuuma running towards him, she came to a halt in front of him with a pleasant and cute smile on her face.
He smiled back. "Hello, Yuuma" and he honestly taught he would be the late one. "I suppose, I was one was the one meeting you here."
The girl blushed in embarrassment and twirled her thumbs. "I-I'm sorry, I had something to take care off first, please forgive me." She gave him a polite bow again.
Alvis merely shook it away, as he threw his cup into a bin. "Don't worry about it, you're here now." Standing up he took her hand into his, which resulted in a small tint of red on her cheeks from the contact. "So, I know this spot in the park that gives a lovely view of the town, seems like an ideal place to start."
As Alvis started to guide her through the crowd, Yuuma looked up to Alvis with a surprised look on her face. "Start?"
He looked back at her with a smirk at the tip of his lips. "Yup, I stayed up late picking out places we could go today." The girl was surprised at his response, seeing that the Yuuma staring at him he rose an eyebrow. "Is there rust on my face?"
The girl looked away sheepishly. "No… w-well, it's just that…. from what I heard about you, I thought that you would be kind of clueless and nervous around other people."
Alvis sighed letting his smirk drop and using his free hand to fix his jacket's collar. "I guess what people do say about me is…." He stopped briefly to think about his words, his hand still locked with hers. "Ya, I have no reason to lie, I guess some of it is the truth. I am a bit of shut-in…. but I have lately wanted to try and change as my Dad has been worried about my health lately and I don't really want him to worry about me."
"Alvis…" Yuuma whispered softly.
Alvis smirk instantly slapped back on just as quickly as it left. "Ah, don't mind my ramblings, today is supposed to be fun for us and I don't need anyone feeling sorry for me because of my so harsh back-story."
"B-But!" Yuuma was looking at him with full on concern.
He put a finger to her lips silencing her and her reaction amused him, she looked like a bottle of ketchup. "Don't worry about it ok?" She nodded too embarrassed to talk. "Now let's go have fun!"
He had to give Ivo credit for teaching him on how to interact with a girl properly if it wasn't for him Alvis wouldn't have a clue what to do on this date.
The entire day was a blast, Alvis didn't know when he had this much fun last.
He took her to the spot in the park which they had to climb up a tree. Alvis showed her the clear view of the town from the tree and he could almost see stars in her eyes. Then they went to the arcade, to which when Alvis won anything and got a high score he would enter either 'ASS' 'NOB' or 'TIT.'
Hi, he was a teenager too y'know and plus it was all in good fun. Plus, it made Yuuma laugh.
Afterward, they went to a clothing store where Yuuma tried out some dresses and shoes, which Alvis complimented her when she tried them resulting in red cheeks. She ended up buying some of the dresses and shoes she tried on.
Guess who became the carrier….
After that was done, they decided to share a sundae together, well Yuuma had most of it, Alvis wasn't that hungry.
The sun slowly sunk down into the horizon as Alvis and Yuuma made their way to the water fountain in the park, a park that Alvis visited often.
Slipping out of Alvis' hand, Yuuma skipped over to the fountain with her hands behind back, as Alvis slowly followed behind. She turned around to face the young scientist, with a gentle smile on her face. "Hey, Alvis?
The scientist snapped his train of thought at the mention of his name "Yes?"
"There's something I would like you to do for me, to commemorate this moment…"
"Yeah, no problem, what is it?"
The girl ran up to him and hugged him tightly, her large bust pressing into his chest. She stretched herself up so her lips brushed against his ear.
And the words she whispered out would change Alvis' view on science and the world has he knew it, something that science wouldn't be able to explain. Something, that science wasn't to supposed to discover. Something, that was better left forgotten.
"Will you die for me?" Her voice suddenly sounded more mature causing chills to rush down Alvis' back.
Backing away from the girl, he looked at her with a confused and surprised expression marked on his face. "What?"
Yuuma smiled sweetly towards him. "I said, will you die for me." After repeating what she said, she sprouted black wings from her back. Large, black, feathery wings, like those of a crow. Her clothes seemed to dissolve and be replaced with some type of S&M outfit. Her wings flapped and scattered feathers from them as she floated down to her feet.
Alvis' surprise quickly changed to interest, as he scanned her wings, they did look a lot more like crow wings but they still looked like they belonged to an angel, but that would fall under the category that she was a Fallen Angel. Yes, Alvis knew his mythology, quite an interesting topic to him. Plus, her outfit left very little to the imagination.
Since when do servants of God wear thongs? Yeah, science isn't going to come back on that one for a while.
Despite all this, the only thing that Alvis could mutter was "Hmm."
Yuuma stared at Alvis with a deadpanned look for a few moments and then blinked.
"That's it? Just 'Hmm'? I was expecting something more dramatic honestly."
The young scientist scratched the back of his head. "I've seen more scary shit from my Dad and plus I've been in a room with something more terrifying than you, no offence."
"None was taken."
Yuuma stretched out her arm, a red spear coming together and forming in her hand. She lowered her arm to her side and carefully spun the spear around. "Well I'm sorry, but this where your story ends." She hesitated for a moment before she continued to speak. "For what it is worth, I really enjoyed our little 'get together'. It was something a girl like me could ever want." She gave Alvis a genuine smile. "I had fun."
Alvis looked down at the ground and kicked some dust, sighing as he did. "Well, I reckon that's then…" Before he let the girl continue, he looked up with a curious look. "I suppose, Yuuma isn't your real name, is it?"
She nodded. "Yes, Yuuma is just an alias I picked out."
Stuffing his hands into his pocket, he smiled. "I thought as much, your name means the setting sun. I only figured that out last night, kind of an unusual name if you ask me." He looked up to the sky and chuckled. "Isn't that a coincidence? The sun is setting."
The fallen angel let out a small chuckle. "Ironic, isn't it?" She started walking towards him, slightly swaying her hips. "But I'm afraid it's time to part ways." She lifted the tip of her spear up against his chest and Alvis still stayed had his chill expression on. "Anything you wish to say?"
Alvis blinked before he smiled at her. "What's your real name?"
She blinked at him for a few moments before a small tug came at her lips. "Raynare."
"Well, that's that then." Alvis sighed in acceptance and closed his eyes, looks like fate really was a bitch.
Raynare then drove the spear through his chest.
"I'm sorry this had to happen, maybe in another life, we will meet on better terms." She apologized. "You were a threat to us, so we decided to rid you of this world. If you wish to hold a grudge, then blame God for placing the Sacred Gear within you." Before he fell, Raynare caught him and gently lowered him to the ground. "Goodbye." She said softly before taking to the air with her wings and vanishing into the night sky.
The spear dissolved from his chest and blood began to disgorge from his chest, like a raging waterfall. Tissue, organs all the stuff that kept him alive were ripped to shreds by that inhuman weapon, that spear of Raynare.
Despite the pain and how hard it was to breathe and drilling pain in his chest, Alvis chuckled. 'This would be the perfect time to use the Medi-gun, but oh well'
Alvis stared into the night sky, ignoring the pain that was ripping him apart and numbing his flesh and bones. Least Raynare laid him down on his back, the stars sure were pretty tonight.
'So much work left unfinished, so much work to do. Things to be invented, so, so much to do. I can't die here now, not with all the work I have to do.'
He didn't want to die here, he still had so much to do, to see, to finish off unfished experiments. His desire to complete his work, the wish to complete it and see it operational.
"It would seem you have fallen…" He saw it, red crimson hair. He felt his head being pulled onto something soft for his eyes to gaze into green-blue eyes.
"It's your wound, it weakness you." the person smiled down at him. "I will not let you die. You will live, for my sake.
That was all he remembered hearing before everything went black.
Chronicles
Huzzah! This story is a re-write of one of my other works by the name 'Seems Very Interesting' as I was not satisfied with that, uh… version. So, I decided to start from starch and do it better. I've completely scrapped my last story, only bringing one of my OCs from that story (Alvis). I still decided to hold onto the science theme as it's really fun and interesting to write.
But anyways, this story will stay true to cannon events but my own twists on them, but I think I might put my own Arc in, just to do some originality in the story. If you aren't into that stuff fair enough, don't read. If you are, however; neat, leave a review and do tell what you think.
As for my OC, his obsession with science due to Ivo drilling it into him since a young age and experiencing and seeing Ivo's creations, some of which would terrify a child and give them nightmares. So not being shocked or terrified by seeing Raynare wouldn't be totally out of the question. The Mysterious Scientist of Kuoh is what the students use to call him due to his genius in science and his habit to just vanish into thin air when someone looks away from him.
Reference in the Chapter.
The Medi-Gun for those who don't know it is a healing device from the First-Person Shooter Team Fortress 2. I hesitated at first to put this in, but I ended up going with it as I felt I could write how it works and hopefully I did it right. When it comes to Alvis' creations, I won't be putting anything ridicules in, it has to be sensible and has to be backed up with reasonable logic.
But anyways, that's all from me. I'll talk to you all later. Read to Review