Hekikai no Aion: the next chapter Chapter 1

(All rights go to Yuna Kagesaki, I do not own Hekikai no Aion)

"Seine-chan!" Tatsuya calls. "Mmm, what..?" Seine mutters, rolling over. "It's time for school!" "WHAT? Oh no!" she ran by, surprisingly fully dressed and stuffing toast into her mouth. "Mmf, bye!" Seine left just as her mother Sehne came in the room. Sehne looked like a 12 year old by her height and slimness, but was actually 32 years old. "What Tatsuya?" Sehne stared with a blank expression.

"Seine!" A girl with a long black side pony-tail threw her arms around her. "Natsuki!" Seine threw the girl off her. "Stop hugging me! I'm not lesbian, you know!" "Hehe, sorry!" Natsuki answered. Ding, ding, ding! "That's the bell, let's go!" Natsuki grinned. In class the teacher announced, "We have a new student!" Before them was a girl with pink shoulder-high hair with a pure-looking smile. In milliseconds there were whispers among them. Hey, isn't that girl cute? And I would love to date her. "Hello I'm Sakurako, I hope I can make many friends here!" But after class, Sakurako asked Seine to talk. "You, you're the one." "Huh?" Sakurako thrust her hands on Seine's neck. Pressing with incredible power, Seine hacked up blood. "W-what (cough) are you doing (hack), Sakurako!""Die, die, die! Witch!" a witch? Has she gone insane? Seine moved away from her fingers and shouted, "I AM NOT A WITCH!" At that very moment something black zipped by Seine. Her mother Sehne dropped in. "That's strange..." she muttered. "I can't control Aion..." "Mama, who's Aion and why is Sakurako attacking me?" Seine said. "I'll explain later." Sehne leaped high in the air and said, "Aion! Listen to me! Eat the parasite!" then a huge black snake charged at Sakurako. It opened its jaw and closed it on the girl. Seine could hear screams of terror and fear inside the snake. Then the creature opened his mouth and Sakurako came out, covered in slobber. "Mama, what happened?" Seine said "I guess it's too late now, the mermaids are back." Her mother replied.