Name: Akane Tsukiyomi ( LadyxPhantomhive :D )
Age: 17
Weapon: Bassoon/staff
Partner: Yuu Kururgi (tall, dark haired, kinda stoic)
Appearance: Dyed purple/blue/blue-green hair, average height, pretty enough but not gorgeous, wear dark eye make-up and lipstick, generally wear dark clothing that's flattering and easy to move in.
Personality: Quiet, but is slightly annoyed by the stoic type of silence. When she speaks, it generally is extremely witty or sarcastic or perhaps an innuendo. Dislikes anything mainstream to the point of fear. Enjoys rock music but loves to play melancholy classical stuff. Believes Bach is sadistic.
Name: Kohaku Takahashi
Age: 16
Weapon: Xylophone mallets/mace
Partner: Vienna Alamanni
Appearance: Black, waist length hair, brown eyes, blue top, dark blue jeans, general blue stuff
Personality: Awesome yet evil (as my motto says, "Might save your life, might steal your car ((Yeah, that's my motto now. Deal with it.)) ), loud, sarcastically mean to people who aren't her friends, slightly less sarcastically mean to people who are her friends (did I mention that she's awesome? cuz she is.)
Name: Vienna Alamanni (yeah, she's Italian. ^^ And also the author, LunaLovegood1997 )
Age: 16
Instrument/weapon: piano and guitar/dagger
Partner: Kohaku Takahashi :)
Appearance: petite, olive skin, dark brown rib-length hair (kind of curly), medium brown eyes, "cute," wears a little bit of eyeliner, partial to retro dresses/skirts and cute flouncy things, adores pink, gets cold a lot so wears sweaters and cardigans most of the time
Personality: sweet, talkative, bubbly, annoying to some people, devoted to her friends, makes puns, jokes in serious situations, emotional, loves to compose music (rock and that stuff you get on Solo Piano radio), sees difficult music as a fun challenge, loves Schumann, and Green Day for guitar
Name: Lyaki Detarra
Age: 15
Instrument/Weapon: Flute/Most aerial weapons (arrows, shuriken, throwing knives)
Partner: none
Appearance: tall, amber skin, slightly curly dark brown hair, intense brown eyes w/ red flecks, dislikes makeup, but naturally long eyelashes, favorite color is red, unbothered by any weather, tends not to be careful and to put self in dangerous situations. Seemingly calm, but completely flies off handle when does get angry (kind of like Black Haru).
Name: Hanabiki Tsuta ( Kaguya-Hime123 ^^ )
Age: 16
Instrument/Weapon: Piano/Guns & Violin/Scythe ( The scythe is actually the
main weapon, since the guns also transform and merges with the scythe. ^^ )
Partner: Kiyomi Yamiku ^^
Appearance: Midnight black long hair ( Looks violet silver at night )
usually put up in "odango" pigtails, sapphire/onyx eyes, slightly tall in
height, generally wears a black cape with a hood to cover self although
usually wears the academy's uniform most of the time: lavendar cardigan,
black jacket, purple plaid skirt, black kneesocks matched with black shoes,
ivory colored skin, and strongly dislikes makeup.
Personality ( Okay, maybe kind of a split personality kinda thing ) :
Loyal, kind, and trusts her friends, will do anything to prevent them from
harm even if it will cost her life, intelligent, humorous at times, can be
quite dense or airheaded, remains composed and calm only to people she does
not know, takes criticism mostly instead of compliments, says whatever is on her mind, likes all kinds of music ( baroque, classical, romantic, and modern ), inspired a lot of times and composes own music
Name: Kiyomi Yamiku
Age: 18
Instrument/Weapon: Guitar/Gun-Chainsaw ( Both merge together :3 )
Appearance: Dark red hair, brown eyes, tall in height, prefers motorcycle/biker style in clothes ( Mello ^^ )
Personality: Somewhat nice, a bit socially awkward when talking to strangers, awesome like Prussia ( Looks like you have some competition Kohaku :D )
Prologue
RSMA ( Royal School of Musical Arts ), known particularly for creating musical geniuses, has maintained a well-kept reputation as the #1 music school in the world. But, the academy holds a dark secret. Over the centuries, it has trained students to fight with weapons. Each instrument has been constructed to be capable of tranforming into a weapon. The school's main priority is to rid the world of youmas. And the main threat, Kurai...
Chapter 1
"Hanabiki-san, play Fantasie Impromptu by Chopin if you please on the piano. preferably memorized." The instructor called out to the student in the back of the room. She tapped her fountain ink pen on the clipboard with the judging sheet.
"Hai, sensei." Hana walked across the room, pulled out the bench, and sat. She took a deep breath. Then, she started playing. She poured all her feelings and heart into it, not caring if she made a mistake or not. Everything seemed to come to an end when she reached the last note. Hana waited for the instructor to finish her writing. The whole class seemed to be in awe.
Sensei cleared her throat, "Hanabiki Tsuta, I am very impressed with your performance. Particularly, every performance you've ever done in this academy. I am glad and honored to have you as a student. Congratulations, you have superiors in every category." She gave a warm smile. The sound of applause roared. Hana bowed. Although, she was not happy about not receiving any criticism. She went back to her seat without a single word.
"Ms. Vienna, your turn. The Yellow Submarine by the Beatles."
"Okay!" Vienna grabbed her guitar in a hurry and ran to the stool. She sat and positioned her guitar. After a few seconds of recalling the song, she began to strum. The strings on her guitar seemed to dance. It vibrated as she played. The song finally ended when she hit the last chord. The applause was just as loud as the one before.
"Vienna, it is the same to you. Your performance now and in the past have been brilliant. All superiors!"
"Yay!" Vienna smiled as she made her way to her partner, Kohaku who was sitting next to Hana.
"Kohaku-san." The teacher gestured for her to come up. Of course she was also an expert on the xylophone mallets and recieved tons and tons of kudos. Next up was Akane. she played a classical piece with difficult high notes on her bassoon. She hit the perfect pitches. Yuu, her partner, also played on the bassoon marvellously. Lyaki came next in line. Her instrument was the flute. Her piece was "Spring" by Vivaldi of the Four Seasons. Beautiful and graceful as it could be. Finally, it was Yamiku's turn. She wasn't in class though. Her friends knew where she was. Intense training... They all thought. They've been doing this for 4 months, taking turns preparing for the arena duel that is tomorrow.
"I've improved in my physical attacks. Not sure about my dagger specials though. It's really hard to be in sync with the weapon when your fighting." Vienna whispered.
"To be in sync with your weapon, is to be at peace with yourself. Weapon specials can not be activated if you are stressed in any way." Akane replied. Her partner nodded his head in agreement.
"Man... All that intense training has been tiring. I've finally activated at least 3 of my scythe specials. My physical attacks are up to speed like usual. This arena duel is going to be pretty interesting this year..." Tsuta sighed.
"Nice! I've only activated about two of my arrow specials, well the third one I almost activated but it kind of failed." Lyaki laughed nervously.
"And there will be an exam during the arena duel to see if your good enough for the next rank. Hope I gain the next rank."
"We'll all pass the exams! Right now, my rank is still veteran. Going to go for the knight rank." Kohaku punched a fist in the air.
"Yeah! Let's do this thing!"
~Arena~ ( Kaguya-Hime123: This is practice, not the real thing. The real arena battle will happen in the next chapter. ^^ )
"Vienna, are you ready?"
"Yes." Both opponents tranformed their instruments. Vienna, a dagger. Her partner, Kohaku, a mace. Akane, a staff. Her partner, Yuu, a sword. Each of them put on their pvp bracelets. ( Kaguya-Hime123: Hi guys! ^^ Just to give a short explanation. The pvp bracelets act as your health depending on your ranking. Once your health runs out, the battle is over, therefore you gain points if you win and the opposite if you lose. You won't really die. :D )
"Magic aura!" A bright blue bubble surrounded them as they charged up for battle. Both teams communicated with each other through thoughts. Once the blue aura disappeared, the battle began. Vienna immediately disappeared into thin air. Her movements were swift yet deadly. One single wrong move, you would get hit. Akane knew what she was doing. She raised her staff to block the sudden impact.
"Awesome Akane-senpai!" Lyaki shouted out. Akane almost lost her focus before Yuu yelled.
"Akane!" She regained her focus blocking another hit. She moves quickly... Looking for weak spots... Vienna made an illusive move just to trick Akane. Her assumption was correct when she saw her block with her staff. In one quick move, she hit Akane's arm with her dagger.
" Akane Tsukiyomi, 2555/2900 health." The screen displayed. Vienna was hit with a blow from her opponent's staff.
" Vienna Alamanni, 2300/2700 health." Darn it... Got hit...
"Vienna, don't lose focus. It'll leave you vulnerable for the opponent to hit." Akane ordered. A loud clang of metal was heard throughout the arena. Kohaku and Yuu were fighting against each other.
"Your not a bad fighter, Kohaku." Yuu's sword moved as fast a lightning, but not fast enough to even hit Kohaku. She swung her mace. The chain wrapped itself around the weapon. Perfect...
"Hate to admit it, but your pretty good I suppose." Kohaku emitted a blue glow. Yuu smirked, emitting a green glow.
"Could he be charging up for one of his sword specials? I've never really seen him use it in arena." Lyaki inquired. Hana observed.
"As expected of a commander ranking. He does not use his specials as much as Akane-senpai, but his strategies are usually quite surprisingly accurate against his opponent."
"Mace Special! Seven Prism Chain!" The mace glowed. There were seven chains. Each of them reflecting like mirrors.
"Seven Prism Chain... Able to copy the same move as the opponent before he/she attacks... So, that means... If Yuu tries to attack... It'll just backfire on him!" Hana's eyes narrowed. Very impressive... It might just work against him... Unless, he has another idea... She glanced at both of them.
"Sword Special! Avian's Star!" He cut through the air with his weapon to project a green star. Chains on the other side immediately formed the same star. The collision caused huge cloud of smoke to form in the middle of the arena.
"What's he thinking! Isn't he suppose to know that it'll just reflect back at him?!" Yamiku cried out.
"I don't he's trying to hit Kohaku directly... More like..." The three of them widened their eyes in surprise, exclaiming,"An illusion!" The minute they said that, Yuu came flying out of the cloud of smoke glowing green again.
"A second sword special?!" Kohaku blocked with her mace.
"Sword Special! Ghost's Shadow!" Yuu jumped backwards. The shadow she casted disappeared. She couldn't move!
"What the..?" Kohaku struggled to move her arms.
"Don't try to make a single move. If you try to attack, your shadow will counterattack you."
"Ghost's Shadow. Only a high level swordsman is able to do that. Capturing the attacker's shadow to use it against them..." Hana murmured. What will Kohaku do now?
Zap! A hand skillfully found the pinpoints needed to free Kohaku.
"You can move now Kohaku." Vienna smiled and gave a thumbs up.
"Thanks!" Kohaku gave an evil grin. "Now it's time to get my vengeance." She charged. Vienna grinned. Now that she's got it... I have to handle my opponent... She faced Akane.
"Dagger Special! Phoenix Slash!" She emitted a pink glow. As soon as she cut through the air, a pheonix appeared. It charged at Akane, who was just standing there with a staff and eyes closed. She suddenly smirked.
"Don't think so." Akane opened her eyes. The phoenix paused in midair. Her eyes became as red as flames. A few whispered words, the phoenix exploded into ashes.
"Mage Special! Orion's Light!" She glowed the color red. A constellation of Orion shone brightly. The constellation itself became a real figure. Vienna dodged as fast as she could, teleporting to catch up with the speed.
"Mage Special is only said by students who have staff weapons right?" Lyaki questioned.
"Yep. Staff weapons are particularly special in that way. Although, all weapons in this academy are." Yamiku explained.
"Arena match over. Team Tsukiyomi wins."
"Aww... The match is over..." The blue bubble surrounding them disappeared, including the pvp bracelets.
"Good match guys!" The two teams high-fived each other.
"I'm so excited for the Tournament tomorrow!" Vienna cheered.
"Agreed." Hana smiled. Everyone put their hands together in the middle.
"We're going to win this!"
Kaguya-Hime123: ^^ This chapter and prologue was fun to write. Even though it was short. I: Well... Stay tuned for Chapter 2 of this awesome story! :D Review review review! x3 Ja ne~! :3
