Disclaimer, I do not own Future Card Buddyfight Characters and cards. I only own my OCs and my own buddyfight creatures and worlds
Chapter 1: New Student
It was a couple of days after Kiri transferred to Aibo Academy and joined Gao's little circle of friends. He was still quite new in figuring out where to go to and from all of the different buildings he had for class, homeroom, assembly, gym, etc. Lucky for him though, he had the help of The Mighty Sun Fighter, Gao Mikado, to help him get around the huge campus of Aibo Academy.
Today was just a typical day of school for Gao, Kiri, Baku, Kuguru, and Drum. Baku, Kiri, and Kuguru were watching Drum and Gao arguing about which one of them was hogging all of the hot water for the past few days, again.
"You always accuse me of using up the hot water!" exclaimed Drum as he narrowed his eyes at Gao.
"That's because you always use the bathroom before me, so it makes sense that you would use up all of the remaining hot water," Gao retorted.
Drum just humphed in reply before he murmured, "Some buddy you are to accuse only me for using up the hot water."
"What did you say, scale face!" Gao said angrily.
"You heard me, lame brain," Drum replied to Gao.
"Fire breath!"
"Accuser!"
"Hot head!"
"Whimp!"
This argument went on and on as Kuguru sighed in defeat and shook her head at the two fighting over something so silly. Kiri looked from Gao to Drum in confusion as to why they were always fighting each other over something.
"Hey Baku," Kiri said to him.
"Yeah, what?" Baku replied to Kiri.
"Why are Gao and Drum always seem to argue so much if they are buddies?" Kiri asked curiously.
"Well, it's kinda hard to explain bro, but they seem like they don't care about each other and they argue a lot when really it's their way of having a brotherly bond with each other," replied Baku.
"Tich yeah right," Gao said as he folded his arms across his chest when he heard what Baku said about his relationship with Drum.
"For once I agree with ya kid," Drum said as he joined in on the conversation.
"Anyway," Kuguru said to get everyone's attention before saying, "have you guys heard about the two new students that are coming here today to attend our academy?"
Everyone stared at Kuguru when she mentioned about two new students coming here at Aibo Academy.
"There are two other students coming here?" Baku asked in disbelief.
Kuguru nodded her head in reply and said, "I believe one of them is a six grader like us while the other one is a third grader."
"Cool, I can't wait till I meet this new guy today!" exclaimed Gao excitedly as the gang finally arrived at the top of the escalator.
"Wow, I guess I won't be the only new guy here at this school anymore," Kiri said out loud.
Gao smiled as he said to the group, "Hey guys let's go find this new guy and give him a warm welcome to Aibo Academy."
"Sounds like a plan," said Kuguru with a bright smile.
"I'm in," said Baku as he put his deck building metal box over his left shoulder.
"Me too, I want to welcome the new guy as well," said Kiri.
"Then it's settled, we'll all go and find this new guy and give him or her a warm welcome," said Gao excitedly.
Drum looked at the humans in confusion before he said, "What's the big deal? It's just a new student who just happens to be in the same grade as you guys."
Gao turned around to face Drum and replied, "Of course it's a big deal because he or she may or may not have anybody showing them around and being friendly to him or her."
Drum just humphed in reply as he turned his head away from Gao and crossed his arms over his chest.
"Besides, you never know if this new guy might happen to be a pretty good buddyfighter," Gao continued as he got the dragon's attention.
Drum's eyes turned to Gao as he sighed in defeat and said, "Okay, you win, but after we find this guy, I'm going back to my card to take a nice long nap."
"Ugh, is that all you think about Drum?" Gao asked even though he already knew the answer.
"No, I think about lots of things like food, pudding, buddy fighting, and …" Drum said before he was interrupted by Kuguru.
"Guys we better get going before we're late for first period class. The first bell is about to ring in a few minutes," she said to the group.
"Oh man, I can't be late to Mrs. Jarase's science class!" Gao exclaimed as he and the others took off running to their first period classes.
As they were running, someone up in the tall tree a few feet away from the school's doors was watching them. Gao and the other humans didn't notice anything odd when they neared the doors of the school, but when Drum came closer to the tree, he stopped dead in his tracks.
He looked up in the tree as if he saw something peculiar and out of place. He did not move an inch as his eyes searched through the canopy of the tree.
"Hey Drum!" shouted a familiar voice.
Drum turned his head away from the tree as a black blur shot out of the tree with barely any noise at all.
"What's taking you? We have to go!" Gao shouted at his buddy as he jogged where he was standing impatiently.
"Alright already, heesh. I'll be there in a second, kid," Drum replied to Gao as he looked back at the tree and thought, "I swore I saw something in that tree."
"Drum!" Gao shouted at him.
Drum growled a bit as he said, "Fine, I'm coming!" He then took off running to catch up to his buddy.
Little did Drum realize was that he was being watched from behind a different tree by the same individual, who watched him and Gao's friends from earlier. Then the first bell rang as the individual in a black hooded cloak vanished in a blur.
Meanwhile, everyone was getting ready for their first period class. The hallways were packed with students going to and from classrooms. Every student was hurrying to get to their classes before the second bell rang for class to begin. Everyone except for a mysterious individual wearing a black hooded cloak.
Nobody saw the mysterious individual walking behind them in the hallway. To them the individual was just a shadow on the ground. The mysterious cloaked figure walked slowly as if he or she didn't care that no one had noticed or even bothered to talk to him or her.
Then the individual stopped dead in his or her tracks in front of room 6-11. The individual looked up at the room number of the room, sighed out loud, and waited outside the classroom until the bell rang.
When the final bell rang for class to begin, every student in Mr. Nitsuke's class sat down in their assigned seats and prepared for one of his English lectures.
"Okay class," he said to them cheerily. "I would like to start the class off by introducing a transfer student from America."
The whole classroom looked at each other in confusion at yet another transfer student coming here to Aibo Academy so late in the first few weeks of school.
"Huh, I wonder why we're getting so many transfer students lately," said a young boy.
"Yeah, so weird. Usually we would get one or two in the beginning of the year, but now we have four new students in our grade in the third week of school," said a girl next to the boy.
As the rest of the class started chatting to their neighbor, Zanya, however, was in the far back of the room, which was secluded from any girls nearby, pondered about who this new student might be because next to him was an empty desk.
"Hmm, I wonder if this new student is a guy. I hope it is because I really don't mind if he sits next to me, but if it is a girl…" Zanya thought to himself as he started to imagine the new student as a girl. and what she might be like
"Hi! My name is Kathy, what's yours? Are you a ninja because you look like one with that fabulous outfit of yours. Hey you wanna hang out sometime and bla bla bla bla," said Zanya's imagination of a chatty girl in his mind.
A chill went down his spine at the thought of a chatty girl sitting right next to him. He closed his eyes tight, shook his head to clear his mind, and focus on praying that the new student is a guy and not a girl.
Then his eyes opened as he looked at the front of the room when he heard the teacher said, "Okay, you can come in now."
A tall, mysterious individual wearing a black hooded cloak came into the room. The cloak only went down below his or her's waist by a few inches. Apparently the individual was wearing a shirt-like attire that had a long tail underneath a dark blue knee high shorts. The individual wore a pair of long black boots with a light blue rimming at the top, underneath the sole of the boot, and diamond shaped designs pointing out at the side of the boot. The individual's dark skin were revealed through some parts of his or her entire, but the individual's hood was covering most of his or her face.
Zanya was in shock at the new student's appearance for he didn't expect someone to show up to class dressed like that. He was honestly expecting someone from America wearing a solid color T-shirt with some sort of design on the shirt, cut up jeans, and maybe even a baseball cap.
"Wow, I didn't see that one coming," he thought to himself when he was wrong about what the American transfer student would look like.
Then the individual turned his or her head in Zanya's direction. This action freaked him out a bit, but he quickly brushed it off and acted like nothing happened.
"Man, for a second there I thought that he heard my thoughts. At least I hope this new student is a he because I would be very uncomfortable if this person turned out to be a girl. Ehhh, just thinking about girls gives me the creeps," Zanya thought to himself.
The individual frowned even more as if he or she heard what Zanya though about just now.
"Class, I would like to introduce you to your new classmate L….," Mr. Nitsuke said before the hooded individual tapped his arm. He turned to the student and asked curiously, "What is it? Do you want me to call you by your nickname then by your full name?"
The individual nodded his or her head yes as he or she motioned the teacher to bend down so that only he could hear what the individual had to say.
His eyes widened a bit as he stood up and asked unsurely, "Are you sure you want me to call you that?"
The individual nodded again in reply.
"Okay, if that is what you want me to call you by," Mr. Nitsuke said unsurely before he turned his attention back to the class and said to them, "Class, please welcome Lu Tsuki to our school."
"Hi Lu," the class said to their new classmate.
Lu shyly waved in reply to the class.
"Now, where can we put you," Mr. Nitsuke said to himself as he scanned the classroom for an empty desk. "How about you go right ahead and sit next to Zanya. He's the guy sitting next to an empty desk to his right," he said to Lu.
Lu said nothing to the teacher and started to walk over to the empty seat next to Zanya. Lu sat down, took out a beautiful full moon cover notebook and a black colored pencil, and looked at the teacher attentively.
"Okay let's start class off with a bit of reading from our text and then we can get into pairs and work on the questions at the end of the short story," he said to the class. "Open your textbook to page 270."
Everyone except Lu opened their textbook to the page. Zanya tapped Lu's shoulder to get his or her attention. Then he motioned Lu to come closer so that they could both read the short story from his textbook. Lu pushed the desk closer to Zanya's desk as silently as possible so that it would be easier for them to read from the same book.
Before the class could read the story, Mr. Nitsuke said to Lu, "Excuse me Lu, but do you mind putting your hood down?"
Lu shifted a bit before looking at Zanya's direction for a split second and back at the teacher as if to say, 'are you sure about that?'
The teacher sighed before he said, "Okay, you can wear the hood if you want to, but I want you to follow along with the class, understood?"
Lu nodded in reply and looked at the page Zanya had open to.
A few minutes went by as the class read the short story out loud. Lu followed along in Zanya's book. Then Zanya read the last paragraph out loud before Mr. Nitsuke cut him off halfway so that Lu had the chance to read.
"Okay Lu, finish reading the last paragraph where Zanya finished reading," he said to Lu.
Lu nodded and started to read in a timid, soft voice, "Her young boy, Chun Li, was rising from the mists across the lake and running towards her. She reached out her arms to receive him." Lu paused before finishing the story by saying, "The lakes glistened in the fertile landscape."
Zanya looked at Lu curiously and thought to himself, "Huh, who knew that the new guy would be so shy."
Then Lu started to straighten out the rim of the hood to cover even more of his or her face.
The teacher clapped his hands together and said to the class, "Okay, now I want you to buddy up with someone nearby and work on the reading questions on page 276 and 277. You will answer questions 1 through 15 in complete sentences. I want this assignment turned in by the end of class today."
The students started to move their desks together with their best friends and started working on the assignment.
Zanya turned to Lu and asked, "You want to work together?"
Lu nodded in reply and ripped out a piece of paper from the notebook. Lu started writing their names on the sheet of paper before handing it to Zanya.
Zanya took the paper and fixed his name that was misspelled before writing down the assignment on the first line.
"Okay, question number one, who is Chun Li's mother?"Zanya asked out loud.
"Mei Mei," Lu said quietly.
Zanya nodded and wrote the answer to the question on the sheet of paper. This went on for about twenty minutes as the two of them worked diligently on the assignment. Lu and Zanya finished the assignment early so they turned it into the bin before anyone else had the chance to hand in their class assignment into the bin.
Lu moved the desk away from Zanya and started to draw in the back of the notebook. Zanya was curious why this guy was so antisocial and distant from others as he observed Lu for the last few minutes of class.
"Okay class, you have five minutes left to finish up your assignment," the teacher said to the class.
Zanya sighed as he said to Lu to start a conversation, "So you came from America, right?"
Lu stopped drawing, turned to face Zanya, and nodded in reply.
"What state?" he asked Lu.
Lu skunked a bit in the seat and said in almost a whisper, "Wisconsin."
"Wisconsin?" Zanya asked to be sure that he heard it right.
Lu nodded in response.
"Huh, where at?" he asked Lu.
Lu shifted a bit again and was going to answer when the bell rang.
Zanya looked up at the clock and saw that it was the end of first period.
"Okay, hand in your class assignments in the bin before you leave the classroom," Mr. Nitsuke said to the class.
"So what part of Wisconsin are you from L...Huh?" Zanya said as he turned to where Lu's desk was but saw that Lu had disappeared.
He blinked a couple of times in shock before he started gathering his things for his next class and thought, "That was weird, Lu left before answering my question or even saying goodbye."
A couple of hours passed by as Gao, Baku, Kuguru, Kiri, Tetsuya, and Drum were having lunch together in their usual spot. They were talking about their classes and how much homework they have already today.
"So Tetsuya," Gao said to start up a new conversation with his friends.
"Yeah?" Tetsuya said as he turned in Gao's direction.
"Did you know that we have two new students here at our school? One of them is in our grade level," Gao said to his friend.
Tetsuya's eyes widened in surprise as he said, "Say what?"
"Yeah, have you by any chance seen him or her going to class this morning?" Gao asked.
Tetsuya paused as he put a finger on his chin and replied, "You know what, I believe I did, yo."
"Really? what did he or she look like?" Kuguru asked him.
Tetsuya closed his eyes to think for a moment as he replied, "I couldn't really see him exactly but I swore I saw someone wearing a black hooded cloak when I was going to my third period class."
"Huh, I wonder why he was wearing a hooded cloak for?" Gao pondered for a moment before he was brought back down to earth when Tetsuya spoke again.
"But the strangest part was that he was hiding in the shadows as if he didn't want to be seen by anyone." Tetsuya said to them.
"Whoa," Baku said out loud as he put his chopsticks down for a moment.
"Sounds like this guy doesn't want to interact with anybody," Kuguru said to them.
"Or maybe he might be a bit shy to people," Kiri said to them.
"Maybe, but why would he avoid being seen by other classmates?" Baku said to the group.
"What do you think Gao?" Kuguru asked him.
Gao paused as he closed his eyes for a brief moment and replied, "I think we should find this new guy and befriend him because to me he kinda sounds like he's lonely."
"True that yo because nobody but me even saw the guy in the hallway this morning. And I've been asking people if they know him," Tetsuya said to him.
"What are you suggesting Gao? That we go look for the guy even if he just wants to be left alone and befriend him," Drum said to him.
"That's the plan," Gao replied to him.
Drum just humphed to himself as he jumped off of the bench and started to walk away from the group.
"Hey where are you going, Drum?" Gao asked curiously.
Drum turned to face his buddy and replied to him, "I'm going for a walk."
"But we have twenty minutes left before lunch and recess is over," Gao said to him.
"Don't worry, I'll be back in fifteen minutes," Drum said to him.
"But Drum, don't you want to help us find the new guy at all?" Kiri asked him.
Drum shook his head and replied, "No. You kids can look for him if you want without me."
Then Drum began walking away so that he can go somewhere far away from them. As Drum was walking around the rooftop, he heard the faint sounds of music.
"Huh?" he said to himself as curiosity got the better of him as he searched for the individual playing a soft but high pitched wind instrument.
Meanwhile, Zanya was eating his lunch with his buddy Tsukikage when they heard music.
"Is that music?" Zanya asked out loud.
"Nin," Tsukikage said as he opened up the scroll in his hands that said, 'Where's it coming from?'
Zanya turned to his buddy and said, "We should go and check it out."
"Nin," Tsukikage replied to him as they left to investigate where the music was coming from.
They searched for a few minutes until they came to the garden area on a rooftop. Zanya looked around until he spotted a hooded figure on a bench underneath a small weeping willow tree.
"It's Lu," Zanya said to himself as he watched Lu playing a silver flute all alone.
"Nin?" Tsukikage said as he unrolled the scroll again as it read, 'You know him?'
Zanya turned to his buddy and replied, "Yeah, he's in my English and Biology class."
Tsukikage nodded as they both watched Lu playing a beautiful song on his flute.
Meanwhile, Drum was walking in the garden that was near where he and Gao and his friends usually come here to have lunch.
"Sounds like the music is coming somewhere over here," he said to himself as he turned a corner.
Then his eyes widened in surprise before he ducked behind a bush to hide in. He peeked around the corner again and saw a figure in a black hooded cloak playing a long silver instrument.
Drum thought to himself, "Is this the new guy that everyone has been talking about?" He watched the guy play the flute for a few more minutes as he said to himself, "The guy isn't half bad, he's actually pretty good."
Drum kept on watching the new student playing a sad, lonely song on the instrument for a long while until the song was nearing it's end. Then he slowly but quietly emerged from where he was hiding and made his way towards the flutist.
Then he accidently stepped on a twig, which snapped very loudly. The hooded individual stopped playing the flute and turned in Drum's direction.
Drum was petrified for a moment before he said nervously, "Sorry, I didn't mean to sneak up on you like that."
The individual only stared at Drum as he rubbed the back of his neck nervously and said, "You know, you're a really good musician, for a human that is."
The individual shyly replied to Drum, "Thank you."
Drum walked closer to Lu, pointed at the silver instrument, and asked, "What kind of instrument is that?"
Lu held up the instrument for Drum to see and replied, "A flute."
Drum stared at the flute curiously and asked, "Can you play another song on that flute?"
Lu was about to reply to Drum when someone shouted, "There you are!"
Lu, Drum, Zanya, and Tsukikage turned to see Gao, Kiri, Baku, Tetsuya, and Kuguru coming towards Lu and Drum.
Zanya and Tsukikage were still hiding in the brush a few meters away until Zanya freaked out when he saw Kuguru.
"Ah! It's a...a...a...girl!" he said as his glasses glared up and started to crack at the sight of a girl. Then he turned to his partner and said drastically, "Quick Tsukikage, we have to disappear!"
Tsukikage sighed and said, "Nin," exhaustingly. Then he threw down a smoke ball as the duo disappeared from sight.
Meanwhile Gao and the others came up to Drum and Lu.
"Gao?! What are you doing here?" Drum asked.
"We were trying to figure out where the song was coming from and so happen to find you here next to that guy," Gao replied to him.
"Oh," Drum replied to Gao.
Then Gao's attention turned to the hooded figure standing behind Drum and said, "Hi there! You must be the new student we've heard about."
The figure nodded shyly in reply.
Gao smiled at the new guy and said, "The name's Gao Mikado and these are my friends Baku, Kiri, Kuguru, Tetsuya, and my buddy Drum." He said while introducing everyone to the new student.
Everyone, except for Drum, greeted the new student.
Drum growled at Gao and said angrily, "My name is not Drum. It's Drum Bunker Dragon, Fang Slade Terrestrial the XIV, how many times must I say it to get it past that thick skull of yours!"
"Hey lighten up will ya. I call you Drum because your 'title' is too mouthy for me to say it every couple of seconds," Gao retorted back.
The mysterious individual looked at Drum and asked, "Wait, you don't happen to be Drum Bunker Dragon Fang Slade Terrestrial the XIII's son, right?"
Drum turned to the hooded figure in shock and said, "You know my father?"
The individual nodded and replied, "Yes, he's the chief of the Armor Drum Bunker Dragon clan in Dragon World, correct?"
Drum blinked in surprise before he replied, "Yeah, but how do you know?"
The individual shyly replied, "I….heard some rumors about him from other buddy monsters."
Drum crossed his arms over his chest and mumbled, "Figures that my father's reign would soon spread to this world as well."
Then Kuguru cleared her throat, turned to the new student, and said, "Anyway, what might your name be?"
The individual shifted uncomfortably, kicked a loose pebble, and replied in a low, almost inaudible whisper, "It's Lu….."
"What did you say, yo? I didn't hear what you said," Tetsuya asked out loud.
Then the individual said again in a low shy voice, "It's Lu….."
"Umm, could you please say it a little bit louder?" Kuguru asked as politely as possible.
Lu was about to speak when a voice out of nowhere spoke.
"Oh dear, not this again," said a tired female voice.
"You know she's as shy as a lamb," said a different feminine voice.
Everyone except for Lu looked around for whoever was speaking.
"Whoa, who said that?" Gao asked out loud.
"That would be us," said a deep male voice.
Then all of a sudden, six orbs of light came out from under Lu's cloak and materialized in front of everyone.
Everyone's eyes widened in surprise when they saw six unfamiliar warrior like dragons standing around Lu of the dragons were female while the other three were male.
The dragon standing in the center of the group was a young female dragoness with beautiful golden colored scales, carmel eyes, and a pinkish scar in a shape of a flame on the right side of her face. She wore a dark red gymnastic suit with long sleeves and leggings. A bright red colored sphere was in the middle of her chest area. Her armor was a dull gold color for her helmet, shoulder armor, wrist bands, metal skirt, knee guard, and ankle bands. Her jet black hair like spins went from the back of the neck to the tip of her feathery tail.
Standing to her left was a young male dragon with silvery blue scales, light blue eyes, two enormous wings with three wing talons, and a reddish pink scar across his face that represents wind. He wore grey and black armor on his arms, body, and legs. A light blue sphere was in the middle of his chest plate. His spiky light blond spines on the top of his head go all the way down to the bottom part of his neck. His tail was saillike at the end with a silver piercing at the tip of the fin.
Next to him was another male dragon with a light brown underbelly and a darker shade of brown for his main color. His scales were plated like an armadillo, yet he has two bull horns on his head, two curved horns on the side of his jawline, and a curved horn on his nose. His eyes were a bright orange color. On the left side of his face, three tan color pebble shaped scar marks were on his cheek. His tail has a huge boney club at the tip.A green color sphere was embedded in the middle of his chest.
To the left of the dragoness in the center was another female dragon. Her physical appearance was a cross between a wolf and a dragon in a ninja outfit. Her fur color was pitch black while her scales were an electric blue color. Her hair was a mixture of purple and blue shades. Two curved silver color horns were showing through her purple blue hair. A reddish pink crescent shaped scar went down her right eye. Her eyes were a beautiful pink color with a hint of magenta in it. She wore a silver chain necklace with a dark purple color sphere on it. The silver chain of the necklace was mostly covered by her long pink scarf.
Next to her was a young dragoness who had cerulean color antlers and scales with a pale yellow underbelly. Her red eyes sparkled in a friendly, cheery manor. A light blue mark covered her left eye and both of her arms. She wore a pale mint green bikini swimsuit with a thin white color cloth covering her bikini bottom. Her blue color sphere was sewn into her bikini top in the middle of her chest.
The male dragon next to her was a white colored dragon with gray markings on his scales in gray armory of a knight. His two pointed horns were jet black. The dragon knight had deep blue eyes. His left eye had a pink scar in the shape of a sun with eight swirling points. His two huge feathered wings had dark gray and light gray tips. The sphere in the middle of his chest plate and shoulder plates were a silver color. His tail ended in a sharp arrow head point.
The six dragons stood there and waited to see what happens next.
"W-who are you guys?" Drum asked as he slowly backed away from the intimidating dragons.
The female dragon in the center of the group turned to Drum and replied, "We are Luciana's guardians and her buddy monsters."
The gang looked at each other and said simultaneously, "Luciana?"
Luciana turned to the dragoness in the center and said, "Flamma, I told you not to call me by my real name."
"Sorry, would you rather be called Lulu?" Flamma said with a teasing smirk.
"Not even that," Luciana said to her.
"Luciana is a girl's name, right?" Baku said to Kuguru.
"Right," she replied to him.
"So that means the new guy is a girl," Gao said out loud.
"Whoa yo, and to think all this time I thought that the new dude was a guy when the he is actually a she," Tetsuya said while rubbing the back of his neck.
Then the cerulean color dragoness giggled and said bubbly, "Of course she's a girl, silly." She then went behind Luciana and pulled the hood off of her head and said, "See, she was just a little bit shy to let people see her face is all."
"Marina!" Luciana shouted angrily while narrowing her eyes at her. Luciana was a very pretty girl with gorgeous dark blue eyes and beautiful violet color hair. Her hair was up in a high ponytail. Her double sided bangs covered most of her forehead and the sides of her face until they were a little bit below the jaw line.
She quickly made Marina let go of her hood and put it on again to cover her face.
Marina sighed and said, "If you keep doing this Lu, then you won't be able to make any new friends here."
"That's the point," Luciana replied to her before she turned in Gao's direction and said to him, "And don't even think about asking me to become your 'friend' Gao Mikado."
Gao's mouth dropped slightly as everyone else gasped in surprise.
"How….how did you know that?" he asked in shock.
Lucianna paused for a moment before she replied, "Lucky guess."
Gao was about to say something when he was interrupted by a familiar voice, "Alright, who's the one that's been playing music on school grounds?"
Gao and his friends turned around to see student president Shido Magoroku and vice president Sofia Sakharov.
"President Shido?" Kuguru said in disbelief.
"What is he doing here," Baku said to himself.
Shido looked from one person to another as he said, "Alright, which one of you has been playing an instrument up here during school hours?"
A few minutes went by before Sofia saw Luciana holding her silver flute tightly underneath her cape. "Shido, I believe that girl was the one playing her instrument during school hours."
Shido looked in Luciana's direction, walked right over to her, and said, "Alright Miss, I have to confiscate that flute of yours because playing music during school hours are strictly prohibited."
He was about to grab it out of her hand when she swiftly moved it further back and said shyly, "I'm sorry for breaking the rules, but I can not let you take my flute away."
"Oh? And why not?" he asked suspiciously while folding his hands across his chest.
"I need it for music class right after lunch," she replied to him.
"You're making an excuse," he said as he tried again to seize her instrument.
Again, she swiftly moved her flute behind her back and said, "I'm not making an excuse. Here, I'll show you." Then she dug into her cloak's pocket and brought out her schedule for the school year.
Shido swiftly and aggressively swiped the schedule from her hand and said, "Let me see that."
He quickly looked at the schedule before he looked up to see her face as Luciana said, "I was just merely making sure that my flute is on key by playing a short song."
Shido humped in reply as he handed back her schedule and said, "You're off the hook this time, but if I catch you playing your instrument again during school hours on the grounds here and not in your music class, then I will confiscate that instrument whether or not you need it for class next period. Do I make myself clear, Ms. Tsuki?"
Luciana nodded her head and replied, "I understand."
"Good. Sofia, let's go. The bell is about to ring," he said to Sofia as he made his leave.
Sofia silently followed after Shido after giving Luciana a cold glare. Luciana matched her glare with one of her own.
"Whoa, what was that all about, yo?" Tetsuya said when he saw the two girls glaring at each other for a few seconds.
Luciana turned to her buddy monsters and said, "Let's go. I need to go to my next class."
The six dragons nodded before turning back into small orbs of light and quickly returned back into her light blue core deck case.
She was about to make her leave when Gao said, "Wait a minute." Luciana stopped and turned look at Gao. "Why don't you want to make friends?" he asked her curiously.
"That is none of your business," she replied coldly.
Then the bell rang. Luciana made her leave as Gao called out, "Hey wait a second!"
"Gao just let it go. If she doesn't want to make any friends, then don't force her to," Drum said to him.
Gao ignored him and ran to Luciana and blocked her way.
"Let me pass," she said irritably.
"Not until you tell us why you refuse to have any friends," he said persistently.
"It's none of your concern whether or not I should or shouldn't make friends with other classmates," she replied.
"It is my concern because nobody should be alone without anyone to care about you," he said to her.
"You're wasting your breath," she said to him coldly as she tried to move past him but was unable to because he followed her every movement. "Please move aside," she said as politely as possible.
"No way, not until you tell me," he said to her.
She growled and said, "You're drying my patience."
Gao was frustrated for a second before he got an idea. He smirked and asked, "You're a buddyfighter, right?"
Luciana's mood changed as she just stood there without saying a word while looking at Gao curiously.
"How about we settle this with a buddyfight here tomorrow after school. If I win you tell me why you don't want to make any friends," he said to her.
"And if I win?" she asked as she suddenly became slightly shy again.
"If you win, then I will respect your wish and leave you alone," he said to her before he moved out of her way as he said with a hand outstretched to her, "So how about it?"
She looked at Gao for a few seconds and replied in a whisper without shaking his hand, "We'll see."
"Alright, meet me in the Buddyfight stadium after 8th period tomorrow," he said to her.
Luciana said nothing as she walked away from him and out of sight.
The rest of the gang came up to Gao as Drum said, "Do you really think she'll be there tomorrow?"
Gao nodded and said, "I'm positive she'll be there."
Kiri looked at him curiously and asked, "How can you be so sure, Gao?"
Gao just smiled and replied, "Just a feeling, I guess."
Then Tetsuya yelled out loud and exclaimed, "Yo guys we better get move on to class now because we have less than two minutes to get our butts in the classroom on time!"
Everyone gasped as they all ran to the staircase to get to their classrooms before the second bell rings.
~To Be Continued~
On the next buddyfight, Luciana accepts Gao's challenge in the hopes that she'll beat Gao and finally be left alone. Gao on the other hand is determined to find out what dark secret she has locked away that she refuses to let anyone know about from her past. Hey wait a minute who's that boy there in her memory? Could he be the link to why she refuses to befriend anyone anymore? And what kind of world user is she? Luciana's Dark Secret Revealed. Next time on Buddyfight.