Summer has come to such a drastic ending. So many events shared between friends and laughs in the homes of family come to a close. The sound of birds chirping early in the mourn over Academy City. The sound of students pouring into the largest school building in the City. Soon a loud speaker could be heard announcing, "Attention all students! Attention all students! Report to the Theater Area for the welcome of our new group of exchange students." This was news to many of the students, but very few cared for more competition among Espers. The staff and students began to gather.
"Damnit! Why today of all days!? I'm already falling behind in two classes and ran out of food for the month! Now this!? Why me?" These shrieks of sorrow and complaint came from a young boy, one that seemed to be hikes away from the school. Striving to make it to the meeting or else having to face the penalties of tardiness. Kamijou Touma was this young boy, scroungy bodily figure, spiky black hair, and dressed in the garbs of the school he was attending. Never a good day, always worse than the last. Coming in close behind him was a young girl, seeming to dash past him with large blue sparks around her, when passing him he could feel the jolts running through his spin for a few moments. "Well, looks like I'm not the only one who slept in..."
"Shut up idiot! If you keep talking you'll be just as canned!" She zoomed past him with that phrase. Her abilities as an Esper allow her such incredible speed, Manipulation of Electricity. This girl was, Misaka Mikoto, a very close friend of Touma's. She was a rather short girl, sporting a short skirt, a vest and perfectly taken care of short brown hair. Gaining quickly behind her, Touma was highly determined as well to make it on time, they both dashed at full speed towards the part dome-like building inside of the school.
Much to neither surprise, both of them made it as most of the students were already being introduced and left the podium after they had announced themselves. There were two students left in the neatly folded chairs. One of them decided to raise from the chair slowly, and lazily approaching the microphone with a large cheesy grin across his lips, He wore a blue opened up fur collared coat, black pants and boots that matched the same tint as the coat that ran up his ankle, bright yellow hair and a set of headphones just sitting on his neck . "Hello everybody! Raiku Kamino, I've come from Kunui South High School! This is a nice place you all got here. Women are nice, buildings are amazing. I want to give you a proper greeting from our home!" He raised his fist and caused a large uproar in the students from his Academy which brought a large amount of strange looks. Some of the remaining students gave him a large round of applauds as he progressed off the stage. Mikoto raised an eye at him, and shook her head, "Is that really one of the students that will be attending in our city? Please." She spoke in ill to that student. Touma was holding his stomach and sobbing against the nearby wall. "All of the food... Index just had to clear out the last of the fridge..."
The next student took this chance to walk up to the microphone. His expression seemed to be more stern and straight forward than the last, as if his will was steeled for this moment and he was already prepared. Gripping the handle on the microphone he spoke in a calmed tone, gazing out on the crowd with his brown eyes. His long black hair slipping down to his lower back, with the most unusual get up. A shirt that seemed to look of something like a military official with a single sleeve, the exposed arm wrapped in straps. Sleek pants that match the rest of the attire. His lips parted slowly, in one of the calmest tones but welcoming, the boy spoke.
"I apologize for the behavior of my fellow classmate. It has come to be seen that not all of us have the best behavioral habits in the face of the public. Allow me to correct this misconception. I am the Student Representative of Kunui High, Kaito Shikima. We hope to achieve a large amount of success with this project in uniting and sharing cultures between the school systems. I hope you'll all welcome us with open arms. Us students welcome any questions you might have for us about our daily lives in the school. Thank you for your time."
With a kind bow, Kaito exited the stage. The entire teacher and staff stood and clapped, soon following a large amount of the students. They seemed pleased with his polite display and rewarded him. "Well at least some of them seem to have some kind of home training." Mikoto answered in a more impressed tone, but of course Touma only glared down at her for her judgment and walked away at the sound of the bell ringing. He ran into another students as they all lined up to watch the students from Kunui. Touma stood beside that student, eyeing them all as they walked by. The two students, Raiku and Kaito soon came to pass Touma, Raiku had his hands casually behind his head with the cheesiest grin across his face, followed by Kaito who caught Touma's gaze quickly and softly whispered upon passing him, "Imagine Breaker..." Touma's eyes flashed open in shock, frozen.
'H-how the hell... How does he...' His body was shaking now, could he be another threat? Is he another individual that are after Index and somehow caught the intelligence on his ability? This frightened Touma, as he brought himself back in the crowd and over to Mikoto. "Where did you run off to? I was almost lost in this crowd." She looked at him in an irritated manner, but soon changed at the look on his face. "Touma? You look like you've just seen a ghost."
Touma had too many questions running through his head to answer this. The next bell rang and he mixed into the crowd once again without a word to Mikoto. She raised her eyebrow in curiosity and went about her day as well, figuring he'd talk to her later about it if need be.
Entering his classroom, he could hear his two friends in their usual seats raising their hands and welcoming him to the side of the classroom. His head turning, he could see his teacher writing on the chalkboard, "Morning Komoe-Sensei." The sound of chalk scratching the board stopped as the small bodied, pink-haired teacher turned to smile at her student, "Good day Touma-san!" She waved to him, and saw his face. Hurrying over to him, "Do you need to step out and talk? You aren't looking well." Touma shook his head and just shuffled off to his seat, much deeper in thought than expected. Komoe's eyes teared up a bit, as she felt ignored. "No need to be so cold." The bell rang, signaling the start of class.
Komoe returned to her position at the board, facing the class. "Alright everyone. If you'll please take your seats, we can begin." Back at side of the class, Touma took his eyes to the window as usual, gazing out in thought as he barely listened to Komoe. "Class, will you please give me your attention to welcome the newest additions to our classroom?" The door slid open, three sets of footsteps could be heard coming inside of the class and following were some very familiar voices. "Very pleased to meet you all." "Sup' everyone!" Touma's eyes flashed open. It was just as he'd suspected from the voices, Kaito and Raiku. 'Of all classes... Mine... Damnit.'
"Can you both please tell us a little about yourselves?" Komoe asked them politely, as she bared the brightest smiles. Touma was too shocked to do anything else but grit his teeth and subtly glare, patiently trying to hold back his fear, curiosity, and rage for this matter.
Raiku stepped forward first, "I was Head of the Choir and Martial Arts club back at Kunui, took us to some of most interesting places around Japan. I'm also a habitual skater and part time Magician!" He said flicking his wrist with a snap and making a rose appear in his hand. "Ta da!" He said excited, as the only one who was excited about it was Komoe who was reaching for the flower, "It's so pretty!" Raiku laughed, passing the rose to her, "Jeez... Tough crowd."
The next to step up to the pedestal, "I've introduced myself properly to you all. Some of my hobbies. I've been one to play the piano in the Choir with Raiku. In addition, the Student Representative and the Head of the Culinary Club." The class was now riddled with interested looks. This made Raiku glare at his fellow classmate, "Always trying to upstage me." Kaito turned back returning the glare with a grin, "Only telling the truth, slacker." They both now bared smirks and faced the class again. "You may both take your seats now and the lesson shall commence." Kaito and Raiku both went down the same lane of seats and sat beside one another, they seemed to be rather close to Touma, as if it was planned.
Touma's eyes didn't leave them for a moment, inspecting them but trying not to make it obvious that he was. His arm clenched, the arm that held the power known as Imagine Breaker, an ability that gave him the power to cancel out extraordinary abilities with a mere touch. He prepared it for the worst kind of situation. "Do you have a pen?" Kaito spoke to Touma with a friendly tone. Touma blinked softly, and tried not to stir any issues inside of the classroom.
He reached into his pocket with a sigh and stopped for a moment "Uhh..." As he slowly pulled his hand from his pocket, he raised it and let out a shriek, "Really!? It had to explode in my pocket !? I just got these cleaned. Just my luck..." Touma's eyes seemed to water in despair. "Touma! You'll be facing detention if you ignore my lessons." Komoe said as she pointed her chalk and him, turning back and pouting.
Touma just sighed and reached for the pencil that was in the opposite pocket, passing it over to him. "Thank you." Kaito said, taking out a small notepad and beginning to scribble down on the pad. Touma kept his eyes forward and fist clenched. His will and body unshaken from his experience dealing with such a wide variety of Espers and Sorcerers. Kaito slips a note back with the pencil and turns his head to Komoe.
Touma picked up the note and browsed the contents of the letter. "Meet us in Central Square tonight... You'll get answers." Touma kept his eyes on the note contently, he wanted those answers. Why did they know about the Imagine Breaker? How did they know he was the possessor of it? These were critical points to be aware of.
As the day progressed on, Touma didn't say a word to either of the new students that called him out and thought over and over how he'd approach the situation as he walked home. "Hey! Why'd you just walk away earlier? What's the matter with you?" The sound of Mikoto next to him made him snap his neck towards her, 'I don't want her involved in this. I don't know how dangerous these people are.' Touma yawned softly, "I was super hungry... Almost sick actually. No need to worry. I'm sure Index followed that note I gave her on groceries." He grinned widely, trying to play off his worry.
Mikoto just angrily looked at him, and turned her head walking with him, "Whatever. Just don't act like a dope about it. You could have told me that." She said to him with bit of sting in hr voice. "Yeah, yeah. Anyway, I'm heading home. I'll see you around." Touma parted ways with her after they'd reached a certain point. Mikoto split off after standing there a few seconds to watch him.
Much later. Touma strolled around the town for a while trying to pass the time until the meeting was supposed to go off. His head all over the place, wondering what would be the next move. "I don't want to worry Index... She can't know what I'm going to do." Touma closed his palm roughly and began to dash off towards the town square, the sun slowly setting on the day.
His shoes clicked against the cold stone, the area was clear of normal civilians. Touma searched the area for a few moments, his heart skipping beats by the second. A strange yet peculiar sound could be heard, "So you came. Nice." The sound getting closer and closer. Touma's eyes dashed over to see Raiku rolling towards him on a skateboard with his hands casually in his pocket, and a grin across his lips. Close behind, Kaito followed him with one hand in his pocket and a book in the other. "Welcome. I'm glad you humbly accepted our invitation." Kaito said shutting his book.
Raiku rolled around Touma for a moment on his body, his lips keeping the same grin and proceeding to rolling back beside Kaito. "Let's get down to business." Raiku glanced over Kaito with a nod, which was returned with another. Raiku kicked off his board, balancing it off the top of his foot and launching it at Touma swiftly. The attack was so sudden that Touma barely had any time to respond to the board being sent at him. His arms lifted up and protected him by smacking it out of the way as quickly as he could. Soon after Touma could see Raiku himself already dashed towards him with a large amount of crimson colored electricity surrounding his body. Raiku's fist connected with Touma's jaw and sent him flying towards one of the walls close to a building.
Raiku grinned as he stood there cracking away at his knuckles which caused electricity to flash off his fist. "Is that the best you got Imagine Breaker?". Touma wasn't prepared for that kind of assault. "W-what the hell? Sorcerers? They hadn't released their magic names... So that means..." Raiku instantly flashed in front of Touma with a large amount of the same light surrounding his being, "That's right. Espers." His leg rose above Touma's head and grinned, "Spark Drop!" A large portion of the lightning channeled to his foot and slammed down towards Touma. His arm reacted and grabbed onto Raiku's foot and instantly disbursed the lightning. Raiku's eye flashed open as Touma's other fist quickly collided with his chin and knocked him back.
Kaito's gaze was locked completely on this event now, studying the reaction to the kick. "So... You are the true wielder." Shortly after, he closed his book and walked closer. Touma tried to back up but was met with the wall. "You know, that didn't feel too good." Raiku said, rubbing the edge of his chin and grinning. The two individuals were now side by side, eyeing down Touma.
"Are you going to tell me why you're attacking me!? I've done nothing to you bastards!" Raiku shook his head, snicking softly with a shrug, "Man that is some cruel name calling." "Indeed. I think he should see the true sting of those words." Kaito said, crossing his arms over his chest . Raiku nodded and cracked his fingers, channeling another large stream of lighting and flung his wrist, "Chain Lightning!" The large burst of concentrated energy was flung in an odd direct, snaking around the air in several points in the air, with a constant movement until it finally stuck down at Touma.
In a quick movement, Touma caught the lightning and struggled to hold it off, until he clenched his fist and canceled it. "You must have some purpose for this. Just tell me something!" Touma panted softly, having being slightly winded after holding off such a fierce attack. In his mind, it only reminded him of the times he'd have to withstand the strikes from Mikoto.
Kaito's eyes squinted as he took an lowered position and dashed forward, "Raiku!" "Right!" They said in a back and forth, as Raiku raised his hand and took hold of another Chain Lightning. He tossed it in the direction of Touma and Kaito. Touma quickly rose his hand in preparation. Kaito took hold of the lightning with much easy, and caused it to surge stronger. This made Touma's eyes burst wide in surprise, suddenly the lightning was sent directly into his Touma's palm. A loud sound of pure pain surged through Touma as he was flung back onto the ground.
Silence grew between them, Touma was stunned in fear. 'Why didn't Imagine Breaker work?' He asked himself over and over inside of his head. This was one of the most frightening encounters he'd ever faced in his life. "H-how...?"
The two attackers walked closer to him. Their eyes gazing down at him, one with a grin and another with a stern expression. "Do you understand the weight of the situation now? Do you, Imagine Breaker?" Kaito said. Touma gritted his teeth roughly in anger. His fist clenched. 'Damnit... Damnit! I can't die now... I can't!' He tried to raised himself and tried to send his fist at Kaito, which was countered by a duck and was then caught by Raiku. Kaito pushed his fist into Touma's gut and knocked him into the wall. 'Shit...'
"Pick him up. We've got work to do." Kaito said to Raiku, as he turned away and began to walk. "Jeez... Leaving me with the hard work. You're no fair, you know that right?" Raiku picked up the almost unconscious Touma and placed him over his shoulder, beginning to follow after Kaito. 'Is this... good boy... Index..? Mikoto..? Komoe-Sensei..? Everyone...' Touma's eyes shut slowly.
Soon after the departure of the group, an explosion sounded off around Kaito. A very large scale, green flamed explosion. "What the hell? Kaito!" Raiku took a quick jump back and searched around for the attacker. "Haha! Just what we were looking for! You've slipped Agents!"
Raiku looked over at Touma, seeing he was resting over his shoulder. "I can't fight with this fool on my shoulder!" Raiku placed his skateboard down and put Touma on the top of it, kicking it to the side and rolling him away and into a bush. "Now that this is over... Come on out coward!" flicking his wrists, lightning surged around his palms.
"Well, considering you asked ever so nicely!" A quick burst of fire crashed down next to Raiku, which made him fly back and crash into a tree. A demonic laughter came from the position that the strike fell. "I see you can't take a hit. Just like your buddy over there hehehe!" Out of another burst of green flames, came the figure. A large clunky looking beast, with large burning plates over it's forearms glares past it's cinder. It's eyes were of a blue coloring and it looked as if it bared scales all across it's body, almost like some form of lizard, with a tail to complete the set.
"What in the living hell..." Raiku rose from the tree, and tried to understand the creature before him, it was monstrous. He glared at the beast, then sported a large grin with a bit of chuckling. "What the hell is so funny? If you dare try and mock me for my newly hatched form, I'll burn you as well!" The creature soon flung one of the flames on it's plate towards Raiku and creature another large ember around him.
Raiku sent electricity through muscles in his legs, dashed just out of the way of the flames and standing by the large pile of flames where Kaito was. "You think it'd be that easy? Surely if you know our alias, you MUST know of our reputation." Soon after his little saying, the flames dispelled spread out, "You got to be kidding me!"
In the middle of the scorched earth were two large, red spiked shields with an elegant gold trimming, the middle of them were an angel with it's hands crossed over the chest and hair flowing into the gold tripping. "So troublesome... You almost ruined my clothes." Rising from the shielded barrier was Kaito, the edges of his clothing giving off large burns. "I'd send you the tailor bill but too bad..."
As he tossed the shields up, they turned back and reshaped into a large black and red spear, that hair a bladed cross at the very top, made of gold. The pole of the blade made of silver with red tints here and there, Kaito finished, "too bad... you'll be burning in hell!" The beast was shocked at the remark and raised it's shields. This caused Kaito to rush it and swiftly jab the tip of the blade at the beast in a furious rush and thrusts. "Raiku!"
The two weren't expecting this assault but acted as trained, Raiku dashed around the best and smacked his fists together, and jabbed into the beast's side with incredible speeds, "See ya!" Releasing a large burst of electricity, the area filled with the crimson colored energy as the beast was soon repelled by the sheer force of the impact when Raiku send the electricity into the muscles of his arm.
Soon the beast was rag dolled across the square and crashed into a pile of garbage. "You... you damned Espers! In the name of the Du'iel!" The beast covered itself in the flames of it's shield and launched himself at the two. They broke away from their combination and soon felt the flames spreading around them in large bursts.
"Not again!" Kaito quickly whipped his spear around him in a spinning motion and fan the flames away as he remained airborne and escaped the attack. Raiku simply pushed off the ground as quickly as he could and caught his balance by magnetizing his arm to a nearby pole and holding onto it. "That the best you got?" Raiku said with a serious tone, this was never a good thing to see in battle and Kaito noticed that.
"My, my. Dear friend are you about ready to wrap this up?" Kaito said with the cheekiest of grins across his lips as he was standing on the of the cross blades of his spear, with the main blade in the ground. Raiku nodded as he cracked his knuckles, glaring at the burning ball.
"You two are causing more trouble than you're supposed to! Just hand over the Imagine Breaker and maybe I'll only roast you over a spit! Hahaha!" The beast was cocky. His flames were beginning to burn multiple places in the area as his ego rose.
Raiku and Kaito quickly took their positions once again at one another sides. "You see, you repulsive degenerate. You must have only been given the clip notes on us." Kaito spoke with such a tone that was looking down on the beast with an obviously cocky tone. This enraged the beast to the point where the flames were beginning to tower.
"Raiku... We have to finish this now... We can't have civilian's getting mixed up in th-" "Shut up... I know the drill." Raiku stood behind Kaito and closed his eyes, taking in large deep breaths. Kaito nodded, "Not too much. His shell is pretty damned hard... Just enough to pierce it." Raiku nodded as a large stream of crimson lightning shot down from the sky and into his right palm. The beast's tower of flames soon swirled and manifested itself into the shape of a green dragon and was ready to rush them again.
"The bow that many have failed the wield. The trial passed from man to man, none stronger than the other. The weapon only held by a hero and the one that claimed the maiden in origin! Odyssey's Sniper!" Kaito raised his hand as a blade void opened up and formed into very large bow that fell into his hand. The color scheme was the arm as the speak, the edges golden but ridged spiked holster-like shape at the center.
Raiku took hold of the spear that was placed next to his companion and channeled a large mount of electricity into it. "The mighty skewer that took down a nation in a night. Sparking a revolutionary hell!" Raiku pressed the arrow into the mechanism of the bow as Kaito crouched down and took hold of the bow's grips on the side. The size itself would be too much for a normal man to wield properly. It ranged around the length of Kaito's body.
As the two positioned themselves, the beast launched it's flame, in attempt to stop them. Raiku quickly grabbed the end of the spear and drew it back on the bow's string and locked it into place on the metal piece at the center. "Eat this! Lightning bolt Smite!" Raiku quickly took an under handed punch and sent it at the base of the spear and pushed all the lightning inside of his hand and repeated it into the weapon and launched it from the mechanism.
The spear bolted out of the weapon and flew like a soaring arrow past the flames and just charged at the beast, "NO! NO NO NO NO NOOOOOO!" As he tried to cover his body quickly. This defense was a failure, and caused him to be knocked back with the collision of the spear. As the weapon crashed into the ground and pierced the beast, making his body skewer from the earth and was almost charred to hell.
"W-why... does it bu-" Raiku panted softly and looked up at the lizard with a grin, as a smoking crater was left under the beast and the scales were almost burned away. "Too hot for you? Good! This is the special property I was born for!" Kaito sighed as he pushed the bow off his body and looked at his palms, seeing there were large burns across his gloves. "Man... Do you know how to overdo it."
The bow soon turned black and faded into an ash-like smoke. "Sorry man. But you know that a Magician has to end his show off excellently!" Raiku said as he nudged him. Kaito shook his head, walking over to the beast and took a knee by the hole, "You're going to tell us. What business do you have with the Imagine Breaker?" Raiku soon joined him, his hand raised and glared at the beast, almost as if he'd been threatening him.
"H-heh... You think I'd tell the business of Du'eil..? You must be stupider than you look... Long.. live.. Du'eil!" The beast soon covered himself in a large amount of flames that were disbursed from the scales around his body. Soon, there was nothing but an overcooked corpse on the pole of the spear.
Raiku sighed softly, and rose from the side of the hole. "Looks like we're reporting nothing but the capture of the Breaker. Let's go retrieve him." The two of them turned around as the continued towards the bush and saw that he wasn't there. "I know he didn't wake up. He couldn't have." Raiku said as he looked around the skateboard and searched around.
"You're right. He didn't move. We took him." As the duo turned around. They gazed upon another pair of individuals. One of them was a rather towering man with red hair and a bar code underneath his eye, a cigarette between his lips and dressed in shady black attire. Another was rather perfectly formed woman with purple hair and a white shirt that was tied right underneath her breasts and bottoms with an entire leg of fabric cut off.
The man raised his hand up to his cigarette and blew some smoke as he removed it. "I'm afraid we'll be having to take him. If you feel like stopping up, I can toss him into that tree." Raiku grinned, as he took a step forward and that movement made the woman grip her sword by the hilt. "Raiku. Relax."
Kaito stepped forward and past him as he addressed them both. "Kaori Kanzaki. Stiyl Magnus. Members of Necessarius. Very nice to meet you both." Kaito reached into the pocket of his jacket and pulled out a silver and gold badge. "I think this seal will be enough." Stiyl sighed and dropped Touma on his side. "So you all from the HSS have started treading these grounds?" "We've been treading these grounds for a while now. But this time, it's for a purpose."
Kanzaki crossed her arms over her chest and gave them a stern look, "I'm guessing it's for the same reason we're here." Kaito replied with a shake of his head. "We were sent here on classified business. You're of authority in this area. I know this business. We were set by the Society to keep a watchful eye over the Imagine Breaker. As the weird of the Imagine Creator. It's my duty to keep this man in order."
Raiku nodded as well, and followed with "I apologize for my rash actions. As you can tell, we just got out of a scuffle. This strange lizard creature attacked us. Screaming that he was after the Imagine Breaker and spoke of the name, 'Du'eil'."
Kaito looked over at the burnt mark on the ground and rubbed his head, "That's going to be quite the spectacle. Raiku." Reaching into his pocket, he pulled out his cell phone and passed it onto his companion. "On it." Flipping up the phone, he dialed and called in the Civil Repair Team. Kaito turned back to them. "What brings you two to these neck of the woods anyway?"
Stiyl and Kanzaki both looked at one another. Knowing full well that they'd be stuck with the same right of having to share information with one another. Kanzaki stood forward, "We've been told by the Church. As of three days ago. 10 of the Original Grimoires... Have been stolen..." Kaito's eyes widened in shock. Raiku hearing this from a distance dropped the cell phone and turned to them. Silence grew between the masses. This was a grim occurrence. Legendary tomes of magic that was said to be took much for simple minds, have been stolen.
(I hope you all enjoy this first chapter! For all of those who enjoyed this why not leave a little feedback? I'd like to know if you all are fans of this story and want to see more. Maybe some characters you want to see return? Either way! Thank you for your time in reading!)