Disclaimer: I do not own Magic the Gathering nor Love Hina, I wish I did, but I do not. The first one is property of the math teacher and genius Richard Garfield and Love Hina is property of Ken Akamatsu.
Prologue."Keitaro no baka!!" Naru screeched as she delivered poor Keitaro a Naru-punch that sent him to the sky.
'What did I do this time' he asked himself as he flew 'Why does she hit me with no reason?'
THIS time he accidentally stepped on a banana Su had thrown to the floor and as clumsy as our friend is he slipped and ended over Naru accidentally squeezing her left breast when he tried to hold of something to avoid falling.
As he flew, a strange storm suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and covered the sky almost instantly, it was an electric storm and our poor friend was passing through it.
"Aye!!!! I do not want to die!!!" he screamed at full lung, suddenly a lightning impacted him and disappeared without leaving no trace but his glasses.
A few moments later, at the Hinata Inn, the residents were beginning to worry about Keitaro's whereabouts.
"Where might Urashima sempai be?" asked a deeply concerned Shinobu "It should be here by now…"
"Mmm… I don't know Shinobu, this time Naru sent him very high" replied Kitsune "But you know him, sure he'll be fine, he's immortal after all!"
Outside the Inn, the storm began to rage even more, making the light go off in all the city, the residents went out to see what's going and the sight amazed them, the whole city was a chaos, the road was destroyed by the constant attacks of lightning, cars in flames, no one was safe, this made some of them worry for Keitaro.
"I hope he'll be fine" commented a scared Shinobu (A/N: She is so cute when she is scared)
"I think we should be more concerned about ourselves" answered Motoko, with her unalterable expression, though she was very surprised since this kind of storms have never existed on Japan, nor even in the world, lightning ravaging the earth, like someone did something extremely bad to piss of God, or some god, according to each one's believes. "We should find somewhere safe"
Everyone nodded and headed themselves to the old abandoned building behind the inn and a bit closer than the wedding house, though it was forbidden the entrance as the wedding house for some unknown reason to them, it was an emergency. As they rallied towards it, the sound of an explosion came behind them and saw the main building collapsing, the place where some memorable events happened was converted into rubble in less than a second.
"There's a lock!!" shouted Naru "Now how can we enter?"
"Leave it to me" ordered Motoko as she unsheathed her sword "Rock Splitting Technique!!!" The door was thrown and then the five residents came in; then turned back again, their thoughts were with Keitaro, now that the didn't knew if he was safe, guilt began to appear in Naru's heart.
'I shouldn't hit him… Why do I have to hit him' she constantly repeated to herself at the memories of her constantly beating the hell out of him when he in his clumsiness had an accident and no matter how hard he tried to explain all fell to deaf ears.
"Hey!! Lookie!!" shouted Kaolla from the entrance.
"Su!! Come back here!!!" yelled Motoko.
"The storm hasn't touched this place!!" she commented in a cheery although amazed tone. "I would like to investigate this building!!"
"An what about Keitaro sempai?" cried Shinobu, who was deeply concerned about him, and also very scared due to the recent events.
"Don't worry, that perv… Urashima would be fine, he's always fine" answered in a calming tone, it wasn't new to everyone that Shinobu had a major crush on him, it was evident since the day she arrived, but there were more important things at the moment, like staying safe from the storm.
Motoko, being the most disciplined girl in the Inn, that and her ability to keep herself calm in almost every moment decided to take leadership of the scared group, it was necessary that at least someone to keep the calm, and to calm the others with the exception of Kaolla who had already moved to the dark corners of the building to explore, she suggested to accompany her to explore the house, suggestion that was accepted by the residents.
'Urashima, you'd better be fine, wherever you might be' where the thoughts of the sword mistress.
As for Keitaro, after being hit by that lightning he was unconscious for several hours.
"I'm… I'm alive!!!" he exclaimed as he woke up, but seeing the barren landscape surrounding him made him doubt "Am I alive?" he questioned himself and asking himself that if that was the hell that some Christian preacher always said that those who didn't believe in it would go. (A/N: I'm Catholic, Iconoclast, but Catholic so I am also Christian since I believe in Christ, but there are some preachers that go from door to door that freaks the hell out of me, I do not judge nor mock from people with different believes, I only ask them to leave me alone with mine) "Is this the limbo that wacky old man told me every Sunday I would go?" Keitaro tried to get up, but he was weak for some strange reason and began to fell his body numb, and lost consciousness.
After a while, he regained it and felt like something or someone was dragging him through the sand, he turned his head and panicked at the sight of two dinosaur-like humanoids were dragging him.
"Monsters!!" he yelled, strangely enough, he found himself talking other language than Japanese, are more strange even, very fluently, as he came back to reality, he saw the angry expressions of both folks, showing their sharp teeth in anger.
"Is that how you call your saviors?" inquired the one who seemed taller, in an angry tone, also talking in a different tongue that those Keitaro could speak, but he was able to understand it. "Maybe we should leave you there, with the slivers roaming the land, you'll make a tasty meal for'em" his companion gave an amused look at the panicked expression of the man.
"Please no!!" replied Keitaro "I'm sorry, is that, well I've never seen this place, nor anyone of your kin… and what is a sliver?"
"We are the viashinos" replied proudly "now human, as for the answer of what a slivers is, perhaps you may ask someone of your species, since it's their fault this damn creatures reappeared in this God-forsaken place.
"Human, what's your name?" asked the other viashino.
"Urashima Keitaro" he replied.
"What a weird name, even for a human… here, with your name, as it is, you will get killed in no time, we shall call you Taro, that'll be your name from now on, human" growled the other.
"And your names are?" he asked them.
"Well, I suggest you do not want to know, cause we will have to rip your tongue to proper pronounce them and if you spell them wrong, you may end like a goblin after provoking and ogre"
"What do you mean?"
The other viashino turned with a smirk "You don't want to know"
Keitaro gulped. "Human, can you walk?" inquired the other.
"Yes why?"
"It's almost darkening, we should reach the outpost before those slivers come out from their hives, and also, you don't want to step with one of those storms, strange things come out of them, really strange things, come Taro, don't stay behind, if you step on our tails, you'll be dead man"
Keitaro stood up and began to walk with the strange beings, admiring the landscape, he could see strange storms raging through the badland, and he could see extremely well, even without his glasses, how new beings came out of the storm. "What is that coming out of it?" he asked.
"Things from the past" mumbled the first viashino. "Taro, don't ask anymore, you'll get answers from one of your kin as soon as we arrive"
"Hai" he nodded. His mind was worried about the girls, hoping them to be okay, and sorrow overcame his heart, since the last words he'd heard come out from Naru's words were offensive. 'Maybe she does not love me' he thought with great grief.
End of Prologue.
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