Battle Master's Class

AN: This is the prequel to Ghost Ashikabi. Here it centers on Neon "Grim" Cross, the Dutch mercenary known as "The Battle Master" for his otherworldly abilities in all forms of combat, and his training of the First Disciplinary Squad and other things before Renato Agba came back on the grid.

Disclaimer: I do not own the Sekirei anime nor the manga. Only the OC here is mine.

Chapter I: New Students

'Of all the people to call him again why him?!' The dark skinned man wearing combat fatigues, fingerless gloves and boots, stepping off the hovercraft carrying his duffle bag full of supplies thought to himself. He had found himself back on the very same island. Kamikura Island. The same one he had been on when he had been hired as a bodyguard to a pair of college students.

Hiroto Minaka and Takami Sahashi. Two people he had the displeasure of 'keeping safe'. More like babysitting a bunch of annoying brats. He'd wondered what had made him to even accept that crappy job. He'd rather be in the Middle East shooting down terrorist shit bags than here.

Word had gotten to him that they had made a discovery that was going to change the face of the world.

He snorted at the thought. Like he hadn't heard that bull crap before. Every time some random smock made some world changing discovery, all they did was open some form of Pandora's Box and screw everyone over in the world. Good example, the creation of the atomic bomb and the result was Hiroshima! The man doubted that this one find wouldn't be any different.

…

'Okay…What the fucking hell?!'

Looks like he was proven wrong already. After following the directions given to him by the staff on the island, he found himself standing before technology that was beyond anything humanity should have been up to. The doorway leading inside had people coming and going in an excited frenzy, none more excited that the one person standing outside and directing the chaos, his cape flapping in the breeze. The fucking lunatic he didn't want to see EVER again! The man's luck got worse when the lunatic turned around and saw him. Just great...

Minaka's smiled widely, nearly splitting his face as he frantically crossed the space between himself and the fuming mercenary. "Neon-san! You came after all! I thought you were too busy with another job."

The lunatic was instantly sent flying back to his original spot by a straight left to the face from the mercenary.

"Please do not act like we're friends you crazy bastard." Neon growled in annoyance.

Takami walked over, cigarette in hand and smirking as she'd observed the interaction between the two men. "Been a while Mr. Cross. Still grumpy as ever I presume."

"Two months to be exact Miss Sahashi." Neon replied before pointing to the dazed Minaka lying on the ground, "I'm only in a foul mood when I'm in the vicinity of that idiot. Please tell me that he's on some form of medication?"

"Even if he was on such medication, I doubt that it would cure him." Takami sighed as she glared mildly at the lunatic who was no longer seeing stars.

"Neon-san! That's so mean punching me in the face like that!" Minaka whined as he exploded to his feet.

"I'm more surprised that you're even awake not to mention coherent." Neon deadpanned before his expression turned serious. "Why the hell did you call me back to the middle of God knows where again? You'd better have a good reason or I'll make you my next punching bag."

Hiroto Minaka savagely smiled, not bothered by the threat which made Neon's right eye twitch in annoyance.

'Oh I'm so going to hate myself for this.'

…

"Here are your new students Neon-san!" Minaka announced grandly as he gestured to five confused people in front of him in the large room they were currently in. Four women and one man to be exact.

Neon looked at the five just as confused as they are.

The first one was a soft-lavender haired woman who studied Neon with narrowed eyes. Neon could easily see that this woman did not like him one bit based on those eyes and worse she had already passed him off as someone beneath her. Funny, Neon didn't like this condescending bitch already.

The second one was a redhead who looked at him timidly but with curiosity, as if he was some scary but interesting monster she wanted to study but was scared of being bitten. Beside the redhead was a woman with long black hair, her eyes cast in a sleepy stare as if uninterested by the individual in front of her.

Next was the last woman of the group with dirty silver hair easily exuded and stunk of arrogance to Neon and bled so much hostility that he had to restrain himself from laughing at how pathetic she was. The last one and the only male of the group with silver hair, held himself with confidence and had a neutral expression on his face. This one obviously held off passing judgement on Neon until he'd seen enough to do so.

One thing Neon was definitely sure of was that these five were not normal in any way. In fact they were not human at all. After getting a feel of them, Neon looked at Minaka with a deadpanned expression. "What kind of coke are you snorting Minaka?"

"Hey! I don't do drugs!" Minaka complained, "Anyways I'm hoping you could teach them how to fight."

Neon stared back with the same deadpanned expression. "Seriously?! You are expecting me to train…" he pointed to each of the five people in front of him, "…The Condescending Bitch, Scaredy Cat, Lazy Bones, Dead Fish and Miss Bloodthirsty?"

The names he gave them definitely got their attention. The lavender haired woman and silver haired woman glared at him fully, angry at the insult aimed at them, the redhead was hiding behind the ravenette whose eyes were now widened, and the male narrowed his eyes in annoyance. Neon didn't give an iota of a fuck about their reactions.

"Of course. Besides you're the best man for such a job." Minaka replied ignoring the fact that he insulted those five beings.

"I'm a soldier, not a teacher-" Neon began before he stopped and looked at the group of five. "Hold that thought Minaka."

In an instant he was in the space of the silver haired woman, kicking her legs off the floor before elbowing her face in and smashing her to the floor. He then grabbed the leg of the male and flipped him into the air before sending him flying into the far wall with a palm strike. He then clotheslined the ravenette making her flip in the air multiple times before face planting on the floor. The redhead had her leg broken by a vicious leg kick eliciting a scream from her and finally the lavenderette found herself thrown to the floor with Neon following up with three punches to her face with the final one knocking her out.

Minaka looked at the scene in surprise as he did NOT expect Neon to flat out attack those five Sekirei and thoroughly hand their asses to them. "What was that for Neon?!"

Neon scoffed at the downed individuals before walking towards Minaka. "The stench of arrogance coming from them was too much to ignore and I HATE arrogant twats." He then walked past the crazy scientist. "When they recover I'll begin their training. Until then I'll be in my quarters." With that said Neon left the room.

…

"Okay, what the hell was that for?!" Takami yelled at the mercenary sitting in front of her in her office.

"Look at my face Takami. Do I look like I give a fuck?" Neon replied nonchalantly.

"Stop avoiding the-!"

"Do I look like I give a fuck?!"

Takami went silent when Neon raised his voice and shook her head instead to answer him. Neon nodded back. "Good. As for what I did, it was simple. Those five smelled of arrogance and I decided to knock them down a peg. But forget about that for now, I want to know about who those five are. I know that they are not human. Not by a long shot so can you fill me in on that detail?"

"I take it Minaka never told you?" Takami asked.

"Obviously." Neon bluntly answered.

Takami sighed before continuing, "Well those five are Sekirei. Simply put, they are an advanced, physically superior alien race. Their ship landed many, many years ago, but we only found it a few years back. Inside we saw Miya, eight embryos, and ninety-nine fertilized eggs."

Neon took the information in stride though he raised his eyebrow when Takami stated that they were aliens. "Really? Aliens? I hope that Minaka's not infecting you with his insanity."

"Well I'm being serious here and no I'm as sane as any sane person could be." Takami protested, "Anyways, we soon found that they physically were too powerful in almost every aspect. Their bodies and senses perfect in almost every way. Their fully matured muscles could very well crush a normal human, albeit unintentionally, like by giving a human a hug for example. So using our new combination of technologies we created a way to adjust their bodies, and make them able to live among us humans."

"Really? So you people decided to play God with them, just because of their abilities huh?" Neon accused. Bad memories resurfacing in his mind.

"Well it's not like you're normal yourself Mr. Cross." Takami countered, "Especially considering that you took down five Sekirei like they were rank amateurs. I still find it hard to believe that you're even human at all."

"Well I AM human and besides, by the time I'm done with them they'll be elite warriors in their own right." Neon said casually. "Anything else about these Sekirei?"

"From what we have gathered, it seems like their main goal is to find the one that they are destined to be with. A person to love and cherish who will cherish them in return."

"Is that right huh? Interesting." Neon stated with a sad smile, "They're no different from us humans after all. Looking for someone to love who'll love them back in return." Then his expression turned grim. "Though I wish them luck with that. This world's such a piss hole full of bastards that care for nothing but their own bull crap motives. Bastards that I enjoy sending to hell to rot for eternity."

"Which is why we hired you again, so as to make sure that these Sekirei can handle themselves in this crazy world." Takami stated.

"Honestly I'd rather be in the Middle East sending jihadists to hell than wasting time in the middle of nowhere." Neon sighed, "But since I've been hired here then I'll have to do my job and train those five Sekirei. Speaking of which, would you mind being there the next time I meet with them, I would like to have you there while I talked to them before I begin training them."

"That I can do."

"Thanks. I appreciate that. I'd rather NOT have Minaka there with me when I meet them again, I'd sooner kill him than listen to any more of his insane ramblings."

Chapter I End.

Here you go. Another one for those who like Ghost Ashikabi to look forward to.

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