Cinis was bored. He had been at the IS academy for less than an hour and he was already hating it. On the bright side, he wasn't the only male. There was Silver, Cobalt, and a boy named Ichika. Unfortunately, Cobalt was in class one three and Silver was in class one four. Cinis was doodling in his mind for a minute or two until he realized the teacher had just entered. The teacher, Ms. Yamada, looked like she had never done this before. He wasn't really paying attention to what she said until she decides to do a roll call. That's when Ichika stood up and said, "I am Ichika Orimura." After an uneventful first class Cinis is reading an article about the new pokemon remake (Smoke Black and Frost White) when he hears an annoying sound. He looks around to see Ichika getting yelled at by the Representative of England. Cinis didn't realize he had gotten up until he was already walking towards them with a scowl on his face.
"You should feel lucky I even bothered speaking to someone as inferior as yourself!" Cecilia yelled at Ichika angrily. "Someone inferior?" Asks Cinis with a slight hint anger in his voice. "You are one of millions of women who can pilot an IS. Ichika and I are two of four males in the world that do that. So explain to me how something far rarer and far more valued than a rich girl with a sour attitude is inferior. You can clearly see he has remained calm and collected during your verbal abuse. And while he has been nothing but polite you have shamed the country you are representing by ridiculing a fellow pilot over the fact that he is new. Enjoy thinking over the fact that you are no better than a troll in a game." The entire class was staring at Cinis with wide eyes. Cecilia was the first to recover. "How dare you say that to a lady and noblewoman!" She attempts to slap Cinis. He raises his elbow to block it. "If you're your country's excuse for a lady and noblewoman than your country is really up shit creek." Replies Cinis. "Now please, take your seat and do not escalate this conflict any further." Cecilia huffed and mumbled something incoherently. Cinis looked at Ichika and smiled. "Now you should feel lucky." Ichika smiled back. "Thanks Cinis. I owe you." "Nonsense. We boys need to stick out for each other. Once class is over I have some friends I'd like you to meet. They're nice... Ish."
About ten minutes later class had started back up. "We will now choose the class representative!" Says Ms. Orimura. Please not me, please not me, please not me. Thought Cinis hopefully. "I vote Glaucio-Kun!" Calls a girls voice. Shit. Thought Cinis. "I vote Orimura-Kun!" Says another girl. Fuck. Thinks Ichika. "Just a minute! Do you expect I, Cecilia Alcott, to allow a male to represent my class?" Says Cecilia angrily. "If you insist on calling it your class like you're its queen then how about you prove it?" Says Cinis. Cecilia's face is now so red with anger that she could pass for a ripe tomato. "Fine! We shall settle this in an IS battle!" Cinis smiles. "First of all you just ripped off pokemon, second of all my IS is still under construction. If you could kindly wait for it to be finished then that would be great." Cecilia is seething as she accepts.
During lunch Cinis and Ichika are sitting at a booth when four other people sit down next to them. Cinis recognizes Tinuviel, Cobalt, and Silver. Ichika recognized the fourth person and said, "Hey Houki!" Silver smiles. "You make a new friend Cinis?" Cinis flips him off, but he's laughing. "Yes. This is Ichika Orimura. Ichika, this is Silver, Cobalt, and Tinuviel." Tinuviel offered Ichika her hand. Cobalt and Silver just nodded and smiled when their names were called. Houki offers Cinis her hand. "I'm Houki Shinonono. Nice to meet you." She had a frozen glare and cold voice that made Cinis doubt that. But he shook her hand anyways. "A pleasure." He said smiling. Ichika looked at Cinis. "I don't mean to be nosy or anything, but how did you get into this school?"
Cinis smiles. "Well that requires me to go way back to a year ago. I am a pretty good at hacking, coding, robotics, etcetera etcetera. So are most members if my family. So one day I hacked into Tabane Shinonono's systems and copied the blueprints of the IS core over to my own computer and set about recreating it. I let my sister Ebony and Mom do the coding and things that required finesse, while my brother Ash, my Dad, and I focused on building the actual ISs. They are personalized custom ISs with the greatest tech imaginable. I assume you recognize the name Glaucio from Glaucio Innovations. Anyways. I was working on installing a short range teleporter I designed onto an IS a client had hired us to modify. Apparently I had forgotten to remove the core from it and it reacted to me. So now here I am. My personal IS is going to be finished up after school today. So I am going to get it here by tomorrow so I can get the paint job done. So now here I am. One of the four male pilots. And most certainly the one who drinks way too much cherry cola."
Cinis finishes by downing a swig of the mentioned liquid and smiling. Houki and Ichika are staring at him with wide eyes. Albeit Houki's are wide with fury. "You hacked into my sister's system!?" She yelled angrily. She pulled out a kendo stick and proceeded to attempt to hit Cinis. He blocks it before swinging his arm up, sending the the weapon flying out of Houki's hands and into his. He smiled an infuriating little smile and placed the blade on his lap. "Face you punishment like a man!" Yells Houki with anger as she lunges at Cinis. Her head colliding with her own kendo stick reinforced by Cinis's palm. "You have no right to be upset. After all, I didn't hack you, I hacked your sister. The one who HAS hacked you I might add." "You spoke of honor with Cecilia earlier, yet you have no honor yourself!" Yelled Houki angrily. "Honor is like Beauty. It's in the eye of the beholder." Responds Cinis with a happy little smirk on his face. "Ugh!" Houki groans angrily. She stands up and leaves. "Don't forget your stick!" Calls Cinis as he waits for her to turn. She turns, walks back to him and holds out her hand. Cinis places the weapon in the palm of her hand and smiles. "If I was truly honorless I would have kept it." "Fine. You are he of LITTLE honor, happy?" "Very, thank you for asking."
As Houki stalks off Cobalt smiles. "We'll make a people person of you yet grasshopper." Causing a round of laughter. Cinis sits down and finishes his meal. As he devours his last piece of steak he looks up. Ichika is staring at him. "What?" Asks Cinis. "Houki is the national kendo champion. How did you stop her from kicking your ass?" Cinis shrugs. "Ten years of training in various forms of martial arts and weapons practice. Kung Fu, Karate, Judo, Kendo, Archery, Sniping, and Wrestling are some of them. When you're a nerd you learn to defend yourself or you hide at home."
After school finished up Cinis walked upstairs to his room and opened the door. He was greeted by a familiar Steel haired teen playing the toon to Verge (Owl City featuring Aloe Blacc) Cinis started singing with a smile as Silver kept playing.
"I ain't to sure what I believe in, But I believe in what I see, And when I close my eyes, I see my whole life ahead of me! These are our hours, this is our time, This is our time, These are our hours, Out on the Verge, Out on the verge, Out on the verge of the rest of our lives, the rest of our lives! Out on the verge of the rest of our lives tonight, top of the world and were dressed to the nines tonight, Edge of the earth and were touching the sky tonight, out on the verge of the rest of our lives. These are our hours, this is our time, These are our hours, Out on the Verge, out on the verge, out on the verge of the rest of our lives. Out on the verge of the rest of our lives tonight, top of the world and were dressed to the nines tonight, Edge of the earth and were touching the sky tonight, out on the verge of the rest of our lives. From now on, there's no looking back, full steam ahead, on this one way track, from this day forward, I will make promise, to be true to myself, and always be honest, for the rest of my life, I will do what's right, I will do what's right, when I step Out on the verge of the rest of our lives tonight, top of the world and were dressed to the nines tonight, Edge of the earth and were touching the sky tonight, out on the verge of the rest of our lives!"
Cinis finished with a grin. Before realizing he hadn't closed the door. His face not showing the horror he felt, he turned around. What he saw almost made him lose his composure. A small crowd of girls were standing right outside the door. Well shit. Thought Cinis. Silver noticed a few seconds later. He starts laughing hysterically. "You forgot to close the door?! Holy shit you've doomed us both!" Cinis closes the door and locks it. "Fuck. Now they'll all want to hear us singing." He said, annoyed. "It's your fault for leaving the door open. But anyways, I guess we're roommates. Ground rules, I don't cook, I use the shower first, if there is a girl over that I'm dating be civil and try not to steal her." Said Silver with a grin. "Reasonable." Replied Cinis.
The next day Cinis was sitting in class when someone from the office called for him. "That'd be my IS!" Said Cinis with a grin, he lept from his seat and ran to the garage his IS had been delivered to. When he got there he was ecstatic to see the IS was in pieces. "Time to build me a giant robot!" He yelled before grabbing the tools he had been sent and setting to work. He realized halfway through the construction that his family had sent him his beta design for the IS category he called 'Warlord.' An IS that could transform into multiple types of IS that could morph together. His designs were set to control fire and heat, water and cold, air and electricity, and earth and metal. Once he completed it he would need to find a color that could match all those things. He ended up deciding to use the english meaning of his name, ash grey, as the color.
Cinis finished up his creation at around four in the afternoon. He put it on and walked into the calibration center. He allowed them to study the IS and by seven he was out the door on his way to his room, with a special gauntlet housing his masterpiece. When he walked into his room he was greeted by Cobalt and Silver engaged in a classic argument. "There is no way Houki was making eyes at you man! It's kind of obvious she and Ichika are involved in a romantic way. That's just the facts. Besides you wouldn't have seen her eyes because you were staring at her breasts the entire time you were talking to her." Said Cobalt frustratedly. "Says you ass face, first of all if that were the case Ichika is just too clueless to notice. Second of all how would you know what the hell love looks like? Tinuviel has been chasing you around since first grade and you only noticed last month! Finally I was in fact looking at her breasts" Replied Silver with a smirk. "I hate to interrupt the hilarious argument of the day but I just finished my IS." Said Cinis with a large grin. This stopped the argument instantly. Cinis had made both their ISs (The Cobalt Phoenix and the Heaven's Knight.) So they knew he was good at making them. They run over to him and began to examine it. "Isn't this the Warlord prototype you showed us?" Asked Cobalt. "Yeah. Now that it's complete I can take on Cecilia Alcott. I'll let Ichika win the whole contest but I'll knock Cecilia off her throne first." "Don't let him win. Win the whole damn thing. We're the reps for our classes. So I want to be able to kick your ass!" Said Silver with an arrogant grin. "You know what? Just so I can wipe that smug ass smile off your face when I fight you I am going to win." Said Cinis with his own grin.
The next day was the day of the contest. Cecillia and Ichika were already flying outside in the arena. Cinis smirked in his hanger as he activated his speaker setup. He began blasting Thnks Fr Th Mmrs by Fall Out Boy as he flew out. He began singing as he engaged the air based format of his IS. He charged Cecilia first. Dodging her sniper fire and firing electric missiles towards her. He was charging her IS as he fired. Cecilia was confused as to what Cinis was attempting until he stopped firing and transformed his IS on the fly. It went from a speedy, slick, frail build to a massive armored juggernaut covered in armor and guns. Then he fired all of the guns at once. Cecilia attempted to dodge, only to realize she couldn't. Her IS was frozen in place. She took so much damage from the first barrage that her IS fell to the ground, half destroyed.
Ichika arrived behind Cinis a second later. He was about to slam the Byakushiki's blade into the back of the IS when Cinis switched from the stationary juggernaut to the flightless frozen setting. Cinis landed on the ground and transformed the field to ice. He then fired a pair of frozen missiles into the wings of the Byakushiki. With a loud cry Ichika and his IS tumbled to the frozen earth. Where Cinis created a frozen blade and began ice skating across the field towards him. Ichika used his creativity and jammed his blade into the ground. He grabbed the hilt and used it as a balance pole as he kicked Cinis backwards. He landed next to a very cold Cecilia. Cinis took pity upon her and switched to the flame based IS and set a fire next to her before swapping back to ice and speeding towards Ichika. Who defiantly kicked him again. Cinis hit the wall before realizing that Ichika was moving. He had activated his one off ability and was charging towards Cinis, slicing through the turf before him. Then the ice on his wings melted off and he flew into the sky. Cinis swapped to the aerial form and sped towards him. Slamming his mace into the Byakushiki's left arm. Ichika swung Yukihira towards Cinis before it was blocked and a mace was cracked painfully into the middle of IS. Knocking out the rest of Ichika's shield energy and sending Ichika crashing to the ground.
"Thanks for the memories, thanks for the memories, See, he tastes like you only sweeter." Cinis finishes the match by ending the song. He shifts out of the IS and lands on the slippery field in a classic heroic position. Walking towards the defeated pilot of the Byakushiki and offering him his hand. "That was a clever use of the Yukihira on the field. I'll need to watch out for that next time." Ichika smiles and accepts the hand. Cinis grins evilly and spins Ichika away. Ichika was about to yell when he realizes he was spinning into his hangar. Where he was caught by Houki. Cinis walked over to Cecilia and offered her his hand as well. She actually smiled and accepted. Spun away into her hangar where she was caught by Silver. He smiled, said "Hey." Then ran Cinis's Hangar. Leaving Cecilia with her mouth open at how handsome the steel haired teen was.
Cinis was running across the arena, sliding a little as he spun into his hangar and ending with a bow. He was greeted by Ichika, Houki, Silver, Cobalt, and Tinuviel. Cobalt, being the strongest of all of them, lifted Cinis into the air. Of course he tossed him back down to. Causing the people familiar with the concept of the Cobalt Charm to laugh. Ichika and Houki just stared with their mouths open as Cinis swept Cobalt's legs and stood up with a grin. Chifuyu and Maya watched from above. Studying the teenagers below them. "They seem to be having a good time." Said Maya as Cinis lept back from Cobalt as he stood with a mischievous little grin. Chifuyu was too busy watching Silver deploy his enormous war hammer to respond. As she watched he slammed the hammer down onto the spot Cinis had been in. He was now standing on the hammer before he was flung into the air. He grabbed one of the supports before he slid back down. Chifuyu and Maya were now staring directly at Cinis as he walked out of the hangar. Everyone else close behind.