Author: I'm back Gakuen Alice!

Mikan: What happened to you? Why did you delete the last story you made?

Author: Something got corrupted, & I can't tell you what really happened! So, please enjoy my story again! Guaranteed not to be deleted! & please remember, nothing in here is true! (e.g.: Rabbits are the strongest carnivores!)

CHP 1 : Hotaru, Mikan & I are friends

"Hey! Come look at this!" Mikan cried out.

Hotaru, Mikan & a dirty brown, shoulder-length haired girl with ends that curl were helping Mikan's granpa spring clean their little house in a rather big village near Kyoto. Granpa was outside the house trimming the hedges in the garden.

Mikan was holding a very old & dusty red book in her hands. She flipped through the pages carefully, afraid to damage it.

Hotaru & the other girl scurried over to look at what Mikan was holding.

"Look! It's ojii-chan's diary!"

"Maybe there'll be secrets about his youth & love…" the girl smirked at Mikan.

"It's not nice to look at his diary… Maybe we should put it back to where it belongs… Ne, Hotaru?"

"I agree to her, afterall, I like secrets. Secrets are the key to blackmailing. (Successfully)" Hotaru had sparkles in her eyes.

"Well, it wouldn't hurt to read a few pages. Right?"

The other two nodded.

"But keep this a secret! If ojii-chan knows about this, he'll be furious!"

They nodded in agreement.

"Well, here goes!" Mikan flipped through the pages, as if there was magic, waiting for the pages to stop.

A photograph fell out of the diary.

Mikan picked the photograph up. She scanned the photograph thoroughly.

"Reanne! Look at this picture! Doesn't this girl look like you?"

The girl, known as Reanne, went over & said, "You're right, this does look like me! But different. She wears spectacles. She has dark brown hair. She has a small mole under her left eye. And that school uniform, no way it could be mine! Check my closet if you want proof! & even if she's an otaku, that uniform is so way out of fashion! (Even though I'm not interested in the world of fashion) Unless she's cosplaying something from the 40's… But there ain't any animes back in the 40's, ain't there?"

"… Of course there's no way she's you, this photograph was from the 1940's! Remember, this is the 21st century! But really, can two persons look alike?" Mikan said.

"Like I said! We're not alike! Aren't you listening?! Mikan!" Reanne shouted at Mikan, shaking her head vigorously.

Suddenly, a song from the anime Rozen Maiden Traumend, which is the ending theme, started singing in the attic. (Forgot to mention, they're currently cleaning the attic.)

"Sorry, that's mine." Reanne took out her cellphone from her jeans skirt's pocket.

"beep Hello? Mum? Yeah, I'm still in Mikan's house. What?! I told you I'm not going there!" Reanne shouted into the cellphone, furiously.

"Reanne? What's going on?" Mikan asked her once she ended her call with a beep.

"I'm sorry, Mikan, Hotaru. I've gotta go." Reanne said, looking a little sad.

"Ja, bye-bye!" Reanne waved at her friends goodbye.

"Mikan? Daijoubu?" Hotaru asked Mikan who looked serious.

"Hotaru, I'm getting this strange feeling that Reanne is going to leave us…"

"For a long time…"

Mikan looked into the air. Hotaru's cellphone was singing with Serial Experiments Lain's opening theme.

"Sorry, that's mine. beep Hello? Mum? I know. I'm prepared. There's no reason to cry. Ok. I'll be there in 10 minutes.beep"

"Mikan, I need to go now. I'm sorry I can't help you with the cleaning. Bye." Hotaru went down the stairs.

"…Hotaru? Reanne? What's happening? I have a strange feeling. Are you two going away? Without me knowing? Without one last hug?..." Mikan looked down to the floor.

"Ahahhhaaahaha! What am I thinking about? Of course they're not going away!" Mikan laughed to herself.

Mikan sat down on the floor. She opened the diary. It wrote:

Monday 8thJuly1946

A new student was introduced to class today. She had beautiful brown eyes. But it was a waste, it was all because of her spectacles that had hidden her eyes. Her name was Su Ari. But she wants us to call her Arisu or Ari-chan

She had a beautiful, warm smile. Her hair curls at each end. She tied her hair up into two pigtails before class started. Miss Ayaka asked her to sit beside me. She sat right beside me & flashed a smile at me. She gave me a little introduction.

She kept asking me for directions every time we met. So far, today I've bumped into her for 9 times already. What day is it?

She invited me to her house. It was a HUGE mansion. She said that she was living with her uncle. Her parents passed away in an accident on the sea. So she was sent to live with her uncle.

I told her I had to go home, so I ran off as fast as I could.

Mikan flipped through the pages again. Allowing her fingers to sense the magic.

day 13thJanuary1948

It has been two years since I met Alice. She's leaving today. Because her uncle is dead. He was assassinated by one of his colleagues. She had to go back to China to work. Why can't she stay in Japan & work here?! She said because she wasn't born here.

I realized how much I loved her, she opened up that door, that door that could have led me to Light, but I was afraid to open it. She helped me to open that door, from the other side, which was Light. I, who was shivering in a corner of Darkness, saw her as an angel. Angel of Light. Of Happiness. Of Luck. Of Peace. & of Love.

She left Japan. Left Kyoto. Left school. Left her friends. Left me.

& I didn't get there in time, to say an important thing.

Mikan let her tears pour on her cheeks. Not noticing that she was wetting that page of the diary.

"Wuuu Poor oji-chan"

When she wanted to flip magically again, she noticed that she was reading the second last page of it.

day15thJanuary1948

DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! Alice is dead! The ship that Alice was on, it was attacked! Attacked by the military! I was chosen to serve the military.

World War III has started.

Mikan was stunned. Oji-chan's girlfriend died?

Mikan was nervous. Ahhh! Oji-chan's diary is wet!!! Oh-no!!! Eh! What should I do?!

Mikan was shocked. "MIIIIIIIKAAAAAANN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Mikan was almost dead. I'm dead meat. I'm dead meat. I'm dead meat. I'm dead meat…… (& so on…)

Mikan snapped out of her shock, quickly hid the diary, & continued cleaning, as if nothing had happened.

But as everyone knows, Mikan isn't good in telling lies, right?

'Oji-chan' went up the attic in a rush, & it went: "DUM!" in a very fast beat.

"MIIIIIIKAANN!!!!" 'Oji-chan' reached the attic with one side of his shirt fell of his shoulder in anime-style. (Remember that grey clothing he always wears? I'm sorry, I forgot what was that called.)

"Kyaa!! O-Oji-chan! Is-Is there anything I can do-do?" Mikan said with her head turning to 'Oji-chan's direction, slowly.

"Mikan, hurry, pack your bags, we're leaving as quick as possible!!"

"A-re? Why, oji-chan?"

"It's them! It's the Avalon!"

Avalon : This is a group of people who takes children away for further research on unnatural powers. Or should I say super powers. Even if they weren't super-powered kids, they'll be sold to the black-market or even become slaves. But nobody really knows the end of these children. As most were just rumors.

"A-Avalon?!" Mikan stammered.

Mikan got up & went straight to her room. She quickly packed her bags with a few clothing, her collection of beautiful Rozen Maiden stickers, & lastly, a Rozen Maiden doll, given by her unknown mother before she went missing. The only memory she had of her mother was the time when she gave the doll to Mikan.

The doll, had rose red cheeks, beautiful white gothic Lolita gown which was embedded with golden lining on each end of the gown with the embroidery of a wild lily; small, petite lips with a tinge of pink; shoulder-length, soft snow white hair which curls at each end. But it never opens its eyes no matter what Mikan does to it. 'Oji-chan' said that the doll looked like her mother & even someone he knows. Mikan now knows who he meant.

She puts it into a special briefcase which was especially for a Rozen Maiden doll. She rushed to the kitchen where 'Oji-chan' was.

"Hurry up, Mikan! They'll be here!"

'Oji-chan' pushed a secret button under the table. The table disappeared & showed a flight of stairs below the current floor they were standing on.

The Avalons were banging on the locked kitchen door, demanding them to open it.

"Hurry, Mikan! Go down! Now!" 'Oji-chan' demanded Mikan.

"What about you, oji-chan?!"

"Worry yourself first, Mikan!"

The windows of the kitchen were broken into a million trillion pieces, there stood a boy, with dashing mysterious blood red eyes, his raven black hair was outstanding. He wore his school uniform untidily, but it doesn't look familiar to any school known around Kyoto.

"Are you Sakura Mikan?" the boy said with a bored voice, looking at the brunette who was under her 'Oji-chan's protection from the broken pieces of glass.

"I came here to take you away."

Mikan suddenly pushed her 'oji-chan' into the secret passage & closed it by pushing the same secret button under the table.

"Mikan! MIKAN! What are YOU DOING?! MI-.." 'Oji-chan's voice was no longer to be heard.

"Take me if you want. But don't hurt any of my friends OR my 'oji-chan'."

"I wouldn't hurt them, but I was ordered to take every child aged 3 – 18 away to the Avalon HQ."

There was a sound of a car speeding, &…

"AaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!WOOHOOO!"

A car crashed & destroyed ½ of the kitchen. (But luckily, it missed Mikan & the mysterious boy. Whew! Close call!)

"Wow! That was damn cool! Let's do that again!" A girl shouted out. There was another girl beside her. She said: "Before that, why not we finish what we came here for?"

"…Ohya! Mikan-chan! We're here to rescue ya'!" It was Reanne, wearing her Chinese attire, a red dress which doesn't reach her knees (But covers up her hips…) with a few snips on the sleeves & hem, patched up with very loose black strings & add up with a piece of tight blue cloth wrapped around her waist. Though wearing a short skirt, she wore a pair of tight black shorts, almost reaching her knees by 50. (If you know what I mean, thank god! That solves everything!) (& Hotaru was just wearing a plain black dress with white lace on the sleeves & the hem of the skirt.)

"Reanne? Don't come near! Run!" Mikan shouted out.

"Natsume!"

A blonde-haired boy with dazzling sparkling blue eyes came running towards the raven black-haired boy who was known as Natsume with a white rabbit above his elbow.

"pant I'm sorry, Natsume. I'd let those two escaped…pant"

"It's alright. There's no need to blame it on you. After all, one of these three girls is also one of us kind."

Natsume turned to look at Hotaru.

"You there, with that silly looking gun of yours. (Hotaru in her thoughts: How dare you despise my inventions… It's the almighty baka gun Natsume was talking about…He'd better be careful!!) You're an Alice, too, aren't you? You have the Alice of Innovation. That car is one of your inventions, ain't it?"

"Actually, it was redesigned by one of Reanne's dearest uncle, which I think is also an Alice, if that's what you call 'one of us kind', he made this car especially for Reanne, in case something big like 'The Avalons are here!', this would be good for a great getaway…" Mikan said, who seemed to have forgotten what situation she was in right now.

"Let's get straight into business, shan't we?" Reanne said, impatient of not getting any attention at all.

This time, the Avalons 'army' broke the door down. (Finally! Wait, they're so dumb! Can't they come through the back door? Reanne did destroyed ½ of the kitchen, didn't she?)

"Mikan-chan! Hurry! Hop in!" Reanne drove her car between Natsume & Mikan.

Within Natsume's hand, burning hot fire balls were beginning to get pumped up, Hotaru quickly pressed a button which had an icon of a blue water droplet.

A layer of water had begun to protect the car, & inside three objects that seemed to look like suckers popped out of nowhere.

"Wear these; they'll make it easier for you to breathe." (Well, FYI, those suckers were like those you see in airplanes… Well, it's those alright! What were they called…?)

Natsume's fire balls were turning into red hot sulphur, he threw it at the car which was speeding away, but missed!

"sticks tongue out Of course you'll miss! Reanne's a good driver, ya' know!" Mikan snickered.

Natsume was getting very angry, he jumped up to the roof (with the help of heaps of rubble which used to be the kitchen wall…), & continued to throw sulphur at the car.

"Miss! Miss! Miss! Miss! Miss! Miss… (& so on…) You'll never get it right! Yeah" Mikan snickered cheekily.

BAKA. BAKA. BAKA. BAKA.

"Ow! Hotaru! Why did you do that?" Mikan rubbed her head thoroughly.

"It's because you're too noisy. Can't you see Reanne's concentrating?"

Reanne replied: "Never mind the noisiness, Hotaru. I like noise, even better, if Mikan would sing a song for me! Or, karaoke?"

"WHAT?! I can't believe this! You installed the karaoke program in your car?! WOW! That's wicked!" Mikan shouted out happily.

"Well, what can I say; I inherited my mom's side! Left-handed & all you can think! Hey, what's that cat doing?"

There was a black cat that came running in front of the speeding car.

"Better avoid it!" Reanne made her car jumped above the cat. (She installed a program to make her car move like a computer game.)

"Now!" Natsume threw sulphur at the car with his final blow.

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Reanne's big green eyes widened. She saw nothing but she knew she was in a portal.

"Reanne…"

Who … is calling me? Reanne thought.

"Reanne……"

----O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O-----

"Reanne! Look out!"

Reanne snapped out of her thoughts. She found out that burning hot sulphur was going to melt her dearest car!

"Oh no ya' don't!"

Reanne pushed a button near the steering wheel.

Her car went off in high speed, & the hot blob of sulphur almost melted the black cat.

When Natsume wanted to throw a second blob, the car was nowhere to be seen.

Yeah! They escaped!

The black cat that almost got melted ran away & stopped at Natsume's feet, purring pleasingly.

"I'm sorry. I failed you again." The boy said.

"It's not your fault, Ruka. I even thanked you for giving out the idea of the black cat."

He picked the black cat up, stroke its fur thoroughly. He looked into the sunset. It was bathing in a dazzling red lake which sparkles under the dark night sky.

He turned his head around & put the black cat on the grassy land.

He then returned with Ruka, wishing time could have dragged on longer.

Because a poisonous snake was waiting for him, & will welcome him back with fangs of torture.

He'd rather die.

Author: Yeah! Short chappy with strange ending!

Mikan: What's gonna happen to Natsume?

Hotaru: We know what's gonna happen to him.

Reanne: Yup!

Mikan: Whaa?!

Author: Umm… Guys… Do you know where did my thumb drive go to? It has the script inside there!

Reanne: It's time for guitar lessons! Better get going! (Goes away with her guitar…)

Hotaru: It's time for blackmailing. (Her eyes are shining…) Better get going, or else the paparazzi will get to my victims first… (Goes away with her camera…)

Author & Mikan: …………