Disclaimer: I do not own Mahou Sensei Negima nor its characters or Mana Khemia's Alchemy. All I own are my OCs Isaac, Xak, Az and their familiars and any other character not in the Negima Series.
Chapter 1: Nostalgia.
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Isaac's POV
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I stared out the window watching the world go by, I guess I should really start on making those bombs now. The dean had recently asked Az and myself to go investigate sightings of 'demons' around the southern side of the school. Better to go in prepared, then completely screwed over.
"Whacha thinkin' about Aniki?" The ginger cat purred as she strolled into the room, "Is it about that girl your rooming with." She recently enjoyed mocking me about my room mate, Chisame, who was reluctant about letting Carbon stay with the two of us at the time. As time passed, she didn't seem to care anymore as long as she ate from my share of food... I'm gonna have to go buy more food later..
"Oh, go choke on a fish bone, wouldja Carbon?" I joked, as I turned away from the window, taking whatever ingredients I needed for my sythesis. "Carbon, you might want to stay off the table this time. You remember what happened before..*"
"Oh please Isaac, I don't make the same mistake twice you know." Her tail swished around, but it passed over the flame that I set up to heat the couldron, and jumped around in pain as her tail had caught fire. "HOT! HOT! HOT! HOT!" I quickly took an empty glass and filled it with tap water, throwing it on Carbon.
"Seriously, stay off the table this time." I couldn't help but sigh, of course, I was thankful nothing too serious happened. Carbon decided to comply to my request this time, after learning her lesson twice, I can see why. "Alright, let's see.. I'll need one of these... and this... I always wondered what would happen if I added this.." Good god I'm done. I always was the fastest alchemist back in school, I wiped my forehead with a cloth and I took of my glasses to rub my eyes. I think my vision is getting worse.. I put them back on to find Carbon asleep on the table, but near the edge. I just sighed to myself, as I picked up the small ginger cat, placing her on my stool, covering her with my suit jacket. I rolled up the sleeves of my long-sleeve shirt, I loosened my tie and undid the top button of my shirt. School was almost over, I can take this chance to relax, can I?
The bell finally rang as I noticed Carbon starting to stir awake, I bent down close to her as she opened her eyes yawning. "Mornin' Sunshine." I smile at her, picking her up from my stool and placing her on the desk, I brushed off the remains of cat hair of my stool and pull it towards my desk, as I sat down. I stroke Carbon's stomach as she playfully rolled on her back for me to do so. "I swear Carbon, you're almost like a dog." She answered me with a bite to the hand. Of course, I yell in pain.. It's a reaction that most people get when their cat decides to bite their hand out of nowhere. "OW OW OW! OKAY! Jeeze I give up.." She finally decided to let go.
At that moment my next class decided to walk in. Class 3-B. I swear, if 3-A doesn't kill me, these girls will. "Welcome everyone." I smiled at my class, who greeted me back, some coming up to my desk to greet Carbon too. She's become quite popular with all my classes, I was slightly taken aback when one girl started to rub Carbon's stomach too.
"Ooh, I love cats!" I looked up at the girl. She.. Doesn't look familiar, maybe a new student? Ah well, as long as she gets along with Carbon, I'm just fine. "Oh, I'm the new girl. I'm Miharu! Miharu Gouta." Wow, such an upbeat attitude, it's pretty refreshing.
Well I'd better get this class started. "Alright everyone, I hope you all brought those alchemy books from before, you're going to need them this time. All the questions I ask, will be based solely on those, so if you haven't read a single thing from it.. You will lacking a sense of smell in the later years of your life." I enjoyed teasing my class like this, I could tell they were worried as some of them quickly flipped through the pages.
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Az's POV
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I wonder if the cafeteria has those little cake things left over.. Ah right, my class, 3-A. "Alright everyone, who can tell me the equation that links Change in gravitational potential enegy, Vertical Height and Weight?"
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Wow, my class is actually silent for once. Let's see... who looks smart... I scanned my eyes over the girls checking to see who has the biggest brea- I mean, who looks confident in answering the question. "Chao! How about you?" I crossed my arms, waiting to see if she could answer the question.
"Of course Az-sensei, it's Gravitational Potential Energy = Height x Weight." Astounded as usual, I can never seem to catch this girl out.. she's always getting my questions right.. She must be some sort of genius or something!
"Next question! If a boy runs 100 meters in 25 seconds, how fast is he moving?" Hah, that'll get these girls. Just let them think about it for a bit an- ...Oh for the love of.. "Chao! Do you know the answer?"
"4 meters per second!" She smiled as she shouted this over to me. Her smiling face was sweet.. but damn it I can't seem to get the edge up on this girl.
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Xak's POV
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Damn it this guy's fast..
I dashed forwards trying to catch up to that man, I gripped the spear in my hands tightly, but he managed to evade me again, he managed to get behind me and trip me up. "Heh, too bad Xak." I force myself back onto my feet, "You're gonna have to get alot faster than that if you want to be stronger."
Grr.. He didn't have to remind me everytime I lost to him, I was exhausted, we'd been training for 5 hours straight, he told me that if I manage to land a single hit with any weapon of choice.. He'd tell me how to find dad.. Like hell am I gonna lose out here.. "Hah... One.. More round... Kyo.."
He smirked at me, raising his tonfa, "Hmph. You really don't know when to give, do you kid?" I'll wipe that smirk off his face if it's the last thing I do.
It's been a month since I left Mahora Academy. Kaz and I roamed the whole of Japan for guidence on my abilities.. I never wanted help.. but if I don't control these abilities of mine, I know I'll be regretting it later. The only person I knew who could have helped me control these.. was my dad, who went 'missing' sometime before I was born.. My mom told me that he possessed these ungodly powers as well. If he really is my father, he'll still be alive and kickin', thing is.. I don't have a clue on how to get back to China.
"Kid! Watch your back!" My familiar howled at me, good thing too, I didn't notice this guy appear behind me again. I raised my spear and twirled it around me, causing a sort of whirlwind to form around me. Though I didn't manage to land a hit, I managed to get him to back off a bit. "Now's your chance! GO!"
I nodded to my familiars command, I rushed forward and landed a solid kick to his stomach.. or so I thought, I noticed that he'd managed to catch my foot, I slammed the end of my spear onto the floor, balancing myself, as I brought my other leg up and aimed for his face. Damn this guy and his hand to hand abilities, he'd managed to block it with his left tonfa, he pushed back, causing me to flip backwards. Damn I can't catch up to this guy, this is starting to piss me off...
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Isaac's POV
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He couldn't be serious, like hell would I go as far as to do that.
"Come on, it'll be fun!" Az smiled at me, apparently he's never had a pissed off Chisame as a room mate.
"Obviously you're missing the point here Az." I sighed, "Hacking into her computer isn't only a criminal offence, but.. She'll friggin' kill me!" I couldn't help but shout at the gunslinger, he'd helped me alot within the past few weeks, he'd shown me how to develop my hand to hand skills, but in terms of magicks.. Let's just say I'm still a bit destructive on those terms.
"But who knows what could be on there!" He took me into a headlock, "It could be the find of the century! Secrets from Chiu's computer!"
"Yeah, then exclusive footage of my funeral." I deadpanned, I've been doing that alot recently. For some reason, always have a witty retort to anything Az suggests to me.. No wonder Xak was always a bit of an ass. "Look, if you want it so badly, go hack it yourself, I refuse to take any part in this." I pushed him off me, rubbing my neck.
Our familiars talked to each other about trivial things such as; what me and Az do in our spare time and random nonsense we've gotten ourselves into when the other's not around. I swatted at the two who were currently sharing details about my living conditions and what I talk about in my sleep.
"Jeeze, I really hate these night missions, I can never get enough energy to get up in the mornings." I yawned. It was true, consecutive nights were definately getting in on my sleep.
After a while, we came across our target. Pale blue skin.. Dark red eyes.. Definately a demon..
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BUT WHY'D SHE HAVE TO BE SO DAMN HOT!?
This is why I hate dealing with Succubi. It's a freaking mind game with these things. I quickly snapped out of my trance as Carbon bit my hand to help me regain focus, with a thanks I quickly thumped the back of Az's head to get him into focus as well.. Now if only that actually worked. "Damn it Az! Pay attention!" I shake the living hell out of him as I notice the demon move closer to us, I cursed to myself as I took out a bomb and threw it at the ground in front of us. "We're outta here Az!" I grabbed Az and we narrowly avoided the Succubus's grasp as she was confused by the smoke that came out of the bomb.
I smacked him around twice for being an idiot and a pervert. "Ow! Okay okay.. I'll try not to oogle her again." Az laughed like normal. I sighed as we tried to track down the succubus again. Problem was we couldn't find her, of all the times to lose track of a succubus, it had to be now.
"God damn it Az, next time we deal with a succubus I'm going alone."
"Oh come now Isaac, don't say that like I was the only one like that." Az had me there, I was on the point of drooling when I looked at her.. That face.. Those eyes.. Those curve- Wait.. what!? GAH! I'm turning into Az. "Well, we can't find her anyways. Let's go back to the dorms, I'm tired." He chuckled, as much as I would enjoy just sucker punching the hell out of that guy.. I was pretty tired too.
A/N:
* See Cynical Guilty Pleasures / Chapter 10