-1Disclaimer: I do not own Negima in any shape or form.

No Escaping Fate

What if the secret was forced to be revealed earlier?

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The Beginning

A large boom was heard as the Maga Noseratu hit a spell at her favourite pupil. It was sunlight, warm, and light winds in the resort as always in the afternoons.

"Nngh…" A boy said, blood trickling down his chin and skidding backwards.

The sound of skidding on sand was surprisingly resilient. If anyone had been watching, this would of looked like one of those smoke bombs you get in spy programs. You know the ones where some people are in a bad situation then the spies throw a smoke bomb and they're away? Yeah. Those ones.

"Come on boy! Is that all you got?! I thought the Thousand Master's son would be better!" A dark voice shouted over the non stop exploding.

"

Nngh…I-I won't…" The boy, who appeared to be quite average height, ten years old and had red fiery hair--of course, in some situations, that is to say this, his hair looked a little pink.

"I won't allow you!" He got up and a mass of wind energy enough to pull any normal human off their feet surrounded him.

Alas, another sandstorm.

"Haha! What do you plan to do in that condition?!" The so called 'Gospel of Darkness' shouted.

"Nnnggghh! I WON'T ALLOW IT! Rastel Ma Skir Magister…a hundred spirits of light…come forward and attack the enemy! Tw--" He was interrupted when another dark orb was thrown at him.

"-Twenty nine arrows of light!" The boy shouted and shot the arrows of light at his master while dodging the dark orb.

"Lic lac li lac…a hundred spirits of the darkness…come forward and strike the enemy! A hundred arrows of darkness!" The boy's 'master' shouted over everything and threw the arrows at her favourite student.

"R-REFLECTIO!" Negi shouted, like his life was in danger, which technically wasn't a lie.

"EEEHHH?!" Was all Evangeline shouted, looking at the mass of energy, before everything went blank.

A huge, enormous explosion, could be seen. All you could hear was coughing, and wheezing.

Ten minutes later

"Nngh …" The child teacher held his rib, which was starting to bleed and hurt a lot. He was unsuccessful in getting up four times, as he kept collapsing again, but, he managed to get up in the end.

Stumbling, he looked around the pile of rubble, wiping his eyes from the dust.

"A-am I dead …?" Negi asked himself, thoroughly studying his surroundings. Then, he saw what he feared most. His heart started beating impossible for a mere human being.

His master, crushed by a pile of rubble. Blood trickling down her face and stomach.

The 'Maga Nosferatu', lying motionless on the ground.

"E-Ev-" His voice got caught in his throat, as he coughed up blood. "E-Eva … w-w …" Again, he couldn't take it anymore. This was a nightmare for him. An everlasting nightmare, if this was his fate …

"… I-I would rather …" The red haired, child mage collapsed, looking in his master's eyes.

Half an hour later

"Ne …" A soft whisper, the child teacher couldn't open his eyes.

"Neg …" There it was again. He found himself regaining strength, as he tried to open his eyes.

"Negi …" This time he mustered all the strength he had and opened his eyes.

"W-where am I …?" Negi asked, looking around his surroundings. It seemed he was in a hospital room. One which was very clean, and perfect.

"Negi-bozou …" He heard a familiar voice and sprained his neck by turning around. He saw some of his classmates

gathered around him.

"N-Negi-sensei …" The students were crying.

"H-how is he, nurse-san?" Sakurazaki Setsuna, a dark blue haired, medium height girl asked.

"He will be fine. He's just suffered an injury … it looks really bad, but it's been healed quite a bit. It's surprising to say their wasn't any bones broken.

"…Ngh?" Negi tried sitting up, and spluttered up more blood.

"The girl, on the other hand…"

Evangeline's house a little later

"Master…" A robotic voice asked. Evangeline opened her eyes.

"Master…" The gynoid said again.

"Ngh… w-what happened, Chachamaru?" The long blonde haired, small girl asked.

"… Thank goodness, Master… you are okay…"

Not a second later, the door could be heard swinging open, footsteps approaching closer and closer, heavy breathing, and panting with the occasional cough.

"Hmm …?" Both the vampiress and the gynoid turned around in reflex.

"E-Eva … M-Master …" Was the other words the child maker could say before he doubled over and collapsed.

"B-BOY?" Evangeline asked and walked over to her favourite student. Seeing there was no answer, she decided to roll him onto his front.

"M-Mas-- …" Negi tried to say, but he was only coughing up more blood.

The chibi-vampiress saw this, and tried to resist her urge to get rid of the curse and drink his blood to the very last drop, but, something unusual happened. Very unusual

The 'Maga Nosferatu', 'Gospel of Darkness' and such, was sitting next to Negi, her eyes watery, looking down at the person who saved her life.

It was safe to say there was pathos building up. More tension than ever, nobody spoke, in fact, it was so quiet that you could hear the wind, or grasshoppers.

"E-Eva …" Negi opened his eyes, and stood up feebly. "I-I'm so glad …" Now it was his turn to tear up.

Had this not been for all the depression, and the fact Negi could faint any moment, it would have been really moving.

"Hmmm …?" The vampiress asked, unsure what the boy was on about.

"W-well … I-I saw you lying motionless under a pile of rubble …" The child mage answered, breathing in-between some words.

"Hmm? Oh, right. About that … I don't remember much, except, I thought I saw Konoe Konoka, but that's the last I can remember …"

The red haired, blood stained Negi tried to stifle a laugh. It was quite convincing to say the least.

"Nani?" The chibi-vampiress asked, sitting cross legged across from Negi.

"You know … you've never treated me like this before, Master." He smiled and laughed a little again. It seemed that his wounds had healed up a bit.

"I … bah. What would happen to my reputation if I let the Thousand Masters kid die? If I found him again, he wouldn't lift this curse as punishment." She turned away, hiding the light blush on her face. Why do I have to get stuck with a clueless disciple ?

Chachamaru decided to speak up at this moment. There was a feeling welling up inside of her, like she wanted to shout and punch something, but she knew better.

"Master, your tea is ready."

"Hmm … bring it up here." She gestured to a nearby table. "I don't think the boy's well enough to walk yet."

This brought a smile to Negi's face, but an unknown scowl to the gynoid's.

The blonde haired, chibi-vampiress looked out the window. She assumed it was around one in the afternoon, because the sun was already out and shining brightly. Making it look like a glorious day, had it not been for the training session earlier on …

Negi found himself looking around the room at his master's possessions. She had lots of dolls, that was for sure, and so was the fact that she loved dark purple/violet.

He also took a while to notice that there was bookcases at the side of her room, along with wooden floors with a rug on it.

A few minutes later, Evangeline, noticing nobody had spoken, asked, "What caused that power?"

"Hmm?" The red haired child mage extraordinaire directed his attention back to his master. "… Well, a hundred dark arrows, let alone they are really dangerous …" He started talking and tried to laugh a bit so she wouldn't take it the wrong way. "… So, uh, especially coming from one of the worlds most fearsome dark mages … and vampire at that …" His words seemed to get caught in his throat as he saw the chibi-vampiress staring at him, straight into his eyes, like she did when she first met him.

I-Is she angry with me …? He tugged on the neck of his dressing gown and continued, "… It was basically like fighting for your life, even if it was training …"

"Hmph." Was all the blonde haired vampiress responded one, then looked out the window.

Thousand Master … Nagi Springfield … your son is growing up to be a fairly average mage …

"Master," Chachamaru's voice faded away the tension. "The tea is ready." The gynoid placed it down on her master's bedside table.

"Hmm …?" Evangeline asked, then said, "Chachamaru. You are to get this boy some new bandages, then you are dismissed for the day."

"Yes … Master …" The vampiress noticed the way she slowed her words down, how she spaced the two words apart as if not wanting to say it.

She sure has been acting odd lately …

A little later, Class 3A

"Right, so …" Takamichi's deep voice rang within the classroom. But, before he could get anywhere, most student's

asked,

"Where is Negi-kun?"

"What happened to Negi-sensei?!"

"Did Negi/sensei/kun/ get hurt in an accident?"

The older teacher's response to all of them simply was, "No … Negi is just off sick … he should be back soon …" He directed his stare at Konoe Konoka. I hope

True to his word, the door opened so fast it made a loud bang, and showed the red haired child mage, in his usual suit, all cleaned up, except a scar on his cheek and some other places, but they had been covered up by make-up, so there was nothing to worry about.

"NEGI/SENSEI/KUN! YOU'RE OKAY!" The entire class shouted out and got ready to jump on him, but Takamichi told them to stop.

"He has … not fully healed, but Negi was so enthusiastic to see you all again, he came in." As much as it pained him to say this, he had too.

Only three students in the class knew what happened. They were, Konoe Konoka, Sakurazaki Setsuna and Kagurazaka Asuna.

"…" The three of them stayed silent, but Konoka had tears welling up in her eyes, Setsuna was trying to comfort her 'Ojou-sama', and Asuna was thinking. Yep. That's right. Asuna, thee Kagurazaka Asuna, thinking about something involving the young child mage.

Why would he push himself so hard anyway …?

Little did everyone know, new trouble was awaiting them. Not the trouble from the school trip, well, yes it was, but it was many times worse. But hold on. If Negi could withstand one hundred dark arrows from Evangeline, surely he'd be able to withstand this?

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WAIT FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER: 'Weird Happenings'

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