Chapter 2:
After school, as Taiki went outside the building, he saw that there were four people waiting at the gate. One was Natsuru Senou, another was the president, one was the shy, redheaded girl named Akane, and the last was the orange haired girl named Mikoto. As he walked past, the student council president grabbed his arm and hissed,
"Come with us, we need to show you something. Now." Taiki nodded meekly, and followed the group out of the courtyard. He followed them to an open field with trees on one side and road on the others, where they stopped. The president turned around and looked straight at Taiki. "This is where we fought a white Kampfer last night. Look at those patches of charred grass." She pointed and Taiki looked and saw the said patches, then asked,
"What's a Kampfer? I know the voice in me said I was the Black Kampfer, but what is a Kampfer?" All of the group except Natsuru and the president sighed, and she told Taiki,
"A Kampfer is a warrior chosen by an entity called "The Moderators" to fight each other, to balance out the power of two opposing forces on a planet. Kampfers are either red, blue, or white, with the reds and blues fighting each other and the whites attacking groups, like us, who decided not to fight each other."
"Why would you fight in the first place? I mean, what's the point?" Taiki questioned, and the president nodded.
"That's what we thought, so we didn't fight anymore, until Sakura came along with her white Kampfers to try and get Natsuru's female form, who she apparently has a crush on. We," the president motioned at her group, "Prevented that, and had thought we'd driven her and the white Kampfers away when another one attacked last night."
"So it's not over, apparently," said Natsuru. "And we think she - Sakura, is recruiting more white Kampfers, so it's only a matter of time before we get overwhelmed by them. We're good, but we're just four, and Sakura can probably just create more if we defeat the ones she sends at us."
"Do you want me to help you?" Taiki asked cautiously, not wanting to be near the president more than he had to but not wanting to be impolite. "I mean, I don't know much about Kampfers, but it seems like the moderators are bad, and you need help. Besides, I like transforming, because it feels right in a way I can't explain."
"Help would be nice, don't you think?" the president questioned the others in an innocent tone. They nodded, and the president offered her hand to Taiki. Taiki shook it, and suddenly felt his transformation come over him. Taiki then bathed in the correctness of her body, and saw the president step back. "You're sparking black lightning!" she told Taiki, who stepped back, looking at her limbs that were indeed sparking with black energy. Taiki heard a shout from behind her, and turned just in time to see a girl with a white bracelet charging at her with a giant two-handed sword.
Taiki instinctively sidestepped it. Put out your hand, said the voice in her. Taiki did, and out of her hand shot lightning, black and crackling energy that shot towards the girl, touching her skin and instantly charring it. She screamed and dropped her sword, falling to her knees as she clutched the place the lightning had touched her. The rest of the group transformed into the people Taiki had seen just before school on the deserted street and looked around. Taiki did as well and saw nine more girls charging at them, some with guns, others with swords, and one with icicles surrounding her.
The redhead began to shoot her gun at them, while Natsuru shot a fireball at the chick with icicles, and the other two engaged two melée attackers in combat. That left two with guns and two with swords charging at Taiki, shooting bullets that she was narrowly dodging. As the two swordswomen came within ten feet of Taiki, she heard a voice in her head. Lift your palm to the sky. Taiki did, and lightning, dark as the bracelet she wore, came out of Taiki's fingers, touching all four of her attackers in a perfect X shape, originating from her. They all dropped, but Taiki realized that Natsuru was in trouble, as the icicles were cutting Natsuru up, while Natsuru's fireballs weren't doing much. Not thinking, Taiki shot a lightning bolt at the icicle girl, who dropped, screaming in pain. After about fifteen seconds, all the attackers were down, but Taiki heard sirens in the distance.
"We should go," the president informed all the group, and everyone nodded. They ran out of the field into the forest changing back into their normal forms once they had gotten in.
"T-that was close!" the nervous redhead stammered, and Taiki saw the others nod agreement. Taiki himself was very shaken, and just stood in the clearing they had managed to find. The president waved her hand in front of Taiki's face, and then Taiki jumped.
"You ok?" she asked, and Taiki nodded vigorously, hoping that the president wouldn't get any closer.
She's scary! I don't want her to get closer - Crap.
The president planted a hand on Taiki's shoulder, who jumped again.
"You seem pretty jumpy, do you want to chill with us until you feel better?" Taiki's eyes widened and he shook his head so hard he wouldn't be surprised if it fell off.
"No, I think I'll just go home now -"
"Wouldn't it be better if we stayed together, because we don't know if the whites will come after us when we're sleeping, do we?" Taiki saw the logic of that conclusion, but still didn't want to be around the president any more than he had to, so he said,
"Yeah, you guys can, but I don't think that the whites know about me that much -"
"Are you kidding?" Natsuru asked, mouth agape. "You're the one who just electrocuted about half of them! They'll be sure to come after you if they come after anyone. You've got to stay with at least one of us, otherwise they'll probably kill you!" Taiki, seeing how this was true, but still didn't want to sleep around the president, said,
"I'd be in my own room, right?" The president raised one eyebrow and informed Taiki,
"No, you'd be rooming with one of us, probably me, since I've been doing this the longest." The other three stared at the president, and the orange-haired one, Mikoto, said,
"You're serious, Shizuku? You wouldn't try to be with Natsuru?" The president, or rather, Shizuku, just looked at Mikoto, Taiki saw, and shook her head. Mikoto nodded, and Taiki wondered what he'd just witnessed.
"Then I'm staying with Natsuru!" Akane declared, at the same time as Mikoto affirmed,
"I'll be with Natsuru then." Taiki then realized that all three girls were in love with Natsuru, and that Natsuru was uncomfortable with it, as he saw Natsuru's face turning red.
"Um, yeah, both of you can sleep in the same bed, and I'll have my own, alright?" Natsuru ran past the two girls, and they both glared at him.
"No, I'll be sleeping with him -"
"No, I'll be sleeping with -" Both Mikoto and Akane got into a large argument, so Shizuku led Taiki aside and questioned,
"Do I scare you?" Taiki, not expecting this question, nodded his head before he could realize what he'd done, then looked down at his feet and legs, his far too hairy legs that his parents had forbidden him to shave, saying "It's not fitting for a man to shave his legs". "Really? What makes me scare you?" she said, but Taiki just kept looking at the ground, and he heard Shizuku sigh. "If you don't tell me what scares you, I can't change it, so could you tell me?" Taiki shook his head no, and then felt Shizuku pat him on the back. "Alright, then I'll just keep scaring you, but you're pretty cool, you know?" Taiki looked up at her as she walked back to the group, feeling tears in his eyes at the first complement he'd had from anyone other than his parents since he moved to Japan.
Why am I crying? She probably doesn't mean it, so why?
