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"We could buy the larger package, but I'm not sure if we will be cooking all that much." Ichika Orimura mumbled as he held up two different sized packages of noodles. Ichika had the appearance of your standard Japanese boy, dark hair and eyes, though he was fairly tall and had a joyful presence. He was fifteen year old boy going to the all girls school, the IS Academy.

It had been a shock to everyone, including him when he had somehow managed to activate an IS. It was wildly known that the military suits were only able to synchronize with girls, and as far as the world could tell, Ichika was the only exception. It was because of this that he had been forced into the IS Academy by the Japanese government so that they could observe him and try to figure out why the machines worked for him.

"Its a better value, but I don't know. What do you think?" He turned to his roommate and old childhood friend, Houki Shinonono.

"Just get whatever." Houki snapped angrily. The Japanese girl had dark brown hair done up in a long ponytail that reached most of the way down her back. She was dressed in her IS Academy uniform, even though they were off campus for the weekend shopping bing. She had a short wooden Kendo sword in her right hand that she was holding close to her. The arm twitching as if she was considering using the thing to beat Ichika over the head.

"Huh? What's the matter, Houki?" Ichika asked as he put the large package in his shopping cart and put the other one away.

"How can you not tell?" Houki mumbled. "I thought that it was just going to be the two of us." Ichika tilted his head in confusion.

"Ichika!" The solo male student turned his head as his second childhood friend, Huang Lingyin, stood there proudly with a basket full of things she was planning on buying. "Now I've got everything I need to make you my families famous sweet and soup pork." She said as she held out the basket.

"Oh wow, I'm looking forward to it. Maybe we can all eat it together tomorrow for lunch." Ichika said, earning a scowl from the Chinese girl as well. Huang, or Rin as everyone tended to call her, was a bit shorter than her friends with chocolate colored hair that she wore in two long pigtails on either side of her head. Her eyes darted over to Houki who was glaring back at her.

That was the girls main problem. Even though they both had a crush on Ichika, along with almost every girl in school, the boy was completely oblivious to it. To put it bluntly, Ichika was an idiot, even his older sister would say so. It was most likely a consequence of his upbringing, since him and his sister were both abandoned as children. So while his sister worked to support them, he had played the part of housewife.

He had never seen a relationship before, functioning or otherwise, so all of the girl's advances were met with a dim obliviousness. So when Houki had asked Ichika if he wanted to go shopping on their day off, he had asked Rin if she wanted to come along.

"What's the matter?" Ichika asked the Chinese girl. "If you need to buy more ingredients, then I can chip in."

"Ichika..." Rin stammered, gritting her teeth.

"Huh?" Ichika mumbled as he backed away from the obviously angry girl.

"Get kicked by a horse and die!" Rin shouted at him at the top of her lungs.

A crashed reverberated through the air and the earth underneath their feet started to shake violently. The shaking lasted for a little more than a second before stopping. "Was... was that an earthquake?" Houki said, not noticing that she had stumbled into Ichika's arms during the shaking. Though she was reluctant to let go even after she noticed.

The shouts of panic in the street caused the three IS Academy students to drop their shopping and run outside to try to see what was happening. "What the hell is going on here!?" Rin shouted as she looked around the panicking streets.

"Ichika look." Houki said, pulling on the boy's arm and pointing up into the sky where a line of smoke told of some kind of fire.

"People might need our help." Ichika said as he held out his wrist, the mechanical bracelet containing his IS, the Byakushiki. The bracelet started to light up and his IS formed around him, the white metal standing out as it lifted him off the ground. He started to flout higher off the ground, white metal wings spreading out as his boosters warmed up. "Come on Rin."

"Right behind you." Rin said as her own black and red IS formed around her. Her Shenlong's massive shoulder canons did weigh it down some, but it was still fairly fast as it flew up after Ichika.

"Hey! What about me, you idiot!?" Houki shouted, though the two were already out of ear shot. She bit her lip and cursed them for just leaving her, but it wasn't like she could go with them. Even if she was also a IS Academy student, she was not a representative contender or a rare pilot, so she didn't have an IS of her own. She could do nothing but bitterly watch as the two flew off together without her. "Ichika... I hope you die." She mumbled angrily.

When Ichika and Rin had flown up high enough to see over the buildings, they activated their hoods enhanced vision to see what had happened to cause all the smoke.

At first there was some kind of interference in the air that was preventing them from seeing anything, but when the finally could see they both froze in shock, their minds not able to comprehend what they were seeing.

"Ichika... what the hell is that thing?" Rin said, unconsciously moving a few feet back as she stared.

"I have no idea." Ichika answered honestly.

From their point in the sky they could see a massive crater in the middle of the city, and inside of that crater was what they could only describe as a monster.

The thing was a giant, nearly three stories tall with bone white skin and thick black armor. Coming from one side of its head was a large black horn thought its twin on the other side seemed to have been snapped off, leaving just a stump covered in a strange green liquid. The same liquid was dripping from the monster's right arm from several wounds that covered it. At the beast's side was a mace the size of an entire IS. It's face was hidious, looking more like the cross between a skull and a normal face with hollow cheekbone and skin so white that you would swear it was bone, one of the creature's eyes was covered by an eyepatch and its broken lips were pulled back to show black fanged teeth. Mossy green hair fell down passed the monster's shoulders looking a bit like a lions mane rather than human hair, though there was no way in hell that thing was human.

"Ichika, I think there's an IS down there." Rin said pointing on of her IS's clawed fingers towards a point on the opposite side of the crater as the monster.

Ichika had to struggle to pull his eyes away from the giant thing to see what Rin was talking about. It wasn't like any IS Ichika had ever seen. The body was much more armored, as if it didn't have faith in the energy shields to protect the pilot, something that might have been a good assumption since the thing seemed to have been ripped to pieces. Its silver body was full of dents and one of the arms and both of its legs had been torn off and were lying on the grown nearby the main body of the machine.

Then the two IS pilots saw something else that shocked them, though in a more familiar way. Out of the broken IS crawled a boy. He looked a little younger than they were, with messy black hair and a white tshirt that was completely soaked in blood. A sort of metal cable was halfway connected to his back, but it seemed like it had been pulled at and had cut his back open, leaving the boy bleeding out.

"A boy... but boy's can't operate IS units." Rin said, her jaw hanging open. The boy crawled, dragging his useless legs behind him, over to the severed arm of his IS and grabbed something out of it, a crown covered in bright green flames.

The boy held the fiery thing close to him, somehow not being burned by it as he started trying to pull himself away from the giant.

But the giant began to move. Ichika shivered as his machine picked up on the voice of the monster. He couldn't understand its words at first, but his IS's built in translator kicked in and changed it all into Japanese. "Where... do you think you are going, boy?" The monster's voice echoed with cold fury as he moved slowly to his feet. Ichika and Rin were frozen, the entire thing had the feel of a nightmare to it and was stopping them from thinking clearly. The monster's eye glowed a hot and deadly red as it stared down at the injured boy. "Give me back my crown!" The roar seemed to send out a shock wave of energy as dark red light leaked out of the giant's body.

The people on the street who had been watching in stunned terror now began to scream and run away from the pit.

"You... want?" The boy said quietly, so quietly that it was difficult for Ichika's IS to pick it up over all of the screaming. Then the boy did something that they couldn't understand. He somehow pushed the flaming crown into his chest. Then with the task done, the boy went limp.

The giant stared at the boy for a few seconds then growled, picking him up by one leg. "Wake up." It said angrily. Rin and Ichika both gasped in shock as the monster throw the boy into a nearby car with enough force to bend the metal and push the unmanned vehicle back. "I said wake up, brat!" The giant roared. "I want you to be awake when I rip you apart and take back my crown!"

The giant started to move in to crush the child when Rin freaked out and rushed the thing. "Stop it!" She screamed one of her massive liuyedao blades and switching it at the giant.

Ichika watched as the behemoth turned, spotting the charging girl as lifted his uninjured left arm, grabbing onto the liuyedao's blade with his gauntleted hand as if it was just a practice sword being swung by a small child. Even as big as Rin's weapon was, it was hardly any bigger than the giant's hand.

Rin tried to pull the thing out of the monster's hand, but the creature was too strong. "What's this? The humans had more than one of these machines?" The giant said, though he seemed more annoyed then anything else. "No matter. If the ghost child could not defeat me, what makes you think that you can, little girl."

The blade shattered as the monster squeezed his fingers together and Rin was left looking up at the monster in horror, too scared to act. The hand reached forward and wrapped around her stomach, starting to squeeze down on her as sparks of dark red electricity jumped around the monster's fingers.

Rin screamed as her shields began to drop fast. Her eyes widening as she realized just how powerful the monster was and how long she had before her shields would be completely gone and she would be... dead.

"Rin!" Ichika shouted as he flew down towards them, his own blade out stretched as he tried to come to his friends rescue. The steel of his sword hit the elbow of the arm that was holding the girl and sparks flew from the point of contact, but the beast didn't seem hurt.

"Incolent bugs!" It roared as it swung Rin around, throwing her into Ichika to knock them both to the ground. "You dare stand against a king! I will show you your place, pathetic humans!"

The monster grabbed its giant mace and lifted it up over its head with its left arm, preparing to crush to boy and girl. Ichika shook his head, recovering from the sudden hit from before to see the giant standing over them with the weapon posed to strike.

His eyes widened. He knew Rin's shields had already taken a lot of damage. He couldn't let her get it by it. So using all the time he had, he grabbed the girl and throw her out of the way, just as the mace was brought down on his IS.

Rin skidded across the ground before coming to a stop. She was still a little disoriented from being shocked earlier by the monster but as she started to push herself up she saw Ichika on the ground, the monster's mace smashed on top of him. "Ichika!" She screamed in fear. Scared that her mistakes had cost the boy she loved his life.

As the giant lifted up the mace, Ichika's IS broke down and disappeared by into its sealed form, leaving him defenseless on the ground. The beast's strike had taken out all of his shield energy in a single hit.

"Foolish mortals! I will destroy you all for your insolence!" The monster shouted before starting for another swing, one that would end Ichika's life.

Rin watched in frozen fear as the mace slowly descended towards Ichika, the boy's IS was to damaged to offer him any protection or chance of escape. "Ichika!" Rin screamed one last time.

A dark black and silver blur shot down from the sky, grabbing Ichika and pulled him out of the way of the oncoming mass of dark metal. "Honestly, do I always have to clear up all of your messes?" Chifuyu Orimura said in annoyance as she lowered her brother to the ground and turned to face the monster, a sword materializing in her hand as she prepared to battle the monster in her own IS, the Kurezakura. Her black hair and dark eyes were alot like her brother's, but her face showed no sign of his inexperience and weakness.

Ms. Yamada also flew down in her own IS, one of the mass produced Rafale Revives, a heavy gun in hand. "Are you two alright?" She asked the two students. The ditsy homeroom teacher was wearing her usual smile, despite the seriousness of the situation.

"Yeah, I'm alright." Rin said nervously. Chifuyu always made her nervous.

"I'm alright. Sorry Chifuyu." Ichika said as he sat on the ground, holding his stomach and trying to play off the pain in front of his older sister.

"More worthless insects." The giant growled as he turned to face the group.

"Ms. Yamada, provide support." Chifuyu said as she rushed in.

"Right!" Yamada said taking to the air.

Chifuyu dodged the giant's mace swing and struck out at its arm with her sword, not having any more luck than Ichika had. The creature's armor was too thick, and there seemed to be a sort of energy around him that protected him for damage of any kind, as if he had his own energy shield of some sort.

As the giant tried to swing at her again, Chifuyu jumped back out of the way and did a wide strath of the beast as Yamada started to rain down rockets and gun fire on the monster.

The creature seemed angrier about the gun fire than Chifuyu's attacks. They had thought that since he seemed to be limited to closerange attacks, that Yamada's long range weaponry would give her a sort of advantage. They were wrong.

The monster dropped his mace and raised up its hand, pointing towards the airborne teacher. The fingers glower a dark and bloody red before firing some kind of particle beam at the woman who gave a squeak of shock as she darted out of the way. The blast continued and smashed into a nearby building, burning a who the size of a truck in it and continuing on through the entire structure before flying off into the sky.

"Wowwee, that was close." Yamada said as she returned her attention to the beast.

But in the time that the monster was looking at Yamada, Chifuyu had activated her IS's 'one off' ability, turning her sword into a powerful close quarters beam weapon.

The monster seemed surprised by the sudden change and had actually tried to dodge this latest attack, revealing him to be much faster than they had suspected and capable of flight.

The blade attack had still managed to hit, cutting a long slash across the giant's chest, leaving a trail of the green blood dripping down his armor. But the cut had been to shallow to kill the beast.

"I see I underestimated you, woman." The monster growled as he stared at Chifuyu. "I had assumed that I would not need my full strength to defeat all of you. I suppose I must retreat to first recover from my injures. But know this. I will return for my crown. And when I do, I will destroy you all." He said before disappearing in a blaze of green fire.

Chifuyu glared at the spot where he had been for several seconds, looking really badass as she stood there in her IS armor, her sword held at her side, but then Rin's voice ruined the moment. "WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT THING!?"

Chifuyu vs. Pariah Dark, Chifuyu wins.

So I know I said I would give you all more time to vote, but then I found out that I can only have one poll up at a time on my profile, so there goes that idea.

DP X IS won by two votes in the end, so I guess I'll be working on this story for a while. I actually thought that people would vote for Hunter X Hunter, but I guess not.

I was surprised by how many people wanted Dragon Crisis, but that might have just been for uniqueness.

I will probably have a lot of free time right now because my 'competitors' in industry are all mad at me for making their work out of date, and so they have payed off my boss to tell me to stop working. So now I have gone from being payed too much to do an easy job and then sit on my ass for the rest of the time I was given to do said job, to being payed to do nothing at all.

Well, except for teach my two classes, but honestly that is so easy that it hardly even counts.