Chapter II:

The wind blew near the river as Touma stood around 51 meters away from the light brown haired girl. She was far and just a silhouette of a girl wearing a skirt could be seen. Touma gulped knowing already what's going to happen, but he continued to stand straight and not backing an inch. Behind him was a cemented bridge connected to the other end of the river. The rays of weak sunshine gleamed beneath the light gray clouds of a nice afternoon sky.

Misaka on the other hand was holding the black case in her right hand. She looked down and placed the case on the grassy ground then took out a token from the pocket of her skirt. "Are you ready?" she said with the normal tone in her voice, knowing that the wind will carry her words to him. She saw him nod but not sure if he was actually ready or just his mannerisms when nervous. "Oh, well… you'll just negate it anyway."

She flicked the coin using her thumb, electricity cackled from her temple as she aimed at her target. Blue arcs of electricity escaped from her outstretched arm; the coin fell back an inch away from her thumb; she blasted the coin and a beam of blue light traveled five times the speed of sound towards Touma; the ground was ravaged badly and the sound almost deafened Touma. But he had stopped the rail gun a lot of times before so he got a little used to it.

Touma sweat-dropped as positioned his right arm to shield the approaching rail gun but to his realization it didn't reach him. There was a slight smoke of the melted coin that gently touched his face, though it didn't smell good. The blue beam broke into nothing leaving the grass roughly cut. "Wha-?" He lowered his arm and watched Misaka from the distance. He gulped knowing that his anxiousness was just a bluff. He watched Misaka kneel to the square looking thing she was carrying earlier. The case opened into half and he just watched her with a gulping reaction. What's that? Is that a new weapon to blast off or just an improved substitute for the coin she used earlier? He thought. Really~ this misfortune doesn't seem to end, does it?

"As I thought, it seemed that it really won't reach him at a meter more than the exact distance. Alright time to use this thing!" she said with her voice revealing a trace of excitement. Misaka stood up as she eyed the little thing shaped like a CMOS battery (a coin-like battery almost the same as of that of a watch's but a bit thicker in width and a little bigger in size) on her hand. "This weapon was made especially for 'The Railgun' huh?" she whispered under her breath. "Oh well, I guess waiting there for that long paid off." She positioned herself for another shot while she watched her target facing her directly. 'Seriously? Does that guy even worried?' her thoughts drove her into annoyance as the guy lowered his head and played with the ground with his foot. Misaka twitched.

"Take me seriously, idiot!" she flicked the thing flying into the air. She suddenly felt weird and intended to halt but before Misaka could stop the air around her felt hot. The thing fell back to her hand and it felt that a quarter of her full electricity in her body sucked up without her control. It felt like the air and water molecules immediately burned through thorough heat. And she did not know why. The rail gun was shot far faster than usual; the ground cracked open as the beam passed through in amazing speed. She felt her mind suddenly shut down and the world paused as the sound almost destroyed her ears.

Touma suddenly panicking immediately shot his right hand up front to avoid the attack. This time it reached him but as it came in contact with his Imagine Breaker, the electricity inside the coin-like thing was discharged wildly into the air making the vapors in the air around him smoking. "What the?" His eyes widened as he was still stopping the pushing force. He was knocked back a few inches from his previous position and electricity kept flying everywhere. Finally he decided to grasp the coin in his hand even with the current environmental commotion. The electricity inside the coin was forced to negate its current activity, he then slumped as he watched the coin smoking up with a it's external cover burned up and charred. "What's this? It didn't melt? The leftovers weren't even that small, so that means there was still a lot of meters to travel if I didn't stop it." Touma wondered in shock as he continued to stare at the silver coin with black remnants of its burned state.

Misaka realized that he could no longer stand up straight and her breathing suddenly turned heavy like she had just sprinted 50 kilometers life-and-death circumstances. She fell on her knees and covered her mouth with her left hand while the other was leaning on the ground. She couldn't hear anything and her balance was thrown off so she concluded that her ear was currently damaged. Suddenly the silence stopped and her hearing came back with a loud stinging sound welcomed her. She screamed and clutched both her ears to stop the blinding pain. She then fell on the ground curled into a ball holding her head as tight as she could until her fingernails buried into her temple skin.

Touma who was brought back to reality through Mikoto's painful scream instantly ran to her direction without second thought. "Biribiri!" he shouted while running as fast as he could to the girl's aid. As he reached her, Mikoto has calmed herself but still clutching her head with a few traces of blood on her temple. "Hey?" he said as if asking if she was alright but knowing that she was not. He immediately took out a blue handkerchief from his pocket and wiped Mikoto's head with it. Though Misaka looked alright it seemed that inside her head she was suffering from something totally painful. Knowing that he can't help her current situation he shot a look at the knocked off suitcase sitting beside Mikoto. A mark was imprinted into the surface of the case:

"SILVER"

"Silver? What's that? The manufacturing company's name or the title of the product?" he wondered aloud as Misaka suddenly sat up before him. "Ah…!" he immediately held her shoulder as if she could breakdown the next second.

Misaka on the other hand was flushed and still sweating and breathing heavily from the experience. "W-w-w-wha-what the heck a-are you doing?" she instantly stood up and brushed his hands off.

"I not doing anything…! Believe me!" Touma reasoned out. "More importantly are you okay now?" he reached his hand towards Mikoto.

Mikoto just zapped the left hand that approached her. "Don't touch me!"

"Oww! It hurts… I was just-" Before he could continue he already noticed how red Mikoto's face was. "You're not okay… I'm sure…"

When they were about to part ways, Touma protested. "Let me walk you home," he insisted.

"I said I'm alright! Shut up and go home! I'm fine!" Misaka who was still burning red declined coldly to his offer.

"But you're-"

"GO HOME!"

Touma hesitantly turned around and took a few steps forward then faced Misaka again but she was no longer there. "That was cold, you know… At least let me walk you home." He whispered into the air with a weak smile.

To Misaka's realization when she arrived at her dorm the students were talking in the lounge suddenly jerked up and blushed at her presence. Misaka stared at them as they seemed to be whispering something about her in front of her. "What?"

A meek-looking girl with auburn short hair behind her suddenly stole her attention, "Umm… err… Misaka-sama…" the girl turned bright red as she pointed at her forehead. "… There's something on your head…"

"Huh?" Misaka gave a 'what-could-that-be-look' stuck on her face. She reached her hand to her forehead and touched an unfamiliar piece of cloth tied around her head. She took it off, "What the?" She couldn't have been walking along the streets with something like strange looking blue handkerchief stuck on her head. "WHAT!"

Note: = =" My exams are coming up this week so I'm giving you an early update so that you won't be sad. Expect a late update next time… I'm sorry for the inconvenience… I'll try to study fast to deliver you another chapter… Btw, today I have fever so forgive me for the ugly scenes… It was all I could come up with… Yesterday I was searching for a gown for my prom… And it rained hard… -blames it all on the rain- Please be patient. Thank you for reading… Don't forget to R & R! I need those… Sorry if I write short chapters… Thanks again…