I was surprised to see that my first chapter was really short, so I've made this one longer.
And I want to thank Insanity's Breaking Point, Bubblesgenre, Otaku-Lord-Bubbles and HituAndUtaPri; without you this chapter wouldn't even exist.
Bubblesgenre-I hope you're feeling better babe ;)
Alannah is an Irish girls name meaning 'my dear child. '
JAPAN
The sun shone through the window in my Granny's kitchen. I sat at the isle, my suitcase next to me as I waited for Will to finish packing. She was doing it rather loudly as there were thumps coming from above my head, enough to make the ceiling shake and dust to go flying.
I sighed. Not ready for what I was about to do.
"What's wrong Alannah?"
I jumped.
Granny was sitting across from me, looking at me amused. I'd forgotten she was there.
"Nothing!" I squeaked out.
Granny raised an eyebrow at me, giving me a knowing look.
I sighed again before answering her.
"Should you even ask? You obviously know already."
"True, but I want you to admit it."
"Fine, I'm worried about the mission."
Granny laughed.
"I'd be worried if you weren't."
"But don't you think it's a little dangerous to be doing this?" I questioned.
"Yes."
"Then why are you letting us go?"
"Because I know you can handle it."
"You do? Did you have a vision about it?"
"No."
"So how do you know?" I asked perplexed.
Granny smiled at me.
"I raised you girls, I know you both inside out."
"You could be wrong."
"I'm never wrong."
I was stuck there. It was true. She was never wrong about anything.
"Besides," she continued cheerfully," Ouran Academy is a good school; it'd be good for you both to attend."
Oh yeah. I forgot. We had to attend a rich kid's school. It was the one thing my parents had a say in.
"Don't remind me." I groaned.
"Oh come on," she chided, "It'll be fine."
"No it won't. I have a hard enough time getting along with normal people my age. It'll be even harder now with rich kids." I whined, crossing my arms.
"You don't know that. You might have something in common with them."
"In common? Granny, they grew up going to fancy schmancy balls and being spoiled by their rich parents, never having to even lift a finger while Will and I were practicing our abilities and fighting monsters! We don't have anything in common with them!"
There was a silence for a minute, and then a bang from upstairs shattered it. We both looked at the ceiling, then at each other before bursting out laughing.
"I wish she wouldn't wait to pack until the morning we leave." I said still laughing.
"She's just like her father, always procrastinating and then ending up having to use a spell to do things for her." Granny said chuckling.
I smiled staring up at the ceiling.
"Anyway, I think you're going to have fun there Aislin." She said mysteriously.
I looked at her.
"Granny, what do you know?" I asked suspiciously.
She smiled at me, a knowing glint in her eye.
"Granny-,"
The kitchen door swung open with a loud BANG and Will stepped into the room with her suitcase floating behind her.
"Ready!" she announced enthusiastically, "Let's hit the road!"
"Yes let's go Will." Granny said grabbing her car keys.
They walked out in to the hallway.
"Coming, Ash?" Will yelled from the front door.
"Yeah," I shouted to her, hopping off the stool. I grabbed my suitcase and ran out of the room after them.
I obviously wasn't going to get my answer.
"…..Thank you for flying with Aer Lingus, we hope you've enjoyed your flight."
I unbuckled my seat belt and waited for a gap in the line of people walking past me to get off the plane.
I was honestly relieved.
After waiting in line with screaming kids, the odd arguing couple and sitting next to two obnoxious old ladies bragging about how their grandsons have 'amazing jobs ' and that they're 'so proud of them,' for ten hours on a plane, we were finally in Japan.
"Finally!" Will exclaimed. "Those old bags were driving me nuts!"
"Yeah I got that from the guy behind us, Ipod exploding." I remarked.
"I mean honestly," Will continued, ignoring me, "One of the old bags grandsons is a plumber, not the President of the United States!"
By this point I'd tuned her out.
I got up and walked towards the exit, smiling at the air hostess as I passed her.
"Hey! Ash, wait for me!" She yelled, scrambling after me.
I walked down the steps attached to the plane slowly for Will to catch up; she didn't reach me until I was at the bottom.
I smirked at her, not even phased by the glare she was giving me, although it was scaring a couple of the passengers still getting off the plane.
"Come on, let's go." I said turning my back on her and we both walked inside the airport. Will had brightened up by now and was standing on her tip toes trying to see over the heads of people, looking for where we have to collect our bags.
"Okay, there's where we collect our bags." Will said, already walking towards the carousel.
I followed her and we got our suitcases.
"So where is this guy?" Will asked while we walked towards the exit.
"I don't know, Granny said he would be here."
Granny had asked a friend of hers that owed her a favour, to drive us to where we'd be staying.
"I can't think with all this noise." Will complained.
"Hm?" I asked, not really listening. There were a lot of ghosts about; I was currently being distracted by one wearing a lederhosen. I was guessing there was a schnitzel in his hand, but I couldn't be sure as he was waving his arms about really fast. He reminded me of a chicken.
"Are there lots of ghosts about?" Will inquired, finally having figured it out.
"Yeah."
"On a scale to one to ten how weird is the one you're looking at?"
"I'd say about fifteen."
"Really? Why?" Will laughed.
"He's wearing a lederhosen and I think he's holding a half –eaten schnitzel, he probably choked on it or something."
"Why is he wearing a lederhosen?" Will asked incredulous.
"How am I supposed to know?"
"Well you could ask him."
"I don't think he speaks English, Will."
"Why not?"
"He's screaming my ears drums deaf, in a different language," I paused, "I think it's German."
"Oh."
I finally managed to tear my eyes away from the strange ghost and began scanning the crowds of people waiting at the exit. I zoned in on a man standing slightly away from the crowd, he was looking at Will and I.
This must be him.
"Come on Will, our lifts here."
We walked over to the strange man.
I studied him, wondering if he was normal. He was in a dark suit and his hair was slicked back with some type of hair gel that made it shine greasily.
At first I thought he was a vampire but then I noticed his nose was rather pointed, like a bird's beak.
He was a Karura.
"Aislin O'Sullivan and Willow Knight, it's good to finally meet you." He smiled.
I blinked surprised.
His voice was high like a bird's; it reminded me of an eagle's cry.
I was right then.
I glanced over at Will, she must've felt my eyes on her because she looked at me.
She knew too.
"How did you know it was us?"
The man chuckled.
"You're both the spitting image of your mothers."
"You know our parents?" I asked.
The man nodded his head.
"They're close friends of mine, so is your grandmother."
I smiled at him.
"Come now, the cars waiting outside."
We followed him outside were a limo was waiting.
"Wow," Will exclaimed.
I nodded my head, agreeing with her. I was speechless.
The man opened the door for us and we all climbed in. I took the window seat across from the Karura and Will slid into the seat next to me. The car purred to life and we drove off.
I stared out the window, watching the city of Tokyo fly by. It was an amazing sight. The city lights blinded me but I couldn't look away.
It was all so colourful.
Teenagers my age were walking about with the strangest hair styles and clothes, things that would make people stop and stare if they were in Ireland.
There were giant screens attached to buildings- sometimes the screens were the windows- lighting up the streets with advertisements about pretty much anything. Another thing you would never see in Ireland.
I was so hypnotised by the city that, without realising it, I actually squished my face against the window just to get a better look.
I heard Will open her suitcase. I reluctantly turned to look at her, curious to what she was doing.
"What are you doing?" I questioned.
"Getting Levana," Will replied.
She reached her hand in to the suitcases inky depths and pulled out a little ball of fluff.
Levana.
The kitten's fur was snow white shaded with a light silver, making it luminescent in the light. This wasn't the strangest thing about Levana though; her eyes were emerald green.
Will's eyes.
This marked Levana as Will's familiar.
I raised an eyebrow.
"I'm guessing this is what took you so long to pack?"
"Heh heh, yeah." Will said sheepishly.
I shook my head, smiling.
The car stopped in front of a tall building.
"We're here."
We climbed out of the car and stepped inside the warm reception room.
"Wait here." The man or rather Karura, commanded us.
He walked over to the girl behind the reception desk. She smiled at him before conversing with him in Japanese.
I glanced at Will. She caught me looking at her and shrugged.
Levana was nowhere in sight; Will must've put her back in her suitcase.
"Come on girls!" He called to us from the elevator.
He'd somehow crossed the room without us noticing.
"I think you're going to like the apartment," said the Karura cheerfully, once we were in the elevator," It's one of the best in the building, your grandmother made sure of it."
I nodded, typical Granny, she always does this when we're on a mission, she even does it for our parents when they're on missions too.
The elevator dinged, alerting us we were at our destination, before the doors slid open.
"This is it."
Will gasped.
I dropped my suitcase.
The entire apartment was modern with one wall as a window. The décor was beautiful; it consisted of light colours and was perfectly positioned around the kitchen/living room. It was completely picturesque.
It looked like it should belong in one of those interior designing magazines, Granny used to buy.
"We own the entire floor?!" Will exclaimed, incredulous.
"Yes." The Karura answered, looking at us amused.
"Holy cow." I said.
"Ditto." Will agreed, looking around the apartment in awe.
It was the Karura that snapped us out of our trance.
"I'm afraid I must go." The Karura announced out of nowhere.
"Oh…oh yes… thank you…Mr..,"I trailed off, realizing I didn't know his name.
"Mr Sato."
"Mr Sato, if it wasn't for you we'd probably be wandering around the city right about now."
"It was the least I could do." He said smiling.
His face turned serious.
"Now you better be careful, if you need anything and I mean anything, you call me, got it?" Mr Sato said, handing me a piece of paper with his number on it.
"We will thank you Mr Sato, for all you've done and your concern." Will replied gratefully, smiling sweetly at him.
"The pleasure was all mine, Miss Knight."He paused walking towards the elevator."It was nice to finally meet you."
And with that said Mr Sato stepped in to the elevator and disappeared from sight.
It was silent for a moment, the only sound was the tik-toking of the clock in the kitchen.
I looked at Will.
She returned my gaze.
All of a sudden I couldn't hold in my excitement and I found myself jumping up and down with Will, screaming at the top of our lungs.
It was because of this that we didn't notice Will's suitcase unzip itself and a little ball of white fluff climb out of it.
What are you doing? Levana's adorable little voice asked in our minds.
We both fell on to the floor in surprise, me landing on Will.
We'd forgotten about Levana.
She was sitting right next to us, her head tilted to the side, her emerald orbs shining with innocent curiosity.
"Uhhhh…," We both said, not knowing how we were going to explain to her what we had been doing.
Before we could explain, this rumbling came from Will's suitcase.
"…Crap…," Will said slowly," Brace yourselves."
"What? Why?" I asked.
Just then, all the items in Will's suitcase shot out from its inky depths and covered the entire room.
"Note to self," Will groaned, "Remember to put a blocking spell on my suitcase."
Karura is an eagle-human hybrid from Japanese mythology.
I'm not sure if seers can see ghosts, but I read about 'Ghost seers' so I thought it would be good for Ash to not just see the future. She can Astral Project too.
QUESTION: Do you want the Host Club to be supernatural or do you just want them to be normal?
I already know what Kyoya, Mori and Tamaki are going to be, if you want them to be supernatural, but I've got no idea for the rest of the Host Club. I'm sure I'll come up with something soon though.
Next chapter: Will and Ash meet the Host Club!
