Errolas: Well, We're back, with chapter two!
Nogias: strafes against a wall, looking worried and sweaty BLOODY F!#ING SHT!
Errolas: Looks bewildered What's up with you?
Nogias: beats a fangirls away from the door with a stick DO YOU HAVE TO ASK?!
Errolas: They're after you AGAIN?
Nogias: WHAT'S IT LOOK LIKE TO YOU?
Errolas: OK, never mind. Anyway, Folks, here's chapter two. Enjoy!
Nogias: BACK! GET BACK! DAMN IT! THEY'VE GOT ME! GOODBYE, CRUEL WORLD!
Errolas: Geez, What a drama queen…
Nogias: WHO'RE YOU CALLING A QUEEN, YOU PRINCESS?!
Errolas: Ok, That's it. IT'S ON!
SORRY, WE ARE EXPERIENCING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES. PLEASE STAND BY FOR FURTHER UPDATES.
CHAPTER 1: NEW TEACHER? NOSTALGIC ARRIVAL
Eleven-year-old Negi Springfield woke up, lifting his head from the small futon and giving a tiny yawn. He felt well rested, and why shouldn't he? He'd just spent the night training Yue Ayase to properly use magic, though without much success. As he sat up, his ever-faithful ermine partner, Albert Chamomile, AKA Chamo, leapt up on his lap. "Mornin', Aniki! How's life treatin' ya?" he said in his southern accent, even though he clearly originated from Wales, like Negi. Next to awaken was Konoka, one of Negi's other students. "Morning, Negi-sensei! How do you want your eggs this morning?" she called over as she crawled out of her lower bunk and quickly changed into an apron. "Scrambled, please," Negi called over, now turning to answer Chamo.
"Well, I don't know, Chamo, I did only JUST wake up!" he replied, springing out of bed and sending Chamo flying across the room. He quickly changed his clothes and climbed down from his little loft, adjusting his tie as he went. "We'd better hurry, Konoka-san, or we'll be late!" he called over, just as Konoka reappeared in her school uniform holding two plates of scrambled eggs. "You're right! It's already 8:15! We'd better move!" The two dashed out the door, leaving Chamo and two plates of eggs behind. As they raced down the steps of the dorm building, they noticed another of Negi's students, Asuna Kagurazaka, running over. "Hey! NEGI-BOZU! YOU OVER-SLEPT AGAIN, DIDN'T YOU?! AND YOU DRAGGED KONOKA WITH YOU!" the firey Asuna shouted, catching up to the pair.
"Well, If you'd set the alarm for 7:30 when you got up, we wouldn't be in this predicament, Asuna-san," Negi said. Asuna, temper flaring, looked at Negi with her off-colored eyes and said, "What's that, Bozu? You saying it's my fault you got up late? I'll be you that the alarm clock, which I DID set ahead for 7:30, went off, and you used your magic to blast it to pieces! AGAIN! If I find that clock broken or damaged in any way when we get back there, I swear I'm gonna,-What?" She trailed as she looked to the side that wasn't occupied by Negi's slow-growing frame. There, on her left, was a young boy with spiky brown hair and a school bag.
"HEY! What's up?" he asked. Asuna quickly looked the boy over, noting his choice of attire: white T-shirt, khaki-green pants, and black gloves that went up to the first knuckle of each finger. She also quickly noted that this boy was carrying what appeared to be four medium-length swords in sheaths on his back and sides, as well as some sort of rod across the base of his back. "Um. hey, I'm right here? No need to look at me like that, OK? Anyway, I gotta get moving! Can't be late to be introduced at my new class!" The boy exclaimed, speeding up. As he ran ahead, he turned and looked back. Glancing from Asuna to Konoka, and then to the small frame in the space between them. The boy stopped. staring at Negi, he simply exploded: "NEGI SPRINGFIELD?!"
"Why, Yes, I am… How did you know?" Negi asked, slightly taken aback. Nowadays, not many people outside his own class knew him. Since his defeat of his own future daughter, Chao Ling-Shen, people had begun to pay less and less attention to him. The only ones who stayed loyal to him were his students. Even Chisame Hasegawa, the girl who usually didn't pay him any mind, or even avoided him. He'd even gotten used to the constant advances by some of his more… rowdy… students. The sudden attention was overwhelming… but not as much as it had been a couple years ago when he was hounded by the press. "Not that hard… I have a computer memory for any kind of fighting thing that I see, so when I saw the tapes of the Mahora Budokai, … Well, you know where this is going," the boy responded.
"Oh… that. I'm not giving any interviews, so, please,-" Negi began, only to be stopped by the boy. "Oh, I'm sorry. You have me all wrong. I'm not with any media companies, and I'm not a journalist. I don't want an interview, cause I had one with you and the headmaster of this school several weeks ago! I'm the new teacher!" Asuna fell backward in shock while Negi stared. "New… teacher?" he asked. Even if what the boy had said was true, he couldn't remember it. "Um, exactly who are you?" Negi asked, now sounding quite bewildered. "Don't tell me you don't remember me? The boy responded. "Well, either way, it'll come up on your teaching sheets today, since you'll be introducing me today! See you in 4-A!" the youth said, rushing off. As Negi, Asuna and Konoka stood there, each wondered something different. The one shared though between the three, however, was, 'NEW TEACHER? 4-A? NEGI'S BEEN FIRED?!'
SEVERAL MINUTES LATER…
"GOOD MORNING, NEGI-SENSEI!" Came the call from thirty-one girls as Negi stood at his podium in class. "Man, I love that custom!" Negi said to himself, looking through his notes quickly. So far, the youth from earlier hadn't shown up, giving Negi mixed emotions of gratitude and anxiety. "All right, Girls, take your seats, please," Negi said,. the response came from thirty-one directions as his students sat themselves in their seats. "Oh, and, Kakizaki-san? NO trying to sneak up and pull my pants down today. You will be punished." Misa Kakizaki, similar to Chizuru in several ways other than hair and chest size, bowed her head. "YES SENSEI!" she said. "Very good. Now, girls, today before class begins, I have several announcements. First off, CONGRATULATIONS!"
All the girls looked from one to the other with expressions of 'What's-he-talking-about?' "Come on, Surely you girls have noticed the NEW number on the door, yes? This is junior high class 4-A this year," Negi stated, beaming happily, "CONGRATS ON PASSING YOUR EXAMS! And especially to Asuna-san, who excelled this year with an amazing score of 89 points! Keep working hard, Asuna-san!" Asuna blushed. It was true; this year, she'd done much better than normal, and managed to get her grades up. 'It wasn't too long ago that you were shirking your studies and finishing quizes with only one correct answer!' Negi thought. "Second," Negi continued, "This year, it appears that our class band, Dekopin Rocket, will be touring around Japan! Congrats to Misa Kakizaki, Madoka Kugimiya, Ako Izumi, and Sakurako Shiina for their amazing accomplishment!" Everyone around the four girls began to clap, causing Ako to blush.
"Third, we have a new teacher joining us this year! According to the sheets that I was given by Headmaster Konoemon, He is to sub in for me every other week, and is quite good at his work. Girls, please welcome our new teacher, Nogias Frazar!" Negi began to clap, but stopped as he looked out at his students. They all had a look of bewilderment on their faces, and were all staring at a space just above the black board. Negi looked up, only to nearly jump out of his skin. There, floating in mid-air, was a young lad. "Ah, Thank you, Negi-sensei! Thanks for the intro!" Negi stood there, completely lost for words; the feeling was shared amongst the girls. "Um… Who are you?" Negi asked, only to be met with the boy's face. "You don't recognize me? I was walking with you and two of your students this morning!"
Negi's head suddenly snapped up. "You're that boy? I thought you were pulling my leg!" he shouted, only to be met with the response, "I wouldn't kid about that sort of thing. Anyway, Now that you've introduced me, I believe I'll take a seat over here and wait for the end of class." before sitting down in a chair beside Negi's desk, the boy turned to the class and said, "I, Nogias Frazar, look forward to teaching you all this year! I hope we will all learn to walk the path of good and peace." Nogias smiled a beaming smile, and sat down.
Chizuru was hit by a sudden memory of the night before… that had to be, but … it couldn't… "Nogias-sensei?" Chizuru said, holding her hand in the air. "Ah, let me see… Chizuru… Naba, right? First, I'm not your teacher until next week, so you don't need to call me Sensei until then. Just call me Nogias until then, all right? Second, what do you need?" Chizuru stood up and said, "Nogias, sir, where were you last night at 11:30?" "Um… I was in my temp residence, why do you ask?" Nogias asked, slightly startled by the question. What was this, a police interrogation? "It's just…" Chizuru broke off, not wanting to worry the other girls. However, that attempt had just failed miserably, as every girl in the room was now looking straight at her. "Chizuru-san, is there something you need to say?" Negi asked.
Chizuru lowered her head, and for a moment, a single tear hung from her cheek before rolling down and falling to the floor. "LAST NIGHT I WAS ALMOST RAPED!" Chizuru burst out, causing an uproar of all the students. Even Chisame, who usually didn't care, was right there, trying to pry information out of Chizuru. "ENOUGH!" Nogias shouted, silencing the din of noise that had become the classroom. "Everyone EXCEPT Chizuru, return to your seat. Chizuru, replay this incident for us." Chizuru nodded again, tears streaming down her face in a constant stream as she told the entire class the WHOLE story. once finished, she lowered her head again. "That boy last night, the one that saved me, just before he left, he smiled at me… and that smile was the one YOU just gave the class! That's why I think YOU were the one who saved me!"
Nogias nodded. "That would be because… I did save you, Chizuru," Nogias said, standing up. Chizuru lit up instantly and nodded, saying, "I KNEW IT!" "Except," Nogias said, semi-deflating Chizuru's happy mood, "it wasn't last night that I saved you. It was two nights ago." "WHAT?!" Chizuru burst, running over desks to get to him. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN?! IT WAS LAST NIGHT!" She continued, only to be stopped by a single index finger against her lips. "No, Chizuru," Nogias said, "it was, in fact, two nights ago. Ask your room mates, they can confirm that." Chizuru turned to Natsumi, who chose to keep quiet.
"Actually, Chizu-ne," Ayaka said, "he's right. Two nights ago, immediately after you finished torturing poor Kotarou-kun with that Japanese onion, you collapsed. It took the combined effort of Natsumi, Kotarou-kun, and myself to get you back inside before you caught cold. Then for he next thirty minutes, we tried to wake you up, but you didn't stir. Even after we stripped you done to your intimates and soaked you in cold water, and after Kotarou-kun decided to exact his revenge by putting that same onion in your rear… You never moved. You were out for an entire day, so we stayed home all day watching you! You just stayed out cold, muttering something about red highlights and an angry face, and feeling so scared."
Chizuru stood still, taking this in. "So, I was out for a day?" she finally said. "Yes. we started to think you'd never wake up, but then you just yawned and stretched this morning as if nothing had happened. As if you'd slept normally," Ayaka said. "It would be my guess," Nogias said, "that while you were out cold, your subconscious was continuously replaying that experience through a dream. now that you're awake, you think it was last night because you've practically convinced yourself that it was, indeed, last night. But, I will say this. My services are not for personal profit. I do what I do out of generosity and charity. My work is done for free. Therefore, you don't owe me anything."
"But, you saved me from… wait… did you say Kotarou-kun put that Japanese onion…?" Chizuru asked, looking from Ayaka to Natsumi and back, then gaining her signature passive look. "I see. Well," she said, smiling, "Kotarou has something in common with you, Nogias, sir. He'll be getting something next time I see him!" Ayaka and Natsumi knew that THAT particular smile meant that poor Kotarou had better hope his affairs were in order. As Chizuru passed her room mates, an aura of pure evil and death hung around her like a plague. "UH OH!" Ayaka and Natsumi said in unison.
Negi slapped his head. "OK, girls, I have one more announcement…" Negi started, but stopped. Asuna and Ayaka were once more having one of their little scuffles. Negi smiled. "ASUNA-SAN! AYAKA-SAN! CEASE YOUR ACTIONS THIS INSTANT, OR IT'S A WEEK'S DETENTIONS FOR EACH OF YOU!" Chisame sat in her seat, wishing for this hellish day to end. "As I was saying," Negi continued, as Asuna and Ayaka sat back in their seats, "This year, we will become a mixed class, as we will be having a few extra students, some of whom aren't girls…"
TO BE CONTINUED…?
Nogias: WOW! That was one big chapter! Over 2500 words! never thought you could do it, Errolas!
Errolas: Yeah, neither did I! It was exhausting! I'm glad I decided to skip a FULL recap of the prologue! That would have been MURDER!
Nogias: BTW, I figured out a way to keep my Fangirls off me!
Errolas: that so? How?
Nogias: Like this! NINJA ART OF CHANGE: OLD MAN'S DAY OUT! Nogias becomes an eighty-year-old version of himself How's that, sonny?
Errolas: That's just creepy.
Nogias: But it works! Watch!
Fangirls: Hey, where's Nogias? I thought you said you saw him come thorough here, Notsu-chan! Notsu-chan stutters Excuse me, sir, do you know where Nogias went?
Nogias: Yes, ladies, he went that way!
Fangirls: ALL RIGHT! THANK YOU! fangirls run off
Errolas: Ok, that was twice as creepy.
Nogias: Transforms back Yeah, But it worked!
Fangirls: THERE HE IS! run back in and tackle Nogias to the floor NOGIAS! WE LOVE YOU!
Nogias: ARGH! WHY ALWAYS ME?!
Errolas: Oh, Brother. Anyway, Chapter 2 coming soon! Until then, R&R, Flames are welcome always! And thank you to my friends on the Gaia World's "Mahou Sensei Negima RP Guild" For allowing their characters to make full-time appearances in this story!
Nogias: SOMEONE HELP ME!
Errolas: Oh. FCK. Me. Sideways.
