Hi, again.
Hmmn I think this chapter is a little longer than my previous one, but please bear with it. Again, I m still a little new with writing fanfics, please review.
And also, those who don t know, I change something at the previous chapter.
It s about the name of the band MIRAGE, I change it to MISFIT.
Enjoy reading.
Disclaimer: I do not own Gakuen Alice.
CHAPTER 2 NEW FRIENDS, NEW ROOM AND NEW BAND?
Mikan and her brother grabbed their luggages, and walked towards the door of the private plane they boarded. Persona opens the door and exited outside, she followed. In addition, there Mikan saw four handsome boys and a gorgeous beautiful girl and they all looks on the same age as her, waiting beside a black limousine. They wave at them and gesture for them to come. She and her brother complied and walk towards them. When they came near them, Mikan notice that one of them is Japanese just like how the headmaster describe, so she presume that maybe the ones that s in front of them are her new team called MISFIT. She smiled at them sweetly because they look like kind of friendly and she promised her brother that she is going to be on her best behavior.
"So, you guys must be MISFIT, including my sister here. I am Rei Serio, you can call me Persona, and I'm the teacher Dangerous Ability class in Japan. And this here is Mikan Sakura, my sister." Persona formally introduced himself and her sister to them. Moreover, this time he didn t wore his mask that covers his blood- shot eyes which shows no emotion at all except hint of amusement and make, - up, but he still wore his black clad clothes that matches his perfectly black hair.
"Hi guys, it s so nice to finally meet you." Mikan offered her right hand for a handshake, and the girl took it and smiled at her in a friendly manner. The girl has long wavy red hair matched with tangerine colored eyes.
"It s a pleasure to meet you too, Mikan- chan. By the way, my name is Isabella Evans but you can call me Izzy and I have the Wind, Mind reading and Invention Alice." She replied with a smile plastered on her face that makes Mikan feel comfortable around her. "And this Japanese boy over here is Shinosuke Reiji, Shin for short; he has the Fire, Curse and Materialism Alice or Alice of Matter." She said as she pulled the boy with the reddish black messy hair matched with a pair of violet cold, emotionless eyes that kind of reminds her of Hotaru and Natsume all together.
"Hey, stop pulling me you, annoying little weirdo." Shin growled at Izzy who seem to ignore his rants and insults about her, but then Mikan notice that Izzy grab something from her pocket while a vein popping on her head, and took out cute small red mallet that immediately turns big when Izzy press a button on it and smacks Shin far away from them.
"Don't mind that insolent brat, although I'm older than him for just 5 months in gap." As she press another button, and the mallet immediately return to its original size. "Okay, where are we? Oh, yeah, there is Felix Knightly, the playboy in our team who loves to show off and wants to be the center of attention. He has the Morphing, Water and Female Pheromone Alice." She stated, as she was teasingly point to the boy with long blonde- wavy hair that it reached his shoulders and a pair of emerald eyes that really complements his face.
"Hey, what are talking about, Izzy?" said Felix as he walked roughly in a fast pace to Izzy who just ran away. "Uhm, Mikan-chan, I'm not really that kind of person, it s just that because of my female pheromone Alice the attention of the girls." He explained while a tint of red is barely noticeable shown on his face.
"Yeah, right. He always blames his Alice if he tries to explain to us why he s acting that way even though we all know that he likes the attention the girls have been giving him." Said the boy with a gray spiky short hair matched with a set of cold, indifferent sapphire eyes, as he turns his attention to us. "I m Tyler Grayson, by the way and I have the Earth, Shadow Manipulation and Nightmare Alice. And here is Ian Michaels." He said as he pats the shoulder of the boy who owns a pair of aquamarine eyes that complements his straight light green colored short hair.
"Hi Mikan- chan and Persona- sensei and, I welcome you here in America." He said as he smiles at us. "I have the Ice, Mind- control and Human Pheromone Alice."
"Thank you, Ian- kun," she said as she flashed him a smile that captivates Ian very well. The others saw it too; like Ian, Tyler froze from his spot with eyes wide open and mouth slightly open too; Felix stop at doing knucklehead on Izzy and stares at her too; Izzy can t hardly believe that there s a girl who can smile like that nowadays, who smiles like an angel who just descends from heaven. Moreover, the least, Shin who just came back from wherever he came from when he was hit by Izzy s infamous mallet, was a little astonish at the smile the new girl shown to them and he can describe her as what Izzy describes her. Overall, you can describe them that they were dumbfounded.
"Hey, it s rude to stare and besides, it s not like this smile will last after one month of training, and I m tired of smiling like an idiot anyway." she said as she ignore the questioning look the 5 of them was giving her. "Now then, let s leave this place and start training already." As she gesture for the chauffer to open the door for her and entered it without waiting for them to answer.
'What does Mikan-chan mean about her smile not lasting our one month of training and about her being tired of smiling? For a girl our age, she s kind of mysterious and deep.' They thought the same but then Persona told them a very heartbreaking story.
"If you want to know about what she means, talk to her and mend her sadness, pain and depressed state she s in now. She was going on many problems right now, and she is suffering it alone by herself and her friends just worsen her pain by telling her those nasty insults. I wish I had punished those damn students especially that stupid black cat before we left yesterday." Persona said as his cold, emotionless facade slips off and shown his merciless and murderous aura, which made the five, understands why Persona became the D.A class adviser in Japan. With that thought in mind, they back away from the person who emits a dangerous murderous aura but that aura soon faded when they saw Mikan got out of the car and made a face that even Persona cannot resist.
Mikan got out of the limo curious why the others and her brother did not follow her. There she saw the five scared of something and looks like they re going to piss their pants, so she went to look at the direction they are looking at, and there she saw her brother surrounding by his ever- so- scary evil aura.
"Persona- nii, stop emitting your dangerous aura because they look like their scared like hell." Mikan said as she points the five shiver in fear.
Persona looks at them skeptically, so he stops emitting his aura and entered the limo first.
Mikan sighed and look at the five who is now calm, then said, "I m sorry. He does that always ever since I met him almost a year now. There was even a time when he almost killed me if I didn t use my Alice at that time." She sighed again, but that statement of hers made the five shocked, "such a troublesome older brother and much troublesome than that stupid black cat. Oh well, let s go." As she said that she followed her brother inside the limo whose now questioning her why she told them about her being almost killed by him, but Mikan just ignore him and hummed the another tune that he himself don't recognize.
The five who is left behind, was still shock at what they heard from Mikan and wondered why Persona almost killed her, but they shove their thought behind and one by one entered the limo.
Two hours passed as they reached the academy, where their training facility can be found deep in the northern forest in which Izzy told them. When they got out of the limo, which it parked, on some secluded part of the academy. In addition, because Mikan and Izzy have the same cheerful personality they became immediate friends, so they walk to the facility chatting about the latest hit songs and telling each other what is their favorite food or stuff. The boys namely Tyler and Shin became irritated at their loud blabbering but Persona, Ian and Felix did not seem to mind.
"Hey, will you two, shut your mouths and just walk quietly?" snapped Shin while he didn t see that Izzy is gripping her red mallet hard and then pushed the button which made the mallet became bigger and hit Sasuke right in the head which made him unconscious, so they left him behind not caring if he was dead or not.
Mikan seem to take their constant fighting funny and it reminded her of the time where she was always hit by Hotaru s famous baka gun. She giggles at the memory but her expression turns bitter when she remembered that Hotaru is one of the people who hurt her feelings. Izzy heard Mikan giggled but when she look at her, her expression turned bitter which made her wonder what she s thinking and then she thought, Maybe she remembered the good times she spend with her friends but then remembered how they treat her. I had better console her, so that she can be herself again. She s kind of distant when she s talking to me.
"We re finally here at the facility." Said Ian with a smile plastered on his face, but Mikan and Persona did not see anything except many trees (obviously, because they re in the forest).
Mikan and Persona gave them a questioning look, and then Persona asked them, "Where is the training facility that you re talking about? All we see are these damn trees." He asked while trying not to lose his temper and to disappoint his sister because of his behavior.
"We're above it, actually." Izzy said while trying not to stutter her words because she s kind of scared of Persona. "The entire facility is underground, even the quarters where we sleep." Then there, they saw Tyler push something on the tree where suddenly on the trunk of the tree came out a big metallic doorframe, which emanates some kind of bluish glow. Then Tyler went through it and disappeared.
"Where did Tyler go? Why did he enter that thing?" Mikan said exaggeratedly as she near the thing.
"That's the entrance and exit of the facility." Felix stated as he was about enter there. "This entire facility was made by Izzy over there." Then he disappears too with Ian, like Tyler.
Izzy guided Mikan through it but Mikan just closed her eyes when she enter together with Izzy, followed by Persona who just shrugged, and gave out a look that says I-don t-care-who-made-it-just-get-over-it.
When Mikan opened her eyes, she saw a large luxurious living room. Inside, she found a modern comfortable- looking couch, which faced a large flat screen TV and a play station consoler on the floor in front of it, a DVD player that had two sets of speakers and a DVD collection in all kinds of genre. On the far corner is the pool table and beside is a small study area and a mini library but opposite of the room on the left is a corner filled with instruments like three electric guitars, a base guitar, a set of drums and a keyboard. In addition, each guitar has an amplifier (that of course needed by the electric guitars and the base guitar) and a recording system which also comes together with the microphone. Opposite of the flat screen TV is a mini bar/ kitchen where they cook their food, and beside that, looks like a door for an elevator.
"This is the living room. This is where we usually hang- out." Izzy guided them to the elevator and pushed the button that symbolized as they are going downwards. The elevator door opened and shown a long hallway. They step out of the elevator and walk through the said hallway and as they pass, Mikan notice that each door that they had pass has a name listed on it like Izzy s name whose just the opposite of her name and she presumed that maybe they are their own rooms. "There are four different floors which separates the entire facility. The first floor is the one that I showed you earlier, the Living room. This is now the second floor of the facility, the sleeping quarters where each one of us has its own room complete with your own bathroom. Now, here s your room Mikan." She pointed at the room that she already guesses hers. "Persona- sensei, your room is beside Mikan's." Izzy said then open Mikan s room to show her what is inside. The room is elegant but simple and is icy colored for the wallpaper and the floor is purple. She has a king-sized bed and matched with her large bathroom that have its very own Jacuzzi. When she checked her walked-in closet, it s already been filled with the latest set of clothes that she didn t even know she owned because her clothes is still inside her luggage with all her other things.
"How come the closet has clothes stacked in there and it s not even mine? Moreover, it s a lot more than I needed to wear." Mikan said while feeling a little shy about how they treated her lot better than she expected.
"Mikan-chan, that s your newest clothes that the academy provided for you. You are of course SPECIAL." Izzy said while putting a little emphasize into the word special. "I mean, our team is special. We have certain privileges that the academy has given us when we agree with their condition and you re also considered to be part of it." Izzy added, making Mikan slightly confused. "I ll fill you in with the details later. So, let s continue our tour around the facility."
Izzy led them again to the elevator where it automatically operates downwards to the third floor of the facility. When the door opens, there they saw all kinds of exercise equipments that you can see in a fitness gym. It also has a large lap geometric swimming pool that fit at least seven people. However, this exercise area also has the latest equipment for any kinds of combat techniques like in Judo, Muay Thai, Karate, Taekwondo, Jujitsu, Chinese Kempo, Ninjitsu, Boxing, Kung Fu, and all the combat techniques that you can think of. It even has a target shooting practice area.
"The third floor is the Exercise and Combat- Ability practice area. We train here for all types of combats and maintain our endurance by doing laps in that lap pool." Explain Izzy.
"The Academy here, sure do have the latest equipment for everything. So, let me see where you practice your Elemental Alices. You do have one, don t you?" asked Persona who seem a little excited at observing the area presented to them but still maintains his stoic, cold fa ade.
"We do have one. It is on the fourth floor. Here, let me show you." As Izzy led them again to the last floor of the facility, where they saw a couple of chairs lined up and in front of them is a weird equipment like what you see on movies; where a mad scientist operates some weird machine that can records and set the background of that particular scene. Moreover, the machine looks modern than the ones in the movies. In the corner of that small and narrow room, is a door where the real Alice training area is held.
"This machine materializes the surroundings and things inside the room. It is somewhat similar to that of the movies but this operates like an illusion background but you can touch and feel the temperature, rocks and trees that has been materialize inside because of the machine. It can even materialize other people for practice, but you need his or her data in order to materialize him or her. In addition, that room is large enough to fit thousands of students where we can freely move around." Explained Izzy as she pushes some buttons on the said machine, which can be shown on the large monitor what, is she is doing, while Persona and Mikan nods as a response.
"So that s about it. In addition, even if you go around destroying everything in that room, it cannot reach this area and it sound- proof. I mean the whole facility is sound- proof, even in the sleeping quarters." Izzy said as she wink at Mikan, but due to her na ve, innocent and oblivious personality, she did not get what Izzy meant by that, while Persona just rolled his eyes. "Now, Persona- sensei and Mikan, it s still 6 in the morning, so, you two better get rest and we ll prepare the food for lunch."
"Where are the others?" asked Mikan with a hint of concern.
"They re around here, somewhere. Now, off you go, and we may need to talk later about why our team has this privileges, okay? Moreover, you two may have to meet them at lunch later." As she said that, Persona and Mikan left and went to their own quarters to get a good rest but still wondering what Izzy meant about them . However, as Mikan was about to enter her room, Persona called her.
"Mikan-chan, are okay with all of this?" asked Persona worried about Mikan. "I mean, about leaving Japan and becoming a D.A student?"
"I decided becoming a D.A student on my own free will and its okay for me to leave Japan than to stay there with those backstabbing friends of mine." She said as rage filled her eyes, which Persona did not fail to see. "And besides, I already decided to change my care-free, idiotic and clumsy self into a better one, once I return to Japan. I ll make them regret on what they did to me." she clenched her fist then enters her room and slammed it close leaving a dumbfounded Persona hanging.
"I guess she really did take their insults that bad. But I wouldn t blame her for acting like that." As Persona went to his own room and change his clothes ready to take a quick nap, 'But still, I ll get my revenge on them for making my sister feel this way.' He pondered as he fell asleep.
Mikan woke up startled when someone knocks at her door. She got up but a little bit cranky at the person who disturb her sleep, and went to the door to open it. There, she saw Izzy with Persona standing in front of her.
"Sorry for disturbing your sleep Mikan-chan but it s time for lunch." Izzy said sincerely as she looks at her clock, which says 11:30. "I know your both tired from your flight but, it s important that you have to meet them now." She said as she took a quick glance at Persona and led them to the elevator.
While inside the elevator, Persona asked Izzy, "Who s them?"
"They're the D.A class adviser and the producer." She ended that made them curious, as the door opened revealing two people waiting. One is a man worn an all black suit with a mixture of gold that matched his black hair and sharp yellow cat-like eyes, and that man seems to have a dangerous scary aura emitting from him behind his playful grinning smile. The other is a woman dressed in a formal gray business- like suit, hair as blonde that matched her deep gray eyes.
'The woman seems friendly.' Mikan thought as the woman greeted them when they exited the elevator.
"You're Mikan Sakura, I presume." She said as she held out her hand for a handshake, which she accepted, "And this is Persona, the D.A adviser from Japan." As she did the same but Persona just shook it. "Well, I m Sarah Cornwell. I m you're..." she said but was cut off by the scary man beside her.
"Uhm Sarah-san, they don t know it yet so, we need to explain it to them, after we ate." He said as he went to the bar and pressed a button, and that same moment, a big large table with chairs fit for ten people, came out from the floor in the middle of the room. Then he sat in one of the chairs at the table and said grinning creepily, "Now, then let s eat when the others arrive."
They followed him and they each sat at one of the seats on random but the three stayed together, namely Persona, Izzy and Mikan in between. As if on cue, Ian, Felix and Tyler came out of the elevator looking all- sweaty from their never- ending training, same as Shin but he has an obvious large bump on his head that may have caused by Izzy earlier. The four then gave an apologetic nod at the man wore in black and sat.
Now, that we re all here. Let s eat, shall we? the man said as robotic maids came out of the mini kitchen carrying 8 plates, forks, and spoons and also a banquet of food that filled the whole table which makes it look like they were having a feast.
They were all quiet as they ate the food serve on the table. The robotic maids brought them some drinks. Persona, Sarah and the scary man drank the wine that was serving to them and as for the 13-year-old teenagers; they drank the iced tea and lemon juice instead.
Mikan just finish eating the dessert that was served to them when the man spoke. "My name is Hizaya Kazama and like both of you, I m also Japanese. I m the teacher of the D.A class here in America." He said while he sips his wine as he glance at Izzy. "And as for the condition mentioned by Izzy earlier, Mikan- chan have to work for the academy like Izzy and the others of the MISFIT."
"And what kind of work may that be Hizaya-san?" asked Persona looking a little worried while still keeping up his stoic, cold facade. "Didn t the D.A class do missions already for the sake of the academy?"
"Yes, the D.A class here still does missions for the academy and the team MISFIT still has missions but they just do it on the weekends because this team will have to work outside the academy to make some profits on weekdays at their free time." He said as he glances at Sarah who was quiet the entire conversation, but still has her attention focused at him.
"Mikan-chan, can you sing?" Sarah asked when she understood the glance that Hizaya gave her. "Or compose any songs?" she said hoping to get a nice answer from her.
"Yes, I can sing and I can also compose some songs. Why d you ask Sarah-san?" Mikan asked curiously. Then she noticed that everyone except Persona whose as confuse and curious as her, just stare at them who just cheered in joy. Even the ever-so-angry and cool Shin reacted in a smirk, so as the ever so cold, and gloomy but in a cool way, Tyler just gave a nod in delight with a slight smile plastered on his face.
"You can sing Mikan-chan?" Ian asked cheerfully, as I just nodded still confused on what is going on. "Now, we don t have anything to worry about, except our upcoming audition."
Mikan and Persona pondered at the word 'audition ', but Persona may have started to come up with an idea of what Hizaya mean as working for profits and just smirk at the idea.
"Yeah, I wonder how we ll sound, now that we have Mikan." Said Felix while he grins.
"I bet we ll sound much worse than before. I don t even think she can sing.", said Shin cockily.
"Just shut up and keep your mouth shut, brat. If you don t, you ll going to have to taste another hit from my mallet." She said while showing her mallet and ready to hit him making him step away from Izzy. You don t even know about that.
"I assure you all that she can sing." Hizaya said while looking very amused and just smirk as he took the remote control of the TV, then he turn it on.
As the TV was turned on, they saw a figure of the girl sitting under a sakura tree alone while looking lonely and beside her was a guitar painted with black designed with a couple of icy blue snowflakes . As the camera when nearer, the figure became familiar and they recognized the girl as Mikan. They stared at her and asked questioningly.
"Mikan, did you know that you re being filmed?" asked Persona while giving her look that said are-you-that-stupid-for-not-noticing. Mikan just gave him a sheepishly smile that he understood immediately what it mean and just rolled his eyes and turn back his gaze to the screen.
(Back at the screen) Mikan looked really lonely and sad at the same time. She sat under the Sakura tree looking to nothing but air, and as if that she was bored and nothing to do. She then pick up some papers that looked like music sheets and grabbed her guitar. She cleared her throat as if she s preparing to sing and sang as she strums her guitar.
Innocence- Avril Lavigne
Waking up I see that everything is ok
The first time in my life and now it s so great
Slowing down I look around and I am so amazed
I think about the little things that make life great
I wouldn t change a thing about it
This is the best feeling
This innocence is brilliant
I hope that it will stay
This moment is perfect
Please don t go away
I need you now
And I ll hold on to it
Don t you let it pass you by
I found a place so safe, not a single tear
The first time in my life and now it s so clear
Feel calm, I belong, I m so happy here
It s so strong and now I let myself be sincere
I wouldn t change a thing about it
This is the best feeling
This innocence is brilliant
I hope that it will stay
This moment is perfect
Please don t go away
I need you now
And I ll hold on to it
Don t you let it pass you by
It s a state of bliss, you think you re dreaming
It s the happiness inside that you re feeling
It s so beautiful it makes you wanna cry
It s a state of bliss, you think you re dreaming
It s the happiness inside that you re feeling
It s so beautiful it makes you wanna cry
It s so beautiful it makes you wanna cry
The innocence is brilliant, It makes you want to cry
The innocence is brilliance
Please don t go away, Cause I need you now
And I ll hold on to it, Don t you let it pass you by
This innocence is brilliant
I hope that it will stay
This moment is perfect
Please don t go away
I need you now
And I ll hold on to it
Don t you let it pass you by
As Mikan on the screen finish her song, a tear fell from her eyes, as she daze at the sky. (The presentation ended)
They saw that after Mikan sang her song, her expression seem like she felt relieve or something and that made the audience wonder what she felt that day. Does someone hurt her? Did she break up with a boy? Did someone die? What s the title of the song? That s all the questions that came up on their mind but they all know that only Mikan can answer that, so they all turn their attention to her and bombarded her with questions, the same questions that they were thinking. The others namely, Hizaya and Persona just look at Mikan with the same look the others gave her, except Izzy gave Shin a mocking look, which made him, shook in embarrassment.
"First of all, I guess that video was taken a few months after I get to settled in the academy as a student. Second, any of your questions like someone hurt me or I broke up with my boyfriend is false. Third is, the title of that song is Innocence." Mikan said. "I think I might have brought that song with me somewhere."
"Cool, can you show it to us now." asked Felix desperately.
"Okay, I guess." Mikan said as she used her Teleportation Alice, transport herself in her room, and searched for her Music sheets, which she found immediately under her notebook filled also with her songs. She grabbed it and transports back to them, she used her Duplication Alice, duplicates the sheet, and gave it to them, which they immediately crowd around it. The group read her music sheet, even Sarah who looks excited after reading it but then she turn her gaze on Hizaya. "Hizaya-sensei, where did you get this video from?"
"I have my sources." Hizaya said with a smirk.
Just then, Tyler yelled excitedly and retreated from the group. "Let s play this song right now." Tyler said as he went to the drum set and grabbed the sticks and started thumping the drums in a rhythm, "I know how to spice it up with my drums."
"Okay." Felix said as he went towards Tyler, grabbed the base guitar, set the sheet on the stand, and started playing some tunes. "I want to add it with some low sounds too, to make it in melody with the electric guitars."
"Lucky for me that Mikan already put the song in a way I can easily play it." Izzy said as she went towards the keyboard and play her song gracefully but still has force put in it.
"I doubt that you can even play the song without her help." Shin spat at Izzy which she just glared at him, as he strapped the flame-painted electric guitar on his torso and plays Mikan s song as well. "And I ll admit that she s really good either on singing or composing her songs." Ian just went beside Shin, played the emerald electric guitar, and gave Mikan a smile.
Mikan was still confused on what s happening around them, but Persona has an idea that her sister will be getting into another situation, and it looks like that he s already involved in it. Mikan, still oblivious in the situation she is into, was pulled into the group by Sarah and urged her to sing. Mikan shyly sang it and she was rather pleased to hear that her song actually sounds good when played together with other instruments like in a band and she was enjoying it.
They finished the song perfectly without flaw, even though this is the first time they played the song. Sarah clapped her hands joyfully, as well as Persona and Hizaya who just gave them an approving smile.
"So that settles it." Sarah said giving a small glance at Mikan, which she didn t notice. "MISFIT is officially a band presenting Alice Academy. And Mikan is our singer-slash-composer."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute Sarah- san. What did you just say?" Mikan asked her still confused and a little panicked when she heard her say about a band. Maybe she was hearing things and wanted to hear it clearly this time. "I didn t quite catch on what you said just now?"
"She said that you re singing your songs in their band." Persona said to his still oblivious little sister, and he s not shocked about that sudden proclaim because he already figured it out." And I mean that you re the singer-slash-composer of the band MISFIT, that s why there s and M on that name."
'WHAT?... SINGER... ME?" Mikan said exasperatedly still shocked. "NO WAY"
END OF CHAPTER
Belated HAPPY NEW YEAR, by the way. The year of the rabbit, 2011.
So, what did you think about this chapter?
I know that this is a little longer than my previous one and I didn t keep my promise and I apologize because of that. It took me awhile to finish this because of the upcoming New Year celebration and we just move back with my family to our grandparents residence where our original house is located for a 3-day vacation.
An, all of you who have notice that no Hotaru, Natsume, Ruka and the others have made appearance in this chapter because I want to introduce the new guys. I mean the band to you. The others will be in the next chapter (probably mourning).
Hmmmnnnn .enough chatting and I ll say my goodbye for now.
Till next time. And oh, don t forget to review this chapter.