Disclaimer: Sadly, I do not own Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin. Just this fan fiction you're about to read.
Warnings: Depicting violence (Fumiaki is always thrown around for he was such a nuisance) and the stupid choice of words are too much!
Kapitel 2: Rite of Passage
On the way to the ruins of Matsushiro castle…
"Maya-san!" Kozue shouted, trying her darnedest to stop Maya from going to the ruins. But Maya wasn't going to be deterred. She just looked ahead while still dragging the unconscious Fumiaki towards the ruins.
"Kozue, it's no use." Ami waved her hands in front of her face while telling Maya about all this, all the while keeping up with their pace. "She won't change her mind as long as it's all about occult." But also she was shocked of her words. What did I say? Shouldn't be the occult freak be Kozue-san?
"Ami, why are you being such a dork?" Maya had said, after turning to face Ami. Kozue had shrinked back in fright.
"What did I do?"
Ami waited for an answer, but all she got was that deafening silence. She then turned to her disdainfully, before turning a 180 degree to the other direction.
"Fine! Do what you want! I'm obviously going home!"
Ami had already walked away when Maya realized something wrong in the place where they are supposed to be. The sky looked a lot darker, the stars more pronounced, with a huge, looming blue moon just above their heads. Their path has also been lined with hedgerows. It had become a labyrinth.
"…What? No! Kozue! Don't leave my side!" Maya had then turned towards Kozue, but the hedgerows had also been closing unto her too. She had only been able to shout "Maya-san!" before being swallowed up by the thick bushes. The sky then turned instantly dark, with the moon hanging closely, as if threatening to crush anyone when it falls.
Fumiaki had stirred up soon after that. His head was throbbing badly, maybe because of all those punches he received earlier from Maya-san. Looking up, he only had about a few seconds before he had been able to mutter incomprehensible words.
"What, Abe-sensei? Are you going to make me irritated further?"
"…N-no of course not-t!"
"…Stupid."
Fumiaki had turned in every direction, as if looking for something. When he seems to have not found what he had been looking for, he turned to Maya for help.
"…Um—"
"What?"
"EEEP!"
"Why are you shrieking like a girl? Seriously, why should I be left alone in this stupid labyrinth-like place with someone as dorky as you?"
It took Fumiaki a few more minutes before he had comprehended what has been said to him. "…EEEH? DO YOU SERIOUSLY MEAN THAT WE ARE ALL ALONE IN SOME LABYRINTH-LIKE PLACE? WHERE ARE WE ANYWAY? WHERE HAVE YOU BROUGHT ME? WHERE—UGH!"
Maya-san had hit Abe-sensei in the head.
"Shut up, you're being annoying." Maya had said, completely holding a baseball bat. Where the hell she might have got it is from somewhere either she doesn't know. It just popped out on thin air when she thought of something to hit Abe-sensei/Fumiaki.
Fumiaki then rubbed the part of his head where the baseball bat had landed. "That hurt!"
"Of course it must hurt. Or are you becoming a masochist?"
"Huh? I don't seriously get your pace." Fumiaki had managed to utter without Maya hurting him. When he noticed that he stood up and went beside Maya. "So, what are we doing now?" he asked, though it only seemed like he was only talking to pure air. So he just shut up.
That was an awfully tense minute or so of silence, until…
"…I remember now." Maya had said, so suddenly that Fumiaki had jumped in his place. His sweat dropped from his head to the ground, wherein if you looked there was not a trace of the sweat left. Weird.
"Excuse me, Maya-san," Fumiaki asked, his eye nervously shifting from Maya's face and to the baseball bat that she carries. "What are you thinking about?"
"Once started
There is no coming back
For if it so
Bad luck will befall on your lap!"
Maya had completed the last stanza of the song before turning to Fumiaki, though she dared not sing it again, for she does not know the consequences. "That was a warning. This game must have already started. And now it managed to separate us from the rest."
Fumiaki seems to not comprehending what was said because he stupidly asked "What?" to Maya-san, who sent him flying again for he pissed her off.
"But then, when did it start?" Maya had turned to herself again, with Fumiaki lying helplessly somewhere else, comprehending loudly and thinking while shouting her ideas to herself.
"Maybe the moment you stepped outside towards the sacred site…?" a screechy voice answered her thoughts. Maya involuntarily turned in search of the voice, but found no one. "Heh heh! Do you think I'll be behind you? Think again!"
Maya then realized where the voice was originating, so she looked up. Upon doing so, her eyes widen in disbelief. Staring at her was a self-aggrandizing Sphinx, her haughty face looking funny for she has the body of a lion. Nevertheless nothing seems to make her less terrifying. The Sphinx, after seeing that she had fully frightened her to-be food, flew back to her nest made of people's dead bodies.
"It seems that you are lost, traveler." The Sphinx asked. She also seemed to not notice Fumiaki, who continued to pretend he was unconscious.
"…So what if I am? I just have to answer some flimsy question to pass, right?"
The Sphinx smiled in a snotty way. "You are too overconfident. Do you think my question is that easy?"
"Unfortunately, yes. I'm sorry, but you're already way past your era."
"Your time too will end, if you do not answer my question." The Sphinx's eyes shone brightly red, and at the instant a lot of red dots also formed a circle, closing on me. When the moonbeams had shone on them, I had seen that they are chupacabras.
Maya suddenly remembered the time when she and Ami chased those damn chupacabras. They also had an argument like this.
"But, she's not here with me this time…" Maya regained her composure immediately. "Okay Sphinx, I will answer your question."
"Very well." The Sphinx smiled again. "And, just an additional entertainment." Her wings pointed towards the chupacabras around Maya. Maya flinched in disgust. She still remembers how disgusting these creatures were and also how sharp their teeth were.
The Sphinx, seeing that Maya-san is obviously disgusted with the sight of hundred chupacabras around her suddenly giggled in delight. It was weird hearing a Sphinx giggle like a high school girl.
"Here's my question:
Ages passed without them being perceived
Unnoticed yet together with us they have been
A constant companion every time the sun's at its peak
What is now the answer to what I seek?"
"When did you change your question?" Maya asked, still not grasping the question that the Sphinx had given her. Under normal circumstances, the Sphinx should have asked the question she had asked Oedipus eons ago but no! The creature suddenly changed her question. Now it's only up to Maya if she can answer the question right. [A/N: The question was supposed to be: What walks on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening? The answer was a human being, who in infancy crawls on all fours, in adulthood walks upright on two legs and in old age uses a cane. When Oedipus solved her riddle, the Sphinx killed herself.]
"I'm giving you five minutes." The Sphinx declared. Then the Sphinx's head turned towards a corner hidden by the shadow of the brooding bushes. "Butler! Time her for me."
At first it may look like the Sphinx had called out in futility, but at the instant a butler clad in black entered the scene. "Now, who's this funny-looking guy? A butler? Then he's supposed to be called…"
"Sebastian!" Maya had told herself aloud. The guy in black glared at her with his shining red eyes. His pocket watch was open in his right palm.
"How do you know my name?" He asked, or better yet, Sebastian asked. His palm had swiftly closed on the pocket watch after that scary remark.
"…That's how butlers are supposed to be called, dummy."
"Heh." The guy called Sebastian suddenly smirked, his cunning smile increased an inch in length. "No one else called me a dummy except my master. You are different."
"I didn't order you to talk to my food Sebastian." The Sphinx glared at him. She turned to Maya again. "So, what was now your answer?"
"…Shadow." Maya blurted out suddenly.
"Why?" The Sphinx asked, her haughty face turned stony. If Sphinxes can be surprised, this might be how they looked like.
"Because it is mostly unnoticed, since shadows are mostly just lying at our feet. Complete imitations of ourselves, yet they only come out whenever the sun, or any light source is shining upon us."
The Sphinx, realizing that Maya had known of the answer, turned instead on rage. "You cheated!" she said in her screeching voice, hoping to deter Maya. But Maya was firm. She didn't back down even though she knew that she was practically helpless in that situation.
"I did not." Maya said; and without a doubt was the truth. Her hands are on her waist, her stingy eyes looking directly at the Sphinx's own, Maya-san's haughty nature springing once again to the top. "So, can I pass now?"
"No." The Sphinx muttered, her thought addled with fury. Due to her own understanding of cheating and non-cheating she was thinking that she had been deceived, which for her was the primary sin of all. "No you cannot! Chupacabra, get her!"
And almost instantly the chupacabras are racing towards her…
… End of Kapitel 2 …
Author's Note: A new year to all again~! Just now I was watching a video of a Japanese band named Pigstar and it made me remember Junjou Romantica! [They are the ones who sung the opening songs of the said anime for season 1 and 2] I hope there's a season 3! I'm sorry; I really get excited on this subject matter.
I hope that you all liked this second chapter as well. I made this on my free time. Or the time wherein I got bored doing school stuffs. Anyways, my course requires a lot of reading articles, notes and books (I'm a Literature student, which shouldn't be taken lightly because it is supposed to be hard!). So, is there gonna be a hiatus? Wakaranai~! Besides, it's unpredictable if ever there's going to be one. Also, finals had just ended, but I'm going to have a part-time job in the summer. I hate being penniless~! I still have to get my cosplay outfit ready.
Since I wrote this a month before summer break, I was thinking of changing the lot of this note. But lo! I guess I just didn't want to do it.
What a space taker! Anyhow, I'm waiting for your lovely comments or reviews~! "When you're already tired from trying to chase the sky, you can always come down to the earth and rest. After that you can try again~." Wiedersehen~ :3