Disclaimer:

I do not own Charlotte, Laura or anyone except Kennedy/Kenneth Cahill and the IS unit he uses (weapons included)


Chapter Two

No one said anything as another stormed up to Ichika demanding to know who I was. I watched her fearfully. Rin was her name, and the unknown one from before was Houki. "Who is she!" Rin yelled.

Deciding I should do something and stop her from killing him I called to Glacé Okami, my IS unit. Just in time too. Rin had quickly activated what I believe was a ShenLong and what aiming her guns at him. Making sure I only gave the armor to my left arm along with Oighear Fíochmhar, one of two swords that Glacé Okami was equipped with, I swung the large sword in front of Ichika to block her attack before anyone could blink. She and I activating our IS and making our moves took less than two seconds.

Everyone stared at the frozen scene. Rins eyes were glued to my partial activation as were Ichikas. Everyone else watch all three of us in surprise. I pulled back deactivating Glacé Okami including Oighear Fíochmhar. "Pl-please stop interrogating Or-Orimura-san. If y-you wish to know w-who I am, th-then please allow me to in-introduce myself. I am K-Kennedy Cahill, th-the Irish Representative." I say quietly to Rin, "And please deactivate ShenLong."

"H-How did you activate so quickly?" Rin stuttered in shock as she did as I requested. I shrugged not giving anything up. My past was unusual and I was not ready to share it.

"Why don't we sit down and eat." Charlotte suggested breaking through the tense silence. "Yeah, why don't we." Cecilia agreed. Silently we all sat in a circle, the awkwardness still hanging in the air by a thread. The girls were watching me warily as if expecting me to attack at any time. "I th-think I should g-go." I whispered to no one in particular standing up to leave.

"No, wait. Please stay. You don't you're way around." Ichika said pulling at my arm. I hesitated watching for the other girls reactions. Slowly they nodded in agreement. I sat down once again not saying anything.

With that each of the friends started to unpack their respective lunch. "Ne, Cahill-san, what are going to be eating?" Ichika asked. "Eh, n-no. I don't u-usually eat l-lunch." I stuttered, holding back a shutter at why I didn't typically.

"But you need the energy!" Laura, surprisingly exclaimed. The other girls nodded agreeing with her. "Here, I have some English sandwiches I'd be happy to share." Cecilia offered. I hesitated, it'd been forever since I had tasted the little sandwiches my sister made every Saturday when we were kids. Hesitantly I stuck out my hand to grab one. All eyes were on me as I took hold of a familiar sandwich. Feeling self conscious I brought the food to my mouth and took a small bite. Cecilia looked excited, while the others appeared to be waiting for me to screw up my face and say it was gross. I chewed slowly taking in the oh so familiar taste. My eyes lit up, "These are really delicious Alcott-san!" I exclaimed quiet. "Th-thank you." Everyone, including Cecilia seemed shocked. I guess her sandwiches didn't often get that reactions.

I smiled a little as everyone started to relax and enjoy themselves. Curiously I watched as Rin and Houki battled to see whose food Ichika liked best. Those girls were head over heels for that boy, thank god they think I'm a girl. "Hey, Cahill-san, would you want to hold a practice match after this to show off your IS?" Houki asked. I smiled slightly, "Yeah, sure. B-but please call me, K-Kennedy." She smiled as well, "Only if you call me Houki."

Lunch passed rather quickly with each of the girls warming up to me slightly as I showed little parts of my character they could relate with.

Ichika and Laura separated themselves from the group right after, something about a private lesson. The rest of us headed towards the locker rooms to change. Luckily my locker wasn't near any of them to I could change quickly without worrying about revealing my gender. Oh great, I forgot about roommates, I wonder who mine is.

Slowly I walked out into the arena smiling slightly. I noticed that no one wore the school issued training uniform. I didn't either, like my usual uniform and most of the clothes in my suitcase it was specially tailor to fit me perfectly without giving my true gender away. Like the school issued ones it consisted of the thigh high socks and skin tight leotard. The few differences were noticeable, instead of the tank top/sleeveless sleeves mine were long sleeves and instead of the dark blue/grey color scheme mine was a icy blue with white trimmings.

Cecilia was the only one with her IS activated. "I hope you don't mind fighting me first." She called from her unit Blue Tears. I shrugged in response waiting for the others to back away before I activated Glacé Okami.

My IS was smaller than most. It was small and less bulky than just about all other IS. The 'wings' were longer than the main unit but like the rest of the it, they were small and didn't look very durable. The icy blue and white color stood out against arena. The head piece was headband like with wolf ears. Another shocking feature was the wolf tail that hung behind me. The IS was made exactly to my desires down to the point. After multiple studies I knew that it'd be safe to cut down on the armor so that I could have more speed. The wings and the tail were for aerodynamics to even further boost my speed. In all my IS was a close combat battle type. The speed advances were to be able to fight long range models. I would have to get in close to fight and for that I needed speed.

"You hardly have any armor at all!" Cecilia exclaimed. I smiled feeling confident now that I was with my partner. "Maybe so, but the Glacé Okami was designed and built exactly to my specifications. I know what I'm doing." Cecilia shrugged, "Oh well." The materialized her Blue Pierce as she yelled, "Prepare to be defeated!" With that she shot off away from me so that she could make use of the long range.

I waited for her to make the first move, shooting her weapon before I materialized Oighear Fíochmhar and Loup Féroce the twin swords Glacé Okami was equipped with. Dodging quickly I used her attention on the spot were I used to to get just a little bit closer finally coming up off the ground. When she finally found me at least 75 feet away from her she started shooting again rapid fire.

I was making great progress in getting closer to her all while dodging each round of fire she sent my when she actually hit my IS. Sadly since I had little armor installed my shield energy dropped rather intensely.

Knowing I'd have to end the match before she could use the target seeking missiles I knew she had, I activated the ignition boost. I carefully dodged the four drones that detached from her wings as a last resort to get me away. I was seconds away from her, charging Loup Féroce and Oighear Fíochmhar for the final blow, when I saw the missile pods near her hips open up. I no time to spare as connected the twin swords with her IS. She quickly lost shield energy

and was at zero within seconds.

She seemed shocked but quickly shook it off as she smiled at me graciously accepting defeat. "Good job, but you know I was going easy on you." I laughed light. We both quickly landed and deactivated our units. Her back into the earring standby mode and mine into the choker like necklace.

The others quickly dropped down to the arena floor to congratulate me. I blushed, "It's not that b-big of a d-deal."

They all looked at me curiously seemingly shocked at how quickly my demeanor changed once out of the suit. Oh if only it were an act.


Translations (hopefully, i used Google Translate)

Glace(French)- Ice

Okami(Japanese)- Wolf

Oighear Fíochmhar(Irish)- Fierce Ice

Loup Féroce(French)- Fierce Wolf


Alright guys there ya go chapter two! And thank you to LaverdaHarleyIndian for being my first review.

LaverdaHarleyIndian- Thank you! And as for taking it in the direction of an Ichika/Kenneth pair well, there might be some when they still think he's a guy. But as of right now I have no clear pairing for my OC.