Chapter 3 : Stargate Academy
"Hey Shal, I'm going to Grannie's place for vacation, want to come with me?" a girl said with a wide smile on her face, she even took his hand almost dragging him along with her,
"Like I say, Nee-chan, I have something to do", he answered seriously while taking his hand back from the girl's hand,
"Come on….it'll be boring if you didn't come beside, you and I were the only outsiders right, then if you didn't come who's gonna be my friend?", she persuade him again this time with something called crocodille's tears that'll make him feel the guilt,
"Nee-chan, I'll go with you another time ok? Not this time, I've already booked", he said again along with more serious tone this time,
"Booked? Don't tell me it's him again…", she said with her dissapointed face,
"Yes he is, no more question okay?", he said as the girl released her grip and embrace him,
"I'm gonna missed you, you're just like my own brother to me", by the time Shalnark himself doesn't realize that was his last time with her, his dear cousin who more like sister to him, now that she's gone, he really is turn to guilt over the thought that he should come with her, if only he knows...
Back to present time where Shalnark was found himself sleeping with Mocha sleep deeper beside him,
I will definitely protect you Mocha, I won't let Danchou feel what I feel about her, he murmured to himself. By the time when they reach the airport, both of them breathe the air quite hardly,
"Don't let me lose you this time Mocha, because there is no one that you know around here", Shalnark warned Mocha with serious tone if his not forget to add it,
"Aye aye captain", said the child near him while impostering the gesture of ship crew to the captain. Not too long before they reach Shalnark's house,
"I've already informed them of our arrival, don't worry", said Shalnark,
"Them?", asked Mocha,
"You know, I still lived with my parents since I'm only 16 this year", he answered as if known that Mocha has never know how old he really are,
"Okay, let's go in", he said as he allowed Mocha to entered the house,
"Oh yeah, before I forgot, Mocha, Danchou wants me to take you to the school by tomorrow, so I asked my parents to prepare what you would need and put you to the same class as me", said the sandy-blond haired boy which about to going upstairs,
"Come on, I'll take you to your room", he continued, leaving the raven-haired little boy in jar for a while before he finally manage to follow the certain older boy.
Mocha's Diary
Dear diary, today is the best day ever, maybe because this is the first time my brother ever gives me permission to go to a school, can't you imagine that! S-C-H-O-O-L! I will finally have friends out of the Spiders only, I really curious about tomorrow, then I'll tell you what happen in my first day school, but to your information, Shalnark's says that brother has attend the same school before but he just left, not dropped out, but just left.
Sincerely,
Mocha
Just as he watch the certain kid sleep, Shalnark decide to going to his own room, today was quite complicated and he was really exhausted.
Morning light could penetrate the room which the both boys stayed overnight, in Mocha's room however, the certain kid has already woke up and take his bath, on the other hand, his companion, which is Shalnark spesifically, just awake and dazzing off at his own bed, while his memories played their record at the keeper.
"Shalnark wake up!", said a girl with a long goldy locks,
"Give me another five minutes", the younger boy said in sleepy voice,
"I'll give you two minutes to walk to your bathroom before you have me washing you up", said the girl in threaten voice,
"Okay, okay,that's not fair Nee-chan, I still need more rest", he plead at the certain blonde which just turn away,
"That puppy looks won't have the affect unless I'm looking at your eyes, isn't it Shal?", she said while walking towards the door,
"I'll be waiting for you", she closed the door behind her, leaving the certain boy and his grumbled,
"That is so unfair!", he finally said it out loud.
I kind of missed those days, when she's around, he said to himself, started to sit on his bed and looking at the door when someone opened it up,
"Hey Shal, are you awake?", said the young kid with low tone, almost like his afraid to break upon the silence,
"Yes I am Mocha, what make you wake up so early?", said Shalnark with his calm voice,
"I might be too excited to see the school Shal, is that illegal?", Mocha said while positioning himself beside Shalnark,
"It's okay though, I can understand why you act so excited like that, this is your first time going to school isn't it?", Shalnark said in almost chuckled,
"If you mean school that'll not seen me as the infamous genei ryodan head's brother which made them too scared to be my friends, I can say you right", answered Mocha almost in sad tone,
"Don't worry, here in Stargate Academy, they are also your brother schoolmate, and mine, and they're too somekind of 'gifted' or 'special' kids, so they'll see us as they're bare friends", said the young spider again, try to reassured to the certain raven-haired little boy,
"Okay, but….can I ask you one more thing?", said Mocha in such a serious tone,
"What?", said Shalnark, while Mocha cleared his throat before continuing,
"What's with the uniform?", said Mocha while showing the uniform that looks fit to his small body, almost make he look like a grade schooler if the line of the shirt's hand were two not four,
"What are you talking about? That uniform suit you just perfectly, maybe your brother should be here to see it too", said the sandy-blond haired boy who can't help but laugh at the certain kid,
"Stop mocking me!", he said in anger, while Shalnark couldn't help but laugh out louder,
"Sorry, now if you excuse me, I wanna take a bath and change my clothes too, so wait for me in the dining room okay", said Shalnark, now that the said kid going out of the room Shalnark himself can saw his cute-duckling-backpack, which gave him a question,
"They're brothers aren't they? Just how can they be so different?", he asked to himself.
Entering the said school left Mocha felt uneasy, he never been alone without his brother at school, and now he is, with Shalnark (whose now is his classmate) and his brother wasn't around, made him swallowed a moment,
"Hey Shal, who's this kiddo?", said the man (boy actually) who might be the leader of somewhat gank in the class,
"Oh hi there Ricky, this is Mocha, he is my Danchou's little brother", said Shalnark while standing between the two,
"Oh so that's why he looks somewhat familiar", said Ricky while offering his hand towards Mocha,
"Hey I'm Ricky, the leader of Oblivion, Shal's is part of us too, mind to join?", Mocha, on the other hand was not concentrate on the said boy, his eyes were locked on some girl's group and especially a girl who sitting alone with somekind of big-thick-book on her hand, her long too straight brunette hair covering her face, while he can say strange if there is a punk-tomboy-girl wear her uniform just the way it has to be,
"Mocha?", come Ricky's voice brought him back from the certain girl,
"Were you listening?", he said which responded by nod from Mocha before he spoke,
"About joining Oblivion? I think my answer is yes", he said with big smile on his face,
"Now that's what I called friend", said Ricky, which made the said boy smile even wider. Just when the lunch break bell's ringing, Mocha saw The Princess (the girls group which look like a princess from a fairytale, blonde, fair skin, make up's), leaving the class, that's when he realize the brunette from this morning didn't belongs to the princess, instead, she's just walk alone to somewhere he might figured it out by himself.
On the other hand, Shalnark and the rest of Oblivion, just finally realize that the said little boy was out of their sight,
"Where is the little Mocha?", said one of the Oblivion, which caused Shalnark to make a mental note,
do not let Mocha out of sight even just for a second, he thought.
Mocha himself finally catch up with the certain girl when she was coming out of the library,
"hey there, mind to show me around?", he asked as he put his puppy eyes technic towards the girl,
"why should I?", she responded with a cold voice and a little go-away-from-me accent,
"I'm Mocha, what's yours?", he said with big smile on his face,
"it's Illumina, Illumina Waltfeld", answered her with more calm voice,
"so, Lulu, mind to show me around?", he said again, making this girl raised her quizzical eyebrow,
"I'll take that as yes, so come on!", he started to dragged the girl around until he finally decide to stop and asking about 'what is this room?' question here and there.
"hey, I've heard you are Blatchford's brother?", the girl finally spoke with much more calm voice than the first time,
"yeah, where did you heard that?", asked Mocha innocently,
"well let's just say, I have a brother, he is your brother classmates, and so he's informed me", she responded quickly,
"oh and…mind to see the place where your brother taking his kindergarten?", she asked as she pretended to lead the way,
"sure why not?", he answered curiously, besides, I just want to know more about brother's childhood what's so wrong about, he asked himself.
"here is our used-to-be kindergarten, now that the new kindergarten moved, it's just became somekind of museum for us to looking back at our shining childhood", said Lulu, shining childhood huh?, thought Mocha to know that, of all people, why it has to be this punk-boyish girl who said such a melancholy phrase, that's just too irational, or maybe, just as Shal's has remarked, for 'gifted' or 'special' kid, so he may said this is as one of the example, a punk boyish girl with gifted wise words,
"hey Mocha, wanna see something exciting?", said the girl as she held a small framed photo in her hand, photo of someone so familiar, his brother, and a blond little girl smiling innocently and looked so closed together,
"this is….", he said in curiousity in his voice.