YO! This is troublesome01 here! Welcome to the fourth part of The Magi's Cherry Blossom! Maneyan thanks for reviewing man! Oh before the story begins, I'm currently trying to get my license and well it may conflict. But I promise on this cup of ramen that I will not let you down, even though there is webpage with a list of excuses for tardiness on my computer.
Some good news! This is now the only story I'm currently working on, because the other one is finished so I get more time to work on this one. Ramen for everybody!
An eerie wind blew. Nodoka glanced around. Her heart was beating twice its regular speed. Some of the branches behind her moved with the wind. Nodoka was looking around for her lost book. She quickly scanned the ground and saw the book's familiar, red covering. She took another glance around her person. She slowly picked up the book and stood up. She started walking back towards the dorms.
The wind picked up again. Nodoka kept on walking. Some petals began to fall. Nodoka picked up her pace. A twig snapped. Nodoka was running. She glanced back and saw a shadow move out of the corner of her eye. Looking ahead again, she continued running away from the ominous shadows behind her.
The piercing wind rushed past her. "Student number 27, Miyazaki Nodoka. Your book has something in common with you; it is the same color… as your blood!"
"Eeeek!" Nodoka let out a piercing scream and fainted. The vampire closed in, revealing her fangs…
"Spirits of wind gather and capture my enemy!" The shadow jumped out of the way in time, and then continued its approach to the fallen girl. "Don't get any nearer!" Negi was charging towards both of them.
"Thunder Elbow Strike!" Negi strikes Evangeline with bam, causing her to fly off into a tree. 'This boy is strong. So he is his father's son.' Negi bent down to check on Nodoka and Eva took this as a chance to attack the young wizard. "Never turn away from your enemy, bozu!"
Eva launched two potions at Negi, who put up a wind shield at the last second and guarded Nodoka's body with his own by hunching over her. The spell ripped off the right side of Nodoka's outfit and the top half of Negi's own clothes.
"You're Evangeline the Undying Magi, why would you target innocent girls like Nodoka and Makie?" The vampire smirked and started to flee.
"What is going on here?" Asuna and Konoka arrived on the scene. Asuna looked at the girl in Negi's arms, while Konoka looked at the wizard. "Negi-san, what are you doing to Nodoka!?" Konoka stared at Negi. "Negi-kun can you hold me!"
Asuna looked at Konoka. 'What the hell is wrong with her?' Negi was blushing and looked down at Nodoka and handed her to Asuna. "Take care of her will you, I'll follow the culprit!"
'So, the kid thinks he can follow me. We'll see about that.' Eva was flying in the air, as her jet black cloak constantly shifted with the wind. Negi searched his mind where he left his staff last. 'Mea Virga!' The staff zoomed towards him and Negi lunged at it. Negi then climbed on and scanned the skies for Eva.
Negi takes to air and the moonlight lights him up. 'He looks so much like his father… Nagi… no, forget about him, he was a jerk.' Negi released some wind spirits with lances to attack Eva. Eva rummaged through her cloak and found five more potions. 'These will be enough for him.' As she smirked, Eva noticed something odd about the situation.
Eva's eyes grew wide. Negi was no longer in sight. Then, Negi appeared in front of Eva and struck with his own attack. "Wind Flower, Disarm weapon!" Eva was knocked back to a rooftop and crashed with the building, surprised. 'Was that the mid-air shundo?' Negi was about to catch up and then Eva noticed her state of dress… or, more appropriately, her state of undress. 'This kid is powerful. Ah, Chachamaru has arrived.'
Negi raised his staff and approached carefully. "Evangeline, you are defeated." Eva smirked at his remark. "On the contrary, you are defeated." Another figure appeared and attacked Negi. Negi sensed it just in time and put his defense up. He countered the mysterious figure and launched it into the air. 'How come I didn't sense anything?'
The figure landed and took its spot next to Eva. "This is my partner, Chachamaru, good luck trying to defeat the both of us." Negi went into his stance and began his fight with Chachamaru.
Both of the fighters charged at each other with breathtaking speed. Chachamaru was going for a forehead flick, but Negi duck down and hit her with his open palm. The robot flew back and crashed. "Capture him now!" Evangeline appeared behind him and threw more potions at him. Negi turned around and blasted them with arrows of wind. Then he felt something grab him. 'No, I forgot about Chachamaru.'
"Well, you are quite good; maybe I should have done this when you first arrived. No matter, you can't stop me. You will pay for what your father did to me." Negi looked back at the wizard. 'So, this is the vampire that my father captured.' Negi snapped out his thoughts and noticed that Eva was still talking. "… and guess who that lucky relative is!" Negi realized that she was going to try to suck his blood and started squirming. "It's no use, Springfield! Prepare to lose!"
"Hiyaaah!" A flying kick was delivered to Eva, by the blob with red hair. "What's going on here? Huh, Eva-chan?" Asuna looked from Negi to Eva, and then to Chachamaru.
"Why you little… how did you get past my barrier?" She nodded to Chachamaru and they made their escape. "Negi-bozu, what's going on here and did Eva and Chacha just jumped off the building? Its like eight stories up." Negi froze. 'What do I say here? Uh, I know, I'll tell her that Eva has been attacking people because she...' "Well answer me, bozu!" Negi looked up and opened his mouth not knowing what to say. "Uh, Eva is attacking people in hopes of getting their, um, library fines?" Asuna blinked. The wind had finally calmed down. Asuna stared at Negi for about thirty seconds, but to Negi it felt like a million years. "Negi, she is a vampire isn't she." Negi nodded slowly. "Well, I not sure how you were able to catch up with her, but I pretty tired so I'll ignore everything else." Negi smiled and they walked back their respective dorms.
"The boy is strong, but it looks like he still has ways to go. Chachamaru, speed up your search for those barriers that are holding me in this form." Chachamaru hovered above a tree then landed. "Yes, master."
Negi was walking down the hallway that leads to his room. He was wondering what he should do now. 'A vampire and her partner, I better talk to Chamo-kun about this.' He opened his room's door, only to find his roommate rolling around on the floor. Chamo was standing to the side, trying to calm him down.
"Come on, Kotaro, its not that bad. Just suck it up, take a bath, and show the world what you're made of." Negi noticed that Chamo put emphasis on bath and decide to use some of his wind magic to make the window downwind from Kotaro. Chamo noticed the sudden wind change and gave Negi a done in, please help me, look. Negi nodded and turned to his rival, who was now on the ground and looking like he was about to cry.
"Kotaro, what's the matter? Did Ku-roshi finally say that no one can defeat her and she isn't taking anymore challengers? Are you constipated?" Kotaro looked up then put his hand into his backpack and hand a pamphlet to Negi. Negi grabbed it and started reading.
"Welcome to this year's school play, Romeo and Juliet, the most famous love story is now at Mahora!" Negi was trying to figure out what was the matter when Kotaro pointed to the cast section. Negi looked under and was shocked to see his name.
"Oh, um, uh, well think of it like this; at least you're not playing Romeo, so be happy for that." Kotaro started to tear up and pointed to his name and pointed to who he was playing. Silence fell over the room. Well, except for Kotaro's sniffs it was silent. Negi stared at the pamphlet, wondering how this happened. Chamo started to smoke another cigarette, with a non-caring look. Kotaro was rolling around on the ground, holding his head.
"Uh…, um…, huh. Well, at least a vampire isn't out to suck your blood." Chamo turned his head over to Negi and gave him a questioning look. Kotaro looked up at him and then he rubbed his eyes.
"You're being hunted by a vampire?" Negi nodded and sighed. "Negi, you could probably handle my problem a lot better and I could beat the crap out of the vampire." Negi agreed and then climbed up to his bunk. "Oh, Chamo could you look up all the information you can find on Evangeline the undying magi." Chamo nods and then actives his computer, but then he freezes. Kotaro completely stopped caring about his problem and looked at Negi with a horror stricken face. Negi looks from one to the other and wonders what so bad about that.
"Evangeline, The Undying Magi, The Doll Master, that's the vampire you were talking about!" Negi nodded and Kotaro became lost in his thoughts. Chamo decided to run through all of Negi's options at this point. "Yes, I have to fend off a vampire and her partner." Chamo smirked at his idea, and Kotaro realized something at this point about this whole situation. "Negi, I think I'll stick with my problem." Negi sighed and then remembered something. "Wait, was the reason that you yelled after I left because of the play." Kotaro shook his head and sighed. They all sat in silence taking all of the circumstances. They all decided that this was enough excitement for tonight and fell asleep.
Negi and Kotaro were walking over the Theater Club. They had just been released from school and were trying to figure out what to do about Eva. "Maybe if you take out Chachamaru on, while I fight Eva…." Negi had doubts about these ideas, mainly because the whole fact that they are facing a vampire with a bounty of six million.
"Negi ever heard of the expression; to stop a robot, you must use a robot?" Negi and Kotaro looked over at the ermine, who had just arrived, completely unaware of the danger that was about to befall the young wizard. Chamo opened his mouth to speak, but saw six girls approach the young men.
"Negi-kun, how are you?" The sport girls of 3-A had arrived to greet Negi. Makie walked up and smiled at him. 'I wonder if he remembers that night.' Makie started to blush and then shook it off. "Negi-kun, I heard you visited me while I was in nurse's office. Thank you." Negi smiled and was relieved to see that Makie was not affected in anyway by the vampire bite. 'I wonder if the bite made her forget that night. Maybe I should talk to her about later.' Both started to stare at the ground and were blushing at their thoughts.
"There you are Kotaro-san! Come on, we have to practice for the play." Natsumi and Chizuru approached the dog-boy. Kotaro pouted, but then realized that his tough guy look would be broken. Negi noticed the actress and started to walk over, but was pushed out of the way by a pink haired girl. "Natsumi-chan, what play is the school putting, on this semester?" Natsumi pulled out one of the flyers, which looked like it was still in the design process, and handed it to the hyperactive girl. "Oh, Romeo and Juliet! I can't wait to see it. Let me guess, Natsumi, you got to be Juliet." Natsumi beamed at this and smiled. "Naturally, I am the best actor in the school, but the director thought it would be weird to have two girls as the leads and decide to get a boy that had no clubs and needed something to distraction him from his usual events." Natsumi looked over at Kotaro, and so did everyone else. Kotaro pushed his lips together and then he sighed. "So, I kind of had a fight with another person to see who got to fight Ku fei-san first, destroyed part of the forest, and I hardly study." Everyone sweet dropped.
"Kotaro, have you finished reading through all your lines yet?" Negi decided that he should at least know how Kotaro was handling all this. "Um… yeah, I have. Man, it's a story with that one guy and that one girl. Haha, it's really funny." Everyone stared at him, Natsumi started to freak out. Everyone looked at each other and sighed. "So um, Kotaro, have you got to the part where the car flies over the bridge?" Negi baited his trap and waited for a response. Kotaro's eyes twitched, and were in process to panic, but calmed down at the last second. "Oh yeah, that part was awesome!" Everyone, excluding the dog-boy, did a face plant.
"Um, I made that up Kotaro… you haven't even started the book yet, have you." Kotaro slumped, his shoulders at this, and hung his head. "I'm getting to it. It is just so boring." All the girls twitched at this statement. Natsumi glared at Kotaro, causing him to whimper a bit. "You think Romeo and Juliet is boring? Oh I'm so sorry that the best love story of all time is too boring for you Kotaro, but you know we can always fix it up a bit." Kotaro may be a little stupid, but he knew when someone's voice was laced with venom, that they meant business and it was better to shut up. Natsumi's eyes were still twitching, when she notice everyone had back away from her. Ako decided she should do one of two things; break the silence or prepare her medical kit.
"Um, Kotaro, you should go read the book and I look forward to your acting. Trust us, it's a good play." Kotaro sighed and shook his head. Chizuru had been watching everything, because it seemed quite amusing to her. "Oh this is going to be exciting! I can't wait to see the kiss scene!" Kotaro widened his eyes.
"KISS SCENE!"
All right! This time it's a little longer than usual, but that's okay. Kotaro is screwed. Let's face it; there is no way he can do this without any help. Negi is in the same situation. So, who will come to the rescue?
I'm not telling, but let's say Kotaro will have to become Romeo.
This reminds me, I need to refresh my memory about that play. Hee hee. Wait a minute, that movie version was not suppose to be aired at school. Hee hee.
Later!
