Chapter 4:Searching and Bleeding
It had been two days since the incident with Chachamaru and yet she still hadn't come back. Negi was getting worried,she was his student after all. He had a responsibility to look after his class. Takamichi had told Negi to give her some time, but he just couldn't do that. Every day after class he would ride his staff through the air, searching for any sign of his robotic student. Chachamaru shouldn't be by herself, especially since she was...evolving.
That still bothered him. No one knew how she was changing or why, all Evangeline and Takamichi knew that she was. Whatever Chachamaru was going through, Negi wanted to be there for her.
Suddenly, an image of Chachamaru flashed through his mind. The single teardrop falling to the ground. Her crying was what bothered him above all else. He wasnt sure why, but he had the overbearing urge to hold her and make her feel better. The thought of that made him blush and he quickly shook the thought from his mind.
"That is not the proper thing for a professor to think about his student."Negi said to himself as he continued searching the surrounding area.
Meanwhile Chachamaru was miles away from where Negi was, although she did not know that he was looking for her. She was perched upon a huge pine tree, looking out across the horizon. She was trying her best not to think about the other day, about her nearly attacking her fellow student, about the strange liquid that had come from her eyes, but most of all, she didn't want to think about Professor Negi. Any time he invaded her thoughts, she felt as if she would malfunction. The image of him and Nodoka nearly holding hands made her feel strange, she couldn't quite explain it.
Chachamaru was so wrapped up in her thoughts that she had not even noticed that the branch she was sitting on was starting to give way under her weight. By the time she did it was too late. The branch cracked and she fell down towards the forest floor, hitting many branches along the way. Lucky for her that she was a robot, cause usually things like this wouldn't hurt her. However, that was not the case. She screamed out in pain when she finally landed on the ground. This was the first time she had felt anything, and quite frankly she wasn't thrilled at the sensation. She winced as she slowly rose back up on her feet.
That was when she noticed something was wrong with her hand. She looked down to see a red type of liquid was all over her hand. She realized it was blood. She had seen enough of that working for her vampire mistress, Evangeline. But why was it coming out of her?
"What's-What's happening to me!"Chachamaru said to herself, watching as the blood flowed.