The First Date
As soon as I woke up the next morning, Professor Saladin came into the cafeteria and told all of the Specialists, including myself, that we were moving to our new campus in a few hours. And that we had to be ready by then. And about fifteen minutes later, everyone, including me, had their stuff packed and ready. After I was done packing my stuff, I went to see Mirta, hoping she would be awake. I was really nervous about telling her what I wanted to talk to her about. When I got to her room, I knocked on her door softly. Amaryl, who looked a little tired, was the one who opened the door, but when she looked up at me, she smiled.
"Hey, X," Amaryl greeted warmly. "Are you looking for Mirta?"
"Yeah, Amaryl, I am," I said with a smile. "Have you seen her?"
"Yeah, she was heading for the cafeteria to look for you," Amaryl replied. "She should be down there."
"Thanks, Amaryl," I said in a friendly voice. Then I cast Teleport again after I sensed where Mirta was, arriving in the cafeteria in less than a microsecond. About one minute later, Mirta walked into the cafeteria. When she started to look around for me, I waved my arm to show her where I was. She smiled and ran towards me. And when she got to me, she threw her arms around my neck and we kissed. We were already starting to enjoy being together. We cared for nothing else but each other. After we parted, I picked up my two suitcases full of clothes. Mirta smiled at me slyly.
"Leaving already, X?" she asked.
"Yeah," I replied. "I'm going to head over to the new campus and check out my new room, which is Brandon's and Sky's room." I turned around to walk to the outside and cast Teleport, but I stop and turned towards Mirta once again.
"Hey, Mirta?" I said. Mirta turned towards me and smiled.
"Yeah, X?"
"I was wondering. Well, if you weren't too busy..." I started to say nervously. "If you wanted to... I don't know... Ah, to hell and Shadowhaunt with this." I shrugged sort of frustratingly. "Would you like to go out for dinner sometime?"
Mirta looked a little surprised when I finally got my question out of my system. But then she smiled and nodded slowly.
"I would love to, X." she said, coming up to me and giving me a hug, with a kiss on the cheek. "I'd love to go out with you anytime. As long as it's during summer vacation, weekends during the school year, and holidays."
"Sounds fair enough." I said with a laugh. "I wouldn't want you to skip school, now would I?" Then I got a hold of myself and looked at Mirta again. "So, how about going to that new fast-food joint on South Magix Avenue? Say... tonight at eight?"
"Sure. I'll be ready by then, okay?" Mirta said, and then she walked me out to the courtyard while she held my hand. After we got to the courtyard, I turned around and threw my left hand in the air in preparation for casting Teleport. Teleport is a really convenient spell to have, let me tell you. My version works just like and as well as Goku's Instant Transmission technique. I cast Teleport after saying goodbye to Mirta and, in a few seconds, had arrived at Red Fountain. The place was more impressive in real life than it was in the Winx Club cartoon. After I walked in, I used my Ki Sense to find out where Sky was. Yeah, I have Ki Sense, that and Ki powers. Anyways, after I found out that Sky was in his dorm Professor Saladin stopped me before I could even cast the spell.
"Hello, Alchemist," Professor Saladin greeted me. "Just so you know, you'll be rooming with Prince Sky and Brandon. They're waiting for you now."
"Thank you, Professor." I replied. Then I had cast Teleport to arrive instantly at my dorm room. After the light died down, I saw that I had arrived in my dorm room. I heard two yelps of surprise, and when I turned around, it was Prince Sky and Brandon. I laughed my ass off.
"Scared you two, didn't I?" I said while I was laughing. Sky and Brandon started to laugh too. Then we all stopped laughing to catch our breaths.
"Yeah, you sure did." Sky replied.
"So where am I sleeping?" I asked. Sky pointed to the only bed in the room that was still empty. I went over to it and unpacked my clothes. I unpacked everything in less than thirty minutes, but there was one thing that I had that I kept in a ping-pong ball-sized object that I was never anywhere without: the MiniPod that contained my Great Saiyaman watch, which I had gotten from my old friend, Gohan. He had sent it to me through the IUPS, or Inter-Universal Postal Service. He told me, when he sent it to me, that he no longer needed it. And since I had the power of the Lifestream, I would put it to good use. But then my watch went off, and a message said that Magix City was being attacked by a giant Cyclops-like monster. I turned to my two roommates and squad members.
"Hey Sky, Brandon, I got to go to the South Magix Avenue Clothing Store to get an outfit for my date with Mirta tonight," I said. "I'll see you guys later, okay?"
"Okay, see you later, X." Sky said with a wave. I waved back and cast Teleport to get to Magix City.
When I arrived in Magix City, it was partly in ruins. I activated the Great Saiyaman watch and the retractable superhero suit formed around my body. After it had finally covered my entire body, I rose up into the air, as if by magic, but it was by Ki, and flew towards the monster. Just as the monster was about to destroy another building, I did my signature Ki Energy attack, Lifestream Wave, which, just as its name implies, is similar to Goku's Kamehameha Wave. I fired the energy after saying the attack incantation and blew the monster backwards.
That's when I heard one of the Magix police officers ask his partner, "Who's this guy? Is he some new superhero or something?"
I turned toward the police officer and laughed at his confusion.
I said, "I am the Protector of the Universe." I did a few martial arts moves. "The one and only..." Another few martial arts moves. And then I did the grown-up Peter Pan's pose from Hook. "Great Saiyaman!" I smiled as I did the pose.
Oh yeah, I said to myself, I definitely gotta remember that pose.
"Are you getting this, Michael?" the female reporter asked her camera-man. Michael, the camera-man, gives the female reporter the thumbs up to indicate that he was getting everything on the camera. The female reporter turned towards the camera and said, "This is Cindy Andrews reporting live on the situation in downtown Magix. Part of downtown Magix was being destroyed by a Cyclops-like monster. But just when the monster was going to destroy the Magix Tower office building, an unknown superhero, calling himself the Great Saiyaman, flies onto the scene and uses a beam of unknown energy to knock the monster back from trying to destroy the Magix Tower. As we speak, you can see the Great Saiyaman and the Cyclops monster fighting each other. This is Cindy Andrews, reporting from downtown Magix, WMKB Channel 12."
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Meanwhile, as the fight was going on between Alchemist and the Cyclops monster, Flora was taking care of her Vanity Fly Trap in the common room of her and her friends dorm room. She was all alone at the moment, for everyone else was trying to help Mirta pick an outfit from Stella's wardrobe for her date with Alchemist later tonight. When she turned the common room TV on to channel 12 to see the news, she saw the report on what was happening in Magix City. She called to her friends, including Mirta, who was visiting Stella to get an outfit for her date with Alchemist.
"Girls?" Flora called out to her friends, including Mirta. "I think you better come take a look at this."
Everyone, including Mirta filed into the common room to see why Flora had called them. When they had all gathered around Flora, Flora pointed to the TV, pointing to what she was seeing on the news.
"All of you should see this." Flora said, pointing to the television. Everyone turned towards the TV and watched in amazement as the report came back on.
"Are you getting this, Michael?" said the female reporter to her camera-man.
"Yeah, Cindy. I'm getting everything," Michael said out loud enough for people who were listening to the news to hear. "We're still on the air."
Cindy turned back towards the camera. She cleared her throat and said, "This is Cindy Andrews reporting live on the situation in downtown Magix. Part of downtown Magix was being destroyed by a Cyclops-like monster. But just when the monster was going to destroy the Magix Tower office building, an unknown superhero, calling himself the Great Saiyaman, flies onto the scene and uses a beam of unknown energy to knock the monster back from trying to destroy the Magix Tower. As we speak, you can see the Great Saiyaman and the Cyclops monster fighting each other. This is Cindy Andrews, reporting from downtown Magix, WMKB Channel 12."
Mirta started to get scared that Alchemist was near the battle. She picks up her magic cell phone and calls Alchemist's cell phone. But it went straight to his voice mail.
"Hi, you've reached Aaron Strife, a.k.a Alchemist or X. I'm not here at the moment, but if you leave your name, number, and a brief message, I will get back to you as soon as I can. And may the Lifestream be with you."
When Mirta just got Alchemist's voice mail, she hung up and called the dorm room number for the room that was Alchemist's room. But instead of Alchemist answering, it was another boy.
"Hello?" the other boy said. Mirta thought she recognized the voice.
"Sky?" Mirta asked.
"Oh, hey Mirta," Sky greeted. "Are you looking for X?"
"Yeah, I tried his cell phone, but I only got his voice mail," Mirta said like she was scared. "Is he there with you and Brandon?"
"No, he went to Magix to get a new outfit for his date with you tonight," Sky answered. "Why do you ask?"
"Turn your TV to channel 12." Mirta said.
"Hey Brandon," Mirta heard Sky say to his squire in the background, "Turn to channel 12, would you?" After about two minutes of silence, Mirta heard Sky say 'What in Shadowhaunt?'. When Sky came back to the phone, he said to Mirta, "Magix Tower's right where the South Magix Avenue Clothing Store is. Timmy says there are two things possible..."
"What's that, Sky?" Mirta asked.
"Either X is friends with the Great Saiyaman... or he is the Great Saiyaman."
When Sky said the 'or he is the Great Saiyaman' part, she looked back at the image of the Great Saiyaman in shock, not knowing what to say about her boyfriend being a superhero.
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I was exchanging blows with the Cyclops monster. But I also found an opportunity to finish this battle once and for all. I Ki Blasted the Cyclops monster away from him, then he puts my hands together to perform my signature ultimate Lifestream attack: Ultimate Lifestream Wave.
"Take this, you ugly freak!" I said with a fierce determination. And then I began the attack's incantation.
"ULTIMATE LIFESTREAM WAVE!" I yelled, releasing the energy of the attack at the dead body of the monster. After the Cyclops monster's body had disintegrated completely, I teleported to a location away from the TV cameras, because I didn't want the Winx Club or anybody from Red Fountain seeing me transform back to normal. After I returned to normal, I went to the South Magix Avenue Clothing Shop to buy a casual outfit for my date with Mirta. When I got in, the clerk was a little shook up, but he was alright. I walked up to him.
"Excuse me," I said after clearing my throat. "I'd like to get an outfit."
The clerk looked at me and got what I call the 'Oh shit,' look. He looked at me with a surprised look on his face.
"Wait a minute, aren't you Aaron Strife?" the clerk asked me.
"Yeah, I'm him." I replied to the clerk.
"You're a legend throughout the dimensions!" the clerk said excitedly. "Taking out the Ancestral Witches descendants single-handedly like you did, you must be really powerful. I tell you what, any outfit you want is on the house."
"Really?" I asked in surprise. "Thanks."
"So what kind of outfit are you looking for, Mr. Strife?"
"Let's skip the formalities and just call me X," I said, a little annoyed. "Anyway, I'm just looking for a casual outfit for my date with my girlfriend. I'm looking for something that's kind of gothic."
"I see, I think I know the perfect thing." The clerk said as he snapped his fingers. My body glowed with a bright light, and after the light died down, I looked at myself in the mirror. I was impressed. On my body was a long-sleeved white shirt with a black t-shirt with a gray skull as the design. Then I noticed the slightly torn jeans on my body. The last thing that I noticed was my hair. It was completely black, just like it had been back home. It was perfect.
"I like it," I said to the clerk with a smile. "I'll definitely take this outfit. Thanks."
"No problem, X. Thank you for buying from me," the clerk said with a wave as I left. "Have a nice date with your girlfriend."
"Thank you." I said as I left. Then, after I got to a big enough space out in the street, I cast Teleport and returned to Red Fountain, ready for my date with Mirta.
Five minutes later, in X's dorm room...
I opened the door to my dorm room and walked in. When I got in, Brandon, Sky, Timmy, and Riven were standing in my bedroom. When I looked at their faces, they all had serious looks on their faces.
"Why the serious faces, guys?" I asked.
"Why are you asking us, X?" Sky said. "You should know why."
"We saw you on TV turning into the Great Saiyaman, X," Riven said, getting in my face. "Mirta was worried sick about you. She said she didn't know what to think about you being a superhero. She was afraid you were going to die!"
"I... didn't mean to make her worry..." I said with a little sadness and remorse. "What about our date? She didn't call it off, did she?"
"Fortunate for you, she said she still wants to go on your date, but that she'll have a bone to pick with you." Riven said. "You're at her mercy on that subject."
"Well, it is about that time for your date with Mirta." Sky said. "You better head over to Alfea to pick her up."
"Yeah, I'd better head there now." I said, fearing that Mirta would yell at me for not telling her that I was a superhero. "Well, I'll see you guys later, okay?"
"Yeah, see you later, X," Timmy said.
After Timmy said that, I cast Teleport and teleported to Alfea. After a few seconds, I appeared in the courtyard. When I got to the front door of Alfea, Mirta was standing there, waiting for me. When I got up to her, she didn't look at me. I looked down in sadness.
"Mirta, I... I'm sorry. I don't know what to say. I didn't mean to make you..." I said. But I didn't get to finish my sentence. For at that moment, Mirta threw her arms around my neck and kissed me on the lips. I stood there wide-eyed, but then I just gave into my feelings. When we parted from the kiss, I looked at her in surprise.
"I thought you were mad at me?" I asked.
"Not mad, just... worried." Mirta said, shedding a few tears. "What if you would've been killed? You could've been killed by that monster."
"Mirta, you have to understand something," I started to say. "My brother is one of the greatest heroes of another Planet Earth. He's actually the strongest hero on his world. He watches over me, making sure I won't come to harm. He wouldn't let anyone as strong as the enemy that your friends will face during the next school year to kill me, even if that enemy tried his hardest to kill me. Nothing will be able to kill me."
Mirta looked up at me with a hopeful look in her eyes. "Promise?"
"I promise, sweetheart," I said to my girlfriend. Then I looked back at her and smiled, saying, "Now, let's head to that fast food joint. Hold on to me, and we'll be there in an instant."
Mirta smiled and put her arms around me. Then, after I raised my hand in the air, I cast Teleport once more and Mirta and I arrived at the restaurant in an instant.
While we were ordering our food, we noticed a dance floor in the center of the restaurant. I looked at Mirta and we both smiled slyly at each other. After we sat down, we started to eat our burgers and fries. As I was eating, Mirta looked at me to ask me something.
"X, can I ask you something?"
"Sure, Mirta," I said after swallowing my food and wiping my mouth. "What's on your mind?"
"You not the first one to be the Great Saiyaman, are you?" Mirta asked. I looked at her in surprise. I had a curious look on my face after she asked me that question.
"No, I'm not." I replied. "How did you know that?"
"Someone named Gohan appeared in the Stella's dorm room's common room." Mirta began saying. "He told us that he was an old friend of yours, and that he used to be the original Great Saiyaman. When I was afraid that you were going to die, I asked Gohan if you were going to die, but he said the same thing you told me just before we came here, about your brother watching over you, not letting you come to harm. I was still worried. I still didn't know what to think."
"I didn't mean to make you worry, Mirta," I said in apology. "I was going to tell you that I was the Great Saiyaman, but I didn't want to tell you right away, because I was afraid you would dump me for not telling you. I won't worry you again like that, but... the mantle of the Great Saiyaman has been passed on to me. I'm going to have to be him. But like I said before we got here, I promise that I won't die, because my brother won't allow me to be killed."
"Okay." Mirta replied, finishing her food at the same time as me. Then I walked over to the DJ at the music controls. I gave him a CD to play. I told him to play Track 16. After he put the disc in, the music started playing. It was one of my favorite movie theme songs, the Ghostbusters Theme Song. I smiled as I walked back to Mirta. I held out my hand as she looked up at me.
"May I have this dance, Mirta?"
She smiled as she took my hand and I walked her to the dance floor. I started dancing to the Ghostbusters theme. I started dancing with some moves that I had invented four years ago in my time and world that had my martial arts moves as the basis of the moves. Mirta caught on to what I was doing and started dancing with the same style as me. As we were dancing, the other people on the dance floor started watching me and Mirta with surprise and awe. I kept dancing, as did Mirta. We danced for the entire four minutes and six seconds of the song. When the song ended, all of the couples on the dance floor besides us were clapping, cheering, and wolf-whistling at the psychedelic dance moves Mirta and I had performed. After I had waved to the crowd, Mirta and I put our trays on top of the trash cans and we walked out of the fast food joint and walked towards the only hotel in town. We went inside. Since it was summer, I had gotten permission from both Professor Saladin and Ms. Faragonda to take a vacation instead of staying at school during the summer. I had especially gotten permission from Ms. Faragonda because I wanted to take Mirta with me to spend my vacation with her. We, Mirta and I, went into the hotel, Hotel Magix, and walked up to the counter. The clerk looked up.
"May I help you?" said the clerk. I just smiled.
"Yes, my name is Aaron Strife." I said to the clerk. "I have a reservation for a room."
"D-did you say Aaron Strife?" the clerk said with surprise and shock. I just smiled and nodded.
"Yes, I am him." I said with a smile. The clerk called for her boss, the manager. When the manager asked the clerk who I was, she whispered her answer in his ear. The manager, who had the same 'Oh shit' look as the clothing store clerk had, looked at me with surprise and shock. He bowed to me nervously.
"M-Mr. Strife, You and the young lady may stay for free, including free room service," the manager said with a nervous smile. "You are a legend throughout the entire Universe."
Great, every dimension in the entire Magical Universe thinks I'm a legend. I said to myself, a little annoyed with this legend crap.
"My girlfriend and I would like a room for a month, is that okay?" I asked the manager. The manager looked at the computer and nodded.
"Fortunately, we have one room left, but it's a honeymoon suite." The manager said with an apologetic bow, since I wasn't married to Mirta, just in a relationship. I looked at her, she nodded to me, and then I looked back at the manager.
"We'll take that one." I said to the manager, nodding in thanks.
"Alright, just sign right here." The manager said, handing me a sign-in card. I signed it, and then the manager gave me the keys to the hotel room. I gratefully took the keys and walked up the stairs with Mirta. After we got to the fifth floor, we got to our room as soon as we exited the elevator, for our room was right in front of the elevator itself. We got into the room and sat down. We rested for a while as we talked to each other about a lot of things. After a while of talking, Mirta and I just laid down on the bed and just watched television for a while. But then, Mirta got up and went to the bathroom.
"I'm just going to change into my nightgown, X, I'll be right out," Mirta said, closing the door behind her. I just continued watching the news, for the follow-up story on the fight I was in downtown had come on. Fifteen minutes later, Mirta came out of the bathroom with a really sexy nightgown on. I gulped in nervousness. Mirta looked down in nervousness as she got into bed with me. After laying next to me for about fifteen minutes, I looked at her in nervousness.
"Mirta, are you sure we should be—" I had started to say, but Mirta put her finger on my mouth to shush me. Then she looked up at me, a nervous and embarrassed smile forming on her face.
"At first, it bothered me how you looked exactly alike. Two completely different people, but look exactly the same..."
"What do you mean, Mirta?" I asked.
"There was a boy I had liked when I was 12. We were closer than me and Lucy. But, one day, he disappeared on a mission. I wrote to him a few times after he left, but he never wrote back. I heard he had disappeared shortly after arriving in the Kingdom of Solaria..."
"I'm sorry to hear that," I said. "But what's that got to do with what you're saying? I don't even understand what you're saying."
"You're different from my crush. Things are different..." Mirta said quietly. "Alchemist... I'm searching for you..."
"Huh?" I said in confusion.
"I want to meet you..." Mirta said, looking down in embarrassment.
"But I'm right here," I said in confusion.
"I know," Mirta said, still embarrassed. "What I mean is... I want to meet... you."
I looked at her, still confused. But then I realized what she meant, and I smiled. I use my finger to lift her chin so Mirta could see me. When she looks in my eyes, I smiled at her and kissed her passionately. When we broke off our kiss, I looked at my beautiful girlfriend and smiled at her.
"It's nice to meet you, Mirta of Alfea," I said with a slightly sly smile.
Mirta smiled. Then we shared another kiss. It started to get a lot more passionate for both of us. We started having sex. But I won't go into the details. A few hours later after doing it, we were both sleeping comfortably in each other's arms. But Mirta got up and went to the bathroom. I woke up shortly after hearing her close the bathroom. I heard a sound from a magical device sound with a beeping. Five minutes later, Mirta came out of the bathroom. I sat up with a slightly uneasy look on my face. I sighed uneasily.
"You're pregnant... aren't you?" I asked my girlfriend. She sat down next to me, looking at me, scared. Then she looked down, nodding slowly.
"I didn't think this would happen. I didn't want it to..." she started to say, crying. I pulled her into an embrace as we sat there. I slowly started to feel around her stomach.
"Well, as I always said back home, Mirta," I started to say, "Everything happens for a reason, sweetheart. I have a feeling my brother had a hand in this." I looked back down, in slight fear. "We'll have to report this to Ms. Faragonda tomorrow. I don't know what either she or Professor Saladin will say. In the worst case scenario, we might be expelled." I was silent for a few minutes, an unfocused look in my eyes.
"But..." Mirta started to say, but I shushed her. I smiled.
"But my brother spoke to me just now." I said, smiling. "He already told Ms. Faragonda and Professor Saladin in a dream that you had gotten pregnant. And he said that they'll talk to us, but they won't expel us. But we're under their mercy tomorrow." Mirta looked at me, still afraid. But then she nodded slowly and put her hand on her stomach on top of mine.
"But whatever the reason for you getting pregnant by me," I said, hugging my girlfriend, "We'll get through this... together."
"I guess so, because I don't want to face this alone." Mirta said. I gave her a kiss on the cheek.
"Let's get back to sleep, Mirta. We have an eventful day ahead of us tomorrow." I said, getting back under the covers.
Mirta yawned and said, "Yeah, you're right. We'll have to go up in front of Ms. Faragonda and Ms. Griselda tomorrow."
Then we snuggled closer to each other. In less than fifteen minutes, we were asleep. Tomorrow would be really eventful for both me and Mirta.