Asuna
I half screamed as he punched me in the side. That alone wouldn't have hurt half as much as it did. I knew what he did from the green glow that came from my side. Haruhi transformed back into her humanoid self and glared furiously at the teacher.
"You okay?" She asked and I laughed.
"Peachy." I replied. She chuckled and I sat up, ignoring the feeling of my insides vibrating combined with the stabbing sensation in my abdomen. I took Haruhi's hand up and fought back tears. Crying wasn't something I did in public. With every step a new pain exploded in my side. It was like the worst stomach ache in the world. I looked at Stein with a look of beaten respect.
"Nice, I should've known a teacher would kick my ass." I grumbled under my breath. Stein smirked and I frowned at him straightening.
"To be perfectly fair, you lasted far longer than any student I've fought before." I tried to keep a shred of my dignity as I walked back to my seat refusing to limp or allow my physical pain to show. The rest of class went by quickly seeing as I slept through most of it.
I was woken by Haruhi who was shaking my shoulder absent mindedly. "Wake up, we have break next." She said.
I glanced over at her. "It's like ten thirty in the morning."
She sighed, exasperated, and showed me her watch. "Actually, it's lunch time. And you have notes to copy so let's go." I didn't know exactly where we were going but I was too tired to care. I didn't sleep much last night, cities freak me out. So instead I just stayed up all night imagining all the ways someone could kill me in my sleep. As I soon found out we were going to meet up with Kurami and Fae to talk about our powers. We weren't really friends yet but it was better than sitting by ourselves and being gawked at. Apparently that was what came with giving Spirit Albarn the middle finger and walked away unscathed.
"So, why do we need to talk about our powers?" I asked, still unclear. Had I been thinking straight, I would have met the conclusion sooner and on my own but, again, very sleepy. However, not sleepy enough to not cause any trouble.
As they came upon their destination I spotted Fae with her back turned to us playing with a small, gray kitten. I broke away from Haruhi who looked puzzled but went to order us coffee instead of questioning it. I requested a KillYouLatta just because I was in the mood. I snuck up behind her and pounced.
"Boo!" I screamed, she screamed but the scream turned to a yowl. When I opened my eyes Fae wasn't there anymore. In her place was a white snow leopard with glistening blue eyes.
"Death almighty, what the heck?" I asked and patted her head tentatively, she hissed before retreating to Kurami.
"What the…? Fae?!" Kurami astonishingly asked. The leopard meowed and sat at her feet. I raised my eyebrows at Haruhi who just shrugged.
"You think this places allows leopards?" Haruhi chuckles.
When we finally got seated after Kurami got into a furious debate with the owner, Asuna flashed her DWMA ID card and they were suddenly very happy to welcome our leopard. We got an ice cold bowl of milk for Fae and I got a salad with croutons and cheese with ranch. Haruhi got a salad as well but it had everything on it. Kurami got a hamburger the size of jupitor.
"So what should we do about the leopard thing?" I asked, actually curious. What if we could figure out how to transform back. Images flashed through my brain, impressions coming along with them. There was one of the gray cat, it was pair with love. An image of a snow cat, paired with comfort. And finally the image of a cow, paired with irritation and impatience.
"She's talking to us." Haruhi said. I glanced around the table and back to Fae.
"Fine, we'll get you a steak or something." Kurami watched the interaction, brow furrowed with concern.
"How are we going to explain this to Stein? 'Well Asuna snuck up behind her and POOF, snow cat'?" I shrugged.
"Seems legit to me." Kurami gave an incredulous look.
"You really are an idiot aren't you? She's a CAT, that doesn't happen to people! We can't just waltz up to Dr.Stein and say 'My friend turned into a cat, can you fix it'!" I sat back in my seat.
"I'm not stupid, and it's easier to just tell what happened. That's what happened. And don't yell at me I'm not to one freaking out over nothing, she can change back obviously. When she turns into a weapon she'll probably transform back into human form afterwards, it's the only thing she knows how to change back into. Or how it feels." I said, only remotely angry, I understood that she was panicking. Her best friend might be a cat forever, that would suck pretty hard.
"Really now?! Because the last I checked you weren't an expert on elementals!" She was yelling now and everyone was looking at us strangely. Wind whipped vicariously through our hair and the walls pulsed, the pipes about to burst. I delved into the shimmery feeling. It was kind of like the molecules in my body were shaking apart. Things happened in quick succession after that. Everything basically exploded.
"It was a hypothesis and it was the best thing we had to go on, wasn't it?! I didn't see you doing anything but panicking!" I screamed back, the pipes full of water in the walls exploded and everything was drenched in seconds. It water was swept into a tornado that had formed around Kurami, I used the water to create wind,forming friction and turning it into a hurricane. Ah,science you never fail me. People were screaming and Haruhi was yelling at me to calm down.
"Well maybe if you weren't so cocky all the time I wouldn't think you were mocking me!" She yelled and I seethed.
"It's not my fault, you aren't exactly a ball of warm fuzz yourself! Besides your friend likes being a cat, maybe she prefers it!" We were only feeding the flames on both ends, as we did so the pressure in the room grew and my ears popped.
I shoved the vibraty feeling at Kurami and the water did my bidding, it slammed over her figure in a rush of warm water. At the same time she sent wind whipping my way, it threw us to opposite sides of the room.
I barely registered that Fae was back in human form and that everything was fine now, I just had a blinding rage. Why blame me, I did nothing! As if thinking the same thing, Kurami shot to her feet and only seconds behind I launch at her. Adult males from the school poured in. As we would find out, Death had placed a careful watch on us for just this reason. Sid, Spirit, Stein, Justin Law (a death Scythe), and Tezca Tlipoca (another death Scythe). The death scythes stood between us, ready for a fight. Stein, and Spirit went for Kurami and Sid picked me up and threw me over his shoulder. I punched my arm forward but the tingly sensation was gone, my focus was broken.
Only now did I realize how tired I was, or that a broken beer bottle had cut a gash running from my knee to my ankle. All I noticed was that I was very tired, and that Haruhi was looking at my worried and sad before my eyes fell shut and I went to dreamland.
DREAM
Kurami, Fae, and Haruhi stood looking at me with different eyes. Kurami had yellow eyes that glowed in the dark. Haruhi's eyes shone with an orangey fire, and Fae's were green . We stood in what looked to be an organized circle, chains attached to our feet.However, a person stood straight across from me, eyes glowing purple and between us a golden cloaked a figure with glowing red eyes.
"Citatus manum tuam deus me, ut salvos liberos ab eius aequivoca . Decidere Sit ergo ignis et aqua et caelum . Sed ultimus spiritus . Facis successores post mortem deus in faciem te accerso tantum certamen vincat." The golden figure chanted.
In the order the raspy voice had named, a circle of gold lit up under us. Earth, fire, water, air. When my turn came it felt as if I was simultaneously being pulled to the ground while I was being pulled towards the ceiling. When the last circle was lighting up, I felt my dream self's mouth drop open in surprise.
Yosuke stared at me from across the circle. I tried to say something, to get some idea of what was going on, but I couldn't. My mouth moved up and down like a fish out of water, making no sound. The inner circle started to glow and I realised we were connected by lines, but I couldn't figure out what shape they made. Light shimmered up from under the mystery woman. He laughed, the kind of laugh that would be written as the stereotypical 'mwahahahaha'. Her face was blurry but through the haze of exhaustion and pain I made out a single lock of blue hair,before once again, everything faded into darkness…
END
I sat up panting, eyes wide. I recognized the white sheets of a nurse's office. Another figure sat bolt upright next to me, breathing patterns the same. I looked over and the glow of pale moon light illuminated Kurami's face. She caught my eyes and together we confirmed each other's suspicions.
"Citatus manum tuam deus me, ut salvos liberos ab eius aequivoca. Decidere Sit ergo aqua et ergo et caelum. Sed ultimus spiritus. Facis successores post mortem deus in faciem te accerso tantum certamen vincat." They both said together.
I nodded silently. Groaning mentally about what was going to happen next. If we tell Fae and Haruhi, how would they take it? What we would do about the chanting figure and Yosuke? And most importantly, what would we tell Death?
"We are so prominently screwed." She said and I laid back, letting out a breathy laugh.
"Worse than Stein's head." I grumbled and Kurami nodded. We sat there in silence for the longest time before the sun rose and the birds started to chirp to interrupt the silence.
A/N
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