"Please Katsu; can I at least take a break?" Nina fell to the ground trying to catch her breath from all the training. Katsu walked up to Nina and crossed his arms and simply laughed at her.
"Oh c'mon Nina, I know you are a lot stronger than that to just give up," smiled Katsu. "Ok, fine you can take the rest of the day off since you gave a lot today to start with. So that means that tomorrow, I am going to work you even harder."
"Oh thank you Katsu! Well I'm going to get changed and I'll come back later tonight," happily said Nina.
"Where on earth are you going, especially since you will be coming back tonight?"
"Oh, I forgot to tell you that yesterday, I finally found Zero since 2 years ago and I am so happy, so I want to surprise him while he's at work," smiled Nina. Katsu frowned then smiled back at Nina.
"Well ok then, don't get into trouble, see ya," waved Katsu. Nina waved back at Katsu then ran into the house to get changed. Nina quickly threw on her long black gloves first of all than grabbed a pair of skin tight jeans. She than put on a green tank top with a couple of bangles on her wrist with black high heels, and put her hair up into a ponytail.
"Man, when is the chief going to call us? I'm getting tired of just walking around here doing nothing," muttered Zero.
"It's not that bad Zero. We are wasting some time by walking around this town so don't fret. I bet that the phone will ring any second," smiled Ichi.
"Ichi, Zero never stops complaining and it's starting to give me a headache, ryu." Pearl, the baby blue colored familiar (dragon), finally got situated on Ichi's shoulder.
"Shut up you damn dragon, I'm starting to get really annoyed by your complaining!" yelled Zero. Ichi just laughed and then the phone started to ring. The boys stopped their walking and Ichi answered the phone.
"Yes boss, ok that will be good. Good, we aren't to far from that area either, alrighty." *click*
"Yo Ichi, where to now?" said Zero.
"We have to quickly go a couple of miles from here to the bank as fast as possible. Someone is robbing the bank," answered Ichi.
"Well lets get to it then!" Zero, Ichi, and Pearl then raced full speed to the bank.
"Hm… maybe I should take some money out so I can get something to eat at least. I still need to meet up with Ichi, I don't think Zero even told him that I was even here, the nerve," said Nina as she entered the bank.
Nina looked around and noticed that no one was in there except the teller people. "I wonder what's going on, could be that everyone is at work right now. Oh well, good thing there isn't a line."
A man with a hoodie on walked in with a hand gun and looked around and noticed Nina was the only civilian in there. Perfect.
"Well that didn't take long," smiled Zero.
"No it didn't, let's just get this over with," Ichi walked into the bank followed by Zero and Pearl.
"Don't move or I'll shoot you," said the man as he pointed the gun at Nina while he threw his duffle bag onto the counter and told the woman to fill it up with money unless she wants to be shot.
The man quickly turned his head as her heard some people walk in. Zero looked up noticed that it was Nina being pointed at by the gun. Ichi didn't notice Nina but yelled, "This is the police force, drop your gun right now or face the consequences!"
"What makes you think that I will drop my gun? If you even think about moving or even use and magic towards me, I will blow this pretty young lady's head off," smirked the man. Nina just tightened her eyes and didn't even bother to look at the police officers.
Zero couldn't take it anymore, he was furious. He balled his fists into a ball as tight as possible and glared at the man. He looked back at Nina who was trembling for her life, and then he yelled, "Nina!" to get her attention.
Ichi quickly looked at Zero then back at Nina, shocked that she was there in the Magical World. Nina opened her eyes and noticed Zero and the grown up Ichi standing there. "Zero, Ichi!" yelled Nina.
The money finally filled up the bag and the man grabbed a hold of the bag but the gun was still pointing at Nina. "Now be a good girl and come with me," grinned the man.
"To hell with that, she isn't going anywhere with your sorry ass! If you want her, then you are going to have to kill me first," yelled Zero. Ichi and Pearl still stood there shocked that Nina was right here standing before them.
"Well that can be arranged," smiled the man. The man pointed his gun at Zero with his finger wrapped around the trigger. Nina quickly looked at Zero and noticed that he wasn't going to move or do anything. She closed her eyes tightly and than opened them back up with a new plan.
"Excuse me sir, but instead of wanting to kill him over there, why don't you turn your attention towards me. I mean, I am a sexy 18 year old," grinned Nina. Zero was shocked at Nina, was she really kidding or not? Zero and Ichi looked at each other with both shocked looks.
"I didn't know Nina was the type of girl to say that!" stated Ichi.
"Yea, no kidding Ichi. I really hope Nina isn't serious at all and I hope she doesn't get hurt," said Zero sadly.
The man lowered his gun away from Zero and tucked it inside the waist of his waist pants. He then dropped the bag of money and made his way towards Nina.
"I like a girl frisky like that," smiled the man.
Nina smiled back at him as she put her arms behind her back to take her gloves off. "Why don't you come over here for a sec will ya?" The guy practically ran toward her and once he got up to Nina, she put her hand on his face and the man turned into an ice sculpture.
Ichi and Pearl both fell to the ground while Zero walked over towards Nina. Nina started to cry as she quickly put her gloves back on. Before Zero even got to her, she quickly ran over to him and dove in Zero's chest. Zero wrapped his arms around the petit body and tried to calm her down.
"Oh Ichi I am so happy now ryu! Nina is an actual witch, so that means I can be with her and I will be able to get big ryu!" shouted Pearl.
Ichi laughed at Pearl and stared at the hugging couple. "I can't believe it either, after all this time Nina is a witch. Well, I can tell that Zero and Nina never gave up on each other ever since we were taken away from her. And it also seems that Zero wasn't surprised at all at Nina being here?" smiled Ichi.
"Well, it could be that they have already met before we have ryu," answered Pearl.
Nina and Zero stayed in the same position for about 6 minutes then finally broke apart. Nina looked over towards Ichi and ran towards him and Pearl. Nina started to hug the daylights out of Ichi as Ichi tried to squirm free from her grasp.
"I am so glad to see you again too Nina. Its been a really long time!" said Ichi. Nina giggled and nodded her head. Nina then noticed Pearl, so she grabbed the tiny blue dragon in her hands and hugged Pearl.
Pearl hugged back but also kissed Nina on the cheek. "Nina! I am so glad that you are an actual witch ryu! I can finally stay with you then ryu!" shouted Pearl.
20 Minutes Later in the Park
"So Zero, Ichi, what do you do around here for a job?" asked Nina. The group sat at a picnic table in the park under a huge maple tree.
"Since we completed all the magical exams, we work for the magic police force now," smiled Ichi.
"Wow that is so great! I am so happy for the both of you," said Nina.
"Thanks, it's the dream that I always wanted to come true too!" shouted Zero.
"By the way Nina, is it ok if I ask you something," said Ichi.
"Sure, go on ahead!"
"How are you in the magical world and with powers?"
"Well it is quite a long story but I guess I'll just spit it all out. My father was a wizard just like you guys and when he was doing one of those exams, well he fell in love with my mother. That's how I came to be but I found out that I am a hybrid, half human and half witch. That's why my powers didn't show up when I was born but instead they showed up once I turned 16, the day you guys left. But I didn't know until I went to the park and started to dog cuss Zero out," said Nina as she glanced at the blue haired young man.
"What the hell Nina!? It wasn't my damn fault that we had to leave you know." Yelled Zero.
"I know, but I had some much anger swelled up that I had to let it out. I also thought that you were going to forget about me and go after another girl with a bigger chest or something and just leave me in the dust," said Nina sadly.
"You idiot, didn't I tell you that you are the only girl that would want to be with and to protect too," smiled Zero. Nina smiled back at Zero and grabbed a hold of his hand.
"Nina, can you like go on with the story ryu? You kind of got off subject ryu," said Pearl.
"Oh that's right! Lets see here, I then grabbed a pinecone to throw at a tree but once I touched it, it turned to ice and that's when I met Katsu, my master. Katsu was the one who brought me here to help me control my powers so he's been training me for 2 years. Can you guys wait here for a minute, I'm going to get a drink," Nina got up from the table and ran over to a nearby vending machine.
"Zero, did Nina just say Katsu?" said Ichi kind of nervously.
"I was going to ask you the same exact thing!"
"That man who's been training Nina is very evil and very powerful too! We must warn her at once before he takes advantage of her because he knows that a hybrid is very powerful too," said Ichi.