It was later in the afternoon, Dr. Taylor was sitting at her desk tapping away on a keyboard on her computer. She was researching all the different cases of normal level 0's students suddenly gaining the gifts of esper abilities, and how Shena's underground group of level 3 or 4 esper's known as S.I.N was somehow related besides her having a book that gives supernatural abilities to a normal person. Dr. Taylor wondered why, if Shena had already figured out how to use the book, then why had she not shown herself yet or given some kind of sign that she has used the book on herself yet. Hundreds of questions were floating through Dr. Taylor's mind as she rattled her brain trying to figure out the questions she wanted answered.
Giving up for the moment Dr. Taylor pushed back the chair from the desk and picked up a small tea cup sitting right next to her, She took a sip of the now lukewarm tea letting the flavors of jasmine with the hint of lemon and honey dance on her tongue before she swallowed the tea . Dr. Taylor sat her cup down and stretched out her arms and legs to shake off the stiffness from her muscles since she had been sitting in that one spot for the last couple of hours, she gave her temples a gentle massage because she felt a headache coming along, and fatigue was starting to catch up to her after two weeks of constantly worrying about Shana.
Dr. Taylor just hoped that if Shana saw danger she would turn the other cheek and walk away, but no, that was not the Shana Aki she had known over the years, the Shana Aki that Dr. Taylor knows will get an idea in her head and will run with it without even thinking of the consequences and would keep on going until someone takes her down, but there aren't many people capable of doing so, except the people respects the most and would never use her powers against. Dr. Taylor was just grateful that no one had yet pushed Shana to get serious enough with her powers and really let loose on an unfortunate victim. She was ready to call it an afternoon when she heard a knock at her door so got up and walked over to go answer it.
Dr. Taylor looked through the doors peep hole and saw that is was Stiner and he was carrying a bouquet of flowers and a small stuffed animal along with a get well soon card, she stepped back to open the door. "Good afternoon Stiner, to whom do I owe the honor to?" She playfully greeted.
Stiner took off his cowboy like hat and pressed it against his chest. "Well good afternoon to you to Mrs. Julia, I heard that Shana got injured on the job, so I thought about comin' to see her."
"Shana is with Ovon right now. Although she is still a little banged up, she's doing a whole lot better now." Dr. Taylor responded.
"Well thats good to hear, when I heard she was hurt I dropped everything and came running as fast as possible, but I'm glad she's doing alright now, but how did she get hurt in the first place?"
"Shana got her injuries from one of Shena's people, a lady named Tiyumi Kireno infiltrated the school she was working at and tried to steal the school's funding, Shana's two friends from judgment also were working there at the time so that's how she was caught up in the middle of it all. In the end Shana went into the black wind state again and almost killed Tiyumi. "
"Again, that's the second time this month! What made her snap this time?" Stiner asked concerned
"She made friends with another level 5 girl named Misaka Mikoto, the same girl whom she helped catch that panty thief in the mall the other day. Tiyumi seriously injured the girl and Shana was unable to keep her emotions in check, so she ended up losing control again."
"Who was it that stopped her, was it Ovon?" Stiner asked.
"Yes, Ovon was the person that pulled Shana off of Tiyumi and snapped her out of the black wind state before she did anything too drastic." Dr. Taylor replied.
"Isn't their anything we can do for Shana, I mean we can't have her blowin' her top every time she gets a little angry can we? I mean she already has it hard enough with her disability and all." Stiner said with frustration.
"I wanted to avoid it, but in the end I had no choice, right now I have Shana wearing a bracelet that monitors her heart rate and emotions, if she were to get angry to a certain degree the bracelet will emit a small jolt strong enough to stop her before she enters the black wind state, the only drawback would be that the jolt could break her concentration and stop her from using her powers completely so if she were to get into trouble she would left defenseless."
Stiner sunk his head in pity. "So it's like a shock collar to keep her under control like one would do a wild dog?" He asked.
"Shana was one hundred percent OK with wearing the bracelet, she says if it will keep her from going into the black wind state in the first place then she would be willing to wear it. I did not force her to wear it; I just bought it up as a suggestion."
Stiner sighed deeply. "If that's what you have to do then I have no complaints, but still…"
"I know how you feel Stiner, but for now wearing that bracelet is for Shana's own good. Every time she enters the black wind state her body is forced to perform at its full capabilities without stopping, it's like if an athlete were to run a marathon at full speed nonstop, and that is literary physically impossible, the black wind state makes Shana do the impossible and that causes her body to become extremely weak afterwards." Dr. Taylor paused trying to catch her breath after talking for so long. "If this keeps up Shana could have major health complications when she gets older. Through the week I noticed that Shana has been eating and sleeping more lately, that must have been her body trying to conserve energy because the first few day's she stayed with me it seemed like getting out of bed was a chore for her, and the fact she used access energy scaring away Ovon's men away is not helping at all with her recovery."
Stiner chuckled a bit. "Sounds like you have a lot on your plate to deal with, that girl is way too stubborn for her own good, but if you ever need a hand just say so and I'll be here to help in any way that I can, I owe it to her father."
"Thanks Stiner, I'll be sure to call you if anything turns up." Dr. Taylor said letting Stiner out and closing the door behind her.
*CHOMP* "Garrrg!" The spikey haired boy yelled in pain from being assaulted with razor sharp teeth coming from a young girl with silver hair that wore a white nun's robe with gold lining.
"Touma you ate it didn't you." The young girl snarled with her mouth firmly clamped on top of the boys head.
"Ate what? I have no idea what you talking about!" The Touma asked trying to pry the girl's teeth out of his head.
"Touma don't act stupid, you ate the last pudding cup didn't you?" The girl pouted waving her fist in the air.
"That was my pudding cup in the first place Index, you ate all of your pudding cups and plus most of mine!" Touma said back. Index begins growling at Touma again, he backed away. "Umm…. Index-San?" Touma asked nervously backing away.
"Touma you Idiot!" *CHOMP*
"Garrrg!" Touma's screams echoed throughout the whole apartment. "Ok I'll go buy some more pudding cups just let go!" He screams. After Touma was able to pry himself from Index's fangs he high tailed it from his room leaving behind a trail of dust in his path. "SUCH MISFORUTUNE!"
Shana and Matt were walking down the streets of Academy City's shopping district doing a little window shopping; they went into a few stores and tried on lot of different clothes and hat's and other stuff. With Matt being from the country seeing the big city was a huge turn around for him, and Shana wanted him to experience firsthand what life in a city with 2.3 million people was like.
"So Matt how's the big city? Are you enjoying yourself?" Shana asked clinging to Matt's arm.
"Yeah but it's a little overwhelming right now, I'm not used to being around this many people." Matt looked tired he was dripping in sweat.
"Yeah it took me a while to get use to the city also, but once you get over all of the people the city can be a really fun place to live." Shana smiled.
"You know Shana's you've changed over these past three years, back when we were just kids even though you had your esper powers and your fighting skill's you would never venture in a place full of people, I would always have to drag you around with me."
"Yeah and when I got mad every time you did that, I would make you buy me something sweet to eat by either hitting you or using my powers." Shana snickered.
"Yeah I remember, so tell me are you still a glutton or have you grown out of that?" Matt joked.
Shana blushed. "S-Shut up you jerk!" Shana elbowed Matt in the stomach.
Matt snickered "I'm taking that as a yes then." He held his ribs in pain grunting.
"I take it you want to die then?" Shana flexed her fingers cracking her knuckles. Matt backed away as Shana walked closer. She grabbed him by his shirt and pulled him forward. "Just for that little comment you made you're treating me to sweets, and it better be all I can eat you got it?" Shana demanded.
"What-!"
"Got a problem with that?" Shana glared.
"No I'll be happy to treat you Princess Shana." Matt said nervously.
Shana smiled back at Matt. "Thank you." She sung.
After walking a few more blocks Shana and Matt arrived to a cake shop that Uiharu had shown Shana in the past, she could just die for one slice of the stores famous strawberry short cakes as it was her favorite. "Free cakes all you can eat!" An employee yelled out, she was standing in front if the cake shop with coupons in her hands. "Free cake all you can eat!" She called out again.
The hearing of free food was like music to Shana's ears as she dragged Matt over to the employee. "How can I get free cake all I could eat?" Shana asked her eyes were glimmering like diamonds.
The employee first had a nervous look on her face the smiled back. "Well in order to get free sweets all you can eat, you have to be wearing something unusual." The employee explained.
"Something unusual?" Shana asked herself. "Come with me then!" Shana eagerly grabbed the employee by the hand and dragged her behind the ally.
A minute later both Shana and the employee came from behind the ally, both were blushing hard. "Here are your tickets, enjoy your time here." The employee said to Shana.
"Thank you." Shana blushed taking the tickets then walking back over to Matt.
"No way, how did you pull that off?" Matt had to think for a second. "No way, you didn't?" Matt looked Shana in the eyes but she wouldn't look back at him.
"Let's go!" Shana yanked Matt inside the shop.
Ten minutes later Matt sat there and watched as Shana had just cleaned her fourteenth plate of cake and was getting ready to get up for another. "Man Shana, how can eat all that sweet stuff and not get sick?" Matt asked surprised.
"My stomach works in different ways then other peoples do, so I'm able to eat an excessive amount of food and not get fat or sick." Shana responded. "Get me another strawberry short cake please." Shana asked.
"No way, I think you've had enough cake for a month!" Matt told her. "Anyways we really need to talk Shana." Matt sounded serious.
Shana saw the seriousness in Matt's eyes and asked "Talk about what?" She asked giving her full attention to Matt.
"It's about you living here, Shana I want you to leave thus city and come live with me and my parents!" Matt said. Shana gasped and was taken aback by the suddenty of Matt's words.
"What do you mean come live with you? Why would I do that?" Shana asked.
"Because you know my mom loves you, she's treated you like her own daughter since we were little and my dad is the reason most people refer to you as a princess because he's always treated you that way when your parents didn't because they were too busy working." Matt explained. "I know everything that's been going on with you and Shena and how you're getting yourself hurt because your still looking for her, and it's all thanks to that woman Dr. Taylor."
"Matt what are you trying to say?"
"Shena your older sister, she's somewhere in this city right?"
"Yeah she is, but what does that have to do with me coming to live with you?" Shana was starting to get loud raising her voice.
"Why the hell would Dr. Taylor bring you to this city if she knew that Shena was here and she also knows you're trying to find her?" Matt was getting loud also. "That woman, she doesn't give a damn about you, the only reason she's look after you is so she can get her greedy little hands on your parents insurance money." Matt yelled.
"Matt where is this all coming from, why are you saying this stuff?" Shana asked with her hands over her mouth.
"Because Shana, do you know how upset I was when I found out that you left the countryside with that women, when we were kids she hated you, she could not stand to be in the same room as you, and now all of the sudden when your parents died and Shena ran away she took over as your guardian, that's bull shit all the bitch wants is your money. I bet you Dr. Taylor was hoping you would get yourself killed trying to find Shena so she could have it easy for the rest of her life!"
"How dare you stay something like that, what gives you the right to talk bad about her?" Shana snapped. "Dr. Taylor took care of me for three years, she comforted me when I needed it. She taught me to be more independent and not rely on others too much. You don't know that crap I went through when I started having to wear diapers again, I was teased and bullied on a daily basis by both kids and adults, and on top of that I'm an esper, esper outside this city are considered freaks to normal people like yourself, but she defended me from those people and made me feel better about myself. "
"Damn it Shana can't you see that I'm trying to help you? Why can't you get it through your head that woman in only pretending to care about you-"
"Shut up!" Shana growled her eyes were glowing red, Shana's hair began flying up as wind began circling the table they were sitting at.
"Get mad at me all you want Shana, I care too much about you, to let you be used and killed by that wana-be quack doctor."
"I SAID SHUT UP!" Shana yelled, a violent flow of wind was blowing throughout the entire shop. "IF YOU EVER BAD MOUTH DR. TAYLOR AGAIN I'LL-" Shana suddenly felt a small jolt of electricity coming from the bracelet she was wearing which stopped the use of her power all together, and her eyes went back to normal also. Shana balled up her fist and punched Matt strait in the nose making him fall back in his chair. "Matt you jerk, I hate you!" Shana ran out of the shop crying.
"Shana wait!" Matt yelled holding his bloody nose.
"Ouch I think she broke the skin this time." Touma complained as he ran his hand under a water fountain trying the stop the little drops of blood coming from the bite mark on his hand caused by Index. "I really have to do something about Index biting me all the time; maybe next time I'll cover myself in hot sauce, and when the next Index bites me she'll feel the burn." Touma laughed evilly to himself, but then realized. "If I tasted good to Index, she would probably want to eat me." He said to himself.
"Hey babe what's shakin' want to go for some tea?" Touma Suddenly hears to what sounds like rowdy cheering, and to Kamijou Touma that could not be good for the victim or the people harassing the victim, because he knows a certain middle school girl who shoot's electricity from her finger tips and would not even think twice about frying those thugs.
Playing the role of a hero again Touma ran to the scene of seven boys standing over a small girl and she was crying. Touma clenched both of his fists and growled. "Why is that girl crying? Did those bastards hurt her?" Touma's blood begin to boil over but he knew he could not rush in there and try and fight seven guys alone and come out of it in one piece. He first calmed down first and walked over to the crowd and got a good look at the girls face. "That's the girl who was in the mall with biri biri that other day when they were attacked by those powerful esper's." He said to himself.
"Hey sweetie why don't you come with us, we'll make you feel a whole lot better and beat up the jerk that made you cry." One of the boys spoke putting his arm around Shana's shoulder.
"Beat it, I'm really not in the mood for all this right now!" Shana said slapping the boys arm from off of her. She tried to walk away but was grabbed by the hand.
"Hey now don't be that way, we just want to show you a good time, then maybe we can head back to my room and you can show me a good tim-" Before the thug could finish his sentence Shana had blown the boy back using her power slamming him into a vending machine.
"I said I'm not in the mood!" Shana said fiercely.
"You little bitch what the hell do you think you're doing?" Another boy ran at Shana with his fist balled up ready to hit her, but his fist was stopped by a strong gust of wind blowing the opposite direction. Shana looked at the boy and blew him high in the sky, so high that the fall would have killed him if he had not landed in a tree hitting the branches on the way down before hitting the ground.
Shana surrounded her entire body with wind and cracked her knuckles. "Next!" She taunted. "I'm in a really foul mood at the moment, so if you want to live to see prison in a couple of years then get lost!" She yelled. Suddenly Shana felt someone grab her by the arm and the wind surrounding her body disburse.
"I'm really sorry about all of this!" Touma said bowing his head. "You see my little sister really hates to be touched by other people and sometimes she loses control of her power." He laughed nervously.
"That's the boy who saved Misaka-sempai and me from that plant type esper from the mall the other day." Shana was able to recognize Touma from the mall, and she knew he was trying to help her and played the role accordingly. "Onii-chan that scary boy over there touched me so I accidentally used my powers and hurt him." Shana had her arms wrapped around Touma's waist and she was pointing at the first boy she had thrown into the vending machine.
"You think we're going to by that little sister crap with all that shit she was just talkin', think again!" Yet another boy yelled this time he was holding a metal pipe and the other four boys were holding knives and sticks and such.
"Crap this is bad!" Touma said fearfully but still braced himself for a fight until Shana stepped in front of him.
"Hey what are you doing, it's dangerous get back?" Touma said to Shana.
"I've had just about all I can take from these losers, and playing the scared little girl role just does not sit right with me." Shana said gathering wind in her hands when suddenly the bracelet emitted another jolt of electricity breaking her focus and stopping the use of her power. "What the, not again…. What just happened?" Shana asked herself when one of the boys ran up on the side of her. The boy swung a broom stick her Shana, she was barely able to dodge. Shana countered by throwing a punch, but surprisingly her fist was caught by the boys. "What's wrong with me? Why are my movements so slow and why am I so out of breath already?" Shana braced herself to get hit.
"Let go of her!" Touma roared planting his right fist into the boy's face knocking his two front teeth out, he began rolling on the ground screaming in pain blood was leaking from his mouth.
The other four thugs ran at Touma and Shana at once. Shana threw her leg out tripping the boy closes to her making him fall on his face, she planted her knee in the boys back and grabbed the weapon he had and gave it to Touma. "I hope you know how to fight?" She told him. Shana delivered two fatal strikes on the fallen boy's shoulders making his arms unusable.
Touma ran forth swinging the weapon he hand at hand. Two of the boys came at him at the same time wielding metal pipes. Touma threw his weapon hitting the one of the boys in the face making him drop his weapon. Touma came up close and delivered a brutal uppercut to the boy's chin, his feet left the ground as he flew back.
The second boy caught Touma in his ribs with the pipe, Touma fell sideways in pain but stopped himself from hitting the ground by using his right arm. The boy was about to swing again but suddenly felt intense pain coming from his shoulder, he turned around and saw Shana. The boy reached out and grabbed her by the throat attempting to strangle the girl, but she poked his other arm making it go numb causing him to let go of her. Touma tapped the boy on his shoulder, and when he turned around it was lights out. The last boy holding a long cleaving knife charged at Touma ready to end his life. Touma dodged swing after swing from the jagged blade waiting for the right moment to counter when he found himself backed into a wall with nowhere to go. The boy lunged at Touma ready to end his life when a surge of blue electricity came from nowhere and struck the boy down. While still on the ground the boy reached for his knife when a gun was put up to his temple.
"Don't move kid, it ain't worth it!" The man holding the gun said. The boy gave up begging for his life.
"Ovon, Misaka-sempai." Shana said happily as she fell over but was cough by Touma.
Minutes later all Seven thugs were handcuffed and loaded in the back of an Anti-Skill's truck, Ovon was talking to one of the officers while Mikoto was sitting on a bench and Shana had her head resting Mikoto's her lap, Touma had just finished talking to another one of the Anti-Skill officer telling him that Shana was being harassed and he was just passing by and went to go help out, Touma was scolded and was told next time wait for an official to do the hero work and just let go with a slap on the wrist. Shortly Touma returned to the girls with can's soda's in his hands. "Stupid machine took my 1000 yen bill." He muttered to himself.
"Shana are you going to be ok." Mikoto asked her.
"Yeah I'll be fine." Shana responded weakly.
Mikoto then turned her attention towards Touma as he handed her, her favorite drink coconut ginger soda. "Thanks for saving her." Mikoto said, she looked up to see Touma grinning to himself. "What?" She asked blushing.
"It's nothing." Touma smirked. "I just never thought I'd ever hear you say thank you. I mean every time we see each other you're always shooting lighting at me trying to beat me at some stupid fight."
"Well you did beat me in our first fight so what do you expect?" Mikoto yelled.
"I never touched you, and you were the one who attacked me first because I stopped you from frying those thugs, and plus I take a point not to beat up on little girls, especially when they walk around wearing diapers." Touma said smartly.
"I really hope you're talking about her!" Mikoto growled pointing down at Shana.
"No I'm talking about little miss rail gun who was wearing a wet diaper that last time I saw her."
Mikoto's hair began sparking. "I see, so you want to die then!" She yelled ready to zap Touma when he placed his right hand on top of Mikoto's head stopping the flow of electricity coursing through her body.
"Don't forget she's lying on your lap, or do you plan on zapping her too." Touma asked making Mikoto stop.
"Your Kamijou Touma right?" Ovon asked walking up to the two.
"Yes I am." Touma responded.
"I'm going to need you to come with me, and you too Misaka Mikoto." Ovon said.
"What for and how do you know us!" Mikoto asked.
"I can either be your best friend because both of you know Shana, or I can be your worst enemy because I can bring up enough charges to put both of you away for a very long time." Ovon said. "Kamijo Touma I have word to be leave that you are harboring an illegal alien in you dorm room, and Misaka Mikoto I can send in a report for all the collateral damage you've caused this city."
"What do you want from us and how do you know Shana?" Mikoto demanded.
"It's about her sister, sense you too are involved with Shana I just thought you would like to know what kind of trouble you two are getting yourselves into, and also about that nun staying at your dorm room Kamijou Touma, I think she maybe in danger."
"What Index? Tell me what you know!" Touma demanded.
"I'll explain everything, but I need you two to come with me now, or I can have you two picked up from a jail cell, its your choice." Ovon said sternly. In the end both Touma and Mikoto fallowed Ovon back to his truck and were driven off into the city.