(The Latest BLACK! How about a few chapters of relaxation and bonding for our dear friend Sora Minakaze before the next arc! Yes. I know this would be classified as Filler but I promise you! You want to stick along for this ride!)

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BLACK 6

There was a lot of secrets in the academy that people did not know, secrets that if any student were to hear about them, they would instantly fear for their lives. These soon became known as the seven mysteries of the Academy...and to Sora, they sounded incredibly stupid. "I am telling you! There is something happening in the public library!" A student said as Sora happened to be at the area at the time. "Oh not you too...listen, it's just a prank by some student to get everyone believing in this stuff..." His friend said, clearly annoyed at how his friend was panicking over such a stupid thing. Having had enough of their conversation, Sora left the area with a bag of groceries as he went along his day.


As he entered his room once again, Two people were sitting on his black couch, doing their own things. "Oh Hey Nii-san! How was the shopping?" Marcus said as he was busy reading through the homework that was passed to them by their respective teachers in the academy to do for the weekend. He was clearly busy trying to understand most of the work that was given to him right now and doing alright for the most part. "This is the right answer to the question...Right Chikacho?" Marcus nervously asked as Chikacho took a look at the answer that Marcus had written.

"That answer is wrong. Try again." Chikacho said as Marcus held his head and placing it on the book. "God damn it...I thought I had the right answer." Marcus said as he slammed his head on the table gently. The sight was rather amusing to Sora as he merely smiled and placed the groceries on the table. "The shopping went well, I got us enough for a few nights. I hope you guys like chicken." Sora said as Marcus and Chikacho smiled and nodded. "If it's cooked by you, we don't mind what we get at all...Mas...I mean Sora." Chikacho said as she corrected herself yet again.

"Man that is going to take a while huh..." Sora said with a small sigh at the same time. It had been just a few days since he woke up from the food induced coma that was given to him by Noel. The weekeneds were just the best as the Academy made it a must to relax. The student council unfortunately had to still work at this time just to help maintain order in the Academy. "I do apologize Sora...I promise that I won't say master again." Chikacho said as Sora facepalmed at what she had said. "I said it again didn't I..." Chikacho continued as Sora merely nodded.

"Ummm...Nii-san...have you finished your history homework yet?" Marcus asked as Sora looked at him and shook his head. "I was planning to head to the library after I made and ate dinner with you guys. Got to get my facts right after all." Sora said as Marcus looked at him wide eyed. "T-T-The Library! A-At this time of day!" Marcus said in shock as Sora merely shook his head. "You heard the rumours about the library at night too huh..." Sora said as Marcus's tail shot up in shock and fear. "Nii-san! People have reported hearing stuff in there at night! Are you sure about doing something like that!" Marcus said as Sora shook his head.

"Geez, it's hearing stuff like that sometimes which puzzles me most of the time." Sora said as Marcus took a deep breath and tried to close his eyes to think of the happy thoughts. "Could you not wait for tomorrow to go the library, heading to the library this late at night is not advised by the student council." Chikacho explained as Sora scratched his head. "Well...I have to meet up with Makoto tomorrow... we made some plans with each other to look around Torifune for a bit." Sora explained as Marcus and Chikacho's brows were raised.

Ever since they have arrived, they could not help but notice the amount of attention this Makoto had been receiving from Sora. "Nii-san...do you like this Makoto person?" Marcus asked out of curiosity as Sora looked at him with equal curiosity. "Why is everyone saying that...Me and Makoto hang out a lot. What is with this Liking stuff." Sora asked as he was never good at discerning stuff like this. "Sora...Someday you will understand what stuff like this means I guess." Chikacho said as Sora got confused at this but decided to not push it more.

"Well anyways...I am going to start cooking dinner first,then I will head off." Sora said as he approached the kitchen to begin preparing the meal. With what Chikacho had just said out in his mind, Sora began to slice various types of vegetables in rapid succession. Why did Chikacho sound like she knew more about the situation he and Makoto were in more than themselves would. 'Oh who cares, I can't keep thinking about stuff like this forever... Let's just focus on making a good dinner.' Sora thought as the bustles of a meal began to flow into him, ready to begin his creation.


The way to reach the Library was often at times confusing, not because it was night currently, but because of how many turns one has to make in order to get to the place. 'I swear to god...the architect of this place needs to be sacked.' Sora thought as he had to continuously look at his map to make sure he was still walking to the right location and not walking off to some god knows place. Despite being here for at least 2 months now, Sora was still new to the city in general. It didn't matter because of his loner personality or a lack of interest in the city, he was wishing he had spent more time actually exploring the city.

'God damn useless map...I swear to god I will lose my mind if I have to keep on staring on this god damn map of this god damn city for...Oh.' The thing that stopped Sora's rant from preceding any further was the destination itself, the Torifune public library. The academy often uses the books that come from this library for most of their lessons in order to give their students a chance to stretch their legs, making them walk to this location every time. It is also open for the general public to look at whatever book they desire. Unfortunately, most of the books present in this library are meant for academic studies instead so none of the interesting books actually exist.

"No wonder this place looks deserted." Sora said as a wind blew, rustling the bushes nearby as the night made the library seem rather...haunted. Sora didn't even feel scared though as he looked at the building rather undeterred as he walked to the stairs of the library. Unlike most libraries, this one actually was opened 24 hours everyday so anybody could walk in and read whatever they pleased, unfortunately it is not a good excuse to break curfew for which was a strict in rooms by 10 pm, set by the student council with the Academy agreeing to it.

'Right...let's just get this research...' A loud boom was then heard in the library as Sora's senses immediately shot up, dropping the map he was holding in the first place to the ground. He did not move for a few moments as he heard the sound once again. The sound definitely came from the inside of the Library as he was now beginning to wonder if he should enter the place now. "I need that work...then again, I don't know what's going on in there..." Sora debated as he took a deep breath to steady his thoughts.

'I need to use the library...and I will not let some spooky noise stop me from using the books!' Sora thought as he opened the door as it echoed greatly. The normally packed library with the sounds of the various students and teachers looking for the books they wished, the sounds of their shoes cracking on the wooden floor causing an echo, was now just a ghost town, something that Sora has been familiar with through his work as a mercenary. 'Right...I need to look for the map. There it is!' Sora thought as he found the layout of the library and began to examine it thoroughly

The project that he had to do was something about the dark war, specifically about the Black beast. He wondered why on Earth people would like to keep talking about it, talking about the actions that happened almost 100 years ago that don't relate to what happens now. You could spend an entire time trying to tell him the intricate history of the Black beast to him, he just did not really care. "let's just get to the history section of the library and get this over with." Sora thought as he walked out to the main hall of the library as the sounds of his footsteps echoed throughout.


The floorboards creaked eerily as he had to admit, to the unprepared, this would terrify the living crap out of them...especially with the noises he heard coming from the building itself. He on the other hand wasn't going to let some...loud noised...boom scare him from reaching that history section which was upstairs. "Right...Just up these stairs and head left." Sora said to himself quietly as he held on the railings of the stairs for support. His footsteps were rather slow and shallow as he didn't try to spend too much time thinking about it for the moment.

It was while he was walking up he heard something creak upstairs, what that was he didn't know. His senses were all but aware at this point as he decided to not take any chances at this point. Slowly placing his left hand on one of his arm blade handles, he slowly drawed it out and readied the blade. If there was really something around here, he was going to be ready for it no matter what happened. 'If the Lotus are here already...could this be a trap?' Sora thought to himself as he was soon at the top of the second floor. Closing his eyes, he began to focus on where the sound was going to come from.

Soon, he heard the floorboards creak even more as they were clearly the signs that a person is walking right now. Sora began to find out where the floorboard sounds came from as his right ear began to hear the sound more sharply as he opened his eyes and noticed it was coming from the History section. Approaching the door without making a single sound through the room, he kept quiet as he peeked into the room.

The room itself was dimly lit as the sole source of light present in the room is a small table lamp located at the far side of the room. Despite this little light, he could clearly tell that something had been in this room, through the fact that the light is on and a chair had been moved. Deciding to see if there is anybody still left in the room right now, he slowly raised his arm blade, exposing it through the door. Keeping quiet, Sora did not expect a sound to be heard, he wanted to lure the person in the room closer as soon, the floorboards creaked once again.

The tension for him was real. For what felt like an eternity he did not dare make a single muscle of movement out of pure instinct. Allowing the footsteps to soon approach to a range where the door was the only place they could be, Sora immediately barged into the room. As soon as he did however, he saw a huge blue bolt of light approach him as he immediately dashed out of the way and hit the deck below one of the tables. The bolt of light struck the wall but it soon dissipated, not even leaving a mark of it's blast on it, much to the surprise of Sora.

'What kind of Ars Magus is that...' Sora thought as he kept low and tried looking for the assailant's feet. Much to his shock, he couldn't find a single leg of a person as he soon began to hear footsteps yet again. This was no ghost story...but it sure was playing out as one. 'So this person is keeping themselves on the move and they have a range ars magus...this will be difficult.' Sora was now in a state of focus, nothing could disturb him at this moment right now as he began to crawl on the ground with caution. He at this point had two options to how he could proceed this.

He could crawl up towards the light at the end of the room and get up from there. However that was a dangerous proposition as he didn't know any much more from his attacker expect what he had managed to gather. If he were to get to there, they might already have an ambush ready for him already and he would fall prey to that. 'It's not the safest option right now...The risks are quite heave for me to even think about that.' Sora thought as he began to consider the second option.

The second option would be to lure out his target instead but even then it's a risk. For starters, the chances of them actually falling for the trap are considered at least a 50/50 chance. If they don't buy the bait, he would be forced to give out more bait just to get them to come. If he did that as well, he would be letting them know that he was in the room and give them time to prepare, something that if used correctly, would hurt him even more as they could use the time he was trying to distract them to backstab him. 'Damn...I need an option that is foolproof..' the options he had were limited as he had one final option come into his mind, and this is a classic Code Zero tactic.

He got up from his crawl as soon as he was almost to the table where the light was located. Kneeling on one knee, he began to search for the switch for the table lamp with his eyes as there should have been a wall switch. Readying his other arm blade, Sora tossed it towards the switch, turning off the light as the person would have caught a glimpse of the blade. Immediately standing in front of the door, Sora began to look for the Ars Magus circle that would give off their position as he knew very well that all Ars Magus rely on a seal of some sort manifesting and this one would have not been different.

What he saw instead was the blue light immediately blasting out in front of him as he realized what he was dealing with was not Ars Magus. Not having time to think, he had to tackle down his target before they moved again. Taking the risk, Sora charged towards the blast with his breathing coming to a shallow breath. He had one shot at this, if he messed up, he could be so screwed. He allowed the blast to approach him ever closer without hesitation as time slowed down to a crawl for him as he began to concentrate even more.

Once again, he saw something that he was most likely not supposed to see as the blast was not there and he simply dashed forward to catch the attacker. He was still adapting to this new ability as he had only used it when he was against Marcus and Chikacho and was not sure of it's maximum capabilities. All he knew it allowed him to force his body to perform the action he saw, literally forcing it against reality itself as time slows down around him greatly. 'Please...MAKE THIS MY REALITY!' Sora thought as he glowed green once more briefly as he focused on the image presented to him.


"SOUL SHIFT!" the moment Sora Yelled out the move, his body suddenly strained itself yet again, all of his muscles pulling together at the same time as he came to a screeching halt in front of the bolt. He knew he was going to collide with the bolt at this rate as it was too close for a dash past it, but he was stunned with the fact it actually phased right past him as he charged forward, as if the bolt never existed. He had no time to think about that as the assailant was just right in front of him as his arms stretched out to catch them.

His gamble somehow worked as the person was too dazed as to what happened to even try resisting at that moment. Wrapping his hands around their waist, he lifted them over and slammed them to the ground before getting on top of them and restraining them tightly. "O-OW! My wrists!" The person yelped as Sora's grip on them was tight and very restrained. Slowly standing up, he noticed the person was wearing the academy's uniform, but it had apparently been modified to look like a combination of both Tsubaki's which consist of the long skirt and Cajun's which had a long coat but unlike hers, had a tail in the end. 'What the...A student of the Academy?' Sora thought as he turned the student around to get a proper look at them.

The student he saw had a rather interesting look to them. First of all, she looked like one of the higher class students he usually sees with their proper looking dress style. Secondly, she had caramel hair which matched the look of her Topaz eyes which were wondering what on Earth happened as he got off her. Being a gentlemen and standing her up, he looked at her with a semi serious look. "Who are you...and why did you attack me." Sora asked as the person brushed the dust on her shoulder and straightened her outfit before answering his question.


Student: I could be asking you the same thing, why were you acting suspiciously?

Sora: Me acting suspiciously? I just happened to hear a noise coming from upstairs and I decided to investigate. What about you.

Student: What a coincidence, I happened to hear noises coming from downstairs and thought that something or someone was after me.

Sora: I see...Wait...that was me.

Student: So it was a misunderstanding after all...For a second, I thought this Library was really a haunted place.

Sora: Don't be silly, there's no such thing as Haunted places, they are just our imagination running wild.

Student: You may never know, even Haunted places terrify the most courageous of people...Sora Minakaze.


The moment he heard his name being uttered, his guard was raised yet again. "Who are you...and how do you know my name." Sora asked as the student chuckled a little bit. "Why...My name is Catarina of the Camelia household, and I was there when you fought against those two new students on Orientation last week." Catarina said as Sora couldn't shake away the doubt that he had about her currently as he wondered what he should say to her for now. "Well...if you did see me that day...then you should know what was the end result of the match." Sora said as he wanted to test her for a little bit.

"Why...You ended up drawing with the two students and fainted in the arena." Catarina answered as Sora's guard was finally down as he breathed out slowly. "By the way, can you please put away your blade. It is starting to worry me." Catarina said gently as Sora looked at his arm blade and flicked his wrist, retracting the blade once again as he sheathed the handle. "I must have not noticed...Sorry about that." Sora apologized as he soon placed some distance between him and Catarina.

A sense of discomfort came into him as the sense of normalcy he felt returned. The person in front of him right now...is a Human being...a normal person just like him. That discomfort soon turned into distrust as he turned his back to her which she did not understand as she looked at him with curiosity. "What brings you here though? Most students don't come in here at the middle of the night." Catarina asked as Sora didn't answer her question but retorted with an answer of his own.

"You tell me yourself... What's that blue ball of light that you made come out." Sora questioned as Catarina immediately became defensive for some reason. "W-Why are you asking me something that silly? Can you not tell it's Ars Magus?" Catarina said, thinking that Sora would buy that answer like most students. "Well...if it is Ars Magus...then tell me why you can make it appear without the use of a Ars Seal?"

The moment Sora said those words, everything changed for her. "I know about that requirement...yet when I turned around the corner, you casted it immediately...no preparation was needed from your part...One look and me and that blue ball of light came for me." Sora said while keeping his back at her face. Catarina began to panic inside as Sora began to wonder about a lot of things. "I...I have a high Ars Magus rating...So I can cast most Ars Magus without the use of a seal." Catarina said, trying to weasel her way out of this despite being a terrible liar.

"If that is the case, Noel Vermillion should be able to do the same thing...and she has the highest Ars Magus rating ever recorded. Yet when it comes to making a barrier, she still requires an Ars Seal." Sora retorted as Catarina had heard of Noel Vermillion and her potential in Ars Magus. Realizing she had been cornered, Catarina sighed as the truth had to be delivered. "Fine...It's not Ars Magus... to be honest...Based on the little I know... It's actually Magic." Catarina said as Sora's ears immediately perked up hearing that.

Magic...a word he had not heard said for a long time. There was a reason he didn't hear that...that was the word that he and Alice used to describe what she could do. "Magic...as in that hocus pocus kind of stuff certain people could do?" Sora questioned as Catarina couldn't help but be surprised to hear that. "W-Well...not hocus pocus...but close. How do you know that it's magic though?" Catarina asked as Sora immediately felt uncomfortable. He didn't want to answer her question as it was too personal but knew she would pester him until he did...so he decided to tell her abridged version.

"All you need to know...Is that a friend of mine once showed me a trick they could do with the wind. Making all sorts of shapes and all." Sora described as Catarina could sense the uneasiness in his voice and realized that he didn't want to talk much about it. "I see...That explains everything indeed." Catarina said as Sora was mildly surprised at her acceptance of such an answer. "Well...now that has been answered...I guess you are the mystery thing causing the mysterious disturbances in this Library...am I right?" Sora questioned as Catarina became curious at his words.

"Disturbances? What are you talking about? I am merely here to do research on Magic in general." Catarina replied as Sora merely looked at her. He wanted to ask her more questions about magic but this time seems like a bad moment. "Well... maybe when we are free, you can tell me more about Magic sometime." Sora asked as Catarina was surprised to hear that. Looking at Sora's back once again, Sora didn't turn his head around to look at her but she could sense the curiosity that was coming out from him. "...I would love to...Sora Minakaze." Catarina said as she bowed down with grace.

"Well...I need to get some books from the History section...want to help me with that at least." Sora said with some discomfort in his voice. Catarina presumed that Sora was someone who was shy when it came to new people however Sora knew it was much more deeper than that. He couldn't trust anybody who is not a beastkin. Due to past experiences, Sora had to erect a solid amount of walls for Humans, walls that protect him from deceitful and sickening human trash. He didn't know how much longer he could handle this anymore.

"Why I would love to Mr Minakaze, Please do let me know what you wish to borrow. I happen to be a librarian here so I can help you check the books out for you." Catarina explained as Sora raised his brow. "So that explains why you are here...You are working the night shift just in case anybody wants to borrow a book...and act as security I figure." Sora noted as Catarina was amazed at Sora's observation ability. How on earth did he develop them despite being two years younger than her as well as the deduction skills needed for it as well. Not only was it creepy, she cannot help but feel a bit disturbed.

"Why...Except the security part, the rest is accurate indeed." Catarina said as Sora understood what she had said with a simple nod of his head. Silence came but it was not of the odd variety as they both understood each other in their own ways. Catarina understood that Sora Minakaze is most likely an individual who keeps to himself while Sora was glad that Catarina was not turning out to be a human he would hate...right now at least. "Let me walk you to the History section and I can help you find the books you want." Catarina said as she began to walk to the History section as he stood there in thought.

The reason why stood there was because he wondered about his hatred for Humans in general. When he lost his memories of his entire past except for Alice, he had a chance for things to heal. He had a chance to see Humans in a different light, a way for Humans to actually do something worthwhile. Instead, all he got was the disappointment and frustrations of how ignorant and insane the Human race was. "Are you interested right now in the library or do you wish to come back another day?" Catarina called out from the History Section room as Sora looked at the direction with a small sense of intrugue and said from his mouth.


"I will be there... Just give me a minute."


GREETINGS LOST SHEEP OF FANFICTION! I Hope you all are doing well! Now. I hope you all will enjoy these series of character building Filler Chapters. I know there are people out there that do not like the use of said filler Chapters to pad their stories but I can guarantee you. It's not what you think. As you all know, there will be OC's that appear throughout the story and I want to give them their chances to shine in the story. Trust me, they will play a role in the story to fold.

ALSO! I am in a bit of a crossroads here. No it's not regarding BLACK Rebellion. It actually regards more to my other story in work, BlazBlue: Lore Explanation. I have noticed that a lot of people are not really reading that story and I am beginning to worry about it's existence in the Blazblue Fanfiction. Yes, I did state that it's a month only work and I will keep it like that. What worries me is the feedback. I wish to make it an OC focused story. Yet I know there are people out there that wish for more of the Blazblue cast to appear.

So I have decided, for this month, I will not release a chapter due to this decision process. Instead, I will open up a poll that will depend on you all to decide how you want to see it be made. Keep your eyes for it as I will be watching it closely. The Poll will be for either you want all of the Blazblue Cast to appear and the character appropriate for the chapter is selected. Or we stick to the current format we have established which is Kidnapping...I mean borrowing select Blazblue characters giving them more time to their respective chapters. I promise that whatever you choose will determine the way the story will play out.

Finally, I also wish to know what you all wish to see next appear on the Lore Explanation show. The main issue I have is the lack of info to go through. I can understand if you are nervous to send me a question through Lore explanation and I can understand. Just do leave your feedback, I will look out for it. I promise.

NOW! AFTER THAT LONG EXPLANATION! Will a new bond form between Sora and Catarina!? What other magic tricks does our Cat Witch Librarian know! And finally! Will we see Sora and Makoto explore Torifune the next day!? I DO KNOW WHAT IS IN STORE BUT I WON'T TELL YOU! FOR YOU TO KNOW! I WILL SAY THIS! Read On if you dare! FAREWELL!