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Capitolo 8 Stormy Awakening

(Negi's group)

"Calm down! No one here wants to hurt you!" Negi tried in vain to calm the little Evangeline, who continued to reject any attempt to approach.

After the umpteenth refusal to listen to him, the teacher dropped on a bed with a disconsolate air.

"Give her some time, Professor. What she went through should not be easy to overcome." Chisame said, approaching quiet.

Chao and Chachamaru were still trying to get her out from under the bed where she had taken refuge, but with poor results.

The android was on the threshold of total despair.

In that moment they heard the door open, and they saw return Erik, who raised curious a eyebrow at the sight of that strange scene: a young girl who was trying in every way to avoid being seized by two of the girls, the young woman with glasses and the two little boys were sitting on a cot nearby while the swordswoman and what was to be the witch were fast asleep on two other mattresses.

"Hello, Mr. Erik." Greeted Negi polite "Not that you could help us to calm her down?" He continued, pointing Eva with a nod of the head. He looked destroyed.

A head appeared from behind an arm of the imposing man: it belonged to William.

"What happens Erik? Where have you brought me? I do not recognize this place..." he asked before looking around.
As he did, he looked amazed at the room's occupants.

"Oh. That's where you were finished today! I...here... I wanted to apologize for this morning: I was really rude and..." he began to say getting into.

"William. Hush now." Erik interrupted him dry.

"You have been brought here because now it is impossible to keep you in the dark. You have to know that I, Marcus, Arthur and Richard are not mere humans. We are the ones that ordinary people defines Magicians." the big man said quietly when he had the attention of the boy, whose expression changed several times: at first amused, then as he saw the seriousness in the eyes of his friend, became amazement, and then stabilized on a look of fear.

"W-what? W-wizards?" he stammered stepping back "C-Come on, do not be ridiculous... Y-you..."

"I'm not kidding. We are. And we always were. And as you know there is nothing to fear from us." Erik interrupted him calm.

"I tell you this now because I have to. But I can assure you that we'd talk to your seventeenth birthday. However, we saw in you a large presence of Mana, we perceived at the very moment when we found you. With your latent power, and the right training you would have the chance to become a great wizard, among the best: a Magister Magi. Now, you have to make a choice, perhaps the most important of your life. Accept this gift, and deepen your knowledge about Art Arcana, or ignore it and follow a peaceful common life. No one will blame you if you choose the second one: it is important that you know that." he ended.

These stared at the boy with stunned expression.
Even Eva, felt the sudden calm lowered around her, poked her head out from under a bed rail.

"I-I? A w-wizard? But the magic is the result of pacts with the Devil! Y..."

"Absolutely not! I do not remember that neither I nor my companions had ever said such a thing! These are just rumors of ignorant, too frightened by what they do not understand! Have you ever seen perhaps we harm someone? Make ungodly rites?" interrupted brusquely Erik.

"N-no... but..." muttered the boy.

"The magic is an energy, which unfortunately only a few know how to manipulate. You shall not be afraid of it." he continued more quietly.

"I see..." William did not seem particularly convinced.

He took a deep breath.

"Okay. Let's say I want to learn magic, only to hypotheses. What would happen?" he asked then in a quieter voice.

"You should pass a test. After that I, Arthur, Richard and Marcus will teach you the ways of mana." Erik said simply.

William closed his eyes and thought for a minute.
Finally he opened them again and stared at the man.

"Okay. I'm in. It might be interesting after all, is not it? "He said with a nervous smile.

"Well done! You'll see that you will not regret, William!" exulted the Welsh wizard.

"Oh! You came out Eva!" Negi exclaimed, with a reassuring smile on his face as he saw the face sticking out from under the bed.

Slowly, he approached her and held out a hand.

"Come on! Here nobody wants to do anything to you! I am Negi."

Hesitantly, the girl accepted the hand and allowed him to pull her out of her hiding.

"W-where am I?" she asked, looking around "Where is my father?"

A shadow passed over the face of the teacher.

"Your father... is... has gone on a journey, a very long journey. He has left you with us, we are his friends. I am a teacher, you know? And they are some of my students, even those that are sleeping back there. This, however, is my friend, Kotaro." Negi said changing the subject.

"These are Erik and William." He said, turning and pointing towards Strongspeak and its namesake, who were still arguing.

The child, after a moment of silence, seemed to accept the explanation nodding silently.

"Are you okay?" Negi asked, seeing her pale.

"Y-yes. That is... I'm thirsty... so thirsty... OUCH!" she exclaimed, her mouth wide open: a long, pointed canine had injured her lower lip.

"W-what is happening to me?" she asked fingering her fangs, with expression gradually more and more terrified, "W-Why are so long?"

"Because you're no longer human, little Evangeline." Chao said to her, placing a hand on her shoulder.
"You were attacked by a vampire, and this has transmitted his curse to you."

"What?" asked the little girl, her eyes widening "A vampire?"

A look of terror came into his eyes, which welled up with tears and understanding.

"I'm going to be a monster like that? I will not!" she sobbed "I'm afraid..."

"Do not worry, we are here with you." Chachamaru assured her, approaching embarrassed.

"Nothing will happen like that." Negi smiled.

"And you really do not know what delicacy is, true?" Chisame said acid to Chao, who put a hand behind his head stammering a bland excuse.

"Eeeeh?" They all heard to exclaim William, on the other side of the room.

"That's right boy! You will go with them. Little Negi!" then called Erik, doing almost snap to attention the teacher "This reckless will accompany you in your journey home, wherever the destination is, as a beginning of his apprenticeship, making the guide. It'll be good for him. In any case I would like you to ask you a favor while you're on the go, I would like you to teach him the rudiments of control of the Mana."

"Y-yes, of course Mr. Erik." Negi nodded, amazed.

Meanwhile, with all that noise, as well Ako had woken up.

Calmly, Negi and her companions approached, and after a series of hugs and reassuring phrases, they illustrated the situation to her, putting her into the secret of the magic, all accompanied by some practical demonstration.

The girl, obviously in disbelief and scared at the beginning, however, seemed to accept without replicas their revelations.

After the explanation, she limited herself to only one comment, tonelessly.

"So, Professor, summarizing... because of the malfunction of a time machine of Lin Sheng Chao, who is from the future and it is your descendant, we were back almost seven hundred years in the past, in a Wales where he recently broke the infamous 'Hundred Years War'. Now, with the same and botched machine, we must return to the present, but to do so we need the magical power of one of these 'Twelve Holy Places', of which we ignore the position, as well as any activation dates. In addition, you yourself are a magician, Chachamaru a robot and this little girl identical to Eva, and her namesake as you says, is a neo-vampire that we carry along, like the blondish boy who is staring into space a little farther, also promoted to apprentice magician, right? Did I forget something?"

"Yes! That I and your classmate Setsuna are half-demons." said Kotaro proud.

"Ah, yes. Thank you. So Professor?"

"Y-yes..." Negi replied clumsy "Let's say that we can summarize in this way."

"I understand." Ako then said, nodding.

"Now, if you do not mind, I try to wake up. I'll see you in class!"

That said, she lay in bed, closing her eyes.

The wolf boy, looking bored, approached silently to the bed, and pinched in the arm the girl.

"Ouch!" Pulled up shooting the young woman.

"What are you doing?" she asked rubbing his reddened skin.

"Look, we were not kidding... this is real." replied testily Inugami.

"Yeah, right! Because there are wizards, vampires and time travel!" the girl clapped a hand on her chest "How do you think I could believe such a thing so absurd? Excuse me, but I do not think such a thing possible."

"Holy words!" came up beside her Chisame "I would have supported up to yesterday... but I am forced to deny this yours, in my opinion more than right, conviction. All that the brats have said is dramatically true."

"Even you, Hasegawa?" Izumi stunned wondered.

"You are free not to believe me, Ako." said the professor, "You'll see with your own eyes how we get out."

He turned to Erik, who was watching the scene without understanding a word of the speech given entirely in Japanese.

"It gives you too much trouble If we leave in the morning? And ... could you tell us where the nearest of Holy Places? "

"No, no problem. With regard to the location, you should ask to Marcus, as he returns: he studied in the Vatican libraries, certainly knows. "

"Someone called me?" asked the man in question, entering at that time.

"What a coincidence! The boys wanted to ask you right now where is the nearest of the Holy Places of the Earth! "Erik turned the question to him.

"Uh? Sacred places? It 's been quite a long time since I've heard of them last time! So... from here the nearest is still all over the continent: it is the hill on which is built the Hagia Sophia, to Byzantium."

-End Chapter-