This chapter is a bit shorter, but I just couldnt help myself...
Hope you like it though!

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Previously:

He could only catch a glimpse of a certain brunette running around a corner before she vanished.

"Damn."

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Chapter Ten – New Powers

Mikan was running towards her room and locked herself in, wiping away a tear from her eye.

Why was Natsume always like that when talking to her?

Wasn't it enough that he insulted her, now he also had to take Sumire in his arms?

She tore the brightly coloured scarf from her throat, revealing an ugly bruise that had turned a greenish colour by now.

She eyed it carefully, then decided that it wouldn't matter anyway. It would help her gain control over her body and help her bear pain, just like Natsume.

Natsume…

Shaking her head, Mikan decided to skip classes for the day and to say that her sore throat was paining her.

In a way, it was true, but for that, she would have to go to the hospital wing.

She groaned. Great.

She got ready for going outside again, hiding any signs of her tainted skin.

Walking fast through the campus so that she wouldn't be stopped by anyone, she made her way to the infirmary.

As the nurses there already knew her from previous incidents, they believed her quickly and she made her way out again, happy to have a day off.

As she turned around a corner, she saw two 15-year-old students trying to get some money from a 12-year-old boy.

The sight made her angry. What were they thinking?

"You there, stop that!"

The two teenagers turned around to face her.

"Oh yeah? And what are you going to do about that, little girl?" one of them asked in a mocking tone.

"This is my last warning. Back off" she said in a calm voice, which was even scarier than if she had shouted.

Uncertain, the two of them looked at each other. Shrugging, they just ignored her, proceeding to bully the young boy.

What was she going to do anyway? She was a little girl.

Fuming, she ran towards one of them and simply knocked him out before he could do anything.

The other one, having seen the attack coming, used his alice.

A gush of water hit her right on the chest, hard. Not as inexperienced in karate as she had thought, he grabbed her and threw her to the ground, leaving her breathless.

He laughed wickedly, but she quickly stood up and kicked him where it hurt the most. He fell, wincing, cursing under his breath.

Suddenly, she felt pain shooting up her spine. Her other opponent had woken up, attacking her with his own alice: inflicting pain by looking at his victims.

She fell to her knees, her body contorted in agony. Her old self would have started crying. But she wasn't her self anymore.

She closed her eyes, concentrating. Her chest was heaving up and down as she was trying to breathe. She felt something click inside of her as energy rushed through her whole body.

Accessing that power, using it instinctively, she directed it towards her attacker. Something pulled at her as she explored the structure of the other person's alice, deciphering and decoding.

Having finally found a weak point in the "armour", she attacked there with her full force.

She could literally feel her own strength drain out of her body as it unloaded the energy, but there was something else as well. Something was adding to her own power, something her body didn't want and was pushing away.

The boy was screaming by now, his voice getting weaker every moment that passed by.

Mikan wanted to stop whatever she was doing, but it seemed out of control. She was lost in her own self.

Finding no more, the flow of energy suddenly stopped, breaking the connection.

As she already was on her knees, she didn't fall any more, which she certainly would have.

Strangely enough, she didn't feel weak at all, but in a way refreshed. She turned her head and looked at the inert body of the teenager. His face was completely white, like a ghost's.

Shocked, Mikan looked away. Was she really the one who had done that?

"You… killed… him", came the accusing voice of the other young man.

"You killed him!."

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