Another life Journey
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A/N: Sorry if I took to long to update, it's just that I lost my flash disk where I saved this chapter. I'm really sorry. And I began thinking if this story is worth to be continued. So please inform me in your reviews if you still want me to continue this story.
Chapter 10
"Natsume!" Mikan cried in her sleep hands outstretched trying to grab hold of something not there.
Mikan was sleeping in her room and she was having a bad dream. The room was dark and she was glowing because she was covered in cold sweat. Her hands were shaking. Some of her hair was sticking on her face, and her eyes were tightly shut.
The moment she screamed the name of a certain Fire wielder, her door was harshly opened and a hand instantly holds on Mikan's outstretched one.
"Mikan!" he said panicked
"No… don't let go" she mumbles "Natsume… stay with me…"
"I will…" Natsume promised
"… forever"
"Forever…" Natsume said squeezing Mikan's hand. Natsume stayed silent for a long time thinking if he should say it now. Say what's been bothering since he found out that Mikan will be his partner in missions. If he tells her now, at least some part of her knows how he feels. "I think I'm in lov—"
"Natsume?" Mikan stirred
"Yes?" Natsume asked cursing himself for almost confessing what he's feeling for the sleeping girl.
"Stay with me tonight" she requested
Natsume didn't answer. He knew Mikan was requesting it now that she's conscious making it hard for Natsume to agree on that request. He didn't know what he should do. Of course he knew he already granted that request just seconds ago but Mikan being conscious is a totally different matter. Yes, he's in love with her. He has settled that matter long ago. So why is he hesitating now?
Mikan opened her eyes to look at Natsume who has a look of pure concentration on his face.
The moment he saw Mikan opened her eyes and look at him. He said "I'll stay with you…"
What he saw in those eyes of Mikan almost made him cry and get mad at the same time. Mikan was so scared.
Mikan hugs him tightly and Natsume says whatever he was about to say earlier. He told her he loves you.
"Mikan… I think I'm feeling a new feeling towards you" he whispers on her ear.
Mikan took a deep breath and smiles at Natsume's neck. "Wait for me…"
Before either of the two move an inch or get to think of something they heard a scream. The two quickly untangled themselves from each other each cursing their luck and leapt out from the bed to look at the window.
What they saw made them panic. People in black suits were hurting teachers and students alike.
Some of the older students were fighting back using their alices. They saw a guy in black suit screaming his head off as he was chased with a strong illusion created by a student. Then a guy being lifted up in the air, a woman being surrounded by snakes, and another having a fist fight with herself her shadow being controlled by Tsubasa.
Then they saw a kid struck by thunder, a teacher frozen, and body lying on the ground.
Natsume made Mikan look at him and hug her, "listen… I can't control you but I want you to stay here in your room… but I know that you'll do anything to help the others… so I'm telling you now to be careful… I'll be by your side at all costs"
Mikan nods a feeling of safety coming over her.
Natsume hold her hand and pulls her outside the room into the hallway where students were running toward their room, some were heading out to help.
The minute they arrived outside the building, frozen daggers were thrown at them. Natsume quickly melted it and ran away. They caught site of Aya with Koko who was glaring at the guy in front of him and was attacking his comrades. Aya was making Koko's Alice to control people.
"Watch out!" someone shouted at their back.
Mikan and Natsume was hit by a strong gust of wind and got separated.
"Do not hurt the girl, dufus!" someone from above shouted and the guy who threw the gust wind was easily spotted and was hit by a thunder.
Mikan who got blown away from the tight hold of Natsume landed beside a tree where she saw Nonoko laying there with eyes closed and a bleeding arm. She gasped at how terrible she looks. She quickly searched for help and on the way she saw bombs were being placed. She ran faster, if the guys who were placing the bombs get near Nonoko they'll kill her. Finally she saw Tsubasa looking around.
"Tsubasa!" Mikan cried
"Mikan! There you are! I saw you thrown by that wind, are you alright?" He asked running to her side
"Yes yes I'm alright--Nonoko isn't! Help her!" Mikan pulled Tsubasa into where she saw Nonoko.
Tsubasa looks at her arm and said that she'll be alright but she needs to be taken care of as soon as possible. He carried her bridal style and he ran toward the building where he heard his friend playing music for those injured.
He expected Mikan to follow him but she didn't instead she told him, "I need to look for the others"
"No, Mikan! You're their target!" Tsubasa shouted but he wasn't heard by the running girl in pajamas.
Mikan ran helping anyone in need not caring if she gets hurt. One time she was hit by a frozen stick but didn't fight back instead she just glared at the guy and punched the hell out of him. She was only given that chance because the guy was staring at her curios at to what she'll do to him.
What she didn't know is that when she punched him his Alice was nullified.
Her Alice was seeping out of her body and every time an attack was directed at her it always deflates.
Finally she saw Hotaru in a floating submarine in the air aiming her baka gun at a guy who was advancing on a little kid who was running toward the building.
"Hotaru!" Mikan shouted at her best friend
Hotaru looks down to see Mikan who was waving at her like nothing was happening around them.
"Mikan! Are you alright?" she asked after she quickly lands on the ground
"Yeah, are you?"
"Yes. What are you still doing here? Go back to the building!" Hotaru told her best friend "if you still don't know, you're their target"
"What?" Mikan asked in disbelief her eyes wide as saucers "How did you know?"
"I heard some guy—"
Air was knocked out off Hotaru's body when she felt Mikan suddenly grab hold of her, hugged her tightly and switched places with her. Hotaru didn't know what was going on, she felt dizzy. What happened?
She opens her eyes when Mikan's hold loosens.
"Are you alright, Hotaru?" Mikan asked in painful gasps.
"What happened to you? What did you do?" Hotaru asked as Mikan's body was slowly leaning forward for her support.
She looks down at Mikan's body and saw a bunch of paper airplanes stuck on her back. She removes one and saw blood on the tip and when she touched it she got a paper cut. Hotaru looks in front of her to see a guy in black snapping his fingers trying to call out his Alice but none of his Alice was showing. Hotaru took out her latest invention and changed the bullets into flame balls by the handle and shot the guy three times.
When she was sure the guy was not being a problem anymore she quickly dragged Mikan's body inside her submarine and operated it to float high in the air.
"Mikan!" Hotaru shook her best friend "Mikan!"
"Hmm?" Mikan said
"Are you alright?" Hotaru asked "come on… hold it together, you'll be fine"
"Of course I'll be fine, Hotaru" Mikan smiled "I'm with you"
"Thank you, Mikan" Hotaru smiled at her best friend "for saving me… but you need to protect your self too, idiot!"
Mikan smiled and fell limp at Hotaru's lap. Hotaru quickly checked the pulse and it was still there. Barely. She felt something fall from her legs. She isn't sweating, so what's trickling down her legs?
She touched it and felt it was kind of sticky and cold. She retrieved her hand and saw it was blood. She checked her self for any injuries and realizes it was Mikan's blood. She lifts Mikan a little to see her injured back and gasps. It was bleeding profusely.
She quickly headed for the building and puts her inside a room and pulled a doctor from the hallway demanding that he heals Mikan's wounds first.
After watching the doctor struggle a little bit she asked why he's having trouble.
"Her Alice is seeping out from her body; her Alice is protecting her, making any Alice used, attacked to her nullified." The doctor explained "in this case, judging from her wounds if her Alice doesn't back down she'll bleed to death"
"What should you do then?" Hotaru asked the doctor who looks at her confused "well you're the doctor aren't you? Heal her!"
"If I do that her Alice might still reject my healing Alice into her body and if that happens her Alice might nullify her organs"
"What do you suggest I do then?" Hotaru asked panic seeping in her system
"Talk to her… then page me after you've got her Alice down" the doctor said and ran out of the room "the name is Maki Yoshi"
Hotaru nods and lifts Mikan's head and rested it on her lap. She leans forward making their foreheads touch each other.
She took a deep breath and started. She was showing a lot of emotions lately.
"Hey Mikan, its Hotaru… you're best friend…" she started and Mikan's body began to move a little "I need you to do something for me…" a twitch from Mikan's hand "I know you've been doing a lot of things for me lately but you got to do this for yourself too…" a soft murmur from Mikan "I need you to control your Alice… you see you're wounded seriously at the back…" a groan "you might bleed to death and you'll leave me here all alone… I need you to control it… or else the doctor can't help you…" another twitch from her hand "if he forces his Alice to your body… chances are you might nullify your own organs…"
"Ho...taru" Mikan whispered "I'm… try...ing"
"Come on Mikan… You can do it… I know you can" Hotaru encouraged "think of the times we had together… all the fun we have…"
Mikan's fists clenched and unclenched and they stayed quite for a long time making Hotaru worry. What if Mikan can't control her Alice? What will happen?
"I'm in control now, Hotaru"
Hotaru sighed in relief. "Good, now hold that control for me little longer will you?" Hotaru said and lifted Mikan's head off of her lap and paged the doctor.
Mikan nods. After a few minutes the doctor came in the room.
He let his hand hover above Mikan's body until a green light surrounds his hand and it slowly envelopes Mikan. The process was slow but Hotaru can clearly saw its effect.
"Have you seen Natsume?" someone shouted really loud from the hallway. It was obviously Sumire and she was panicking.
The three occupants in the room heard it and the two fully conscious occupants in the room gasped as Mikan's eyes shot open and sat straight up making the doctor's hand hover a little higher.
"Mikan!" Hotaru said "lie dow—"
"Natsume? Where is he?" Mikan asked the doctor slapping his hand away making the green light disappear "is he hurt? Where is he?"
Before the doctor could answer Mikan was reaching for the door and opening it.
"Mikan!" Hotaru ran after her friend "where are you going? Your back isn't healed yet!"
"I'm alright Hotaru! I need to find Natsume!" Mikan said running down the stairs but trips on her own foot and landed on the floor in a heap.
"Mikan!" Hotaru jumped the stairs and helped Mikan up. "Are you alright? Does anything hurt?"
"No… my ankle hurts… I think I sprained it" Mikan said looking at her ankle which was already turning into the color of black and blue
"Sit still and I'll call a doctor—"
"No!" Mikan cried standing up, the wall behind her as her support making spots of red visible. "I'll be alright… I need to find Natsume…"
Hotaru sighs, she knew now that she can't change her friend's stubborn mind. "Alright Mikan, I won't. But at least let me wrap a bandage on your ankle to prevent it from swelling too much and I'll help you find Natsume… alright?"
Mikan nods, "I'll just get a bandage from that room, now I want you to be here when I come back okay?"
"Okay"
Hotaru runs to the room and comes back with a bandage in hand a minute after. A few minutes passed and they were good to go… well as good as a bandaged ankle can go.
Mikan's left arm was around Hotaru's shoulder for support while Hotaru's right arm was around Mikan's waist. Their pace was quick and Mikan's eyes were darting from right to left searching for a certain fire user.
"Natsume?" Mikan cried out
"Mikan?" a voice cried from behind them "what happened to you?"
"I got hit by the paper airplanes" Mikan smiled
"And your ankle?" Natsume asked worried advancing on them
"Fell off the stair—"Mikan said but stopped when she saw Natsume's eye glare behind them
"Duck!" Natsume suddenly ordered them and threw a fireball at where their heads were split seconds ago.
"It burns! Put it out! Put it out!" the guy in black suit screamed
Then it was blocked by the sound of Natsume coughing real hard.
"Natsume!" Mikan cried sitting beside the kneeling Natsume with his hand on his mouth trying to cover his cough. "Are you alright?"
But Mikan knew he was far from alright, he used his Alice too much and he's suffering.
"Yeah…" Natsume answered after his fit of cough, he looks at his hand and saw blood. He tastes blood with his saliva as he swallows.
"How can you be alright when you're coughing out blood?" Mikan cried
Natsume lurches forward and he was coughing out blood. Both his palms were clutching the grass and while he stained the green color of grass with red. He suddenly felt something stabbing him at the back. It was painfully cold.
Mikan gasps and her tears started to flow. Natsume was just hit by a frozen arrow at the back when he was already coughing out blood! He didn't notice the flow of tears from Mikan's eyes as he was busy coughing out more blood.
"I don't want this… no… I want to stop this." Mikan mutters her body shaking, and then she remembered bombs being placed around the academy. Then she heard it. Screams that a bomb was going to be blown in 5 seconds. There were screams, there were cries, there were pleads… her friends were suffering because of her. She wouldn't allow that to happen. They were feeling pain.
"Mikan stop it… you're shaking" Hotaru said placing a hand on Mikan's shoulder but it quickly loosens and kneels beside her with a thud. Mikan looked at Hotaru and saw a frozen stick through her shoulder. Through her shoulder!
"Hotaru!" a voice screamed. Ruka kneeled beside Hotaru and told her to hold on; he'll carry her to the building and get healed. But he wasn't even able to finish his sentence as he too was struck with a frozen stick on the leg then to his arm.
Why are they doing this? Why are they hurting my friends! It's all because of me that they're suffering.
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
A series of explosives was heard and it was continuous. Students and teachers were screaming and the guys in black suits were laughing.
"Join us Mikan" a voice entered her mind.
"No… never" she shouted her tears falling faster now.
More screams were heard, flames were quickly diminishing the trees from the forest. People would be suffocating if this doesn't stop.
"I don't want this…" Mikan began to mutter "no… I really don't like this… stop it… stop it now…"
"Join us Mikan and everything will be alright…"
"MAKE IT STOP!" Mikan cried at the top of her voice
An unseen force quickly wraps around the whole academy like a giant bubble and blocks the harms of the on going bomb. Mikan's body was shaking terribly and her hysterical cries weren't making her friends feel better. Everything around them that was hurting the residents of the school was thrown out of the bubble with the bombs.
Then slowly each bomb was deactivated and was shut off.
Mikan was glowing, her eyes wide open, her mouth opened wide since her last words, her expression clearly held confusion and shock.
Mikan was only able to think for a split second when she too, like the fallen bodies of her fellow school mates fall to the ground.
--End of chapter 10
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