Negima 2: Our Beautiful Christmas Dream

Chapter 10: Generosity of a Song - Part 1

After Mitsuki's concert, the next day came and everyone was together in Nekane's home. Asuna and Konoka were enjoying cocoa by the fire, the twins and Kaede were roasting chestnuts, Chisame kept herself sealed away in her room and Makie, Akira and Yuna were outside playing in the snow.

"What a perfect day for cocoa. Right Konoka?" Asuna asked. Konoka nodded with a big smile on her face. Negi, Chamo and Kotaro were all together playing cards.

"Got any fives?" Chamo asked. Kotaro chuckled.

"Nope. Go fish." Kotaro said. Chamo groaned and drew a card. Just then, Ayaka came rushing into the kitchen panting. Asuna and Konoka gasped.

"Whoa! Ayaka! Calm down! What's the problem?" Asuna said.

"Yeah. You look like you were chased by a bear or something!" Konoka exclaimed. Ayaka took a moment to catch her breath before facing Asuna.

"It's bad Asuna! I just found out that the children's hospital..." Ayaka said. Asuna quickly asked if this was the same one that Tommy was at and she nodded.

"The hospital is running low on money and it might have to be shut down! And if that happens, who KNOWS what could happen to Tommy or the other kids!" Ayaka shouted. Asuna and Konoka gasped.

"What?! That's horrible!" Asuna shouted.

"Oh no. Not during Christmas!" Konoka said. Asuna asked how Ayaka found out and she whipped out a newspaper with the article on the front page. Asuna quickly read through the article and she shouted "No way!" in disgust. Negi and Kotaro came in after hearing Asuna.

"Asuna? What's the matter?" Negi asked. Asuna showed Negi the paper and he gasped. And it made the girls feel horrible when she showed it to them.

"No way. That's...That's just cold." Fuka said.

"All those poor kids. That's got to be rough on them." Kotaro said. Chizuru sighed and looked away.

"We've got to do something. Someone Ayaka cares about is at that hospital." Negi said. All agreeing to the idea, Negi, Nekane, Anya and the class all went down to the children's hospital together.

"Is this it?" Shade asked.

"Yep. This is it all right." Ayaka said. Outside already was Valkyrie, Kazuto, Miss Sanada, Hydra, Akina and Rika.

"But this is absurd! There are children in need of this hospital's services!" Sanada shouted.

"Yeah! What gives YOU the right to shut it down?!" Rika shouted. The man they were complaining to was the man who owned the grounds to the hospital and he chuckled with a sneer.

"Well little lady, this here hospital isn't quite bringing in the money as it used to. For thirty years, this place has stood. But this Christmas, I'm afraid it's coming down." he said.

"But you can't! Those kids still need help! Don't you care about them?" Kazuto shouted.

"Feh! I could care LESS about those brats! Once this place comes down, I'll finally have all the peace I need. Because where this place stands....is going to be a future dumping zone!" he said. He laughed as the others gasped.

"What?! Why I ought to...!" Hydra shouted. Akina groaned.

"Heartless jerk!" Akina thought.

"All my life I've hate kids. My father's father might have started this hospital and we've kept it up for so long, but it's time we look to the future instead of keeping this dump up much longer." he said. Just then, a loud "That's ridiculous!" broke the commotion. Negi and Valkyrie's groups looked out towards the side of the road and saw Sora Naegino and her friends from Kaleido Stage.

"You should do no such thing. If there are still children that need the aide this facility can provide, that should be the perfect reason to keep it going." Layla said. Sora and Rosetta nodded firmly.

"Yeah! You can't just shut it down! Doing that might cut these children's hopes and dreams! Are you really that heartless?!" Mia shouted. The man turned away saying there will be no further discussion and left. As the others watched angrily, they just noticed each other's prescence.

"What the? Hey! It's Sora and her friends!" Asuna shouted. Sora glanced at Asuna and smiled.

"Hey! Negi! Asuna! I can't believe it's you guys!" Sora shouted.

"Yeah. We haven't seen you guys since Paris! How are you guys?" Kotaro shouted. Shade and Valkyrie glanced at each other and waved.

"I guess you guys heard the news then?" Anna asked. They all nodded.

"They just can't do this. It's unheard of." Miss Sanada said.

"But what can we do? We can't seem to get this guy to listen to reason." May said. Negi paused for a moment and paced in place. Asuna glanced down at Negi when an idea suddenly hit him.

"Why don't we try and raise the money for the children's hospital? If we raise enough, we should be able to stop him from tearing it down." Negi said.

"A brilliant plan professor. But...how?" Satomi asked. Just then, Tommy's doctor came passing by and Ayaka asked about Tommy.

"It's all right. He's fine for the moment. But unless we can somehow get our hands on at least fifty thousand dollars or more, then Tommy's life is going to be ending very soon.." the doctor said. Asuna and Ayaka gasped.

"No! It can't end like this! It just can't." Makie said. Evangeline thought quietly back to when Yue was at Mitsuki's concert. In fact, that's all she could think about for the moment. She remembered seeing everyone's applause after Yue's song ended.

"Why not have a show professor? Perhaps that can be of some help." Evangeline muttered. Negi glanced at Evangeline before the idea started to shine.

"Hey. That is a brilliant idea Evangeline." Negi said. Evangeline looked away as Chachamaru and Jennifer smiled.

"That's perfect! We can make it a caroling show! With all of us singing together, we just HAVE to make a lot of money!" Fuka shouted. Everyone all agreed to the idea and started chatting up ideas. One idea was already firmly in Yue's mind.

"We need a little help." Yue said. While the others worked, Yue went to see Mitsuki and Miss Oshige.

"Huh? A show? You want Full Moon to appear in this?" Oshige asked.

"Yes. It's to help save a children's hospital from being shut down. A lot of children's lives need our help and I know that Full Moon could help us raise money." Yue said. Miss Oshige wasn't sure since it would be effecting Full Moon's schedule. But Mitsuki couldn't turn down Yue's request.

"Miss Oshige? I'll do it." Mitsuki said. Miss Oshige gasped.

"Are you sure?" she asked. Mitsuki nodded and Miss Oshige was quite sure that Mitsuki was serious.

"All right then Yue, we'll help you guys out." she said. Yue smiled and thanked them. Takuto and Meroko smiled from afar.

"Now then, do you have any dates plan for Full Moon's appearance?" Miss Oshige asked. Yue told her that Asuna was working on that as they spoke. Luckily, Asuna and Negi were able to convince the doctors to allow them to use the large cafeteria for their show.

"Thanks! We promise that we'll raise the money and save this place! You can count on it!" Asuna said. Negi nodded.

"All right. We hope so. Otherwise, I don't know what would happen to these kids." a nurse said. From afar, the director heard everything.

"So, they're planning on having a little show to raise money? Ha. Good luck." he thought. Little did he expect that Class 2-A wasn't alone in their attempt to save the hospital. Their friends Tina, Carol, Joe's Firehouse Band, Valkyrie and friends, Sora and friends, as well as Full Moon was all there to help them as well.

"All right! With all of us together, we're gonna bring one heck of a show to those kids!" Kotaro shouted.

"Yeah!" everyone cheered. On the night of their show, the cafeteria was changed into a stage and there were many people coming to see the show.

"Wow! Look at everybody! I can't even count that many people!" Konoka said from shock.

"Whoa! We're gonna have one really amazing show Negi!" Chamo shouted. Negi nodded.

"All right everyone! Let's put on the best show we can! For the kids of this hospital!" Negi shouted.

"For the kids!" they all shouted.

TO BE CONTINUED...

END OF CHAPTER