I updated for a certain someone. And I'm going to upload the rest of the chapters since finals are over! Then I'll upload my second book. Yay for winter break!

Kumi Academy MPR, 11:47 PM, September 14, Wednesday

Ootsuki's breathing really hard. The other person she's against was not responding to her.

"I guess… I have … no choice." Ootsuki says trying to breathe. She drops her sword and goes headfirst to the guy. "I forgot your name, but you're in my general class!"

She hits him in the jaw and then in the stomach. She probably cracked one of his bones. "And that's what you call a good fight without weapons." Ootsuki leans against the MPR wall. She heard clapping and laughter. She was in no position to go against someone else.

It would be only minutes until she would collapse. All she could see was a beam going straight towards her. After that, she could only open her eyes by force. She saw two guys with green hair.

(A/N: This was objective point of view; and now back to Shizu's point of view.)

Kumi Academy, right outside dorm 26, 2:32 PM, September 15, Thursday

I open my dorm room, and I see Emi and Katsumi there already.

"Hey Shizu!" Emi greets. I give a smile back.

"I'm getting used to you coming early now." Katsumi says. I laugh nervously. All I told them is that I don't have to work anymore and they didn't press for answers.

"I wonder where Tomoko is." I say. Emi grins.

"Maybe she's having a secret meeting with Junsei." Emi says. Right then, out door slams open with Tomoko there looking breathless.

"Ootsuki!" Tomoko shouts as she catches her breath. "She was chosen for the monthly mystics yesterday!"

We're in the Medical Office that's in the back of the academy. There are six beds, three on each side. We run over to Ootsuki's, and Tomoko runs the fastest.

"Ootsuki, speak to me!" Tomoko yells urgently. Someone in back of us fake coughs. It's a woman around forty-something with glasses on. Ootsuki opens her eyes barely.

"Sorry, nurse. Excuse these visitors for bursting in." Ootsuki whispers in a rough voice. The nurse nods and walks back to her desk.

"Ootsuki!" Tomoko says in a lower but still loud voice. Ootsuki barely smiles.

"Hi Tomoko and her friends." She whispers.

"How's your body?" Katsumi asks.

"Where you the one in a trance or the person fighting against the one in a trance?" Emi asks.

"Did you get a clue of the person?" I ask. Okay, now we sound like the newspaper people. Ootsuki makes her smile a bit bigger.

"One question at a time, geez." Ootsuki whispers. She pauses for a moment. "My body has been a bit paralyzed. The person probably shot a paralyze beam at me."

"It was a stupid sorcerer. How long until you get un-paralyzed?" Tomoko says darkly.

"Well, that spell is really powerful so the school asked the government building to give a strong paralyze healing potion to us. It'll arrive in a few days." Ootsuki whispers.

"How about my question?" Emi asks a bit impatient.

"I was the person fighting against the one in a trance." Ootsuki replies. "I soon understood that I had to fight. So I didn't use my sword, just fists." We all nod. "Say hi to the person I fought." She points to the bed across from her. It's a black haired guy who is asleep.

"Hi." My friends and I say in sync. I kind of feel bad for him.

"So? Did you get a glance at the person who caused this? The school newspaper says no one has ever seen them yet." I say. Ootsuki gives a prideful grin.

"Oh I saw them." Ootsuki whispers.

"You did, nice! Wait, them?" Tomoko says. She's a bit out of character right now.

"I could barely see them. They both have green hair and are too tall to be in this school so I'd say they're middle aged." Ootsuki whispers.

Once she said green hair, I thought of that guy I bumped into when my friends and I were celebrating our birthdays. I bumped into him right in front of Emi's family restaurant. And when she said middle aged I thought it has to be him. But why did she see two guys with green hair?

"Bye Ootsuki!" My friends and I say in sync. Ootsuki gives a smile in return. We talked for about an hour.

During that hour, I thought about what I should do. This monthly mystic thing isn't my problem, but since Ootsuki got involved, I think I have to do something. She looked like the weakest person in that bed.

I decided not to tell my friends about this and investigate on my own first. There are a good amount of middle-aged men with green hair. I've seen some in our academy even. Although, they're not middle-aged. Before I even decide to do an action, something else comes up.

"Shizu Sanu, come to the principal's office. I repeat, Shizu Sanu, come to the principal's office." The principal says through his PA. My friends look at me.

"I guess I'll go then. See you later." I say and walk off. They say bye as I'm walking off. I walk all the way to the principal's office. I remember coming here on the day before the first day of school, bad memories. I knock.

"Come in." Principal Takeda says. I slowly open the door and sit on the chair in front of his table. Now that I think about, Ken has the same eyes as him but different hair color. I shake off my thoughts on Ken.

"Now, yesterday I felt like visiting my son after school. It's one of those rare occasions. I was surprised to see you weren't there. I asked my son where you were, and he said he wanted to give you a break." I couldn't help but twitch when the principal said that. "For the past two months, he hasn't given you any points and you've been paying them off the rent yourself."

"That is all true." I reply. Or most of it.

"I want you to go back." Principal Takeda says simply.

"But sir." I say but the principal interrupts.

"I'll be checking tomorrow. Go there or be expelled." He says. How could I explain what happened between Ken and I? I did a mental sigh.

"I understand." I say and walk out of the room quietly. I really don't understand. This might be a blessing rather than a curse. I was running out of points. … but I still don't want to face Ken.

"Excuse me." A gruff voice says in front of me.

I look up. "I'm so-" It's the green haired guy I saw! Except he's wearing glasses and he looks a little different. Are they… twins? The guy gives me a weird face.

"I'm sorry." I say and move aside for him to go inside the principal's office. After he goes in, I lean my ear against the door.

"…. I know where they're located so you better let this monthly mystic thing go on for the rest of the year or else I won't tell you." The green haired guy said inside the room. There's a pause and I force my ear to push on the door.

"What are you doing?" A random teacher asks. I jump in surprise.

"What? Oh, this?" I say sounding guilty.

"Go now!" The teacher shouts.

"Yes ma'am!" I say with fear. I run off. I sat on the stairs- which students do often- because I needed to think.

I'm now 80% sure it's those green haired twins. Let's see, when I saw the green haired guy in town that day, he had candles I think. And they were the academy candles too! I quickly get up and go up the stairs into the library.

"I need to find books about user element powers." I tell Hano. I remember someone told me we would get element powers later in the years.

Hano looks up at me. "Third shelf of the user power section. The best book is Element Knowledge by K. Lee." I give a nod and walk away. I get the book, sit on a table, and read.

I skip the 'different types of element' section and flip over to the 'elements connecting to user types' section. The first chapter of the section is about the sorcerer.

For a sorcerer, they will discover spells that involve their element. If there is a big spell they need to perform, they need to surround the place that they want to activate the spell on with their element to make the spell work. It will be like the wand and the element react to each other.

Bingo. I feel like a professional detective. Now I'm 99% sure who is doing it. It's also obvious the green haired twins are blackmailing the principal and that they're the ones lighting up the candles. I still have questions to answer though.

The final bell rings. I sigh. It's time for what I've been dreading.

Throughout the day, I'm been thinking about two things. How it's Friday and I have weekend cleaning tomorrow and about the Monthly Mystics. There are four unanswered questions I have of it.

Who are the people that the green haired guy knows the location of?

How do they not get caught at night?

Why are they doing this?

Forcing two people to sleepwalk and controlling one of them doesn't sound like such a big spell to me. So what is the big spell they're using?

And I still have no clue to these questions. I go behind a shelf, put on my mask, and tap the teleport card thrice. I'm in front of Ken's room. I take a breath; I'm going to do this. I open the door without knocking and I see Ken playing with his yoyo on the couch. He looks up and grins evilly.

"You came back after two months? Couldn't resist ay?" Ken asks. Says the person that's afraid of a match. I walk up to him and I'm about to explain that his dad's coming over. But his room door opens and I turn around.

"Excuse my intrusion." The principal says. Ken immediately sits up and puts down his yoyo.

"It's no problem at all father." Ken says obediently. I stay silent and stiff.

"What were you guys doing?" Principal Takeda asks. We both say nothing but I decide to break the silence.

"He was about to start his homework sir, and I just got here." I reply. I see Ken nod and give that fake smile.

"I try to do my homework as soon as possible father." Ken says. The principal nods.

"Well, I trust you son. Keep up the good work. And your servant", He looks at me and pauses, "she will do anything you ask for."

"Yes sir." I respond. He turns around and leaves the room. When he closes the door, Ken gives out a big sigh.

"I got my stupid ass dad out of the way." He says smirking. I look at him with disgust. At least he has a dad. "You seem tense Mask Maid. I want you to go now."

"I have to work here." I say simply.

"Perhaps you didn't hear my orders." He says smiling. "Go away bitch." He gets up and stands right in front of me.

"But I-" I start but he interrupts.

"Go." He says.

"But-"

"Go."

"Bu-"

"GO."

"B-"

"GO BITCH!" He finally shouts and breathes really hard. I look down and clench my fists.

"You dare tell me to go bastard?" I shout. He widens his eyes and I give him a huge punch on the face. All my anger, all my patience, they were all in that punch. He slams into the wall but this wall is so high quality a hole doesn't appear.

Ken chuckles. "I made you crack Mask Maid." Now I'm even more pissed and I walk fast up to him. He's on the floor with a little blood at the corners of his mouth. I pick him up by the collar a little since he's too heavy for me to lift up. I bend down and lift up my arm.

"You're selfish." Slap.

"You're arrogant." Slap.

"You cuss." Slap.

"You're a faker." Slap.

"You're ignorant." Slap.

"You're a stereotype." Slap.

"You're crazy." Slap. By now, Ken's face looks like a tomato. The whole time, I don't give him a chance to talk.

"And worst of all, you're the REAL TRASH of this world!" I shout as I give him the hardest slap of all. Ken gets up despite how much pain he's probably feeling.

"What do you really know about me?" He yells and punches me in the face. I lay on the floor this time because there's no wall to catch my fall. A bloody nose starts. He shrieks and drops to the floor. And there we are.

"That's the most stereotypical thing you can ever say." I say weakly. Ken gives a psychotic laugh.

"They said they were street people and they wanted money. They had my mom and I. My dad couldn't get there in time for my mom. I saw my mom get burned to death. The flames, they were burning my eyes. My mother's cries were tearing me apart." Ken screams. I get up.

"So what? Get up and start anew. Leave the stupid past behind!" I shout as I walk to him. "You're a man, now show it!"

"You don't get it Mask Maid. My outer self is the one that left the past behind. My inner self hasn't. But my outer self is fake and my inner self is real." Ken says already done with his tears.

"Then mix your selves together!" I say and Ken widens his eyes. "Mix them so you get your real self that has left the past behind!"

"It's not as easy as it sounds." Ken says in a sorrowful voice. I give him a smile.

"Then I'll help you." I say as I give him my hand to lift him up. Ken gives a real smile and takes my hand. He gets up. We go sit on the couch a few feet apart. I give him an ice bag and myself tissue paper for my bloody nose.

"Sorry I made your face possibly eternally red." I say.

"Sorry I gave you a bloody nose." Ken says and grins. There's a pause and Ken breaks it. "So, are we friends now?"

"You could say that." I reply.

"So can you show me your identity?" Ken asks in a hopeful tone.

"No." I say simply. Ken gives a pout.

Now all that's in the way is the actual conflict of this book. Teehee. R & R.