Disclaimer: I do not own Mahou Sensei Negima nor its characters or Mana Khemia's Alchemy. All I own are my OCs Isaac, Xak, Az and their familiars and any other character not in the Negima Series.

Chapter 11: One way trip

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Isaac's POV

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I turned to leave the room when I was stopped by the Dean again; "Isaac-kun, it is of the utmost importance, that no one knows where you will be going, and why." I could feel another migrane coming along; this basically meant that I couldn't explain myself to Miharu, and I can't let anyone else know about this.

"Uh... Okay?"

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"So, you're going on a trip?" Chisame didn't even look away from her computer screen. "How long are you gonna be gone for?" does she actually care?

"about a week.." I sighed, continuously looking for my storage card. "Have you seen my card?" I checked all over the room, under the desk, near my bean bag chair, on the bed. I couldn't find any trace of it.

"I'm using it." I stop in my tracks, "having to store all my costumes away and then take them back out again is getting troublesome. I'm using your card instead." Well.. atleast that explains where my card went.

"You know you could've atleast asked?" I sighed, she replied with 'too much hasle'. As much as that annoys me, I can't exactly argue against a roommate that could kill me if she could wield a book. Knowing my luck, she probably can.

I packed my bag, which I was left with, with random essentials: Clothes, gear, a couple of my bombs; I also decided to bring my guitar in it's case. Should worse come to worse and I have to use it. "Carbon," I called her over, "Are you planning to stay here? Or do you want to come with me?" I believe her answer was obvious as she jumped onto my shoulder and stabbed her claws into me to steady herself. With a grunt of pain, I smiled, patting her on the head with my free arm. "I'll take that as a 'I'll come with you'" She simply mewed as I picked my bag up off the bed and took my guitar. "I'll see you in a week then." I barely heard a quiet 'yeah' as I closed the door behind me.

Carbon hopped my shoulder as we stepped outside; "You know, she'll probably miss you." Carbon mewed. "I know I'm going to miss her bed."

I scoffed as I continued walking towards the tram station. "Please Carbon, the only reason she'll miss me is because she has to go shopping for herself now." With every step closer I am towards the tram station I think more and more about Takahata's words.

"While you're over there, we'll see if we can help Az-kun."

Takahata.. I really do hope you can. I came close to the tram station and noticed a sign taped to the ticket window; 'No pets allowed on the tram.'

...You're joking.. I approached the lady behind the counter, "Excuse me? When was this new policy approved?" I queried, tapping the sign on the window. "I'm pretty sure this wasn't here last time I was here."

She continued to read her magazine as she answered, "That was put in just this morning, the cleaners were complaining about the animal droppings and hairs all over the place."

"..The trams have cleaners?" I couldn't help but blurt out, "It always seems so messy in there.." I continued, keeping my voice low so that she could only barely hear me.

"Yeah well, just don't say that to their faces, and you'll be fine." She added, giving me my ticket. I received it and smiled a thank you. I stepped away from the ticket counter and looked over at Carbon.

"So, this is gonna be your call." I told her, "Change into whatever you have to." She obviously knew what I meant as she moved to a secluded area. I followed after a short while to see if she was okay. She wasn't answering back so I got a bit worried. "Carbon?" I called out as I stepped out. "Are you oka-" I stopped in my tracks.

"How do I look master?" Carbon looked up at me with her human eyes, her ears and her tail were still there, their ginger colour matched her hair. Now if only she was wearing something... "Well?" Apparently she has no shame. Well, she's a cat, so I guess I can let that slide.. for the second time.

"I'll... be right back." I sighed, my eyes pointed at the floor, I opened my bag and pulled out one of my shirts and my other jeans. I kept my eyes at the ground and passed them to her. "Next time, warn me before you do that."

I stood guard as Carbon proceeded to dress herself. When she had finished, she tapped me on the shoulder. I turned to see that my clothes were a couple of sizes too big for her. Well whatever.

I walked towards the counter again and asked for another ticket, this time for Carbon. I thanked the lady behind the counter, and walked back to the feline shapeshifter. As my familiar, you'd think she would be able to take care of herself.. Though it probably would have come out of my wallet anyways. "Here, hold on to this." I remembered that Carbon had only ridden with me as a cat, so she probably wouldn't know how to do something like this.

We arrived to the ticket machine; I slid mine it and took it from the other side. I looked back at Carbon who followed in suit, she looked a bit clueless as she proceeded to put her ticket through, over all she passed without a hitch, though she almost forgot to take the ticket from the other side. Well, atleast she can handle herself. "Am I doing alright?" She asked me quietly. I replied with a look at said 'you're doing fine' and kept walking, carrying my things onto the tram, but I was held back by Carbon who looked at me.

"What's wrong?" I asked, stepping onto the Tram, pulling Carbon in with me. "Are my clothes bothering you?" I allowed her to sit down, seeing as the tram was full I decided to stand.

"N-no, it's not that.." She said to me, "Umm... Can I carry your guitar?" I was slightly taken aback as the Tram jolted to a start.

"Uhh.. why?" I asked, "That was kinda out of the blue.."

"W-well, you're always working hard and I hardly do anything to help.. So..." I looked at her for a moment, and leaned the guitar towards her, she immediately held it close to her, nuzzling the bag the guitar was kept in.

"Ah, that's right, you love the fabric of the guitar bag, you're always nuzzling it." She suddenly stopped with a blush and hung her head, embarrassed she looked up at me again. All I could do was ruffle her hair and smile. I chuckled a bit.

A few minutes passed as we waited for our train at the station. "Master.. What are we going to be doing in Kyoto?" Carbon asked, still holding onto my guitar.

"We've got to go see Konoka-chan's dad." I informed her, glancing left and right for any signs of the train. "But first we'll have to find a place to stay." I can only hope that it'll be that simple.

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Az's POV

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"Yuuna?" I called out, reaching for the door handle, Negi could see me struggling and opened the door for me. "Thanks little buddy." He looked at me, and I would assume that he smiled. I stepped inside after Negi, I required him to lead me around the area, otherwise I'd just be completely in the dark.

..Did I just make a pun?

"Az!?" I heard Yuuna's voice call out, through Negi's eyes I could see her run into the room, next thing I new I could see myself getting glomped to the ground. It's weird seeing this happen to myself while it's happening.

"Well I'll just be going then." My eyesight shifted from Negi's to Yuuna as I suddenly started seeing Negi's smile. Wow.. that kinda hurt my head..

"Thank you for helping Az, Negi-sensei" She smiled, giving Negi a kiss on his forehead, as thanks. "See you soon!" With that, Negi left the room.

"Are you feeling alright Az?" I shifted a bit on my chair as I tried to relax. Trying to get my vision to go black again I tried to keep my mind on other things.

"I'm fine Yuuna, my head just hurts is all." I kept my eyes shut, I didn't want Yuuna to know about what went wrong with my eyes.

"Can you see?" She finally asked, "You really worried us back there.. Isaac-kun practically carried you back on his own." Isaac did that? Hah, I'll never let him live this down. Considering all the crap I've made him go through, I'm surprised that he still cares. I eyes started to darken, until finally all I could see black. Well, I'm not sure how to cancel out this sight.. 'stealing' thing.. I should have an awesome name for this.. instead of just sight stealing.. Sight Taking? Sight... Jacking?

There we go, Sight Jacking! Though I kinda wish I know how to control this thing. But at the very least, if I focus enough I can make visions of people and animals vivid. I noticed Yuuna has moved from her chair, and is now somewhere else.. I'm not sure where but I can see her moving around.. She took something in her hand, and from what I could see she was... cooking? I couldn't see anything that she was holding which was kinda annoying. She looks like she's cooking, and it smells like she's cooking.. I suddenly feel hungry. "Master!" I looked over to see Luce's image, "Master I heard about you're injury! Are you okay!?"

"I'm fine, I'm fine" I laughed, stroking the dragon's back. "You worry too much.. By the way, do you think you can fix my eyesight?" The dragon looked at me strangely, suddenly looking depressed.

"I..I can't.." My stomach turned a bit.. but maybe that was from the hunger. "I can only help to speed up healing with my flames. But I can't fix something like that..." He lowered his head in shame, as he started to step away from me. "Sorry master..."

"Lucifer." I called him, he turned back to me and I motioned him closer. I stroked his head again, "Don't worry too much about it." I smiled to him, "I'm sure Isaac'll find a way to help me."

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Isaac's POV

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I sneezed again. I'd been sneezing alot lately; almost instantly I saw a small hankercheif being held up to my nose, I looked to my right to see Carbon smiling as she held the small cloth closer to my face. "You should really take care of yourself more, Master." I took the hankercheif in thanks and wiped my nose with it, smiling back at her, only to realize that some people were looking at us with weird looks, I can only imagine their thoughts:

Those two are quite close...

That girl has cat ears!

I guess they're cosplayers or something?

Her clothes are way too big, doesn't she know about sizes?

Master..? Are these two exibitionists?

I shook my head as I imagined the last thought, there was no way that anyone on the train with us would have had that thought at all, Instinctively I looked around the train.

Right?

"Carbon.." I whispered to her, "I need you to do something for me." I noticed she started paying attention to me as she leaned in towards me, "I need you to hold back on calling me 'master' okay? Otherwise we'll seem a little... suspicious."

She looked at me confused, tilting her head "Huh? What do you mean by that Master?" She really didn't get it..

"Well, you see.." I started, I looked around and noticed a few eyes still gazing at us, "When people hear a girl calling a guy master... Y'know.. just, just forget it. I'll at least feel less awkward if you just call me Isaac." I finished myself, I was starting to think like Az.. Not a good thing.

After a while, I couldn't help but notice someone eyeing the young cat girl sitting next to me; he had a smug look on his face, though his eyes were covered by his fairly long black hair. Carbon was completely oblivious to his eyes as she continued sleeping, snapping back awake when she tilts too far to the side. I shot him a look, when his eyes crossed over to me, he immediately shot me a look back. Accompanied by a devilish grin, he stood up and left into the next car, it bothered me, almost made me shudder. I had an itching feeling telling me to follow him; so I stood up, ready to follow, but I looked back at a sleeping Carbon, she couldn't possibly change here.. I thought for a moment before deciding that she was safe enough.

The automatic doors sealed shut as I entered the car, to my dismay, I suddenly wish that I didn't follow that guy. "Hey there Slick." I backed up to the end of the car, I panicked when I realized that the door wouldn't open. I found myself stuck in a train car, filled with Demons.

A/N: No POV for Xak this time, sorry; kinda have writer's block for that character. Hell, I'm even running out of ideas for Az.

I'll try to make time for Xak in the next chapter.