Author's Note: Alright, filler's done, for now, now we can move on with the story line. Read, Review, Favorite and Enjoy!
Chapter 13: Magical Physical Education
Early that morning, a meeting was called between the members of the clubs management committee, the public morals committee, and the student council in order to discuss 'The Nine School's Competition.'
"The Nine School's Competition? What's that?" Klaud asked looking around the room confusedly.
"If you grew up out here instead of that isolationist community of yours you'd know these sorts of things." Tatsuya stated pointing a pen accusingly at Klaud. "The Nine School's Competition is a yearly sports festival held between the nine magical academies of Japan to determine which school has the highest level of practical magical ability."
"Correct. And this year we're going to be facing stiff competition, so we would like to ask Tatsuya and Klaud to participate." Mayumi stated sitting at the head of the table and smiling warmly at the assembled group.
"Us? What do you want us to do?" Klaud asked confusedly.
"The Nine Schools competition is not merely about athletics. Each school counts on a team of expert magical engineers to give them a decisive edge over the competition." Now Mayumi turned her attention to Tatsuya and gestured to him with her hand. "Naturally we would like to ask the best magical engineer in the entire school, Tatsuya to work with us."
"I'm afraid that I'm going to have to decline." Mayumi looked like a kicked puppy with that statement. "I don't have enough confidence in my skills to represent the entire school."
"Don't sell yourself short Big Brother." Everyone turned their attention to Miyuki who was holding a file called 'Mirage Bat.' "I know I want you to tune my CAD for me." Miyuki stated holding her cheek in her hand.
"If you put it like that. Then I have no other choice but to serve as one of your magical engineers." Tatsuya stated as if the earlier statement was merely just a lie.
"Your sister's got you wrapped around your little finger yah know that right?" Klaud stated smirking knowingly at Tatsuya. "But what do yah want with me?"
"Obviously, we would like Klaud to participate as one of the competitors in the rookie events." Mayumi explained gesturing to the pile of folders next to her.
"Me? You're joking right? I can't even use a CAD let alone participate in the competition!" Klaud stated looking very surprised and very, very confused.
"The competition rules don't state that you have to be able to use a CAD just use Magic. Even if you yourself don't participate, your Cards represent a decisive and massive edge over the competition." Mayumi stated clapping her hands together excitedly.
"The Cards aren't suppose to be used for pity competition Guys." Klaud stated as she rolled her eyes and face palmed in annoyance.
"And using them to carry a building over the city and dump it into the ocean is okay?" Mari asked looking at Klaud suspiciously.
"I was just angry then, plus I nearly killed myself don't you know! And besides don't you think these are just a bit of a unfair edge?" Klaud stated fanning the cards into her face. "Isn't it kind of hypocritical to use these things that the school had absolutely nothing to do with to show off the school at the school show off competition?"
"This isn't just about the School Klaud. This is your chance to stop hiding." Klaud could only just look at Miyuki confusedly. "If you want to change the world, then you have to become a part of it first, you have to become respected, and what better way to do that then to become a recognized athlete? No matter what the age is, people listen to celebrities Klaud." Miyuki explained waving her finger back and forth like a lecturer.
"What's this about Klaud changing the world?" Katsuho asked looking at the group out of the corner of his eye.
"I just want everyone to stop using Magic to tear the planet apart, what's wrong with that?" Klaud asked resting her cheek on her hand and giving the room a generally annoyed look.
"Your ideas are good Klaud, but unless you and drag that Isolationist group of yours out of that hole your mother dug that's all they're gonna ever be is ideas." Tatsuya explained looking at Klaud knowingly. "Oh for the love of... Fine Fine I'll help you guys!" Klaud stated in a defeated tone of voice before she slammed her face into her desk. The truth was that even though Klaud was good with fighting, she was horrible when it came to people. This sports festival was a excellent chance to help correct that issue. After all the world that Klaud hoped to created one day was truly beautiful, and they wanted to help her build it.
"A Weed? And a first year at that? Unacceptable!" The one to make that declaration was none other than Shun Morisaki. "You are going to bet the entire tournament on this second rate hack!?"
Naturally of course, when Mayumi announced the Student council's intentions there were more than a few individuals whom doubted Tatsuya's abilities.
"Shun, stop being noisy or I'm gonna have to teach you a lesson!" Klaud stated with the quiet card already in her hand.
"I understand that you feel that way. Naturally we all want to do our very best for the school. That's why it is necessary to consider every option we have. And the best way to prove that Tatsuya is a capable CAD tuner, is to have him tune a CAD." Mayumi stated waving her finger back and forth.
"Are you crazy? Do you have any idea how dangerous a improperly tuned CAD is?" Shun stated as he continued to vent his anger about the situation. "Even the slightest mistake can lead to a catastrophic backfire of psions!"
"That shouldn't be a problem." Takeaki stated standing up. "That guy is suppose to tune his sister's CAD every other day, and his technical scores are suppose to be top notch. I'll volunteer to get my CAD tuned if it will put your mind at ease."
Inside of the school's in house computer lab, an assembled group of competitors were watching Tatsuya tune Takeaki's CAD. Takeaki was laying down on the scanning table wearing only his pants while Tatsuya worked on the nearby console.
"Remember Tatsuya, nothing fancy, just copy the information from Takeaki's CAD onto the general use one." Mayumi explained leaning over Tatsuya's shoulder.
"Really?" Tatsuya just shrugged his shoulders as he set to work. "Safety first I guess."
After a few minuets of tapping keys the tuning process was completed and Takeaki got up from the table. Takeaki put the white general use CAD that was sitting next to his regular purple one and put it on his wrist. Then he picked up the Shikai that was given to him by Mibu and activated the CAD. Immediately, a quiet hum was emitted from the weapon that was cloaked in a mass of orange rotating air.
"It's so much like my regular CAD it's scary." Takeaki noted as he swung the razor sharp weapon a safe distance away from his classmates a few times. "I didn't even know that a General use CAD could pull something like this off."
"Then it's settled, Tatsuya is our new chief magical engineer!" Mayumi stated as she gestured to Tatsuya in a overly Dramatic manner.
A few days later two buses from First High School were preparing to head off to the Nine School's Competition. On the first bus were the various competitors for the tournament and the second were the technical team that would be supporting them, alongside all of the equipment for the competition. Though some would argue that they were technical equipment for the competition.
"It's not fair! Tatsuya is being treated as a piece of equipment!" Miyuki whined while she stuck the upper portions of her body out the window. "What's worst is that he's being made to suffer through this heat!"
As a member of the disciplinary committee, and more importantly one of three members who would be going to the competition itself, Tatsuya was given the thankless task of taking attendance for the bus ride, in ninety plus degree weather no less.
"Lay off it Miyuki, he could just sit on the steps going into the bus for attendance, but instead he choose to stay outside." Klaud was also outside, getting Inari ready to fly her all the way to the Nine School's competition.
"Speaking of which why are you dressed like that?" Miyuki asked as she looked down at Klaud who suspiciously looked like she was getting ready to fly to the Nine School's Competition. "Klaud doesn't travel well, and she doesn't want anyone to know." Inari explained, receiving a solid blow to the top of his head in response.
"Thank you for deliberately counteracting my point for me!" Klaud snapped grinding her fist into Inari's head.
"Now now Klaud, Car sickness is nothing to be ashamed about, but getting heat stroke because you spent too much time in the sun is a no-no." Miyuki stated waving her finger at Klaud with a disapproving scowl on her face.
"Heat Stroke? Compared to back packing through Egypt for a month with Maylin this is a cool afternoon breeze. And Besides." Klaud held up a card that looked like a crystallized fish of some sort that said 'The Ice.' "Even if it was a problem I got it covered." Saying that Klaud jumped onto Inari's back and clipped herself in, before the two of them walked towards the front of the bus preparing to take off when they noticed a certain late arrival rushing to the bus.
"Sorry I was late." It was Mayumi, more importantly it was Mayumi wearing a new sundress that didn't even have the tag taken off yet, showing that in spite of arriving late she was in a hurry to get dressed.
"Honestly Mayumi!" Mari walked out from inside of the bus with a scowling glare on her face, she quickly went up to Mayumi and ripped the tag off of her clothes. "Getting dressed fancily for your crush has a limit you know!"
"What? I don't have a..." Mayumi was stunned by Mari's Vicious remark and left blushing, but they didn't stop there. "Especially when you make him wait out in the hot, hot heat for two hours!" Mari snapped poking her finger into Mayumi's chest. "But Don't look at me. After all I'm not the one who you have to answer to." Suddenly, frost started emerge out of the bus, and Mari wisely choose to get out of the way.
"Mayumi..." Emerging from the bus that you would never believe was in Ninety degree weather was none other than Miyuki who had the look of a demon right now. "What is this I hear about you having a crush on my brother?"
And thus for the entire trip, no one in the competitors bus had want of air conditioner.
Inari, with the sleeping Klaud on his back was flying over the highway following the two bus's from first high. Then it happened, almost in slow motion. A car that was going the other way on the other side of the highway struck the dividers at high speed and flipped over them landing in the path of the bus and rapidly approaching them at an accelerated rate and to make matters worst several of the students inside the bus panicked and fired off a slew of magical spells at the car turning it into volatile magical bomb.
"This is bad! No choice then! Brute force it is!" Saying that, Inari zoomed over and pounced on the car crushing it further before he tossed it off of the road. "Is everyone alright?"
Various surprised voices echoed throughout the bus. True, they had heard rumors about Klaud's familiars, but none of them had seen them up close until now. They were astonished at the immense power that the creature possessed. Suddenly, the mangled door of the car was blown off of it's hinges and tossed through the air and landed a little bit away from Inari. Inari saw someone climbing up the railing that separated the highway from the land below it. Quickly he jumped to the bus and blocked the path of the students that were trying to get off of the bus.
"Unhook her and wake her up!" Inari snapped prompting the nearest student to bend down, unhook Klaud, and drag her inside of the bus.
At once Inari disappeared from the sight of the first high students and pounced on the man who had just finished climbing up the to the highway. Using super human strength the man pulled Inari off of him and leaned over him to punch him. For his troubles however, he received a huge blast of solar energy that sent him flying through the air further down the highway landing with the sound of the pavement breaking.
"Alright now I'm mad!"
Inari got to his feet and shook the dust off of him, glaring hatefully at the man he just tossed a good distance. Far from shaken though, the man got back up without a scratch and began running at the familiar again at roughly 1200 miles per hour.
"Oh that's so not fair!"
Not one to be out done Inari took off through the air at top speed and slammed hard into the man that was running at them, biting at his shoulder and ripping at his flesh with his claws. Inari blasted his solar beam directly into the man's open wound that was in his mouth and a huge explosion occurred that threw him off of the super human man. When the smoke cleared the man was standing still, the top layer of his flesh burned off revealing a material that was super heated to a bright red that slowly started to cool off to a black color.
"Okay, now that's not fair!"
The man looked at the Familiar with a look of cool neutrality as he slowly started to walk forward. Then he suddenly vanished. Turned into a cloud of smoke that disappeared on the wind. When Inari looked over, he saw Klaud yawning while she got out of the bus.
"Why are you being so noisy Inari? Don't you know how hard it is to sleep through something like this?" Klaud asked as she put both her staff and 'The Erase' Card away. "Now does someone mind telling me what's going on?"
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Enigma95: Sakura has met with the Yotsuba siblings before, but she and Maya don't get along. Largely do to Ideological differences.