Touma was heading to meet up with Stiyl, Lancis, and Agnese. When he and Tsuchimikado arrived, Stiyl, of course, was smarmy and mean to the boy who had helped him numerous times previously. Touma was even helping Stiyl and his organization today and he was giving him crap.
Their targets were a small Cabal magicians that had entered Academy City. The style of magic that they used was, per sister Agnese, a hodgepodge of 2 different techniques. Part of the group used central American style magic, and some used American German Hex magic. Thus, using only one style of magic would not work on them. They would have to be versatile. That was why they had Lancis, Agnese, and Styl there, along with Tsuchimikado. Touma would be their trump card.
At the same time Touma and his friends were having a war meeting, nine magicians were hiding out in the district near a certain high school, having a war meeting of their own. Four used the central Mexican style of magic. Three used the American German Hex style of magic. The last two used both styles. "WHAT?! Don't tell me that they have a Feng shui magician, a member of New Light, the leader of the Agnese forces, and a high-level magician from Necessarius here!" A young Hispanic woman with long, beautiful black hair, and roughly 16 years old stated. "Relax, we can handle them. We have some heavy hitters ourselves. They will either surrender, or die" a young Caucasian man with an accent from the northern part of the United States, short messy red hair, who was roughly 25 years old stated.
"Analysis: as of events in play right now, God smiles upon us. We are guaranteed a victory" A young lady with dirty blonde hair and darker skin states. She appears to be 23 years old. "I don't like that red-haired hombre. He seems like a real asshole, man. Like he would use people to get what he wants done" a short, 19-year-old Hispanic man with many tattoos stated.
"All of you need to be quiet! Our heavenly father smiles upon us today. We must make our preparations. I want you all to be ready. Since we have some unexpected friends visiting: Isabella is to take Horatio and Gunther with you to set up a trap. Engage them once there. Camila: take Ludwig and Santiago with you to point Alpha. I will take Sarah and Hans with me and we will handle point Beta. We meet up at point Gamma. Got it?" a commanding, and very tall, Hispanic woman of the age 28 stated. She had a beauty (and hair length) that could rival Kanzaki's. "Yes, Madame Antonia!" They all said, with a salute.
Meanwhile, on the way to a certain high school…
There were five different groups of people heading to a certain high school with hopes of seeing a certain boy. One was one of the level 5 espers; another was a young lady with dull hazel eyes and hair that was red with blonde highlights; another looks strangely like the redhead, with dull hazel eyes as well, and has her brown hair tied up in a ponytail; another is a pair of beautiful young college women, one with black hair a little down past her shoulders, the other with shoulder length black hair and glasses; and the last one was a pair of young men, one having orange hair, the other being slightly shorter and having blue hair and glasses.
"What is it?" the teen with the orange hair said to the blue haired one. "Mana. I sense it coming from that building. A lot of it" The blue haired teen stated. "That isn't good. Guess I will be missing class today. Go back home. We can't have you getting involved" the orange haired teen stated to the blue haired one. "Ok. If you need me, let me know" he replied to the orange haired teen. The orange haired teen hid behind a dumpster and waited for the magicians to exit the building.
He only had to wait fifteen minutes before three groups of magicians left for three different locales. One group went in the direction to Touma's dorms. Another went towards the Dianoid Shopping Center, and the last group went to towards a district where there was a lot of cutting edge scientific research going on. He decided to follow the magicians heading towards the high science district. He had a hunch he would be most needed there. The first group would obviously encounter Touma. He prayed Touma would be alright. As he left, he texted two people to acquire their aid in going after the group of magicians heading towards the Dianoid.
Touma and the 3 magicians he was with were racing towards, of all places, his high school. They were only 1.34 miles away when a large explosion could be heard. "Crap! They are attacking! They didn't even set up a people clearing field!" Motoharu yelled. Screams of panic were heard. They rushed forward, not knowing what to expect.
Suddenly, a Deutch Hex activated underneath sister Agnese. An explosion, triggered by her stepping on it, threw her twenty feet into the air. She came crashing down to the ground. She was separated from her lotus wand, which flew out of her hands as she was thrown into the air, and was nowhere to be found. Lancis started to assemble her steel glove. Since she could sense danger, she was not that far into the trap, unlike the others.
The group was in a bad position. They were going to have to be ready for a fight with an enemy that had set up an ambush for them, had discord on the field of play, and was nowhere to be seen. Not only that, there were hidden hex signs all over the place, and deactivating them would take far too long. Good news was that there were no innocent civilians that had been hurt. It seemed that the signs were only activated by mana. Tsuchimikado was the first to notice this. "Touma! You can get out of here! The signs only react to mana signatures! You will be fine! Get out of here!" he told his friend. Lancis, was texting someone whose name was "The Slut" in her cell phone. "Come on, you slut! I know you are in the city! Answer the damn texts!" Lancis yelled at her phone.
"What's up?" was the response Lancis got on her phone. "DAMMIT LESSAR! WE ALL KNOW YOU SNUCK INTO ACADEMY CITY! WE NEED YOUR HELP NEAR TOUMA'S SCHOOL! I KNOW YOU KNOW WHERE THAT IS, YOU STALKER!" Lancis typed. "Ok. I will be there in five minutes. Hold on till then. I expect a NICE reward from lover boy. You woke me up, after all" was the response Lancis got. "Dammit! She gets under my skin, but she is good in a fight" Lancis said through gritted teeth.
"Well, well, well. What have we here? A lapdog of Laura Stuart; a nun with a Napoleon complex; an abnormality that spies on everyone, for everyone; a British girl who reads too much Norse Mythology, and….. whatever you are. I knew the English church cared little for the lives of civilians, but this is taking it to a whole new level" a short blonde boy stated. He couldn't be more than thirteen years old. He, along with a Hispanic man with lots of tattoos, and a mixed-race woman, were standing before them on the street. The mixed-race woman suddenly spoke up "Analysis: the parameters of battle have changed. The unknown fighter is the most dangerous before us. Also, another combatant is approaching quickly. We must win as quickly as possible." "Alright then. Let's have us some fun!" the blonde boy said.
Tsuchimikado had been trying to make his way over to sister Agnese to start a healing spell on her doing his best to avoid the magical mines. Now that 3 enemy combatants showed up, he needed to speed things up faster. She would be knocked out of the fight for a while, but was not too seriously injured. However, they needed her in the fight now. Motoharu could rely on his esper power to heal him, Agnese needed immediate medical attention. His speed when from a crawl to a sprint, explosions occurring all around him. He was taking minor damage, but he needed to get the small nun as quickly as he could.
He had almost reached sister Agnese when a large pillar of fire erupted from underneath him. Touma ran over to him and hit the hex sign that had appeared on the ground, but it was too late. Tsuchimikado was already injured and out for the count by the time he deactivated the rune. "Dammit! Two us are down! This isn't good! They are also a lot stronger than I thought!" Stiyl said through clenched teeth. "How long until that other member of New Light is here?!" He shouted at Lancis.
"I'm here! Wouldn't want anything to happen to my boy toy, now would I?" Lessar stated, wielding her steel glove and ready to start fighting. She was about to jump down between Touma and Lancis when Touma shouted out "Don't come down here Lessar! They have some sort of minefield that only affects magic users! Stay away!" Lessar's eyes got wide. A magical trap of that sort would take too long to clear for them to advance. In addition to that, they would be, most likely, under attack during the entire time, making clearing the trap neigh impossible.
Touma ran over to sister Agnese and Motoharu. He grabbed each of them and slung them each over a different shoulder, despite Stiyl's protests and threats. He got the two of them out of the area of combat and set them down, while Stiyl gave him cover with his fire magic.
Touma was running back to them, knowing that he couldn't be harmed by the hexes as he was not a magic user. He started clearing the hex signs around Lancis when he heard Stiyl say "My name is Fortis931! You will all fall before God's judgement!" as flames started to shoot out of his hands. "You are not even worth us tell you our names, muchacho. Blondie over there is down, along with that little senorita! There are only 4 of you left, and one cannot enter the battle!" the Hispanic man stated.
"It's very nice of you to go visit your old kouhai, Seria" Mii Konori told her friend. Her friend had received a letter this morning that drastically changed her mood. Seria decided to skip classes to visit her classmate from last year. They went to the same university in Academy City together, so Mii tagged along. Seria was worried about something, but would not tell Mii what it was.
"Thank you, Mii. He is very special to me. I haven't seen him in so long….." She stated. Inside her head, she was thinking "I appreciate Mii coming along, but I wish she wouldn't have. Like me, she is his type. Also, he DOES have to propensity to have any girl that meets him fall for him. At least a certain floozy I know won't get the drop on me!" They were nearing his school when a they heard a loud din. Mii was getting her Judgement armband on, and calling the Judgement office to report whatever was going on. As Mii ran towards the conflict, Seria was not far behind. "Oh, my sweet little kouhai, what have you gotten yourself into?" she wondered, concerned for Touma's safety.
Mii and Seria had just within 25 yards of the battle. They could not believe what they were seeing. A man in black priest robes was shooting flames out of his hands, while a woman with a spear whose head was in the shape of four fingers was slowly aided by Touma as he slowly cleared a path for her to move towards three individuals. "I need to get civilians to safety! Get out of here Seria. I don't want you to get hurt" Mii told her friend.
The battle was heating up between Stiyl, Touma, Lancis and the three magicians opposing them. The Hispanic man was starting to attack Stiyl with an obsidian bowie knife, while the blonde had pulled out a cursing doll. Lessar suddenly launched herself from a rooftop towards the blonde magician. He dodged her attack, and as she flew by him, he pulled a few strands of hair from her head. "Hey! Why did you do that!" Lessar roared at him. She was turning around to attack again with her steel glove when she saw him tying the strands of hair to the doll.
Lessar didn't know what would happen after the boy did this. All she knew was it wouldn't be good. She charged him, hoping to use her steel glove to grab the doll before he could do anything. She was too late. The boy had finished the incantation by the time she had closed half the distance to him. As soon as the incantation was finished, Lessar stopped mid charge. She turned herself towards Lancis, readied her spear, and started fighting her fellow New Light member. She was under the control of the cabal that they were fighting against, and there was nothing they could do until she was defeated, or the cabal was.
Touma had, meanwhile, cleared enough of the field for Lancis to retreat. Lancis had started to head for a fire exit on an older building so that she could make her way to the rooftops. She was going to pursue an alternate route since the ground level route was not possible. That was when Lessar attacked her. She knew Lessar was under control by the cabal when she saw the doll, and noticed that Lessar no longer had the joyful, mischievous look that she regularly had in her eyes. They were dull and lifeless. Lancis knew that even though their best chance of defeating the 3 cabalists in front of her involved having Lessar able to fight. However, if Lessar was fighting for them, albeit against her will, she would have to be knocked out of the fight before they could proceed. If Lancis didn't seriously wound Lessar, she would be ok.
Touma ran over to Lessar as the fight was going on, dodging the hex signs that were being summoned around him. Water jets, fire pillars, ice spikes and such were popping out of the ground as he made his way over towards the embattled new light members. He touched Lessar on the head. She broke out of her trance temporarily, but then when back to fighting her friend as soon as he removed his hand.
Then it happened. A stray fire burst from the cabalists headed towards Mii as she was moving people out of the battlefield. She got down, covering her face and head with her hands as it got nearer. Just as it was about to hit, she heard a sound that sounded like that of glass breaking. She looked up to see the spikey haired boy standing in front of her, his right hand raised. A smile appeared on the female of the group's face. She had yet to cast a spell, as she was analyzing the fight. "Analysis: the civilian is able to negate our abilities. He also doesn't want to civilians to get hurt. This is advantageous" she said. She started to cast a spell, aiming it towards the young lady that was nearby.
"Oh great. With how easily girls fall for him, there is a good possibility that Mii will get a crush on him now" Seria thought to herself. It was then that she felt an overwhelming urge to walk towards the dirty blonde with the dark skin. She started walking towards her. She felt a welcoming feeling coming from the individual. She felt like she belonged in her group.
Touma noticed this and ran towards her. "What are you doing to Kumokawa – senpai! She has nothing to do with this! Let her go!" Touma roared at her. "If you want her back, you must face me!" the woman told him. "Fine then! If you think you can attack innocent civilians, then I will just have to shatter that…." Touma didn't get to finish his sentence as Lessar, under the control of the blonde boy, rammed her steel glove into him, skewering his left shoulder and pushing him back several yards. "Lessar! What are you doing!? Stop! We are friends!" Touma pleaded with her. Lessar would not stop, for she could not.
"Why am I attacking him? I may call him 'Lover Boy' because I want to jump him, but he is much more than that to me! I…. I actually LOVE him! If I don't stop now, he will…. oh, god!" Lessar was thinking as she was injuring Touma, quite badly at that. "I need to find a way to stop! Lancis is already injured and can't help so..." Lessar then came up with an idea. She walked over to a light post with what little free will she could muster up. She started beating her head against it. The cabalists couldn't use her to hurt her friends if she was out cold. After a few hits she was knocked out.
Touma was going in and out. He was losing a lot of blood. Stiyl had been cut up badly, and his own magic had been reflected at him. That knife the Hispanic man wielded seemed to have had the ability to store up any sort of magic that an enemy used against the wielder, much like a battery, and then use it against others as if the wielder were using the magic itself. It also had the ability to make sharp cuts.
The dirty blonde then spoke up to her group. "Gunther, take that New Light member's hair off that doll. Horatio, I want you to kill them all quickly, starting with the spikey haired kid. I don't like to do this, but we can't have them coming after us again" she ordered he subordinates. "Alright, senioretia Isabella. I'm on it" the Hispanic man said as the blonde boy took Lessar's hair off his cursing doll. "Sorry about this, hombre. Nothing personal. Just business, know what I mean?" the man said to him. As he was reading his knife, the sirens of Anti Skill vans could be heard approaching. "Cancel that order, Horatio. We need to get out of here now. We have to minimize contact with the science side as much as possible" the young woman stated. "Ok, coming" the blonde boy stated. He, along with the Hispanic man, got next to the young woman. A large hex symbol appeared on the ground, and they teleported away.
"Where's Touma?" Seria asked out loud as she broke out of the spell that the magicians put her in. She then saw that Mii was crouching next to him, calling for an ambulance on her cell phone. "TOUMA!" Seria cried out, tears in her eyes. Touma was going in and out of it, his vision blurring. "Hang on, my little kouhai! Hang in there! We will get you to the hospital! DON'T DIE ON ME! NOT NOW!" Seria yelled out. Touma had almost blacked out when he heard someone running up to him. The last thing he heard was someone shout "MY PRINCE!"
At the Dianoid, Mitsuko Kongou was heading into the building to take her pet snake, Ekaterina, to a regular check-up. That is when she noticed a cute young man with blue hair posting small yin yang symbols every few yards. She didn't think much of it, and continued to carry her pet in its carrier into the building. She looked back over at the man with the blue hair say a chant. She was about to go over to ask him what he was doing when she had the overwhelming urge to leave the area. She put her snake carrier down, and left the building, as did everyone else.
Five minutes later, three of the 9 cabalists arrived. "This is weird, Camilla. This place should be more active than it is. How are we going to complete our part of the mission if this place is deserted?" a black-haired teen asked. "I don't know Ludwig, but we have got to figure out what is going on" A Latina woman stated to him. "There is some guy over there that has blue hair quietly sitting and reading a book. Think he has anything to do with this?" a third male, who was Latino and seemed to be in his late twenties asked. "I would bet money on it" the girl stated. "HEY! YOU! WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS!" she shouted at him.
The boy quietly put down his book. "You are here. You are 2.32 minutes later than I expected. Oh, well. I didn't know what you were up to, and I couldn't let you hurt innocent people, so I put up a people clearing field" he calmly stated.
"A magician, huh? Well, my name is "Muerte006, those who stand against me, fall!" the girl stated. From behind her she heard unfamiliar voice. Someone other than her two cabalists and the blue haired boy. "My name is Sun7767, those who try to conquer that which I hold dear, fall before me!" He bellowed. "And mine is Tara333, I offer compassion to those who lose their way" the blue haired boy spoke quietly.