Chapter Eight
~~~~~~~~With Mikan ~~~~~~~~
It took Mikan a while to realise that her hood was down. It was only when Anna told her that she had nice hair that it hit her. Mikan turned to glare at Natsume who was beating the crap out of Ruka.
"Natsume." She said softly and angrily.
"Hm?" He paused to look at her and gulped at the expression on her face.
"Can you explain why my hood is down?" her dangerously quiet voice rang throughout the room stilling everyone to turn and look in amusement at the scene unfolding before them.
"It slipped?"
"Why is that a question?"
By now Ruka had freed himself from Natsume's lose grip and was scrambling along the ground to join the other people on the side lines but they didn't pay attention. Natsume straightened up regaining his posture and apparently his composure.
"Because that's what I think happened?" Mikan paused to look at the man standing before her.
"What you think happened? And what exactly do you think will happen when I slaughter you by punching your brains out?"
"You won't, Polka."
Mikan glared at him. Polka? He dare bring that name up now?! "I forbid you to call me that!"
Natsume gave her an amused look, "That what you wear, right? P-O-L-K-A-D-O-T-S."
Mikan narrowed her eyes as she flushed. She opened her mouth just as Jinno–sensei came in. Mikan silently glared at Natsume as he smirked at the board.
"Today is a special lesson since Narumi is currently away on official Alice business and won't be returning in about a week or two. I will not repeat myself. When a teacher who is trying to help you not killed is about to give you valuable information you might want to listen!"
He banged his books on Koko's and Kitsu's heads as they stopped mid-laugh.
"Firstly, who knows the difference between a fairy and a faerie? Kitsu, since you were talking, you must already know this. Would you like to explain this to the class?"
Kitsu stood up nervously. "Erm…a fairy has wings and a faerie doesn't?" He muttered weakly.
SMACK!
Kitsu sat back down with the force of Jinno shoving a book onto his head again.
Jinno lifted up his hand, a tick on his head. "No you idiot. Yuu, can you try to explain what the difference is?"
Yuu rose up to the challenge, glasses flashing as he pushed them up to the bridge of his nose. "Most of the non-alice people use fairy and faerie in the same sense and do not consider having many differences. For them, it is just the difference in spelling and nothing else. Both fairy and faerie are used for two different mythical spirits or figures. 'Fairy' is a word that has been derived from Latin word 'fatum,' which can mean 'fate.' Fairies are considered to be a group of young and pure spirits. These fairies are considered to elevate to higher levels through their impartial and loving service. Generally, a fairy refers to the young spirit which is in the mid-level of growth. They are considered to be lower to 'sylph' and higher to 'elf.' Obviously fairies don't exit so I won't bother explaining anymore. 'Faerie' is a word that has been derived from Gaelic 'fear shidhe,' which means 'man of the shee.' These mythical figures are portrayed as spirits that know easy ways of stealing. For example, faeries steal children and keep them as slaves or pets. Unlike the faeries, fairies can be a bit mischievous but are not dangerous. An example of a fairy is Tinkerbell and an example of a faerie is a banshee.
But this is all according to the normal humans. Fae, are the offspring of a gifted person called Alice. Alice had five children: fire, water, earth, air and spirit. All of her children have also had many children, thus leading us to come into existence. Alice was the first faerie and all of her descendants have been called the fae. A pure-fae, is when your linage never mixes with that of humans. Though they are rare. Most of the fae are what we call half-fae or mixed fae. They're when a half-fae or a pure-fae have a baby with a human. Fae blood is very dominating so even if you're half, you child would also be a mixed-fae as well. But for obvious safety reasons, we call ourselves alices. Alices can be passed down through your linage depending on which of the Five Founders you come from. But, it is definite that when you die, all your alice powers will be passed down to the eldest of your line."
Jinno looked somewhat surprised at Yuu's answer but then nodded approving at him.
"To sum it all up a fairy is a non-existent spirt created by Latin and Gaelic people to make people sleep at night. A faerie is someone who has unnatural powers inherited in their genes from their ancestors. Adding onto the faerie part, faeries have been around, hidden, for longer than humans. They were still here when Homosapien, Neanderthals and Denisovans were walking around the earth about 410,000 years ago."
He surveyed the room to make sure that he still had everyone's attention.
"This is not a history lesson. There is a practical to this as well. Under normal circumstances, you would not learn about this until your senior year, but this is not normal circumstances. The principle told me to teach you how to control your powers. You'll be sorted into three ability classes: somatic, latent, special and dangerous. When all I call your name, please go to your designated spot. Because of the shortage of the people in these groups, the special and dangerous classes will be teaming up."
Everyone was murmuring slightly.
"I already know how to control my alice. Why do I need to train?"
"Yeah… I don't want to have to do anything laborious! I might break a nail or get covered in sweat!"
"I want to be in the same class as you! NO! I need to! I don't want to be a loner!"
"I wonder what class I'm in?"
"I hope I'm not in the same class as you."
"Hey! What's that supposed to mean?!"
"How do they sort us?"
Mikan sighed and turned to face the window. They're so stupid. Just because you know how to use your alice, doesn't mean you've mastered it. And break a nail? Come on! If you're crying over such a petty thing like that I wonder how you'd survive with a broken arm or leg.
"Mikan."
The said girl stood up and joined a boy wearing a mask, by the door.
"I'm Hoshio Hoshino. Who are you?" the boy wearing the mask asked rudely.
"Mikan."
"Oi. Polka. Looks like I'm in the same class as you."
Mikan wanted to wipe the annoying smirk off his face. "What makes you think that being a pervert makes me trust you?"
"I don't think. I know." His smirk widened at her exasperated look.
"Ahem. Excuse me if I'm interrupting something but everyone's here so let's get this show on the road." A man with black hair and multiple piercings wearing a silver mask, drawled.
Mikan looked at the man in front of her before glancing around. "There's only three people in our group."
"Jinno did say that there was a shortage of people in the classes." Silver Mask shrugged.
Great! So I'm stuck in a class with a pervert, a rude boy and a creepy teacher!
"Let's go outside where we have more space." Mikan begrudgingly followed them outside the class room and onto a field.
Silver Mask stood in front of the three students and examined them. Pervert, Gorgeous, Vulgar. Oh why did I have to lose the bet with Nodacchi?! The only one I'd even bother teaching would be Gorgeous. Better get this over with. "Listen up. My name is Persona and that's what you'll call me." His eyes darted to Mikan and he clasped her hands ignoring her surprised look, "But you, Gorgeous, may call me Rei."
Mikan felt her palms starting to sweat as she nervously wondered when he would let go of her hands.
"Could you let go of her hands now? Isn't it obvious she feels uncomfortable?" Natsume drawled
"Well aren't you just a shiny little hypocrite! Who was earlier that was calling my student Polka?"
They glared at each other as Mikan stood awkwardly in-between. What the hell?! Is this what boys act like?! And more importantly, I'm starting to lose feeling in my hand!
"Stop doing such a stupid act. Some of us don't want to see two perverted hormonal guys, fight over a girl who looks like she'd rather be at home."
Persona let go of Mikan's hand and sent Hoshino a grateful look. Maybe he isn't so bad after all…
"I didn't do that for you. I just don't want to see such a sicking deed before my eyes. Stop thinking so highly of yourself." He started walking after Persona.
I take it back! He's rotten to the core!
Mikan glared into the back of his head, fury radiating off her in waves.
"First, we'll focus on defensive magic. When in doubt, always defend. Now Natsume and Hoshino, why don't you take off your Alice restraints. Hoshino. Why don't we try you out first? Natsume attack Hoshino."
Mikan stood up and joined Persona and at the sidelines. Natsume took off his earrings, which no one had noticed him wearing, and Hoshino took off his mask. He had a short fringe and his face was quite pale in comparison to the rest of his body.
They both took their stances. Natsume's feet were shoulder width apart, one of his hands was in front of him, the other was behind him. Hoshino, on the other hand, opted for a Kung foo crouch. Without warning, Natsume's hands caught on fire. Mikan had to stifle a gasp at this. It had to be painful if you weren't immune to fire. They watched silently as he shot fire from his hands towards Hoshino who had lightning slash it. Gritting his teeth, Natsume made a ring of fire around Hoshino, effectively cornering him. Hoshino then created a tornado that effectively doused the flames. Natsume moved closer, throwing bigger fire balls at the weather controller. Hoshino dodged all of these and no began to launch his attack of hail the size of cars. They landed with thuds, digging into the ground and making massive dents. The fire caster moved out of the way and avoided the majority of them, melting a few to just wet puddles on the ground. Hoshino panted and stopped his attack for a few seconds. Natsume took advantage of this and launched another big fire ball at Hoshino who countered it by making it rain…only on Natsume. Now, Mikan knew that she hadn't seen many guys around her age but the way Natsume looked right now, was enough to make her blush.
She turned her head away and opted to look at the other groups. Nonoko making bombs in a makeshift lab, Anna was cooking something that resembled something out of a poison book. Yuu, was making illusions of fearsome demons and powerful warriors while Hotaru was using a gun to shoot rubber pellets at Sumire who was dodging them while using her alice. Ruka was training the animals from the Northern Woods attack and defence positions. Koko was talking with Makihara about something. (reading the enemies minds so they knew where to attack?)
"Mikan! Look out!" A voice to her left shouted.
Mikan snapped her head to the sound of the voice and saw a great big fireball full of ice heading her way! She instantly raised her arms out in front of her as a bright flash of light erupted from her hands.
By the time the light faded everyone was looking at her.
'What the hell was that?' Sumire's voice broke the silence, 'Did you just use nullification?'
'She can't of! She'd have to be a Yukihara!' another voice called out.
'Does that mean Mikan is actually Mikan Yukihara?'
Mummers scattered across the field.
"Barrier alice."
"What?" Everyone looked for the voice.
"She doesn't have Nullification, she has the Barrier Alice." Hotaru's voice rang out loud and clear.
Everyone was silent for a few moments before the whispers rose again.
"Aw! Really? I thought for a second that there was a surviving member!"
"Dang!"
"Quiet! Either you behave now or I'll send you back to your dorms for the rest of the day!"
Hearing this, the students decided to be louder.
"Awesome!"
"Yes! I want some! Can you leave some of it on my desk later?"
"Did you watch the baseball last night? Sawamura was awesome wasn't he?!"
"Yeah! You couldn't even see his pitch! And what about Furarya?!"
*mindless chatter*
A tick grew on Persona's head. "Shut up! As it seems that you all won't be able to continue, you're all dismissed into your dorms."
Everyone quickly left the field until it was only Mikan, Hotaru and Natsume left.
"Mikan you idiot. Are you trying to get yourself killed?" Hotaru scowled.
"Hey if you're going to blame anyone, blame the fire caster! If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't have had to have used my powers!"
"Don't blame me for your stupidity!" Natsume glared at Mikan slightly.
"But admit! You're the reason why I had to n-barrierfy it!"
"Not unless you trust me. And barrierfy? Is that even a word?"
"Never! I don't know!"
Hotaru rolled her eyes at them, "I'll leave you two to your lovers quarrel. I'll be in my lab if you need me."
"We are NOT having a lovers quarrel!" Mikan spluttered at her retreating figure.
"I'm going to go to know, Polka.' He smirked at me.
"NATSUME! YOU PERVERT!"
**Cue Natsume's smirk**
SORRY FOR THE RRREEEEEEAAAAAAALLYYY LATE UPDATE! I FORGOT BECAUSE I HAD TO PRIORITIZE SCHOOL STUFF AND THINGS LIKE THAT!
And I originally did try to post it sooner but it kept coming up with 503 service unavailable. I also apologize for it being really short!
I'LL TRY MY BEST TO WRITE ANOTHER ONE THIS MONTH AS WELL!
