Hi, everyone! Thanks again for the reviews. I love you guys! (hugs her reviewers) Anyway, I'd like to thank Sakaki's Girl for bringing up the OOCness in this story. I've noticed it too, and that's why I'm going to make more of an effort to maintain each character's personality. I was actually about to go back to chapter two and cut the part with Amon complimenting Robin, but I thought I'd leave it and maybe build on it or something. Anyway, here's our next profile and it's on... Amon Ra!
The Hidden One
Hello. My name is Amon Katashi Ra. I was born in Japan when my French father, Osiris Gustave Ra, after having divorced his former wife, Kasumi Nagira, fell in love with and married my Japanese mother, Isis Ra(then called Isis Torakichi)... A human. My mother, my father, and I were like any normal family, until my father was hunted. I was forced to watch this atrocity, while my mother only stood there with an emotionless expression. I remember that night... It was my 6th birthday. I'd never forgiven my mother since. As I grew into my preteen years, I hated my mother and I hated my tainted witch blood. But she would always tell me that it was nothing to be ashamed of... What could she know? What did she know of my pain? She was normal, just like everyone else. She knew nothing! Soon, all of that hatred and anger began to well inside of me, and the STN-J threatened to come back. My mother decided she would negotiate with them, but until then, she knew she had to find a place for me to hide. So she left me in the care of a family friend... or at least, we thought he was our friend. I barely remember his name or some of the more horrific things he'd done to me. The only thing I know about my little excursion to hell is that I returned with a large, deep scar down my back. I hid the hideous thing from my mother, somehow afraid of being interrogated... I do not want to remember his name, so I never asked my mother. I don't know who it was that ruined my life more: this mysterious "friend of the family" or my own mother... I promised myself that I'd move out as soon as possible and get away from this life that I loathe so.
Aside from profiles, I will now be including definitions and such. So, here are the first few:
PYROKINESIS- The ability to manipulate fire and most heat energies. Closely related to PHOTOKINESIS. Witches with this power- Robin Juliana Sena
PHOTOKINESIS- The ability to manipulate light and few heat energies. Closely related to PYROKINESIS. Witches with this power- Inuyasha Hanyou
PSYCHEKINESIS-The ability to manipulate the soul and emotions. Witches with this craft are usually able to focus very well and control thier emotions (ie: anger, happiness, ect..) Witches with this power- Kagome Higurashi, Kikyo Miko
BOTANIKINESIS- The ability to manipulate plants and vegetation. Witches with this power- Yurika Doujima
NEKROKINESIS- The ability to manipulate dead bodies and use them as puppets. It is currently being debated whether or not this craft is considered a form of TELEKINESIS or COUNTER PHOTOKINESIS. Witches with this power- Naraku Onigumo
COUNTER PHOTOKINESIS- The ability to manipulate darkness. While it is a common thought that PHOTOKINESIS is strong against COUNTER PHOTOKINESIS, the two have not effect on each other and instead, cancel each other out. Witches with this power- Hitomi Ra
AEROKINESIS- The ability to control wind currents. Witches witch this power- Amon Katashi Ra
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN WITCH HUNTER ROBIN, INU YASHA, .HACK/SIGN, CARDCAPTOR SAKURA, OR THEIR CHARACTERS! I DO, OWN ANY NEW CHARACTER'S YOU'LL SEE THAT DON'T BELONG TO ANY OF THOSE ANIME, BUT I'M TOO LAZY TO LIST THEM.
The pyrokinetic witch we all know and love and her counter photokinetic friend hurried into thier next class, which was Craft Control and Enhancement, or more commonly called CCE. For this, one class from each grade would be taught at once. Each of the classes that Robin and Hitomi would be with today were Terada-sensei's grade 10 class, Kosaka-sensei's grade 11 class(Amon, Haruto, Yurika, and Touko's class), and finally, Mitsuki-sensei's grade 12 class. Soon, their teacher, Suzume Wada, appeared out of no where.(NOTE: Suzume Wada is, on .hack/SIGN, known as BT) Some of the students was astonished. Wada-sensei smiled.
"Telekinesis." she said. "Welcome, children, to the first CCE class of this year. I am your teacher, Wada-sensei, and I hope that we can be not only students and teacher, but friends. Now, how about a konnichiwa?"
"Konnichiwa, Wada-sensei." everyone said, simutaneously. Wada-sensei nodded.
"Now then. First off, I will be giving you a little quiz, just to see what you know and how well you can control your crafts. Let's start with the grade 12s and move down to the grade 9s."
Robin let out a sigh of relief. She wanted to see how well the other students would do before she even attempted this. Wada-sensei approached a grade 12 student with brown hair who somehow resembled Amon.
"I remember you from last year!" the teacher said. "Shunji Nagira, correct?"
"Yes, ma'am." Shunji replied with a nod.
"Alrigh then. Shunji..." she checked her chart for his name. "Now then... What Craft Category does Nephokinesis call into?"
"It actually falls into two categories. One being Aerokinesis and the other, Hydrokinesis."
"Very good." she put one check mark beside his name. "What is another word for Robokinesis?"
"Cyberkinesis."
"Heliokinesis, the ability to control sunlight, was dirived from what mythology?"
"Helios, the Greek sun god."
Wada-sensei smiled. "Good job, Shunji. Now for the testing of your craft... Now tell me, what is your power?"
"Hydrokinesis, ma'am."
Wada-sensei moved her hand in a flat "s" motion in the air and a staff appeared. She picked it up, aiming toward the ceiling, and shouted "Summon Wave! Come to me, Cornealius!". With that, a gryphon creature with golden feathers, crimson red piercing eyes, and sharp silver talons appeared before them and gave a magestic roar as it landed. The wind from the flapping ot its magnificent wings made many random objects (and some random people) fall over. Shunji could only watch in wonder as the holy beast towered above him.
"Shunji, classes, meet Cornealius, my gryphon. Say hello, Cornealius."
Cornealius gave a great roar of approval. Shunji shook.
"Shunji, Cornealius will fly around the room. Your test is to hit him with your craft."
Well.. I guess that shouldn't be so hard..." Shunj said, concentrating his powers. Water particles began to form in the air and encircle the brown haired man. They spun and danced around him picking up speed with each revoution. His eyes began to turn blue and he said the enchantment that would release the power he had stored up within him... "Aquatic Storm Revolution!"
The water droplets around him began to hurl themselves at the gryphon like thousands of liquid bullets. The gryphon, however, only flew upward slightly and dodged the attack. Shunji looked astonished, but a determined face soon replaced that. Drops of water ran about him once more as his eyes turned cerulean blue. "Aquatic Storm Revolution!"
The crafty creature once again evaded it's attacker. Shunji let a frustraited growl erupt from his throat.
"Last try." said Wada-sensei. "Try to focus.. Focus on your opponents position."
Shunji closed his eyes and the particles began to form. He could almost see in his mind were the taunting bird-like creature was located... He tried the attack again. "Aquatic Storm Revolution!"
He looked up at were the beast called Cornealius had flown... The small army of particles came close, but not close enough. Shunji let out a defeated sigh and Cornealius landed. If birds could smile, he would have been wearing a smug, victorious grin.
"Oh, well. Don't worry about it, Shunji. It's only a quiz. We'll have the real test later." Wada-sensei said.
The teacher then moved on to the next few people. She finally got to Amon.
"Amon Ra..." Wada-sensei searched for his name on her clip board. "Alright then."
Amon gave the bird a stern glare. He was obviously not going to let it be victorious over him, but the bird's look determination matched his all too well.
"Take flight, Cornealius." said the teacher. The gryphon did as he was told.
Amon closed his eyes, let in a slow, relaxed breathe of air, and then re-opened his now silvery eyes. Everyone could feel the wind begin to quicken. His hair flying about him, he grinned at the beast. Cornealius' two golden stared back. Then Amon let but a whisper escape his lips...
"Mystic Tempest Squall."
With that, a silver whirlwind formed on the ground bellow the air-borne beast and within a matter of not even seconds, it grew until it almost touched Cornealius. The clever gryphon maneuvered its way out of the craft's path and let out a small growl that almost sounded as though he were laughing at the now fuming student. Almost every student in that room from grades 10 to 12 gave loud, unexpected gasps as though the air in that room had momentarily left and returned. Amon ceased his anger and returned to a calm expression. In past years, he had always been able to nail Cornealius in only one shot. The proud winged animal basked in its temporary greatness and gave Amon a look that clearly stated "Your glory days are over, kid". Amon knew what was wrong with him. He couldn't focus. Every time that he tried to focus on the egotistic overgrown bird that hovered above him, his mind wandered back to memories of what happened at lunch. How Yurika's ketchup almost hit Robin. How he laughed when everyone else was silent. How he told Robin he thought she was attractive. 'Why did I say that to her?' he thought. 'I could have just stayed quiet, or better yet, pretend like I didn't hear a thing... And Touko-chan was right there. What is happening to me?' He tried to shake these questions out of his head so that he could direct all his energy at this quiz. 'Focus... Focus...'
"Mystic Tempest Squall!"
Once again, the animal dodged Amon's attack.
"One more try, Amon." Wada sensei reminded him. "Focus all your strength on the target..."
Hitomi then turned to Robin.
"This has never happened before!" she said. "I've heard many times from older kids that Mo-chan never misses, and if he does, never twice in a row!"
"He must be really good... But why is he missing?" Robin asked.
"Maybe he's thinking about a certain pyrokinetic witch..." Hitomi smiled her evil smile. Robin merely blushed.
"Stop that! He barely knows me..."
"It could be love at first sight! You know, like in fairytales!"
"Hitomi-chan, fairytales aren't real."
"No, they aren't, but true love is."
Robin gaped at her friend. She never knew that someone who often appeared to be so dense could be so insightful and poetic. She then shrugged it off as soon as she heard Amon cry "Mystic Tempest Squall!" for the last time. He'd missed once again. The older teen cursed under his breath as the foul Cornealius snickered.
"It's alright, Amon. No need for profanity." said the teacher, scribbling little notes to herself on her board. "Better luck on the test." She then moved on.
Amon stared at the floor, mentally kicking himself. Haruto put his hand on his friend's shoulder.
"Amon-kun, it was only one quiz, man." he said. "You're still once of the best witches here!"
"I know, Haruto-kun. But you know that I'm trying to get that Adam of Witches award by the end of the year. I have to have high marks for that."
"You mean that honour roll student thing?"
"Yeah, that."
"And the female honour roll student is called the Lilith of Witches, right?"
Amon gave his friend a strange look. "How long have you been here? Haruto-kun, don't you know that they changed it to Eve of Witches just last year?"
"Well... uh... I don't really keep up with this stuff!" Haruto replied, sweatdropping. "Hey, why'd they chang it, anyway?"
"Because the last Lilith of Witches somehow lost control of her powers and killed the last Adam of Witches then herself. No one wants to have to remember the tragedy, so they changed the Lilith to the Eve of Witches."
"Oooohh... Cool."
It was soon Robin's turn to impress her teacher. Cornealius gave her a look that clearly said he didn't expect for her to go very well.
"Cornealius, be nice!" Wada-sensei whispered in a strict, sharp voice. The large fowl almost seemed to roll his eyes, but did as he was told. "Alright. You may stand a chance." the bird's eyes told Robin.
"Cornealius, you know what to do!"
With a giant roar, the gryphon took flight. A nervous, doubtful feeling welled up inside of Robin, and was shwon on her facial expression.
"It's alright. Just do your best." the teacher re-assured her. Robin closed her eyes and tried to focus. Soon, she was somehow able to feel the creature's location... She wanted to fire, but what if she missed? What if she failed like so many others? She wanted to make a good first impression... She wanted to impress her teachers. She wanted to impress her classmates. She could feel Amon's beautiful silver eyes on her. She wanted to impress him...
'Now, Robin!' said a voice from inside of her. 'NOW!'
"INFERNO SOUL BIRD!"
Robin held her breath. Fire energy erupted from her body and assumed the shape of a pheonix. The giant fire bird swooped down the struck the over-cocky, now stunned gryphon. He fell to the ground for the first time that day. Robin opened her eyes and inhaled. She looked around at the surprised faces, and her's soon looked the same way when she saw what she had done. She'd beaten Cornealius. The large bird slowly got up, fatigued, and looked at her with his big bird eyes. "Wow..." was all that his stare said.
"Very well done, Robin!" Wada-sensei clapped. Soon, the other students joined in the applauds.
"YOU DID IT!" Hitomi yelled, glomping her friend. A feeling of happiness and acceptance washed over the blonde haired girl and she hugged the goth back.
Haruto clapped and cheered until he noticed Amon, whom applauded Robin but still kept on his "I'm so dark, cold, and cool" face. The electrokinetic witch grinned and gave his friend a nudge.
"C'mon, Amon! Smile for once in your life!" he then remembered the scene back at lunch. "Alright, twice in your life. It's good for you, man!"
"Whatever." The aerokinetic witch tried his best to be happy for Robin, but somehow, he just couldn't get rid of this pang of jealousy...
Later, Wada-sensei had instructed her students to try fighting mechanical beasts. She'd set them all to "Easy" so that they wouldn't be much of a problem. Hitomi was getting ready to fight her own (which was called X12590210... lol, or just Mai), when someone had turned her's to "Medium", which as her level, she couldn't handle.
"Okay, let's get started!" she said and focused her power on the target. A dark aura soon formed about her.
"Dark Cloud Aurora!"
The aura disappeared and re-appeared around the robot, but somehow, it did not work.
"What?" she cried. "Dark Cloud Aurora!"
Her attacks were to no avail. She looked around. Everyone else was getting rid of thier own mechanical opponents and Wada-sensei was no where to be found. Mai put its "hands" together and electricity formed between them. One feature of the "Medium" level was that the android would fight back. Hitomi stepped away slowly.
"H.. help! Someone please! Help me!"
Just then, a boy passing by noticed her. He had finished off his own opponent just a few minutes ago. He lifted his hand and pointed it at where Mai was, and golden waves emitted from it.
"Control Panel Settings Upload!" he shouted. Mai froze in its place. "Redirect! Shut Down!"
With that, Mai's glowing "eyes" turned dark. Hitomi was in awe.
"Whoa.. You--You're robokinetic?"
The red head laughed. "Yeah. You should be more careful. That android was probably on about the "Medium" level! You should only use the Ea--SY!" That last part was caused when Hitomi jumped up and gave him a hug. The boy, who was wearing a grade 10 uniform, blushed furiously.
"Oh my gosh! You're so brave!" Hitomi praised. "Oh my gosh.. I LOVE YOU!"
"Wha-what?" the boy's brown eyes, which were hidden underhis orange tinted glasses, widened.
"I'm Hitomi Ra! What's your name?"
"Uhh... I'm Michael Lee."
"Nice to meet ya, Michael-kun!" Hitomi took his hand in hers and shook it rapidly. Poor Michael almost fell over. That girl was much stronger than she looked! "AACK! You're my HERO!" she said with a jump, her purple-streaked, black, braided pigtails bouncing with her.
"Well, it's nice to meet you too, Hitomi-san."
"Oh, don't call me -san!" she exclaimed with a cute smile. "Call me -chan! Everyone else does."
'Wow, she's kinda cute...' Michael thought, and returned her grin. "Alright. Hitomi-chan then."
The school bell rang. That meant that it was time for thier next class.
"Well, I guess that since we're friends now, I'll see you after school or something. You, me and all my friends can walk home together and I can introduce you!"
'Friends?' Michael thought. "Okay. Yeah, sure."
"Great!"
"Hitomi-chan!" Robin called. "Let's go!"
"Okay, I'm coming!" Hitomi ran after Robin, but paused, turned back and came back to Michael. "Thanks again." She then gave him a kiss on his cheek and ran off. Michael looked astonished and felt the cheek he'd been kissed on as his face slowly turned red. Remembering the bell, he walked to his next class with a smile on his face.
'I have a chance to make some real friends...'
Aw, so cute! Next profile with be on Hitomi!