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A.N:
"Japanese"
'English'
[Signs]
*Thoughts*
-SOUND EFFECTS-
(AUTHOR'S NOTES)
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Chapter 2: First Crest
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Last time: A new arrival in Nerima ignored all the major players and headed right for Hikaru. What's going on here?
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Hikaru left the boy sitting behind the school and headed in, narrowly avoiding being seen by the crowd heading inside after the morning fight. *I wonder if this guy actually knows something. It would be nice if something good actually happened to me...*
The first half of the day went by quickly, and after the lunch bell finally rang Hikaru veritably flew out of the building. He saw the ponytailed youth sitting under a tree eating a sandwich. Strangely, no one but Hikaru seemed to be able to see him. In fact, they simply walked around him.
Hikaru walked over to the teen, and coughed politely. The youth jumped up, startled. "Ah! Gomen nasai, you startled me;" he said.
Hikaru waved it off. "That's all right. Say, I've been wondering, what exactly is your name?"
"Oh, that. Sorry about that, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Sotaki."
"Ok, you got my curiosity. How do you know so much about magic, and what is the right style for me?"
"Well, to answer that, I'll need to ask you a few questions."
"Shoot," said Hikaru as he sat on a bench and started on his lunch.
"Ok. First: Would you rather wield much power in a way that can be applied in few situations or would you rather use less power in a more general way?"
Gosunkugi gave that a few moments of thought.
"I'd have to say less power" he said between bites.
"Good. Now, would you rather have your magic affect people or things more?"
"That's a tough one. I'd have to say people though."
"Great. Would you rather have a spell that allowed you to defeat anyone, a spell that allowed you to stop any attack, or a spell that allowed you to avoid conflicts altogether?"
"That's easy. I'd rather avoid trouble."
"Great. Now the next question will determine your natural talent at wielding the energies needed to cast the spells I've got planned for you. All I want you to do is relax, and listen to and look at the schoolyard. Depending on what you see and hear, I'll figure out where to start with you. You may see some freaky stuff, so just relax and don't worry."
Hikaru finished off his bento and leaned back. He turned his head and looked at his hated rival, Ranma Saotome. "I just see the Saotome. What am I supposed to see?"
"You're looking wrong if that's all you see. Relax your vision. Look past him."
Hikaru tried to follow Sotaki's instructions. He stared for about five minutes when his eyes crossed and started to water. He blinked to clear them, and when he opened his eyes the world was slightly different. For starters, the ground was covered in lines of differing colors. When things moved, they went out of focus, and when they stopped they became crisper than ever before. He could see Saotome, but for some strange reason he was sort of colored bright blue, with a few patches of red hidden deep inside of the aqua. The blue was directed inward, and seemed to stay right on the martial artist. However, the red seemed to drift towards the center of Hikaru's life, Akane Tendo.
Gosunkugi turned his head to look at her. Right before he saw her, he tensed up, and the world turned normal.
"WHAT WAS THAT?" he practically screamed at Sotaki.
"What did you see?" shot back Sotaki.
"I saw colors around and on people, and colored lines on the ground. When things moved they changed focus. Now will you tell me what happened and what it means?"
"Just as I thought..."
"What?" Hikaru was sweating. He had never actually had anything out of the ordinary happen to him, except for the occasional conflict with Ranma.
"You are actually capable of learning 3 things from me. The first is divine magic. More specifically, you're able to learn something generally referred to as 'Dark' magic because it's useful for attacks. That does NOT make it evil, although it's easier to use Dark for evil than good seeing as there are no healing spells. The lines you saw were God-lines. You probably heard of leylines... these are kinda like that except these are flows of divine power. Depending on where and who you draw power from you'll use different lines.
"Second, you are capable of learning psionics. This is a power that's quite frankly nearly useless for offense and defence of the conventional kind. The best you can do with psionics is make a decent-sized blast. However, in terms of other things it's quite useful; and it's capable of enhancing other attacks.
"The third is a school of martial arts called Kinesis. This is a powerful martial art that requires nothing more than a little light conditioning. It won't grant you the ability to blow anyone away with one punch, but it will let you dodge just about anything.
If you learn well, you'll be able to combine them into a way of life."
Hikaru was stunned. "Will you teach me?"
Sotaki grinned. "I've already begun."
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