Chapter Nine: Who Are You?

Shadow Entilza: I took your advice Aurora and bought my Hikari a new shirt. He's forgiven me for now.

Entilza: That's right, just for now. Do anything like that again and you'll be in real trouble.

Shadow Entilza: All right, but put away that fire staff.

Entilza: No, if I do that you'd try something.

Shadow Entilza: I'd never do something like that. While you were watching. (To himself).

Entilza: I heard that!

Shadow Entilza: Uh oh. Better go, enjoy the chapter.

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Stormrose: Good call Aurora. Still, Hikaru's anime remember. I'm going to have her brother discover her secret and make a fool of himself trying to get Steven's parents to believe him.

Hikaru was relaxing in her bed, watching TV. Since school became a breeze, she'd had a lot of free time on her hands. Her parents had been ecstatic over her incredible grades. She just told them that she'd started trying harder. They'd believe her, but her younger brother Tyler had been suspicious. He had been watching her, she could sense him prowling around when he thought she wasn't looking. She was tired. She had been in Steven's form for nearly eight hours. She could do it for longer, but she would become sleepy if she kept it up for much longer.

"You're looking sleepy Steven, school too much for you?" Tyler asked as he walked into the room.

"Just because I'm smarter than you doesn't mean you can insult me whenever you feel like it," Hikaru replied. She and her brother always argued with one another.

"How'd you get so smart all of a sudden?"

"I just started trying harder. Maybe you should try it too," Hikaru answered.

"I know you're hiding something, and I'll find out what it is," Tyler said and walked out of the room.

"He's getting to nosy. Maybe I should just show him," Hikaru thought. She decided that she would let him see her if he got clever enough to spy her when she was resting.

The next few days passed pretty quietly. Tyler was occupied cramming for a big test so he didn't have much time to spy on his brother. Hikaru was a little concerned that Derek hadn't made another appearance.

"Steven, I am very impressed with your recent work," Mr. Clark, the Econ teacher said. Hikaru had been making a massive improvement in all her classes.

"Thank you," Steven replied. "I just hope I can pass with a good grade."

"With the kind of progress you're making I'm sure you'll get an A."

When Steven's car pulled into the driveway, Hikaru spotted Tyler peeking out his window.

"Oh come on, is that the best you can do?" She said to herself. Then she sensed him! Derek was here again. She stepped out of the car and saw him. She knew that if she could see him, then Tyler could too. Sure enough, a moment later he came running out to them.

"Who are you, and how did you just appear like that?' He asked. Derek frowned.

"I didn't expect anyone to bee here right now. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to make it look like an accident," he said, pointing his device at Tyler and activating his shadow field. .

"NO, don't! Steven said, running to protect Tyler.

"It's too late!" Derek said as he fired. Hikaru knew there was only one thing she could do. He used his new powers to race over to Tyler and threw up a pick force field around them. Tyler's eyes bulged as big as normal human eyes could.

"Steven, what's going on? And why's this bubble pink?" He asked.

"I'll tell you later, Steven replied as he moved towards Derek. "You've gotten stronger since our last meeting," he said, sensing the anime hunter's increased power.

"Yes. I've been using the energy I took from your friend that night to improve my abilities. Try blocking this!" He said, throwing a blast of green lightening at Steven. Hikaru knew she couldn't block it in Steven's form. She had only one choice. She transformed back into Hikaru. Tyler's eyes became bigger, if that was possible.

"I've had it with you!" Hikaru yelled. Her entire body was glowing with pick energy. Take this! PRISM BLAST!" She called, launching a beam of light at Derek. It struck him in chest, sending him flying back.

"You've gotten stronger as well," Derek said. "I'll be back, and next time I'll win!' He said as he vanished.

"If only you knew how powerful I really was," Hikaru said, shifting back to her Steven form before the shadow field disappeared. She went over to her brother, who was shaking. "Are you ok?" She asked, her voice once again Steven's.

"Who are you? What are you?" He asked. Steven gave a sigh.

"I'm your brother. Actually, I guess I should say I'm your new sister. Come on inside and I'll show you," Steven said. The two walked into Tyler's room, since it had only one window, which they closed the blinds on.

"All right, now tell me who you really are."

"I'm your older brother, or at least I used to be," he said as he assumed his true form, that of Hikaru. "Now I'm your older sister. My name is Hikaru now little brother," she said.

"How come you looked like Steven?" He asked.

"I can look like anyone I want. It's one of my new powers," Hikaru said, shifting into the form of Tyler. "See, now I'm you," She said.

"Cool!" Tyler said. Then he became serious again. "How did this happen?"

Hikaru changed back to her body and began telling Tyler the whole story. By the end he was more confused than anything.

"So now this anime hunter's after you for your powers?"

"That's right, but I'm not worried. With my power he'll never beat me!" Hikaru boasted.

"So what are we going to tell Mom and Dad?" Tyler asked. Hikaru immediately tensed.

"Nothing! I'm' not going to bring them into this unless I choose to." Then both children heard their father enter the house.

"Good God! Can't you two boys do any cleaning around here?" He called.

"Well, I guess we should start cleaning," Steven said, thinking that he might just reveal Hikaru to him sooner than he thought.

In his own house, the anime hunter Derek thought about what had happened.

"It must be an anime person, sent here to make sure that Steven has a suitable end. Still, that person looked like Steven, and my device says his mental energy pattern is the same. I must find out what is going on. If that really is the boy I attacked, then he has the power I have searched for for so long."

How was that? Now Tyler knows about Hikaru. What does the future hold? Tel me what you'd like to see and the story will come along quickly. See ya soon and don't forget to review!

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