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Kazemon15
I'm glad that you like the plot! Keep updating your story, damnit! SIX MONTHS IS TOO LONG! UPDATE NOW! Anyhow, I'm glad that you said there are few mistakes. I'm not really confidant in my grammar.
Mimi-san
YEAH! SPREAD THE LOVE OF KURO/TOMO! WOOHOO! Glad you love the prologue!
Silver Soulless
YEAH! FANS OF KURO/TOMO UNITE! People should get the idea that Kurogane and Tomoyo should be together! Finally, Tomoyo gets a boyfriend! I think….not sure what's CLAMP up to. And I know fans are going to say ERIOL, but come on seriously in the manga, Eriol got with Kaho………..which does seem weird in a way. But I'm loyal to the couples that the CLAMP manga offered.
Asga
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Anomalyz
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Raven
Thanks for reviewing and of course I will update!
Midnightfirestar
Ha! Ha! Ha! Always the impatient one, aren't you? Well here's a new chapter!
Anna Gray
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The usual apologies for grammar and simple vocab! AND PLEASE READ AND REVIEW! ENJOY!
:Operation 01: The New Recruit
"Strange. Very strange indeed. There's supposed to be someone here to show me around the campus." The raven-haired girl looked at her silver watch tied around her waist, "Well, I did came a bit early," she remembered the taxi driver whom she swore that he was some racecar driver from the way he drove, "But it's already a half of hour past the time I supposed to meet someone."
The raven-haired girl sighed out of boredom as she sat down on her huge luggage. After paying the crazy taxi driver, she walked toward the four-story school building that was beautifully sculpted with state of art design but yet retained a simple quaint view. Of course, it was not the only building that had a special design. All the buildings on the campus had state of art designs, one of the reasons that made Tokyo Gauken Academy popular. She was becoming impatient because she wanted to see the campus badly but she knew that a well-mannered lady must wait with absolute patience no matter how late it is. She sighed again out of frustration but suddenly there was a mischievous glint in her onyx-colored eyes as her frowned lips widened into a smirk, 'I may be taught manners of being a civilized lady but I have not reached the age of adult and thus I ain't a lady..'
The raven-haired girl decided to have a break by taking a walk, after all an elegant lady must have a nice walk everyday. Decided to kill two birds with one stone, she walked and explored the campus. She left her luggage behind, so the person would wait for if she comes back late. The girl walked down a broad hallway with see-through window glass as walls. By looking through these glass and see the broad campus, a student would have a serene feeling instead of looking at dull painted walls. The girl stared in amazement at the interior designs of the school. Down the hallway, she sighted an empty classroom through the window of metallic sliding door. It was filled with desks connected with a chair for seating, small drawer for personal stuff, and a table tray that automatically came with a school laptop.
She burst happily, "This is definitely the famous Tokyo Gauken Academy! The designs are so exhilarating!" Her eyes were replaced by shining stars. She had a certain obsession with designs since she, herself, had a hobby of designing fashion clothes. (Oh jeeze, where did that come from?)
'The architect is very famous for her works on buildings, clothes, and art.' She knew all famous classic and modern designers by heart, 'what should I see next?' Then she realized it. She walked up the school stairs until she reached the top. She opened the door to the roof and gaped in amazement because she was captivated by the awesome view of the school campus. She thought to herself, 'I wish I could visit every one of those beautiful buildings! ...' She gasped as she realized something important, "I'm supposed to meet the guide!"
She quickly ran down the stairs and through the hallway, just to enter another hallway. The girl sweat-dropped, "Um…I'm pretty sure this is the wrong spot." She ran in the opposite direction this time just to find another hallway. More beads of sweat appeared in her and she admitted, "….I think I'm lost." she thought, 'I must be so entranced by this school, that I didn't even bother memorizing the directions!' she sighed out of disappointment, 'And I just got here…during summer break before school supposed to start. …I guess if I'm lucky one of the staff will walk by here and help me.'
"PU!"
'………..Puu?' the girl asked herself as she glanced toward the direction of the noise. Further down the hallway, she sighted a white dot floating above the floors. Then, the white dot fell down and bounced up and down, up and down. The raven-haired girl sweat-dropped again, '…..What the?'
"PUU!"
The noise got louder as the white dot became bigger as it getting closer to the girl. As she saw it clearer, it was a white ball instead of a dot.
"PUUU!"
The girl quickly noticed four bumps poking out of the white ball.
"PUUUU!"
Now she saw two large bunny ears dangling as the ball bounced.
"PUUUUU!"
She quickly noticed an obvious red jewel.
"PUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!"
The view of the white ball was extremely clear. It was actually a thick white puffy bunny with tricky closed eyes and a tiny mouth. There was a ruby orb embedded on its forehead. But at this very moment, the bunny itself was extremely close to the girl's face. Before she even got to react, "WHAT…" Instantly the white bunny stomped on the poor girl's face and bounced again through the hallway.
The girl groaned in pain, "Ouch! …What was that thing?" Then a young girl's voice caught her ears.
"MOKONA! WAIT!"
The girl looked toward the noise and sweat-dropped as she saw a line of dust clouds forming inside the hallway. She narrowed her eyes to get a closer view.
It was a girl, who seemed like the raven-haired girl's age, with small childlike body and sleek arms and legs. Her eyes were fiery red with passion and she had long cherry red hair tied in thin braided ponytail. She wore the Tokyo Gauken Academy uniform, a white long-sleeved buttoned sailor t-shirt with black shoulder patches and a mid-size black skirt. How was she able to run so fast and left behind dust clouds with her school shoes remained a mystery. But this girl was running WAY TOO FAST!
The red-haired girl noticed a raven-haired girl and screamed, "AHHHH! WATCH OUT!" The red-haired girl immediately put on her stop brakes and skidded on the floor with car tires skidding sound. But in few seconds, she immediately came into a crash collision with the raven-haired girl. WHAM! And there was smoke explosion just to make it so dramatic.
The poor raven-haired girl had fallen to the floor and groaned as she tried to get up but couldn't because something was pushing her down. She glanced up and a bead of sweat appeared in the back of her head as she saw the small red-haired girl lying on her with dizzy lines spinning around in her eyes. More beads of sweat appeared on the raven-haired girl's head as she noticed a cat's ears and furry tail on the somewhat transformed chibi red-haired girl. Then another voice just caught the raven-haired girl's attention.
"HIKARU!" Two more girls were just running in the hallway in a SAFE running speed. The one who was yelling was a beautiful girl with the model's looks and body. Her tall slim figure and sleek arms and legs and a natural face beauty and her clear ocean blue eyes and long straight shining sky-blue hair that extended past her body waistline were the qualities that would make her one of the top models. She wore the same school uniform and ocean blue headband over her head.
Running behind the blue-haired girl was another beautiful girl with short curly blonde hair and emerald-colored eyes. Her body size was average for she is few inches shorter than the tall blue-haired girl but taller than the small-red haired girl. She also wore the school uniform and a forest green headband.
The blue-haired girl grabbed the chibi red-haired neko-jin (cat people) off the raven-haired girl and shook the poor Neko-jin like crazy, "SEE WHAT I MEAN! I TOLD YOU WERE RUNNING TOO FAST!"
The blond girl offered a hand to the fallen raven-haired girl, "Are you alright?" She spoke with sincere concern.
"Yes, I'm fine. Arigatou." The raven-haired girl took her hand and stood up. She looked at the furious blue-haired girl and the dizzy-eyed red-haired girl. She sweat-dropped, "Did this happen all the time?"
The blond girl just giggled, "Couple of times. It's never really got serious. So just ignore it."
"Oh," The raven-haired girl showed that she understands it completely but pointed to the red-haired girl's cat ears and furry tail, indicating "what are those?"
"Oh, those are just for comedy-relief that CLAMP provided in our manga." The blond girl just smiled with starry glitter in the background.
"Oh, I get it." The raven-haired girl also smiled with the same decorations in the background too.
………………………………….MOVING ON TO THE ACTUAL STORY!
The blue-haired girl chided, "Now, you should apologize for her."
The red-haired girl had somewhat turned back to normal and looked down with guilt. She sniffed, "...I'm sorry."
Somehow, the sad look of the innocent red-haired girl made the raven-haired girl felt like she wanted to take care of this poor cute cat. The raven-haired girl just smiled, "It's alright, really. It was my fault in the first place for just standing here. So don't apologize."
The red-haired girl gasped in happiness with cat ears back and tail back on, "I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Shidou Hikaru! Blood Type: O!" Her cat ears and tail disappeared sometime ago.
The blue-haired girl asked the blond girl with annoyance, "Why are we introducing our blood type again?"
The blond girl replied happily, "In case of medical emergency, of course!"
The blue-haired girl spoke sarcastically, "Did this look like an emergency to you?" She whipped her hair back, "Oh whatever, I'm Ryuuzaki Umi, blood type A."
The blond girl introduced herself, "And I'm Hououji Fuu. Blood type A too."
Umi quickly analyzed the raven-haired girl from up to down, "Hmm, I never saw you around here. Are you new or something?"
The raven-haired girl nodded, "I'm Daidouji Tomoyo. My blood type is also A too. Nice to meet you all."
Hikaru smiled happily, "It's nice to meet you too!" Then Hikaru just blinked with a questionable face on, "Daidouji? That name sounds familiar." Hikaru crossed her arms and tried to remember it.
"Yeah, it does." Umi tried to think where she last heard it.
Fuu explained, "Daidouji is the name of the new recruit we're supposed to pick up."
Both Umi and Hikaru smacked their hands, "Oh yeah!" Then they blinked and blinked again.
"EHHHHHHHHHHHHH! YOU'RE THE NEW RECRUIT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO PICK UP!" Umi yelled as she looked at Tomoyo with surprise marked on her face.
Hikaru exclaimed excitedly, "Wow! The new recruit this time is a girl! YAY! I get to make more close friends!"
Tomoyo just giggled, "I would like to be friends with you too, Shidou-chan."
Hikaru smiled widely, "You can call me Hikaru!"
"Oh okay," Tomoyo patted Hikaru, "Kawaii Hikaru-chan!" Hikaru once again transformed into Neko-jin and adored the soft attention.
"I never expected the new recruit is a female this time. Since nowadays, we kept getting guys and it was so annoying," Umi complained, "Especially when the male population of this school dominated the female population!"
"By the way, Daidouji-san, what position was you assigned to?" Fuu asked.
"You can just call me Tomoyo. As for that question, I'm registered here as pilot." Tomoyo answered.
"Really? That's amazing." Fuu replied, "And you can call me Fuu too."
Umi just overheard their conservation while she was blabbering about the male and female dominance, "WAIT A MINUTE YOU'RE A PILOT!" Umi was astonished.
Tomoyo sweat-dropped as she nodded.
"…………………" Umi's hand was shaking until suddenly, it was clenched into a fist and rose high, "THAT'S WONDERFUL!" Her eyes were starry with pride, "Now that we have additional female pilot, soon we'll beat the male pilots and FEMALE POWER WILL RULE! HA! HA! HA!" She laughed snobbish and then she clasped Tomoyo's hands, "I like you already. You may call me Umi!"
Fuu sweat-dropped, "You just recently like her because she's another female pilot."
Tomoyo sweat-dropped, "I don't mind," she thought, 'what a weird bunch…but funny.' She asked, "I assumed all three of you are pilots too?"
"Yep." Fuu nodded, "We're sorry that we're late." Fuu apologized, "Someone was supposed to lead you around…but…he's …um…busy…"
"BUSY MY ASS! HE JUST RAN AWAY FROM HIS RESPONSIBILTY TO SOME SO-CALLED TRAINING! THAT STUBBORN RUDE BASTARD THAT ALWAYS ACT LIKE HE'S BOSS AROUND HERE WITH THAT STUPID LOOKING KATANA!" Umi waved her clenched fist angrily while Fuu tried to calm her down.
"Now, now, Umi, take a deep breath and let it all out." Fuu tried to soothe her as bead of sweat appeared on her forehead.
"Who is he?" Tomoyo asked.
"You don't need to know," Umi finally calmed down, "That guy's name doesn't deserved to be remembered. That's why we got late. We're ordered to pick you up at the last minute…but…" Umi's vein twitched.
Hikaru sweat-dropped as she rubbed her cheek in embarrassment, "Um….Mokona made a mess and the Captain told us to restrain him right away but…he ran away."
"Mokona?" Tomoyo asked with questionable expression, "Do you mean…that white bunny that just bounced here few minutes ago?" She smiled, "He's so cute."
Hikaru smiled, "Yep!"
"HE'S NOT CUTE!" Umi twitched, "He's ANNOYING! RUDE! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" She suddenly shrieked as she felt a very cold chills as someone touched her neck with a wet finger.
"PU!"
Umi twitched and turned around just to see Mokona happily bouncing around as it was enjoying a game.
"PU!" Mokona chirped happily as it bounced into Hikaru's arms.
Hikaru caught the kawaii white creature and exclaimed, "Mokona! There you are! Where were you?"
"PU! PU! PU!" Mokona explained to Hikaru.
Tomoyo looked in surprise, "She can understand it?"
"Yep, Hikaru-chan had the knack of understanding animals." Fuu answered it.
Hikaru translated, "You were leading us to the new recruit? That's why you run away?"
Mokona nodded, "PU!"
Hikaru spoke happily, "Mokona, you're so nice!" Suddenly she gained cat-like qualities as she felt an ominous feeling that something bad is going to happen soon. She slowly turned around and hundreds of beads of sweats were pouring through her small body as she looked at the tall girl whose eyes was glowing red and a demonic black shadow on her back.
Hikaru sweat-dropped even more and spoke nervously, "….Isn't that a good thing, Umi?"
Umi twitched and roared, "MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! KOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Everything just happened at the brink of a moment. No one knew what just happened but…the Chibi Umi was chasing around the Chibi cat Hikaru with Mokona in her arms in circles.
Tomoyo just sweat-drop even more…but she just had the urge to record this funny moment.
Fuu just giggled, "Here we go again. Better stop them before things get hectic." She joined in the fray.
Tomoyo just stared at the scene in front of her eyes. Fuu was trying to calm the tall girl down. Umi was chasing the poor cream puff held in the short girl's arms.
Fuu had the face of amusement. Umi had the face of short tempered anger. Hikaru had the face of frightened little girl. Looking at those faces somewhat made Tomoyo smiled, 'these three must be best friends. They're so lucky.'
After chasing around and calming down, the four girls went back to the main entrance to get Tomoyo's luggage and started the grand tour.
They showed lot of buildings and sometimes they have to drag Tomoyo, who became starry eyed at the amazing designs, just to go to the next area.
"By the way, what division are you assigned to, Tomoyo-san?" Fuu asked curiously.
"Um…I believe I was assigned to the Omega Division." Tomoyo answered.
Hikaru exclaimed, "That's the same Division as ours! What a lucky coincidence!"
"You must be a really good pilot to join such a powerful division as ours!" Umi boasted, "After all "omega" is a powerful word."
Tomoyo blinked and pointed it out, "…but isn't Omega the last letter of the Greek alphabet?"
"……………SO WHAT'S YOUR POINT?" Umi accused nervously, "It's still a powerful word!"
Hikaru just smiled like a child, "Plus "Omega" is a cool word!"
Mokona agreed, "PU!"
Fuu smiled, "It is but…" she explained, "As you just said about the Greek alphabet, there was a reason why our division was named Omega and it was not because of the power like Umi said. We're last."
"Last?" Tomoyo was confused.
"Last as in no one really noticed us. Last as in last place and no one actually cares about the losers or something like that." Umi complained, "But we're the most powerful division in the military!"
"We just couldn't help it…because of what we are." Fuu said it seriously.
"Tomoyo-san!" called Hikaru as she asked, "If you're going to join us, does that mean you're one of the "Enlighteneds?"
"Hikaru!" Umi yelled and chided, "Don't say that word often, you know."
Hikaru looked down, "Sorry."
"Yes…I'm the Enlightened, the human being with magical energy." Tomoyo's answer interrupted their conservation.
Hikaru smiled again, "REALLY! YAY! Now everyone can have more friends!"
Umi smiled warmly, "I guess so. Well do you wanna see our classroom?" Each classroom solely belonged to each division full of youngsters.
"We're here." Fuu just closed her eyes and smiled.
Tomoyo gaped but it was not of admiration or amazement…but rather pure surprise. In front of her was a simple run-down old looking two story building with the musky classroom on the second floor and storage room on the first. This particular old building was right behind the huge stacked school building that completely contrasted with it. Tomoyo pointed to, "…this is?"..., she silently thought, 'This is definitely not the state of the art design built by the famous designer!'
"This is our classroom! Neat, huh!" Hikaru cheered happily.
Tomoyo answered with careful choice of words, "It's …unique."
"Believe it or not, this old crappy building is our classroom." Umi complained.
Hikaru pouted, "It's not crappy!"
Mokona pouted too, "PU!"
Fuu explained, "Because we're in last place, the school didn't have enough money to provide the proper building, so they lend us this one instead."
"Don't have enough money!" Umi's blood vein in her head twitched, "Then what do you call all this fancy designs!" She pointed accursedly at every fancy building they could see on the campus.
Tomoyo silently wept to herself, 'I want to take classes in those building. Sniff.'
"Well, the school also had to spend money for the military weapons, supplies, rations, and etc." Fuu brought up a point.
"On never mind," Umi said, "I still don't believe that the school doesn't have enough money for this. I mean all the rich people donated lot of money to the school!"
"…rich people?" Tomoyo asked.
"You know, those rich fancy companies owned by bunches of leaders that are the "upper class" people," Umi explained, "Just because they donated lot of money to the military doesn't mean they don't get to be drafted like us. They said lot of things and sugarcoat the truth but they never…NEVER…experience the horrors of wars."
Hikaru looked down, her eyes hidden in shadows, "At least, they don't have to suffer through it."
"…………………………" Umi sighed and gently patted Hikaru, "That's so like you, Hikaru." She smirked as she rubbed Hikaru's head, "My sweet little sister, Hikaru-chan!"
Hikaru was all cats-like again, "Mew!" She became happy as usual again.
Fuu proposed to Tomoyo, "How about we show you something much more interesting than buildings?"
"Something much more interesting than buildings?" Tomoyo questioned.
The three girls lead Tomoyo to a large plain hanger near the Omega Division's classroom.
"Well you seen the school," Umi boasted as she grabbed the door, "But you haven't seen the best part."
The three girls opened the hanger door and urged Tomoyo to go inside. As she walked inside, she gaped as she stared at such an amazing sight to behold.
The Soukikai, a tall humanoid fighting machine armed with the top technological parts and the most of all, magic. Inside this incredible work of art was a sole generator of the Soukikai, a magic crystal that can multiply the user's magical energy and send it through the vessels of the Soukikai.
Inside the huge hangers, there were three Soukikai of three different colors, fiery red, ocean blue, and forest green. All three of them possessed a similar average build model, a balanced type. But each of the Soukikai contained different unique looks with different weapons that set apart from everyone else.
The fiery red Soukikai possessed a long red thick powerful shield that extended all the way from the top of the Soukikai to the bottom. On the bottom of the shield were long sharp beast-like claws used for offensive strike. Attached to the back of the fiery red Soukikai was a thin giant blade that nearly touched the floor called the long beam sword where a beam can extend at the point of the blade. The decorations of the red Soukikai resembled a wolf, for its helmet shaped like a wolf and its hands and feet were metallic claws.
The ocean blue Soukikai was unique because it contained a black armor coat on the front of it, used solely for powerful defense. When the Soukikai attacked, the armor coat would rise and changed into a fearsome metallic dragon wings for stealth and speed. Attached to the back of the Soukikai was a long blue sleek armored trident that closely resembled a dragon's tail with three ends. The decorations of the blue Soukikai obviously resembled a dragon because of its weapon and qualities. Its helmet shaped like a dragon and its hands and feet were reptilian claws.
The forest green Soukikai also contained wings like the blue Soukikai but it was different from it. Instead of a large protective armor coat, its closed metallic wings were attached to the back. When the Soukikai was in a battle, its wings extended high showing many thrusters under the wings, giving it a fast speed. Also attached to the backs, were two large long-range plasma beam cannons for strong firepower. Attached to the sides of the legs below the waistline were two dual Gatling guns covered with green armor, making it look like an oversized side skirt. This Soukikai also contained decorations like others. It helmet shaped like a bird with feathers on the sides and its hands and feet closely resembled talons.
Tomoyo just stared in amazement and admiration, "So these are the legendary Soukikai…so different from the Setsukai." Setsukai were regular combat fighting machines made for trained pilots without any magical energy. It was commonly used against regular Ghouls but against powerful Ghouls, that would need the fighting ability of the Soukikai.
"Like the Soukikai?" Fuu smiled with closed eyes.
"The red one is mine. The blue one belongs to Umi and the green one belongs to Fuu." Hikaru pointed to each one of them excitedly.
"Hey ASCOT!" Umi called out as she waved to a person who was holding a notebook in front of Umi's Soukikai.
The person whom she was calling out to was a tall teenage boy with slim body and slender arms and legs. The boy wore a mechanic's jacket over his school uniform. He wore a blue decorated bandana with wavy designs over his sleek light brown hair. It was straight and its bangs covered his eyes entirely.
The boy looked back and his cheeks turn slightly red instantly, "Um…Umi!" He accidentally dropped his notebook.
"Jeeze, Ascot, you're clumsy as usual." Umi picked up the notebook and handed to the tall guy.
The tall guy's cheeks became even redder than before as he rubbed the back of his head out of embarrassment, "Sorry about that….um…" He looked at Tomoyo.
"Oh forgot about that," Umi introduced her, "This is Daidouji Tomoyo, the new recruit for pilot!"
"Um…" Ascot was about to say something.
Umi interrupted him and introduced him, "Tomoyo, this is Takayama Ascot!"
Ascot was about to say something again, "Um…"
Umi interrupted again, "But you may call him Ascot!"
Ascot was trying to say something, "Um…"
Umi interrupted again, "He's mechanic and repairs our Soukikai!"
Ascot tried to say something, "Um…"
Umi interrupted AGAIN, "Plus he's a really great artist! You seen those designs on the Soukikais? Those were Ascot's ideas! Neat, huh!"
Tomoyo gasped, "Really? You're the one who did this? You're really a good artist."
Ascot looked down in embarrassment, "Um…"
Umi, once again, interrupted again, "Ascot got those ideas of the designs because he really loves monsters."
Ascot wanted to say something, "Um…Umi!"
Umi twirled her head to Ascot, revealing her dashing hair and beautiful model's face. There were flowers and glitters in the background. Her clean lips opened and spoke, "What is it, Ascot?"
Ascot just instantly blushed, "Um…never mind."
Tomoyo, who obviously seen the connection here, thought to herself, 'I see.'
"Hey Ascot, you're done with the checkup!" A young voice yelled.
Tomoyo looked toward that voice and saw a teenage boy who seemed like the same size as Hikaru with a growing male body. He had big emerald eyes with mischievous glint and wild untamed black hair was covered by a large beige hat with goggles on it. He wore a black shirt with baggy beige pants and belt full of tools.
Ascot replied, "Um…almost done…"
The boy rushed up to Ascot, "Almost! What's taking you so long to do a simple checkup!" He looked at the red-faced Ascot and then just recently noticed Umi. He put those two together, "Oh, I see." He spoke in a sly tone, "Never mind, takes your time."
"I-i-i-it's nothing like that!" Twittered Ascot nervously while blushing.
"RIGHT." He spoke sarcastically while rolling his eyes, "Nothing like THAT."
"Nothing like what?" Umi asked curiously.
"Um…nothing that involves with you." Ascot answered quickly.
"Yeah, it's nothing to do with you." The boy spoke in a rude tone.
Umi's vein suddenly twitched, "What's with that tone, brat?"
The boy's vein twitched too and he yelled, "HEY! I'm not a brat! I'm only two years younger than you!"
Hikaru didn't like where this conservation was going. She tried to calm them down, "Can we stop fighting and be friends?"
Umi and the boy both yelled at the same time, "STAY OUT OF IT!" Their outburst made poor Hikaru transformed into a cat-human again.
Mokona sweat-dropped, "Pu."
Tomoyo asked, "Who's the little boy?"
Fuu explained, "He's Kanemaru Zazu. Like Ascot, he's a mechanic too but he's whiz at repairing like Ascot's a whiz at designing."
Zazu ignored Umi and glanced at Tomoyo, "Whose she?"
Umi smirked, "That, brat, is the new female pilot!"
Zazu gaped, "WHAT! The new recruit is a girl!"
"That's right! Now that there's more female pilots, FEMALE POWER RULES!" Umi spoke snobbishly.
Zazu gritted his teeth, "No matter how many female pilots you get, my brothers would beat you all!"
Umi just brushed it off, "Yeah, right."
Zazu glared until he was smacked by someone, "Ouch! Why do you do that for?" He looked up and saw a tall beautiful woman who punched Zazu in the head.
The tall woman seemed to be the age of very late teens or the early twenties. She had tall body with slim arms and legs. She had a beautiful amber eyes and long yellow-orange hair that was tied up in a ponytail. She wore a golden headband with a red jewel in the middle of it. She also wore baggy pants like Zazu and wore a mechanic vest over her blouse.
"PRESEA!" Hikaru exclaimed.
The tall woman smiled warmly, "Good to see you again, Hikaru-chan and…" Her tone seemed scary and there was a dark aura surrounding her as she looked at Zazu and Umi, "What do I tell you about creating disturbances in my hanger?"
Umi sweat-dropped many times and laughed nervously, "Heh. Heh. Heh. I forgot about that. I won't do it again, I promise."
Zazu hid behind Umi, "Yeah, we promised! So don't kill us!"
The tall woman just chuckled, "Kill? Oh I'm not going to kill you…I'M GOING TO TORTURE YOU!" She laughed evilly.
"PU!"
The tall woman immediately stopped laughing as she slowly turned around and saw the annoying cream puff that she loathed very much.
Mokona was jumping happily in Hikaru's arms, "PU! PU! PU!"
A more violent and scarier black aura appeared behind the tall woman as she raised her shaking clenched fist, "MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
The tall woman immediately chased around the poor white cream puff, "You always made a mess in my hangers!" She smirked, "Should I see how far your eyes can stretch or I should cook you in a boiling pot while I could do the Indian march around you!"
Mokona immediately jumped into Hikaru's arms again while the tall woman was looking fearsome until Fuu caught her attention by coughing.
"Um…Presea-san…please meets Daidouji Tomoyo, the new pilot." Fuu introduced her.
Presea finally stopped becoming scary as she looked at the new recruit, "So you're the new recruit. Well, pilot, I'm Shinohara Presea, the chief mechanic and the weapon artisan."
"Weapon artisan?" Tomoyo asked, "That means you build weapons, right?"
Presea answered, "That's right. I create all kinds of weapons that suited the pilot's styles. I wish to see your piloting skills soon and when I do, I will create a powerful weapon only for you and you." Presea poked Tomoyo's chest as she said the word "you."
"Really? Thank you." Tomoyo smiled.
"Well don't get your hopes up." Presea explained, "You still need to go through couple of trainings before you're approved to be a pilot. But…I guess I could show your Soukikai, Daidouji."
"My Soukikai?" Tomoyo questioned.
Presea lead them into the fourth hanger and turned on the lights that revealed a simple balanced model of the Soukikai with its plain gray-silver color. Presea looked at it, "It's just came in. This is the Soukikai before we actually modify it to the pilot's style. Even though it's not modified yet, this Soukikai is your baby."
Tomoyo stared at the simple Soukikai in front of her eyes and smiled, "All mine."
An alarm immediately broke out, breaking the tranquil silence.
"An enemy attack!" Hikaru shouted.
"What!" Zazu yelled devastated, "But the pilots are gone, what are we going to do!"
Umi smacked the panicked boy with a paper fan, "Excuse me? THERE'S PILOTS HERE AND YOU'RE LOOKING AT US!"
Zazu blinked, "Oh…you…" He spoke in a bored tone.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, YOU!" Umi hollered as she shook Zazu crazy with a vein twitching in her head.
Fuu pointed out, "But we don't have our orders to fight."
"You do now!" They heard a strong bossy male voice. Tomoyo turned around and saw a tall thin muscular man with messy black hair. He had a stern youthful face with the look of short tempered anger. He also wore a school uniform with fancy decorations but there's was a certain atmosphere of leadership around him.
"Lt. Kinomoto!" Hikaru immediately regained herself and saluted along with Fuu. Tomoyo didn't really know what's going on but she could assume that this man was the leader of the division. She also saluted too.
Umi looked at the man with disbelief, "YOU?"
The man scowled at Umi, "I wouldn't take that tone if I were you," He smirked, "medusa."
Umi blinked as her image was suddenly replaced by a scary woman with snake hair. The image was instantly ripped apart as Umi jumped through it with red scary eyes and vein twitching, "WHAT DO YOU CALL ME!"
Fuu just simply brushed the angry Umi aside by asking, "Lt. Kinomoto, I expected that you came here with our orders?"
Lt. Kinomoto ignored the fuming Umi and commanded, "Your orders are to engage the Ghouls at the rendezvous point at the coastal areas of the city of Chiba."
"They're going to destroy Chiba city!" Hikaru yelled with concern, obviously wanting to help the citizens.
"It will be if you don't get there soon!" Lt. Kinomoto shouted, "What are you waiting for! Transport the Soukikais into the "GRIFFIN!"
Griffin was a transport carrier that contained midnight-blue colored strong protective armor coat and two large wings with two thrusters on each side for incredible speed. It's a large vessel made to carry five Soukikais.
Zazu yelled, "HOLD ON!" His burst made everyone paused and diverted to their attention to him. Zazu pointed out, "Isn't the flight pilot away? Who's the new flight pilot?"
Lt. Kinomoto rolled his eyes as he groaned and pointed his finger toward someone behind him. The pilots and the mechanics moved their head and looked behind Lt. Kinomoto.
A female teenager was waving to everyone, "HI EVERYONE!" She was also a late-teen as Lt. Kinomoto. She had a carefree smile with amber eyes full of mischief. She had long sleek amber brown hair with a braid in front of her head. She was wearing what seemed to be a pilot's military uniform.
"NAKURU!" Hikaru greeted happily and waved back with a wide smile, closed eyes, and dimple cheeks. Cute flowers and bright sparkles were hanging in the background.
"HIKARU!" Nakuru rushed and hugged Hikaru tightly, "You're still kawaii as usual!"
Lt. Kinomoto had a face of hidden sorrow as he was about to tell bad news, "….our pilot of the "Griffin" is Akizuki Nakuru."
Nakuru smiled carefree, "Cool, huh!"
"YEAH!" Hikaru agreed with a happy lovely smile.
But Umi and Zazu just had completely different reaction. Shadows fell over them as they walked backward in complete fear. Ascot and Tomoyo watched this scenery with sweats pouring down their heads.
Umi shuddered, "Nakuru is the pilot?"
Zazu shuddered too, "Oh God, please keep us alive!"
Fuu sighed, "I hope we survive when we reached there."
Umi and Zazu panicked "DON'T SAY THAT! YOU'LL JINX US!"
Naruku noticed Tomoyo, "Hey, I haven't seen you around here, are you new?"
The Lieutenant's eyes diverted to Tomoyo, "You are?" He spoke with stern tone.
Tomoyo replied, "Daidouji Tomoyo, recruit for pilot of the Omega Division…Sir!"
"…so you're the new recruit for the pilot of the Soukikai?" The Lieutenant introduced himself, "I'm Lieutenant Kinomoto Touya. The commander of this division is gone on a mission and left me here as the acting commander. In order to become the pilot of the Soukikai, you must go through certain trainings. I'm sorry to say that I couldn't provide those trainings now, so you'll have to wait little longer."
"Now, hold on just a minute, Touya." Presea declared, "We don't need trainings for Daidouji to decide what style suited her."
Touya's vein twitched as Presea called him by his first name but remained cold composure, "What do you propose, Chief Shinohara?"
Presea proposed, "Well they said experiences make the best practice. Why not send Daidouji out to this battle along with other Soukikais?"
"And get Daidouji risked her life greatly without any proper training?" Touya narrowed his eyes, "I don't approve the proposal."
"Do you think Daidouji would agree with you?" questioned Presea.
"Um…Sir!" Tomoyo reported, "I have utmost confidence in my piloting skills. Please send me out to the battlefield!"
Presea crossed her arms and smirked at Touya with "I told you so" look.
Touya groaned out of frustration, "Fine, do whatever you want. Just get ready for battle!" He stormed off, venting his anger that his orders were not followed.
The pilots were surprised at Touya's reaction. Tomoyo looked at Presea, "Thanks, Shinohara-san."
Presea just waved it aside, "It's no problem beside I want you to call me Presea, gotta it? Now go out there and show me your cool fighting abilites!"
Tomoyo smiled and nodded.
Umi exclaimed, "Woah! You pissed off Touya! I like you more now!" She laughed.
"Hard to believe that he let you participate in the upcoming battle." Fuu giggled as she was also amused by Touya's reaction.
Hikaru clasped Tomoyo's hands, "Let's fight together and protect each other!"
Mokona cheered, "PU!"
Tomoyo smiled at Hikaru's cute reaction, "Sure…please watch over me since this is my first battle."
TBC
NEXT CHAPTER PREVIEW
Tomoyo: We're going to the city of Chiba and stop the Ghouls invasion. On the "Griffin," I get to meet more people, especially that KAWAII person! It's going to be my first battle inside the Soukikai and against the Ghouls. Hope I don't die before I get to meet Sakura:act all dreamy but become serious: But a mysterious black Soukikai appeared in the middle of the battlefield.
Next Operation: The Black Soukikai
Tomoyo: Wonder who's the pilot of the black Soukikai?
Heh, you're all probably wondering WHERE'S KUROGANE? Don't worry, he'll come soon...VERY VERY SOON! And I apologize if the characters seemed OOC.