Chapter 16: The Clash

The days went by with no problems. Well, almost…You know Chrome? He joined our school as a student. Even worse, a student that sat by me, ate my lunch, smiled at me, ate my lunch, had other girls glaring at me, and did I mention ATE MY LUNCH? Okay, he didn't eat it, he DEVOURED it, leaving only a fourth for me! Oh man, good looks must cost much food consumption or something. Dude, and my lunch has THREE stacks to it. It's not that I eat all of it, I only eat three-fourths of it, but he's eating my other half that I deserve!

"C'mon, it's not like you run away from rapid, rancid, weirdo girls," Chrome replied, winking cutely. I angry bit what he was holding in his chopsticks. He frowned at me. "Now, Natsuki-chan, that's not nice—eating my lunch like that."

"Excuse me, that's my lunch!" I explained.

"You're excused and I know that," Chrome answered, playfully kissing my cheek. He laughed as he saw my face turn red. My fist almost accidentally slipped onto his face, but I just said, "That was my FIRST kiss! I was waiting for—"

My throat closed and I knew I couldn't say it. Kyohei-kun…Turning away, I put on a straight face and the tears stayed in place. I blinked them back and turned to Chrome. "As I was saying, I was waiting for someone."

Hah, I still couldn't say it. Chrome was about to ask more when the window to our classroom was blasted open. Kanta-kun and Kokoro-chan were with us today, luckily. Kanta-kun ran to my side and ahead of us stood two Mamodos and their partners. Before anything happened, sharp pointy things from the room came at me. YES, CAME AT ME! I crouched over Kanta-kun, but he ducked and went around me. He pushed us both to the ground and we didn't get hit. He's trying harder, I guess. Chrome and Kokoro had done the same.

I got up and shoved them the way they came in--down the stairs. Kanta-kun grabbed my hand and we went after them. We nodded and Kanta-kun stared at the ground. "AN'KAR!"

I felt myself feel transparent, in a sense. I landed with Kanta-kun softly on the ground. Looking at my arm, I realized that I was transparent. Kanta-kun had changed me into a ghost. But, it was over shortly.

"What in the WORLD are you two doing?" I screamed at them—the owners of the books. Chrome had ended up running down four flights of stairs, but was now by my side. I laughed at him inside my head. I wonder what Kokoro could do though.

"Heh…" one said.

"We're just… training," finished the other.

"Honestly…"

"Is that so wrong?"

"Man you guys…" I started.

"Are such weirdos," Chrome finished. We stared at each other and gasped. WE'RE CATCHING IT! I sighed and opened my spell book and Chrome took out his. Man, he's got a white-blue book. I mean, it's almost white with a tint of blue. I noticed he was looking at my yellow one. We grinned at each other and shouted our spell simultaneously.

"AN'KAR!"

"KARIN JIGAR!"

Kokoro pulled out a GIGANTIC sword! It was like, 2 times my size in height and 4 times in width. She carried it like it was nothing. The ground suddenly started to shake and an army of undead appeared behind Kokoro. She screamed and the undead screamed with her. She looked back and grinned. Dashing towards the enemy, the hooves of the undead horses shook the ground and Kokoro jumped up and brought the sword down on a Mamodo.

"VARON!"

The Mamodo, who looked like a yellow cat that could walk on his hind legs, grinned back and a translucent shield appeared over their group. He held his arms out and I could see he was really taking the heat from my undead warriors and Kokoro's scary sword. Kanta-kun was started to crack too. I could see his exhaustion from trying to control the undead to stay longer.

"PULL IT, KOKORO!" Chrome shouted and I heard a slight click from her sword. There was an EXPLOSION! Their shield was broken. Another Mamodo leaped up. This one was a dog. These guys were weird.

"YAROK!"

Missles shot out from behind the dog and hurtled towards me. Kokoro leapt ahead of me and I saw that grin on her again. Chrome shouted, "KARIN'AK!"

A large silver shield composed of hundreds of swords shot up and blocked the attack. I sighed in relief and Kanta-kun hurried to my side. The shield shattered since it was over and shiny sparkles flew everywhere.

'This is my chance…' I thought, smirking. Pointing to the yellow cat, I screamed, "HA'ROUK!"

The black dragon shot from Kanta-kun's mouth and hit the cat dead on. It was swallowed whole and then disappeared. I grinned and totally ignored the fact that my book had suddenly shone on its own in a different light. Kanta-kun panted slightly. The cat came back, in a slightly scared position, but the book wasn't gone yet.

"VAROMA!" the cat's partner shouted. Oh, I never got to learn their names. It's kinda weird. Either way, the cat put up another shield. That confused me. We weren't attacking—OH MY FUDGE! I looked to Chrome, hoping he'd have another attack. The dog, the creepy little dog, had a spell cast also and was in the shield with the rest of them. There was a large bomb above us. It was 10 times the four of us put together and it was heading straight for us.

Chrome pointed to my book. I didn't have a spell. He motioned to open it. I did and suddenly realized I had another spell. The time was ticking. I had to hurry. There was the spell. I screamed it out. "JIN'ROUK!"

There was a burst of bats and Kanta-kun seemed to be going over a transformation. He got taller, about my height. Black cat ears and a matching tail appeared as well. I looked at him. Bones jutted out of his shoulder blades and there were places where you could completely see the shape of the bone beneath the skin. He smelled like rotting flesh, dead fish, and just… horrifying. Grinning, he jumped up and leather wings sprung from his back, the quiet jingle of the bell around his neck giving me the shivers. Kanta-kun looked almost… evil. His eyes went sharp and everything turned pitch dark… as if Kanta-kun had covered the sun.

End of Chapter 16: The Clash

Author's Note: I'm running out of words. Oo I mean, words for my chapter titles because I have to think of a significant word for the chapter. I'm sure i'll find some later. Anyway... this chapter featured fighting (yay!) and I really like Kokoro's fighting style. I suppose her theme is swords. XD Like Cloud from FFVII. That is cool. Anyway, yes, this battle took place in the school building. Oo Once I reread it, I was thinking "OMGWTFBBQ! how the heck am I supposed to clean that up? #$#&(!" Yes, I'm still thinking it over. Oo Oh, and Kanta and I jumped off the stairs (like, over the side), therefor we became ghosts so we didn't hit/crash/slam/break/bump into anything. We landed softly.

Wondering what I should do,

Sammy