This chapter really lives up to my name, this is a warning. So I just wanted to say this is like my third update in four hours. That's how much free time I have. Leave a review folks! By the way this is a replacement chapter of the original chapter 17, the other one was a bit too Random for normal humans, so I was nice enough to make it a bit better.

Disclaimer: If I did own Negima! I wouldn't need so many jobs huh?

(Maria and Alex have left the building! The lawyer… well…yeah…)

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Screwed Up

Masayoshi stood looking up at the magnificent World Tree almost glowing in the full moon, a beautiful tree… full of untapped magical power… if I had this back in… Masayoshi turned around quickly, he thought he heard something.

Scritch…

Masayoshi closed his eyes; he held his book close to his side, his right hand wrapped around his pen in his pocket.

Ka-chink… crack… crunch…

Masayoshi breathed in deeply as he pulled his pen out and held it by his side. Then out from the forest a shadow exploded through the treetops, going straight for Masayoshi. He jumped to the side and rolled on the ground, he landed back on his feet and aimed his pen in the shadow's general direction, a fireball erupted from the tip and crackled in the air as it flew at incredible speeds towards the shadow. A white streak went through the fireball and the shadow burst through it unfazed towards Masayoshi. He grinned and threw his pen at the shadow like a dart, it all seemed like slow motion, the pen left his hand and spiraled toward the murderous shadow, the shadow couldn't change its path and the pen buried itself into the it and the shadow disintegrated. Kaede flew into the air, her shadow barrier broken, her momentum propelling her a full ten feet; she was already unconscious before she even hit the ground.

Masayoshi walked over to her body, and kneeled looking for his pen, he found it a few feet from her. Before he could even grab it, a gunshot echoed in the air, and he dropped to the ground, on his back. The bullet didn't hit, but he could feel it just miss his head. Another gunshot this time hitting his pen and it spiraled in the air, smoking. He quickly got to his feet when another shot went off, he opened his book and the bullet hit it, but instead of creating hole, it looked as though the bullet harmlessly hit water. The pages were rippling. Masayoshi, in one fluid movement, pulled out a page and held it between his middle and index finger. It became a light, a very bright light that could blind anyone standing fifty meters away. He heard someone make a sound from the brush and with the paper still in hand he made a swiping motion and the brush was cleaved in half, revealing a twitching Mana, she had her hands over her eyes, whimpering slightly on the ground, Masayoshi made a upward motion and Mana fell asleep.

Masayoshi turned as he heard a yell, Setsuna, eyes blazing, had her sword to her side running towards Masayoshi, Masayoshi touched the ground and quickly threw his hand over his head, a sword suddenly unearthed itself from the ground, not a moment to soon, Masayoshi put his book on the ground and pulled the sword out of the ground, he blocked Setsuna's first attack, and quickly spun around, slashing the sword in a horizontal arc, Setsuna jumped into the air, shimmering white wings protruding from her back, Masayoshi sneered and crouched down, Setsuna passed right overhead her eyes widening in shock as Masayoshi took his sword with both hands and slashing upward hitting Setsuna across her body. She flew forward and crashed into the base of the World Tree.

Masayoshi's sword turned into crumbly dirt as it fell apart in his hands; he sat down feeling this fast skirmish catch up to him. He walked toward his book, but couldn't move as someone just grabbed his ankle, looking down he seen Evangeline's hand coming out of a void that opened up right at his feet. He wrenched his foot out of her grasp as she prepared herself for a spell, "Lic lac…" Masayoshi ran as fast as he could, but not out of fear, out of a cunning plan. Behind him flower-like shards of ice were coming out of the ground, he could hear Evangeline laugh behind him, "You cannot run Hell's Fire!"

Masayoshi dived for his book, but suddenly Evangeline swooped down and took it, she's just toying with him now, "I think I understand your weakness Hell's Fire, you need your pen to write spells… or you can use this book's pages… it seems as though without them you're nothing." Masayoshi looked around for his pen, but sighed in remorse as Kaede, now conscious, had it in her left hand, in her right hand was several needles, ready to impale Masayoshi.

He heard a gun cocking and he turned towards the forest, Mana must be able to see again, because she was glaring with murderous intent at Masayoshi. Even Setsuna, now without wings, shakily stood up with her sword in hand. Masayoshi would've laughed at how ill this seemed, but he called out to them, "So what's with killing me girls? I don't think I've done anything to you to make you do this!"

Evangeline laughed coldly, "Don't you think we've realized what you are? You're a demon Masayoshi; at least that's your classification. It's your fault that we're all in danger, the Balancers are trying to kill you to retain the balance, they're trying to flush you out by attacking the younger mages. So if we kill you, everything goes back to normal! Ready to die?"

Masayoshi woke up cold sweat sending a chill down his back. Fuka was sitting at his side, sleeping. He noticed an ice bag on his head and threw it off, he shook Fuka trying to wake her, she wouldn't wake up and she fell on his him. Lovely, any other day I would welcome this opportunity, but right now… He squirmed his way out of the bed and looked for Kaede, she was soundly sleeping, nothing out of place. He shook his head, what a terrible dream… he opened the door and left for outside even though it was still night..

Evangeline woke up; her senses telling her that something just go into the barriers confining her to the school grounds. She turned on the lights and her eyes widened as a man dressed in black with a feathered dap and a glimmering sword stood not five feet from her, "Ready to die, Dark Evangel?"

The man lunged toward Evangeline, she quickly jumped into the air and landed behind him. He spun around and delivered a brutal kick to Evangeline's backside, she hit her face full on the floor and slid across the polished wood for a few feet. She rolled over to the side, annoyed by the fact that there are still vampire slayers around. The man didn't move, and waited for her to get back up. Evangeline took some loose strands of her golden hair and tucked it behind her ear, she smirked and made the "bring it on" sign with her hand. The man slid his fingers across the brim of his hat and nodded, he slid down and swiped across Evangeline's legs, but she hopped and landed on his blade. The man looked up, a face of confusion and shock, Evangeline made a "tch" sound and kicked him on the side of his face, the force of the blow sending him flying through the window shattering it. He landed with a painful crack outside.

Evangeline shook her head as she opened the door to finish him off; this is what happens when Chachamaru takes the night off to get herself repaired. The man was strewn across the grass, shards of glass covering his clothes, which in the moonlight was revealed to be a crimson color. She kicked him to examine his face, it was the head of a scarecrow. She turned around to see the actual man, she quickly examined him, he appeared to be middle-aged, he had a light gray goatee and long gray hair under the feathered crimson hat. He smiled and raised his sword in a silent salute. Then he became a blur and disappeared altogether. Evangeline was seething, how dare he mock her so! If he ever returns his blood will be spilt over the grass!

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Ok all of you should be like "WTF is going on?" well I don't have the answer to that question, but I'm sure the plot will cover up these plot holes in no time. The dream was pretty cool admit it. Well I have to figure out how this entire fanfic will end or else it'll just go on forever, and as you can tell, I'm getting a bit too sloppy.

Slight Translations/Explanations:

Nothing to say here, just taking space right now!