Chapter 5

The next morning Mahora's students went to school, the bell had not yet rung, but there were some students were already in class while they were waiting for the others and that the school bell will sound announcing the first hour of class of that morning, the class 3A, some students had already arrived, and were talking to each other in little groups, some of them were sitting looking out the window and others were talking about some subject, then, Haruna opened the class door and entered with Ku Fei and Leona behind her.

"Hello everyone!" Haruna shouted waving at the class.

"Hello!" Kazumi said, waving at Haruna.

"Has not the teacher Nitta come yet?" Haruna asked as she walked toward Kazumi.

"No, but I don't think he will be late, because the school bell will ring soon" Kazumi replied as she watched Haruna sit in her seat and put her school bag on the table. Leona and Ku Fei went to sit in their seats.

"Hey Leona" Yuna said, waving with hand.

"Good morning, Yuna" Leona said.

"How was the road until here?" Yuna smiled at her.

"Eh? Well, although there are quite a few people running around" Leona said, looking at her.

"Exactly, you have to be fast if you want to survive" Yuna said.

"The percentage of victims is usually quite high in the morning" Satomi said, looking at them.

"Really...?" Leona looked at Satomi.

"It's a joke" Satomi said with a gleam in her glasses.

"..."

"By the way, what happened to you?" Yuna asked, looking at Leona's face.

"Eh? It's nothing, I hit myself with something..." Leona replied with her hand behind her head.

At that moment, the school bell rang and the classroom door was opened.

"Good morning, class" Nitta said, entering the classroom.

"Good morning, teacher Nitta!" The students said at the same time, while Nitta went to his table, and put his things on top of the teacher's table.

"Alright, then, before I start the class I want to inform you-"

"There will be holidays?" Makie asked, looking at him.

"Makie, please don't interrupt me" Nitta said, looking at her seriously.

"When are the holidays?!" Haruna shouted with an excited expression on her face.

"Silence! As soon as I hear someone talking about holidays again, I'm going to pull the person out of class! If you are so interested, you should ask your tutor!" Nitta shouted.

The class was silent.

"Well, what I want to say is that there is a surprise math exam, so you are going to keep your things, I just want to see what is necessary, have you understood?" Nitta said looking at the class with a serious expression.

"WHAAAAT!" the students shouted.

"Why!" Makie cried.

"Tsk, this is the most normal thing with Nitta, compared to Negi, he usually makes surprise exams" Chisame thought.

"Asuna" Konoka said, looking at her.

"Why..." Asuna said with a shadow covering her eyes, while her head was on the table and her hair falling over her face.

"Come on Asuna, everything will go well!" Konoka said trying to cheer her up.

"Konoka, I thank you for your encouragement, but if the exams are bad for me, imagine if it is a surprise..."

"Man, that's bad" Yuna said, with her arms crossed over her chest.

"Exam..." Leona said.

"Come on, you have to be positive, it cannot be difficult" Yuna said looking at Leona with a smile.

"Silence, now, I'll go through the sheets of the exam, I don't want to hear anyone, is that clear?" Nitta said as he took the sheets of the exam from his table and he was giving the exams to the students.

"Yuna is right, it cannot be difficult" Leona thought.

"Well, you can start" Nitta said, looking at the class.

"Let's see..." Leona murmured as she turned the page around. She was looking at the exercises for a few minutes.

"I don't understand anything of it..." Leona thought as a shadow was covering her eyes, then she looked at Evangeline's seat next to her. "It seems she has not come yet... And Chachamaru either..." Leona thought, then, she remembered what happened last night "In the end, she turned out to be the vampire, why is she studying here? It's the first time I see a vampire studying in a school, well, she's also the first one I met, I thought they could not stand the sun... Should I ask her?..." Leona thought as she leaned her head on a hand, raising her bangs up a bit. "I don't know either the reason why I felt that way, I thought it would be much more painful than I expected" Leona blushed a little as she remembered it and sighed. "The truth is she didn't lie about the bite being cured, it doesn't even hurt me... " Leona thought, removing her hand and putting it on her neck where Evangeline had bitten her. "I don't really know much about vampires despite-"

"Well, it's already been 30 minutes" Nitta said, looking at the class.

"It's been 30 minutes?!" Leona thought, coming out of her thoughts "Dammit! I still didn't answer anything! I have to hurry!" Leona thought as she began to write on the page.

The minutes passed until school bell rang ending the class.

"Ok, you put the exams on my table" Nitta said.

The students were putting the exams on Nitta's table, then after, Nitta took all the exams, he put it in his briefcase and left the classroom.

"Finally!" Yuna shouted, stretching her arms up.

"A surprise exam, it should be prohibited!" Makie shouted, raising her fist in the air.

"For your reaction, it hasn't gone very well" Yue said looking at her.

"And you, Yue?" Makie asked.

"Neither"

"Well, how was it, Leona?" Yuna looked at her.

"Bad" Leona replied with a lost look in her eyes.

"Bad? Well, keep calm, it is said that we learn from our mistakes!" Yuna said smiling to her.

"You're right" Leona sighed looking at Yuna as she rose from her seat. "I'm going to take a walk, before the next class starts"

"Ok" Yuna said, watching Leona leave the classroom.

"How was it, Asuna?" Konoka asked looking at Asuna, who was staring at the front of the classroom.

"I think it didn't go well..." Setsuna said, she had gone to Konoka and Asuna, then the door of the class opened and Negi walked into the classroom.

"Good morning!" Negi said with a smile. "I arrived a little before the class started, Nitta told me he did an exam, how was it?" Negi asked, looking at the class from his table.

"Well... We do what we can, Negi" Yuna said with closed eyes laughing as she stroked the back of the head with her hand.

"Ah... And you, Asuna?" Negi asked, looking at her.

"..."

"Asuna?"

"Leave her, teacher Negi, obviously it didn't go so well for her, as always, it's nothing new" Ayaka said shaking her head. "She is hopeless"

"What did you say delegate!" Asuna shouted rising from her seat and looking at her.

"Oh, didn't you understand me? I said that you are hopeless"

"You are really the one hopeless here! Who gave you permission to say something? Busybody cradle-robber!" Asuna shouted.

"How did you call me, monkey of the park?!" Ayaka shouted, rising from her seat as well.

"Read my lips! B-u-s-y-b-o-d-y c-r-a-d-l-e-r-o-b-b-e-r! And who are you calling monkey of the park?"

"I will not allow you to call me that!" Ayaka said as she went to Asuna and they began to argue.

/Grace of Destiny/

"It should not take too long for the bell to ring, I'd better go to class" Leona thought.

"Leona" Takamichi said, going to Leona, down the hall of the school.

"Takamichi" Leona said, looking at him.

"how is everything going on in the school?"

"Eh... Fine"

"I'm glad, can I ask you a favour?"

"Of course, what is it?"

"Well, I have to go visit Evangeline, I promised her I would go and give her something, but, I have some business to attend to first and I can't go, so, you can take it to her when you finish classes?"

"E-Evangeline? Sure, no problem"

"Thank you, come over to Principal's Office when you finish classes"

"Ok" Leona said, watching as Takamichi went down the hall.

/Grace of Destiny/

"Please stop the fighting!" Negi tried to stop Asuna and Ayaka from arguing.

"It was strange that they didn't argue! Let's make the bets! "Haruna shouted looking at them.

"Yes! I bet my lunch for a week!" Fuka shouted raising her hand.

"But sister!" Fumika looked at her worriedly.

"Please you don't fight!" Negi said as he went to Asuna and Ayaka, but when he did, they pushed him without them realizing and instead of falling on the floor, he hit Setsuna's back and she fell onto the person who was in front of her.

"Ow..." Negi said, sore from the impact of the fall as he stroked his head with his hand.

"Professor Negi!" Ayaka shouted as she saw him on the floor.

"I'm sorry Setsuna, are you okay?" Negi looked at her.

"Yeah... Don't worry" Setsuna said with her eyes closed.

"Set-chan..."

"Ojou-sama! I'm sorry!" Setsuna said with an expression of concern as she realized she had fallen on top of her.

"No... It doesn't matter, but..." Konoka said with a slight blush.

"W-What's wrong?"

"Well... Your hand..." Konoka said.

"Eh?" Setsuna said, not understanding what was happening, then saw that her right hand was touching Konoka's chest.

"AH!" Setsuna shouted as she quickly moved away from Konoka.

"I'm sorry Ojou-sama !" Setsuna shouted completely blushing.

"Wow..." Haruna said looking at them with a grin.

"..."

"I just saw a scene that would be perfect for one of my mangas! And I won the bet! "Haruna said smiling.

"EH?! This is a misunderstanding!... What bet?" Setsuna said looking at her.

"The bet that was made to see if you would end up dating" Kazumi said approaching them.

"Eh? Is there a bet like that?" Konoka said with a slight blush while Setsuna remained blushing furiously.

"Paru! Asakura! You don't draw wrong conclusions so quickly! This has happened because the clumsy Negi has pushed her!" Asuna shouted, pointing to Negi with her index finger. "It has nothing to do with them dating!"

"I'm sorry!" Negi said looking at them.

"Don't call him clumsy!" Ayaka shouted, looking at Asuna.

"Can you tell who got involved in the in the bet?" Asuna said looking out of the corner of her eye toward Kazumi.

"Don't ignore me!" Ayaka said with an angry expression.

"Let's see" Kazumi said as she was counting on her fingers. "Haruna, Yuna, Misa and me"

"Because it doesn't surprise me..." Yue murmured.

"Don't you have any better things to do?" Asuna said with her hands on her waist.

"It doesn't matter Asuna, you know that in the class, there are always bets" said Konoka smiling.

"But-"

"Oh, there's also the bet if you'll end up dating professor Takamichi, Asuna, but according to the bet, you don't have many options to end up dating him" Kazumi said with both hands behind her head.

"What did you just say Asakura?!" Asuna shouted.

"That's obvious" Ayaka said with a sigh, that remark didn't go unnoticed by Asuna who showed a vein of anger in the top of her head, she immediately ran to Ayaka and bumped her cheek against Ayaka's face with an expression of anger.

"What do you mean, it's obvious?!"

"Do I have to explain it to you?!" Ayaka shouted.

"No-" Negi was going to say something, but was interrupted by the school bell. "Sit down, we are all going to start the class"

"You heard professor Negi, Asuna" Ayaka said, looking at her.

"I say the same thing, Iinchou" Asuna said, then the classroom door opened, Leona walked in, and closed it behind herself.

"Just in time" Yuna said, looking at her. "You missed the discussion" she said, smiling.

"What?" Leona said as she sat down in her seat.

"Asuna and Ayaka have been arguing since you left, we always make bets when they argue" Yuna said, Leona looked at them as they were now sitting in their seats.

"Well, we can start the class" Negi said.

/Grace of Destiny/

"This is all for today" Negi said smiling, since he had finished the class.

"Now is when we are free!" Yuna said, stretching her arms up above her head. "Do you want to take a walk with Kazumi, Haruna, Nodoka and Yue, Leona?"

"Eh? I can't... I have to go somewhere"

"Do you have plans for today? Are you dating anyone?" Yuna smiled.

"No" Leona said, looking at her.

"It is a joke, I know you aren't dating anyone" Yuna said with both hands behind her head, smiling. "See you later!"

"Goodbye" Leona said goodbye, as she walked out the door and left. "I must go to the principal's office to look for that" Leona thought as she walked down the hall. "It must be here" Leona said, looking at the door in front of her, she knocked lightly on the door, and shortly afterwards she entered.

"Hello" a girl said, she was sitting on a stool, had a wooden easel in front of which was a painting on top of it, in her right hand was holding a palette of mixed paintings and in her left hand had a brush.

"Ah... Where am I?" Leona said looking around.

"You are in Fine Arts class" the girl said, looking at her.

"I thought the principal's office was here..."

"Eh? Are you looking for the Headmaster? Then the principal's office is on the top floor, are you lost?" the girl said.

"Yes, that's what it seems like" Leona said, looking away in another direction.

"Don't worry, these things usually happen if you don't know this school well" the girl said, smiling.

"Um... Thank you, goodbye" Leona said, walked out of the classroom and closed the door behind her and went upstairs, then she stopped in front of a door in which it had written 'Office of the headmaster'.

"It is here" Leona murmured, she knocked on the door with her fist and entered.

"Oh, Leona?" Konoemon said, looking at her. "Is something wrong?"

"Takamichi told me to come here to collect something"

"Oh, yes, he told me you'd come" Konoemon said, grabbed a plastic bag and put it on the table. "Here it is" Konoemon said, Leona went to the table and took it.

"How is everything? Did you have any problems? Konoemon asked. "I see you hurt yourself"

"Eh? Yes... No, I just had a problem... But nothing to worry about" Leona said as she scratched her cheek with her index finger.

"Well, alright, if there's anything to worry about, you can talk to me or your tutor"

"Ok, well, I'm leaving, goodbye" Leona said, heading for the door.

"Goodbye" Konoemon said.

/Grace of Destiny/

"I hope to remember where she lives" Leona said, sighing as she looked at the plastic bag. "I remember that after this street there's a vending machine" Leona thought, then when she walked for a while, she saw a vending machine.

"Yes, there was one, it's the same vending machine last night" Leona said, looking at it. "This time, it won't be left with the coin, treacherous vending machine" Leona murmured as she prepared to kick it hard "HA!" Leona shouted hitting it, then a drink came out of the machine.

"It work" Leona said taking the soda, when she turned around, she saw Asuna with Negi, they had a shadow covering their eyes.

"..."

"Hello Leona" Negi said.

"What do you do to the poor vending machine?" Asuna looked at her with a grimace.

"Eh? This is because the other day, it didn't return the coin and didn't give me the soda, then, it occurred to me in this way to get the soda"

"..."

"Do you want one?" Leona said.

"No... Thank you" Asuna said.

"Are you going somewhere, Leona?" Negi said.

"Yes, I'm going to see Evangeline, Takamichi told me to take this to her" Leona said, showing them the plastic bag.

"Takamichi! Have you seen him? Did he tell you anything about me? "Asuna said, leaning closer to Leona nervously.

"Ah... Yes, but just a moment and no, he hasn't told me anything about you ..." Leona said with a drop behind her head.

"We were going to see the master now" Negi said, smiling.

"Master... It's true, why do you call her Master?"

"Eva-chan trains him, but only to him, more than anything, I'm just going to be for a bit " Asuna said.

"I would say you are going to ensure that Eva doesn't do anything strange to him" Kamo said coming out of Negi's pocket.

"A talking ferret" Leona said, looking at Kamo.

"I'm not a ferret, I'm an ermine!" Kamo shouted.

"It's Kamo, he lives with Asuna and me" Negi said.

"We should go see Eva-chan, you know how she gets when you are late" Asuna said with a sigh.

"Yes, are you coming with us, Leona?" Negi asked, looking at her.

"Ok"

"So..." Asuna said as they were walking through the streets. "You know about magic, too" Asuna said.

"Yes" Leona said, nodding. "I like to use ice magic"

"That magic is also used by Eva-chan" Asuna said.

"Yes... I realized that..." Leona said with a narrow look, remembering the fight they had last night.

"Did you make the alliance with someone?" Kamo asked.

"What?"

"He refers to this" Asuna said as she pulled out the pactio card from her pocket.

"I don't have that... What is it?" Leona asked in curiosity.

"Don't you know what it is?!" Kamo said in surprise. "Didn't they teach you in the magic school?"

"I didn't go to a magic school, someone taught me about it, once told me that magic schools only teach you basic things and the advanced stuff or the most powerful spells are cast aside and then when you face an enemy who is much more trained than you, either the enemy gives you a beating or it's your end"

"..."

"Well, you know, an alliance is a contract in which a mage chooses someone, then the person who chooses to get a card, which means pactio, the card does the person obtain powers to fight, in return, the person has to help the mage with whom made the alliance in a battle, do you understand it?" Kamo said.

"Yes, how do you make an alliance?" Leona asked, then Asuna blushed slightly.

"You just have to kiss the other person on the lips" Kamo said, pursing his lips doing the idiot as if about to kiss someone.

"Stop doing the idiot!" Asuna shouted completely blushing, just like Leona.

"But ne-san, thanks to the fact you made the alliance with aniki, we were able to solve that matter"

"Is your alliance with Negi?" Leona said.

"Eh! Yes, but I had no choice! We had a problem with Eva-chan and to help him, I had to do it..."

"Evangeline?"

"Yes" Asuna sighed. "It was something like the one you had with her last night"

"Well, but it was solved because I was there and they were able to make the alliance, apart from ne-san, he has a few more alliances, do you want to have a pactio with him too?" Kamo said looking at Leona with a smile.

"Eh?" Leona said.

"Kamo-kun!" Negi shouted.

"You want to stop going looking for people to make a pactio with Negi!" Asuna shouted with an angry expression.

"I do it to form a battalion!" Kamo said.

"Lie! You do it to make money!" Asuna pointed at him with her index finger.

"It's not true, I do it because I care about aniki! Well, what do you say?" Kamo said looking at Leona.

"No, I don't want to do that" Leona said, looking away in another direction.

"Well, if you ever want to make a pactio, you know" Kamo said smiling.

"Because he's looking at me like that..." Leona thought.

"We've arrived" Negi said, looking at Evangeline's cabin, they went to the door and Negi knocked several times.

"Eva-Chaaan!" Asuna shouted. Then, the door opened.

"From what I can see, you are punctual bouya and Kagurazaka... You don't have to shout like that"

"It was in case you didn't listen to us" Asuna said with her eyes closed.

"And you? What are you doing here? I don't remember telling you to come "Evangeline said, looking at Leona with her arms folded across her chest.

"Takamichi told me to give you this" Leona said, showing her the plastic bag, Evangeline took it and saw that inside the plastic bag was a long wooden box of red wine.

"Ok, you can go now" Evangeline said. "You come inside, come on" Evangeline said, looking at Asuna and Negi, pointing her thumb back over her shoulder behind her.

"Evangeline" Leona said.

"What?"

"Can I see how you train...?"

"No"

"That was a quick response..." Leona thought.

"Come on Eva-chan, what does it cost you to let her come?" Asuna said, with her arms folded across her chest.

"I said no, now you come inside"

"See you, Leona" Asuna sighed entering with Negi inside Evangeline's cabin.

"Goodbye" Leona said. "Hum..."

"What?" Evangeline looked at her.

"Are you going to train in there?" Leona asked confused.

"I have my own resources, now, you go away"

"I have the impression that I'm being a nuisance to you" Leona said with a narrow look at her.

"Have you finally noticed? Then you can go away"

"Even though I let you take my blood last night" Leona said with an angry vein on the back of her head.

"Oh? Do you think I will be nice to anyone just because people let me drink their blood? "Evangeline said with a smile. "Ha! I'm an evil wizard and besides I don't need permission to drink from a person's blood, I'm a vampire, remember?"

"Forgive me, your excellency, evil vampire" Leona said as she placed a hand on her chest. "Forgive me for turn up at your house with something I was told to give you, next time I know you will want go on foot, in a flying broom or with your vampire cloak and look for it on your own"

"It seems that you didn't have enough yesterday, do you want the same thing to happen to you again?" Evangeline said with a malicious grin as she noticed the irony in Leona's voice.

"What- You only won once"

"Listen to me, girl, the day you are able to win me, it will be when the world explodes, and then a black hole appears and absorbs the debris that may remain of it" Evangeline said, then a shadow covered Leona's eyes. "Oh, besides..." Evangeline said, grabbed Leona by the collar of her shirt tightly and pulled her face close enough to meet Leona's gaze. That surprised Leona so much that she was not able to react and was only able to stare at her. "It gave me the impression that when I took your blood, it didn't seem to dislike you" Evangeline said, smiling as she brought her face closer to hers, then whispered in Leona's ear, grinning. "Was it as good for you as for me?"

"What-" Leona blushed, moving away from her "What do you mean?!" Leona shouted as she watched Evangeline laugh.

"Nothing, now seriously, I have things to do, you go for a walk or whatever the kids your age does"

"You..." Leona said with an annoyed expression. "I'm 14 years old"

"And I'm over 600 years old, you will always be a child"

"Six-hundred...?" Leona said in surprise.

"Eva-chan! What are you doing! I just want to say that Chachazero is sharpening the little swords she has! And I don't like how she's looking at us! "Asuna said from inside the cabin.

"This conversation ends here" Evangeline sighed and looked at Leona.

"Ok..." Leona sighed. "I don't want a misfortune to happen in there, either" Leona said, then Evangeline closed the door and she went through the forest they had been before.

"It didn't cost you anything to let her come with us, what did the poor girl do to you?" Asuna looked at Evangeline.

"Don't butt in, Kagurazaka"

"You are a grouch, at least you could have let her stay after what you did to her yesterday"

"Kagurazaka..." Evangeline said staring at Asuna.

"A-And where is Chachamaru, master?" Negi said.

"She is with the cats, later she will come, now, come on, we've already lost too much time"

Meanwhile, Leona was walking through the forest.

"What did Evangeline want to say before with that?..." whispered Leona. "I don't know what expression I put in that moment when she did bite me!" Leona said, suddenly there was a noise in the bushes. Leona stopped and looked around.

"It would have been some animal... Well, I'm going for a walk"

/Grace of Destiny/

It had been a few hours at Evangeline's resort, after Asuna and Negi entered inside the place with Evangeline, Negi began training with Evangeline, soon after, Chachamaru arrived and joined in the training session.

"Think fast, boya! Lic lac la lac lilac..." Evangeline said as she pronounced the next spell she was about to use.

"Ah!" Negi said, realizing that she would soon be attacking him again.

"Crystallitatio Tellustris!"

Negi quickly jumped into the air to dodge the ice stalagmites that came out the floor, then Chachamaru shot a laser beam from her eyes and Chachazero threw two small swords at him, Negi dodged the laser beam and stopped the small swords with a spell, but he was so busy stopping their attacks that he didn't realize that Evangeline was now right behind him.

"You are totally open, boya..." Evangeline said with a wicked smile.

"Ah-"

Evangeline hit him in the face and Negi crashed into the resort floor, making a hole in it.

"Negi!" Asuna shouted at him.

"Ow..." Negi said in pain as Evangeline landed softly on the floor.

"Geez...You should be aware of everything, you will never be able to catch up your father, you have not even lasted a minute!"

"You are three against one! You had it easy!" Asuna shouted at her.

"Don't tell me how I have to do things, stop criticizing the way I train the boya" Evangeline with her arms crossed over her chest.

"It's okay Asuna, don't worry" Negi said as he rose from the floor.

"We're done for today" Evangeline said

/Grace of destiny/

"I don't really know where I could go" Leona thought as she walked around the city looking around her, when she was going to go through one of the streets, the traffic light turned red in front of her, she stopped and waited for it to turn green, while she was waiting, a student stopped beside her.

"Ah, you... You are in the same class as me, your name was Setsuna, right?" Leona said looking at the student standing beside to her.

"What? Ah, yes, are you walking around around Mahora?" Setsuna said looking at her.

"Yes" Leona nodded. "I thought about taking a walk"

"I'm going to go to Starbooks coffee"

"Starbooks coffee?"

"It's a pretty popular place here, you can come with me if you want, I'm going to see Ojou-sama now"

"Ojou-sama?" Leona said with curiosity.

"Yes, although she doesn't like me calling her that" Setsuna said as she scratched her cheek with her index finger with a nervous smile. "I'm referring to Konoka, she is someone I have to protect with my life if necessary"

"Protect her..." Leona murmured, suddenly an image of a smiling girl with short brown hair and green eyes appeared in her mind like a flash. "Rachel..." Leona thought with a shadow covering her eyes.

"Is something wrong?" Setsuna looked at Leona.

"Eh? No, it's nothing" Leona said, putting a hand behind her head. "Let's go to that place"

"Ok" Setsuna said. "Let's go"

"Set-chan!" Konoka said heading for Setsuna.

"Have you waited long?" Setsuna asked, looking at her.

"No, I haven't waited long" Konoka said, shaking her head. "I found some of the class, ah, hello Leona"

"Hello" Leona said.

"Leona! Setsuna! What a coincidence! Come here with us!" Yuna shouted, waving from the table where she was sitting. Next to her were Kazumi, Haruna, Konoka and Yue.

"Let's go with them!" Konoka said smiling. They went where they were sitting and they sat down.

"We were talking about the island library" Yuna said smiling.

"An island?" Leona said.

"It's a place here where we went once, there are many books of all kinds, it is also very easy to get lost and it has many traps to keep people away" Yue said.

"Yue was in that place with Asuna, Konoka and a few of the class" Yuna said.

"The baka-rangers to be more exact" Kazumi said as she took a sip of the soda that she had ordered.

"Why are they called that?" Leona asked.

"Because they have the lowest grade in the class" Yuna replied.

"You'll see how soon I will be there too..." Leona thought, and sighed.

"It's a good thing that we were able to arrive on time for the exam that day" Konoka said.

"Yes, that day will always be remembered" Kazumi said smiling.

"But after that, we continue with the usual notes, ha, ha, ha!" Haruna said laughing.

"Haruna..." Nodoka said with a drop behind her head.

"How optimistic you are" Yue said looking out of the corner of her eye toward Haruna. They were talking as the minutes was passing.

"Wow, it's getting late" Yuna said, looking at the time in the clock that was in the place.

"Ojou-sama, we should go home now" Setsuna said.

"Yes, see you again!" Konoka said, waving her hand in the air, saying goodbye.

"I will accompany you to the door" Setsuna said.

"Thank you Set-chan"

"Goodbye!" Yuna said watching as Setsuna and Konoka left the place.

"They get along" Leona said.

"Yes, since always" Kazumi said, smiling.

"By the way" Haruna said as she pulled something out of her pocket. "Take a cell phone, so, this way, we'll be in touch, you don't have one, do you?" Haruna looked at Leona.

"I don't have any, but..."

"Don't worry, I have a new one, that's the one I used before" Haruna said, smiling.

"Thank you" Leona said, as took the cell phone. "You're very kind"

"You are welcome" Haruna said smiling, with her arms crossed over her chest.

"Isn't that the cell phone that you said it was going slower than a turtle?" Yuna said.

"Hey! -" Haruna said.

"It doesn´t matter" Leona said looking at Haruna who had a shadow covering her eyes after what Yuna said.

"Of course! The important thing is to have one! "Haruna said as Kazumi looked at her with a grimace.

"Well, I should get going" Haruna said, getting up from the seat.

"Ok, I'll go a little later" Leona said.

"Wait, Haruna! I go with you!" Kazumi said.

They said goodbye to each other and went to the dormitory.

"Nodoka, we should go too" Yue said, looking at her.

"Yes, but..."

"What?"

"I must bring this book to the library" Nodoka said, looking at the book in her hand.

"You don't want to go alone in case you are attacked, do you?" Yue said. Nodoka nodded.

"Hum... If you want, I can take the book there" Leona said, looking at Nodoka.

"Are you sure?" Nodoka said.

"Yes"

"Thank you, Leona" Nodoka said as she handed her the book.

"Oh, I'll give you a map of Mahora, this point is the library" Yue said, handing her the map she had in her backpack.

"This will work for me, thank you Yue" Leona said.

"You are welcome" Yue said. Then, Nodoka and Yue said goodbye. Leona looked at the title of the book "Forbidden Love... Well, I'd better go now, it's almost night" Leona said, then she went to the library.

/Grace of Destiny/

A few minutes later, in one of the dormitories, Asuna was studying while Negi was talking with Konoka, Setsuna and Haruna, they were sitting on cushions on the floor around a table.

"I heard it can rain this week" Konoka said.

"I hope it doesn't rain too much" Asuna said, looking at the book in front of her.

"Why don't we entertain ourselves with something? This way the time will pass faster "Haruna said smiling.

"Now I'm studying" Asuna said as she picked up a cookie from the tray on the table.

"You can take a rest" Haruna said.

"Well... It's okay, I've been here for a while" Asuna said, looking at her.

"And what do we do now?" Negi asked.

"We can playing cards" Konoka said, smiling, raising her index finger.

"We cannot" Asuna said.

"Why Asuna?" Setsuna said.

"Someone took it to play a match" Asuna said, closing her eyes.

"So any other ideas?" Konoka said.

"We could play some game on the game console, but we are too many" Asuna said.

"I know" Haruna said, adjusting her glasses with one hand as it gleamed.

"What?" Asuna said looking out of the corner of her eye toward Haruna.

"Scary Stories, we turn out the lights and put a candle, it is perfect"

"Yes, but I don't know if it's a good idea, won't you be afraid later?" Konoka said looking at Negi.

"Eh? No... No problem" Negi said.

"Of course, later you get into my bed secretly and all solved, right?" Asuna said, with her arms crossed over her chest.

"Eh! No!" Negi said.

"Besides, in times like these is when the ghosts come out" Haruna said trying to scare them.

"You say it for Sayo?" Negi said.

A drop showed up behind their heads, except for Negi.

"Well, do we do that?" Haruna said.

"Ok" Asuna sighed, she rose to take a candle, while Konoka turned off the lights, then when they finished, Haruna started telling a story, after a few minutes, it was almost over.

"And then, that group of students heard a noise that came behind the door, a girl thought he was the one the people called 'The headless', many people rumored that he appeared on rainy nights since it was a rainy day when they took his life..."

"S-So what happened?..."

"One of the students rose, went to the door and asked who was it, but nobody answered, then someone started knocking abruptly on the door to pull it down and then-"

Suddenly, there was a knock behind the bedroom door.

"The door... Asuna, open it" Haruna said.

"Why me!"

"I am the guest" Haruna said, closing her eyes, raised her arm and pointed to the door with her open hand.

"Pardon?!"

"I'll go" Setsuna said, standing up.

"Set-chan?" Konoka said in a worried tone of voice.

"Don't worry ojou-sama, sure it's someone in the class" Setsuna said smiling at her.

"Good thing we have our brave swordsman" Haruna said, nodding several times. Setsuna blushed slightly.

"You are having fun with all this, aren't you? There are people here who don't think the same thing" Asuna said. Haruna saw Negi a little frightened.

"Eh? Oh come on, it is impossible that it is the same as that story" Haruna said shaking her hand several times, denying.

"So, why did you want to send me?" Asuna said looking out of the corner of her eye toward Haruna.

"Better to be safe" Haruna said.

"I can't believe it!" Asuna said. Setsuna went to the door and opened it, then she saw Kazumi.

"Asakura" Setsuna said.

"Oh, Setsuna" Kazumi said, smiling as she waved. "I came to bring to Asuna the CD of music that she left me"

"Let her pass, Setsuna" Asuna said from behind the door.

"Well, it wasn't what we thought it was" Haruna said as Kazumi entered at the dormitory.

"Who?" Kazumi said, raising her left eyebrow curiously.

"We were telling scary stories, we thought you were someone like the person of the story" Haruna said.

"Ah, now I understand why it's all like this" Kazumi said, looking around the room.

"Ah!" Konoka said.

"What's up Konoka?" Asuna looked at her.

"Th-There..." Konoka said pointing to the window with her index finger.

"Is there something in the window ojou-sama?" Setsuna said looking at the window.

"I thought I saw something"

"It would have been your imagination" Haruna said, looking at the window, suddenly a hand appeared in the window and opened it, then a person jumped on the window-sill, as the room was dark, it wasn't clear who was.

"The headless! Everyone take cover!" Haruna shouted pointing at the person with her index finger.

"But if you made up the story! And how you know he hasn't head!" Asuna shouted.

"Get behind me, Ojou-sama" Setsuna said looking at the person seriously, while Kazumi pulled out her camera to take a picture.

"Why are all the lights off?" the person said.

"That voice..." Konoka said.

"I think I know who is..." Haruna said, turning on the lights. "Gu Fei"

"Tsk, I lost my exclusive" Kazumi said with a sigh.

"You can tell us why you didn't enter by the door like ordinary people!" Asuna said raising her fist in the air.

"Master Gu Fei... How did you get in?" Negi looked at her as she jumped out of the window, closed it and then put her hand behind her head and smiled.

"Well... I forgot the keys to my dormitory, so I thought about going in through someone's window, since I didn't want to break any door down, so I took a rope that I found with a hook and I went up here"

"That's amazing Gu Fei" Kazumi said with a drop behind her head and with her arms crossed over her chest.

"You have no idea the fright you have given us" Asuna said with a sigh, while Gu Fei had question marks around her head without understanding anything.

"Well, are we going to go on with what we were doing?" Haruna said, stretching her arms up.

"I would stay, but I have things to do" Kazumi said.

"I should go too" Setsuna said.

"I have to prepare the class for tomorrow" Negi said.

"And I have to study" Asuna said.

"Ok, see you another day then" Haruna said, waving like the others.

"What were you doing?" Gu Fei said, looking at Haruna as they went to their dormitory.

"We were spending time telling scary stories"

"Hum... And Leona?"

"Maybe she is already in the dormitory" Haruna said. "If not, I can always call her if necessary, I gave her my old cell phone"

"Oh, the one you said was going so slow?"

"...Because you all say the same thing..."

/Grace of Destiny/

"I thought the library would be nearby, maybe I was wrong, but according to this map it's here..." Leona said as she walked through Sakura Lane, she suddenly felt someone throwing ice spears at her, then she dodged it, quickly throwing herself on the ground.

"There is not a single night that I'm not attacked by anything in this place!" Leona said with an angry tone in her voice. "That was an ice spell...?"

"Hello Leona" Chachamaru said, bowing slightly next to Evangeline.

"Then who attacked me-" Leona said narrowing her eyes.

"It was me" Evangeline said.

"Again... What's the matter, didn't you like the wine?" Leona said, getting up off the ground.

"Hmph, it has nothing to do with this"

"So?"

"Well, I wanted to see if you'd be able to dodge it" Evangeline said shrugging her shoulders.

"And if I had not been able to do it?" Leona said narrowing her eyes.

"It would have been painful for you"

"Does she hate me? Is that? She hates me?!" Leona thought to herself.

"Forbidden Love" Chachamaru said, she had picked up the book from the ground while Evangeline and Leona were talking. "This book must be hers, mistress"

"It must have fallen when I jumped" Leona thought.

"I don't care what she likes to read" Evangeline said, looking at Leona, then she smiled, her fangs showing.

"What's up with that smile!" Leona said, looking at Evangeline. "For your information, it is not mine, I have to give it back, although it made me a little late..."

"In fact, you should go to bed now" Evangeline said.

"That tells me someone who looks 10 years old" Leona said narrowing her eyes.

"I already told you that I am over 600 years old"

"Then, what are you doing studying here? You should have at least a Doctoral degree or something with all those years "

"That's none of your business, and I'm not interested in having one" Evangeline said.

"Can you give me the book? I have to give it back" Leona sighed. Chachamaru went to give her the book, but Evangeline stopped her.

"Wait"

"What's wrong?" Leona said.

"If you want it, you have to give me something in return" Evangeline said.

"What did you say?"

"I want something in return, I won't give it to you so easy" Evangeline said, with her arms crossed over her chest.

"Tsk, what do you want?" Leona narrowed her eyes.

"Your blood and your servitude"

"How?!" Leona shouted with an angry expression.

"It was a joke" Evangeline said smiling. "Chachamaru gives her the book" Evangeline said with a hand on her waist, Chachamaru gave the book to Leona and went to Evangeline again. Leona was staring at Evangeline.

"Oh, by the way..." Evangeline said.

"And what happens now?" Leona said.

"There's something about you that's strange to me, I have a feeling you are hiding something" Evangeline said, staring at her. Suddenly, Leona's expression changed.

"I don't know what you mean..." Leona said in a low tone. "Those looks that she gives me... I feel as if her eyes could pierce through my soul... And at any moment, she might be able to guess what I'm thinking of" Leona thought looking away in another direction.

"Hmph, listen, I don't know what you are hiding, but sooner or later I will know it and I hope you aren't here for something you might regret doing it, Chachamaru, we are leaving"

"Understood, mistress" Chachamaru said as Evangeline left the place. "Leona" Chachamaru said before leaving the place too.

"What?" Leona said looking at her.

"The mistress can be violent at times, but she is not really a bad person, it's just that the mistress cares for what could happen, that's all, you don't hold it against her" Chachamaru said, bowing slightly, then she left the place.

"What's her problem?" Leona sighed. "I have to take this back" Leona said as she looked at the book.

"Excuse me, mistress, why did you attack Leona? Do you hate her?" Chachamaru said as they walked home.

"Mm? No, I just like to mess with her"

"What did you mean when you said 'you are hiding something'?"

"I have that sensation, even if it is slight, there is something in her which is strange for me, but I don't know what it can be, it is too slight to know it" Evangeline said.

"Oh..." Chachamaru said.

/Grace of Destiny/

Leona left the book in the library, after returned it, she come back to the dormitory with Haruna and Gu Fei who were waiting for dinner, after a while, they went to sleep and now the only noise that could be heard was the sound of the alarm clock. Leona was staring at the ceiling, then appeared in her mind what Evangeline said before. "I have a feeling you are hiding something, sooner or later I will know it "

"Tsk, I can't let you know anything about it " Leona said, covering her head with the sheet, and turning around in bed.

/Grace of Destiny/

The next morning, Asuna and Negi were talking as they walked.

"I can't believe that she says yesterday that I have no much options to go out with Takamichi, damn it Asakura" Asuna said as she was walking down one of the streets with Negi and Kamo.

"Asuna, I do think you can do it" Negi said, encouraging her.

"Negi..."

"Impossible dreams are often the best ones" Kamo said.

"Shut up and get into your business" Asuna said with an angry expression. Suddenly, Negi stopped walking.

"It's not Leona?" Negi said looking in front of him.

"Yes" Kamo said.

"What is she doing?" Asuna said looking at Leona, she was leaning against on a stone wall and with her other hand was clutching her chest, she had her head looking down at the ground, as a shadow covered her eyes.

"Looks like she's not feeling well" Asuna said with a worried expression. Suddenly, Leona fell on the ground, unconscious.

"Leona!" Negi shouted as he went with Asuna where Leona was.

"Hey! Wake up!" Asuna shouted.


End of chapter 5 thanks for reading, I'm sorry for the wait on this chapter! I would like know your opinion about the story so far in the reviews, it encourages me to keep writing. Also, thanks to Miz-KTakase for helping me with grammar and thanks for the reviews I received! :) What does Leona hide?