Chapter 6: Another day. Another problem
"Morning already huh." Ragna rubs his eyes and squints to look at the time. The clock shows 6:30 as he groans "Damn I don't think even Saya is up right now." Ragna yawns as he stretches and gets out of bed. He yawns down the hall as he makes his way to the bathroom to brush his teeth. As he opens the door he sees Saya already brushing her teeth as she spits the toothpaste out her mouth and says to him "Good morning. I didn't expect you of all people to wake up at this time."
"Yeah I didn't expect to wake up at 6:30 in the freaking morning either. But I couldn't go back to sleep so I said fuck it and got up. A better question is, what are you doing up? This is early even for you Saya." Saya washes her mouth and turns to him with a worried look on her face "Honestly, I couldn't sleep all that well last night. I was up for the majority of the night thinking about everything."
"Well, I guess you and I are the same. I could barely sleep, I didn't fall asleep till about 3:00, just stayed up the whole damn night thinking." Ragna says as Saya looks down at the floor "I won't lie to you, this whole thing scares me. What if you all get hurt or worse! I couldn't live with myself if something bad happened to any of you."
Tears start to form in the girls eyes as her whole body starts to shake. She feels a hand on her head as she looks up to see Ragna smiling. "Saya you don't have to worry about a thing. I will do anything I have too, to protect you. I swear I'll keep you safe." Ragna says as he uses his thumb to gently wipe the tears from her eyes. "So don't cry alright."
"Brother…" Saya says as her cheeks turn pink. She wipes her eyes and smiles at him "Thank you. Talking to you like this has really calmed me down."
"No problem. Talking to you calmed me down as well." As Saya was about to leave she turns to him and gave him a quick peck on the cheek. Ragna turns to her as his face turns bright red. He asks in a surprise tone "W-What was that for!?"
"Just a thank you. What you didn't like it?" Saya says as Ragna says in an embarrassed tone as he looks away from her "T-That's not exactly what I'm um…saying here." he scratches his head, Saya walks back up to him and says "Then would you like another? But this time…" she moves in closer as she cups his cheeks.
Ragna gasps "Saya…? What are you…" She closes her eyes as both their faces turn crimson red. Their lips were just centimeters apart. But before she could do the deed they hear a voice from behind them. They turn around to see Jin wearing a rather pissed off expression. "Would you like to explain to me what you two are doing?"
"Oh shit! Um…morning Jin."
"You didn't answer my question." Jin says coldly. They feel a sudden temperature drop as they both shake their heads. They begin to shiver as they say in unison "Nothing! Nothing at all."
"Really?" Jin eyes turn to menacing slits as the temperature decreases further. "Yes really! Nothing happened, right Saya."
"Yeah don't worry nothing happened, we were just talking." Saya nods as she tries to follow Ragna's lead and feign ignorance. "With your face so close to his? From my view it looks like you were trying to kiss him."
"No I was not!" Saya's face turns darker than Tsubaki's hair as she asks him in a terrified tone of voice "H-How long have you been standing there?"
"Long enough." Jin says as he looks towards Ragna and asks " So you were just talking Brother?"
"Stop acting like Sherlock Holmes for two seconds and believe us! We weren't doing anything." Ragna says as the temperature in the bathroom starts to go back to normal.
"Ok, I will trust your words brother. But I will be keeping a close eye on you." Jin says as he looks towards Saya. He walks out the room as the two sigh in relief 'I hope everyone else's day doesn't start off as weird as mine.' Ragna thinks to himself. He turns to Saya and asks her "Hey…so um...what was that all about?"
Saya's face turns as red as a cherry as she runs out the bathroom leaving Ragna confused 'If I didn't know any better I think she was trying to…' he shakes the thought out his head he says to himself "Na! I'm just over thinking this." he walks over to the sink and starts to brush his teeth. Unknown to him Saya was sulking as she says to herself "So close! Stupid Jin had to get in my way!"
As time goes by, Ragna makes some boxed lunches for Jin, Saya and himself. He turns to the clock to see it was 7:30 as he wraps the lunches up and goes to get dressed. He calls out to Jin and Saya to get ready as they shout ok back to him. He runs upstairs to put on his school uniform which consists of a shirt with blue sleeves and white in the middle with gold in between the blue and white with black pants.
He goes downstairs and sees Jin and Saya waiting by the door with their lunches as Ragna grabs his as they all walk out. They make it to school by 7:50 as they see kids still going in. "It seems like we're actually on time." Jin sighs.
"Hey look, isn't that Tsubaki and the rest of them?" Ragna says as he points to a group of people talking as Saya nods "Yeah that's them. It seems like they got here a little early then us. Come on let's go." Saya grabs Ragna's hand and drags him off with her as Jin runs behind.
"Hey guys look their finally here." As Makoto points to the running siblings she waves to them as they say good morning to her.
"There's our favorite masochist!" Kagura says which earned him a growl from Ragna.
"So you guys are on time too? Let me guess you woke up early today?" Kokonoe says.
"Um yeah. But how do you know that?" Jin asks as Tsubaki answers "Well it's the same for all of us. We barely got any sleep so Makoto, Noel and I just stood up texting all night."
"Yeah and all I did was watch some TV until the sun finally came up. I only got about an hour of sleep. " Kagura says as Ragna nods "Yeah same for me. I fell asleep at 3:00 just to wake up at 6. Stayed up thinking."
"Your not the only one. All of us did some long hard thinking about all this. So I just worked on some of my machines and Celica made this huge ass breakfast. So what did you all do when you woke up this morning." Kokonoe asks as Ragna and Saya's faces turns bright red.
"Just talked." They say in unison.
"I wouldn't call that talking." Jin says as they both say in agitation "We told you nothing happened!"
"Ok now I'm curious." Kagura smirks as an idea comes to mind "Oh I know! You two were doing something forbidden weren't you? I mean your not directly related so theirs not really a boundary." A vein pops up on Saya's forehead as she walks up to Kagura and kicks him hard in his kingdom. They all look in astonishment as Makoto looks down at Kagura "Damn…Kokonoe, I think your rubbing off on her."
"Even I haven't hit him that hard yet." Kokonoe gasped as Saya walks off in a pout. "Well…note to self…do not piss her off." Kagura says as he struggles to get up.
"Damn…even I felt that one." Ragna helps him up as he sighs. Kagura tries to get himself in order "One of these days your gonna need to go to a doctor."
"I'm fine. Balls of steel remember." Kagura says as Ragna says in a sigh "Right…"
"What did you guys talk about anyway?" Makoto asks as she was still interested about what happened between Ragna and Saya. As Ragna was about to speak Jin says "Lets just say their conversation got a little "out of hand" and leave it at that."
"That's pretty vague…" Celica says as Ragna tries to change the subject "Come on let's go already."
"Ok we're coming." Noel says as all of them except Makoto tried to catch up to him as she realizes what he did. "He changed the subject on us…that slick mother fucker!"
They walked up through the halls as everyone was chatting about something. It seemed like they were excited about something as the group makes their way to their classroom. They stood outside the door of their class as they can hear a huge commotion. They walk in and see the whole class up and about. Ragna asks Nine "Hey what's going on?"
"Transfer student." Nine sighs as Jin shrugs "Is that all? Why would they care about some transfer student?"
"They say she's a real beauty. But you all know her already."
"We do?" Celica asks. Nine motions them to takes their seats as she tries to calm the class down. Ragna walks over to Saya and asks "Hey Saya are you alright? Never seen you do something like that before."
"I'm fine, don't worry about me brother." Saya says as Ragna tells her "Ok, but if theirs something you need to talk about just come to me. I'm always ready to listen." As he walks to his seat Nine claps her hands "Alright everybody shut the hell up! Now I would like to announce that we will be having a new student joining us."
The door slowly opens as a girl with blond pig tails, with black ribbons tied on her hair wearing a blue skirt and blue and white top walks into the room. Ragna and the rest of them stare star struck as Ragna asks "What's SHE doing here!?" The girl then introduces herself "My name is Rachel Alucard. It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance." As she bows the whole class gets up and screams at the top of their lungs as one of the males say "Do you see what I'm seeing!"
"Yes I am. Classy, elegant, fair skinned and look at all that hair. I wonder how she would look if she let that long flowing hair down. I'm so jealous!" One of the girls says as a male student says "But we must not forget the most important part that stands out against everything else."
"Yes your right. Those curves, those thighs , that shape. This can only mean one thing!" As all the boys say in unison "She has the ass men have been searching for, for years! The legendary, perfect ass!" as they all clap Rachel asks Nine "So is this how new students are greeted?"
"No, just when they see a cute girl." Nine face palms as she fears the headache she's going to have to deal with. Rachel looks and sees Ragna and the rest of them "Oh your all in this class as well."
"Um Ms. Rachel, what are you doing here?" Celica asks still surprised by her appearance.
"I grew bored. Besides this makes it easier to communicate. I will be staying here for a while so I need a resident to stay at." As she walks to Ragna and looks at him and says "So I will be staying at your house."
"What?" Ragna says confused.
"What!?" all the boys says in confusion and rage. "Why is my future baby mama talking to your dumbass!?" They all say in unison.
"It's weird how in synch they all are today." Kokonoe says as Kagura nudges Ragna on the shoulder "I think you might wanna run now. I know those eyes well, it's the eyes of a man ready to fight for supremacy against all for his woman."
"You really are a pervert aren't you?" Kokonoe face palms as Kagura says with confidence "Through and through. But seriously you need to run now." Ragna turns his head he sees all the boys get up as their eyes gleam with one thought in mind.
"Holy. Shit." Ragna says as he gets up and bolts out the door. "GET HIM!" all the boys chase after him leaving only Kagura, Jin, Saya, Kokonoe, Rachel, Tsubaki, Makoto, Noel, Celica, Nine and the rest of the girls in the classroom confused.
"I can't believe they're actually chasing him." Jin says as they hear large crashing noises and explosions. "Damn he's one unlucky son of a bitch. Glad I'm not him." Kokonoe chuckles as Jin looks out the window. "Hey look they're they are. They're chasing him out the school."
"Now that's dedication. I have trained them all well in the art of the pervert." Kagura smiles as they all get up to see Ragna running ahead of an angry mob.
"Shouldn't we help him?" Noel says as Nine says "With that crowd and that look in their eyes let's just hope he lives through this. Anyway Rachel what do you mean by staying here?" they try to ignore the explosions and yelling coming from them as Rachel says "Well I found this easier than just teleporting as I can talk to all of you much easier this way. Plus I grew bored, thought this might be a good way to pass the time and I was right."
"I wonder when they'll come back?" as they see them all running around the school yard.
"When they tire themselves out. Ragna should be able to hold out till then."
What felt like 30 minutes of screams finally stopped as the mob ran out of breath Ragna took the opportunity and ran back inside. "Well he has stamina gotta give him that. Didn't think he could actually run 30 minutes non-stop" she shrugs "Well he made my job much easier." Nine says as she jumps out the window and descends down to the ground. Ragna bursts in the room sweating like a cow.
"Ragna your back. How was your jog?" Rachel asks as Ragna looks at her and says between gasping breathes "Not…now…"
"The man looks like he was scared shitless. I bet he has no shit left in his system right now." Kokonoe says as Ragna flips her off. "Don't be mad at me because you were almost fucking mauled by an angry mob."
"Who's fucking fault is that?" Ragna groans as Nine walks back into the class with scared students.
"What did you do too them mother?" Celica looks at the faces of the students that were behind her. They looked dead. Lifeless. Like all the color was drained out of them.
"Nothing much, just an illusion spell." Nine says as she motions the kids to sit as Kagura says "That must have been one fucked up illusion." After a moment of silence they all begin to gather themselves as Rachel takes the empty seat next to Ragna.
"Now we can get to the lesson. We will be talking about the Ikaruga civil war." Nine says as she starts writing notes on the board. Ragna leans over and taps Rachel he whispers to her "Rabbit, what are you doing here? And what do you mean by "resident"?"
"Its simple, I'll be living at your house for the time being."
"What!? The hell you are!" Ragna gets up and yells as the teacher looks at him and snarls "Is their something important you would like to share with the class?"
"Um no. Sorry." he sits down and sighs. Rachel asks him "What's the problem? You don't have any spare rooms?"
"No its not that. We have plenty of empty guest rooms, but why my house? Why not Celica's?" Ragna asks her as she says "Why do you care so much!? Just shut up and do as your told."
"I care because it's my damn house! You have a giant fucking mansion, but you wanna stay at my house?" Ragna snarls.
"Well since I'll be going to school here for the first time I want to live like you common people do. I thought it would be an entertaining change of pace to my usual endeavors."
"Wait your first time? You mean you never went to school before?" Ragna asks in a shocked tone of voice as he thinks to himself 'That doesn't make any sense. She's never gone to school before? The hell has she been doing?'
"No, I have not. I was home schooled. So I would like to experience real school first hand." Rachel says as Ragna sighs 'This woman has lived one sheltered life.'
"I already had Valkenhayn bring my stuff to your house and set my clothes up for me."
"You did what!? Wait you'd he get in? Actually you know what, I don't even wanna know." Ragna says as he thinks of the explaining he has to give to Saya and Jin and the door he might have to fix. After the bell rung Ragna goes over to Jin and Saya and tells them the situation. Saya was glad to have her stay, but Jin was a little hesitant.
"So have you told them about my living arrangements?" Rachel says as Ragna sighs "Yes I did, their cool with it. So I guess I am too."
"Splendid. Now we can both walk home…together…" Rachel says as Ragna stares confused "I didn't hear that last part. What did you say?" her face turns red she looks away from him and says in an irritated voice "I said nothing! Mind your own business!"
"Um ok…what's got you so bitchy all of a sudden?" Ragna rolls his eyes. He feels an intense pressure as his arm starts to shake. 'What the hell is going on? What's this feeling? Am I…afraid...? But of what?' Ragna thinks to himself as he heard his name being called. He looks up to see Saya as she says "What's with you? We've been calling you for a while now."
"Oh right my bad. Just had this weird feeling. But it's gone now so I'm all good." Ragna says as Tsubaki asks him "Ragna are you really ok? You look a little spooked."
"Don't worry its nothing." Ragna says as he repeats to himself "Absolutely, nothing…"
"Ok, so we gonna go eat or just stand here." Kagura says as all the students start walking out. "Well it's an amazing day out! How about we eat on the roof instead of the cafeteria." Celica suggests as Noel asks "Can we even do that? I don't think I've ever seen anyone go up their and eat."
"Some people go up their every once in a while." Jin says as Celica calls to Nine "Hey mom, were gonna eat on the roof! Do you wanna join us?"
"Sure why not. Temperature outside is perfect today. I think it's a nice day for an outside lunch." Nine says as Celica grabs her arm and leads her out the classroom. "Wait up Celica, don't leave us behind!" Makoto says as she and Noel run after her.
"Well, shall we?" Kagura motions them to follow as he starts to walk out the room as the rest follow behind. After climbing a few flights of stairs they make it to the door to the roof. Nine opens the door as a nice refreshing breeze blows in their faces. They walk onto the roof as Makoto breathes in the cool fresh air "You gotta wonder why more people don't eat up here." Makoto walks over to the gate at the edge and sits down and takes her lunch out. "Well come on! You guys just gonna stand their or are you gonna eat?" Makoto motions them to come sit as they go to her.
"Huh, never really eaten on the roof before. It's kinda nice, I could get use to this." Ragna says as him, Jin and Saya take out their lunches. "Wow your lunches look delicious." Noel says as drool starts to form.
"Saya did you make these?" Tsubaki asks as she shakes her head no and points to Ragna. As they all look at him with shock Kagura says "You don't need to lie, I mean it's just food."
"Wow really…? You guys are assholes." Ragna snarls as he eats an egg roll from his lunch. Kokonoe sighs as she starts to eat "No, believe it or not this jackass right here is a really good cook."
"I never expected you to cook Ragna." Makoto says as she smells his food and asks "Can I try some?"
"You dis me, then ask for food?" Ragna says he raised an eyebrow. Makoto starts asking in a pleading voice as she clasps her hands together " Please, pretty please, pretty pretty…"
"Alright already! Just stop, your giving me a fucking migraine. Go ahead try some." Ragna says as he gives the box to Makoto. She takes her chopsticks and takes an egg roll from it. Makoto places it in her mouth as her eyes light up "Holy shit this is the best egg roll I've ever tasted! Not too much salt just right, as the egg just melts in my mouth. It's perfection!" They were shocked to hear Makoto's reaction Noel asks for some as well. "Alright, I guess I bite or two won't hurt." Ragna says as she takes a piece of chicken and eats it. Her mouth waters as her eyes light up just like Makoto's.
"Oh wow is it really that good? I've only tried his cooking once and I can't really remember how it tasted or what he even cooked." Celica says as she starts to smell the aroma Ragna's food was emitting. He feels someone glaring holes in him as he looks up to see Celica staring at his food. "Um do you want some too Celica? You can take some if you want to."
"Really I can have some!? Thank you Ragna!" Celica says as she opens her mouth as everyone turns to them in shock as Ragna asks her "What are you doing?"
"Well obviously I want you to feed me silly." Celica says as they look at her in surprise. 'Celica is taking quite a bold step. Ragna don't be an idiot and just feed her.' Kagura thinks to himself as Ragna says "Ok fine I'll feed you, happy?" he picks up a piece of chicken as he says "Ok um…say ahh."
"Ahh…"Celica opens her mouth wide as she bites down on the chicken. Her face lights up in pleasure as she tastes all the flavor dancing in her mouth in perfect harmony. "Oh Ragna, you have got to try my lunch now." Celica says as she opens her lunch and put a piece of chicken in her chopsticks. "Now it's your turn, say ahhh."
"Um…ok. Ahh..." he opens his mouth as a piece if chicken is placed on his tongue."Oh wow Celica this is amazing! Is this sweet and sour pork!? I haven't had this in years!"
"Yes it is! Thank you for the complement." Celica says as her cheeks turn slightly red. Saya looks at her and thinks to herself 'Seems like I need to take some cooking lessons.'
"Well they say the key to a man's heart is through his stomach. Seems like you did a good job Celica." Kokonoe says as they feel a murderous aura, they look to see that it's Nine. "Ok, Ragna I don't know what you did to her to make her fall for you but I will make you suffer for deceiving her!" Nine summons electricity as fear washes over Ragna "Wait, what did I do!?"
"Mother don't tell him that!" Celica says as she looks at him as she says quietly to herself as only Nine can hear her "Besides…I want to tell him myself."
"Fine, but don't wait forever. Ragna if you hurt her I will cut you and hang you out to dry do you hear me!?" Nine says as Ragna nods "Yes."
"Good. Plus I know you wouldn't do anything to hurt her." Nine says like she was tempting him to see his answer. Ragna says "Of course not. Why would I even think about hurting her? Theirs no way I could do that. I'd feel like a total dick if I did that to someone like Celica."
"Really? So you care for her well being that much do you?" Nine asks as Celica waits in anticipation for his answers as her heart starts to beat faster.
"Yeah I do." Ragna says in a serious tone as Kagura thinks to himself as he face palms 'Ragna. You have no idea what the means to Celica do you?'
"Well didn't expect you to say all that, but I guess that settles that doesn't it Celica." As Nine hears her repeating as she lost in a trance. "He cares about me. He cares about me."
"We lost her." Nine says as Ragna goes over and shakes her slightly and asks in a concerned voice "Hey Celica, you ok?"
"Oh yeah I'm totally fine! Why wouldn't I be!" Celica says as she comes out of her trance.
"Alright as long as your ok." Ragna says as he sits back down. Rachel and Saya both pinch him in irritation as he gruns from the pain. 'Poor Ragna.' Kagura thinks to himself. After conversations and awkward moments the bell finally rang signaling break was over. "Over already? Ah man."
"So what class do you guys have now? I have combat training." Ragna says as Jin, Noel and Rachel say they have the same thing. Celica and Saya have outdoor gymnastics. Kokonoe, Tsubaki and Makoto say they have track and Kagura has boxing.
"Well I guess I'll see you later." Ragna gets up as him and Jin head off the roof as the rest follow. Unknown to them someone was watching from afar. "So that is him, the dark one. To think that serpents intervention would lead me to you. Even if it is you Ragna, I will exterminate all evil and rid this world of the beast." The masked swordsman says.
"Should I interfere?" A girl with violet hair and red eyes says as she watches the masked swordsman from above. 'No don't.' a mysterious voice says as the violet haired girl looks at the masked swordsman as the voice continues 'He is also an entitled brought here by the azure. But we cannot afford to lose Ragna. Only if the situation calls for it then you interfere. Lets see how he fairs against him.'
"Alright. If that is what you want then I will do nothing but observe." As she watches Ragna walk into the door leading away from the roof she says to herself "This should be interesting."
They go to the changing room as Ragna and Jin split off with Rachel and Noel. Ragna takes out his red jacket and giant sword Jubei gave him and a black shirt and two huge belts, a black hakama and red steel toed boots. As he puts on his jacket he clips the belts on his waist side ways so it hangs off as he puts the belts on top of each other. He puts on black gloves with red shells on the back as he pulls them down to make sure their tight on his hands. He spins his sword a few times and sheaths it on his waist.
Ragna turns and sees Jin taking out a blue jolting sapphire color themed jacket with a black turtleneck and leggings with a white tunic over it and blue military boots. "Wait isn't that the old man's military outfit?" Ragna asks as he remembers seeing Jin's father wearing it at one point. Jin nods "Yeah. He gave it to me before we left home. Seems to be a perfect fit surprisingly."
Jin takes a long look at Ragna as he says "Are you sure that sword isn't destroying your back? Looks pretty heavy."
"Na I'm fine. My master dropped the rest if this stuff off and said "It completes the look"." Ragna says as Jin tells him "Yeah he's right it does."
Noel looks at Rachel and asks her curiously "Wait your gonna practice in that dress?" Noel looks as Rachel finishes putting on a frilly black gown and black jacket, red bow tie and a red bat symbol design cross from the front to the back on her dress, with another cross on her shawl and bottom half with black high heel boots, with a red cross and ribbon on her ankle.
"Yes, is this a problem?" Rachel asks as Noel shakes her head and says nervously "No its not that. It's just, won't your dress get in the way?"
"Do not trouble yourself worrying about me. But what about you, aren't those the clothes you got from my house right?" Rachel says as she looks at Noel's outfit. The only difference was the two holsters on her waist holding her twin guns. Noel nods "Yep! I found these clothes comfortable and actually has really good mobility. But it seems like you might trip or stumble. I just want to make sure your gonna be ok."
"Like I said, do not concern yourself with me. I will be fine." As they walk out to changing room they meet up with Ragna and Jin as Ragna asks Noel "Wait aren't those clothes from the rabbits house? Why are you gonna fight in that?"
"Well its comfy plus gives me great mobility. Speaking of outfits where did you get that one?" Noel asks as she looks at Ragna's clothes. "My master dropped by and gave me this. Why does it look bad?"
"No! The exact opposite in fact! It looks great!" Noel says as she looks at his sword. "Isn't that sword heavy?"
"Na I'm fine." Ragna looks at Rachel and raises a brow "Um Rabbit, this isn't a party. Why are you wearing a dress?"
"I'm wearing it because I want to." Rachel says as she turns and walks toward the gym.
"That's a pretty vague answer…" as Ragna starts walking he feels an intense pressure wash over him. 'This feeling? What's going on with my body? It's like death is breathing down my neck.'
"Brother are you ok?" Jin says as he shakes him, waking him up out of his trance. "Yeah, I'm fine." Ragna says as he continues walking as Jin shrugs as he and Noel follow. They open the door and walk into a huge gymnasium the size of a football field as they walk over to their class a buff tall man wearing a red and white hoodie and red sweats with brown hair walks over to then. "Their you all are. What the hell took you all so long?"
"Sorry, Mr. Takahashi it took us a little longer to get changed." As he looks at her he says "Well ok, but where were you three yesterday? You missed introductions."
"We had important matters to attend to. So we had to leave early. We told our teacher Mrs. Mercury, you can ask her if you want." Jin says as the teachers faces goes pale and breaks out sweating. He starts to cough trying to regain his composure "Just this once, I'll go on your word. But next time don't expect me to be so lenient." As he walks away Ragna says to Jin "Damn Jin, good work!"
"I see Nine has made quite an impression here." Rachel says as they nod "Rabbit you have no idea." they walk towards the class as the teacher starts to speak. "Well let's start, I'll explain once more since we have a new student joining us today. Please introduce yourself."
"Yes, I am Rachel Alucard it is a pleasure." Rachel says as she bows and the teacher says with a satisfied look on his face "Finally someone with manners. It's good to have you here. So I'll explain what happens in this period. This is known as combat training. It gives the students some combat experience as it trains them for real action as you can guess by the name. After graduating you all will most likely in list in the NOL. So with that in mind we have come up with this program to prepare you." he takes out a small remote and presses a button on it as machines comes out from the ceiling and creates a barrier around the gym.
"This barrier creates a kind of shield that turns all physical damage to stamina depletion. Of course if you get hit it'll hurt like a bitch but only your stamina will be drained and you won't be injured." he claps as the sound rings through the gym "Alright! Enough with introductions! Find a sparring partner and get your asses moving!"
The students all get up as they go in groups of two as Ragna looks at Jin and says "So you wanna spar with me Jin?"
Jin smiles at him "Yes this will give me the perfect chance to act on that "incident" in the bathroom."
"God dammit, just let it go!" Ragna says as Rachel ask curiously "Oh my do tell. What happened in the bathroom?"
"Ragna and Saya had a little "talk" is all." Jin says with air quotes as Ragna drag him off and says to the girls "We'll be right back. Jin and I need to have a little "talk" about learning to keep your fucking mouth shut."
As they stop in the middle of the gym, Jin says to him in a cocky voice "You think you have a chance? You really are a fool, brother. If my memory serves me didn't I beat you last time." As he gets into a stance. Ragna grabs the hilt of his blade "Oh now your going down! Bring it asshole!"
"Hey look Jin and Ragna are gonna fight!" One of the students call out as they all back up and look in anticipation.
"Oh this is gonna be good. Takin all bets guys! Takin' all bets!"
"Twenty five dollars on Ragna!" a girl says as another boy says "Thirty dollars on Jin!"
"Forty dollars on Ragna!" another student says as the whole gym was filled with noises of bets.
"Um teacher are you gonna stop this? This is starting to get out of hand…" Noel says as the teacher folds his arms and says "Hell no! I wanna see this just as much as the rest of them!" he takes money out of his pockets and raises it high "Fifty dollars on Ragna!"
'Is he really a teacher? What kind of teacher goes along with this?' Noel thinks to herself.
"Perfect a crowd. Now they can see me kick your ass." Ragna says as Jin's eye twitches "Really now…" he quickly draws his sword from it's sheath "Lets see if you can say that after I freeze you solid!" Jin charges toward Ragna.
"Don't get cocky!" Ragna says as he draws his sword from his back and charges towards Jin as they clash blades in a stand-off. As the crowd cheers Rachel says to herself "Well this should be most interesting."
Ragna pushes Jin off if him as he makes some breathing room for himself. They stare each other down as they both get into a fighting stance. "So brother are you ready to lose." Jin smiles. Ragna grits his teeth as he feels something off. He looks down to see an ice sword rising from the ground as he jumps back and barely manages to avoid them as Jin closes in on him while he was in the air. Jin stabs his sword in the ground as a large ice sword appears under him. "You smart son of a bitch!" Ragna smirks and focuses the azures energy into his blade as he twists his body and sends the energy downward destroying the sword.
"My turn." Ragna lands and charges towards Jin as he launches several blades of ices towards Ragna. Jin prepares himself as Ragna swings a bevy of slashes at him. Jin parries them as he starts to go on the offensive. Jin swings his sheath upwards as Ragna jumps in the air. He focuses the azures power into his blade and dives back down towards Jin.
Jin raises his blade and sheath to block to attack. Seither surrounds his sword as he comes down fast "Nightmare Edge!" Ragna strikes as the ground cracks under the pressure of the attack. An ice pillar appears and knocks Ragna into the air. Ragna lands as he looks to see Jin is nowhere. 'Where did he go? He's not in front or behind. Then…' as he realizes where he is he says "Shit! Above!" They all look up to see an ice made bow and arrow in his hand as he smirks "Moonsong!" as it comes down fast Ragna manages to dodge a direct attack as it lands right in front of him as he's blasted by the aftershock of ice shards and is blown away.
"Damn it! Lucky shot." Ragna says as he tries to get up. "Brother is this really all you got?" Jin says as he disappears from sight as Ragna stabs his sword into the ground creating a vortex of seither as he spreads it around.
"What the hell!?"
"Found you, you sneaky little bastard!" Ragna says as he sees Jin in front of him. "Gauntlet Hades!" Ragna foot is surrounded by seither as he spin kicks Jin. The attack connects right on his left cheeck as Jin is sent flying into the wall behind them. "Nice shot…" Jin says as he gets up off the floor and smirks. "What's so funny Jin?" Ragna points his sword at Jin as he notices the cocky grin on his face.
"Doesn't it feel a little chilly brother?" Jin asks in a cocky voice. Ragna asks confused "What are you…" as he looks around he sees mist start to circle around him as Jin stabs his sword into the ground "Now freeze! "Arctic Dungeon!"
"Shit!" Ragna says as ice erupts from the ground as he's frozen solid. Jin sheaths his sword with a loud clang as the ice that froze him collapses as he falls and hits the ground as the ice topples on top of him.
"Ragna!" Noel says in worry as she can't see him in the mist caused by the toppling ice. "I win brother." Jin says as he hears a sound of cheering.
"Sorry, but I ain't down just yet." A voice says from behind as he looks to see Ragna rising from the ice. "You just don't know when you've lost brother. You barely have the energy to fight so why not just surrender?" Jin says as he sees Ragna start to smile. "What are you smiling about?"
"Your getting way too cocky so how about I shut that mouth of yours." Ragna says as his arm starts to emit a dark aura as Jin draws his sword to prepare. "Try it!" Jin stabs his sword into the ground as ice swords start to pop up from the floor. "I have you now Jin!" Ragna says as he runs straight through shattering all the swords that Jin sprung up from the ground. Ragna starts to close in on him as Jin quickly takes his sword out the ground and jumps over him. He lands and slashes a giant wave of ice towards Ragna as he uses his sword to block the attack.
'If only I can get his ass to stay still…' Ragna thinks to himself as he charges towards Jin again. "Hmph. Charging straight forward are you? Big mistake." Jin smirks as he says as he sends two more waves of ice towards Ragna simultaneously. 'Once he dodges them it's game set and match.' Jin thinks as he sees Ragna hasn't moved out the way as Jin wonders what he's thing as Jin sees a smirk on his brothers face.
"Oh shit! What the hell is he doing!?" Jin says as he sees Ragna runs in between the two waves of ice. He swings his sword upwards and yells "Carnage Scissors!" a massive attack made out of seither shaped like two razor sharp scissors appear. Jin raises up a wall of ice to try and block it but it was useless as the attack broke through and hit Jin straight on as he skids on the floor. Jin tries to get up as he raises his head to see the edge of Ragna's blade. "I think this is what's called "checkmate" Jin." Ragna says in a cocky voice as the gym erupts in screams.
Ragna puts out his hand as Jin takes it and stands he says "Brother, your crazy you know that?" Ragna smirks "Yeah I know, but that was all I could've thought of in that moment and look it worked."
"You ran straight into my attack. The only reason that worked is because it surprised me." Jin growls as Ragna pats him on the shoulder and says to him "That was the point."
"A barbaric move. Nothing less to expect from you Ragna." Rachel says as Ragna growls at her "Piss off. I won didn't I?"
"Yes you won, but in the most barbaric way possible. You never cease to amaze me with how much you can entertainment me." Rachel says as Ragna snarls "I'm not some mutt Rabbit. Go watch some television if you want entertainment."
"Ragna my boy!" the teacher called out to him as he continues "That was amazing. Both you and Jin have definitely gotten better. Plus you all made me over $60 richer so I have to thank you from the bottom of my heart!"
"Thanks I guess…" Ragna says with a sigh and starts to think to himself 'How did he get this job as a teacher…? I mean what kind of teacher takes money from his students? But if Nine's a teacher here I guess anything possible.'
"Achoo!"
"Mrs. Mercury, are you catching a cold?"
"No, but I have this urge to kill Ragna for some reason."
"Good job! Both of you were amazing!" Noel says as Ragna scratches his head "Thanks Noel."
"So I guess we just wait it out until the bell rings?" Jin wonders.
"Yeah I guess so." Ragna feels like his heart just stopped as a massive wave a pressure washes over him. 'This feeling again! What the hell is this!?' he looks at his azure 'No way. It's not me who's afraid, it's the azure.'
Ragna looks out the window as a sweat drops down his face "I've got a bad feeling about this."
"Hey Celica?" Saya asks her as she wipes the sweat off her face.
"Yeah what is it? You sound serious, is everything ok?" Celica asks as Saya turns to her. Celica raises a brow as Saya starts to speak "Well since we're alone I wanted to ask you…"
"Yeah?"
"Do you have feelings for Ragna…?" the atmosphere around them becomes heavy as Celica was surprised by the sudden question. "Well as a friend?" Saya shakes her head. "No I mean do you like Ragna in an intimate way?"
Celica's cheeks turn pink as her brain is trying to process the question. She knows she does, but why is Saya asking her that? "So you do have feelings for him."
Celica shakes her head "Wait I never said that! I like him, but as a friend Saya!"
"I don't buy that at all Celica."
"How come?"
"Everytime you see him your expression changes from when you see the rest of us. Now I find that a little strange." Celica was actually starting to get a little annoyed at this. Her tone of voice turned into a more irritated one "Now wait! I've known him for years now. He's like family to me of course I'm gonna be happy seeing him."
"Well as long as you don't have feelings for him then…"
"I never said that. I wouldn't mind it… That would actually be kinda nice…" Celica says. She covers her mouth as she realized that she basically just admitted it. "Wait why are you asking me this all of a sudden? Does it really matter if I have feelings for him or not to you?"
"Yes it does." Saya says. Celica was confused. What was her reason for asking her. It didn't make any sense, unless she actually has feeling for him too. "Saya…do you…" her cheeks turn pink as Celica starts to get the bigger picture "Yes I do. And I can't stand it when others get close to him. I feel this pain in my chest that just won't go away."
"Well your not the only one that feels that way. How do you think I feel. But does it really matter to you?"
"I could say the same to you Celica." Celica raises a brow "What's that suppose to mean?"
"Exactly what it sounds like. But if you don't like him then we don't have anything more to discuss." Saya turns as Celica grabs her arm "Now wait just a minute! You can spring that on me. So what if I have feelings for him. Why do you care so much. Do you really care for him that much?"
"Yes I do. The less people that feel the way I do the easier it is to get my feeling across to him. But now it seems you really do like him. So all that's gonna do is make this harder."
"Exactly, I like him too! You think I'm just gonna sit here and let you take him from me?" Saya feels a bit of irritation well up in her "The same goes for you. You haven't told him yet have you? It's because of how Rachel feels towards him isn't it?" Celica gasps. "So it is."
"What if it is? That still doesn't change the way I feel. You can't possibly love him as much as I do." Saya grits her teeth "How are you suppose to know that? You think you have stronger feelings for him than me?" she asks sarcastically.
"Yeah that's right! I know he loves me more than he loves you anyway." Celica says sternly. She knew it was out of character for her but she just felt something well up inside her that she couldn't control. An emotion she feels everytime another girl gets close to Ragna. Jealousy.
"I think your dreaming if he loves you more than me. He loves me way more than he can love you and you know it's true." Celica grits her teeth "I don't know why you think that way about him, but if you think your feelings for him is stronger than mine than your crazy."
"Sure I'm the crazy one. Says the woman who hasn't even tried to approach him yet. All your gonna do is sit in the dark and watch."
"Watch it Saya." Celica finally puts her foot down as a look you would normally see in Nine's eyes appears in hers. The two girls look at each other as Saya says "What are you mad that I'm just telling the truth here? You don't love him. It's just a simple crush you have for him. You feeling for him doesn't even compare to mine."
"I think that's the other way around Saya. You haven't even told him how you felt either, even though your around him all the time. So if anyone's gonna sit in the dark it's you."
"I'm gonna sit in the dark? Yeah right, that's the pot calling the kettle black if I ever heard it. If I'm not mistaken I think I heard a little bit of jealousy in your voice just now when you said that."
"Your around him all the time. You get to live with him, eat him talk to him all day! I wish he came to live with us." Saya bites her lip "Live with you? That's funny, because if I remember correctly didn't one of your family members try to experiment on him?" Celica grits her teeth "If he lived with you I'm sure he wouldn't be happy."
"That wasn't my mother or father! If he was with me he'd have a better life than with you." Celica says sternly as Saya's eye twitches "Now that were at this point I'll get this out of the way now."
"Get what out of the way?"
"I love Ragna. I always have and I always will." As she says that Celica can feel her heart on fire from just hearing those words. Jealousy, anger, all these mixed emotions piled up together as Celica says "Oh yeah! I love him too! I will ALWAYS love him!"
After that outburst the two go quiet as they hear a whistle. They turn to see everyone going inside as the two girls start to walk back as well. Neither of them spoke as the situation between them was a little odd. They start to calm down as Saya sighs "Hey Celica…"
"Yeah…?"
"Look I'm sorry for just now. I didn't want that to get out of hand. I just felt something well up inside and I couldn't control it." Celica shakes her head "No its alright. I understand where your coming from so I'm not mad. Just a little surprised by that. I didn't think you felt so strongly about him." Saya smirks "Yeah, I guess anyone would be."
"You care for him that much?"
"I care for him more than life itself." She sighs "But those feeling probably won't reach him anytime soon. He views me as a sister, but I want him to view me as something much more than that."
"I guess that's something we can agree on." Celica looks up at the azure blue sky. The sun beating down on them as she's lost in her thoughts. "If only life were simple."
"Yeah." She agrees as she looks up at the clear sky as well. Saya turns back to Celica "How long have you had these feelings for him for?" Saya wonders. Celica smiles "Ever since I met him. It's been seven years since I met him and on the first day I found myself in love with him. He was a little distant, but so easy to talk to. He was kind, gentle, caring and sometimes funny. If you look past the little rough personality you find a man like no other."
"You really do love him." Celica nods "Yeah, I do." She looks at Saya "But it seems I'm not the only one."
"It seems that way. I love him too." She smiles as determination fills her eyes "I won't lose to anyone."
"Same here."
"I win Tsubaki!" Makoto gloats as they all sit down and drink water. "Damn Makoto, how are you so fast! Not only are you faster than me, but your chest is like four times bigger than mine! Shouldn't it be weighing you down!?"
"No! Where did my chest come into this!" Makoto covers them as Tsubaki looks at Kokonoe with a stern look "Kokonoe come on. Your chest doesn't make you heavier. I mean her chest is only a bit above average." Tsubaki says as Kokonoe looks at her and points to Makoto's chest "Only a "bit"!? Look at those things they're huge and WAY above average! Makoto how did they get so damn big! You have to tell me your secret!"
"I don't really know… I guess its just, genetics!" Makoto says as Kokonoe thinks back to both her mother and sister "I fucking love genetics! If it had to deal with that then why aren't I stacked! I mean have you seen my mother lately!"
"Makoto you said the wrong thing…" Tsubaki face palms. As she looks at all the kids going inside she pats Kokonoe and Makoto and tells them it's time to go. They nod their heads as Kokonoe kept looking at Makoto's rack as they bounced as she walked. Kokonoe looks at her as she starts to get depressed and thinks to herself 'Why me? Why was I the one blessed with the flat chest. It's not fair!'
After a full day they all walk outside to the gate besides Rachel, Jin and Celica. Ragna scratches his head and asks "Where are they?"
"No idea? They should be here, maybe their being held up by something?" Kagura shrugs as he sees Ragna start to walk out as he asks "Ragna, where you going?"
"Well I'm going home. Saya wait for Jin for me, I'll go home and make dinner." He starts to walk.
"Ok brother, be careful on your way home." She waves to him.
"Bye Ragna, see you tomorrow." Noel says as Ragna continues to walk and waves back at them. They watch him as he disappears from view Kokonoe says "Why are they taking so long to come out the damn school. Shit, I want to go home already and I can't leave since Celica has a terrible sense of direction. She would end up on the other side of the damn planet."
"She still has direction issues?" Makoto says as Kokonoe sighs and nods her head. They look up to see clouds starting to gather as Tsubaki asks "Wait a minute? Was it suppose to rain today?" as she asks that Saya gets a chill down her spine as she looks in Ragna's direction. 'What's with this feeling in my chest.'
As Ragna walks down the empty street he looks up to the sky to see clouds gather as he says to himself "Was it suppose to rain today?" as he continues down the empty street he feels a chill rush up his spine. 'This feeling again what is it?' as he hears footsteps behind him he quickly turns around to see someone clad in white armor with a long sword on his back. Ragna takes a few steps back as the swordsman says "The serpents phenomenon intervention led me to you? Even though I know not his intentions he has saved me the trouble. It has been quite a while Ragna."
Ragna tries to regain is composure he asks him "What do you mean "been a while"? I've never seen you before in my life!" Ragna takes a closer look at the man standing before him. He doesn't know why, but he fears him. It was like death itself was breathing down his neck. His voice was trembling as his breathing increased. His face was blocked by that white mask. However this guy however he is, he's dangerous.
"I see, so I'm in your Era just not the right time. It's a shame really that I have to kill you dark one." The masked swordsman says. Ragna backs up further as he feels his overwhelming presence. "That bloodlust…! Shit, if I don't fight back I'm dead!" Ragna says as he get into a fighting stance.
"So you will not run dark one? I see, you have my respect for choosing to fight. You are definitely Ragna, even so I bear no ill will against you but you must die for the sake of this world beast." The masked swordsman puts his hand on the hilt of his sword. Ragna feels an intense pressure surrounding the atmosphere around him 'So that weird feeling I've been having…was him?'
"I am the white void. I am the cold steel. I am the just sword. With blade in hand shall I reap the sins of this world, and cleanse it in the fires of destruction." as he says this the very ground starts to shake as Ragna starts to feel his incredible power as the masked swordsman continues "I am Hakumen. The end has come!"
Hakumen charges towards Ragna with incredible speed as Ragna had little chance to avoid his attack, but manages to parry his attack with his sword but was flown back by the impact. Ragna swings his blade as Hakumen easily deflects his rapid strikes. Ragna tries to swing side ways as Hakumen ducks and rams his shoulder into his chest hard as Ragna felt the wind get knocked out of him.
Before he could regain his footing Hakumen was back on top of him as he struck down. Ragna manages to dodge by rolling to the right as he takes a few steps back. 'This guy is way too strong and that ain't even funny! He would give Nine, hell even my master a run for their money!' he grits his teeth as the masked man gets back into a stance.
"Alright asshole! You wanna fight, let's go!" Ragna says as he charges toward Hakumen. He jumps up and swings his blade downwards as Hakumen parried his attack and pushes his back. Ragna losses his balance and unable to dodge Hakumen delivers a strong kick to his ribs sending him flying into a light post making a dent into it.
Ragna struggles to get up as he holds his side and starts to pant 'Damn it all… I haven't even scratched him yet.' As he looks at Hakumen he can't see his face through his mask but he feels his murderous gaze as a chill runs down his spine. You could even say that just freaked him out even more. Not knowing who's trying to kill you is a hell of a lot more freaky than knowing who it is.
Hakumen holds his sword up above his head as his sword starts to emit a white light. "Summers Advance!" Hakumen swings his sword down as a wave of energy tears through the street as Ragna quickly moves to the right to avoid the deadly attack that would've cleaved him in half. "Dead Spike!" Ragna yells as he swings his sword up as a beast like head appears from the ground and travels to Hakumen. The masked swordsman uses his hand and easily deflects the attack.
Ragna uses the chance to close in on him as he jumps up as he surrounds his foot with seither as he tries to drop kick the swordsman. Hakumen uses his blade to block his attack and forces him back. With Ragna back on the ground he looks to see that Hakumen disappears from sight. Ragna looks around as he hears slight footsteps. He sees multiple splashes as he hears something come up behind him. Ragna turns around to see Hakumen standing behind him with his blade above his head ready to strike. Ragna jumps out the way as he barely dodged Hakumen attack as he manages to cut him along his chest.
Hakumen charges back at him as he begins a barrage of rapid strikes. Ragna puts his blade up to defend against the assault as he feels himself start to lose footing he feels some of his slashe's scra his vody as he grunts. Hakumen swings his blade sideways as Ragna duck and swings his blade upwards. Hakumen jumps back as Ragna begin to breath heavily. 'Just who is this guy?'
"You have done well Ragna, I'm impressed." Hakumen says as he gets back into a fighting stance as Ragna tries to catch his breath "Oh yeah… well I'm not enjoying this you bastard…" as he holds his cut as it starts to bleed from it he notices something 'The wound, it's not healing. What the hell is wrong with that sword!'
"But enough playing around." Hakumen says as his sword starts to glow.
"Bastard, I don't know who the fuck you are, but theirs no way in hell I'm going down without a fight asshole!" Ragna says as he charges towards Hakumen as his sword starts to emit a dark aura "Nightmare Edge!" he swings downwards.
"Empty Sky Form…" Hakumen starts as a red seal appears in front of him as Ragna strikes it. He feels himself unable to move like time itself as ceased to move "What the fuck!?"
"Forbidden Art: Perish Evil!" as he says that Ragna feels multiple slashes on his body as he falls face first on the floor. He looks up at the masked swordsman standing over him with his sword smeared with blood, his blood. "Damn…you…bastard…" Ragna struggles to say as he starts to cough up blood. 'These wounds…aren't healing? What is wrong…with that sword.'
"Ragna, I bear no resentment towards you. To be honest with you I wish we never have met like this. But it seems like fate had other plans for you, I hope you find peace in death, dark one." Hakumen says almost in a sadden voice as he sheathes his sword.
'Damn it all. I can't feel anything… I can't even move anymore. No, I cant die here!' Ragna thinks to himself as he tries to get up, but notices he can't even move his body anymore. "No…damn it all. Jin… Saya… I'm sorry. Please…forgive me." Ragna says weakly as he passes into unconsciousness.
Hakumen looks down on the beaten Ragna "Even with your dying breath you think of others." He feels something wet hit him. He looks up towards the sky as it starts to rain. The swordsman says to himself "Rain uh. A little anti climatic, but I guess this weather is perfect for this setting." He sighs as he starts to walk off. He says to himself almost in remorse and guilt "Fate really can be a cruel thing." He looks back at him "I will not ask for forgiveness or for understanding. For this I will except any punishment the world has to offer for taking your life. You can drag me down to hell if you wish it so. But at least now you have no burdens resting on your shoulders. Now find peace my old friend. Ragna…" He starts to walk again "Ragna the Bloodedge."
Well chapter 6 is done. A bunch of little things happened, Saya and Celica got into a little fight and Ragna got maimed by Hakumen. Ah classic Blazblue and it's universe screwing him over am I right? Oh yeah before I forget from this chapter onwards I'll be doing these little recap sessions at the beginning of chapters with the characters. Thought it'd be a nice idea. Well before you all get annoyed by this long paragraph ill close off now and as always leave your opinion and tell me what I should work on. Thanks for reading! See ya! Here's the preview of the next chapter.
Rachel- If we don't hurry, Ragna's life will be in danger!
Kagura- What do you mean by that!?
Celica- Ragna! Wake up please!
Rachel- No…I was too late. Ragna, please forgive me
Saya- AAAHHHHHH!
Jin- WHO DID THIS!? I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU, YOU BASTARD! COME OUT HERE NOW! DO YOU HERE ME!
Jubei- I will make you suffer like no other and I will rip you to shreds.
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