Hey, everyone. Micah here. Thus far, somebody has found out what my secret identity is. What's more, she's kinda cute. Oop, gotta go. Chapter's about the start!

I fell out of my bed this morning, arching my back in a way it wasn't supposed to arch. I was still nursing it when I got to my major's lecture that day. After the lab for my major, I had another STEM lab in another building. Getting there was easier said than done. I was running around the campus, trying to find the right building.

At least I woke up at the right time. However, after all of my morning classes, I was sitting in the cafeteria with a list of more supplies I needed before next week. Luckily, my parents gave me enough money for the month for food and access to their funds to cover the supplies I didn't already have. I looked up from my list to see Caitlyn flop down at my table with a cross look on her face. "What the hell was that?! What is going on?!" she screamed. I stuffed a spoonful of my spinach wrapped chicken in her mouth to quiet her as people turned their head to stare at us. "Don't worry. She's having trouble with some of her homework," I called to dispel the gazes.

I slumped into my seat and began rubbing my temples after I set my supplies list on the table. I looked at Caitlyn and said, "We're friends, right? Then please don't tell anyone what happened yesterday." She swallowed the food I stuffed in her mouth and said in a quieter tone, "You've no right to stuff anything into a girl's mouth and I won't tell anyone if you give me a reasonable explanation."

I leaned onto my elbows, removed my glasses, and began rubbing my temples again. "Here we go. This was gonna happen eventually," I thought to myself. I grabbed my glasses and started cleaning the lenses as I explained what was going on in the city.

"What you saw the other day was something I'm calling 'Despairados.' Spelled like 'desperado,' but instead of 'desper-' it's 'Despair.' They're born from the despair a person feels as they're reaching what may be the prime of their life or when they a dreading what may come to be in their post-prime age," I explained. "I don't know how they're spawning, but I do know that they're all connected to one of the four extremes of this city. What you saw was a 'Windy' Despairado. I know you're thinking, 'Why was it a windy one? There's more to music than the woodwinds.' You'd be right if that were the case. You see, when we speak, scrape two metal objects together, or bang the top of a trash can lid, we emit air pressure that our brains perceive as sound. Manipulating air through the use of wind could, in my opinion, affect what a person hears."

I gazed at Caitlyn with my newly cleaned glasses to see a confused and frustrated face on her. She asked, "So what you're saying is that if you make the air move in a certain way, you can affect what a person can and cannot hear?" I nodded in affirmation, seeing her slump in her seat at the realization that she could've lost her hearing.

It was an hour before dinner when my classes finally let-up. I saw Caitlyn walking across the quad and tried to catch up with her. She had a pair of headphones on, so I just walked beside her until she noticed me. She asked, "What the hell are you doing?" I answered, "I'm just walking with a friend to her destination." She sighed and put her headphones back on.

"She doesn't like you, you know," Levi said. "She may not like me, but liking me has nothing to do with being a friend," I told Levi. "Tch, she has too much of a fire in her to not chafe against. How can you stand her?" "It's because she reminds me of her. I don't know where she is, but I know she's thinking about me sometimes." I sneezed, despite having a neoprene jacket and a scarf on. I luckily didn't have anything land in my sleeve and was able to just keep walking.

As Caitlyn and I were about to get to the train station, Caitlyn was snatched up from where she was, bag and all. I cursed under my breath and enveloped myself in water and grabbed Caitlyn's ankle with what water I could muster.

When we finally landed, we were at the edge of the lava zone of town. "Great, strength is gonna be decreased," I muttered. I allowed the water to return to vapor to conserve what strength I had. I tried to wake Caitlyn up before I noticed someone standing over us. I looked up to see a woman dressed in fire with wings of ember and boots that looked to have just trudged through fresh ash. "I guess this one has someone to protect her. Too bad she won't live to thank her knight," the woman said as she gathered the nearby lava to form a lava sword.

I tried to haul Caitlyn further into downtown, but her weight was too much for my own strength to even lift. "Dammit, guess I'll have to fight," I said. I set Caitlyn back down and stepped in front of her.

"Nobody messes with my friends," I said," and leaves unscathed." I gathered all the vapor I could, including sweat from Caitlyn and my own bodies and began building up my elemental energy.

"Great elemental being, Leviathan! Lend me your surging strength!" I yelled as I did my transformation motions. I felt my body begin to cool as my suit began to pull the heat from my body. "Leviathan, no need to regulate my body temperature. I need as much strength as I can get," I told the spirit I shared my body with. My body slowly began to heat up again as the energy that would normally be used to regulate my body was being committed to power output instead. I pulled my batons from my belt and began to make water flow over them.

I held my baton out and said, "Now, let's see whose element matches up!" "I will burn your determination to cinders!" she screamed in response.

She flew at me at full speed with her sword behind her. I readied my batons to block her slash. I thought I saw her smile right before she disappeared. I began to turn around when I felt a large amount of heat erupted on my back. I groaned in agony, but caught myself. I asked Leviathan to put the healing factor to a minimum or just numb the pain.

"You're a super sonic harpy, huh? Let's see if you can handle a place with little to no air flow!" I screamed. I whipped a glob of water at my enemy, it hitting her sword. "You'll need to be faster than that to hit me," she sneered. I chuckled and said, "I wasn't aiming at you, bird brain."

She dropped her sword when she felt the water start climbing up arm. She tried to rub it off, but it only began covering her other arm with every attempt. Soon, it was covering her chest and wings. She tried to fly away, but she couldn't. "What have you done?!" she screeched. I stated, "I made your wings too heavy to use. Now all you have are your legs and arms." I wrapped my water whips around her waist and restricted her to a kneeling position.

I jumped high into the air and was propelled to my enemy at the zenith of my jump. I appeared behind where she was with an unconscious blonde in my arms. I laid her down and walked over to the Despairado core. I tossed it up into the air and the metaphysical form of Leviathan ate the core. I felt a burp come up and burped in place of Leviathan.

I set Caitlyn to sleep on a park bench and turned the blonde woman into the police when she came to. I sat on the ground by the bench for when Caitlyn woke up. I talked with Levi until then.

"Why do you keep sticking around this girl?" Levi asked me. "I said, 'It doesn't matter if she likes me or not.' What's more it's dangerous for a girl to be sleeping on a bench in a park late in the evening anywhere in the world." I answered. I sighed as I kept wondering why I chose to take Leviathan as my contract spirit. I heard Caitlyn groan and turned to see her waking up.

"What the hell happened?" she asked while stretching. I told her what had happened and she thanked me for looking out for her.

I laid down in my bed thinking about what I could do to make Cailyn trust me more. I rolled over and looked at an old photo of me and Ryan, a friend from my childhood. I picked up the frame and mused, "What would you do to make a girl trust you?" I set the photo back down and pulled the covers over me. That evening, I had yet another meeting with Leviathan in my dreams.

Next time on the next Enigma Rider Levias:

"I will help those in need," I yelled as I pulled the man out of the shell. "What kind of monster puts people in containers just to leave them to die?" I thought to myself.

Who they are. What is their goal? What is gonna happen in the next installment of Site-AMA? Maybe all of this will be answered in the next chapter of Enigma Rider Levias!