Prologue: Part 3

"Amy, I think it's best you rest." I advised Amy as her face was a pale green as she was hunched over. Her right hand was leaning on the wall while her other hand was holding her gurgling stomach.

"She looks like she is about to...errr….go BOOM!" Ilaria subtly added referring to Amy's stomach which was groaning loud as we stood in the corridor of the first floor.

"You aren't helping…" Amy said weakly.

"If what Homura told us in the cafeteria is true then we have a lot of good to cover." I reminded the group.

"Homura do you know where everyone is?" I asked Homura while Amy and Isobel were scoffing away.

"I don't know? While you were unconscious we discovered that we could only explore the main buildings and not the other buildings.

I recalled in my head as I withdraw my e-Handbook to check the time. 5:46pm.

"We need to hope that Hayato and Tomo have gathered most of them." I said in concerned voice.

"YAHOO!" Abruptly a loud scream echoed through the hallways before Akira appeared as she was running on top of a rolling trash can like Indiana Jones.

"Akira! Wait up!" Colette followed her.

"Get ready Colette...for my amazing backflip!" Akira exclaimed resulting in Colette to go on to one knee and prepared her camera by pressing her eye near the camera lens. Abruptly she did a backflip off the trashcan before doing three mid-air somersaults before landing on both feet with her hands and arms raised into the air posing. "TA-DAH!" Akira spoke as her eyes were closed before they slowly opened glancing at Amy, Ilaria and me.

"That was pretty good." Ilaria spoke out resulting in Akira smiling.

"Thanks! I can do alot more than that!" Akira smiled as Colette walked up to the group,

"And I captured the moment!" Colette added showing Akira the photo.

"Alright! Now take some photos of me sliding down the staircase rail from the the fifth floor to the third before doing some parkour across the corridor before landing in a trash can!" Akira proposed getting a little excited.

"Sorry to interrupt but everyone needs to gather at the cafeteria at 6!" I informed Akira and Colette.

"Oh good idea kid, I could do my stunt in front of everyone!" Akira added.

"No, I mean Jester has a way we can all get along better?" I tried to explain to her. Suddenly a huge gurgling sound filled the room. I turned my head and saw Amy holding her stomach with both are arms as her face was even more green.

"Woah, what's up with her? " Colette asked.

"She ate too...err...much!" Ilaria said.

"Well they were some medicine in the infirmary on the third floor." Colette added. "Although she shouldn't be wearing such a tight skirt because no one wants to see her flab." This resulted in Amy leering at her before holding her stomach.

"I will go and...ummmm….retrieve some!" Ilaria spoke seriously before departing.

"Colette, can you take her to the cafeteria?" I asked her.

"Sure! By the way, Taka what's your favourite food?" Colette leaned forward into my face.

"Ummm...Ramen I guess…" I replied triggering her to go back into a normal position before she grabbed her camera and took a snapshot. Fortunately unlike last time there was no flash.

"Ok Amy, let's get you to the cafeteria." Colette spoke subtly.

"Hey Taka, what about me?" Akira approached me.

"Well I thought you could help look for the others." I replied.

"Alright! Let's do this!" Akira exclaimed with her right fist in the air. All of a sudden the unique sound of wood shattering filled the air.

" What was that?" I said nervously. The sound seemed to originate from around the corner down the corridor. "Let's go investigate!" My lawyer instincts kicked in as I dashed down the corridor.

"Hey, wait up!" Akira called out from behind me but I did not look back as a swiftly turned around the corner and what I saw next was a battlefield…

"Where is it?!" Teinosuke exclaimed. His right hand was firmly gripped around Hayato's neck pinning him against the wall. Tomo was unconscious with her body sitting on the floor with her body leaning against the wall. Wood splittings were sprinkled on the floor with a door split in half resting nearby.

"What the hell…" I muttered under my breath.

"Taka! Do not run too fast!" Akira arrived at the scene before she stopped in shock.

"Teinosuke! Why do you always feel the need to use violence!" I demanded an answer resulting in Teinosuke grinning.

"To see the fear in an opponent's eyes. Just bliss…" Teinosuke replied. Abruptly Akira rushed towards Teinosuke who was still suffocating Hayato whose face was red. Teinosuke stepped back releasing Hayato triggering him to inhale. Akira did a handstand before going to a backflip arching through the air, landing between Akira and Teinosuke.

"Guys! Stop fighting!" Akira said parting the two. Teinosuke however simply ignored this by leaping towards the stuntwoman and smacked her in the head with his right hand resulting in Akira slamming to the floor.

"Akira!" I called out rushing towards Akira and crouched down.

"Don't worry about me! I have felt more pain than this." Somehow Akira was still smiling. "The only good thing about feeling pain is that it reminds me I'm alive, and i can still keep going." I nodded before standing up.

"Teinosuke, we are classmates, please just sto….AGGGGHHH!" Teinosuke punched me in the stomach interrupting my pleas before elbowing me in the face resulting in me landing bottom first on the floor. I was paralyzed in pain

"Takahashi...I told you before not to interfere!" Teinosuke proclaimed. "Now, Hayato...are you going to me where you hid my sword!"

"No...I can't…." Hayaro panted leaning on the wall.

" Fine, then...face the conseqen…" Teinosuke stopped speaking as a knife was placed by his neck. "Tomo...I thought I injected you with your own tranquilizer." Teinosuke spoke as Tomo was now conscious.

"I have an antidote which breaks down the chemical." Tomo explained. "I quickly injected into myself after you used my tranquilizer dart against me." I tried to stand up but the pain was too much and I returned to the floor.

"Taka….you good?" Akira asked me as she stretched her hand out to me. I grabbed it and slowly pulled me up. I hold my stomach in pain.

"Teinosuke…" My voice is riddled with pain. "Why are you...doing this…" I am leaning heavily on Akira.

"I get what I want...when I want. And if something gets in my way! No matter what it is I get it." Teinosuke replied. Abruptly he grabbed Tomo's hand and twisted in an aggressive manner resulting in a popping sound to fill the area as the knife fell out of her hand. Tomo retreated her hand doing her best to hide the pain which Teinosuke inflicted on her before grabbing Tomo's knife in his spare hand.

"I cannot threaten you with death, yet...but I will make your lives a living hell until I get what I want!" Teinosuke replied before departing with Tomo's knife in his hand.

"What the hell is his problem?!" Hayato asked as he stopped leaning on the wall.

"Dang it! I hate it when people fight and argue like this...I hope Jester's idea works." Akira sighed. "Tomo, are you okay?" I slowly turned my head to Tomo who was grabbing her wrist. She violently twisted anticlockwise resulting in a clicking noise to originate from it.

"Yeah...he just dislocated my wrist…" Tomo replied as I stopped leaning on Akira which was not a good idea as I start to stumble back but Akira grabbed my hand stopping me from falling. My vision started blurring as I slowly lost conscious.

"Teinosuke is going too far!" A long voice woke me up as his eyes ebbed open as I looked around in my surroundings revealing that I was in the cafeteria. The loud voice revealed to be Masaaki who appeared to angry.

"It's good to see you are back with us." Tomo replied as she near me as well as Kohana.

"Don't worry! The next time I see Teinosuke I will kick him in his smug face!" Kohana 'reassured' me.

"Thanks...that won't be necessary." I spoke subtly. From what I gathered everyone was here except Daisuke, Jester and of course Teinosuke.

"I understand Masaaki where you are coming from but we have to be smart about how we deal with him. He is the Ultimate Warrior after all." Colette replied to Masaaki's rage.

"Yeah, but how strong can he actually be?" Hirano questioned.

"I don't care! Anyone who attacks women and the weak are cowards. No offence to Taka of course…" He looked briefly over at me while saying before facing back at the two girls. He then turned 180 degrees facing me.

"Oh Taka! You are awake!" Masaaki exclaimed. "I didn't mean anything by that."

"Honestly, this is twice you have been in a rumble with Teinosuke. Surely you should have learnt your lesson." Hirano told me.

"Wow! Second time knocked unconscious in one day! Tell me how do you feel?" Colette approached me. "Did it hurt when Teinosuke assaulted you? Oh, and will you seek revenge for his assault on you?"

"Go be annoying somewhere else!" Tomo said grabbing Colette by the face and pushing her away.

"Hey everyone!" Akira screamed at the top of her voice standing on top of a table grabbing everyone's attention. "Prepare yourselves for this!" Out of nowhere Akira backflipped off the table before doing a somersault in mid-air and landing on both feet. "TA-DAH!"

"Wow! That was pretty good." Botan spoke while everyone was clapping at Akira.

"Pretty good?! That was amazing!" Homura was waving her hands around.

"Thanks! When the mood seems tense, the best way I deal with it...is with a base jump off a building! Although I can't really base jump off this building so a table would have to do!" Akira elaborated. I slowly rose to my two feet and prepared to get my orientation back.

"No...don't you go anywhere…" I turned around to see the source off the sound and see James carrying Amy in his arms. " She is extremely heavy." James slowly placed her down onto her two feet.

"Hey...I had a big lunch!" Amy tried to justify as her stomach was still bursting through her mini skirt. "But thanks James, deep down you are nice guy."

"I'm not a good guy. I'm not even close to being a good guy. But, it's not like I don't care, I just don't want to see the immobile suffer." James replied referring to Amy.

"Hey, I am not a whale that washed up on the beach ya' know!" Amy replied.

"You certainly do weigh similar to one." James replied in a serious manner.

"Yeah Amy you need to go on a diet because judging by your gut, you eat a lot of saturated fats...your cholesterol levels must be really high." Hirano added. "Plus get a new skirt, it's bad enough we have one person showing their belly around!" Amy started blushing resulting in her trying to cover the rip in her skirt and pushing the two side of the tear together.

"Hey! There is nothing wrong with showing your stomach around!" Isobel injected. Here we go again. I thought to myself as Hirano and Isobel get into another quail.

"Ummm Amy, did you come to speak to me?" I asked resulting in the blushing red head to stop fiddling with her dress.

"Oh yeah! I just wanted to see if you were okay, after Teinosuke K.O. you." Amy explained.

"Yeah! I am alright...I just need to walk it off. How is your stomach?" I asked seeing that it has not decreased in size.

"It's ok! A few aches here and there." Amy smiled giving me some reassurance.

"Ok! We are here." Daisuke announced as Jester and him entered. Jester had pieces of paper had 18 pieces of paper.

"Alright! Is this where fun starts?!" Tora asked in a playful manner as Jester handed out pieces of paper. I had yet to receive one but judging by others reactions it must have good.

"A party! ALRIGHT!" Masaaki and Akira screamed in excitement as I finally received a paper.

'JESTER VALENTINE'S ULTIMATE PARTY!

Starts at 8 pm'

Each of our names were listed after the title and subtitle as our roles in preparing for the party.

"Based on your talents, we associate you into different tasks." Daisuke added

"I love parties! It means I get to eat as much as I want!" Isobel shouted.

"It looks like I will be helping prepare the alcoholic drinks then…" I spoke to myself seeing my name on listed to the said task. What could possibly go wrong?!