Yuriko: Hello again! And sorry if I took too long. It was a little rough, but I hope you enjoyed my first chapter! :D I made some mistakes the last chapter (whoops!) but I assure you that this chapter will be much better!

Here, you get to meet the members of Ala Crystallum as they get ready to save Magenta! Enjoy~!

Anything that has to do with Mahou Sensei Negima! belongs to Akamatsu Ken-sama.

But the new ideas and new characters in this story belong to me.

Ala Crystallum

Miyazaki Natsuo jumped up on his bed as the wooden door to his shared room burst open. "Nat-chan! Wake up!" His best friend and roommate, Ayase Yuusuke, yelled. "Ah! This is terrible!"

He rubbed his eyes and yawned, ignoring his friend's sense of panic. "What happened now? Misplaced your pactio card again?" Natsuo said grumpily. Yuusuke was always panicking about every tiny thing, unlike his ancestor, Ayase Yue, who was always so calm and composed. I sighed. This had better be worth waking up for.

"Magenta-sensei…is nowhere to be found!" He finally said. I snorted. "Haha, very funny, Yuu-chan." I said sarcastically. "There's no way that she would be missing, especially today!" Today was an important day for the boys. After many years of training (10, to be exact), Yuusuke and Natsuo would finally become Magister Magis, as well as official members of the current super hero group, Ala Crystallum. As the leader, it was Magenta's job to lead the ceremony. "She can't be missing!"

Yuusuke looked at him with his blue eyes that matched his long ocean blue hair and jumped on my bed to sit next to me. "Well, then how can you explain how everyone else can't find her?"

"She's a living legend. She could be gone on a secret quest, or something!" Natsuo retorted.

"When I say everyone, I mean everyone. Including Asakura."

He dropped to the floor and raised a white flag, not bothering to fight back. "She really is gone!" Natsuo sighed. "But why? And how?"

His friend just shrugged. "Who knows? Well, one thing's for sure; we won't become Magister Magis just yet."

Nodoka's descendant tried to look on the bright side as he smiled meekly. "Since Magenta's gone, that means the next one to be in charge is…"

"Kyoko-san!" They yelled in unison. Kyoko Inugami was the descendant of Kotaro, and easily shared his looks and personality; outgoing but serious, and idiotic but clever. She was a good-looking teacher with her shiny black shoulder length hair, and was the funniest member of Ala Crystallum. There was no one in the group who didn't like her. Especially the guys.

"Well then, we better get ready! We need to get to breakfast early if we want to get a seat anywhere near her!" Yuusuke said, rushing to his side of the room and frantically pulling clothes from his closet. Natsuo grabbed some of his nicest clothes as well, and looked at himself in the mirror as he did the finishing touches. His pale skin and spiky purple-blue hair stood out with the red and black of his check button down. The boy's gray pants bunched up around the top of his cleanest white sneakers matched his big dolphin gray eyes.

He slowly combed his disastrous hair while feeling shocked as he again realized how closely he resembled his ancestor. And not only his looks, but apparently the softness of his voice, his smile, and his rare reliability apparently came from her as well.

As he was staring off into space, Yuusuke whacked his head with his staff. Natsuo cried fake tears as he whimpered at his roommate's devilish laugh. "What're you doing, Natsuo Miyazaki-san?" He ominously said, using his full name. "We need to go ASAP!" Without waiting for an answer, he mercilessly dragged him to the dining hall, murderously muttering, "It'll be your fault if we're late!"

Despite the fact that they basically flew to the dining hall and made it ten minutes earlier than they were planning to, everyone else was already there; and sure enough, Magenta's seat at the head of the long table was empty.

They automatically bowed our heads politely. "Excuse us for being late!"

Kyoko-san answered with a weak smile. "You aren't late; we're all just…early."

Natsuo took a seat across from Yuusuke, and tried to eat his eggs and ham while ignoring his death glares. The lad mentally shrugged. It's not my fault that everyone's early, he thought, tearing a piece of toast. Besides, isn't there another issue going on?

As they finished up their meals, Kyoko-san stood up abruptly and went to the head of the table and rested a foot on the edge. "We really need to talk about this," she said, gesturing to the empty seat beside her. We all murmured in agreement.

The current leader continued, "Magenta would have told me if she was planning to go anywhere; and none of us have any idea of where she could be." She slapped her right hand on the table for emphasis. "This is a pretty serious problem. I am willing to listen to any ideas of what we should do."

Akira Kagurazaka, the descendant of Asuna Kagurazaka, spoke first. "It is apparent that Centum would be behind all of this!" he began. "Of course we need to send a rescue team to save Magenta!"

Kyoko-san nodded. "That is the most logic plan, Akira. Any other ideas?"

Sasaki Erina, the descendant of Sasaki Makie and a fellow magi in training, reluctantly stood up and opposed Akira-san "I think…that we shouldn't panic. This isn't the first time that she has gone without notice. Maybe this afternoon she'll be at the doorstep in one piece…this is Magenta-sensei that we are talking about after all I suggest that we stay put and wait and see what happens, at least for today…thank you." She immediately plopped back into her chair.

Kyoko-san thought about that. "You're right about that one, Erina." She turned her back to us and began pacing at the front of the room. "I think that both of you are right," she said. "So…I suggest that we send a team to the witch's place, and have some of us stay here in case Magenta does come back." She looked around the room to see nods of approval. "Any objections?" Everyone shook their heads in in reply. "Okay. We'll start right away. Let's see…okay, Asakura Kana, Kagurazaka Akira, Nagase Kaoru, Akashi Yuma, Tatsumiya Morisuke, Sakurazaki Shouta, Sasaki Erina, Ayase Yuusuke, Miyazaki Natsuo and I will go to Centum while the rest of you stay here." Kyoko looked around the room, looking satisfied. "Hurry up and get ready. We leave at noon."

To be continued…

Yuriko: Is that okay? You excited? I hope you recognize the names. They're all descendants of class 3A. And sorry for the originality. I thought that it would be easier to remember if they began with the same letter.

Well, I hope you enjoyed this chapter and see you next time!