Chachamaru's Feelings
Chapter 4: Somebody call for an exterminator?
Ultima: Hello and welcome back. How did everyone enjoy their weekend?
Asuna: well it wasn't long enough…
Konoka: ignore her…she didn't get enough sleep last night.
Ultima: ah I see…and how are you Eva?
Eva: go to hell…
Ultima: I already live there, now then let's get on with the story.
Negi: But wait, what happened at the psychiatric ward?
Ultima, Eva, guys in white coats: You don't wanna know!
Crew: OO;
Disclaimer: I don't own ANY of the characters, powers or weapons that I use. I do own my fictional partners and myself however so you can't come yell at me.
Kazumi: Well good luck.
It was a cloudy day and to most it looked as if it could start raining at
any minute. Chachamaru woke up and she knew that what she saw was only a
dream but she was still a little shook up at the fact that she had one.
(a/n: WHOA did anyone besides me just now notice Asuna didn't say
anything sarcastic in the disclaimer? Asuna: grumble)
Still feeling tired she decided to just lay there for a while and catch a
little more sleep, however the clock next to her told her otherwise. For
as soon as her eyes started to close again the ringer went off, signaling
that it was now 6:00 A.M.
Grumbling, Chachamaru reached over and tried to figure out how to shut off
the alarm. (because she never slept and had an internal clock, Eva never
had to use it so they never learnt how to shut it off.) after trying
nearly everything she could think of, Chachamaru finally got ticked off
with the annoying little ring and smashed it into the ground, silencing it
for good.
"Whoops…shouldn't have done that…" Chachamaru says while putting on a look
on her face that practically said, 'I didn't do it' amazingly through all
this, Eva had not awaken. Seizing the moment, Chachamaru decides to pick
up the pieces of the broken clock and throw them away.
Just as she finishes doing this Eva stirs in the bed and begins to wake
up. Chachamaru starts to panic because what if Eva notices the clock is
missing? Would she be mad? Or would she even care? Deciding to not take
that chance Chachamaru begins to make breakfast.
After breakfast was over (they ate an Onigiri) Chachamaru had finally come
to a conclusion on her dream problem, she would hire a mercenary to come
defend her and her friends. Right after she cleaned up the plates she
went to the phone and looked up some numbers in the directory for
mercenaries. She had dialed all 26 numbers in the book but some of them
were either retired, busy or didn't answer their phone at all. Even Mana
Tatsumiya, the school priestess was booked.
Deciding to give up she saw a number she had missed before, the number was
located in America but she was desperate enough to try. Dialing the
number she listened to the ringing on the phone until finally someone
picked up the line. "Weapon Mercenaries at your service…how may I help
you?" a young woman's voice sounded over the phone-line.
Chachamaru then began to describe to the girl (whose name was Sapphire by
the way) about her dream and about the fear she had for her friends'
safety. "Hmm…" Sapphire was thinking for a moment then suddenly said to
Chachamaru, "Maybe well have to have Ruby come take care of this…eh? Wait
miss, hold please."
Chachamaru waited for a minute till finally Sapphire came back on the
line. "Well miss you don't have to worry about a thing anymore. Our boss
himself said he'd come take care of this personally." "Oh thank you so
much!" Chachamaru said to Sapphire who nearly dropped the phone from her
sudden outburst.
"Oh wait aren't you guys in America?" Chachamaru suddenly asked. "Why
yes we are. Why? Is there a problem?" Sapphire asked back to Chachamaru.
"Well how are you going to get here to Japan in just 2 hours?"
Chachamaru asked, very curious as to how they would be able to get there
in the intended time. "Well don't worry bout that…but if ya really wanna
know as far as I know he has 4 ways of getting there."
"And that is?" Chachamaru asked, very curious about the person she was
about to employ. "Well as far as I can see…he can either teleport, fly,
run across the ocean, or use the jet." Chachamaru was now officially in
shock upon hearing what her employee can do and the kind of vehicle he had
at his disposal. Wondering what other stuff they had Chachamaru was about
to ask when suddenly she heard Eva coming up from the basement.
"Well thank you for your help." Chachamaru said and then hung up the
phone. Just as Eva entered the room Chachamaru had put the phone back
where it was and was now sweeping the floor. Eva shrugged off her
behavior and made her way towards her bedroom to change so she could go to
school. Chachamaru breathed a sigh of relief when Eva did not question
her for her weird behavior later as they made their way to school.
When they got to the school Chachamaru suddenly realized that she had
forgotten to give the mercenary group the location of her school. But
when she looked ahead and saw a boy standing in front of the buildings
doorway, she knew immediately that he was the one she had hired. (also
due to the fact I was carrying a sword on my back and I was not wearing a
school uniform)
Chachamaru ran ahead of everyone and made her way straight towards him and
when she got to him she noticed that he had not noticed her. He was in
fact, sleeping with his headphones blaring as he leaned against the wall
of the school.
Chachamaru shook him awake and he looked around then looked right at
Chachamaru and said to her, "You the one to call for an exterminator?"
Chachamaru nodded and then she was about to introduce herself when he
suddenly asked her, "Uh…can we go somewhere else?" confused Chachamaru
looked around and noticed that everybody was looking right at them.
Nodding Chachamaru led him into the building and made her way towards her
homeroom. "3-A huh?" the merc said but didn't say anything else as they
entered the room. Thankfully (for Chachamaru anyways) there wasn't anyone
else in the room, (excluding Sayo whom I can see but she can't) she
suddenly spoke up, "Please sit down…no one else will come in here for
another 3 minutes at least." I glance over at Sayo and then look back at
Chachamaru.
"What about her?" I say. "Who?" Chachamaru asked looking about the room
for anyone else. I raise an eyebrow at her then look at the girl in the
corner again. Shuddering I turn back to Chachamaru and say, "Nevermind…it
was nothing." "O…kay.." Chachamaru says, then she motions for him to sit
down.
The mercenary sat down on the chair with a plop and set his black buster
sword down next to him as he began to listen to his new employer speak to
him of her fear of what might happen and what she wanted him to do about
it. " So let me get this straight…your saying you had a dream about a
demon killing everyone and that you want me to protect everyone from this
demon you dreamed about?" the mercenary replied a little bemused at the
thought of being hired only for a dream.
"Yes that is correct…" Chachamaru said with a hint of a sad tone in her
voice as she looked at the merc with hope in her eyes that he would accept
her offer and kill the demon.
"Well Ill tell you what…depending on how this demon thing turns out,
depends on how you pay me." The merc said with a smirk.
"what do you mean?" Chachamaru asked with a slight bit of confusion in her
eyes.
"what I mean is, if this demon is really strong and I can manage to kill
it but some of your friends get hurt…you wont have to owe me a thing."
"Oh thank y-" Chachamaru started but was cut off.
"However if this demon is really weak and was a total waste of time you
owe me big." The merc said with a no expression on his face at all.
"Ok you have my word." Chachamaru nodded in agreement
"Good, now then tell me about this demon, miss?" the merc exclaimed.
"Chachamaru Karakuri, and you are?" Chachamaru asked.
"Just call me Ultima." The merc said with a grin on his face.
"Ultima? As in…Ultima Weapon?" Chachamaru asked confused about his name of
choice for a mercenary.
"Shhh…don't say my name aloud here. There are a lot of people that would
kill me for my power. But yes my full name is Ultimate Weapon, but I
prefer Ultima because it's shorter and easier to say." Ultima said with a
bit of urgency on his face "ah ok." Chachamaru said. "But why would
anyone want your power?" She asked very curious as to what his power was.
I have many special abilities, the main two are my ability to copy
anything I see regardless if its used on me in real life or if it's from a
show or cartoon, I can copy that attack and make it stronger. The second
one is I can make ANY weapon more powerful than it normally can be. I'm
talking EXTREMELY powerful." Ultima said in a low whisper as if to keep
it a secret from even the walls of the school itself.
"Ah I see." Chachamaru said all the while hiding the fact that she was in
shock as to what she heard from the boy in front of her. (A/N: in case
you're all wondering, yes I'm using the name of a boss from final fantasy
but I made an alternate character for him. The one I'm using is for
whenever I go RPGing online or something. If you want all the info for
him just ask later.)
"So let me get this straight…your saying you and your group are a bunch of
Weapons more or less?" Chachamaru asked very confused at everything she
was hearing. "Well in a way yeah…the only difference between all of us is
that I used to be human before…Whoops!" Ultima let that slip out as he
covered my mouth quickly. Chachamaru now had her head leaning to the side
and had a confused look on her face as she tried to study what he just
said.
"You mean you're not human?" Chachamaru asked as she stared hard at
Ultima. Hoping to pry the info out of him. Before he could continue
however a couple of students walked into the class. They immediately
stopped right in their tracks and looked at Ultima as he looked right back
at them. They blinked and stared for a minute until the girls shrugged
and went to their desks, but not without continuing to stare that him.
Feeling uncomfortable, Ultima stood up and said "I think ill go for a
quick walk." He was about to leave to when Negi suddenly come bursting
into the room in a panic. He had rammed right into Ultima and Negi fell
back and looked up to see a man dressed in a black outfit looking down at
him. "Whoa!" Negi thought. "Is he some kind of warrior or something?"
Ultima reached down a hand to help Negi up. When Negi was now standing he
dusted himself off and looked up at the guy standing before him, he was
wearing a black uniform, it had a shirt that looked like it could protect
against anything, (Negi thought this) and he had on a matching black set
of pants that were kinda baggy but they weren't hanging off of his body.
He had on some kind of black boots and he had on black gloves too. What
got Negi the most was the fact he had a black buster sword on his back
when CLEARLY weapons were not allowed in the school building unless
whoever had them had permission from the headmaster first.
Negi then looked at the guys face and kinda got spooked from it because he
had black eyes and long black hair but this wasn't what scared Negi, what
scared Negi was the way the guy was glaring at him. Negi then realized
that he had ran right into this person without so much as an apology and
now he was just staring at the guy like he was the scariest thing alive.
"Oh um…Please forgive me. I'm sorry for running into you!" Negi said
with a bow as he hoped this was what the guy in front of him was waiting
for. "Yeah sure, no problem kid." was the response he got from the guy.
Looking up Negi noticed that his expression now was not angry but he
didn't have one on his face anymore. "Scary…" Negi thought.
"Um would you please move aside so I can get into the room?" Negi said
hoping not to offend the guy. Nodding Ultima moved out of the way and let
Negi and co. move past into the room. When everyone was in their seats
they noticed that Ultima was still standing by the door but he wasn't
leaving.
"Um…is there something you need?" Negi asked. "No not really…just waiting
for my orders from my employer." was all he said and continued to lean
against the wall with his arms crossed. "Your employer?" Negi asked.
Nodding he motioned towards Chachamaru and said, "Yeah she hired me so I'm
waiting for her to give me my orders."
Chachamaru blushed at what Ultima just said, she forgot to tell him not to
tell anyone that she had hired him, not yet anyway. Negi nodded in
approval. "Okay, you can stay there but please don't disrupt my class."
Negi said and turned back to the board.
"kid teachers eh?" Ultima thought, then he proceeded to look around the
room at all the students. "Lets see…the one that hired me…I think she's
part robot. I can't be sure. Hmm…that blonde girl in back of her…she's a
vampire, I can smell it on her…that one in the front row…she's a
ghost…hmm, lets see…the one next to her…she looks like she plays
basketball, hmm…judging from how she's cleaning that camera I guess she's
a photographer. Maybe a reporter even? Yup a reporter…she has a recorder
in her left pocket."
And Ultima did this throughout the whole class time. Figuring out what
each girl did and judging by their smell what their blood-type was and
where they came from, what day they were born, their age. Stuff like
that. (Hey lets face it…when you know how to speak english and you're in
a class to learn how to speak it, it can get pretty boring.) He just
picked out their individual scents and he (more or less) got to know them.
However this was all done quick and the class wasn't even half over so he
just leaned against the wall and fell asleep.
Try as he might Negi could NOT get his class to pay attention for their
eyes kept wandering towards Ultima. He could not sleep also for the fact
he KNEW they were watching him like a hawk and this made him VERY
uncomfortable. So he stood there with his eyes closed and waited for them
to stop staring. He could tell when they were watching. For as soon as
their eyes were no longer upon him he stood up straight and looked towards
the board.
He noticed that Negi was now looking kind of concerned at his class
because they wouldn't pay attention to class because of him. "You want me
to leave?" Ultima offered but Negi shook his head and said, "If you want
there is a desk in the back you can go sit at for now." nodding Ultima
made his way to the back (all the while trying to avert the gazes of the
others.) and sat down in one of the desks. With a sigh he then thought to
himself. "This is going to be one helluva long day, hopefully this demon
is real and it makes up for being bored as hell here."
The bell rang and Ultima could have jumped for joy had the fact that he
was not a part of the school he didn't exactly have the right to complain
about how long the day was. Instead he went up to Chachamaru and asked
her, "Just how long is this going to take?" Ultima said with (obviously) a
note of impatience etched on his face. "We are now going to the
headmasters office." Chachamaru said with a slight smile on her face at
the fact that her employee was impatient and bored to death about having
to wait this long.
Ultima fought back the urge to scream out Finally! Negi and Asuna walked
up to Ultima and Asuna immediately started asking questions like, "Who are
you? Where are you from? And What are you doing here?" everyone in class
gathered around to listen to what he had to say. Sighing Ultima then told
them his story, and explained why he was there. Negi looked at Ultima,
then at Chachamaru and then back at Ultima.
"So…you had a nightmare about a demon and now you hired him for
protection?" Negi asked and Chachamaru nodded her answer as Ultima just
stood there trying to ignore the fact everyone was staring at him. "So I
was right about you…you ARE a warrior." Negi said which caused Ultima to
raise an eyebrow. "A warrior? Me? Good one kid. But no if I was to say
anything about it Id say I was a Jack of all trades."
"Why is that?" Negi asked very curious as to why he would doubt himself as
a warrior. Well the truth is I don't use my weapons alone. I can also
use magic and…" Ultima never got to finish the sentence as Negi and the
class were immediately asking more questions than Ultima could answer at
once. (A/N: in case your confused…in this story they already know about
his magic, and they are all a little older, ranging from Negi now being
roughly around 13 to the girls now being 17.)
Before they could get any more answers from him, Shizuna walked into the
room and told Negi, "Negi-sensei, the headmaster wishes to speak to you
and your class. Is now a good time?" Ultima looked at Shizuna and then
raised an eyebrow. Something seemed off about this person, but Ultima
could NOT put his finger on it just yet. He decided to play along for now
until he figured this out. Shizuna also noticed Ultima give her a weird
look, she looked at him and, Ultima could have sworn, sneer at him.
"ah yes now is good." Negi said and Shizuna regained her composure. "Ok
he wants all of you to meet him by the world tree." Shizuna then walked
off but the class was now confused as to why the headmaster would want to
meet them way out there. Then it dawned on them that he wanted to be
secluded from the rest of the school that he wanted to talk to them about
Negi's Magic.
Ultima on the other hand had figured the whole thing out. "Well we might
as well get going." Negi said and snapped Ultima out of his daze.
Everyone suddenly started to leave the building and make their way towards
the world tree. Ultima followed along and then walked over to Negi. "Hey
kid, I hope your as good a mage as you are a teacher." Ultima said to
Negi causing Negi to give Ultima a look of confusion that made Ultima wish
he had time to explain to Negi.
When they got to the tree they noticed that the dean was not there. They
did however notice Shizuna walk towards them and when she got closer
Ultima had one hand behind his back, already a spell was prepared to be
fired at Shizuna in case things got to where they couldn't figure it out
in time, and indeed, it did seem that way. No one questioned why they had
to meet here of all places. No one bothered to ask about Chachamarus
dream or what significance it held. But Ultima on the other hand, had
already seen through the deception and was ready to take this challenge on
headfirst.
As Shizuna got closer the class noticed she had a look of satisfaction on
her face as she made her way towards the class. When she got to them,
(about 6 feet away) she stood there and looked at each of them. "Hey
where's the headmaster at?" one of the students asked suddenly and the
next thing Shizuna said to them really scared them all, especially
Chachamaru because she just now remembered her dream. In a deep demonic
voice she said, "The headmaster won't be here for long, he's going to be
joining all of you right after I feed on all of your souls!"
Everyone gasped and then Ultima pushed past the class, held his left hand
forward and shot his spell out, "De-Illusionize!" Ultima cried out and
then a blast of white light shot from Ultimas palm and completely covered
the fake Shizuna. Suddenly they could hear a roaring sound erupt from her
and then the HUGEST demon they have ever seen was standing in front of
them. The whole class was frozen, especially Chachamaru because the demon
before her was the one she had seen in her dream.
A/N: Well hope you liked this one. There's going to be a fight scene in
the next chapter, I'm not that good at writing those out but lets hope I
can do well enough for the next chapter. As for the voting, please vote
soon. I have not gotten enough votes yet for the pairing. So far Negi
has the lead, if by some miracle there is a tie, I MIGHT put it as a 3 way
(WHOA) or I may have another vote for which one will get the most. 'Looks
over at the crew and notices they are all asleep' well its time for me to
go too. Here its 1 45 AM and I will try to get the next chapter written
by tomorrow. Look forward to when I post this in the morning. Now for
the sneak peek at the next chapter.
Chapter 5
Chachamarus final upgrade and the new student
Demon: You think you may have won this fight…but don't forget, I will be
back…and next time I wont be alone! " The demon says before vanishing in a
flash of white light. Ultima stands there, holding his sword above his
shoulder and is still glowing a purple aura as everyone stares at him. He
looks back at everyone and then he cancels out his power. His hair turns
back from white to black and the wings on his back shrink back into his
back and the fangs in his teeth return to normal and the claws on his
hands return back to normal hands with fingers. Ultimas outfit turns back
from being a spiky suit of armor to the normal cloth like material it used
to be. His arm muscles relaxed and turned back from bulging to normal and
his eyes went back from red to their normal color. Black. Ultima put his
sword back onto the strap on his back and then turned back to the group.
"Guess your all gonna need me longer than I thought huh?"