Disclaimer: I still do not own Negima!, but I do own an alarm clock and it pisses me off.
A/N: Well here's chapter 2, it's a little longer than chapter one, and I still don't have Microsoft Word so continue to inform of mistakes and the like. I didn't realize how short chapter 1 actually was until I uploaded it, which sucked because I thought I actually wrote a lot. Oh well here's chapter 2.
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Mahora Campus- Near Dorms
"How can they be us?" asked Asuna who at this point thought she had seen everything.
"I imagine they're someone's shadow replications of us," Setsuna pointed out, and seemed to be the least shocked of the group.
"They're definitely not shadow doppelgangers," Kaede added, who like Setsuna didn't seem too shocked.
"So what are they here for then?" asked a completely shocked Yue.
"All we want is a short spar to see which one of us is stronger," explained the Negi shadow.
"It'll be one on one with our respective counter-parts," the Asuna shadow explained further,"so choose which one of you will be first."
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Just Outside Mahora Campus
"What kind of chance do they stand with one fifth of our power?" Triella asked.
"Well since it was evenly distributed amongst them not much more than they originally had. I'd say somewhere between 15-35 percent," Sean answered. "That really doesn't matter though, they only need to last two minutes to get the data we need."
"Well genius, what happens if they can't last two minutes?" Clare's voice rang with it's usual arrogance and innocence.
"Then we will know which of them is the strongest and who should be paired to fight who if the need arises," Haru explained.
"Well you've caught my attention, how would the order of strongest to weakest be in our group?" Souchirou asked full of interest.
"If I had to guess," Haru began,"I'd say the order from strongest to weakest would go me, Clare, you, Triella and finally Sean. Though Sean is extremely intelligent and Triella is very resourceful, so that may make up for their lack of strength."
"I see."
"It's just a guess though, right?" asked Triella who sounded disappointed with how she was placed.
"Yes it's only a guess," Haru smiled at her as he said this.
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Mahora Campus- Near Dorms
"I'll go first," shouted Asuna as she called out her pactio item, she could now pull the sword out at will. "You won't last a minute against me."
"We shall see," the shadow Asuna could only bring the harisen out.
"These ARE just shadow replicas of us right Setsuna?"
"Yes Asuna, I'm 98 percent sure," Setsuna responded.
"O.K. then."
Asuna charged straight at her other self and swung her great sword at her. The shadow jumped to the side and threw a punch to no avail. Asuna got the punch no problem and kicked the fake her straight into the air, and Asuna jumped straight up after her with her sword at the ready. Fake Asuna managed to recover and barely dodge the blade as it was swung at her. However, her real counter-part did a spin in the air and kicked her right back towards terra firma.
Asuna's doppelganger hit the ground, and to say she hit it hard would be a bit of an understatement, but she managed to bring herself to her knees. "Damn that..." She didn't get to finish her sentence because Asuna had pierced her in the back. Asuna withdrew her blade and was glad to see the shadow disappear, she found the thought of seeing herself dead to be disturbing.
Negi smirked to see how good Asuna had gotten, "Took you 44 seconds."
"What I was faster than that!"
"I thought Ane-san was better than that," Chamo called from atop Negi's shoulder.
"I was only using like 50 of my top strength!"
As Chamo and Asuna continued to fight the Ku Fei shadow charged at her real self. Ku Fei did a flash step behind her clone and hit her right in the back of the head. Shadow Ku Fei hit the ground and then felt a very painful kick to the back of her neck from her real counter-part and vanished. Ku Fei turned to the remaining doppelgangers.
"Is not good to attack while foe is unprepared," Ku Fei called to them.
"It was our turn to choose who to go and we weren't waiting," was the shadow Negi's response.
"Now it's your turn," shadow Kotaro said.
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Just Outside Mahora Campus
"They're not doing very well are they?" Clare asked sarcastically. "Five of them are finished now and not one of them has lasted two minutes."
"Even if none of them last two minutes the five of us should have no problem dealing with them," Haru pointed out. "If the need arises of course."
"You keep saying if the need arises, why?" Clare asked sounding a little annoyed.
"Hopefully the plan will go without problems tonight, and by the time they realize they're gone and find our location we should have completed the summoning."
"I see, what if things do go bad tonight?"
"Then will have to fight them at our head quarters."
"There's one shadow left," Sean informed them.
"Damn did we get any information from?" asked Souchirou.
"Unfortunately no, but like Haru said it probably won't matter either way."
"Which one is left?" Triella inquired.
"The Yue Ayase shadow, so it's basically a sitting duck."
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Mahora Campus- Near Dorms
"Rastel, Maskil, Magister! Magic Archer. Consecutive Bursts. 32 Lightning Arrows." Yue shot the 32 arrows at her impostor and ended her with them.
"Well this was a complete waste of time," Kotaro complained.
"Who do you think created them?" Nodoka pondered.
"I don't know," Negi answered,"but I think we should be careful. Someone could be setting us up for a trap."
"We should patrol the area," Kaede suggested.
"I agree, however not all of us need to," Setsuna began to explain, "Asuna-san, Konoka, Yue-san, Nodoka-san I believe you should go on back and rest."
Asuna was angered that she had to go back, "What?! But I'm nowhere near being tired!"
"I have to agree with Setsuna-sama on this Asuna-nesan, you're exhausted," Kotaro agreed.
"They're right Asuna-san," Negi continued, "you've wasted to much energy today you need to rest."
"Fine!" Asuna gave up.
The four started heading to there respective dorms when Konoka turned around, "I'll see you later Se-chan," she called out as she waved to her. Setsuna returned the wave and smiled at her. Kotaro smirked and turned to Setsuna.
"Why don't you just kiss her already? It's obvious you two are head over heels for each other." Setsuna turned a light pink at Kotaro's words and turned away so no one could see her.
"It's okay Setsuna-san I think it's amazing you found someone you care that much for," Negi tried to encourage her.
It didn't work, she turned a little darker shade of red and tried to sound sincere when she told him thanks. Kotaro and Negi chuckled a little at her embarrassment. Kaede and Ku Fei knocked each of their pupils on the head.
"Kotaro-bozu, Negi-bozu, quit teasing Setsuna-sama," Kaede warned with her usual smile.
"Indeed we need go now," Ku Fei added.
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Just Outside Mahora Campus
"They're split up now Haru-sama, now would be the time to grab Kagurazaki and Konoe," Triella stated.
"In a short while Triella, there's one person on this campus I would like to get on our side," was Haru's answer.
"Are you sure anyone will join us?" Sean questioned.
Haru smiled, "For the right price."
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Tatsumiya Shrine
"Thank you for stopping by, we will welcome you any time," Mana recited the lines she had said everyday to all those who had passed by.
"Excuse me are you Mana Tatsumiya-sama?" asked a person from behind her.
Mana pulled one of her pistols out and turned around in a flash to see five cloaked people behind her. "Who wants to know?" Mana asked nonchalantly.
"We have a proposition we doubt you can refuse," said the cloaked one in the middle. One of the other's pulled out a sack and threw it in her direction. Mana pulled it open without ever taking her pistol off the enemy. There was a lot of money, more than even Chao had offered her for the school festival. She sensed these people were probably up to no good, but she always let her greed get the better of her.
"I'm listening."
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Mahora Campus- Dorms
"Can you believe them Konoka? Making me stay back when I'm perfectly fine!" Asuna was busy ranting.
"Maybe so Asuna, but you do have to admit," Konoka started and let out a big yawn, "you have been pushing yourself rather hard lately."
Asuna let out a sigh,"Maybe your right, maybe some sleep will do me some good."
Konoka had already fallen asleep as Asuna continued to talk and rant a little before dozing off herself.
The door to their room slowly opened and two cloaked figures came in. The quietly made their ways over to were Asuna and Konoka were sleeping. One of them stood over Konoka and muttered an incantation and then picked her up and tossed her over their shoulder. They other got over to Asuna and muttered the same incantation.
"Damnit I forgot about here magic canceling ability," one of them whispered. "Sean get over here and use your ninjutsu on her."
"Your useless aren't you Clare?" Sean nagged at her.
"You're a bastard aren't you, you asshole," Clare retorted as Sean walked over. He put two fingers over Asuna's forehead and concentrated for a moment, "Jubaku!" as he muttered this ropes came out and binded her. Clare then picked her up and tossed Asuna on her shoulder.
"Well let's get to the rendezvous point and meet up with the others," Sean nodded to the door. They headed out the dorm and through the halls. As they made there way down the stairs Clare took it upon herself to congratulate themselves.
"Looks like things went..." Clare paused for a moment, because as they got to the door the five members of the Negi party had just got back from patrol and met them at the door. "...smoothly."
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A/N: Well another cliffhanger, what'd you think? Please review I'm desperate for reviews. Like I said in the previous chapter I will accept constructive criticism, but no flaming. Chapter 3 should be up before the end of next week. It should be longer than this one, but I doubt there will be much action. Well 'till next chapter see yah.