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A/N Yeah it's been a while, but I am still alive and attempting to continue work on this. Been a rough couple of moths at school and it's only getting worse. However Spring break is here and I finally have time to continue. Please correct me on any incorrect things you see, I am trying to stick to Japanese culture, but I'm rather lazy; anyways enjoy the chapter.

A/O/N: I'm in need of help in writing, so if you would like to proof read for me or give me any advice PM or tell me in a review.

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Eva's House

Everyone had taken a quick hour to thoroughly prepare to leave for the magic world, via Evangeline's portal, and were now waiting for the teleportation process. Few, such as Ku-Fei, Kaede, and Kotaro, looked like they hadn't brought anything at all and were still wearing their normal clothing. Others looked as if they had brought enough equipment to storm a castle and defeat a war-lord.

Negi was wearing his usual white cloak, while sporting his staff and pactio cards. Yue and Nodoka were wearing what appeared to be what you'd expect regular mages and witches to wear, which was of course a black cloak and wizard's hat. Setsuna was decked out in a hakama, while equipped with her regular katana and a short sword(I know doesn't sound like their heavily equipped but go with it).

"Are we all ready?" Negi flipped his hood down and stepped toward the house without waiting for an answer.

As the group stepped through the doorway into the house they were welcomed with the sight of Eva sipping tea on her couch. She merely glanced up continued to drink her tea, but she soon finished and pointed toward a closet door in the back of the room. Everyone glanced at the door not sure what she meant by it, until she ushered them toward it.

Negi took the lead and entered the closet first to enter a pitch black room. Eva and Chachamaru arrived lastly and closed the door leaving no light to see with. Soon, however, magic runes began to illuminate the room.

"This device will deliver you to within a mile of the source of magic that was left at their departure point. I will not accompany you or be able to save your ass this time kiddo... are you still sure you want to go?"

"Yes Master we're all sure or we wouldn't be here right now... and thank you for everything, in case I don't come back," Negi finished with a genuine smile to her.

"Like I care if you come back, start the sequence Chachamaru and I'll fuel it with my magic," everyone could here that she was saddened even if she didn't show it. "You will all need to join hands, unless you want to be lost iin nothingness for an eternity, as my method of teleportation is a bit different from regular methods."

Everyone joined hands and Chachamaru began to incante the spell as Evangeline flared up her magic energy. Negi looked at his comrades and felt that guilt for putting them in life threating danger, but was ever thankful to them. He knew that he wouldn't to have stopped Setsuna if he tried anyway, as she probably would've killed him if he got in the way.

"Well have fun," Evangeline waved them off as everyone suddenly felt like they were having the air sucked out of them, and it seemed as if the pressure around them was increasing

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Magical World

"Negi-bozu," Negi felt lightheaded and wondered who that mysterious voice belonged to.

"Negi-bozu, wake up!" Negi didn't want to wake up he felt a little quezy and tired, but whoever's voice, maybe even voices, he was hearing sounded familiar and worried.

"Negi-sensei, you need to wake up or we can't rescue Asuna-san and Konoka-san," Negi's eyes shot open at this and he attempted to get up, but met to soft, round pillows on his way up.

"Negi-bozu I know you're at the age were your curious about the female anatomy, but please remove your head from my breasts," Negi removed his head immeadiatly and was embarrassed to see that he had indeed ended up between Kaede's breasts.

"I-I'm sorry about that," he was as red a tomato, but Kaede only laughed.

"Well I guess you okay Negi-bozu," Ku-Fei also joined in on the laughter.

Yue and Nodoka looked almost as embarrassed Negi, and they were mumbling something about how all of the the girls in their class seemed to have huge breasts.

Negi looked around and noticed two things about their location. One, they were in a completely barren desert, and two, he couldn't find Setsuna, "Were is Setsuna-san?"

"She's observing the area for anything out of the ordinary," Nodoka explained, Negi noticed she looked a little beat up and guessed it was from the trip.

"In this desert I should be able to see her though," Negi continued to ponder still looking for her.

Yue pointed to the sky," That would be because she's looking down on the area Negi-sensei."

Negi looked upwards, as well as everyone else, and saw Setsuna returning starting her decent from the sky. He was rather jealous, maybe even envious, of Setsuna. She got to feel the freedom of flight that all men and women wanted to experience. Sure he had his staff to fly on but he was sure it wasn't the same. Of course, he was confident that being part demon like she was also came with a lot of disadvantages.

"So how's it looking Setsuna-sama?" Kotaro asked as Setsuna landed next to them.

"There's a tower to the southeast of here, it's about a mile and a half away," She took a quick pause to wipe her brow clean of sweat, "It's be easiest if we flew there."

"Um I not know how to fly Setsuna-sama," Ku-Fei looked confused and as if the idea of flying was preposterous.

"So, then we'll team up," Yue stated simply, "Negi-sensei can take Kaede and Ku-Fei, while Nodoka can fly on my broom with me."

"Well shall we then?" Kaede climbed onto the back of Negi's staff as Ku-Fei got on the front.

In flight Negi took a better look at his surrounding, but it still looked the same no matter where he looked. He did notice the sun was setting and that it appear that storms were coming in. He then noticed the looming tower in the distance, and he noticed how ominous and huge it actually was. He did notice it was a nice piece architecture though and it must've been centuries old, but most of all he noticed there were no windows.

"There's only one way in," shouted Setsuna over the roaring wind while pointing to large walkway. The walkway was full of beautifully sculpted archways and pillars. The team landed gently on the Earth and began their sprint toward the tower's mouth.

Suddenly Negi stopped and held everyone back, "Does anyone else sense that?" Negi looked back and got nods from the more powerful members in their little squad.

Kaede jumped in front of them, pulled out a kunei, and blocked two small objects, "Mana's here," Kaede shifted her eyes in every direction to look for her. The rest of the group joined her search in vain. Then a cloaked figure appeared about at the opening to the tower.

"I'm right here and I'm your first opponent," the cloak figure removed the hood to reveal none other than Mana Tatsumiya.

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A/N: Yes I know another short chapter for an extremely long update. I'm really sorry but I promise that every chapter after this will be long unless otherwise noted. Thank you for reading and PLEASE REVIEW! I'm in dire need of criticism I have no idea what I need to improve on, so please inform me.