Chapter 2: Shimatta! Watashi wa osoi: The Amazing Mischief of Ken and Leon! Encounter the So-called Abele, the Thanatos Knight!
"Fool, what is this…?" Sora asked as she examined herself wearing the armor.
"You passed the final judgment. You are no longer just a Kaleido Star…" Fool answered
"What do you mean?" Sora was very puzzled by such sudden events that had just happened.
"I think you are late for your flight…" Pointed Fool
"What? Oh my God!" Sora started to panic and ran hurriedly.
"uhhhh! Sora! Don't tell me you're going out like that…?" Fool's nose began to bleed.
After all Sora looks beautiful in that hot sexy armor, plus blue lipstick matches her blue armor.
Sora stopped and began to realize the suit she was wearing.
"How am I going to remove this thing?" Sora got more panicked as she was unable to remove the armor.
"Sora… Relax… I'll help you remove them." said Fool seductively.
Sora gave it a bad impression. She grabbed Fool and spun him in a throwing position
"How dare you say things like that when I'm in such a hurry! You pervert!" She said while smoke came out of her ears and her entire face became red.
"No…. so…so….ra…ra… I… will… ex…plain…to…you…how…to…re…move…the…ar…mor…using…the…cry…stal…" He explained as Sora kept on spinning him out of rage. (Poor Fool).
When Sora heard that. She stopped spinning Fool mercilessly. "Well! Hurry up! I'll be late for the flight! You should have said that earlier…"
"BUT YOU DID'NT CARE TO LISTEN!" Fool said angrily
Sora's sweat dropped. "umm…he…he… Sorry Fool…"
"(cough) Now, you are now merged with the crystal. The crystal and you are now one. Follow my instructions carefully… First close your eyes…"
Sora doubted. "Make sure you don't do anything stupid or else…."
Fool just nodded. "Yes…yes… don't worry I wont. Now hurry up or else we'll miss the flight."
"What did you mean we? As usual you're going on vacation with me at my expense."
Sora sighed and figured that she can't do anything but to follow. She can't miss this flight or else she'll be late for the party, not to mention the hours she will miss with Ms. Layla She doesn't want Ms. Layla to be disappointed. She then closed her eyes.
"Now, feel the presence of the crystal. Concentrate and command the crystal to remove the armor." Fool instructed.
Sora followed Fool's instructions carefully. She doesn't want to make a mistake. She felt the presence of the crystal. Her heartbeat was beating with it. She was now sure that the crystal and her are now one. She concentrated and thought about the armor being removed. Suddenly both in Fool's and Sora's surprise the armor disappeared and became little sparks.
"My…my…my… That was quick. Now, we should get going. I'll explain everything as soon as we get on the plane" Fool knew that Sora has lots of questions that needs to be answered.
She ran and picked up her things as Fool was sitting on her shoulders.
-At the air port (on the plane)-
"Where the hell is Sora?" said May frustratingly.
"Ohh Sora… Where are you? The plane is about to leave…" Rosetta was getting very worried. "Its not like her…"
"She never skips practice… so that's why she could not pack her things early plus her schedule is very fixed since she had to help you train." Ken pointed out.
Hearing that, made Rosetta sad. "So it was my fault… If I could only train by myself like Sora did…"
Ken noticed that he shouldn't have said the things he just said. "UM…..no…no… Rosetta, please don't get me wrong. I don't blame you for that… Sora is high talented that's why she doesn't need too much help to learn… and…"
Rosetta became sadder. "So… I'm not high talented…" She began to make tiny drops from her eyes.
Ken panicked. He didn't mean to hurt her feelings. "No…no… please don't cry Rosetta… You see…"
Before he could finish, Mia and Anna stared at him… "Why don't you just shut up Ken!"
"You're just making her feel worse!" said Marion
"ooo…o..kay…. I'll shut up…." "I didn't mean to hurt her…" Ken placed himself at the corner.
"By the way, Marion, where is Jonathan?" asked May.
"Well, he can't join us… So poor Jonathan is left at home… My dad and I hired someone to take care of him while we're gone" Answered Marion.
"Poor Jonathan…" said Ms. Sarah with pity.
"We should bring him something on our way back. Right Carlos?" Ms. Sarah looked at him close in the eye.
Boss Carlos blushed as he noticed that Sarah was too close to him. "Umm… ye...yes…yes... of course"
"heh………" Said all of them with their eyebrows raised.
"Ms. Sarah is good at manipulating Boss Carlos I see…" murmured Leon while making a slight smile.
"Hey Anna, if they get married, I wonder who will wear the pants in the family?" Said Anna to Mia. They both giggled as they imagined some scenery. They both came up to one conclusion. "Ms. Sarah will! Hahahahahaha!"
"Please sit down on your proper sits. We will be taking off after 5 minutes. Thank you." The announcement gave the troop especially the two guys such worry.
"It isn't like her…. What if … " said Mia
"What if something happened to her?" Continued May
"What if bad guys came… " Began Marion
"and prevented her to go here?" continued Anna.
"and noticed that Sora was beautiful and tried to rape her…" Mia added. (Such wild imagination.)
The two guys, Leon and Ken started to panic. They both stood up at the same time and went to the door. The stewardess tried to stop them but the guys were at flame of worry, the stewardess couldn't do anything. A cell phone rang. Rosetta were about to follow them but Mia announced that "Hey its Sora! She said she's at the airport now!"
Rosetta sighed in relief.
"That's good news… But… what about those poor guys? Said Ms. Sarah as she looked at Carlos.
"Well, I told them to wait… but they didn't listen. It will serve as their punishment…" Carlos said as he relaxed on his seat.
"Poor guys… It wasn't their fault. They were just worried about them…(sigh)…"reasoned Ms. Sarah
"I know! I'll call Ken…" Mia presented and began to dial. After a few seconds Ken's cell phone rang…
They were all surprised to hear it. Ken left his cell phone on his seat.
"You are such an idiot Ken…" sighed Mia.
"What about Leon?" asked Rosetta
"He doesn't use a cell phone…(sigh)." Answered Mia
-in front of the airport-
"Here you go mister." Sora handed her payment to the taxi driver and started to run as fast as she could, hoping that she'll catch the plane. The airport was crowded. She was having a hard time getting through. "What am I going to do? I'm ganna be late… oookaaayyyyy! How about this!" Sora didn't care about the embarrassment anymore. She jumped into the air with her luggage. She jumped over people again and again. The crowd was amazed by her stunts. Their jaws were locked open because of amazement. "Sugoi…(means amazing in Japanese)"
A little girl can't help to stare at the young Kaleido star. She was the only one who noticed who that person was. She pulled her mama's sleeves to get attention.
"Mama, mama…. That's Odette…right?"
Her parents didn't pay attention to her because of their amazement to the brunette.
Thanks to Sora's acrobatic skills, jumping over the crowd was a piece of cake. She saw the customer service and immediately jumped to get there. A man in his twenties was asking for information about his flight at the customer service center. He didn't notice the brunette making her way by her stunts. He noticed that the lady he was talking to was distracted. He turned around and he saw a girl coming.
"Shimatta!" Sora exclaimed as soon as she realized that she would fall on someone.
The guy was quick. He was able to spread his arms to catch the brunette.
"Itai…"
"Ouch…"
They both got hurt. Fortunately for Sora the guy that she landed on was able to reduce the impact for her and of course in return, the guy got most of the impact.
"Ohhhh! I'm…. So... so… sorry!" Sora said immediately.
The guy was nice enough to just smile and say, "It's okay miss…"
Sora sighed in relief. It's good that she wasn't able to go to anymore trouble. She noticed that the guy was staring at her and found herself staring back. They both share a little moment until Fool interrupted. Fool is just floating in the air beside her.
"Uh…. Sora…"
Sora didn't hear him.
"Uh…Sora… please be aware of your position…" Fool tried to hide his nose that was about to bleed.
"What? Huh?" She looked at their position and realized that its quite embarrassing. He soon followed. They both blushed in realization of their awkward position.
"How long are you going to keep staring at your predicament Sora…" Fool couldn't keep his nosebleed.
"Ahhhhh! I'm so so sorry!"
"Ahhh….. I um….. I didn't realize it! I'm sorry miss!"
They both went away from each other while still blushing. They realized that lots of people were staring at them.
"This is so embarrassing!" Both of them thought and their faces became like freshly picked ripe strawberries.
"Uhhh… Sora we have to go…" Fool floated in front of Sora's red face. Actually he just made it as an excuse to see much closer Sora' face blush with embarrassment.
"Ahhh! Why is this happening to me?" Sora almost pulled out her hair.
She immediately approached the customer service. "Is the plane going Boston gone already!"
The tenant was startled but immediately checked up the schedule. "Huh? Umm… Please wait Ma'am…No Ma'am the plane is still here. Please hurry up… the flight will be soon…"
"Thank you!" Sora moved fast. She doesn't want her efforts go to waste not to mention the embarrassment she went through.
The guy kept on staring at the Kaleido Star. "Wow… she's beautiful… and has some skills… I wonder where she's from?"
"Hey Abele… are you hurt?" A voice said.
"Huh? Oh… It's you…Tomb…"
A floating little man sat on his shoulders. The little man was wearing long white robe. He had black short hair and seemed to have a pleasing personality. He was also wearing a gold headband with a violet crystal beneath his fine bangs.
Both the guy called Abele and the little man called Tomb was surprised as he violet crystal sparkled.
"What the? The All-seeing crystal… is reacting … but to what?"
"Not to what but to WHOM… It's… the girl…She possesses great power…"
"What? It means she's one of them?" He made a disappointed look in his eyes.
"No… We shouldn't go to conclusions just yet…She did'nt made any response to my presence. Maybe she is not fully awakened yet… or maybe she's just like you…" Pointed the little man.
"Just like me… a Thanatos Knight?" He found a slight relief hearing that."If she's like me then… she has to take the same destiny…just like me…" Thinking of those things made him a little sad for some reason. It's as if he doesn't want her to be one… to be like him.. a so called Thanatos Knight.
-At the plane-
"Where have you been Sora! We were all worried sick!" Rosetta didn't mind the other passengers.
"Straight as always I see…" Fool murmured.
"Rosetta, calm down… What's important is that I'm here…"
"That's true but…" They all looked at the seats of those two guys.
"Where is Ken and … Leon?" Asked the curious Sora.
" They went out to look for you…" Ms. Sarah said with a slight grin.
"Please take your seats. We will be lifting off. Please shut down your cell phones and observe silence. Thank you."
"Oh no! What about Leon and Ken!" Sora was so worried. After all, It was because of her, the two guys left their seats.
"Carlos?" Ms. Sarah was also concerned.
"I told you… it's their punishment for not listening to me. They can just take the afternoon flight."
-In front of the airport-
"It's time… the plane left must have already left." Leon observed his watch.
"What are we going to do now?" asked Ken
"We should first find Sora… we can just go after the afternoon flight…"
Ken just nodded in agreement.
"Mama, mama… I told you that brunette is Odette…" the young girl insisted.
"She's right honey… Do you remember? At the Kaleido Stage Swan Lake Performance… It was Sora Naegino…"
"I guess a performer performs everywhere…."
The girls parents laughed but was disturbed by Ken and Leon…
"uhh… excuse us.. but did you say you saw Sora Naegino?"
"Yes... just a little while ago… She seemed to be in a hurry… so she jumped over the crowds…"
The two guys was shocked. Ken tried to calm himself. "Madam, just how many minutes ago?"
"About eight to ten minutes ago." The mother said.
"What? So she was able to get on the plane!" Both guys said.
"We left the plane for nothing………."
-To be continued…