a fallen angel's tears: So sleepy, I basically spent my entire 10 hr. plane ride back home outlining my plans for the next 6 chapters and wrote out this entire single chapter. The guy next to me on the plan was so obnoxious it was awful! Anyway, enough of my bothersome chatter...
Disclaimer: Currently to jet-lagged to care...see 1st chapter
Persona, concealed with the pure white mask and hiding the dark eyes of his icy visage, sat in a black leather wing-back chair. His back faced the door giving him the aura of power as he called to his "special and dangerous" underling to find Fuyuzimako Kaori and bring her back from her completed mission. Heavy velvet drapes fell to the floor in cascading ripples embracing the minimal space by the frame of the blacked out windows. The luxuriously ornate carvings of the room could never be appreciated as the false night enveloped everything, except the illumination of dying candles dripping their waxy life away down the candelabras. Deep pile carpeting probably stained with the life force of Persona's previous minions kept each footstep silenced that traversed it.
Quietly pouring over his files regarding each mission and taking an especially long time on Black Cat's progress reports, a slight groan from the massive oak door on its ancient brass hinges interrupted Persona's seriousness. A figure silhouetted by the lack of light gracefully moved toward his desk. Even though he could not see who the person was, Persona instantly knew as soon as the chilly blast entered the room, Ibaragi Nobara.
"The men at warehouse twenty-three were easily taken care of," Nobara reported in her cold manner. "However, the package wasn't there, they must have moved it recently though."
"Yes, that is a minor setback, but then again our informant might not be what you could say, trustworthy" Persona replied tapping his fingernails on the edge of his desk. "I want you to bring me Fuyuzimako Kaori tomorrow, it seems your request, Ibaragi Nobara, for another female student in the dangerous abilities class will be fulfilled soon."
"I will do as you command, Persona-sama" stated Nobara.
The following afternoon, Kaori followed the middle-schooler Nobara to an enclosed business office shrouded in darkness. Meeting such a person like Persona sure could scare anyone, his impassive nature gave him an austere and cold aura that shrouded anything and everything. Kaori noticed the two lines of 'Dangerous Abilities' class members reinforcing the importance of Persona. Her glimpses of their frosty appearances sent a chill down her spine as she walked down the aisle. The usual flick of Persona's wrist dismissed his two attendants, when he strode toward Nobara and Kaori.
"Congratulations, Fuyuzimako Kaori, on your addition to the Dangerous Abilities Class and on the success of your mission" Persona said while picking up a picture frame. "You know, your real mother will be fine so quit worrying, as long as you do everything I say."
"You promised to let her go if I did everything you asked" Kaori angrily replied and tried concentrating her alice.
"Alice don't work in this room, so don't try yours." stated Persona thoughtfully.
"Let me see her, just so I know she is alive" pleaded Kaori. "I want some assurance that you haven't killed her."
"Stop trying my patience you insufferable wretch," Persona angrily said with authority sparkling in his words. "Ignoring most of my orders, barely completing your mission, dismissing my honor, and your awful sarcasm. I'm fed up with it, and just to--"
"I'm sorry, Persona--I mean master, please give me a punishment that you think fit. But please don't hurt my mother." Kaori teared up and bent her head downward, not looking Persona in the eyes.
"Very good, I do not think I'll hurt your mom just yet, but your little outbursts are unexceptable so see you soon three-star." he held his hand up to Kaori's face and pushed her white-blonde bangs out of her face.
"Wait, I'm not a three star--" Kaori mumbled before passing out.
Her three-star room seemed slightly less extravagant than her old special dormitory. Its silken-sheeted bed lay unslept in for the past two days, and the only traces that someone lived there were in the forms of one small suitcase and a picture frame of some blonde woman. Matching green marble tables sat on either side of the enormous oak desk and the antique lights illuminated the cream note left next to the computer. However the tenant, Kaori, slumbered in the hospital wing after blacking out during her meeting with Persona.
Bleach mixed with the metallic scent of the only normal place in Gakuen Alice, leaving that impending smell that most children come to fear, of the doctor's office. In a single room marked solitary, the comatose Kaori stayed while doctors shuffled in and out observing her pulse and breathing. No one, as expected, waited in the visitor center to see her if she came out of unconsciousness. Slowly the heart monitor blips and beeps skyrocketed abnormally, while Kaori's eyes fluttered open. Upon waking up, Kaori felt an icy cold numbness throughout her body, but she felt a freezing and throbbing pain (you know what I mean, like a brain freeze after eating a Popsicle too fast). Slowly rising up unsteadily, she wobbled toward the door and glanced over into the mirror when she passed it. A crescent moon-shaped black scar under her left eye had appeared and buzzed with an excruciating throbbing. Pressing the intercom button, Kaori called for a nurse or doctor to let her out of the medical prison. Only Tsubasa-senpai appeared. His sparkling personality seemed unfazed by the harsh sanatorium's chilly air conditioned climate. Kaori noticed his star mark and instantly tensed up.
"So I see Persona decided to downgrade you too," Tsubasa began. "You can call me Tsubasa-senpai, but I guess since we're both marked this makes us friends right?"
"I'm not your friend, trust me, you don't want me as a friend" Kaori replied touching the moon mark under her eye gently. "Too many people have gotten hurt because of me. I try to follow orders but it just gets too hard, hurting those people--even if they are scum."
"You really do have a soft side, Mikan-chan was right about you," Tsubasa said distractedly. "Kaori-chan, stop being so mean to everyone in order to protect them. Your underground nickname doesn't really fit you."
"That girl again, whatever." Kaori sniffled. "We're only Persona's dogs, the special abilities are just pawns."
"Even if that's true, Kaori-chan, we 'specials' should stick together!" Tsubasa hugged her. "I'm joining another class soon, maybe you could stop by sometime to have some relief from Persona. Mikan will be there, too! Get well soon."
a fallen angel's tears: What will become of Kaori? Hmmm...I actually need to go write more! Well two chapters in one day, that's a pretty awesome accomplishment. TTYL
