APH: Well, I've survived the last encounter with Asuna.
MX: With a broken arm, yes you did…
Sarah: Don't forget that black eye… (Poke at APH's left eye)
APH: Ouch…
Eva: And I wonder if that bruise on your butt is healed yet… (Poke at APH's butt with a stick)
APH: Err… guys…
MX: Hmm… I wonder if that broken rib is healed…
APH: Ow…
Sarah: Is that toe okay now?
APH: EOW!
Eva: She kicked you in the jewel last time… is there still two-
APH: HEY! (Clap a hand over Eva's mouth while the other grabs her wrist) NO TOUCHY!
Negi: APH-san… daijobou? (Look at Eva trying to pull herself away from a head lock and remove APH's hand) I mean… you don't look well…
Sarah: He looks fine to me… (Sweat drops as Eva reversed their position and now has one of author's legs while the author drums the floor in pain)
RSP: uhhh… does this happen all the time? And does anyone else find this weird, or is it just me?
MX: it's just you.
APH: NOT THAT! OUCH! LET ME GO! HEY! (Flip them over again)
MX: He definitely does… now then, how about that date Kakizaki-chan?
Kakizaki: S-sorry… I …huh… already have a boyfriend …hehehe… (Rubs her head sheepishly)
MX: (Crawl into a small ball) The world… is so… cruel…
Fuuka: He's at it again…
Fumika: Well, at least we can start the chapter now… (Drop kicks Setsuna just for the heck of it) LET'S PLAY!
Setsuna: GAAH! (Fly off stage)
Disclaimer: DON'T OWN A FRIGGING THING BUT SARAH!
Sarah: (shake a chibi fist) I'M NOT UR SLAVE!
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" Library Island was established during the Meiji Era along with the academy. It's the largest library in the world." Yue explain as she studies the map held in front of her via a little flash light attached to her helmet. "During World War II, rare and important books from around the world were sent here for safe keeping. Because the quantity of books just keeps expanding, the plans were redrawn to expansion underground. Nowadays, not a single person is familiar with the entire structure." Yue holds up an arm to signal for the group of eight to stop in front of a pair of giant wooden doors. "And so, for the purpose of exploring this place, Mahora University inaugurated…" Pausing for dramatic effect, the stoic girl pushes the door opens and hear it creek on its hinges. "…Us, the Mahora Academy Library Expedition Club!" Yue finishes as unseen light flooded the room in front of them, illuminating thousands upon thousands of books on tall book shelves.
"W-WAAAAH!" Asuna exclaims as her eyes takes in what can probably be the world's eighth wonder. "Sugoi…"
"WOW!" Negi also exclaims with a beaming grin on his face. "SO MANY BOOKS! THIS IS AMAZING!" The child exclaims while Sarah just takes in the whole place silently. It wasn't that she hadn't been here before, just not this section at least.
"Interesting…" The caretaker comments as she continues to survey the colossal room carefully, watching for traps all the while as her red eyes takes it all in.
"Wow… this place is big…" Makie comments with her mouth wide open as she leans back to look up. "What floor is this?"
"Mm, I don't know aru…" Ku Fei says as she looks around curiously. "I'll guess probably a few stories under ground aru."
"…" Kaede keeps silent as she also looks around the room with silent curiosity while Konoka's eyes lit up with stars sparkling in them.
"I never knew there are this many books…" Konoka whispered in awe as her twinkling eyes continues to dart from place to place. Meanwhile, Sarah is looking at the titles on the book shelves one by one with a smile on her face.
"Actually, this is basement level 3." Yue says as she produces a juice pack from her back pack. "It is said that us middle schoolers are forbidden to go any further."
'Hmm… magic books… The Basic Skills of Staff Dueling, The Study of Demons, How to Make Healing Potion, How to Summon Creatures, The Book of Potion for Idiots, and what's this… The History of Necromancy?' Sarah mused as her eyes stopped on a particular thick book with old leather cover. Deciding to leave the books along for now, Sarah turns around to see the group had advanced a little into the library. '…I could always ask if I can borrow some from the old man later.'
"Wow… there are some very rare books here…" Negi whispered as he clenches his hands in excitement as he held them in front of his chest. "Hey look! 101 Ways To Seal a Demon! I'd thought those were burned a long time ago!" The child exclaims as he reaches forward to pull out the book.
"AH! DON'T!" Yue exclaims as she runs forward to stop the child, but it was too late as he already has half of the book out. A click was heard and all party members froze and only one thought went through Negi's mind: 'Oops…'
An arrow whistle towards the frozen child from out of no where and said child can only stare with wide eyes until the arrow is only inches from his face. Just then, a hand shot out and grabs the arrow in mid air, stopping the deadly projectile from advancing more. "A-ah…!"
"Nin-nin!" Kaede says before she snaps the arrow in two with a casual smile on her face.
"You should be careful Negi-sensei." Yue says as she shakes a finger at Negi. "The building is full of traps to prevent from stealing of books. Also, usually there is more than one… trap… ah crap." As if on cue, the book shelf on top of them starts to lean forwards, dumping all its contents onto the party of eight. However, it never cause any damage for it was smacked aside by no other than Fei Ku with a flying kick while Kaede starts to catch all the books with lighting fast speed, all the while chanting 'nin-nin'.
(MX: Naru-tebayo! Believe it!) (APH: The Naru-what…?) (MX: …You're hopeless dude…)
"…Why do I have a feeling that's not all?" Makie asks and yelps as a blade suddenly shot out from the wall. "EEK!" More blades followed, attempting to make the poor girl into swish cheese. However, due to her natural flexibility, Makie manage to escape the blades… although she did end up in sort of a funny position. To say that Makie had barely escaped would be an understatement… but then again, she is stuck in a somewhat uncompromising position. "…Gee-guys… can I get some h-help here?" The poor girl asks as she starts to sweat bullets down her face.
Rumble… rumble… rumble… RUMBLE… RUMBLE… RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUBMLE!
"…Do I even want to know?" Asuna asks as she looks to her right to see a gigantic boulder rolling down towards them. "…Yup, I thought so… KYAAAAHHH!" Following the scream, most of the girls and Negi flatten the against book shelves as the boulder sped past them.
"Huh?" Sarah asks after helping Makie out of the wall, only to have her eyes budge at the boulder rolling towards them. "SONOVA…!" Sarah shoved Makie out of the way, but was introduced to no other than Mr. Boulder arm first. SMACK! Everyone can only watch in horror as the boulder continues to roll, but it's starting to slow down little by little, until it completely stopped with smokes coming out of its surface for some reason.
"Oh my gawd!" Konoka exclaims as she hurries towards the boulder with a frightened expression. The others followed without hesitation. As they round the huge stone, they can only stare as right in front of them, Sarah has her right foot planted firmly on the rock while her leg is completely straight. Her left leg is also completely straight with her left foot inside a pile of debris, which is also smoking. The girl herself is panting a little with her left eye brow twitching. Her arms are crossed as her chest heaves up and down.
"T-that…" The caretaker starts in a whisper, which gradually turns into a shout, "IS INSANE YOU STUPID OLD GEEZER!" With a well-placed punch, she shattered the boulder, ignoring the budging eye balls of her classmates and charge as she turns chibi and shakes a fist at where the principal's house is. "YOU STUPID OLD DK! THAT'S FKING DANGEROUS YOU MOTHER FKER! DO YOU KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF IT'S SOMEONE ELSE THAT WAS CAUGHT!"
"...well… we may be stupid," Yue says reverting back to her poker face like nothing extraordinary happened, "but the athletic ability of the Baka Ranger more than made up for that… and that person over there," Yue says as she points to a fuming Sarah, who's still in chibi mode and cursing with language that can be identified as French, German, English, and surprisingly, Chinese (MX: W99t!) (APH: W99t?) (MX: yes W99t) (APH: your funeral, (points to a group of nerds rampaging at MX)) (MX: (sweat drops) …good night…), "is more than enough to handle most situation, ne?"
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WARNING! Randomness!
"…She can be really… creative sometimes…" Evangeline says with her right eye brow twitching as she watches through a crystal ball as Sarah continues to curse in, guess what, Italian. "I guess she really needs to vent off some anger after that little… stunt."
"Master, would Sarah-san really do all those things to Konoemon-sama?" Chachamaru asks as she puts a tray of tea next to her master.
"Oh, I hope she does. It'll be fun." Chachazero observed as Sarah continues to invent things she can do with a stick and a certain someone's butt… okay, maybe that's a bit too much information.
"Nah, if she does though, we'll be having a funeral." Evangeline says with a smirk before she 'turns off' the crystal ball and picks up a plushy, or more precisely, the Negi Plushy. The blonde girl stare at the doll for a while before a fund smile grace her lips. "…I guess we should do something about this situation also…"
"…What would you suggest master…?" Chachamaru asks as she watches her mistress to start pulling out text books form a book shelf. "…Master?"
"We'll study." Evangeline earning her two strange look from her two partners. "What? I'm too weak to do anything down there. Besides, it's for Sarah's sake."
"…I doubt that…" The robotic girl whispered to her senior, who's a wooden doll that's stuck on the wood FOR KAMI'S SAKE!
"OOOOHHH. I think master is in L-O-V-E, Love love desu- Noda-Noda-Noda!" Chachazero says causing Evangeline to snap her head to her direction as goggle at her.
"N-NANI! WHO'S IN LOVE!" Evangeline exclaims as her face starts to resemble a tomato.
"NEGI AND MASTER SITTING IN A TREE! K-I-S-S-I-N-G! FIRST CAME CONDOM, THEN CAME MARRIAGE, THEN CAME A HOUSE FULL OF LITTLE BRATS!" Chachazero sang much to her master's annoyance and embarrassment.
"…Master, you're blushing." Chachamaru says and watch as her mistress gape like a gold fish as her face continues to turn redder. "…Not to be rude master, but I think Chachazero might be right."
"I-I-I-I… I'M NOT IN LOVE!" Evangeline exclaims with a death glare. But its effect was neutralized by the furious blush on her face. Holding the Negi plushy up to her face, she glares at the doll and snarls. " I. AM. NOT. IN. LOVE!" Arcing her arm back, she's about to throw the doll into a fire place in the room before she pause, thinks about it, and decides against it. Sighing, she brought the doll back to her face level again. "I'm not in love… right?"
"Do you think I should call a mental institution?" Chachamaru asks, making her mistress face fault as the robot girl look at Chachazero before adding. "Master doesn't look very sane right now."
"H-HEY! I'M SANE! DON'T YOU DARE DO THAT TO ME!" The child vampire exclaims as she shakes a chibi fist at her robotic servant. Looking down at the plushy in her face, she pouted as she regards the doll. "I'm not insane right!"
"…Master is losing it…" Chachazero observe as Evangeline starts to ask questions to the doll, and look at it as if she expects it to answer. "…you know what; you might want to hold that possibility. THUD! AH!" Chachazero screamed as a knife imbedded itself just a few millimeters next to her head.
"YOU KEEP IT SHUT!" Evangeline exclaims before she stuff all her books inside her back pack and sling it over her shoulder. "I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY I'M WASTING MY BREATH WITH YOU GUYS! I'M GOING TO MY ROOM TO STUDY!" With that, the blonde girl stomp off while hugging the doll close to her chest, leaving Chachamaru with a blood thirsty doll, who sighed after she's sure that her mistress is out of hearing range.
"Yup, I think master IS getting soft…"
"It's the love, love desu."
END RANDOMNESS!
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At the same time…
"This is Yue." A voice says from a walkie-talkie that rest in Haruna's hand. Hearing the voice, Haruna and Nodoka both turn their attention towards the small device. "We've reached basement level 3, over."
"Roger, give it your best!" Haruna answered with a sing song voice before turning the device off and return her attention to a certain ermine. "Now then… I'm sure that it talked a while ago…"
"I-I don't think it's a good idea…" Nodoka says as she watch in horror as Haruna pick up the ermine, who's also terrified with sweat pouring out of him.
'I knew I should have stayed in the room…' Kamo says before the torture starts once again…
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"Fzzzzzzzzzz…." Hearing no more sounds but static, Yue also turned her walkie-talkie off and return it to her bag.
"Ano… why are we down here again?" Negi asks, attracting a few confused gazes before understanding dawns upon them...
A few minutes later…
"EEEEEHHH! THERE'S A 'MAGIC BOOK' DOWN HERE THAT MAKES THE READER SMARTER!" Negi exclaims after hearing Yue's explanation. Receiving a nod, he starts to look around only to see calm faces surround them. "Sarah-san?"
"…" Sarah looks sort of sheepish, making the child know instantly that she knows all alone.
"Well, that's about the size of it!" Konoka singed with her ever-lasting smile on.
"PLEASE HELP US NEGI-SENSEI!" Makie exclaims with big round eyes aiming at the poor child.
"…But… um…" Looking bewildered, Negi turns towards Asuna with his arm flailing around wilding. "Hey! Asuna-san, didn't you say not to rely on magic!" The child whispered, making Asuna to take a step back and held up her hands defensively.
"Uuu… i-it's an emergency situation. So please let me off the hook without the lecture just this once." Asuna says clapping her hands in front of her with a wink. "You see, if our grade stays this way, something bad will happen…"
'…Something really bad? Could she mean my final trail…?' The child teacher thought to himself before he remembers something. 'Ah! Of course! She must have told the others about it! ARIGATOU BAKA-RANGERS!'
"Hey, Yue, how much longer do we have to walk?" Makie asks as she steps up to where Yue is studying a map.
"Ok… This map was stolen from the club… and we're right here." The 'short' girl says as she points to a certain place on the map. "If we travel down all the way to basement level 11 and take the underground path here, we should reach it."
"Hmm, it looks like four hour round trip so…" Asuna observed as she peers over Yue's shoulder.
"We should be able to make it back before bed time right?" Makie asks as she peers over Yue's other shoulder.
"That should be the case if we didn't encounter any obstacles." Sarah observed as she peers over Yue's head, making the girl grumble about tall people.
"Thank Kami. I have club practice tomorrow." Makie sighed a relief sigh before she jogs over to where Ku Fei is.
"ALRIGHT THEN! IF THIS ALL WORKS OUT WE CAN STOP THEM FROM BREAKING THIS CLASS APART!" Asuna exclaims with fires burning in her eyes. "WE'RE COMING TO GET YOU 'MAGIC BOOK'!"
"This place looks sort of scary though… maybe we should go back?" Makie says as she steps closer to Konoka.
"Don't worry! Just leave it to us veterans." Konoka sing song before she latched herself onto Sarah. "Besides, we got Sarah-chan here with us!"
"GAH!" Sarah exclaims as Konoka buried her head into her chest. "H-hey!"
"It's like we're going on a picnic aru-yo!" Ku Fei exclaimed happily as she jumps in joy. She also happens to be the only one that's wearing something else other than her uniform.
"Un…" Kaede just nod her head, still looking very relaxed with a smile on her face.
'Hmm… such a convenient book… is there really one here in Japan?' Negi question himself before he was snapped out of it by Sarah.
"Negi-sama, we're going!" The caretaker says as she starts to usher her charge over to the small group.
"Alright then… LET'S GO!" Yue exclaims with enthusiasm… although her face looks the same as always.
"YEAH!"
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"Wow… this library is so damn big!" Asuna says as she walks down a set of stairs with Kaede and Ku Fei waiting just down the stairs.
"WAH! Were we supposed to walk on top of the book shelves?" Negi asks as he follows Konoka onto a book shelf that already has Yue and Makie a head of them. Sarah hops on right after him.
"It makes you wonder what the building is thinking about doesn't it?" Konoka asks as she walks a head of Negi by a few steps.
"T-this book shelves are sort of high… you'll get hurt if you fall d-down." Makie says as she crawls… yes, crawls towards where Yue is standing.
"Oh, watch out for that snap board there." Yue says as she points to a piece of wood on the shelf.
"Eh? Snap board? SNAP! Eh?" Looking down, Makie found herself somehow floating in mid air. "Oh… this snap board… KYAAAHHH!"
"S-S-SASAKI-SAN!" Negi exclaims as Sarah crouch and was about to sprint forward when a ribbon shoots out and close itself around a piece of pipe on top of the book shelve.
"Awawawa! That was close…" Makie says as she dangle from the fragile looking ribbon while her other hand rub the back of her head.
"WOAH!" Walking over to the pink-haired girl, Negi look at the ribbon before pointing a finger to it. "T-that sure is a handy ribbon you got there Sasaki-san…"
"Ah! It's very useful. I can get orange while I'm sitting at the kotatsu and stuff." The girl says as she held up the ribbon to let the child look at it.
"…That's… useful…" Sarah says as she remembers that she used stronger material for the same thing before… except she's not grabbing for oranges. However, that was short lived as her eyes budged when Makie steps onto a switch. Click!
"Ah…" Looking up, Makie suddenly finds more book shelves falling right on top of them.
"AAAHH! MORE BOOK SHELVES!" The child teacher shouts before he tries to push Makie out of the way… the only problem is, which way? But once again, Ku Fei comes to the rescue as while as Kaede. Asuna also joined into the effort with Sarah by her side, knocking away any books that come close to hitting the party members.
"There isn't much time. So let's keep going." Yue says, completely unaffected by what just occurred. She starts to walk forward with most of the groups following, leaving behind a gaping Negi and an indifferent Sarah. 'W-Who the heck are these people!'
"Hmm… witchcraft sure is interesting…" Sarah says as she continues to read a book she snatched in mid air for no reason what so ever.
"Hey, will Negi-kun be okay? I mean, he's sort of small…" Makie asks Asuna as she steals glances at the still gaping kid.
"Don't worry about him. He can keep pace with me every morning." Asuna says with a face that says 'he-isn't-worth-worrying-over'. "He might be just a brat, but aside from being smart, he's also pretty fit, so there's nothing to be… GAH!" Asuna's eyes budged as she catches Negi dangling from the edge of a book shelf. Running over to him, she lifts him up without effort. Sarah isn't any where in sight. "What the heck is wrong with you? You're giving me a stomach ache!"
"G-Gomen ne Asuna-san… but most of my athletic abilities are due to magic…" The child says with tears running down his face.
"That means he's just an ordinary child right now." Sarah says as she suddenly appears out of no where.
"GAH! WHERE WERE YOU!" Asuna exclaims as she hit Sarah on the head.
"Itai… I was returning a few books…" The caretaker says sheepishly as she rubs at her bump.
"Wait… just an ordinary child…?" The baka red asks with black dots as her eyes before her eyes widen in realization. "YOU'RE JUST AN ORDINARY BRAT THEN!"
"I'm sorry!" Negi says as he hides behind Sarah for cover.
'Dammit… right now he's nothing but a liability… shouldn't have brought him along…' Asuna thought as she bit her lower lip with a worried frown. That didn't go unnoticed by Sarah though.
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The group of eight had been walking for quite some time now… however, there are nothing but books, more books, and guess what… even more books… But once in a while there will be a trap that were even stepped by Kaede, destroyed by Sarah, knocked aside by Ku Fei, or just didn't do anything other than activating more traps… like a domino in a sort of way. After encountering such trap, Sarah had gone into another fit and starts to curse the old man once again… only with new threats that promises even more pain.
Right now, the group had starts to encounter more difficult terrain, but nothing big that can't be solved… that can't be said for Negi though.
"H-hey! Watch where you're going!" Asuna says as she saves Negi from a certain doom. With the help of Sarah, she pulled the child back on top of the shelf and sighed as the kid just keeps apologizing. These types of events continue to trouble either Sarah or Asuna, it's either huge gapes, more snap boards, or just a slip of the foot, but neither complained, while, that didn't last long though.
"Hey, watch out over here too!" Asuna says as she pulls Negi up to a higher level of shelf with Sarah pushing behind.
"O-ok…" The child says as he was pushed and pulled onto the shelf.
"Hey, your hands are cold…" Asuna says after letting go of the teacher. "Are you cold?"
"A little…"
"…I didn't bring another jacket or spare clothing…" Sarah says after checking inside her school 'jacket'. Looking at Asuna, she points a finger at the girl. "You have to lend your jacket to him… mine's too big. It'll hinder his movement."
"Got it… geez, you're so troublesome." Asuna says as she discards her jacket and drape it over Negi's shoulder. "Here, it should help. Geez, why did you have to wear your pajamas here?"
"Ah… arigatou…" 'Somehow… Asuna-san seems nice today…'
"Well, that's done; can we get a move on now? I don't wish to activate any more traps…" Sarah says as her eyes scanned the 'floor' for any more hidden switches.
"Why not?" Konoka says before something pops into her mind. "By the way, for Asuna who hates kids, you seemed to be pretty nice to Negi-kun haven't you?"
"EH! T-THERE'S NO HELPING IT! THIS GUY HAD LOST HIS MA-!" Asuna exclaims only to stop herself as she almost blurted it out. '-gic today…'
"Eh? Ma-?" Konoka asks with a finger on her chin as she tilt her head side way.
"Asuna-san, thank you for the jacket! I'm touched!" Negi says with his eyes shining while tears of gratitude pour from his eyes. And of course, he didn't notice Asuna's left eye brown twitching while a vein throbs on her forehead.
'She can't say a thing… and he's not helping…' Sarah thought as she sweat dropped at the poor girl. 'Wonder what's stopping her though… wait… that must be me…'
"Kesh… This is above ground team, there is a rest stop right a head of you. So please take a rest and eat your packed snakes…" Nodoka says thought the walkie-talkie as Haruna continues to think of any thing and everything that can get the ermine to talk.
"Roger that." Yue says as she clear the book shelves, followed by Makie, Ku Fei, Kaede, Konoka, Asuna, Negi, and finally Sarah.
"All right! Finally." Kaede says with a happy smile on her relaxed face.
"HORRAY! I'D BEING WAITING FOR THIS ARU!" Ku Fei exclaims as she jump for joys once again.
Sure enough, after climbing a few stairs, they came upon a clearing with a long wooden table with chairs surrounding it. The small group soon starts to unpack their snacks while talking about nonsense. They're also discussing what they thought about the library as Yue continues to study the map.
Somewhere not far from the table, Negi studies the titles of books that are lined on a book shelf next to the stairs with Sarah leaning against it. However, there's this small feeling inside of him that was soon identified as magic. Looking over to his caretaker, he tilts his head as Sarah seems to search around for the source as well. "So…"
"Not from me…" The caretaker answered as she continues to try and locate the source.
"…hmm…" Jogging over to Asuna, who's looking over the railings at all the book shelves, he tugs at her shirt to get her attention. "Hey, Asuna-san…!"
"Nani?" The girl asks as she turns around to regard Negi.
"I'd felt it a while ago… but I'm not sure. Not I'm definite about it. This library isn't normal." The child whispered as to not let the other hear.
"Eh? Whacha mean?"
"It means that there is magic within the structure." Sarah says as she walks over to the duo and looks over the railing. "But it's not from me or Negi-sama."
"Eh? What do you mean by that?" Asuna whispered to Sarah with narrowed eyes.
"Ah, well, it might be nothing… but…" Negi says as if he's not certain about whether it's good or bad.
"You mean the magic book?"
"Probably," Sarah answered as she settles herself onto the railing with her legs dangling at the other side, "although it could be anything else. I'm not sure if this book even existed."
"But you…!"
"Hey, what are you all whispering about?" Makie asks as she suddenly appears right beside Negi, scaring him to no end.
"Aren't you all just getting alone nicely lately?" Konoka asks as she appears at Asuna's left side.
"Y-YOU'RE MISUNDERSTANDING THINGS! I'M NOT…!" Asuna begins only to be cut off by Konoka, who completely ignored it.
"After all, Negi-kun and Asuna usually sleep together. Sometimes he even sleeps with Sarah-chan!" The air-headed girl says, causing other's jaws to hit the floor.
(RSP: I WANT IN!)
(MX: you perv, if you keep getting anymore perverted or any less sane your getting fired)
(RSP: IM SO SORRY (think that lady from Fruits Basket that runs the sauna))
(APH: …He's definitely planning to make more children…)
"EEEEEEEHHHH!"
"Negi-kun, Sarah-chan, Asuna looks like Negi-kun's sister right?" Konoka asks as she giggles behind her hand.
"It's true… she does looks like her with her hair down." Sarah says as she turns to face the group.
"And she smells like her too… and it's a nice smell." Negi says, only to gets his mouth stuff full of a huge sandwich. Sarah soon finds herself in similar situation.
"He's just a brat…" Asuna says as she walks away, leaving behind a choking Negi and an irritated Sarah. Ku Fei and Kaede, however, find Negi's predicament somehow amusing… Of course, Asuna and Makie starts to 'argue' about rooming arrangement as Makie tries to swap with Asuna while the girl just keeps denying for one reason or another.
"Shall we go now?" Konoka asks Yue, who had been studying the map the whole time.
"Ok…" The poker-faced girl says as she jumps down to the ground and starts to walk away.
"HEY! WE'RE GOING NOW!" Konoka shouts over her shoulder, and soon, all the other members are on their way once again.
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"IS THIS REALLY A LIBRARY!" Asuna asks as she helps Negi onto another book shelf with Sarah in front of pull.
"Well, these are book shelves aren't they?" The caretaker states matter-of-factly, only to make the girl even more ticked off.
"WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD READ BOOKS HERE!"
"Err…" Sarah chuckle sheepishly as she held up a thick book.
"…I'm not even going to comment…"
"Aycha! Asuna, calm down!"
"This is interesting…"
"COME ON! FASTER ARU!"
"Don't look down… don't look down… don't look down… AH! I LOOKED DOWN! I'M GONG TO DIE IF I FALL FROM HERE!"
"This is like an unexplored wonderland…" Yue says as she takes large steps on the top of the book shelf.
"Hey, The History of Wales CLICK! Oops…"
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As the group continues, they find themselves at weird places… such as a flooded level.
"It's f-f-f-freezing…" The child says through chattering teeth.
"Here, climb on Negi-sama." The caretaker says before she lower herself low enough to let Negi jump on, but not enough to get herself any more wet than she already is.
"Geez, you really are just a brat…"
"Ueesh, my panties are soaked." Makie whined with a frown on her face.
"I wonder if there are fish in here…" Kaede mumbled as she licks her lips at all the dishes she can make with them.
"Mmm… fish… I wonder if we can eat sushi aru."
"Aycha! Right there!" Konoka says as she points at a set of stair and a large iron door.
"I see it…"
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A cliff of books…
"EEEEEEHH! WHY DID THEY BUILD IT LIKE THIS?" Asuna complains as she shakes her fists in irritation, all the while shaking the robes she and Negi are using.
"WAAAH! ASUNA-SAN! DON'T MOVE TOO MUCH!"
"GAH! NEGI-SAMA!" Sarah exclaims before she reaches out and tries to steady the robe.
"I'M GOING TO DIE!" Makie shouts as she clumps to her robe for dear life.
"Nin-nin!"
"THIS IS FUN ARU-YO!" Ku Fei says as she slid down the long robe with Kaede with no fear what so ever… or she just doesn't know what is going on…
"Glad we brought ropes ne Yue-chan!"
"…hai."
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A… tropical jungle! (APH: WHERE THE HELL DID THAT COME FROM?) (MX: WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHERE DID THAT COME FROM! YOU'RE THE BLOODY AUTHOR!)
"Damn those mosquitoes! SLAP!"
"Itai! Asuna-san" Negi whines as a red hand mark now spotted his face.
"Gomen…"
"Grr… that old geezer is a little too creative for his own good…"
"HAHAHA! THIS IS FUN!" Makie yelled at the top of her lung as she swung from one tree to another via her ribbon.
"Oh, I used to see bigger and wider trees in where I grew up."
"HEY! ARE THOSE BANANAS ARU!"
"Aycha? Are you sure we're going the right way?" Konoka asks doubtfully as she looks around at the forest.
"Hai…" The poker-face girl answered before she points to another place. "That way…"
"Didn't we just pass that tree…?" Sarah asks with two black dots as her eyes. The whole group sweat dropped as they realized that, yes indeed, they passed that tree for the fifth time…
"Okay… so maybe not that way…"
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At last, the group of eight have reached the under ground passage after conquering difficult terrains… while, more like rampaging. The amount of traps inside the library can make Egyptians drool. Still, as they are now inside a small tunnel, they'd been crawling for quite a while now.
"Yue-chan… Are we there YET!" Asuna asks for the nth time. Her clothing is now dirty with stains while there is dirt on her arms and legs.
"No… Just a little further…" Yue says as she continues to study her map before crawling forward once again.
"Yue's really getting into this isn't she?" Konoka asks with her beaming smile still on even though she's not any better than Asuna.
"Can you tell?" Yue asks with a victory sign… but her face never changes though…
'She doesn't look any different…' Asuna thought with a sweat drop before she looks over her shoulder too look at the others. Ku Fei and Negi are having a better time since they aren't exactly the tallest (Although Yue is about the same height as Negi, she's in the front, so she has to be cautious… or more traps). Makie also isn't having much trouble thanks to her gymnastic training. As for Sarah and Kaede… they're having a field day just trying to move.
"Damn it… why do we have to move through here…?" The caretaker groaned as she continues to try and crawl a little faster while not bumping her head into the ceiling.
"…This isn't that bad… just think of this as training…" Kaede says with the corner of her mouth twitching. However, other than that, she looks as always, relaxed.
"You guys sounded painful…" Makie says doubtfully as she peers over her shoulder at the two tallest girls in the class. "Are you two okay?"
Looking at each other, Kaede and Sarah turn back to facing Makie and answered simultaneously, "Perfect!"
"Just hang in there…" The leader of the group says as the girl continues to study that map. "Our senpais from the University Branches can't fit into small places like this… so we middle schoolers are the first to explore this place." Yue says somewhat proudly as she continues to crawl. "It's really a testament of the athletic abilities of the Baka Rangers that we made it this far… and congratulation, the book is right a head of us."
Sure enough, right in front of them, a piece of tilt was outlined by light coming from a room right on top of them. Crawling a little more, Yue pushed the tilt upwards to be exposed to a room that was well lit with a short walkway that leads right up to… the 'Magic Book'. Taking a closer look, Yue finds that the wall themselves are completely covered with books. "We're here…"
"FINALLY!" Asuna exclaims as she pushes pass Yue and jumps into the room. Ku Fei and Negi soon follow with Makie right behind them. Then out comes Yue herself with Konoka right behind her. And then Kaede pokes her head out before she jumps out of the tunnel. Lastly, Sarah also jumps out of the tunnel and stretches her arms and legs and sometimes popping her joints.
"THAT feels good!" Sarah says before she starts to observe the room around her. "Hmm… where did all the light come from?"
"Don't know…" Makie says as she also looks around the room with her mouth hanging. "Sugoi… so beautiful…"
'To think that this place existed RIGHT beneath our school…' Asuna thought with a sweat drop as she continues to observe the room.
"Ne, ne, is that the book?" Konoka asks as she points to an alter that was framed by two giant stone statues that looks like two piece of armors while right on top of the alter itself is an old, worn book with leather covering.
"OOH! T-THAT…!" Negi suddenly exclaims as he laid his eyes upon the book.
"Eh? Negi-bouzo, what is it?" Kaede asks with a confused face as she watches the child continue to do an imitation of a fish out of the water… and he's doing a good job too.
"IT'S THE LEGENDARY BOOK OF MERKISEDEK!" Negi shouts as he points a finger at the book.
(RSP: MERKI-whaaaaat?)(APH: heh, heh no idea…)(MX: Stupid…bloody…author)
"Eh? What is that book doing here?" Sarah asks no one in particular… however, she also forgot that she's not alone. "He shouldn't just keep it lying around like this…"
"Eh? You mean that it's the real thing?" Asuna asks as her eyes widen at the knowledge that both magic user in the group confirmed the book.
"THE REAL THING? THE REAL THING! THIS IS A MAGICAL TEXT OF THE HIGHEST LEVEL! IT'S TRUE THAT YOU MIGHT BECOME A LITTLE SMARTER BY JUST READING IT! BUT IT'S NOT AS… simple… as… oops…" Negi trailed off as he realized his own mistake. However, Baka Rangers weren't called 'Baka Rangers' without reason…
"EEEEEEEEEHHHH! SUGOI!" Makie exclaims with her eyes going big-and-shiny at the news.
"Negi-kun really knows his stuff doesn't he huh?" Konoka whispered with a confused face on, being one of the smartest, it's hard not to suspect something.
"I-it's nothing to worry about…" Sarah says with a very convincing smile. However, the girl isn't fool by one second, but she decides to drop it and smile again.
"Oh well. Still… WE DID IT!" Konoka exclaims, and as if one cues, everyone excluding Negi and Sarah starts to run as fast as they can towards the book.
"LET'S GO! HURRY ARU!" Ku Fei exclaims with her arms flailing behind her in a relaxed run. Kaede is about a step behind her.
"ME FIRST!" Makie shouts as she steps on a stone bridge between them and the alter.
"AHH! ME FIRST!" Asuna says as she also dashed onto the bridge.
"W-WAIT! IT'S NOT THAT SIMPLE!" Sarah says as she dash forward to try to stop the group of frenzied students.
"AAAH! WAIT!" Negi also shouts as he runs forward, but not as fast as his caretaker is. "A BOOK OF THAT VALUE IS BOUND TO BE GUARDED BY A BOOBY TRAP!"
"CRACK! Aycha!" Konoka suddenly stopped as the bridge gave way under her and Sarah with Negi just right behind her. Being the slowest of the group, she dropped just outside a twister-looking board, where the Baka Rangers landed. Negi landed just by the edge, where he successfully stopped his decent down a bottomless-looking hole by grabbing onto the edge.
"WAHH! T-that was close…"
Noticing that her young charge is in danger, Sarah reached forward and grabbed the boy by his collar before she drag him forward into her. "Damn… that was a little too close."
"Owowow… what just happened?" Makie asks as she rubs her head. After taking the fall, she suspects that somehow this isn't the only thing that'll happen. Just like the time where she's almost turned into a human swish cheese.
"Eh…? What's this?" Yue asks as she scans the area where they landed on. "It looks like… a twister board?"
"Ara? A twister board…?" Asuna asks as if somehow her ears deceived her. Looking at the heading, her jaw dropped at what is written there. "T-the 'twister board of the English language'…"
"HOHOHO!" One of the two statues suddenly laughed a very familiar laugh as it starts to move. Taking a step forward, it plants its foot firmly on the stairs leading to the book. "IF YOU WISH TO AQUIRE THE BOOK… YOU'LL HAVE TO ANSWER MY QUESTIONS FIRST. HOHOHO!" The statue says, and you can literally see the heart that flows out at the end of the sentence.
"W-W-W-W-WHAT THE!" Asuna exclaims in shock as she drops onto her bum. "THE STATUE MOVED!"
"IYAAAAA!" Makie exclaims in fear with tears jetting out of her eyes like twin fountains.
"…" Yue's jaw tense as sweat drops roll down her face. Other than that, she looks like always: a poker face.
"OHHHHH!" Ku Fei exclaims with a face that says 'bring-it-on-whatever-it-is'.
"T-this is…" Negi stare in shock with Konoka gaping beside him. However, Sarah is a completely different reaction.
'T-that voice… and that laugh… masaka…' The caretaker thought with a sweat drop and a face that literally screams 'you-got-to-be-joking' at the statue.
"FIRST QUESTION!" The statue bellowed, snapping everyone out of their shock… well, mostly everyone. "WHAT IS THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION FOR 'DIFFICULT'!"
"E-EVERYONE! JUST STAY CALM! YOU'LL BE OKAY!" Negi shouts as his face lit up in determination. "ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS PRESS THE CORRESPONDING TRANLATION FOR THE LETTERS FOR 'DIFFICULT'!"
"EEEEEHHH! E-EVEN IF YOU SAY THAT…!" Asuna starts as her face flush in embarrassment.
"S-SENSEI…! W-WHAT IS…" Makie starts as her face also reddens in shame.
"What's difficult!" Ku Fei asks, causing Negi to sweat drop as Sarah and Konoka face fault.
"IT'S-!" Konoka starts only to be cut off by the statue as its hammer slammed down a few inches from her. "KYAAAAHH!"
"IF YOU ANSWERED, THEY'LL BE DISQULIFIED!" The statue declared before it points its stony finger at Negi and Sarah, "THAT GOES FOR YOU AND YOU TOO! ESPECIALLY THE GIRL WITH REDDISH-BLONDE HAIR!"
'T-that old geezer…' Sarah thought with another sweat drop as the corner of her mouth twitch and an imaginary vein throb behind her.
"AWAWAWA! Err… i-it's… IT'S THE OPPOSITE OF EASY!" Negi exclaims as an idea pops into his mind.
"Oh, soka!" Kaede says as she slaps her hand onto a circle with the syllable 'mu' in it. "So it's 'mu'…"
"…'zu'…" Makie says as she slaps her hand onto a circle with the mentioned syllable.
"It's 'I' right?" Asuna asks as she also slaps a circle.
"MUZUI… damn it, that's correct." That statue says, making the students cheer in victory before it snapped at them. "NEXT QUESTION! 'CUT'!"
"W-WHA!" Ku Fei exclaims as she stare at the statue like it'd grown another head.
"M-MATTE…!" Makie exclaims as she is about to take off her hand, the statue snapped again in a cheery voice.
"IF YOU TAKE OFF YOUR HAND, YOU'RE DISQULIFIED!"
"ASUNA! CLIPPY! LIKE THIS!" Konoka shouts innocently as her hand makes a cutting motion with two fingers.
"I KNOW THAT!" The said girl exclaims sheepishly before she set to work. And so, the game begins… a painful one at that. As the questions proceeds, the girls find themselves in even more intimidating position. And for some reason, they suspect that the statue is enjoying it…
The 15th question…
"Ouch… please don't do that…" Yue says as she felt someone just accidentally poke her butt.
"G-gomen…" Kaede apologized as she moves a leg over Makie and onto another circle…
The 26th question…
"EEKK!" Makie squeaked, but force herself not to move as Asuna's hand appears between her legs. "A-Asuna…"
"I have to…" Baka red says with a huge blush on her face.
The 32nd question…
"It's something round and can bounce… err… think Yuna-san!" Negi says as he clenches his hands in determination.
"WAGADA…!" Ku Fei says as the little group of five proceeds to produce the word that's needed…
The 41st question…
"IT'S A LONG METAL THAT CAN CUT THINGS! JAPANESE PEOPLE USE TO USE IT!" Sarah hints as she watches the girls struggle to remain 'standing'…
The 54th question…
"Err… it's that creature that sucks blood at night…" Sarah says with a nervous giggle before she glares at the statue. Said statue visibly shivered for a few second before it gives out another question.
"Aycha! Hope they're okay…" Konoka says as she watches her friends move into even more painful position…
The 68th question…
"THE WORD 'WATER'!" The statue snaps as it watches the girl trying to answer its question, giving it a good view of their panties and legs in the process.
"Owowow… POP! I think I broke something…" Makie says as her face paled.
"N-no… t-that just my buckle…" Ku Fei says as sure enough, one of her buckles for her clothes hung loose due to their position. "This is really painful… aru."
The 77th question…
"GAHH! Y-YUE-CHAN! R-REACH!" Makie shouts as Yue tries to reach the syllable with her short arm.
"I… can't…" The small girl says as she grits her teeth.
"I g-got it…!" Kaede relieved the girl by slapping her hand onto it. In that moment, Yue immediately slap her hand back onto the circle it was on before….
The 83rd question…
"The word 'computer'…" The statue says with a bored tone as the girls continues to answer its questions correctly… but then again, it did get some entertainment by watching the girls giggle and blush as one of them continues to accidentally grope somewhere…
The 99th question…
"LAST QUESTION!" The statue bellowed in hope of sending them down to wherever the dark hole leads to. "WHAT IS THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION FOR 'DISH'?"
"'D-dish'…?" Kaede asks as her arms and legs tremble with the weight of four other people on her.
"A-AH! I-IT'S 'OSARA'…!" Ku Fei shouted with some difficulty considering that she can no longer tell which limbs are hers.
"'OSARA'! OKAY!" Makie yelled with sweat bids rolling down her face. Moving her right arm, she slams her hand onto the syllable 'o'.
"…'SA'…!" Kaede exclaims happily as she slap her hand onto the said syllable.
"...'RA'…!" Asuna exclaims as she slaps her hand down where Makie's leg is also steps on… but that syllable isn't 'ra'…
"Osaru…?" Konoka says with a sweat drop well Sarah slams her head onto the hard stone floor beneath her rapidly.
"That's a problem…" Negi says with a huge sweat drop as everyone else on the plate stare in shock, their pain long forgotten.
"That's… not right... aru…" Ku Fei state the obvious as her eyes widen and become two saucers.
"Oops…" Asuna and Makie mumbled, both have multiple sweat drops around their head as the statue also sweat dropped at the stupid mistake.
"Osaru…? WRONG! OHOHOHOHOHOHOHO!" The statue exclaims as it raise its hammer, and brought it down onto the group with hell's vengeance…
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"WAAAAAH! ASUNA!" Makie accused with twin jets of tear shooting out of her eyes, while said girl is also panicking.
"MAKIE! IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!" Asuna accused the other girl as the hammer speed down on them.
However, everything to Yue seems to be in slow motion. From the hammering being raised and coming towards them, the group disengages to try and escape, to Sarah suddenly appears beneath the hammer with a palm stopping its advance… but that didn't stop the board to crack. However, before they all tumble into the dark hole beneath them, a suspicion bubbles up inside the girl as she watches the girl glare at the statue and mouthed 'I'll get you for this'. '…She's not normal… that shouldn't be… possible…' CRACK! SNAP!
"IIIIIYYYYYAAAAANNN! ASUNA YOU MONKEY!" Ku Fei exclaims with a large defeated look on her face.
"KYAAAAANNNN!" All the girls yelled as they started descending into the world below… that is of course, not before Makie makes a last effort to get the book, only to have the book AND the statue tumbling down with them… yup, life is 'good'…
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THUD! "CHIKUSO…! DAMN YOU OLD MAN!" CRASHSMASHCRUNCHSNAPPOPZAPCLINKCRACK!
"…" A small figure looks up from whatever it was reading for the nth time and stares at the ceiling above. "I could have sworn I heard something…" It says before it hovers off the book it was reading as heads toward where the voice was last heard…
END… for now… TO BE CONTINUED!
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Asuna: …I think I'm going to feel that one afterwards…
Makie: (Innocently) You mean the fall? Or do you mean all that groping around?
MX: (eyes lights up) groping? Where? Where? I want some!
Asuna: ABLABLABLA… (Blush)
Kaede: …I rather not do that again…
Ku Fei: Ouch… I think someone stepped on my hand back there aru…
Yue: … (Sip her juice) …That was sort of fun…
Konoka: Aycha! Put me in next time! (Pats APH's shoulder)
Nekane: YOU LET MY LITTLE NEGI FALLS DOWN THAT HOLE! HOW DARE YOU! (Brandish a broom stick)
Sarah: Hey now… calm down… (Restrain Nekane) But still… that fall was uncalled for…
APH: (Take a step back from the group) …Anyway, I guess that's that for now. But for those that was confused by the voting post… I'm sorry. Let me explain that. I'm asking if we should do the Asuna-time arc, the one in the anime where they went back in time. Of course, I'm going to revise that, so instead of sending everyone back and kill Asuna, I'm probably going to just let them go back and look for something or do something… still:
ASUNA-TIME ARC!
YES OR NO! DEAD LINE BY END OF SCHOOL-TRIP ARC!
APH: Now then, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to study. (Tie a cloth with the word 'victory' sewed on it onto his forehead)
MX: Hmm… being a hard worker I see… (Gets whacked in the head)
Setsuna: You should study too…
MX: Aw, but Set-chan (Starts to beg Setsuna, who held him at sword point to study.)
APH: HAHA! YOU GOT SETSUNA AS UR TUTOR!
Eva: Shut up and do your homework! (Pull out a scythe) Or I'll cut it off…
APH: …Hai… ojou-sama…
Random observer #1: it?
Random observer #2: you know it, between the legs.
Random observer #1: ohh…(realization dawns) where are we and who are these people? Serious, I mean each night I went to sleep and the next thing I know! I'M HERE WITH THESE LUNATICS!
Random observer #2: the loony bin my friend, the loony bin, and they re the lunatics.
Eva: I swear MX, if you put those two in one more time… it is coming off.
MX: ah hah hah hah… that's a problem… (Glare at all the casts that are cheering for Eva to do it) AND YOU GUYS AREN'T HELPING!
Sarah: We, as of now, completely apologize for anything that somehow in one way or another offended some readers… blame the author (point a finger at APH) or the editor (point another finger at MX)… but we have nothing to do with this… but hope you guys enjoy! Have fun! (Pull the curtain down)