APH: (walk in like a zombie) School… is killing me…
MX: (Walk in like a zombie too) Life… hates me…
Sarah: (SKIP in happily) Hey guys, how's it going?
APH and MX: (Turn to Sarah and glare) …
Sarah: EEP! (Hide behind Eva)
Eva: Anyway, as they were saying, life had being particularly hard on them… especially on puffy over there. (Point to a dozing APH)
MX: A-anyway… he needs to catch some sleep and I need to study… (Doze off too)
Narutaki twin: …Okay, WAKE UP TIME! (Drop kick the author and editor)
APH: GAAH! (Shot awake) A-anyway, the old divider isn't exactly working for some reason. So they're now going to be separated via ten 'X's in the center of the page. Hope you guys have fun!
Locke: (Get wheeled in by a nurse) Hey guys…
APH: (Sweat dropped) oh, that's right. Teruko-chan drew three pictures of Sarah (with some SMALL flaws) in her deviant art. Hope you guys enjoy it. The link is in my profile. (Or at least I'll try putting it up…) And once you've seen it, you'll know why Locke is in that state. And DO NOT misunderstand me. I love them. It's just that Sarah doesn't like HIM! (Grin like a madman)
Disclaimer: DON'T. OWN. ANYTHING! But Sarah-chan, Yuki-chan, and Locke belong to Teruko (heart!)
Chibi Sarah: GO TO HELL!
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Morning came as the sun slowly rose in a graceful arc. The birds started to sing and dance in the joyful morning as they hunted for food. Farmers awoke to pick up their discarded tools from yesterday and continue their unfinished work. Men and women alike started to wake up for the day, either it be business or other things.
However, despite all these activities going on in the word, we find one simple 14 (or is it 15?) year old girl is sleeping away in the infirmary of Mahora All-Girl Middle School.
Why is she there you ask? Well, she's visiting someone of course. And right now, that certain someone is doing one hand push ups on the cold tilted floor of the not-so-spacious but comfortable room.
"97… 98… 99… 1,000!" Locke breathed as he finished his morning exercises, which consisted of 2,000 push ups, 1000 for each arms, a thousand sit ups, and if he can, a few miles of jogging. Of course, the last event was tossed out the window as he can't really leave the room, which the reason should be obvious…
He's in an all-girl school…
Which means…
He will get swarmed by girls if he ever shows his face… 'And just imagine what they'll do then… Erk!'
After gaining back some control of his bulging muscles, Locke slowly stands up and turns to face the window. The sun's light creeps in from the opening as it rises higher yet. Following the length, Locke's bi-color eyes slowly traveled to his old traveling coat hanging on a chair. It really can't be called a coat for it is just like a jacket, except thicker, and heavier, and of course, longer. It was some what old, for it's a little small for him now, showing all the muscles on his body… well, at least his torso part anyway. (APH: DON'T YOU HENTAI GET THE WRONG IDEA!) 'I guess that's why I'm get mobbed by girls most of the time… right?'
Shaking his head, the slayer walked over and pick up the coat, turned it over, so that his eyes can land on the symbol that he has worn proudly for nearly ten years now. One the back of the coat is a giant black cross that was stabbed into a skull. The skull had fangs like the unholy creatures of the night, which is exactly what his organization does, they hunt, no, terminate dark creatures such as vampires, werewolves, harpies, and many others.
After staring at the emblem for a little longer, Locke sighed and put it back onto the chair. Then, he turns his attention towards the teenage girl that's currently sleeping on the other bed inside the room.
There she is, sleeping oh so peacefully, completely ignorant to the danger out there in the ever-surprising world. For example, here he is, going to see the principal for an errand, and what did he find? Two high class vampires living in this very campus, but why is it so surprising? Well, how about they're not drinking every single drop of blood available on the campus?
"Hmm… why not have the one thing you most desired when there is it right in front of your eyes?" Locke asks to himself as he scratches his slightly crazy hair as he tilted his head a little to the side.
"Because I'm not like that, and Eva-chan is enjoying life too much to ruin it." A voice says from the door way, causing Locke to jump a little before turning to glare at the intruder. "Yo!" Sarah cheerfully says with a beaming smile and a wave of a hand.
"What!"
" Ala, looks like someone is cranky in the morning." The caretaker teased before she walked over to where Sakurako sleeps peacefully. "Hmm… Misa and Madoka will never let her hear the end of this."
"I don't get you…" The slayer says as he relaxes a little, but never dropping his guard incase Sarah decides to have a sudden change of heart. Besides, he still remembers that she almost snapped his neck yesterday.
"Well, I'm a girl, so what do you expect?" Sarah says with a wink. Looking at Locke's frustrated expression; she decides to let him off the hook… for now. "I have more important things to take care of that's more important than blood sucking… Besides, vampires suck blood mainly to replenish the iron in our body, which we used up very fast… well, faster than normal human at any rate."
"And this more important thing…?"
"Well, a little ten year old boy who keeps blowing their-" at here, Sarah points a finger at the sleeping girl, "-clothes off."
"…Ah." Locke managed out after a long silence as his face starts to redden at the not-so-pure images that keep appearing in his mind. "…I see… most men would kill to be where he is… Ah, I need some coffee. Damn this headache."
"De-caf?" Sarah joked with another wink as she suddenly changed into a waiter's outfit.
"…Not funny."
Pouting, the vampire changed back to her school uniform (the standard one, NO TRANCH COAT!) "Oh, you're no fun."
"WELL HOW MISERABLE!" Evangeline, who suddenly appeared out of no where, drop kicked Sarah, causing the girl to fall face first into the cold, hard floor below her.
"GAAH! YOU PIP SQUEAK! WHAT WAS THAT FOR!"
"Ha, that's for letting your guard down!" The shorter of the two exclaims as her loyal servant and friend, Chachamaru, calmly walks into the room and puts what looks like cotton into Sakurako's ears. Locke sweat dropped at that as the two continues to bicker, completely forgetting that he ever existed.
"Are… they usually like this?" Locke asks the silent robot that's standing a good distance away from the two.
"Hai, master and Sarah-san are good friends." Chachamaru replied without the slightest emotion in her voice, but the slayer wasn't surprised. After all, a robot shouldn't have feelings… right? "Hmm… better stop this before the 'Paper Fan of Doom' appears…"
"Eh? The what of Doom?"
"…You don't want to know…"
"Aycha! Why is everyone so happy in the morning?" A voice chipped from somewhere behind Locke, causing everyone but Chachamaru to jump three feet in the air. "AH! SUGOI!"
"KONOKA! WHAT ARE YOU DOING OUTSIDE THE WINDOW!" Sarah and Evangeline exclaims as Locke stares dumbly at the air-headed girl standing right outside their window, still ignoring the slayer as they calm their undead hearts down.
"Ma, I just happen to be out here and I heard some shouting. So I came to check it out!" Konoka says with her usual smile before she turns to look at the only man presented in the room. "Aycha! I forget about you. I'm Konoe Konoka, what your name?"
'…It's HER!' Locke thought as his eyes widen slightly at the name before he regained his composure… err, what's left of it after the shock. "L-Locke… Locke Whitby…"
"Hmm… interesting name. Well, nice to meet you. I'm going to make breakfast for Asuna now!" Konoka says with a beaming smile before she starts to turn. However, before she can go anywhere, Locke shot forward and caught her shoulder. "Eh?"
"M-matte! I n-need to see your grandfather about something…!"
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"Um… w-what time is it…?" Sakurako asks as she slowly stirs awake and rubbed at her eyes. Her still disgruntled mind slowly starts to turn as she remembered last night's event. As fast as you can say 'up', her sleepiness is gone, and with it, her bed's cover. Making sure that she's fully clothed, she breathes a sign of relief.
"What, afraid you got raped?"
"EEP!" The cheerleader jumped in her bed before snapping her head over to the side, a loud CRACK emitted as her neck got abused. "…Owie…!"
"Ouch… watch out there." Sarah says with a wince as she watch comical tears stream down Sakurako's face.
"Mm… I do that… em, what time is it?" The girl asks as she rubes her neck up and down a few times.
"It's about 11 o'clock, so you won't get any brea-"
"NANI!" Sakurako shouts as she jumps out of the bed and starts to run around in panic. "OHNOOHNOOHNOOHNOOHNOOHNO! I MISSED PRACTICE! SENSEI WILL KICK MY ASS!"
"Err… Sakurako…"
"KYAAAAH! AND MISA AND MADOKA WILL KILL ME!"
"Sakurako…" Sarah sweat dropped as the cheerleader continues to rumble on. 'She has to stop sometime to take a breath…'
"MOU! NOT TO MENTION I SLEEP IN MY DAY CLOTH! THEY'LL GET THE WRONG IMPRESSION AND NEVER LET ME LIVE IT DOWN!" Apparently not, as Shiina Sakurako is also know for being able to talk for quite sometime.
"Sakurako…" Sarah almost growled as she continues to try and get the girl's attention. 'Okay, I'm sure she'll stop soon…'
"AAAAAH! WHAT TO DO! WHAT TO DO!" The cheerleader screams as she suddenly latched onto the caretaker and starts to shake her. Poor Sarah can only go with it as she's caught off guard. "TELL ME WHAT TO DO!"
Deciding that enough is enough, Sarah grabs Sakurako's wrists and yanks it off. Sucking in a mouthful of air, she let it rip. "SHINNA SAKURAKO!"
"HAI!" Said girl yelped in a high pitched squeaked as she stands at attention in front of the caretaker, who blinks a few times before doubling over in laughter. "Eh? Nani? What's so funny!"
"I-it's just… the look on… y-your face…" Sarah says between fits of giggles before she starts to calm down a bit. "S-still, I already told your sensei you won't be able to make it today. As for your other two friends…"
As if one cue, two of the most dreaded things of Sakurako a the moment decide to show their faces.
"SAKURAKO-CHAN!" Yup, you guessed it! Misa and Madoka exclaims as they pushed Sarah aside (who then slammed into a metal pole that Kami knows how it gets there) and crowded around Sakurako.
(APH: If you didn't guess this right, go jump off a cliff)
(MX: Ma, don't be that way. Just give them a gun and tell them to shoot themselves.)
(Eva:…and you two says I'm evil…)
"So, who's the guy!" Misa starts off the question with a light in her eyes that causes Sakurako to gulp.
"Is he handsome!" Madoka asks with a huge grin on her face that almost makes poor Shiina faint.
"Is he tall!"
"Is he buff!"
"What's his name!"
"What's his eye color!"
"WHAT'S HIS HAIR COLOR!"
"And most importantly… Is he good!"
"EEP!" Sakurako exclaims as the last question was asks, and to her horror, she finds her face starting to heat up. Her two friends' grins only got bigger as the poor girl hides behind her blanket. "W-what give y-you two t-t-that idea!"
"Oh c'mon! It's pretty obvious, no?" Misa says as she leans forward.
"It's not hard to put things together." Madoka says as she also leans forward.
"I-I don't know w-what you two are t-talking about!" Sakurako says as she tries to act casual, but failed miserably as all that comes out are high-pitched squeaks and stuttered words.
"Itai…" Sarah moans as she nursed a red line on her face that's caused by the metal pole. After moaning in misery for a while, she decides to forget it and let it heal by her vampire blood. Turning around, the caretaker sweat dropped as she sees Sakurako blushing like a fire hydrant as her two fellow cheerleaders poke at her (not literally!). "Err, guys, if you two continue, I think she's going to faint…"
The two cheerleaders turn to look at her, then exchange looks, and finally settled back onto their third and blushing member. What they notice cause them to blink, as Sakurako is fidgeting with the blanket as a small smile play on her lips. Even Sarah, who only moment ago tried to save her, noticed that drastic change. An eye brow rose as she walked towards the smiling girl. "Now what's there to smile about?"
"EEP! S-SARAH-CHAN!" Sakurako exclaims as she finds Sarah's face only a few centimeter from hers. "W-when did you get here?" The other eye brow rose up before a devious smile appeared on the caretaker's lips, causing Shiina to gulp and tighten the blanket around her.
'Wait… why do those looks like fangs…?'
"So, you really do like him…" Sarah says in a whisper before her smile grows into a grin. "I KNEW IT! YOU CAN'T HIDE IT FROM M-MMMM!"
"P-please… n-not a word!" Sakurako whispered right in front of Sarah as she covers Sarah's mouth with her hand. "Please!" Shiina pleaded with huge puppy eyes as Sarah twitched at the intensities of them. The taller girl can only nod weakly before she's engulfed in a bone crushing huge. "OH THANKYOUTHANKYOUSOMUCH! Now can we get out of here?" The cheerleader asks meekly as she was suddenly reminded of the other two via the very sinister aura and the evil grin on her friends' face.
Said friends are now advancing towards them as if they'd just found the biggest oil sit. And of course, this didn't not bode will with Sakurako as she gulps again. As for Sarah, she can only be impressed by the amount of evil that's being radiated out of the two.
"Err… I guess…" Without warning, Sarah picks Sakurako up bridal-style, turns with a huge grin, and says, "Well, we'll see you later!" And with that, she jumps out the window, all the while with Sakurako clinging on to her screaming bloody murder.
A silence ensured before the other two cheerleaders caught up to what happened. "GAAAH! THEY ESCAPED!" They exclaims as they both grabbed their hair and gave them a yank.
"AFTER THEM!" The two shouts in unison before they also jumped out the window and started to go on a goose chase. The reason as to that… it's because their targets are laughing up on top of a tree… Well, Sarah is anyway as Sakurako continues to rant on about doing dangerous things.
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"I see…" Konoemon says as he strokes his bread slowly. "So you're telling me that they have hired youkais as guards and fighting force?"
"Yes sir." Locke says with a serious face as he stands to attention. "Also, some of these youkais are masters at hand-to-hand combat, so mages might find them to be some rather… difficult opponents."
"Indeed they will…" The principal says before he pressed a button on the speaker on his desk. "Yuna, please sent Takamichi, Touko, and other high combat magical teachers in please."
"Sir," a voice, which Locke presumes belong to this Yuna woman, says. "Won't you need Sarah-san and Evangeline?"
"…" The principal fell silent for a moment as he observes Locke's shoulders tense up. After stroking his bread a few more times, he made a decision. "No, they deserve to have a break."
"Very well… they will be there in a few minutes…" With that, the speaker went dead.
A silence settle over the duo as Locke started to slightly relax as Konoemon studied the situation a little closer. 'This won't do… I can't let my granddaughter fall into their hands… If her magic power were used for the wrong purpose, things can get nasty.'
Just then, the telephone rang. The two of them stare at each other in surprise, wondering if it's either a coincident or someone is watching them. Deciding to answer that question, Konoemon pick up the phone and put on a cheery voice. "Moshi-Moshi! This is the Principal of Mahora Speaking!"
"You haven't change much have you old man?" A voice says at the other side; clearly with a amused smile on the guy's face.
"…You…!" The Principal says with some surprise before his face become serious. "What is it?"
"I call today to discuss the situation in Kyoto. Also, I know that your granddaughter is coming. So I'm going to give you one of my best to accompany them." The voice says before there is some shuffle on the line and a silence. Then the silence was broken by a soft and well-mannered voice.
"Konichiwa, Konoemon-san…"
XXXXX Evangeline's Cabin XXXXX
"Owie…" Yuki moaned as she lays spread out on Sarah's lap as she nurses her aching head.
"Gomen… I'm really, deeply, am sorry…" Sarah says weakly with a sheepishly smile as nearby Evangeline sets fuming. The reason is that it has something to do with the robes that are wrapped around her.
"I-it's okay… I need to watch for where I'm going…" Yuki says as she remembered the cause of that major headache…
Flashback…
"GET OVER HERE!" Evangeline shouts as she wraps some near-invisible fishing lines around Sarah and gave it a yank. Said girl was pulled forward before a palm was thrust into her stomach, knocking the air out of her.
Before another strike can hit her, Sarah used her height to her advantage and stepped onto Evangeline's shoulder, kicked up, and sent an ax kick into the shorter girl's head… or where her head was a moment ago. Landing softly, Sarah turn around a grin, "You know, this IS a good idea… you get to use your full power and no one will be affected."
"Hum… it's not that hard to think of with my high IQ." Evangeline says before she transformed into her older form. "Now, let's get this thing started…" Evangeline, now about 19 and 5'6, says before she charges forward and sends a flying kick at Sarah. Being bound by fishing lines, Sarah can only lean back as far as she can go… which is very far.
As Evangeline sailed over her, her eyes widen as she catches the grin on Sarah's face. "Oh shi-!"
THUD!
A powerful kick landed in her stomach, knocking her senseless for a moment as she went limp on Sarah's foot. Knowing what's coming, the blonde girl tries to regain mobility as the other rears the foot Evangeline is resting on back. "Check…" And Evan-chan went sailing…
…Right into poor little Yuki-chan, who appears from inside the building at the very moment. "EEK!"
DUSH!KRUNK!
"KYAH! YUKI-CHAN!"
End Flashback…
"…Correction… I need to know when to get out and when not…" Yuki says as she pouted at her own mistake.
"Mm… maybe next time you should stay with Chachamaru." Sarah offers as the robot stood perfectly still besides her tied up master. "Speaking of which…" Lifting Yuki up and putting her on the table, Sarah stands up and walks over to Evangeline. "You know, you really need to start getting into shape again…"
"…Does that mean…" The shorter girl says as her eyes widen when the sudden information registers in her mind.
"Yup, special training…" The caretaker answered with a wicked grin on her face. Chachamaru suddenly has an urge to get her master away from the grinning vampire…
XXXXX The Next Day… XXXXX
"Mm… where are we going again?" Locke asks for the nth time as he was dragged by a hyper Sakurako. Because that today is Sunday; the cheerleader decided to show Locke around, so that he won't be lost again. Err… well, considering if Sakurako herself doesn't get lost while trying to not let Locke get lost… Hmm, let's ignore that and go back to our story.
Still, as I was saying, the duo is now running around (almost literally) the school looking at things. And when I say things, I mean the sights of Mahora (for those that have other ideas… well, I don't know what to do with you then). Anyway, as they were running around, Misa and Madoka stays behind cover to spy on their friend.
"That does seem like a great guy…" Misa observed as she watch Sakurako continues to drag poor Locke around.
"Indeed… how could she hide him from us?" Madoka whisper/exclaimed in disbelief. "I mean, just look at all those muscles!"
"Is that all you can see?" Misa asks with a 'I-don't-believe-it' look.
"No, but it's good to know that your boyfriend can watch your back." The other cheerleader says with a huge grin. After that, they both turned back to spying on their friend, who happens to be… gone?
"Eh, where'd they go?"
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"Um… Locke-san?"
"Hai?"
"Can you put me down now?" Sakurako asks as she finds herself still being carried bridle style. She doesn't mind, it's just that, it's attracting looks.
"Wow, look at that…"
"Damn, some girls get all the luck…"
"Do you think they're a couple?"
"…" Locke takes a look around him and finds what's bugging Sakurako rather fast. Spending half of his time running from girls can help you spot things pretty easily. Without a second thought, the slayer carefully puts a blushing cheerleader down on her feet. "My apologies…"
"Oh, I don't mind… it's just rather embarrassing…" Sakurako says with a blush as she looks around her. "Hmm… maybe we should go somewhere else…?"
"It's really up to you… I can't find my way around here." Locke answers as he locked his bicolor eyes onto the girl, causing her to blush a little more before she grabbed his hand as started to drag him away. As they continue to walk, people continue to stare their way. It's starting to make Sakurako feel a little overwhelmed. She loves attention, but getting attention as a cheerleader and getting attention by dragging a devilish handsome man are two different things. What's so different about them? It's how the people look at you.
Hate, jealousy, curiosity, awe, all sorts of emotions are now being directed at her and her companion. While Locke doesn't seem to be affected by any of it, Sakurako finds herself wanting to hide. The only way she can think of is to speed up.
That action did not go unnoticed by Locke. As Sakurako speeds up even more, almost to power walk, Locke decides to take things into his own hands for now.
Thus without warning, Sakurako finds herself back into Locke's arms. With a meek squeak they're gone…
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"I can't wait!" Negi says as he skips around in excitement. Asuna, his near constant companion, sighs as she slaps a hand onto her forehead.
"Negi… calm down. There are still a few days until the school trip."
"Yeah aniki," Kamo says as he climbs onto Asuna's head. "There's no need to get all hyper about it."
"BUT I WANNA GO!" Negi exclaims as his eyes suddenly gets all big and stuff. "I want to see their sights, their festival (if there's one), geishas, and samurais… mou! I want to go!"
"…He's lost it…" Asuna and Kamo says with twin sweat drops on their heads as they watch Negi dance around in his fantasy.
"AH! ASUNA-CHAN!" A voice shouts, snapping all three out of their little event as they all turn to see Konoka running towards them with an excited smile. "ASUNA-CHAN! YOU'LL NEVER GUESS WHAT HAPPENED… Ah? Negi-kun is here too!"
"Konoka, what's the rush?" Asuna asks as she raises an eye brow at Konoka, who was now molesting Negi by pulling his cheeks.
"Oh, that's right." The air-headed girl says as she let go of Negi and turned to regard her friend. "It like this, some guy came to our school."
"And…?"
"Well, he's very handsome and stuff. He's also as tall as Sarah, black hair, and his eyes. They're quite beautiful!"
"…Okay… so what's he here for?" Asuna asks as Negi, who finds this quite interesting, came walking up besides her.
"Is there any thing special about this person you're speaking of?" Negi asks as he gets a feeling that he knows the person.
"Well, like I said, he's about Sarah's height, maybe taller. He got black hair, gold eye in one side and brown in another. He's quite muscular too. Also, he carries this huge cross on his back and wears this old-looking cloak. There's a picture painted on the back, but I don't really get it." The air-headed girl says as a thought bubbles appear and a VERY badly drawn person appears.
Negi and Asuna sweat dropped as they see the drawing and wonder how someone like Konoka draws that bad. Snapping out of his thoughts, Negi decides to ask about the 'picture' Konoka mentioned before. "Konoka-san, what does the picture look like?"
"Well, it's a white skull that has sharp teeth and two glowing dots in its sockets. There's also this black cross that's stabbed into its top all the way down pass its jaw… It looks creepy for some reason." Konoka says, completely missing Kamo tense up or Negi's slight widening of his eyes.
'The "Guardian"…' The two thought at the same time as they both recognized the name. Kamo by past experience and Negi by Sarah's little slip of tongue some years ago.
"Eh? Who would wear something like that?" Asuna asks, completely oblivious to the significance of the emblem. As a result, Negi's jaw nearly hit the floor as his eyes bulged out of his sockets.
"NANI! HOW CAN YOU NOT KNOW THAT SYMBOL! IT'S THE SYMBOL OF THE 'GUARDIAN'! ONE OF THE STRONGEST ORGANIZATIONS IN THE MA-MMMMM!" Negi exclaims, only to find Asuna's hand around his mouth while her other arm around his neck, putting him into a headlock.
"B-baka… do you want to become an ermine…!" Asuna whispered near Negi's ear, causing the kid to tense up and shake his head the best the head lock allowed.
"Eh? Symbol? 'Guardian'?" Konoka asks as she tilted her head sideways with question marks floating around her head. "What are you talking about?"
"N-nothing important, ehehehe…" Asuna says with nervous giggles as she starts to back away. "Well, look at the time. We better get going. I just remember I have something to do. So ja!" And then she was off… dragging Negi like a rag doll down the road and into the horizon.
Amazed once again by Asuna's speed, Konoka can only cough as she inhaled some of the dust from the dust trail Asuna left behind. After coughing for a few seconds, Konoka looks up again to where the girl disappeared to. "What's up with her? She doesn't even OWN a wrist watch… does she? Aycha? I don't remember ever seeing one…?"
Thinking it over and decides to drop it before she gets a headache, Konoka shrugs and turn around to head back. That's when she spots a rather interesting thing.
"Eh? Sakurako-chan? What are you doing up there? And Locke-san… why are you holding her likes that? And why are you (specifically Sakurako) looking at me like you just saw a ghost?"
XXXXX A few minutes earlier… XXXXX
"Y-you got to s-stop doing that…" Sakurako says with a huge blush that utterly shamed a tomato on her face. Finding herself in Locke's arms isn't exactly a bad thing, as stated before… it's just that well… she's very embarrassed about it. And she's a little giddy with how fast they just moved a while ago. "A-and I think I-I'm going to be… s-sick…"
"Ah, gomen… I'll try to be a little more careful next time." Locke says with a sheepish grin as he continues to hold onto the cheerleader. But what do you expect him to do when they're hiding inside a tree?
"I can't wait!" A voice says as the owner skips into view in excitement. Sakurako soon identifies the owner as Negi Springfield. And where Negi is, you can most likely find Asuna. And sure enough, there she is, slapping a hand onto her forehead.
"Eh? That's Negi-kun…" Sakurako whispered as she leans forward a bit to get a better view. Locke, in order to support her, leaned backward a bit in response. He has no problem with supporting her… it's just that his cross isn't exactly helping with balancing on a tree… Speaking of which, why isn't the branch breaking? (MX: Magic of Fanfiction)
'Must be one of those supernatural things in this world…' Locke thought as he frowns at the lack of breaking. 'But then again, I'm not complaining.'
Also, after hearing Sakurako whisper, he glances down to finally see the child teacher that has the power of a vampire in his very hand. He looks so small that Locke finds it difficult to believe that he could destroy the world if he hadn't seen it for himself. The slayer hopes that whatever that kid turned out to be, he didn't have world domination in his views. However, judging from what he's seen from Sarah, she loved the world to much to destroy it. Maybe not all vampire…
Immediately finding where he is heading, Locke stopped his train of thought. Vampires are evil. They are the devil's reincarnation/descendents. He hated them with a passion, which fueled his goal: the elimination of every vampire in Europe and Asia.
"Negi… calm down. There are still a few days until the school trip." The voice of the girl with two pony tails snapped the slayer out of his thoughts before he can head down a darker path. As for the cheerleader in his arms, she leans forward even more to get a better view. What happened next is not something Sakurako expected.
"Yeah aniki," The white ermine, Kamo, suddenly open its mouth and talks. Sakurako nearly falls out of Locke's arms if it weren't for his quick reflexes. Ermines aren't suppose to talk… no, they can do whatever ermines do… THEY. JUST. DON'T. TALK! "There's no need to get all hyper about it."
'…Okay fine, so it talked, now what?' Sakurako thought before another idea pops into her head. 'Wait… if animals can talk… then is the world coming to an end? No, no, no, that can't be. But… can Negi-kun be some sort of alien from out of space…? NO! That's not it… then, can Negi-kun be…'
"AH! ASUNA-CHAN!" A voice shouts, snapping Sakurako out of her thoughts as Konoka runs into her sight with an excited smile. "ASUNA-CHAN! YOU'LL NEVER GUESS WHAT HAPPENED… Ah? Negi-kun is here too!"
"Ah, there's Konoka-ojou-sama… she associates herself with Negi Springfield?" Locke asks to no one in particular, gaining an odd look from Sakurako at the same time.
"Ojou-sama?" The cheerleader questioned with a suspicious look in her eyes, causing Locke to sudden have an urge to hide and drink coffee to ward off the incoming headache.
"Err… it's… complicated."
An awkward silence ensured. The two have no idea what to say, nor are they paying attention to the conversation. That is, until…
"NANI! HOW CAN YOU NOT KNOW THAT SYMBOL! IT'S THE SYMBOL OF THE 'GUARDIAN'! ONE OF THE STRONGEST ORGANIZATION IN THE MA-MMMMM!"
Startled out of their silence, the duo look to see Negi in a headlock via Asuna/pony-tail girl as the ermine struggles to hang on. Konoka tilted her head in confusion, but Sakurako isn't even aware of that. Her eyes are wide as her lips suddenly become dry. She had just heard the most ridiculous things in history… yet the pieces are all falling into places.
The mysterious ten year old teacher…
The enigmatic six foot girl that's incredibly strong…
The impossible strong 'wind' that seems to suddenly appear when ever Negi sneezed…
The ridiculous if not completely outrageous excuses Asuna and Negi make sometimes…
The strange things that occurred around, such as the vampire incident…
The blurry images she sees sometimes on campus (SAYO-CHAN! XD)…
And finally, the man that's holding her… The one that carries a huge metal cross but still moves like nothing at all…
That's when she remembers the symbol on his back… A black cross stabbed into the top of a skull…
He's a 'Guardian'… an organization of protectors…
(Sakurako: I think…)
(APH: -Eye brow twitched once- you think…)
(Sakurako: -blush- I-I'M NOT THE AUTHOR HERE!)
(MX: WTF! GET BACK TO THE BLOODY STORY! IT'S JUST GETTING GOOD!)
(APH: Yeah, well you're not helping)
(Sarah: (just hits them both) Shut up!)
And to ensure human's safety, the best thing would be to use…
"…Magic…" Sakurako murmured. Just then, she felt Locke stiffen, and right there she knew that she's right. She had found the one thing that explained the supernatural phenomenon. It's all magic…
"Eh? Sakurako-chan? What are you doing up there? And Locke-san… why are you holding her likes that? And why are you (specifically Sakurako) looking at me like you just saw a ghost?" Konoka, who finally noticed the two, asks with a tilted of her head. Her innocent question had snapped the two out of their own world. However, since they suddenly jumped a little, the branch finally decided that enough is enough… (APH: ahh.. the magic of Fanfiction)
CREEK…
"Eh?" Locke stuttered out loud as he recognizes that sound from a mile away. "Oh sonova- CRACK! BIAHHHHHHHHHH!" And down they went.
"KYAAAAHHHH!" The two girls screamed at the same time as Konoka's eyes become two saucers and Sakurako's eyes shot out comical tears.
Fortunately for the cheerleader, with years of training, Locke quickly found his balance and landed on his feet. A small crater formed as the cross adds additional weight to him. A lot of additional weight to him…
"Aye… that looks painful…" Konoka observed as she sees Locke grit his teeth together as a few drops of cold sweat roll down his chin.
"G-gomen…!" Sakurako squeaked, believing that it's really her that causes the problem.
"N-no need to a-apologize…" Locke says through gritted teeth before putting Sakurako onto her own feet. "Although you are a little heavy." '…Oops, I did not just say that…'
Sakurako gasped before tears begin to form in her eyes before she ran away with an 'I'M SORRY!'.
'…Yup, I just had to say it…' Locke thought as his head slump down and two ghost fire (APH: You know, those blue fire balls that you usually associates with either ghosts or humor) appear on his head. "Ojou-sama …I should apologize huh?"
"Yes… and you should do that quickly too…" Konoka says with a tint of concern. "After all, you DO NOT call a girl fat no matter what."
"…Yeah… I'll look for her AFTER I get you to a safe place." Locke says with a serious tone after he dusts himself off and adjusted his cross to make it a bit more comfortable. As he straighten, he towered over Konoka easily, making the girl pout for two reasons: his height being one of them.
"Oh right… why everyone are so concerned about me anyway! It's not like someone is out there to kidnap me." Konoka says with a pout as she starts to stomp away. "I swear, ji-chan can find the weirdest guards for me."
If Konoka had looked back, she'll see Locke's head slump once more and more ghost fire joined him. 'I… I'm not weird… I'm not weird…'
XXXXXXXXXX
"…Um, maybe I shouldn't have run off like that…" Sakurako mumbled to herself as she walked around an old clock tower. "I mean, I might have hurt his feelings…"
' NO WAY! He called you fat!' Devil Sakurako, who looks very similar to Misa, says as she puts her hands on her hips.
'Oh c'mon, I'm sure he didn't mean it.' Angel Sakurako, who looks like a female version of Negi (She has no idea if that was good or bad), says as she cross her arms under her non-existing chest.
'ARE YOU STUPIID OR WHAT? HE DEFINITLY INDICATED THAT SHE WAS FAT!'
'Hey! You don't need to shout!"
'Or what? YOU GOING TO SPANK ME!' D-Sakurako teased with a huge grin as she lean over Sakurako's head.
'You… YOU! I swear if I wasn't supposed to be a goodie-two-shoe, I WOULD!' A-Sakurako shouts as she shakes a fist at D-Sakurako. By now, Sakurako's left eye brow starts to twitch.
'You? A goodie-two-shoe? Oh please! I've seen kindergarteners that are nicer than you!' D-Sakurako says between bounds of laughter.
'Oh you little…' A-Sakurako says as she suddenly produced a two by four and rushed towards her counter part. Seeing her precious butt is in danger, D-Sakurako starts to run. 'GET BACK HERE!'
'YOU'LL HAVE TO GET ME FIRST!' The devil shouts as they run in circles around a now shaking cheerleader. A few imaginary veins throb in the background as she grits her teeth together.
'Oh Kami… why do I have to have my own personal angel and devil…?' As the bickering and chasing gets worst, Sakurako's shaking also gets worst. She was just about to pond the feather out of them when something makes her freeze in her track.
There she is, with an ethereal glow around her, is a white-haired girl humming as she strolls along the walk ways. The girl is wearing a sailor uniform as she walks from one side to another, oblivious to the staring cheerleader. As she reaches the wall, she simply just walks THROUGH it. Now THAT scared Sakurako.
"O-Okay… t-that is s-strange…"
"Eh? What are you doing here? And why are you shaking so much?" A voice asks as a hand landed on Sakurako's shoulder, causing the girl to jump and did the only thing that came up in her mind. She jump forward, rare her hand back, twist, and…
PA!
Let them have it.
"I-ITAI! You don't need to do that…" Sarah winced as she rubbed her cheek where a red hand mark throbs.
"A-ah… g-g-g-gomen…"
"Oh right, with that taken care of, what's the deal?" Sarah asks as she continues to rube at her swore cheek and wipe away a tear of pain. 'Man that girl can hit.'
XXXXX five minutes later… XXXXX
"I'LL KILL HIM!" Sarah screams as she stormed into Konoemon's office. "WHERE IS THAT JERK!"
"S-Sarah-chan, p-please, he didn't mean it that way!" Sakurako says as she rushes in to try and pull Sarah out of the office. Meanwhile, Konoemon can only respond with a raised eye brow.
"LET ME GO! I WANT TO KILL THAT BASTARD!"
"S-SARAH-SAN! CALM DOWN! YOU'RE OVER REACTING!" Negi, who suddenly also charged into the room panting, shouts as he starts to wave his hands in frenzy. "B-BESIDES, YOU DON'T WANT THEM BREATHIGN DOWN YOUR NECK!"
"I DON'T GIVE A DAMN! I'LL KILL HIM!"
"SARAH! IT'S NOT WORTH IT!" Sakurako says as she gives a rather powerful tug at Sarah's arm. It would have dislocated a normal adult's arm, but we all know Sarah's isn't normal. "YOU'LL GO TO JAIL! I DON'T WANT THAT JUST BECAUSE YOU OVER REACTED!"
"WHAT'S JAIL ANYWAY? I DON'T GIVE JACK ABOUT GOING TO JAIL!" Sarah screamed as she stomped toward the principal and plants her hands down with a resounding BAM. "SO WHERE. IS. HE!"
"Who?" The principal asks cheerfully, completely clueless about what's going one. This earned him a smack on the head by a paper fan (which hurts like hell) as Sarah was NOT in the mood to play around.
"WHERE. IS. LOCKE. WHITBY!"
XXXXX Meanwhile, on a roof somewhere XXXXX
Locke shivered as he looks left and right, trying to locate a certain cheerleader who so happen to run away a few minutes ago. Also, being that he's standing up the roof, he's freezing his ass off as the wind pick this day to be particularly strong. So as such, he had rule off that shiver as getting a little too cold.
'Damn… where could she be?'
XXXXXXXXXX
XXXXX The day before… XXXXX
Warning… randomness…
Yuki wonder around inside the huge campus as she finds herself with nothing to do. This isn't exactly new as there's not much a six-inch elf can do.
Anyway, as said elf floats around the campus, she finds something's missing. Usually it doesn't matter where she floats to, there'll be people walking around, minding their own businesses, and thus paying no attention to the small 'UFO' that's a few feet above their head. But no matter how Yuki thinks, she just can't remember seeing anyone at all.
"Hmm… now that's strange… wonder where everyone goes." Yuki asks no one in particular as she scratches her head in a rather cute fashion. Just then, music suddenly starts to play from nowhere. Its fine when they are things like orchestra or what not… But what really scared the stuffing out of our little elf is…
"Peanut butter jelly! Peanut butter jelly! Peanut butter jelly!"
"What in the name of…!" Yuki asks as she starts to scan around for whatever is playing the music. What she found thought traumatized her further more. What she found are…
BOMBOMBOM! Dancing bananas!
(MX: (GASP) No…)
(APH: YES! MUHAHAHAHAH)
(Sarah: (rise fists) Back to the story…)
"Peanut butter jelly! Peanut butter jelly! Peanut butter jelly!"
"KYAAAH!" Yuki screamed as she jumped backward, or more accurately, speeded through the air and round the corner. Sure enough, the music stopped. Planting herself against the school's wall, Yuki puts a hand on her heart as she tries to get her breath back. "W-what is that! I'm positively sure that human world isn't supposed to have those…" The elf says as she blinks a few times to see if she's not hallucinating. Seeing that her eyes are working fine, she decides to try another tactic.
"Ouch!" Yuki suddenly exclaimed as she pinch herself. "Okay, that isn't it…" Well, if it hurts that much, then that mean she's not dreaming… then what…?
"Peanut butter jelly! Peanut butter jelly! Peanut butter jelly!"
"Oh no… NO, NO, NO!" Yuki moans as the song suddenly starts up again. Fearing the worst, she decides to fly up to escape the dreaded bananas. But that only make it worst as she sees…
A smoking caterpillar?
"…that's it, I'm officially in Alice's Wonderland…" Yuki says as the caterpillar blow out each letter of the alphabet and slowly spell things out with them. Then, a rabbit with a huge golden pocket watch charged through the air as if it's a floor, all the while yelling that he's late for something. The poor elf can only smack her head and give her hair a few yank. "WHAT. IS. GOING. ON. WITH. ME!"
"How should I know?" Another voice says from behind the elf.
"But that's not important. Join us! We're celebrating our un-birthday!" A new voice says as it joins the first into another song. By now, Yuki is about to find a knife and ran herself onto it.
"Oh dear… you don't look so good." ANOTHER voice says as a smile appears out of the air. Then the eyes, the nose, the face, the body, and the rest of a cat follow. "You might want to follow the rabbit…"
"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"
XXXXXXXXXX
"…You think she's okay?" Sarah asks as she watches Yuki thrash around in her make-shift bad.
"Does she look okay?" Evangeline asks as she bonks Sarah in the head and point at the thrashing elf. "She's having a nightmare! And I can say that it's your entire fault!"
"What does it have to do with me?" Sarah asks as she robs her sore head. Suddenly, Yuki shot awake with a loud scream that almost tear the two vampire's ear-drum out.
"OMG… OMG…" Yuki mumbles as she hugs herself. Her pale, pupil-less blue eyes dart around as if she's looking for something. After a few seconds a silence, those two large orbs landed on Sarah and Evangeline blinks a few times, before returning to their normal size. "…That… is the scariest nightmare… ever…"
"…Yup, it's your fault." Evangeline accused as she points a guilty finger at Sarah, who puts up both of her hands in defense.
"H-hey, I didn't do it on purpose…" The caretaker says meekly as the blonde girl's eyes narrowed a bit. "B-besides, it's partially your fault too…"
"You know…" Yuki speaks up, stopping an argument before it gets out of hand. "Something to eat would be nice…"
"Okay, how about bananas?" Evangeline asks as she pulls one out of nowhere. Yuki's eyes widen as she back away as far as she is allowed.
"G-get that t-thing a-a-away from m-me!"
"…Okay, that must be a pretty bad nightmare…" Sarah says as she watches Evangeline toss the banana away. "How about peanut butter and jelly sandwich? Thud …Err… guess not…"
"Peanut butter jelly! Peanut butter jelly! Peanut butter jelly!"
END of Randomness
Moral: Never, ever, offers anyone bananas or peanut butter and jelly sandwich if they have a nightmare! XD
XXXXXXXXXX
APH: It sucks…
MX: You suck…
Sarah: That's quite true… (nod like a sage)…But what of Yuki?
Yuki: (In fettle position and rocking back and force) Curse those bananas… Damn those all to hell… damn peanut butter and jelly sandwich… damn cats…
APH and MX: (Sweat drop) We over did it huh?
MX: (cough) Still, did you HAVE to end it like that? I mean couldn't you have gotten off your lazy ass and do a bit more.
APH: I am not LAZY! It's a cliffhanger; anyone who had the least bit of literary sense could see that.
MX: Some cliffhanger, where the hell is the tension? You just ended it with some guy standing on a roof
Locke: It was clod up there too TT
APH: its simple that makes the best cliffhangers (Nodding knowledgeably)
Sarah: THE HELL ARE YOU ARGUING ABOUT! YOU (turns at APH who suddenly starts to cower) SHOULD BE DOING YOUR HOMEWORK AND THE NEXT CHAPTER SO START WRITING (eyes starts to glow red and steam beings to rise off her head) AND YOU PEOPLE (turns to the rest of the cast who all (lead by MX) begin to cower and whimper) DO NOT DISTRACT HIM! DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR!
All: Yes Ma'am
Sarah: (suddenly turns all angelic and not demonic trace remains on her) good now, who wants some tea?
RSP: The hell was that? Wasn't she foaming at the mouth before?
MX: Shhhhhhh…! Covers his mouth don't let her hear you!
APH: One more things, I do NOT own that 'peanut-butter-jelly' thing. Just something I suddenly remember from my day surfing the webs for stupid things.
Sarah: BACK TO WORK! (Pull on APH's ear)
APH: (Wince) Y-Y-YES MA'AM!