Thank you to everyone who took the time out to review my story. To be honest I wasn't expecting this story to be considered good. I would reply to each of you personally if I wasn't so busy. Well I hope this chapter is up to the expectation I set up with my previous chapters.

Forward: I don't own The Psychic Academy, though I wish to open one in the future. The wonderful Katsu Aki does. When her Characters do appear, they will be mentioned in the forward.

Psychic Academy: On the Other Side

Based on the popular manga series by Katsu Aki

By Darkensea

Chapter 5:

Xaioto quickly arose to his feet and stepped out in front of Moon and Soni in a futile effort to protect them if it came to that. His eyes focused on Myria. She didn't return his look or even look in his direction. She kept her head down and stared distantly at the floor. He could tell that there was somewhere else she would rather be. A slight wind had picked up and was blowing her long red hair into her face, but she didn't bother to remove it. He know that they didn't know each other really well and that there were some issues that the classes they were in, had with each other, but it pained him to see her like this. He closed his eyes and imagine himself hugging her and telling her everything would be alright.

"Who are you?" Moon asked from behind him. Moon and Soni had risen to there feet to greet the newcomers.

"You look like freshmen". The other boy in the group said. "We are the Defenders. A elite group of Sophomores from the A class."

"What do you want with us?" Soni asked .

"Where here to offer you our services." The leader said smiling slyly. "There are a lot of bullies in this school, especially among the higher grades. We like to defend the weaker students."

" The Defenders?" Soni said. "I heard about you. You're the ones who charged my room mate for your protection and beat her up when she couldn't pay."

"Well then." The other boy said forming a fire ball in his hands. "Are you strong enough to defend yourselves?"

A cloud of mist formed around Xaioto. It seemed to be leaking out of his skin and drift toward the floor. Once it reached the floor it spread rapidly, until the entire roof was covered in a thick mist making in near impossible to see anything.

"A Mist aura?" The leader of the defenders said. "Your tricks won't work here." He pointed to where Xaioto was standing and said "Asamiya!" Several crystal spires formed and shot toward Xaioto only to find their target missing. They collided with the gate puncturing the wire.

"Where did they go?" He said. "We can't let them get away."

Xaioto, Soni and Moon were running down the school corridors towards the lunch room. If they could evade the Defenders until the end of the lunch period they should be safe for the rest of the day. Once Xaioto mist had provided them with the cover they need, Moon grabbed Soni and Xaioto by the arm and took off running towards the door.

They reached the lunch room and took open table near the back of the lunchroom. They all were breathing heavily from their run. "That... was... close." Moon panted. "We bearly made it."

"I'm thirsty now." Xaioto complained. "Let's get something to drink."

"I'll get them" Soni said as she arose and went off to the lunch line for drinks.

"That was a nice cover you provided us with." Moon commented. "Your mist aura is cool."

"I wish I knew how I did that though. That was pure luck." Xaioto replied. "Not bad for the first time I ever did anything with my aura, right?"

"Yeah."

Soni returned and handed out the drinks. "I never thought we would run in to that group." She said and she opened her drink.

"Exactly who are they and why did they try to attack us?" Moon asked her.

"The defenders. What they do is they find people who are weak aura user and "protect them" from bullies. It would be a nice thing to do if they didn't force payment on the people they protect. My room mate was hit by them in the beginning of the year, and she used to scrape together some money from what her parents had sent her to pay them off. One week when I convinced her not to waist her money on paying them. They had some of the upper class beat her every day until she paid them."

"And the school just lets things like this go on?" Xaioto asked.

"Even though this is a the Psychic Academy, its still like a normal high school. There isn't much the school can do, because most of their work is done under the radar."

"Here they come." Moon said motioning toward the entrance the lunch room. Mryia had entered the lunch room and looked around. "They wouldn't be dumb enough to fight us here. So where safe for now." Myria eyes landed in on Xaioto. She watched him for a moment before turning and leaving the lunch room.

The school bell rung signaling the end of the school day. They had made it to their next class with out incident and was safe of the rest of the day. Now they had to worry about getting back to the dorms. Soni and Moon sat in at the desk talking, While Xaioto stood by the window looking out.

"Do you think they will be waiting for us?" Moon asked.

"Maybe not." Soni replied. "They have other people to bully."

"They went home." Xaioto said. "To the upper classes' dorms on the other side of campus."

"You sure?" Moon asked.

"I just watched them leave." He replied. "Soni, I'll see you tomorrow. Moon, I see you back at our dorm." He turned and walked out the room leaving them wondering where he was off to.

Arriving back on the roof, he headed toward the gate, stopping to inspect the broken wire.

"Why did you come back here?" Mryia asked. She was sitting against the gate with her head buried in her knees.

"The same reason you did." Xaioto replied. He looked over at her.

"Thank you." She replied. "But I told you where not friends. So don't do stupid stunts like what you pulled earlier."

"What I did earlier?" Xaioto asked slightly confused.

"Wrapping me in that mist embrace." She said. "I'm just lucky that I was behind the others so that they didn't see it."

"Mryia, as much as I want to take credit for what you saying, I really have no clue to what your talking about."

"When you spread that mist to cover you escape. You wrapped your aura around me like a hug. A comforting hug..." She drifted of for moment.

Xaioto took a seat next to her. "That was the first time I ever used my aura. So I sorry if that is was what I did."

"Don't be, I really need it. That why I came back here, to thank you."

Xaioto smiled softly. "Your welcome. You looked so unhappy earlier, That was what I imagined my self doing. I wasn't expecting the mist. But if you are so unhappy with what your doing why do you continue?"

"I have no choice. Like our victims, I can't get out. I don't have to pay money, but I pay with my service. If I leave who will protect me from them?"

"I will." Xaioto said. "Look, seeing you like this is killing me, when you where with me on the train you didn't have this heavy burden, and you where much happier that way. I want to see you like that again. See you smile."

"And how do you plan to protect me when you can't even protect your self?" Mryia commented. "Face I'm stuck here."

"I just got here, and I may not know anything about my aura power, but this is a school and I will learn every thing I need to protect you as well as the rest of my friends. So yes, Mryia. Whether we show it to not we are still friends."

Mryia smiled softly at this statement. "Your sweet and have a big heart, Just don't get yourself killed out there." She flicked and vanished leaving him again, standing alone on the roof.

Returning to the dorm, he found Moon sitting at their small desk working on his homework.

"Moon, your going to help me learn to use my aura." Xaioto said with determination. "We're going to give the Defenders a butt whipping they never saw coming."