Greetings, umm, i know its been a while since i been here. I'm really sorry. Work has been keeping me busy and away from writing much. That, and i still don't have beta readers and i'm afraid to post chapters without anyone l reading over it. Thanx again to mel for beta reading this chapter. I also created a Fictionpress account under the same penname. I shall be posting some original works there just to see how they do. I ask that you take a look and leave some reviews. the link is on my profile page.

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 21: A Setback

They stood around Xaioto, as he laid in the infirmary. After he never returned to class, Moon and Soni went looking for him and found him unconscious on the roof. There was no sign of a fight or any trace that anyone else had been there. The new revelation left them dumbfounded. His condition wasn't too bad, he was only unconscious and awaiting reawakening. His water level and aura were stable.

Soni was telling Moon off for keeping her out of the loop of a dangerous situation, especially when Xaioto was involved. She reminded him that even though Xaioto was a school legend, he still had no real offense or defense. All of her lecture fell on deaf ears however, because moon had secretly muted the area around him.

The others had not shown up yet and it was assumed they were still in class. Without any leads to what happened to Xaioto on the roof. They had nothing to do but sit for him to awake, a fact that put Moon on edge. Bored with waiting he told Soni he was going to check the roof again for anything and slipped out.

Arriving back on the roof he looked around, knowing there was nothing to be found. He started pacing. Letting his thoughts race around his head as he tried to sort them out. He walked over to the gate that surrounded the roof and looked across the courtyard at their classroom window. Yukeri was at her usual seat near the window, paying attention to what was going on in the class. Xaioto sat near the window too looked out and saw something that caused him to come up here. He did some quick trigonometry in his had and figure what ever it was had to be no more than four feet from the gate. He looked along the gate for anything. Seeing nothing he took a seat and rested against the gate.

"Heard about Xaioto, How is he doing?" Jynn said as he appeared next to his brother.

"He's out cold. No other damage than that."

"What happened."

"I have no idea." He replied pulling a strand of black hair from of his pants.

"He suddenly ran out the classroom and when he didn't return we went searching for him and found him up here, out cold."

"No signs of a serious fight and you said he had no cuts or bruises, so it was most likely and aura attack. Maybe a sneak attack, Xaioto is good at dodging, so he couldn't of seen it coming."

"Its so strange. I thinking that the new defenders could of done this, but Ikelan was covered in wounds, and the girl left his roommate a bloody mess. However X appears to be physically uninjured. His mist does increase his healing rate but not by that much. It still takes him a while to heal. So I don't think it was the little girl we are looking for. But its definitely a black haired girl," He relpied holding the long strain of hair.

"Maybe, but she wanted to make a statement with Ikelan and his roommate. She might have been excessively violent to them on purpose, where if Xaioto had cornered her, she would just need to escape."

"If Xaioto cornered her, he would of seen her attack coming and there would be at least a little area damage."

The doors to the roof burst open and Soni came rushing out. "Moon..." She panted. "Xaioto... disappeared."

"Disappeared?" The brothers asked.

She took a moment to catch her breath then said. "Kidnapped was more like it. A little girl appeared and filled the room with mist, and when it cleared they were gone."

"A little girl?" Jynn asked.

"Yes, she looked like a middle schooler. I really didn't get a good look at her because the mist filled the room so quickly."

"Looks like they got to him after all." Jynn said.

"Come on, we have to look for him." Moon said heading for the door. Soni followed him in.

Jynn turned and closed his eyes, searching the winds, only to find a cold silence to them. Xaioto probably had still not awakened. Finding him now had become a priority. They were going to need all the help they could get with this new situation.

He jumped back to his dorm and rushed up to his room. He checked his watch then logged on to his computer. He quickly composed a letter to a pen pal of his explaining the situation to her and asking her if their was another way to track someone who is not connected to the wind, then sent it.

He had met her in an online chatroom. She was another wind aura user with his connection to the wind. She didn't attend the academy, but promised him that someday when she no longer had to look after her brother she would join him there. She constantly used the wind to look for her brother and was more versed with searching than he was.

An instant message box appeared, startling him. She had responded. If he could find anything that carried a faint trace of the girl's aura, he could search for her and find Xaioto. He thanked her and set off to see if there was anything he could use.

As the sun began to set over the campus. Moon and Jynn returned to the roof top, exhausted. They had searched the entire campus and found no trace of either Xaioto or the girl. Soni had found and enlisted Myria in the search and they had went off together. They were probably still searching.

Xaioto's abduction had put them on edge, In actuality he was the weakest aura user in their group, when confronted alone. But there were several things that had raised questions. Xaioto was still unconscious when he was taken, yet the room fill with mist. Which meant that the little girl was a mist aura user as well. It also would explain why Xaioto had no wounds on him when they found him. Jynn remembered that Ikelan said the girl appeared out of a thick fog when they first met, and why no one saw what her attacks were. He wondered if the mist could connect people the same way the winds connected him and his pen pal. If that was the case the girl would be drawn to Xaioto.

"How did Xaioto wind up in the hospital again?"

"We are not quite sure, he ran out and we found him on the roof."

"Did you ever fight against Xaioto?"

"No why?"

"Cause I think the little girl is another mist user."

"Well Xaioto has some severe limitations to his powers. He need a constantly replenish his water level to maintain his aura usage and he really doesn't have and offense or defense. So If I was to fight him. I would first dry him out, then finish him in he weaken state."

"We are assuming that the girl doesn't have the same limitations."

"Well. Xaioto style is based around his weaknesses. So the girl might not fight the same way. Mist coverage is crucial, but if she can't see in the mist, she might not try that. From what we know she attacks from behind probably covering the area then snaking the mist around her opponent. The only ones who really fought Xaioto were Azural, Rumeri, and Perzo. We could ask them if you think that would help."

"I'm not sure it might but its worth a try."