Disclaimer I, the Kage Tenshi, do not own Martin Mystery or it's characters, I do however own the characters Tatsuki and Sousuke Miyabe, Takakura, Hiro, and Arashi.
The nurse looked down at her clipboard for a brief moment then back up at the trio, "I assume all of you know that 'Taki' is Hemaphobic?" Martin was about to say something but Diana cut him off.
"Fear of blood, Martin, not homosexuals."
The nurse coughed, not understanding where that statement had come from, "Anyway, Ms. Miyabe will be fine-"
"Wa-wait a minute, Ms. Miyabe?!"
The nurse blinked, "Yes that is what I said…" the older woman said, "Tatsuki Miyabe is a girl, didn't you know?" the nurse asked, she was answered with the red faces of some embarrassed teenage agents.
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Questions flew through the air at light speed, making Taki's head spin, the main questions being: 'Why didn't you tell us you were a girl?!'
"Well, to be honest, I didn't really care if anyone mistook me for a boy." Taki stated innocently, "I didn't think it mattered." Java and Diana sweat dropped, this child was obviously not in her right mind.
"Didn't think it mattered?!" Martin shouted, "The whole school thinks you're a boy and you don't think it matters?!" he gave an over exaggerated sigh, "What is the world coming to?" Taki tuned him out, Martin rants were long and ridiculous, she faced Diana with sheepish smile on her features.
"I hope you're not too upset I didn't tell you." She said, 'but it wasn't like I was going out of my way to fool any of you, I didn't even bother trying to change my voice.' Taki thought with a sweat drop.
Diana shrugged it off, "Nah, I was kind of suspicious of it anyway." She laughed nervously. Java agreed with her, he too, had been suspicious of Taki's gender.
"Whaddya mean you were 'suspicious' Diana? You were totally fawn-" Martin was cut off by Diana's hand covering his mouth.
"Not a word Martin." She hissed at him. She turned back to Taki was a happy expression adorning her visage, "So, are you going to continue masquerading as a boy?" she asked, her happiness seemingly fake.
Taki blinked and without thinking said, "Oh, I was never trying to masquerade as boy," the Center agents face-faulted, "Everyone sort of came to the conclusion on their own." Martin took the girl by the sides of her shoulders.
"So you mean your gonna continue looking like a boy with no respect for your true feminine nature?" He asked in a scary sense of seriousness. Taki looked at him with her eyes wide, wondering what the heck he was talking about.
"Feminine…nature?" she asked in a completely confused tone of voice. Diana fwapped the blonde boy on the back of his head and then crossed her arms.
"And what do you know about 'Feminine Nature' Martin?" Diana asked hotly, 'Oh, I'd love to hear this.' She thought while unaware to the smirk now gracing her lips.
"Well, um, it's…it's," becoming frustrated Martin pointed at Taki, "It's definitely not that!" he spat at his sister. Taki, simply watching them with the utmost interest was only vaguely aware that she had just been insulted.
"Ha?" It came out automatically to being insulted in such a strange way, Taki shook it off quickly enough; an anime anger vein appeared on the back of her head, and she glared somberly at the blonde. Upon seeing the dark look he was getting from the teen with glowing red eyes he jumped just about a half foot away from her and went chibi.
The chibi Martin sniffled, "Taki's scary…"
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Narrow obsidian eyes peered through the window, carefully observing the group of four on the inside, he spoke into microphone attached to his earpiece, "The one sitting on the clinic bed is definitely milord Sousuke's little sister, but there are three others, what should I do about them?" Takakura waited for Hiro to respond.
"Worry only about Tatsuki, I could care less what happens to the others." Hiro's voice slithered through the speaker in Takakura's ear. Takakura grinned maliciously; he knew how to get to the younger Miyabe in just the appropriate way. "Before I go, Takakura, I want you to hide your spiritual pressure, that way Miyabe-chan won't be suspicious of you." Takakura complied to Hiro's orders and hid his unnatural power deep with in the confines of the chi source (the stomach…) so that he could get close to young Miyabe without her catching on to him. Takakura slunk away from the window without fault; no one would catch him that was for sure.
"I suppose I should disguise myself as well." Takakura whispered to himself, from his side pocket he took out a machine and aimed it's small camera at a jogging student, he pressed the trigger and a white/blue light was emitted from the small machine, the jogging boy was no longer in sight, or for that matter in existence, for Takakura had stolen his identity and his face.
- The Red Monarch –
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Dressed in dark robes Hiro sat in one of the garden's outside the temporary base, monarch butterflies as well as many other species of butterfly flew freely from flower to flower, he smirked darkly when he heard rustling not far inside the building. "You know Arashi," he began, confidence evident in his voice, "It's been said that when a person dies their soul is reincarnated into a butterfly." Hiro said; his smirk never left his lips.
The timid Arashi tentatively stepped out of the shadowy doorway and into the light, but still not in the view of Hiro, "B-but what about the sp-spir-spirits of humans I see everyd-day?" Arashi stuttered much to his dismay; he hated being timid and even more so he hated sounding timid.
Hiro's smirk grew wider, "Sometimes souls aren't strong enough to reincarnate themselves, so they seek help." He paused for the effect, "Usually someone like a priest or priestess."
It dawned on Arashi, "Someone like Ta-Tatsuki Mi-Miyabe." He said in an astounded tone of voice, Tatsuki didn't sound as weak now as Hiro had once claimed.
Sensing Arashi's thoughts Hiro laughed, "Don't be fooled, Arashi!" He chuckled sinisterly, "Turning souls into butterflies is something someone like you could do as well! Perhaps even better." Arashi didn't know if he should really take that as a compliment. Hiro's laughter ceased, "The last time lord Sousuke was with us I believe he called it, 'Crossing over'." The words came out more morbidly then Hiro had intended. Arashi involuntarily shivered at the sound of Hiro's voice.
Hiro had momentarily forgotten about Arashi as one of the butterflies fluttered over to them and landed in Hiro's open palm, "Like butterflies," Hiro enclosed the tiny creature in his fist, "souls are very delicate things." He crushed the creature in his fist without an ounce of remorse, save for now he had to wash his hand. Arashi flinched again as he heard the tiny creature's body being crushed in Hiro's fist, he could have sworn he heard the poor thing 'Eek'. Hiro stood and Arashi jumped three feet away. Hiro laughed, "I can feel it, soon, our lord Sousuke will be with us once again."
Are you sure that's not that butterfly you feel? Arashi thought with a disgusted look on his face, What was the point in killing that insect? Arashi watched Hiro enter the building and waited till he was fully out of ear shot, "What am I even doing here?" he wondered aloud.
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Martin slumped in his seat his out stretched arms pushing his lunch aside. "Something the matter Martin?" He looked up to see his step-sister; He gave her a bitter look.
"Oh. Hi Diana." He said sourly, Diana promptly sat down at the table with her brother, having a feeling that she knew exactly what was wrong, but wanted to stay and make sure she was right. Much to Diana's convenience she didn't have to ask the blonde again if something was the matter, "I tried to tell Jenni that Taki was really a girl." Diana nodded, she doubt Jenni would accept that Taki was really a girl, but the auburn haired Psi Psi Psi Sorority girl could be as stubborn as she was popular, and that's pretty stubborn. "but she just gave me 'the look' and said something about me being jealous." He said and moodily munched on a French fry. "I've never been jealous of anyone, much less Taki." Martin grumbled. Diana snorted with laughter.
"You are such a liar."
Tatsuki peeked into the large cafeteria, seeing if anyone was looking, spotting no one looking in her direction she sprinted to the table where she saw Martin and Diana. "Oh hi, Taki." Diana said cheerfully; upon seeing that Taki was lunch-less Diana frowned in concern, "Aren't you going to eat Taki?" she asked.
"Not hungry." Taki answered quickly, The open is too dangerous anyway; I don't want to get mobbed today. Taki raised an eyebrow at Martin's sorry state, "What's up with you, Martin?" she asked poking the boy in the arm, Martin made an unintelligible noise when Taki poked him.
Diana rolled her eyes, judging from the way her brother was acting he wasn't planning on answering Taki anytime soon.
"He tried to tell Jenni that you were really a girl." Diana stated. Taki's eyes widened a little bit.
"Oh really?" the dark haired teen asked, "How did that go?"
"Horrible." Martin mumbled not really noticing his voice was barely audible, without taking his eyes off the blank wall ahead of him he took the plastic fork on his food tray and stabbed the meat.
Suddenly, as a boy she had sworn she had never met passed by Taki got a strange feeling in her gut, like she did know him.
This may not be as long as the first chapter, but it came down to the fact that I didn't want to spend as many days as I did on these upcoming chapters as I did in the first one
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