Openings song: The walking dead of the Dropkick Murphy's.
Good I did some work for this already and I'm glad you guys are following this.
This will be the last update before the big one next month. If it ever comes to that. This short chapter will be what I already crapped out. This is one thing, but after coming months one, I'll be working first on The Graduated Student and the Irish Street Punk. Please check that story out, it turned out to be really good.
I have really no idea on how to work with a few girls, but I got a nice backstory of Izolf and Kanzashi. I got a review I haven't depth out my characters, so now, I will do that and I'll start with Izolf with a backstory.
Still, I have asked again, you guys can give me some suggestions on how to deal with a few characters. But that's enough asking, time for the story.
Tizof thought back on his time with Honne. After last day, he went to visit her and the two they spent some time talking, but he didn't neglect his parkour, so for now, he was training. Boy, he was glad to spent time with her. Tizof ran through the threes, now the sun was slowly setting. He moved fast and swift thinking about his life he got here. After two years, he didn't know what he should do. The reason why he was sent to ISA was for peace reasons, but he was one of the very few hackers who was glad to get at the place.
The five gang members were now training with each other on how they should take the girls on and what training they would put them through. In that point, he was in luck. Honne didn't have an Infinite Stratos for herself and wasn't' too close to Ichika, so he didn't had to through those problems.
Cirluk spared with him, but got back at his room before he noticed, he heard someone calling him.
"Tizo, where are you?" A childish voice said.
"Honne?" He stopped and saw the girl walking at the paths leading to the dorms houses. He landed behind her and moved to her.
"Looking for me?" He asked her with a grin, starling her. She turned around, the long sleeved girl looking at the sword user. She nodded as she saw him.
"Where did you come from?" Tizof pointed at the trees.
"From those up there. You need to train daily if you want to live this life. Something else up?" Honne nodded again.
"Orimu has been missing classes since a few days. Tacchan-san is not pleased with it." Tizof shrugged, not really caring about the ideas of the Sarashiki heiress.
"Well, she can forget we would give a care. Ichika need to train now. And he told me that he didn't want to be part of the Student Council and I think he'll quit the job."
Honne looked down. She hoped Ichika would stay so she could spent time with him.
"Honne, be fair. The way Tatenashi treated Ichika, it's hardly to call normal. She messes with him to a level even most pranksters won't take."
Honne sighed, having little choice than to agree with Tizof.
"By the way, shouldn't you be in your dorm?" Honne got a shock. "Oh no. I was out and the teachers are going to be so mad." Tizof sighed, but had a smile on his face.
"Get on, I'll bring you." She got a blush at being offered a ride to her dorm
"But"
"Hey, it's this or getting pummelled by the teachers. The hackers can hang out for hours after that bedtime."
She got in his back. She felt how strong Tizof was and how years of training made him sturdy. Still, the way his arms got around her legs to hold her on were softer she would think. Her longs sleeves got around his neck. Tizof grinned as he enjoyed the surprised yelp of Honne when he made a skateboard. "Hold on." He made some height and he could feel how Honne looked down. While his skateboard wasn't as fast as an Infinite Stratos, it was a lot more soother to fly.
She smiled and looked down on the ground. "This is fun." She said.
"Really, isn't an Infinite Stratos so much better?" He felt her moving, bit shifting. He had a sore mark.
"Well, I don't have an Infinite Stratos. While we got trained, I always use a model from the school, but not everyone got a personal one. Only the personal users can practise all the time. Actually, this is the first time I got in the sky so high."
Tizof grinned on it, but he was a bit angry. He was so glad he was a hacker. "Well, hackers are free to use their powers. If you want, I can take you on a lift whenever you want."
"So, that means I'll be flying a lot."
Tizof nodded. "As much as you want." Honne smiled and gave him a hug.
"Thanks, Tizo." He dropped her at the dorms and left walking.
"Hmmm. What a weird boy, but he is nice." She got in the dorms, while he thought back on it.
"Good, she isn't so hyper like Rin, but has still some childish traits which make her cute. Still, I kind of feel bad for dragging her into my world." He thought at loud. "Well, she is already a part of your world." He heard a familiar voice. "Izolf. Yo."
"Getting a girlfriend?" The hook user asked his friend/sword fighter.
"Well, we all try. Besides that, you don't have t to talk. Honne is okay, but how in the world you fell for Kanzashi is beyond me?"
Izolf sighed on the joke and rammed his hook in a tree. "I really wonder how I feel about her. Obviously, she does something to me. But she doesn't learn the world isn't like she hoped or sees. Even so, I want to help her, but she rejects me." His hands went back in the sky, ready to ram in the tree again, but felt Tizof stopped him. The hand of his friend around the wrist calmed him.
"This isn't the way. You have nothing to win with the fact if you ram your hooks in trees. You and the Sarashiki have a history, right? It explains why you could read Kanji. Is there something you should tell us? We're your team, your friends. It would help us. We know there is a reason why you act like that. You can trust us, okay?"
Izolf sighed. It's hard to hide things from your team when you have been around them for so long. "Fine, but not here. Let's go home." The two left.
Izolf and Tizof got back at their places. "Yo."
Izolf shouted. "We're back."
Tizof stood next to him. "Yo, gasten."
Erzof's voice came from the kitchen. The guys crossed the living room, getting in the kitchen. Izolf gave the cook a fist bump and Tizof walked to the table, sitting next to their young leader.
"Is this an hour to come back home?" Anaton shouted. The two glared at him.
"We're not married, so hold that crap for yourself." Izolf shouted and went to the table.
A giant pan of chicken was on the fire. "Where is the rest?"
Tizof asked. "Raton, Kashal and Thazalof are in the public bath with Ichika. They'll get back home soon enough. We got early after training."
Anaton shrugged. Tizof looked to the guys. "I was dropping of Honne."
"So you like her?" Erzof teased the sword user. The brown haired kid looked outside.
"For now, till a certain extent, yes. But I think you guys have some problems with the girls you're facing." Anaton smiled. Boy, was he happy he was just twelve years old. Not that it stopped the girls. After all, most girls had huge shota complexes.
"Yeah, that's going to give problems. The girls aren't really normal ,right. But still, I don't get how you fell for Kanzashi."
Tizof grinned, but stopped at Izolf's grimace.
"Well, I'll tell you guys why. I think it's best for you guys to know." Erzof stopped the gas. As his brother, he knew how touchy Izolf could be when it came to that.
"Izolf, are you sure? I know some things, but Kerlongsj told me that your story isn't the nicest one." Izolf looked down. "I know, but it's still better you need to know."
After a while, the rest of the gang got back, but he went to look after Byakushiki together with Houki and after that, the two would spar with Kendo. Most likely, they would spent the whole night together.
The guys gathered around Izolf who took a glass. "If you want to speak, we're willing to listen." They were all gathered around Izolf.
"You guys know I'm born in Wales. But did you guys never wondered how I could translate Kanji?" They suddenly realised that he did that, but never asked about it. At the moments, he showed it. The guys had different problems at the fucking time.
Izolf looked to his friends and began to speak.
"I grew up in a rural town in Wales. Born of a Flemish father and a Welsh mother. Till the age of six, I had a normal, happy, but tough life in the town."
He took a necklace and tossed it to Anaton. Inside was a picture of a young man with the same eyes and ears. He was around the same height of Izolf, but didn't have the black hair. The young woman had a slender built with the same black hair. Izolf took over her built more so. Anaton passed it to the others.
"Dad was a hacker sent to London to watch our enemies. He met mom there and saved her from a group of scum that tried to rape her. After his tasks there, mom could convince him to come over to Wales. Both worked hard, but were happy where they lived. Gradually they fell in love and it didn't take long before I was born."
Izolf had to supress a tear. "Mom worked in a local warehouse, while Dad was busy in mechanics. Dad had a hard time to convince his superiors, but eventually, with me on the way, they let him stay. The town seldom had problems and well, I had a good life. They accepted me as a child of the group. When I was three, my parents discovered I was a hacker. They let me swear never to use those powers. With Dad I trained to control and hide them, but it didn't work all the time."
Izolf took the necklace back from Raton.
"But it was in my elementary school, shit really got up."
The guys made the link with the first time the world discovered the Infinite Stratos. "The principal was a, well, not a feminist, but a feminazi's. One of the worst things, but I don't have to tell you."
The term feminazi's was a new term, got in power when the women overthrew the men in society. They went as far to sacrifice men for nothing, but their own desires. They were a group of hard core women who wanted men to die and to disappear from the face of the earth. Hackers didn't take that too kindly, so it wouldn't be a surprise if nowadays those group of women, they hardly exists.
Kerlongsj had no problem when the hackers cut them down whenever that was necessary. But his friends only looked in concern to Izolf. If a hacker wasn't registered, most of the rights were taken from them and more than often when they were spotted to bully or threaten.
"It was terrible. I often up wounded, because that bitch hurt me or hit me. It was hell at moments. She didn't know I was a hacker, but still, I was just her favourite target."
The guys gulped. It was difficult to see Izolf like that. They knew him as a quiet, but strong kid. He could act rude at moments, but this was the first time Izolf nearly reached a breaking point. "Do you need some water?" Anaton asked.
"No, I want to continue. Well, most people didn't care about the Infinite Stratos. Women as men. For them, it was something high technology and the worst thing that could happen was that most of their taxes would go the shit project. But that fucking whore." Izolf growled on the last part.
"She was obsessed with destroying me and my family like she had nothing better to do. It reached boiling point when they contacted the Sarashiki and requested they helped destroying the hackers in her ground. A big, fat lie when you look back at it. It was only me and my father who was off service." Izolf turned a lot darker. "They arrested Mom. Dad tried to protect her."
His tears began to flow. Still, his voice was clear and sharp like they knew of him. "They got killed. Mom caught a headshot, meant for me. Fired by that fucking principal. Dad fought, but the years of peace took their toll. He was too, too weak for putting up a good fight. He managed to kill three soldiers. But the four meaning were too strong."
Izolf felt the tears streaming down.
"The whore dragged him out and I was forced to watch how she beat him to death. But that was their downfall. I make a full awake, going all out and I ended up killing every living thing around me. After that, the rest of the soldiers came. They were shocked of what happened."
Izolf looked to his hands and back to his friends.
"After that, they knocked me out and I was dragged to a family house. I was taught to become a goddamn servant to their new, great world order. I lived there as servant. I refused, often I was beaten by the fucking maids, but they never broke me."
"Eh, Izolf. If her family is responsible for your grief." Thazalof cut him off. "Well, it's because the leader came to visit, just like the two heirs. The boy you guys see here was their servant. "He spat the last words out, disgusted by what he was for so long.
Tizof crossed his arms. "If that's the case, why don't they remember you?" Izolf looked really surprised on his friend question.
With a smug look, he continued. "Well, if you grow in with thousands and thousands of servants, you don't really take the time to learn the names?" The guys looked disgusted at the statement.
For hackers, having a slave bound to you is a sin without forgiveness. However you turn to see it, servants have to answer to their masters. What is completely the opposite what hackers find and practised in the core of their cause.
Free from all boundaries. You cannot pray your own freedom while having slaves.
Of course, hackers answered to their officers, but they were soldiers in an army and not servants like most world powers. And by the way Kerlongsj built up his organisation, built on respected and loved officers, the hackers didn't see it as wrong to answer to their superiors.
It didn't start with him, but he was making sure that he would make out the tradition.
But in the end, they were fighters and warriors all alike. Not some kind of fucking servants. They followed orders on the battlefield, no commands in the tearoom. So the way pilots treat servants, men or women alike, it just pissed off the hackers more than anything.
So that's why the hackers got so worked up at the way Izolf spoke. "So you remember them?" Erzof sat down. Earning a reluctant nod from Izolf, his brother went.
"Aye, however I wanted to forget about them, it's harder than I thought. And they weren't so bad. In perspective of course. Tatenashi was horrible if Kanzashi didn't help me out. Look Ichika and you get what I mean. But it would have been a whole lot worse. So Tatenashi and her mother often go out, while Kanzashi, shut-in she was then and now still is, stayed home. We often spent hours of talking"
"And you slowly falling." Anaton smiled at the light blush Izolf got on his cheek. "You could say that. It was evident how they saw irresponsible I was. I had no right to be so close to her. Which of course didn't make sense. Kanzashi grew fond of me, not the other way around."
"So how in the world did you end up free from them and in our group as a fighter?"
"I'm coming to that point. Patience, lads." The guys were now really interested. Izolf never spoke a lot of his past and now they were getting more than usual. Izolf looked at the clock.
"Now guys. The rest will be along story. Sure you want to pull an all-nighter? The six guys nodded. Izolf sighed. Now at this time, he would spill everything out of him.
"My life turned upside down when I was playing with Kanzashi." Causing Anaton to smirk. "We were talking about Anime. Despite hating a lot of japan, I was very happy, she taught me those. We talked about the characters and stuff."
Flashback.
"Did you notice the face of the villains when the hero barged in?"
A seven year old Kanzashi asked. She sat on the bed asking her companion. Her blue short hair was around her head and her eyes were shinning behind her glasses. A young boy with messy black hair was gobsmacked, but like the sudden change of behaviour of his companion. Normally, she was quiet, but still she was better and he liked more being around her than her older sister that girl loved to mess with him and tried to give him as many problems as possible. He would get beaten by the maids. Bitches they are.
Luckily, Kanzashi often stood up against them. Izolf was dumfounded of the first time she'd protected him. Still, he had as many problems with Kanzashi. She was soft spoke and shy. It really didn't help that Izolf had a huge scar over his eye. Luckily, the head mistress and the girl's mother learnt of the boy and showed him empathy. Tekerishio Sarashiki learnt of the hackers and that he was a child of them.
The hackers once saved the girl's father and her husband, therefore she assigned the boy as the girl's playmate. He was the only child for miles and that wasn't a joke. It was a huge castle on a domain in the country. Izolf knew the area well due to growing up here. Nobody respected him enough, but he wasn't afraid for them. One time, a maid raised her hand against him.
She found herself at the end of his hook blades. He couldn't control them, but in the nick of time, they came out when he needed. No one messed with him. Sure, he was a slave.
That was the only way he could see this. The men as servants helped him at moments, but Izolf felt loath from them as well. He trusted himself and only himself. Izof didn't play like a normal seven year old. He only did his task or secretly trained, but it was so damn hard to train.
Not only to practise, but because every time his hooks came out his arm, tears filled his arms. The picture of his mother gunned down and his father decapitated and when nothing remained, but a bag of meat and bones. That wasn't a fate his old man deserved.
It all changed when Kanzashi, Tatenashi and Tekerishio came to visit. Unlike every servant, he didn't come to greet nor to bow his head. He was free and activated his hooks after one sentence in Japanese.
"Welcome home, ojou-sama." Izolf spitted and deactivated his hooks. He had a certain policy and sat at the end of a room. Tekerishio walked in and Izolf was shocked at the sheer beauty.
Tekerishio was a voluptuous woman of a relative young age. Just like her daughters, she had blue hair, only longer. Her face resembled it of Tatenashi with the cat-like smile, but it lacked the mischievous aura.
Well, not lacked, but it calmed down after all the years. She had short glasses like Kanzashi. She wore a long blue jacket which ended with a white dress.
Izolf caught himself with a blush. He wore a sleeveless shirt and short. They were dirty and he reeked. It was like than the girls noticed him.
"Ehh, okaa-sama." Tatenashi spoke surprised, but pleased. "You told me that there were not children here." Izolf crossed his arms and looked surprised. A child, he?
He was called many things, but child wasn't among them. Tekerishio had a heart-breaking face when she looked at Izolf. "What is this?" She asked shocked on how the servants treated the boy.
"This is the hacker's boy we talked about. He deserved nothing less." The old head maid spoke.
Tekerishio sighed. Despite the fact she fought terrorist, she couldn't label the hackers the same way as Phantom Task. The hackers were on the planet longer than the pilot and they just wanted to be left alone. For them, the hackers wanted that the pilots respected them. Even if they defied the society that the world had now, it didn't justify the cruelty the head maid used against Izof. Tekerishio sighed. "'Even so, what is the crime that he looked so bruised;" The maid explained, confident she would win this.
"He refused to listen to me when I order him to come and greet you." Tekerishio looked back to Izolf.
"Do you have a god reason not to greet your mistress?" She asked in fluent English. Izolf stood up and walked to her, glaring. He wasn't afraid and he would never be afraid of her. She could just see that in his eyes. To make him kneel you had to kill him.
"Why the fuck would I want to greet the ones who's responsible for my parents death?" He asked defiantly. It wouldn't be a way a slave spoke to his master. It was someone talking to the ones responsible for his loss. Tekerishio didn't know how to act.
Izolf made a point. She was responsible for his grief. "What is our name, boy?" She asked softer. "Izolf. Izolf Korzolf." She sighed and went on to speak. "Well then. For now, you're assigned as my daughters servant. No, not their servant, their friend." Izolf had no idea who she was, but he felt she was meaning it. So he looked to the girls.
It was clear they were sister, despite the huge differences. Tatenashi was not as tall as Izolf. She had a cat like face like her mother. She was strong. As being warned himself, his senses were telling him to look out. Kanzashi was obviously shy when looking to the young boy. Both sister were examining him, but in different ways.
He didn't like it. Not one bit. Tatenashi was planning on how to chase him while Kanzashi as too afraid to even talk to him. Tekerishio sighed on her daughter's behaviour.
"Tatenashi, please make sure to be not too nice to him and Kanzashi, say hello to him."
Kanzashi now looked up and found a blush on her face. "Good, now you introduce yourselves." Causing Kanzashi to get away, behind after her sister, but Tatenashi was the first one to speak.
"I'm Tatenashi Sarashiki and this is my little sister, Kanzashi." Izolf just made a short nod. "Izolf."
Tekerishio sighed. "Now, you three go play." The older sister dragged Izolf away just like she did with her own sister. Tekerishio began to wonder if she didn't put the boy through more problems.
Flashback ends.
"So you were friends with those two?" Tizof asked.
"Well, sorta. It was more or less better than being a servant." Izolf responded having a normal tone.
"It that explains how your understood kanji." Raton concluded and Izolf nodded.
"After that, I spent time with Kanzashi. She often stayed behind home when her mother and sister were off to see people; we stayed behind and would watch countless animes or I showed her around. I hate to admit, but it was better with them." Erzof sat back on a chair.
"So how did you end up in Flanders?" Izolf got a smile what told the guys a lot.
"Well, that was a really good story? Ready for it?"
The guys nodded all with a similar grin.
"I can tell you it wasn't a story with all glory. It was my first time for some things." Anaton sighed.
"What do you mean?" Izolf let his hooks out.
"You'll get your answer." Izolf looked back.
"After a few months I and Kanzashi got along well. Her mother was surprised how she bloomed open to me. Well, at least, I didn't have go through the shit Tatenashi puts Ichika through." Izolf smiled. It was in the evening. Kanzashi went to sleep and I walked back to my room till suddenly an explosion blew a part of the house.
Back to nine years ago.
The explosion ran through his ears when Izolf got out the rubble. He saw a star coming, but quickly it grew and he got out the way with a hair's breath. It was like the world was falling down. He was just in time behind a wall to feel the shit coming down and flying past him. He glanced slightly to be shocked. A completely Infinite Stratos, equipped with most heavy weapons you could imagine.
He saw how the pilot effortlessly threw away the servants trying to fight it. The boy had to give them credit. Fighting an Infinite Stratos was as brave as stupid. After killing the last servants, she slowly made her way to the rooms.
"Kanzashi." Izolf got a shock. Her mother and sister were staying over but they were the only ones able to face an Infinite Stratos, having one themselves, but Izolf was thinking about it. Who the fuck would be stupid enough to attack the Sarashiki family?
But that was something he had to worry out for later. He slowly sneaked after the pilot until he heard someone. He saw the head maid, beaten and bruised, but still alive. Izolf looked up. That woman, she made his life to hell for the last years, so Izolf had a cruel idea. He deployed a hook and walked to her. When getting the around her neck, she looked terrified of him. He didn't cut her throat.
No, he simply beheaded her. After that, he let the head fall down and walked after the pilot? Who could prove he was the killer? Izolf's act was nothing more than years of frustrating and anger getting back. He crept forward as tracking the pilot wasn't hard.
Back to our guys.
"Oh, because you've learnt the energy ways of the pilot?" Anaton asked surprised. Doing something like that took years of training.
"Eh, no kid. You just had to look to the hallways which were destroyed. Even an idiot could follow its trace."
The guys had a hard time suppressing their laughs "Well as I was saying."
Back to nine years ago.
Debris was everywhere and Izolf was still thinking who would be idiotic enough. He heard of persons who had the same powers as himself, but even so. Why would they risk their lives to get after him? If they even knew who and where he was, they wouldn't save him. Izolf got on. He didn't care for the staff, but Kanzashi did something to him. After getting on the stairs, he knew where the enemy pilot was heading to and began to run.
He walked through the building so many times, but now, the whole place was changed. Izolf was getting more and more afraid after he saw the pilots entering Kanzashi's room. He crouched hoping she wouldn't detect him. He had killed before, the time he awakened, but he knew he had no snowball chance in hell of defeating that pilot. Only with one attack form the shadows, he had a shot. The pilot was in the room, revealing herself for Kanzashi.
"Okaa-sama, onee-chan." She cried, but knew they weren't here.
"Those two won't come to save you. You're all alone. And you'll come with me." The pilot spoke cruelly.
"Don't think so, bitch." Before the pilot could react, Izolf's right hook was buried in her skull. He twisted it around and he began to let all the anger ,all the frustration, all the hate, he brought it out on the pilot. She couldn't stop him. With his left hook, he teared the suit open ad blood got over his clothes, but still nothing of that would have him stopped. Finally, after she stopped struggling and her hands came down, Izolf stopped.
Izolf had made something clear. Their great new world order DID not apply on him. He stood up and saw Kanzashi shivering. She was afraid, no terrified of what she just saw. On what Izolf had done. He completely and alone defeated an Infinite Stratos pilot. Izolf looked surprised on her, but felt the blood coming down from his hooks. He looked to them and pulled them back.
"Kanzashi." "Kanzashi-chan."
Two voices said. Both her mother and sister came in, but were horrified by the sight. Kanzashi was unscathed. Tekerishio could see that, but looked to her enemy and saw then Izolf.
"Izolf-kun? Did you just kill her?" Izolf walked to her.
"Yeah and so what?" He asked the leader of one of the most powerful families on the planet.
"You can control your Nanites?" Izolf nodded.
"Yep, couldn't your great powerful family make the link that if my father was able to do, I could do that as well."
Tekerishio sighed on what happened.
"Okay, I was a fool. Izolf, what do you want in return for saving Kanzashi?"
An answer was formed in Izolf's head. "But first of all. I want to know what just happened." Izolf grinned looking to the pilot and then to Tekerishio.
"She got in here, killed almost everyone in this place. I stayed behind, followed and when I saw wheat she was going to do. I killed her when I saw that." Tekerishio sighed.
"Well, it seems you saved my daughter that way. And can you think of way that I can repay you?" Izolf made a smile. The first one in years. He often grinned, but it wasn't like anything he just did. This was his first smile.
"Yeah, you said once that there were guys like me. I want that you can get me to join them. I belong there. As warrior like my father was." He shot a look at Kanzashi ignoring her pleading look. "Because this isn't where I belong."
Flashback ends.
"And that's all. After that, Tekerishio made contact with Kerlongsj and dropped me off. With only bits and cracks, I got in the training program of the hackers. The rest of the story, well, you guys lived that with me, so no need to tell."
The guys smiled at Izolf. Facing their past was a thing he did and they all had to do now. He had done that now, well, they all had to.
And done, man, I spent a lot of time doing my writing. I'm glad I'm done with it. This seriously took some time for me to write, but I'm glad with it.
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