(Hi guys and welcome to the New Year. The New Year holds many new and untold things so far. And now allow me to present to you my latest update.)
When morning came at the Mikael hotel Negi was sleeping peacefully as the sun washed over his face making him stir until his eyes started opening and saw a blurry image before him, "What is? Who is that?" suddenly his vision got clearer as he saw Kakizaki on all fours above him.
Kakizaki smiled with a giggle before purring, "Rise and shine, Ne-gi-kun," Negi gasped while blushing at how close she was too his face. Suddenly the girl closed her eyes and puckered his lips, "So how about a good morning kiss?" she moved in closer to the surprised Negi until their lips eventually met. Kakizaki dominatingly led the kiss while Negi accepted it.
When they broke Kakizaki smiled, "How'd you get so good at this?"
"Um natural instinct?" Negi suggested.
"Well whatever it is, I like it." Kakizaki licked her lip seductively.
Negi laughed sheepishly, "Yes, well I think it's time we got ready."
Kakizaki hearing that smirked, "You're right. We don't wanna keep the others waiting. So to save time, let's take a shower together."
"Together?" Negi gasped.
"Of course, after all you bathe with Kaede don't you?"
Negi's eyes widened in shock that Kaede told her and who knows how many others that they do, "Well yes."
"Then come on, we got a lot of work to do on you." Kakizaki said springing off the bed and grabbed Negi bringing him into the bathroom.
Soon both Negi and Kakizaki were in the shower while the cheerleader was busy washing her little professor from top to bottom. Negi who ordinarily would squirm around had relaxed as the girl was gentle with him.
"I have to admit Kakizaki; this is very relaxing like my other baths with certain other girls." Negi admitted as she gently shampooed his hair.
"I'm glad to hear," she began, "After all, you do so much for us it's only right to return the favor." She washed the suds out of his hair.
Soon both were out of the shower and in towels while Kakizaki was drying Negi's hair. When she finished they looked at their reflections in the mirror as Kakizaki smiled, "There's a cute little boy if I've ever saw one. And within ten years that's gonna be a handsome young man."
"You mean it?" Negi asked looking at the girl who nodded.
"Of course, I mean with a little motivation and grooming and all that."
'Grooming?' Negi thought.
Soon the two were dressed and joining the other girls for breakfast. Negi looked around seeing no sign of his pal, "Where's Dustin, still asleep?"
Zazie answered, "He left a note saying he'd be waiting for us downstairs."
"What's he in such a big hurry for?" Asuna asked.
"Dustin said him and his pals are to be meeting some more of their old friends at a martial arts training facility today." Kasuga said.
"Training facility?" Madoka asked.
"Yes, Dustin said Darius is also a martial arts instructor and has trained him and several of his friends in hand to hand combat." Mana explained.
"So you see how this is a big deal for Dustin." Negi added.
"Yeah, so let's hurry and eat so we can meet up with him." Kazumi said as they ate.
Soon Negi, Zyphon, and the girls were downstairs in the lobby but saw no sign of Dustin, "Where's Dustin-kun?" Chizuru looked around.
"He said to meet him down here." Zyphon assured until music started playing on the speakers.
"What's that?" Konoka asked as Setsuna answered.
"I believe that's 'Eye of the Tiger'."
Suddenly they looked over by the lounge area on one of the couches that was facing away from them. They could see a small pair of arms reaching up while making drumming gestures. As the lyrics started Dustin was slowly sitting up and lip-synced the song itself while doing some gestures that mimicked the lyrics.
Dustin got up and sit on the armrest of the couch continuing his lip-sync while the girls giggled at his display. Dustin raised his right leg and pretended to be playing it like a guitar. Girls like Asuna, Chisame, and Evangeline just rolled their eyes. He stood up and held his arms up high like he was pumping up and some of the girls cheered for his performance. Dustin turned to the counter and motioned them to turn the music down and they did so.
"Well, what'd ya think?" Dustin asked them.
"That was something." Satsuki admitted.
"Yeah, something." Yue said stoically while sipping her juice.
"Well glad you all enjoyed it. Now if you don't mind I got an appointment with my martial arts grad class, so let's be going shall we?"
"Let's." Negi said as they all followed him out of the hotel.
Meanwhile in an unknown building Ragnarok sat on a throne while Felix presented himself before him, "Felix, your performance thus far to eliminate Dustin and Negi have proven disappointing."
"I understand your dissatisfied mood master, but I assure you I will not make the same mistake again." Felix pleaded.
"Very well I will give you another chance. Find Dustin and Negi and dispose of them!"
"Right away." Felix went through a dark portal.
Ragnarok sighed as he turned to Alistair, "Take note Alistair, should he fail I expect you to learn from your senior dark warriors mistakes."
"I understand, but you never told me much about any of the four. Nothing about Felix, Voltaire, Pythor, or Thorn."
"Some of them prefer to keep their pasts secret. After all, even they had bad experiences that they wish to remain in the past." Ragnarok explained.
"Then why don't you tell me?" Alistair asked.
"I'm afraid I took a vow of secrecy with several of them, and I'm not one to break the trust of other dark warriors." Alistair sighed about so much secrecy he didn't know if he could trust them.
Later the girls and their profs approached another tall building, "This is where you train?" Ku asked.
"What'd you expect an actual dojo?" Dustin asked.
"Kinda." Ku replied.
Dustin chuckled until he spotted his friends Elroy, Jade, Alice, Jethro, and Alicia waiting. While Alice held her rabbit McTwisp Alicia held a black American Shorthair cat while stroking it.
"Hey guys how's it going?" Dustin asked.
"Great, we've been waiting for you guys." Jethro said.
Dustin looked to Alicia, "Hey there's Salem, how're you doing boy?" the cat purred.
"Kawaii!" Sakurako squealed as she raced over and started patting Salem's head, "Such a cute little kitty cat."
"Try not to spoil him too much, he really doesn't deserve it." Alicia said while Salem glared up at his owner.
"Hey guys!" a female voice called as they looked over seeing Aria rush over.
"It's Aria!" Alice gasped.
She stopped, "Sorry I'm late. I had a few things to do."
"Better late than never." Dustin joked.
"Well come on everyone's waiting for us." Jade said as they all entered the building.
Waiting in the lobby was about close to seventeen others composed of nine boys and eight girls whose ages ran from 10-14, and with the addition of the other six entering that led to a total of twenty three spirit warrior graduates. Each of them were either gossiping or minding their own business. Dustin gasped seeing all of them and suddenly ran over grabbing their attention.
He called out to one of the boys getting his attention. This boy was eleven years old like Dustin and had short reddish hair, wore jeans, and a red shirt with black sleeves, "GO TO HELL HECTOR!" Dustin called him by his nickname with a whoop.
The boy Hector got up in surprise, "DUSTIN!" he cheered, "Skull bash!" they grabbed each others heads and bashed them together. The two groaned from their hits but laughed it off.
"Hey Dustin!" a thin boy about age twelve who had long brown hair, glasses, and a backwards baseball cap jumped Dustin in a hug before Dustin let the boy down.
"Zimmer!" Dustin cheered.
"Dustin!" a ten year old girl with black hair in a ponytail hugged him from behind and he turned around.
"Kelly!"
"How's it going guys?" Elroy called as he and the others joined in the group.
"Elroy, Jethro, how's it going?" a dark skinned boy about age thirteen said as they high fived.
"Doing great C.J." Jethro said.
"Dean, how's working in your dad sporting goods shop?" Elroy asked a twelve year old boy who had short dark hair and wore a coat, black shirt, and jeans.
"Going great Elroy, though we've had a few mishaps here and there." Dean answered.
The last boy who was eleven and had slicked back red hair noticed all the older girls, "Hey Dustin, who're the ladies." He let out a caw meow.
"Oh sorry Finn," Dustin began as he stood on a bench to get their attention, "Ladies and gentlemen please allow me to introduce to you the class I have been blessed to teach, all the way from Japan I give you Mahora academy class 3A!"
The trainees looked at them and gasped as another boy who was fourteen and bald asked, "These are the girls you've been talking about?"
"That's right Milo." Dustin answered.
"You really got the best assignment." A thirteen year old chubby boy said.
"Well Ralph, the angels of luck have smiled on me."
"You know I think we should properly introduce ourselves." A blonde haired boy about age thirteen suggested.
"Good idea Mickey. What do you think Dustin?" another boy with short black hair and carried an inhaler asked.
"Sounds like a plan Cody." Dustin admitted.
"Yeah, Boys 12 is back!" Elroy called.
"Boys 12?" Ako asked.
"Our little group name," Dustin said as he turned to the boys, "In position!" and so him and the boys of his graduation class gathered around presenting themselves before the girls as Dustin said, "Roll call."
"Ralph and I'm the fat boy!"
"C.J the bad boy!"
"Jethro the Sci-Fi guy!"
"A gamer named Zimmer!"
"Mickey and I'm a vegetarian!"
"Dustin the singer!"
"Dean the gorgeous one!"
"I'm Hector and I like things hot!"
"I'm Elroy and I can fight!"
"Finn the styler!"
"I'm Cody and I got asthma!"
"And I'm Milo the smart guy, and together we are..."
"Boys 12!"
"Hey boys!" a fourteen tear old girl with red hair in a bob cut called to them, "I hate to interrupt your little show, but the master's waiting."
"Alright Silvia we're coming." Dean said.
Dustin turned to them, "Sorry girls but the master calls, you can however enjoy the dining hall where we got an assortment of snacks waiting for you ladies. And we'll be out before you know it."
"Hai!" the girls agreed as they started following Zyphon while Mana, Kaede, Evangeline, Chachamaru, Rin and the rest of the boys partners followed the class into the training hall but were forced to take it up to the catwalk.
The cheerleaders however stopped instead of following Zyphon and the others, "Where are they going?" Kakizaki asked.
"You don't think?" Madoka asked.
"There must be some kind of conspiracy going on." Sakurako gasped.
"We should find out." Kakizaki added.
"And quick." Madoka put in as they snuck after the group.
Meanwhile Chamo, Domino, Toothless, McTwisp, and Salem were left behind, "So Salem, how've you been doing?" Domino asked and the cat spoke.
"Well I've slept in a pile of laundry that I wasn't familiar with last night."
"Why didn't we see you yesterday with McTwisp?" Chamo asked.
"I was at the pet groomers getting my nails done," he held showed his paws, "Look at them, what is there to life if I don't have nails?"
"Oh Salem you're being over dramatic." McTwisp said.
"How would you know? You've never had nails." Salem replied.
"Who's this guy?" Toothless asked.
"Toothless meet Salem Sanderson." Domino introduced.
"Salem, this here's Toothless the Night fury." Chamo introduced.
"Nice to meetcha pal." Salem greeted.
"Likewise, so you're Alicia's familiar?"
"Sort of, in fact I wasn't even born a cat I was cursed into one."
"Cursed?" Toothless asked.
"Yes, hundreds of years ago I was once a mage like Negi but I ended up blowing my secret and this was the result."
"So they made you into an immortal cat?" Toothless asked.
"Yes, for a hundred years I've been chasing mice, sipping cream from a saucer, using a litter box!" Salem cried.
"Hey being a house pet ain't so bad, don't you take five thousand naps a day anyway?" Chamo asked.
"I can't dance, and I can't play chess. The sound of a can opener is what truly makes me feel alive." He sighed.
"Oh cease with your melodramatics Salem." McTwisp said.
"Sorry. Anyway I've lived so long I eventually became the familiar to Alicia, and I got to say while she treats me like any ordinary pet she also treats me with respect, more or less."
"Hey you could've been with worse," Domino started, "You could've ended up with someone Dustin and I had to deal with yesterday."
"What do you mean?" Salem asked.
"Walk with us Salem, we got a lot to say." Domino said as the critters started walking their way to find their masters.
The pactio girls and Negi watched Dustin and the others from the catwalk, "Wow, so they're all spirit warriors?" Yuna asked.
"Precisely." Eva answered.
"And Damien-kun trained along side all of them?" Chizuru asked.
"Yes, they're a nice bunch actually." Negi explained.
"Wonder what they're talking about." Makie wondered.
"Probably something juicy." Kazumi grinned.
"Well unfortunately you can't listen in." Mana replied.
Down below the spirit warriors were all chatting with Aria smiling, "Imagine all of us here again?"
"It's been months." Kelly added.
"And we're all still here." Cody said.
"So has anybody found a partner yet?" Dustin asked.
The whole class turned to him, "Why do you ask?" a girl named Hilda asked cautiously.
"Just curious." He answered.
"Come on Dustin you just want to tell them your big secret." Alicia sighed.
"You got a secret?" Milo asked.
"Yes, I've actually made partners, eight of them."
"EIGHT?!" they group called.
"We haven't seen each other in months and you went and made eight partners?" Silvia asked.
"Not by force, there have been certain situations that led to it." Dustin admitted.
"Well we're all ears." Dean said crossing his arms.
"Well ok, this is my class roster. Negi and I each made certain partners out of most of them while some still remain unaware." Dustin opened the roster showing the pictures of the girls with some having notes written on them.
"Start with the first and point out what you can tell us about them." Zimmer said.
"Alright first is Sayo Aisaka, Negi's partner. Do not be frightened because she is a ghost. Truth is she's a bit of a timid ghost. She's been one for sixty years; she barely even remembers anything from when she was alive. That's why we're looking into finding out more about her past."
"She is cute for a ghost." Mickey admitted.
"Next we have Yuna Akashi, one of my partners," Dustin continued, "She actually has magical background in her family. Her mom was a witch that fought in a way years ago but died. Her dad wanted her to lead a normal life but eventually it caught up to her."
"Says she's a basketball pro." Hector saw under her name her club activity.
"Oh yeah, she can dunk a mean basket." Dustin chuckled and continued, "Next we have another of my partners Kazumi Asakura the class reporter. If there's some juicy news or anything out there, this gal will find it. It's best not to tell her too much of your secrets."
"This is Yue Ayase, a regular drone this one. But don't be fooled, she may act lazy and dull she is quite smart. And she has strange tastes in juice. Ako Izumi's our resident nurse's aid, and a good soccer player to boot, though for some reason she doesn't like it if people stare at her back too much."
"This next girl is Akira Okochi, she's a good swimmer. According to Negi she glides through the waters like a mermaid."
"Sweet." Ralph envisioned a mermaid.
"The purple haired girl is Kakizaki Misa, and boy is she one hell of a cheerleader. Though personally I think she prefers Negi over me. But I'm not too down about it." Dustin smirked.
"Why does this one girl have bashings by her name?" Kelly asked about Asuna.
"Asuna, she's a bit of a hard case. She hates kids, is easily agitated, and practically has no idea of what's happening in the world around her."
"In other words she's a dunce?" Milo asked.
"Pretty much," Dustin agreed, "Kasuga Misora's another of my partners. She's actually a mage in training like Negi, only her assignment is to be a nun."
"Got a soul sister in your bunch?" Dean chuckled.
"Damn right," Dustin chuckled back and continued, "Chachamaru Karakuri is actually a robot girl developed by 3A's two geniuses. Though she's becoming more and more human with each passing day since Negi and I met her. I think she has it in for Negi."
"Robot in love, how romantic." One girl sighed until C.J replied.
"Sissy stuff."
"Next is Madoka Kugimiya."
"Wait, that's a girl?" Zimmer asked.
"Of course it is, don't be fooled by her boyish appearance!" Dustin replied, "She's also a cheerleader, and I like a good tomboy."
"Yeah have ya ever seen a tomboy this cute?" Jethro asked.
No one bothering to answer just waited for Dustin to continue, "Next is Ku Fei, another of Negi's partners, while she lacks in brains she makes up for in strength. Literally she could demolish a tree with her pinky finger alone."
"Whoa." Finn gasped.
"Konoka Konoe is the headmaster's granddaughter and is also studying to be a mage herself since the incident in Kyoto. She's such a kind girl."
"She is cute I'll say that." Hector admitted.
"Haruna Saotome is what I can describe as a sly girl. She's more of a gossip monger than Kazumi. She even has this strange collection of comics that Yue says I shouldn't read."
"Setsuna Sakurazaki is a sword wielder in training from the Shinmeiryu school. And Konoka's protector. I made a pactio with her in Kyoto in order to save Konoka from the Kansai Magic association."
"Such a firm look." Silvia said.
"Don't be fooled, she can be quite a softy underneath all that." Dustin smirked.
Jade spoke, "That's Makie Sasaki, and like me she's also good with a ribbon, although her ribbon does more than what I could ever use them for."
"That's right, she also has it in for Negi because he's 'cute'." Dustin does air quotes.
"She's cute herself." Cody admitted.
"That redhead is Sakurako Shiina, the third cheerleader," Dustin explained, "She's more gung up on cute things than any of the girls."
"Dustin, who is this devilish beauty." C.J asked looking at Mana's pic.
"Easy there slick she's taken," Dustin explained, "That's Mana Tatsumiya my first partner. She's a trained mercenary who excels in firearms. If you looked at her wrong she'd shoot you right between the eyes. But deep down she's a nice person. I think I melted whatever ice she had brewing inside her."
"Who's this Chinese cutie?" Zimmer asked.
"Chao Lingshen, and let me tell ya that girl is not only a genius in robotics, she's also a good cook. In fact she helped me win one of my first battles outside New York."
"By becoming your partner?" Kelly asked.
"No, that was later on." Dustin replied.
"This girl has ninja written under her name." another girl with red curly hair noticed under Kaede's name.
"Yeah that's right Cindy. Kaede Nagase is a Chunin Koga Ninja, and Negi's first partner. And let me tell ya this ninja girl while may not also being an intelligent type is also a powerhouse of a fighter like Ku and Chao."
"Awesome, a real ninja." Dean said.
"Next we got Chizuru Naba, another of my partners. She loves astrology, and she can also be a manipulative one. And on a personal note she's got the biggest chest in all of 3A." Dustin whispered to the guys.
"Get out, you're serious?" Dean gasped and Dustin nodded.
"What size are we talking?" Milo asked.
Dustin whispered, "She's a 94 cm."
The older boys gasped and panted while the girl spirit warriors sighed while some looked at their own chests seeing they couldn't compare.
"Next is a pair of twos or twins, Fuka and Fumika Narutaki. Unlike Alice and Alicia here, these two are real troublemakers, and not to mention they're the height of grade schoolers."
"Looks like you two got some competition in the twin department." C.J turned to the spirit warrior twins.
"Don't be so sure C.J." Alicia replied.
"Yes, besides there's nothing to compete for." Alice added.
"Next is Satomi Hakase, the second genius but is more hung up on the scientific world that Chao is. You say anything non-scientific to her and she'll never stop rambling." The guys chuckled.
"So whose the frowny face in coke bottles." Mickey noticed Chisame's pic.
"Chisame Hasegawa, she's good with computers, but she prefers a reclusive life due to her having a second identity." He said the last part under his breath.
"Hey this next girl is Evangeline McDowell. Isn't she the legendary vampire that has done catastrophic things for years?" Milo asked in worry.
"Yes she is, in fact she was this close to completely wiping Negi and I out of existence," Dustin began while some of the group was in shock, "But alas we pulled together and stuck it to her hard. In fact she's even become a worthy allie."
"Now who's this shaggy hair girl?" Silvia asked.
"Nodoka Miyazaki."
"Miyazaki, like the film director?" Dean asked.
"Not even close. She's the class librarian and bookworm. Though she's more shy and timid than Sayo, she's actually ok once she speaks up loud enough to hear her."
"Every class has to have a shy violet." Elroy added.
"Next is Natsumi Murakami; the drama girl. Though she has low self esteem and doesn't sit well with big time parts she does a good job in acting. Next we got Ayaka Yukihiro the class representative."
"A real looker ain't she boys?" Jethro asked the others who agreed with him.
"Yes indeed she is, she's also comes from a wealthy family." Dustin added.
"The Yukihiro family?" Silvia asked.
"Exactly, you'd be amazed in what this woman is capable of doing. Plus not only is she Negi's partner, she has it in for his the most."
"Isn't that?" Silvia began but Dustin answered.
"We know, but she prefers the term liking pure innocent boys."
"I'm pure an innocent." Dean said.
"Sure you are." Elroy said sarcastically.
"This girl here is Satsuki Yotsuba, and let me tell ya once you've had a taste of her cooking you'll always come back for more."
"He's telling the truth, I almost put on ten pounds from it." Jade added.
"So who's the face paint girl?" Zimmer asked.
"Zazie Rainyday; my last partner, and believe it or not she's a half blood demon who acts as an ambassador from the magical world. Plus she's an expert at juggling."
"And who's the last girl?"
"Rin Hikari, Princess of the Kingdom of Light."
"Princess?" Dean gasped.
"Kingdom of Light?" Cindy asked.
"Yup, not only is she Negi's partner, but a childhood friend as well."
"I can't believe he knew such royalty and never told any of us." Finn said.
"I didn't know about it either until a few months ago." Dustin admitted.
"Dustin you are living the life of every man's dream." C.J said in envy.
"I tell myself that every day." Dustin chuckled.
Back on the catwalk the familiars arrived, "Did we miss anything?" Chamo asked.
"Nothing yet, Chamo." Negi replied.
"I can't wait to start seeing some sparks fly." Domino said while perching on the railing.
"Better start taking bets now boys." Salem chuckled.
"Yo have such a gambling problem." McTwisp said.
"Hey, I do not have a problem with gambling." Salem replied.
"The cat can talk too?" Makie asked.
"Well he's not really a cat Makie, he was once human." Negi explained.
"Seriously?" Yuna gasped.
"Get out." Kazumi said.
"He speaks the truth ladies. I was also a mage until I exposed myself and not in the other way and now this is my punishment."
"How appropriate for you Salem Sanderson." Eva smirked.
"Dark Evangel, I knew it would be destiny when our paths would cross again. But I'll have you know I have not forgotten our fight years ago and I am ready to take my revenge out on you with all my might!" Salem declared until Evangeline gave him a scary face making his eyes widened, "Which is what I would've said if I actually meant it."
"I thought so." Eva replied while brushing her hair back.
Salem turned to the other animals and spoke with fear, "She's still scary."
Mana looked down at Aria, "So it was her brother that healed Dustin?"
"Yes, her brother Burai is a spirit healing spirit warrior." Negi explained.
"Wow, he must be an expert at it." Konoka gasped.
"Well he is their senior." Negi added.
"How is it that Aria should be here, she looks very weak." Ayaka noticed.
Darius approached, "Do not be fooled by her Ayaka, "Though Aria has a small health problem, she is still one fine student I've trained."
Back down below the group continued to gossip until Burai approached. Burai was out of his doctor's coat and was now wearing a green and white robe, "Students!" he called as they all froze and formed a line like soldiers.
He started walking around them like a drill seargent. Setsuna spoke to Darius, "The group really seems to respect him."
"Burai is a natural with younger spirit warriors." The old man replied.
"Along side Master Darius he trained them as well, he's like a big brother to all of them." Negi explained.
"He must be incredibly strong." Ku said.
"He is." The English boy replied.
"Listen, it looks like he's about to give them a lecture." Kaede shushed them all.
"Now then, to see how much you have learned I will be putting you all to the test, but not against each other. In fact there are three in this room who I think will be just the challenge for you."
"Oh boy." Aria said knowing it wasn't going to be a regular sparring match.
Suddenly spotlights shined up onto Chao, Ku, and Kaede, 'Oh this will not be pretty for half the class.' Dustin thought.
"Against them, but didn't you learn some moves form one of them Dustin?" Elroy asked.
"Yup, you may want to make out a will if you try going up against them." Dustin warned them.
"I'll check it out." Aria said taking a step forward from the group onto a training ring as the group of girls came down from the catwalk.
"Be careful Aria." Alice said in worry.
Aria bowed her head and spoke, "I am ready."
Burai looked at the three chosen opponents, "Any takers?"
The pactio girls thought, 'Darius said she may be frail, but she's supposed to be strong.'
Chao spoke, "I will." She took a position in the ring.
"Just say the word brother." Aria said.
"And… fight!" Burai announced.
Chao went at the girl who moved to avoid an attack. Chao saw that coming and did a sweep kick knocking Aria off her feet but landed on her hands and jumped back onto her feet, 'She's faster than Dustin said.' She smiled and spoke, "Wow, you're pretty good."
"So are you." The Chinese girl said as they continued fighting.
Watching from around a corner were the cheerleaders, "Have you been listening to all that" Sakurako asked.
"Yeah, but is it all real?" Kakizaki asked.
"I don't know." Madoka replied.
Back at the fight aria took out her violin and spoke, "Now to show you my spirit styled power." She began to play on it.
Chao was confused at her move, 'What's she doing with music?'
Dustin thought, "Chao's gonna be sorry for hearing this tune.
And Dustin was right. Chao started seeing the scenery around her started warping, "What's going on?"
Watching from the other warriors Elroy spoke to the others, "That's the beauty of her music ain't it guys?" they all nodded.
"She distorts the mind making her opponents see illusions." Alicia added.
"Only someone incredibly strong can see right through them." Alice put in.
With Chao distracted Aria went at her fighting again. With Chao's vision blurred up she could barely concentrate. Aria spoke, "A symphony can be a deadly thing to the mind." She finally launched an attack at Chao knocking her down.
'Darius wasn't kidding about her.' The Chinese girl thought.
"The match is over!" Burai called.
"Chao!" Dustin called running from the group and helped her up, "Are you ok?"
"I'm fine, your friend is really good."
Dustin spoke as Aria walked out to get some air, "Yeah, she sure is."
"Ok, Aria has proven her worth. Next up we got… Ralph." Burai announced as Ralph stepped up.
"I'll take this one." Ku said as she entered the arena.
"Just so you know, I may be fat but I'm not weak." Ralph warned her.
"Then prove to me." Ku beckoned him.
"You got it." Ralph concentrated his spirit energy as his arms and hands started growing in a massive size.
"Whoa, how's he doing that?" Kazumi gasped.
"Ralph uses his spirit energy to increase his body strength, though sometimes if he makes it too big it can backfire on him." Dustin explained.
"Just the same as steroids." Salem added.
Ralph got ready, "Now I'm gonna show ya why they call me Wreck It Ralph!" Ralph charged.
Outside the building Aria walked for some air and started coughing, "Man, going out like that is really tiring. I'll even bet she was nothing compared to any real enemies out there." She said to herself.
As she sat down to catch her breath she heard something, "Hmm?" she got up and looked around hearing a voice, "They're all there?"
Aria looked around a corner and saw Felix speaking into an astral screen with the Shadow Master, "Yes master, all the rookie spirit warriors are here at this building."
"Perfect, I leave the rest up to you Felix."
'Who're they? Whoever they are I gotta warn the others.' She tried to run but lost her footing and tripped.
"Sir, I heard something. Over and out," Felix ended his link and spotted Aria, "Well what have we here?"
Aria stood up and got in a defense position, "Who're you?"
"I am Felix Fox, Dark Warrior Yoko." He introduced himself.
"A dark warrior." She gasped.
"Now that you've caught word of my plan, I cannot let you walk away," he stepped forward and grabbed her arm, "Taking a prisoner will please my master."
Aria did the only thing she could do and aimed her finger at his leg, "Spirit gun!" she shot at it making Felix recoil and release her.
She ran back inside and to the gym, "Guys!"
"Aria what's wrong?" Burai asked as the sparing between Ku and Ralph was halted.
"We got trouble outside, an intruder."
"Who is it?" Darius asked.
Suddenly there was an explosion and entering through a hole in the wall was Felix, "Him." She said.
"Greetings spirit warriors." Felix smirked.
"No." Burai gasped.
"Who is that?" Kaede asked.
Dustin frowned, "The same dark warrior who slipped me animal formula."
"You have no business here." Darius warned the intruder.
"Oh shove it old man." Felix answered.
"Felix!" Burai approached, "What happened to you?"
"Ah Burai, long time no see." He snickered.
"Brother, you know this guy?" Aria asked.
"Everyone stand back, leave him to me." Burai warned the rookies.
"Leaving them out? Now where's the fun in that?" Felix asked as he summoned about thirty shadow soldiers, "Attack!"
"Everyone on your guard!" Darius ordered as every rookie spirit warrior started attacking the shadow soldiers.
"Take cover!" Salem cried as he and the other animals took shelter under a bench.
"I got this!" Toothless said as the formula wore off returning him to normal size and started blasting the soldiers with his lightning.
"They need our help, let's go!" Mana called as the partners started fighting as well.
Zazie jumped up and concentrated her spirit energy into cards and started launching them at her enemies that destroyed them on contact, "That my friends was my latest performance piece." She winked.
Chizuru concentrated her own spirit energy and was surrounded by multiple spirit energy spheres that were launched at her enemies that blew them up. Chachamaru had summoned blade arms and started slicing through several dark warriors.
Meanwhile in the other part of the building where the rest of class was, they could feel the shakes and rumbles going on, "What's that an earthquake?" Nodoka asked in worry.
"Stay calm ladies, just a little seismic activity." Zyphon tried to keep them calm until he started counting, "Wait a minute, we're missing three."
Back at the battle Burai was fighting through the dark warriors until he was face to face with Felix, "So once again we are set to fight again." Felix said.
"I had known it would eventually happen, but to happen like this?" Burai asked.
"You were taught to expect the unexpected." Felix reminded him.
"Agreed. So now let's see which of us has gotten stronger?" Burai beckoned him to come.
Felix started powering up with a reddish black aura surrounding him. He took off like a bullet fighting Burai who fought back using his own martial arts moves taught to him by Darius.
"Burai!" Aria called as she went to help him but got blocked by more shadow soldiers.
"What's say we take this battle elsewhere, old friend?" Felix asked tackling Burai into a shadow portal.
"Burai!" the rookies called.
The remain shadow soldiers that had not been destroyed fled with their master, "They got away!" Dean grunted.
"Damn!" Dustin growled.
"Burai!" Aria wept.
"Aria." Darius comforted the girl.
"This is bad." Eva admitted.
"We have to find Burai." Dustin declared.
"How're we going to do that?" Yuna asked.
"I'm not sure." He admitted.
"I'm just glad the other girls didn't see any of this." Negi sighed in relief.
"I don't think you should've said that aniki." Chamo said.
They looked to the side seeing the cheerleaders with shocked expressions on their faces, "Oh snap." Dustin gasped.
Soon the three cheerleaders grabbed their professors and bombarded them with questions right from left. They were so fast the boys couldn't answer them properly until Darius approached the girls, "You three better sit down."
Meanwhile Felix and Burai landed out of the portal and appeared in the same building Felix met with Ragnarok. Felix broke his grappled with Burai and sent a blast of fire at him making him crash into a wall.
"Now!" Felix called and suddenly from the wall emerged vines and snakes that bounded Burai to it.
"What the hell?!" Burai growled.
"Well Felix, not bad, you pulled it off." Pythor came out of the darkness of the room followed by Thorn.
"Who're all of you?" Burai asked.
"Sorry I didn't tell you what with being in hiding and all, but after I left I followed a new crowd. And I serve a new master now." Felix explained.
"A new master?" Burai asked.
"Me." Ragnarok appeared with Alistair and Voltaire.
"Who're you?" the captive spirit warrior asked.
"I am the Shadow Master." Ragnarok smirked while Burai looked taken by surprise.
Back at the building Sakurako, Kakizaki, and Madoka were briefed upon everything, "So you see that's everything." Dustin said.
"Wow, I had no idea Negi-kun was a wizard." Kakizaki gasped.
"Or that Dustin-kun was a spirit warrior." Sakurako added in similar shock.
"Well it surprised us all too." Makie replied.
"So you both came to Japan to be teachers as part of your training?" Madoka asked.
"And if anyone found out your secrets Negi-kun would be turned into an animal and Dustin-kun would be experimented on by others?" Kakizaki added.
"Correct." Negi nodded.
"And you made pactios with the other girls here to not only share or give them powers as well, but to make it so you wouldn't get into trouble?" Sakurako finished.
"That sums it up." Dustin replied.
Salem sipped lemonade from a straw in a glass, "Well that wasn't too long of an explanation now was it?"
"So you see girls, this secret must be kept between all of us do you understand?" Darius asked them.
"Hai." The cheerleaders nodded.
"Good, now back to business. Darius what happened to Burai?" Dustin asked.
"I'm afraid Burai was taken hostage by a former warrior I once trained along side him years ago when he was your ages," Darius began, "Felix Fox was a Yoko fox warrior. We trained him to control his yoko powers. He proved to be a very talented student having learned more than half of what you all learned before you graduated. But as he got older he developed a power lust. He wanted to be the strongest fighter out there and started attacking all of us to prove his strength. Eventually he fled before we could capture him and haven't heard from him since."
"Well we can see one thing he's been doing since you last saw him." Elroy said.
"He started learning dark spirit techniques and became a dark warrior yoko." Alicia added.
"And now I'm afraid he's after Burai, the only one who ever gave him a real challenge." Darius added.
"So what do we do?" Cody asked.
"I say we all go out and find Burai." Dustin spoke up.
"Dustin, we don't even know where to look." Silvia reminded him.
"Maybe not, but if Burai out there somewhere in this city we have to find him, "Dustin replied, "We owe our lives to him, he helped take us from the children we were and turned us into the warriors we are today."
"He's right, I'm not about to turn my back on my own brother." Aria said.
"They're both right." Elroy added.
"So we're in with them too." Jethro put in.
"As are we." Alicia said on behalf of herself and her sister who nodded in agreement.
And soon the other rookie warriors started agreeing and soon Darius deemed it unanimous, "Very well I'll divide you all up into groups. Dustin, you and Negi will take Elroy, Jethro, Jade, Aria, Alice, Alicia, and your partners."
"Yes sir!" they nodded.
"Hold on." Madoka called as they looked to the three cheerleaders.
"We wanna help to." Sakurako said.
"What?" Negi and Dustin gasped.
"You guys are going to need all the help you can get." Kakizaki added.
"Girls be reasonable, you know the dangers of what we've been facing." Setsuna warned them.
"And yet all of you seemed so sure to go along with it." Sakurako noted.
"So we wanna make pactios too." Madoka finished.
Suddenly the rookie warrior boys started piling over, "make one with me!" Dean called.
"No me!" Ralph called.
"Please do it with me!" Milo called.
As they continued pestering the girls Sakurako finally spoke, "Sorry boys, it's sweet of you to offer, but there's only two we'd wanna make probationary contracts with."
The three turned to Negi and Dustin who didn't look too surprised, "That is if they'll have us." Kakizaki added.
Dustin turned to his buddy, "Well Negi, whaddaya say?"
Negi nodded, "I agree, alright girls let's do this."
"Chamo, Domino, chop-chop." Dustin ordered.
"Way ahead of ya!" Chamo said as the two started drawing up two pentagrams on the floor as each of the two boys stood in one.
"I'm going with Negi-kun." Kakizaki said.
"And I'm sticking with Dustin-kun." Madoka added.
"So am I." Sakurako put in.
"Well ladies they await you." Domino cawed.
Kakizaki stood in the pentagram and gasped, "Wow this feels so warm," she lowered herself down to Negi's level and caressed his hair, "Ready Negi-kun?"
"Whenever you are." He answered.
She smiled and quickly pulled his lips onto her own. They kissed passionately while Negi's current partners could see Kakizaki was really leading him on through it as Chamo called out, "Pactio!"
Suddenly a card of Kakizaki appeared and Chamo took it, "Oh yeah probationary contract is complete. The pactio circle died down, but Kakizaki wasn't ready to stop kissing.
"Kakizaki, you've done more than enough!" Ayaka called pulling her off Negi.
"Whoops, guess I got caught up in it." Kakizaki smiled sheepishly.
"You call that an excuse?" Rin asked.
"Excuse me, but we still got business, ok girls whose ready for Dustin?" Domino asked the two other cheerleaders.
"I'll go," Sakurako entered the circle and lowered herself to Dustin, "All set, Dustin-kun?"
"Ready." He affirmed her.
"Then give me some love." Sakurako planted her lips onto his as they kissed. Dustin's fellow male rookie warriors were shocked, while Aria and Alice were surprised.
"Pactio!" Domino called as the circle glowed and Sakurako's card appeared, "And there you have it."
Sakurako parted from Dustin, "If ever you need me Dustin-kun don't be afraid to ask."
"Thanks Sakurako. Madoka you're up." Dustin said.
Madoka nodded with confidence as she stepped inside, "I always felt you were special Dustin-kun, but I never counted on this."
"I am full of tricks remember?" Dustin reminded her about what he said during his and his boys song.
"Right, well I'm ready to give you my support." Madoka said as she put her hands on Dustin's cheeks and they kissed with Dustin's friends having the same reaction when Sakurako kissed him.
"Pactio!" Domino cawed as the circle glowed with a Madoka card being created, "Probationary contracts and full and complete!"
Madoka and Dustin parted while blushing, "Thanks Madoka."
"No problem." She smiled.
"Alright girls, these here will be your cards to use to summon either weapons or unlock your powers, while we hold onto these copies to use as a way to contact you via telepathically." Chamo said as he and Domino gave the three their cards.
"Wow, this is cool." Sakurako said looking at hers.
"I never looked better." Kakizaki added about hers.
"Cool." Madoka finished.
"Afraid we don't have time to find out what your powers can do so you'll have to find out as we go along." Negi said.
"Hai!" they agreed.
"Master Darius, see to it that the other girls are distracted long enough until we get back." Dustin said.
"I'll do my best, and have Zyphon meet up with you." The old man promised.
"Alright guys, let's break!" Dustin called and everyone split up determined to find Burai.
(And that's the chapter. Quite long I know. The girls met several other spirit warriors that Dustin trained alongside with and they are about to work together to find their second mentor with the help of the cheerleaders. Enjoy and don't miss next time readers.)