(Welcome to my next installment guys. Hope you're ready for a little fun and excitement in this chapter.)
One afternoon in class, Negi and Dustin were dismissing their students leaving them to themselves, "Well Negi, another day in the books." he popped the cap off a soda bottle and drank from it.
"Yes I know." Negi admitted.
"You know something I think we should do this weekend, Negi?" Dustin asked.
"What's that?" Negi inquired.
"I say we gather our partners together for a picnic." the spike head suggested.
"A picnic?" Negi asked sounding interested.
"Awesome!" Chamo popped in, "A get together with the girls and all."
"And it doesn't have to be just us," Dustin continued, "We can invite Alistair, Yue, Kotaro, Natsumi, Evangeline, Fate, Takane, Mei, and Nutmeg."
"Sounds good to me." Negi admitted.
"Hey we can even invite Shizune and Shakti as well." Dustin added.
Negi's eyes widened, "Invite them too?"
"Of course, why not? They both know our secret." Dustin explained.
"Well yes, but didn't we promise to keep the date just between the four of us?" Negi asked.
Dustin remembered, "Ooh right. Well hey, eventually it's going to get brought up or slip out eventually. Besides what does it matter who we spend time with?"
"Maybe, but I'm not sure." Negi said having his doubts.
"Hey if it makes you feel any better we won't tell any of the girls that we did the deed with them." Dustin raised hos brows.
"Well, ok." Negi smiled.
"I'll send this message to our guests," Dustin began as he started texting a message to their guests, while making sure to warn them to keep it a secret from the non pactio girls. They waited a few minutes, until Dustin heard his cellphone ring. He saw he had multiple replies and smirked, "That was fast." he checked the messages seeing the girls were sounding excited about the idea, while some of the texts from Alistair and Kotaro looked interested, but not as energetically enthusiastic like the girls.
"Looks like it's unanimous." Domino cawed.
"Then the picnic date is on!" Chamo cheered.
Meanwhile at Ragnarok's lair, Diabound was sitting around, until Thorn entered and noticed him eyeing the room where Ragnarok would be, "Diabound, it's not like you to be tense as this."
Diabound turned to her, "Ever since Pythor, Skales, Acidicus, and their tribes defected from us, Ragnarok's been moody. I'm basically standing my ground here in case he throws a tantrum and needs someone to snap him out of it."
"I think what would bring him around is seeing Negi, Dustin, and their sweethearts brought to him on a silver platter." Thorn suggested.
"Capital idea," Diabound began before pointing out a flaw, "But how do you intend to do that considering the past mishaps?"
Thorn smirked, "Come with me, Diabound and I'll show you," she led him into another room where they saw a screen showing Mahora's ground, "Come take a look at what my spy traps picked up today." She made the screen rewind moments ago, as Diabound watched seeing Makie and Yuna walking.
"I can't believe Negi-kun and Dustin-kun suggested we picnic this weekend." Makie said feeling jittery.
"I know," Yuna answered in equal excitement, "We'll have to pack them little personal lunches."
"But you know the others are going to as well." Makie noted.
"True, so we'll just have to make sure our tastes the best." Yuna smirked giving Makie a confidence boost.
"You're right. We should get planning right away!" Makie cheered.
The screen went blank as, Thorn spoke, "I think this would make for a perfect opportunity to take them out."
"Clever, but how do you intend to do that?" Diabound inquired the plant mistress.
Thorn smirked at his questioning, "Oh trust me, what I have in mind is going to be a kill."
Back at the school at the dorms, Dustin and Negi returned to their respective dorms, with Negi preparing for tomorrow's lesson. As he did so, Kaede spoke up, "What made you and Dustin decide to have this picnic for us, Negi?"
"Well aside from all that's been going on at the school and with Ragnarok's forces, we felt you could all use a break from it." Negi explained.
Kaede smiled, "Well I'm glad it came to you guys." she ruffled Negi's hair as he laughed.
Outside the dorms around the flower fields on the school grounds, Diabound and Thorn appeared, "This is the spot I heard they'd be having it at." Thorn said as she dug a small hole in the ground and started dropping some ingredients into it and covered it up with the dirt again.
"Are you absolutely sure this is going to work?" Diabound asked suspiciously.
"Positive, starting tomorrow it'll begin growing and by the weekend it'll be fully grown," Thorn began, "And when it is the real fun begins."
"If you say so." Diabound replied as the two left.
As the days past the ingredients that Thorn planted started combining and started growing into a small plant before it eventually became a tree with flowers ready to bloom. When the weekend came, Negi, Dustin, their partners, Alistair, Yue, Kotaro, Natsumi, Takane, Mei, Nutmeg, Evangeline, and Zyphon were present. Even the familiars of Chamo, Domino, Toothless, and Fievel were there. They were setting up their picnic under the very tree that had been planted by Thorn, though they had no idea.
Konoka just finished setting down the last of the multiple boxed lunches everyone brought, "There all finished."
"Excellent work, Ojousama." Setsuna complimented her.
"This is an awesome spot for us to have the picnic." Fuka noted.
"Yeah, but I really don't remember this tree being here before." Ako noticed.
"Maybe we haven't noticed." Makie suggested as they shrugged it off.
Takane spoke to Negi, "It was so nice of you and Dustin-sensei to invite us here."
"Well you're a fellow make Takane, why wouldn't we?" Negi asked with a smile that brought a blush to Takane's face.
"I got to admit, if feels actually good to finally relax for a day." Kotaro said as he was kicking back against the tree trunk.
Fate was close to Rin, being the knight he was, "Even if we're here to relax I still must be prepared for even the worse."
"Oh, Fate." Rin chuckled.
"I'm just glad I don't have to be small this time." Toothless said as he laid on the grass.
"I can't believe we actually have a dragon for an ally." Fievel said as he stood on the dragon's head.
"Well you can believe it, pal," Chamo began, "Though be glad he hasn't been looking at you with hunger in his eyes like he used to do for me."
"It's because I find Fievel more amusing to be around." Toothless admitted.
"Jeez." Chamo said while rolling his eyes.
Natsumi looked over and saw Shizuna and Shakti walking over, "Hey it's Shizuna-sensei."
They all looked over seeing it was their school's nurse, while Kasuga, Takane, Cocone, Nutmeg, and Mei were surprised to see Sister Shakti accompanying her. Rin started panikcing, "Oh no, we need to hide Toothless!" The girls started panicking frantically as well until Dustin whistled.
"Girls, girls! Relax, everything's ok." he promised them, while Mana eyed him wondering what he meant.
Shizuna and Shakti arrived and noticed the girls were smiling nervously, "Good morning everyone." Shizuna greeted them.
"Good morning, Shizuna-sensei." they answered while trying to keep calm.
"It's so nice you two made it." Negi spoke to the teachers.
"Negi, you invited them?" Ayaka asked in confusion.
"Negi and Dustin." Shakti corrected the rep of 3A.
"But why?" Makie asked in confusion.
"It's all right girls," Eva began, "Shizuna knows about magic, and I'm sure some of you knew that Shakti is also involved with the other mages at the school."
"Really?" Chizuru gasped.
"Correct." Shizuna nodded.
"Wow, how come you never told me Shizuna-sensei was in on everything?" Kasuga asked her mentor.
"Because some things are supposed to be left secret." Shakti asnwered.
"How did you come to know Shizuna-sensei knew about magic?" Madoka asked Negi and Dustin.
"Well you remember the teacher party we talked about awhile back?" Dustin asked hoping they'd take it well.
"Yes." Mana answered suspiciously.
"Well there was no party." Negi continued.
"What?!" they gasped.
"Then what did you do?" Kakizaki asked.
"Negi and I took Shizuna and Shakti out on a date." Dustin answered while Negi was wincing.
"You what?!" the girls gasped while Eva remained neutral.
"So then why didn't you come back last night?" Kaede asked seeing there was more to what they didn't tell them.
"Because Shizuna and I invited them each to stay with us for the night since it was very late." Shakti explained.
Negi and Dusitn looked at the girls who were either looking at them in disappointment for deceiving them, and some at Shizuna and Shakti for taking their senseis, "Did anything..." Ayaka began until Negi spoke up.
"No, nothing happened I swear on my sisters eyes!"
"What he said." Dustin added as well not wanting them to know about their experience with the older women.
"We're sorry we didn't tell you girls, because if we told you somehow it might've gotten out and then Shizuna and Shakti would've gotten in trouble with Niita." Negi explained.
"Please don't be upset with them girls," Shizuna began, "We're the ones that suggested it."
"If you want to be upset with someone then let it be us." Shakti added.
The girls looked at each other before Ayaka spoke, "Well we shouldn't be too hard on our senseis. After all at least they were with you two and not complete strangers."
"Still we wished you two would have told us the truth." Mana said as she eyed Dustin.
"Honesty is the best policy after all." Zazie added with a nod.
"Not always." Kotaro whispered to Alistair who chuckled.
"We're sorry, next time we'll say what we're really doing." Negi promised.
"Most of the time." Dustin mumbled to himself.
"Well it's water under the bridge now," Konoka said and looked to the older women, "Come on and join us."
"Don't mind if we do." Shakti said as she and Shizuna took a spot with the others.
"Can we dig in now?" Alistair asked getting irritated by the wait.
"Yeah I'm hungry." Rin added.
"They're right, let's dig in." Chao said as they began having their picnic.
Each of the girls were eating, with some of them presenting their boxed lunches to Negi and Dustin. The two each ate some of the portions each of their partners made while feeding them some as well. Kotaro and Alistair watched with their single partners, "Gotta feel sorry for them having so many girls vying for their attention." Alistair said.
"Yeah, lucky we don't have to worry about anything like that." Kotaru chuckled until Mei scooted near him.
"Uh Kotaro-kun, would you try some?" Mei asked holding out some chopsticks with some food in them.
"Um, ok." Kotaro answered in confusion as he ate it.
"How is it?" Mei asked curiously.
"Not bad," he admitted, "Did you make this?"
"Um, yes." the girl answered.
"It's good." Kotaro admitted.
"Arigato." Mei blushed at his compliment, while Natsumi watched while looking a little irked and took some food in her chopsticks.
"Here Kotaro, try some more." she started feeding him, while Mei not wanting to be one upped contineud offering some of her food to him.
Alistair chuckled as Kotaro was being stuffed, "Poor Kotaro. Lucky I don't have anyone to fight you over me, Yue." he looked to his partner.
"I wouldn't want competition anyway." Yue answered.
Dustin fed Sakurako some food as he himself was being fed by Cocone, "Boy I tell you this is a great picnic. I don't see what could possibly make this go wrong."
"Negi!" a female voice called out, startling everyone. They looked over and saw Negi's childhood friend Anya coming over, "Hey!"
"Anya?" Negi asked flabbergasted.
"I just had to say it." Dustin grumbled while crossing his arms.
"Who's that?" Alistair asked the girls on behalf of himself and Kotaro.
"That's Negi-sensei's childhood friend, Anya." Yue answered as she sipped one of her boxed drinks.
"And why is Dustin so irritated by her being here?" Kotaro asked noticing him.
Domino spoke up, "Because Anya is a freakin hardcase." Kotaro and Alistair looked at the crow wondering what he meant by that.
"Anya, what're you doing here?" Negi asked in confusion.
Anya stopped and looked hurt by his question, "What? I come here during my time off in London and you don't look the least bit happy to see me?"
"I never said that, Anya. It's just it would've been better if you wrote to me that you were coming here." Negi corrected her.
"But then it wouldn't be a surprise now would it?" Anya asked smugly.
Dustin scowled, "You and surprise don't mold well."
Anya looked seeing the crowd, "What's going on here?"
"We're having a picnic, Anya." Fuka answered with a smile.
"A picnic?" Anya asked.
"Yeah, would you like to join us?" Konoka asked.
"I'd love to!" Anya asked with a bright smiley face, "I love picnics!"
Dustin groaned and spoke to Domino, "And today was looking so well." Domino nodded in agreement.
Anya took a spot next to Negi and Konoka, before noticing more people she didn't know about, "Who're all of these people?"
"Well Anya, this is Takane, Mei, Nutmeg, and Sister Shakti.' Negi introduced her to the girls from Mahora she had not met before.
Dustin spoke motioning to the boys, "And meet some more men to our gang. This is Kotaro, this is Fate, and this is Alistair."
"Hey." Kotaro greeted her.
"Greetings." Fate bowed his head respectively.
"Sup?" Alistair asked.
Anya noticed them, but paused seeing Alistair and what he was, "A dark warrior?"
Domino flew to the girl blocking her mouth with his wings, "Before you decide to scream and make accusations, we have to tell you Alistair's on the level with us."
Anya looked around at Negi and the girls who nodded in confirmation, so she calmed herself as Domino took his wings off her mouth. Anya still noticed all the girls, "This doesn't look like everyone from your class."
"That's because some of them aren't with us." Dustin answered.
"You see Anya, this isn't so much a picnic for our class." Negi began knowing Anya was going to explode.
"It's a picnic for our partners." Dustin finished for him.
Anya did a double blink before surveying the scene seeing more of the class was present with them than last time, "WHAT?!" she screamed which caused Kotaro and Alistair to cover their ears.
"Jeez she can scream." Kotaro cringed.
"I DON'T BELIEVE THIS!" Anya continued to shout, "I HAVEN'T SEEN YOU FOR OVER MONTHS AND I COME BACK TO FIND BOTH YOU AND DUSTIN HAVE GONE AND MADE MORE PACTIOS WITH MORE OF YOUR STUDENTS AND POSSIBLY ONES NOT IN YOUR CLASS!"
"ANYA!" Negi shouted to break her mindless shouting, "Will you kindly calm down and hear us out?"
"Yeah Anya, we never forced any of these girls. They wanted it." Dustin answered.
"And they're not all their partners." Alistair added as he held Yue close, while Kotaro stayed close to Natsumi.
Dustin continued motioning to Takane, Mei, Nutmeg, Shizuna, and Shakti, "And these girls aren't our partners, they're just associated with magic."
Anya felt calmer, "Well I still don't understand what situation puts you in to need to make pactios?"
"Perhaps you haven't been reading my letters, but we have a situation on our hands." Negi reminded her.
"Yeah we got a dark warrior lunatic out there gunning for us." Dustin added.
"So you see where it comes in for us needing to join forces." Fuka finished.
"Oh, you two get all the fun." Anya pouted.
"Fun?" Negi asked in shock at her choice of words, "Anya what we're doing isn't fun, it's protecting us and our students."
"But it is fun in a sense." Kotaro put in as Fate eyed him and spoke.
"Not helping."
"So consider yourself lucky." Dustin finished.
"Well I suppose you're right." Anya said as she joined them in their picnic.
Meanwhile watching from behind another tree were Diabound and Thorn, "Is it time now?" Diabound asked Thorn hopefully.
"Yes Diabound, it is," Thorn began, "When the flowers bloom on the tree they will release a poisonous pollen that will weaken them, and then the tree itself will destroy them all." she smirked.
Diabound smirked back, "Magnificent, Thorn. We really do make quite a team."
"I agree." Thorn nodded.
Suddenly they watched as the flowers on the tree started opening up and pollen was being released. As
the group still enjoyed their lunch, the pollen started falling around them and the girls were inhaling it, "I feel sort of strange." Chizuru gasped.
"Me too." Ako added as blushes started growing on the girls faces.
The boys who hadn't been breathing through their noses noticed this, "Girls, are you ok?" Negi asked.
"Yeah you're all looking red in the face." Dustin added noticing the blush.
"Negi/Dustin/Kotaro/Alistair." the girls gasped at seeing their masters or subject of admiration.
Suddenly Natsumi and Mei threw themselves at Kotaro nuzzling his face, "Kotaro-kun!"
"Whoa, hey what're you two..." Kotaro was cut off as he was still getting nuzzled.
"Alistair!" Yue said while cuddling the dark warrior.
"Yue, I'm all for affectionate moments, but now?" alistair asked but the girl was barely paying attention to him.
Dustin and Negi saw each of their partners started grabbing him and nuzzling with him one after another, while other non partners like Anya, Evangeline, Shizuna, and Takane clung to Negi, while Nutmeg and Shakti clung to Dustin, "Negi what's going on?" Dustin asked.
"I don't know, girls please give me some room." Negi pleaded only for Ayaka to cup his face and spoke.
"But we love you, Negi." she pulled the boy into a heated kiss which he tried desperately to fight, but to no avail."
"My turn!" Kakizaki called as she pulled Ayaka off Negi and pulled him into a kiss as well.
"Negi!" Dustin called before a finger was placed to his lips, courtesy of Mana.
"Relax, Dustin," she began, "You'll get your fair share of this." she pulled the boy into a heated kiss and just like Negi, Dustin couldn't fight it.
Fate, Zyphon, and the familiars were ultimately confused, "What is happening here?" Fievel asked.
"I don't know but I'm loving it." Chamo said as he tried fighting his nosebleed.
"There's something definitely wrong here." Fate suspected.
"I'll say!" Zyphon gasped as suddenly all the girls began disrobing and were soon in their birthday suits, which caused Chamo to really nosebleed himself into unconsciousness.
"Girls, make yourself decent!" Negi pleaded while trying to cover his eyes.
"Guys, I'm really scared right now!" Kotaro cried to the boys.
"This is so wrong and yet it's nice." Dustin panted seeing some of the bustier girls like Shizuna, Shakti, Chizuru, Kaede, Mana, Kazumi, and Takane shake and bounce which enticed him.
Takane pulled Negi over, while tickling his chin, "You know my problem with losing my clothes in battle isn't the only clothes related thing about me, Negi. The truth is at my own dorm room I don't wear anything when I'm alone."
"Wait are you saying?" Negi gasped in shock.
"Yes, Negi. I'm secretly a nudist." she whispered seductively into his ear making him go red from so much sexual overload.
As the girls continued to tantalize Negi, Dustin, Alistair, and Kotaro, Fate, Zyphon, and the animals backed away from them trying to figure it out. Diabound and Thorn however were gawking at the unexpected turn of events, "Wha-What went wrong?!" Diabound asked Thorn in confusion.
Thorn pulled out a list and looked through it before gasping in shock, "Oh no! I forgot to add the buds of poison to the mixture before I buried the ingredients! I didn't create a poison tree. I created a aphrodisiac tree!"
Diabound groaned in exasperated frustration, "I can't believe you mucked this up!"
Thorn shot a glare back at him before speaking, "Don't get yourself in a knot, it's still far from over. This miscalculation still has its perks. They may not be poisoned, but the girls through their sensual desires are keeping the boys down, and when the tree fully awakens they'll never be able to fight back. Diabound reluctantly continued to watch the scene play out, while hoping that Thorn was right about this.
(And that's the chapter my friends. An unexpected turn of events from Thorn's part has put Negi, Dustin, Kotaro, and Alistair in an unfortunate situation. Will they be able to snap the girls out of it before Thorn's tree decides to destroy them? Find out next time. And Merry Christmas everyone.)