Dance in Time

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Chapter 8

"Alright class, settle down." A middle aged male teacher said as he walked in. "We have a new student joining us this semester, so please make them feel welcome." He motioned to the door, which opened up and the class let out a gasp of surprise as Chloe walked in and bowed.

"Hello, my name is Chloe," she paused for a moment before shaking her head, "sorry, Saotome Chloe. I'm from Germany and have recently been adopted by ma-err, my new father." Mentally she cursed her slip-ups but fought through it, hoping no one noticed.

"Wow! You speak really good Japanese." A boy in class said.

"I'm a quick learner." Chloe said, remembering that her cover story was that she couldn't remember anything

"Wow! Your hair is so pretty." One girl said.

"Are your eyes real?" Another boy asked.

"Are you a gyaru?" Another girl asked. "My sister is a gyaru, you look like her."

Chloe sweat-dropped heavily. "Ah, no, my skin is just brown, my eyes are real and my hair is natural."

"OOOOOOH!" The class at large went.

The teacher clapped a couple of times. "Okay, Miss Saotome, please go choose one of the open seats." Chloe nodded and quickly made her way to one of the window seats. "Now then, class, we're going to be studying history, so get your books open to..."

(-)

It was nearly an hour later when the teacher stopped and looked at the clock before nodding. "Alright, class, take a few minutes to stand up, stretch and talk, I have to go to the teacher's lounge and get papers for your next class."

The class nodded and stood up as the teacher left the room.

It took less than four seconds after the teacher was gone for everyone to immediately swarm on Chloe, who just smiled, though she was mentally grimacing and was glad that she didn't choose a seat in the middle of the classroom.

Most of the questions were, thankfully, standard questions that kids their age would ask.

"Um," one boy with brown hair spoke up, "are you related to Saotome Atsuko?"

"Uh..." Chloe scratched her cheek. "Taller than me, mature woman with kind of red hair and a really happy demeanor and strong enough to throw a tank across the city?"

The boy suddenly perked up. "Neat! My cousin works for Mishima Heavy Industries and mentions her a lot. Is it true? That she can run so fast that she can leave after images of herself?"

"...I don't know, I've only seen her pick up a tank and throw it into a mountain that was over a hundred kilometers away." Chloe said, thinking back to the other day when fifty meter tall rock giant had shown up and while Chloe had blown up one of its legs, Atsuko grabbed it by its other leg, and much to Chloe's surprise, threw the thing so far that she had to reinforce her eyesight to see it as it crashed into a mountain and exploded.

"That can't be true!" A girl protested. "No one's that strong!"

"My cousin says that they have lots of neat stuff to make people stronger."

Chloe perked up upon hearing that. "Yeah! She must have been using some sort of strength-enhancing body suit, she was wearing a black outfit when she did that."

It was true, Atsuko had been wearing black at that time. It was just a black bikini. But no one needed to know that.

The conversation lasted for several more minute until the teacher came back and everyone got back to their desks in preparation for the next class.

(-)

The school day was coming to an end when Millicas Gremory walked into the classroom, smiling at everyone. "Hello, I was asked to escort Chloe Saotome to speak with the acting Headmaster."

Chloe blinked in surprise and tilted her head. "Did I do something wrong?" Millicas shook his head.

"Oh no, there's just some stuff that needs to be cleared up. I don't know anything more than that."

"Well, I am new," Chloe said as she nodded and finished putting her books in her bookbag. "I suppose there was something that father forgot to sign."

"Maybe." Millicas said while smiling. There was a thump and he looked at some girls who had fallen over with a bunch of pencils all over them. "Are you okay?"

"Yes!" One of the girls, a blonde with a dumb smile on her face, said as she stood up, causing the pencils to fall off of her. "I tripped over my bag and everything went boom!" She had a bright smile on her face as she laughed.

"...I'm calling you Tatsun." Chloe said as the girl reminded her of one of Illya's idiot friends, specifically Tatsuko. The only difference physically between Tatsuko and this girl was that this girl had her hair in a French-style ponytail and not in two buns. Plus she didn't seem quite as stupid at Tatsuko.

"Yay!" Tatsun suddenly glomped onto Chloe's side. "I have a nickname! Everyone, call me Tatsun from now on!" She yelled while waving her right arm in the air.

Millicas had his mouth behind his hand as he softly laughed. "For some reason, I feel that everyone will call her Tatsun and no one will remember her real name."

"Well, I was from Osaka until this year." Tatsun said as she let go of Chloe and looked confused.

"Explains the accent." Chloe said as she followed after Millicas. The two walked through the hallways and down the stairs before ending up in front of the old school building. "Oh, right, I was supposed to join the Occult Research Club, right?"

Millicas nodded while smiling at her. "Azazel asked me to fetch you after school because he thought you might be overwhelmed by the day and need to relax."

"I'm fine, but this wouldn't hurt." Chloe said with a nod as they entered the building and went to the club room. After getting to the room, she saw that Shirone and Gasper were already there, as was Leonardo, Kunou and Lillie. "Am I the last one?"

"No, there's one more." Millicas said and turned as he heard footsteps. "Ah, there she is."

"Oh!" Chloe's eyes widened as she saw Ravel walking towards them, looking disgruntled. "What happened?"

"Someone dropped a couple of fans on the floor and all the girls had their skirts fluttering up." Ravel muttered with a blush on her face. "At least two girls were going commando today too."

Chloe blushed and grinned as she thought about that. "Oh my..."

"Which is why," a female voice said from the doorway to another room as a silver-haired woman walked up to them, "there will be a mandatory school meeting to remind everyone that they must wear underwear."

Ravel sweat-dropped, though she nodded. "I get that, Rossweisse, but..."

"But nothing!" Rossweisse clutched a hand and fire burned in her eyes. "Young men and young ladies should be wearing underwear to protect themselves from all sorts of problems. It can become a health hazard if you're not wearing underwear and..."

"And you wonder why neither Ranma nor Issei have married you yet."

Rossweisse suddenly teared up. "I don't want to just be their sex friends, I do want to marry one of them. But I need to date both to know who's better!"

Ravel gave Rossweisse a flat look. "You're sleeping with both of them. Just accept that you want both of them to give you a baby and ask them to do that."

When Rossweisse dropped to her knees and cried about not wanting to be a single mother, Chloe leaned in close to Ravel. "Is she like this all the time?" She whispered.

"Only when she talks about her love life." Ravel replied. "Really, if she'd loosen up, she could find any guy who wants to marry her."

"I was about to say..." Chloe looked Rossweisse over and realized that the woman had a figure that even Liz would find impressive. And Liz's breasts were big enough to suffocate on.

Chloe would know, she had taken a nap on the couch with Liz one day and the white haired maid had rolled onto her side, nearly smothering Chloe in her sleep.

"Ah, there you are." A male voice said from the stairway. Chloe turned around to see Azazel walking towards them. "Sorry I'm late, but being the active Headmaster is a pain some days."

"Active headmaster?" Chloe asked as she, Ravel and Azazel left Rossweisse in the hallway by herself.

"Well, the true headmaster, Zeoticus Gremory, isn't here as often as I am." Azazel told her. "So I cover most of the day to day stuff." He gave her a grin and stroked his chin. "Anyway, we're missing a couple more members, namely Bennia, but she tends to..."

"Flake out?" Lillie asked and Azazel nodded.

"Good way to put it." Azazel said as he walked to the front of the classroom and sat behind the desk. "Welcome to the Occult Research Club, miss Chloe." Chloe nodded and Azazel leaned behind the desk and opened a drawer. "Now then, I've heard from your father that you're having some trouble regulating your magic since there's more magic in the atmosphere than you're used to having."

"Yeah, I can't do much about it, it's annoying." She looked so frustrated as she looked at her hands. "I try to use my powers and the floating magic helps over-charge stuff, so I'm worried that if I try to actually put effort into it that I'll kill everyone in a hundred miles."

"That's what Ranma was telling me." Azazel said as he closed the door on the desk drawers and put something on the counter. "Here."

"Huh?" Chloe walked over to the desk and tilted her head. "Wrist bracers?"

"Think of them as power limiters." Azazel said as he opened up one and nodded for Chloe to hold out one of her arms. She extended her left arm and he snapped the bracer over her forearm and wrist before doing the same to the right arm. "This will help filter out the mana of the air until you get more used to it. Try to create your weapons."

Chloe slowly raised her hands up and focused her magic when a familiar pair of Chinese broadswords appeared in her hands. One black and one white. Unlike the many times she had been making them in practice, they were smooth broadswords, not serrated feather blades. "It worked! They look normal!"

"Good job." Leonardo said and Chloe looked back at him, smiling. "Now you can use your real weapons without worrying about blowing everything up in training."

Chloe dismissed the swords and nodded. "Well, that's something at least. Oh, I just remembered, I need to leave in an hour to do some game streaming."

"One of your contracts?" Azazel asked and Chloe nodded. "Alright. Just so you know, I won't be around for the next couple of weeks. I have administrative duties to perform."

"So... What were we going to do today?" Chloe asked and blinked as Lilly pulled out cards. "Huh?"

"We were going to play Go Fish." Kunou told her. "Come on, I'll deal you in."

"Sure." Chloe nodded and walked over to the table to play some cards.

Azazel smiled as he watched them play a few hands before getting up and joining them.

It was nice to relax like this once in awhile.

(-)

Meanwhile...

"So..." A female voice said as a woman wearing a white lab coat and black female suit walked into the room. "You said you had something for me, Doctor Kiryu?"

"Indeed." The man nodded to her. "Miss Melinoe, this woman that we found and have been experimenting on has given us such interesting data, but that's more for me, this, however..." He held up a card with a picture of a man holding a bow, "is far more interesting."

"How so?" She asked and took the card from him. "...Archer? What's so special about this?"

"Well, with our technology, we were able to dig into the woman's mind and found some interesting information." The man narrowed his eyes. "To think that what science knew about the world is so LIMITED! It makes me sick that those old books of fairy tales that people believed in were real! ARRRGH!"

Melinoe gave him an annoyed look. "Doctor Kiryu, if you have nothing to add, I'll leave and..."

"That card can, for some reason, create a link between a person and a legendary warrior of ages past." Kiryu told her and Melinoe's purple eyes widened in surprise. "Something about a Throne of Heroes that exists outside of normal space and time that encompasses all of human history. I'm not sure of it, but since you're the one who believes this superstitious bullshit, I figured you'd find a better use for it than me."

"Another associate of mine is almost done with his cloning experiment." Melinoe grinned as she pocketed the card. "I wonder what would happen if I mix this card in with those three clones." She looked at Kiryu with a pleased expression on her face. "Good job, doctor. As for her, what did you discover?"

"That, despite being a magic user, just like anyone else, her mental defenses drop to zero upon hitting the height of ecstasy."

Melinoe gave him a dirty look. "So you..."

"Used drugs and machines to stimulate the pleasure centers of her brain until she hit the same state that she would obtain if she was enjoying coitus?" Kiryu asked with a grin. "Of course. I'm not a monster to my experiments."

"...Well, whatever." Melinoe said and turned around to walk out.

After she was gone, Kiryu grinned darkly. "No, I plan on doing that to a certain group of women soon."

As much as he hated the fact that the supernatural existed, he hated those who called themselves magical girls even more.

End Chapter 8

Like I said, Kiryu is basically the "Reddit Atheist" type of person who looks down their nose at anyone who doesn't believe "THE SCIENCE" and stuff.

And Tatsun... Well, I was referring to "Osaka" from Azumanga Daioh, so her name it Tatsun and no one will remember her real name now!