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Unequally Rational And Emotional Thread; It's Negima with Everything Else Added!
Topic Started: Apr 15 2012, 06:40 PM (11,709 Views)
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More URAE Kyoto Closure.

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Breast Friends Forever

Meanwhile, at the dressing rooms, Ayaka, Chisame, Haruna and Nodoka still were changing to return to Eishun's village, since he had told them he had something to show them before departing. Takahata had talked with Shizuna and Nitta, giving them an excuse for taking several students away for most of the day. Exactly what had been that excuse, Chisame felt better not knowing it, really.

Chizuru and Natsumi also were there, minding their own business, but it wasn't long before the Class Rep just had to boast something about her latest achievements to her former roommates.

"Fu, fu, fu fu!" she laughed. "This has been the best trip of my life! Truly, my love for Negi-sensei has grown leaps and bounds through it!"

"R-Really?-!" Natsumi suddenly gasped, her alarm senses tingling.

Chizuru stifled a sigh. Oblivious as she was to Natsumi's feelings, Ayaka was bound to eventually say something that would sink her other best friend's self esteem even lower. Chizuru would have to steer the conversation away from that.

After hearing a bit more, of course.

"Indeed!" Ayaka nodded. "And I can tell his closeness to me as grown as well! We are maturing together, and that has to be an auspicious sign leading to a golden live together!" As she said that, fleur de lis petals began floating around her.

"Haaaaaa..." Natsumi made a choked impressed sound.

Chizuru leaned close to the freckled girl and whispered in her ear, "Don't worry. I swear I'll help you get there before she does."

"C-CHIZU-NEE!" Natsumi gasped.

"P-PARU!" Nodoka was gasping at the same time, pulling away from a similarly secretly conspiring Haruna.

It was then when Haruna and Chizuru stared at each other's eyes, and for a moment, electricity flew between their pupils.

"Well!" Haruna started, placing her hands squarely on Nodoka's shoulders. "Iinchou hasn't been the only one to grow stronger and more confident as a woman during this trip, right, Nodo-chan?"

"R-R-Right!" Nodoka gulped.

"Ho, ho, ho!" Ayaka laughed. "Yes, from something Suzushiro-sempai told me, you even got to meet another boy during your stay here, didn't you, Miyazaki-san? One you showed a lot of protective concern towards!"

"Ah...!" Nodoka was stunned.

Chizuru's eyes sparkled. An opening! "Oh, is that so? My my, I'm so happy for you, Miyazaki-san! And remember, in this day and age, long distance relationships can work out! You got his e-mail address, didn't you?"

Before Nodoka could produce more incoherent sounds, Haruna took over. "There's no need for that, Chizuru-neesama!" she said, making sure of using a 'really old woman' intonation with the honoriffic. "Nodo-chan doesn't aim low! She won't get satisfied with anything but the best!"

Nodoka blushed to her limits, while Natsumi looked as if she was choking on a golf ball. Chisame just looked back and forth between them, in a jaded way.

"All the same, " Ayaka decided to take that battle to a level Nodoka and Natsumi just couldn't ever win at, "I haven't only grown in spirit, but in body too!"

"And in idiocy, " Chisame muttered only to herself.

And then, Chizuru was somehow behind Ayaka, cupping her breasts from behind between her hands. "Hu, hu, hu, hu, yes, they certainly have grown, Ayaka! Still, you have a long way to cover yet, yourself..."

"KYA!" Ayaka screamed. "C-C-CHIZURU-SAN!"

Chizuru released her, only to turn around and smile on her face. "Just to be sure, though, why don't we compare? You too, Chisame-san, Natsumi-chan, Honya-chan!"

"Why would we compare ourselves to giant sized people like you?" Chisame asked.

"Oh, what is that I'm hearing?" Misa stepped in, with a camera already prepared. "Is it breast comparison time again? I'll tell you what, this time, to prevent polemics, we'll catch ourselves in photo evidence to see what's our current ranking!"

"Were you spying on us?" Chisame asked. Whenever a cheerleader was around without the other two, it meant they were scheming something bad. Or Sakurako was smooching with Hakase somewhere else. Which was bad too. Or not. She had momentarily forgotten that wasn't supposed to be her problem.

"Me? Oh no, goodness, why would I do that? I was just passing by, " Misa said as she herded them together, Chizuru and Haruna quickly helping her for their own goals. They all but pushed Natsumi and Nodoka side to side together, and that was whehere the two smaller girls realized, at close sight, that yes, Natsumi's chestline was indeed a bit wider than Nodoka's. This relieved the former and depressed the latter. "Live a little, Chi-chan! This is just for good clean fun between friends!"

She pulled her shirt off, leaving her torso clad in only a lacy bra. Since the others still were in their underwear, she posed next to them, thrusting her chest up, as the camera she had readied took a picture of them all standing closely together.

Chisame looked at the picture as soon as it was taken, humming to herself. Not bad, after Naba, Saotome and Iinchou, she seemed to be the fourth bustiest one in the group, barely beating Kakizaki and...

"MATOI?-!" she whipped her head back as soon as she saw the girl right behind her in the image, with her hands on Chisame's hips. "Ah! You were here!"

"Yes. Always. Shouldn't you be used to it by now, Chisame-sama?"

Minutes later, a smugly smirking Misa rejoined Asakura and Chamo outside.
"Everything went okay?" Asakura asked.

"Like silk, " her classmate replied. "You know, I'm starting to understand why you get your kicks out of this. But it's even better when you are photographied, too! It's like being a supermodel!"

"Thank you, Misa-chan. Now, wanna see if we can get some juicy pics of the Vice President and her classmates?"

Misa's attitude suddenly drooped. "Sure. As soon as I get myself some milk. I just realized I'm starting to lose to Chisame..."
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More Kyoto closure. Expansion on a previously posted scene.

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"It would seem both Sergei Kravinoff and Golden Darkness escaped during the confusion, while we were busy at the lake," Eishun explained, now in a white suit and smoking a cigarette while overviewing the early rebuilding jobs for the villa, Konoeko walking silently at his side. It amazed Negi they were starting over right after the situation had been put under control, but since fortunately no one's lives had been lost, he supposed they had no reason to delay the rebuilt of such an important place. "However, Batman-sama delivered Tetch's gang to the police, and Inugami Kotaro-kun is under custody of our forces. Amagasaki still refuses to talk and is nearly catatonic, but I trust we will be able to learn if she had other co-conspirators."

Haruka pointed at Psycho Purple. "Well, why not asking her to read the terrorist's thoughts?"

Psycho Purple tensed at that. Sending the authorities after Cosmo Entelecheia this early in the timeline, especially a Cosmo Entelecheia that seemed to have several Averrunci active at once plus the capacity to bring Mundus Magicus natives to Earth, might be sending them in a doomed errand. Besides, Negi himself might get involved at some point, especially if he learned of the connection with his father's destiny, and he definitely was not in any shape for it yet...

Eishun only smiled gently. "There is no need to bother our guests anymore, Suzushiro-kun. We have our own means to read minds, as well, and you have done enough for us as it is. Just enjoy the last day of your stay as best as you can, please."

"Where are we goin', anyway?" Yuuna yawned, rubbing her eyes with the back of a hand. After breakfast at the inn, the group had rejoined with the Konoes to head somewhere, but she had been too sleepy the whole time to pay a lot of attention to what they had told her.

"How many more times do we have to explain it, Akashi-san?" Ayaka murmured. "The Kyoto home of Negi-sensei's honorable father!"

"Eeehhhh? He lived here too?" Yuuna blinked. "I thought he was English!" The other Yuna's journal hadn't mentioned anything about any Kyoto houses of his, although that had to be because she wasn't in he secret at that time.

"He spent a lot of time in Japan too, idiot," Evangeline grumbled sourly. "Or where do you think he placed that hellish curse on me?"

"Yeah, the cad," Mc Dowell agreed, puffing her cheeks up.

"By the way, Evangeline-san," Ayaka asked, "Hadn't you told us earlier you only could manifest yourself at the grounds the Academy bought? Why are you able to walk all around the city now?"

Eva smirked. "Don't worry about me, Class Rep. The old man is taking care of that. He is allowing this as a special occasion for my further education. Heh, heh heh..."

At his Mahora office, Konoemon sighed while stamping seal after seal on field trip permission after field trip permission. "Hahhhhh... I should have known I'd end up having to do it anyway..."

Konoka shuddered a little. "Poor Grandpa. I actually can kinda feel his pain..."

Maga Alba patted her on a shoulder. "It's okay. He's much stronger than he lets on..."

"Whatever happened to Sukuna, by the way?" a concerned Setsuna asked.

"It's all okay now," Eishun reassured her. "We placed all the seals back on him, with some new extra safety measures supplied by Skuld-sama here," he gestured towards the short newcomer walking along them, who smiled smugly enough to almost compete with Evangeline there. Almost.

"Once again, we wish to thank all of you for your contributions to our daughter's safety, and those of this city as well," Konoeko added formally. "Especially to you, Evangeline-sama."

"Why, thank you..." Mc Dowell began.

"She means me, dolt," the other Evangeline growled.

"If you all survived, it was only because I was holding back, fighting Amagasaki's control!" Mc Dowell growled. "You owe me your lives all the same!"

"Goodness, good thing I'm not as much of a liar as you!" Eva taunted her with a laugh.

""No, you're a lie instead!" the other Eva shot back.

"'As much'?" Makie wondered.

"I-Inugami-kun will be okay, won't he?" Nodoka finally dared to ask. "I'm sure he wasn't going to actually..."

Since everyone was looking at her by then, she fell silent and lowered her head in red cheeked shame.

"I'm sure he won't receive that much of a punishment," Eishun reassured her to defuse the overall tension. "We'll try finding his family, if he has any, and arrange a reform plan for him. Now, the pale girl and the fire using boy who fought her, well, they do have us somewhat concerned," he admitted. "They seem related to an old enemy of our organization..."

"The Kansai Society, or the other one?" the Evas needled him, cringing upon realizing they had said exactly the same thing at the same time.

"The other one," Eishun confessed.

"What's that?" Yuuna asked.

"What was that, instead," the man told her. "I'll explain it in lenght once we arrive to our destination and enjoy some more privacy. Regardless, we have placed an alert through the whole magical community of Japan on them. I doubt they will ever dare to approach Mahora with Father-In-Law and Evangeline-sama there, but please be very careful either way."

"We will!" Negi nodded. "And I'll become as strong as Erebus-san to keep all my students well protected, Sir!"

"I'm glad to hear that," Eishun said, finally stopping and pointing up at an old observatory surrounded by thick vegetation, on the skirts of another hill. "We have arrived. The outside looks abandoned so no one will think of looking there, but the spell placed on the building keeps it unsullied inside."

"What does 'unsullied' mean?" Makie asked Skuld.

Clenching her teeth, her new Magistra said, "Clean!"

"I was expecting more of a traditional Japanese home..." Keiichi observed.

Kero scratched his head with a paw. "I seem to remember Master Clow once visited a place exactly like this one..."

"Chizuru would love being here..." Ayaka mused softly.

Meanwhile, Negi's eyes had grown huge and starry. "My father's home! It's really happening! I'm going to see my father's legacy firsthand!"

As they all approached the huge entrance covered by veins, Konoeko took the lead, placing a few ofuda on the door and whispering a prayer. Instantly, the huge and heavy door opened from the inside, pushing all the vines aside and revealing the building's indoors to a mesmerized young Negi's eyes...
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There were books everywhere. Along with several tables and stands loaded with strange techno-magical equipment that intrigued Hakase, but mostly, impossibly tall stands full of books lined up in every floor of the building.

The building, much like Konoe Manor itself, lloked even bigger from the inside, and it was completely unpolluted and well kept, just like Eishun had said. Negi thought it was the most imposing thing he had ever seen, and the sound of amazed glee that escaped his throat conveyed that well.

Nodoka was similarly impressed, even if for different reasons. "So many... So many of them...!"

Haruna wiped a thin line of drool from her lower lip. "Just think of it, Nodo-chan! Marry him, and you'll get all of this! Then you can invite me and Yuecchi over...!"

Chisame turned sharply to Eva. "Wait, I'm not getting this..."

Eva pointed to the other Eva cynically. "This one is yours, moron."

"Ah. Sorry," Chisame turned away from Mc Dowell and to the other vampire. "I saw that Nagi guy in your dreams, and he didn't seem the reading type at all. He boasted he hadn't studied on his spells, so why is he a bookworm all of a sudden?"

"How should I know? The bastard never brought me here!" Eva hissed.

"Maybe he just kept books around as conversation pieces and to make himself look smarter to visitors?" Sora wondered. "Our mother does just that..."

"Maybe he just collected them out of their monetary value?" Yuuna piped in. "I'm no expert, but all those things must be worth a fortune!"

"To be honest, I must warn you most of you wouldn't understand the majority of these volumes," Eishun told them. "They tend to be on complex magical subjects none of you but  Negi-kun, Evangeline-sama are familiar with."

"Well, to be Clow Reed's heiress, Nodoka will have to learn on the ways of magic," Kero looked at his young mistress' completely fascinated face. "Still, I understand we only would be intruding if--"

"Please feel welcome to check any and all books, as long as Negi-kun doesn't mind," Eishun invited. "This property is technically his, after all..."

"Huh?" a just as amazed Negi blinked back to reality. "Oh, of course I don't mind. You can read anything you want from here, Nodoka-san, Haruna-saaaaaa--" His voice trailed off when two blurs ran past him and to the nearest book stand at a speed that impressed Misora.

Makie made a disgusted face. "What kind of perversion is that? Books, ewwwww.." A beat. "N-Not that I'm saying your Dad was a pervert or anything, Negi-kun, how could he have been..."

Yuuna placed a hand on her mouth. "Maki-chan. Please stop inserting your foot here."

Besides, from what she had seen at that other world, Konoka's dad was the closet perverted one. She only hoped this one was different.

Skuld indifferently grabbed a particularly thick book from a lower stand and flipped through it. "Eh, algorythms of reality warping and how to substain it through time? How elementary. This is what we used as First Grade textbooks at home..."

Wandering around trying to examine everything closely, Negi ran into (not literally!) a small table on which there was nothing but a small framed picture. He gave it a curious look, and his heart jumped. It portrayed his father, younger than in Eva's memories, but clearly the same young man, along with a few others. There was a towering dark skinned man who dwarfed everyone else, grinning idiotically. A much younger Eishun clad all in black. A slyly smiling black haired man in white robes. A handsomely rugged older man smoking a cigarette. A little boy who looked just like Takahata, along another one who was a dead ringer for Itoshiki. Another boy with a neutral expression stood apart from those two and closer to Nagi. A small figure wrapped in a purple cape that stood facing away from the camera, its face obscured by a wide hat. A man second in height only to the bronzed giant, who was a blond with a beard and wearing a scaled orange shirt and green pants, smiling in a confident way. A tall red-haired woman in a waitress outfit, smirking and holding a gigantic knife. And finally, a curvy and gently smiling young girl in a pretty summer dress.

Matoi craned her neck from behind Chisame, who was in turn craning her neck behind Negi to look at the picture. As a matter of fact, Ayaka, Misa, Makie, Keiichi, Sora and Haruka all had also gathered around him to look at it.

And Matoi reached over to poke at the smiling girl in the photo with a finger.

"Say," she, well, said, "Isn't this Asakura Ryoko-san? The student who vanished without a trace last year?"

"She didn't vanish, she transferred out," Misa said, just parroting the official explanation. "But yeah, it's her! I recognize her! How many years ago--"

"Twenty," Konoeko replied evenly, before her husband could.

"But that's impossible! Asakura Ryoko was only sixteen!" Misa said. "Unless this is her mother or aunt or something..."

Eishun rubbed his chin, not as surprised as he should have looked. "I see. So that's what happened to her after the War..."

"W-Which war?" Chisame asked, understanding less and less.

"The war where Chigusa's parents died," Eishun sighed. "I'll tell you of it, but be warned, it's not going to be a pretty story..."


I think I'm going to need more reactions of your characters through this, SCM.
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"Back when I was only barely more than a boy, and your father wasn't that much older than me, Negi, " Eishun started, sitting on a chair as the others sat around him. Even Natsuki, Roberta, Skuld and Yuuna had approached. Haruna and Nodoka still were busy going through pile after pile of books, and hadn't even heard Eishun's announcement. Satomi was similarly busy examining some machinery, with Chao and Sakurako sticking close. "Back then, we travelled around the Magical World with two other comrades, Filius Zect and Albireo Imma, " he pointed at the cold looking boy and the ambiguously handsome man in the picture. "We had been warned about a secret organization that had plans to throw that world into chaos, and we set out to dismantle them. They contracted this man, " he pointed at the biggest one of the bunch, "Jack Rakan, the deadliest and, to be honest, most insane mercenary in existence, to eliminate us before we could find them. However, after we reached a draw with him, he agreed to join our cause."

"Wait, all of you against him, alone?" Yuuna asked. "And you were legendary heroes, right? And yet he got a draw? What kind of beast—?"

"Well, back then, we weren't exactly legendary, " the Elder allowed. "We only gained that reputation later, during the war itself. At that point, our enemies had sowed enough discord through the governments of the world to cause a huge war where thousands died. We decided to stop the war at all costs, but we had to learn our enemies' true identity, and their motives. We succeeded at the former, but to this day, I'm still not sure we fully managed the latter."

"My mother gathered a lot of data on that war, " Natsuki intervened coolly. "Around that time, she was only a novice researcher who had just found out about magic, and she was so excited by it, she took her first chance to infiltrate that world and learn all she could on it. That was when you met her, right?"

He only nodded, even as Konoeko shifted in slight discomfort behind him. Chisame noticed, and frowned.

"Your mother was one of the bravest people I ever met. Without any powers, she challenged the odds every day for her quest, " the Elder said sadly. "We often didn't see things the same way, but her arguments were always well thought, and her ideas were brilliant, although maybe too much for that time."

"What happened to your mother's research, Kuga-san?" Negi asked her, hoping it could hold more clues about his father.

"It all was stolen when she was killed, " Natsuki replied grimly. "There were many who would have gladly murdered for that knowledge, so my search has been long and complicated."

The extremely awkward silence that ensued was only broken by a gentle rasp of Eishun. "Like I was saying, both major sides involved in the War hired the services of Western and Eastern mages. Chigusa's parents were a casualty of the Eastern side, and she grew to blame our Association for not backing their side more decisively. Although at that point, I hadn't joined the Association yet. I still was only an independent adventurer."

"Well, and how did it end?" an eager Keiichi asked.

"With the help of several allies, we managed to find the organization manipulating the world's governments, Cosmo Entelecheia, " Eishun gravely explained. "One of its members was Averruncus, a powerful warrior very similar to the two fire and water using enemies you met yesterday. He and his master, the enigmatic figure known as the Mage of the Beginning, defeated us all, with only Zect and Nagi left standing. They won the final battle for us, but at the tragic sacrifice of Zect's life."

"Okay, " Sora gulped, "And then...?"

"For a short while, we thought the worst had passed, " Eishun said. "We had a couple years of peace, during which we briefly took our separate ways. It was then when Nagi met you, Evangeline-sama. However, shortly after he bound you to Mahora..."

"It was then, " Skuld interrupted him, "When the Second Impact almost happened. A goddess, a messenger from Heavens, fell to Earth, causing a ripple between this world and the magical one when agents of Mundus Magicus captured her in a vulnerable state. Ala Rubra rejoined, and they barely managed to prevent a global disaster from taking place. But they lost one of their closest allies there, and they split definitely after that crisis was averted."

Eishun nodded again. "Indeed. After that, Nagi traveled alone, only settling briefly with your mother, before going by himself into a personal mission he never returned from. After a few years of absence, he was officially declared dead, but no body was ever reported as found. I'm sorry, Negi. That is all I can tell you."

Negi nodded, gulping the knot in his throat down. "It's okay. I understand. You have told me a lot as it is..."

"What happened to that goddess who fell to Earth? Ala Rubra rescued her and she went back to you guys, right?" Keiichi asked Skuld.

He received a hostile glare from her before Skuld turned those sulky eyes to Eishun instead. "No. Ala Rubra never went to save her. She was taken to Mundus Magicus, where the governments nailed her to a cross to drain her power and life energy, day after day, night after night of agony, for years and years, to this very day, as an alternate power source for that dying world."

An even blunter silence than the one before fell all over the room.

And Skuld finished, lowering her head, "She was... is... my older sister."
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The Secret Origin of Unequally Rational and Emotional Murakami Natsumi

"Oh? So your mother is a foreigner, Murakami?" Chisame asked, just to kill some time, as Negi napped against her right arm, and Chizuru and Natsumi sat opposite them. At the very least, it would be less boring than just looking through the train's window.

"Mm-hmm," the smaller girl nodded. Come to think about it, her eyes were rounder than the Japanese standard, Chisame thought, and even her skin tone was slightly different than most of her classmates'. And then, if she had managed to make such close friends with the blond Iinchou and the Too-Busty-To-Be-Full-Blooded-Japanese Naba, maybe it was in part because she was half-gaijin herself. "My mother is actually from America."

"And what brought her to Japan?" Chisame went through the motions of asking.

"Well, actually, she, you'll see..."

Once it was clear Natsumi wasn't going anywhere with the explanation, Chizuru took over. "Actually, she was a detective."

"Detective?" Chisame just had to echo incredulously. Now this was something she hadn't expected.

Chizuru nodded. "Traveling all across America in a van, solving mysteries with three friends and a dog..."

"Chizu-nee, please..." Natsumi hid her face.

Apparently unable to hear her weak whine, Chizuru went on, undeterred, "The genius of her team, the muse to many lonely geek hearts on her wake, the genetic donor of Natsumi-chan's charming set of freckles...!"

"Have you actually used the word 'geek'...?" Chisame marveled. Natsumi was just rubbing her freckles with her fists again, as if hoping to rub them off her skin, or even if the skin had to go off with them.

Finally noticing her roommate's discomfort, Chizuru finished, "Basically, they came in a vacation to Japan, they solved the case of a ghost haunting the hotel Natsumi-chan's father managed, they unmasked the greedy man posing as the ghost in a ridiculous get-rich scheme, Natsumi's parents fell in love, they married before the pregnancy was evident."

Natsumi had doubled onto herself, hiding her face between her hands.

Chisame just stared on in stupified shock. A tiny part of herself congratulated her on still being able to find puzzlement on some things.

"By the way," Chizuru spoke again, "I overheard her once saying the dog really could talk..."

Natsumi tightened her fists at her own sides. "THAT'S RIDICULOUS, NO DOG CAN TALK!"
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I was actually expecting Chizuru to admit that she was trolling Chisame. Congratulations on upping the ante of URAE's crossover weirdness.

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The horribly tense silence that ensued (again) only was broken this time by Asuna's gushing voice. "Wow, what a real hunk! What's his name? He's almost as hot as Takahata-sensei!"

Everyone looked at her; while no one was looking, she had slided in between Konoeko and Eishun, to the former's mild discomfort, and grabbed the Ala Rubra picture, mostly focusing on the older man with glasses. Eishun smiled somewhat sadly and said, "His name was Gateau. He died a few years ago."

Asuna lost her smile. "Oh. Oh, I see. My, my condolences. What a loss... Is this one near him you when you were younger, Elder-sama?"

"Honestly, Asuna-san!" Ayaka fumed. "Weren't you paying attention to anything in the honorable Elder's story?"

"Actually, I was using the bathroom. Man, the toilet paper here is so old it feels like sandpaper. That crumbles into dust as you wipe, " Asuna replied, with her habitual tact and elegance. "Why, did I miss something important?"

Facepalms abounded. Even the Nodokas had resorted to one.

Asuna, oblivious to it all, just kept staring at the picture, raising an eyebrow as if she was trying to figure something out, with the usual great effort mental tasks demanded from her. "Something wrong?" Twilight Red asked, mildly hopeful.

Asuna opened her mouth to talk, then seemed to reconsider it and closed it back, then, just as soon, opened it again. "And this kid is Takahata-sensei? Boy, he sure has improved...!"

Ala Alba facefaulted for a moment. "What happened?" Chisame asked Calculator.

"Nothing, " Calculator grumbled, standing back up.

"If anything, I'd say he has lost grace, " Ayaka humphed. "He has really let himself go, after being such a cute child..."

"Hey, watch that big mouth, Iinchou!" Asuna warned.

Ayaka picked the photo up and sighed. "And Itoshiki-sensei made an even cuter boy! With those adorable puppy eyes! Oh, if only I had been there, I'd have guided him into being an actually stable and happy man! It's clear he always lacked the understanding love of a warm big sister! After all, that's what Negi-sensei had to make him perfect."

Negi blushed and looked down. "Please, Iinchou-san, don't say things like that..."

"Well..." Misora started, "He has a nephew who is that age right now, and he looks just like that too..."

Ayaka perked up, Shota alarms ringing in her head, before giving Negi an uneasy side glare and blushing. "He... He does? Oh, I'm sure that's, ah, very interesting, but, well, I already have, I mean, you know!"

"Yes, we know, " the Chisames, the Asunas, Skuld, Haruka, Yuuna and Misa snarked all at once.

Then someone else was examining the picture closely, and asking gruffly, "Tell us more about your sister." Even though he wasn't looking at anyone in particular, somehow his tone conveyed perfectly he was talking to Skuld. "You have arrived here to help her, not actually us, haven't you?"

Everyone gave a mildly to utterly impressive start.

"AH!" Matoi gasped, looking at the Batman suddenly amidst them. "You were here?-!"

"Yes, " the Dark Knight said, somber. "Always."

Matoi blinked. "Huh. So that's what it feels like..."

Skuld gave a short sigh. "Actually, one thing involves the other. I'll be honest here. My sister is at death's brink. Cut off from Yggdrasil, our home and support system, her vital reserves won't last much longer, pumping life into Mundus Magicus as they are. And once that happens, Heaven will declare war on these worlds."

Yet another horrified silence blanketed the room, this one even longer and more disturbing. Again, Asuna's voice was the only thing to finally interrupt it.

"Which sister are you talking about?"
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Skuld looked at Ala Alba before telling them, "What you are about to hear most likely doesn't apply to your own universe."

"I would dearly hope it doesn't," Calculator managed to deadpan through the overall chilling mutism the groups had fallen into.

Skuld rasped and pulled an extendable pointer out, quickly doodling a complex set of equations and calculations on a blackboard Nagi had kept near a particularly tall pile of books. Assuming a practiced professor speech stance copied from Auntie Washu, she began, tapping on the blackboard. "This is a very elementary and vague basic approach to the Yggdrasil Principle established to substain living matter. In other words, it's the ABC to the ''War and Peace'' that is the actual equation to create life."

"Interesting," Other-Chao said. "So, if you reverse that, you could have the very basic blueprints for the Anti-Life Equation, as well?"

Skuld nodded. "Darkseid actually got the baseline counter principle to this long ago, during one of his frantic quests for the full Equation. It's just he hasn't ever been able to figure out to take it from there. Without direct access to Yggdrasil's own cracking codes, no one can develop anything like this into a functional creation or destruction proccess."

"It gives me a headache just by looking at it," Makie complained.

"Only one mortal was ever able to steal that kind of information from Yggdrasil, and even duplicate our results to a smaller scale, based on the stolen data," Skuld went on. "He was a royal prince, a runaway from the Juraian Galactic Empire. Jurai is one of the first planets in this universe to manifest humanoid intelligent life. Originally populated by a pirate culture, the first Emperor to unify the planet under his rule forced their culture to adapt to a more lawful system, but did so through fear and intimidation. His first son, disapproving of his father's ways, departed for Earth, where he mingled with the primitive humans for decades and decades. Juraians are blessed with unusually long life spans for human standards," she said, briefly giving Konoeko a look few of the others even noticed, still too shocked out their wits.

"W-What does this have to do with the end of the world?" Yuuna managed to ask.

"Patience, patience!" Skuld tapped harder on the blackboard. "That Prince soon turned to magic as a means to create a society he could deem as more perfected than the Juraians, or the barbarians he was living with. However, quickly, he learned magic alone wouldn't fit his goals. So, with the help of a group of adventurers who were convinced of doing the right thing, much like Ala Rubra, in a way, they figured out how to open a mystical gate to Yggdrasil. Normally, the touch of Yggdrasil itself could outright kill any mortal body; only souls can be there. But the Prince was extremely intelligent, and he found a way for him and his comrades to storm into our sanctuaries and steal the Yggdrasil code from us. That," she said, "is the actual origin of the myth of Prometheus. He literally stole creative fire from Heaven."

"Let me guess," Calculator droned. "That Prince then created a world of his own..."

Skuld frowned. "With a previous spoiler, anyone could see that coming! Anyway, yes, he did, as an essay before attempting to create a whole universe, maybe. Our opinions on it are divided; some say he was simply perfectly contented with creating a planet sized realm. Whatever the case was, he succeeded at creating a world patterned after Earth in the so called Dark Ages, before supernatural creatures began going extinct at a fast rate, pushed by man's expansion across the planet. All those creatures would find sanctuary at Mundus Magicus, and called their savior the Lifemaker, or Mage of the Beginning."

"Not to be blasphemous, but if he could create a safe happy world for so many, why didn't you guys make us one of those instead of leaving us in a world filled with--" Keiichi began before Haruka slapped his head from behind.

"Listening now! Metaphonical questioning later!"

"Metaphysical!" Skuld corrected, then said, waggling a finger, "However, while the Lifemaker was an extremely intelligent man-- he couldn't have ever actually made his copy of the Cody work otherwise-- his Code was imperfect compared to the original. It had several flaws and bugs that meant the world would eventually collapse upon itself in a few centuries. At that point, the Lifemaker had started become unhinged himself, too. Cut off from the revitalizing waters and trees of Jurai, his long living body was decaying, so he turned to the taboo of using others' bodies to preserve his own existence. His original physical self ruined, his mind and spirit became a magically bound and empowered parasite jumping from one host body to another, consuming them and writing his self over theirs by force."

Eishun nodded gravelly. "That part, I was aware of it. We fought at least three different physical incarnations of the Lifemaker."

"And now," Negi said, truly somber for once, "That time has arrived, and that world is... about to perish. Isn't it?"

Skuld nodded sadly. "And my sister with it."

"But why are you guys going to wage war on us right after that?" Haruna asked this time. "What do we have to do with it?"
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From the files of Akagi Ritsuko, Sailor Pluto, Guardian of the Gates of Time:

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Full Name: Itoshiki Nozomu.

Known Aliases: Mr. Despair, Despair-sensei, Pink Supervisor.

Alignment: Neutral Good with Lawful Good tendencies he prefers to ignore.

Religion: Raised Buddhist. Tends to pray to several gods at random for his death, and in hopes the other offended gods will kill him.

Sexuality: Heterosexual, although he tends to attract other men, much to his despair.

Family: Itoshiki Hiroshi (father), Itoshiki Tae (mother), Itoshiki Enishi, Itoshiki Kei, Itoshiki Mikoto (older brothers), Itoshiki Rin (younger sister), Itoshiki Majiru (nephew).

Affiliations: Mahora Academy staff, Homeroom, Literature and Social Students teacher for High School Class 3-F.

Background: Born clinically dead after a complicated childbirth, Nozomu was subjected to a strange forbidden curse by his father in a desperate attempt to keep him alive. The curse made the child immortal to anything but old age, but also damned him to being unhappy for the rest of his life. There is apparently a way to undo this curse, but Nozomu himself considers it so far fetched and impossible to achieve for someone like him, he has never attempted to enact it.

While growing up, Nozomu's father, a prestigious politic and secretely leader of a powerful magical clan, wanted his weak, emotionally unstable son to become a 'real man', so he used some leverage he had on Nagi Springfield, the Thousand Master, to make Nagi take the boy on his adventures with the band known as Ala Rubra. There, Nozomu met love for the first time, falling in an unrequited crush for Princess Arika Anarchia Enteofushia, Nagi's romantic partner. While the boy never voiced his attraction, everyone could see it anyway, including Ala Rubra's two other young tagalongs, Takamichi T. Takahata and Kurt Godel. To this day, Itoshiki still holds a sense of friendly rivalship with the former, while he and Godel -who also had romantic feelings for Princess Arika- simply hated each other.

After the Second Impact crisis, Nagi sent Nozomu back to the Itoshiki home, claiming Ala Rubra's membership had become too dangerous for children. Nozomu completed his education, trying to forget Arika by approaching other girls, but they always prefered his older brothers (and even his sister) to him. Heartbroken, Nozomu tried a wide variety of professions like salesmanship, poetry and crash dummying, before taking a job as a teacher at Mahora Academy. It was during this period of his youth where he took on the habit of continued suicide attempts, all of them rendered fruitless by his immortality.

At Mahora, Nozomu met up again with Asakura Ryoko, an occasional ally of Ala Rubra with a mysterious past, who was posing as a student, apparently not having aged at all during the years since Ala Rubra's active period. They had a brief romantic affair, interrupted by Asakura's unexplained disappearance last year.

After the arrival of Nagi's son Negi to Mahora, Itoshiki more or less took him under his wing, helping him in his battle against Evangeline Mc Dowell. At this point, Kaga Ai, a student with a crush on Nozomu, learned of his condition as a mage and became his first Pactio partner.

Itoshiki-sensei continues being an ally to Negi, feeling oddly motivated to look after him.

Powers and Abilities: Itoshiki-sensei is a powerful dark mage with the element of shadows, and tutored Takane D. Goodman and Sakura Mei on its use. While invulnerable to all deadly forms of physical damage, he is scrawny and easy to knock out with blunt force, but he is remarkably good with shadow constructs, and since he draws power from his own despair, his reserves are nearly infinite.
He uses a wooden ruler as his wand of choice. Kaga's Pactio with him gives him a partner able to use powerful water based attacks. He also has a familiar rabbit named Mesousa, who is just as depressive as him but otherwise plays the same role Chamo plays to Negi.

He is cultured and very well read, although out of date in most current pop culture matters except sports, being particularly a baseball fan. He has limited access to the Itoshiki fortune, although his money handling decisions tend to be catastrophic. His invulnerability allows him to be a good human shield in combat.

Incredibly depressive and depressing, he will fly into elaborate and complex rants on the state of Japanese society at any instance, usually ending with the phrase 'I'M IN DESPAIR! (EVENT, PERSON, GROUP OR SITUATION) HAS LEFT ME IN DESPAIR!'

He is also very charismatic and popular with women and men alike despite his massive character flaws, maybe due in part to his good looks. His students Kaga Ai, Kitsu Chiri, Fuura Kafuka and Komori Kiri have all expressed varying degrees of romantic interest on him, and even Negi's Kasuga Misora has shown sparkles of attraction for him after an accidental kiss last Christmas.
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Skuld gave Haruna and Nodoka a critical but indolent look. "Oh, so you finally could pry yourselves from your dead trees long enough to hear about your destiny. Well, basically, avoiding the Omega Initiative, Yggdrasil's codename for Apocalypse, was the reason why my sister came to Earth in the first place. She always has loved you, " again, briefly, she looked into Keiichi's direction, noticed his lack of any particular distraught impression other than that you normally had when told by a goddess the world might about to end, and she frowned. "And she arrived to issue a warning. Stop harming each other and your planets, learn to live in peace and harmony, or we'll have to spank you hard."

"And, of course, we should put a stop to immorality in the world, shouldn't we?" Haruka asked.

Skuld shrugged. "I find mankind as a whole deviant and perverted, but to be honest, that never was too much of an issue. As long as you don't harm others with your perversions, that's your life. I must admit many in my family wouldn't have any room to complain on it, like my other sister, Urd. She's a real dirty slut. And don't get me started on Uncle Zeus, and Cousin Aphrodite, and Cousin Ashtara, and—"

"Okay, we got it!" a defeated Haruka gestured for her to stop, while the Harunas high fived each other.

"What about Sodom and Gomorrah?" asked Kerberos.

"They indulged in the worst vice none of us would forgive, " a somber Skuld said.

"You mean—?"

"Yes, [[INSERT LOUD HONKS, BULLET HAILS, EXPLOSIONS AND DONKEY BRAYS HERE]], " Skuld confirmed. By the time she was over, everyone including the Harunas was pale and sweaty in abject horror. Everyone but the Negis, since Chisame and Kagurazaka had covered their ears from behind.

Negi looked at Erebus. "This happens to you often?"

"Generally at least once when I'm in the same room as more than four girls."

They shared a sympathetic hand squeeze.
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"Question!" Makie raised a hand. "If that big bad thing that happened fifteen years ago was the Second Impact, what was the first one?"

"Oh, that, " Skuld said. "It was the incident that caused the extinction of dinosaurs."

"What, the dinosaurs also deserved to die for their sins?" Calculator snarked.

"One word: Barney, " Kuro intervened.

"Cute, cute!" Skuld crossed her arms and shook her head. "In truth, they only were unintended collateral damage. It was an apocalypse aimed at other races in this galaxy, but a shattered fragment of a destroyed planet hurled against Earth and accidentally destroyed most of your species at the time. In our defense, Orochi, the God of Destruction, was severely punished over the incident."

Negi's eyes had grown huge and wet. "Poor, poor dinosaurs! H-H-How could you, Skuld-san...!"

"N-Negi-sensei?" Ayaka asked. "What...?"

Chamo chuckled between cigarette puffs. "The Bro is a major fan of dinosaurs. You know kids, Iinchou-nee...!"

Ayaka frowned, both at still being unaccustomed to the idea, much less the sight, of talking ermines, and still distrustful of what she felt could be a bad influence on her teacher. "I— I see..."

Chisame pinched one of Negi's ears. "Cut the waterworks down, Negi-sensei! Look, Erebus-sensei isn't taking it that dumbly, and he's only one year..." she noticed Erebus was with a hand covering his face, driplets leaking from between his fingers. "... Never mind, " she said, with a sweat drop hanging from her head.

"Hey, if dinosaurs hadn't gone extinct, you mammals would have never inherited the Earth! Be thankful even for our mistakes! Where do you think you would be now if reptiles still controlled this planet?" asked Skuld.

Negi and Erebus shared a thought bubble showing dinosaur versions of them both, then weeped softly, even harder, at the missed chance of extra awesomeness.
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