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Unequally Rational And Emotional Thread; It's Negima with Everything Else Added!
Topic Started: Apr 15 2012, 06:40 PM (11,707 Views)
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Continuation of Takane and Mei's Mai Hime-esque antics.

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"This girl needs artificial breathing to save her life!" Takane grandly proclaimed, falling to her knees before the unconscious young stranger just pulled out of the sea. "Luckily, as a certified Mahora Academy junior security staffer, I'm qualified for the task! Leave everything to me!"

"Um, Miss...?" one of the sailors said. "Since we are this boat's official crew, and you're just a minor, you should just step aside and let us--"

Takane blasted an electrifying angry glare up at him. "That won't be necessary, sir!"

"Oh, come on! We're only doing our job! Stop looking at me as if I were a pervert!"

Behind him, several girls already were whispering to each other.

"He's just dying to kiss and touch her, isn't he?"

"Men are all the same..."

"I bet he wouldn't even mind if she was already drowned..."

"Eww, that's so gross...!"

The sailor twitched uncomfortably in place. "You... You ungrateful passengers...!"

One of his crewmates put a hand on his shoulder and shook his head. "Forget it, Saburo. Our society still needs to change a lot and overcome the unfair, narrow minded prejudices and pre-set ill conceptions about the inter-gender relationships of a casual nature..."

"... Spare me the social commentary just this once, Genjuro."

"No, he's absolutely right!" Itoshiki-sensei declared. "We are a society full of double standards and archaic conceptions of gender equality or lack thereof, that still plague us to this day! I have long been a constant victim of those mistake assumptions, myself! We are stuck in a false morals eternal reel that only covers the surface, but does nothing to improve what we truly are inside! We give extra work to women, but we don't assume equal responsibilities at our homes, and we still obstruct their rise in the laboral world! Meaning they are twice our slaves as before!"

"That's too true!" his student Okusa Manami sighed sadly.

"Hey, someone revive the poor girl already!" the young woman named Tokiha Mai protested.

"We are fast to accuse others of perversion, but sleep peacefully as long as the perversions are happening behind closed doors, even if we know about them!" Itoshiki went on, now addressing the crowd.

"Gor God's sake, she's going to die!" Mai screeched.

"We laugh at the poor men caught in 'It's not what it looks like' situations, taking joy on their physical and emotional suffering brought by domestic abuse!" the teacher slammed a hand down on the other. "Believe me, it happens in real life too! Ask at Hinata Inn if you don't believe me!"

"Leave my Oneechan out of this, Sensei!" Mei shouted.

"I'M IN DESPAIR!" he was yelling. "The still childish outlook we have on what is perversion and what is acceptable has left me in despair!"

"Stop clowing around and save her, dammit!" Mai yelled back, at no one and everyone in general.

Primly, Takane rasped. "Very well, I shall do so immediately..."

A red cheeked Mei pulled her back just as her lips were about to touch the wet girl's. "Ahhhh... NO! I mean, maybe the sailors are right, Oneesama! Better leave this to professionals!"

"What? I'm all but a professional, Mei-chan! Much better than many professionals!"

"How can you say that, Oneesama? How... How many others besides me and Nutmeg-chan have you--"

"Whatever about your love life! Just save her!" Mai pointed at the petite stranger.

But Takane was too busy covering Mei's mouth with her hands. "S-STOP IT! PEOPLE WILL GET THE WRONG IDEA!"

"Actually, I think we're understanding just fine," Abiru deadpanned.

"Don't worry, girls!" Kafuka peppily said. "You aren't involved into a shameful and anti-natural affair, just in a happy go lucky, which translates as gay, alternate lifestyle that surely will not cause any intolerant groups shun you! Because after all, things like prejudiced people, who we only see in TV, couldn't possibly exist in our fair academy!"

Harumi sighed. "To think, had it been a drowning boy, I might be enjoying some grade A Boy Love trigger..."

"Mei-chan, please, trust me!" Takane firmly said. "I'm just doing this to save a young life! To think otherwise would be ridiculous! Well, since, as it has been remarked, there is no time to waste, I shall proceed to... Ahhhh..."

Tokiha Mai already was on her knees giving the short girl mouth to mouth breathing. Anthy smiled saintly. (TM and C Naba Chizuru). Takumi had pressed a tissue against his nose, hoping to pass the flow of blood out of him as part of his illness.

Then, between frantic attempts to save the complete stranger's life, Mai was rewarded with a violent fit of coughing, and a stream of salty water being vomited up on her face.

Congratulations, Mai! Mikoto Route, Unlocked!
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More Takane and Mei.

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Mei and Takane sat now with that Tokiha Mai girl, her younger brother, her dark skinned friend, and their monkey-mouse-thingy pet. The sun was setting down, and Mahora was only a few hours away.

"Aaaahhhh..." Mei said. "That's so sad, Tokiha-san..."

And Mai cringed inside. If there was something she hated with a burning passion, that was being told she was pitied. But since she was used to being told that regardless of how much she hated it, she forced herself to smile and say, "Oh, no, please don't say that! It's true it has been hard, without Mom and Dad, but we still are happy together. Aren't we, Takumi-kun?"

"Oh, sure we are, Nee-chan!" the red haired boy nodded quickly.

"Why to leave Ohtori, though?" Takane asked with obvious interest. "I had never met anyone who ever left Ohtori willingly. It's supposed to be, pound by pound, the best school in all of Japan."

"Oneesama!" Mei gave her a startled look. "Haven't you always taught me Mahora's Pride comes before anything else?"

Takane sighed. How to say that had been before meeting two Negi Springfields? Stupid (sexy?) stripping Negi Springfields. Even so, Mei-chan had a point. Takane D. Goodman never could go back in her word. "I just said it is supposed to be the best Japanese academy. Not that it actually was it."

"Ah. I'm sorry," Mei said.

"Well, yeah," Mai began, "We simply felt we didn't fit in there anymore. And a chance just... happened to come to our way, so hey, I fured we'd take it. I'm sure Mahora's warmer weather will be better for Takumi-kun's health anyway. On the subject of wellbeing, are you sure that teacher of yours and his students won't have any problems looking after that mystery girl?"

"Don't worry about Itoshiki-sensei," asked Takane. "He doesn't look like it, but he can literally plow through anything life tosses his way!"

"Actually, ah, I was more worried about the girl," Mai confessed.

"Mai-sama is quite the Good Samaritan," the Anthy girl commented.

"Don't say that, Anthy! Sheesh!" Mai told her. "It's normal anyone would worry about someone in her circumstances!"

A stats report mini sheet appeared above them.

LEVELS OF CONCERN FOR MIKOTO.

Mai: Very Worried.

Takumi: Geez Poor Girl I Hope She's OK.

Takane: Mild Concern.

Mei: Oneesama Wanted To Kiss Her?

Anthy: Not Caring A Shit.

Chu Chu: Where's Mo' Food?

Meanwhile, outside the boat, but closer than any of them would have expected, dark forces conspired, but that's a plot point for the next segment...
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Is "Geez Poor Girl I Hope She's OK" higher or lower on the scale than "Mild Concern"?
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A bit higher, since half of Takane's Mild Concern was on how the crowd might think she's gay. Which she isn't, no sire, no, and I'm not saying this with a shadow spear to my neck.
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Reworked Eva scene, now including the other Eva.

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"Wow, that was awesome, Eva-chan!" Yuuna said as she rushed next to the Evas, who were softly landing on their bare feet on the grass. "You're just so badass! And, um, you too, Eva-san. I take it you ain't possessed anymore... right?"

"Right," Mc Dowell grunted. "Also, not a single word about this from now on, okay?"

The other tiny blonde smirked arrogantly. "Of course I am badass!  Only I could stop this gorgeous and mighty black magic dynamo here, after an epic battle, to bring her back to her senses!  Although I prefer less crude terms to address my magnificence, such as 'incredible', 'awe-inspiring' or 'sensational'!"

"How about 'way cool'?" Asuna asked.

"That'll work fine too."

"Um, just in case, though, you won't be back to being a bad Eva-chan, aren't you?" Sakurako asked the visiting undead witch.

"I think I had just said that issue wouldn't be touched upon anymore!" said cute interdimensional anomaly snapped.

"You idiot!" the other vampire growled. "There is no such thing as a 'good' Evangeline Mc Dowell! Haven't you just witnessed my cruelty?"

"Cruelty? But you have just saved our lives, Eva-chan!" Makie said, also coming closer to her.

Skuld poked her Ministra on a shoulder. "Oi, you shouldn't press on that subject with her..."

"That was just an unfortunate side result of my evil and bloodthirsty actions!" Eva snapped. "I only came here to dispense a humbling and merciless defeat on another living being!"

"Um, yeah, but still, how were you able to defeat the other you? Weren't you two evenly matched, being the same person and all?" Misa pressed on. "For that matter, how comes you are even here at all?"

"Oh, that? Konoka's old foolish grandpa sent me to deal with this beautiful but inferior vampire. HAH! I left her buried under tons of ice! That's the fate of anyone who crosses the great, one and only Evangeline AK Mc Dowell! Even if she's Evangeline AM Mc Dowell!"

"Dammit, not even having mercy on yourself. Now that's being harsh..." Misa admitted.

"I told you so,” Eva smiled, with a manicured hand on her own chest. "If we both had been fighting at full power, this world would have exploded, unable to hold such combined might..."

The girls sweatdropped, all silently agreeing she had gone too far in her boasting now.

"You're just lucky my mind wasn't working properly!" Mc Dowell waved a fist on her counterpart's direction. "Or else, they'd be scrapping you off the walls!"

Eva laughed. "Hu, hu hu! Sorry, I can't understand you when you talk and sob at the same time!"

Before another devastating catfight could begin, the Chachamarus landed behind them after a careful scan of the area from above.

"Chachamaru!" Satomi said, running to the encounter of her creation. "The nervous impulses transmiting my sensations of relief go overboard at the sight of your wellbeing!"

Misa looked at Sakurako and gave her an exhasperated "Ah?"

"'My heart beats faster in relief seeing you're okay',” Shiina translated. "But Eva-chan, and well, Eva-chan, you have to come with us! Maybe you can help us with Negi-kun too! He's kinda sick, his body is freezing, and nothing we do seems to stop it, and if this keeps up, he might—!"

"Damn it, I've told you already, I didn't anything to hel— Ah? What has happened to Boya? He's my permanent ticket out of Mahora! If you bimbos allowed anything to happen to him, I'm going to take it off your hides!"

"I'm sure he'll be fine, McDowell-san,” the other Karakuri told her. "You don't need to angst over him..."

"Over HIM?-! Shouldn't you be bothering your own Master anyway?-! Keep pushing me and I'll set you in an iceberg next to her and set you sailing for the North Pole!"

"You really are growing far too confident for your own good, aren't you?" Mc Dowell grunted grimly.
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Piece set while Negi and Co. are enjoying Eishun's hospitality before leaving Kyoto.

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Meanwhile, at Mahora:

Takamachi Nanoha flew quickly, circling the water monster that had risen from the pool, waving massive liquid tentacles in all directions.

One of the tentacles had touched the hem of her skirt, quickly corroding the fabric and eating a large portion of it before she could fly back.

"It's a Jewel Seed!" Yuuno, who was clinging to one of her shoulders, pointed at a tiny shiny dot in the middle of the watery monster. "Nanoha, we must get close to it so you can seal it!"

"But Yuuno-kun!" she pirouetted in the air, dodging another tentacle's lash. "It's deep inside of that monster! And I can't touch it without melting my clothes off! Luckily no one has returned from the class trips yet, or that thing would have melted the swimsuits of maybe dozens of girls at once!"

Yuuno nodded firmly, before freezing for a moment, lowering his head, and briefly sobbing into one of his paws.

"What's wrong, Yuuno-kun?"

"N-Nothing."

A golden haired girl sporting impossibly long pigtails and not named Tsukino Usagi watched on from the nearby rooftop of a science faculty, with a huge red dog not named Clifford at her side. They just watched and watched, silently, waiting for the outcome.

"Fate?" the dog whispered, somehow audible despite the fact her mouth wasn't moving.

"Yes, Arf?" the girl asked back, in an even softer tone. Her eyes were fixed on the other girl as she pummeled and plowed her way with Raising Heart inside of the monstrous being, finally reaching the Jewel inside and slamming her staff on it. The magical binds surrounded the Jewel Seed and immobilized it, its power being assimilated by the stranger as the monster's water mass plummeted down, losing cohesion and falling back into the pool, animated no more.

"I did it, Yuuno-kun! I did it!" Nanoha cried triumphantly as she rose into the air holding the Jewel Seed, the ferret covering his eyes frantically and praying under his breath. "Ah, I'm just glad there's no one around to see me now!"

"Nanoha, for the love of God, let's just fly back and fast!" the ferret begged.

Arf hummed as she gently reached up with a paw to close Fate's slightly hanging mouth up. "That," she finally answered her young master's question, "I supposed to be your enemy, since she's also apparently collecting the Jewel Seeds. So I take you are impressed only by her display of power, right?"

"Oh. That's a sure thing, Arf."

She just kept on looking as the other girl disappeared in the distance.

"It seems," Fate finally mused, "A voluminous dress is only a hindrance in battle. I will ask Mother for permission to wear a functional and less restrictive uniform during my missions."

"Well, I guess that makes sense, but--" Arf doubted.

"More cloth will only get damaged more easily in combat, so it's for the better to wear something more skintight, harder to hit," Fate was pondering. "I believe that girl would have fought better if she had been wearing something like that today. Yes, a more resistent material is a must. Perhaps something leathery, that works well both under cold or heat. And a cape..."

"I don't think a cape is a good idea," Arf disagreed respectfully. "We have seen ''The Incredibles'', remember?"

But Fate was too absorbed by the oddly persisting idea of that girl wearing all black, with a firm backside-enhancing leathery ensemble, and what Mimete-san would call a Badass Cape around her shoulders. Fate's expression did not change, other than her mouth hanging slightly open again, but her eyes clearly were somewhere else now.

Arf sighed and closed Fate's mouth again. That seemed to snap her back to reality, since it made her declare, with cold determination, "I know what I want to wear during operations now."

Down below, hiding between some bushes, Sister Shakti lowered the binoculars she had been using to monitor Nanoha's fight. "So, we have another magically powered unknown player in the area now, too. Dear God, right what we needed," she shook her head. Were they coming younger and younger now, or what? This one didn't even look a day older than Cocone...

Arf sniffed and looked down. "We have a member of the local church under us. I don't think she has noticed us yet, but--"

"Understood," Fate turned around and began walking away. "We'll go before being spotted."

"You aren't wearing the cape, are you?" a worried Arf followed her.

"Calm down, I don't plan flying near any airplane turbines..."
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The segment between Joker, Tsukuyomi and Co's escape, and the Evas' landing near the heroes.

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The Batman struggled back to his feet, clenching his teeth and still clutching his aching stomach. "Damn. No, no... He couldn't get away like this...!"

Yuuna coughed, supporting herself on him. "What a sucky night. What was the deal with all those guys...?"

Akira wheezed for a moment, with her hands on her knees, regaining her full breath before wondering, "Where those two actual evil Sailor Senshi? Pluto-san, why? Venus told me all the Senshi were supposed to be Guardians of Justice..."

"Think of that later, will you?" a recovering Chisame asked, re-taking her place behind Negi along Ayaka. "If none of us can heal him, let's take him to someone who can, quick! Isn't this damn city full of mages? There must be one of them who can undo this!"

"Wait a moment, " Konoeko gestured for them to calm down, keeping her eyes fixed on the titanic struggle taking place before them. "If we move out, we will become easy targets, and all of us might be killed. It is better to wait for the conclusion of this conflict, which shouldn't take more than a couple of minute more, one or another way. If they succeed, I am sure we can come up with a way to save him. Of not, there will be no point on having attempted to flee."

"Oh, Mom," Konoka groaned.

Chisame grunted her rather impolite annoyance, but still kept on looking up as well, holding Negi against him lest he tried to rejoin the fray despite his state.

The fact he wasn't trying so much now was what worried her the most, actually.
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After the Lake Biwa battle, but before the visit to Nagi's house.

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"So, where did you spend last night?" Yue passively asked, while putting her tiny bells on her braids.

Haruna and Nodoka, who still were dressing up, shared a somewhat uncomfortable look for a moment before silently agreeing on being fully sincere.

"After Konoka-san was kidnapped by mercenaries, her father took us to their villa in the mountains, Yue," Nodoka started, with a low gaze obscured by her bangs. "There, we had a war council that was interrupted by the arrival of the Chao-san from a parallel universe. I caught the Create card, which was wrecking havoc across Konoka's mansion, and then demons from Hell and the Joker attacked us all."

Yue nodded. "I'd be calling for help right now if I didn't have a flying and talking plush lion sitting on my head right now. But please continue."

Kero snorted from his comfy spot on top of Yue's scalp.

"We all came together..." Haruna chuckled for a moment, "... to fight the demons, but the sexy monkey lady who had kidnapped Konoka-chan summoned two even bigger monsters, each one taller than a building, to kill us all and take over the world. Everything seemed lost, until a goddess who had kissed Maki-chan and Morisato-san arrived, plus Eva-chan and, well, another Eva-chan, and they defeated the giant monsters, although most of the other bad guys got away. But hey, we saved Konoka-chan's butt, so everything that mattered came out okay!" she grinned.

Yue stared at her for a few moments that stretched into tense and mute minutes, before rasping to clear her throat. "Ah. Ah, well, yes, I suppose that happens at times. Anyway, Haruna, I also have a strange confession to make. I... I don't know how to tell you, but..."

"But?" Haruna asked, with her ever present curiosity.

"Your boyfriend, Rito-san, was here last night," Yue confessed.

"Ah? But he's in Tokyo Disneyland with his class!" Saotome said.

"Yes, I know, but that's the hard to explain part!" Yue fretted. It was a very cute odd sight. "He, you'll see, he was brought by a girl..."

Haruna's face betrayed some real shock. "What?"

"A-A-A-And they came... s-sorry, arrived... with another girl, who had blue hair, and they both were aliens, I mean, both girls, or so they said, and th-they all dropped here naked, because they had this alien device that transported them, but not their clothes, or that's the excuse they gave, and the pink haired girl said, she was Rito-san's new fiancee, and I grabbed h-her t-tail, because she had a tail despite it being anatomically impossible, a-and she told myself I was her fiancee now too.."

During this hyperventilating rant, Yue had looked aside, with a red face and an expression of supreme embarrassment. Then she heard the loud thud of a body hitting the floor, and she turned around in panic. "NODOKA! Nodoka, don't--!"

But Nodoka was only a bit pale, sitting next to a fainted Haruna, who was sporting a creepy rictus grin and a thin red line coming out of her nose.

Nodoka gave Yue a helpless stare while fanning Paru. "I... I think it was too much for her... But in a good way!"

Mundus Magicus. Motsu. Sneeze in a good way.

Yue's head grew a gigantic sweatdrop as she knelt down at Haruna's other side. "Haruna, my friend, I'm sorry, please forgive me, I never wanted to...!"

Haruna's eyes shot themselves open, eerily wide like saucers. She asked in a stilted voice. "Did you have sex?"

Nodoka choked in her own saliva while Kero face-pawed and Yue screamed, "WHAT?-! NO!-!-!"

"Oh, good," Haruna sighed. "I have to be both your first time and Rito-kun's..."

Yue stepped on her head. "Be serious, Haruna! I doubt Rito-san is still a virgin, after seeing that!"

Haruna sat back up, apparently no worse for the wear, while wiping her nose with a tissue. "I trust Rito-kun, and mostly, I trust his issues with women and sexuality. If I haven't been able to crack him up yet, no one's gonna beat me to it. That kind of things just happens all the time to him, yanno."

"I don't know how you can take it that easily," Yue mumbled. "Not to mention the part about them being aliens. One of them, an alien princess!"

"A princess? For real?" Haruna was mildly impressed. "Cool. The only royalty I knew so far was Uncle Toma, and he's just that dateless guy who kidnaps Auntie Akane at times, when he feels lonely. Was she cute?"

"Well... I have to admit, s-she's very beautiful... Th-Think of Makie-san's personality with Iinchou's body, but... But that isn't the point...!"

"Of course it is!" Haruna patted her shoulders. "The point is, you're very lucky to be engaged to such a special person, Yue-chan! My congrats!"

Nodoka suddenly realized the true meaning of 'Yue being engaged to another girl' and felt as if a hideous green eyed invisible monster was surrounding her, but she kept mum.

"I don't think I have anything to be congratulated on!" Yue protested.

"Of course you do!" Haruna argued. "If you're going to marry into an alien royal family that allows polyamory, you'll finally be able to get yourself the harem you have always dreamed of!"

"I HAVEN'T EVER DREAMED OF HAVING A HAREM!"

Haruna chuckled. "Sure, let's go with that," and she paused. When she spoke again, her tone was slightly more serious, worried even. "By the way, she was looking for me, wasn't she?"

"Yes, she was."

"She didn't want to kill me to have a clear path to both of you... Did she?"

"She never mentioned wanting to harm you, but then again, she doesn't know you yet..." Yue deadpanned.
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The Inn:

Well, she had promised herself the night before she would do it. So Yue took a long deep breath and knocked on Zazie's door.

Nodoka and Haruna were with Negi and the others. Technically, there was no obstacle at the moment, for her to do that, other than her own unwillingness to act on her self-promise.

Was it that Zazie scared her? The girl was, after all, strange and even unnerving at times, with her extremely long silences and her fixed stares. Not to mention her odd hobbies, like the things she was doing when the door creaked open upon contact with Yue's knuckles. Ayase braced herself, swallowing a lump as she saw Zazie alone in a light yukata, feet bare, sitting on the wide frame of a large open window, juggling a dozen of colorful balls while two curious birds sat on her head singing.

Since obviously Zazie wouldn't talk first, Yue did it. "Rainyday-san?"

Zazie tilted her head slowly towards her, and she never stopped juggling as she asked, "?"

Yue breathed and offered her a carton of juice. "I... I know you have a liking for exotic things, so as soon as I found this, I bought myself two, because I had the suspicion you might like it..."

"!" Zazie said.

The balls stopped falling one after another in Zazie's skilled right hand. The dark skinned acrobat set them carefully and walked over to Yue, birds still perched on her head. Yue almost could believe they'd end up making a nest there. Zazie took the offered carton, gave her thanks with the subtlest nod ever, and began drinking from its scraw, daintly and closing her eyes.

She finished it almost as soon, giving it back to Yue with a reverence and a heartfelt "..."

"You're welcome," Yue said. "Sorry to disturb you, but since we both are alone at the moment, what if we take a short stroll around town together? Today is our last day at Kyoto, after all. We shouldn't spend it locked up here..."

"??" Zazie, who knew well about Yue's bookish ways, looked more or less confused by the idea whe wanted to spend a day out in the open, but still ended up nodding. "!!"

Oh, she's enthusiastic! I believe so, at least, Yue thought, before saying, "Okay then, let's go for some changes of clothes and..." Her jaw went slightly askew when she saw Zazie just dropping her yukata down carelessly right before her, revealing she hadn't been bothering with anything underneath. She turned around, giving Yue quite an interesting view, and bent down to look for clothes in the lower drawers of the room, giving Yue and even more shocking eyeful. "Well, ah, I'll go back to my room while you dress up, and we'll meet at the front gate, okay...?"

", ," Zazie expressed her agreement before, finally, stepping into a pair of simple white panties. Birds still chirping happily on top of her.

As Yue walked away for her own room, she wondered about a lot of things. Too many for her comfort.
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This chapter's guest: Kugimiya Madoka.

Q: Good evening, Kugimiya-san. Well, after Arika-sama, Alladia-sama, Quintum-san and Stan-san, you're the first 3-A student to be interviewed for this segment. How do you feel about it?

A: Wait. Isn't this a musical audition? I had brought a demo tape and everything!

Q: I'm afraid not. Here, we interview different Mahou Sensei Negima characters to share their impressions and opinions on the story so far.

A: Huh?

Q: Well, basically, what's your opinion on Negi?

A: Oh, it's always Negi-sensei, isn't he? Everyone always wants to know about him, what do we think about him, what are our feelings on him! We're people with lives of our own, too! We have valuable opinions on other subjects not related to Negi-sensei! Well, all of us but Makie, anyway.

Q: Then, are you frustrated or resented about Negi-sensei? That's quite the shocking revelation.

A: Wha--? NO! Typical journalist, putting words in people's mouths! Negi-sensei is a really nice guy and I've got nothing against him, I just wish we could be more appreciated for what WE are, as well!

Q: Fine then, what's your opinion on Suzumiya Haruhi-san and her club, since you have just joined it?

A: But that, too, is--! Oh, forget it. I guess I'll always have to live under the shadow of someone who is more popular than me, right? Okay, Suzumiya-sempai is a bitch. Satisfied? No, really. She had her own printed shirts with her face on them, reading 'MAJOR DOMINANT BITCH'. She said it'd make her respected and feared.

Q: But isn't she already?

A: Well, the latter, yeah... Kyon-sempai is a great guy, Koizumi-sempai is very handsome but most likely... not interested on us girls, Nagato-sempai is... actually okay once you get to know her, and Asahina-sempai is... Asahina-sempai!

Q: Excuse me?

A: My mother taught me to never say anything about anyone if I didn't have anything nice to say. I hope you'll understand.

Q: But you just called Suzumiya-san a--

A: That's different! She says it herself, and that at least tells us she has guts, while Asahina-san only has... breasts. Do you follow me?

Q: I'd follow you anywhere.

A: You know I hate playboys, don't you?

Q: What's your reason for that?

A: What? Playboys are creepy, touchy, perverted, shallow and inconsiderate. Do I need personal reasons beyond that?

Q: ... Sorry, I couldn't hear your question. I was too busy pulling this dagger out of my heart. Regardless, Kugimiya-san, during the Kyoto trip, Yuuna-san took you off camera for a moment and told you something in a restaurant. It looked like you were trading some secrets, but... secrets on what?

A: (Looks aside) I'm sorry, that's something only between Yuuna and me.

Q: But--

A: Nope, I'm not telling.

Q: Fine. What are your feelings about the end of the Negima manga and the role you ended up having in it?

A: I had a role? That's some news to me! Anyway, I refer you to my answer about Asahina-sempai, but feel free to add more curse words.

Q: I will. Anything you want to tell your fans before the interview is over?

A: Yes. Please don't forget me! I don't want to slip into the limbo of inexistence, fading for the rest of eternity, unmourned like a cypher with no background or loved ones! I beg you, always keep a Kugimiya Madoka in your hearts! Don't let me dieeeee...! Oh, and also, Kotaro-kun would have been better with me than with Natsumi.

Q: Oh? What are your personal impressions about Muraka--

A: You already heard my opinions on Asahina and Akamatsu, didn't you?
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Asakura sighed. "Anyway, do you know what do we need now?"

Chisame almost jumped out of her skin. "Gyah! You were here all this time?-!"

"Yes, always," the pineapple haired girl nodded. "That's the path of us sneaky photographers," and she briefly paused to receive ahigh-five from an otherwise impassive Matoi. "After you dumped me yesterday, I wasn't going to be out the loop yet again! I followed you as soon as you left the Inn!"

Eishun hummed while smiling. Children were so cute when they thought they were sneaking without being detected by ''anyone''. As it was, he had decided to humor her.

"Yeah, yeah, you're a master spy and we love you because of that," Yuuna said, rolling her eyes. "Anyway, what is what we all need?"

Kazumi grinned while showing her camera off. "A group picture, of course!"

"Gee, why would it be I'm not surprised?" Asuna wondered.

"C'mon!" Asakura told her. "Odds are we'll never be all together in the same spot, ever again! Don't you think we should keep a few mementos of this for the rest of our lives?"

Deathnote nodded. "It can't be denied she's right there, guys."

Haruna nodded as well. "Since we aren't going to stage an orgy, we at least should go with the next best thing..."

"Haruna!" Nodoka chided her.

"Just joking! Joking, sheesh!"

"I wish I could believe you," Ayaka grumbled. "I really do. But we indeed should keep objective proof our alliance, that which allowed us to manage the impossible! So we can remember our perhaps brief, yet eternal, bonds forever! Yes, Negi-sensei and me will proudly show this group picture to our children, and the children of our children, so the glorious legacy of the Ala Albas and our epic deeds is never forgotten! In this golden day, celebrating our victory over darkness and evil, I swear with a fist on my heart I will never allow time to sweep away our--"

Roberta nudged one of her shoulders slightly. "Ojou-sama, we're about to get our picture taken. Please do fall in with the group..."

"GAH!" Ayaka reacted, seeing everyone had gathered together already while Asakura readied the camera. The Class Rep hastily made her way over to Negi's side, not so subtly pushing Misa and Misora away, taking advantage of their own struggle to stand at Negi's left while Chisame stood at his right. More or less squeezed in between Chisame and Ayaka, Negi gulped a little. Matoi, as expected, had fallen in right behind Chisame, with Hakase at the stalker's other side, holding hands with Sakurako. Chachamaru had stepped right behind her creator, with Chao sitting on one of her shoulders and a bored looking Evangeline on the other.

A giggling Konoka surrounded herself with Setsuna and Asuna while her parents stood behind her. For some reason, Natsuki awkwardly stood near Eishun, although frowning and facing away from him. Roberta stood at Ayaka's other side opposite Negi, while Haruka forced Misa and Misora to stay still, with her in their middle.

"Closer, closer, everyone, or we won't all fit into the photo," Asakura hummed, calibrating the angle and take. Then she looked back at... "Batman-sama? Aren't you going to be there, too?"

"Hnh," the Dark Knight said. "I don't do photos."

"Ohhh, pleeze...!" Makie looked up at him with Bambi eyes.

"No."

"Please please...!" both Konokas joined Makie.

"... No," he insisted, although his voice microscopically faltered for the slightest second in the history of mankind.

"PLEASE...!" Makie, the Konokas, Sakurako and the Chaos all cooed at once.

For a moment, the square jaw under the cowl moved in a strange way, before, wordlessly, the shadowy figure stood behind Skuld, Makie, Yuuna, Sora and Keiichi, although turning away from the camera so only the back of his cape and cowl were seen. "This is as far as I'll go."

"Awww!" Haruna giggled, squeezing close to Nodoka, both sitting down on the floor before Negi, making Misa and Misora curse not having thought of that themselves. "That's so cute of you, Batman-sama! You too, Kero-chan!"

"Don't call me Kero-chan!" Kerberos protested, while being dragged by Chamo and forced to sit on Nodoka's head while Chamo himself sat on Haruna's. "Ahhh, I was supposed to be a mysterious guardian living in secrecy as fitting my range! If Master Clow could see me now...!" he lamented.

"I think I have it now," Kazumi smirked, finally sliding in quickly, stopping to stand with the Konoes and winking at the camera. "Now, everyone say 'Cheese'!"

"Cheese!" was the common word at that moment, said with varying degrees of enthusiasm or lack of it, as the camera shot itself.


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Short addition to Kuro's infodump.

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"I have a question, " the Batman asked. "The reviving process of the Lazarus Pits... Does it have those potentially soul destroying effects on its users, too?"

Before Kuro could open her mouth to answer, Skuld beat her to the punch, which annoyed her. "Worried about the spiritual wellbeing of your worst enemy? That's so noble. Actually, due to the supernatural properties of those chemicals, which suffice to say have origins tied to those of the primal elemental soup that sparkled the first signs of biological life, their procedure of pulling the soul back into the revived body is remarkably safe for the soul itself, but not at all for its integrity and purity. They have a very high rate of spiritual contamination, which is the reason why the Pits induce insanity into their users."

Eva yawned. "What about the Dragon Balls?"

Kuro gave her a puzzled look. "Pardon?"

"You know, there's this legend about seven mystical spheres spreaded across the world, and if you can gather all seven and ask for a wish, a dragon will appear and grant you that wish no matter what, even if it involves reviving the death, " Evangeline stretched.

"That's the most stupid thing I've ever—" Kuro began before Skuld spoke again.

"The Dragon Balls, or rather, the dragon they summon, have actual reality warping effects, " the young goddess explained. "In that sense, they are more powerful than Heaven's Feel, but since the dragon hasn't been seen in thousands of years, even most Magi have come to believe it's nothing but a myth."

"But it exists, " Negi guessed.

It was Skuld's turn to shrug. "Yeah, but looking for them will probably be more dangerous and time consuming than looking for your father directly, so I advice you not even bothering to go with that wish."

"Ah, " Negi drooped down.

Chisame frowned. "You know, I can't believe no one has bothered to ask you this, but... since you watch everything from above, you do know where's Negi's father, don't you?"

Negi's head sprang back up in intense wide eyed interest, his eyes nailing themselves on Skuld. "Is that true?-!"

Skuld waved her hands before them. "EEEEHHHHH! I'm not part of the omniscient ones! I spend most of my time monitoring synapses, and I don't have the time to check on every mortal's lives and whereabouts! Sorry! Maybe I could access that information if I still had access to Yggrdasil's databanks, although I'd need authorization to share that information with mortals without being put on trial for betrayal. But as it is, I'm cut off from Yggdrasil now..."

"What?" Keiichi asked. "Do you mean you've been booted out of your home?"

"In a way, yeah. But that's all part of my plan. Don't worry, " she smirked. "I already have a place to live at this world set for myself..."

"Ah. That's good to know..." Keiichi replied, although something about the way she had said it told him he should be worried about it.
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And so, the trip finally came to its end. Minamoto Shizuna thanked the Heavens for it as she put on her best wide false smile and addressed the classes gathered before her.

"Okay, everyone! We'll be arriving at Mahora Academy by lunchtime today! Did everyone have fun?"

A sea of young fists was pumped up all across the train station.

'''"YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHH!!"''' the crowd roared.

"It feels like we were missing Horatio Caine saying an one-liner before that," Haruna mused.

"We were missing a lot of things during this trip," Yue sighed. "For starters, we lost what little normalcy we had left after Night One," she muttered to herself.

Nodoka, meanwhile, fumbled around in vain into her purse one last time, as if actually expecting to find The Create there. A frowning Kero, hanging from her neck like a plush ornament, only kept on brooding in angry silence.

Meanwhile, hanging at the back of the group, Chisame reluctantly put a hand on Negi's right shoulder. "I'm... I'm sorry," she whispered.

The boy blinked. "Huh? Why?"

She scowled and rasped, "W-Well, you know! Despite everything, we still have no idea where your father is, and that's why we came here in the first place!" she kept her voice as low as she could while still showing her exasperation.

He only smiled, however. "Don't blame yourself, Chisame-san. It's okay. I learned a lot about him, and I feel much closer to locating him now. And I couldn't have done it without all of you. Thank you. I'm forever indebted to you."

Frazzled, she looked aside. "D-Don't say that, moron. Many of us could take it the wrong way, should they hear you..."

"I demand for easier tests from now on," Asuna showed up behind them.

"A romantic strolling date every Sunday...!" Misa sighed before being pushed aside by Ayaka.

"Help finding the First District," Natsuki deadpanned.

"What's that? A red lights district?" Haruka huffed. "Regardelessly, Sensei, you will support me in the next elections for School Council President, won't you!"

"A sip of blood every night would be a reasonable payment for my services..." Evangeline hummed.

"GRAH!" Chisame yelled. "You guys were there?-!"

"Yes, always!" they said.

Matoi shook her fists around. "That's my shtick and my catchprase, you disrespectful kouhai!"

"Will class 3-A please keep silent?-!" Nitta called out.

Shizuna rubbed her chin. "I don't remember Yukihiro-kun bringing a maid with her in our way here. And hadn't Mc Dowell-kun stayed at Mahora...?"

"The Headmaster authorized it all," Takahata and Seruhiko dryly chorused.

"... Very well, if you say so..." The busty woman then looked down at the short girl with black hair standing near Negi's bickering group, eating a whole bucket of lime ice-cream by voracious spoonfuls. "And you, Miss, would be...? Because I didn't have you in my list for the--"

With a sly smile, Skuld only gestured for her to look again. Frowning and eyeing the list once more, Shizuna blinked and whispered to herself. "Number Thirty Two? When..." She finally only shrugged. "Fine. I'm paid the same anyway..."

Had anyone in 3-A bothered to actually listen to her just this once, they could have saved themselves a real shock later on.

As it was, Skuld only smirked.
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Interlude: Ohtori Academy.

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Tokiha Mai woke up groggily, spurred by the soft chantings of Anthy in the next room reaching her ears. The busty orange haired girl wasn't thinking too clearly at all, so she had to check the bottom bunk first and verify it was empty before going down the upper one, licking her lips in lazy circles as she did so.

"Anthy...?" she called out in a yawn.

She stumbled more than anything else her way to the bedroom's door, applying an ear to it before daring to walk out. She was savvy to Anthy's eccentric and often dangerous hobbies by now. She didn't want to be attacked by Swiss cows or trading bodies with anyone else again.

Mai heard, then, her roommate's soft voice saying something she mildly thought she recognized as a "The body shall be under me... My Fate shall be thy sword..."

Mai blinked to further awareness. "Anthy?" she raised her voice a little. "You haven't brought a boy in, have you?"

Undeterred, the chant continued, growing louder as Mai saw light filtering under the door now, which majorly creeped her out. "If the convocation of the Holy Grail acknowledges this resolve and purpose..."

Mai began bashing a fist on the door. "Dammit, Anthy-chan! Not funny anymore! C-Come on, you'll scare th-the neighbors!"

"Just a minute, Mai-sama!" Anthy's voice gained a cheerful edge for a moment before growing sinister, even somber, again. "Overcome the wheel of restrains, Guardian of Equilibrium...!"

After a loud gasp, Mai went through a quick prayer in her head and pushed the door open. "Anthy! I don't know what you think you're doing, but sto--!"

Then the sound of a deafening explosion filled her ears, and she fell on her butt on the floor, momentarily blinded by an all consuming light that had hurt her eyes. "AH!" she felt around with both hands. "My eyes! I can't see, I can't see! I can't--!" Then her hands found something hard and sturdy on the floor before her, something she idly recognized as a pair of boots right before her eyesight returned enough for her to confirm that yes, she was grabbing a pait of shiny black boots.

Those boots were in the feet of a very, very tall and well muscled man with dark skin and white hair, although he seemed to be still young otherwise. He also wore black pants and shirt, with a long red badass overcoat hanging from his torso. The first thing that struck Mai about him was how handsome and imposing he looked, and that made her lose coherence long enough for him to say, "Are you my Master?"

"Me... Your... Your...?" Mai babbled, managing to recover her presence just in time to notice he wasn't even looking at her, but a smiling Anthy instead. Chu Chu cowered, trembling, before his owner, which Mai knew by now was never a good sign.

"Indeed," Anthy made a refinated curtsy. "An Archer-san, am I correct? I must say I was aiming for a Saber-san, but you should suffice as well?"

The tall and dark stranger smirked oh so manly. "Well, isn't that always the way? Everyone always seems to wish for Sabers, isn't that right?"

He seemed to regard Anthy with some amused curiosity while completely ignoring the baffled Mai even as she wobbled back to her feet.

"Ano..." Mai said. "Excuse me, sir, but I think you have entered an exclusively female dormitory, and, and blown our ceiling up..." And she took hold of a nearby broom with all the courage a string of recent sword duels had given her. "So please be as kind as to get the fuck out of here!"

The tall man stopped her broom swing with a casual blocking of two fingers, making Mai pause in shock. That move had been the one to topple Touga-sempai down! Granted, she had been possessed by Dios at the time, but still...!

"Is this supposed to be a preliminary test of my defense skills, Master?" he asked Anthy, sounding terminally bored all a sudden. "Because I would advice using someone with actual skill for that purpose."

"What...?" Mai's eyebrows danced angrily.

"Oh, no, that's just my husband-to-be, Tokiha Mai-sama," Anthy said good naturedly. "And I am Himemiya Anthy, the Rose Bride. This," she held a terrified and squirming monkey mouse for Archer to see, "is my best friend, Chu Chu."

"I see. Well, I already can see you have better tastes in friends than my former Master," the man nodded. In truth, he was missing Rin already. Something had gone terribly wrong this time, even more than usual, that was. "Well, then, pleased to meet you, Master. You have noticed your boyfriend has breasts, haven't you?"

"I'm a girl!" Mai growled, placing a hand on her well endowed chest. "What kind of prank is this? Who are you and what are you doing here?-!"

"Oh, relax, Mai-sama," Anthy told her. "You had told me you wanted to be in Mahora, hadn't you?"

"Yeah, but what does that have to do with this?"

"Well, this gentleman here is our ticket to Mahora," Anthy pleasantly gestured for the big man.

Mai looked back and forth between them, with a blank face, before curtly telling her friend, "I'm not sleeping with anyone for a scholarship!"

"Ahhh, I see I'll have to explain myself better..."

Archer calmly strode for the kitchen. "Don't mind me. I'll go fix myself something while you go over the usual info dumps. You'll excuse me, but one finds those excruciatingly boring after a few times..."









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Tales from Mundus Magicus: Wound.

The girls, the boy and the annoying tiny animals all cringed in terror mixed with disgust as the blade cut a red path through Alcyone's body, the dark sorceress backing away barely in time to avoid being fully skewered. Alcyone hopped back lightly, eyes bugging out, taking the hand that had snapped Presea's right wrist to her bleeding new gap.

The weaponsmith charged at her, but without a word, and making a masterful twist of her body, her enemy turned in place, kicking at Presea's head just as the hand holding her wound glowed in bright blue.

"She's curing herself! In a bad way!" Motsu shouted. "Someone finish her while she...!"

That was Hikaru's cue to jump out from behind the turned table, thrusting a hand ahead. "FIRE ARROW!" she screamed, and the fire spell flew from between her fingers, zooming straight for Alcyone, who couldn't dodge in time to save a large portion of her hair, but at least managed to save her skull.

"Hah! I knew I'd bring you out of your hiding, little rat!" the dark mage said, slapping Presea aside, although the fighter managed to remain on her feet, swinging her sword with her good hand. Alcyone raised both hands up, allowing everyone to see how her wound was quickly healing back, which made Motsu emit a choked gasp and faint on Shichimi. "You should have escaped instead of trying to protect your doomed friend!"

"Sh-Shidou-san!" Mitsuru gasped, rushing to her side, either to protect her or be protected by her; he wasn't too sure himself. "You could have killed that woman!"

"Didn't Guru Clef make it clear enough?" Presea grunted, trying to determine what to do next while standing her ground. "This is a war situation! You can't hesitate during life or death combat!"

"Guru Clef didn't have the time to tell us everything," Hikaru said, breathing hard. She had noticed her spell had broken a window while flying past Alcyone, but fortunately its curtains didn't seem to have caught on fire. "But... Look out! Zagato's disciple...!"

Indeed; a sword of ice had formed itself in Alcyone's hand, and she dove ahead, clashing blades with Presea frantically, forcing the blond woman back with her insane rythm. She knew Hikaru couldn't use the Fire Arrow in such close quarters with Presea, and from the looks of it, the girl couldn't use any other spell. If the others could do anything, they'd have done it by then. She'd just finish Presea first, then sweep the children off easily.

Nanami scrambled up to Hikaru's side, trying to pull her away by an arm, with Yukino in close tow. "Shidou-san, this might be our only chance! Let's go!"

"No!" Hikaru said, looking around for a weapon and grabbing an average sword lying near her feet. Derflinger was about to tell her to pick the one a few steps away instead, but then she was saying, "Not only we can't leave Presea-san with her, but we aren't fast enough to flee from her! If we don't finish her here, it'll happen the same thing that did with Clef-sama!"

Her eyes gained a dangerous glint while she said that. It was something she had caught from her uncle. He was an awful person, but he at least had taught her there were some times where you had to stop being nice.

Motsu turned to Yukino. "Yo, Shield Girl! Toss that trademarked huge frisbee at the evil witch, will you!"

Yukino panicked, holding the shield closer to herself. "M-Me? But I barely can lift it! Even if I can toss it, I could hit Presea-sama instead!"

Then they heard a gruff, loud growl, and they were startled when Kirara grew back up to her full size, roaring as she leapt on Alcyone. Presea jumped back allowing the furry beast pounce on Alcyone, who shrieked in shock for a moment.

"Let's go! Go, go, go!" Presea ran to the children, quickly herding them out for her garden.

"But Kirara-chan...!" Hikaru gasped.

"She'll be okay!" Presea argued. "The most important thing is your survival! She'll buy us some time! Quick!"

"No, not so quick! Not so quick!" Motsu tried frantically to keep up with them, hopping behind the quintet carrying Shichimi on his back.

"Wheeeeee, this is fun...!" Shichimi wagged her tail.

As they crossed through the garden, another window exploded from the inside in a major crash of long ice spears, and Kirara was sent flying out at their feet, with several bleeding marks all over her chest.

"Kirara-chan!" Hikaru yelled, while the furry animal shrank back down, wheezing heavily.

Alcyone was stepping out as well, with wide bite marks over her arms, and crushing a helmet under her high heel. "Hahhh... Hahhh... Miserable interlopers, I am going to--"

Nanami, sneering, yanked a tablecloth from a summer table Presea had around, and tossed it in the wounded sorceress' direction, managing to cover her head for a moment. Taking advantage of her momentary confusion, Nanami took hold of Yukino's shield and rammed it ahead, slamming it against the witch's stomach and sending her stumbling into Presea's garden pond. "Melt down, you... you bitch!"

For a moment, they all looked down at the water as Alcyone sank quickly, a myriad of bubbles coming up until they stopped altogether.

"Wow...!" Tsuwabuki exhaled. "Nanami-sama, you are the greatest! Who else but you would have thought the Wizard of Oz would have--"

Then the pond's water exploded in all directions, and Alcyone flew up in a screaming paroxism of unbound rage, clawing her hands in all directions.

"Now!" Hikaru pointed at her again. "FIRE ARROW!"

"You're so foolish!" Alcyone seethed. "You can't use the same spell twice on me! FROZEN SHIELD!-!"

Her personal barrier of ice stopped Hikaru's attack effectively, although it still made her reel back. Still somewhat spent, she had to drop it shortly afterwards, and then the round shield hit her in the head, making her drop to the floor.

"See?" Presea said, briefly looking at Yukino as the shield returned to her good hand. "That's how you throw it. It always will return to you, like a boomerang, but the key is timing it adequately..."

Yukino nodded, visibly impressed. "Thank you, Presea-sama..."

Alcyone huffed and puffed, pushing herself back up. "I'm not defeated yet, you insects! FROZEN SPEAR!"

The ice projectile appeared and flew for them faster they could react. Presea tried her best, quickly thrusting the shield to save the intended target, but she failed just short, as the spear managed to reach its objective, and for a moment, the place fell deadly silent save for a strangled gasp of pain.
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