Please read chapter 1 before chapter 2

heart stabbed blade chapter 1 link: http://www.youngwriterssociety.com/topic34433.html

Chapter 2: Toji Talks a lot

School was very slow and long that day. I was relieved when the bell finally rang. I was about to head out the door, when Rena came over to me.

“Want to do something today? I’m free.” She asked.

“Actually, I have something I need to do. But it shouldn’t take long, so I’ll call you after if its ok with you.” I replied.

“Ok, see you later.” You could tell she was a bit disappointed, but a bit more surprised than disappointed; I don’t usually have anything to do after school.

“ ‘Kay, see ya.”

After we parted ways I went to a school vending machine, bought myself a drink, then headed to the roof. When I got up, Toji was already there.

“Took you long enough,” he said, a bit mad.

“Sorry,” I replied.

“Well, anyway, lets get down to business,” he said with a bit more seriousness than usual. “So you have absolutely no clue what’s happening?”

“Nope,” I said, with an innocent grin on my face.

“Okay,” he sighed, “do you want the long version or the short one?”

I thought for a second.

“Long,” I decided. I wanted to make sure I knew what was going on.

“‘Kay then. There is this invisible substance called gii that some humans can manipulate. There are many different types of ‘manipulators’, but the most common are forgers, magies, and cremies. With me so far?”

I nodded. It sounded simple enough, but I couldn’t be more wrong.

“Good. Forgers turn the gii into metal weapons to use, and since the gii is in the air, their guns have unlimited ammo, swords can repair themselves, etc. They also can absorb the gii to make themselves stronger than normal humans, and can also use the gii to heal themselves. The second group, magies can manipulate the gii to move things and use the gii atoms to “possess” other atoms that are weaker. They are really bad at absorbing gii, though. The last group, cremies change the gii into a colored goo (the color depending on the manipulator), which adds onto the manipulators body. They can also absorb gii like forgers.”

By that time, my jaw was dropped and the look on my face probably looked like a total idiot. Its not that I didn’t believe him, it’s the way he was saying everything, like I should know all this already and that he was forced to tutor me. And that fact that he said all this in one breath kinda amazed me too.

“Oh yeah. I forgot to say that all groups have their abilities etched into their DNA. In other words if a forger can make a sword, that’s all he will be able to make, but he can still make it sharper or make its composition harder. Same with body add-ons for a cremi. And if a magi is good at possessing water, but bad at possessing fire, he’ll likely stay that way, but he could still get better in both areas.”

“But that still doesn’t explain the huge force-field-thingy,” I said, still not having a correct name for it.

“Sorry, I forgot that” he replied. “You see, there are hundreds of these temples throughout the world. Most of them are hidden underground, or have buildings added on to them, like many of the old churches, so they are hard to find. Right now, there is a rogue clan that is trying to take control of as many temples as possible. There is one below our school. What you saw was what happens when a clan tries to force control of a temple from another clan. Many of the weaker humans within the temples property faint – or even may die – during a shift. I took out that other guy’s partner before he could complete the process.”

“Why did they pick our school’s temple?” I asked, still not getting anything at all.

“Well, my clan is small in number, so if they could take it, it would be very hard for us to get it back.”

“Why is that?” I know it was a stupid question, but only two came last time. Why would it be hard to beat two people? Then again, look who’s talking.

“When a clan gets a hold of a temple, all people without pacts with the clan that owns it are affected. You said you had a headache, right?”

I nodded.

“That’s probably since you are not part of a clan, and our temple was trying to reject the invader. I guess you could say you got some of the shock.”

“If it’s your temple, why wasn’t I affected before?”

“Since this is a school, its kinda not a good idea to make it affect everyone, since it may affect some students, like in your case.”

“Oh, okay.” Pretending I understood what he was saying.

“Anyway, both of the guys disappeared, so they may try again” he warned.

“Ok, thanks for the advice. Talk to you later.”

“ Kay, see ya.”

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When I got home I decided to call Rena and tell her about the conversation I had with Toji. She came over a few hours later.

When I finally finished, and looked up from the table that I was staring at half the time, I found Rena was looking at me like I was crazy, mouth open and everything.

“Okay”, I said, still looking at her, “ you don’t have to give me that look.”

“Are you sure he said it in one breath?” Rena said, staying on the subject, “it could have just been your imagination.”

“Yeah, I’m sure.”

“Wow.”

“I know.”

Then we both cracked up. Neither of us were really good at being serious, especially when it was just the two of us.

“What now?” Rena said when our laughing fit was over.

“What do you mean?” I asked, wondering what she was referring to.

“Well, lets see. Toji’s crazy, our school is under attack, and you’re some kind of monster. There’s not much to decide upon.”

To anyone else, I would of probably flipped out, but this was Rena I was dealing with. I knew she was just joking around. But still, I hung my head anyway.

“Monster…” I said, in a child’s complaining tone, with my head still hung low.

“That reminds me,” Rena said, ignoring me.

“What does?” I asked.

“Nothing, I just remembered something.”

“Okay, then why did you say something reminded you?”

“It’s a figure of speech.”

“It is?”

“Yes it is. Well, not always…” You could tell she was going to continue, but by then she realized that I was just playing with her.

After a few minutes of silence, I decided that I sill wanted to know what she remembered.

“Anyway,” I said, “what did you remember.”

“Well,” Rena started to slowly move her gaze downward, “I was wondering if it happened again.”

“If what happened again?” I asked.

“Umm… the wings and tail…” she looked liked she didn’t like to talk about it, so why was she bringing it up?

“No, it didn’t, but I haven’t tried.” I interrupted.

“Oh…” Rena said. She didn’t seem disappointed, nor did she seem like she was relieved.

“But why don’t I?” I was bored, and it may benefit me in the future. Well, at least that was how I reasoned it.

Surprisingly, it didn’t seem that Rena was going to object. The idea also didn’t seem to disturb her in any way.

“Are sure about this?” she asked.

“Sure? Not at all,” I replied, smiling at the thought of being sure of something.

Then I closed my eyes and imaged myself the way Rena described to me. Two seconds later I opened my eyes, and then I tripped and fell of my face. When I looked up, I saw Rena standing above me, looking down.

“Are you ok?” She asked hurriedly.

‘Yeah, I’m fine,” I answered as I stood back up.

“Guess you have to work on that,” she said, trying to hold back a laugh.

“Work on what?” I questioned.

She couldn’t hold it in any longer, and started laughing. Then she pointed behind me.

When I turned around to see what she was laughing at. I found that my tail had come out, along with my wings, which were folded along my back. At first I stared at it, still wondering why Rena was laughing. It took me a few seconds to put two and two together.

I had tripped over my tail. You bet I needed to work on that.

“Now that was embarrassing,” I said sarcastically, smiling a bit.

Rena returned my smile.

“Umm…how do you feel?” she asked, a bit shyly.

“Not bad,” I replied. Actually, I felt great. I unconsciously swished my tail in the air. It was much longer than I thought it would be.

There was awkward silence for a bit, which I decided to break.

“You thirsty?” I asked.

“Yeah, just water’s fine,” she replied.

I started to walk over to the refrigerator, but I tripped over my tail, and landed flat on my face, again.

“I’m okay!” I announced. Then I got up.

The rest of that night was spent trying not to trip over my tail again and joking around with Rena. Late at night, after Rena had left, I walked up the stairs to one of my bathrooms to brush my teeth. When I stepped in and looked at myself in the, mirror, I was surprised to find that I still had my tail and wings out. I had left them out all night!

Then I had a weird thought; why hadn’t Rena mentioned this?? But then again, I was sleepy, so I wasn’t able to think straight.

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thank you all for reading my story. sorry it took me so long to type this. i had totatally rewrite the scene with takato and rena due to too much romance too early in the story. andyway, i guess with this chapter i tried to lay some ground rules on the fantasy part of the story, so i could go more in depth with the romance part.

again, thank you all ^_^

-otaku