Dream I – Spar Partner.
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“Alright.
Now that you have learned the basics of being a returner, we will continue our
studies after the entrance exam. Do your best on the exam.” The club’s teachers
uttered before leaving the club members to return to their after school
activities. So, far what they learn are about the <shadows> are black
creatures that can form many shapes beside dreamers. <Dreamer> is a
nickname for all the creatures that lived in this Ar Dream Ciel; normal humans,
half-blood and full-blood. They also learnt about <mystic beast>. They
are like the shadows but they are harmless and always help the Returners to
kills the shadows. However, it’s rare to see one right now.
About
the entrance exams; the aim for the exam is to search club members whether they
are fit and to prove that they can take themselves during fulfilling their
life-risking missions. It’s up to the members whether they want to take the
exam or not. If they take the exam, they will receive a <Returner Licence>
meaning they are free to destroy any shadows as their will and also with the
licence in their hand, they can get further knowledge about being a Returner.
In the entrance exam, there are three categories they can join. The three
categories are Offence, Magic and Defender. One member can only join one
category. After that, one member in each of the categories will join to form a
team picked by an advisor teacher. It is for balance and safety after all.
For Mizuki, she knows which category that will be her choice and her
choice is Magic categories. Since she was small and because of her bloodline,
she is very good in using variety of magic skills, though all of her magic is
offence type. She can use healing and supporting magic but it deals a lot of
<MP> magic powers. Hopefully, her teammates who participate in Defender
have a lot of <SP> special power to support her and also the Offence; who
capable of performing <AP> Attack power abilities.
Since the exam will be held next week, she still has some times to
practice. Mizuki already getting used of practicing alone so now, she needs
something more challenging than meditating, mastering magic, doing revision and
many more. What she need is a spar partner. However, who should she spar with?
“Ah, I was too concentrate on learning and turned into a geek.” She cursed
herself for not having a friend because of her full concentrations. She has a
lot of friends but all of them aren’t in the same club as her. So, she better
search for one quickly and try her best to increasing her magic abilities with
that person.
Mizuki
stood up from her chair as she began to look around for anyone who has time to
have a spar with her. In her blue eyes, none of the Returner members sees like
having a free time. Most of them are talking with their friends about the exam
while a few for those who aren’t joining the exam, just took a few steps away
from their chair and exit the room. Seeing surroundings makes her regret more
on not making friends from the members. However, it’s no use crying over spilt
milk. There must be someone, right? …For her to practice with only for a few
days. Taking a step further from her table and chair, Mizuki blinked for a few
times to view her surroundings once more before her feet tried to back steps
while looking at her left and right.
Without
noticing, there is a person who is looking at his mp3 while walking toward his
seat, not knowing there’s someone is standing in front of him. In the same
time, Mizuki turns around at her back but her eyes are still somewhere off. Before Mizuki could face in front of her, she
and the person bumped to each other. Mizuki back away and try to stay balance
on her feet with the person still able to stand straight like it was nothing.
Then, both of the blue eyes and golden eyes stared at each other for a while
before Mizuki quickly bowed down. “I’m sorry! I wasn’t looking!” she quickly
apologized.
The
owner of the golden orbs touched his pierced ear to removes his earphone and
just stared at Mizuki, thinking about something. Then, he yawned before nodded
slightly and passed through Mizuki, straight to his seat. Then, he sits down on
his chair, placing his head on the table and closed his eyes, trying to take an
evening nap.
Blinking,
Mizuki scratched her head and register on what just happened to her while
watching the male student who she just bumped and currently getting himself a
nice and peaceful sleep. The student has smooth brown hair and his right ear
has a few silver earrings pierced though it. He looked kind of cool with it and
there’s only one student that have earring like those. The person’s name is
Tamotsu Rikuo. Let’s just say he is a less talk person and a popular person
among the students because of his incredible strength.
“He
must be joining the Offence category in the exam.” Mizuki mumbled as she remembers
what she saw a few days ago when their club have outdoor activities. Like
herself, Rikuo is fast on killing his foe but he used his sword skills rather
than magic skills. Rumours said that he is a violence person but he never been
like that before. He is more to a calm and peaceful person since he just loves
on sleeping when they are learning about the shadows and very calm during their
club’s outdoor activities. Really a relaxed person isn’t him? Even when someone
is challenging him, he looked calm, yet focus and serious on winning. A strong
person… wished she could go for a few spar with him once for a while.
“Ah,
wait… Isn’t he free right now? Maybe…” Mizuki mumbled to herself again and
walks closer to the sleeping student. When she reached at where Rikuo sleep,
she peeks his face whether is he sleeping or not and the answer is; his eyes
are closed which means he’s sleeping.
“What
do you want?” the sleeping student suddenly asked without revealing his golden
eyes to see who is in front of him.
Mizuki
startled to hear the male student suddenly speak up without warning. This has
made her kind of nervous but she really want to pass the exam and become a real
Returner, so that she also able to help protecting this school and also, this
world with her strength. “I was thinking something… Since you looked like… you…
a-are…” she stopped her words and wondered why she feels so nervous? …Maybe
because this person is a stranger to her. That’s why she is feeling nervous
right now.
“If
you are confessing your feelings to me, you better give up.” Rikuo uttered
bluntly.
Hearing
what he just said, made Mizuki blushed. Where did he get that idea? “I WASN’T
THINKING LIKE THAT!” she yelled out loud and slapped the table that made Rikuo
groaned when hearing the loud ‘thump’ through his ear.
“Then,
spit it out.” He replied along with a sigh as he scratched his brown hair
lightly.
Pouting,
Mizuki crossed her arms, “Do you… want to have a spar with me?” she asked
directly and calmly than before. Hopefully, Rikuo will accept her offer.
Suddenly,
Rikuo chuckled. “Are you sure?” he laughed.
Mizuki
blushed and slapped the table once more. “What do you mean by that?” she asked.
Is he thinking that she is weak? Oh, no. He better NOT thinks like THAT! She is
definitely not a weak person. She should have some respects since Mizuki always
practice to get better and tries her best to surpass herself like a real
fighter. If she unable to cast a magic, she will learn to master it; sometimes
slowly and sometimes in a few days. One thing for sure, he will regret on
laughing at her.
Rikuo
had his eyes on her, seeing her determinations when he was only teasing her. “I
hate losing.” He uttered shortly as if he agreed on being a spar partner with
Mizuki.
The
female student grinned. “Do you think you can win against me?” she asked,
taking her challenge seriously.
With
that, Rikuo stood up from his chair and smiled at the female student. “You got
guts. Alright, you ask for it.” he uttered as he reached his bag and hung it on
his shoulder while Mizuki dashed to grabs her bag to follow him behind.
When
Rikuo opened the door to exit the room, Mizuki can see that everyone around
them was hearing their conversation and currently looking forward of their
battle. Mizuki, herself also felt the same way as her club members. The
exciting feeling over-flow her heart, her desire of becoming stronger,
surpassing everyone and also herself.
Smiling,
Mizuki walks outside the Returner’s Club room and continue following her spar
partner for today to have a great and amazing match with him.
-----***-----
Countless
sharp ice glaciers are aimed directly toward a young male student without none
of the sharp edge missed its target. A black sword is used to slashes away all
the glaciers from success on making a critical hit. Then, the male student
jumped backwards before dashing to the sky and straight to the person who cast
the glaciers. With their eyes meet and their swords clashed with each other,
the spell caster pushes away the attacker and makes a back-flip before shooting
small fire balls through her sword’s edge.
Each
of the fire balls are successfully slashed away by the offender who is standing
on the ground unharmed. When he slashes the balls, smokes were created by it,
making the offender unable to see and seen by the caster. This has made the
caster panicked because she doesn’t know what her foe will do next. Before her
feet could reach the ground, she felt there’s something behind her. Quickly,
she turns around and saw a pair of golden orbs looking at her and his lips
curved a smirk. Mizuki moved her hands to defend the attack. However, the
impact was too strong that made her flew backwards to the ground and away from
Rikuo.
The
attack still isn’t over yet. Rikuo disappeared from where he is and uses his
speed to get behind Mizuki once more to make the same tactics as before.
However, he didn’t know that Mizuki was prepared for the second attempt. When
Rikuo reached behind her, she cast flames surrounding her to protect herself.
This time, it was Mizuki turn to look at Rikuo with her blue eyes and curving a
smile at her lips.
“Tch…”
sounded Rikuo when his sleeve caught fire by the flame barrier that Mizuki
casted and Mizuki still haven’t finish attacking yet. She swings her light-blue
sword to slashes Rikuo but Rikuo is quick. He defends her attack with his black
sword, ignoring the fact his sleeve caught by fire. The flame isn’t going to
stop him from attacking.
Both
of them stepped their feet on the ground from being flew away by their previous
sword clashes. After that, Rikuo disappeared again and reappear on air above
his for. Mizuki prepared herself to defend the attack with her sword to Rikuo
stopped moving on top of her. Figures, it was just a distractions. Behind
Mizuki, Rikuo appeared with his sword at her neck and to Rikuo’s surprised,
there a shard ice glacier behind him. Both Mizuki and Rikuo stopped moving and
smiled at each other.
“You
are good.” Both of them said in the same time before Rikuo’s sword is lowered
and Mizuki’s ice turns into water, returning to the ground. Then, Mizuki sat
down on the ground while Rikuo falls on the soft grass, trying to catch their
breath.
“Haa~
I have never been this tired in my entire life battling with another club’s
members!” he admitted.
Hearing
those words made Mizuki giggled. “Thanks for the compliment.” She uttered with
a smile, feeling proud of herself as she laid her back against a shady tree
with Rikuo lay down beside her. “Shall we… do it again?”
“I
won’t hold back next time.” He said as a huge smile and small laughter come out
from him as a sign agreement of having another spar next time with Mizuki.
Mizuki
also smiled and replies, “I won’t hold back either!”
“Seriously,
were you holding back?” he asked to make sure of something.
“…
I don’t know…” she replies before letting out another laugh with Rikuo.
Silent
fell for a while between them as both of them feels the gentle wind blowing
through them, making the brown and dark-blue hair getting messy. However, they
just ignore it and closes their eyes, hearing crows making their sound as a
sign of the sun getting down and soon, they will see dark sky filled with a
moon and beautiful stars shining in the sky. “By the way… we never introduced
ourselves, right? I’m Nanajima Mizuki.” Mizuki breaks the silent as she
introduced herself with her eyes, looking at Rikuo who just revealing his eyes,
turning to Mizuki.
“I’m
Tamotsu Rikuo.” He uttered his name and continued his speaking with a question
for her to answer. “What exam categories are you taking, Nanajima?” he asked as
he sat up and laid his back against a tree like Mizuki is.
“Magic.”
She answered shortly.
“Offence.”
He uttered shortly.
“Figures~”
both of them said in the same time. Then, they looked at each other before
laughed because the question has an obvious answer. Both of them already know
what categories their spar partner is taking after battling with each other. Hopefully, Mizuki and Rikuo will pass their
test and gain their <Returner’s licence> so that they are free on
battling the shadows. Oh, forgot to say that the school campus and also the
town are protected by Returners that gained the licence. Soon, some of them
will be an advisor in each of the new team. Mizuki hoped that somehow, she
could be in the same team as Rikuo because seeing his ability, Mizuki knows he
is really good on being an offender. Oh, and also found a good team supporter
and a great advisor.
“You know, Nanajima… my thoughts of you changed completely.” Rikuo
speak up, making Mizuki snapped from her stupor as she slowly, turning her blue
eyes to the brown haired student and listen to his confession. “I thought you
were a stupid girl who just rushing to die when you burst the door open on your
first day in the club. I never thought you are really good in magic and
stuffs.”
“Was
that a compliment or what?” Mizuki asked to make sure of what he just said.
Rikuo
laughed and reply, “Both of them.”
“Hey!”
Mizuki yelled and punched lightly at Rikuo’s shoulder before laugh along with
her new friend.
-----***-----
“So,
shall we test the experiment in that dreamer’s exam?”
“If
this thing is also a failure, he can just throw it away.”
“Alright
then…” the person grinned, looking at a young boy in brown cloak that currently
having a deep slumber, waiting for his master’s command to awake.
Dream I
Awaken.
Labels: The Dreamers Connection.
