A/N: Nice to meet you new readers, ThisWorldIsEmpty here. I rewrote this prolougue after getting somewhat into the story, so the writing style kind of drops in quality in the next chapters, but it gradually gets better. I do plan on rewriting the earlier chapters though, so look forward to it and enjoy.

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A man briskly walked down the aisle, his cloak flapping behind him. Although he seemed to be a priest of some kind, he wore a yellow sleeveless shirt that only reached down to his belly button, had multiple gold-plated necklaces, and wore black shorts that reached down to his knees. A red cloak flowed behind him. He was oddly buff as well, which was odd for a priest. On both sides stood other priests, who wore regular priest robes, who crosses held in their hands, looking up and praying to God. The man could only laugh to himself, since these fake priests were busy praying to such a fake God. If only they knew the truth of this world, then maybe the man would have some inkling of respect towards them. Maybe just a sliver. The man shook his head, no, he wouldn't even give a sliver of respect towards these worms. They're too below him.

He continued to walk down the red carpet, and his thoughts returned to what he was supposed to do at today's ritual. All he had to do, was kill everyone here, and his God would reward him with more power. Just a few more rituals like this, and then the final ritual to summon his God would be ready. All of his plans were now coming to fruition, just a couple more years, and the world would be rewritten. Suddenly a useless ape walked up to the man and bowed.

"Sir, Crowley is waiting for you in the main hall" he said. The man waved him off with a scowl, to think that he had to work with a demon such as Crowley. But he had to, so his dream could come true. This has been his mission since he was but a teenager, so he had to see it through, by whatever means necessary. So he continued down the hall until he reached the main hall. He entered the room and notice the man wearing completely black just lounging on a couch. There wasn't supposed to be a couch in the main hall, but it looked like the man in black didn't care.

"Crowley" the supposed priest said.

"Oh, look who finally showed up" Crowley muttered. "It's about time you got here."

"It's about time we started the ritual" the man replied, slightly irritated at Crowley.

"Now now, why don't we just enjoy each others company for a while?" Crowley suggested as he leaned back on the couch.

"I'm sure we both know that I dislike your company, so I recommend that you start this ritual before I kill you" the man said with a scowl. Crowley shrugged his shoulders,

"Fine, fine, be a sour-puss" he muttered as crossed his legs and leaned further into the couch, "I guess we should get this going then." Crowley snapped his fingers, and a scroll popped in out of no where and floated down onto his open palm. He slid it open and looked at its contents, after double-checking them, he rolled it up and handed it to the man in front of him. "These are the terms of our agreement" Crowley explained as the man in front of him opened the scroll and looked through its contents.

"So then, that's all you want is it?" The man wondered. Crowley nodded,

"That's right, is that a problem?" Crowley asked. The man glared at him,

"No, it's not a problem at all" he said as he took a pen out of one of his pockets and signed the scroll in beautiful cursive. Then he rolled it up and handed it back to Crowley, who tossed it into the air and snapped his fingers, the scroll disappearing with a puff of smoke. Then the ivory man turned and walked towards the middle of the main hall, where he stopped and held his arms out wide, palms facing outwards. "Let's begin" he muttered as a dark aura blasted out of his palms and began to envelop the room.

As the dark aura began to surround him, Crowley smirked, thinking to himself that this man was very interesting. Not just this power, this man had so much more. To think that this man would be blessed by his God, it should have been nearly impossible. There are a select few who can even own one power of God, but this man has hundreds. That may be weird, but what was more weird was that a demon like himself was assisting a priest who was trying to resurrect his God. But whatever, his goal was the same as this God's. Suddenly, Crowley heard loud screams from the other priests in the church, as the deadly dark aura surrounded them.

This dark aura is just a simple quick to kill curse. One strong enough to kill normal humans, but way too weak to kill a demon. This place had been chosen for the human sacrifices needed for the ritual. No single person here was one born with a power, it was just filled with normal priests. Soon, all the screams died out as every priest in the church finally died. Crowley slowly clapped his hands as the ivory-skinned man lowered his arms and glared at him as he turned.

"Well done Samuel, that was a very efficient way to kill them off" Crowley congratulated.

"Shut the hell up Crowley, don't you dare say that name ever again" "Samuel" growled.

"Always so hostile, you should get those anger issues checked out" Crowley suggested, "Well then, what should I call you then? Hmm... how about Saint of the Gods? Nah, too long. Okay then, Mr. Saint it is" Crowley concluded.

"Whatever, I don't care what you call me, as long as you never say that name ever again" the now named Mr. Saint muttered. Crowley clasped his hands together in a happy fashion,

"Oh my, we finally agreed on something!" he exclaimed, "look at our bond growing."

"Silence you demon" Mr. Saint said, "we need to get going to our next destination."

"Another church huh? We still need more souls?" Crowley complained. He sighed, "summoning a deity is so much work."

"He's not just any deity, He is God" Mr. Saint corrected him.

"I'm a demon you know, you shouldn't say that in front of me so much" Crowley muttered.

"You seem perfectly fine to be sitting in a church" Mr. Saint spat.

"In a church dedicated to a fake God" Crowley said.

"It matters not, let's go" Mr. Saint said as he turned, his cloak flapping in the nonexistent wind. Crowley sighed, stood up and followed Mr. Saint outside of the church. It was finally time for Mr. Saint's dream to come true, and he was willing to do anything for it to come to fruition.

2: Chapter 1: 1st Period

A/N: I did make a couple edits to all of the chapters, so it's slightly better than the original from FictionPress that I'll update soon.

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"Boredom, absolute boredom" Ziro stated.

"Oh come on don't be like that, there's a lot of fun things to do" Kenji said. Ziro sat near the window, 2nd row from the back, Kenji sat one seat ahead of him, currently Kenji is turned around in his seat. Ziro has short dark red hair and red eyes while Kenji has short jet black hair and black eyes. They both wore the standard male uniform, a white shirt and tie under a black blazer with just a regular pair of completely black pants. But Ziro also wore a pair of headphones around his neck. Ziro turned his head to look at Kenji and asked,

"Are you saying that school is fun?"

"Well... normally school is boring. But you do know that this isn't your normal everyday school right?" Kenji asked.

"Yeah, yeah, I know. CrossGate Academy, a school made for people who have inhuman powers, special powers if you will. I mean sure we have a tournament to test our strength against all the people in our grade every Friday and to earn extra X [Cross] points which is used for all our everyday needs, but any other day is pretty boring" Ziro said. (CrossGate Academy, first created 20 years ago when the USA fused with Japan and made Neo Shibuya on an island halfway between North America and Japan. The humongous bridge they made go over the entire North Pacific Ocean passes right by it. The island is only a bit north of the bridge, there's a part of the bridge where you can veer off and take a path straight to the island. The island's name is X of the Gods, no idea why. I guess they just decided to keep on putting God in things. X of the Gods was discovered around 21-22 years ago. CrossGate Academy was built 20 years ago. The bridge took 25 years to make and trillions of dollars were spent creating it. But at least it gave the unemployed people in America and Japan jobs. This bridge is called Kami no Hashi, The Bridge of God.) Kenji shook his finger at Ziro,

"That's where you're wrong Ziro, every single day is exciting" Kenji stated.

"And how is that?" Ziro asked.

"Don't you know anything? Out of all the school districts in this country this school has the girls wear the shortest skirts! Our school's skirts are exactly 2 centimeters shorter than any other school district's" Kenji stated. Ziro stared blankly at Kenji.

"Why did I know you would say something like that?" Ziro wondered. Kenji opened his mouth as if to say something, but Ziro interrupted him, "You know what, never mind." Ziro turned his head to look out the window. He sighed, "I wish it was Friday already, I just want to fight someone."

"But you don't even know what your power is yet" Kenji said.

"Like I care, if I have to then I'll beat them without my power. But who knows, if this was an Anime then I would all of a sudden gain my power in a battle. A battle where I'm about to die or something" Ziro replied.

"But life isn't like an anime. If it was then I would definitely have myself a harem" Kenji stated.

"Ha ha ha as if! If this was an anime then you'd be the perverted best friend of the hero, fated to be forever alone" Ziro laughed.

"Oh hell no! I would die before I became the perverted best friend!" Kenji exclaimed. The door slid open and a middle-aged woman wearing a white shirt with a pocket on her left breast, on her bottom she wore a tight mini skirt. She had long beautiful brown hair and a pair of glasses over her brown eyes. Also she carried a book with a brown cover with her. 'A normal everyday teacher in an anime' Ziro thought. Ziro looked at Kenji, his eyes shining. "She's so beautiful!" he exclaimed. He started floating into the air towards the woman, Ziro reached out and grabbed the back of the collar of Kenji's shirt.

"No Kenji, don't float towards her, that's extremely rude you know" he said. Kenji sighed,

"But I want!" he said. The woman walked up to the podium in front of the blackboard, she slammed her book on the podium and yelled,

"Everybody sit down!" Then everyone who was up instantly sat down. "Good, now then I should introduce myself. I am Atsuko Takahawa you'll call me Ms. Takahawa or Sensei, understood?" She ordered. Everyone except Ziro yelled,

"Yes Ma'am!" Ms. Takahawa smiled,

"Good now then let's begin class! Okay, starting from the 1st column then continuing through the rest you'll stand up, state your name, age, and power" Ms. Takahawa ordered. Ziro blanked out and sat and waited till it was Kenji's turn to go. Kenji shot up and yelled,

"I'm Kenji Washisugu! I'm 16 years old and my power is Gravity!"

"Alright, thank you, please sit down" Ms. Takahawa said. Kenji instantly sat down. "Alright, next!" Ziro slowly stood up.

"My name's Ziro Nakamura, I'm 16, and my power is..." Ziro thought for a second. "Actually I don't know what my power is." Ms. Takahawa looked at him,

"Interesting... Okay, next!" Ziro sat down then the girl behind him stood up cheerfully. She had short pink hair with ribbons on the side of her head and pink eyes, she wore the normal female school uniform. The top is the same as the male uniform but on the lower body is a black and white checkered skirt. (The next girl seems to be around 10. A loli perhaps?) Ziro thought.

"Hi everyone! My name is Masako Ichinori! I'm 15 and my power is Super Strength!" Masako exclaimed happily. (Yeah, definitely a token loli) Ziro thought.

"Okay then... Next!" yelled Ms. Takahawa. Ziro blanked out again as he looked out the window. 'Can't the day just end already' Ziro thought. Some time later all the introductions were finished and Ziro started paying attention again. "Alright then, that's everyone. Let's continue onto the lesson. Today I'll be teaching you about how this school operates. I'm sure most if not all of you know about the weekly tournaments every Friday where you fight against others in your grade and skill level to gain experience with your powers and the chance to win X points."

"As you know, X points are used for everyday use here at this school. At the beginning of the year you start with 100 X points, throughout the year there are a large amount of times to gain more X points without doing good in the weekly tournaments, including, helping around the school, doing club activities, and helping with matters in and out of school in the Student Council among numerous other things I won't go into. But those are the top things to do to gain X points without doing good in the weekly tournaments. But you don't necessarily have to do anything to gain X points because if you ration your X points then you can scrape through the entire school year. But if you do that then you'll have to just live with the most basic necessities."

"Now then back onto topic, every time you win one battle in the weekly tournaments you gain skill points which represent your skill level. You start at skill level 1 then if you get enough skill points you upgrade to skill level 2. The max skill level is 12, as of now there is only 7 students who have reached skill level 12. Only 7 people can be skill level 12 at a time, to become skill level 12 you must either defeat a skill level 12 or be the highest ranking skill level 11 when one of the skill level 12's either graduates or leaves school for some reason. You can check your skill level anytime in your school pocket book that was given to you as you signed in. Now then, at this time please open your Pocketbooks and get all your information into them." Ziro saw as everyone reached into their pockets and took out their Pocketbooks. Ziro reached into his pocket and brought out his pocket book, the Pocketbook was a metallic looking black with white lettering on it.

Student Pocketbook

Small Computer Device For Academical Purposes

Complete Guidebook Of The School

Tutorial Of Using/Understanding Your Powers

Contact Information If You Have Any Problems

000-240-2061, DirectorCrossface.com

"Hmm, I've never actually looked at this" Ziro mumbled. Ziro opened it and multiple screens popped out of the empty Pocketbook. The pages were completely blank, all there was is the blue screens that shot out of the Pocketbook, completely covering it. Ziro looked at the screens, the closest one said,

Welcome to the Student Pocketbook

This Pocketbook shall be on your person at all times. At anytime you can use the Pocketbook to check any of your statistics, check someone's statistics, and or look something for your class up. This Pocketbook is basically just a hand-held computer you can use inside class

Ziro finished reading the screen then hit the little x in the top right corner. The screen disappeared then showed the next screen. It had only one question,

Which Sprite would you like?

Ziro looked at it, then all of a sudden it showed two pictures of different people. The first one had the picture a tall man with purple hair and purple eyes. He wore a black suit with a red tie and a white shirt underneath. There was some text underneath his picture which said,

Takayuki Hongou

What would you like me to do Master?

Ziro glanced over at the other picture, it was a woman with purple hair and purple eyes. She wore a sweater vest over a white buttoned shirt, the shirt was slightly unbuttoned as to show some cleavage. She also had some headphones over her ears. There was some text underneath this picture as well.

Yukiko Hongou

W-what would you like me to do Goshujin-sama?

Ziro took one look at Yukiko and instantly knew which one Kenji would pick. Ziro sighed,

"Well then I guess I know which one to pick" he mumbled. He was about to press on Takayuki's picture when all of a sudden Kenji turned around and he accidentally hit Ziro's hand. His hand got pushed over and his finger hit Yukiko's picture.

"Hey Ziro which Sprite are you going to pick?" Kenji asked. Ziro looked at him with a blank face.

"Well you just chose for me" Ziro said.

"Oh... uh okay?" Kenji said. Ziro sighed then looked back at the screen. The screen had now changed into a big picture of Yukiko. All of a sudden a woman's voice appeared in his head.

"Th-thank you for choosing me Goshujin-sama!" the voice exclaimed happily. (Since the woman's voice said Goshujin-sama then does that mean it's the voice of Yukiko?) Ziro asked himself.

"Whoa! Is that Shiori's voice? It's so sexy!" Kenji exclaimed. (I guess it was Yukiko's voice then,) Ziro thought. Kenji's hand shot up and asked Ms. Takahawa "Sensei! Can we program our Sprites with specific words to say?" Ms. Takahawa nodded,

"Yes, you can program your Sprite to say anything you want" she explained.

"Hell yeah!" Kenji yelled. Ziro sighed then looked back at the screen, it had now changed to a screen with a lot of boxes to input your data into. He read over the entire screen. (Alright so all I have to do is put in all of my personal information huh?) Ziro wondered. He tapped on one of the boxes and another screen appeared, this one seemed to be a bit wider. It loaded and it showed a large keyboard. He quickly typed in his information into all of the boxes, but he stopped as he looked at the next box that asked him to put down his power. (What should I put?) Ziro asked himself, (Guess I'll just put I don't know. When I know my power I guess I can just come back and put it in,) he thought. He finished typing in all of the remaining boxes then clicked finished and the bottom right of the screen. The screen disappeared then a different screen appeared that said,

Thank you very much for using the Student Pocketbook

You have now finished typing in all of your information. You may now use the Student Pocketbook as you like.

"Thank you for using the Student Pocketbook Goshujin-sama!" Yukiko said cheerfully. "You may ask me for anything at anytime, you only need to think it and I will do as you say Goshujin-sama." (I'm going to have to get used to having her voice in my head,) Ziro thought. "Would you rather have me speak through your headphones Goshujin-sama?" Yukiko asked.

"That would be pretty helpful, please do that Yukiko" Ziro said. Ziro grabbed his headphones and put them over his ears.

"Your order has been accepted Goshujin-sama, From now on I will now always speak through your headphones" Yukiko said.

"Yukiko, if for some reason I don't have my headphones then you should speak into my mind" Ziro ordered.

"Your order has been accepted Goshujin-sama, I will mainly speak into your headphones but I will speak into your mind if you do not have your headphones" Yukiko said.

"Alright, thank you Yukiko" Ziro said.

"It's no problem Goshujin-sama" Yukiko replied. Ms. Takahawa slammed her book down on the table and yelled,

"Alright, listen up!" Everyone snapped to attention except for Ziro who just looked up slowly. "Now that you've gotten your Sprite's and now have access to your Pocketbooks, you can use them to manage all of your schoolwork and keep information on your opponents. You can also use them to check out your skill level, power rating, common ways to use your powers, intermediate ways to use your powers, and expert ways to use your powers. It holds all of the data CrossGate Academy has gained throughout all these 20 years. Although some of our students may have powers that have not been added to our database yet. That is both an advantage and a disadvantage. Other students can't go into the database and see how your powers work but you also can't go into the database to see how to use your powers" Ms. Takahawa explained. Ding Dong Dong Dong Ding! "Oh, that's the bell, alright then you can leave." Everyone stood up and walked towards the door.

"So, Ziro... How do you like your Sprite?" Kenji asked. Ziro looked at him,

"She seems pretty helpful" he stated. They opened the door and walked through it.

"Wait a minute, I thought you always chose the male sprites " Kenji asked.

"It was your fault I hit her icon" Ziro said.

"Oh I did smack your hand didn't I? I must have forgotten because after that I heard Shiori's sexy voice."

"Hmm, then I guess we got different Sprites, mine is named Yukiko."

"Yukiko huh? That name is pretty hot. Speaking of which, is she hot?"

"I don't know, but..." Ziro reached into his pocket and pulled out his Pocketbook. He opened it, "Hey Yukiko, can you show me that picture of you?" Ziro asked her.

"Of course Goshujin-sama" Yukiko replied. A screen appeared with Yukiko's picture on it. Ziro turned the Pocketbook so Kenji could see it.

"This is what she looks like" Ziro said. Kenji looked at the picture,

"Holy crap she's hot! Man, why do you always have the best luck!?" Kenji exclaimed.

"You're making a scene Kenji... Wait, why are you crying?" Ziro said.

"Y-you always have the best luck dammit" Kenji said. Ziro sighed,

"That's because you're the perverted best friend character Kenji" he said.

"No I'm not!" Kenji whined. Ziro just laughed.

3: Chapter 2: 2nd Period

A/N: I'm going to splice together some of the shorter chapters so that they flow better.

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Ziro and Kenji walked through the door in front of them. As soon as they entered they looked around in awe. The room was huge, it was the size of at least two normal gyms combined. There were 6 big circular walls coming out of the ground in different places. The big gym seemed to be cut into 2 different halves, one side had the 6 big circles while the other half seemed to have training dummies and some odd looking machinery. Ziro noticed a muscular man who was at least 6 foot 3 or taller with a buzz cut. He wore a white shirt with green stripes at the end of the sleeves, it had the words Fighting Spirit etched on the chest. He also wore green gym shorts. His hair color was black while his eye color was brown. Ziro and Kenji walked towards the man, looking around the extremely large gym. Ziro cocked his head backwards and saw some students walking into the gym and looking around, confused. After everyone settled in standing in front of the teacher, he started to speak,

"I am John Smith, you can call me Mr. John Smith, Mr. John, Mr. Smith, or Mr. Sensei. This class is based solely on advancing your powers. You will battle your classmates and train individually almost everyday. Every Friday you can choose if you want to fight or train or not, so as not to waste all of your energy before the tournament." Mr. Smith looked around the crowd of people in front of him. "Alright then, who would like to demonstrate their power?" Most of the students murmured amongst themselves. Mr. Smith looked around at the students again. "If no one wishes to volunteer then I'll just choose for you." He pointed straight at Kenji, "You'll go" he stated. Kenji pointed at himself,

"Wait, me?" he asked. Mr. Smith nodded,

"Yes you, now come up here." Kenji's shoulders sagged as he slowly walked up to Mr. Smith.

"Yes, sir" he said.

"I told you to call me Mr. John Smith, Mr. John, Mr. Smith, or Mr. Sensei! You can't call me anything else!" Mr. Smith yelled.

"Yes Mr. Sensei!" Kenji instantly yelled back. Kenji stopped in front of Mr. Smith and looked up at his face.

"Alright then, you will do a practice match with her over there" Mr. Smith said as he pointed to a familiar looking girl, then pointed over to one of the big circles. Ziro looked over to her, (That's the loli from before,) Ziro thought, (What was her name?)

"Her name is Masako Ichinori, Goshujin-sama" Yukiko told him through his headphones.

"Hmm? Oh thanks Yukiko" Ziro replied.

"There is no need to thank me Goshujin-sama, I'm only doing as I am programmed to do" Yukiko said.

"I... I guess that's true" Ziro said. Ziro noticed that now Masako and Kenji were standing at different sides of one of the six big circles spread around the gym. )Oh, well I guess the battle is starting now) Ziro thought.

"Alright! Let the mock battle commence!" Mr. Smith yelled. (A one-on-one battle huh? Wonder who's going to win?) Ziro wondered. A clear glass rose out of the circle until it formed together into a big clear dome.

"Alright mister let's do our best!" Masako said cheerfully. Kenji smiled,

"It's too bad you're not my type, because you're just so cute!" Kenji said.

"Hey mister, are you some kind of pervert?" Masako asked. Kenji hung his head down as he placed his hand on the glass dome.

"She called me a pervert..." Kenji mumbled sadly.

"Hey mister, are you okay?" Masako asked. Kenji faced her,

"I'll make you pay for calling me a pervert!" he roared. Kenji reached into his pockets and threw 5 cameras into the air. He focused the gravity in them and crushed them together. Then he weakened their gravity and they split off into many sharp pieces that floated in the air. Kenji grabbed around half of the pieces with both of his hands and threw them at Masako. He slightly strengthened the gravity near Masako. Masako jumped into the air, making a crater in the ground. The pieces of the camera hit the glass dome and stuck into it.

"Ha ha ha! This is fun mister!" Masako laughed. Masako twisted in the air aimed at Kenji with her fist and shot down at him. Kenji jumped forward and rolled out of the way as Masako hit the ground and made a large crater. As Kenji rolled he grabbed the rest of the camera pieces and threw them at Masako's back. The pieces shot at her, not hitting any of her body, only her clothes. Many tears were all over her school uniform, slightly showing off her underwear.

"I'd say that's a win to this mock battle" Kenji stated. "If that was a real fight then she would've be severely injured getting stabbed in the back." Masako turned around and faced Kenji.

"I knew it! Mister is a pervert!" Masako exclaimed. The students behind Ziro started murmuring to each other, he heard some people whispering,

"That guy's a total pervert!" and,

"He's a freaking lolicon!" (Good job looking like a pervert Kenji) Ziro thought. Mr. Smith crossed his arms and snapped his fingers. The glass dome slowly receded.

"Alright, that's a win for Kenji" Mr. Smith announced. (That depends on the meaning of win you're using) Ziro thought. Kenji with a big smile and Masako with her regular smile stepped out of the giant circle and started walking back towards Mr. Smith. They stopped in front of Mr. Smith when all of a sudden a book hit Kenji in the face and he was sent flying. Ziro turned to look where the book came from when he saw a girl with long wavy blond hair and blue eyes. She seemed extremely angry.

"How dare you do that to Masako-Sama you creepy pervert!" The girl yelled. (Huh... I was wondering if something like this was going to happen) Ziro thought, (Things like this usually happen to the best friend character. Anyways, Sama huh? Sudden honorifics. So whoever the hell this is worships the loli or something? Er... Masako I mean.) Kenji sat up,

"Hey what the hell was that for!?" he yelled. (Because you're a creepy pervert) Ziro thought. The blond haired girl walked up to Kenji and continued yelling at him. (Anyways, seems like they're going to be busy for a bit so...) Ziro raised his hand,

"Hey Mr. Smith, shouldn't Masako change into a different uniform? Since it's kind of...ripped" he asked.

"Good point, we wouldn't want Masako walking around like that around the school" Mr. Smith replied.

"Alright Mister Sensei, I'll go change!" Masako said happily as she ran off to the girl's bathroom. The blond haired girl stopped beating up Kenji when she noticed Masako going to the girl's bathroom. She dusted herself off and walked off towards Masako. Kenji stood up and stumbled towards Ziro. as he stopped in front of Ziro, Ziro noticed Kenji now had multiple bruises on his face.

"Why do I always have such bad luck?" Kenji asked.

"It's because you're the perverted best friend character" Ziro bluntly stated.

"You're so mean Ziro!" Kenji cried. As Ziro continued to laugh at Kenji, Masako and the blond haired girl came back. Mr. Smith cleared his throat, everyone turned to look at him.

"Alright! That is the kind of battles you can expect to have every day!" Mr. Smith yelled. "Any solo training will be supervised by Mr. Tachimoto" Mr. Smith said as a tall,lean man walked up from behind him. He looked to be around his 20's, short blond hair, black eyes, and a feminine looking face. He wore a fancy black suit, when he looked out at the crowd of students Ziro noticed the sparkles that were coming off of him. (Oh great... a freaking pretty boy. I hate these guys) Ziro thought.

"Good morning everyone! I'm Seitachi Tachimoto and I will be observing your solo training. In case you didn't know the other half of this gym is based solely on solo training, it's full of training dummies and simulations you can use" Mr. Tachimoto said with a smile on his face. (He seems kind of creepy to me) Ziro thought.

"Hey, Yukiko. What can you tell me about this guy?" Ziro asked Yukiko.

"He's 21 years old, he only started teaching at this school 2 years ago, and he's notoriously popular with all the female students, Goshujin-sama" Yukiko said.

"Thought so... Alright, thank you Yukiko" Ziro said. This time Yukiko didn't say anything back. (So does that mean not much else is known about Mr. Tachimoto?) Ziro asked himself. (Well, it's not like it matters.)

"Alright! As you now know I will be overseeing your mock battles while Mr. Tachimoto will be overseeing your solo training. Does anyone have any questions?" Mr. Smith said. A girl with long black hair and brown eyes shyly rose her hand. "Alright, what's your question?" Mr. Smith asked her.

"U-um w-will there be a tournament this Friday?" She asked.

"Hmm... Well there will be a tournament on Friday, but..." Mr. Smith paused, "It'll only be with people with skill level 10 or higher. So sorry, none of you students can participate in a tournament until next Friday."

"I-I see..." the girl said as she seemed to blend in with the rest of the crowd. (I wonder who she is) Ziro wondered.

"Her name is Kazumi Kobayashi Goshujin-sama" Yukiko explained.

"What's her power?" Ziro asked.

"I apologize Goshujin-sama, I can't give out that information yet. I can only give that information out if they're your opponents in the weekly tournament" Yukiko answered.

"Alright, thanks for the information Yukiko" Ziro said. Once again Yukiko didn't reply. Ding Dong Dong Dong Ding!

"Alright! That's the bell, you can all leave now!" Mr. Smith yelled. Everyone quickly left the room.

"So, Ziro, did I look cool back there?" Kenji asked Ziro.

"Nope, not at all" Ziro said bluntly.

"W-well you're a jerk! What did everyone else say then?" Kenji asked.

"Oh... They said you were a pervert, then that you're a lolicon. Then when that blond chick started attacking you I heard people snickering behind me" Ziro replied.

"Why do I always have to worst luck!?" Kenji exclaimed, "I do something cool once and I get branded as a lolicon!?"

"But you really didn't do anything that cool" Ziro said.

"Yeah, well you wouldn't have beaten her" Kenji stated.

"I guess not... at least without knowing my power" Ziro said.

"Hey, at least you're better at hand-to-hand fighting than me" Kenji said.

"That's not very motivational, because you have no idea how to fight without your power.You aren't even that good with your power." Ziro said.

"Hey! Shut up!" Kenji yelled. Ziro just laughed. Ziro heard a familiar song blare from his pocket, (Oh, my Pocketbook is going up) he thought as he reached into his pocket and pulled out his Pocketbook. He opened it and a blue screen popped out, it said,

Your next class is Science of Powers, Your seat will be the same as your 1st period.

(That's an interesting way to tell someone their seat) Ziro thought. All of a sudden Kenji stopped,

"So what's your next hour Ziro" Kenji asked.

"Science of Powers apparently" Ziro answered.

"Well... I guess we have to split up here then" he said.

"Oh, so we have different 3rd periods then? Well, see you later then Kenji" Ziro said. Ziro waved goodbye to Kenji who waved back as he walked away.

"See you later" Kenji said.

4: Chapter 3: Witch

Ziro walked through the door in front of him after he had left the gym and walked down to the end of the hallway to the left. The room in front of him was pretty big, it had many tables strewn about with many flasks on them. There were also just regular desks strewn about the room in no particular order. A woman in a lab coat lay in a chair in the front of the class, her legs rested on top of the desk in front of her. She had messy long silver hair and blue eyes. She had a large amount of bags under her eyes, as if she had never gotten a wink of sleep in her life. Under her lab coat she wore a regular old white shirt and a regular pair of jeans, and she seemed to have a sucker in her mouth. Ziro looked at her, (Wait a minute, is she sleeping with her eyes open?) Ziro wondered, (She didn't seem to move at all when I had come in) Ziro thought.

He walked over to the windows and sat down in the seat 2nd row from the back right by the windows. Ziro smiled, (This here is the seat of an anime hero) he thought to himself, (In mostly every anime and manga the main character sits in this exact spot) The woman in the lab coat shifted in her chair, and her eyes slowly opened. She stood up and dusted herself off and stretched a bit.

"Oh, you're here" she muttered, barely loud enough for Ziro to hear.

"Are you talking about me?" Ziro asked. The woman nodded,

"Yes, I've been waiting for you." She grabbed her sucker and pulled it out of her mouth, which she then threw it into a trash can behind her. The sucker bounced around a bit then landed on the garbage in the trash can. "I promise this won't hurt" she said, but then she thought for a second, "Well, at least not too much." All of a sudden Ziro's eyelids felt extremely heavy, he fell forward onto his desk, falling into a deep sleep. "Well time to get started" the woman mumbled as she walked over to Ziro and grabbed him by the back of his collar. She pulled him out of his desk and dragged him on the ground. "I promise this is all for the good of mankind" she mumbled.

 

Ziro woke up in a dark room, and he felt something soft underneath him. (A bed?) Ziro wondered.

"Hey Yukiko, where are we?" Ziro asked Yukiko. No answer. "Yukiko, you there? Yukiko! Well, I guess she's not going to answer."

"Alright, so where am I?" Ziro mumbled. He flipped his feet over the side of the bed and set them on the ground, and he heard a soft squish sound. The ground seemed to be a little moist and sticky. "What is this?" he wondered. He reached down and rested his hand on the ground. "Definitely some kind of sticky liquid." He held his hand up to his face and smelled the sticky liquid. "Good God that stinks!" he exclaimed as he started coughing indiscriminately because of the stench that now engulfed the room. As soon as his coughing fit subsided, he slowly stood up, "There doesn't seem to be any sources of light here." He walked forward slowly, his hands waving out in front of him so that he didn't accidently walk into something and injure himself. Soon enough he felt something like a wall in front of him. "A wall... Alright so if I follow this wall I should find a light switch and a door. Unless this room has no door that is." He slowly walked to his right with his hand on the wall and one hand waving in front of him.

He followed the wall until he felt something like a light switch, he flipped it on. The bright light from a light bulb shot on. Ziro covered his eyes until his eyes adjusted to the brightness. He slowly lowered his arms and got a quick peek around the room until he had to cover his eyes again. It looked like a little girl's room, it had a pink dresser in the corner with a huge stuffed bunny by it's side. There were some dolls sitting on the pink dresser. Ziro quickly covered his eyes again.

"It seems my eyes haven't quite adjusted yet" Ziro mumbled. Ziro kept taking quick peeks around while he waited for his eyes to fully adjust. He noticed all of the different stuffed animals strewn about the room. There were also a lot of dolls, he even noticed a pretty giant doll house. There was a couple of pictures on the wall, most of them had a smiling little girl with silver hair holding a stuffed bunny in her arms with a man and a woman standing behind her, sometimes holding hands, sometimes having one hand on top of the little girl's head, and sometimes in a large family hug. But then he'd noticed the last picture on the wall. It was almost the same as the other one's, but this one seemed to have a big hole where some other person would have been standing next to the little girl, from the size and shape of the person, Ziro figured that it was a girl either in her late teens or early twenties. What was also odd, was that the little girl wasn't holding the stuffed bunny that she had in all the other pictures. That picture must have been taken before the other ones, since Ziro had seen the stuffed bunny lying on the bed he had awaken from.

"So, who did they cut out of this picture then? Is it a family member or something? Maybe a close friend? But then why were they cut out?" Ziro wondered. But he didn't have time to worry about that, his eyes had finally adjusted to the light, so he completely lowered his hands. Ziro looked around the room once again. "Guess it's time to see what's on the ground" Ziro mumbled. Before looking at the ground he looked back at the bed he was on, he glanced over at the stuffed bunny the little girl was holding in the pictures. "So this is that little girl's room then. But, why would she leave her stuffed bunny here?" Ziro walked over to the bed and picked up the stuffed bunny. It was of course, pretty light, but it seemed almost too light for a stuffed bunny of this size. "I remember when my little sister used to play with a stuffed bunny" Ziro reminisced. "...Wait a minute, do I even have a little sister?" he thought for a second, "Well, if I had one I probably would remember her, so that obviously must be my imagination" Ziro flipped the stuffed bunny around, he noticed a small piece of paper coming out of the stuffed bunny's back."What's this?" he wondered. He grabbed it and started to read it,

Dear little sis, I'm sorry I won't be able to see you ever again. I leave you this bunny, I hope that you will love and care for him. Whatever you do, don't lose this present from your big sis. I will always love you Ritsu.

From your caring big sis, Aiko.

"A letter to the little girl in the pictures? Wait a minute, if her stuffed bunny is here, then where is the little girl?" Ziro wondered, "And this Aiko person, is she the one who was cut out of that one picture?" That's when he looked down at the ground, it was covered by a dark red liquid, there wasn't much of it, but it was still there. "Is that blood?" Ziro muttered. "But then, where is it coming from?" Ziro looked around the ground for any trace of where the blood came from. He noticed something that looked like the thing that had bled this small amount of blood was dragged on the ground through the door, he walked up to the door and put his ear against the door. He heard nothing through it, but he wasn't sure that the hallway outside was empty. Somebody may just be standing there making no noise. "Do I dare go through this door?" he wondered, but he had no choice. He did still need to find out where he was after all. While he was doing that, he could find out what happened in this room as well. Ziro gulped as he grabbed the door handle and started to turn it, he slowly opened the door, which surprisingly opened pretty quietly. He figured it might have creaked at least a little bit. After he had walked through the door, he noticed a stairwell going down. He closed the door behind him as quietly as possible and walked forward.

"So I'm on the second floor or higher" Ziro stated, he slowly proceeded down the hallway to the stairwell. Ziro turned around and looked at the door he just came out of. It had a sign on it that said,

This is Ritsu's Room!

It also had a childish picture of a little girl's face plus some others who Ziro presumed to be her family members from the photos. Ziro looked away and glanced at the small trail of somewhat old blood that continued down the stairwell

"I really hope this Ritsu girl is all right" Ziro mumbled, "Little girls like her shouldn't be hurt, I really hope that wasn't her blood" He followed the trail down the stairwell, he slowly descended, trying not to make much a lot of sound. As he descended down the stairwell he looked around the house, it looked like your normal everyday old house, except for the bloodstains. As he reached the bottom of the stairwell he saw the bloodstain continuing down the hall to his left. "It's too quiet here" Ziro observed. He followed the bloodstain down the hallway, The hallway had many different pictures on the wall with the people from the pictures in Ritsu's room. All of them had the little girl who was probably Ritsu, the woman who was probably her mom, and the man who was probably her father doing different things. Although some of them had holes where some other person would have been standing, probably the Aiko girl who was Ritsu's older sister. Ziro still wondered why they had cut out this Aiko girl, but in each picture he saw, Ritsu seemed a little older each time.

"I should keep moving" he mumbled. He continued down the hallway until he reached a door, he slowly opened the door and walked out it. He looked around, "This is... a village of some sorts? Seems kind of old though" he muttered. He heard a large ruckus further into the city, a lot of people were yelling about something, "That ruckus seems to be in the same direction as the small trail of blood." Ziro slowly walked down the street, slowly hearing more and more of the people's yelling. "It seems really loud over there." He turned around a corner and saw what was causing the ruckus, people stood around in a large circle holding pitchforks and torches and yelling at the top of their lungs,

"Penitence for your crime, Penitence and your life!" A large cross sat in the middle of the circle, a little girl was attached to it by a lot of rope. Two people were also being held back by a couple of men as they struggled continuously, one man and one woman.

"That's Ritsu on that cross" Ziro noticed, "Those two over there being held back are the man and woman in the pictures with Ritsu, I'd guess those are her parents. I have to stop this, otherwise this little girl will die." Ziro started to run forward when a man appeared in front of him out of nowhere and punched him in the gut extremely hard. The force sent Ziro flying, he landed and skid across the ground. Ziro looked up at the man as he rose to his knees, the man had long silver hair that reached to his upper back, and dark red eyes that stared blankly at Ziro. He wore a completely red coat over his shoulders, underneath it he wore a black tuxedo with a red tie.

"I'm sorry, but you can't interfere with this" the man said. Ziro stood up,

"Get the hell out of my way!" Ziro roared, "I just won't let her die!" The man smiled,

"Even so, this is just a memory. It is impossible to interfere, you can't change the past Ziro" he explained.

"How do you know my name?" Ziro asked.

"That's for you to find out" the man said.

"You think I can't get past you?" Ziro asked, he got ready to charge again when he felt his entire body freeze. "What the hell? Why can't I move?" Ziro asked the man. Nothing of his body could move, except for his mouth and eyes. The man put his finger to his mouth,

"Shhh... This is when it all begins" he whispered, somehow loud enough for Ziro to hear over the yelling from around the cross. Ziro looked back at the crowd, The woman who was most likely Ritsu's mom, had broken away from the man who held her down and had begun running towards Ritsu on the cross.

"M-mom!" Ritsu cried.

"Don't worry, I'll save you Ritsu!" the woman yelled. She had almost reached the cross when a long spear pierced through her back, blood shot out of her mouth as she gargled out a scream. She fell to the ground, blood pouring out of her back wound. A man with a cold hard stare walked up and pulled the spear out of her back, he wore a priest's robe with a black cloak with a hood over it. From the little bit of hair that poked out of the hood, Ziro could tell that his hair color was a dark black.

"Don't ever interrupt a witch burning you ungrateful bitch. If you would have just stayed back you might've lived" he growled. He turned around and walked back into the crowd, another man walked up behind the cross and wrapped a cloth around Ritsu's mouth so she couldn't scream when she began to die. The man who Ziro believed was Ritsu's father broke out from the men holding him and ran up and punched the priest in the cheek.

"YOU MOTHERFUCKING ASSHOLE! I'LL KILL YOU!!!" Ritsu's father screamed at the top of his lungs. The priest reeled back and touch his cheek where he was punched, Ziro heard the yells of the people in the crowd.

"Hold him down now!" someone yelled. 5 men ran up and held Ritsu's father down as he fought to break free.

"LET GO OF ME!" he roared. The priest gripped his spear and glared at Ritsu's father. He laughed menacingly,

"Ha! Hahahahaha! You motherfucking bitch! I'm going to take pleasure in killing you!" he yelled, " Bring him to the hold so I can enjoy torturing him" the priest ordered. The 5 men pulled Ritsu's father away kicking and screaming. The priest turned to Ritsu, she had tears flowing out of her eyes. "Burn the witch" the priest said as he flipped around and walked away, with a creepy grin on his face. A man carrying a torch ran over and threw it onto the foot of the cross, it instantly caught aflame. Ziro watched as the fire slowly rose up and flowed over Ritsu, It started to burn up the cross, the it reached Ritsu. Ziro watched in terror as Ritsu burned alive, her screams echoing through the air as the cloth over her mouth burned off. After a long time, the flames finally stopped. After everything finished burning, the force keeping Ziro in place disappeared, he fell to his knees, tears falling from his eyes.

"This is the same as the witch hunts back in the day. They thought she was a witch because of her special power" the man with the long silver hair explained. "Her power was to control plants. She could revive dead plants, or use them to do her bidding. The people of this village thought that she had her power because she's a witch, so they burned her at the stake." The silver haired man looked at Ziro and asked, "Tell me something, do you really care about this little girl, or are you only caring about her because she reminds you of your little sister?" Ziro looked up at him, tears still falling from his eyes.

"Little sister? What do you mean? I don't have a little sister" Ziro said. The silver haired man laughed,

"I guess you must have blocked out all of your memories of her. But considering that it was your fault she died, I'm not surprised you blocked out all memories of her" he said.

"W-what!?" Ziro exclaimed. The man smiled,

"Don't worry, you won't remember any of this when you wake up. Although, I guess you'll remember eventually. But tell me this, is having powers a Godsend, or is it a curse?" Blackness enveloped Ziro, it felt as if he was falling to his death. Ziro suddenly awoke, sitting at a desk by the window, 2nd row to the back in Science of Powers.

5: Chapter 4: 3rd Period

"Hey Ziro, why are you crying?" Kenji asked. Ziro looked up at Kenji, a tear flowed down his cheek and dripped onto the desk. Ziro wiped his tears away with his hand.

"I don't know" Ziro said, he looked around, "Wait a minute, where are we?" he asked. Kenji looked at him, confused,

"This is 3rd period, remember? The Science of Powers class." Ziro stared blankly at Kenji,

"Are you sure? I thought we had different 3rd periods, you went in an opposite direction than me though" he asked.

"I think you're going crazy man, we both walked here from that extremely large gym remember?" Kenji said. "You know, with that Mr. Sensei guy and that crazy chick who assaulted me, but nobody cared."

"Yeah I remember that, but after we left the gym and I got that message from the Pocketbook. My memory is all fuzzy. But I remember you saying something about us having different 3rd periods, and you walking off in the opposite direction" Ziro explained.

"I remember you getting a message on the Pocketbook, but I never said anything about having different 3rd periods, nor did I go in the opposite location. I think your memory is just wrong, or you're just going crazy" Kenji said.

"Alright, I believe you Kenji" Ziro replied. Then he noticed a woman with messy long silver hair and blue eyes stood in front of a blackboard. She had a large amount of bags under her eyes, as if she had never gotten a wink of sleep in her life. She wore a large lab coat, under her lab coat she wore a regular old white shirt and a regular pair of jeans, a sucker stick hung out of the side of her mouth. "That's our teacher?" Ziro asked. Kenji nodded,

"Yeah, I guess she's some kind of scientist or something that's into special powers. She introduced herself while you were taking your little nap. Her name is Aiko Mochizuki, she said she doesn't really care what you call her" Kenji explained. "Also, she's 23 and is single."

"I see, thanks for telling me, even though I didn't need to know that last part" Ziro said. (Aiko huh? Why does that name sound familiar? Whatever, it doesn't matter) Ziro thought.

"Let's begin" Ms. Mochizuki said in a bored voice. (Well... she seems happy to be here) Ziro thought. "Since the dawn of man, powers have been imbedded in the lucky few. Some with these powers helped mankind along, others decided to try to destroy mankind. Also some ended up being tried as witches and burned at the stake. For the last 50 years, the amount of people with powers have greatly increased. Before there was a 1/1000000 chance of having powers, nowadays there is a 1/10000 chance of having powers. Since 30 years ago CrossGate Academy has been recruiting people across the world who had powers and trains them how to control them. After learning how to control their powers, they can choose to live as normal humans, join the force to stop criminals with powers, or of course they can turn to crime. From the extensive research CrossGate has gained, we have narrowed down the differences between those that have powers and those that don't. Those with powers have much stronger muscles, allowing them to use more of their body's potential."

"Perhaps you've heard of fight or flight mode, normally a normal person couldn't use their full strength. But, when they're in a dangerous situation their brain reacts by either giving the strength to stop what's dangerous by using all of their arm muscles, or it uses all of their leg muscles so they can quickly ran away. But, right after fight or flight mode, then the person tears their muscles, gets extremely exhausted, and has to stay in a hospital for a few weeks until their muscles regenerate. The people with powers however, can use all of their muscles at any given time, without breaking their muscles. But, it takes a good amount of training to do so, unless their power increases the strength of their muscles and allows them to have super strength, or super speed. We've also noticed that a normal person's brain is wired differently than a person who has powers."

"A person with power's brain is slightly more advanced than a normal person's. A person with power can react faster than a normal human, take a lot more damage before their system shuts down, and can regenerate any damage they had faster than a normal person. I guess you could say that people with powers are more advanced. At any other school anyone with a power would be hated endlessly. Humanity is always afraid of those stronger than them. With this in mind CrossGate Academy was created." Ms. Mochizuki sighed, "I'm tired of speaking. Go speak amongst yourself or something" she said. She sat down in a computer chair and laid back. Kenji turned around in his seat.

"Cool, does that mean that we can talk for the rest of the period?" Kenji wondered.

"Yeah, because that's what I want to do all hour, just talk to you" Ziro muttered.

"Hmm, did you say something?" Kenji asked. Ziro sighed,

"It's nothing" he said, "Although, I would've liked to learn more about the scientific reason why we have these powers. If I learned more I might be able to find out what my power is, and how to use it."

"I see, that's a good enough reason." Kenji looked out the window, "Hey are you going to watch that tournament today?" Kenji asked.

"Of course, I need to watch it so I can get a glimpse at the skill level 12 students. I need to gauge their power level so I can see how much I have to power up to face them" Ziro explained. Kenji laughed,

"With our power levels it'll probably take like 2 years until we can match the people with the skill level of 12" he said. "Their powers are probably overpowered. I heard one of them has the power over shadows."

"That sounds incredibly hard to beat" Ziro stated. "Unless you could somehow cover everything so there's no light anywhere. Then they couldn't summon any shadows."

"True enough, but unless your power could be used to black the area out then it's impossible to stop them from summoning shadows" Kenji agreed.

"Yeah... Hey do you know anything else about the skill level 12s?" Ziro asked. Kenji thought for a second,

"3 of the skill level 12s are female, that's all I know" Kenji said.

"Of course you know how many of them are female" Ziro muttered. Ziro noticed Kenji was staring intently out of the window. "What are you looking at?" Ziro asked. Kenji ignored him. Ziro turned his head to look out the window. A large group of girls were outside exercising for no apparent reason, since they could easily exercise in the 1st floor Gym, or even the 2nd floor one. Oddly there were 2 big Gyms in this school apparently, the 1st floor Gym is for training your powers, and the 2nd floor Gym was supposed to be for just regular exercising, like they would do in normal school Gyms. "Oh, so that's it" Ziro said, "You're so predictable Kenji." Kenji looked at him quizzically,

"Did you say something Ziro?"

"No, it's nothing. Just commenting on how you're so predictable" Ziro stated.

"Hey, I'm not that predictable" Kenji said, Ziro stared blankly at him. "Okay, maybe I'm predictable sometimes. But not all the time okay?"

"Fine, you're not predictable all the time" Ziro agreed. Ziro sighed, "The school day needs to end already, I really want to watch that tournament."

"Well, only a couple periods left" Kenji stated, "What's next anyway?" he wondered. Ziro shrugged his shoulders,

"I have no idea, Math I think" he said.

"Hopefully the teacher is a woman, I highly dislike male teachers" Kenji muttered.

"Hmm, I wonder why?" Ziro wondered with a smirk on his face. Ziro and Kenji chatted until the bell rang. They stood up and headed for the door, chatting as they walked to their next class.