-- Kämpfer {M} --

[VirtualPlay]

Kämpfer
Based loosely on the manga/anime of the same name.
Written by Roy Karrde; revised by VirtualPlay.
Rated Mature for bent gender themes.

There are forces outside that which we see. Forces of good and evil that fight each other for control. For many millennia, these forces battled on a separate plane of existence. One small section of the evil forces stationed themselves on a plane close to our planet; their evil acts affected our plane of existence, causing many problems throughout the years. Seeing this, a section of the good forces came to defend our planet from these problems; they came to call themselves the Guardians, and dubbed their enemies simply as the Evils.

But a few centuries ago, the Evils discovered a way to enter our plane, causing even more horrible catastrophes in the world. Unable to directly manifest in our plane, the Guardians figured out a way to defend against the Evils. By bestowing power-filled bracelets to certain humans, these super-powered people could then fight off the evil minions, bringing peace to the land. The Guardians dubbed these people Kämpfer, literally 'Champions.'

The bracelets directly tied into the type of power the people received. The males would get red bracelets, based on physical fighting, and would be able to summon magical weapons to fight. The females, on the other hand, received blue bracelets, which allowed them to conjure magical spells of a certain type.

For many years, the Kämpfer would spring into action whenever evil found its way into the world. But after a time, while the Evils were busy planning, the Kämpfer started getting restless, and longed to use their power. Before long, the Kämpfer began fighting each other, trying to prove themselves better than the other. Unable to interfere, the Guardians watched, powerless, as the Kämpfer fought each other. Their power not only affected each other, but also the surrounding areas, causing massive death and destruction in the wake of the battles.

As the Kämpfer died off, either by old age or by being killed, the Guardians transferred their power to a new generation in hopes that they would not succumb to the same dark urges their predecessors did. Unfortunately, human nature doesn't change, and the Guardians knew they had to do something to stop the needless fighting.

Improving on their initial design, they created new white bracelets, unlike the colored two, that would be placed on unsuspecting people. When a conflict was detected between the other Kämpfer, these bracelets would activate, summoning a White Kämpfer from the person. The difference was the person who was host to a White Kämpfer had no idea that they were, thus they would not know about the power and be tempted to use it. On the other hand, this lack of connection to a person meant that the White Kämpfer were emotionless killing machines, hunting and killing the conflicting Kämpfer without thought or remorse. After a few of these White Kämpfer encounters, the Guardians were pleased to see that the other Kämpfer rarely fought each other.

It has been many centuries since the White Kämpfer were created, and now a new generation of Kämpfer have been chosen, this time in Tokyo, Japan. Not wanting to interfere directly anymore, the Guardians created avatars that would help inform new Kämpfer of their new identity and powers. These have been created in the form of animated stuffed animals and distributed to the chosen people over time.

Now the last of the chosen ones are about to be awoken. The last bracelets have made their way to their targets. They are about to enter the world of the Kämpfer, and must learn from their avatars and the Kämpfer that have already been awoken. Even in their confusion and shock, they must all learn to work together, for they are the new champions of the Guardians, the new saviors of humanity. They are...

Kämpfer

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Anyway, here are some general things I probably should have mentioned all of in the sign-up topic (but only had a couple), so I'll put them here...

Plot things:
First, the bracelets look like this. Obviously the red ones are of a red color instead. The uniforms look like this for the males, and like this, this, and this for females.

The way one becomes a Kämpfer is by stuffed animal avatar (it can move and talk to you) to guide you. This can range from something simple (dog or lion) to what people might call "interesting" (such as CT's Chocobo).

The night upon receiving the avatar, your bracelet appears on you and you become your Kämpfer form, with the avatar explaining everything above. That means you do know the whole backstory, although your character might have forgotten parts of it.

When transforming, the bracelet glows; for those that can't control it, this is effectively a warning beacon. If the person can't control it, but notices the glow, they can concentrate and delay the transformation for a couple minutes (while they find a convenient phone booth...I mean, secret place to transform). They will transform after a couple minutes, though; no getting out of it! If they don't notice the glow, or are otherwise distracted, they will change immediately.

Transformation is effectively virtually instant (it takes about a second); however, the person going through the transformation has time slowed so they notice what happens to their body (and therefore aren't totally disoriented in the new form). It typically takes about 4-6 seconds in their perspective to transform.

For any person whose Kämpfer gender is not their original gender, any clothes worn while transforming into Kämpfer will transform as well into the closest equivalent for the Kämpfer gender. (For example, females becoming male Kämpfer would have a skirt become shorts or pants.) The clothes will transform back when the Kämpfer reverts, no matter what happened to the clothes (even if they get tossed in their room and they revert at someone else's house). However, any clothes put on while in Kämpfer form will not change when reverting (so a male with a female Kämpfer form who puts on different female clothing after transforming will be wearing the same female clothing if they revert). A school uniform will become the other gender's school uniform.

For all Kämpfer, however, their clothes will change to fit their new body size/shape.

RPG things:
There is no word count minimum; however, if either Roy or I feel that your posts are not of a sufficient quality or length, we do reserve the right to remove you from our RPG. I've done it before, and I don't like doing it, it's not a pretty picture!

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Kämpfer is both singular and plural. On Windows, the ä is made by typing Alt-0228 (Ä is Alt-0196). On Mac OS, it is made by typing Option-u, a (or A). On Linux…you're on your own. ^^;

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Blue Bracelet, Female Kämpfer, Magic:
Okada, Hikaru {Roy Karrde - Fire type}
Mayonaka, Yuki {VirtualPlay - Electric type}
Suzuro, Chiro {Classy_cat18 - Wind type}
Izuruha, Tsubine Shinji {tsubine - Ice type}

Red Bracelet, Male Kämpfer, Weapon:
Hisakawa, Izumi {Dominus - Claymore}
Moto, Suzume {Crystal Tears - Dual Short-swords}
Oboro, Kisuke {DivineAll - Lance}
Watanabe, Hayato {Kurosakura - Chain Scythe}

[VirtualPlay]

Name: Mayonaka, Yuki
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Grade: 10th
Physical Appearance: Somewhat tall at 5'10" with a very lanky build and pale skin. He has long, straight dark-brown hair that goes down a little past his shoulder which he keeps in a low-tied ponytail. His eyes are green.
Typical Clothing: When not in school uniform, he's typically the kind to wear baggy bondage pants (with all the straps and chains), some kind of generic printed tee, and a set of headphones around his neck.
Personality: Yuki isn't exactly anti-social, he just doesn't try to make new friends a lot of the time. If he finds someone interesting he's good at extending his friendship. On the other hand, if someone wants to befriend him, he rarely turns them down. Because of this, he's usually the one to take the more leader-like role in any particular group, even with people he barely knows. He's the kind to never leave a friend behind, and trust that his friends would do the same for him. He's typically calm and collected, but there's the occasional problem that can send him into a panic attack.
History: Has had his bracelet for a couple months now (he was one of the first to get it); as such he can change at will, and has moderate control over his powers. Interestingly enough, he doesn't mind the alternate form (although the physical changes are a bit unsettling) as he was already fairly feminine in appearance and has been crossplaying for a couple years already. His exact words upon learning he could switch were, "Well, this'll make it easier to pass..."
Other: He's very into anime, geek, and gamer stuff, and tries to start conversations with people about it.
--Kämpfer--
Bracelet Type/Gender: Blue/Female
Weapon/Magic Type: Electricity; can fire balls of electricity at her targets, or can send a jolt into anything she touches.
Physical Appearance: Stays at 5'10", she (of course) gains larger breasts, but not giant ones, and stays about the same build besides that. Her hair is now a light brown, almost blond color, and is held in two low-tied ponytails which now reach mid-back. Her eyes are still green.
Changed Personality: Stays pretty much the same, but speaks more naturally female while in Kämpfer form. She seems to be more likely to find people to befriend in this form.
Other: Goes by Yasashisa, Yuki while in Kämpfer form.

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Mayonaka Yuki
Suddenly awake
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I jolted awake, sitting up straight in bed. Not many things could wake me up once I went to sleep, but a large presence very close to me was one of those things. I sat still, trying to figure out what it was.

"Whassamatter?" Shiba-kun asked from my desk; he's the animated shiba inu plush I had received two months earlier, who had given me my bracelet and powers.

"Something's awoken, but I can't tell what it is," I replied. "But I think it's coming from my neighbor's house..."

"Oooh, might be a new chosen one waking up!" Shiba-kun said excitedly.

"But I've never been shaken from sleep by one of those before. It could be something Evil." I hesitated, not wanting to just jump over there.

"Well, no other chosen have awoken this close to you before either," Shiba-kun remarked. I had the feeling he could sense it too and knew what it was, and was simply egging me on. He was a bit of a jerk like that sometimes. Even still, I didn't want to take any chances, so I quickly pulled on a pair of jeans before heading to my window.

A light was on in a second floor room. As it was just after midnight, I knew I wasn't going to go in through the front door, and I wasn't athletic enough to scale the building normally. I focused and felt myself transform; my hair got longer, my chest inflated, and my figure slimmed. Finished, I noticed my jeans had gone from slightly baggy to figure-fitting, as had my plain black shirt.

I dropped to the ground, then jumped the fence with ease, landing silently on the other side. Quietly I walked to the side where the light was, then jumped up to the balcony railing. I took a look inside to see a girl around my age, looking panicked, and wearing a blue bracelet like mine. I sighed in relief, silently amused. I knew this house only had one kid, and it was a boy in my grade. Unless my guess was way off, he was now the she standing in the room.

There was a white stuffed lion on the desk that was moving around, the avatar for this person. I couldn't tell if she was more freaked by her new body or the moving lion. I could hear voices talking, but it was from a far window and couldn't make out any words. After a couple minutes, she slumped down and curled up on her bed. I took this time to slide open the balcony door, surprisingly not fazing her at all.

"You're Hikaru, right?" I asked.

"O-of course I am!" she said with a stutter, her hand going to her throat. "B-but you know my name b-because I'm dreaming!"

"It's not a dream," I said simply.

"Y-you're only saying that b-because I said it's a dream," she insisted, finally rolling over to face me. "I don't even know you so you must be a dream."

"Except you do know me, just not like this," I said, then proceeded to transform back to my normal body, my clothes changing back with me.

"Yuki?!" Hikaru squeaked, looking completely shocked. "But-but why were you a girl just a moment ago?!"

"The same reason you're a girl right now," I said, then held out the bracelet on my arm. "We're blue Kämpfer, and blue Kämpfer are female. Why we got blue bracelets instead of red ones I don't know, but that's why we become female when transforming."

"Well don't look at me, I was just told to bestow the bracelet on whoever took me home!" the lion on the desk suddenly called out. "They didn't tell me to check their gender, and I don't really see why it matters anyway!"

"Because boys and girls are different you freaky talking thing!" Hikaru blurted out suddenly.

"Hey, I have a name, it's Kimba-kun!" the plush said, indignantly.

I glanced sideways at it, "You totally stole that name..."

"I didn't steal it, the Guardians named me so they stole it." He stood up and walked to the front of the desk. "Hey, don't you people usually sleep at this time?"

"I am asleep, this is all a dream," Hikaru said, "and even if it's not, you woke me up with this bracelet!" She brandished it at him.

"I meant like the other people in the house, ya dumb blonde," Kimba-kun said, irritated.

Hikaru glared at him, but then sighed and shook her head, "My mom's a heavy sleeper, she only wakes up when she wants to." With that she curled up into a sitting ball again, wrapping her arms around her legs.

"You should probably get back to sleep," I said, going for the balcony door again, "just know you're not alone."

"Yeah, I'm never alone in my dreams..." she trailed off as she fell down onto her bed again, clicking the light off. I slipped outside, then transformed back into Kämpfer so I could make the jumps back to my room.

I came back into my room and was greeted with, "So, did'ya have fun?"

I glared at Shiba-kun, "Stuff it, you knew and wouldn't tell me."

"So what if I did?" he said, "It gets boring sometimes with nothing to do."

I transformed back, then changed back into my sleep pants. "Well, try and be more considerate next time," I said before falling asleep again.

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I woke up to my alarm and got ready for school. The weather was getting warmer as April came to a close. It almost didn't feel like Tuesday the weather was so nice. As I turned the corner, I was surprised to not see Hikaru standing there like he usually does. When he came rushing around the corner five minutes later, disheveled and with a bright red wrist around his contrasting bright blue bracelet, he noticed me and then quickly started rifling through his bag.

After a minute of shuffling I realized he just was trying to avoid looking at me, probably because I was 'in his dream' last night. Deciding to start easy, I said, "You okay over there?"

"I'm fine," he said sharply, with a little edginess that he didn't normally have. "I didn't sleep well," he hastily added after seeing my doubting expression.

"Not coping with the warmer weather?" I asked so as not to alarm him. He just shook his head, but stopped rifling his bag. "Lost something important? Bad dreams? Worried about school?"

I saw him twinge at the dreams question, but I think I successfully distracted him because he turned and just asked, "When did you suddenly become a psychiatrist?" I simply shrugged. He continued, "I just didn't sleep well, that's all." As I saw the bus coming up, I decided to keep quiet at that, waiting for the right moment.

Getting onto the bus we were pulled into the throng of the other kids. As I was pulled back, I saw my chance and leaned towards Hikaru, simply saying, "It wasn't a dream," before moving on. He didn't get a chance to respond, and I had lost track of him by the time we had reached school.

As I stopped at my locker, one of my my locker-neighbors, Suzuro Chiyo, was just finishing up. As she went to leave, she noticed me and gave a small smile of recognition. I returned the smile, saying, "I found another one," and holding up my bracelet.
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Tag Roy and Classy.

[Roy Karrde]

Okada, Hikaru
~*~*~*~*~ It’s all a dream ~*~*~*~*~

“No mom, I don’t want to have dinner” I slammed the door shut, punctuating my angry remark before locking it from the inside to make sure I wasn’t disturbed. I wasn’t one to yell, but today had been awful; a three on one bullying followed by a fever that had me dripping with sweat had me just wanting to go to bed.

The room was bathed in the last rays of golden light as the sun set, the ceiling fan hummed along giving my sweat soaked body a slight chill as I pulled off the wet t-shirt and tossed it to the floor. My left arm was already beginning to bruise, a deep blue and purple splotch that highlighted where I had taken several punches as the other two held me down. I had to almost fight the sensation to touch it as another chill washed over my body.

“Dammit..” I groaned, collapsing onto the bed, wrapping the sheets around my body for warmth. I usually couldn’t sleep with any light illuminating my room. Yet today, I passed out the moment I had finished curling up in the warm sheet.

“Kämpfer” The voice whispered, it wasn’t my own voice but it did have a masculine tone to it. I lifted my head to find myself surrounded by purple and blue smoke, it swirled around me, always out of reach of my finger tips. “Kämpfer” The voice repeated the alien word.

“What?” I called out, my voice echoing into the infinity that seemed to exist beyond the smoke. The voice didn’t respond, instead my arm was grabbed by some unknown force, it felt like a hand was wrapped around my wrist, pulling my arm into the smoke with enough force I half wondered if it would pop out of the socket. My hand and wrist disappeared into the mist, I could still feel it, and I could still feel the unknown force clamped around my wrist, it grew heavier and heavier, at the same time hotter and hotter.

Suddenly the heat, the force on my wrist was gone, all that was left was a slight weight as I pulled my arm back, revealing a weird blue bracelet where the invisible force had grabbed. I reached forward to touch it, only to have the bracelet light up, illuminated as if it had a million tiny LED lights inside of it.

Before my mind could even focus on what was happening, I began to feel tiny pricks on my skin, as if it were being twisted and pulled, a shiver ran across my body like a current of energy, as if I had stuck my finger in a light socket. The shiver passed and then another came, and another, and another. It passed over me like waves getting faster and faster, I squeezed my eyes shut and threw my head back, letting out a cry of shock with a voice that was definitely not mine, it sounded... feminine.

I bolted up in bed; my sheets soaked in sweat and clung to me just as badly as the shirt had done earlier that day. There was a bit of a weight on my chest that felt like I was wearing a heavy sweat shirt on one side. And something was tickling my shoulders but after the dream I just had, I didn’t really have the urge or energy to investigate.

“Hey, hey you awake now?” The same masculine voice from before called out from my desk, if I wasn’t awake before the sound of a unknown voice in my room was a jolt back to reality. With a shaky hand I reached for the lamp on the desk, finding it much further than I remember. Finally after three attempts I slapped the switch with the tips of my fingers, illuminating the room to find a white lion stuffed animal sitting upright on my keyboard, although still no clue of the mysterious voice.

“So can I get on with the spiel or are we going to have a starring contest?” The stuffed lion asked much to my slack jawed shock. It turned it’s head to face me and rose up onto it’s two hind paws. At this moment I had already scurried to the corner of my bed, pressing my back up against the wall. I had never seen the toy before, and now it was talking to me and standing on its own two feet… paws. This had to be a dream; it had to still be a dream.

“You are a Kämpfer, a chosen few of each generation meant to save the Earth..” He let out a long sigh and jumped on the bed, causing me to scoot away to provide the maximum distance possible between us. “You received a blue bracelet, meaning you have joined the other female Kämpfer.” He explained, sounding bored as if he had repeated this over and over again.

I just looked back in disbelief, unable to form words, or even a rational thought. What was a Kämpfer? The alien word kept repeating in my head ever since I woke up. “Look down..” The stuffed Lion ordered, jerking me back into reality. I just gazed back at him as he rolled his little plastic eyes, and gestured with his paw. My eyes slowly lowered down to my chest, the weight I felt, it wasn’t a sweat shirt but two round globs that were pressed against my sweat soaked sheets. As my mind tried to register what they were, a trickle of blonde hair moved past my shoulder and into my vision. At that moment it all clicked the hair, the ‘Female Kämpfer’, the… the…

I let out a very female scream of shock, my body shaking with disbelief as I closed my eyes shut, I didn’t want to see it anymore. This wasn’t my body, this wasn’t my body. I found my self curling back in a fetal position, my face burying in my knees. I just wanted to wake up; I had a hard enough day, now I had to deal with this out of body experience?

The sound of my balcony door sliding open wasn’t even enough to draw my attention away, maybe it was that stupid plush animal, leaving my room, leaving my dream, leaving my life. “You’re Hikaru, right?” A new voice asked, this one female and enough to draw my attention back up to the new intruder.

“O-of course I am!” I protested with a stutter, my voice came out like a soft melody, it was alien and nothing like my normal voice, it was very.. feminine. I grabbed my throat in shock, almost as if I was checking to see if I could feel something wrong. “B-But you know my name b-because I’m dreaming!” I replied, trying to rationalize this. This person.. they were in my room, they knew my name even in this female body. It had to be a dream.

“It’s not a dream,” The girl replied matter-of-factly.

“Y-you’re only saying that b-because I said it’s a dream,” I tried to poke holes in her logic, I still couldn’t control the shaking in my voice even if I tried, it was so un natural that a lump of fear rose in my throat every time I spoke. “I don’t even know you so you must be a dream!” I insisted, rolling over to face her, a bit more confidence rising in me.

“Except you do know me, just not like this” And in a flash the girl was no longer standing there, it was my next door neighbor.

“Yuki?!” I squeaked, my voice sounding more like a little girl. “But-but why were you a girl just a moment ago?” I asked with out even thinking, any confidence I once had was shot in the sudden shock.

“The same reason you’re a girl right now,” He said, holding out his arm to show the bracelet that had appeared on mine. “We’re blue Kämpfer, and blue Kämpfer are female. Why we got blue bracelets instead of red ones I don’t know, but that’s why we become female when transforming.” I rose my wrist up to my eyes, wishing that he was wrong, that the bracelet wasn’t on my wrist. But I could feel it, and as I brought it in front of my eyes I could see it hanging there on my wrist.

“Well don’t look at me, I was just told to bestow the bracelet on whoever took me home!” The talking plush lion snorted, standing on my desk again. “They didn’t tell me to check their gender, and I don’t really see why it matters anyway!”

I didn’t take it home; I had never seen the thing in my life. I tried to search my memory, when had I taken something like that home? At this moment my mind was so foggy, being pulled in every which direction from the events of the last few minutes I couldn’t even remember clearly the events of earlier that day.

“Because boys and girls are different you freaky talking thing” I protested in anger, as I forced myself to focus on reality.

The animal and my neighbor began to bicker as I ran my fingers through my long wet hair, feeling the texture of it. “I am asleep, this is all a dream!” I blurted out suddenly, catching the last bit of what the plush was saying, drawing the attention of both of them. “And even if it’s not, you woke me up with this bracelet!” I pointed a angry finger at the stuffed animal… Kimba it had said it’s name was.

“I meant like the other people in the house, ya dumb blond.” Kimba replied, for a moment I blinked before I realized he was referring to me. It isn’t every day my hair changes from brown to blonde.

I let out a sigh and shook my head, feeling the hair shake with the motion. “My mom’s a heavy sleeper; she only wakes up when she wants to.” I mumbled, curling up again, my head buried in my knees.

“You should probably get back to sleep,” My neighbor said, opening the balcony door again. “Just know you’re not alone.”

I collapsed back on my bed, having to stretch to shut off my light. “Yeah, I’m never alone in my dreams.” I mumbled as he left, the words sounding like they were mocking me as I said them in my female voice.

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The next morning I was awoken by the sunlight tugging at my eyes. For a moment I considered turning over in bed before it struck me: Today was another school day. I glanced over at my alarm clock, I was already late! The memories of the dream still fresh in my mind I patted my chest only to find it flat, my hair short and greasy with sweat and oil. I gave a short sigh of relief only to have a cold dash of water thrown on my hopes by the feeling of the metal bracelet on my wrist.

No matter how much I pulled and yanked on it, I just could not slide it over my hand and off my wrist. After several painful tries I gave up, throwing my clothes on and grabbing my backpack. I would just have to live with that bracelet on my wrist for now, at least I didn’t have a talking stuffed animal wake me up this time.

“You okay over there?” My neighbor asked as I walked up to the bus stop. I tried to avoid eye contact and focus on my hungry stomach instead. What could I tell him? ‘Hey I had a dream last night where you came into my bed room as a hot girl?’ yeah, I wouldn’t just be the joke of the school; I would have jokes about my sexuality too.

After a moment I realized he was waiting for a answer “I’m fine,” I said a bit harshly, a slight edge to my, thankfully masculine voice. “I didn’t sleep well.” I added, trying to explain away why I looked so crappy. At least I wasn’t dealing with a fever anymore, even though my arm still ached from where I had been punched.

“Not coping with the warmer weather?” He continued as I shook my head, opening my book bag for something resembling food, as well as a excuse to keep from making eye contact. I wasn’t usually some one that liked talking to people, I especially didn’t like people who I just dreamed of transforming into a cute girl. “Lost something important? Bad dreams? Worried about school?” He continued to pry.

I stopped for a second on the dreams question, zipping up my bag and turning to him. “When did you suddenly become a psychiatrist?” I narrowed my eyes in anger, only to receive a shrug from him. “I just didn’t sleep well, that’s all.” I added, a bit of finality of my tone as the bus arrived.

I found a seat around the middle of the bus; it was empty, meaning I didn’t have to deal with another person and I could just focus out the window. “It wasn’t a dream” I could hear his voice as he walked past me, the words sending a chill up my back. I had to fight down the urge to vomit from the stress.

The bus began to move again, and I began to toy with the bracelet on my wrist, almost with out thinking I tugged at it, each time receiving a jolt of pain as I pressed against skin and bone. The bus slowed to a stop again, and the bracelet began to glow faintly, at first I thought I had discovered the secret button that turned on what ever LED lights were imbedded into it. I turned away from the window to examine it as fellow students began to pile on the bus. The glowing began to get stronger, but still no where near as bright as it was in the dream.

All the sudden I reached my hand out with out thinking, grabbing the wrist of a student that was passing by my seat. I could feel a bracelet on her wrist, it felt like the same shape and size of the one currently glowing on my own wrist. I glanced up to find a girl with dark brown hair looking back at me.

Suddenly my mouth was dry, why did she have a bracelet like I did… like my neighbor did. What was I supposed to say? Why was my bracelet glowing the way it was when she came near?

Suddenly I wished I had that damn stuffed animal with me to answer those questions

Tags Crystal. No he isn’t going to transform on the bus, but the bracelet is reacting to another Kämpfer being close.

Yes.. I know the post was huge >.>

[Crystal Tears]

.: + ♥ Suzume ♥ + :.
Shards of me,
To sharp to put back together.
To small to matter,
But big enough to cut me into so many little pieces.

The door slid shut to the bedroom, and slowly a girl dropped down in front of it. Knees up to her chin as she sat in silence, thinking. Suzume hated most things about her life; she hated her step-dad, school, the school uniform and had a growing grudge against her brother. She wondered if disliking so many prominent things in her life was healthy, such a powerful emotion like hatred had made most of her appetite disappear, especially at dinner, when all that man mother called ‘honey’ wanted to discuss was school and how Suzume was just an average student in subjects that were important.

‘Why couldn’t I live with Otou-san?’ She thought as she stared at the ground. ‘I liked it there… This house, this family, everything… Its all-‘

“Moping again Moto-san?”

The girl looked up with a slight glare; sitting on her bed was a yellow bird, a Chocobo Plushie. It was cute and soft, something any girl would love to cuddle for ages. Except the bird itself had a mind of its own and hated being hugged, grabbed, held, squished and otherwise shown typical plush affection.

“I thought you were asleep.”

“Your step-father laughs too loud; I’m surprised your mother isn’t deaf by now, spending all that time with him.”

“She can only suffer from one affliction it seems…” Suzume looked back down at the ground. “She’s blind to how horrible that man is.”

“So judgmental…” The chocobo rolled his eyes and waddled over to the pillows on her bed, making itself comfortable.


“You’ve been here for three days Choco-san, on the first day you wanted to strangle him.”

The bird shot a look at her. “Bah, you were up for it then.”

Suzume stood up, moving towards her bed. Maybe if she slept, she would feel better. Her friend watched with slight curiosity as the woman grabbed her PSP from the side table and collapsed onto the bed. Tomorrow she had school again, and she could already imagine the horrors that she would have to face. Yesterday Suzume had been forced to avoid the regular crowd she hung out with due to…

Problems.

Though Choco-san had countered that Minoru (as he, she…? Called himself…) wouldn’t put up with such attitude, it was the aftermath Suzume didn’t want to put up with. People would ask who he was, how did she know him, and other various things. Honestly the girl couldn’t deal with that, and so instead of being the global punching bag for her ‘friends’, she wandered the school alone and only interacted with people when necessary.

“Moto-san, you could try smiling once in a while.”

“Why?”

The bird hopped onto her stomach and nestled down comfortably. “Oh, I don’t know… Because it might make you feel better?”

“I doubt that.”

“You doubt a lot of things, but never try so you’ll never know.”

Suzume glanced up from the PSP screen with a small frown. “You’ve known me for three days.”

Choco-san puffed up proudly. “I am an avatar; I’m pretty good at judging character.”

“I doubt that as well.”

There was a noticeable look of dissatisfaction on the bird’s face. “Well are you all sunshine and lollipops…”

Suzume didn’t reply, secretly she enjoyed Choco-san’s company. He… She… It was easy to open up and talk too, unlike all the human beings the poor girl encountered. She had a friend, and even with the somewhat sour disposition the bird seemed to have, there were no personal attacks, no put downs… Nothing.

She switched off her PSP and put it on the table, watching as the plushie seemed to fall asleep on her stomach. Slowly, sleep began to creep up on her, and just as she wished, the world drifted away.

* * *

“Get up!”

The world came back far too quickly in Suzume’s opinion.

“Come on! Get UP!”

‘I need a lock…’ The girl thought slowly, barely cracking an eyeball as she felt someone roughly shake her back and forth. Mother said she was going out this morning; step-father had work… So the only one left was-

“Yuu…” She growled, covering her head with a pillow. “Go away…”

“Oh stop complaining and get up, you’ll be late.”

‘School…’ She grumbled inside her head, she yawned, turning over and attempting to ignore her persistent brother. “I’m awake… Go away and cook something…”

“Wouldn’t you like that?” He sneered, and she found herself wishing that she had bought that to scale keyblade at the convention last year. “Get up off your ass and move.”

“To be precise…” She muttered into the pillow. “I’m lying on my stomach, if you’re going to insist I wake up, get your facts straight.”

“Suzume…”

As he spoke her name in a threatening tone, her alarm clock began to ring. Instantly whatever tired feeling had been holding her down vanished and she moved. She sighed as she noticed she forgot to change out of her track pants and top before bed, apparently being upset and exhausted from a long day at school made her forgot basic protocol.

As Yuu ventured out of the room, there was a rather loud huff and then Choco-san appeared, rubbing his head with his wing.

“Oh ho! That man will dearly pay one day…” He growled, “He tosses me aside like I’m nothing! Where does he get the nerve!?”

Suzume shrugged as she got ready for school. “He’s spoiled; mom and dad give him anything he wants, as does my step-dad.”

“So he assumes he can toss your stuff around?”

The girl sighed and sat on her bed, only half ready for school. “Honestly I don’t think he meant any harm, you do look like a toy… Usually they don’t complain when tossed.”

Choco-san raised an eyebrow. “Do you always defend those that treat you like dirt?”

Sadly, the girl could only nod.

“You are a strange human…” The bird waddled over to her and looked up with narrowed eyes. “How can you keep so quiet? Aren’t you afraid of snapping? Losing control?”

“Should I be?”

Her friend nodded quickly, before jumping up onto the bed. “You’re a ticking time bomb midear, one day you’ll snap and Minoru will be the one dealing with your problems.”

“Good lord…” Suzume murmured at the thought.

* * *

The bus was coming, meaning school could no longer be avoided. She ignored some of the glances she got from the other students around her, waiting for the very same bus. Mentally she was cursing them, wishing that they would look elsewhere, she was thankful none dared to talk to her. She suspected the sight of her headphones did that.

‘If they think I can’t hear them or would just ignore them, they won’t talk to me.’ She thought, but couldn’t help but feel a bit nervous when two of the boys began laughing. There were downsides to drowning out the world with music, that if someone was talking about you, you couldn’t hear them and thus couldn’t counter the words they were saying.

Not that Suzume would counter them, so maybe it was better she couldn’t hear.

As the bus slowed to a stop and the doors opened, she hesitated. She could always run away, not have to go anymore.

‘No one would miss me.’ She thought as something made her step into the vehicle. ‘I would pack up, take Choco-san, and just disappear…’ Her eyes very quickly scanned the bus, stopping her particular group of friends at the back of the bus, gossiping away and making a ninth grader’s life hell who had dared to sit in front of them. Suzume supposed there was some benefit to being friends with bullies; no one else glanced at you the wrong way. ‘Of course not…’ Suzume mused, waving meekly to one of them, Fuji Higuchi, who smirked and nodded back. ‘You’re not the entire world’s punching bag…’ Her eyes went immediately to the floor as she passed by a couple of people. ‘Just your own world’s punching bag…’

Suzume stopped; oddly enough she felt someone’s hand on her wrist. Slowly her eyes were drawn up from the floor and focused on an odd boy who seemed to be feeling her bracelet. The girl flushed red, not used to this sort of attention at all. Both of them seemed to be at a loss for words, and Suzume barely managed to find her voice in the confusion.

“M-may I help you?” She questioned blankly. ‘Let go… Let go… If Fuji or the others see-‘

“You have-

“Hey!” Immediately the boy’s hand was gripped tightly by the beautiful, yet nasty Fuji. Her wicked, almost black eyes burned into his. He immediately let go of Suzume, looking up at the notorious twelfth grader with uncertainty. “You got some nerve, grabbing her like that. Does she even know you?”

‘Oh God…’ Suzume wanted to die as people began to look over. ‘No… No…’

“Who are you talking to?” Kiyomi called from the back, playing with her brilliant red hair as Fuji roughly pulled the boy into view. “Isn’t that the Okada loner? What’s his name? Hikaru?”

Fuji turned her attention back to the quiet man, who looked rather intimidated. “Oh?” Her eyes seemed hellish now. “Is that you then? You think you can just grab one of my friends and-”

“Higuchi-san…” Suzume barely managed to talk, let alone grab her friend’s attention. “It was an accident; he thought I was someone else…”

The glare she received nearly made her cry, but she managed to keep composure.

“Really?”

“I swear; I wouldn’t lie to you…”

But she had. Luckily, Fuji had nothing to go on, so her glare lessened and she looked back at the boy. “Listen here Hikaru, you have no place touching Moto-chan. If you do it again, I’ll beat your ass in, understand?”

Hikaru nodded quickly, and Fuji let go of his arm before stomping back to the back of the bus. Suzume glanced at the loner again, muttering a fast apology before following suit and sitting next to her ‘friends’: Fuji Higuchi, Kiyomi Ito, and Rei Kobi. All well known and loved by most of the school population (particularly boys), though they were also notably loathed by the ‘less worthy’ people of the school.

Suzume wondered if she was hated too, she wasn’t like them; she didn’t start fights, spread rumors, or other nasty things like that… But she did hang out with them, and thus was probably hated out of association, or spite for being the only ‘less worthy’ girl in school to seemingly avoid their glares and words.

The bus continued on, and her school day began.

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Suzuro Chiyo – Female Kämpfer

It was the same routine every day. Get up, go to school, go home. A loner like me could either get used to it or not. But for the past two weeks, something had broken that routine in an unexpected way.

“Chiyo-chan!” my mother called from the kitchen as soon as I got in the house.

I looked up and saw her in the hallway, wearing her apron. She was holding up my beloved Chibi Hanyuu plushie. “I found this at the bottom of the stairs. This is the second time I’ve seen it there.” I gasped and snatched it from her. “You need to take better care of your things, Chiyo-chan. You’re not a child anymore.”

“Sumimasen, okaa-san,” I said softly. There was only one way how Hanyuu could’ve gotten out of my room.

I walked upstairs to my room and shot a glare to the other plushie that usually took residence on my desk, a polar bear with a red stain around his mouth that looked like blood. “Rabid Polar Bear,” I addressed coldly.

He glared at me. “It’s Rabid Kuma, and I told you to just call me Kuma-kun!” he shouted.

I hushed him. Mom had already begun to suspect that I talked to myself when in my room, even when I wasn’t there. “Your creators had some twisted sense of style.” I set my Hanyuu plushie next to him. “Did you throw this out my room again?”

“Hey, the two of us made peace!” He pointed to the black cat that was curled up on my bed. “That bastard has to go! He attacked and ran off with her, and you said you would kill me if I left the room again!”

The innocent looking cat lazily lifted his head and meowed. “Fuu, you shouldn’t take things that don’t belong to you,” I scolded. Fuu merely blinked slowly and turned his head away.

Kuma patted Hanyuu’s head. “There there, that beast won’t hurt you again,” he soothed.

I groaned and stared at the two plushies for a long time. Kuma always was a little…off, but this was his weirdest habit. “Kuma, Hanyuu’s not alive,” I reminded him for the hundredth time.

Kuma was unconvinced. “Yes, she is.”

“She doesn’t have a soul like you.”

“Yes, she does.”

“Fuu’s just an innocent animal.”

“No, he’s not.” I rolled my eyes. “He’s a soulless monster that likes to terrorize innocent girls.”

“No, he’s not. He doesn’t do anything to me.”

“You’re not innocent.”

I ignored his comment and sat at the desk to do homework. A few seconds later, I released the giggle that I had been holding in. “You’re insane, Kuma-kun.”

“No, I’m not.” But he smiled and patted my head.

This was one of the breaks in the routine. With no friends, Kuma had stepped in to be the crazy companion I believed every loner needed. He would tell me about his day, watch me do homework, watch anime with me, and (sometimes) gave me my silence. The only humans that I bothered to interact with on a daily basis were my parents and Yuki from school.

“You need a girlfriend, Chiyo-chan,” Kuma blurted out.

My pen stopped in mid-sentence as I felt shock for a split second. “I can’t just go get one,” I grumbled.

“Chii-chan could.”

“I’m not Chii-chan. Well…I am…but…I don’t need her causing me trouble!”

“I’m just saying that she could be used to get you a date.”

I sighed heavily. Yeah, Chii-chan could get a girl. If that girl didn’t freak out and run away from her trying to grope her. “I don’t need an angry mob chasing me or her around. Chii-chan’s too forward, sometimes perverted.”

“She’s not perverted. You’re overreacting just because you don’t like to be touched.”

“Touching and groping are two different things.”

“She doesn’t grope, although you have to admit that it’s hard to resist squeezing a little.”

“Shut. Up.”

The glare I gave him was enough to keep him quiet for a minute. Then he whispered to the Hanyuu plushie. “She needs to get laid.”

“SHUT UP!”

“Chiyo-chan, is something wrong?” I heard my mother call out from downstairs.

“No, I’m just having a voice chat on the computer!”

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

The next morning came too soon. Kuma was yelling at Fuu, and Fuu was yowling and hissing at him. I blocked out the noise as much as I could until Kuma said my name. “Didn’t you feel something last night?” he asked me.

“Like what?” I did feel a slight tingling at the back of my mind but I waved it off since I was already half-asleep.

“It could’ve been a new Kämpfer. Or maybe it was Hanyuu tickling me.”

“Hanyuu can’t move.” I walked out the bedroom door.

“Yes, she can!” Kuma yelled out the door.

I giggled and walked to school. Since I lived close to the school and it was getting warm outside, walking there was better than taking the bus. Besides, it felt nice to be out in the sun. If I left early enough, I could take my time and enjoy.

No one spoke to me, and few even looked my way. I didn’t even know if anyone ever gossiped about me. That’s a little disappointing. I’m not even significant enough for gossip.

Mayonaka Yuki, a fellow Kämpfer, greeted me at my locker. I smiled in recognition. It took some effort to not blush. His female form was cute, but I could never tell him that. He smiled back. “I found another one,” he told me as he held up his blue bracelet.

So that feeling was another Kämpfer awakening, after all.

“So who’s the new victim?” I asked.

“Okada Hikaru.” He let out a small sigh. “He probably still thinks that night was a dream.”

“He has a blue bracelet?” He nodded, and felt some pity for the new guy. Changing genders must never be easy for first. “We should keep an eye on him. The first few days are going to be hell for him.”

There, my first post! In case anyone doesn’t know, Hanyuu is from Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Kai.

[Dominus]

Name: Hisakawa Izumi
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Grade: 12
Physical Appearance: Slim, and slightly tall at 5'8", she's got an above average bust which she generally attempts to cover up a bit with her clothes, as well as icy blue eyes and deep blue hair pulled back in a long pony tail to the small of her back.
Typical Clothing: When not in her school uniform, she tends to wear plain, conservative clothing that hides her figure.
Personality: Very kind, tends to act like a big sister to everyone, abhors violence, and suppresses any kind of violent thought or impulse she might have. Her hobbies include tailoring and tea, and she is known to randomly make 'adorable' clothes for other people, whether they want it or not. Is deeply disturbed by her bracelet, and would rather not have been chosen.
History: Has had her bracelet for about a week and a half.
Other: *refuses to kill Other, hooking it up to a perpetual torture machine*
----Kämpfer
Bracelet Type/Gender: Red Male
Weapon/Magic Type: Her weapon as a Kämpfer is a wide bladed claymore, with a roughly five foot long blade, apparently made of sparkling blue crystal.
Physical Appearance: Her hair changes to a bright golden blonde, and she's a bit broader in build, and her left eye turns green and her right eye red
Changed Personality: When a Kämpfer, she goes from her usual personality to one that is belligerent and loves to fight, though not so belligerent as to not be able to cooperate with others.
Other: *is kept alive against its will*

an image of her plushy advisor: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1091/...10167906db.jpg
---Izumi---

Izumi smiled to herself, humming a happy little tune, as she adjusted the frilly pink dress that she was putting on the scowling Jack Frost plushie. He'd had the gall to wake her in the middle of the night over something that hadn't been a real emergency, so she was pulling out the heavy ammunition.

"Look, Izumi, I'm sorry, but please, a pink dress? I need to have SOME self respect!" He complained, fidgeting.

"Are you complaining, Jack-chan?" she asked in a sweetly saccharine tone, waggling a finger in front of him, "That's strike one."

"Alright, alright, I'll be good, just don't stuff me in that bleeding box again!" He stated hurriedly, putting his arms up in an apologetic gesture.

"Good, now, I need to get to class, be sure to not get out of that dress till I get back." She instructed strictly.

"I... alright..." He answered sullenly.

Grabbing her school bag, as well as a garment bag, Izumi headed out of the house she shared with her parents, her father being a salaryman high up in one company or another, she'd never really taken any interest herself, instead learning everything she could about tailoring from her mother, who ran a small neighborhood shop. As such, she was also fairly self reliant, making breakfast for herself in the morning and performing other various chores without complaint or assistance since she was young.

She strode along the road, her hair swaying in the wind as she pictured the look on Yuki-kun's face when she'd present him with her latest project. And Yasashisa-chan would look so cute in it too! She hummed as she approached the school, heading in, waving and greeting all her friends and underclassmen.

On her way, she was interrupted by Yuki-kun when there was no one around, "I found another one." he stated, glancing meaningfully at Izumi's breacelet.

"Oh, who it it, Yuki-kun?" She asked, politely, showing an amount of concern, after all, if they ended up with another person with a personality like her own alter ego, that could be... messy.

"It's Okada Hikaru." He stated, "He's got a blue."

Her lips formed a flat line at that thought, it wasn't likely that most would adapt to being the alternate gender as well as Yuki-kun had.

"Well, we'll be there for him if he needs it?" she suggested, a tad nervously.

Yuki-kun nodded, and turned to head for his homeroom.

"Oh, and Yuki-kun, be sure to have Yasashisa-chan drop by and visit me after classes are over." she stated, a small smile returning to her previously troubled face, before she turned to head to classes.

[DivineAll]

Oboro, Kisuke

*-*-*-*-*

He stared intently at the object in hand, never losing focus, never wavering. It was night, but he couldn't help but still gaze in wonder at the object that held a very important question in his mind ever since he had gotten it. At last, he asked his question. "Just how many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?"

"Will you take your mind of the candy for a minute?!?" exclaimed a small Kyuubi plushie. "Aw... why should I, Naruto-kun?" Kisuke asked. "For what is probably the 30th time since we've met, my name isn't Naruto, Kisuke." the fox plush complained. "My name is Jinkuro and the reason why you shouldn't focus on that candy is because we need to find the others."

Kisuke, still staring at the Tootsie Pop, responded, "I know, but I think it's easier for them to find me first, you know? Sometimes you have to wait instead of taking action otherwise it might lead to disaster."

"The reverse is also true, you know that right?" Jinkuro asked. Kisuke, unwrapping the wrapper of the lollipop and putting it in his mouth, said, "Don't you think I already know that, Naruto-kun? You just need to learn a little patience is all."

"I've been patient for many, many years, Kisuke." sighed the fox. "And stop calling me Naruto."

"You know I don't want to do so," Kisuke retorted. "It's not my fault you took on the form of a character from a popular anime and I decided to nickname you after the character who hosts your avatar." Jinkuro was silent for a moment before he responded, "True. So are you at least going to consider finding the other Kämpfer?"

Kisuke took the candy out of his mouth and said, "Of course... with your help of course."

"My help?" questioned the plush. "What do you mean my help?"

"You're going to help me search for them, of course." Kisuke said, as if was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Oh, no." Jinkuro responded immediately. "No way, no how am I going to help you by going out in public and having females glomp me the first chance they see me."

"Aw, come on." groaned Kisuke. "I need a second opinion on who really is a Kämpfer and who is not because, believe it or not, some people at the school wear bracelets similar to the ones you gave me."

Jinkuro made a look of utter seriousness. "Nope. Now way. I'm not going and there's nothing, and I mean, nothing that will convince me otherwise that will make me join you in your search tomorrow."

Kisuke just smiled and said in a sing-song voice, "Imouto Kyoko's show and tell day is tomorrow and she'd just love to bring you to her class."

*-*-*-*-*

The next day, Kisuke was riding his bike to school, a triumphant smile on his face, with Jinkuro stuffed into his backpack grumbling, "Teenage girls are the lesser of two evils to grade school girls..."

Kisuke soon arrived at the school, parked his bike, and took Jinkuro out his backpack. The fox plush let out a gasp, and said, "Next time you convince me to go to school with you, don't stuff me into your backpack. Please." Kisuke merely chuckled.

Edited by request.

[Roy Karrde]

Okada, Hikaru
~*~*~*~*~ Two Worlds ~*~*~*~*~

The bus gently grinded to a halt in front of the school, the doors swinging open to let out the stale air, and let the cool spring breeze rush in. As students were slow to pick up their book bags and prepare to disembark, I was already far ahead of them, a quick glance over the shoulder told me that girl who had gotten angry earlier was already speaking with the guy that had given me the bruises just one day earlier. Apparently bullies had decided to unionize or just knew when to help one another.

“Dammit..” I swore under my breath, seeing the gaze and smirk of the jock lock onto me, clearly he wanted to finish what he was forced to stop just the day before. To make matters worse the bracelet was already getting brighter and brighter, each flash of light it emitted seemed to be just a tad brighter than the last, and this was clearly starting to draw attention.

The moment my feet touch the solid concrete that made up the front of the school, I broke into a sprint, which automatically began to draw attention to me, and by extension the bracelet. Everyone else was dragging their feet, taking time before getting into class, and here I was rushing head first into the school while holding a big flashing light attached to my wrist.

“Hey no electronics!” Some one shouted out, clearly pointed to the bracelet.

I could only wish that I could get it off, I gave a quick glance behind me to find the bully still approaching but at a much slower rate of speed, just enough to not draw attention but fast enough to keep me well within his line of sight. I finally broke through the double doors into the school; sweat already beginning to form on my forehead as I gathered up all my strength to dash into the nearest boy’s restroom. The bracelet was beginning to heat up and something deep inside me told me to hide.

“Empty…empty…empty” I let out a small sigh, all the stalls were empty due to it being so early in the morning. I jumped into the last one and shut the latch just as the bracelet stopped flashing, a piercing white rushed through it and for a moment it seemed as if time slowed, that same prickling and pulling sensation came back again, my hips, my chest, my face, it all seemed to be twisting and pulling, finally it grabbed my hair and pulled it back forcing my head to be thrown backwards before it finally let go.

“Finally..” I whispered, only the voice, even as small as it was, came out as a sweet soft feminine sound, it was nothing like my usual voice. I glanced down to find my uniform changed, it wasn’t just that my whole body had changed; it was the same, the same as the night before!

“I know you are in here Hikaru..” A familiar gruff, and very taunting voice filled the restroom. The bully from before, he must have seen me go in. My heart began to pound in my chest, if he saw me, like this.. not only would I be outed as even more of a freak then I was already considered, I would probably be locked up, or experimented on, or.. or.. “It’s easier if you just come on out, you broke the nose of one of my friends yesterday, and you annoyed one of my other friends.”

The first stall door swung open, banging off the wall with enough force to cause me to wince. “Come out come out..” He teased, knowing I was only two stalls down. The second one swung open with the same amount of force, the impact shaking the flimsy wall separating the two stalls.

My heart began to race as I heard him arrive at the final stall; he was taking his time, savoring the moment. “Time to pay..” The stall door swung open and I thrust out my hands to ward off an attack, my eyes clinched shut and head turned away for the beating that I was about to take in this small form. I let out a terrified scream of shock, that only sounded worse with my now very girly voice, as a rush of energy flowed into the palm of my hand and then outward.

My own scream was matched by another, this one even more high pitched, followed by the smell of burning cotton. I opened one eye, and then the other to find the bully frantically patting down his arm, a small fire having erupted upon the sleeve of his shirt and was traveling upward. After a moment he ripped the shirt from his body, half pulling, half ripping at the material as he pulled it up over his head and threw it onto the ground before rushing out of the bathroom.

I could hear his screams of panic echo out of bathroom and into the main hall, followed by laughter of the students who were already in the main hall heading to their classes. I breathed a sigh of relief and stomped out the fire with the heel of my shoe. I couldn’t stay in here, especially not in the boy’s bathroom, and eventually some one would come looking to see where the bully went.

After a moment the bell rang, signaling only a few minutes were left before the first class officially started. I gave it one more minute before finally leaving the stall, doing the best to avoid looking in the mirror I made my way across and reaching for the door. Gently pulling it open and giving a quick glance around, the main hall seemed empty enough…

I opened the door a bit more and stepped out; I was too far away from home to walk back, not to mention what would I tell my mom? Maybe I could make it to my locker, it was across the school but I had my coat in it, it could hide my chest but I still had long hair and…

A gentle breeze rushed past my legs, rustling the skirt just enough to send a shiver up my spine. It felt like I was barely wearing anything with this skirt on, I felt so exposed. How the hell do girls wear these short little things.

Then it hit me, my neighbor… the guy that turned into a girl, Yuki I believe his name was, he seemed to know more about this than I did, if I could find him he could tell me how to turn back.

“Hey, you are…” A soft voice asked from my side. I froze up for a moment and turned, finding the girl whose arm I grabbed on the bus earlier.

“No.. no I’m not!” I blurted out, pushing past her as quickly as I could and took off down the first hallway, peering in to each class room I passed, looking for Yuki. Deep down I knew I looked like any other girl at the school, but I felt as if every person that looked at me knew my secret, knew I was a boy.

Each class room I passed also quickened my heart beat heightened my anxiety. He was at the school, he had to be, he was on the bus! But each class room I glanced into, only to find it devoid of Yuki only served to scare me even further. I was trapped at school, in a body that wasn’t mine, with no way to change back. If he wasn’t here… if he wasn’t here..

Hot tears stung my eyes as I rounded the corner to head into the next hallway, only to walk head first into another person, sending both of us to the ground. “I-I’m sorry” I winced, picking myself up off the ground and wiping tears from my eyes. I felt a bit silly crying at school, especially now that some one else had seen me, even though they didn’t know who I truly was.

“It’s okay..” The girl sighed, picking herself up off the ground. “You really need to watch where you are..” She stopped herself as she glanced down to see where my eyes were focused on: The blue bracelet that hung limply on her wrist.

It was glowing.

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[classy_cat18]

Suzuro Chiyo – Female Kämpfer

“Crap!”

Several of my classmates looked up upon hearing my outburst. I quickly hid my bracelet under my desk and stood. “Sumimasen, I need to go to the restroom,” I said.

The homeroom teacher groaned. “Make it quick.”

I nodded and rushed out of the room, holding my dimly glowing bracelet and concentrating to keep it from transforming me. If it would’ve been two weeks ago, I would’ve transformed right after leaving the classroom. Now I could keep the transformation from happening, as long as there wasn’t anything to distract me. Halfway to the restroom, the bracelet finally started to dim. What could’ve set it off at a time like this? I’m not stressed out, which means that someone else transformed.

Just as I was approaching a corner, another person crashed into me, knocking both of us down. My mouth opened to yell at them, but I got a better look at the other person. Another Kämpfer…is she the one Yuki was talking to me about?

I fought back a blush for the second time that morning. She’s cute…

“I-I’m sorry,” she apologized as she stood. She was crying, which explained to me why she bumped into me.

I sighed and stood. “It’s okay. You really need to watch where you are…” I trailed off when I noticed her staring at my bracelet.

Which was now glowing brightly.

“Dammit!” I exclaimed. “I can’t stop it this time!” This was probably the worst time for Chii-chan to come out. The last thing I wanted was to freak out the new girl.

Before she could ask anything, I grabbed her wrist and rushed for the restroom. “You distracted me, and now I can’t stop my own transformation!” I explained in a hurry. “I want to be somewhere private when it happens!”

We reached the restroom and frantically looked around, making sure it was private. “I need to warn you in private that my other side is…well…” I left it at that and went in a stall just as the pulling sensations started to intensify.

“Okay, I’m ready now!” I said brightly as I walked out the stall. The other girl blushed brightly and stammered. I couldn’t help but giggle; it was such a cute response. “It would be impolite not to introduce myself! My name is Suzuro Chiyo, but when I’m like this it’s Chii-chan! You know, like Chii from Chobits! I’m sixteen years old, and in the tenth grade! My hobbies are reading fantasy, listening to music, and watching horror anime!”

This threw the new girl for a loop, and it took her great effort to form words. “Ano… I’m Okada Hikaru…” she replied softly.

Hikaru! So she was…wait, who was she again? “I’ve heard that name from someone.”

“This is too much,” Hikaru whimpered. “First Yuki-kun, now you.”

“YUKI!” I made the poor girl jump in surprise. “He told me about you! You’re the new Kämpfer!”

She nodded slowly. I smiled widely and walked closer to her. Her uniform fit her perfectly, from her short skirt up to her—

“Chiyo? I mean, Chii-chan? Why are you staring at my… my…”

I got my mind out of the gutter. “Gomen ne, it’s just so perfect! I bet they’re soft too! Can I feel?”

“Feel what? My…breasts?” She blushed and flattened herself against the wall. “Stay away from me!”

I pouted and stepped back. I didn’t want her to hate me. “Too bad you’re not my type. Even if you’re a girl, and a cute one at that, you’re only one part time. Too, too bad.”

“You’re a—“

“Yep! Oh, I should change back and find help for you. I hope I can transform back now.” I put my hand over my bracelet and concentrated, taking a minute before anything happened.

Good, I was finally back to my rational self. Unfortunately, Chii-chan had already left her mark on Hikaru. The new Kämpfer was now sitting in the corner, as far back from me as possible. “Gomen. Chii-chan can be scary to some people. If you can stay right there, I can find help.”

I didn’t even have to leave the bathroom for that. As soon as I stuck my head out, I found Yuki walking down the hall. “Yuki-kun, over here,” I quietly called out to him. “Okada-san's in here.”

[VirtualPlay]

Mayonaka Yuki
Roaming the halls before class
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After Chiyo-chan had left, I finished getting the stuff I needed from my locker. I closed it and started walking towards my homeroom. Most of the other students were filing away, and as I went to turn down the hallway I needed to, my eye caught a face I didn't mind seeing.

I continued down the hallway and caught up with Izumi-chan, a childhood friend from years back. She just so happened to be a Kämpfer as well, lucky for us. "I found another one," I said as I caught up to her, my eyes on her bracelet, just in case anyone was around to hear.

"Oh, who is it, Yuki-kun?" she asked, politely and with a bit of concern; I could tell she was worried it would be someone that wouldn't get along with the rest of us.

"It's Okada Hikaru," I said calmly. "He's got a blue." Her lips went flat as I said that; no doubt she was wondering how he was going to take the gender change.

"Well," she continued after a pause, "we'll be there for him if he needs us?" She said it like she wasn't sure we could be much of a help. Still, I nodded; we were all in this together, so we really needed to help each other out.

As I started heading towards my homeroom, she called out after me, "Oh, and Yuki-kun, be sure to have Yasashisa-chan drop by and visit me after classes are over." I tensed a bit as I kept walking; either she had a new cosplay idea, or more likely she had some other cute outfit she wanted to get modeled. In fact, with her tone of voice, it was almost definitely the latter.

I pushed through the door not 10 seconds before the homeroom bell rang. Everyone made for their seats, and I noticed that Hikaru was conspicuously not in his spot, even though he definitely came to school.

As I wondered where he was, I remembered back when I was still new to the whole Kämpfer thing and actually stayed home for an entire day because I had accidentally transformed couldn't revert to my normal self yet. I figured that if he hadn't gotten completely pummeled by one of the bullies I saw chasing him, he was probably transformed with no way to revert.

Just as I was wondering what I could say to our teacher, Yamamoto-sensei, he suddenly hunched forward, rushed towards the trash can by his desk, and suddenly retched into it. Everyone in the front immediately scooted their chairs backwards and got up. I saw my chance and, pretending I could already smell it, grabbed my stomach, covered my face and rushed out the door before anyone could ask.

As I headed down the hallway to the closest restroom, I saw a couple other kids leave, and I heard them talk about heading down to the infirmary. I did hope that Yamamoto-sensei was alright, but I had another matter to attend to at the moment. I made it to the restroom door, then, seeing that nobody else was in the hallway, turned down a different path.

As I walked I tried to think of where Hikaru would be. I tried to mentally put myself in his shoes, which was easier for me since I used to be in his predicament. I thought of where I would go if I were in school and stuck in my Kämfer form, where nobody recognized me. I couldn't go to a classroom or the infirmary, I couldn't hang out in the locker room, outside on the fields would be too open. Where would an unfamiliar girl go where they wouldn't be noticed?

Then it hit me, "The bathroom!" With the size of the school, it was very likely that you would run into someone you were unfamiliar with when going to the bathroom. Unfortunately, if Hikaru was really in Kämpfer form, she would more likely be in a girl's bathroom, and that meant I would have to go into my Kämpfer form to search for her.

As I started looking around for a place to transform, one of the bathroom doors opened. Not wanting to seem like I was just standing around I went to turn down a hallway when I heard, "Yuki-kun, over here.!" I turned to see Chiyo-chan sticking her head out of the bathroom door. "Okada-san's in here."

I walked over hurriedly, "Is it clear?" She nodded, and taking a look around to make sure nobody saw, I ducked into the bathroom with them. Sure enough, there was Hikaru, huddled in the corner with her knees up and arms around her legs; she was sitting with her back to the mirrors.

Upon seeing me, she let out a small squeak before realizing it was me. "Oh, Y-Yuki," she managed to stutter.

"Yuki-kun, you might want to change, just in case," Chiyo-chan said quietly, and I nodded. The last thing we needed was for some girl to barge in here and see a guy with two girls around him. I focused and felt the changes happen, my uniform changing along with me.

Finished, I turned and looked at Hikaru, who now looked kinda glum. She bit her lip, muttering, "I must look pretty stupid to you"

I knelt down in front of her, "No you don't, this is something new and you're not comfortable with it."

She sniffed a bit and wiped at her eyes. She let out a small choked laugh, "That's an under-statement." I let out a hesitant smile; at least she was trying to laugh. I moved so I was now sitting next to her, my back to the wall as well. There was silence for a moment, then she said, "Is it just me? Did you have problems accepting this... this body?" She said the last word with a bit of disdain.

I paused; there was really only three things physically different between the male and female me, while Hikaru seemed to have a lot more going on. "I had a little trouble adjusting, but I was already kinda girlish before, so I'm probably not the best judge..." I trailed off, sighing, "This isn't really helping, is it?"

She hung her head, shaking it slightly, "There are so many things I want to ask just..." she paused, then asked, "Do you ever get used to it?"

"Yeah, you do," I said, trying to be cheerful, but I wasn't sure if she would take to it. "It's not really that bad, it's just...different. I mean, at least you're still human, ne?" I added, trying to lighten the mood.

She let out a cute giggle, saying, "Yeah, I could've been a catgirl or something." Her smile weakened, but she stood up and turned to look at the mirror, running a hand through her long blond hair. "T-this really is me, huh? I...I guess I could get used to it." I stood up next to her as she continued, "I mean I used to like singing in chior as a kid, but I had to quit it when I hit puberty..." she trailed off.

I smiled, "That's the way to look at it. Plus you're not alone, there are more of us around, and we'll all be here for you." I awkwardly put my hand on her shoulder in an attempt to calm her down. She seemed to accept it, and the small smile reappeared on her face. All of a sudden, her bracelet glowed and before I realized it, male Hikaru was standing in front of me, now a couple inches taller than me as opposed to half a foot shorter.

"I, uh, whoa!" he said, apparently just as shocked. "I'm male again!" he said, visibly relieved, until he added, "...and in the girl's bathroom..."

Chiyo-chan poked her head in, "You're male again? Quickly, get out here before someone comes by and sees you leaving the girl's bathroom." I hadn't noticed her leave the bathroom, but she only had her head through the door. Hikaru didn't need a second telling and quickly scooted from the bathroom.

I walked to the door where Chiyo-chan stood, propping it open and looking around outside. "The coast is clear, Yuki-chan," she said, keeping her head outside to watch. Quickly I transformed back, thanked Chiyo-chan, then headed back towards my homeroom. As I walked, an upperclassman came out of a classroom; I didn't think much of it until I saw a familiar sight on his wrist.

It was a red Kämpfer bracelet. Not wanting to make a scene in the hallway, I simply looked him up and down to remember him. He wasn't much taller than me, but his dark-blue hair was longish and tied like mine, though not nearly as long, and he wore glasses. As I passed him, I hoped that would be enough to remember him later.

I walked into my homeroom to see Hikaru at the back in his seat, and a substitute at the front. She asked if I was alright, so I assumed others had informed her that I had run out appearing to be sick. I said I was, then sat down for the last few minutes of homeroom, wondering what had happened to Yamamoto-sensei.

The day went by normally after that, up until lunchtime. Hikaru must have been really grateful for this morning because he had actually stopped sitting off in the corner and came to sit with me. He had been in a better mood throughout the day, too, which was definitely an improvement over any day in the past. Lunch was also good because after the crazy events of that morning, getting food into my stomach was probably the best thing for me.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Okies, coupla' things.

First, not everyone can sense other Kämpfer being awoken. Yuki was awoken by Hikaru because (a) Yuki's had his bracelet the longest, and (b) Hikaru was right next door when he was awoken. The avatars can sense that someone was awoken, but not all of them would be likely to inform their 'host' of it, nor would they know who it was.

Also, the school has 2 levels, and the building wraps around two different athletic fields (it's a big school) to form a sort of mostly-enclosed E. The buses' and main entrance is along the long part (the 'back' or left side) of the E shape.

Finally, for the male Kämpfer, your weapons are not automatically generated just by transforming; you have to focus on summoning it either while transforming or once in Kämpfer form. (This helps avoid awkward "transform at school with a giant weapon" moments.) If they get knocked out of your hand, you have to pick them up, you can't just summon them back to your hand.

[Kurosakura]

Watanabe Hayato
Pissed

I woke up the the sound of a sliding door being slid open and rolled over on my futon, groaning and grabbing the pillow out from underneath my head, placing it over instead.

“Anzu, get the hell out of my room!” I yelled at my irritating little sister with her irritating pout and her irritating black hair that gets all over the place for being so damn long. That annoying middle school brat had the damn nerve to barge in through the sliding rice paper door leading to my room and go through my stuff... again.

“But ani-ue, I was looking for Badtz-kun! I can't find him anywhere!” she yelped, but I did I care? No. In fact, that stuffed penguin is the bane of my current existence: a freak of nature with a cheap-looking bracelet attached to his wrist for all eternity.

“I told you to get out,” I stated flatly, my voice dropping dangerously low and moving the pillow off my head.

“But ani-ue!”

“I SAID GET OUT!” I roared, losing my patience. “Stupid kid. You have more than enough stuffed toys already, more than all of the girls in your grade combined. It doesn't matter if you're missing one or not. Jeez.” That girl placed her hands on her hips defiantly and scowled.

“I want Badtz Maru-kun back and I want him back now!”

I shot Anzu my signature death glare, and she immediately scampered off. “And this is why I hate girls; they make the biggest deal out of absolutely fucking nothing at all.” My internal rant was interrupted by the din of a multitude of animals trying to garner my attention and get fed. I let out a yawn and ran my fingers through my hair, eying the practically immovable red bracelet on my left arm, my dominant arm, with distaste. An ear-piercing screech reminded me that there were other things to worry about now, such as the menagerie of pets, mainly birds, that were desperate for food.

Alright, the birds didn't really need more food than they already have, but the other creatures did. I opened up an elaborate birdcage containing my favorite bird and her mate, a sweet white cockatiel who I affectionately named Hime, and placed my finger through the bars, letting her nip it before rummaging through a conveniently placed shelf and pulling out several containers of animal food. She whistled contentedly before I put her back into the confines of her cage. My fat blue point Himalayan cat, Kenta, came to me carrying a screaming black stuffed something and rubbed against my leg for my undivided attention. My eyes narrowed into a glare and took the plushie out of his mouth. “Badtz, what the hell are you doing?”

“I was hidin' from dat crazy kitsune of a sister of yours, but den dat disrespectful cat of yers found me and started chewing on me! Apologize, dammit!” that black penguin demanded.

“Serves you right for wandering around,” I retorted. It was away too early, and this thing could never stop talking.

“Anyways, ya dope, I felt a new Kämpfer awaken! Give 'er a nice warm welcome, will ya?”

“I told you, stupid penguin, that I don't care about this... German nonsense. I'm an ordinary guy with an ordinary life, and I don't need a talking stuffed animal to screw up my life more than it already is!” I grabbed one of Ken's chew toys, gagged the penguin, and stuffed him in the food bin.

After finishing feeding those that needed to be fed, I let out a sigh and changed out of my pajamas and into my school uniform, pulling my hair into a short ponytail and putting my glasses on. I didn't really need them, I just didn't want any more attention than I got already.

~*~*~*~*~*~

School. Noisy classmates. Boring teachers. Useless lectures. Work that was way below my level of understanding.

A place I endured because I had to.

After an uneventful snore-fest of class, I grabbed my bag, slung it over my shoulder and ditched homeroom after seeing that malfunctioning contraption of a bracelet glow. I passed a few students leaving the restrooms but didn't think much of it. “Jeez, do people seriously need to go to the bathroom in groups? What is this, kindergarten?” My feet led me outside the school building, and I sat against a tall maple in a mostly secluded area of campus to eat my lunch, not that I had an appetite. Most of my food was tossed off in little bits and pieces for the local wildlife to feed off of. Eventually, I drifted off to sleep.

...unfortunately my nap didn't last for long. I felt a bit of pain and pressure, heard a high-pitched yelp, and opened an eye, spotting a girl landing face-first on my damn lap. "I-I didn't mean to disturb you!" she whimpered in a fashion not unlike my sister's.

"Yeah, well, that's was pretty disturbing," I grumbled, giving her a death glare and shoving her off of me roughly.

She scampered away and ran what I suppose she assumed was a safe distance away. "U-Um... i-is it okay if I stay here for a while? P-Please?"

My day couldn't get any worse, so I didn't really feel like denying her request. I mean it should be... "Fine, as long as you're quiet."

I is sowwie for taking so long! I tags mah CT. <3

[Crystal Tears]

Post contains cursing... I gave you your warning... Be happy. Next time probably won't cuz this RPG is rated M -w-

. : + ♥ Suzume ♥ + : .
Every time I turn to run
Something keeps stoppin’ me
I try my best to turn around
But your touch won’t let me leave

She was late. Fuji and the others had specifically told her to be at the parking lot this lunch so they could discuss about what they were going to do about the loner. Suzume vaguely remembered them referring to him as ‘Hikaru’, but today she had sworn she ran into a girl that looked suspiciously like him.

“Maybe a cousin…” She muttered to herself as she hurried along, head down, sketchbook and pencil case in her arms. She wasn’t paying attention, she should’ve been, accidents draw unneeded and unwanted attention. But she hadn’t been.

So she tripped.

And fell.

Right onto the notorious (and terrifying) Hayato Watanabe.

‘For the love of God…’ She thought bitterly as he was abruptly awoken from his slumber and now staring at her. ‘I’m dead.’

“I-I didn't mean to disturb you!” Suzume’s words shot out of her mouth in a whimper, he nearly seemed to twitch in annoyance to her voice.

“Yeah, well, that was pretty damn disturbing.” He growled in response and shoved her off.

The girl desperately recovered and stepped back, this was a big enough distance; that if he chose to chase her down and kill her, she would have a lead. Thus maybe Fuji and the others would convince him to spare her, only because they had sheer numbers on their side and half of the local soccer team. Suzume doubted anyone would really care if she was offed by one bitter man, but it would mean her friends would lose their punching bag, and have to go through the trouble of finding a new one.

That was more effort than she knew Fuji was willing to put forward, so it was better for the bully to save her from another of her kind.

Wasn’t there was rumour going around that Watanabe-san hated girls?

‘I’m not dead yet...’ She mused, somewhat happily. Of course she realized then she was late. Fuji would have her head if she didn’t have a reason. ‘And stupidly falling into the woman-hater isn’t quite believable…’

“U-Um... i-is it okay if I stay here for a while? P-Please?"

He didn’t seem to care much. “Fine, as long as you’re quiet.”

Well that wasn’t especially hard for the notable shy girl to do, and thus she cautiously moved closer and sat under the tree. There was a good amount of space between them, as Suzume still feared for her life. She didn’t know quite was she was doing, but somehow sitting with a known woman-hater would be reason enough to be late for the meeting on what to do about the loner.

‘I think she mentioned that he set one of her friends on fire? That doesn’t seem like a thing the boy would do…’ She mulled over the idea of that meek loner kid lighting one of the jocks and fire and frowned. As she did this she opened her sketch book and began to draw, keeping her word Hayato, in fact, she did one better.

Instead of having an awkward conversation and being mostly quiet, as he had ordered her. Suzume chose to be completely and utterly silent.

So they sat there, in silence, for a good five minutes.

“… Are you gonna tell me your name or what?”

Not knowing quite how to reply, she was silent for half a second more before her lips moved. “… You told me to be quiet…”

He shot her another glare, and she looked at her sketchbook cowardly.

“Permission to speak smartass.”

‘That wasn’t my intention…’ She thought as she looked away, to the grass far from him. “Moto Suzume.”

“And you know my name?” He didn’t seem to pick up on the meaning of her name, and if he did, then he didn’t care. It was a better reaction then others she had had. Fuji had called her tweety-bird for a month upon hearing her name. Suzume hadn’t dared to tell Fuji and her friends that tweety-bird wasn’t a sparrow.

She nodded quickly.

“Hnn…” Was his grunted response.

It was then, and only then as she sat in awkward (well slightly, he didn’t want to talk and she was far too scared to just start up idle conversation) that the girl realized just how hungry she was. She pulled from her small bag a white and green container and opened it. Inside were two onigiri, the one on the left was a guaranteed favourite of hers, the filling being salted salmon, while the right was something else.

It had within it, umeboshi.

Despite its popularity, Suzume hated umeboshi.

Nervously she glanced at Hayato, and somehow, despite the fear thick in her veins, managed to speak.

“Watanabe-san… ” She barely managed to get her voice over a whisper. “Do you want some?”

His gaze fell upon the right ball of rice. “What’s in it?”

“Umeboshi.”

The man reached over and plucked the object from the container. He nodded to her slightly as a thank you she supposed before munching down. She went back to her little snack, enjoying it as she quickly sketched the landscape. Of course, she flipped the page, did a secret quick sketch of Hayato, before flipping the page one more time to focus on a small squirrel a little ways away.

“Moto-san!”

That voice didn’t belong to Fuji, it wasn’t taunting or teasing, it just sounded downright angry. Suzume looked up and gulped quietly. It was Rei, with her short shaggy cut hair that was dyed blond and thick eyeliner that made her look a little like a prostitute. She walked up with a swagger to her step that made most girls hate her for simply being that damn confident. Her skin was darkly tan and her skirt was a bit shorter then everyone else’s.

Rei hated Suzume; it was a well known fact. And no doubt the fearless leader of the squad, Fuji, had sent her as Suzume’s punishment for being late.

“Kobi-san…” Suzume murmured, closing her sketchbook. “What are you-“

“You didn’t show up by the bus stand…” She hissed, and shot a look over to Hayato before turning back to the meek girl. “Fuji-chan sent me to find you, didn’t think I’d see you hanging around with Watanabe-san.”

“I-“

“You like him or something?” She smirks. “Have a crush on him?”

“What?” Suzume felt herself blushing, and that feeling of wanting to run returning. “N-No I-“

“Then what are you doing here?”

“I… Fell on him.”

Rei was dumbfounded for a moment. “You… what?”

It didn’t quite explain why on earth she was sitting here with him, but not the woman had nothing to go on. Exactly how would she manage to spin the words to come out with an insult.

“So.. You chose to stay here with him?”

‘Yes.’ Was the reply she wanted to say, but that wouldn’t look entirely good. She still had no reason why she stayed; maybe it had been just to get away from her normal friends. “I…”

“You…?” Rei rolled her eyes. “You honestly thought I would believe that lame ass excuse? You really are pathetic-“

"Jeez, don't you sluts know how to shut up? You're too fucking noisy."


Both of the girls looked at Hayato, who was glaring at Rei with a vengeance, who returned the angry stare.

“Pardon?”

“You’re deaf too?”

Suzume went to staring at the ground intently as Rei’s anger threatened to boil over.

“And just who the hell are you to talk to me like that?” The woman’s words were almost dripping with venom. “Some asshole loner who spends his time feeding the birds? Fuck off before I hire a hunter to kill all your little friends.”

"How about I snap that pretty little neck of yours instead?"


‘Oh dear God…’ Suzume stood up before Rei could react to that last remark, and both eyes were on her. “Kobi-san I’m sorry I was late. But Higuchi-san will have your head as well if you don’t return to her soon…”

“You’re staying here?”

‘No, I am going to run far, far away.’ Suzume thought, and just shrugged a little. “I’ll talk to her in class, as it has been noted; I never have anything important to say anyways.”

She appealed to Rei’s hatred; the girl turned, but had the last word to Hayato.

“Don’t think next time this little shit will be able to stop me Hayato, I’m not afraid of your punkass and I will walk all over it in a fight.”

With that the girl was gone, and now Suzume was left with a clearly fuming woman-hater.

‘I’m dead.’ She thought, fearing an incoming blow of any sort. Though she hoped it was an emotion, or mental one compared to physical. ‘I’m so dead. I’m gonna die… Yes that’s it, I’m gonna die at the hands of a man I gave a onigiri too...’ She nearly chuckled sadly at what would be her last thought.

‘I gave you my onigiri!’

* * *

Tag Annie!

[DivineAll]

Oboro, Kisuke

*-*-*-*-*

Lunchtime was the only opportune time that Kisuke had to talk with his chibi kitsune companion. He was alone at his usual spot for eating lunch, the school roof, munching away on onigiri from his bento box mumbling, "I miss free periods..." with Jinkuro as his only company perched on top of his head. "Do you even want to know if there were any other Kämpfer in your classroom?" said plushie asked.

"Of course I do, Naruto-kun." responded Kisuke, rice still in his mouth. "I was just waiting until you said if there were any." Jikuro nodded slowly. "There was one in fact from homeroom, Kisuke. I believe it was the young woman who glomped me the most in that class." The fox then shuddered as if remembering the horror. "Oh, you mean Izumi-chan?" Kisuke asked. "She's also a... camper like me, huh?" Jinkuro responded, "She is. And it's Kämpfer, not camper, Kisuke. You should know the word by now. I've said it to you probably 40 times since we've met."

"Red or blue?" Kisuke asked, still eating. "Red. Definitely." Jinkuro affirmed. It was at this point that Kisuke chuckled a bit at thought that his female classmate would end up transforming into a male with the power of her bracelet. "You guys sure know how to differentiate the male and female gender..." he chuckled out.

"It's not our fault that the Japanese have people who look similar to the opposite gender they are sometimes!" the fox plush exclaimed. "That is true." Kisuke thought. "Personally, I blame manga." Jinkuro sighed then asked, "I just got very lucky with you. I don't think I could handle being around a woman who transforms into a man."

"What is it with you and your aversion of women?" Kisuke wondered. "I don't want to get into it." Jinkuro immediately responded. "It's a very long and highly complicated story. On a different topic, why didn't you excuse yourself from the classroom earlier to get this knowledge from me sooner?"

Kisuke stopped eating, took a swig of tea from his thermos, swallowed, and said. "Jinkuro-kun?" The fox plush immediately took notice. Even though he knew Kisuke for only a month, Jinkuro knew that whenever he properly said his name, he was being completely serious. "Yes?" Jinkuro asked.

"What was your first opinion of me when we first met?" Kisuke asked. "Be completely honest with me." The Kyuubi plushie blinked and responded, "Well... to be honest... from the way you reacted to me from our first encounter... I thought of you as somewhat of an oddball. However, now that I've spent time with you more... you're still an oddball... but an intelligent and strategic oddball."

Kisuke smirked, "That's what the Gaming Club and all my teachers thought of me as well. People tend to stay away from me because I openly speak what's on my mind most of the time and usually they think I'm a little out of there. However, once they've gotten to know me better, they see my thoughts actually have meaning to them at times. However, few people, outside my family, have gotten to see the true meaning of my thoughts, and all the others have labeled me as an oddball. 'If that's what they view me as, so be it.' I thought inwardly once I was labeled it. That's kind of the reason I haven't found any other Kämpfer yet. Before I managed to have some control over this bracelet's powers, I was transforming at random intervals for long extended periods of time. Remember? Soon after you gave me the bracelet, I would up transformed for a full day."

Jinkuro nodded. Kisuke continued, "I couldn't call in sick because of my mother and father knew I wasn't ill so I had to go to school in my transformed state, hoping that some people would consider it 'normal' by my standard. And wouldn't you know it... it actually worked! Even my own family thought it was amusing for me to do so because it added to my 'oddball' persona."

"I take it that's also why you brought me to school today and showed me in public?" Jinkuro asked. "To add to your 'persona' or something along those lines?" Kisuke nodded, "Yup. That's exactly why. Most people would just shrug off that I brought in a stuffed toy with me to a high school. Others would see that I brought it for good reason. However, even with my oddball personality, I still want retain a little amount of... normality, if you can call it that. Bringing a plushie with me to the restroom, seems a little too odd for my eccentrics, doesn't it?"

The fox responded, "I suppose it is. So what are you going to do know with the knowledge that Izumi woman is a fellow Kämpfer like yourself?"

"I'll talk to her after school today." Kisuke answered. "No Gaming Club meeting today, so it'll be that much sooner I'll get to talk to her about me being a Kämpfer."

"But how will you prove to her you are so and not just being your usual eccentric self?" Jinkuro asked. Kisuke put on his signature happy grin and said, "That where you come in, Naruto-kun." Jinkuro wasn't sure if he should be more worried or scared at this moment the way his companion said that.

[Roy Karrde]

Okada, Hikaru
~*~*~*~*~ The pull of fate ~*~*~*~*~

I was happy, okay that was an understatement, I was ecstatic, it was as if all the holidays were wrapped up into one neat package. It gave me an extra bounce in my step as I made my way through the lunch line. Why was I so happy? I wasn’t a girl anymore, from my short hair, to the lack of weight on my chest, to not having to deal with a skirt. It all gave me a smile on my face, and a extra amount of energy that I hadn’t felt in a long while. All at the same time I couldn’t get her out of my head, the girl, I didn’t know her name or at least couldn’t remember it. The events of my transformation inside the school had made everything seem like a blur. But she, she gave me a feeling that I hadn’t felt in a long time. Even though her Kampfer side had grabbed my chest and came onto me.

When I exited the lunch line I was all set to going to my usual spot, one off in the corner next to the large windows, a place almost no one visited. But then I caught the sight of Yuki out of the corner of my eye. He had helped me a lot in the past day; in fact I would say he was the closest thing I had to a friend. So instead of moving toward my normal spot, I took a sharp turn toward Yuki’s table.

“Well, this is a change…” He looked up with a smile as I sat down across from him. As much as I tried I still had trouble trying to picture him as the cute girl that helped me out in my room and restroom.

“I could leave, I just figured, well after everything that’s happened.” I paused for a second, my plate hovering bare inches off the table. Maybe he didn’t consider what we had as a friendship, just one Kampfer helping out another.

“I didn’t say it was a bad change.” He replied as I breathed a small sigh of relief and sat down.

I began to poke at the rice, I usually packed my own bento like most of the students but having to wake up early and all the rush had me eating a pre made school lunch. “So, will I keep changing back and forth at random, you and that girl… Chiyo? Seemed to have some ability to control it.” I fished and hoped that was her name as I tried to start off the conversation.

“To start, yes you will. It’s just like learning something new, you practice and you’ll get better at controlling it.” He stated as I chewed on the small piece of meat, the taste almost enough to make me gag.

“I’m going to need a lot of practice.” I swallowed the meat ball with a grimace. “And well, the hair and.. “ I took a long pause, my voice lowering so no one else could hear. “The chest, do you ever get used to it? I feel it brush against my neck and it’s distracting and suddenly having a weight on my chest, it’s all too weird.”

My eyes focused directly on the rice, my face flushed red as I waited for his answer. “It can take a while to get used to it, but eventually you do.” He shrugged. “Like I said earlier, I’m not the best judge of that. I guess you can compare it to wearing a new pair of shoes; first weird and stiff at first, but you wear them in after a while, and wearing them more helps it go faster.”

My muscles began to tighten up at the thought of having to spend more and more time as a girl. Just those few minutes that I spent as one was torture enough, now he was suggesting I spend more and more time as one? “And then there is the fire, when I was in the bathroom after I first changed, I felt this… energy flow through my hands.” I desperately wanted to move to the next subject, I could remember the moment so vividly, not just because I had just transformed but, the odd sensation followed by the screams.

“That’s the actual point of the Kampfer form. Because we have blue bracelets and become girls, we can use elements to attack. I happen to have an electric-based ability myself.” I quickly glanced around as he stated it so matter-of-factly, saying we could transform into girls was not something I wanted to get out.

“So, I can set people on fire?” I asked, a bit of a curious grin on my face, my voice almost a whisper.

He spaced out for a moment before responding. “Basically, yes, since you have the element of fire. Whether you want to or not is up to you.” He took a bite of his food, then raising his hand as if he remembered something. “Oh yes, and you can only use your powers while in Kampfer form. If you try to use them as you are now, it won’t work, and it might even cause you to transform if you’re not careful.”

I could feel my face grow pale at the thought. “Okay good safety tip.” I pointed out, chewing on some of the rice, Yuki seemed to be a bit discomforted about what I wasn’t sure. I quickly moved on to my last question. “Oh and that girl, Chiyo, she isn’t seeing some one..” As I formed the last few words of my sentence I could feel something pull on me, not physically but it felt as if I was being called, a strong need to head toward the roof, as if I needed to be there, that I had to be there.

“She isn’t… “ I tried to regain my composer, only this time I felt the pull again, this time followed by a familiar warming sensation of the bracelet on my wrist. “I need to..” I hurried to stand up, using a hand to cover the bracelet but made a quick motion with my head toward the bracelet. Yuki also seemed to be looking at his own bracelet, as if he felt the tug as well.

I didn’t wait for confirmation, I could already feel the energy beginning to radiate off the bracelet as I took off running through the cafeteria, causing more than a few glances in my own direction. I really couldn’t care less at this moment; I had already considered all the different restrooms, all of them were too far away at this point, not to mention there was no guarantee they would be empty like before.

I rounded the corner out of the lunchroom and realized the best I could hope for was the glass wall that ran in front of the vending machines. It was opaque enough to prevent people from seeing through, and provided enough protection for the change. I could feel the energy beginning to flow across my body, any moment the pulling sensations would begin. I made a leaping dive for the wall, hitting the floor with a thud and sliding just barely into cover as the transformation began.

Moments later I felt a familiar if very uncomfortable brush of air rush through my thighs and I knew that I was back on the opposite side of the gender pool. “Hikaru? Are you okay?” I could hear Yuki’s voice come around the wall as he rushed over. I could only bury my head in the soft slender feminine arms as I lay there on my stomach.

“Fine..” I mumbled, hearing a audible gasp as Yuki and some one else came up from behind me. “I take it no one saw me?” I asked with a groan, lifting my head and looking back at Yuki who gave a soft nod, behind him was Chiyo, her face bright red and glancing away in embarrassment. What could have made her so embarrassed?

Yuki pointed down, his eyes narrowed before looking back at his own glowing bracelet. I followed the direction of his finger to find the skirt, my skirt, rolled up a bit due to the position I was in when I transformed. My face became as red as Chiyo’s as I grabbed it and yanked it back down.

I really hated skirts.

[VirtualPlay]

Mayonaka Yuki
Eating lunch
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Lunch with Hikaru ended up becoming Q&A time as he asked more and more questions about being a Kämpfer. I could tell he wasn't keen on the idea of being one, mostly due to the female transformation, but he was definitely interested in the flame powers he got.

I was in the middle of explaining the fire when I felt…something. I couldn't tell what it was, and when it passed, I ignored it and continued explaining to Hikaru. However, a couple moments later I felt it again, stronger this time, pulling towards the roof. The difference was, this time Hikaru reacted as well. I suddenly realized this was the sensation of an Evil being nearby. I hadn't felt that kind of sensation for over a month, the last time I had an encounter with one and was all alone.

Suddenly I felt a really strong pull, and Hikaru suddenly jumped out of his seat, his bracelet lighting up like crazy. He ran towards the doors of the cafeteria, drawing a little attention to himself, but it was noisy and busy in the room so he went mostly unnoticed. I looked across the hall to see Chiyo-chan standing up and watching him, her hand over her bracelet wrist.

We both headed after Hikaru, following him through the cafeteria door. Chiyo-chan and I went through after him, but didn't see him in the hallway. "Hikaru, are you okay?" I called out.

"Fine," she said from the small vending machine alcove. Chiyo-chan and I poked through to see that he had transformed, and she was now lying flat on her stomach in front of the vending machines. Chiyo-chan let out a soft gasp and buried her face in her hands. "I take it no one saw me?" she asked as she tilted her head backwards to look at me and Chiyo-chan, and I nodded slowly.

Hikaru looked at Chiyo-chan curiously, probably wondering why she was so embarrassed. I pointed down to where her skirt had very unceremoniously been flipped up in her mass hysteria, leaving her underwear partially showing; she hastily flipped it down. I knew it wasn't anything special, but both of them were now the color of a ripe tomato from the embarrassment.

As Hikaru carefully got up, the cafeteria doors suddenly opened again and we looked over. The first thing I noticed was that there were two people running by us; the second thing was that they each had a glowing red bracelet. Without thinking or saying anything I took off right behind them; I didn't care whether Chiyo-chan or Hikaru were following.

"Turn into the stairwell, you can transform there," I said hurriedly. I got a pair of glances back at me, but I held up my bracelet to let them know I was with them. I noticed one was the upperclassman that I had passed earlier in the hall, and the other was a girl I recognized from the bus. They fortunately took my advice and took the doors to the stairs. They hid under the stairs as they transformed. When they finished, two guys now stood in front of me, both about my height.

"Ugh, that was annoying," the one who must have been the girl from the bus said.

"It gets better and easier to control with time," I said as the stairwell door opened again and Hikaru and Chiyo-chan walked through; Chiyo-chan was back to holding her bracelet wrist. "I take it everyone here felt the pulling sensations from the roof?"

"Yeah, what was up with that?" the guy whom I had passed in the hall earlier said. I was about to answer when the door opened again, this time revealing Izumi-chan.

She took a quick glance around, my guess noting the bracelets everyone had, before holding her own wrist up to show her faintly-glowing bracelet. "So it wasn't just me, good," she said. She bowed her head slightly and said, "My name is Hisakawa Izumi, nice to meet you all."

I could tell some people were put off by her traditional response, but they didn't know Izumi-chan like I did. Even so, we ended up introducing ourselves, including any differing names between our Kämpfer forms. When that was over, Hayato-kun asked again, "So what was up with those sensations?"

"It means there's something up on the roof that we need to fight," I said, "and these stairs are the ones that lead up there." Without waiting for a response I started scaling the steps, and was glad to hear the steps of the others following. Just as I was turning the last part to where the roof door was, it opened and in rushed a guy with messy black hair. My eyes quickly caught a glimpse of his red bracelet as he noticed me.

"You really don't want to go out there right now," he said as the others came around the last corner.

"Actually, that's basically where we need to go," I said, holding up my own bracelet. He looked at it, then at me, then at the rest of the people behind me.

"Wait, are you more, um, 'camper' like me?" he asked hesitantly.

A voice shouted from his bag, "I told you, Kisuke, it's Kämpfer, not camper!" A small fox-like plush pushed its way out of his bag, looked us over, then said, "Yes, these are more Kämpfer. Hopefully you'll all be able to take this thing. It's disgusting!"

"Like, literally disgusting," the black-haired guy said. "It made me want to hurl the stench was so horrible. It's like all the cafeteria food spoiled all at once. Fortunately it didn't notice me as I slowly made my way to the door, but it's literally right out there."

I looked back at Chiyo-chan and Izumi-chan, nodding silently. Both of them nodded back, and I didn't blame their hesitance to transform; neither of their Kämpfer personalities sat well with their normal ones. Still, after a moment the seven of us were all in our Kämpfer forms, standing on the inside of the roof door—including Kiskue-kun with his new green hair—trying to hear anything.

"So what was it like, exactly?" I asked him.

Kisuke made a face, "It was basically a black blob, kinda humanoid-looking, but about 8 feet tall and it seemed to have something moving on its skin, if you can call it that. The worst part is the smell, though. It's horrible."

"Well then let's destroy it and get it over with," Kämpfer-Izumi said, and pushed through the door before I could protest. Immediately a wave of smell invaded our senses, and Kisuke wasn't kidding. This was rancid! I looked around quickly and saw the creature on the far side of the roof. If the smell was that strong coming from that far away, I wasn't sure I wanted to get any closer. Izumi looked disgusted, but not dissuaded from his attack. He concentrated and summoned his claymore sword before running towards the monster.

The rest of us quickly followed, the other red Kämpfer summoning their own weapons; Minoru and Hayato had a bit of trouble, but they got their weapons out after a bit. As we got closer, I saw what was actually moving across the 'skin' and got a little bit more disgusted.

"Eww, there's nasty food crawling through his body!" Chii-chan exclaimed loudly, drawing the creature's attention. It moved slowly, but deliberately, and at this rate Izumi stood no chance to hit it straight on. Quickly I charged a ball of electricity and hurled it around him to hit the creature, stunning it.

Izumi slashed at the creature's arm, but only got a small chunk of it. The black goo that fell off hit the ground with a sizzle, but the spot it was cut from slowly started to regenerate. Izumi was stunned by the growing spot and he didn't notice the other arm swing around to knock him back.

He slid towards us as we got closer, then stood up, obviously in pain. "That didn't work too well," he said, then readied himself to attack again.

I quickly grabbed his shoulder, "Wait, it's not working, its limbs grow back too quickly!"

He looked at me with an annoyed expression, "Then what do you suggest we do?"

"Attack it all together?" I said, before grabbing his sword blade and charging it with electricity. "Alternatively, this might work too," I said with a small smile. He just smirked before charging in again, this time with the other Red Kämpfer behind him.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Important note! Yuki feels three pulses, but everyone else (save possibly Kisuke, especially since he's on the roof) can only feel the second two.

Also, another attack the creature has is to throw a chunk of his body at someone, making them immobile under the glob until it dissolves after a few moments, while making them feel incredibly sick at the same time. The thrown chunk will regenerate much faster than any that's cut off.

[Crystal Tears]

. : + ♠ Minoru ♠ + : .
He's Alive, Live, Live
I feel he's comin’ through
He's Alive, Live, Live
My baby's pullin’ through

This wasn’t on the top of Minoru’s things to do today; in fact there was a splinter of regret in him as something in him didn’t want to be a male. It was awkward and strange, the entire change had lasted only a split second, yet to her, or him rather, the moment felt like a contorted eternity. Then there was the ever so slight awkwardness of suddenly fighting alongside people he had little to no knowledge about.

‘To be noted, I hate working with others…’ He thought as the plan was laid out. And what a horribly blunt plan it was. All of them were to attack at the same time. Minoru frowned at this, the blades in his hands felt foreign. Awkward in weight and strange to grip, he twirled the one in his right hand, as if testing it out.

“Oooh yeah…” He smirked at his own, and everyone’s idiocy for believing in this scheme. “This is gonna be great…”

The man who had charged before ran again, his sword charged and sparking with electricity. Minoru didn’t hesitate a moment longer, he followed close behind. Moving to the left and as the creature’s attention was on the dude with the sparking sword, he was free to move in an attack. It swung at the other attacker, dismaying the man before it turned its attention to Minoru just as he was rushing in.

It like out a sort of gross, gurgling noise before it attacked with a blunt move. The man moved, sliding right out of the way of the move like a dancer would.

‘Never thought spending hours learning those moves would help in a fight…’ He mused, and went to block an incoming attack when one came from behind.

Fire.

‘FUCK!’

It burned like hell, Minoru hissed, and both he and the monster recoiled, though he supposed for the demon it was more of surprise then anything. Putting distance between his opponent and himself, Minoru shot a glare back.

“Who the hell shot the fireball?”

A girl, obviously uncomfortably with the situation (who was amusingly trying to hold her skirt down in a fight) grimaced.

“.. Me?”

Minoru simply held up his right hand which was still a bit charred and burned. “Mind aiming next time?”

“S-Sorry!”

He turned his attention back to the monster just in time to leap out of the way of another attack, the monster hurled on him. A splatter of disgusting, bubbling, black… Stuff hit Minoru half way through the air and knocked him harshly onto the ground. Minoru struggled, his left leg stuck on the cement floor because of the super glue like substance.

“God… Damn… It…” He growled, looking up as the monster attacked again.

There was a moan and a loud human grunt, as suddenly standing between Minoru and the creature was Hayato, using his scythe as a block. The creature roared in anger, its call coming out as if a cow was drowning.

“If this thing pukes on me…” He threatened more towards Minoru then the actual demon.

“Yeah yeah, I know…” The man wrenched his leg free. “I’m dead, do me a favour and come up with a better threat next time…” Quickly he scurried away as Hayato forced the monster back.

There was a bright flash as an electrical ball flew from someone behind Minoru and slammed into the creature. That attack seemed to due considerable more damage than anything they had tried. Of course she seemed to be more comfortable with herself and in control, so the man imagined she had been a kampfer for a lot longer than himself or the others.

“This plan isn’t working…” Minoru growled, twirling his weapons again. “The rest of us can’t fight for shit…”

The girl looked over at him, and watched as one of the more in-your-face and bubbly girls was forced back after nearly blowing half of the group over in an attack gone astray.

“So what do you suggest?” She questioned.

“Well the rest of us are pretty good distractions, if anything…” He readied himself. “We can find a weak spot, maybe you can exploit it.”

“Alright…” She spoke; as they both watched the others recklessly attack. Her expression was that of annoyance, watching the bluntness and graceless attacks fail one after another. “Now we have to tell them…”

* * *

[DivineAll]

Oboro, Kisuke

*-*-*-*-*

"This was definitely not the way I expected to meet the other Kämpfer..." mumbled Kisuke while his bracelet was glowing brightly. Even after at least a month's worth of practice, he still could never get used to the tingling/shivering/pulling sensation that was in progress now. Although, he admitted after first transforming, it was short and to the point.

As soon as his transformation finished, he immediately concentrated hard and in an instant his lance appeared in his right hand à la Kingdom Hearts-style. He twirled it around a bit as he usually did whenever he obtained the weapon to get a feel for it and said, "Let's get ready to rumble!" Now outside his bag and watching the battle at a safe distance, Jinkuro merely sighed and mumbled, "Here we go again..."

Kämpfer-Kisuke immediately jumped high off the ground with the help of his lance and in mid-air pointed his lance downwards towards the creature as if he were a Final Fantasy Dragoon trying to damage his foe. The attack somewhat worked as the lance did hit the monstrosity's... head for lack of a better term as soon as Kämpfer-Kisuke landed, but he couldn't dislodge his lance out of the thing's... goop.

During the dislodging process, the creature did it's best imitation of a roar and tried to shake Kämpfer-Kisuke off who was very firmly grasping his lance trying to hang on and get it out simultaneously. After a few moments of the creature rocking, Kisuke was still holding and yelled out, "A little help from the peanut gallery, folks?!?"

Finally, the lance popped out and Kämpfer-Kisuke was thrown hard onto the entrance of the school roof. "Ow..." he groaned out. "Okay... Plan A: Reckless attacking. It didn't work... at all. Then again whenever has a Plan A ever worked in any situation? Plan B, the usual distract it with my random sayings, probably won't work either since I have no idea if this thing can be confused by my ramblings. Time for the rarely used Plan C then: Defend."

Kisuke then got up and did his best to protect his new allies by deflecting the strange goo the blob was throwing out with his lance by swinging it or twirling it. Unfortunately one chunk of gunk was too big to deflect and Kämpfer-Kisuke ended up with his entire body under the goo rendering him immobile, save for his face.

"Ugh... like this stuff wasn't nauseating enough." Kämpfer-Kisuke moaned. "This is just after I finished lunch too. I don't see how this can get any worse." As if on cue, the creature roared again and began shooting out more junk at him. "Why do I always forget not invoke Murphy's Law out loud?" Kämpfer-Kisuke questioned before he was pelted with even more goo.

[classy_cat18]

Sorry for the lateness!

Suzuro Chiyo – Female Kämpfer

This is not how I wanted my day to go at all. Thanks to the musings of my stupid Kämpfer, I couldn’t keep my blush or my wild imagination under control. The second that Hikaru-chan mentioned being a catgirl…

I try keeping my perverse thoughts to myself and at a minimum. But picturing Hikaru-chan as a catgirl in a maid outfit almost set off my transformation again. I had to stay outside until Hikaru-chan transformed back.

Now I was staying a safe distance away from them in the cafeteria, scared that Chii-chan had scarred Hikaru-chan for life and I had ruined my chance to make a good first impression. A part of me asked me why I was so worried; I didn’t even hang out with guys with the exception of the slightly feminine Yuki-kun. I didn’t even know of any Kämpfer besides him and his friend Izumi.

Why was I thinking of Hikaru-kun and Yuki-kun that way anyway? They’re only girls part of the time. The rest of the time they’re guys. I glanced at the two of them as they talked about something I couldn’t hear. What’s so appealing about them?

“And why the hell can’t I get this out of my mind?” I grumbled to myself, briefly catching the attention of a nearby student.

My attention was finally yanked from my thoughts when I felt a strange tug, like an invisible hand was pulling me toward the ceiling. I ignored it at first but it came back stronger. Then I remembered the last time I felt the feeling, the day I met Yuki-kun and fought that evil creature with him. And the first time I scared someone as Chii-chan, I thought to myself with a groan.

Hikaru-kun was the first one to get up and leave. I could catch a glimpse of his bracelet as it started to blink. Mine responded to his, and I covered it as I followed Yuki out the lunchroom to find Hikaru-kun. He had managed to find a hiding spot just in time, looking like he actually dove in there.

Unfortunately, with the short skirt female Kämpfer have…

"I take it no one saw me?" she asked us. She looked at me, curious about my bright blush.

It wasn’t fair. Her panties were cuter than mine.

Yuki-kun helpfully pointed out her exposed underwear. Hikaru-chan quickly pulled her skirt back down, and then we were both the same color. Yuki-kun chased after a couple of students that had run by us, most likely a couple of unfamiliar Kämpfer. I waited until Hikaru-chan was up before we chased after him. By the time we got to them, the new boy and girl were then two boys. Yuki-kun and I hadn’t transformed yet, but we had learned how to delay our transformations.

"I take it everyone here felt the pulling sensations from the roof?" Yuki asked the two.

"Yeah, what was up with that?" an older boy with dark blue hair and blue-grey eyes asked.

Yuki-kun started to answer, but then Izumi-chan came into the stairwell. "So it wasn't just me, good," she said in relief as she held up her glowing bracelet. "My name is Hisakawa Izumi, nice to meet you all."

The others were surprised by Izumi-chan’s manners, but it was a good idea to know everyone’s name at least. When it came to me, I gave a slight bow. “My name is Suzuro Chiyo. My other side likes to go by Chii, or Chii-chan.”

Shortly after, we were done. "So what was up with those sensations?" the blue-hair named Hayato asked again.

"It means there's something up on the roof that we need to fight," Yuki-kun answered, "and these stairs are the ones that lead up there." He started scaling the steps, the others following him. Hikaru-chan and I were in the back, neither of us comfortable with fighting in our transformations.

Another guy bust through the door just as Yuki-kun was about to open it. I noticed that he had a red bracelet around his wrist. "You really don't want to go out there right now," he warned us.

"Actually, that's basically where we need to go," Yuki-kun said as he held up his own bracelet.

The boy looked at Yuki-kun’s bracelet, then Yuki-kun, then to the group behind him. "Wait, are you more, um, 'camper' like me?" he asked hesitantly

"I told you, Kisuke, it's Kämpfer, not camper!" and angry voice rang from his bag. A fox-like plushie popped out of it. "Yes, these are more Kämpfer. Hopefully you'll all be able to take this thing. It's disgusting!"

"Like, literally disgusting," the black-haired guy agreed. "It made me want to hurl the stench was so horrible. It's like all the cafeteria food spoiled all at once. Fortunately it didn't notice me as I slowly made my way to the door, but it's literally right out there."

I heard Hikaru-chan gulp. Yeah, this was definitely going from bad to worse with him. Izumi-chan didn’t seem too thrilled either; her other personality was far different from her normal self. That probably got her more than the fact that she transformed into a guy. Nevertheless, she and I nodded at Yuki-kun and let our bracelets transform us.

Ugh, that Kisuke boy wasn’t kidding! That smell was enough to make me barf! I could picture my face all green and stuff! The frustration I felt was reflected in the breeze that I instinctively generated, gently rustling my hair and clothes.

Izumi charged straight for it, having a lot more courage than I did. I had to force my body to run towards it, and even then I stopped halfway when I noticed something moving around the surface of the creature. Was that...food?

"Eww, there's nasty food crawling through his body!" I yelled with disgust. That got the icky monster’s attention.

Yuki-chan fired a ball of electricity at the creature before it could attack the charging Izumi-kun. It was stunned long enough for Izumi to slice off a chunk of the thing’s shoulder…or whatever counted as its shoulder. We were relieved for a moment, then the shoulder-like part grew back.

Great, it can regenerate. I looked at Hikaru who was currently waving her hands around. “What are you doing?” I inquired.

“Trying to make more fire,” she said with frustration before finally throwing a fireball with an accidental throw of the hand. The fireball flew wildly and hit the creature.

And the Kämpfer named Minoru.

Oh boy.

“Who the hell shot the fireball?”

Hikaru winced with a blush and answered, trying to hold her skirt down while one of my sudden gusts kicked it up. She didn’t notice me trying to get a look at her cute cotton panties. I waited for Minoru to turn away before doing it again, this time catching her unaware. “Whoa!” she cried out as she held it down.

“Panty shot!” I laughed. “You have such cute kitties under there!”

She glared at me, although it was more like seeing a tomato with a pouty face. “Sh-shut up!” she retaliated. “This is a fight! Be more serious! Oh my god, DUCK!”

I turned my head in time to see a blob of garbage fly right for my face, and crazily fired a few wind scythes at it. The blob was sliced in half and knocked away from me, but the rest flew into the rest of the group and knocked them back.

“Chii-chan!” Yuki shouted.

“Sorry!” I quickly apologized.

“We need a distraction, and the monster seems to hate you!”

The comment sort of irked me. “That’s not very nice,” I said with a pout.

“DUCK!” Hikaru cried out again. I did so, feeling the breeze from the throw pass over my head.

“Okay, okay!” I yelled as I started to circle the creature.

[Roy Karrde]

Okada, Hikaru
~*~*~*~*~ Trash Time ~*~*~*~*~

I couldn’t help but stop in my tracks as we reached the roof, of all the events I had seen today, fireballs, gender changes, split personalities, even talking animals. Of all those things this had to take the cake, literally. A large monster who’s smell made me want to vomit, a monster that seemed to belong more in manga than in the real world. Yet here it was right in front of my face, with a smell that told me that it wasn’t a fantasy.

The beginning of the battle, the crackle of electricity from some one’s attack brought me back to reality. This thing was at the school, and we did have to stop it or else it could endanger the rest of the students. I moved along the gated enclosure that made up the roof, finally finding a spot as far away as possible from the smell, and thrust out my hand.

“C’mon fireball, work…” I concentrated, shaking my hand up and down to try and reproduce what ever I did earlier today.

“What are you doing?” I heard Chiyo, no Chii call out to me.

“Trying to make more fire!” I replied in frustration, flicking my hand forward over and over again until I felt the same energy coursing through it as I did before, and in the blink of a eye a ball of flames leapt from my hand with a poorly thrown toss, flying wildly toward the monster and…

“Who the hell shot that fireball!” One of the kampfer called out in anger as I slumped against the gate in embarrassment.

“Me” I replied, a gust of wind rushed through my legs, giving me the same alien and uncomfortable sensation that I had felt the last time I transformed. I grabbed my skirt and did my best to hold it down, letting out a small feminine cry of shock, which embarrassed me even further as I heard it leave my lips.

“Mind aiming next time?” The boy asked as I gave a short nod and a quick apology, my mind focused on making sure my skirt didn’t blow off. After a moment I slowly moved my hands away, trying to recreate the fireball again, and just as I began to get comfortable the wind came again.

“Woah!” I cried out, grasping my skirt again, this time to the laughter of Chii.

“Panty shot!” She seemed to laugh even harder as my face reddened in embarrassment and anger “You have such cute kittens under there”

“Sh-Shut up!” I tried to spit the words out, my face feeling incredibly hot. I hadn’t dare look at anything under the clothes yet, and the thought of kitten panties made the whole situation even more embarrassing. “This is a fight! Be more serious!” My eyes began to focus behind her and toward the monster as I watched what seemed to be a ball of garbage suddenly get thrown in our direction “Oh my god, DUCK!” I cried out, leaping away with dexterity I never knew I had.

I came out of the roll a couple of feat away from where the garbage had landed and instantly sprung to my feet faster than I ever would have in my old body. I glanced over at Chii to see if she were okay, and then at the monster, there was some talk of battle strategy but right now all I could focus on was recreating the fireball again, this time hopefully I wouldn’t hit some one else.

Another ball of garbage was hurled in our direction, this time it seemed even bigger than the last. “Duck!” I screamed at Chii again, as I took off racing in the other direction, my head turned to make sure Chii got out of the way as I ran in one direction away from the balls of garbage.

“Hikaru look..” I heard Yuki yell, I turned my head to see a flash of skin and hair before running head first into some one, my body pitched forward as both of us fell to the ground with a hard thud. When I opened my eyes I found myself face to face with Yuki.

I partially felt like an idiot for running right into someone in the mist of a battle, but I had to admit Yuki was beautiful, even if it was another guy underneath. I tried and failed to prevent a blush and rolled off of her, trying my best to get my bearings. How ever I was thankful that Chii was focusing on killing the monster, I could only shudder at what her reaction would be to what just happened.

“I take it you haven’t been able to control your fireballs?” Yuki asked, rising back up and offering a hand which I gladly took.

Once back on my feet I looked away a bit embarrassed, here I was infront of all the others and I couldn’t even control a single fireball. “Not a clue” I finally admitted with a shrug as the monster roared again.

“Got any pointers?”

[VirtualPlay]

Mayonaka Yuki
Trying not to die or throw up
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So the 'attack it all together' plan wasn't working out too well. Nobody knew each other, so nobody knew how to work with one another. This was turning out to be more of a disaster that I had thought. Minoru even barely dodged taking serious damage from one of Hikaru's fireballs.

What's worse, while my electric balls were more potent overall, they seemed to do little more than stun the creature. Still, it was enough to distract it while Minoru escaped from a glob that he had been trapped under. He managed to make it over to me before the monster could react and trap him again.

"This plan isn't working," he growled as he twirled his weapons. "The rest of us can't fight for shit." I looked at him, figuring I'd mention that he was at least skilled at dodging, but then realized that might not exactly help. We then watched as Chii threw some wind attacks that didn't all hit the target…

Figuring he might have a better plan than 'attack it all together,' I asked, "So what do you suggest?"

"Well, the rest of us are pretty good distractions, if anything…" he said, then readied himself. "We can find a weak spot, maybe you can exploit it."

"Alright…" I said hesitantly; after what little my electric attacks had done so far compared to my last time fighting, I didn't think this would work as well as he hoped. Still, it was better than what we were currently doing, which was basically attacking at random and hoping for the best. "Now we have to tell them," I added, a hint of annoyance in my voice.

Another huge glob fell down, trapping Kisuke almost completely. "Okay," I said, "start with freeing Kisuke, then try and grab everyone and pull them far enough away so the blobs can't hit us. We need to regroup out of his range so we can actually get the message across." Minoru nodded, then waited until the creature was focused on Chii and Hikaru before diving in to slash the glob apart, freeing Kisuke.

The creature hurled another blob at Hikaru and Chii, who both ran apart to avoid it. Unfortunately, Hikaru wasn't watching where she was going and was headed straight for me. I managed to yell out, "Hikaru, look…" before she slammed into me. We fell over, and she stunned me for a second when she landed on me. I opened my eyes and saw Hikaru there, getting up from the fall, a huge blush suddenly crossing her face.

As she rolled off of me to let me up, I realized that Hikaru must have felt uncomfortable and slightly embarrassed at being on top of me like that. It was a bit amusing to realize she was really a guy after seeing such a girlish reaction, but I figured that was just her not being used to her new body. Speaking of not being used to the body, I asked, "I take it you haven't been able to control your fireballs?" I reached down and helped her up off the ground.

As she stood up she looked to the side, admitting, "Not a clue." She shrugged in defeat, as the monster let out another roar. I looked and saw that Minoru had managed to convince Hayato and Izumi to retreat for the time being. "Got any pointers?" Hikaru asked, slightly oblivious.

"Yeah," I said hastily as everyone started making their way away from the monster, "let's get over to the other side of the roof and plan, then I'll help." Fortunately, the one good point of the monster was that it was really slow.

We made it to the other side of the roof, and I quickly figured out a plan, "Okay, what we really need to do is launch a coordinated attack. If we keep attacking randomly, we won't get anywhere. Here's what I think we should do…"

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"Are you sure we can do this, Yuki?" Hikaru asked, as everyone else got ready to charge the monster.

"Pretty sure," I said, "Now, while everyone else goes ahead, you need to focus on the monster. Right now, you can't just will a fireball, you have to really want it." The monster took another step, which was everyone else's cue to charge. "Hold out your right hand," I said, and Hikaru did; I put myself behind her, put my left hand on her shoulder, and held my right hand out next to hers.

Kisuke charged forward, and I prayed he made it; his part was to distract the monster so that everyone else could hit it. The monster made to swipe but Kisuke charged in faster and plunged his lance into the monster's head.

I spoke quietly, but firmly in Hikaru's ear, "Right now, your friends, and some not-so-friends, are fighting over there. They can damage it, but they might not be able to kill it."

As I hoped, it stopped swiping, suddenly shocked from the lance in its head. Izumi and Chii wasted no time, each of them slicing off an arm.

"You need to help them. You need to help destroy that monster. You need to focus and put your energy out to help destroy that disgusting abomination."

Minoru and Hayato moved next, each of them slicing off a leg, which caused the creature to topple forwards. Kisuke backed up, but not much as he let his lance spear further into the creature's head.

"We're a team, which means everyone needs to help one another. And right now, they all need your help. They need your help to put an end to the monster. And they need it right now."

All of a sudden, there was heat coming from Hikaru's hand, and soon a ball of fire grew. Quickly I focused as well, charging a ball of electricity around the fireball. The ball grew a little more, then flew off. Controlling it as best I could, I angled it around Kisuke and straight for where his lance was spearing the head.

At the last moment, Kisuke pulled his lance out, and the electric-fireball connected right in the hole that was left behind. The creature suddenly started sparking all over before bursting into flames. As the creature burned to the rooftop, it melted into a puddle of sludge that smelled particularly foul, but it burned away completely.

"So this is what this is all about?" Hayato said after the gunk had all disappeared. "We have to transform whenever there's one of these monsters and use our powers and weapons to destroy it?"

"That's about it!" Chii said, flashing a smile.

"Well then here's a question for you:" Minoru said, "When do we get to transform back?"

"Right now!" Chii answered again, and her bracelet glowed quickly before she transformed back into Chiyo.

"Just focus on your normal body and you should be able to transform back," I said as most of them were staring at Chiyo's quick transformation. I focused as well, and soon just Minoru, Hayato, and Hikaru were left to transform. After a couple moments Hayato got his to go, followed closely by Minoru.

That left Hikaru, whom I figured would have the hardest time. Everyone but Chiyo left us to go back down. Hikaru was standing with her eyes closed, looking deep in thought. We stood there for a minute. Then another. Then…

"Um, Yuki-kun?" Chiyo spoke up, "It's 5 minutes until lunch is over…"
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[Roy Karrde]

Okada, Hikaru
~*~*~*~*~ Library: Most Boring Place Ever ~*~*~*~*~

“Stay in the library she said, you will change back soon she said” I gazed up at a strand of hair that fluttered down in front of my eyes, landing on my nose and serving as a constant reminder that my body was still feminine, hours after the battle. The screen on the computer flashed, displaying the latest list of websites from my search. For the last few hours I had been looking up ‘Kampfer’ in the hope that the word would lead to something anything about what I had gone through in the past few hours.

Instead I came away with two things, first the word was German, and second it was a Gundam, which really didn’t help me at all. “Useless” I groaned, slamming my head into the keyboard, which received more than a few glances from those around me.

“You could ask Kimba if you wanted to know more about Kampfers” Yuki’s voice flowed into my ears, causing my heart to leap into my throat. The image of the two of us together, myself on top of her during the battle was still fresh in my mind. I turned to get a glance of Yuki, now a boy, as well as another girl who look familiar slide in next to me at the computer station. “I’m not sure if you met before the battle, this is Izumi” He gestered to the girl as I gave a smile and soft wave, trying my best to keep my eyes off of Yuki. It was disturbing at best to say that when ever I looked at my male neighbor, I got these feelings and could only think about his female form.

“I was talking to Izumi and I thought that since most of us were unfamiliar with battling along side with each other, or even knowing each other, it would be best to find some way for us to meet and get to know each other, as well as train..” Yuki was cut off as Izumi seemed to chime in with out thinking.

“Non violently” She added before looking slightly embarrassed, Yuki motioned for her to continue as I leaned in curiously to hear what their plan was. “So I know this club room we can use after school, no one would look in on us since it’s a club and it gives us a place to meet, but there is one problem, we have to tell everyone.”

I slumped down in my chair, that is a problem, made even harder that I could barely remember what half of them looked like, and most of those were in their other form. “I guess we should split up and go looking for them.” I offered getting up; I would do anything, absolutely anything to get out of the library after having spent several hours doing absolutely nothing.

Before either of them could say a word I bolted from the library, I didn’t want to waste the chance and end up spending a hour or so with Yuki, listening to him discuss the club, especially when I couldn’t stop thinking of… that moment. I let out a long sigh once I was safely away from the library, my shoulders going slack as the energy just seemed to drain out of my body. What a day, filled with gender changes, fire, monsters, skirts, I don’t know if I could take another day like this.

I turned to head down the first hallway and raised my head to figure out a way through the end of day crowd. It was then that I saw her, coming out of a class room near the end of the hallway: Chiyo. “Crap” I mumbled, glancing around quickly for an exit, after everything that happened during lunch and the battle I had a feeling I was the very last person she wanted to see.

Our eyes locked for a moment before I pivoted around on my heel, turning to head right back to where I came in, only to hit what felt like a brick wall. Unlike when I ran into Chiyo that morning, this time I felt two strong hands grab my arms to keep me upright. “Well who do we have here?” The voice hit me like a punch in a gut; it was the bully from yesterday and this morning, the one that had chased me into the bathroom when I changed.

“I haven’t seen you before, damn you are beautiful” The bully's hand stroking the side of my cheek as my knees began to shake and my heart pound, this bastard had made my life miserable for the last few weeks, and now he was touching me and stroking my face. “What’s your name?” He asked moving me up against the cold steel locker.

My heart felt as if it was about to rip out of my chest in fear, and even worst, I could feel my bracelet heat up, what was with this guy that made me transform? “I need to go..” I tried to brush past him as he grabbed my left arm and pressed it against the locker, obviously not taking no for a answer, if I transformed here in front of the school and he found out he had been hitting on the dork he had beaten up just the day before. I would be so dead.

“I’ll make it easy, I’ll give you a chance to win a date with me” His hand went for my other wrist, the one with the glowing bracelet, only for another hand to grab it before he could.

“C’mon sis we have to get home.” The boy with chocolate brown eyes stated flatly, giving my arm a strong enough pull that the bully let go and allowed me to be pulled away. “She will kill us if we don’t get home on time” He continued as I blinked cluelessly. Sis?

“Tomorrow” The Bully called out as the boy with brown eyes and messy black hair seemed to pull me further and further away from the bully before finally letting my hand go.

“Thanks, but I think you have me confused with some one…” I rubbed my sore wrists as my voice trailed off as the boy held up his red bracelet. “I’m Hikaru, one minute” I switched gears, the bracelet heating up as I rushed into one of the small band rooms, each one barely the size of a broom closet but completely empty at the end of the day.

Seconds later I walked out, a boy again, and absolutely grateful for finally being boobless. “As I said, I’m Hikaru, I don’t know how I can thank you,” I paused before finally remember as to why I sat out in the first place. “Oh Izumi has this idea for all of us to meet at this club, so I’m trying to find the other Kampfers, I could always use some company”

It sounded corny, as well as slightly feminine which worried me, and I felt like a idiot talking to this guy who I had never met before, but he saved me from being killed by the bully's fist, or worse yet dating him.

Trying to tag as many people as physically possible XD Kalad I believe did come up with the group meeting, please if I am stepping on any toes tell me, but just try to make your way to the group room, or deal with after school activities.

[DivineAll]

Oboro, Kisuke

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"Ugh... Worst. Battle. That I've ever. Been in." Kisuke complained. He had earlier transformed back to normal, by his standards, and left the roof quietly as soon as soon as the battle was finished. He was very lucky and fortunate that his next class was physical education which meant time in the showers. He and Jinkuro couldn't stand the stench that was left over from his body from the muck monster's debris. Currently, Kisuke was standing naked in the showers alone with his backpack nearby outside, Jinkuro with his head popped out of it.

"Worse than the first battle you've been in involving that cigarette monster?" Jinkuro yelled out to him. Kisuke thought for a moment before responding, "Okay, I stand corrected. Second worst battle I've ever been in. I think that first battle took off a few years off my life thanks to secondhand smoke!"

"For the record, I wouldn't know anything about smoking since it didn't exist in the time I was in." Jinkuro noted. "Sure, you don't..." Kisuke sarcastically replied.

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After school was over, Kisuke, now fully clothed and smelling less rancid, made his way towards the library, alone, to do some studying. "Ugh... who's brilliant idea was it to invent cologne?" Kisuke asked. "I think I'd prefer cigarette smoke and that spoiled food monster's smells combined than the smell of cologne."

Jinkuro, still with his head outside his backpack, merely shrugged. "New topic: why are you going to the library? I thought modern day Japanese spent time in one classroom only and had all their classes taught in said class."

"It doesn't mean we spend all our time in that one classroom, Naruto-kun." Kisuke responded. "Some classes are held outside in different areas for subjects that are too big for a regular classroom such as music, science, or physical education. Right now, I'm just going to the library to do research for my English class project. Professor Tezuka's projects always involve spending as much time in the library as possible for some reason. I don't know why he assigns projects like that, but we do it anyway. Like I said earlier, no Gaming Club meeting today, and I still have a little work to do on the project since I'm almost done."

"Kisuke!" Jinkuro shouted. "Do you feel that energy?" Kisuke stopped his traveling and responded, "In the month that I've had this bracelet so far, you should know that even though I have transformation under control, I don't have a mastery over sense of other Kämpfer nearby. Who is it and where are they?"

"Just around the corner," Jinkuro replied. "Since we didn't introduce ourselves properly to the others yet, I can only sense that it's a male with... ugh, a blue bracelet." Kisuke chuckled out, "Like I said earlier, you guys sure know how to differentiate the male and female gender..."

While Jinkuro was grumbling out complaints as he returned inside the stuffy backpack, Kisuke looked around the corner to see a girl with a glowing blue bracelet trying to avoid the advances of a boy he knew to who was a bully around school. "Looks like she could use some help." Kisuke noticed.

Kisuke then rushed toward the girl and grabbed the wrist that had the glowing bracelet on it. “C’mon, sis we have to get home.” Kisuke said strongly pulling her arm lossening her grip from the bully and pulling her away. “She will kill us if we don’t get home on time.”

“Tomorrow!” the bully yelled out towards Kisuke and the girl. Kisuke then had a small hunch why Jinkuro was so adverse towards women, but would ask in the very distant future.

As soon as they were at a far enough distance, the girl who was now rubbing her wrists said, slightly confused but gratefully, “Thanks, but I think you have me confused with some one…” Kisuke immediately held up his red bracelet in silence. “I’m Hikaru," the girl said immediately understanding. She quickly looked at her brightly glowing bracelet and said, "One minute!” Hikaru then rushed into one of the small, nearby, empty band rooms. Kisuke merely blinked before Hikaru walked back out of the room, now male. “As I said, I’m Hikaru, I don’t know how I can thank you,” He paused for a bit before saying, “Oh, Izumi has this idea for all of us to meet at this club, so I’m trying to find the other Kämpfer, I could always use some company.” Kisuke blinked again and said, "You're welcome, no need to thank me, I'm Kisuke, and where are we supposed to meet?"