Infinite Stratos: Solar Akatsuki

Chapter 8 - Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!

Last Time: The school gets a new student, who seems to hate Ichika's guts.

Next Time: Zora finds out a shocking revealation about his roommate

(Opening Theme: Back - On)

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Upon seeing Ichika get smacked by the new transfer student, Zora shot up from his seat and grabbed Laura's arm with an angry look on his face.

"Hey! What the hell do you think you're doing!" said Zora.

"This does not concern you, Ukashi," Laura replied coldly, not even glancing his way.

"When it involves my friends, then it becomes my business, so start talking," Zora refused to back down from this.

"Do not make me repeat myself... stay out of my way,"

"Make me."

As soon as he said that, Laura lashed out with a high kick however Zora instantly reacted by arching backwards for his hands to land on the ground then spun around to perform a butterfly kick to which Laura quickly jumped backwards to get out of range. Both glared at each other as the rest of the class looked on with worry.

"That's enough out of the both of you! Return to your seats before I hand out any punishments!" said Chifuyu with a stern look as if daring them to continue.

Zora and Laura continued to glare at each other until Zora backed away and returned to his seat, but that didn't stop him from taking a side glance at her. He also failed to notice the girls whispering amongst themselves about how cool he was when he avoided the kick and retaliated with his own.

Later on, it was time for IS practice joined by Class 2, and everyone was at the training grounds with a few practicing in the IS provided by the academy. It was there that Zora was having a chat with Ichika about what had happened early in the morning.

"Geez, what the hell was up with that girl? She nearly slapped the your teeth loose, " said Zora.

"I've never met her before in my life...wait she said that she was from Germany. Maybe she was one of them," said Ichika thoughtfully.

"Excuse me, Zora, Ichika," both boys turned to see Charles approaching them with a smile.

"Hey Charles, what's up?" asked Zora.

"I was hoping to ask if one of you could spar with me for a while? I want to try fighting Byakushiki or Solar Akatsuki,"

"Why don't you go for it, Ichika? I'll be doing a little tune-up for my IS later," Narutora turned to Ichika.

"Oh okay, then I'll be the one to spar with you, Charles,"

"Thank you," said Charles happily.

Zora watched as the two squared off before activating their IS with Ichika in his Byakushiki. Then Charles placed a hand over an orange necklace as it glowed brightly before finally dimreveal his IS. Zora took note that Charles's IS closely resembles the Raphael Revive like the one Maya uses except that the armor has been modified, there were two sets of wings and an arm sized shield attached to her left arm, but most important of all...