Ballard of Fallen Angels and Shadow

A Villainous Brother.

As Keralynn was wandering around in amazement, she heard a familiar voice, which made her blood run cold as her eyes widened with fear. “No. Way. Keralynn?! The monster really IS here!” She hears the voice say in English before they laugh. She turns around to see three fellow NHA students from the Hero Course standing in front of her. One was a red Newt, the second was a human with short red hair and wearing blue hearing aids, and the last one was also a human with long blond hair and sapphire blue eyes. She took a deep breath to hide her fear and gave the brightest fake smile she could muster.

“H-Heya Stephanie, Cleome, Anaise. What brings you here to Japan?” She asked.

“Cleome here won a six day five night stay in Japan in a raffle for her and four others. Her parents are here but they’re at the Hotel.” The one called Stephanie signed to her, using American Sign Language.

“What do you three want?” The young Axel appeared, growling at them. Stephanie hid behind Cleome.

“So, the rumors really are true. Your Illusions really can appear and disappear without using your voice. That doesn’t change the fact that you’ll still be nothing more than a sidekick, used only for distractions. And with this new discovery, it just makes you even more of a monster than before.” The blond headed said.

“You look really pretty in that Kimono, Keralynn.” The red headed girl signed without the other two noticing.

Keralynn signed back with a “Thank you” and a smile. “It belongs to my friend, Reika, The friend I am currently staying with.”

“So, what’s a freak like you doing in Japan?” Asked the red Newt.

“V-Visiting a friend.” She said shyly.

“A friend? Did you hear what she just said Anaise? She’s visiting a ‘friend’!” The newt said as she laughed.

“I didn’t think she had any friends, other than Stephanie here!” The blond headed girl called Anaise chimed in.

“Let alone any outside the country.” The newt said.

The red head with the hearing aids stood in fear as the Newt and Anaise walked around Keralynn. “Tell us why you’re really here, freak. Did your dear old daddy bring you here on one of his tours? Did he finally decide that you were just in his way and decided to abandon you as far away from him as possible?” Anaise asked meanly as she smiled slyly.

“And what’s with the Kimono? It looks like a design a child would wear. This hair pin is much too grown up for you to wear.” The Newt said as she took out the hair pin Koda had given her, making her hair fall.

“Give that back to her, Cleome! Someone special gave it to her.” The young Axel said in an angered tone as he tried to get the hair pin back.

“Someone special, you say. And who might this ‘special someone’ be?” Anaise asked as she smiled slyly.

“A new friend that she met here in Japan. He’s a better friend than you two ever were!” The young Axel said as he growled.

The Newt called Cleome smiled. “You want the pretty pin, kitty? Go get it!” She said as she threw the hairpin far from the festival lighting.

The Young Axel watched in fear as the hairpin landed somewhere in the trees. He looked back at the girls and growled. “How DARE YOU throw something that is most precious to Keralynn!” He hissed.

The boys and Reika watched in anger as Axelander held them back. “Why are you holding us back, Skyies?” Koda and Tokoyami asked at the same time in an angered tone as they glared at him.