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Time: Early morning
Location: City

Well, I’ve learned some new abilities, but now I have to go see someone. Today is the day I get even. I walked through the city into the Residential District. Mayuno saw me and ran up to me.

“Where you going?” she said, hopping next to me.

“To get even.” I said, staring straight forward and not looking at Mayuno. Her expression changed and she followed me. Before long we were in front of Trowa’s house. I noticed a sign on the door, but it had scratch marks on it.

I sighed, “Trowa was never good with writing due to his nails.” I tried to make out what it said an read aloud. “To everyone…I’m moved…won’t be back here…tell you where I live…Trowa.”

“Moved!?” Mayuno shouted. She fell to her knees and whimpered as I crumpled the note. “Damnit, and he still owed me money!” I said kicking the ball away. Mayuno jumped up and cracked me in the back of my head, “OW, WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR!?”

“You’re so selfish.” she said putting her hands on her hips. Just then I noticed a gleam of light in the bushes nearby. I reached over and pulled out a large bag of gold. When I opened it up, it was filled to the brim with gold. There was a note on top, and I read it. It said “To Mike…consider…payment…we’re even…Farewell.”

I jumped up and down, “Trowa was always my best friend!” Mayuno cracked me on the back of the head again.

We walked back into the city and were walking back to where we had met up when I saw Roxas bolt out of a store.

“ROXAS, WAIT!” Mayuno screamed, “YOU HAVEN’T TRIED THOSE PLATFORM SHOES YET THAT HAVE A DIFFERENT COLOR FOR EVERY PLATFORM!” With that, Roxas ran faster as I broke down on the ground dying of laughter. Just then someone grabbed my right arm.

“Just as I thought.” I remember the voice. Strict as all Hell, intimidating, and usually meant pain. With that I was flipped onto my back. Mayuno and Roxas came running back to me.

“I teach you everything about alchemy and you go off and try to use it on humans!” There was a tall woman with long brown hair standing before my crippled body. She was wearing a short tank top that showed off her stomach and her bust, short shorts, and tall biker boots. Attached to her belt was a katana in it’s sheath. From the look of it, you couldn’t tell she was also a vampire. I slumped up to a sitting position, “Hello Teacher.” I said nervously.

“That’s your teacher!?” Mayuno said surprised.

I didn’t get to answer. “What are you going to do next? Join the Federation! Become a Royal Guard! An Elite! Answer me Michael!” As Teacher shouted that I scooted backwards to avoid being stepped on when she slammed her boot down.

“N-no ma’am, it’s just that I-WHA!” I barely blocked the swing of her blade with my right arm.

She kept swinging her blade, “Huh, what do you have to say for yourself!”

“Stop attacking me!”

“Not good enough!”

“Mayuno, help!” Mayuno just stood there, wondering about what was happening.

After a severe beating and being tied up, I found myself being carried back to Teacher’s house by Roxas. When they saw her house he dropped me.

“That…that house is huge!” They cried at the same time. It was a tall mansion, covering about fifty or more acres of land. Behind it was a large outdoor swimming pool, and in the room near it was an indoor pool. There were stables for horses, rooms galore, but only one guest room. I remembered all the rooms too well. While lying on the ground, I used momentum to start rolling away, but rolled into Teacher, who kicked me through the doorway with one kick. When I hit the wall, the rope weakened, and I was able to break free. I thought about running, but then realized she was still faster than me. Instead I ran up and held the door for her…and she smashed her fist down on my head, knocking me to the ground. Mayuno and Roxas just stepped over me.

After Teacher showed them to the guest room, she dragged me off and made me help making dinner…WITHOUT ALCHEMY! Then again, I am a fairly good cook. In a few moments, there was an array of food ready. Of coarse, I barely got a chance to eat, as Teacher was making me go around and clean the house.

“I guess this is punishment for human alchemy.” I said aloud in a hallway. Just then I was grabbed and dragged off. In a minute I was in the practice room with Teacher.

“No Mike…”she said, putting her hand on her sheath, just below the hilt of her blade, “THIS IS YOUR PUNISHMENT!” She flicked her thumb forward, shooting out her sword and catching it in her right hand. She dashed at me, and was in front of me in a split second, but in that time my keyblade was in my hand. I blocked four swings of her blade and jumped back from the fifth.

“Teacher, please! I was naive at the time!” I said, parrying her blows.

“No excuses!” She swung her arm at me. I dodged it, grabbed it, and threw her at the wall. She jumped off of it and swung her sword at me. I smashes the hilt of my blade into it and sent both her and her blade flying at the opposite wall. She landed and just barely missed face planting the wall, but when she turned around the blade went through her left arm.

“Teacher!”

She stood there, stunned, then reached up and pulled the blade out of her arm. It was broken at the tip, and her skin peeled off revealing a shiny metal casing under it. It was automail.

“Teacher,” I said becoming very serious, “how’d you get that automail?”

She sheathed her blade and walked up to me, placing her arms on my shoulders. “Are you sure you want to know?” she said calmly. I nodded yes. “It…was your father.”

I backed away from her. “Is that a joke? Oh, I get it, that’s part of the punishment, making me feel bad.”

She pulled down the upper left of her shirt. It was hard to tell with the fake skin, but I could see that around the automail attachment, there was a burn mark. A burn from a flaming sword, like the one my father carried so long ago. I stood there in disbelief. She put her arm back on my shoulder and smiled gently. “Go to sleep. We’ll talk more tomorrow.” I snapped out of it and nodded yes before walking back to the guest room.

When I got to the guest room and walked in, Mayuno was sitting on the bed looking angry.

“What’s wrong Mayuno?”

“Roxas locked himself in the closet so I couldn’t mess with his clothes.” she said angrily. Roxas said something, but we couldn’t understand him. I just walked over to a couch and sat on it, staring out the window.

“Mike,” Mayuno said, “you ok?”

“Get some sleep guys…you should leave tomorrow.” Mayuno didn’t say anything, and neither did Roxas. Mayuno fell asleep in less than an hour.

“You know, you’re teacher’s gorgeous.” Roxas said.

“You don’t know her like I do.” I replied, “She’s strict as hell.”

“Even so.” And after that, he fell asleep.

I just continued looking through the window. The city lights were small from this far out. It was a beautiful sight. But I couldn’t stop thinking about why my dad attacked Teacher. What was his motives…and would he come back. I looked at the sky and watched all the stares slowly fade away as I fell asleep.

When morning came, I was already up and strolling through the halls. It had been awhile since I was here. I was on the third floor still, and that’s when I turned the corner and almost ran into Teacher. I jumped back, startled, then bowed for forgiveness. She stared at me.

“There’s no need for that Mike.” she said, putting her hand on my head. I looked up at her. “Here…to the sparring room.” I followed her into an elevator and we began our decent to the sparring room. I remembered the room well. She stole a hologram from the Federation, copied it with alchemy, and used the holograms for training material. When the hologram was disrupted with enough force, it would disappear. She’d put me up against slow enemies, fast enemies, flying enemies, anything that could attack, I would fight.

When the elevator stopped, we walked out of the room and entered the sparring chamber. The walls were black, and looked like it was covered with giant black bubble wrap that had green slits down the center of each bubble. The floor and walls were covered with shatterproof glass, so if a sword struck it, it would hold.

“So what will it be today Teacher,” I said, calmly walking into the room, “knights, hell hounds, crawlers.” I turned to see her standing there with her hand on her blade. “…Teacher?”

“I’d like to see if my apprentice is as great as his friends say he is.” she said, drawing her blade.

“Heh…” I gave her a small smile as I summoned my sword. “After I win, we talk.”

She sighed, “This is going to take awhile then.”

We stood still, completely still. There was a squeak as her foot shifted, and we took off at the same time. Our blades collided, and we were both send flying backwards. When I hit the ground I spun around, grabbing the key chain on my blade and throwing it at her. She just dodged it, but I slammed my fist into her left arm. She spun from the blow, but delivered a roundhouse kick to me, sending me towards my blade. I grabbed it an slid across the floor, just in time to block the slash of her sword. I smashed it to the ground and tried to kick her side, but she grabbed my foot and spun me around, flinging me at the wall. I landed on it perfectly.

“So why’d he do it?” I said, lunging at her.

“Because, I was getting too close to something he probably didn’t want me to find out.” She said as she parried a blow and sent me to the floor. She swung her blade down at me, but I blocked it

“And do you know what that is?” I said, knocking her blade away and delivering a kick to her stomach.

“Not yet.” she caught my feet with her hands and tried to throw me over her head and smash me into the ground. I grabbed the floor with my hands and spun, sending her flying. “Enough talk, now we duel!”

After about two hours of blocking blows, we sat on a wall, both of us breathing heavily. She put her arm on my shoulder. “You’re still pretty good Mike.”

“Thanks…” I barely panted out. “So…what did my father do?”

“Well…I was in one of the Federation’s main buildings not that long ago. I was trying to get some info on a material that boosts your alchemic reactions. I was in the building pretty deep, when your father just appeared. He told me to turn around, but instead I took him on…and the rest is simple, he sliced off my arm, and I barely managed to get out. Lucky for me…the automail job was done fast.” She pulled the fake skin off the automail. I looked at it.

“Sorry Teacher, but you got ripped off.” She looked at me, flames in her eyes. “B-but don’t worry, I can make it better!” I clapped my hands and placed it on her automail. It shined and turned into a sleeker, lighter automail that was still very durable.

She tested it out. “Wow…this is actually a lot better.”

“Um…Teacher?”

“Yes Mike?”

“Do you know where my father is now?” Just then a siren went off. A voice came into the room, “Security breach. Hostile life form located in backyard.”

We took off into the elevator and she flipped up a metal pad. She slammed her hand into the button, and the elevator took off super fast. It began to slow quickly, then stopped. The doors opened, and we were outside. We took off towards the center of the backyard when we stopped. We stood back to back, ready for anything. Just then, four waves of flame came flying across the ground. My keyblade flashed blue and as I swung it, I shouted “Wind Scar!” The Wind Scar canceled out the flames. A quick blur of color came out of the trees and landed in front of us. It was my father.