The star shaped fiery explosion carried on for ten seconds, making sure that Michealus Seraphyx could fight no more, more or less nuked, the fire cooking him inside the ice prison with divine power, Phenics and Yuki, one hand still clasped in each other's watched in awe at finally pulling off their ultimate attack, after the explosion having died down, the prism gone, Phenics realized something which flustered him greatly.
Crud! my hand's still clasped in Yuki's? Play it cool man "Damn, our ultimate attack actually worked, ain't that cool?"
Phenics blushed up a storm, his hand was still clasped in Yuki's own so nobody noticed, his heart pounding like a rock drum set
Isn't that cute? He's trying so hard not too bring attention to it "You're just saying that cause we're holding hands."
She sounded playful, her fingers tightening in the spaces between his own, she could hear the "tch" forming.
"Tch, woman, we held hands all the time when we were younger, you always initiated it, don't act all cool and calm."
And there it was, Phenics' verbal tick that rounds off his personality so well, he pulled, but he felt her grip tighten.
Kazuya and Miko, now also done being mesmerized at the combo lowered their countenances to the duo of fire and ice, towards their clasped hands, and JP-Sensei noticed too. JP-Sensei gruffed out a grunt of recognition, Miko squealed at the pair still holding hands, Kazuya just smiled knowingly at their still clasped fingers, Phenics ripped his hand away at that, Yuki kept her cool.
"If the two of you are done being cute, detransform and let's fly down and get to ground, you, demon bikes, get back into form, miss Aihara and mister Hayashi, the barrier if you would."
JP-Sensei gruffed out at the group, his words sounding like law, Phenics got out another "tch" of annoyed embarrassment at being called out before they all got back to "normal" and Miko and Kazuya plucked the still hung in place talismans out of the air and stuck them in their pockets out of sight once they were all back on the ground, grey-scale gone, replaced with color.
"What just happened?"
"What the?"
"The air is back to normal!"
"My head feels so fuzzy!"
This and many other questions and exclamations were heard by the students who had stayed behind at school for extracurricular activities like soccer, track running and gymnastics.
"Nothing to see here, kids, get back to what you were doing, now get at it... voice lowered Now, you four, follow me, this is a good excuse to visit the Occult Research Class, up and at it."
JP-Sensei gruffed out orders again, he lead and like a well trained unit and they followed, walking passed surprised students not used to seeing Phenics in his biker clothes and seeing Yuki in her shirt and jeans for the first time, mesmerized whispered conversations by the female and male students around them, appreciating both respectively, after a minute they were out of sight.
"Here we are, Occult Research Class."
JP-Sensei explained as they got to a door, metallic in look, no color seen on it at all, just plain grey metal.
"So, this is it, huh? Stupid looking metal door and all, tch, what a classic... and another thing, I finally realize who's always wiping memories, it's you, Kazuya and Miko, with that barrier."
Phenics got out, annoyed at first, but then he showed his smarts by making it clear that he put two and two together.
"Yeah, it's the metal door that looks stupid and not the birdbrain calling it so, in any case I realized too, it's because of the way other students were acting after the barrier fell, isn't it, Phenics."
Yuki deadpanned, an indignant "H-hey!" heard from next to her for the second time that day... JP-Sensei grunted gruffly.
"Aye, hothead and ice queen, if you two are done being smart I'd like to get this show on the road, why don't we?"
JP-Sensei called the duo out, effectively silencing them, he unlocked and opened the door and the quartet and their new teacher walked into the abandoned classroom, as they entered he closed the door behind them and locked it from the inside, he then surprised the quartet by pressing a button on the wall next to the door, making the lights go on and a mirror on the far wall to start distorting.
"Welcome children, to the Occult Research Class, an illusion for a portal to a different dimension to be hid behind, see that distorted mirror over there? That goes somewhere, let's go."
JP-Sensei gruffed out, his voice a little more relaxed than usual though, the quartet could hear it in his tone, he then wasted no time in walking towards the big mirror and proceeded to walk into it, the four shared unsure looks, but then Yuki let out a calm "Well, shall we?" with a hint of a reassuring tone bleeding into her voice, the rest then realized what she did, they could trust JP-Sensei.
Well if Yuki thinks it's alright it must be.
The other three of the quartet thought simultaneously, the cool and calm reassurance from the stoic ice user calming them down enough to know that their homeroom and "Occult Research Class" teacher could be fully trusted with their safety, if Yuki was sure they could trust JP-Sensei then they would be certain of it too, the four then went through the mirror and Wow...
Is all they could get out, there was a large and magical looking clearing with trees all around it except for a path in the middle and a huge waterfall in the distance, there were spirits all around them, they could see them and sense their pure, unfiltered spirit energy, it felt familiar to Phenics and Yuki somehow, it was foreign to Kazuya and Miko though.
"Welcome kids, to the illusive Neverenden, otherwise known as a Spirit Pocket Dimension."
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