Mahou Sensei Negima

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Thanks, now I just need to find a pic small enough to fit. Also has anyone else wondered what Servant classes from Fate/Stay Night some of the characters would be?

• Kaede- Assassin
• Mana- Archer
• Asuna/Rakan/any Shinmeiryu user- Saber

edited 31st Jul '10 4:48:11 PM by n00bguy

Rakan would be Berserker.

I don't know if Rakan would qualify for berserker. The requirement for that class is that the individual has a history of going into berserk rages, Rakan may be a smartass but as far as we know he's always kept his head in a fight. a few more:

• Yue and Konaka- Caster
• Tsukoyomi- Saber or Berserker
• Negi- Caster(Duh), Berserker, Lancer, Archer (okay to justify the last two: His original spell Titanslayer is a huge ass spear, and he does love using "Magic Arrows")
• Okay if I think about it that way, anyone in this series that qualifies for Caster could also be an archer.

I don't remember Tsukuyomi going on a bout of Unstoppable Rage. That is what is mean by a "berserker rage", BTW.

And I think that the Archer class has to be using physical weapons like Rain of Arrows, Macross Missile Massacre or Storm of Blades; "magic arrows" are just Beam Spam.

edited 1st Aug '10 2:05:51 PM by MarqFJA

54- Negi, Chisame and Sakurako.

It was all over. It had to be.

The reborn Mage of the Beginning, the Lifemaker himself, stood over his defeated enemies, including his former subordinates and allies, and for the first time in what seemed to be an eternity of emptiness, felt satisfied.

"I suppose I should feel disappointment on you, Fate Averruncus" he slowly spoke, pressing his foot down further into the head of the boy under his heel, making him to emit a very slight grunting sound. "Your contact with these... inferior, misguided creatures has made you weak. Unable to meet my expectatives. But it does not matter anymore. I have no further need for you, or for any of the others who have foolishly left my cause".

He majestically motioned with a hand around to the devastated Mahora landscape, barely recognizable because of the World Tree, which soon would fall as well, with nothing on his path anymore. "Behold the fruits of your rebellion. Watch over the results of opposing the only true destiny. What good are they for now? I am convinced now. These worlds I once sought to save, these worlds that turned their backs on me, all those who refused to listen and obey, are not worth my efforts. I think I shall remake it all from scratch. No more separated worlds driven to war and misery between each other. Only a single perfect world under a single vision. The right one".

Laying on his face in a pool of his own blood, Kotaro still attempted to reach for him with a clawed bloodied hand. Weakly knelt next to him with a bloody bandage over an eye, Natsumi tried to calm him down, whispering nervous pleads into his ear.

Evangeline struggled to pull the gigantic pillar of stone pinning her through the stomach and into a wall, barely inches below her heart.

Chachamaru was literally split by half, still functional but hardly in any condition to fight, vainly attempting to reconnect the cable systems of her upper and lower halves.

Nodoka, Yue and Haruna were sprawled unconscious in a single heap.

The Mage of the Beginning sighed, overlooking the carnage. He shook his head.

"And you, Negi Springfield". Leaving Fate behind, he walked calmly to where the son of the Thousand Master laid wheezing and coughing blood up, still attempting to stand up in the arms of Chisame, Ako and Makie, who sat behind him supporting his body weight despite being on the edge of fainting themselves. "There is no greater fool than you. Not only did your path damn you, but also everyone who walked along you. You have no one to blame over this but yourself. Much like your father. You are every bit as foolish and doomed to fail as he was—".

He casually looked to where Nagi's once mighty figure still twitched on the floor attempting a recovering, only to fall down on his own face.

"— Is. I am sorry. It would seem the work is not fully done yet. It does not matter, it will be soon".

The three Ministra still clutched to him protectively as the Lifemaker loomed ominously over him.

"I grow tired of this. Of everything. But most specially, of you" the dark figure spoke, not with actual hatred or despise, but rather, like a soul who has seen and done everything and just wants to rest. "Hardly worth all of this, all of we all went through, just to get here, all for nothing. Just because of your shallow dreams and pathetic ambitions. I should hate you. But I cannot. That is why I shall destroy you first. Because I actually don't desire for you to see how will I finish crushing everything you hold dear, out of respect for your courage. But mostly, because I don't wish to see you anymore".

"STOP!!" a high pitched voice called from behind him. Curioser and curioser. Everyone had stopped being in any shape to continue talking minutes ago...

He looked back to see a girl with reddish brown hair slightly dragging a foot as she began walking towards him, leaving a concerned Konoka behind herself, with a knocked out Setsuna, Misa and Madoka. She huffed and puffed wearily, but other than a few scratches on her cheeks and some scraps on a knee, she had no outer noticeable injuries.

"Konoka" she said, never looking back. "Heal Misa-chan and Madoka-chan, will you? I've got a few things to discuss there".

Negi attempted to gesture for her to stay back. He would have yelled at her to stop, but he only could make choked sounds.

Sakurako continued walking ahead, step by step along the deadly silence of the school's remains. She ignored the worried, mute and pale faces of Anya, Hakase, the Dean and Shizuna, all of them half buried in debris. She just stared up at the tall grim figure that had turned around to look back at her. Until she finally stopped right before him, breathing heavily.

She was as cute as a mouse looking up at a lion's jaws. A very hateful mouse.

"I think you're the worst" she said, trying to decipher the face hidden under the shadows of the hood. If there was one in the first place.

"Your thoughts hardly matter at all" he flatly told her. "You are the last Ministra Magi. Not even your Magister saw you fit enough to serve him until everyone else got their turn first".

"I don't serve Negi" Sakurako's voice did not falter. "I help him. Unlike you, Negi doesn't have servants. He has..." she hesitated for a moment, blushing briefly before regaining her confidence, "... friends. If I got to be the last one, it was because he wanted to protect me that much".

"Friends" the being's voice came out in a grim, loud puff. "Always the same old diatribe. Their 'friendship' only postponed the unavoidable for a while, and it could not stop it when it mattered. You have been fooled by meaningless promises, like I once was. The difference between you and me is I got to see the truth afterwards".

"The difference between you and us is you're a rat!" the girl shot back angrily, tightening her grip on her pom-poms.

For a moment, everyone who still could see opened their eyes to their fullest and gasped.

Everyone but the tiny girl and the huge thing beyond a man that stood before her.

"Insults mean nothing to me" The Lifemaker droned almost mechanically. "They are nothing but the representations of flawed emotions that led you to your doom".

"We aren't dead yet" she proclaimed.

"Yes. Yes, you are. Look around yourself, child. Your strongest fighters have been defeated. Your best hopes are lost. As well as the minor ones. Who do you think is going to come now to help you? Every last one of your allies has been beaten, including all those who once helped me. There is no one else left. Unless you mean you could do it. All by yourself. When you are nothing but a spoiled child with the sole ability of boosting your teammates' stats".

He knew he should just destroy her and be done with it. But somehow, he felt it was almost a waste. It was surprising to find the spark of such a spirit in someone as low and miserable.

"I don't care about what you say" the cheerleader remained unconvinced. "I'm not a smart person, so I don't know how can we beat you. But I know we'll do it!".

He almost felt tempted to laugh. To laugh, after so long! Truly, this child was a wonderful one!

"You remind me of... someone I once knew. Far too long ago, in another life, at another world. If I were of another inclination, like I was back then, I would feel tempted to say that is the result of something else but your stupidity. As it is, however, I harbor no fake hopes for you. You must be remade along with everyone else. Starting with your Magister".

Sakurako finally bit her lower lip and allowed the tears she had been fighting back to flow out in a sprout.

"DON'T YOU DARE TO TOUCH NEGI AGAIN!!!". Moved by sheer rabid despair, her optimist bravado finally breaking down, she swung a fist, still holding a pom-pom, into the Lifemaker's midsection.

And much to everyone's huge shock, it passed through the Mage's barrier and collided against his stomach.

He looked like he was blinking for a moment, but then that illusion was gone as he realized he felt nothing. It had been just a normal human punch, as registered as the caress of a petal, or the wings of a fly.

Still, it had been impressive in its own way.

Nodding his acknowledgment, he put a large hand on the head of the relatively diminutive Ministra.

"Despite your short time dealing with magic, you have proved both a courage and ability unfitting your status. I salute you. In your honor, you have made me to change my mind. You will be the first one to go".

Chisame gulped in abject horror, just as Negi finally found the strenght to sit back up, yelling a suffocated, "SAKURAKO!".

But then, something most strange happened.

The Lifemaker's midsection suddenly was agitated by a peculiar tremor. He stopped short, confused over that unexpected development. Then it ached. A lot. It was a pain he had not ever felt before. Right in every spot of his body that had been touched by anyone through the prior fight, magnified and augmented at least twenty times.

The Lifemaker doubled on himself, folding all of a sudden like a piece of origami, as dozens of spells and physical hits began to rip him apart from the inside. Like a menagerie of mythical beasts turned free inside of him, every bit of damage that had seemed so minor before started taking a toll that multiplied itself by growing digits at each passing moment. And he took his head back and finally howled desperately, waking the unconscious ones up, echoing through the ruins.

Sakurako stared blankly as the ground trembled, and the Lifemaker's body fell apart sliced piece by piece, slash by slash, blowing up at some parts, some others turning into stone and then dust. He still was reaching up for her as he fell down, looking for her eyes as if hoping to find someone else. But she only could stare down at him stupidly, her mouth half open.

Even when his voice was being swallowed by nothing, and his body melted, burned, disintegrated and evaporated at randomly equal parts, she could do nothing but staring down, until he was no more but a black smelly spot on the ground.

Then the Academy grounds trembled one final time, and from the upper floors of the wrecked main building, a large desk fell on the splotch right before her, barely missing her.

Then a piano fell on the desk, as well, startling her.

And then, finally, a big and somehow still shiny kitchen sink.

"................." she said.

Everyone's silent gazes were squarely fixed on her.

Until, finally, under the curative efforts of Ako, Negi began to weakly smile at the cheerleader.

Chamo put his tiny paws together and started to clap.

Madoka sniffed, following his example. And then Misa. And Takahata, ignoring his bloody missing eye and his broken leg. And Mana. And Fuuka and Fumika. And Takane and Mei. And Gandolfini. And Chao.

By the time Fated had started softly clapping as well, Sakurako was reasonably sure she had, indeed, done it.

She smiled brightly, just as if she had just won a lottery contest at the semester's end.

"Not that I'm complaining..." Haruna smiled despite the horrible pain in her swollen face, "... But what the heck has just happened?".

"My theory is" Yue started, "We got the wrong idea about Sakurako's artifact all this time. It's not a simple stats booster like Madoka and Misa's. She only had used it for that because she thought it worked that way. But after seeing that, I only can conclude... it is a major probability alterer instead. Literally, it should remake the possibilities of any event happening, as long as it favors her. I suspect what has just happened is, upon contact with the lifemaker, it multiplied the possibilities of the wounds inflicted on him through the fight actually hurting him from nearly zero to one hundred percent".

"So... for all intents and purposes... she is a reality warper?" Haruna blinked.

"Not so much, since she shouldn't alter probabilities from an absolute zero... but yes, I'd hazard a guess on her being able to cause almost any outcome from any random event as long as it works in her own favor".

Haruna nodded, open-mouthed. "That's... that's a really scary power for anyone to have...".

Sakurako just giggled happily and rushed ahead to hug Negi and Chisame, crying joyfully, not caring about any other likely implications of her own power at all.

She always had been lucky. That was the only thing she needed to know.

Next: The Omake Epilogue.

edited 2nd Aug '10 4:50:41 AM by OverMaster?!

... F***ing hell. I forbid making fun of Sakurako's semi-official Hilaratrix Fortunans Pactio title ("Good Luck-bringing Cheerer"). *shiver* The name actually makes sense with this story!

PS: I think you meant "expectations" instead of "expectatives". And there's one instance where I think you meant "magister" instead of "minister".

edited 1st Aug '10 2:55:57 PM by MarqFJA

^^Okay,Over Master? Stop making me look bad. :-P There's more invention in one of your shorts than I can muster in a whole story.

^ You'd be in good company with Ringworld's Louis Wu,then. If you haven't read it,there's someone who's also inherently lucky. He doesn't even think of her as human,and is deathly afraid of what it could do; in quantum terms,luck underpins the basic structure of the universe.

Berserker is limited to those who experienced madness during their lives. Lancelot went mad, but he didn't go berserk. Tsukuyomi is definitely crazy enough to qualify.

edited 1st Aug '10 3:50:12 PM by Arha

^ There is a crucial difference between "madness" and "psychopathy". The former is more technically called "insanity" - as in, "complete loss of sanity/rational thought". A normal psychopath is technically "sane", but suffers from severe mental disorder, as they are only a danger to others; a psychopath who is a clear danger to him/herself is almost undoubtably insane.

^^ Now, now, I wouldn't go as far as saying "he's making you look bad". You too show good potential to reach that level, as long as you practice more and more. Look at the first batch of threesomes that he wrote; not bad, but still far from perfect.

edited 1st Aug '10 4:57:55 PM by MarqFJA

^What he said. My other advice is that you shouldn't get too caught up in trying to imitate somebody else's writing style. I remember back when you were posting your stuff on here; you had a really distinct style and it would be a pity if you changed it because you thought somebody else's stuff was better.

But yeah, the first step in becoming a better writer is just writing a lot.

I wasn't serious,man; I was trying to give a compliment. Note use of smiley.

*sigh* Plaintext communication shows its limitations sometimes.

edited 1st Aug '10 5:41:55 PM by AckSed

I know, but I never pass up the opportunity to jump on the "overly literal" bandwagon.

Have you guys seen this DA user's art?

edited 1st Aug '10 6:57:39 PM by Zeether

^That 'Cosmo Enchilada' pic is sweet win.

I almost died laughing at those coffee strips and the "Befriended" one was just pure hilarity.

"Cosmo Enchilada" and "Chamo in a Skirt" are both made of win.

Also, I reserve the right to write a crossover fanfic in which Cosmo Enchilada competes with Taco Aizen for the lucrative Mexican restaurant market share.

EDIT: This is also awesome.

On an unrelated note, I got bored and made this◊ in an effort to summarize Negi's approach to solving his problems.

edited 1st Aug '10 7:57:56 PM by JapaneseTeeth

Pure. Freaking. Hilarity. Japanese Teeth, you are awesome, no questions asked. I also found that one with Negi punching out Harry Potter Funnier than Hell.

The funny thing about "Cosmo Enchilada" is that I accidentally said that while trying to pronounce the actual name. Akamatsu, it would've helped if you kept these things simple!

Also, Japanese Teeth, that is perfect. I call it now, whenever someone's trying to theorize what Negi should do next, just shout out "Flowchart!" and call it a day.

Thanks. I think I'm going to link it to the When All You Have Is a Hammer… entry on the character page.

I found "Cosmo Enchilada" to be particularly hilarious because I've read it that way several times, and a lot of the time I just write that so I don't have to look up the correct spelling. It's great that somebody had the same idea and ran with it. The best part is how Fate's Quirky Miniboss Squad is now a mariachi band.

edited 1st Aug '10 8:58:13 PM by JapaneseTeeth

@Japanese Teeth Funny flow chart. Though shouldn't the part that says "Aware she is a relative?" and it goes Yes, shouldn't it go to "oh crap" next instead of "Fight"?

By the way, Zazie's "fandum" seems, weird. I haven't seen that kind of reaction from where I normally check for fan reaction (onemanga, manga fox, animesuki, and aqs fourms.)

edited 1st Aug '10 9:59:53 PM by mega-dark

he is mainly talking about Chao when going to the fight.

there should be a "is this a massive misunderstanding"? no to Pactio or problem solved yes "are they Tsundere"? yes.... "FIGHT!" No should go to "Romantic moment" then to "pactio" or "Fight" again..

EDIT: also I think everyone already gets that Zazie has mysterious elements and the fact that the whole sister thing has been out for 2 weeks.

edited 1st Aug '10 10:08:27 PM by Raso

I'm just wondering, when reading chapters 296 and 297, did anyone start thinking about Inception? 'Cause I was. A lot.

Cosmo Enchilada, huh. That's right down the street from Taco Aizen, I assume?

Oh bother.

I lol'd. Who else suspects Fate or Shiori (well, at least Shiori) will become students at Mahora come the end of summer? Someone's gotta fill Chao's seat.