Chapter 12
The transer on a cleared off wooden desk began to flash while the owner was off somewhere else in the house doing their business. Vul groaned and looked at the caller from inside, noting Misora's screen icon blinking.
'Hoshi? ... Hoshi, are you there?'
No answer came from the girl being called.
'..... HOOOOSHIIIIIIIIII!'
'Yeah?' the girl replied.
'MISORA IS CALLING, THAT'S WHAT!' Vul exclaimed.
Just then, a faint clatter was heard down in the kitchen and footsteps sounded around the house and into the room.
"A-AHHH, HELLO? SORRY!" the girl exclaimed, tying up her hair quickly.
'Haha, hey!' Misora greeted, hold up her hand.
"Did I answer late? I'm sorry!" the girl said, rubbing her neck.
'It's fine! You were probably getting ready for school, am I right?' the girl asked.
"Well.... yes and no.." Hoshi said sheepishly.
'What where you doing then? Oh! Are you wearing that new outfit you got the other day?'
"I don't want to wear this to school, but I did promise Suyuri that I'd wear it someday. Hey, maybe you should meet her someday. You both are idols after all."
'Suyuri? Hm, never heard of her,' Misora said, resting her face on her hand in a thinking motion.
"So why did you call this early? Did you want me to visit before school?" she asked as she slipped on the transer.
'Yes, yes! You know me too well!' the idol chimed, resting her free hand on her chest.
"And it happens nearly every day," the girl chuckled. "I'll be there after I finish eating."
'Perfect! I'll see you in a bit then. Bye, Hoshi!' she said, waving at the screen.
Misora's image disappeared from the transer a second later as Vul appeared from within the device.
'Are you seriously going to wear that to school?' the alien whispered.
"... Yes.. Can I get rid of the shades?" Hoshi asked nervously.
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"So I called you here today because of..... this!" Misora exclaimed, showing Hoshi a finished song.
Hoshi accepted the sheets and scanned over it, smiling at her friend brightly. The girl returned the papers to Misora as she went and grabbed a different pile of papers.
"Like usual, my manager isn't allowing me sing my own written songs and gave me this stuff. Jeez, I wish he would just leave me alone for one second!" the girl complained. "I need a break. That's official."
"I wish I could help, but.."
"He's just going to drag you in with me. AVOID him at ALL COST!" Misora warned her friend.
"I heard ya," Hoshi chuckled holding up a hand in front of her. "He's been keeping an eye out on me ever since and when I come visit. It gives me the creeps..."
"Let me guess. When you enter the door, you see him hiding at a corner watching you. When you make your way to my room, you see him hiding at another corner or even a plant watching you. And when you're leaving, you see him hide- I think you get it," Misora listed irritatedly.
"That's pretty much it. I'm guessing...." Hoshi began, looking at the door nervously.
Misora sighed and headed over to the door, swinging it open to reveal the man eaves dropping on the two younger girls in the room.
"Can you please leave us alone?" Misora asked with a frown on her face.
"M-Misora! Honey! Please ask your friend to join!" the man said, trying to play it off normally.
"No."
"Come on. You there, dear! Are you interested in the singing career? You'd be able to drag in the crowd with your looks and skills!"
"No, thank you," Hoshi brushed off.
The man twitched and gave off a nervous smile to the two, opening his mouth to continue his advertisement.
"Ah, Misora, I should go to school now. I'm going to be later than usual," Hoshi interrupted, standing up from her seat. "I'll talk to you when you're available."
Misora smiled and quickly hugged her friend, pushing the girl past her manager.
"Good luck~!"
"Wait, luck for what?" Hoshi asked, smiling curiously.
"You're going to drag attention to yourself, obviously. Maybe a guy will notice you!" Misora joked. "You look like... a fashionista!~"
"Dear lord, Misora, if that happens I'll avoid them at all cost..."
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"Fukushima-san!" the teacher exclaimed.
"STUFF HAPPENED! I SWEAR!" Hoshi defended before the teacher was able to say anything else.
Subaru watched the girl bow to their teacher repetitively and then hold her hands up defensively as they continued to converse about the girl's attendance. Hoshi nodded and headed back to her seat in relief, releasing her breath she kept in while she talked to the adult.
"Does this always happen?" Subaru asked, smiling at the girl.
"Yeahh, I'm use to it though," Hoshi replied, tapping her desk.
Subaru chuckled and then nervously glanced at his transer, Hoshi noticing the boy's concerned look.
"Is something the matter?" Hoshi asked curiously.
"Oh, no! Not at all!"
She gave another nod and then turned around to check her own device, feeling as if her wizard was calling her.
'Is something the matter? You've been really different ever since we left the studio,' the girl mentioned.
'I'm fine.. But did you sense anything different near that friend of yours?' the orange alien asked.
'... Hmm.. Not at all. Why? Is it another FMian?'
Vulpecula didn't answer the girl and left her hanging until the class president showed up and interrupted their small talk.
"Hoshi."
"Now what..? Did I do something again?" the girl asked tiredly, closing her device.
Luna shook her head and motioned the girl to follow her, leaving the boys behind. Hoshi sighed and reluctantly followed anyways, walking outside the classroom.
"Yes, what is it Luna?" the girl asked.
Luna crossed her arms and changed her look to concern which felt odd for Hoshi.
"Is there something the matter? A problem that's keeping you from going to school? Maybe a little girl talk would help you loosen up a bit." the class president suggested.
"I'm fine, Luna. It's nothing you need to know," Hoshi said, walking away. "Thanks for the concern though. I appreciate it, don't get me wrong!"
Luna only shook her head and left the conversation at that as she uncrossed her arms.
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As the girl scanned her transer lazily, she heard the main trio from her class run past her and yell about being late to a concert.
"Concert? I don't think she'll show up after what she rant to me about this morning.. She didn't even mention it to me," Hoshi told herself. "I'll just go check it out anyways..."
The girl pulled down her cap lower and then her shades over her eyes, reaching behind her to pull her hood over her cap right after.
"Her manager is probably waiting for my arrival..." the girl muttered uncomfortably.
'Hehehe, I like the man for being such a pest to you, but he seriously does creep me out just as much,' Vul stated.
"He needs to learn how to give up!" Hoshi exclaimed, dashing off with the others.
By the time she started running, people around her began to give her weird and uncomfortable looks due to her appearance and her sudden outburst. The girl kept running until she neared Subaru and his twin sister with the running group, slowing her pace down a bit.
"Hey, Subaru, aren't those your classmates?" Suyuri asked, tugging at Subaru's sleeve and pointing at Luna.
The boy was busy having a silent conversation with Omega-xis, yet had no choice but to end his sentence short with the alien.
"Hm?" Subaru hummed, looking up from his transer.
"WHY IS IT SO EARLY?!" Luna yelled frantically. "HURRY IT UP!"
"YOU SHOULD BE HAPPY THAT I TOLD YOU ABOUT THIS SECRET CONCERT OF HERS!" the shorter boy exclaimed back, leading the way to the concert.
"Well, it is THE Hibiki Misora's secret concert, isn't that right?" Gonta asked, breathing heavily.
"WE HAVE TO GO SEE IT NO MATTER WHAT THE COST IS!" Luna said confidently.
Subaru curiously watched as the three passed by him and his twin, Suyuri suddenly feverish with the news.
"You hear that?" Suyuri asked Subaru excitedly.
"You think I did?" Subaru asked back.
"Can we go?" the girl asked again, leaning close to her brother.
"Hey there, guys. What are you doing just standing there?" Hoshi greeted with a hand up.
"Uhh, Hoshi why are you dressed like that?" Subaru asked.
"I've been dressed like this ever since..." she responded confusedly.
"Let me rephrase that then. Why are you wearing a hood over a cap and... shades..? Or why do you look like that?" Subaru corrected.
"Why not?"
"You're attracting attention that's why."
Hoshi looked around, unfazed by the looks and shrugged it off, smiling to everyone quickly before returning her attention to the twins.
"Disguise?" the girl asked, pulling the hood off and setting the shades back onto the brim of her hat. "I'll need it for later."
Subaru nodded slowly and then smiled.
"Suyuri was bothering me about a concert just now, but since you're here, want to come with us?" the boy invited.
"Sure, I was heading there just now anyways," Hoshi confessed, smiling brightly.
"Yay!" the girl shouted, linking her arms with the other two. "Let's go, let's go!"
By the time they got there, the concert hall was packed full of human bodies, waiting patiently for the star girl to appear on stage. Hoshi was back to wearing her disguise that seemed to stick out pretty bad in the crowd.
'Something feels off...' Hoshi thought.
The crowd was now chanting the idol's name as Subaru checked his transer for the time and Hoshi looking around the area. Instead of Misora herself appearing on stage, Misora's manager took the spotlight for a few seconds much to the crowd's dismay, Hoshi frowning at the man.
'Something is definitely up. She's never refused to go out before...' Hoshi thought, tightening her grip on her arm.
"Hoshi, are you alright?" Subaru asked, catching his twin's attention.
"What, what? Is something the matter?" the girl asked, fixing her attention to their friend.
"Hm? Oh, yeah. I'm fine!" the girl said, looking over her shades.
"You're hurting yourself. Clearly something is bothering you," Subaru said worriedly, Suyuri brushing Hoshi's hands off her arms.
"I'm fine, really! Just thinking!" Hoshi said nervously.
"Our most profound apologies to all the fans that have came today!" the man began, the crowd muttering to each other. "Misora fainted from exhaustion and have been hospitalized!"
"What?!" the crowd exclaimed frantically.
'Lies. I doubt that,' Hoshi sighed. 'She seemed fine this morning, just frustrated by you..'
"Excuse me?" Suyuri suddenly asked, catching the girl's voice.
"Nothing, I should go."
"What's up with her?" Subaru asked, earning a shrug from Suyuri.
And so, the girl pushed herself off the wall and headed to Misora's dressing room silently, still in her disguise. His voice was still audible from where she was, ringing around the empty hall that was soon to be filled again.
'The concert will have to be cancelled for today! After Misora recovers, there will be soon another announcement for a new concert, so please do forgive us!'
"You must have done something to make her go into hiding, dude.." Hoshi said out loud, smirking to herself a little.
After the announcement ended and the manager returned to the dressing room, Hoshi managed to surprise the man and somewhat kept him from screaming.
"W-who are you? How did you get in here?" the man asked.
'What does he mean? Oh wait. Disguise,' Hoshi confirmed quietly. "Where's Misora?"
The girl purposely changed her voice when she asked for her friend to mess with the manager and waited for his reaction.
"O-oh! Are you a fan? Unfortunately, Misora has collapsed and is in the hospital healing up. How did you get in here?"
Hoshi mentally slapped herself as she tried to resist doing it physically. The girl released her hood and set her shades back onto her cap, her rosy pink hair in a ponytail draping over her shoulder slightly once her hood flew off. She then took off her cap and pulled back her bangs again to rest the cap back onto her head comfortably.
"Let me ask again, where is Misora?" Hoshi repeated. "Did you do something to make her leave briefly?"
"Ohohoho! It's you! I actually don't know where the dear is. Would you like to replace her for the day?" the manager asked.
"What? No! Did you see her leave or anything? She seemed fine this morning."
The manager finally seized his smile and dropped to the ground hopelessly.
"Misora, where did you go?!" he cried.
'That answers everything..' Vul said.
'You think?' Hoshi answered. "Thanks for the info, but I'm leaving now."
"Wait! Are you sure you don't want a part of this career?" the man asked hopefully.
"I'm sure I'm not interested!" the girl replied, leaving the room.
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'I feel something abnormal...' Vul whispered while her host was eating dinner.
The fox then noticed her calling band being used and also decided to go check out the cause of the abnormal waves she's been feeling for the past few nights, not noting Hoshi her departure.
"If I'm not wrong, it must be her," the fox told herself. "Why am I even getting myself involved in this? Probably because I can't always keep Hoshi out of this mess.."
The fox sighed to herself and stopped at a radio tower, joined by Omega-Xis only a few seconds later.
"You've been feeling it too?" Vul asked, earning a nod from the navy blue being.
"So it was you, Harp," Omega-Xis said, Lexina suddenly appearing next to him.
"Omega-Xis, Lexina.... Why have you betrayed us, the FMians?!" the silver and pink harp alien asked. "Vulpecula, have you decided to join their fun as well?"
"First of, Vul is just fine. Second, I never joined ANY of you freaks. Not after that happened," the fox hissed.
"You don't need to know anything about that," Omega replied strictly to the questiong directed to him.
"Ooohh, how intimidating..." Vul joked, earning a grunt from the male. "Harp, is there something you need here besides these two rascals?"
"What happened to you three?"
"She's not letting up..." the orange fox said.
'Might as well just answer her questions normally,' Lexina suddenly said.
"Don't get involved with me. Harp, you didn't call me or the other two here for a talk right? What is it that you're after?" the darker blue alien asked.
"That is correct. I was sent to Earth with a few missions at hand..." Harp began. "One is to find the Andromeda key and the other is to destroy the human race and assassinate the betrayers..."
"That's just as I thought... Are you planning to fight me? Or even take on all three of us at once?"
Vul sighed again and rested her front body on top of her nine tails comfortably, not really wanting to do anything at the moment.
"Harp, it's not a good idea to take on any of us really," Vul stated calmly.
"I can finish a mission of mine and return to Planet FM quietly if only you handed me the key. Are you willing to cooperate with me? Or disappear?" Harp asked.
"That will be rejected," Omega replied.
"Then I'll have to finish the other two missions handed to me. Hmmm, that'll be...."
The two warped away onto the wave road, leaving Vul and Lexina behind, the light blue fox complete alerted and the nine tailed fox laid back as ever. Harp began attacking Omega-Xis as he dodged around, Lexina suddenly appearing to help.
"Looks like the Satella Police tracked us down..." Vul said, suddenly hearing blaring alarms from a very long distant. "I'll be in trouble if I stay here.. But this is quite interesting as well."
The three beings became beams of light once again, flying around quickly and giving each other strong blows. Lexina was the next to hear the Satella Police sirens and hurriedly retreated to return to her host's transer before the case got worse. Harp and Omega-Xis kept fighting, fighting until one dropped. Vul felt another human presence coming closer to the area, one that seemed to be aware of everything going around the world of waves. The fox decided to go check out who it was and stopped at the base of the tower.
'It's that Subaru kid..' the alien thought, staring at the boy who only stared back.
"... Vul..." he breathed out loud, his eyes widening in shock and fear.
Subaru then began to check his surroundings quickly and didn't spot another soul near them.
"I'm guessing you left your human partner at home...?" the boy asked cautiously.
"Frightened? No matter, I'll be hiding in your contraption for now.." Vul said, hiding in the boy's transer.
"Ah!, Wait, I don't know if another can fit in there!" Subaru exclaimed, looking at his transer.
'Just deal with it for now,' the fox replied.
Harp suddenly dropped from the sky, nowhere near Subaru and Vul who were heading up from the base, and suddenly vanished behind the tower where she hid her host.
'I'm surprised you're able to sense that Omega-Xis went missing and decided to look for him, kid,' the fox commented, as the boy ran up the stairs. 'One more thing.... Satella Police Officers are coming this way.'
"That makes everything worse!" Subaru exclaimed, picking up the pace as loud crashes and guitar riffs echoed.
'Kid, why did you come? You do know you'll get into trouble again,' Vul asked. 'Omega-Xis should be able to escape even if you weren't here.'
"... I just needed to. I just felt like I needed to get to Omega-Xis and see what's going on."
Vul only hummed and went quiet right after, making the boy feel uncomfortable with the strange alien; more crashing becoming louder.
"... Um, I'm Hoshikawa Subaru... You are Vul, right?" the boy suddenly asked, guitar notes ringing from above once again.
'So you were able to call out to me when you first caught me and yet, you're asking me whether you're right or not now? Strange boy. Yes, I am Vul, why are you asking?'
"I-I was just making sure!"
'I see.. I advise you to stay out of this fight if you want to stay unharmed,' Vul said when the boy finally made it to the top.
The boy only stayed quiet and then lifted his legs to run over to where the fight took place.
"Omega-Xis!" Subaru called.
"What's going on?" Harp Note asked, looking over to the figure.
"Are you okay, Omega?" he asked, getting closer to the alien.
'Careful, Subaru. That's Harp, the one trying to get rid of us,' Vul warned.
"You idiot! Why did you come here?" Omega-Xis exclaimed.
"You suddenly disappeared and I got worried..." the boy said.
"Hmm? I'll just obliterate you both at once then!~" Harp Note sang.
'Too late for that, the Satella Police are here,' Vul informed the boy. 'You're going to need to get out of here soon.'
Harp Note groaned at the sound of the wailing sirens and looked down at the streets where police cars began to appear. The girl strummed her guitar and made an escape as Omega-Xis warped back into Subaru's transer.
'We'll pick this up later,' the controlled girl said.
'Damn it, Harp..' he muttered. 'Scoot it, Vul! I'm going to be pushed out this way!'
'Calm down and stay quiet! The police will detect us if you keep this up!' the fox said.
"Omega-Xis?" Subaru called, looking at his device.
The elevator to the top of the tower suddenly opened, revealing the mob of policemen and Detective Goyoda. The boy immediately tried to hide Vul and Omega-Xis' waves that began to stick out from his transer and leak. All the men quickly surrounded Subaru and noticed that the boy was the only one there.
"Oh, it's you again!" Goyoda exclaimed disappointedly.
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"Hmmm.... Where did Vul go..?" Hoshi asked herself after she finished her dinner. "I should have brought the transer into the dining room with me.."
"So why are you hiding in Subaru's transer? Now you know who Megaman is, I bet you'd be targeting us when you get the chance to." Omega-Xis asked. "Where's your host?"
"I snuck out. She was eating dinner, but either way I wouldn't let her come anyways. Nice room you got here, Subaru," the alien commented.
"Ummm, thanks.." the boy replied.
"I'm not one to attack you, I don't really have any business with Megaman anyways. I'm only fighting FMians to stay safe. I should get back before she grows suspicious she should be finished with her dinner by now," Vul said. "Oh, your secret? It's safe with me."
"Thanks, I guess," Subaru called after her.
The orange fox returned to the wave road and headed back to Hoshi's house peacefully, leaving the other two to think who her human host could be. Once the alien returned to her original transer, Hoshi noticed the flash on her transer and snapped it open worriedly.
"You began taking long... Where were you?" the girl asked.
'There's a new FMian hunting us down. Stay on guard at all times until then," Vul said, avoiding giving off the area she was at.
"Whatever you say... You know who it is?"
"Harp."
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