Disclaimer: I do not own 'A Certain Magical Index' or its characters.

Author: This story's been in my head for a while now. Actually, my head's about a couple stories ahead of my writing, I just can't seem to get myself to sit down and write as much anymore thanks to other things (video games, TV and such). So this story's going to take quite some time to complete.

Kinda disheartening when you have all these tales that you currently want to write, but you need to trudge through the earlier works first to get to that point.

The main OCs here will be Lilian from "A Certain Flower" and Rutile from "Precious" (which actually follows up from Frozen Flower). A new one will be introduced right from the get go.

If you like, you can read those first, if not, then I'll summarize some important things to know about them here, so spoiler warning if you want to read those first.

Both of them are Tokiwadai students, and friends with Mikoto. Lilian is an ice type Esper with a split personality named Isolde. Lilian doesn't remember anything more than five years ago, and Isolde is hiding something from her regarding that. Rutile is a new transfer student, and roommate to Lilian, her power is manipulating the gravity of anything she touches.

Oh, I nearly forgot, I had tried to keep New Testament out as much as possible, but now I can't avoid it, however for the time being the only thing from NT in this story is that Mikoto knows about the Magic side.

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Chapter 1: The Misterious Beach

"The long wait is nearly over. Our preparations will soon reach their final stages. However, lately you have shown an excessive amount of, reservations. That is very unbecoming of you, Admiral."

"..." A muscularly large man and his two subordinates stay silent before the voice and his bodyguard.

"I will give you one chance to prove your loyalty to the throne. According to our intel, the Imagine Breaker will be out of Academy City for a couple of days. This is the most opportune moment to eliminate the greatest threat to our plan, and thus you are to assassinate him."

"Assassinate?" one of the subordinates speaks out

"Is there a problem?"

"It's dishono-!"

"There is no problem," The large man interrupts. "We accept this mission."

"But Sir!"

"Very well, you are all dismissed." The owner of the voice vanishes quickly, but his bodyguard smirks before doing the same.

"Sir! You can't-!"

"His loyalty is being tested, they chose this method to see whether he puts his honor or his loyalty first."

"Let's go," the large man orders them.

XXX

"Haaa..." Kuroko sighs as she looks that the paperwork on the table. Across from her were two girls, one of them had short deep blue hair, had a short puffy ponytail, what appears to be hair in the shape of cat ears, golden eyes and wearing a Tokiwadai uniform. The other is slightly older, wore mostly regular street clothes, a few rips here and there in some provocative areas otherwise it was just roughed up. Her eyes were teal, hair was half black and half red and it's long enough to flow down below her waist.

Kuroko picks up the papers and looks to see if they're done. The blue haired girl's name was written as 'Katherine Rutile Sopheria' while the other girl is 'Sachya Atalanta'. Kuroko gives Rutile a serious look. "Didn't I tell you not to get into trouble? I already told you how the school like to keep a good public image."

"Her gang started it! Really!" Rutile points at Sachya.

"You're the one that was beating them to a pulp!" Sachya yells back.

"They shouldn't have been trying to rob me! Really!"

"Enough!" Kuroko slams her hand on the table. "From the eyewitness reports and Miss Sopheria's testimony, Miss Atalanta's gang, 'The Ravens' are going to be detained for a short period of time. I imagine a couple weeks if the school is lenient."

"And me?" Sachya asks.

"You're free to go, but you're on parole. You'll have to report to this number whenever you go to a location." Kuroko hands her a document.

"Fuuun..." Sachya sarcastically responds as she takes the papers.

"You should've thought twice about starting up a gang like that, or at least choose your members more carefully."

"Heh, me and a couple of the other guys only thought about doing it on a whim. We didn't think that it'd get that big or that out of hand. I was losing interest in it anyway."

"It was smart of you not to make any moves or attacks until after the rest of your gang was beaten up and Miss Sopheria attacked you first."

"I-it was an accident! Really!" Rutile protested. "I saw her move as soon as I took out the rest of her gang and I as in the heat of battle so I could only think that she was going to attack me! Really!"

"I was just trying to sneak out before I get messed up like them. I didn't think you'd knock them all out that fast! I had to defend myself."

Kuroko sighs and palmed her face again. "And somehow almost the whole park was flattened from both of your gravity powers."

"That's mostly her! Really!" Ruitle tried to argue.

"Oh don't try to pin this on me! You wanna go? Huh? I'll send you to the moon!"

"Then I'll just use the moon to flatten you! Really!"

"Will you two KNOCK IT OFF!" Kuroko hits the both of them at the back of the head. Both of the girls rubbed the back of their heads. "Haaa... we're just about finished here. We just have to wait for Anti-Skill to come and double check the papers. In the meantime I have to hold the both of you here."

"Great..." Sachya mumbled as she sat back down.

Rutile sat down silently and they waited as Kuroko and Uiharu arrange some papers around the office.

"Oh, Miss Sopheria!" Uiharu suddenly talks to Rutile.

"Y-yes?"

"Did you find someone to invite to the beach?"

"N-no, I've only been in the city for a couple weeks. I don't really know anyone outside of the school, really."

"The beach?" Sachya asks. "What's going on there?"

"Oh, Tokiwadai has a special field trip this weekend," Uiharu answers. "Every Tokiwadai student is invited and the students are allowed to bring one person from outside the school with them. Some of the students are going to bring their relatives, some students are bringing one of their friends, some students are bringing their boyfriends..."

"That's enough Uiharu," Kuroko cuts her off.

"Sounds like fun," Sachya commented. "Mind if I come along? With the gang gone I'll have nothing to do this weekend."

"Only students, who they invite to come with them and teachers are allowed," Kuroko explains. "You'll have to find someone that's willing to give you their guest invitation in order to join us. Even then, the students are normally paired up with whoever it is they invited with them."

"Well, that bites," Sachya pouts.

"I could give you my invitation," Rutile suggests. "Really."

"What?" Kuroko, Sachya and Uiharu all stopped momentarily and gave Rutile a look of disbelief.

"There's no one else I can invite," Rutile explains. "Really."

"Miss Shirai," Uiharu starts. "Isn't your dorm supervisor taking any unused invitations to bring some children from Cypress Peak?"

"She already has all the invitations she needs," Kuroko answers. "And we were lucky that we were able to haggle the extra invitations for Miss Edasai and Miss Haruue for ourselves."

"Oh yeah I forgot about that."

"What do you mean you forgot!?" Kuroko suddenly bursts. "Do you realize what Sissy had to do in order to get them?"

"What did she do?"

"We are NOT going to talk about that, UNDERSTOOD?!"

"Y-y-yes..." Uiharu nervously answered.

"There's a catch, isn't there?" Sachya asks Rutile.

"Only a small one," Rutile smiles, which seems to unnerve Sachya. "Can you help me pick out a swimsuit, pleeaasee?"

"H-HUH?" Sachya jolted slightly in surprise.

"I didn't bring one when I moved here, so I have no idea what to wear when I get to the beach. I was hoping you could help me out, really."

"You could've just asked Miss Sterling," Kuroko comments.

"I want to surprise her!" Rutile explains. "And I haven't even seen the swimsuit she picked out just for the trip, really."

"Oho..." Kuroko gets a sly smile on her face."You're like that aren't you?"

"W-what? NO! Really!"

"Hmm hmm hmm..." Sachya smirks. "Alright, I could use a new swimsuit myself. After we're done here we should have enough time to check out the mall."

"Miss Shirai," Uiharu talks to Kuroko. "We need to get our own swimsuits too."

"There's no need to worry," Kuroko reassures her. "Miss Wannai and Miss Awatsuki says that the company that we did a shoot for is allowing us to borrow the swimsuits for the field trip."

"Oh, really?" Uiharu smiles.

"Huh, that sounds interesting," Sachya puts her two cents. "I can't wait to see what they look like."

"Unfortunately the field trip divides us according to which dormitories we reside in. The beach owners didn't want us to overcrowd a single beach so we've been split up. Myself and Miss Sopheria are in different dorms. Your best chance to see us is during the visit to the coral reef."

"That's a bummer," Sachya hangs her head, then shrugs. "Eh."

The phone in the office rings and Kuroko picks it up. "Hello? Yes, alright." Kuroko puts the phone back down. "Okay," the Judgment girl addresses Rutile and Sachya. "The officer from Anti-Skill is here, lets finish this and be on our separate ways."

XXX

"Uwaaa!" Mikoto shields her eyes from the bright sun on the sandy beach. "Feel that air! Kuroko?"

Kuroko shifts side to side, depressed, while holding her neck. " At least you're feeling excited."

"I told you not to use that stringy two piece or anything like it," Mikoto sighs. "You knew that our dorm supervisor was going to bring the children and you still brought it. How dense can you be? Now you're stuck with the school swimsuits."

"Like you're one to talk, that looks like a school swimsuit."

"Hahaha," Saten giggles at the scene while she's followed by Uiharu, Haruue and Edasaki.

"Hey!" Mikoto greets them. "Everyone looks great!"

"Y-you think so?" Haruue asks.

"Come on, let's hit the water!" Edasaki enthusiastically drags Haruue down the sand.

"W-wait for me!" Uiharu chases after them.

"They're sure excited aren't they?" Saten crosses her arms and smiles. "Hey Misaka, I heard that there's going to be a sand sculpture contest. Is that true?"

"Yeah," Mikoto answers. "In a couple hours we're going to split up into groups of two or three and build sculptures out of sand. There's ten prizes!"

"The winners will choose their prizes. Which includes a set of glow in the dark Gekota paperweights," Kuroko sighs.

"Which I'M going to win!" Mikoto declares.

"I'm not so sure about that Mi-sa-ka..." a familiar voice grates in Mikoto's ear.

Mikoto's face just filled with annoyance. She turned around slowly and sees Misaki Shokuhou, along with a bunch of her followers.

"You..."

"Wow Misaka," Misaki exhales. "That's... underwhelming."

"What?"

"Your swimsuit," Misaki points at it. "I had hoped that you would pick out something more... decorative, or risque. What do think of mine?" Misaki poses.

"Like I care what you wear," Mikoto brushes off the question.

"Aww, you're no fun."

"What do you want Shokuhou?"

"I was just passing through," Misaki smiles. "I had hoped that I'd get to see much more of you than I usually do."

"What was that?" Kuroko angrily roars. "I will not have you thinking indecent thoughts about Sissy!"

Mikoto and Saten give Kuroko an exasperated look.

"Ah well," Misaki shrugged and started to walk away. "Oh, Misaka, good luck on the contest. You'll need it if you want to win that prize." Misaki winks.

"You wouldn't-!"

"Byeee Misaka!" Misaki walks away while waving her arm.

"Agh!" Mikoto stomps her foot. "Seriously."

"Sissy? Where are you going?"

"To get a drink, I'll be back."

XXX

"Miss Wannai, Miss Awatsuki!" a bright blue haired schoolmate calls them.

"Miss Sterling!" Wannai greets.

"Wow," Lilian stares at them in awe. "You two look... amazing!"

Wannai blushes. Awatsuki smiles.

"You look very adorable in that," Wannai returns her compliment.

"Y-you think so?" Lilian looks over herself. It was a frilly white two piece with random colored polka dots. "I hope he likes it too."

"Oh, you brought your boyfriend?" Awatsuki asks.

"W-what?" Lilian jumped in shock, she could hear Isolde snickering in her head. "N-no! H-he's not my boyfriend! I-I... just... know him. That's all. I don't really know that many people outside of the school. He's the only person I could think of inviting."

"Why did you choose that for your swimsuit?" Awatsuki ponders.

"I-I... saw it. On TV... once..."

"Heeey!" another girl calls out.

The three of them turn to see two more girls headed their way. One of them had half black, half red hair wearing a black strapless one piece with the area under her chest, abdomen and just above her waist exposed. The other girl had a white one piece, with a thick bright blue outline around the collar and shoulders, a moderate sized yellow circle around the center of her chest, two short and thick red 'strings' from the circle, a tiny frill/skirt at the waist area, and a black outline around the legs.

"Aww! That's so cute!" Lilian praises with a big happy smile on her face and her hands clasped beside her head.

"So this is the Lilian Sterling you were talking about," the black and red haired girl comments.

"Heeheehee!" Rutile laughs. "I'm glad you like it. It took me a long time to pick out. Really!"

"Yeah it was a real pain in the neck too," the black clad girl complained out loud while stretching her neck.

"You took longer than I did! Really!"

"I already knew what I wanted to get, I just had a hard time finding it. Besides, you didn't need to come with me while I did that."

"I wanted to see what you'd get. Really."

"Um... Miss Sopheria?" Wannai starts. "Who is this?"

"Huh?" the black and red haired girl suddenly realized. "Oh right, the name's Sachya, Sachya Atalanta. Nice to meet you all."

"It's nice to meet you," Awatsuki returned her greeting. "I'm Maaya Awatsuki and this is Kinuho Wannai. How did you and Miss Sopheria meet?"

"We only just met earlier this week."

"HUH?" Lilian, Wannai and Awatsuki all hoped back a bit.

"She's the one that helped my pick out this swimsuit. Really." Rutile happily explained.

"Right after we got in trouble with Judgment," Sachya sighs.

"Wait, what?" Lilian holds the conversation. "What did you do Rutile?"

"We got into a little fight," Rutile sheepishly replies with both hands behind her. "That was it, really."

"A 'little' fight doesn't flatten a park."

"Flatten? You have the same power as Rutile?"

"Gravity manipulation? Yeah, but mine is different," Sachya raises a hand and a bright blue orb shines out above it. "Kat here has to practically touch things in order to affect their gravity. I have to shoot these bombs to whatever it is that I want to use my power on." Sachya throws the orb at an empty patch of sand, the orb explodes and the sand levitates. "Though it doesn't last long, and I can only issue one... command, if you will, with each bomb. But I can fire multiple bombs." To demonstrate, Sachya creates four orbs and fires them around the beach. The sand they hit fly in different directions. "I call my ability 'Gravity Bomber'." The sand that she made float earlier finally drops back down.

"That's amazing," Wannai awes.

"Say, which one of you goes to Tokiwadai?" Sachya asks Wannai and Awatsuki.

"We both do," Awatsuki answers.

"Huh?" Sachya tilt her head. "Then where's the people you invited?"

"We didn't invite anyone," Wannai answered. "We gave our invitations to one of the dorm supervisors so that she can bring some young children along."

"Young children?" Sachya looks around.

"They're at the other beach with the other half of the school."

"What about you, Sterling?" Sachya asks the blue haired girl.

"He said he was thirsty and went to get a drink. He'll be back soon."

"Oh so you invited a boy..." Sachya smirks and puts a hand on her chin while inspecting Lilian. "Hmm..."

"W-what?"

"Oh nothing," Sachya drops her arms. "I probably shouldn't be making any judgements before I see what kind of person he is." Sachya begins to look around the beach as it fills up.

"We should get going," Awatsuki mentions. "We have to meet with Miss Kongou, we're going to partner up for the contest."

"Okay," Lilian smiles. "Good luck!"

"You too," Wannai waves slightly as they leave.

XXX

"One... orange juice," Mikoto makes an order at a beachside shack and sits down.

"One milk please," a young man with black spiky hair sits down on the other side.

Out of curiosity, Mikoto took a look at the other customer. He does the same and looks back.

"HUH?" Both of them jump off their chairs and point at each other. "What are YOU doing here?"

"My school has a field trip here! Shouldn't you have left Academy City?"

"Um..." The young man shakes the back of his head. "We're not in Academy City, are we?"

"N-no..." Mikoto drops her pointing finger. "I guess not."

Both of them sit back down at the beach side shack. The owner delivers their drinks and receives their payments.

"Are you still trying to catch me?"

"No, I told you that I'm here on a field trip. What about you?"

"The little princess suddenly had some strange urge to go back to Academy City. She said she could feel something calling her."

"Did you go back into the city?"

"We did, without any trouble mind you. What we found was..." The young man took a closer look at Mikoto.

"What?"

"Come of think of it, she looked just like you, except her hair was half white. And she had this really fancy wing for a hairpiece." The young man starts drinking.

Mikoto thinks for a moment... "Oh..."

"Ahh..." the young man wipes his lips. "You know who I'm talking about."

"What happened between them?"

"Nothing really, they just hung out together for most of a day. Though they both seemed to really enjoy each other's company."

"Here you are," A small blonde haired, gothic dressed girl calls to the young man. "We're waiting. Sven's getting annoyed."

"Yeah yeah just let me finish this," the young man takes another couple gulps of his drink.

The girl peeks over to see Mikoto on the other end. "You're... the original, right?"

"Y-yeah," Mikoto scratches the back of her head. "I guess you could say that."

"It's nice to meet finally you," the girl bows. "I didn't expect to meet with her other mother."

Mikoto spits out her drink. "M-m-mother?!"

"She was made with stuff from the both of us, right? I want to talk with you more, but we have to be going. Take care of her, alright?"

"I'd rather stay as an older sister."

"By the way..." the young man finishes his drink and begins to leave. "Were you able to see whose railgun was stronger?"

Mikoto quickly reaches her memory... "N-no... I didn't."

"Really? That sucks. We should definitely dual with our railguns again, I'm really itching to see whose railgun is stronger, yours or mine. See you later!" The young man and little girl walk away as Mikoto looks on.

XXX

"Sorry I'm late," Touma comes up to Lilian and her friends in only his swimming trunks. "I made a wrong turn at the inn."

"Heeheehee," Lilian giggles. "That's fine. There's still some time before they start the sand sculpting contest."

"So this is who you invited?" Sachy leans forward to get a good look. (He's kind of goofy looking, his body is quite fit at least.)

"Umm... Hello?" Touma became nervous from Sachya's stare.

"Oh right, the name's Sachya Atalanta. I was invited by Kat here," Sachya points at Rutile.

"Kat? Sopheria?"

"Short for Katherine, her first name."

"You two barely met and she's giving you a nickname?" Lilian talks to Rutile.

"It's fine, really." Rutile answers. "Even Miss Misaka started calling me that only the 2nd time we met."

"Where is Misaka?" Touma looks around.

"Hey!" Sachya yells. "Introduce yourself before changing the topic!"

"T-Touma Kamijou," Touma replies.

"That's better," Sachya calmed down and took a closer look at Touma.

"Is... something wrong?"

"No, well, maybe..." Sachya looks back at Lilian, who was having trouble keeping her composure. (Wow he's dense, poor girl.)

"Attention everyone!" A student on a megaphone calls out. "We will now begin the sand sculpting contest! For those interested in participating, please partner up with your invited guest, or go in groups of two or three if that's not possible. Then find a spot to build your work. Now, you're free to build anything you like, such as castles, statues, animals... And you're allowed to use your powers, but using too much will deduct points. You have all day to build what you like, but tell us once you're finished so that we can judge it before anything unexpected happens. The winners will be announced tomorrow and the prizes will be given out then."

"Alright," Lilian casually walks up to Touma and grabs his arm. "Let's go, doofus." She drags Touma away.

"Wha- hey!"

"'Doofus'?" Sachya tilted her head slightly. "She didn't seem the type to say something like that."

"Hey Sachya," Rutile playfully calls to her from an empty spot on the beach. "Do you have any good ideas on what to make? I don't have any, really."

"You're hopeless," Sachya shakes her head as she walks over. "Well, I have an idea, so let's get started."

XXX

Author: Over time I've warmed up to Rutile more than Lilian, XD. Unfortunately I'm having difficulty working out Rutile's backstory, while with Lilian's I have a much better idea, but I'm having trouble executing. Anyway, true to one of the inspirations of Rutile, I made Sachya to go along with her. Hope to see you again, really!