The Mech Lord

"Didn\'t you say your name was Aiden?" Yuji asked with a frown. He clearly remembered that the guy had introduced himself like Leo in the Colosseum. Yet, he was now saying that name was something else.

"Ahh..Actually...umn…Leo is my nickname.."

"..."

Yuji stared at him. That was definitely suspicious, just who in their right mind would introduce themselves with their nickname instead of the real name.

Did it make sense?

"You are that \'Aiden Silver\'?" Biggie asked with surprise plastered all over his face. "Are you the son of the Thunder Hero, Edgar Silver?"

The Big guy was in Leo\'s year as well. It was obvious if he recognized him. And, his words immediately reminded other people about him as well.

Everyone\'s eyes constricted on hearing that name, and they turned their gazes at Leo. It was not everyday that one would see a guy like him, entering a low level club like theirs. I mean there were certainly weirdoes around, but they hadn\'t heard about any of Edgar\'s sons being one.

"Wait! You are Aaron\'s brother?" Yuji looked at Leo with a dumbfounded face.

It was finally here.

Leo forced a smile on his face. This is what he was worried about. He had pretended not to know Aaron that day in front of this guy. He even went ahead to ask him a few things which only a stranger would ask, and here he was the brother of the very same guy.

[What\'s wrong-nya?] Aiden asked from the storage capsule, feeling Leo\'s helplessness.

\'...\' Leo didn\'t know what to say. He had been foolish to think that there was no problem doing that. He had forgotten that there was the Universe was round theory.

And today he was forced to think that maybe there was some truth in it.

[He messed up...] Arthur intervened, breaking the ice between them.

[Messed up-nya?]

Leo ignored the two talking, and concentrated on the situation at hand.

"That day…umn...I.."

"I heard some rumor that Senior Aaron\'s brother had been in an accident and lost his memory. Is this the reason you were asking me those things?" Yuji was curious about the situation. And, to be honest Leo\'s behavior pretty much confirmed the rumors.

[You really are an idiot-nya]

[True, indeed.] Arthur gave his approval.

[What is there to worry about when you have a legitimate reason to be asking such questions-nya?]

Leo\'s face twitched when he realized it as well. He really was being foolish here.

"Yeah, that is the truth." He nodded looking at Yuji with an uneasy smile on his face.

"Yeah, I saw an Article about it too. It was released this morning." Nora opened her smart link, and flicked a projection screen out in front of everyone. It clearly reported about Leo\'s current situation.

"What do we do about the nickname ceremony?" Spike looked at everyone as the previous topic came to a close.

Leo finally got to know that there was actually a nickname ceremony in the club. It was obviously Yuji\'s idea. Since he himself likes to be called Doc, he had implemented it on everyone as well.

But, people obviously avoided something embarrassing as Doc. There were a few who were just named by others because they were either too lazy or too nervous to find a nickname.

Like the Sleepy Head and Fluffy Ears. Though the names weren\'t much popular.

The rest more or less had a choice of their own, though the rest would reject the name if they felt it was too perfect.

"I say we name him Nurse, a perfect fit for being my assistant!" Doc looked excited, and Leo immediately broke out in sweat on hearing that.

"How about Little Rookie?" Spike looked at everyone, but they just gave him a contemptuous gaze. They couldn\'t believe this guy dared to call someone else a little rookie.

"What?"

"..."

"What?!!"

"Will you guys stop looking at me like that?!!"

…

"How about we just leave it to my original nickname Leo?

Leo finally had enough of the weird names. So, when the situation returned to a bit of calm, he finally decided to intervene. Not to mention, Aiden had been shouting the whole time that he wouldn\'t accept any funny nicknames.

"Isn\'t that boring?" Yuji asked as he looked at everyone else.

"Umn...how about we...let him keep it…" Runeko, who had been silently watching all along, finally spoke a bit nervously, taking Leo\'s side. "H-He is helping us become a club after all…:"

"Even if he isn\'t even becoming a club member, I think we should just allow it for the fact that he made Runeko speak in a decision making matter for the first time," Nora smiled with a surprise look on her face before hugging Runeko, and patting her fluffy ears.

"Senior Nuru...:not there..."

The people around stared at the two and gulped inwardly, while feeling a bit jealous.

Biggie and Spike seemed to be gentlemen, or maybe being a member of a race which was a bit different than an average Humanoid race had made their preference a bit different.

And, even as the rest were busy enjoying the sight. The two came up to Leo to talk.

"Give me your contact, I will add you to our group. You can get access to everything you need from there including everyone\'s contact." Biggie smiled, and Leo honestly was a bit intimidated by a lot of things on his body. After all it was his first time seeing a titan up close, not to mention the guy was still in his posing trunks.

Spike on the other hand jumped off of Biggies palm and climbed onto Leo\'s shoulder.

"I see that you are missing a shoulder, did something happened?" The little guy obviously felt it.

"Yeah, I had an accident.." Leo just gave him a helpless smile.

"Do you want to regrow it?" Spike looked at Leo, and his words obviously had caught Leo\'s attention.

"Is it possible?" He asked in curiosity and a bit of expectation as well.

"Yeah, there is a legend in my village. That at the peak of Martial Arts lies immortality, you can become anyone you want. If you follow the path of Martial Arts by my side, you can become a phoenix and soar into the nine heavens. And after going through Nirvana, you will become a new man. Growing back an arm would be no big deal then."

Leo was left speechless. There were several questions that he had about this scam, but the one he really wanted to ask was why in hell did Hedgehogs have the legend of becoming a Phoenix?

Did that make sense?

"How about it? Do you want to take me as your master?"

"Umn..I will think about it."

There was no way Leo was going to do this. He already had a Savage Coach Arthur and a Little Kitty as an Advisor. He didn\'t think he could handle anyone else.

"Well, tell me when you make up your mind.." Spike smiled, while demonstrating a few moves on Leo\'s shoulder with \'Waakaooo!\' shouts.

"Yeah, sure..." Leo nodded.