High School.

The passage of time for any child.

In Azeroth, children did the same there. The place had a large high school, mixed with both Alliance and Horde students, yet many stayed with their own troops. The parking lot was full of cars, teachers and students alike. The school itself had three floors and uniforms were required, red for Horde students, blue for Alliance.

Those in between, green.

For one student in particular, it was the first time she had ever been in any school. The fact was, she was home schooled a good while. There were reasons behind that and now reasons she had to go to school.

And she wore a green uniform.

Her long brown hair was in a ponytail. Her glowing blue eyes scanned all nervously as she noticed a few stop to look at her. She was thin, but well proportioned. Yet at her side was a young white tiger, a sign of a budding hunter. Her long ears showed three earrings in each ear.

She was a high elf…and one that hadn't ever been seen in the school before.

"Let's see…" the secretary said in the office sorting through some paperwork with quick fingers. The gnome lady studied the schedules carefully and smiled looking up through thick rimmed red glasses. "Kalista Sunstrider?"

"Yeah, that's me," the high elf said. "My dad came by and finished the paperwork, right?"

"Yes he did," the gnome said smiling. "Yet I was expecting an orc."

"Oh no," Kali said holding her hands up in surrender with a small chuckle. "I'm adopted. Sorry for the mix up."

"It's quite fine," the gnome said as she handed her a piece of paper. "And here's your locker number. Welcome to Azeroth High, Miss Sunstrider."

Kali took the paper from her and smiled picking up her backpack. "Thanks." She smiled again and led the tiger out. Yet once outside, the smile disappeared as she sighed softly. "Expectin' an orc? Everyone knows Father ain't involved with a woman." Her voice was that of someone from the country, coming from being around a mix of people.

The locker wasn't too far thankfully as she opened it putting her stuff inside when she looked up hearing a commotion as she tilted her head seeing a group of guys with their jackets off and their eyes hidden behind shades. A few students seemed to run fast from them in fear as some shook. She merely raised a brow and resumed putting her things in her locker as she closed it.

Only then did she hear Kamara growl and shadows loom over her.

She turned around looking very unimpressed as the group circled around her. She in fact looked pretty bored. She merely looped under one of the orc's arms and walked off without a word to her first class before they had a chance to react. She found a desk to sit in as she pushed her bangs back a bit and had Kamara sit down.

"You're finally here!" a familiar voice shouted as she looked up.

Only now did she give a genuine smile.

"Baine, hi!" she said happily as she hugged the tauren teenager around his neck.

Baine Bloodhoof, the son of Cairne Bloodhoof and heir to his casino business, smiled and hugged back. The two were best friends, growing up together. He was her first friend actually when she arrived in Kalimdor. "So Thrall finally caved in?" he asked.

"What can I say? He couldn't juggle the business and teach me," she said chuckling. "Plus he thought I needed to be more social." She rolled her eyes. "Whatever that means."

"At least you're here," he said and sat down in a tauren sized desk nearby. "We'll have to eat lunch together."

"It's a date," she joked as he chuckled nodding. Yet he noticed his ears flatten as the group of boys came in the classroom as he grunted.

"Them again," he said lowly. "Stay away from them…they're a bunch of bullies and bastards."

"Already gave them the brush off," she said. "Don't worry on me." She resumed studying her book as she could feel the group move behind her. It was like one male from every race imaginable in Azeroth had come together to form some gang. She merely ignored them without a word.

"Hey, elf!" one hissed, the orc of the bunch as he raised his shades. "I'm talking to you, bitch!"

Crickets could've been chirping in Kali's mind, because she didn't give the time of day at all. She looked up as the teacher arrived and beckoned her to the front of the classroom as everyone stared in surprise at who she was.

"Class, let's welcome Kalista Sunstrider to our homeroom," the teacher, an undead woman, said. "She'll be with us starting today." She looked at Kali. "Tell us some of yourself."

"I prefer to be called Kali," Kali said as she looked at the class. "I'm a hunter in trainin' and I was home schooled, so this is my first time even bein' in a school. I live with my dad, Thrall and I have a few friends, one who's here." She smiled at Baine, who smiled back.

"You're the child Thrall adopted?!" a human girl asked.

"Yeah, I am," Kali said. "I'm a Sunstrider by birth."

"Our princess," a blood elf male said. Yet he and everyone else noticed a grimace come to Kali's face, one that only deepened into a darker look.

"I'm nobody's princess," she said quietly as she retreated to her seat. She took a breath to calm herself before listening to a few announcements as the teacher took roll and the class filed in different directions for their first classes.

Kali watched Baine go as she studied her paper. Because she was new, she knew she'd be tardy a number of times until she got the hang of things. She felt someone shove her as she caught herself.

"Oops, my bad," the goblin laughed as his friends laughed too.

She frowned at this. Yet she picked up her fallen backpack as she straightened up and fixed her skirt as she turned looking at the group of boys. "I'm sure ya'll have somethin' better to do like compare small dick sizes than to pick on others, so I'll leave ya'll to your incompetence," she said and walked off while several students gave her shocked looks.

She had balls enough to say stuff like that! And to this gang?!

She was smarter than many could give her credit for!

Kali's first class, it seemed, was World History. She walked in seeing a few blood elves working on a project as she saw them bow to her. "Please, don't," she said quietly as she saw one of the gang members walking in.

It was the orc who called her a bitch.

He looked down at her a moment and pulled a chair out for her as he frowned. He pushed it under the table once she sat down and moved to sit nearby. She raised a brow at this and looked at him. "Thanks," she said.

"Tch…whatever," he grunted. He pushed his shades up and crossed his arms leaning back in his chair.

The teacher was another undead, a man this time, who looked like he was having a few problems getting his lessons together. He spoke in a high pitched hyper tone as he began to teach.

"Mr. Dumas, could ya slow it down a bit?" a troll asked as Kali glanced over at him a moment, recognizing the red hair. It was Vol'jin, the teenaged CEO of a natural health food company. His father had recently died, and the boy was not only juggling school, but business meetings.

"Excuse me, Mr. Vol'jin," Mr. Dumas said as he straightened his tie resuming his class.

After it was finally over, Kali stood and walked to Vol'jin to talk to him. Yet the orc was there, well, not up close and personal, but a bit out of the way waiting for her. And the troll noticed this.

"How'd ya git ol' Rograx to be yer bodyguard?" he asked blinking.

"I didn't ask for a bodyguard, trust me," she answered. "I ain't lookin' for one, he just called me a bitch in homeroom, and now is actin' like this!"

"Dat boy…be careful round him," he said. "He be one of dose gangy boys. Dey all have da bad voodoo."

"I'll remember that," she said and waved heading off.

Rograx followed a few feet behind her, keeping an eye on her. Since he was taller, he could see over a few students to see where she was heading. Kali on the other hand, wasn't liking this, believing it was like a puppy following his master.

"WHOOPS!"

A crash of books was heard as a girl with black curly hair rushed to pick them up. She too wore a green uniform and looked a bit weak. Kali blinked and moved to help her.

"Thank you," the girl said gratefully. "I just come back to school and find new books! I couldn't get enough!" She looked a bit guilty at this and embarrassed.

Kali chuckled. "I guess you love to read," she said.

"Oh yes!" the girl said smiling back. "Every new thing that's good, I've read it. I'm like that I guess." She pushed back a curl revealing crystal blue eyes. She seemed human in almost every way, except her eyes. Kali noticed the pupils were slits, similar to a cat or a snake.

"I'm Kali Sunstrider," Kali said holding a hand out to shake hers.

"Anya Stormrage," Anya said shaking her hand. "Nice to meet you."

"Anya…" A voice said stern and male as the two looked up. An older student stood there, black spiky hair and gray eyes gazing down at the two. "Always have to make such a scene?"

"Sorry, Big Brother," Anya whispered as she picked up the last of her books. She looked down a moment.

The boy just shook his head as he gathered some books and pulled her up a bit fast that she had to catch herself. He looked at Kali, his eyes seeming like two storm clouds. "A high elf," he said. "A rare thing. And you wear green for neutral."

Kali nodded her head, now seeing why Anya would cower like this. He was even spooking her by his manner. "Yeah," she said.

"Hey, Stefan!" Rograx walked up. "Stop terrorizing the girls, man."

"I was merely helping my little sister," Stefan said staring at the orc. It seemed the two were part of the gang, but Kali had to wonder, why two humans? Or was he even human at all?

Rograx looked at Anya. He reached up and ruffled her curls. "I hope you're taking care of her," he said.

"She's old enough to do that on her own," Stefan said. "I'm not my sister's keeper."

"I'm sure," the orc responded.

Anya fixed her hair and looked at Kali. "We'll have to talk again sometime."

"I'd like that," Kali agreed. "Sorry if I got ya in trouble."

"No, you didn't," Anya reassured her. She headed off with Stefan.