(This is a collaboration work between me and fellow fanfic author, oXBlackCatXo, for each original character introduced in this story, I will leave who created the character next to the character's name.)
Chapter 1
New City, New…Well You Know
The city of Townsville, where many heroes, super-powered or not, live in. Some heroes know of each other, some of them don't, some of which are even in romantic relations with each other. However, these heroes, who have braved many trials from their enemies, are not who we are focusing on. This time, our story focuses on two students who attend the same high school as many of these heroes; a story that begins in a gym class.
Townsville High, Gym Room; Townsville
All around the gym room, many people were playing indoor sports from basketball to floor hockey. Our attention though is brought over to the sidelines at the benches where the more "physically in-adept" sit. Sitting down is a silver haired boy around the age of sixteen. He was around 5'5 and was wearing the school's gym uniform, a blue shirt and black sweatpants. Messing with his hair, the boy's shoulder was slightly tapped on by a student next to him, "Um, pardon me." The other student was wearing the same gym uniform, so he was definitely in the boy's class. The thing that made this other student stand out from the others though was this black, beanie cap he was wearing on top of his head that had a singular white stripe run all the way up to the tip. "Um…yes?" The silver haired boy responded, in a rather timid tone to boot.
"Greetings and salutations, but aren't you a new student? I never miss a new face."
"Um…y-yeah. I just moved in yesterday." The black capped boy held his hand out to the silver haired one. "Well I would like to be the first student to officially welcome you to Townsville High. My name is Eddward with two Ds, but everyone around here calls me "Double D"." The silver haired boy took Double D's hand and shook it lightly, "Takechiro…Takechiro Murameshi." (Character created by darkcastchamp)
"Ah, Japanese?"
"Y-Yeah. My older brother has a thing for Japanese culture."
"Your brother named you?" Double D's face looked quite puzzled at Takechiro's comment. Takechiro scratched the back of his head. "Y-Yeah, my brother, isn't exactly my brother. When I was just a baby, my parents abandoned me and he found me, naming me and all."
"Well that's…quite an interesting tale Takechiro. Have you ever tried to find your real parents?" Takechiro shook his head, smiling. "Hehe no no, I'm perfectly comtempt living my life with my brother."
"Well then, congrats to you Takechiro." Soon, a whistle was blown. Standing in the center of the gym was its teacher, who wore a blue track suit and had some kind of kendo stick strapped to his side. He had a very rough looking face, probably from training with the aforementioned kendo stick, but still had a handsome exterior. Tied up in a ponytail was the man's black hair in the traditional samurai tie. "Alright everyone, line up for the weekly Friday Dodgeball Match between class E and C."
"Yes Mr. Jack!" Everyone called out.
"Now today's teams will be led by the class's very own representatives, Mandy of class E and Josie (character created by oXBlackCatXo) of class C."
"Oh no…" Double D sighed clutching onto his hat. Takechiro looked at his newfound friend, worried. "Oh no? What's wrong?"
"Nothing Takechiro. Just prepare to have the stuffing beaten out of you."
"Huh?!" The whistle was blown again as the entirety of the class I was in, E, lined up. Walking in front of us was a blonde headed girl, whose hair was actually curled up into two points. She looked like some sort of Goldilocks Devil. This here was Mandy, "Alright you bunch, when you go out there, I wann see some sweat, I wanna see some tears, and most especially…" She glared at all of us, "I wanna see THEIR faces in tears." Everyone was shaking in the presence of Mandy, except Takechiro. He had some things to say himself, "Um…isn't this just a game?" Everyone in the line gasped as in the blink of an eye, Mandy was right in front of Takechiro's face. "You said something…fresh meat?..."
"A-All I said is is that I think I might need a new pair of pants."
"That's what I thought! You see newbie, these dodgeball matches isn't just a game. These dodgeball matches decide which of our classes is the Alpha class, and I don't want anything less." Her eyes squinted at the last words as though her eyes themselves were sucking out the remainder of Takechiro's soul. Wh-Who is this girl, Takechiro thought.
"Hey Mandy." Mandy looked over to see another girl. She had ruffled up, spiked down, pink hair and was too wearing the school uniform. "Josie…" Mandy groaned out.
"Mandy, I feel a little sorry for you. Someone as strong as you shouldn't have such a team of weaklings." Mandy chuckled a little from Josie's words. "Heh, you don't have much of a team yourself Josie. The only one who can actually make me sweat is you and one other person on your team." The whistled blewed once more as everyone was lined up on their residing side. All dodgeballs were placed in the center. As soon as that second whistle was born, everyone made a dash to the center, except Takechiro and two other kids, Double D and some student in a pink hat, were left in the dust.
Balls were soon flying left to right as person after person on each team were getting socked by dodgeballs. "I-It's like a war out here!" Takechiro screamed. Double D ducked down with him, "O-Of course! Whenever Mandy and Josie are involved in something competitive against each other it always turns out like this!"
"Who are those two anyway?!"
"Mandy, the tamer of Death, and Josie, the Cherry Blossom of Death. Together, they make up two thirds of the school's strongest female fighters. We call them the Skull Girls."
"T-Two thirds? Who's the third one?" Before Double D could answer, he was smacked in the face by a dodgeball. When Takechiro looked over, the one who threw it was a girl about two thirds of Takechiro's height, had dark purple hair that spike into three separate strands over her forehead and spiked into two sections, one on each side, that spiked forward from the sides of her head. "Hmph…you don't look familiar boy. New kid huh? Sorry your first day had to end like this." Takechiro was about to call to Mandy for help, but noticed that Mandy and Josie took each other out with a double knockout. He gulped, looking back at his purple haired symbol of death. She raised back to throw the ball at Takechiro, "N-N-No….w-w-wait please!..." Takechiro pleaded in fear. As the ball left her hand Takechiro yelled, "St-Stoooooooop!"
Everyone started looking, eyes wide, as the dodgeball was floating in the air and Takechiro's eyes glowed white. Soon, every single ball was rising into the air, including Takechiro. With a single flick of Takechiro's wrist, the dodgeballs flew at the purple haired girl. Josie quickly stepped in front of the girl and started punching them away. After his little "blowout", Takechiro's eyes turned back to normal as he fell unconscious, landing right into Jack's arms. Josie turned around to the girl, "Gaz, are you alright?" She asked as she helped Gaz up.
"Y-Yeah, I'm fine." Gaz looked over at the unconscious Takechiro being carried out while Josie could only give him an angered glare.
Principal's Office
Sitting in front of Takechiro and the observing Jack was a red headed woman, who seemed to be in her mid-twenties, was tapping her desk. "So, Takechiro was it?"
"I-I'm sorry Principal Foster! I-I didn't know what I was doing! I-I swear I didn't mean to do it!" Principal Foster raised her hand to silence Takechiro.
"Takechiro, it's all right. We know what you did wasn't of your free will." Takechiro seemed to be more at ease, which is until the man next to Principal Foster slammed a ruler down on her desk. "However, that doesn't mean you're getting off scot free you trouble maker!" The man wore a suit similar to Principal Foster's, but instead of a cool green, it was a menacing black. He also had a whitened, right pupil with a scar over it. Principal Foster took the ruler and smack the scar eyed man on the head with it, "Now Vice Principal Scar, this is a school, not a prison." Takechiro scooted down in his chair in guilt for what he did. "But he is right Takechiro. Feel lucky though. You're in a school that houses many heroes with wonderful gifts such as yourself. You just need a little help…controlling them." Principal Foster explained. Takechiro looked up at her with a worried look. My powers aren't exactly one that can be controlled easily, he thought. "Now, we already contacted your brother." Takechiro groaned from Principal Foster's news.
"Ah, ah, ah, none of the sass." Scar silenced.
"Now, as I said, we contacted your brother and we told him that we have special classes we can give to you during the second half of lunch time that teaches you how to control your powers. And the teacher for the class is most nice." Scar scoffed at Principal Foster's last sentence as she smacked his fingers that were on the desk with the ruler. "O-Ok Principal Foster…" Takechiro sighed.
"Please Takechiro, if you want call me Ms. Franky. I find it rather easier for students to refer to me as that." She smiled. Takechiro smiled back softly. "Now run along. Lunch should be starting soon."
"Y-Yes Princi- I-I mean Ms. Franky." Takechiro bowed as he ran on out of the room. Franky sighed with joy. "Such a sweet, young boy." Scar scoffed again. "Sweet? He almost sent one of our students to the infirmary. If I was in charge, I would've had that kid expelled."
"Vice Principal Scar!"
"Well did you see what he did Foster?! He literally broke the laws of gravity right in front of the eyes of many other students. Not even the Power Puff Girls could do something on a destructive scale like that! He's a monster I tell you!"
"He's only a boy!" Franky yelled, slamming her hands down on her desk. "Don't even compare him to those girls. They had their rough spots too, remember?"
"Hmph…I warn you now Foster, if that kid endangers another student because of those powers of his you could lose your job for letting him stay after the first incident."
"Well…that's a risk I'm willing to take…"
Cafeteria
Takechiro was shifting through the crowds of people with his tray in hand as many of the students were giving him weird looks. Man…gossip travels fast, Takechiro thought. "Takechiro!" Takechiro turned to see Double D waving from the side. He was sitting with two other boys, one of which looked extremely annoyed. "Double D, what are you doing? This is our table for our group."
"Oh come on Eddy, what's wrong with just making friends?" Eddy, who had short, slicked back, black hair started to pout now. The other boy, who had shaved, orange hair was just zoning out while Double D and Eddy were talking. Takechiro sat down right next to Double D and across from Eddy, "Hey um, is your friend their ok?" Takechiro nodded at the red headed boy.
"Ugh, he does that all the time. Hey Ed!" Eddy snapped his fingers in front of Ed's face, as he looked over at Takechiro and smiled. "Hey, who's the new kid?" His voice sounded a little mentally slow, but he was smart enough though to still form sentences. "Ed, this here is Takechiro." Double D introduced. It seemed as if just mentioning Takechiro's name was causing the gears in Ed's head to short circuit. "I'm gonna call you Silver!" Ed said. Takechiro sweated a little with a blank face as Ed literally slammed his face into his food and started eating it. Eddy just said, "Don't mind him, he's an idiot. Though he's our idiot to be more precise…" Takechiro and Double D started laughing as Takechiro's eyes wandered around. From behind him though, someone grabbed the back of his collar. It was a boy who was wearing a black tank top, a red cap, and torn up shorts. He was a little bit on the heavy side. "Well, well, well, what do we have here? Some fresh meat?"
"Ah! H-Hey, put me down!" Takechiro thrashed about in the boy's grip. Double D got up nervously, "Sp-Sp-Spud, leave him alone! H-He just got here and-"
"What are you saying sock head?" Spud insulted as he pushed Double D's beanie over his head and pushed him down. "Hey!" Eddy got up, but was immediately pushed back by Spud. "Ahahaha! You two are just as pathetic as ever! No wonder you're the outcasts of this school!" Takechiro then soon felt Spud's grip release him as Spud was yelling, "Ah! N-No, not you! L-Listen I was just- Oof! Ow! Moooommyyyyy!" Takechiro looked back to see Spud running with his arms flailing and his tail between his legs as before Takechiro was the Psychopathic Cherry Blossom herself, Josie. Outside of her school uniform, she was wearing a white shirt with a Cherry Blossom insignia on it and had on a black jacket over it. Also in her hair was a hairpin that had the insignia of a Skull with a bow on it. It was definitely the symbol of the Skull Girls. "Whew….th-thanks Josie, I thought I was-" In the next second, Josie took Takechiro by his collar and slammed him against the table, cracking it a little. Everyone gasped as the cafeteria went silent. "Listen you stick, the only reason I saved your hide was because I didn't want to share my prey with any other carnivore." Her face was now in front of his. "If anyone is going to be causing you any pain, it's going to be me for what you almost did to Gaz…" With that, Josie dropped Takechiro as she went back to grab her stuff with the bell ringing at that moment for the second half of lunch.
