Chapter One- Gotta Figure This Out
My head was hurting as I was walking into the empty corridors of my new school. An exorcist school, to be exact. The halls were long and wide with strange colorful patterns. Every door I passed was too tall for me. Hm, it should be around here somewhere… I thought. I kept walking around, hoping that someone would come out of smoke and sparkles and magically pop me to the right room. I chuckled to myself quietly of how stupid of a situation that would be. I kept walking, no matter how more lost I became, and started to think back on the events that happened yesterday that gave me such a bitch-of-a-headache.
"So you say you want to be enrolled into True Cross Academy?"
I nodded at the man wearing a purple and pink themed outfit with a funky hat. His hair was violet and his goat-tee was so long pointed you could've held a balloon a few centimeters away and it would still pop. Mephisto Pheles (or Johann Faust the Fifth) was his name, which matched with his lunatic behavior and twisted demeanor.
"Running away from something maybe?"
"More like someone. But Mephisto, you already knew that."
"Of course, I was just making sure." He smirked. He picked up the earl grey tea I had made earlier and sipped quietly as I waited for the reply to my request.
After a few moments later, a blurry green figure crashed through the window of my apartment and somersaulted into my living room, where Mephisto and I were seriously discussing my transfer. I was lucky that I already signed the papers and was moving outta here.
"Aniki, sorry I came late…Ah!" The green demon stared at me with no emotion in his face, as if it wasn't the first time we had seen eachother. Who knew I was right.
"Long time no see," He said to me while vigorously sucking on his lollipop.
"Who…?" I looked at Mephisto, who seemed to be enjoying the situation between me and the lollipop-sucking freak.
"Ehhh, It hurts that you don't remember me… but then again it has been for a long time, Legna-chan."
"That's not my name," I paused, then realized what he meant.
"How do you…?" I stared at him, and dug around in my memories to see if any recollection of him would appear. But it didn't. Something smelly was going on, and it wasn't because I hadn't showered yet.
"I'm Amaimon, the Demon Earth King. Let's get along, Legna-chan~!" He said, interrupting my thoughts of suspicion for him.
"So you're one of Mephisto's brothers? Figures. You both have the overly-and-colorfully (and don't forget ugly)-dressed outfit trend."
"How rude, I'll have you know that it's all the rage now," Mephisto stated proudly.
"Any-who, I would be glad to welcome you as a student at my school, with a dorm and free meals during the day… But, that means that you will have to-"
"I know. I know what I have to do," I sighed and looked out the window that was now broken and surrounded by shattered glass.
"You don't have to remind me…"
"Great then, I can't wait! Who knew that after all these years, you'd be coming to me for help." He gave me a smug look.
"Don't push your luck." I scowled at him.
"Amaimon, you know what to do," He paused, then said towards me, "Oh, and remember, his name is Okumura Rin. This is gonna be fun!" He laughed maniacally.
I rolled my eyes. "Yeah, yeah."
Now that I look back on it, that discussion seemed so long, when it only had been an hour. What a pain in the ass, I hated how Mephisto turns everything into his own little chessboard. You can never know what that bastard is planning.
I kept walking, quietly opening doors and peering in to see if anybody was there.
"This is seriously taking too long. I can't find…!" I stopped and before me was my new exorcist class.
"If only I had the easy button." I muttered. I was surprised at myself that I had actually found the place in this underground school. I looked at the keys I was holding in my hand. One was gold and skeleton shaped. The other was silver and was diamond shaped. Which reminds me…
"Have you packed all your stuff, Legna-chan~?" Mephisto twirled around in excitement. We were outside of my apartment building.
"Don't call me that. You know that's not my real name." I glared at him.
"Fine, would you like me to call you princess then?" He smirked at me, then motioned me and luggage into the rather long and incredibly (ugly) pink limo. I flinched at the word "princess" and rolled my eyes.
"That's not my name either. My gosh, if you really have to call me by an alias, then 'Ms. Awesome' would work just fine," I smirked. "But… why can't you call me by my real name?" I asked. I threw my suitcases and my bags on top of the pink-leathered seats, and sat as far away from the creep as I can, with my bags in between us.
"Now now, don't be a stranger Ms. Awesome. I am offering you free meals and a free dorm room remember? And the alias is only when we have our usual meetings outside of school."
"Oh, got it. Ugh, alright, I apologize." I said half-heartedly. I looked out the window of the limo and sighed. Suddenly I felt two small but hard things hit against my head one after another, and at the same spot too.
"Ouch! What the frack?" I exclaimed. I looked down and frowned at the two keys that laid next to me. I picked them up and examined them.
"What are these?" I asked. "And why in the world would you throw them at me?"
"They're keys." He paused and looked at me. "And I thought it would be fun to break your character once in awhile." He snickered.
"Thanks captain obvious. And thanks again for the nice thought." I rolled my eyes at him. I tend to do that a lot. "And what I meant was, what are these for anyway?" Mephisto yawned and took a long breath.
"The gold key leads to the underground exorcist school. The silver one leads to your dorm. All you have to do is pick any random door and use your keys. You happy now Ms. Awesome?"
"Yes, very. Thanks."
"Make sure not to lose them. Well, I wouldn't mind if you lost the silver one, you could still get outside of the school by using the gold one again. But, you'd probably get lost."
He was right. I did get lost. Only because I had lost that silver key somewhere on the way walking to my class. Boy was I stupid. How could I have lost it, and on the very first day I arrived here too!
"We're here, Ms. Awesome!" Mephisto happily pranced to the entrance. I was getting annoyed by his stupidity-ness, and afraid that I might catch it. I carried my luggage to where he was at and shoved some of the bags into his chest. I walked ahead a bit and then turned to face him. He had a confused look on his face.
"Help a lady out, will ya?" I turned around once more and proceeded to find the first door I saw. I took out my silver key and jammed it into the lock, twisting it once to the right. I turned the knob and found an empty, but clean, dorm room.
"Now that was cool." I stared in awe at my room, then outside, then my room, then outside again, still not getting over the fact that it was… what's the word… "magical."
"Well it looks like you know what you're doing!" Mephisto finally caught up to me and placed my bags near my bed. I looked and there I saw a girl's uniform neatly laid out on top of the sheets. I picked up the skirt and measured it from my waist to see how long it was.
"You expect me to wear this? It's short!"
"The better to see you in, m'dear." That guy, making up stupid jokes again.
"I think it suits you more." I retorted.
"We arrived later than usual, so you'll have to go to your day class starting tomorrow…" I heard a sudden beep. Mephisto took out what looked like a cell phone and glanced at it. "Well I better get going. I'm sure you'll find your way around. Class starts in about 2 hours, so good luck to you, future exorcist! Ciao~!" And with a puff of pinkish purple smoke, he disappeared. I glanced at my uniform once more and set my skirt down. I unzipped my green suitcase and took out a pair of black skinny jeans. I changed into them, putting my skirt over it, and finally my top. I strung the bow around the collar of my top and tied it.
"There. Ah, how I love my jeans." I said, satisfied. I dug around my green suitcase and finally grabbed a hold of two swords. One had a black handle in a blue and gold scabbard, and the other had a white handle in a purple scabbard. I strapped them across my back, side to side in a diagonal, their handles reached out from my right shoulder and ended to the lower left side of my waist.
"Future exorcist, huh?" I only missed a week's worth of school, but luckily for all the years I haven't gone to school I spent in the library, reading books on higher levels. Although, learning about demons and exorcism was a new thing for me. I gathered my notebooks (which had those pocket folders in them, so cool), pencils and erasers, and my ipod, and put them in my school bag. I slung the strap around my left shoulder. I looked at myself in the mirror once more, before I took out the gold key and unlocked the future that was waiting for me.
"Here I go."
I looked at the tall door before me. Behind it, is the class that I'm going to be spending my days with. Just a class. Nothing more, nothing less. I already promised myself I wouldn't get close to anyone. Or at least try not to.
"What are you waiting for?" A familiar voice said. I jumped and looked around, but nobody was there. "Down here!" I looked down and found a small, shaggy haired dog.
"What. The. Frack? Dogs can't talk." I shook my head in denial.
"That's what you think, darling." Well that's a new one. I crouched down facing the dog, and poked it. Yes, poked it. Poking is fun.
"Would you please stop doing that?" The dog growled. "It's me!"
"Mephisto? Wow, you should stay that way forever. It sure suits you! Oh, but where's your hat?" I was trying to stifle my laughter as I imagined Mephisto, the small grey dog wearing an oversized top hat. But that failed. I started laughing out loud. I finally settled down and wiped the tears of laughter on my face.
"Boy, you sure fooled me Mephisto. Uh, why are you here?"
"Just checking up on you. Anyhow, you should get in there before you're late!" He nudged against my leg, urging me to move forward and open the door.
"Alright, Alright." I heaved a big sigh. Suddenly my heart started to beat faster, my face feeling warm and my hands forming sweat. Was I nervous? Yeah, I was nervous. This is my first time in a long time that I would be in school, with new faces and new personalities. I gulped and grabbed onto the doorknob.
I entered the classroom. Ten pairs of eyes stared at me. I felt awkward. I'm pretty sure that everyone could see how red my face was.
In front of me I saw the teacher who looked like could be around my age wearing glasses, and had three uniquely placed moles. "Ah, you must be the new student. Welcome. I'm Okumura-Sensei. I hope you and the class will get along well." He Bowed. I bowed back, and replied, "Same here."
Wait, Okumura? As in Okumura Rin? Could it be-
"Care to introduce yourself?" Okumura sensei said, interrupting the flow of my thought. My face flushed. Just how long was I standing there, blankly to them, at least? And besides… it doesn't look like it could be him, I thought as I took one more look at Okumura sensei. I snapped out of it once more and turned and faced the class.
"Oh uh, right. Um, I'm Takano Chiharu. Please take care of me."
Hey people who have read this xD This is officially my first fanfic story, so go easy on me! Was this long? I dunno, it felt long to me xD Also, sorry for the few mistakes in here. I wrote about the characters' personality and description by memory ^^; Review please, and it would be nice if someone could help me out and become my proof-reader (or else what originally was supposed to be "moo" would stay as "poo" forever! D: ) Yeah, I know I made a lame joke ._. Thank you for reading! :D