"Today, we're dissecting manatees!" a very chipper man with a nail through his head and an unlit cigarette dangling from his mouth chimed. He resented the fact smoking wasn't permitted on school grounds. Oh how he'd love the sweet taste of nicotine and lung cancer on his lips again. But his lust was quickly distracted by bright, glittering, silver, trays being wheeled in his classroom. He danced over, grabbing a hold of the clean white sheet covering what was going to soon be out in the dumpster.
"Aren't those endangered?" someone interrupted, raising an eyebrow.
"No... Just protected." the man shrugged. He didn't see anything wrong with using a species that had less than five thousand animals left in the wild.
"Isn't that still illegal?" another student whispered.
"Enough with the legalities! Just enjoy the day's activities." the man grinned, eager to get off the subject of how legal things were. He once again took a hold of the gorgeous white sheet, only to be interrupted by a phone call. "What?" the man snapped. "New students? Send them in." he waited silently for about five minutes, twitching with sheer anticipation. The man drummed his fingers on the desk for what seemed like years. He was getting more fed up by the minute. Nothing happened. Dr. Stein, as he was called, abandoned waiting for the new arrivals and grasped the sheet once more. He ripped it off, expecting to see the gross, gray, lifeless, body of an endangered sea creature. But instead, he was greeted by something entirely different.
A young girl with raven black hair, a huge hooded jacket rolled over to expose her stomach, and big, baggy, blue jeans sat straight up. She had both hands angled to make her look like a zombie and her mouth was hanging open to reveal sharp, inhuman, fangs.
"Hello, kiddies!" The girl hopped up onto two feet, grinning proudly to show off her pearly white Fangs. She was quite obviously very happy with them.
"Are you the new student?" Dr. Stein asked. He was putting aside the fact his manatee was gone for the moment but after the girl was introduced, he would interrogate her about them.
"Studentssssssss!" she hissed. "Leo! Step forth and reveal yourself!" There was some movement on one of the other carts. The girl over the cart opened her mouth to mutter something mean about Zik and her boyish looking body.
Before she could say anything, her eyes were glued to the boy. He had the most gorgeously luscious hair she'd ever witnessed. It was a perfect golden brown, the color of a lion's mane. His hair even looked like a mane as it puffed out and dripped down to his neck. He gave a sarcastic wave before stretching out and lying down as if he were going to take a nap.
"And you are?" Dr. Stein pointed at the girl. She was currently rather busy wiping blood and preservatives off her jacket and ignored him.
"I am Zik! But you can call me Z or Zi. Or Zik! Be outrageous and don't abbreviate my already only three letter long first name!" She stuck her tongue out and made big gratuitous movements with her arms, cackling in an odd way while she spoke. Zik lay back down as well after letting out a big yawn.
"What did you two do with today's experiment?" Dr. Stein inquired. He sounded calm at first but if they weren't somewhere safe, he was going kill them.
"Was today's experiment the traditional rolling of sushi?" Zik sat up, looking a little worried.
"What? No!" Stein snarled.
"Leo! It wasn't sushi and you're probably going to die." she snickered. Zik found it rather funny that her friend was going to die.
"He ate one?" Stein spat. Leo looked over at him and nodded. He didn't seem to have any real expression or feeling.
"He ate two." Zik grinned a sharp toothed grin. She scraped her fingers against her scalp, causing a torrent of white flakes to shower down like snow.
"How?" the teacher yelped.
"He was hungry, duh! Leo's eaten far more a trillion other times. I know because the bastard ate my muffin! It was chocolate vanilla swirl with cinnamon streusel. And I will never forgive him..." Zik cracking her knuckles with a snarl in her throat. She glared at Leo who stuck up his middle finger. The girl responded by wheeling her cart over, a hellbent snarl on her face. Zik reached in her pocket, rooting around before grasping a large roll of silvery duct tape and tying Leo down. He didn't seem to struggle, looking as if he almost enjoyed it. She pulled up her jeans to reveal a big pair of purple and black boots. Zik slammed her foot down on his crotch, growling lowly.
"Stop! We have to get him to a hospital or something!" Stein ordered.
"Nah, I can just purge him." Zik said. She cut the tape using a huge hunting knife and helped him up.
Zik blankly punched her friend in the stomach before scurrying away quickly. She was worried he'd throw up on her jeans which she cared about immensely. But instead of reacting normally, Leo vacantly raised an eyebrow. Zik shoved her hand in his mouth, running away again. A few other students dove under their desks, whispering and hissing about how disgusting the new kids were. Leo made a terrible heaving noise, acting as if he were going to puke. The students turned away, covered their eyes, and some even fled the room. They couldn't imagine what it would look like if a scrawny boy regurgitated two huge animals. But instead of hearing the grotesque sound of liquid hitting the tile floors, rampant laughter filled the room. Zik and Leo were doubled over on each other, clapping their hands and grinning ear to ear. The two bumped their chests together as a final victory motion.
"Gotcha bitches! Leo's never puked in his life! It can't be done!" the girl giggled cynically. She put her arm around his shoulder and he wrapped his around her waist. Zik shoved him down onto the floor, laughing as she jumped onto his cart. She pushed off, sailing straight into Dr. Stein's desk.
"Did you not eat them?" he asked, becoming optimistic.
"Nah, Leo ate one and we put the other in the closet." Zik smiled. Stein peered back to see Leo holding up a sign that read 'Don't worry; I've never felt sick before in my life. I can digest anything'. There was a loud slapping noise as Zik placed the carcass of a gray marine mammal on his desk. She wiped her hands off, snaking her way to an open seat in between a boy with a star tattoo on his shoulder and a girl with two blonde pigtails. Leo sat down quickly while Zik clawed her way up onto his shoulders.
"I'm Black Star, super awesome amazing assassin." the boy with the tattoo grinned, extending a fist. Leo slammed his own fist against Black Star's, nodding in approval.
"By the way, Leo doesn't talk. He's a mute. But I do!" Zik remarked in a half whisper half scream.
"Why not?" a pretty girl with a long stringy ponytail leaned over.
"Pft, I dunno! If I had to guess, he's too amazingly, fabulously, gratuitously, insanely, awesome to speak." Zik said, patting her meister's head. He snaked his hand upward, slapping it against his weapon's.
"I should stop talking..." Black Star noted. He very much supported the idea of not talking due to being too amazing.
"What about you two?" Zik pointed at the girl with pigtails and the beanie clad boy beside her. Leo leaned back to put his feet up on the desk with a bored expression lying on his face. The sudden change in position caused Zik to go tumbling onto the floor. "Oh, FUCK. YOU. LEO." she jumped into his lap and made herself comfortable.
"Uh... I'm Maka." the girl replied.
"And I'm Soul." the boy in the beanie said. They greeted each other with fist bumps and high fives instead of the conventional handshake Maka was hoping for.
"And with that, I bid you kiddies farewell. Onward Leo!" Zik waved. She dug her heel into the boy's side and was soon marching away on his shoulders.
"You're just leaving?" Black Star inquired.
"Yep. If I'm not moving forward it's like I'm going to explode in a big symphony of guts and gore! Which would be lovely but not today. Today... I make a man out of this school. By raping all it's classrooms and hallways. ONWARD LEO." Zik screeched. Her human mount went flying towards the door and she let out a hyah like noise. However, Leo didn't care to duck so the girl's head slammed into the doorframe. The class erupted I rampant cackles while Zik raised one fist and went jostling back out. Black Star and Soul exchanged glances. They seemed to communicate telepathically at times.
"I gotta pee." Soul announced, raising one hand.
"Very well." Stein muttered, extremely pre-occupied by his diagram of scalpel techniques. The beanie clad boy hurried out of the classroom, avoiding Maka'a famous Maka Chop.
"I am leaving." Black Star said in a very bland way. He wasn't one for being inconspicuous or sneaky. The boy then marched out in a proud display of silly walks.