DISCLAIMER! I DO NOT OWN DEGRASSI! PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU START ON THE STORY!
My first Degrassi fanfic! This is based off of a Battle Royale/Hunger games type of plot. It's where a bunch of people are chosen and they have to kill each other in a certain time period until one person remains, etc, etc. This starts off around season 14…I have made slight changes in the order of plots leading to this game.
The one major change I made was that Eli is not in college, he's going to be a senior along with Clare, Alli, et al. I wanted to include him in this since his character has a lot to offer. :)
Main Couples: Eventual Zaya, Eclare, and probably some Triles.
Warning: This has many character deaths, some slight gruesome moments (but not too bad, I'm not Steven King).
Anyways, Enjoy and R&R! I hope you like this!
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It was today…the day that everything was going to change. It was mandatory for a selected group of students to come to school this day or we would be expelled from the whole district. Little did we know, we did exactly as they said…
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"Zig! I can't believe you're actually coming to school today. I thought you would skip for sure!" Maya exclaimed as she tightly held onto her backpack, her blonde curls bouncing up and down as she sped ahead of Zig, Grace, and Tiny.
They, along with a few other students, were known as the rubber kids. They were seen as the outcast troublemakers, the "clique" that people should stay away from. They would always take the time to skip, especially on Fridays, but Maya made sure they wouldn't today. She thought she was quite a good influence on them.
"He made sure to come because you told him to." Grace said; nudging Zig on the arm.
"They would've expelled us if we didn't come." The black haired male rolled his eyes, an embarrassed tone lacing his voice. It was obvious to Grace he was crushing on Maya badly. However, Zig insisted he decided to let her go when she started a relationship with resident rich boy Miles. Grace and even Tiny on occasion saw through his persistent words.
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"We're supposed to be in room 2A man." Tiny said, "That's what they sent us in the mail."
"Well, mines said room 3A! Yours is probably a typo or something." Zig countered, him checking his notice by email.
"Nope, it's 2A." Tiny argued, holding up a sheet of paper which read '2A', "I wrote it just in case one of us would forget."
The four were searching for the room they were specifically supposed to go to before they were to head to normal classes. Only problem was they couldn't find it.
"You idiots. It's room 3F." Grace said, bypassing the two bickering boys. Maya followed her, taking her word over theirs. Grace was always right.
When they reached room 3F, Maya and Grace peered through the closed door window, seeing groups of other students, some of them familiar, some of them not. Zig and Tiny peered over the shorter girls. All of the students selected to come to this specific room weren't all in grade 10. All of them were niners through seniors.
"Are we going to go in?" Zig broke the silence.
Grace opened the door and the four walked into room 3F. The medium sized classroom was crowded and loud, everyone chatting all at once since there was no teacher. Desks were scooted in close together with people situated into their own groups that they usually hung out with.
As the four rubber room kids bypassed some of the students to look for empty desks to sit in, they saw all kinds of familiar faces that roamed the school. They ranged from some of the cheerleaders who were part of the power squad who participated in the infamous Oomph Chat scandal, the seniors who consisted of the student council including the president Drew Torres, the Mattlingsworth siblings, and other notable faces. Maya's face beamed when she saw Miles along with Tristan; they were also sent to this room. She immediately went towards her on and off boyfriend, leaving Zig, Grace, and Tiny. Zig eyed her for a few moments before finding other seats with Grace and Tiny.
"Miles! Tristan!" Maya said, noticing him sitting on a desk opposite Winston and Tristan.
"They brought you here too?" Miles said.
"Yeah, unfortunately." Maya said, sitting in an empty seat across them, she noticed what time it was, "At this rate, we're going to miss our French test! I studied hard for it last night!"
As of now, Maya was on good terms with both Tristan and Miles after Miles' and his sibling's fiasco with his father. In the process of all of this, Maya and Miles had decided to give each other a chance again. Tristan insisted he was okay with it since he didn't want to have anything to do with Miles romantically, thus managing to patch things up with Maya.
"I can't believe this! Me and Shay were supposed to go snag some good deals at the mall this morning!" Lola huffed as she sat across Shay, Zoe, and Frankie, "…Now that cute blouse I've wanted for weeks will be sold out by the time this is over."
"There are bigger problems to be worried about!" Frankie replied in a sarcastic tone, she was baffled by how materialistic her friends could be at times, "…Like why we're here exactly!"
Frankie's family was a lot richer than her friend's families, but how she managed to stay so level headed about material desires compared to them was surprising. Lola groaned out loud; she wanted this to be done with fast.
"By the looks of it, the whole Hollingsworth clan managed to get called here." Zoe said, with much amusement, spotting Hunter a few desks away from them and Miles at the other side of the room.
"You didn't notice?" Shay said.
"Surprisingly I didn't." Zoe replied.
"You would if you saw how cozy Hunter has awfully gotten with Arlene." Lola narrowed her eyes at the innocent long haired freshman who sat next to Frankie's twin brother.
"Calm down jealous; they're just having a conversation with each other." Shay replied. She was aware of Lola's attraction to the reserved Hollingsworth brother, especially when they interrogated him at the height of the 'Degrassi Nudes' crisis.
"Yeah, but I had eyes on him first!" Lola sighed, then continued to glare at Arlene, who didn't even notice them. She was intrigued by whatever comic Hunter was talking about, "…I bet she's just doing this to get back at us."
Lola and Shay would torment and make fun of Arlene any chance they got to. It was a mystery as to why they would…maybe it was a reason to make themselves seem intimidating in front of the nonthreatening types.
"Now that's just dumb. I introduced them to each other." Frankie replied.
Behind Frankie and the other cheerleaders, was where most of the seniors and the student body sat. This group included Clare, Alli, Jenna, Drew, Dallas, Imogen, Becky and Connor.
"Does this have anything to do with student council?" Connor asked, as he sat across Alli, Jenna, and Clare.
"I don't think so. A lot of the people here are in different grades. There's juniors…sophomores…and even some freshman." Jenna replied to her boyfriend, "…And I'm not in student council either."
Clare drowned out their conversation; it was humiliating and embarrassing being in the same room as Drew after Dallas poured the news of Drew not being the father of her baby to him. She hadn't been able to face him ever since that horrible incident so they had been working separately as vice president and president in the student council.
"Earth to Clare!"
She snapped out of her overbearing thoughts to Alli waving her hand in her face.
"Sorry, I was just thinking." She replied.
"You don't look so well."
"I'm so stupid." Clare sighed, then looked at Drew, "I feel like I've strung him around for the longest time. He must feel like an idiot after what we said and did for the baby. He shouldn't have found out like this."
"Dallas shouldn't have told him then. I'm still mad at him for that." Alli replied, "He should have found out by you."
Clare heard the door of the class room open; her heart nearly lurched out of her chest once she saw who it was. It was Eli Goldsworthy. Out of all the people in this school he had to be one of the students to come to this room too.
"…You've got to be kidding me." Clare sighed, immediately looking the other way so Eli wouldn't notice her. She was obviously not on good terms with him. After punching Drew and calling her a whore, Clare didn't want anything to do with him.
"Drew and Eli in the same room…" Alli grimaced, "This won't end well."
"It's only for a few hours." Jenna replied, "After this we'll all be going on our separate ways to class."
"I hope so." Clare said, watching Eli sit by Imogen and her girlfriend, Jack. She was thankful her ex didn't see her…and hoped he wouldn't for the rest of the time they were in this room.
"Alright kids, settle down!"
Everyone immediately quieted down, anticipating what was going to happen next. They were told to come into a specific room without any knowledge, they really wanted to know who brought them here and why they were supposed to be in this room.
They saw the principal walk in the room with an older man behind him. Everyone's eyes were on them. The older man had a permanent stern expression, opposite of 's usual liveliness; he wore a grey suit adding to his coldness. He had grey tufts of hair mixed with brown with square framed glasses on his face. They both stopped when they reached the front center of the classroom.
"Who is he?" Winston whispered.
"Beats me." Miles replied, in an equally quiet voice, "I've never seen him here at the school before."
"He looks like one of those special counselors they bring here for-"
"Shh!" Tristan hushed Winston, interrupting him. He wanted to hear whatever they had to say.
The man with the glasses went onto the podium while stood in his spot.
"I suppose you're all wondering why you're here." The principal said, then motioned to the older man next to him, "Well Mr. Raditch here has been rehired as a principal, replacing me."
The class erupted into murmurs, most of them in complete puzzlement. Who was this guy? Why was he rehired? Most of the students didn't look too happy; they liked as a principal. He was easygoing for the most part, he was fair and rational with the students, and he wasn't unreasonably strict on the school.
"Quiet down." said, getting their attentions, "Because of many previous complications that this school had gone through, especially in the past two years…they've decided to get a new principal, one that had worked here before."
"…But don't worry; I'll still be employed here. I'll be going back to my routes as the Media teacher!" He said, his exuberant personality coming back. He motioned for to speak.
"Hello students." He finally spoke, his voice as equally stern, as his appearance, "I doubt any of you know me since you weren't old enough during my time as principal. You all have been chosen by the faculty to be brought here for a behavioral assessment. We're going on a little field trip so you won't be attending classes today."
"What's that for?"
Maya saw Zoe Rivas speak up from the other end of the classroom. She had a questioned yet irritated look on her face. Behavioral assessment? Connecting the word behavioral with some kind of therapy, she assumed that she along with the other students in this room were going to attend a tedious rehabilitation-like class for the day. That meant she was probably going to be reminded of the 'Degrassi nudes' controversy and the aftermath of her sexual assault. Zoe certainly didn't want that. That kind of stuff was for the rubber room kids and the rubber room kids only.
"As my first order of being principal I've specifically called you all here because of you all have been associated with bringing unneeded drama in the school. I suppose this behavioral assessment will help us figure out what you all specifically need help on so you'll avoid starting many difficulties for Degrassi in the future."
"Seriously?" Zoe quietly said as she rolled her eyes.
"Yes. Seriously." Mr. Raditch replied, catching onto her attitude, "I know you won't like this, but it's for your own good. I'm doing everyone here a good favor, you'll thank me later."
"Sure." The former head cheerleader said under her breath.
"Zoe Rivas? That's you, right?" Mr. Raditch said, then made a quick hand motion, "Sit down properly in your seat, please. You're not at home, same goes to the rest of you who are doing the same."
With much irritation, she slid from the top of her desk and sat down on the actual chair. A few other students who sat on their desks followed.
After taking role and making sure to remember everyone's names, spoke up to make his last announcement.
"Alright everyone. You will all be taking a bus today for the "field trip" or so I'd like to call it. I want you all to follow to the front of the school where he'll be taking role again before we depart."
After was done speaking, the class became loud once again as everyone was getting ready to leave towards the classroom door.
"This should be interesting." Miles sarcastically said. Tristan, Maya, and Winston closely followed behind him.
"Indeed it should!" Winston exclaimed, "I hope this doesn't happen on a regular basis now that Mr. Radish is taking over the school."
"It's Raditch." Maya corrected him, slightly amused at his mistake.
The twenty three students were making their way towards the hallway that led to the front doors of the school, all ready to get this "fieldtrip" done and over with.
…Turns out this wasn't going to be any ordinary field trip.