Chapter 1: A New Guy and a Vampire
"One more step forward, kiddo," I said, "And I'll make it war. You won't like it one bit." I looked around the gym. "Look at this." I spread my arms out. "Look at what you caused." I put my hands back into the pockets of my blue hoodie, which was unzipped to show a white t-shirt beneath. "Heh, heh," I chuckled, "No words? I guess that means you don't have any regrets, do ya?"
"Dorian?" I heard a weary voice behind me ask.
"Stay back," I looked at where that voice came from and told the girl behind me, "This is my fight." I responded. I looked back forward, at her. Her red eyes were filled with murder and bloodlust. Her knife had blood, still wet from earlier, dripping from the tip. Her green and yellow striped shirt had a few blood stains on it. Her short brown hair was a mess. "Heh, I guess we have one thing in common," I said, "It's that we're both filled with Determination." I looked around, then back at her. "One step further," I told the girl, "And we let the room get chiller." She took the step.
"Heh heh," I chuckled. "So, one question, Kiddo." I let my left eye glow blue. "You ready to have a bad time?"
Three months earlier…
I stepped off the bus and planted my feet on the dirt road.
"Thanks for the ride." I told the bus driver.
"Don't mention it." He replied. "Be careful."
"Don't worry," I responded, "I'm Determined to get home, after this last mission."
"Good luck." He said.
"Thanks." He drove back into the tunnel. Alright. Yokai Academy, here I come. I started walking down the path. I was wearing the standard uniform. Not that I didn't have anything else to wear, but the other things I had to wear were for a special occasion. Jaysus, I thought, It looks like a graveyard here. I continued walking, nonetheless. I heard a twig snap, and spun around with supernatural speed and raised a fist, but nothing was there. "Huh, weird." I muttered. "Guess it was nothing." Just after I said that, something flew at me and knocked me over, landing on top of me. Me and my big mouth.
"Owww…" I heard. I looked at what landed on me.
A girl? I was really confused. She was about my height, had blue hair, and didn't wear the standard Yokai uniform.
"That hurt." I heard her say.
"And you're heavy." I said. She looked at me for a second, then immediately jumped off of me and bowed her head.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you!" She apologized.
"Eh, forget about it. Everyone makes mistakes." I said as I got up. "What's your name?"
"Kurumu," she said, "and your's?"
"Dorian. Now let's get to class." I took a look at my pocketwatch. "Jävla!" I looked at her. "Excuse my Swedish."
"What is it?" Kurumu asked.
"We gotta go. We're gonna be late!" So we took off running to the building. She turned into her monster form, a succubus, and flew the rest of the way.
"Want a ride?" she asked.
"Nah, I'm faster than that." I said and I took off.
I arrived at the classroom minutes before the bell rang, while Kurumu arrived seconds before.
"Everyone, please say hello to our new student," The teacher, Miss Nekonome, announced, "Dorian Grael."
"Allo." I said simply. About three people laughed. Jeez, that's more of a response than usual.
"Please take your seat."
I simply nodded. Jaysus, I thought, there are far more people here than I expected. Well, where to sit. I looked around the room for an open seat, ah, there's one. I sat in the seat right in front of Kurumu's. The first part of the school day went without interruption, though I swear I saw a familiar face out the window.
When lunchtime came around, I was looking for an empty seat or table when I heard a familiar voice.
"Hey, Dorian!" It was Kurumu. I spun around.
"Yeah?"
"Want to come sit with us?" she asked me. She was nearly right behind me, so close that I almost hit her with my lunch.
"Sure, why not." I replied. She showed me where they sat, and then I recognized a familiar face.
"Wait, your name is Dorian, correct?" he asked.
"Well I'm glad you recognize me too." I told him. It was Tsukune. We lived right across the street from each other in the human world, so we became close friends. Two years before he came to Yokai, I had to leave country for a "family meeting" I told him. The so-called "family meeting" was no meeting at all. When I arrived in the Underground, everyone that I had known had been killed by one girl. One, freaking, girl. It sounds impossible, but when I looked on Alphys's recordings of the Underground, I couldn't believe my eyes. There she was, a girl about six years younger than me, someone I knew as a kid, killing who was the most powerful monster in the Underground. Sans. My old friend. Who was just trying to protect the people of the Underground, was killed by a psychopath. I left through the Barrier, and came back on the surface. I spent a year looking for Frisk, the kid I knew as a kid, and found her. She was around the area of the tunnel that leads to Yokai Academy. Anyway, there's some of the backstory of why I'm here. Let's get back to the main story.
"It's been a long time." He said.
"Too long." I told him as we shook hands. He introduced me to Moka, a pretty girl with pink hair, Mizore, a girl with short, unkempt purple hair, and Yukari, a young girl that was a witch with short brown hair and a witch's hat. I'd already been acquainted with Kurumu, the one with blue hair. I sat down next to Kurumu, across from Tsukune. "So tell me," I started, "How's she cuttin'?" I said with a very bad irish accent.
"Fine," he replied, "I've just been busy with homework and studying lately."
"Excuse me," Moka, the one with the pink hair, said, "but what does 'how's she cuttin' mean?"
"It means 'How's it goin, or how's life'" I told her.
"Oh. For a minute I thought it meant something else." She smiled and had a little blush.
"Not going to ask what ya thought, but ok. Anyways-" I was cut off by a sight out the window. "Excuse me for two seconds." I said, and walked outside. I walked about five hundred feet into the woods when I saw her. "Hello, Chara." I calmly said. She spun around and had quite a shocked face. "Taken Frisk's body again, eh?"
"I like this body," she said, "It reminds me of myself when I had my own body."
I smiled. "So, how was the underground?"
Her expression went from mischievous to serious in no time flat. "How do you know?"
"You can thank Alphys for that. Her cameras recorded your every move. I saw everything you did. I saw you kill your friends, innocents, even your own mother! Now what kind of person kills their own mother? A psychopath, that's 're lucky I made a promise to Frisk."
"And what's that?"
"To not kill the innocent."
"And I'm not?"
"No, but Frisk is. We've been friends since childhood, and I would never hurt her. You, however, are not. You are a murderer, a cold-blooded killer. You are evil." My smile had disappeared a while ago, replaced with a face that was as serious as, as, as, what's something that's serious? Anyways, moving on. "You may have the body of an innocent, but don't think for a second that it cleans your soul. A clean shirt may make someone look completely clean, but that dosen't make their soul clean. Your soul is as dirty as the inside of a fireplace. Permanently charred, unable to go back to its once pristine state. I know what you've done. I know the blood you've spilt. That blood you spilt stained your soul forever. And not just your soul, but your mind as well." I closed my left eye hard.
"What's the matter," she taunted, "something in your eye?"
"You could say." I opened my eye. "So, how's it feel."
"How's what feel?"
"To kill everyone. Everything. No Mercy, no Sparing, just Fighting. How's it feel?"
"It feels great-"
"To you." I turned my back to her. "Anyways, I gotta go. Lunch is nearly over. See ya 'round." I left her. I walked back to the classroom and sat back in my seat. The rest of the day went fine. After the school day ended, I heard a few people talking about robbing the small shops that the school had. I was walking with Kurumu and her friends when I, and they, heard it.
"Thaaat's not good" I mumbled to myself. When I looked to the rest of the group, Kurumu and Yukari were whispering to each other. Focusing on them, I heard what they were saying.
"We gotta stop them." said Yukari.
"Yep," Kurumu replied. "How about we do it?"
"Yeah. Let's kick their butts!"
"Meet at my dorm in two hours and we'll make a plan."
"Hey, Dorian." Tsukune said. I snapped out of my daze and turned to him. Realizing it, I closed my left eye again.
"Yeah?" I asked while my eye was closed.
"What's wrong with your eye?"
"What do you mean?"
"It was glowing blue for a while."
By then everyone was looking at me. "Just got a piece of dust in my eye. Don't know about it glowing blue." I opened my eye again.
"Must've been my imagination."
"Let's go with that." I told him. "Anyways, I'll catch you all later. There's something I need to take care of."
"Bye!" everyone said in unison.
I walked into my dorm room and opened my bag. I changed into my alternate outfit.
Black cargo pants, blue tennis shoes, a white t-shirt, and a blue hoodie. I pulled the hood up, left the jacket unzipped, and made my way back to the school. It was night. When I arrived, I saw
both Kurumu and Yukari crouched behind two bushes. Letting my eye glow blue to hide my identity, I made my way to them.
"A little late to be out, eh?" I said in a deep voice.
Both turned around and were shocked. "Who are you?" Kurumu asked.
"Just call me Revenant. What are you doing?"
"Someone's going to steal from the shops!" Yukari shouted at me.
"Then you're at the wrong shops." I said. Both were confused. "Just follow me." I lead them to the right shop, which the robbers were already at. I stepped out from the shadows. "Sorry, boys." I started, "Shop's closed." They spun around and had shocked looks on their faces. They immediately turned into their monster forms and attacked. A werewolf, an orc, and a spider woman. Too easy. "Come at me." I said. The first to meet my blow was the werewolf. I summoned one of my gaster blasters and knocked him down with it's blast. He fell unconscious. The orc charged. I summoned five blue bones and put them in his path. Unable to slow down, he ran right through them, got hurt, and slid to my feet. I walked around it and sent two white bones at the spider woman, who caught them in her web before sending some web at me. I went behind her, dodging the web, and whacked her with a bone. She fell down.
Kurumu and Yukari ran out of the bushes to see what just happened. "What happened?"
They asked at the same time.
"I just saw bones and lasers flying and next thing I knew, all three of them were down!" Kurumu reported.
"I stopped them from robbing a store." I said.
"But how did you know?" Yukari asked.
"You could say that a little birdie told me." I replied.
"And what was with those bones?"
"Part of what I learned over these years. I got bones and Gaster Blasters. That's all I got. No more questions. I gotta go."
"Why?" Kurumu asked?
"Heh. Can't tell ya that. Just one thing. If you see me again, call me Revenant. Tibia honest, I hope our paths never cross again." I turned and left back to the dorms. Every few hundred feet or so I looked behind me to make sure that no one was following me. I went into my room and changed into pajamas. "Well, that happened." I put the outfit I just wore into a safe I have under my desk. I moved to the window and stared out of it for a while. "Frisk," I started to myself, "As long as you stay determined, I will stay even more determined. I will find a way to get Chara out of your soul, no matter what." I went to bed.
End
