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Chapter 1: Max Lockton
It was some time around midnight, the dark haired boy looked up at the stars that painted the sky on the country road he found himself on. The teenager had decided to take a stroll to calm his nerves. His parents, if you could call them that, were never around but when they were they argued endlessly.
"If you don't love each other don't get married you idiots…" the high schooler growled.
The boy exhaled deeply and watched as his breath floated away like smoke into the cold night. His entire life had been some sort of cosmic joke as no matter what he tried he watched anything around him fall apart. His parent's relationship, all of his friendships except one had failed and the one that didn't may as well have because the two were from separate classes, and even plants seemed to hate him as he could never successfully grow a single thing in the class garden.
"I wish I could just escape." Max muttered to himself.
"How badly?" a voice questioned.
The boy turned to look for whoever had spoken to him, but only found empty space. He turned to continue his walk believing it had only been his imagination but was surprised to see a robed figure standing underneath the only light on the road.
"They weren't there before." Max noted internally.
"How badly do you wish you could escape?" the figure stated again clarifying the question.
"Have you ever heard the story about the two men and the ocean?" Max countered with his own question, but the figure didn't respond.
"It's a story that pretty much says you should want something as badly as you want air when you're drowning." Max explained adjusting his glasses out of habit.
"Are you drowning?" the shrouded person asked with a hint of a giggle.
"Yes." the young boy replied with absolute certainty.
"I see," the figure said raising their hand, "then let your wish be granted."
Suddenly, the ground began to crack underneath him. As the world shattered like glass the boy let himself fall. Max was about to scream and flail but he stopped himself and devoted his brain to attempting to rationalize the situation.
"This has to be some dream, I'll just wake up and return to my life and forget this within a few minutes." Max thought to himself though somewhat disappointedly.
The dark haired boy fell freely through pitch black darkness that enveloped him, ahead of him a pinprick of light grew until it became the image of a bright and colorful world. The cartoon like shades of the landscape astounded the boy and as he got closer to the ground he exponentially lost his composure.
"OHHHHHHHHHH SHIT!" he screamed just as he struck the earth.
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"Is he ok?"
"Hmmm… Probably!"
"Oi what do you mean probably?!"
"It's not like we put him there! How would we know you beast!?"
"Hey hey he's waking up!"
Max opened his eye to see a large purple pair looking back into his. After a moment's hesitation he realized that his face was extremely close to that of a pink haired girl. Startled he tried to stand up but wound up bumping heads with her and knocking his glasses off.
"Where the hell am I? How did I get here?" the dark haired boy asked to no one in particular.
"That was one heck of a fall you had. We sensed your impact and fall on a radar system designed for detecting aliens." The girl he had just smashed heads with replied ignoring his other questions as she rubbed her forehead and stood up.
She then bent over and picked up Max's glasses and began to study them.
"It's amazing that these managed to stay on while you fell." She said glancing at Max.
Ignoring the comment Max examined his surroundings. He found himself in a meter deep crater surrounded by three pink haired girls, a boy with golden brown hair, and a child that seemed to be giving him the death stare.
Max's brain went into over drive as he though, "A crater? Wait did she say I fell? What the hell is going on the last thing I remember is that dream with the weird shrouded figure and then…"
Interrupting his train of thought, the boy of the group slid into the crater and pated Max on the shoulder.
"Nice to meet you, my name's Rito Yuuki." He stated introducing himself.
"Ah um, I'm Max, Max Lockton." The green eyed boy replied awkwardly.
"That's a unique name!" the tallest girl noted rather energetically, "I'm Lala Satalin Deviluke. That fall was spectacular."
"Um, thanks?" Max replied not knowing quite what she meant, "But where am I?"
"Japan." Rito replied.
"Ok, so same country." Max sighed with relief.
"What?" the pink haired girl with pigtails all but shouted her next words, "You fell from the sky and you aren't from space?"
"From space?" Max said slowly as he finally noticed that the three girls all had tails, "Could they be..?"
"Nana keep it down." Rito said as he sweat dropped, "and Momo please give him his glasses back."
The girl that had been over top him was now wearing his glasses and looked like she was pondering something.
"So her name is Momo." Max thought as he gazed at her.
"But these aren't real glasses." She stated.
"Yeah, they were a gift a long time ago." The dark haired boy explained with a hint of remorse as he remembered the man he thought of as his grandfather giving them to him.
For a brief moment Momo looked shocked at his response but quickly hid it and returned the glasses.
"Ah, Rito!" Lala exclaimed, "We're gonna be late to school!"
"Crap we'll just have to take him with us and introduce him to Mikado Sensei." Rito said as he started clambering out of the crater.
"Come on." Momo commanded grabbing Max's arm and pulling him along as the five of them ran.
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They arrived at school with time to spare. The group left max in the infirmary with Mikado Sensei and headed to their classes. Nana ran ahead to tell Mea all that happened, but Momo walked to class.
"He fell to earth, but he's not an alien." Momo mumbled to herself thinking about the new boy that had quite literally fallen into their lives, "who could he be?"
Momo stepped into class and was instantly surrounded by boys. The image of being surrounded by the opposite sex instantly snapped her out of her thoughts.
"I don't have time to be worrying about this," Momo informed herself, "I have to focus on the Harem Plan."
With that last thought the bell rang and class began. The teacher introduced Yami to the class and the blonde assassin known as "Golden Darkness" went and took her seat in the back of the class. At the next break Momo observed as Yami rejected two boys that tried to talk to her. She decided against talking to her too after the incident the night before she figured Yami didn't trust her much either.
"What I need to do is figure out how to get her into the harem." Momo muttered quietly to herself.
The next chance she had Momo decided to go check on Celine and the new boy in the infirmary, but when she got there she only found Mikado and Celine. She looked around to see if he was anywhere in the room.
"Looking for Max?" Mikado inquired with a wry smile.
"No!" Momo answered a little too quickly drawing even more of a grin from the nurse.
Momo cursed herself mentally, "What am I doing looking for him? I don't even know him."
"Well in case you aren't looking for him he isn't on the roof top," Mikado Sensei chided teasingly, "and he certainly couldn't use any company with what he's going through."
With that the doctor went back to playing with the plant child until she got a look like she remembered something important.
"How is that new transfer student doing?" the older woman inquired.
"It feels like there are walls around her…" Momo replied sheepishly remembering the rejection of the two male students, "she seems a little unapproachable."
"Ah, I figured, she can be clumsy you know" the doctor stated sadly, "I knew her before she came to earth. Underground doctors and assassins run in similar circles. I'd like to see her lead a peaceful life with the rest of you. Please look out for her for me."
"Oh." Momo said shocked at the request, "yes mam."
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Hey everyone this is my first work so Í hope you enjoy it please leave feedback. I know it's a bit of an overdone and washed out concept, but I still think it's something both enjoyable to read and to write. I'm going to stick with a lot of the events from the story, but I do plan to make some of my own as well. Any ideas or concepts you'd like to see and I can certainly include them as filler chapter while waiting for more cannon to be published to base the story off of once this catches up. I plan to parallel a lot of the story as I said before, but there with be an original villain to counter our new character, so look forward to it.
A.H.