Chapter 1

Although the ending of Drosselmyer's story appeared to be a happy one for all, it wasn't. Pike, Lily, and all of the other students at Kinkan Academy felt that there was someone missing, yet none of them knew who. There was only one who did know who it was, and it was he, whom with just a couple words, began this story.

"Once upon a time…"

Sunlight streamed through the crack between the maroon curtains and landed, gently, on the face of Fakir, one of the literature students. The bell, signaling the beginning of the day hadn't rung yet. The sun was just peaking over the horizon, illuminating the sky in a fiery orange color. He sat up his long dark hair a mess. He rubbed his eyes and yawned. He looked at his watch on his bedside table, it was five in the morning. He looked around and saw that none of his roommates were up yet. He got out of his bed, dressed quietly, so as not to wake up his roommates, and climbed out the window, notebook in hand. He walked into the woods behind the dorm and made his way to the little pond. He sat down on the dock and began to write. He had written for about 10 minutes till he heard a familiar quack. The quack had come from a little yellow duck with a feather sticking oddly out of its head.

"Quack!" it exclaimed and attempted jumping onto the deck, but slipped and fell back into the water.

"idiot." Fakir said smiling faintly and scooped the duck out of the water and setting it down beside him. The duck shook itself dry and sat down next to him looking up at his notepad. "I'm fixing the town, Drosselmeyer really messed thing up. But its weird even though I fixed it there are sometimes animal students at the school. Its weird they're there for no more than a week at a time but then they just disappear and nobody seems to notice. " he shook his head "it's weird." He turned to the duck, "I wish you could still talk Ahiru." He looked sadly at the duck.

"Quack…" the duck said sadly remembering her voice, her past life.

Fakir's eyes suddenly widened and he began to write quickly. As he wrote he seemed impatient, as if he couldn't get the words down fast enough. Suddenly the little duck began to glow red and change form. Ahiru remembered this feeling, skin. Suddenly she was a couple feet off the ground and had long orange bans dangling messily in front of he face and long hair tickling her down her back. She looked down she saw her pale hands, her thin fingers.

"Fakir!" the girl exclaimed happily.

"Ahiru!" he said smiling. His face suddenly went red and turned the other way.

"what?" the girl asked confused. She then realized that she was naked and turned away and curled up in a ball. "Thank you," she said smiling.

Fakir didn't reply he was busy getting out of his shirt.

"what are you doing?" she asked hearing the rustling behind her. She suddenly felt something land on her head. It was his white collared shirt. "thank you, fakir" she said and put it on.

"should of thought this through…" he said rubbing the bridge of his nose.

"what?" she asked turning towards him.

"turning you human," he said his eyes closed in thought.

"why?" she asked confused.

"You don't have any family or any where to go, you're not a student at Kinkan academy any more, you never existed, nobody knows you."

"Oh… I can live here until I sort out my living arrangements."

"Maybe…" his eyes opened. He turned to her and said "you could stay at my dorm."

"Eh?" she exclaimed flustered "b-but w-w-what i-if I'm c-caught! N-no b-b-but it's th-the boys d-dorm b-but w-w-what i-if I'm c-caught!"she stuttered her face bright red.

"Well you can't stay out here its almost winter. Besides my roommates are leaving to study abroad for a month tonight."

"Alright" she said and walked with Fakir back to the dorms.