Chapter 1
Ok so I've been reading this new book—well newish I guess—book about a girl who finds out her father is ol' Lucifer. Personally I like the story, however the main character I don't exactly like—but that's a more personal reason that I won't be discussing on here. So here's my fanfiction with my OC character Akuma Abkins. I hope ya like her! ONWARD TO THE BATTLE FIELD!
"New student?" Angel asked, Gabi nodded, they were at their lunch table when Gabi told her about the new people moving into the house across from her.
"Yeah I saw the moving truck yesterday, they have two kids, one in highschool and I think the other's in middle school with us." She explained.
"How do you know this?" Angel asked.
"I saw them outside—well I saw one of them he looked like he could be in high school." Gabi said, Angel rolled her eyes. She wasn't really too keen on the idea of another student showing up. The last one turned out to be Courtney's boyfriend, and he turned out to be a real jerk.
"New student huh?" Courtney's voice asked behind them, Gabi ignored her, while Angel—didn't succeed, "Well I hope they're not a freak show like you Double-A. We barley need one around here."
Angel said nothing and tried to ignore Courtney best she could. Of course Courtney had a bit of a knack for getting under Angel's skin. This time however Angel managed to not let Courtney push her to a point her powers went off the deep end.
"Nothing to say Double-A?" Courtney asked, then walked off, "Fine by me that just means I win this one."
Angel stood when Gabi grabbed her by the arm.
"Just let it go Angel, she's not worth it." She said. Angel sighed, though one of these days Courtney was going to get hers.
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"Class we have a new student today." Angel and Gabi's first period teacher said, Gabi looked to Angel with a 'told ya' smirk. Angel shrugged, "I want you all to give her a nice welcome. Ms. Abkins why don't you come in and tell us a little about yourself."
On cue a girl walked into the room she wore an oversized tie-dye T-shirt with a peace sign on it and black ripped skinny jeans. Her hair was short and black and she had a sort of pale tanned complexion. Her expression was rebellious—the total opposite of her shirt—and her eyes…wait were they purple? Angel stared, no, they had to be contacts or something. The girl looked to the class as she stood putting app her wait on her left foot and crossing her arms.
"Hey. My name is Akuma," She began, "That means Devil."
Angel stared wide eyed. Who names their kid devil? Was this some kind of sick joke that Lou was pulling? She wasn't Lou in disguise was she? No he wouldn't have gone that far just to talk to her—sure he dressed as Lucy the store clerk—but not a new student. Right?
The teacher cleared his throat and looked to Akuma with a not-so happy look.
"Now Ms. Abkins, it's not very funny to say something like that." He said, Akuma looked to him with a scowl.
"I'm not trying to be funny that's my name." She said, "Akuma means devil and that's my name. I'd rather just get it out of the way now before people start asking stupid questions."
"She's bold." Gabi whispered. The teacher cleared his throat once again and pointed to a seat that was open between Angel and Courtney.
"Take your seat Ms. Abkins, and we'll see how you think funny your little prank is in detention." He said, Akuma rolled her eyes and walked to the seat he was pointing to and sat down. Angel couldn't help but star at her. Akuma's attitude wasn't very Lou-like, maybe she wasn't Lou. Of course she had plenty of time to figure that out in detention, after all she, Gabi, Courtney and D.L. all had detention to serve after the food fight incident a few days ago.
Akuma sat slouched in her chair, looking about the room—pretty much doing anything and everything but paying attention to the teacher's lesson. Every now and then Angel found Akuma looking in her direction, however when she looked back Akuma busied herself with something on her notebook—which she doubted was school work. This went on through the whole class period which sucked because with all that Angel couldn't focus on what was really important…Cole. He was still not talking to her, which really sucked.
Soon class ended and everyone filed out of the room. Angel saw Akuma step out and look about the halls she then pulled out a slip of paper, it must have been her class schedule. Suddenly angel found herself face-to-face with Akuma Abkins.
"Excuse me, but do you know where this class is?" She asked her. Angel stared not sure what to do, the fact that Akuma could still very well be Lou in disguise made her stomach churn. So having nothing to say she took off down the hall without a single word. Sure it was sort of rude, but if this girl turned out to be Lou she'd have even bigger problems.
Akuma stared after her and scowled. Ok that could have gone better, just then she felt a hand on her shoulder. She looked over.
"Hey," Courtney said, "Ignore her, that's just angel, she's a real freak show, trust me you don't want to hang out with her. She's evil."
"Well that's different." Akuma mumbled, Courtney nodded
"It's true, she's so rude and mean. She ditched me at my own party." She said, Akuma cocked an eyebrow.
"That sucks." She said, "Hey do you know where this class is?"
"Of course! Come on I have that class too follow me." Courtney said and led the new student Akuma Abkins to her next class.
~0~
As the day went on Angel noticed that Akuma was in all her classes, and in every class she sat either behind, in front or right next to her. This had to be Lou's doing. That proved it, Akuma was really Lou in disguise how else could she have gotten into every one of the same classes as her? and it would explain why she said her name was Devil, but if this was Lou, why hadn't he tried to talk to her? sure there was that time in the hallway but she would have thought he would try harder. Finally their last class was over.
"Come on Akuma, you can sit with me my during detention. Since my boyfriend isn't here today." Courtney's voice said, Angel looked over.
"You have detention too?" Akuma asked.
"Only because of Angel Garret!" Courtney said loud enough for Angel to hear. Angel scowled, ok so that sort of was her fault for throwing the pudding at her….but that was an accident she meant for it to slam down onto Cole's tray, instead it hit Courtney in the head and started a food fight—so it was sort of a happy accident. However Courtney didn't have the right to go blabbing to the new student—who may or may not be Lou—about it.
"Tch, that sucks." Akuma said, "Ok sure whatever."
"What's with Courtney and the newgirl?" Gabi asked, "I wouldn't have thought she would want to hang out with someone named Devil."
"I think it's Lou working his charm on her." Angel said.
"That…would actually make sense, but why Courtney? Why hasn't he talked to you?" Gabi asked, Angel groaned.
"That's what I was thinking, but really I'm not complaining, the last thing I need is him trying to be all fatherly with me as a student…and as a girl of all things!" She shouted.
"Calm down Angel, you don't want your powers to go all crazy do you?" Gabi asked, Angel sighed. How could she keep calm? Lou was probably spying on her in class again, acting as her teacher was one thing but he was posing as a student, and a girl of all things! How awkward!
Suddenly the lockers next to Courtney and Akuma flew open, papers and pencil and other school supplies flew out nearly hitting the two. Courtney let out a scream while Akuma suddenly looked back and stared directly at Angel, but the creepy thing was…she began to smirk.
Later in detention Akuma the new girl sat with Courtney who spent most of the time talking about Angel while the teacher who was supposed to be watching them had left. Akuma sat in front of Angel, and leaned forward on the table and rested her head in the palm of her hand.
"So Akuma where'd you transfer from?" Courtney asked, Akuma turned her head slightly.
"L.A." She said plainly.
"L.A. that's soo cool. Way cooler than Goode." Courtney said, Akuma shrugged.
"Not really, big cities sort of suck. You can get into a lot of trouble in them." She said, Angel sat back in her chair. That was sort of cool, Akuma was from L.A. but why would her family finally move to some po-dunk place like Goode.
"So why Goode?" Gabi asked suddenly, Akuma turned.
"Huh?"
"Why'd you choose Goode of all places?" Gabi asked again, Akuma shrugged.
"My dad wanted to get out of L.A. after this one trouble kid showed up and did some pretty bad stuff." She explained, "He let me and my brother choose the place to live, we liked Goode. It sounded quiet."
"Well you've got that right, nothing good, ever happens in Goode." Courtney asked trying to push Gabi out of the conversation, "Oh but we did have this one concert by Mara's daughters. They played at our school."
"Mara's daughters?" Akuma asked, "I've never heard of them, are they punk?"
"They're rock, coolest band ever." Courtney said, "I got front row when they played."
"Yeah but Angel got to perform with them." Gabi said, Akuma turned to Angel and Angel froze. She stared at the girl for a long time, nope her eyes were definitely purple. Iridescent purple, contacts maybe?
"You got to perform with a popular band?" Akuma asked, "Cool."
"Don't get the wrong idea Akuma, they were doing a charity work where they help the stupid." Courtney sneered. Akuma scowled.
"Still pretty awesome." She said, "Even if I haven't heard of them."
"By the way Akuma." Gabi said, Courtney glared at her from across Akuma, "What you said about your name, that's not true is it? I mean, your parents didn't actually name you Devil did they?"
"Yup." Akuma said plainly, "Actually my mother did, the word Akuma is Japanese, it means devil. My mother thought the symbol for Devil was really pretty. Also I was born on the Seventh month, on the seventh day of the year nineteen ninety seven. In japan that's 707 the mark of the demon lord."
Gabi looked to Angel, as if trying to confirm if that was actually true. Angel shrugged, she had no idea.
"My mother thought it was funny, my father thought it was ironic." Akuma went on, "Personally I don't care. But I used to get a lot of crap from it in L.A. so I decided to just say to heck with it and get it out in the open this time around rather than let some prissy girl find out and gossip about it."
Angel watched as Courtney's face twisted into a scowl. Guess she figured out where she falls on that.
"That happen in your old school?" Courtney asked, then turned to Angel, "Well I guess that means you can't go out and spread rumors."
"Courtney Angel doesn't do that!" Gabi growled. Courtney huffed and flipped her hair.
"Sure she does, she also goes around without a shirt to school," She said, "Isn't that right, Double-A."
"Double-A?" Akuma questioned.
"Her chest size." Courtney said. Akuma laughed. Great, so even the new girl laughed at her.
"Are you serious?" She asked, "I'd kill to have a flat chest! Do you have any idea how hard it is to find cool Tees with a chest my size?"
Courtney scowled, that had backfired—much to Angel and Gabi's pleasure. Angel blushed that was the first time she had ever heard someone say that about having a big chest.
"So Akuma, you're attitude doesn't really match your shirt." Courtney growled changing the subject, Akuma stopped laughing and pulled at her shirt.
"Oh this? It's my big brothers. My stuff is still in boxes so he lent me his shirt." She said, "I'd never wear this lollipop crap."
"What do you wear then?" Gabi asked, Akuma smirked.
"Oh you'll find out tomorrow hopefully. I should have some of my clothes out when I get home." She said.
"Akuma do you wear contact?" Gabi then asked, Akuma shook her head.
"No." She said.
"You've got to." Courtney said, Akuma cocked her head.
"Why?"
"There's no way your eyes are really purple." She said. Akuma shrugged.
"Mutation?" She tried, "I don't wear contacts, my mother's eyes were purple and so are mine. Lots of people have eye mutations. Like people with one green and one blue. Why can't I have a mutation that makes my eyes purple?"
"I think it's cool." Courtney said trying to play her insult as a joke. Angel rolled her eyes. Still, so far all of Courtney's insults had backfired on her. Angel couldn't complain about that.
"Yeah I mean look at Angel's eyes." Akuma said, Angel froze.
"They…" Akuma trailed off as if just realizing something, "…reflect colors…."
"Ew, that's so freaky…I never noticed that." Courtney said, Akuma scowled, "You really are a freak-show!"
"I-I'm not a freak!" Angel said though before she could plead her case their teacher came in to tell them that their detention for the day was over. Courtney grabbed Akuma by the arm and took off.
"Come on Akuma, you don't want to hang out with these freaks." She said, then dragged the new girl Akuma Abkins out the door.
So what do you think so far? For those of you who haven't read Bedeviled it's a really good book by Shani Petroff. It falls under young adult literature. Personally I like it—having only read 2 books. But I don't like Angel very much. But that's me, review please. See you later armadillos—unless I see you first haha!