A boy was riding in the back of a carriage with a tall, slender man who almost looked like a skeleton. Most of the driver's face was covered by a scarf, his head was covered by a top hat, and his eyes were covered by a pair of goggles. The rest of his body was covered by a trench coat.

The boy's hair was a bit of a mess; spiky black-colored hair. He has dark blue eyes, was somewhat muscular though he didn't have any abs. And he was one of the few kids who changed his clothes constantly. What he was wearing right now was a black uniform with a white collar.

The boy closed his book and looked outside to get a good view of where they were going. It was to his surprise and horror that they passed tall hallow trees with scary faces carved in them.

" Are you sure this route is safe?" The boy asked as they passed through hallow trees.

" Of course," the driver replied. " I take people through her all the time. But your the first human I've ever travelled with."

" Eh, what do you mean by human? Your human too, aren't you?"

" Wouldn't you like to know. I don't know why they let you in Yokai Academy, but if your going to survive you'll have to follow three rules. One: Don't look at anyone directly in their eyes; even if their girls. Two: Don't make friends. Nobody there wants to be friends with anyone. Three: Never fall in love with anyone there. The girls there...they'll rip your heart out; literately."

" I still don't understand. What do you mean by literately?"

" I'm sorry, friend, this is where we stop." The carriage stopped moving. " Yokai Academy is just north from here. If you run you can make it there before the wolves come out. And remember, in this academy the chances of you surviving are...one out of a million. Bye."

The moment the boy stepped out of the carriage it took off. The boy fell from the steps and landed on the cold floor. The last thing he saw was the carriage that disappeared into thin air. When the boy got off the ground he realized he was all alone. The silent sound of fog blew creeked around him. And when he listened closely, there was the sound of wolves howling in the forest.

" It's just a freshman joke. He's just trying to scare you. I'm sure any second now he's going to come back."

The boy follow the carriage man's advice and headed forward hoping to reach the academy. But as he was travelling he couldn't help but think something was watching him. The excitement of it made his heart beat-thump, thump, thump. His breath, which was gasping, was covered by fog. Just when he thought nothing could scare him now, he heard footsteps.

" It's just a joke. Just a joke. Calm down. Calm-"

Overhead, something flew over him. It appeared at first to just be a bat flying at night because they were nocturnal, but the thing he saw was too big to be a bat. There was no explanation for any of this. No explanation to why he was here in the first place. There was a sound, a loud sound of growling in the forest.

The boy looked back and saw it clear as day. It was a wolf. A big, silverback, ravenous wolf who's fangs were dripping with saliva, licked his lips, and continued to leer at the boy in a way he wanted to eat him. The boy was too scared to move and was perfect food for the wolf. The wolf took his time to steady himself, then it ran towards the boy and jumped, fangs open, into the air.

" Ahhhhhh!"

The boy blacked out when it looked like he was going to be devoured by the wolf. The boy opened his eyes. He saw no wolf. It almost seemed like the wolf vanished into thin air. The boy saw nothing but trees in the forest.

" That was weird. Did I pass out? But why am I still standing? None of this makes any sense-"

" Boo!" Someone jumped out of the woods and scared the boy.

The boy grabbed his heart. It felt like he was going to have a heart attack. He heard giggling. Some girl was laughing at him. There was a girl there. Despite how she was laughing at him, she was beautiful.

Her hair was a rare lavender color of bright pink. She wore a green school shirt with a striped brown skirt, a rosary wooden cross hanging down her neck, and a yellow pin of a smiley face in her hair.

" Umm, hi," the boy said. " I was on my way to a new school and my driver let me off here. Do you know where I am?"

The girl giggled, said, " They told me you were coming-laugh-so I wanted to greet you myself-laugh. What's your name? Is it a stupid name? I love stupid names. What's your name?"

" Eh, my name is Yashero. Yashero Kiwari."

" That's a pretty dumb name. But you know I have a pretty dumb name as well. Do you want to hear it?"

" Sure. What is this dumb name?"

" Anabarieia."

" That's not a dumb name. It's actually really nice."

" I hate it. My teacher's say it to me and it makes me so angry. That's why I make people call me Anny. Come with me."

" Where?"

" To the school, you big dummy. Yokai Academy. The greatest academy in the world. I can't wait to see your true form."

" My true form? What are you talking about?"

" Shy? Don't worry. You don't have to show me now. You can show me when we get there."

The woods were scary. Yashero could still hear the howls of the wolves in his ears. It was a sound he tried not to forget. If he did, he may make the mistake of walking out alone in the woods at night and be eaten by them.

Yashero was travelling with Anny to his new school. A ghostly fog was surrounding him and Anny. The fog was so thick Yashero couldn't see anything, not even his own two hands if he smacked them against his face.

" There's really a school around here," Yashero asked. He felt like he asked that question for the umpteenth time, but he was so curious about where Anny was taking him.

" Yep. We put it here because no human is stupid enough to travel this far."

" There you go calling everyone humans. What is with here? She acts like it's not even a place for human-"

" We're here. Yōkai Academy here we are."

Through the ghostly fog Yashero saw an academy. An academy like none he's ever seen before.

" Here we are. Yōkai Academy. Home sweet home."

" This is really supposed to be a school? It's scary. How can something this big possibly be a school-"

Yashero heard something rolling towards him. It was rolling downhill towards him. He turned around and saw a spherical shadow rolling towards him. Yashero caught the ball. In the glimmer of the moonlight he saw a persons' face. He was holding a decapitated human head.

" Wow, it looks so real," Yashero said thinking the head was a prop. " It almost looks like it's alive."

" Hello," the head said. " I don't remember my name but I like to think I'm William Tell. I'm not the real William Tell but I'd like to think I am. Would you do me a favor, boy. Could you please help me find me find my body. "

" That's because it is real. Oh."

Yashero dropped William Tell's head and fainted. Anny gasped when Yashero fainted. She screamed.

XXX

Yashero was a bit worried. He had just woken up in a strange nurse's office. He didn't remember anything. But after a glance at his hands it was obvious he did something to hurt his right palm, but somebody wrapped a large bandage around it. It was poorly done, but it saved him from bleeding. He touched it slowly. It was still pretty sore. But he could deal with it. He heard footsteps coming from outside the office. Whoever treated him was coming in to meet him.

Oh God," Yashero sweated. " Is it the talking skeletons grandfather coming to kill me?"

A young woman stepped into view. She was the nurse of the academy. She appeared normal, until Yashero got a look at her tail, shaped like an arrow. She was barefoot.

" The idiot is finally awake."

" Hooray!"

Anny ran into the nurse's office. She was laughing giddily while rubbing her hands against her chest, like an excited schoolgirl - which she was. This was then the nurse pulled a pack of cigarettes from her pocket. She pulled one piece out, a lighter, put the cigarette in her mouth and lit it. Yashero was so confused. The filter was lit up, the nurse pulled the cigarette out of her mouth and breathed on Yashero.

Yashero coughed. " I don't think it's okay to smoke in here."

" Why don't you just..." Before the nurse could berate Yashero, talking violent and maliciously, she marginalized into a demonic creature. It was wayward. Her blonde hair grew like a tree trunk, her pupils grew, her teeth turning sharp, a snake tongue hissing out of her mouth, and two horns protruding from her head. " Let me eat your intestines, swallow up your gout, devour every boyish part of you!"

" Jesus Christ!"

It was affirmative now. Everything about this school was, dare he say it, inhuman. Woods, wolves, talking heads, demon nurses. Those only happened in those gothic stories about vampires. Before Yashero could ponder too hard about it, Anny jumped up, the glimmer of her panties visible under her skirt, and tackled Yashero!

If Yashero said he wasn't scared right now he'd be lying. Yashero didn't know what to do. If he knew what would happen in the future he would have stayed in the nurses office and quivered under the covers. But Anny pulled him out of the bed.

" Come on, you big silly goose," Anny giggled. " We have to get back to class."

" Where is class?"

Anny was obviously not listening to him. Then another person appeared. He was the most gorgeous teenage boy Yashero ever saw.

" Oh hi, Higa," Anny smiled. " Yashero, this is Higa. Higa, this is the new kid Yashero."

" Oh hi," Higa said with a false smile on his face. " I'm so pleased to meet you."

" See, you're going to get along just fine here, Yashero." Anny saw another school girl waving to Anny. Anny waved back at her. " Excuse me."

Anny walked away to say hi to her friend. Yashero smiled his brightest to Higa. But Higa was scowling at Yashero. He pushed Yashero against the lockers.

" You're new so you don't know, but Anny is my girl. I've been with her longer than anyone in this school. If you do anything to get close to her I'll break your legs."

Higa smiled that phony smile again. That was because Anny was walking back to them. Anny noticed Yashero was afraid of something, but she didn't know what.

" What's wrong, Yashero?" Anny asked.

" Oh, some mean kid yelled at him," Higa lied. " But it's okay. I told him he was a friend of mine and he left. Isn't that right, Yashero?"

Higa was angry at Yashero. He just didn't show it. But Yashero knew how it worked, if he got on a bullies bad side he'd be outside near the gym class with five bigger boys beating the shit out of him. " Yes...Higa helped him."

" That's my friend." Higa wrapped his arms around Yashero's neck. Then he started rubbing his head. " Who's my best friend? Who's my buddy?"

" Okay, knock it off you two," Anny giggled. " I have to get Yashero to his classroom."

Higa let go of Yashero. He stumbled down and fell into Anny's bust. Yashero got back up and walked beside Anny. Yashero turned around. There was Higa looking at him that said " Remember, she's mine". Yashero tried to stay out of trouble in his new school, but already he made a bully.