AUTHOR'S NOTE: ALL CHARACTERS IN THIS EXCEPT FOR MARCINE AND KAIRA BELONG TO THE TERRIBLY BRILLIANT MIND OF ANDREW HUSSIE! NOT. ME. ALSO, I WILL ACCEPT CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM BUT PLEASE, IF YOU ABSOLUTLY HATE THIS, REFRAIN FROM BEING RUDE OR "FLAMING" AS SOME SAY AND PLEASE JUST DON'T READ, OKAY? THANK YOU AND ENJOY :)
Chapter 1: Marcine
I blinked myself awake and climbed out of my recupercoon, swearing quietly as one of my tall, pointed horns caught on the tapestry above my head. Once I wrestled free of that situation, I walked over to my dresser and picked out my usual ensemble of loose grey jeans and a black t-shirt with my symbol on it in red with long red sleeves. The t-shirt was bordered in red as well. After washing off the spoor and getting dressed, I did my best to gather my long mass of hair into a ponytail. It still hit the backs of my ankles as I walked, but it was better than tripping over it when it was down. My bangs fell into my eyes enough as it is. After slipping on my purple glasses, I heard my phone buzz on my side table. I let out a weary sigh, already knowing what was waiting for me. I turned on my screen, subsequently causing it to project the message onto my wall and turn on the voice activated keyboard. I sighed and read the peppy message from my moirail, Kaira.
K: H3y M4rc1!
M: WHAT DID AH TELL JA- uhm, I mean, Kaira, would you please refrain from calling me by that name? :-)
K: 0k4y M4rc1n3. 4r3 y0u 3xc1t3d 4b0ut 0ur f1rst d4y?
M: ACOURSE AH- uhm- of course I am. It's certainly an exciting experience. I have to get going now, goodbye.
K: Buh-Bye!
I closed my phone's keyboard and set it on normal incase I got a text while not at home. I shook my head at the overwhelming energy of my moirail. Normally, around others, I am very quiet and reserved, but something about that girl brings out the worst in me. I grabbed my captcha cards and my strife portfolio and stuck them in my pockets. I slipped on my red high-tops and a jacket and walked outside, bracing myself for the assault of sunlight. I sat at the bus stop waiting in the cold early march air for Kaira. Then, out of nowhere, I felt a weight slam into my side. I would have fallen over had I not been as careful as I was.
"MARCI!" a high soprano voice screamed right in my ear as arms settled around my shoulders. My eye twitched and I jumped off the bench, causing Kaira to fall over. I glared at her through my bangs.
"WHADDAYA TINK YA AH DO-"I stopped myself halfway through my sentence and cleared my throat in an attempt to compose myself. I put a hand to my temple, tapping a black painted claw to my head.
"Kaira, I am afraid I must ask you to cease that action immediately. I've given this same request multiple times to no avail. So please, stop doing that" she merely let out a high, child like giggle and pointed at me with a gloved hand.
"Hehe, you slipped into Mega Marci mode for a minute there." She said. I blinked and blushed purple.
"I have no idea what you're talking about." I said as the bus drove up. She giggled again and bounded up the bus steps. She sniffed once and ran to the half empty seat in the back, completely ignoring the fully empty one in the front only a couple of seats back from the driver. I sighed and slid into that one, taking my game out and swinging my legs up onto the seat next to me. I leaned my head against the window behind me, careful not to scratch the window with my horns because the driver was a human, and some are bad at accepting apologies, especially since I was one of the scarier-looking trolls, what with my devil-like horns and long, pointed teeth that belonged more in the mouth of a lion than in that of a 15 year old girl. I played my game for a couple stops until I heard a metallic thump and then some laughter. I looked up to see a small troll on the ground picking up his things with a group of larger trolls and humans laughing at him and kicking his stuff away. His large, bull-like horns were preventing him from reaching the things that were pushed under the seats. I sighed and paused my game, putting it on the seat. I kneeled down to help him pick up his things and handed them to him. I pulled him up with a smile and sat him in my seat. When he opened his mouth to say something, I put a finger to my lips and handed him my game with the headphones and motioned for him to put them in and turn up the volume. He did as he was told and I smiled at him. I turned to see a large troll standing over me, his arms crossed and a toothy grin on his face. I turned my head to the back of the bus and saw Kaira's face turned towards me with a worried expression. She gave me a face that asked if I wanted her help. I shook my head and smiled, knowing she could tell, even with the bandages. She nodded at me and turned back to the human beside her, chatting animatedly. I smiled at her, but quickly became angry when my face was twisted roughly around to the large troll in front of me. He gave me a grin as his blue irises scanned my body, making me shiver.
"Hey doll face, why don't you pay attention before you get hurt?" I looked up at him and growled, showing as many teeth as possible. I reached back and punched him square in the jaw, sending him stumbling back a bit. He grabbed my arm and pulled me down with him, trapping me with a knee on each wrist and his hands on my shoulders. He growled at me, showing fangs that looked much like a dog's.
"Fucking lowblood! Who do you think you are?" I tossed my bangs out of my eyes, glaring at him through purple irises. I made my voice as raspy and threatening as possible.
"Who the fuck you callin' lowblood?" I asked, looking him straight in the eye. His eyes widened and he lifted his hands off my shoulders, apologizing over and over again. I growled up at him.
"Get the fuck off of me." I said. He scrambled off the floor and flinched into the seat behind him. I glared at him. I pointed at the boy sitting in my seat, happily immersed in my game. I got very close to the larger trolls face and felt my hair fall over my shoulders. Fuck, my elastic broke. I thought. I whispered into the larger troll's ear.
"You will go up to that boy and apologize wholeheartedly. You will make it seem like you regret everything you did, whether you do or not, ya got it?" I whispered threateningly, staring straight into his eyes. He gulped visibly and opened his mouth to speak.
"But, he's just a mudblood ma'am. Nothing important." I got so close to his face, I could feel his breath.
"What makes you think I give a fuck?" I asked. I leaned back and he rushed to my seat to talk to the boy. He tapped on his shoulder and when the small troll looked up and cowered, I leaned around the larger troll in front of me and smiled at him, careful to cover my eyes. I motioned for him to take out the headphones and when he did, the large troll quickly apologized. The short troll nodded, his sloppy Mohawk shifting in front of his eyes. When the large troll turned to go back to his seat, I gave him a toothy smile and let my eyes flash through my bangs. He jumped and ran back to his seat. I smiled at the small troll in my seat and motioned for him to move in. He did and stared at me when I sat down. I looked at him through my bangs.
"What?" I asked. He blushed brown and fidgeted in his seat.
"Th-thank you for, uh, helping me." I nodded at him and gently patted his shoulder.
"It was nothing. I always help those in need, so there's no need to thank me, uh…" I trailed off once I realized I didn't know his name. His eyes widened when he realized the same.
"Oh, uh, my name is Tavros, Tavros N-Nitram." I smiled at him and nodded.
"Marcine Motago. Just a question. Where are your friends?" I asked. His bull-like ears folded down flat for a moment.
"Uh, none of them are on this bus. Th-that's why Markeet always uh, picks on me here." He said, gesturing to the large troll from before. I shrugged and smiled at him as the bus came to a stop. I stood and gathered my things.
"Well, I hope you realize that now you do have friends here." I said. I walked off the bus with him behind me. He walked in front of me once we stepped off and turned to face me. He gave a nervous smile.
"I-I know you're new here at, uh, Alternia High, so it p-probably wasn't good for you to help me, but, Th-thank you anyway. So, if you wouldn't mind, could you, uh, meet my friends later? I want them to, uh, know who it was that h-helped me." He said, staring at his shoes.
"No problem Tavros. Just know I'll be bringing a rather… eccentric character with me." He blinked at me.
"Now get to class, you'll be late." I said. He nodded and smiled at me, giving me a little wave before walking off. I could have sworn I heard the faint clink of metal with each step he took. I sighed and waited for Kaira. As I anticipated, I soon felt the weight of my tiny moirail grab onto my back, koala style. I sighed and started walking with her still stuck to my back.
"How on earth do you always find me so easily when you cover your eyes?" I asked, touching the bandages wrapped around her face. She just smiled at me and giggled her child-like giggle. She sniffed my hair and frowned.
"You smell like peanut butter. Who have you been talking to?" I glanced at her through the corner of my eye and sighed as I walked through the door of the school, ignoring the stares.
"It's scary how you do that." I said, walking up to the door of our classroom door. She chuckled and put her chin between my horns.
"New friends, new friends!" she sang as I opened the door. I closed my eyes and sighed as we walked in.
"Kaira, don't scare them away before we even meet them." I said.
"M-Marcine!" a hesitant voice called. I opened my eyes and smiled at him. Kaira leaned over my head and sniffed. She giggled and grinned her toothy grin as the red ends of her hair hit me in the face.
"Oh! So that's the boy made of peanut butter! Hehe, peanut butter and jelly!" I jumped and glared at her through my hair, knowing that she knew that I would much rather keep my blood color a secret. But when I looked up, she was pointing towards Tavros and the tall troll beside him. The other troll had tall, goat-like horns, unruly hair, and was wearing clown face paint. His purple eyes were glossy and unfocused and he had a lazy grin on his face. Sopor slime I thought. I knew the effects well, it was all my lusus would eat. Tavros was blushing so much, he looked like a chocolate bar. I sighed and walked up to the teacher.
"Excuse me miss, we are the new students." She blinked and looked at Kaira who had worked her way up to sitting on my shoulders with her ankles locked behind my shoulder blades so that my arms were free to hold both of our bags. The teacher nodded and gestured to the rest of the class.
"Alright, please introduce yourselves, than the rest of the class will do the same." I nodded and turned to face the 16 other people in the room.
"Alright then. My name is Marcine Motago and this is my moirail-"I was cut off by Kaira pushing on my head to wave to the class.
"My name is Kaira! Nice to meetcha!" I sighed and forced my head back up. I smiled at everyone.
"Alright, this is going to sound like a strange request, but when you introduce yourselves, could you come up here so that Kaira can get a good "Look" at you? She sees with smell and taste, so she needs to associate your names with your scents and, um, tastes." The room was silent except for Kaira's giggling. Then, from the far corner of the room, I heard a faint cackle. When I looked to see who it was, I saw a short troll who, honestly, looked almost exactly like Kaira but her hair was shorter and instead of bandages, she was wearing red sunglasses. She smiled; the toothy grin she wore was exactly the same as Kaira's. My moirail climbed off my shoulders and stood in front of the other troll. They leaned in and sniffed each other and licked each other's cheeks. They smiled at each other, their teeth flashing in the fluorescent light.
"Sea foam green" Kaira said the other girl nodded enthusiastically.
"Hehe. Defiantly blueberry." Kaira just grinned at her. I put my finger to my lip, thinking for a moment.
"The similarity in appearance defiantly makes sense." I said. Everyone in the room turned their attention to me. I fidgeted under their gaze, not used to the attention. I stared at the carpet as I spoke.
"Trolls reproduce by, uh," I trailed off, embarrassed to be speaking of such a lewd subject in a large group of people. One of the boys in front, the one with the sunglasses and white hair, spoke up.
"It's got something to do with buckets right?" some of the other trolls and I gasped and the other human male, the one with the blue eyes, glasses, and obvious dental problems became very flustered and started flailing about.
"Dave, be careful! You know that cleaning products are a very sensitive subject in troll culture! I told you that!" the albino boy simply shrugged and stared at me without expression.
"Well, um, yes, that. But, even though trolls kind of turn out with random gene patterns, it makes sense that there would be two trolls with similar genetic makeup." One of the male trolls, the one with four horns and dual toned glasses nodded, seeming to be deep in thought.
"Well, yeth, thtatithtics do theem to thtate that thith ith a very good pothibility." The teacher sighed and looked at the clock.
"I guess we'll have to do introductions later. Marcine, Kaira, welcome to Alternia High's class for socially unacceptable teens."
AUTHOR'S NOTE: SO, WHAT DID YOU THINK? PLEASE FEEL FREE TO LEAVE A REVIEW, IN FACT, I ENCOURAGE THE ACTION :) ALSO, I AM CO WRITING THIS WITH A FRIEND OF MINE. HER FANTROLL IS KAIRA, AND SINCE THEIR POVS WILL BE SWITCHING OFF EVERY CHAPTER OR SO, FORGIVE ME IF THE WRITING STYLE SEEMS A BIT INFREQUENT. THANK YOU FOR READING! :)