Could you ever survive? Would you take the chance to be the heroine…?
DIIING
DIIING
"Shuttup…" Curled up in the warm covers of a bed, a female Arctic Fox struggled to shut off the alarm. Her gloves barely managed to switch the snooze button before she fell off the bed, cursing as she got up.
The teen blinked a few times, then looked at the mirror. "Helloo, Jovi. What's up with your dreary life?"
Jovi had white fur and a black muzzle, her eyes bright sapphire. Sprouting from the top of her furry head was a spiky fringe of crimson, charcoal black and white. She had a long red plait connecting to the fringe, and the tips of her ears were dark brown.
Sleepily, she changed into a sleeveless black hoodie, black and red fingerless gloves that matched her socks, and plain white sneakers. Jovi then took a moment to glance at the time. "7:30," she mused, but then uncontrollably roared out in surprise. "7:30!? 7 FLUFFING 30?! I'LL BE LATE FOR MY FIRST DAY! HOLY CRAB!"
The fox sped down the stairs of her apartment, out the doors, and towards her new high school.
Jovi finally arrived, five minutes later, puffing as students walked by her. She swore she could see a shadowy cat gazing at her, but she passed it off as a trick of the light.
"Hmm, oh yes, Tails, I would like a chili hot dog with extra spice- there you are! You are the new student, I presume?" She saw a young blue hedgehog with a business attire walking up to her.
"Yep!" Jovi nodded, and recognized Sonic. No wonder he had become principal, defeating Eggman's evil schemes countless times.
"Ah, yes… About your condition…" He gently stared down at his student. "Dysphoria?"
Jovi didn't respond, and changed the subject. "Uh, will I be getting any … other classes for that?"
Sonic did not answer but handed her a white sheet with her classes on it. "You won't be alone in it, someone else is enrolled in Gifted and Talented."
The Arctic Fox shrugged. "Good enough for me, I'm perfectly fine knowing someone else has the same problems."
Sonic's eyes narrowed. "Not as you think, Jovi. I'll be off, Blaze needs me to experiment her new magic." He then walked away briskly, Tails the Fox following him.
The 17 year old glanced down at her sheet for a second, and swore.
Period 1 with Ms. Blaze: Science
Period 2 with Mrs. Amy Rose: Food Technology
Cafeteria Break
Period 3 with Mr. Knuckles: P.E
Period 4 with Mr. Shadow: History
Period 5 with Ms. Tikal: Maths
Damnit, she thought, her uncontrollable laziness getting to her. P.E straight after Cafeteria?
Jovi put the sheet in her hoodie pocket as the bell rang loudly, and rushed off to her first class.
When the teenager walked in, her jaw dropped automatically. Chaos Emeralds were floating around her classmates, controlled by Ms. Blaze the Cat.
Jovi blankly sat down next to a gold lynx who was drawing, and listened to the teacher's instructions. Each student was to pair up with another one of their classmates and break apart a Chaos Emerald to find out what was inside it.
"And no letting your Emerald shatter before you sample its energy!" Blaze commanded, travelling to her desk and sitting down watching her students like a hawk.
Jovi couldn't believe how fast her classmates moved, but she spotted the same black cat from before sitting in the corner, avoiding all contact. Hesitantly, she moved towards the cat, and saw its face under the shadowy hood it wore.
'It' was a male, with grey fur and a fringe of spiky hair. His emerald eyes darted around as his furry white muzzle curled up in a scowl. "Haven't you found a partner?" The boy asked, voice darkened with a reluctant tone.
"Haven't you?" Jovi responded, hardly able to keep the venom out of her voice.
The black cat stood up, and flicked the hood away from his eyes. "Who are you, anyway?"
"Not unless you tell me first," The fox grinned with the knowledge she'd made a good comeback.
The boy didn't answer, but held up his Chaos Emerald. "Partners?"
His opponent didn't wait to nod.
Both the boy and Jovi worked perfect on the Emerald, carefully removing each layer until a glowing ball of energy held them mesmerized. Blaze walked up to them, smiling. "Good job, both of you!"
"Thanks," both teens muttered. Blaze didn't notice, and held the ball of energy in her hand for everybody to see. "A for both of you!"
The class continued on with tests, experiments, and Jovi was in the middle of an experiment about gravity when the cat beside her began to shrivel his fact sheet up into a small paper plane.
"What are you doing?" Jovi hissed at him, and her friend simply grinned before pointing at a 14 year old mouse and a 15 year old lynx, throwing paper at each other.
"Jovi, it's all in the name of fun," The cat continued before he threw his paper plane at the lynx, and the lynx (who Jovi saw as a boy) laughed. "Hey, Dan!"
The lynx, who's name was Dan, caught the paper plane in his fist, throwing his at the mouse, who threw hers at Jovi.
"Ah, you want to play that game?" The fox sniggered, and at that point the class had leapt up into a full on war. Student from student were against each other, and Jovi, Dan, the cat and the mouse were throwing the paper at each other.
Until Blaze the teacher, walked in. Her face was serene but then she noticed the chaos. Students were throwing the paper aeroplanes in the air and one student was just about to throw a wet paper ball onto the ceiling. Blaze immediately glared at the student who was about to throw the wet paper ball and the student, who was Dan, immediately realised that he was in big trouble.
"SILENCE!" Blaze yelled. Despite her rage, she managed to be graceful. The teacher's gaze fell upon the cat sitting next to Jovi, and her amber eyes narrowed. "Rian! Did you start this?"
Jovi's jaw dropped, and she did a double take from her classmate Rian to Blaze. They were mother and son, considering her tone and their resemblance.
Dan stood up, along with his female mouse companion. "We started it," he pointed at himself and the mouse.
Blaze shrugged. "Go figure." She walked past Jovi and Rian and came to the animals who committed the crime.
"Mia the Mouse and Daniel the Lynx," Shiftily, the Cat looked at each student. "Detention for each."
Mia and Dan didn't speak, and neither did Jovi for the rest of the class.
As Rian picked up his books, Jovi walked up to him. "What was with you and Blaze? It was like some sort of conspiracy look!"
"I don't like to talk about it," Rian briskly replied, tail swishing in a weird manner. Just as he was about to grab his book about chaos emeralds, Jovi snatched his arm.
"Let's go," she said, nodding her head towards the school main exit.
Her cat friend in reply shook his head. "We'll get caught," Rian murmured. Jovi pulled him anyway over to a statue of a golden ring, the principal's favourite hobby of collecting them.
THERE WE GO WITH OUR FIRST CHAPTER :D
Let me know if you liked it, if you'll like your OC to be in it, and also any feedback helps in the making of Love, Despair, & Other Weird Things. Thanks for reading! ~ Bolt