Nami looked up at the blue sky. It had been an unusually sunny day for the straw hat pirates but Nami just couldn't shake off the feeling that something was really really wrong. She sighed and took the cool drink that was especially made for her. While she took a sip,yet again she admired how good a chef Sanji was. But she would never actually admit it.
"Is something wrong Nami-swan?" he asked while giving Robin a similar drink.
"I don't know," she said then shrugged. "I feel like something bad is going to happen."
Sanji's eyes widened. Everybody on the ship knew that when Nami said something was bound to happen it usually did. She was the best navigator in the world for crying out loud! Then he heard a chuckle coming from Robin.
"But it's a beautiful day. Maybe you're tired?" she asked.
"It's possible," Nami replied and scratched her head. Robin was right she was probably just tired from all the commotion and lately she didn't get any much sleep either. She was just about to tell them she was going to rest a bit the thousand sunny started to shake.
"Namiiii!" Luffy's irritating loud voice echoed to her ears. "Black clouds are forming!"
Black clouds? Nami ran towards the main deck followed by Robin and Sanji. Luffy had been right the shining sun was suddenly blocked by giant black clouds. The sea was starting to get out of control as well. Nami turned around and started to give out orders to the worried looking crew.
"Usopp, Sanji raise the sails. Franky we're gonna use the paddles. HURRY!" She yelled when everybody was looking at her dumbstruck. Soon enough everything she said was done but even so the ship wasn't moving.
Nami narrowed her eyes trying to understand what kind of storm this was. But it was no use she couldn't see anything besides the pitch black clouds and the worst part was she was feeling that the ship was being dragged towards the clouds. What kind of storm is this?
"What is that?" Robin muttered standing next to her. "It's like a black hole."
Nami's eyes widened with horror. That was it! It was a black hole… well in a way it was. If she didn't figure out a way to get out of this mess all of them were going to be devoured by it. They could use the coup de burst but that had a high possibility that it could worsen the situation. First of all she had no idea how strong the damn black hole was so if they did use the coup de burst the hole might just absorb them while they were in mid air.
Besides now they couldn't do anything about it. They were already a inch away from the black hole, when Nami turned around she was suddenly startled when she saw that everybody was already gathered waiting for the next orders. Nami smiled mournfully and looked at all of them.
"Sorry guys," she whispered. "We have no other choice, embrace yourselves."
I hate her, I hate her, I hate her!
I growled as I left my class and started to walk towards the principal's office. Right now I hated my job. How much more can that damn woman humiliate me! As a university professor I thought my days to be summoned to the principal's office was over. But no, this woman just loved to freaking torture me.
The worst part was she only behaved like this towards me! It all started when I first applied for the job as a Greek mythology professor. It wasn't really my dream job but at the moment I had no other choice and at the interview I may have spilled a whole cup of boiling tea on the principal or as I liked to call her "Boss." I know it wasn't the right thing to do but the woman was really annoying asking me stupid questions.
And from that day she considered me as an enemy and humiliated me in front of my classes ever since. If she would've just sent a student to fetch me I wouldn't be this much angry the actual thin that ticked me off was she summoned me from the speakers! What was I? A troubled student?
I sighed as I knocked on the door. A faint "Come in." came from the other side of the door and I walked in, only to see the damn devil woman was smiling at me. Clearly she knew how she humiliated me. Seriously if she hated me so much why did she even accept me for the job? Sometimes I thought that she just hired me to make my life miserable.
"Yes?" I asked wanting to get over this as soon as possible. She pointed to the seat in front of her with that annoying smile on her face.
"Please sit down Miss Pickle,"
Okay my last name was not Pickle it was Pitcher. I corrected her like a thousand times but no, she insisted on calling me Pickle. I thought about arguing with her but then I just shrugged it off. She still would call me Pickle anyway. I sat down and waited for her to start talking.
"One of my informants told me that are students like you a lot," she started smiling wryly.
So what's wrong with that? I wanted to ask. But I knew something bad was going to come up from this, especially if she got her information from an "informant". This woman had ears and eyes everywhere. Sometimes I felt like I was a drug dealer or something. When she saw that I wasn't reacting she continued.
"The same informant also told me that you changed some of the test results for the students to like you."
I knew it.
She possibly wouldn't go that far as accusing me right? This meant my whole none existing career would be finished! Okay I never actually planned to have a career but I was human for crying out loud maybe I would want to have a teaching career! Besides I hated when people tried to push me around or accuse me of something I clearly didn't do.
"Why would I change the test results for students to like me? That's just stupid."
The devil principal clearly did not like my objection. Did I offend her or something by calling her plan stupid?
"There will be an open investigation until proven otherwise. You may leave."
Now I was furious. Was she an idiot! Who would go this far the police was going to be involved for crying out loud and this was a serious accusation! I got up from my seat and gave her my best glare.
"You can't possibly go that far," I said trying to keep calm as much as I can. "If you don't like me just fire me or something!"
"Please stay calm," she replied looking at me with concerned eyes.
What was she talking about! I was calm how dare she accuse me. Okay I decided, I'm going to kill her yup killing her is the right decision. I took a deep breath and shook my head. I shouldn't behave on my instincts. First I should try to stay calm, I was acting pretty guilty. Besides they had no evidence and maybe she was just trying to make me nervous.
"You may leave." She repeated herself again.
I turned around and walked towards the door imagining all of the painful ways of how to kill her. I sighed as I closed the door behind me. How was I going to get out of this one? Where ever I went I always caused trouble. I wasn't a child anymore that should mean that I was more responsible, so why did I still cause trouble for myself.
When I walked into my classroom all of the chit chat seized, except for two boys that was oblivious of the situation. I heard some of the conversation they were talking something about anime? Geez they should study before watching stuff like that.
I stood right in front of them waiting them to realize me and stop talking already. I was in a bad mood and believe me you would not want to anger me when I was in a bad mood, soon enough they stopped realizing that their teacher had arrived. Both of them gulped, I smirked at them.
"Before talking about something childish as anime you should study first."
Surprisingly they looked at me with great anger. I guess they didn't like that I called their precious anime childish. Well it was, at least for me. I stopped watching anime when I was 15 years old. These two boys were grown up men they should put their priorities in the right order.
I turned around leaving the two alone and started to teach my class.
THE NEXT MORNING
Good job Alice, You're late again. I should really learn to wake up on time. Especially after what happened yesterday. I stuff a piece of toast in my mouth as I locked the door. Thank god the university is just a couple of blocks away. It only took about 5 to 10 minutes to get there.
Just when I decided to run towards the university not caring if anybody sees me a black car pulls up right in front of my apartment. I smiled as I recognize the black car. The window opened and a familiar pair of black eyes started to stare at me.
"Geez Alice," said the black haired man while sighting. "You're always late."
I opened the door and hoped inside glad that I don't need to run anymore. Then I turn at my friend that looked pretty angry. I shrug it off.
"Good morning to you too Law," I reply to him.
His eyes softened a bit but not as much that I hoped to. But frankly I don't care; Law always looked angry anyway he hardly smiled even if he did it was usually a creepy looking one.
Law was the university's doctor and one of my closest friends at the university. Before I met Law I thought that doctors were always tidy and clean looking. But Law was quite the opposite, he had tattoos everywhere and he had piercings. Shortly he looked pretty badass. First I was surprised when they hired somebody like him but the more I learned about him the more I understood the why. He was kind –most of the times- and was a great doctor.
"By the way," Law said snapping me from my thoughts. "Have you heard we have a new principal, a professor and a couple of new students?"
I tried to hide my grin as much as I could but even so I was with Law I didn't have to hide anything. I widely grinned not hiding how happy I was that the principal was gone. This was the best news I ever heard my whole like. I heard a soft chuckle coming from Law.
"You look quite happy," he said.
"Of course!" I exclaimed. "You don't know what happened yesterday I'm so happy she's gone!" just when I was going to do a happy dance I realized another interesting fact that Law told me.
"What's the professor like? And how about the students are they nice? How much?" I asked almost forgetting how to breathe while doing so.
"Well I don't know much," he replied as he stopped the car. "But the new professor is a history major and use to be an archeologist. And we have 3 new students transferred."
I got out of Law's fancy car and waited for him when he finished locking the doors and controlling that they were closed one by one we started to walk towards the university.
"I hope the students are nice and hard workers," then I shook my head with disapproval "Yesterday I caught two of my students talking about anime! If they have so much time on their hands they should study!"
"Anime isn't that bad," he replied shrugging.
"Don't tell me," I said while smirking like an idiot. "You were an anime geek in high school?"
He shrugged again clearly bored of the conversation. I couldn't imagine Law wasting his time on the computer watching anime. He did work pretty hard but I didn't push him that much. That was something you learned when you were friends with Law you don't ask question. Eventually if Law deems you are ready he would just come up and tell you everything.
"We should meet with the new principal," Law said when they entered the university.
I nodded not bothering with a reply. We started to walk towards the principal's office and weirdly most of the students were gathered whispering to each other. All of them were girls. But even if they did whispered I could hear most of the whispers.
"…He's so cutee!"
"…Better then that other witch,"
Then I gazed at Law that was smiling. If I could hear the gossips so could Law and now I was really curious about are new principal of ours. If the man could impress the girls here he must be really something. We opened the big wooden door and walked inside. The room was packed with familiar faces the only 2 that I didn't recognize was probably the new history professor and the principal.
I could identify them quite easily. The woman that stood in the corner had black hair and blue eyes. I started at her eyes for a while, I felt like those eyes had been through so much. She was probably the new history professor; I knew that the girls gathered outside was talking about a man so the principal couldn't be her.
Then I looked at the man standing in the middle greeting the other professors trying to make a good impression. The man was indeed muscular and handsome…I guess.
What the fuck?
I tried to hold down my chuckle. The man…he… he had green hair! Who on earth would dye their hair green? And he was our new principal. What was this? A gathering of weirdos? The man had green hair! Green. Green hair. Green. Oh my god.
Law, that was my guardian angel, hit me with his elbow trying to stop the chuckles to over flow the room. But I couldn't help it his hair was green. Why was everybody acting like it was normal?
"And you are?" a deep voice called out to me.
I looked at the man that was standing right in front of me. I really should pay attention when people moved around. Our new principal was staring at me with his eyebrow raised. I gulped as I realized he wasn't smiling. Shit did I actually chuckle out loud?
"I-I'm," I stuttered trying to remember my name. "Alice Pitcher. The mythology professor."
When he didn't reply I extended my hand towards him trying to be as friendly as possible. "Welcome to the university."
I mentally face palmed myself. It was the first time I met him and he probably already hates me. Well he can't be worse than the other witch. At least I hoped. He didn't take my hand he just stared at me for a moment longer.
"My name is Zoro Roronoa," he replied as he turned around. "And don't leave the office afterwards, we need to talk."
Seriously what was with the principals of this school and not liking me? I looked at Law that was currently giving me " What the hell did you do now?" look. I sighed and decided to silently wait for my fate.
I gulped as the room suddenly felt very empty. There was a couple of professors left and of course Law that had decided to give me some moral support. But even so he couldn't stay with me forever. 10 minutes later Law left the room as well and I looked behind him as he closed the door.
I turned around looking at Zoro that was already seated. He gestured me to sit down and I did as I was told. I didn't want to anger another principal, besides my life would be so much easier if I just got along with everybody.
"So you're the mythology professor?" he began. I slowly nodded curious about where this conversation was going to lead to. "The principal before me left a file that had your name on it, It says that you changed the test results for students to like you."
Oh shit.
Obviously god hated me. I can't believe she actually written a file! That was unnecessary. I looked at out new principal he looked like a man that would listen to reason. Then suddenly I blinked a couple of times. Suddenly Roronoa Zoro, -wait why did I say his name backwards?- looked very familiar. Like he was from a far past. I shook it off blaming my wild imagination and started to explain everything hoping that he would believe me.
I know it doesn't look like much right now but I promise it will get better and funnier. Alice may behave a little younger than your average professor and there might be some flaws when I explain the positions in the university so sorry about that :/ For the next chapter we will meet the new students! Yay! I hoped you enjoyed the first chapter and please review! ^^
