"Sol! Sol! SOLARIS! Get up! you'll be late for school!" A female voice called from downstairs. Said female Cetus groaned and yawned, rubbing her eyes as she rose up from her bed. She opened her bright amber eyes and heaved herself off of the bed, making her way to the bathroom to wash her face and clear her gills with cold water. After this Sol made her way downstairs, the smell of freashly cooked bacon and eggs coming from the kitchen as she groggily reached the bottom of the wooden stairs and took her seat at the dinner table. Her mother, Shelia, another Cetus who resembled more like a Koi fish then a shark placed a plate of Bacon and eggs down in front of Sol, who reached a dark blue scaled hand towards a knife and fork. "Seriously Sol, you need to start getting up earlier otherwise you'll be late everyday!" Her mother sighed as Sol placed some egg into her mouth "I know mom" she said dryly and sleepily as she continued to eat.
Sol's Mother adopted a look of concern "Are you sure you're alright? You look tired" she asked in a softer tone, at which Sol scoffed "Of course i am Mom, i just woke up" she tried to dodge around the question as she chewed on a piece of bacon. Sheila raised an eyebrow "Waking up late? That's not like you in a school week" she replied, gaining a fustrated look from her daughter "Ok! i'm nervous, happy?" She asked in a very annoyed tone. "What? about spooky high?" Sheila asked with a confused face "I told you that's the place I went to when i was in high school, whats there to be nervous about?" "Everything mom, the stupid popularity ranking! the students...everything...oh god what if they hate me?" Sol questioned with semi wide eyes.
Sheila sat next to Sol "Solaris, listen, you are a beautiful person. The best thing you can do is try and make friends, if they can't see that you are a great person then they aren't worth your time. Who knows? Maybe you'll find a boyfriend or girlfriend there!" Sheila finished her answer with a short laugh and Sol recoiled with narrowed eyes playfully "Yeah I really doubt that last part mom" she laughed as she set her empty plate on the kitchen side and ascended up the stairs in order to get changed into her school clothes. After a while Sol pulled her hoodie over her head and took a look in her mirror.
There in front of her in the reflection was a light blue coloured shark like creature. This creature had dark blue hands and feet, along with the same dark blue coloured dorsal fin, elbow and knee fins, a long shark like tail sprouted from where her lower back and legs connected, the tips of this tail where also dark blue. White scales devided the light blue which lined the bridge of her snout, the white scale trailed down to her underbelly and finally to the underside of her tail. Two strange dragon like ears sprouted from the sides of her head where the ears would typically be on a creature. Her hair was a darker blue than her fins and it only barely reached her shoulders.
Sol then looked down at her clothes, a grey hoodie with seweed green sleeves, hood, bottom of the hoodie and a large marking right in the middle which was a circle with two wings sprouting from the side with black eyes in the centre. She also had light blue pants and the bottom of the pant legs where a darker blue but not by much, her shoes were a grey and blueish green.
Satisfied by her appearance and after brushing her teeth and her hair, Sol headed for the front door and grabbed her black and neon green rucksack which had all of her school suppiles inside, packed from the night before. "Mom! I'm leaving!" she called "Ok, Bye! Have a nice day!" Sheila called back as Sol opened the white door and stepped outside, breathing in a breath of fresh air as the warm sun of summer beaming against her scales and her face. And off she went towards the large school down the road, feeling the cool breeze blow through the town as she walked.
Sol soon found herself staring at the huge steel gates of spooky high, students were shouting and screaming as they waited for the bell to signify the start of the school day. With a deep breath Sol stepped through the the gates of the school and made her way over towards a unoccupied bench, trying to avoid all of the looks the other monsters were giving her as they stared. "Calm down Sol, you'll get used to it" Sol muttered to herself as she unzipped her bag and brought out a book called 'Dragonsoul' and picked up where she left off yesterday.
Meanwhile, a female monster with black hair that had a single stripe of white in it skipped over to two of her friends who were hanging around a wooden bench next to the so called 'Rave tree' "Hi guys!" She called and waved frantically to them "Hey Vic!" The brown skinned, flaming haired girl known as Amira called back as Vicky stopped in front of the group "Good morning Vicky" The purple skinned vampire who had black hair tied in a bun and glasses was called Liam raised his yellow eyes from his phone for only a second before going back to looking grumpy as usual. "So! You hear? A new student is going to be joining us!" Vicky cheered in her overly hyperactive voice "Yeah! I hope they're cool!" Amira joined in.
Liam once again looked up from his phone "As do I, I don't believe that there is enough cool individuals in this institution of learning" he spoke in his low tone, confusing Vicky and Amira with his constant use of long words "Um...yeah what you said" Amira shrugged, Liam rolled his eyes, huffed and glared back at his phone screen "Typical" he mumbled which made Amira shrug and look at Vicky with a very confused stare "What? What did I do?" Vicky shook her head and giggled "Nothing Mira" she replied cheerily. Vicky then found herself staring into space, only to see someone move in the corner of her eye, the zombie like girl turned around and saw a female Cetus sitting at another bench and reading a book...wait, was that 'Dragonsoul'?!.
Vicky rose to her feet "I'll be back in a second!" she said as she walked over to the girl sitting with her back to her. The female Cetus's ears twitched and she turned her head towards Vicky "Hmn?" She inquired "So, you the new girl?" Vicky asked with wide, hyperactive eyes. The girl nodded "Yes, name's Sol" she replied, eyes still glued to her book "Awesome name! My name's Vicky!" She sat down next to Sol and propped her head up with her hands, elbows resting on the wooden table. "Do you have any friends here, Sol?" Vicky asked curiously, still staring at Sol with her wide eyes "No, they've all left" Sol sighed and shook her head, this made Vicky's face drop "O-oh..." She stuttered with a soft, low tone.
The zombie began to think as groups of students passed by them, she turned towards her two friends sitting at the wooden table near the tree and a idea popped into her head "I know! I have a huge group of friends! Maybe you can meet them at reccess!" She bounced back to her usual energetic self, shocking Sol a bit as she looked up from her book "Are you sure? I don't want to be a burden-" "Oh nonsense! You'll be fine!" Vicky interrupted just as the bell for first period started "Oh! I need to go now! See you later Sol!" She called as she ran towards the school building, leaving a stunned Sol alone.
Sol started to pack up her things and also move towards her classroom as she dwelled on the request Vicky gave her, in normal circumstances she would have refused but...something felt right about this encounter. Sol drew a breath as she stared up at the school building, biting back nervousness as she crossed the double doors and entered the school.
For Sol was young and unafraid and was ready to begin.