Into the Wild 1
Samuel "Rusty" Finley glanced around his almost empty room, then to his packed suitcase standing at his door. He'd be leaving to a boarding school on a scholarship, and fairly, gladly. He needed some new faces after his parents' untimely death. His parents had died a few weeks ago in a car crash, shortly after he'd received news of being accepted. He'd spent these last few weeks living with his older sister Sarah, and her family. Painfully, he thought back to his parents' funeral. Let the past go, we've got the present in front of us, he told himself. He concentrated on what was in front of him. In about half an hour, he would, accompanied by his sister and his old friend Dudley Dudgens, go to the nearest train station, and embark on the two-hour journey to Star City, where his new school was located.
(A/N: Now, dear Reader, a thing or two about Star City:
1.It's divided into four equal-sized parts of town, called sectors
2.These sectors are called the following (massive uncreativity ahead): Thunderville (ThunderClan), Shadowmoor (ShadowClan), Windon (WindClan), and Rivettshire (RiverClan)
3.The Schools are all part of one school, it' like Hogwarts, kinda.
4.Kits are in Kindergarten/primary school (which where I grew up, i.e. Germany, is years one to four),
5.Apprentices are in middle school/ the first two years in high school(in Germany, you only go to two schools, but the upper one is divided into kind lower, middle, and high school, so yeah),
6.and the last two years of high school are as young warriors
7.In the meeting place of these four sectors, there is the centre of the city, called Four Oakes
8.This city is situated in England
9.It is a separate state by itself
10.It has its own, government, and laws
11.Star City, Sky City, Star Summer Camp, and the Sky Summer Camp all are part of this separate state.
12.But you're citizenship in this state is stillBritish
13.The laws will be published separately
14.As will be the instruction to religion
15.And the explanation of some scenarios, the first up: what Brokenstar and ShadowClan will look like in this series
16.But all that may take a while!
17.Any other questions should be asked in the reviews
Now, some other things:
1.There will be all names of the characters listed below
2.Reviews, Follows and Favourites are very welcome
3.I will shamelessly make references throughout
4.This is a series of one-shots/drabbles in my own personal Human! AU, all/mostly based off of events in the main series, and possibly special editions
5.Ships will be mostly canon, with a few non-canon, like for example Tallstar is going to be Jake's high school boyfriend
6.They will be posted in chronological order
7.White, grey, and tortoiseshell cats under thirteen will most definitely either have skin diseases causing interesting skin patterings, or light blonde/silvery blonde hair. Above that age, the colours will remain like in the books
8.Feel free to use any concepts, but please ask first (PM or review), but if I'm not doing this anymore when you read this, and you want to ask, but can't reach me even after a few weeks (I don't check my inbox that much), just use them
9.The same goes for names
10.Patchpelt and Willowbreeze are completely unrelated here, and with the rest….. I'll see
11.I will use British English and terms, as you should be used to from me by now
12.Now that you are properly introduced, this should be all)
He glanced at his watch. Six past six a.m., only four more minutes until his sister would wake him. He got up and got dressed. A plain green shirt to matching his eyes, curtesy of Sarah, making him look a bit too Christmas-sy jeans, and his black-and-green trainers. He went (read: stumbled) down the stairs, lugging his heavy suitcase behind him. Sarah raced towards him as soon as she heard the loud thumping.
"Rusty!" she scolded, "don't do that to yourself! That's much too heavy! C'mon on, I'll help you!" Samuel couldn't help smiling. His sister, being the motherly person she was, protected him fiercely. Even though the suitcase was just as heavy for him as for her, she insisted on helping him. Just then, a loud thumping noise, followed by crying sounded from upstairs. Sarah's face fell.
"That's be 'lil Cloudy, he must have tried jumping down the stairs a gain"
She sighed. Cloudy, or as he was actually called, Claude, was Rusty's five-year-old nephew. The little boy got his nickname from having wispy whitish-blonde hair that stuck up around his head like a little cloud. Samuel got himself some cereal, and ate it. Or rather: tried to eat it, but he was too excited to really do so. His thoughts travelled back to his parents, more precisely, his father, Jake Finley. This had not been his father's first marriage, before, he had been married to a woman called Queenie Scarlett, and they had a son, who he'd never heard anything about. Apparently they had divorced as soon as the kid was born. Why, nobody except them knew. Also there apparently was his dad's high-school boyfriend, but again, not a soul really knew anything. Except for the factor that Jake Finley, was indeed, pan.
_WC_
"Rusty, are you really sure you want to go? Ol' Henry –y'know, the farmer - says he was there for a few weeks and it was terrible!" Dudley tried to "reason" with him.
"No. I belong there. And I need some new faces. I also cannot believe Ol' Henry was at Thunderville. Isn't he way to stupid and unfit for that a kind of school?" Samuel wondered.
"I don't know, but's all I heard!" Dudley admitted. Samuel shrugged. He hugged his slightly shorter friend.
"I'll miss you. Take care, mate!"
"You too, Rusty" They released. Rusty walked over to his sister. She embraced him tightly.
"Take care, Sammy. And remember to write me some letters, okay?" She kissed the top of his head.
Rusty smiled at the use of the nickname. Only his sister was ever allowed to call him that.
"The six thirty-nine train to Edinburgh will be departing in a few minutes. Passengers, please take your seats." the mechanical voice sounded through the speakers. He pulled away.
"Good-bye!" she whispered.
"Byer!" he cried, waving to her and his friend.
Sarah smiled, and he raced towards the train.
_WC_
Two hours of boring train driving later, Rusty was finally at the Thunderville central station. Some school officials would be picking him up from the station, so as he got out, he glanced up and down the station. Nobody. But! Wait! Over there! Rusty saw two figures standing further up the platform. Lugging his suitcase behind him, he walked towards them. Getting closer, he recognized one of the figures. It was Lionel Leanne, the PE teacher who'd interviewed him as he'd applied for the scholarship. He nodded to acknowledge him. Mr Leanne was tall, broad-shouldered, and had a wild blonde mane of hair. The man next to him seemed slightly older, with amber eyes, and an orderly white ponytail. Samuel could not tell if it was truly from old age, or dyed.
"Good to see you well, Samuel. This is my colleague, Wallace White. He will be your physics teacher", Mr. Leanne gestured towards the man besides him.
"Hello, Samuel", Mr. White greeted him and shook his hand. He smiled warmly.
"C'mon kiddo, let's get you to school. There you'll meet your fellow classmates." Mr. Leanne said. He picked up Rusty's heavy suitcase with ease, and lead him out of the station to a small, grey van that was waiting for them. The men got in in front, Mr White taking the wheel.
A/N: Hello there!
This is the real, official author's note for this chapter. The way this will work is: I take important/Scenes I like from the main series, and transform them into my AU. I will have another story, where, as said before, I'll explain the version the two codes have here, and how certain things work.
Names:
Samuel "Rusty" Finley – Firestar
Sarah Finley-Tabler – Princess (Sarah means "Queen" or something like that)
Claude "Cloudy" Tabler – Cloudtail
Dudley Dudgens – Smudge
Lionel Leanne – Lionheart
Wallace White – Whitestorm