Author's Note:
This fic is based on the concepts from Elhini Prime's We Are Warriors series. It is a fantastic series about normal people being "chosen" by various League champions and basically sharing a body with them and becoming them. The best part is that each of the "Chosen" are OCs submitted by users like me. My OC is Seluna Rossignol, a high school senior and future art major, and she was chosen by Quinn. This fic takes place after Seluna was already chosen by Quinn, but I don't plan on giving away any spoilers about how she was chosen or anything else.
With that brief introduction, here's the first chapter of By My Calculations.
Seluna strode into her AP Calculus class with confidence. She was in an unusually good mood that morning for no particular reason and couldn't help but smile as she greeted her teacher, Mr. Robinson. Mr. Robinson had been her teacher for two consecutive years and was by far her favorite that she had ever had. He seemed to genuinely care about his students, and while he knew that the subject that he taught was not necessarily the most interesting or easy, he did his best to keep the attention of her peers.
There were no desks in this classroom, instead the students sat at any of seven tables, each seating up to four people. There had previously been only six, but Mr. Robinson had had to acquire another after an incident between two classmates had nearly resulted in violence. Seluna sat with two boys, Keith and Anthony, at a table on the far side of the room.
When she set her things down and hung her favorite hooded denim jacket on the back of her chair, only Anthony was seated because Keith had not yet arrived. Seluna was not really surprised, it was not uncommon for Keith to show up to class just as or before the bell rang.
"Did you study?" Anthony asked. He held up the practice test that Mr. Robinson had given them all two days ago.
Seluna groaned, having forgotten all about the test that they had known was coming for more than two weeks. She had been too busy getting accustomed to having Quinn in her head to think about it.
Anthony laughed good-naturedly at her look of recognition, "Well in that case, good luck."
Then the bell rang, signaling that not only was the test going to begin within mere minutes, but Seluna did not have the time to cram.
Mr. Robinson stood from his desk, carrying a stack of papers which one could only assume were the tests he was going to administer.
"Ok class," he said, "put away your practice tests." The class complied, indicated by the shuffling of papers, and Mr. Robinson began to distribute the exams.
When he got to Seluna's table, he dropped two of the packets in the middle of the table before walking back to his desk. Keith still had not shown up, and no one was surprised when he came through the door at roughly 2 minutes after the bell rang.
Seluna looked at the page in front of her and placed her head in her hands. What language is this even in? Quinn thought. She had to admit, the Calculus test on the desk in front of them certainly looked like something other than English.
Reluctantly, Seluna opened her graphing calculator determined not to let Integrals, of all things, get the best of her. Her eyes then went to the first problem, which upon closer inspection revealed itself to be much easier that it had first appeared. Seluna relaxed a little upon recognizing this, and quickly got to work solving the problem.
Seluna's mother had always said that she had a gift for logic. Math and science had always come as easily to her as art, which was why she had decided to take an AP Calculus class she currently sat taking a test in. It didn't hurt that she could potentially not have to take Calculus in college. Despite her apparent aptitude however, Seluna's passions had always lied with the arts. As a result, between all of her detailed notes for her advanced math course were little doodles.
The next problem on the test was nearly as easy as the first, only requiring some more minimal arithmetic to find the answer. These were certainly good omens, for she found that the remainder of the test was equally as easy. Quinn would never have admitted it, but she was quite impressed with the level of confidence Seluna had regarding her exam. The thirty minutes it took her to complete the test flew by quickly, and after she looked over her answers and signed her name with a flourish at the top of the first page, Seluna was finished and ready to turn it in. When she finally looked up, she saw that she was the first to finish. Even Derek, arguably the smartest individual in the class, was still working. This didn't surprise her, for it was quite common for Seluna to complete her exams that quickly. When she looked at the pair sitting across the table from her, the looks of confusion and resignation on their faces told her that only she found the exam to be easy. Seluna stood and brought her test to the front of the room where Mr. Robinson took it and immediately began to grade it.
Seluna took her seat and immediately removed her school-issued laptop from her backpack, eager to see if the fan art she had posted on Deviant Art had gotten any response. It was a sketch that she had drawn of Talon and Quinn holding hands, with Valor resting on Talon's shoulder. She had drawn it before she had met Quinn, or even known that the League was real, and even though Quinn might not have liked the subject matter, she had to admit it was a well-drawn image of herself and her nemesis.
Just before she pulled up Deviant Art however, Mr. Robinson softly called her to his desk. Seluna walked over to him, and he showed her the test she had just finished taking. It was graded, with a 100 written in red ink on the top of the first page. "Good job." He whispered, for most of the class was still in the process of taking the test.
Nice job. Quinn thought. Seluna returned to her seat with a barely contained smile on her face.
Finally pulling up Deviant Art, Seluna replied, I have a feeling that today is going to be a good day.
I hope you enjoyed the first chapter. (I'm not sorry about the not-so-subtle cameo of one of my favorite OTPs.) Sorry for the short chapter, but I have at least one more nearly ready to be published. I don't plan on regularly updating this fic like I do Something To Believe In; I will just be posting whenever inspiration strikes.
Speaking of Something to Believe In, I am changing my weekly post date to Fridays. I feel like that will work better with my personal schedule and I should be able to deliver better quality chapters as a result.