An explosion rocked the area. Cries of excitement followed shortly after. Out in the back of the physical education area, fires scattered across the area and a crowd of students had gathered around to get a good look at the excitement.

In the middle of it all was a young man with jet black hair swept back with a curtain of bangs casting shade over a pair of golden eyes. Scales of a faded red shade lay over the sides of his face and along his arms and protruding from his waist was a red reptilian tail.

Opposite of him was another male student. He was pale with icy blue eyes unshielded from the sun by his deep red hair. In this boy's hands was a katana emitting a cold air. "I never would've pegged you for a cheater. Bringing a sword to a fist fight," the boy with the scales snapped.

"That's the pot calling the kettle black," the red-head replied. "You can use magic and look what you just did with said magic." He gestured at the fire littering the area, which were now burning out. "If I hadn't brought Yukianesa with me, you could have burned me."

"I only cast that spell because you brought it here in the first place!"

The two began to argue back and forth and the crowd of students that had gathered began to walk away. Eventually the PE teacher arrived and broke the two of them up. "Come on, you two," she said, keeping a hand against both of them. "Can't you two just wait until tomorrow to start pounding each other?"

"Sorry, Mrs. Nanaya," the tailed boy said. He shifted his gaze from the red-haired boy and looked up at his brown-haired gym teacher. She had the general look of a human, except for a pair of brown furry squirrel ears and a big bushy tail. She was a Beastkin, just like him.

"You two are lucky I'm the one that caught you. If it were any other teacher, you'd both be in big trouble. What if your parents heard about this?" Both of them stood stiff at that question. Nanaya looked to the tailed one. "Sola, how would your mom feel about this? Same question to you, Ko."

Ko and Sola suddenly gained a heavy interest in the academy building and elected to stare at it rather than facing their teacher. Nanaya smirked victoriously and waved them off. The two of them headed inside and made their way to their dorm rooms.

Sola threw himself onto his bed, letting out a great big sigh. "Did you two get caught?" He didn't bother answering his roommate. He simply rolled onto his side, facing the wall across the room. "I bet Mrs. Nanaya bailed you two out again, huh?"

"I'm taking a nap, Barrel," Sola said, once again ignoring the question.

"Alright, alright."

/ Luna

Meanwhile, in the girl's dorm, a small set of students were talking about the explosion from earlier. One of the students saw a young female student with waist-length red hair with faded lavender highlights lining the ends. They called out to her, drawing the attention of her round sapphire blue eyes away from a book she held tightly in her hands. The girl approached the group to see what they called for.

"Hey, Luna, did you hear the explosion?" one girl asked her. Luna nodded her head and allowed them to continue. "Do you know who caused it?" This time she shook her head. She could take an educated guess as to who it was, but she didn't want to be right in her assumption.

"Apparently it was Ko and your brother, Sola," the girl finished. Luna released a sigh.

Of course it was.

She excused herself and took off in a hastened walk towards the cafeteria. She looked around the room for someone and smiled when she found a group of students gathered at a lunch table waving to her to catch her attention.

She hustled over to the table and sat next to a blonde-haired girl with green eyes. They were eating dinner when two squirrel-eared, bushy-tailed Beastkin twins starting arguing with each other. Luna and the blonde girl attempted to separate them, having to eventually full-on pull them away from each other.

"Let go of me, Aria," the female twin said. She looked to her brother. "That parfait is mine, Kazu!"

"You must be kidding yourself, Yuu. The parfait is mine!" the boy shot back. The two struggled to wrench themselves from their friends. It was difficult for Luna and Aria to keep them separated. The twins were incredible in terms of physical strength, after all.

Seeing that keeping them held back wasn't going to cut it, Luna decided to try something different. She shifted her stance, moved her arms lower so that they were wrapped around Kazu's waist, and threw him over, arching her back, and slamming Kazu into the floor in a huge suplex.

Kazu let out a yelp and then a cry of pain. Luna returned to a more upright posture and looked over at Yuu, who was still being held back by Aria. She took one step towards her and Yuu retreated back, tripped over a chair, and landed hard on her back.

The twins took a couple minutes to recover before taking their seats back and sitting in silence.

"Man, Luna, you really don't mess around, do you?" A boy arrived and sat next to her, failing to notice the faint flush in Luna's cheeks. Kazu noticed, though, and Luna could tell from the mischievous smile on his face.

Kazu looked over at the boy sitting by Luna. "Hey, Haru, I think Luna might need to see Nurse Litchi," he said.

"Really? Why's that, Kazu?"

"Isn't it obvious? Luna's sick! Sick with lo-!" Before he knew it, the fiery red blade of a longsword was being pointed at him by an equally red-faced Luna. She was moving her mouth furiously, but no words emerged from her mouth.

Regardless of the situation, Haru leaned towards Luna and placed a hand over her forehead. "I think Kazu is right. Your forehead feels hot and your face is all red. You could be coming down with a fever." He seemed oblivious to how flustered she was, especially when he took her hand to lead her to the nurse's office. Luna's friends were all struggling to hold in their laughter.

/ Ko

Ko sat at the desk in his dorm room, writing notes down from his history textbook. From behind, he heard a bit of noise then a click. The door to the dorm flung open and Kazu came in, laughing his tail off. "Did we have fun at dinner today?" Ko asked, drawing attention away from his notes.

"You have no idea, Ko!" the boy managed through his laughter. "You should've been there. It was pure gold, what happened today!" Kazu began to recall the events of dinner and, by the end of it, even Ko couldn't stifle a chuckle or two.

"You're right, Kazu, that is pretty amusing." He cleared his throat and added, "But don't you think it was a bit rude to allude to Luna's crush?"

"Don't worry, Ko, I didn't get to completely say what I was gonna say before Luna whipped out that weapon of hers on me." He continued to laugh, while Ko simply put his things away and went to go sit at the edge of his bed.

"That's good. It wouldn't do for something so personal to be blurted out by a friend." He gave a chuckle when he saw Kazu's expression transform into guilt, however minor. "Glad you seem to get the idea."

Ko reached across the edge of his bed, grabbing his weapon and holding it out in front of him. "I'd have to whack you with the scabbard pretty hard if you ever pulled a stunt like that." With that said, he let himself fall back onto his mattress, letting out a sigh of comfort. "Well, I think it's about time I turned in."

"Yeah, I'm feeling a bit tired, myself," Kazu admitted. He threw his shoes off and crawled into his bed, making sure to get as comfortable as possible. "Night, Ko."

"Yeah."

Author's Note:

Yep, that's right. I'm starting off with this. I'd like to actually do something that I can get into. For one thing, it's hard to just try to weasel my own characters and events into a pre-existing story. So I'm putting Ashes to Ashes and such on hold while I work on this in the meantime.

Moving on, I'm sure you guys can take guesses as to which characters are who and who's kids. While others might give you a bit of hard thinking to give it a guess.

Furthermore, what do you think about my main characters, Sola and Luna?

Also, the characters have classes in the middle school building, not the high school building. Just so we all are clear on that.

I'm not sure what else to say here, so, with that, this is Reploid7,

Signing off!