The Arrogant One:
Chapter 1: School Day
By: Yumi Night
[Disclaimers] I don't own any of the character's so don't sue me. It's not like you actually GET anything from me anyway…
Author's Notes: Ok, this is my first ever Tala fic. Wow. I don't know, but I've suddenly started liking the red-headed Russian kid. ^-^ He's cute. Anyway, just to warn you beforehand, this is a Tala/OC fic. I usually don't put up the pairings on the summary you see and people tend to ask me if there is a pairing or not. So, like always, read, review and enjoy!
PS: "This is for talking." This is for thoughts.
The morning air was crisp and cold, like it always was in Balkov abbey. Confined smugly inside those cold stone walls, was a certain red-head still tucked under the covers waiting for the first break of dawn to enter the confinement of his small bedroom. Soon enough, light seeped through the small window onto the youths face, waking him up.
Tala yawned heavily as the light signaled another new day. Another day of hell. He trudged out of his small bedroom for a slight shower and a change of clothes before finally making his way down the spiral stone steps to the training grounds bellow the abbey. As he was about to enter the room, he came across his constant companion, Ian, who was leaned leisurely against the stone cold wall beside the door.
"Tala, where are you going?" Ian said casually, smothering his overly stiff school uniform.
"What do you mean? Today isn't…" Tala faltered for a moment and paused in realization.
"It's September the 1st already, remember? We got school today. You know what that means…" Ian confirmed as his face suddenly split into a huge grin. Tala grinned back as they thought the same thing.
"Yeah, time to have some fun."
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"Marron! Marron! Get up will you! You're so lazy!" The caretaker's shrill voice broke through the silence of her dark room like the crack of a whip.
"I am up. Stop yelling…" The girl's voice shot back as she groggily left her bed and headed for the bathroom, emerging a few moments later in a badly wrinkled uniform. She lumbered downstairs and an old woman stood at the bottom of the wooden steps, one hand holding a big dented pot.
"It's about time!" She exclaimed in a heavy Russian accent. "I do not raise lazy girls here at my orphanage!"
"Ah-ah-ah! We have boys here too." Marion replied in a fake joking manner.
"Smart-aleck girl! Off you go to school before you become late and have to spend day at home with me." Said the old woman as she huffed off to the kitchens. Marion let out a weary sigh as she headed off for school. It was a relief to be away from that orphanage for even a short while. If she had a choice, she'd rather be living IN school than stuck with that woman.
But now, even school was not a safe place for her since that kid Tala moved in from section 2. She had heard about him from the other students from the other sections. Most all off those things she heard were bad. He was rumored to have lived in some sort of monastery along with the rest of his weird little friends. They also said that the reason why the school kept moving his section was because he terrorized the teachers and students alike and that the dean could not control him anymore. His friends weren't any better either, rumor had it. Of course, Marron knew better than to believe 90% of all the rumors that flew around the school.
She walked the few blocks to her school and soon enough a large building surrounded by frostbitten trees and a horde of rich and poor students alike gathered on the campus. As soon as she passed the wide metallic gates however, a cluster of her female classmates surrounded her, half with tears in their eyes and half swooning. She didn't need to ask what the big deal was because soon enough her best friends dragged her out of the crowd and behind a large bush to talk.
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"Marron! The rumors!" Carrie, a girl with two pigtails hanging from both sides of her face exclaimed into her face.
"It's true! It's true!" Her second best friend, Maria continued.
"What rumor?" Marron questioned, sweat dropping at her two best friends' worry and sudden enthusiasm.
"The one about Tala moving into our section!" Carrie said finally. "The boys said so earlier. They looked so happy!"
"What?" Marron practically felt her world crumble. Tala can't be moving to OUR section!
"The rest of the girls are too scared to enter our classroom! The demon's in there ALREADY causing who knows WHAT havoc!" Maria said frantically, tugging on her unruly hair. "Well, half of the girls anyway…the other half just think he's hot."
"I…see…" Marron sighed and steeled herself as she approached the front doors of her school with a determined look on her face. I will not let that demon ruin MY class and MY day! I will get to the bottom of this and put a stop to it!
End Notes: Yes! It's done! Not too shabby though for a first Tala/OC fic, if I do say so myself…Hehehehe. So will marron be able to put an end to his tyranny or will HE put an end to her? Find out in the next chapter! Please drop me a review! ^-^