A day at Aiedo High
Chapter 1: The new student
It was a sunny morning, in the biggest town all over Motavia and even Algol, Aiedo. The shops were starting to open its doors, and the market would soon start attending people. Anyway, the streets in that area, at one side of the Market, were quite busy at that time.
Many students were heading in that direction. Grey trousers, white shirt and blue tie for boys; black shoes, blue socks, kilt skirt and t-shirt for girls. Some already bored, others still sleepy, school wasn't something they could slip from that easily.
"Hey, Chaz, wait for me!", a voice called the blonde haired youth, who was almost getting into that huge, grey building with those big silver letters above the door: "AIEDO HIGH SCHOOL".
The boy with a red hairband looked back, and saw his little Motavian friend running towards him, followed by his sister.
"Hi, Gryz", Chaz greeted him, yawning.
"Hi, Chaz", the blue furred boy greeted back. "Well, Pana, I'll see you later. Take care, and maybe I'll drop by the cafeteria at lunch-time, to see if you are ok", he said to his younger sister.
"Please, Brother, don't do that", the female Motavian begged, tired of that never ending scene. "It's not my first year here, but my second! I know how to look after myself!"
"Anyway, maybe I'll drop by, nonetheless", her brother replied, frustrating her. He didn't understand that she wasn't a little kid anymore. "Good luck", he said, while going into the building with Chaz.
"Don't you think that you should let her do her own life, at least for a little while?", the blonde teen asked his friend, curiosuly. He also couldn't understand how Gryz could be so overprotective with Pana. Maybe because he didn't have a little sister or brother to look after…
"It's my duty. I have to protect her. I'm her older brother after all", Gryz replied, as if it were the commonest thing in the world.
"Hey, I'm sick of this!", Chaz moaned, grabbing some papers that an oddly dressed girl gave him. "When is he going to stop with this?!", he asked his friend, showing them the papers.
They had all the same legend, that they had read for the past month and a half, almost: "VOTE FOR ZIO AS STUDENTS' REPRESENTATIVE"
"I wonder why he would like to be our representative, if he just wants to do his own will", Gryz commented, not paying much attention.
"You wonder that, but many students have fallen in his trap", Chaz said, pointing to a bunch of boys and girls wearing odd green hats and any dark clothes they could combine with their uniform, who were gluing some papers in the school walls. Obviously, the papers said: "VOTE FOR ZIO".
The two teens went on walking through the school, making his way to their cabinets section. Only that what was waiting for them there wasn't so pleasant…
"Oh, no! Zio again!", Chaz whispered, deeply annoyed.
"Seems that our representative wants to drive us into his people", Gryz said, ironically.
The two students kept on walking, trying to act as if nothing has happened. Unfortunately, they were stopped by Zio and his sidekick, Juza, who seemed as an extension of Zio's body, because it was quite difficult to see him away from his so called "Master".
"Look what we have here…", the black haired youth said, ironically. "If it isn't the pest and the worm, together!"
"Who do you think you call worm?", Gryz yelled, angrily.
"You realized it was you the 'worm', while he's the 'pest'", Zio replied, laughing.
"Hey, stop with that", Chaz said, trying to bring a little of peace. "Let us reach our cabinets, take out our things and then we leave", he offered, trying to act maturely, although he knew he was shacking.
"That wouldn't be fun, pest!", Zio said, grabbing Chaz from his shirt collar, and raising him over the floor, leaving the shorty youth 'suspended in the air'.
"Hey, Zio, leave him right now or I'll tear you into pieces!", a feminine voice, not so friendly at this rate, came from behind the black haired guy.
Zio turned back, and saw a brownish haired youth, Alys Brangwin, looking menacingly at him.
"Ah, Brangwin, it's you!", Zio said, ironically. "And do you think you have a chance against me? You are joking!"
"Wanna bet?", she asked, almost glaring at him.
"Everything for money, uh? I wonder what's the last thing you would do for money…", he said, mischievously, while evading a soft attempt of punch from Chaz, who was going to collapse at any moment.
"Stop harassing the pipsqueak, Zio!", a manly voice came from the other direction, from where Chaz and Gryz came.
They all looked in that side, and they could see a tall, light blue haired boy, Rune Walsh.
He dropped Chaz, who managed to land with his two feet, and not with any other part of his body. Seems he didn't want to have troubles with his skilled classmate… leaving behind that Rune's loud voice sort of scared him at the beginning.
"Ah, Walsh, it's you", he muttered, angrily. "You won't have it that easy, but I'm leaving for now", he said, turning back. "Juza, come"
The grayish haired boy turned back and followed his friend, closely.
"Hey, are you alright, Chaz?", Alys asked him, worried. "Your swing is too slow, by the way. But you weren't in top form, so I'll forgive you that", she added, talking as a professional –which she was, but outside school.
"What does she mean?", Gryz asked his friend, without understanding a word.
"Don't you remember?", Chaz asked him, rubbing his throat. "She's my tutor at the Hunter's Guild, where I go after school"
"Rune!", Alys exclaimed, walking to her classmate's side. "You are back!"
"Hi, Alys. Long time we no see!", the young Esper student greeted her back, with his usual aura of mystery.
"Yes! You didn't allow me to visit you while you were sick!", she complained, smiling. "How are you doing from it?"
"Ah… my illness, yes! I had already forgotten about it!", he said, quickly, as if he didn't know what she was talking about. "I'm fine, thanks. Nothing what would put me in danger"
"Always the same conceited jerk…", Chaz whispered annoyed to Gryz, who laughed at that remark. "I can't understand how Alys copes with him. She even wastes her time worrying about him, even if she denies it…"
"Love's blind, they say", the blue-furred Motavian shrugged.
"You have anything to say, pipsqueak, after I saved your life?", Rune asked him, as if he had heard what the blonde haired youth whispered.
"Nothing, but thanks for popping out", he replied, not satisfied with that.
The ring started sounding, with that annoying, never-ending tone it had, announcing that way the beginning of classes.
"Well, we'll see you later", Alys said, walking next to Rune. "Good luck"
"Bye", the motavian and the young apprentice of Hunter replied at unison.
Soon, they reached their class, where there were some students not many. Kyra was already there, as sleepy as ever.
"Hi, boys", she greeted, trying to repress a yawn.
"Hi, Kyra", Chaz greeted back, sitting in his bench, in the middle row of the class. He would have liked to sit further, but Hahn, the student's tutor and teacher in training, made him switch places, as the teachers asked him to do that, because he wasn't doing that well as they expected him to do.
"How's my little bro doing?", Kyra joked, looking at Chaz.
That was something that he really hated, with all his strength. Who on Algol was she to call him her 'little brother', just because once when he was 10 he got lost and she helped him to reach his home?! He had just arrived to Aiedo, so it was a comprehensible thing that he would get lost…
"Am I that undependable or what?!", he asked, annoyed. As Gryz and Kyra didn't reply, but looked at each other as if they were about to laugh, he changed the topic. "Which one's our first class today?"
"Professor Holt, I think", Kyra replied, in the middle of a yawn.
"What manners, Kyra", Chaz noticed, trying to get some revenge, but that was spoiled by Professor Holt, who came into the classroom just when he said that.
"Good morning, pupils", the grey haired middle aged man greeted, leaving his stuff in his desk. "Today we'll keep on dealing with our BW times, but first, we have a new student in this class, and I have the honor to introduce her to you", the man said, feeling proud of himself. "Come here, little one, there's nothing to be afraid of", he added, looking at the door, which was a little open, and that explained their teacher's behavior.
"I hope it's a little cute Motavian of our age", Gryz whispered excited to Chaz, who was sitting in the bench next to his. "There aren't many Motavians in this school…"
The door opened, and a short, pink-haired girl came in, shyly. She was wearing the school's uniform and seemed comfortable there, and she walked to the center of the classroom, giving her back to the blackboard and facing her new mates that way.
"Hi, my name is Rika…", the new girl introduced herself, but was soon interrupted by some student, who, from the back of the class, asked, shouting,
"What's with your ears?!"
The whole class turned back to face the 'brave' student who had the guts to ask that question so irreverently, and then turned back to face Rika. Rika looked to another direction, without trying to soften her annoyed expression, and then sighed, bitterly.
"These are my ears", she said, resigned. "I come from Birth Valley, in Zema", she added, as if that explained everything. And it did, because nobody said anything more. Or they didn't dare to.
"From Birth Valley?", Holt asked, enthusiastically. "That's very interesting. Could you explain us a bit more, in another class, if you wish? We are almost in that topic according to the study schedule, so it would be great if your fellow mates could hear about it from someone who comes from it…"
"Well, if you want…", Rika accepted shyly, blushing.
"Great!", Holt approved, happily. "Well, Rika, make yourself comfortable in the class. I guess you'll have to sit there, in the middle, next to Ashley", he said, pointing to her the clear sit in the middle of the classroom, next to Chaz, who had listened to her introduction with some interest.
"Ok…", Rika said, almost like a whisper, making her way to her new seat.
"Hi, I'm Chaz", the blond apprentice greeted her, as soon as she left her things in her seat.
"Hi, Chaz", Rika whispered, smiling.
"Hi, Rika!", Kyra also greeted her, who was sitting in the bench just behind hers. "I'm Kyra Tierney, nice to meet you"
"Hi", the pink haired newcomer greeted back, cheerfully.
"Well, kids, open your books where we left last class", Holt said, picking a piece of chalk and ready to start his class.
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Notes: Yes! The PS section was begging for its own High School parody... or not! But here it is, mind you!