Project Rosario
A Virus meets a Vampire
Chapter
1
From Times Square To Yokai Academy
After being blasted by a nuclear warhead, my head was reeling. Can't really say my head though, since I'm only little bits of virus, I can't say flesh because I'm a freaking virus! Thanks to the works of Gentek, I'm now a virus known as Blacklight! A teenage scientist turned military project/fugitive gone wrong! But enough moping around, I've gotta absorb something so I can re-form.
After a while, I find, and absorb a bird on the beach and return to my human form. I look in the water to see my black eyes staring back at my dark red/auburn bangs. I brush them back and put my hood back up. Right now, everyone thinks I'm dead, and my sister, Dana is probably worried sick! And then there's what happened with James Heller….not a very good day.
I find my way back to the house where Dana and I live to find her frantically pacing. She turns to see me and instantly her face changes from worry to anger.
"Alex Mercer, where have you been" she shouts at me, taking a "mom-tone".
"I've been getting blown to bits after absorbing another person like me," I reply. "Don't you watch the news?"
"Alex, you've got to be more careful," she says, mellowing down.
"I'm trying, but it's not exactly easy when the entire Military and some science lab want me dead!" I slump down onto the couch and put my head my hands, which are not Claws, Hammer Fists, Whip Fists, a Shield, a Blade, or Muscle Mass-ed. "It's not safe for me here."
Dana sits down next to me and puts a hand on my shoulder. "I know," she says. "That's why I'm sending you to a place where you'll fit in perfectly."
"Hell?"
"Close," she says with a laugh. "It's a school called Youkai Academy. A world set off to itself, so no military men hunting for you. The students are supposed to all be monsters, but you count as one now, so they'll take you."
"I sit there in shock. "How do you know about this place? Isn't it supposed to be just for MONSTERS?"
"I used to date one of the old students, Tskune Aono."
"How long ago," I ask.
"About three years ago," she replies nonchalantly. "He almost got killed for being a human. He made on his own. No friends, no weapons, no powers. If he can make it, so can you!"
I sit there and think it over. A human went there on his own and came back alive, so it can't be all that bad. Besides, I've got my abilities to help me out of any tight spots. I mean, not very many people can say they've survived the full impact of a nuclear bomb like I can, right? Besides, I'll be going to school again, which I haven't been doing since Gentek made me a teen employee and then, eventually, a Blacklight carrier. This'll be good for me, to get back among people my own age and to be a teenager for once!
Alright," I tell her. "I'll do it"
From there, I wound up on a bus with a creepy driver on my way to a creepy school. How I let Dana talk me into this stuff, I have no idea. But, to late to turn back now. I look at my outfit and wish I had my hoodie back. I'm wearing the school uniform: Geen jacket, white shirt, red tie, tan pants, and black shoes. Can you believe this?! Me in a school uniform! Next thing you know, I'll be running for class president!
"You concerned about your first day, kid," the Bus Driver asks me in his wierd, creepy voice. He looks like somebody you'd see driving a Sarta bus, not a school bus, but who am I to say?
"Why would I?"
"This school isn't exactly normal" he says. "You may wind up getting hurt."
"Listen, Mister," I say while rolling my eyes, "I've been through a lot of tough shit lately that would've killed anyone else! Cut me some God damn slack! I'm not gonna take shit from a creepy old bus driver!"
I slump back down in my seat, still fuming with rage. Who's he to say I might get hurt? I'm about to voice this when we driver through a tunnel. I don't think much of, I mean, this is New York, the city's full of tunnels. But when we come out the other side...it's a whole new place right out of a Bram Stoker or Ann Rice novel.
"Welcome," the Bus Driver says, "to Youkai Academy."
