So here is chapter one of Angel Beats: The Unknown Story. I am open to any ideas on what to name this, the story or the chapter. (We kinda just winged the naming part in the story making process) If you have something good I might use it.
But anyways, this story is a novelized version of an RP some other people and I are doing. If you want the link to the RP PM me and I'll give it to you with a brief explanation. (Its really confusing.) Meri is my character but Shitori is LunarFeather's character.
This loosely follows the Cannon, but its more of an AU since it has OCs in it and because we kinda messed up the timeline because of some miscommunications. It starts after episode one when Otonashi arrives, and before episode 2. But the character relations are slightly more developed because of previously mentioned miscommunications. The reason being we did 'episode 4' before 'episode 2' but as long as you don't think too hard on it, you wont hurt yourself.
Chapter 1.
Underlined are Memories
/~~~DreamScape~~~/
Our story begins with an an end, and with nothing. A great expanse of whiteness that surrounds everything, but at the same time, nothing. In the middle of it was a male figure. Just floating, seemingly unconscious.
Slowly he started to wake up. His eyes flickered open, but even though they were no longer closed, it was as if he wasn't looking at anything. "Where am I? Am I floating?.. What happened." Scenes started to flash by, some more prominent than others.
"Who am I?"
"Where am I?"
"Thats right.. I- I was at a school.. But then.. What happened?"
The scenes moved faster, colors blending together, he could only catch snippets of what was happening.
"Who are you?
"I- I am S-Sh Shitori. That is all I remember."
"There.. There was a girl.. She had white hair. Who was she?"
This is a place to live and to learn. That is what this place was created for, and its only purpose."
"W-we can't be dead can we?"
... rd-skill: Hand Son-...
"The last thing I remember is that girl. All of the sudden there was this blade.. And now?"
All of the sudden the air started to vibrate. It felt as if he was shaking. "Is this an earthquake? But I'm floating..?!" The air was pulsing and humming, a bright glow accompanied it.
/~~~~Infirmary~~~~/
Opening his eyes for a second time he found himself in a white room. Though this time there were actual shapes in the white. And there was a girl in the room with him looking out the window. Noticing that he was awake the aforementioned girl rushed over to him.
Seeing he was up brought a smile to her face, "Oh good, you're awake. Angel definately got you good. How do you feel?"
Normally having a cute girl hovering over them would cause most people to blush, for different reasons, but he was not a normal boy so his face stayed impassive. If slightly confused as to where he was.
"Angel? Whos that? And where am I?"
"You're in the infirmary of course, and Angel was the girl who attacked you. I wasn't there to see it myself, but only Angel can do that much damage."
"Wh-Why would she stab me?"
A puzzled look crossed her face, but eventually a look of realization appeared, "Because you must have asked her silly."
"But.. How am I dead? How am I not dead after that?"
"In this place, in this world, you cannot die. Thats just how it works here."
"Well I guess that answers my question.."
"If you didn't outright ask her, then she probably remembered him. He asked her to prove it, and she.. Well in simple terms.. She stabbed him clear through the heart. All the way." Making a stabbing motion towards her own chest. "He was dead within seconds, unfortunately for you, you weren't as lucky. You were probably slightly conscious for a little bit even though you probably don't remember it. That's why you'll most likely be a little sore for a some time, its like phantom pain. Your body is completely healed, but you still feel the pain. But that should be gone within a few hours."
Looking down, he saw no trace of the stab wound that was previously there, he winced when he felt a twinge of pain come from it. "Well, who is this other person who's been stabbed?"
The girl got up and made her way to a cabinet on the other side of the room, "Oh yeah, thats right, your new. So you wouldn't know him." Spinning back around to face him, "To answer your question, the last person who was 'killed' by Angel was Otonashi, he was the newest person to arrive here before you showed up."
Looking at him she seemed to remember something, she turned around and started rifling through the cabinet, with her back turned she told him, "Thats right, I should get you a change of clothes, the ones that you were originally wearing are all bloody, and there was a huge rip in the shirt and jacket."
After another moment of searching she let out a sound of triumph, "Ah hah! Here we are, it took some searching, but I found a uniform in your size. You're a little smaller than most boys." It was true, because even though it was just by a couple of inches, the girl was taller than he was. But the way she said it had no ulterior motive, or any hint of negativity that there is in an insult.
"Thank you.."
Turning around she said, "You know, even though we've just met, we're friends aren't we." She said it in such a happy tone and without a doubt.
"…" Shitori was silent, staring at the place where he was stabbed, that word, friend, it made his chest hurt… He waved it away, it was probably something to do with how he was stabbed. "Is that what you call a friend…? Noted." Giving a quick thanks he took the clothes held out to him he, sat up, and began taking off what was left of his shirt.
Now normally in society it is frowned upon to undress yourself in front of a stranger you just met, even more so in front of a person of the opposite sex, but the people in the infirmary were no normal people. And both of them were especially oblivious, for different reasons.
"I'm sure you'll like it here, its a little strange at first, but its not like you can die, you just just have to put up with it." Smiling neither she nor he noticed or gave any attention to the moment that would be extremely awkward to anyone else.
Shitori merely nodded as a response and continued changing.
Backing up she folded her hands behind her back, "Its better to just go with it, there will be a lot of unexpected things that are gonna happen, so take it in stride and always get up when you fall down, and if you can't, then your friends will be there to help." Though she was smiling, her thoughts wandered off for a moment 'She used to always say that..' It was a good thing her eyes were closed, because as they say, the eyes are the windows to the soul.
"Sometimes I can't depend on friends to notice." Shitori said without thinking, he blinked as if he didn't even realize that he had said that.
"Hm? Well then.. You just have to find some friends with glasses, then they'll be able to see it." Completely missing the actual meaning, and not mentioning the fact that she couldn't see past 30 feet without everything getting blurry. "I have a friend who has glasses, his name is Takamatsu, I'm sure he could help."
"It's fine, thank you for offering your help, I think I'm fine now." Occasional twinges of pain could still be felt but other then that Shitori felt completely fine.
Dubiously she said, "Really." In a 'moment of clarity' she reached down and poked him-not so gently where his wound used to be. "You must be extremely strong to be able to be fully healed just like that."
A jolt of pain shot through his body as the girl poked him. "The wound is closed so it's alright, besides we can't die in this world correct? So there isn't a problem."
She gave him a blank look but took his reasonings nonetheless. "Well then, if you're good, you should get up and move around to loosen up your muscles. Staying in bed all day isn't good for your body, no matter how good it sounds and feels."
"That's what I plan to do." Shitori stood up and opened the door." Are you going to follow or are you busy?"
"Ohhh! I'll come with you, it'll be fun." And with that, she followed him, forgetting that he had never been here, and that as a person more experienced in the world they were in, she should have been leading him around, not the other way.
"So where to go first?" He wondered out loud.
"Lets explore! Being in a new place always makes me want to explore."
"I thought that you already knew your way around." Shitori tilted his head in confusion.
"Oh I do." As if it was the most obvious thing in the world, and that he was just silly for asking the question.
"Then why would you call this a new place?"
"Huh? I didn't" Confused she cocked her head to the side.
"You said being a new place makes you want to explore. Maybe you could show me around?"
"Yes, I did say that. But I never said that this place was new." Dropping the blank look, she traded it for a smile and grabbed his hand, "Come on! Lets go!" Pulling him down the hallway she suddenly stopped. "Oh yeah, where do you want to go?"
"Where would you recommend going? I'm not the guide here." The words came out rudely, but it wasn't Shitori's intention to offend.
"Hmm.. We could always go back out to the sports field, or to the cafeteria.. Or we could always go to the base... Hmmm... So many choices... Which one do you wanna go to?"
One word caught Shitori's ear in the sentence. "Base? What base?"
"The base is our base of course. You know, the headquarters, base of operations, HQ, the bat cave."
"But the headquarters for what?"
"Headquarters for the- now what was is it called.. Not-yet-dead-battlefront.. No... Screw-You-battlefront, I-Feel-Dead-battlefront, Barnacle battlefront?" After thinking some more she finally remembered something, "Oh! I think Fujimaki decided on Your-the-one-whos-gonna-die Battlefront!"
"Battlefront…? Why would you need something like that?"
"Why to fight Angel of course. Its in the name. Anti-Angel Battlefront."
"One, why would we fight her? I mean maybe she did stab me but I'm fine and I don't mind that much. Two, you're changing the name by the moment."
"You're fine with being stabbed? Your weird. And Angel is always getting in our way and attacking us, trying to force us to do things that we don't want to do and trying to Obliterate us. You're here now, do you just want to disappear?!" Putting her hands on her hips she frowned at his 'suicidal thoughts' "Oh and its in the name, the Name-changing Battlefront. You really should pay attention more."
"I see so you won't mind if I call it the Don't-want-to-be-involved Battlefront for now then..."
"No that's such a silly name, though putting battlefront at the end was a nice touch." By this time she had finished leading him to a certain room without him noticing ,being too wrapped up in the conversation. "And anyways, were here." Holding out her arm, she gestured to the door and to the sign above it. 'Principal's Office'
"So you're stationed in the Principal's office…" Shitori stared at the door, he could feel something… not right but couldn't quite place his finger on it.
"Yep thats right." Smiling at him, gesturing for him to go on-not like she was giving him any choice, she was blocking the way they came (On purpose?) and even if did manage to get past her, he didn't know where he was, and that name changing battlefront could probably find him easily.
'Hmm.. I feel like I'm forgetting something... Was it something Noda said? Or was it Otonashi...?'
Shitori raised his hand and was about to open the door when a large hammer came swinging down from the ceiling. Grabbing the girls hand on instinct he pulled them both forward onto the ground as the hammer swung dangerously overhead.
"Ahh! Thats right, I almost forgot that this was here. I don't know how I forgot, It was rather heavy for me and Matsushita the fifth to carry all the way up here." Though she said that last part quietly and as an afterthought. "Well, now that thats taken care of, lets go on in... Uhh.. Now that I think about it.. I don't know your name."
"Shitori, and yours?" Strangely calm after having a large hammer almost kill him.
"Meri, nice to meet you. Now that thats finished lets go!" Grabbing the door handle, Meri walked right in with Shitori following/being dragged in.
/~~~~Base~~~~/
Shitori didn't really mind being dragged into the room, the first thing he noticed were the other people inside. They looked like a random group, especially the purple-haired one with a polearm at his side.
"Everyone! I brought him!"
"Ah, Meri, your back, and I see you brought the new guy." The girl in front of the desk and with
the hat on spoke up.
"I even got him a change of clothes too!"
"W-wait! M-Meri! You gave him those clothes?!"
"Yes, thats what I just said, Otonashi."
"Waahh! Meri! Please tell me you left the room while he was changing!"
"Nope, why?" The boy identified as Otonashi groaned and turned a bright red, while at the same time some of the other boys in the room started to laugh.
"I don't see much of a problem…" Shitori said, straight faced.
"Eyaghh! Th-thats! Thats disgusting! You're all insane!" By now the boys were no longer trying to suppress their laughter, and were openly laughing at his expense.
"Heh, thats right Otonashi, you don't know yet.." The boy holding the 'stick' said.
"Know what!? All I know is that you guys are all disgusting perverts!"
"Well.. You see.. Meri-"
A big reveal is coming up in the next chapter. Can you guess what it is? I think you'll be surprised.
The next chapter is also 'episode 4' in the cannon. Though after that we switch back to 'episode 2'
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