By the time English class is over I already feel like I've been at school forever. By the time Green-sensei was able to make Natsu stop talking about how great fire is the class was half over and almost everyone had fallen asleep. When it finally came to my turn the bell rang and Green-sensei told us that whoever didn't get to go today would go tomorrow. I'm not looking forward to it.
I yawn as I rise out of my seat and stretch. I slowly begin to pack my things and prepare for my next class. It says gym is next in room 331 which I figure to be on floor 2.
"So you're new here, huh?" The boy beside me says excitedly.
"Yes, it's pretty obvious isn't it?" I reply sarcastically.
"Well I'm Natsu, what do you have next?"
"Gym class." I continue packing up my things in an agitated way. Just one more thing!
"Geography?" He asks confused.
"Gym! How do you mix those too up?" I snap at him and glare before walking out of the room.
"I'll see you later then Lucy-chan!" He calls as if we're already friends. 'No wonder felt bad for me. I wish I had some sort of heads up that he would be such an idiot.' I sigh as I go with the flow of the crowd towards the stairs. By the time I actually find my classroom I'm already 5 minutes late. I don't understand why this school was made so huge, its like a maze thats impossible to figure out!
"Sorry I'm late. I'm new." I say when I enter the gym. A big male stands before me when I enter. I gape in surprise, I never expected a guy to be here, I have no idea what's happening right now.
"Well hurry up and get changed. We have a lot of training to start with today. My name is Jura Neekis, do no act so surprised to find your gym teacher is a male by the way, I have no interest in any of my students. Now get going, Lucy."
"Yes, sir!" I shout as I run to the change room. I get inside to find most of the girls have already changed and are getting ready to leave the change room. I hurriedly change then run out. The rest of my class is now running laps around the gym for what I assume is our warm-up. I follow their lead and run too.
"Nice work, Erza. As always you're in top shape." Neekis-sensei compliments a scarlet haired girl who seems to have finished running and isn't panting at all. I begin to wonder how many laps I'm supposed to run and just run until the rest of the girls have also stopped. All of us are panting like mad, I feel like I just ran a marathon, this teacher must be crazy to think we can do this without a problem.
"Now everyone, since you're all warmed up I'll explain what we'll be doing today and for this school year. I am here to teach you that your physical fitness is essential to your magic abilities. If you are not in good enough shape you may not be able to help yourself when you can't use your magic... Yes Lucy?"
"Magic?... What do you mean by that Neekis-sensei?" I feel confused and all the other girls snicker at me except for one, the one named Erza. My face turns a shade almost as dark as Erza's hair, she has a look that seems to always be on her face, a permanent glare so I don't take offence by her.
"A newbie huh? Have you not used your magic yet then? You haven't developed fully. Well I'll give you a quick rundown then. Everyone here has a magical talent. For example Erza can requip weapons as well as her clothing to fight. Later on through the year you'll see this in your next class, which is all about training you with your magic. There are many different types of magic, those who are ice mages, water mages, fire mages and so on. The choices are unlimited. Since you don't seem to be able to use your magic yet, we'll have to put you under some sort of traumatic thing to trigger it. I can sense your magical power, Lucy, and it's a fairly strong one. Erza will you begin with sparring with her so we can draw it out?" I feel even more confused then before and begin to panic, I look all around and at everyone who has a magic ability and gulp. 'What am I going to do?'
"Yes, Neekis-sensei." As Erza speaks her body begins to glow. When it is gone she is in a completely different outfit with a wooden sword. I slowly back away from her.
"What are you going to do?" she launches at me, I scream and then a bull with an oversized axe stands before me. I gape, 'who is this? Where did he come from?'.
"Hello princess, don't you remember me? You've summoned me before." I take a closer look at his face. This has to be a dream, just like when I saw this creature before. A monster had attacked me and I had some sort of golden key and then he popped out of no where just like now.
"Who are you? This has to be a dream..." I look around at everyone else, they don't appear the least bit impressed by this and barely react to the fact that this man came out of no where.
"My name is Taurus. I am one of the 12 zodiacs, the bull to be precise You summoned me with my key before but this time I came of my own will to save you." He casts me a sidelong glance. "Good to see you again." He smirks before darting at Erza with his axe
She dodges him and aims to hit him with her wooden sword. He catches the sword with his giant axe and it snaps in half, she glares daggers that seem to pierce right through him.
"You're much stronger then this, Erza Scarlet." He smirks again at her. Her body begins to glow again and then she reappears with a whole new outfit on. She has a skirt and a breastplate on and a real sword this time.
"Enough!-" shouts Neekis-sensei. Everyone freezes at this and looks at him. "-We know what she can do now so we have no need to be fighting in this classroom. This is not a class for magic, it is for strength of the body.-" he turns to me. "- Lucy, you are a celestial mage which means you can summon spirits with your magic to fight for you. That is not a common magical skill, you should be proud to have it. You must now learn how to use it properly and summon the spirits with their keys at will. It seems you already have a key then as well, Taurus, the bull from the Zodiacs. Do you know where your key is?"
"I do, I always carry it around with me, it's gold right?"
"It is. Now that you know, practice as hard and as much as possible you must be able to use your magic when you need it."
"Yes, Neekis-sensei." I bow slightly. I feel like a weight has been lifted off of my shoulders, I see Taurus waving and then he disappears back to wherever it was that he came from.
The rest of the class instead of participating completely I find my mind wandering to what I've been missing out on by not knowing my own ability. I can't believe I've had this power stored in me that I never even knew about. It's crazy to think that I can use magic to summon spirits when I need them and that's just my power. I can't imagine what kind of powers all of my fellow students have too. I doubt even my father realizes that this school is actually for those with magical power. He probably chose it because of it's fanciness. All I know now is that I must keep this a secret from my father he can never know that this is actually a school for mages. I make a fist and feel the determination to keep this all a secret and a promise to train myself to use my ability. 'I will get stronger and be able to do things right. There's no doubt about it, this is a great opportunity that I can't miss. This is my only chance to become a mage that I've heard about all of my life. My goal is now a lot closer than it ever has been before.' I believe in this thought of mine no matter how crazy it may seem and I'm ready to follow my dreams.
After gym class I find myself once again moving slowly with the crowd in every direction. I still don't know where I am exactly or where my next class is yet but I don't have any choice but to go through this hallway to get there as its in room 350. It must be here somewhere right. As I'm searching and starting to feel hopeless a smouldering person runs by. 'What on earth is happening now?' As I"m thinking this my body begins to move on its own after the person. Just as I feel I'm going to reach them I feel a sudden coldness behind me. I turn to see a boy with no shirt on running or rather sliding through the hallway on some ice. My jaw drops even more at this sight. 'Can this day get any weirder.' I give up on following the burning person and just continue to find my class.
I arrive at a door at the end of the hallway and slowly raise my head to check the number. 350. I finally found it and this time I'm not late. I push the door open quickly and do a victory dance in my head. I open my eyes to see everyone giving me weird looks. Apparently the dance wasn't just in my head. I turn to a man laughing at the front of the room, and grin sheepishly while rubbing the back of my head.
"Welcome. Have a seat." He says still fighting not to laugh. I glance around the room for an empty seat. Immediately I spot Natsu frantically waving at me to sit beside him. I try to find another empty seat far away from him and I find one but as soon as I head for it the boy from before without a shirt on darts towards it and claims it before I have a chance to move. I sigh heavily before slowly moping to my new seat.
"Hey Lucy-san how was gym?" He grins widely.
"Fine." I reply without looking at him.
"What's your problem?" He raises his voice slightly, I look at him questioningly and see an expression of annoyance on his face.
"I thought it was obvious that you are." I say while laughing.
"Hey!" he shouts.
"Be quiet you two, I don't have time to be listening to you argue all day!" The man from the front of the room says.
"Sorry." I say and shrink into my seat as everyone else laughs. Natsu shakes his fist at them angrily and I can't help but laugh at him.
"Now my name is Gildarts Clive and I will be your magic instructor. I see some familiar faces, some more than other of course but it's nice to meet you all anyway. I hope everyone here already has some knowledge of their power and can use it at will. Not only will we be doing book work in this class but we will also be using our magic for sparring and missions you could call them throughout the year. I understand that magic can be fun but you must understand that it can also be very dangerous. That's why we must train the mind and body as well as our magic power. It makes us more equal and coordinated. Any questions?" No one even bats an eye to what he's saying but I'm sucking it in like a fish. I've never heard much about magic before so I have to take advantage of this now while I have the chance.
As the class continues I can see Natsu out of the corner of my eye becoming more and more bored until hes falling asleep. I wish I could relax like him because he probably already knows all he can about his magic. I bet hes known about his for a while now, I feel so unlucky now that I only just realized my true nature.
By the end of class Natsu has been yelled at many times for falling asleep not only by the teacher but the boy from the hallway who seems to take his clothes off randomly when stressed who I now know as Gray Fullbuster. It's ironic to see those two already as one is fire and the other is ice so it makes sense that they wouldn't really get along. 'No wonder he ran to that seat as fast as he could. I wish I could have done the same though really because this boy just never stops being a nuisance and I only just met him!'
The bell rings signalling lunch and suddenly Natsu is wide awake. He jumps out of his seat so fast that he scares me and I jump a little.
"Time to eat!" He shouts before dashing out of the room leaving his schoolbag and work behind. 'What a careless boy.' I think to myself as I clean up his stuff as well as my own.
"That Natsu has always been quite an airhead. Are you new here? I've never seen you before." The teacher approaches me to help clean up Natsus things.
"Yes I just moved here a few weeks ago from pretty far. I can't believe the people in this school already. It's crazy!" He laughs at my expression.
"You'll get used to it. See ya." He waves as he casually walks out the door. 'What an odd teacher.'
Suddenly I hear a loud crash, I run outside the classroom to see a gaping whole in the wall opposite the doorway. I go up to the edge and look down to see Clive-sensei below and rubbing the back of his head.
"I really should pay more attention." He mutters as he gets up and calmly walks away as if nothing happened. I stare wide-eyed at this in awe. I don't really get what's with the people at this school but its anything but normal. I shake my head before going downstairs with my own things as well as Natsu's. I make my way to what I assume is the cafeteria because that's where the majority of the students are heading and begin to look for the pink haired mage. 'I hope this won't be more trouble than its worth.' I think as I enter the chaos which is known as the cafeteria.
"Natsu-san!" I call but it's no use. The only way he would hear me is if he were standing right next to me and I don't see him anywhere. I scan the cafeteria tables with no luck, the pink haired mage is no where to be found. 'What an idiot.' I sigh in frustration then decide to just find an empty table and eat my lunch in peace. I'm sure I'll find him at some point so I can give him his stuff back but right now I'm really hungry and besides there's no point in trying to find him with this many people in one room at the same time.
I spot a table in the back corner of the cafeteria and begin going towards it, just as I'm about to sit down a boy with more piercings than I count count on both hands sits down at the table. I freeze, then quickly turn and walk away from him. There's no way I'm sitting near someone who looks that scary, his eyes appeared red and his hair was jet black. I once again begin to search for an empty table. I don't see any so I just decide that I should eat in the outside by the garden today.
"Lucy-chan over here!" I hear my name and I look around to see who was calling. I immediately see Natsu standing on the cafeteria table and waving at me as well as yelling my name. People begin to face me again as I make my way over my face turns a dark red because of the embarrassment I feel.
"Why'd you have to yell at me so much? Everyone turned to stare at me!" I keep casting glances around me to see if anyone is still watching but it seems as if once Natsu got off the table they began to eat their lunches and talk amongst themselves again.
"I thought you were looking for a place to sit." He replies while grinning.
"Idiot." I mutter as I sit down. I slowly begin to take my lunch out of my bag and eat calmly. I notice Natsu is just sitting there staring at me for some reason, and I begin to wonder why. Then I hear his stomach growling loudly.
"Didn't you bring a lunch?" I ask him with a spoonful of rice halfway to my mouth.
"I did but I forgot my stuff in the classroom and its probably locked now." He sighs sadly at the thought of him not being able to eat at lunch time. I reach for the bag beside me that I brought from the classroom for him. Just as I'm about to bring it out Gray comes over and sits at our table.
"Did you forget your lunch, spitfire?" He mocks Natsu as he pulls his own lunch from his backpack.
"For your information, ice queen, I just left my backpack in my last class, I didn't forget my lunch."
"Idiot." Gray says casually.
"What'd you say?" Natsu begins to get a threatening tone.
"I said you're an idiot." Gray repeats wit han edge to his voice.
"Guys, guys! Calm down its no big deal! Look Natsu I brought your stuff from class because you left so quickly earlier." Natsu's eyes brighten as I pass him his backpack, he eagerly opens it and brings out his lunch. I stare s he devours it greedily and in less than 5 minutes its gone. I had never seen anyone eat so fast in my life and was staring at him with a surprised look.
"Phew, that was really great!" He smiles brightly at me. Gray had continued to eat without looking in Natsu's directions. I shake my head and continue to eat my own lunch again feeling better that I was able to bring Natsu back his stuff.
By the end of lunch I'm surprised that both Gray and Natsu are still alive because they seem to butt heads all the time for no reason. Every time I turned around they were fighting again and although it was pretty funny it was equally stupid, I have no clue what they're thinking fighting at school like that. However, the teachers seem to just ignore as if it were a common occurrence and I just don't understand this school's rules.
The bell rings to signal the end of lunch and all the students begin to make their way to their next classes. I check my schedule again to see what I have next. Math Room 462. I begin walking in the direction I believe the room to be in and am delighted when I find it in only a few minutes. I think I'm beginning to get the hang of this school now. I walk in the class and claim a seat in the back. A few minute later, Natsu walks in and spots me and immediately dashes for the seat beside me. He seems to already believe we're great friends but I don't really know anything about him so I can't really say that we're friends yet.
"Hey Lucy-chan, we have another class together!"
"I guess so, Natsu-san." I reply forcing a wide smile onto my face. He sits down happily besides me and begins to rock on his chair while whistling with his hands behind his head.
"You're going to fall, don't you know how dangerous that is?" I ask him. I would think that I have an astounded look on my face because I can't believe he's willing to put himself in a position where he can get hurt so easily.
"No way, I won't-" THUMP. Natsu falls to the ground with his chair. I snicker at him on the ground.
"What did I tell you." I say while trying not to laugh at him. Then our teacher walks in. A woman with brown hair and eyes with glasses on. She seems oddly out of place in this classroom as she's wearing a really strange outfit consisting of a very short dress and socks that are up to mid-thigh. The students all stare at her as she takes a seat on top of her desk.
"Good afternoon class, I'm Evergreen but you can call me Stone-sensei and I'll be your math teacher. I'll make sure that this class is thrilling for you all." She talks in a tone that's almost to the point of seduction, I shudder at this thought. So far all of my classes have had strange teachers and stranger students. I begin to look forward to my last class of the day which is science and drift off in thought. Math though isn't one of my favourite subjects, its easy enough but it just isn't anything to do with writing which is my passion so I tend not to pay a lot of attention in it.
Math class passes in a flash and before I know it the bell is ringing and everyone is going to their last class of the day. I get up too and begin making my way to the third floor room 236, science. For the last time today I move with the crowd of students to the stairs. When I find the class and enter I find myself standing in a room filled with many plants and dragon things. There are scales and bones of a dragon, even pictures of dragons are all over the room. This class seems a lot more intimidating than any of my other classes so far but regardless of that I take a seat located near the back.
Before long a girl with blue hair comes and sits beside me and smiles shyly before taking a seat. She looks a bit familiar and think of where I've seen her before. I begin going through the faces I saw in all of my classes today. After a few minutes it comes to me.
"English class!" I shout out triumphantly, perhaps a little too loudly because people give me funny looks but I don't care at this point.
"Excuse me?" the girl says slowly and completely confused.
"You're from my English class, sorry I don't know your name. Natsu-san just seemed to go on and on about fire so we never really got around to everyone I guess. My names Lucy by the way. Nice to meet you!" I exclaim, extending my hand towards it, she shakes it gently.
"I'm Levy, its nice to meet you too Lucy-san." She smiles sweetly at me right before the bell rings and our teacher enters the room.
"All right class, my name is Daphne Draganoid and I'll be your science teacher. To be precise in this class you' mostly be learning about dragons, exciting right?" She seems over enthused to be talking about dragons.
"Aren't dragons extinct?" Asks a loud voice from the middle of the room, she turns so suddenly towards him that I barely see her move.
"Well young man, in case you didn't realize yet, dragons have gone missing, yes that much is certain but we do not just conclude that they have gone extinct completely, I myself believe that they will return here shortly. Any more questions?" She speaks in a harsh tone and at the question she poses everyone shakes their head no.
"Good, now moving on. I'll assign you each your textbooks now just to get it over with." She goes to a bookshelf in the back corner of the room and begins handing out textbooks with number printed on the spine.
"Now in case you don't remember you don't get to keep these textbooks so I'll have to write down your textbook number and have you initial that you have it to keep track of them. If you lose it you'll have to pay for it and believe me that's no easy thing to do. They are quite expensive, probably around $125 each. So be extra cautious with it!" She seems to have become cheery again and everyone relaxes a bit more. She hands me a textbook, the title being "Dragons: 12", a plain and simple title and it's quite obvious that this will probably be the only topic for this class. I sigh sadly, I've always liked science in a way, it can't explain why humans can use magic but it's pretty fascinating stuff to learn about anyway.
Throughout this class the only thing we really accomplish is signing out our textbooks and talking amongst ourselves while the teacher rants about dragons, unconcerned by how we aren't really listening.
"Oh and before you leave students, we'll be having a short quiz tomorrow on what we talked about today. Have a good night now! Buh-bye!" Everyone groans as she speaks in a tone which sounds almost scary and we all mutter to ourselves about how unfair this is for us.
"Isn't it a bit early for a quiz?" I ask Levy as we walk towards the doors of the school together.
"Yeah but it's probably cause no one actually listened to her today though." She pouts at me and I laugh at how adorable it makes her look.
"Oh well though, nothing we can do about it now!" I say happily, trying to think optimistically.
"All I need to do is study. It shouldn't take long really, she didn't really say that much."
"Were you actually paying attention? You were talking just like everyone else!" I feel confused by how positively she speaks of how easy it will be for her to study for a quiz that no one knows anything about.
"Don't tell the others but I specialize in script magic so I have no problem with language and stuff so I can remember almost anything that's said as if it were written right in front of me."
"That's so cool! I'm super jealous! Can you help me study?" I ask as we walk out of the building and I immediately spot my fathers car waiting for me, I try to ignore it and keep walking with Levy.
"Sure I can. Do you have a cell phone?" We exchange numbers quickly and then we part ways because she lives in the opposite direction of me, thank goodness! She won't have to watch me get into a big expensive car for no reason.
"Bye Levy-san!" I call to her was we part ways.
"See you tomorrow Lucy-san!" She calls back in a quieter voice. We smile at each other and then I begin walking home, still ignoring my fathers car.
"Lucy-sama, you must get in, we have to drive you home! Its dangerous to walk by your self!" my driver says as the car pulls up beside me. I roll my eyes and get into the car and begin to feel more frustrated than I did in the morning.
"I don't see the big deal." I mutter as i sit in the back and relax after a long and tiring day. Although school went by so fast I still feel drained of all energy and feel like I could fall asleep at any moment. We arrive at home shortly and as soon as the car stops moving I get out and slam the door. As I make my way to my room, I slam every door possible to annoy my father and let him know how annoyed I really am because of the pointless driving happening because of him. Its a waste of time, energy and gas to drive such a short distance when I can easily walk and its not fair that I don't get any time on my own because I always feel like I'm being watched no matter where I am in my house.
When I get into my room I make my way to my bed and collapse onto it. Before long I've fallen asleep for a nice afternoon nap where hopefully I can dream in peace and feel happy for once about whats going on in my dreams. I smile as my eyes shut completely and everything goes black.
I wake up what feels like only a few minutes later but when I look out my window it's completely black outside. I check my clock, 9:27. I slept for a very long time and I didn't even realize it, I decide to check my phone for messages, expecting there to be one from Levy but there's not a single message from anyone. I throw my phone onto my bed and start working on my homework before it becomes to late to finis hit all. I begin to feel my mood slowly drop from a hopeful one to one of dread and a feeling that no one has ever really been my friend. And that won't ever change. No matter how I try I don't think I will ever get to a point where I have even one friend. It's just not possible for someone like me.
Hey everyone, Hina-chan here. I hope you're enjoying the story so far! Leave me some good comments and reviews! If you have any recommendations for me as well that would be helpful too so let me know. Until next time!
