Robyn: Do What You Gotta Do
After Robyn slipped away from the crowd, she found a quiet corner on the second level of the school under a staircase, making a discreet phone call with a low voice. "I found her." She said.
"Excellent. Keep her in your sight and get as close to her as you can, over time, of course. We need to eliminate every last one of her kind. Do not fail me, understand?" the man on the other line said.
"Yes sir." She murmured and hung up, slipping her phone back in her bag and taking out a sheet of paper from her pocket that was her locker number. She was here for one reason, she would not be in an ordinary school if she only wanted. The Hunter family was a prestigious, notorious family known for their hatred of magic beings and their hellbent goal on creating the ultimate human being so that humans would be the dominant beings on earth. They eliminated anyone they deemed a threat or those that aided said threats, hybrids, humans or otherwise.
She noticed an odd machine in one student's lockers, catching her interest. It was unusual for any kind of machine to be in that small space. And she heard a "Ow... Faen. Come on you stupid thing." and saw a boy roughly her age rubbing his hands as he flipped a switch and there was running water. "Finally." He gave a smirk.
"... You have a coffee machine in your locker?" She said softly, looking up at him analytically with a calm gaze. He was a couple inches taller than her, she was sure he was at least six feet and had slightly wavy ash blonde hair with bangs brushed to the side of his face. His deep blue eyes were very solid and difficult to read.
He turned to her, his smirk fading a bit and getting himself a mug and filling it up. "Ja. Problem with that? Coffee is essential to survival for students." the smirk tugged at his lips before chugging it down.
"Oh." She said softly, her eyes fixed on him. She could feel there was something different about him, there was an atmosphere magic users had but something was off. It was like a change in pressure, magic users had a warm atmosphere but his was cool, like a winter wind. She wasn't going to report him until she had facts he was a magic user or magic being.
"New student, right?" he motioned to her with his free hand.
"Yes." She nodded, her tone remaining constant. "... Anything I should know?" Perhaps he would be useful for getting information. Then again, he seemed a bit smart, she thought after studying him, he was not a fool. To her pleasure, he answered without hesitation. Perhaps this wasn't going to be as hard as she originally thought.
"Hm... Not really. Jocks are definitely people to watch out for, they go after anything pretty and walks on two legs." She just stared at him blankly with a raised eyebrow, not sure if he was serious or not. "Ja, I'm serious, best to steer clear."
"Oh." she gave a small shrug. "They hardly sound like a threat." She was confident in her abilities, a little too much to the point of arrogance. She had been trained for several years and would not accept defeat or being second. She had many losses in challenges before, putting herself through hell to fight, but she would be humiliated if she lost to someone here or any non-human being.
She spotted Alley being glomped by Laurence and talking with her friend. They were awfully loud but she couldn't veer her gaze in another direction. She focused on Alley, her target, at first but found herself staring at all three of them, how they were laughing, smiling over nothing. It was very odd to her, she couldn't understand why they enjoy being together.
He gave a small chuckle. "Perhaps. And that is Alley. Don't get her angry, her claws are real and she'll shred you if you really piss her off. But otherwise, she's alright."
"I will take that into consideration." she nodded, not making complete eye contact with him. "Well... I suppose we have our rooms to go to classes now. Good day." she said as she spun on her heel and started heading to an amphitheater, getting a seat at the very back, at the end of the aisle, moving her chair away from the chair beside her to minimize contact with whoever was going to be next to her.
She leaned forward, resting her chin on her palm as she went through her uncle's instructions from her grandfather. She was to attend this public school to get close to this particular neko that didn't bother trying to hide herself and bring her to the manor for scientific reasons and execution. Apparently, Alley was the lone survivor of the Kemper family, a family of nekos that were defiant of her grandfather's ways, they sabotaged research and freed other subjects from time to time and they were deemed a threat to humans. She didn't know all the details, just from the documents and she knew her older brother was on the group when he was just starting out as an assassin seven years ago.
Robyn felt some sympathy for her, she was a subject herself many, many times and the experiments were nothing less of torture to get a successful result. She tightened her hand above her heart at the memory of it. The only good that came out of them was that she was healthy, had plenty of stamina from them that she used to help fight. The worst thing they did was they placed a crystal in her chest that could potentially be used to help fight strong magic users. Robyn saw it as more of a parasite than anything. She never was able to control it and it was devastating on her body when it was used. But she didn't want help, it happened, it's dealt with and she was perfectly capable of handling herself.
Soon the prof came in and a long day began. Math 20-1, she wasn't good at it but would manage to get through it. After that was History, she noticed that same boy was there too, down at the front. Some girls were talking to him next to his desk, they seemed a bit upset or something. Robyn shook her head and went through her textbook quickly to ignore them. As long as he or anyone else minded their own business, she was fine with them. She heard whispering and caught a couple students motioning to her out of the corner of her eye. She didn't mind or really care about being talked about or if anyone tried talking to her. Just go with the flow, no reaction, that way, no one gets hurt.
Third period, English. Something she was really good at and Alley was in her class too to Robyn's delight. Even better was that she noticed throughout the lesson, Alley looked very flustered and confused. This would be the perfect bait, but the trick was getting the perfect time. That took care of some of her work, now she just had to take care of her studies and just keep an eye out for anything suspicious.
After English was lunch then gym, now she really could let loose. She stepped in the change room, hearing white noise from the chattering girls as she changed into a simple red and white tshirt and shorts and adjusting a ring on her right middle finger making sure it wouldn't move much. After getting changed, she noticed that boy AGAIN.
He caught her gaze and gave a small wave to her before the coach started barking the roll call, one by one, the students raised their hands or said 'here'. Once it was done, they followed the coach outside to an obstacle course on wet grass and a pavement track. The sky was grey and it was spitting rain which gave the area a nice, fresh scent.
"Alright, listen up scrawny beans. It's a course race today. So boys, no playing gentlemen to the ladies. You make them eat your dust or blind 'em with what your mamas gave you." He said and most of the boys gave a laugh, one of them flashed his chest to the girls who gave a giggle and one of them fainted. The others were just quiet or looked really nervous. Robyn tied her brown hair back into a knot as he continued. "That's the spirit. Now, you're gonna go through the field, through the tires, swing across the stream or run in it, I don't care, jump the hurdles, through the mud pit then get back here. On your marks,"
Everyone got to the set starting point, all hands were on the ground, hunched forward. Robyn had her head up, focused on the course ahead, setting her mind to a predator like state, imagining a target just up ahead that she had to get before anyone else. Once the shot was fired, everyone sprinted ahead, Robyn was just behind a couple of brawny looking boys that tried to block access around them and between them.
Robyn was starting to get really annoyed and dove under them, sliding in the mud on her stomach and shooting back up on her feet to get ahead, making it to one set of tires, getting her foot in every one. Three boys were still ahead and one girl was right behind her and she had to get away from them. As she was getting to the stream, the girl moved to push her into the stream. She caught it and jumped to a rock in the stream as the girl fell in, pushing her arms and legs through the icy water. Once she made it through, five other students got ahead to her dismay. This was pathetic! They are only doing this for something as mere as grades and they were ahead of her.
She had to change her mindset as she was heading to the hurdles. She imagined the target was now a dangerous person, threatening to kill innocent humans and she moved faster, getting through the hurdles, knocking several over and was back to back in the lead with that boy.
He gave her a bit of a playful smirk as he ran full speed, neck and neck with her, sweat and rain glistening down their bodies. They crossed the finish line at the same time and Robyn skidded in the mud afterwards, sliding on her bum and her back onto the ground, panting hard. She needed to do this more often, this was not good, she was tied or in second.
"Impressive, Bondevik." the coach said, slapping him on the back as he was hunched over, panting. "Beat your best time." he walked over to Robyn as she was getting up. "I look forward to seeing what else you're capable of, Hunter."
Robyn nodded as she panted, noticing the boy coming up to her, stripping his navy blue mud ridden shirt off. "Not bad, Hunter." he gave a small smirk. "Might be nice to have an actual challenge for a change."
"Real challenges are hard to come by. But it's a nice change." She decided to maintain her manners. "You were good...erm... Sorry, I didn't get your name."
"Lukas." he said and he caught her staring at his chest, his mischievous smirk getting a bit bigger. "Like what you see, Hunter?"
She felt her cheeks turn red and turned away. "Sorry, I just noticed your tattoo." he had a tattoo of a blue, ice blue dragon with a pale yellow mane on his left pectoral to his shoulder, looking like it was hovering. "... And it's Robyn."
"Well, I look forward to working with you again." he said as he walked off. As her eyes followed him, she noticed a faint outline from his back of what looked like wings, shaking her head in disbelief. Her mind was playing tricks on her.
After gym was done, she headed back to the amphitheater for health. She noticed Alley was in the front with Laurence and her other friend. Another way to keep an eye on her. She made her way to the top to find both aisle seats were taken to her dismay and sat next to one boy, moving her chair away from him to minimize contact and heard the chair on the other side scrape.
"Hello again." Lukas smirked as he sat down with a huge mug of coffee in his hands.
'Him again?!' she thought without her expression changing. She was a bit irked that it seemed like they ran into each other like some cheesy, boring romance novel.
"Don't mind if I sit here, do you?"
"... It's fine." she said quietly. In truth, it wasn't really. Not because of him, she was too close to people. It was a heavy, but bearable atmosphere. As long as it stayed the same, it was fine.
The teacher soon came in with a couple of dvds in his hands as he set up the projector.
"Salut mes étudents~ As promised, I brought videos and we will be discussing the stages of sex that we discussed." There was a loud murmur excitement in the air and an obvious mew from Alley at the front. Robyn had a look of discomfort forming on her face. Sex Ed. Of all the times she had to come, she was in the middle of the sex ed course! And how the hell could these guys get so excited over it, it was disgusting!
Her eyes darted anxiously around the room as the teacher pulled out a brief presentation then dimmed the lights for a video. She heard groans and excited noises from her classmates, could smell blood from nose bleeds, and was trying to find other distractions or notices to block out the video.
"Hehehe, embarrassed Hunter?" the student beside her nudged her and she suddenly snapped when she saw he moved to nudge her again. In an instant, she shot of her seat and threw him on the floor behind her, bending his arm painfully behind his back.
"Owowow! What the hell is wrong with you?!" he groaned, trying to regain his breath. Her action caught Lukas' and the other student's attention but everyone else was too occupied by the movie.
"You know he was only teasing, right?" Lukas was a bit stunned by her and she realized what she was doing. This atmosphere was starting to be suffocating, there were too many people, they were too close. She grabbed her bag and headed out of the classroom, only to be caught by a tall red haired man on the way out.
"Just where do you think you're going, missy?" he asked in a baritone voice. Robyn took a few steps backwards, looking up at him and seeing piercing green eyes that identified him as a demon. They were one of the immediate creatures on the execution list. She recognized him as the new staff member, Strigoi Dennski.
"Don't touch me." she said strongly, raising her hands defensively, moving away.
He ignored her and scooped her up to bring her back to the classroom. She panicked and started struggling, hitting him in major points to get him to drop. When he did put her down, they were in a lake front.
"I really hate misbehaving students and assassins." His eyes gleamed at her as a tooth was poking out of his thin smile. "Better hope you've learned enough, Hunter. Although I will forgive you if you apologize~" he smiled pleasantly.
"Surrendering to a demon? That'll be the day." she gave a cold, steady gaze as her hand moved to her ring, twisting it, letting a black light engulfing her body into lightweight, fabric like armor covering her neck down with swords materializing in her hands and sword holsters on a belt. She stepped forward as thick black boots with silver edges and extra holsters materialized. "By order of the Hunter Association, I have to execute you immediately, demon Strigoi Dennski."