Chapter 2: Good boy, Bad boy

"Well, I hate you" said Alice indifferently.

Hell froze over.

The boy's eye twitched. 'How audacious,' thought the boy.

"Pfft…Looks like you no longer have control over women, Blood," said Vivaldi, trying her best not to let her laughter explode. And, although she tried very hard not to, Vivaldi bursted out laughing.

Blood emitted an ominous aura. Everyone became intimidated including Vivaldi who then stopped laughing. Alice seemed immune to this though and was looking at everyone in confusion. Just then, as if trying to save Blood from further humiliation, the bell rang. The crowd then dispersed.

Vivaldi sighed. She grabbed Alice's hand and pulled her along. "Thanks for sticking up for me," said Vivaldi with a smile.

"It was nothing," replied Alice returning her smile.

"Let's be best friends," said Vivaldi.

"Sure!" beamed Alice.

The next lesson was all new to Alice. It was about familiars and summoning. They all assembled at the gym which was extremely huge. It was an indoor gym. Alice was daydreaming when the teacher arrived.

"Miss Vivaldi since you are her guide, kindly explain to Alice the basics," said their teacher who had short black hair and brown eyes.

"Alright, come on, Alice let's go to the benches I'll explain to you there 'cause if we stay here we'll most likely get hit by some idiot," said Vivaldi.

Blackheart .-.-. Academy

"So, let's go over the basics. Do you know what a familiar is?"

"Yes. A familiar is a magical animal which helps witches or wizards, right?" replied Alice.

"Correct. To call one's familiar. That is called summoning. There are three levels of summoning. The first level is when you summon a weapon."

"Weapon?"

"Yes, you know, guns, swords, potions. Anything that will help you in a fight," explained Vivaldi. Then, all of a sudden a knife flew towards them. Vivaldi caught it just as it was a few centimetres away from her face and looked at the direction that it came from.

"Bitch! Ya tryin' to kill me or what!?" shouted Vivaldi as she stood up.

"U-um, it was an a-a-accident, Vivaldi," stammered the girl.

"YOU THINK I FUCKIN' CARE!?" fumed Vivaldi.

"Calm down, Vivaldi," said Alice. "Besides, you still haven't finished explaining things to me yet."

Vivaldi sighed and sat down again. "Okay so the second level of summoning is when you summon an animal."

"Uwaa, I'm looking forward to that one," said Alice thinking of all the cute animals that she wants to summon.

"Well," said Vivaldi in a whisper. "I like that too."

"But, what do the animals do when you summon them, anyway?" asked Alice.

"Anything you ask them to," answered Vivaldi.

"Really?" asked Alice with wide, bright eyes.

"Yeah," answered Vivaldi. "Now, onto the third level."

"The third level of summoning is…" Vivaldi trailed off.

"What's wrong?" asked Alice.

"Well, here in Blackhearts," said Vivaldi, clenching her fist. "We can have each other as familiars as long as we meet the terms and know how to do the spell."

"When we fight-"

"Fight? What kind?" asked Alice, her eyes widening.

"Usually, we fight in order to either remain alive or remain free," said Vivaldi, glaring her feet.

Alice gasped. "In order to avoid becoming a familiar or worse, death, we try our hardest to win," said Vivaldi in a sad tone.

"So, I have to keep winning fights to remain alive or free?" asked Alice.

"My advice is to avoid having to fight at all. If you cannot prevent such a situation from happening, then try to win at all costs," said Vivaldi."Well, that's the basics. You will learn about the rest later on."

Alice nodded. Then, after a while, the bell rang. "Ah, it's finally the next subject!" exclaimed Vivaldi.

"You don't like this subject?" asked Alice.

"No, it's just that the teacher looks stupid."

"Pfft…HAHAHAHAHA"

After having a good laugh, Alice together with Vivaldi then went to the next class.

MEANWHILE:

Two random male students, who were walking down the hallway, were talking about the transfer student. What they did not know was that there was a person who was eavesdropping on their conversation. The person chuckled.

"Hey, is there really a transfer student?" asked the person. His tail swayed from side to side. His ears twitched.

The two guys flinched. Then they slowly turned around. When they realised who it was, they relaxed. "Yup, it's true Boris, there is a transfer student," said one of the guys.

"Yeah!" said the other. "She is really pretty but she is one feisty girl."

"Really?" asked Boris. "I bet I can tame her."

"She was really hostile to Blood this morning so I am not sure how she will react to you."

"We're going to get it from the teacher if we show up way too late today so, I think we had better get going," said the second guy.

"See ya," said Boris as they left.

"Looks like things just became more interesting," muttered Boris to himself.

Blackhearts .-.-. Academy

Alice and Vivaldi sat down when they reached their classroom. They were having a good conversation until the teacher came in and told them to quiet down. Well, you would usually expect the lesson to start but unfortunately, the teachers of Blackhearts Academy are just as bad as the students. Both the teachers and the students of the school (well, at least 98% of them) are smart, violent, vulgar and insane. So, as soon as she stepped in, the teacher told the class that they are to keep quiet and if they wish to talk, they must do so quietly.

So, since they were free, Vivaldi decided to tell Alice about their classmates. First on the list was the quiet white haired guy with red eyes at sitting at the back. His name was Peter White.

"He seems nice," said Alice.

"Nice? NICE!?" exclaimed Vivaldi.

"OI! YOU OVER THERE!" shouted the teacher referring to Vivaldi who obviously irritated her with her sudden outburst.

"Yes?" asked Vivaldi calmly.

"Could you please share with me and the class what you and your friend were being so noisy about?" asked the teacher, irritated.

"We were talking about how nice it would be if you were to get fired," said Vivaldi who was pissed off by the teacher. Alice sweat dropped. Some of the pupils chuckled.

"Very funny Vivaldi," said the teacher sarcastically. "And, because of your amusing joke, you and your friend will have detention."

Then, all of a sudden, a person broke in through the window. Everyone flinched at the sound of a glass breaking. It was Boris.

"I swear that window is getting harder to break every time," said Boris casually. He looked around.

The girls, except for Alice and Vivaldi, started squealing. "Kya~ Boris you're finally back!" said one of the girls. Boris smiled at everyone. Alice took a step towards Vivaldi while she was giggling at Vivaldi's so-called 'amusing joke', and said, "Looks like we're both going to have detention, huh?"

Her movements caught Boris' eye. He turned to look at her. 'Woah, when they said that she was pretty, I never thought that she would be this pretty,' thought Boris. He walked towards her and said, "So you're the new girl huh? My name's Boris."

Alice turned to look at him. She smiled and said, "Yeah I'm new, my name is Alice. Nice to meet you, Boris."

"So, do you want to go out with me?" he asked.

"HUUUUUH?!" said all the girls, except for Alice and Vivaldi.

Vivaldi and Alice both turned to look at each other. Alice smiled sweetly. This led Boris into a conclusion that Alice was going to say yes and after that, he will brag about it and say that he is now the most popular guy in school. This will crush all his rivals and he will say to them, 'Hah! In your fa-'

"No." said Alice bluntly.

"…"

Alice turned to look at Vivaldi who was on the verge of laughter. All the other students were deadpanning. Boris burst out laughing. Everyone in the room flinched.

"HAHA- that is the funniest – haha- joke that I've heard all day –hahaha," said Boris who was still laughing the rejection off.

Alice sweat dropped."Um… I wasn't joking," said Alice.

Boris' eye twitched. Vivaldi and (surprisingly,) Peter burst into laughter. Peter's laughter made Boris pissed. Of all the people, Peter was one of the people that Boris really, really, really didn't want to be laughing at him.

"Ugh! Shut up!" said Boris. Unfortunately for Boris, Peter seems to think that it was more important to laugh that to listen to a half cat punk. Same goes for Vivaldi. Alice and the rest just stood there not knowing what to do in a ridiculous situation. A vein popped under Boris' bangs.

"I SAID SHUT UP!" shouted Boris, finally snapping after all the humiliation. His right hand started to glow. Alice noticed this. 'Oh no! What is he going to do!?' thought Alice, anticipating something horrible.

Boris muttered something but Alice wasn't sure what it was. Then, something flew past Alice. It headed straight for Peter. Peter dodged whatever it was and he, in turn muttered something. Suddenly, the floor around Boris exploded. Alice gasped. Vivaldi turned to look at Alice. She remembered that this was the first time that Alice was witnessing a fight.

"Alice-" began Vivaldi but was cut off when suddenly something flew past them but this time, it did not completely miss Alice. It nicked her cheek. Blood dripped from the wound. Vivaldi gasped.

"ALICE! YOU'RE BLEEDING!" shouted Vivaldi so that she could be heard over the sound of explosions going around. Alice ignored Vivaldi and concentrated on Peter and Boris' fight. Out of the blue, Alice walked into the 'fight'. Her bangs were covering her eyes.

"ALICE!" shouted Vivaldi. But it was too late. One of the 'things' that Peter and Boris were shooting around was heading for Alice.

"NOOOO! AAALICE!" screamed Vivaldi as she ran towards Alice. Vivaldi has never been attached to anyone before much less a person whom she only met a day ago and has only been with for a few hours. It was a really strange sight for the pupils to see one of the best and most dangerous witch in the school worried about a single girl.

Although Vivaldi tried to reach Alice, it was just a futile effort. The 'thing' hit Alice with full force. Vivaldi stood open mouthed. She fell on her knees. Tears began to form in her eyes. Then, when all the debris and dust settled down slightly, Vivaldi's eyes widened because there, in the safety of a translucent green shield was Alice.

Peter cast another spell. An explosion went off but Boris dodged it. Suddenly, Boris and Peter felt something. Their hearts started beating faster. Alice stood in her green barrier, her bangs covering her eyes. Peter and Boris' eyes widened as they turned to look at her. Alice put a hand to her chest.

"NO!" shouted both boys.

"Forever unyielding hearts grant my wish. Cheshire's dream and Red Platinum hear my plea."

A bright light suddenly covered Alice, Boris and Peter. All of the other pupils closed their eyes so as to prevent themselves from becoming blind. Then, the light began to fade. And there sat Alice with a pinkish-purple cat and an albino rabbit wearing a suit both lying unconscious on her lap.

"Ow… my head hurts," mumbled Alice

Vivaldi opened one eye then the other. "Huh? Where did those animals come from?" asked Vivaldi when she saw the cat and the rabbit.

Alice looked at the two. Then she looked at Vivaldi. "No idea," said Alice.

"But they're sooo cute," said Alice as she hugged the rabbit and the cat.

"Let go…Can't breathe…" said the cat.

"…"

"… What?" continued the cat. Alice recognised the voice.

"Boris?"

"Yeah? What do want?"

"Um… You're… a cat," said Alice.

"Of course I'm a cat. I mean, look at my ears and tail don't they look like cat's ears and…." Boris trailed off as he saw that his hand was no longer a hand. He looked at Alice then at Peter who is now a rabbit.

"ARGH! WHAT DID YOU FUCKIN' DO TO ME!?" shouted Boris in distress.

"Dumbass… Don't you get it? We are now familiars," said Peter calmly.

Boris emitted an ominous aura."You've gotta be kiddin' me."