THIS IS A REWRITE. I know you guys keep saying to not rewrite the first few chapters, but I feel as though these first chapters were rushed and mediocre. This is so I feel a little better. Hope you guys understand.
Hope you can grow to love the cast!
Ugh... Chiari held her pounding head and began to balance her aching body. My head hurts! What happened? Why am I suddenly teleported to the middle of nowhere? Is this a kidnapping? Am I going to ever make it to land!? The thoughts bashing her brain and the sharp pains in her head weren't helping her in this worse case situation.
She walked over to the unconscious man in front of her. Chiari wondered if he was in the same situation as her, or if he was one of the staff here. She eliminated the second scenario since he looked around the same age as her. The man had on a yellow long sleeved shirt underneath a white hoodie. Over top of all of that was a labcoat with blue jeans and brown shoes. His appearance is quite shaggy with droopy eyes with dark rings underneath them, along with his scruffed up, messy hair. Despite the lazy appearance, the man actually could look quite handsome, if he even bothered with his looks.
She wondered if the man was really unconscious, of if it was something worse. Just to be sure, she tried to poke him on the shoulder a little to see if that'll get a reaction out of him. "H-Hellooo? U-Um... Can you hear me?" Chiari spoke as she prodded the poor man. "I know y-you're sleeping and all, but-,"
"N-No, no. I can hear you quite f-fine," A tired, monotone voice spoke weakly. He opened his dark brown eyes and sat up from his daze and looked up at the girl. "What a bother. I could have slept l-longer if you didn't interrupt me. S-Sleeping is good for your health you know. It can benefit weight loss, make you feel more alert during the day, improve your memory, and-,"
"Hehe! Alright, alright! Sleep is very important. I do love naps during the day too!" Chiari giggled, seeing this man rambling on about the benefits of sleeping. "Just, why were you sleeping on the floor? On a cruise in fact!"
After hearing that statement from Chiari, the man's eyes widened. He grabbed and pulled his hair in frustration, and cursed under his breath. The lucky student could see the fear and anger in his eyes and tried to calm him down with words of reassurement, although it took a while for the poor guy to stop fidgeting. The man eventually calmed down but turned his head away from Chiari, unknown about what he was going to do next.
Trying to break the ice, she decided to introduce herself. "H-Hi! I'm Chiari Yamamoto! I... hope we can get along! I am a bit slow to catch on to things, but please bear with me!" Chiari grinned cheerfully and held out her hand. The man looked back at her hand, and hesitantly grabbed it and shook it.
"U-Um, Yuzuru Ozaki. A pleasure to meet you, I guess..." Yuzuru spoke, with a small smile forming on his mouth. Suddenly, they both jumped, feeling something vibrating in their pockets. They pulled out their e-Handbooks to see that they have received each other's information. A little too much in fact.
Yuzuru Ozaki
SHSL: Doctor
Age: 16
Gender: Male
DOB: August 14th (Leo)
Height: 5'8 ft.
Weight: 123 lbs. (56 kg)
Blood Type: O+
Handedness: Right Handed
Likes: Coke, Coffee, Dogs
Dislikes: ?, Pointless Death, ?
Note: Likes and Dislikes are there for a reason. The question marks might be revealed through freetimes, though I cannot say for sure that it'll show soon, or maybe ever if they don't want to talk about it.
"W-Wha?" Yuzuru looked down at his handbook, then looking back up at an equally surprised Chiari. "How did they acquire this much information about us?
"Yeah I know!" Chiari said, shocked. "More importantly, how did they figure out I like macarons!?"
"Chiari!"
"Okay! Okay! Just making a joke!" Chiari put her hands up with a nervous laugh escaping her mouth. Though, what are those question marks about? Meh, prolly not important. Chiari shrugged her shoulders, and began to stand up and run along to follow Yuzuru, who was already opening the glass doors to the lobby.
It was absolutely gorgeous, but she didn't really have the time to be standing around gawking at this amazing sight. She and the doctor walked the red carpet covered stairs to see in the center of this elevated level of the first floor, was a circle of rooms surrounding the upper level, with neon green metal coated rails to keep people from falling. But what really captured their attention, was that in the center, right in front of the top of the stairs, was a hallway, full of rooms with pictures of people's face sprites on the front of the doors. On the first door on the right, had a face sprite that strangely looked like Yuzuru, and on the middle right, there was a certain brunette's face sprite that looked like her.
They looked at each other with confusion, but pressed on to see if there are any other people who are in the same predicament as them. As if on cue, a door bursted open revealing a very tall girl with red hair, styled in a boyish pixie cut. Looking around frantically, she spotted the two and excitedly ran over to them.
"Yo what's up!?" The girl spoke in a girlish, yet masculine like voice and waved at them, relieved that she's not alone. The two looked at each other confusedly and looked back at her, and decided to introduce themselves.
Chiari waved back and introduced herself to the tomboy. "H-Hello! I'm Chiari Yamamoto," She pointed at the doctor. "And he's the ultimate doctor, Yuzuru! Um, it's nice to meet you... Ehehe... What's your name?"
The tall girl prepared herself as if she was going to say a catchphrase from a hero or magical girl show. "The name's Reiko Yurei! Be it spook, specter or spirit, with me, there's no need to fear it!" After a bit, her expression faltered from a confident smile to a regretful frown. She slapped her palm onto her forehead. "I regret everything about that catchphrase. I really need to make up a better one." She began to take out a notepad with a bear mark on the corner of it and began to scribble down ideas.
Chiari began to look at this strange girl. As she already saw, she had a red hair cut in a boyish pixie cut, with a toned body. She has light green eyes with a scar on her right cheek. She wore black tight leather pants, a white button-up undershirt, and a black ankle-length coat with various talismans and weird looking charms visible on the lining. She also had black knee-length high heeled boots and black wire frame glasses. Chiari could tell that Reiko really loved the color black. Seeing her clothing make Chiari feel very plain.
Chiari felt her hand vibrate, she realized that she was holding the tablet that they found earlier. Unlike Yuzuru and Chiari, who were now used to this, Reiko jumped, along with a tiny yelp that escaped her mouth. The lucky student reached into her pocket to find that she's received Reiko's information.
Reiko Yurei
SHSL: Yokai Hunter
Age: 17
Gender: Female
DOB: March 31th (Aires)
Height: 6 ft.
Weight: 120 lbs. (54 kg)
Blood Type: Unknown
Handedness: Right Handed
Likes: Chocolate Fudge Sundaes, Scent of Daisies, Firework Festivals
Dislikes: Yokai, O-Bon Festivals, Cockroaches
Smirking after writing a brand new catchphrase that fits her tastes, she looked back at her tablet to skim through their bios. "Eh, you don't strike my fancy. You sound a bit to... I don't know, normal for my taste."
Chiari jokingly rolled her eyes at Reiko's comment on her. She's never expected for such a boisterous tomboy like her to like chocolate fudge sundaes and the smell of flowers, but saying something like that would be rude, so she decided to say something else instead. "Um, did you wake up here too? Me and Yuzuru woke up on the deck outside."
Reiko tapped her finger on her chin. "Hmm... Yeah! When I was entering Hope's Peak Academy, I suddenly, blacked out! And I woke up with this huge, long headache inside of this bedroom!" She pulled out the notepad again for the others to see. "I also found this notepad from the room too! Man, these rooms has everything we need to live comfortably here!"
Yuzuru scratched his head. "I-I don't feel like we should stay here any longer... I mean, we were kidnapped and taken out into the middle of the ocean. W-Who knows when the people who took us here will come back?" Chiari nodded in agreement, while Reiko sighed in disappointment.
"Okay, okay, I'll come along. For now, let's be friends!" Reiko pumped her fist up in excitement. They all giggled at the yokai hunter's enthusiasm.
"Yay! New friends!" Chiari cheered, following along Reiko's agreement in friendship. They all decided to look at the rest of the bedrooms to see if, like Reiko, if anyone else woke up in bedrooms as well. Chiari observed that there were sixteen bedrooms, each with their own unique picture of a face sprite. Although there were no labels as to who any of these bedrooms belong to. Yuzuru called out to see if anyone was there, while Reiko had a more violent approach and banged her fist on each door.
Chiari just simply did a simple knock on each door. "Hellooo? Wakey wakey! J-Just wanted to see if anyone was here?" With almost no hope she knocked on the very last door on the left, with the face sprite of of a girl with long black hair and blue eyes. After knocking on the door, only a few seconds past before the door slightly open, revealing another very tall girl with the same color hair and eyes as the picture on the door. She scanned the room with suspicion.
The girl looked absolutely elegant, with long onyx black hair in a hime cut, and sapphire blue eyes that gives off a dangerous aura. Lotus pins were on both sides of her, acting like ornaments. She wore a white hip-length kimono which was tied with a black obi with white floral designs on it. Underneath she wore black shorts along with white sandals. The beautiful girl had movements like a queen, and Chiari stared at her with awe, as if her eyes were glued to her. It would be surprising for a person like her to be in the same problem as they were.
Looking at her surroundings, she opened the door even wider to see a comfortable environment. But as soon as vision reached Yuzuru, who was twirling his thumbs, her eyes widened and she went back inside and slammed the door shut, making the others flinch. Chiari and Yuzuru exchanged glances, and Reiko knocked on the door again.
"We're not going to hurt you! You don't have to be scared!" Reiko called out words of reassurement as she, again, hit the door more harder than she really should. A moment of silence, then the girl creaked open the door only to reveal her right eye.
"Get the male out of my sight, then we'll talk," The girl spoke in a deep, threatening voice. Reiko and Chiari turned to Yuzuru, who was very surprised at what the girl was saying.
"W-What!?" Yuzuru began to lash out at the girl. "How does getting rid of me change the situation whatsoever? D-Don't you realize the problematic predicament we're in-,"
"Get out of my sight or I'll slit you." The girl said in a really low menacing voice. The voice made everyone's spines shiver in fear. Yuzuru's mouth closed tight shut, and he didn't hesitate to leave the premises as soon as possible. As soon as Yuzuru left, the girl willingly swung the door open, slamming it against the wall. She bowed in politeness and reached out her hand and greeted herself in the most formal way imaginable.
"Greetings, my name is Sora Kageyama. It is a pleasure to meet you wonderful girls here. Although, I don't suppose you girls are in the same situation as I am," Sora said formally. Reiko and Chiari looked at her with confusion, but reached out their hands to shake hers anyway. The lucky student and the yokai hunter greeted themselves as well, along with introducing Yuzuru, although Sora grimaced at the name.
"You woke up here like us? Whew! Glad that you're not some sort of spy for the kidnappers!" Reiko smirked playfully as she shook Sora's rough hand. "Oh, by the way, what ultimate talent are you? I'm a yokai hunter, Yuzuru is a doctor, and Chiari over here is the lucky student!"
Sora sighed at Reiko's impatience and answered her question. "I am the ultimate kunoichi. And before you ask, yes. There are still ninjas even today. And no, we don't use such things like ninja stars." She held her head in annoyance. "I can't believe people make such bizarre stereotypes. Must be those horrible males... Anyway, I'm pleased to meet you."
Without hesitation, Reiko and Chiari turned on their tablets to receive the information notification. Sora was confused as to what they were doing, but she looked at the handbook in her hand like the others, and saw that they each received information about each other. Reiko and Chiari were baffled at Sora's bio.
Sora Kageyama
SHSL: Kunoichi
Age: 17
Gender: Female, ?
DOB: November 13th (Scorpio)
Height: 5'9 ft.
Weight: 137 lbs. (62 kg)
Blood Type: AB-
Handedness: Ambidexrous
Likes: Girls, Sweets, Meat, Freedom
Dislikes: Boys, Romance, Order, ?
"I-I assume the question marks are information that they don't want anyone to know," Yuzuru peaked out from the corner. "That seems very... Creepy that our kidnappers know this much about us."
With a sharp glare from the kunoichi, Yuzuru jumped and ran back behind the corner. After Sora read the trio's bios, she nodded in satisfaction and turned to the girls. "Shall we look around? We should look around this place as much as possible for more clues as to why we were all brought here."
Without confirmation from the others, she walked down the red carpeted stairs, and the rest followed after her. Just to be safe, Yuzuru followed a safe distance away from the group so that the kunoichi wouldn't give him death glares and threaten him again with murder. There seemed to be a quartz fountain in the center of the main lobby, with a strange looking bear carved with the same material, spewing out water from it's mouth. Chiari thought the bear looked cute, in a strange sort of way, but she ran after the group so she wouldn't fall behind.
"Everyone! C-Come here!"
Yuzuru called out to the group, pointing to a piece of paper pinned onto what looked like red double doors with dark wooden borders and door handles. Above those doors, was a golden rectangle sign plastered on the wall, saying, 'A/V Room', which means it's maybe some sort of theater or just a normal audio/visual room for meetings. He ripped off the note from the pin and read it out to the others.
Hello, fellow students! This is your new headmaster! Please meet us in the cafeteria/dining area at 8:30 sharp! Tardiness will not be excused so don't be laaatte!
We will explain everything as to how you got here, although the truth won't be so pleasant! Upupu!
Sincerely,
Your Headmaster
"New... Headmaster?" Sora questioned the note. "So Hope's Peak has a new headmaster? I've never been notified of this."
The note was written with red crayon. It had really sloppy handwriting, as if a five year old wrote it, or of someone used their mouth to write with the crayon. On the bottom corner had the same bear on the fountain drawn with black and red crayon. Everyone looked at each other in confusion.
"Wanna go to the cafeteria?" Chiari asked the group. "It's the only lead we have right now, and I don't think we have any other choice."
"I agree with her," Sora nodded her head. "It's the only logical explanation."
Reiko waved her hand, gesturing for the others to come along with her to the cafeteria. There was another golden plate, saying 'Cafeteria/Dining'. And instead of red, the double doors entering the cafeteria were glass and see through, with silver metal handles. Peeking inside, they could see more people, either still unconscious or just beginning to wake up from their slumber.
"I guess we should go inside and help them. T-They are probably just as confused as us," Yuzuru said, filled with worry. Chiari smiled at the worried doctor and opened the door as quietly as possible. The first thing that they saw were two teens, a boy and a girl, roughly similar to each other, were starting to open their eyes and rubbing their heads in pain.
Chiari helped up the boy with the dark brown hair, and Reiko ran over to the girl with light streaks in her brown hair. They were both baffled when they saw the four students, and remained silent. The lucky student greeted herself first.
"You guys okay? I'm Chiari! The ultimate lucky student!" Chiari introduced herself. The girl stood up, but her eyes didn't even bother to meet theirs. But the boy attempted a smile and bowed.
"Helloo! The name's Romeo! Romeo Hoshi! The ultimate singer. I'm charmed to meet you fellows!"
And done. I feel much better now. I hope this is better than my first attempt at an SYOC. It's still probably not the best thing ever, but it's better at least. :)
