I wake up to a banging at my door. Groaning, I slide out of bed, sleep still in my eyes.
"Hey, Amber," Sara calls out." We're going to be late for our first day if you don't get up!"
I growl as I walk to the door, I open it revealing Sara in her best outfit. A loose-fitting cloth with a giant pink bow tied around her torso. She also wore a frilly skirt that came just above her knees. Her hair dangled down her back, as wavy as ever. She gave me a bright smile," Good morning, sunshine."
I huffed, trying to settle my hair down from its violent wrath," You look nice today…"
"Thank you, now get going, we can grab some food when we're leaving!" She rushes away, probably to check her bag for the fifth time, just to make sure she has everything.
I turn, clearing the sleep still stuck in my eyes. Now actually aware of my surroundings, I whoop. Today was finally the day in which I would start school. I never thought that I would be happy for this. I laugh as I get ready, sporting my typical out fit: a stripped shirt with my signature boots, now equipped with a skull buckle in the front and some ripped jeans with a nice white belt. I pull my hair back into a pony-tail and smile at myself in the reflection. I go over to my bed where Smoke was still sleeping. I pat him lightly on the head, then go over and open the window for him.
"See you later, bud." I say as I walk out of my room. I head down the hall out into the foyer where Sara was waiting for me, a bagel in hand. She hands it to me, and the buttery aroma wafting into my nose makes my stomach rumble.
As we walk to the school, I nibble on it, savoring each bite. When I finish, I suck the butter off each of my fingers and let out a loud burp. Sara rolls her eyes. The first time I burped in front of her, she was speechless. However, after a while, she expects it from me whenever I eat a meal. On the way to school, we see countless students on their way, and I feel more excited the closer we get. On the way there, I see a familiar face.
"Hey, it's Jack!" I grin and start toward him. " Jack! Hey Jack!" I call.
He turns and smile as Sara and I approach him. The guy next to him turns as well. He is wearing thin-rim glasses and a sleeveless vest. His hair is slicked back forming spikes at the back of his head. He gives Jack a questioning glance as we approach.
"Amber,how's it going, who's this?" He asks, signaling to Sara.
" Oh, this is Sara, a friend I met at initiation, Sara, Jack." I say, introducing them.
" Hello..." Sara blushes and looks away.
"Hello," He grins." Oh, and this is Mason. Sorry, he's a little soft spoken."
Mason just nods and goes back to spacing out.
"Anyway..." I say after the awkward moment, "do you guys want to walk with us?"
"Sure, come on, we don't want to be late!" Jack signals for us to follow. Our group walks to the school. As we go up the stair, I barley even realize that I had scaled the whole thing because of the intriguing facts Sara was telling me about Kishins.
" I read that sometime, the can devour a human whole, isn't that amazing!" She sighs dreamily.
"You're just weird," I say as we reach the top.
"Sorry to interrupt your interesting conversation, but this is where we separate." Jack says, turning to us.
"Oh right, I forgot you're not apart of sub EAT," I remember.
"Wait!" Sara gasps," Does that mean you're apart of EAT! The people who actually get to fight Kishins up close and personal!" Sara looked as if she were about to spout hundreds-upon-hundreds of questions at Jack. I grab her arm quickly and began to drag her away.
"See you later Jack," I shout over my shoulder as Sara tries to squirm away.
Jack laughs at the spectacle while Mason just roles his eyes and begins to walk toward the other side of the school. Jack follows, leaving Sara and me alone. Sara finally is able to escape my grasp and gives me a burning look.
"I can't believe you, I wanted to ask Jack about Kishins!" She growls at me.
"I know, that's why I stopped you. You would have driven that poor guy crazy!" I state, walking toward the entrance.
Sara catches up to me," No way, I know how to control myself."
"Mmhm, come on, we're going to be late." I say, picking up the pace.
Sara huffs, but follows me to the hall where the sub EAT class was being held. We walk into the room, only to be met with the loud chatter of other students. The place was filled with people of all different makes and models. Some were tall, others were small. Then you had some guys in there twenties and then you had people like me who were only thirteen. We looked around the crowd, trying to find places to sit. Finally, Sara grabbed my arm and began to drag me toward a desk near the top of the auditorium-like arrangement of the room. At first, I was confused about what she so eagerly wanted to sit by, then I saw it. The bow girl was sitting in the middle to the desks, not socializing with anyone.
"Do you mind if we sit here?" Sara asks politely.
The girl obviously recognizes Sara as she beams and nods," Sure, I'm Diana by the way."
"Awesome, I'm Sara and this is my friend, Amber." She gestures to me and I wave.
Soon, they had struck up a conversation about archery and their records with the bow and arrow. I was able to get a few words in, being an archer myself, but since it wasn't the thing that I focused on, I let them chatter on without interrupting. Then, through the throng of voices, I heard a more dominant one say:
"Please quite down and find your seats." Everyone around the room began to settle down, each choosing a seat. Finally, everyone had seated, reveling the person who had talked: it was Naigus.
As she said this, a bell sounded, staring the first day of school. Naigus cleared her throat and began speaking," Welcome everyone to their first day at sub EAT and the academy. Let me say, first off, that this day is going to be kind of boring. I will be describing to you what we will be doing in this class. Now this class, as you probably already know, is the first step into becoming an EAT student, in which you will be able to fight Kishins. It was set up by our current Lord Death. After his father had passed away, he set up this class for incoming students who already had remarkable talent as a meister or weapon. We believe that it isn't necessary for you particular student to go through the NOT program. Any questions so far?"
No one spoke. "Good, now I will discuss exactly what we will be doing in this class. The primary task of this class will be teaching you all about Kishins, for the best way to fight is to know your enemy backwards and forwards. That being said, I will do my best to teach you all everything there is to no about Kishins, from how one can became a Kishin, to the anatomy of them. Another thing we'll focus on is your verious strengths and weaknesses. At the initiation, us teachers not only decided whether or not you would be ready for this class, but we also saw what each one of you excelled at and what some of you had trouble doing. In here, we will not only improve on your already established skills, but we will improve the techniques that need work. Say if you are very agile and you have great stamina, but you don't hit hard; here, we will not only improve your agility and stamina, we will focus on the power of your strikes the most so we can make that another strngth. This allows you to use a full arsenal when fighting Kishins. Furthermore, I-"
Suddenyl, there was a knock at the door, cutting Naigus off. "Hold on one moment you guys."
She walks to the door and opens it. Sara and I watch as she talks to the person on the other side. Suddenly, she turns around and addresses us:
" Everyone,we're welcoming a student who is coming into the year a little late,meet Christopher Moore."
One of the weirdest guys I have ever seen steps through the door, which is saying something considering I've meet both Sid and Stein. The guy had a mysterious air about him. His hair was a light purple color with dark blue edges like he dyed the tips that color. His skin was a tanish color, it almost appeaered as though he had gotten a bad spray tan. His eyes were a deep brown with a mischeivious glint in them. He walked in like he owned the place and I automatically disliked him.
"Sup, everyone, glad to be here." He said giving everyone a cocky smile.
I rlled my eyes as Naigus came back into the room," Find a seat anywhere, we were just talking about what we would be doing while you're in this class."
"Fun..." He saya sarcastically as he looks around for an open spot. Then his eyes land on mine, and he smiles.
Nonchalantly, he walks up to where I was sitting and squeezes in next to me, causing Diana,Sara, and me to all scooch down. I give him an evil look as he glances down at me. He raises his eye-brow. We sit staring like that for who knows how long, until he smiles at me and looks back to the front of the class. I roll my eyes and continue listening to Naigus's discription of the course. After what seems like forever, the bell rings, dismissing us. I am about to clamber out of my seat when I remeber that someone is blocking my way. Instead, I turn to Sara and Diana who are, once agin chatting about archery.
I am about to just push past hm when I feel and hand on my arm. I look back to see Sar smiling at me, " Hey, Diana and I are going out to eat for lunch, do you want to come with?"
"Nah, I a little tired, I think I'll go back to the dormitory and take a nap." I lie, not wanting to be the third wheel once again.
" Oh, alright, see you after then,"she smiles and waves as the go the other way to get out of the seats. I watch as they walk out of the rrom, talking to one another. I sigh, and turn to get out of my seat and run right into a burly body. I growl and look up to a smiling Christopher.
" You are so jealous, arnt't you?" He asks, smirking.
" NO!" I growl, " and besides, what would you know about it, you don't even know me!"
" What you just did there,told me that you are jealous, extrmemly so." He laughs as he walks away, too soon before I could retaliate.
I sigh and decide to just go home. I walk out of the room, pondering about what Chris had said, was I really jealous of Sara?
I shake my head thinking the idea was ridiculous. On my way down the hall, I hear ssomeone snicker. I look around, confused. Then I feel something hard hit my head. I lose my balance and almost fall to the ground. However, I caught myself and whipped around to see what had happened. Michael and his lackey stood there laughing their assets off. I growl and storm up to him.
"What the he'll was that about!" I yell, taking his shirt in my hands.
He stares down at me and grins,"How cute, but you air making my shirt sI'm going to have to ask you to unhandled me."
"I will once you tell me why you threw something at me!" I yell, even madder now.
" I was trying to get your attention. It was just luck that it hit your head." Michael smiled," isn't that right,Maxwell?"
The goon, Maxwell, laughed and nodded.
"Well, I don't care if you were trying to get my attention, you could have just called out instead of potentially hurting me!" I let go of him, my rage building," anyway, you have my attention,n so what do you want?"
" I was just wandering about that ugly scar you have on your face. With all that's been going on, I haven't had the chance you know?"
I gritted my teeth and threw punch. However, he just caught my fist in his hand and pulled me toward him," now that wasn't very nice, I just asked a question."
He pushed me away and I covered up the scar that lay over my right eye," You don't need to know where it came from..."
"Oh come on," Michael grinned and began to walk toward me. I backed up, knowing I couldn't fight him, his skill level was way over mine.
"Come, Max, let's show this girly that she can't deny me!" Max grinned and transformed.
My eyes widen as I take in the situation before me. Michael stands in front of me, holding a pair of nunchucks. I back up thinking He' s going to kill me. Instead, he just swings them back and forth," Don't you know that academy students don't keep secrets from one another. It creates suspicion thus creates enemies. Now come intelligent us!"
Michael swings the unchecked. I roll to the left, hearing the wind whistle as the swipe next toothless. The ground shatters and sprays all over me as Michael just chuckles. I climb to my feet, my teeth clenched. A low growl escapes from me as I glare at Michael. The dick smiles, expecting a real fight. He charges as I put up my hands. Swinging the nunchucks, I nimbly dodge, remembering all those lessons that my father and uncle had taught me. Michael smiled as I grab hold of his still swinging arm and flip him over my shoulder. He grunts as he hits the floor. I look back and grin at him as the people who had gathered around begin to cheer.
I see smiling over the crowd. Suddenly, the people break and Sara with Diana right behind her runs up to me, and almost squeezs me to death.
" What did that prick do to you?" She asks,examining my red cheeks.
I smile at her. I was about to answer when I hear a low chuckle. I look back to see Michael getting up. I didn't need my soul perception ability to see his soul rolling over his weapon.
I see Stein moving forward, a scared look in his eye. Suddenly, Michael rushes toward me. My instincts take over as I push the girls away from me. Michael pulls back his arm and strikes at me. I close my eyes, thinking it was over. Then the most horrible sound echoed through the busy hall, metal scraping against metal. I open my eyes and couldn't believe what I was seeing. Chris stood in front of me, his arm a blade. I gasp as I see that he had intercepted Michael. Chris grunts as he pushes Michael back.
He looks back at me," Are you alright?"
I couldn't even answer as I continue staring at Michael. The guy was a madman. I gulp and finally nod, reassuring Chris.
He huffs," Geez dude, what did she do to upset you so much."
Michael sneers," get out of my way, peasant!"
Chris gives him a dry look and then rushes at him. I didn't even know what happened, but the next thing I see is Chris punching Michael in the face. I blink as Michael goes down, his nose obviously broken. Max transforms back into his human form and checks over Michael to make sure he's ok.
He then looks up, anger in his eyes," What the fuck are you doing!"
"I am just doing what is right. Why are you picking on her for? What did she do to you?"
Michael slowly gets up, a sneer on his face," You're going to pay. Max transform!"
"Bu-but you're hurt..." Giving Michael a worried look.
"I don't care, we need to teach this peasant a lesson!" Max sighs and then transforms back again into his nunchucks.
Chris holds up his arm as it once again forms into a blade," don't worry sweety, I'll protect you."
"Please, I don't need you're protection. I'm just accepting it because it is an unfair battle..." I look away embarrassed.
Chris just smiles as he looks back at Michael. Michael snears and rushes toward him. Chris nimbly dodges as Michael swings the nunchucks toward him. The force from the blow sends Michael off balance as Chris moves behind him and kicks his back, sending him lurching forward. He then loses his balance and strikes the floor. It's obvious that his broken nose is hindering him as he used to be a lot faster. Michael growls and slowly get up. He keeps rocking as he gives me a dirty look.
"This isn't over yet you little bitch, I'll get you for this." He stomps angrily through the crowd, the people parting before hi, afraid to get in the way of his wrath.
"Well, that was interesting..." Chris says looking back at me.
I look away and then bakc. Gathering up my courage, I walk toward him," Thank you for saving me back there..." (even though I had it under control).
"No problem. Just call me next time you need me, alright sweety?"
"Would you stop calling me that..!?" I growl as he just laughs and walks off.
I stare at him as he dissapears through the crowd. I then turn and see Sara and Jack running towards me.
"Are you alright, Amber?" Jack asks, looking a me worried.
"I'm fine, Chris saved me..." I say, my cheeks still red from shame.
"Chris? You mean the ass hole from class?" Sara gives me a questioning look.
I role my eyes," Yes, him."
"Oh, we'll maybe he isn't such an asshole." jack says, smiling.
"Yeah, maybe..." i look toward the direction he had walked off in," Actually, he was kinda strong..."
"Hmm, you don't have a partner, right?" Jack asked.
I just shook my head, dreading what was to come next.
"Maybe you can ask him to be your partner." Saying the words that I feared.
"NO, haven't you been listening to a word we've said, that dude's a jerk, like a huge one!" I growl.
"Well, he can't be that bad, I mean he did save you." Diana states.
I look away, knowing that she was right.
"Why don't you just give him a chance? Who knows, maybe you two have more in common than you think." Sara says.
I sigh, they did bring some good points. I didn't have a partner and I need to get one soon, maybe I should give it a try...
"Alright, fine, but if he doesn't say yes then that means he's even more of an ass than I first thought." My friends laugh but I look away knowing this is h=going to be painful, especially because of how terribly I treated him...