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Spyro's POV

"So what happens if we're late?" Spyro asked as Ben stopped in front of a room. It had taken them around 20 minutes to get to this room and Spyro was seriously hoping that this was the right room. The last 3 that they had stopped at had been rooms where some of their classes later in the day were but none of them had been labeled 'American Literature'.

"Oh we just get shut out of the class for the period while a mark gets put on our permanent record that we were late. If you get 3 marks then you get a detention and have to stay after school." Ben said while looking confidently at the door.

Taking this as a good sign, Spyro almost sighed in relief but then stopped when Ben opened the door. The room that they had currently entered was the art room. Art tables were lined up in the middle of the room, each being able to sit 4 people, while the equipment and art supplies were set up along the walls. There was a small part of the room where there were steps going up to a kiln. In the front of the room was a women with blonde hair tied up in a bun writing on a chalkboard. It seemed that no one was in the room yet, thankfully because as Spyro had quickly found out in the other rooms that they had entered, Ben had a habit of going to the wrong classroom and being late.

The teacher must have heard them come in because she momentarily stopped writing and turned around to see who had come in. A look of concern was on her face when she looked at Ben.

"Ben did you get lost again?" She asked as she began to walk over to them. So far, Spyro noticed that she was one of the only teachers that hadn't seemed amused by Ben's predicament.

"Yes Mrs. Stacy." Spyro heard Ben say with a hint of embarrassment in his voice. Looking over at his roommate, Spyro noticed that he was looking down at the ground as Mrs. Stacy approached. Looking back up towards the teacher, Spyro noticed that she was looking at him.

"Well I don't believe we've met before. My name's Mrs. O Neil but as you can probably tell Ben liked to call me by my first name. What's your name?" She reached out a hand as she said this, smiling at Spyro.

"My name's Spyro, Mrs. O Neil." Spyro stated as he looked back over at Ben.

"Ah Spyro you must be Ben's new roommate." She gave Ben a smile as he was now looking at the teacher. "If you're looking for American Literature you need to head down to the end of this hallway and turn right to get to the classroom. You might want to hurry though." She stated as she gave a smile and turned back to go write on the board.

Ben seemed to brighten up at now knowing where the room was. He grabbed Spyro's hand and began to once again pull him towards their destination.

"Thanks Mrs. Stacy!" Ben yelled over his shoulder as they made it out the door.

"You're welcome Ben. See you and Spyro in the next period. Oh and don't run in the hall!"

As soon as they were a little ways down the hallway, Ben picked up speed, starting to, of course run in the hall.

"Ben! Mrs. O Neil said to not run in the hallway!" Spyro shouted as he tried to keep up with Ben.

"Yeah but we're going to be late if we don't!" Ben yelled over his shoulder as they turned right and just barely made it in the door before the bell rang. Sure enough, the door did shut and lock just as the bell rang, leaving anyone else to stay in the hall.

Spotting Cynder across the room near the window, Spyro waved hoping that they would get a chance to talk before class started. Cynder must have seen him because she waved back but then pointed to two seats at the opposite end of the room, the side that Spyro and Ben were currently on. Ben took Spyro's hand and led him to a seat while waving to Lily, who was currently sitting next to Cynder.

Just as they had sat down and were removing their supplies and books for class, the teacher came in. He was a middle aged man with brown hair and he wore jeans and a long-sleeved, striped shirt.

"Welcome back everyone from winter vacation. Most of you know my name is Mr. Hall but since there are some new students in the room, I just wanted to clear that up." Mr. Hall immediately turned around and began writing a page number on the board.

"Please turn to page 368 in your literature book. We will begin reading 'Romeo and Juliet' by William Shakespeare." At this the whole class, minus Spyro, Cynder, and Lily, groaned. Looking over at Cynder to see if she knew why the class reacted as they did, he noticed she was already absorbed in finding the page and reading the background.

Figuring he would ask Ben later about why the class reacted the way they did, he looked down at book and opened it up to 'Romeo and Juliet'. This is going to be a long day… Spyro thought as they began reading aloud.

The next 3 classes were relatively non-eventful. For 2nd period Spyro had Art, with Mrs. O'Neil, which made the adjustment for starting school a bit better. In 3rd period, which was Spanish I, they met their teacher Mrs. Obley. She was nice but could be strict sometimes depending on who was goofing off. Apparently Spyro found out that this was Ben's second year for this course. He had failed last year's course and was retaking it. The teacher then challenged all the students to talk in as much Spanish as they knew which was a challenge for Spyro since he really didn't know Spanish. They then started to learn the history of Spain and the Spanish language before being dismissed. The 4th period class was Biology with Mr. Moor. He was an older teacher that told you to write down what you thought was important. This led to a lot of note taking in the first day with the notes all being on the classes of animals.

The next period, and one that he was seriously looking forward to, was lunch. He hadn't really been able to talk to Cynder the whole day so far even though they had Spanish I together. Hopefully they would actually be able to discuss what they were going to do about the mission, which they had decided would now be called their 'extra credit assignment'.

Spyro spotted Cynder and Lily sitting over at a table near the corner of the room, before he had to get in line for lunch. The lunchroom was pretty much set up like a buffet. You went and got what you wanted from what the lunch ladies put out for you. According to Ben, this always left for competition between who got what food so if you wanted something specific, you would have to be there early. Just deciding to get whatever Ben was getting, Spyro saw Lily wave them over to the table.

Cynder's POV

Cynder looked down at her tray holding her lunch, which consisted of a meat, lettuce, and tomato sandwich, milk, some sort of colored gooey substance in a cup, and a cookie. She picked up the fork on the tray and proceeded to prod at the gooey substance, finding that it moved when she touched it.

"That's called Jell-O," Lily explained to her when she saw her roommate's confusing actions. Cynder was grateful that Lily had taken notice of the fact that most information was new to her, although her roommate didn't make any offensive comments by it.

Once Lily had explained how the gooey substance worked and what it was, the former dragon gladly started to eat. Spyro and Ben joined them a few minutes later, and her roommate prompted a conversation.

"Ben, I can't believe that you don't know where the Literature room is by now," Lily's statement sounded like half a lecture and half frustration, "You almost made Spyro late for his first class."

"We just took a few wrong turns," Ben shrugged as he dug into a small bowl of what Lily had described as coleslaw. From the boy's demeanor, it seemed as if this sort of thing happened a lot.

"I got to meet some of the teachers I will be having later though," Cynder knew that Spyro was at least trying to make something good out of the situation. At least the day was going better than she had first thought, considering her sudden awakening that morning…

"I completely forgot!" Lily's look of worry alarmed her; at least, that was until she realized what her friend said next, "Cynder, I never explained how you use your phone."

Cynder tried an attempt at a half laugh and glanced over at Spyro. Lily followed her gaze and then looked over at Ben.

"You might as well give Spyro the run-down too… I sort of forgot…" Ben trailed off, looking like he felt very awkward in his seat. How many mistakes in one day did he make? Her friend shook her head in another gesture of frustration.

"Well, I guess both of you will be learning how to use your phones now, as well as the conveniences of texting," Lily looked as if her stress meter was getting pretty filled from one day, but her friend's statement made her even more confused.

"Texting?" the question flew out of both her and Spyro's mouths at the same time, each wearing the same perplexed expression.

"I guess we have a long way to go then," Lily's mumble didn't escape her notice, making her feel even sorrier for her new friend.

Getting the hang of using her phone, as well as 'texting', didn't take as long as Cynder would have thought. Sure, having to get used to the idea of typing something on a small keyboard was a change, considering they didn't have anything like phones in the Dragon Realms, but it wouldn't take long to figure out. The lunch period was just ending when Cynder had a thought.

She got up and threw her trash in the garbage can like everyone else, but headed back towards the buffet style cafeteria instead of exiting the doors. She knew that class would be starting soon, but her current interest was on something she had noticed.

All of the other kids that went to the school paid for their meals with money, so how had she and Spyro been able to get any food without paying? She saw Spyro glance over at her curiously, causing her to mouth "one moment".

Luckily for her, the people who distributed the lunches were just finishing cleaning up, so she wouldn't have to wait to ask her question.

"Excuse me," Cynder walked up to one of the ladies who was exiting the counters, "my friend and I forgot our money today, so how should we go about paying you back?"

One thing she had learned from her short time with her roommate, as well as the time adjusting to her new home in the Dragon Realms while not being under Malefor's control, was that kindness got you what you wanted faster than using your fangs to drive home a point. Despite the fact that she was trying to be kind, the lunch lady didn't seem to be thrilled that a student was interrupting her now break time.

"Names?" the lady asked as she walked over to a computer. Cynder at first didn't understand her, but then realized that the lady was going to look up their accounts.

"Spyro and Cynder," she didn't bother using their strange last names, and it seemed as if she didn't need to; two results popped up on the computer's screen.

"Your lunches were prepaid with the funds that your parents sent in," the lady's answer unnerved her a bit, as well as the look that she was receiving. She didn't need to be dealing with this right now.

"Yes, of course… I guess I forgot," Cynder answered quickly before fighting the urge to run to her next class. She instead walked slowly out of the room, increasing her pace when the lunch lady was out of sight.

I guess Spyro and I have a lot more to discuss later, she thought, arriving in class just as the bell rang.

AnimeWolfGirl9: To start off, this being late wasn't AnimeWolfGirl16's fault. This delay was definitely my fault, and you can blame me if you want (although I would prefer if you would keep any foul language to yourself…). Things just got way too busy and I had other fanfictions to work on…

AnimeWolfGirl16: Anyway… the chapter is finally here!

AnimeWolfGirl9: The next chapter will definitely be out faster than this one was (we have the idea for it planned out already, but we just have to "put it into words," so to speak). So be looking for that if you don't have this fanfiction followed.

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