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Gang wars, conspiracies, and the mafia, oh my.
The school system here is a bit different; there are only 4 grades in high school; grades 9,10,11, and 12, referred to in this order: Freshman, Junior, Sophomore, and Senior.
UNIVERSITY OF ETRURIA
Chapter 1: End of the School Year. Let the Chaos Begin.
"...I got in?" Hector asked the paper he held in front of him, somehow expecting it to reply, and looked around at his circle of friends. "I GOT FRIKKIN' IN! BOOYA!" He punched his arms into the air to show his happiness, accidentally knocking his best friend in the jaw.
"OW! Chill out, man," Eliwood rubbed his sore jaw, and made a mental note NOT to sit so close to Hector. "That's great then; we all got in!" Eliwood looked happily at his group of friends; Hector, Lyn, Ephraim, Eirika, Innes, Tana, L'Arachel, Joshua, and Lyon. "Well, what say we hit the local pub tonight, boys and girls?"
"...Drinks again? Hangovers aren't exactly my cup of tea..." Lyon said meekly. He was always the quietest; he had this heart disease that will kill him if his heart rate goes too high. "...And...Well, I'm broke. I spent all my money on buying souvenirs and gifts; I'm going back to Grado early in August to visit my parents."
"What say I lend you a few bucks, then we go to the casino tomorrow, eh? You can return the money you win to me; you seem to be really good at poker," Joshua said.
"...Thanks, but I think I'll pass, since I don't like owing people anything."
"But...BUT...but the money..."
"No."
"(sighs)...Fine," Joshua huffed.
"Gambling again? You know I disapprove of it," L'Arachel began. When she starts to ramble on about things that are 'sinful', 'wrong', etc, etc, she can go on for hours. A truly religious person. Nobody knows how people can stand her; she's almost as bad as Serra, but almost worse in the fact that she preaches to you. In Serra's case, she bitches, and uses her religious background as an excuse. So you won't feel guilty if you hit or curse at her. But you will when you do so at the green haired girl.
"Spare us the speech, PLEASE," Hector interrupted. "We've heard this since the beginning of grade 10, when you moved here. Every day."
"Well, obviously, I haven't done it enough if you still think of drinking and gambling." L'Arachel said, and started rambling on to Joshua, who hid his face under his cool hat as his friends glared at him for making L'Arachel start. (Gotta love that hat)
"OKAY OKAY! We get it, we get it; we won't go drinking or gambling, all right?" Ephraim told her impatiently. L'Arachel smiled innocently.
"Well, since we're not doing that, why don't you guys sleep over at my place tonight?" Hector offered.
"Great idea!" everyone agreed, and decided that's what they would do.
"Just one thing; don't go near Matthew, he's prone to having emotional breakdowns now. His girlfriend just got ran over by someone," Hector said sadly. (a cookie for who figurs out who ran over Leila) "Poor guy. Leila was a good person; too bad she's gone." Matthew was one of Hector's butlers; Hector is in a rich family as his MUCH older brother is head of the state of Ostia.
"Right, right. Is...Serra...still staying there?" Innes asked in fear of the pink-haired devil.
"Oh gods, I was hoping you wouldn't ask. Yes, unfortunately. Goddamned Uther had to be such a nice-ass to let her stay at my house since she's too old for the orphanage. IT HAS BEEN ABSOLUTE HELL FOR ME!" Hector yelled in fury, and shuddered in fear at even thinking of the crazy girl. "However, some of her friends are going to visit, so she'll bother them instead of us. Actually, I'm planning on having a huge party and sleepover, so why don't you guys bring your other friends along."
After that, the group split.
Government Building, Reglay, Etruria:
"Sir! Your mother's on line 1!"
"Sir! Your lunch has been rescheduled to 7 in the evening due to an important meeting with Lord Darin!"
"Sir! Lady Louise said she's going out for a ladies' night out tonight, so you'll have to cook your own dinner!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH!" Pent yelled in frustration. Everyone else looked at him, surprised, and stopped working. Pent finally calmed down, and panted. "What are you looking at? Get back to work!"
It has been a busy day, and more so than usual for the young and unfortunate head of the state of Etruria, Pent. He was planning on taking a summer vacation for a few days, BUT, the president of Elibe, Lord Vlad. 'Lucky Vlad, HE gets to sit there and do nothing but sleep or smoke cigars while sitting in his super comfy chair at the White House, while his governors have to do all the work for him. Bastard,' Pent thought. '(sighs)...And Erk's coming back in a few weeks to prepare for college...that boy's really grown up.'
Erk's the adopted son of Pent and Louise. Erk lost his parents a while back when he was only 10, so Pent and Louise took him in because of pity. Erk turned out to be an outstanding student, and is really great in politics (uh oh). He's quite the smartass, unlike Pent. He got the trait from Pent's father, who visited often. The young purple haired boy excelled in his studies thanks to Pent's tutoring.
"Sir! Lord Darin wants to talk to you!"
'What does he want now...' Pent sighed inwardly, and picked up the phone. "Hello Darin."
"Hello, Pent," Darin said from the other end of the phone. "Listen, I'm going to make this quick. I'm sure you've heard of my plan from the other governors."
"(sigh)...Look Darin, I'm not interested in this 'conspiracy' of yours. Why don't you take it and shove it up your ass," Pent said angrily, refusing Darin's offer for the 3rd time, and slammed the phone down.
Government Building, Laus, Lycia:
"So he's refused again?" a man asked Darin from behind his desk. "A shame, really."
"I know, Ephidel," Darin shook his head sadly. "We could have used his influence over Etruria's lawyers."
"Well, it will not be too much of a problem. Big Boss has everything under control," Ephidel said. He took out a silencer from his pocket and played around with it, and aimed it at the person sitting tied up in front of Darin. "Now, Aesha. I have to apologize for this, but the new Big Boss doesn't allow failure. But I don't do things like this, it's not my job. So...Legault, would you do the honors?" Ephidel handed his gun to a lanky lavender haired man with a scarred face, obviously from the same gang.
"..." the lanky man accepted the gun, and aimed it at Aesha's head. "...I'm sorry." Legault struggled to pull the trigger; he worked for so long with the beautiful woman sitting tied up in front of him, and now he has to kill her because she lost one small packet of marijuana in the last transfer. "...Please forgive me," he said, and fired a shot.
"Someone clean up this mess!"
Now, back to Elisium high, Etruria:
"And Hector's holding a giant party at his crib tonight," Eliwood told another group of friends. This one included Ninian, a fellow senior, Nils, her freshman brother, and Lowen, another senior. "You guys coming?"
"Of course!" Ninian answered for the other 2.
"Great! So...uh...I'll pick you up at 7?"
"...All right!"
Ninian and Nils lived next door to Eliwood. Eliwood lived together with Ephraim and Eirika; they had rented a house near the school as to not get in their parents' ways. Lord Elbert and Lord Fado are both very important political figures, as are their mothers. Eliwood had a crush on Ninian since their freshman year at Elisium high, but never did anything about it. He heard she also got accepted to the UE, and was ecstatic when he found out.
Lowen was the goalie of the senior boys' soccer team at the school. Eliwood's the team captain, and Lowen joined under the redhead's long hours of begging. Lowen finally succumbed when he couldn't take any more from Eliwood. Lowen had his green hair cover his eyes; it's unbelievable that he could move without crashing into anyone, let alone catch a ball flying towards a goal at 100 km/h.
Gymnasium: Last meeting of Martial Arts club:
"HIYAH!" Lyn yelled as she threw Joshua out of the ring.
"My hat!" Joshua quickly grabbed his hat off of his head and covered it as he rolled to recover from the throw. "Careful, Lyn, this one cost me a fortune!" Joshua told her angrily. Lyn just laughed at him.
"You know, you should really try to win once in a while, instead of always holding onto that hat. It's a sexy hat, but you don't need to act like Gollum with it."
"Did the scary lady hurt you, precious?" Joshua asked his hat, and everybody in the club that's there sweatdropped. "Don't worry, daddy's here with you...yesss, my preciousss..."
"This is exactly my point," Lyn sighed. She then went to the changing room to change back from her gym clothes to normal clothes.
"...so yeah, we're having this party tonight at Hector's," Joshua told Karla and Marisa, two other senior girls who are Lyn's friends, and Guy, another senior.
Outside, Lyn met up with her friends from Caelin: Sain, the lecherous blonde; Florina, the shyest girl in the school and Lyn's best friend, and just finished her junior year; and Kent, the strict one. "So do you guys want to come to Hector's party?"
"H...He...Hector?" Florina spoke up quietly. "Um...Hector...the big and scary Hector?"
"Hehe...yeah, the big and scary one," Lyn replied while laughing. "Come on, Florina, he's not that bad once you get to know him."
"But...but...I think he's still mad at me after the incident with Huey!" Florina told her what she thought. A few weeks ago, while Florina's, her sister Farina's, and Hector's gym classes went on a riding trip to the Pegasus farm, Huey, Florina's Pegasus, kicked Hector as the blue haired boy was walking behind him. The winged horse's kick broke a few of Hector's ribs, but it didn't get away that easily as Hector got up angrily after that and started to bite the Pegasus's neck in rage while pulling at Huey's mane. Florina and the stable hand had to pull the big lug away from Huey so he won't eat the Pegasus alive.
"Don't worry about it, Hector's not one to hold grudges for any time longer than a day. You'll be surprised at how short term his memory is," Lyn told her friend.
The Basketball Court:
"...and the score now is 98 to 98," Ephraim panted heavily. He was having a one on one game with Innes. The two have been rivals since they met in their freshman year at the high school; Innes is the captain of the basketball team, but only because he had better leadership skills than Ephraim, who takes way too many risks and prefers to work alone or with only a few people. "Your ball, Innes, make it count."
"Good luck, friend," Innes panted back, and started dribbling. He then dashed towards the hoop, dribbled the ball under his legs to avoid an attempted steal by Ephraim. He then spun around Ephraim as the green haired youth recovered from his lunging steal. Innes smirked, and tossed the ball at the hoop...and missed. Ephraim got the rebound. "Hmph. I was tired," was Innes's excuse. "Your ball."
"Hm," Ephraim nodded, wiping sweat off his face. He then stepped back and took a 3-pointer shot...and it went in. "Sweet. So that's...153 wins and 153 losses for me. We're tied."
"This ain't over yet, and you know it," Innes replied, wiping his sweat off with a towel. The rivals exited the courts to meet their sisters, who were waiting for them outside.
"Who won?" Tana asked them.
"Close match, but I won," Ephraim said proudly. "So, let's go tell our friends about the party."
"Mm. I'll go to the magic club, they're still having their last meeting now," Tana said.
"I'll go to the religion club; they're still having a meeting too," Eirika said. "You two go meet up with Eliwood. He told us to meet by the flagpole. He said he found something, though I'm not sure what."
The magic club:
The magic club was founded by a gifted magic user. A few years back, he wanted to help others that took magic improve their skills and become more interested in the field. Smart and gifted people like Lute were invited to join the club to help tutor the freshmen and other people weak at magic. Erk was the one that founded the club during his freshman year.
Ewan, Lute, and Nino were reading some new books in the art of magic. Erk was sitting around fiddling with his lighter. Erk and Lute were the only 2 seniors there, Nino and Ewan were juniors. Erk and Lute were the ones that had to take care of the two younger magicians during their freshman year because they couldn't handle anima magic properly without help; freshmen usually lacked concentration.
"So...so, you're leaving this year, Onii-san?" Nino asked Erk. They weren't actual siblings; Erk was like the older brother the green-haired orphan girl never had.
"Yeah... I'm gonna miss you two," the purple haired boy told Ewan and Nino. "Be good, all right? We taught you everything we know; use that to help others."
"Dang, Erk. I had fun burning stuff up with you," Ewan told the older mage.
"That's not good. Your sister was bitching at me for turning you into a pyro," Erk laughed at the younger boy's comment. "Tethys is SCARY when she's mad, you know?"
Ewan laughed. Tethys is Ewan's older brother; she's attending 2nd year university now.
"Well, it's been fun. Remember to call or e-mail us, all right?" Lute asked Ewan and Nino, who nodded eagerly. "All right, Erk, let's go."
Tana was outside waiting for them. "Lute! Erk! Hector's having a party at his house tonight! You guys wanna come?" she asked the two purple haired seniors.
"...Will there be alcohol?" Erk asked eagerly.
"...Um...We'll have to hide it downstairs, I guess, away from L'Arachel..."
"Sweet. I am SO in. Molotov Cocktails, here I come!" Erk hooted, and ran towards the religious club to meet up with his friends Lucius, Raymond, and Priscilla.
"...Boys and their explosives," Lute said, shaking her head.
The religious club:
Erk found Eirika, Amelia, a junior, her boyfriend Franz, who is another junior, and Ross, a sophomore. "So...Serra and Priscilla having another heated argument?" Erk asked the group.
"You bet...Ugh...I can't take it anymore!" Eirika said, frustrated. "I'm gonna go inside and..."
"NO!" Amelia stopped her. "You don't know what hells L'Arachel will inflict upon you!" Amelia pleaded.
There are screams coming from inside. "...Catfight!" Ross yelled, and he and Erk bolted through Eirika and Amelia while busting through the door. And Ross was right. L'Arachel, Serra, and Priscilla were pulling at each others' hair and clothes while Lucius was, futilely I might add, trying to break them up.
"Please, please, ladies, release your violent urges AFTER the meeting," the long blonde haired boy pleaded. He mouthed to Erk, 'Help me!'
"Ahem...FUCK!" Erk yelled. That stopped the 3 girls from fighting. He gave Lucius a look that said 'You owe me big time', as he was given a looong speech from the 3 'religious' girls about cursing. "Look, I'm sorry, all right? That was the only thing that came to mind to stop you 3 from killing each other!"
"Oh...Then...Um...I'm sorry," Priscilla apologized, embarrassed.
"Why were you 3 fighting?"
"Um..." Serra and Priscilla whistled innocently, trying to avoid answering the question, but L'Arachel answered for them.
"They're arguing about who gets to take YOU, Erk, to the prom, and I was in there telling them that I'll tell you about this, because it didn't look like they'll be able to resolve this," L'Arachel told the mage, who now stood in shocked silence, just like the other two girls. "What? It didn't look like you two were going to tell him anyways, so I did it for you! You two should thank me!"
Priscilla and Serra then started yelling "PICK ME! NOT HER! ME!" at the purple haired mage and played human tug of war with him.
"ALL RIGHT! ENOUGH! Look...I can't choose between the two of you because whoever I choose, the other one will try to ruin our prom night or humiliate one of us...DON'T GIVE ME THAT LOOK...and don't give me the speech about 'I don't care about her as long as I get you.' I want you two to resolve this problem like the civilized women you are, all right?" Erk asked them, trying to keep the peace. The girls nodded.
"So, we're going to have a party at Hector's tonight," Eirika told them. "You two want to come?"
"Sure!" Priscilla and Serra replied simultaneously.
"Well then, let's go find Raymond and the others..." Lucius called to them.
Underground Parking lot:
"Rule number one: The only rule: NO KILLING! We don't want the cops on us like last time," a voice yelled.
"Good enough for me," Raymond said. He, Rebecca, and Wil are part of one of the school's biggest gangs, and were some of the group's best fighters. Raymond smirked. They were having a gang battle with the second biggest gang in the school; and the way long lasting gang battles are resolved is through the fight club. Each gang picks three of their best fighters to fight the other gang's group. In the fight club, Raymond was called Raven. They were facing Erik, the gang leader, and two of his cronies. "Erik's mine...Cocky Laus bastard," Raven growled while cracking his knuckles.
"BEGIN!"
One of Erik's cronies, now referred to as Erik Crony 1, or EC1, ran straight towards Wil. Wil just stood there. EC1 was a big and heavy boy; he readied his fist to punch Wil. Wil, however, remained calm. At the last second, Wil sidestepped to avoid the punch and put his foot out to trip EC1. EC1 recovered, brushed blood off his face, (asphalt hurts, dammit) and tried to clothesline Wil. Wil ducked it, and pulled EC1 into a sleeper hold, knocking the big person out in a few seconds.
EC2, Erik's second crony, ran towards Rebecca and tried to kick her. Rebecca sidestepped the kick, and spun around to do a back kick on the big man's head, knocking loose a few teeth. Rebecca wasn't done, however. She kicked the big man in the groin to stun him. Then she kneed him in the face, knocking him out.
Erik called for another one of his mates to give him his bo staff. Erik spun it around to intimidate Raven. Raven wasn't scared a bit, however. He put on some metal plated gloves. Erik thrust his staff at Raven, who sidestepped it. Erik swung his staff to the side to hit Raven. Raven reduced the damaged by blocking it with his glove. Erik pulled back his staff to strike Raven again, vertically this time. Raven grabbed the staff with his hands as it came down on him. He then pulled the staff out of the surprised Erik's hands, and beat Erik down with it. After Erik surrendered, he spat at the cocky boy.
"I give! All right...You win..." Erik said.
"You weren't even worth our time," Raven said. "Let's go, Wil, Rebecca."
As Raven, Wil, and Rebecca almost exited the lot, Raven heard something click behind him. He turned around to see Erik aiming a gun at his group...no, Rebecca.
"Here's a present for you, Dan," Erik said, smirking. Then he fired.
"REBECCA! DOWN!" Raven yelled, tackling Rebecca into the ground, making the shot miss. Wil turned around quickly. He took out a dagger from one of his pant pockets and threw it at Erik's armed hand, cutting off the brunette's pinkie and disarming him.
"Don't try that again, or we WILL kill you," Wil said coldly. Raven helped Rebecca up, as they cautiously moved away from the arena back to the school.
"I'm sorry...if not for my brother...this wouldn't have happened," the green haired girl apologized to Wil and Raven. Dan, or Dart as he was known in the fight club, is now at the U of E. Dan is an outstanding student, but he was the gang leader of Raven's gang until he left to go to university. He's in his freshman year there right now. Anyways, Dan brought his gang to glory after just a few days in it. Dan now has connections in the highest of places after stealing them from Erik's gang. Erik wants revenge for what Dan did.
"No, it's not your fault. We knew what we were getting into by joining this gang," Wil comforted her.
"Yeah. And if you got hit, Dan woulda beat the crap out of us," Raven told her. "You're safe with us, Rebecca."
"Thanks, guys..."
"And WHERE have you been?" L'Arachel was waiting for them at the top of the stairs, and started to give another one of her famous speeches. This one was about gangs and fighting.
'Oh dear Elimine, make it stop...' Wil cried inwardly.
Raven gave Lucius, his best friend, a pleading look that clearly said 'save me!'
After a few minutes, it was finally over. Thank Elimine.
Flagpole:
Ephraim and Innes ran up to Eliwood and Hector when they saw the redhead and blue haired youth sitting by the flagpole. "What's up?" Ephraim asked the redhead.
"This," Eliwood simply said, and waved Ephraim and Innes to sit behind him, as he clicked something on his laptop. The genius hacker typed this and that for a few seconds, and whispered, 'Bingo.'
"...Whazzat?" Hector asked, not understanding what's going on.
"...I'm only telling you three since you three are the most mature out of our group, and I hope you all can keep a secret. Look at this," Eliwood told them to look at the monitor. He moved the cursor so that it was pointing at something. "This piece of information I found from a rare disk I found on the ground; the rare and expensive type of CD called a 'tome.'"
"...You mean those things that hold Terabytes of information?" Ephraim asked in shock. "Who would be so stupid to drop something like THAT? Those cost millions! Where did you find it?"
"At the soccer field. I saw something shining under the sun, and there it was," Eliwood told the green haired boy. "Anyways, look at this. It contains blueprints of top secret military projects. Look at this! It's...It's a nuke!"
"...I bet Erk would KILL to get his hands on that..." Hector joked.
"This is seirous, you dolt," Innes scolded him. "...Wow. It's...more powerful than anything I read about."
"And...what's this? Project Psycho?" Ephraim asked Eliwood, who merely shrugged as he double clicked the folder. There were more folders, each with a name. "...Those are the names of the high schools in Elibe and Magvel..." Ephraim said. "Hold on, scroll back up. Let's check our school."
"I...I don't believe it! This has records of people from our school up to 3 years ago!" Hector exclaimed.
"Why would they need these?"
"I don't know...but I don't like this..." Eliwood said worriedly. "Let's keep this a secret for now. Hey...let's check out Innes's! ...Have been gay buddies with Ephraim since..."
"WHAT?" Innes pushed Eliwood away to see the thing for himself. "...You weren't shitting me. WHO WROTE THIS?"
"Heh heh...whoever it was has a cruel sense of humor..." Ephraim said. "I would have guessed Erik, but he's too stupid to even use Microsoft Word."
"Anyways, let's keep this a secret between us ONLY," Eliwood told them.
The other 3 boys agreed, and left for Hector's house after calling their friends. "But for now, LET'S PARTY!" Hector yelled. "I got Heath to volunteer to be our DJ for tonight."
Please R&R! Hope you liked this first chapter; I finished it the day before I posted it but I didn't have time to proofread it. Please review; your criticism helps!