New chapter! Whee!
Panmotto: OMG! (squeal) You are one of my favorite authors! Thanks! Don't worry, plenty of…interesting things will happen between Nami and the demons.
Fish and Chips: (another squeal) Another one of my favorite authors! Hmm… Sheep into a tiger's mouth eh? I might have to use that. What will happen to Nami and her 'new friends'? Will you find out this chapter? I'm not even sure! And thank you! I love hamsters and their hamster wheels! They're so cute! But I ask you, what else would be up in your brain?
Disclaimer: Heart of the cards…guide my hand! (dealer lays out card) Dammit! So close! Wait…why are you taking my house?
For the one hundred and thirty second time, Nami glanced at the clock on the wall and sighed. Class couldn't get over fast enough. Everyone around her kept giving her weird looks and threw things at the back of her head. The teacher droned on about things she already knew, but she kept jotting down notes in her notebook anyway. Her head was leaning against her left hand as she kept tapping her pencil with her right.
The witch grunted as another paper ball hit the back of her head and landed on her notebook. Picking it up in her hand she smashed it even tinier, a small growl coming from the back of her throat. Far behind her, a bit of snickering was heard as she opened her fist and looked at the marble sized ball.
'Must…not…blow up anything…' she thought as she clenched the ball again and it disappeared.
ShiShi had warned her that the demons wouldn't take kindly of her race and that she shouldn't promote violence, but Nami was a proud girl; there was only so much she could take.
Something else hit the back of her head; this time it was a pencil. Her shoulders shook with anger as she easily snapped the pencil in two. The urge to snap those demons like the pencil was too inviting.
Nami sighed and leaned her head against her hand again, why couldn't things be like when she first walked in here? At least some people were being nice to her, or ignoring her completely.
A shoe came flying and smacked into her head, making it fall roughly onto her desk. A vein was about to pop in her head as she threw the shoe out the window.
Anything was better than this.
A bell's call rang out in the silence and everyone got up, gathering his or her things. Nami closed the cover to her notepad and shoved it into her backpack and stood to walk out the door. She had made it to the door when a big imp brutally prodded her out of the way. Soon everyone else did the same thing, even the teacher left before her.
The schoolgirl slumped her shoulders and walked out of the classroom. As soon as she stepped out, all eyes in the hallway were on her. Apparently, word traveled fast in this school.
"There she is!"
"It's that human!"
All kinds of rude remarks flew at her, but she kept her head down and walked down the corridor and stairs as fast as she could. As soon as she made it outside she took in a big breath of fresh air, there were still a lot of people out here, but at least she could breathe.
Nami ignored all the stares and headed to the Courtyard where she sat down on the stone wall of a flowerbed.
"Lucky flowers." she groaned as she dug in her backpack for the apple she had packed.
The girl took a huge bite out of the fruit and let some of the juice flow down her chin. She munched on it, enjoying the crunching sounds when a small pack of demons stepped forward, the others backing away behind them.
"Hey! Human! Why don't you just go home? You're not welcome here!" their leader growled.
Nami snorted and took another giant bite out of her apple, leaning back on her palms. A few gasps rippled through the crowd at her behavior. A clearly more powerful demon just gave her a demand and she just sat there, ignoring him. The group that she had talked to earlier was also there watching, curious at what she was going to do.
"Hey! Did you hear me human? Or are your ears to weak to listen? I said get out of here!"
Nami wiped some of the apple juice away with the back of her hand and stared at the sky. ShiShi said that she shouldn't promote violence and she wouldn't. She would press this demon's buttons until he attacked her first.
She smirked and looked at him, her head still facing the clouds, "Or what? A little germ like you is going to make me?"
Several hoots went through the crowd, seeing if the demon was going to take that from a human. Strange enough, the fact that she was human traveled like wildfire, and the fact that she was a witch did not.
The said demon snarled and gritted his teeth, obviously trying to intimidate her, but Nami shrugged it off. The pathetic imp looked like her brother on a bad hair day, and her brother looked scarier.
"Do you know what I am, human? I could snap your spine with my pinkie!"
She ignored his comment for a moment and took another bite of her crisp, moist apple, which pissed off the demon even more. The human ever so leisurely chewed the food in her mouth and swallowed, then took in a big breath of air. Nami looked over and saw her challenger radiating with anger. 'Perfect.'
"Yes, I know that you are…an all powerful demon!" she replied sarcastically, "But do you know what I am?"
The rest of the fiend's crew looked shock and scanned the mob for an answer; this was not a mere human, she had something up her sleeve. The leader of the bullies frowned, thinking it was a rhetorical question while she was waiting for an answer. The boys she first met were curious and now intrigued, all of them pushing through the crowd to get a better look.
When the schoolgirl didn't receive an answer she smirked. Nami threw her apple core into a nearby trashcan and wiped her hands together before standing up and grabbing her backpack, holding it by a strap next to her hip.
"I am a witch, stupid demon, and I can burn you to a cinder without flinching."
The tyrant stepped back in surprise, as well as everyone else. They had expected an answer like…she was an immortal or something. Witches were feared, even among demons because of their magic, both powerful and dangerous.
The young sorceress in-training felt herself laughing manically inside while watching the bully squirm, but her little Intimidating Spell would only last for so long. The Spell was an off-branch of hypnotism; by looking one straight in the eyes, their confidence would break like glass. Definitely a handy trick that barely used any magic.
Then from out of nowhere, a new demon, looking like a human stepped forward from the crowd, in front of the other bully. If the first one was scary, this one was pee-in-your-pants and faint, terrifying. He stood at about seven feet tall, if not taller with short raggedy black hair and intense blackish-brown slits for eyes. The monster had on the school uniform, which showed his very muscular body and giant basketball sized fists.
"Having trouble? Well, I'll take over from here." he spoke in a spine chillingly calm voice to the first demon.
At seeing this new guy, Nami felt her own spell breaking, a Self-confidence Spell. Her knees began to quake a bit, almost unnoticeable, while her body started to shake. 'Where in the Seven Hells did this guy come from? I can't fight him! Well…I could…but I don't want to!'
"Well, well. What do we have here? A little Red Riding Hood who lost her way?"
She visibly gulped, making the demons pour out laughing. The first bully and his crew were cackling so hard, they doubled over and a few fell to the ground, rolling about. The newest beast smirked, showing of his fangs as he witnessed the girl crumbling before him.
"C'mon Shinji! Why don't you show the little wench what you can do!" a random demon called from the crowd.
"Why not?" Shinji, the giant, grinned and flexed his claws, "I'll show this little human who's Top Dog at this school."
The witch began to violently shake from terror now. Of course, she had fought others before using magic, her family being several, but at least she had ShiShi. That cat was a living encyclopedia, analyzing her opponents every move and calculating its weakness. Now she realized that maybe it was worth all of the claw marks, thousand-dollar cat food and millions of belly rubs…nah!
A shrill noise was cast over the schoolyard, making everyone freeze in his or her places. The school bell signaled to everyone that they had better head to their next class or face the consequences. If she had time, Nami might have wondered what detention was like for a demon.
Shinji, as well as the mob, looked over their shoulders at the grand clock before turning back to the witch and howled in rage. The girl had disappeared and left no trace, besides the apple core, that she had ever been in the courtyard.
After sprinting around the corner, Nami leaned against the building, sliding down until she sat next to it. She sighed deeply and wiped her forehead clear of sweat as she caught her breath.
'That…was close…'
She sat there and leaned into the wall, feeling the cool brick against her head. Staring at the sky, she wondered who demons could look so much like humans, yet not.
'Maybe it's like me. I'm a witch, but I look perfectly human…'
After sighing, Nami lazily brought forth her arm and looked at her watch. She jumped up and nearly fell back down again. The student slipped her backpack onto her back and ran like the devil was at her heels into the school building.
'I'm gonna be late! Again!'
She leaped up the stairs two at a time, but a demon smirked as she approached him, standing at the top of the third floor. The witch was about to be home free, when the imp's foot shot out of nowhere. Time seemed to stop as Nami could feel herself falling backward. Then time returned to normal as she slid down the stairs, all of her limps flailing about.
Only falling half a flight before smashing against the wall, the witch wasn't hurt too bad, but she still had a killer headache. Rubbing her head, she shakily stood up and grabbed her pack, picking up a few stray papers that had come loose in the fall.
The schoolgirl grabbed onto the railing and heaved her sore body back up the steps and opened the sliding door to her classroom. Like in her first class, all eyes turned to her presence, only this time they didn't turn away.
Nami walked carefully, scanning out of the corner of her eye for any feet sticking out to trip her again. She wasn't falling for that trick twice! As she strolled past to her desk in the middle of the room, the demon's eyes turned away when she past, and noses stuck themselves up in the opposite direction.
After throwing her backpack onto her desk, she sat down and folded her arms, burying her head within them, before looking up. Why did this have to happen? Life was good until everyone suddenly became racists.
The clicking sound of shoes made her look idly to her right, where her posture straightened. Seto from her first class was walking down the row when he stopped in front of her desk. His arms were crossed and eyes peered down to her from his tall figure.
"Next time you want to go making fun of demons, don't cross Shinji's path. Unless you really want to die."
Nami stared wide-eyed as he smugly sauntered back to his desk the next row over and sat down, waiting for the lesson to begin. For a minute, she gazed at him, not blinking until the teacher called her name for an answer. The witch jumped in surprise and replied in a shy voice, red blush covering her cheeks.
The bell rang once more, signaling that class was over. Hastily, the young sorceress crammed all of her supplies in her bag and sprinted to the door, rushing to get out before anyone else could trip her or push her.
When she reached the university grounds, she watched as all of the demons headed into the Cafeteria to eat lunch. Looking at her watch, her stomach growled, telling her that it was craving food as well. Nami nodded to herself and headed through the wide double doors with everyone else.
Peering around her, there were hundreds of tables lined of with figures already sitting in them, eating and talking. The flow of the crowd pushed her roughly to the line to get her food, not like she was going anywhere else.
Picking up a tray, Nami glanced over the food in the display cases. Some of the food looked normal, cheeseburgers, french-fries and various fruits, while on the other end there were more…exotic dishes. Things from roasted camel hump to live and squiggling electric eels were lined up next to each other, making her want to puke.
The line moved so fast, the witch hardly had enough time to grab a burger and an apple before moving onto the drink section, where there were fewer selections. Looking up and down, she decided chocolate milk opposed to regular milk, water or a dark red liquid which was going fast.
Before she knew it, Nami was pushed out the end of the line with her meal, skimming through the tables to find an open spot. She finally found one and was about to sit down when a cluster of imps appeared, beating her to it.
"Hey! This spot's taken! Get lost!"
The girl sighed and watched as all of the tables were almost filled. She shrugged her shoulders, rather eating outside than get on anyone's bad side again.
Nami almost made it to the doors when a demon pushed her in the back, causing her to hit the ground face first. Her arms started to push her torso up while she grit her teeth, listening to all the laughter around her. Sadly, that wasn't the last of it.
The young witch's lunch had been thrown up into the air and came crashing down onto the top of her head, smothering her head in food. By now, the entire Cafeteria was roaring with laughter, some turning purple from lack of oxygen.
Wiping some sauce from her eyes, Nami scowled and marched out of the room, ignoring all the bad taunts being thrown at her. For a few more seconds, the laughter continued before there was a sudden crash as an oven blew up, pouring smoke into the giant room.
The rest of the day was uneventful, save the fact that everyone snickered behind her back at the bits of food still stuck in her hair. Also, a number of demons tried to trip her again, this time making her fall down two flights of stairs.
ShiShi jerked as he heard the door creak open and slam shut. The cat stretched from his little bed between the two pillows of his master's double bed and strolled into the living room, when a backpack nearly collided with his tiny body. He opened his mouth to hiss and scold her but shut it after seeing her face.
Nami's eyes were cast downward and her shoulders were slumped. She completely ignored ShiShi and went straight for the bathroom to wash the remaining food out of her hair.
The neko followed her and hunched down, leaping onto the sink as the girl stood in front of the mirror, a towel rubbing through her hair. He watched with his mouth ajar when a single tear fell down from her face, covered by her bangs.
"Rough first day?"
She paused before putting the towel back on the rack and went into the bedroom. Pursuing her, the guardian made a perch on the bed as he watched her change her soiled uniform into an overly large t-shirt and shorts.
Nami sat on the bed glaring at the floor, then she grunted and fell back with her arms wide, laying all spread out on the bed comforter. Her cat waited for a second, and then slowly walked over to her, stopping periodically and looking up at her. ShiShi stepped onto her stomach and lied down on her chest, looking at her face with his tail swaying back and forth.
Her face squinted as more tears threatened to spill, so ShiShi nuzzled against her neck. She picked him up and rolled over, holding him close to her face and brought her legs close to her chest.
"They hate me, ShiShi. They can't stand me. I fell down the stairs three times, tripped twelve times and they even threw my lunch in my hair!" she lightly sobbed.
"Yeah."
"'Yeah'?" she retorted, "I get totally humiliated and all you can say is 'Yeah'?"
He shrugged his little kitty shoulders, "You can't let that get you down! You came this far haven't you? They want you to feel this way, feel down and want to quit, but if you do that they win. You don't want them to win right?"
Nami pursed her lips and pretended to study the sheets carefully, "I guess not…"
"You guess?"
The witch glanced up at her companion, his giant yellow-green eyes staring back at her. A sudden rush of willpower rose up inside her and she leapt up off the bed.
"You know what? You're right, ShiShi! I can't just give up and let those demons get the better of me! I'll show them the great witch that Nami Satoru can be!" she proclaimed.
The neko rolled his eyes as she sat back down on the bed and pulled the sheets out from under her, pulling them over her body. He carefully stepped his way over to her face where he snuggled against it before curling up into a ball, laying his head on his paws.
Nami opened her mouth wide in a yawn and rubbed her eyes, "I'll show them tomorrow, won't I ShiShi? I'll show them… Good night, ShiShi."
She subconsciously scooted closer to her cat and rested a hand on him, petting it a bit. He smiled, as both of them slowly feel asleep after a long first day.
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