It was another day in the prison Styx. "Eh, I don't get it." the new guard said. "If Styx is so popular and runs financially well, why do we have benefactors?" Hokori tilted his head that rested on the table within the break room.

Bunri rubbed the back of his neck. "Well, it's more of a win-win situation." he explained, not really sure of himself as he did so. "You're better off asking the wardens, but I suppose it's like a bonus, a little extra."

"Oh, like getting free food along with your paycheck when you're working in the food industry?"

"That's a good way to put it, yeah. Like that!" Bunri laughed as he leaned back on his chair. "Anyways, what do you think about your first shift?"

The large ears of the fennec fox guard's ear twitched up in excitement. "It was a little boring during the rest of the night, but it was more exciting than I thought!" The more experienced guard chuckled as he grabbed one of the magazines that sat in the pile on the table, flicking it open as he read the contents within.

As the two sat at the table, one reading and the other now focused on the hd tv that rested on the wall. The sound of a bell went off in the room, the sound of the bell played a little tune.

Hokori's attention focused on the tune as Bunri was unfazed by it, flipping the page over. "Just the morning roll call." he gave a bit of a yawn as he spoke.

"Attention, all prisoners. Assemble for roll call." an automated voice rang through the room.

Bunri closed the magazine. "That ends my shift, going to hit the hay now." he threw the magazine back onto the pile and started heading off to the guard barracks.

"Oh, uh, have a good nap!" the fox got a wave in response before returning his attention to the tv, where some sort of shampoo and conditioner ad was playing, done by some hero with snakes in her hair. "...does the shampoo work for the snakes too?"

"Seems everyone is up to face the day once more. One step closer to rehabilitation." a guard said with a grin.

He was a tall, olive skinned man and was also slightly muscular to boot. He was wearing the same uniform as everyone else, but the colour of said uniform was faded, appearing to be a lighter shade of green compared to the darker colours of the usual attire worn by many other guards. There were some new additions, such as a long military coat worn over the shoulders in a similar fashion that was slightly paler to the lighter shades of green he was wearing.

This man was also lacking the hat that many guards wore as it let his messy and slightly wavy beige hair to flow. The man's electric blue eyes glanced over the prison cells with silver sparks within them.

"Soon, these prisoners will once again become reformed members of society." he nodded, mostly to himself.

The guard turned to the stairs, the sounds of footsteps coming closer and closer. "I hear you're in high spirits once again, Alexios." Alexios glanced to this new arrival wearing the standard Styx uniform, but like him, lacked the hat and in return wore a monocle on his right eye and also wore a pair of white, tuxedo gloves. He had silvery-white hair that was slicked back that went well with his silvery coloured hair. Despite the way he dressed himself, this man was quite young, just a little bit older than Alexios himself or so.

"You're roaming around too, Shimaru?" Alexios rose an eyebrow at the man.

"I was just on my morning walkabout. I see you finished roll call, Mr. Tatopoulos."

Alexios rubbed the back of his neck. "Come on, Shimaru, do go old man on me and use my last name, aight, Hakushu?"

The know named Shimaru Hakushu laughed in a high classed manner. "I suppose that is true, but sadly I'm nowhere near old age yet." he then readjusted his monocle. "Apologizes, Alexios, but I must be off, I still have a bit more to my morning walk to complete."

As Alexios watched him walk off, he wondered, "Does he mean patrol? Or an actual walk?" The olive-skinned man shook his head as he headed down the stairs Shimaru walked up.

Time for work.

Alexios walked down to the ground floor and looked around. Yep, the prisoners were all going about their days, maybe one day, they'll get a second chance.

Jin sat on one of the outside tables, along with David that showed him around before. Last night, it finally sunk it that he was a prisoner during that lonely night in that small cell.

Sure, he knew that he was a prisoner right from the word go, from the crime to the court case and finally to the bus ride over before being put through the system and sent off into the prison called Styx.

That night however, it stuck heavily. Being in the prison was much more of a wake up call, or rather, a hard confirmation after everything settled down.

"It's good to at least know someone in the prison." he thought as he glanced over to David, who was busy just prisoner watching really. "Going solo in prison...it's not really a good idea."

The sun shined overhead as Jin let his shoulders slump a bit. "It's a good thing I met David then." he had to admit, it wasn't overly hot today, it was warm, warm enough to have a nap under the sun.

"What the fuck!" a voiced shouted out, causing the new blooded prisoner to see a table across from them as a prisoner sat up. "How the fuck did you get another full house? Fucking cheater."

The man laughed. He was a tall man wearing the orange jumpsuit with long sleeves. He had deathly white skin with a thinner than normal frame, a mop of black hair with a pair of brown eyes. "Sorry, but that wasn't cheating." he replied smoothly. "If that was cheating, you wouldn't of won the first round earlier."

The red-faced loser stormed off angrily, leaving the man with the deck of cards to himself.

"Who's that?" Jin inquired, causing David to have a look.

"That's Johnny Spade," he informed the new arrival. "He's actually an alright guy, I can introduce you to him later. He actually arrived a few months before you did."

Before Jin could say anything, he caught the sight on another man, this was much calmer than the last as they already walked right up to the card dealer. "Mind if I join in your little card game?" he asked with a smile, already pulling the chair out.

"Unlike you, I don't cheat Zuko."

Zuko was a man of average build, with black hair and a decent looking face. His most notable feature was the scar that ran from his right eye, which both eyes were clouded over, to his left cheek. Unlike other prisoners, he was wearing a black tuxedo with a black dress shirt and red tie, but he was also wearing a black mask with gold engravings that made him look like the phantom of the opera.

"Now, now, don't be like that, John." the new man smiled, already taking a seat. "Let's play a simple card game, you can even use your quirk to help you out, cause you'll need it."

"Zuko Yamamoto, as you can see, he's a known cheater when it comes to card games, hence why no one plays with him. The only person here who really has a shot is Johnny actually." David explained without being asked, and Jin was glad for it. "Curious about his get up? Well, you'll get used to it. Some prisoners here have gotten...special privileges to say the least. Usually it's just wearing clothes of our choice, whether it's our normal clothes or some sort of outfit."

"So it's possible for me to get my old clothes back?"

David nodded as they turned their attention away from the card game. "There are some inside discussions about if Zuko really did get privileges to wear that."

Jin glanced back to the table, the two locked in their card game. "Ah, I see."

"Hey, are you one of the new guys?" some random criminal walked up to Jin, who cautiously looked back to the nameless arrival.

"Yeah, I am." he responded. "What of it?"

The prisoner gritted his teeth somewhat. "Don't get so defensive new blood. Fumma wants to see ya. It's for your own bloody benefit."

Before Jin could say anything, the prisoner walked away, only mentioning where to find this 'Fumma' in passing, like he should know where to find him.

"So who's Fumma?"

David, who had been listening, sighed. "Fumma...guess I gotta explain, don't I?"

The co-ed ward. It was less a ward and more of an area. It contained a building that was the guards could quickly and easily get to as well as the medical facility, if anything, you could describe Styx to be in a rather triangular position of the three wards. Male ward, female ward and the connecting co-ed area.

It sported it's own buildings and entertainment or time wasters for the few prisoners that were lucky enough to be granted access to the co-ed area.

The co-ed area was more of a reward for prisoners on good behaviour and sported a bit more than what the normal dorms, such as a bit more variety to the food and activities for starters.

Right now, someone was currently eating in the co-ed's mess hall, one of the male prisoners in fact.

This young man had a lean but healthy build with a normal skin colour from where he was from. He had messy silver-white hair with two to three yellow highlights streaks in it, however he had more alluring features than that. His eyes were very snake-like and yellow, underneath the left eye was a purple snake tongue-like tattoo. His ears were pointy and had sharp fangs along with a snake's tongue, but the most notable feature, was the long rattlesnake tail he possessed.

He was wearing a traditional Japanese kimono, specifically a white Kariginu, azure coloured Sashinuki hakama pants with a pair of black Chinese styled flats. Wrapped around his neck was a dark blue scarf that seemed quite snug and warm.

A few of the lucky prisoners in the co-ed prison completely avoided this snake-tailed guy sitting alone at the table as this rattlesnake was busy with his food. Right now, he was thinking of his latest encounter with one of the new prison inmates when he was walking through the male ward.

It was just a simple walk really, a walk to get to the co-ed area from his cell in the male ward. He had been spending most of his time there, he might as well move into the co-ed area at this rate.

He stopped in his tracks as he saw a new face. Someone tall, muscular and has neon yellow-skin. This man froze, not completely though, but it did cause him to walk away in another direction.

The rattlesnake then looked at a completely different table, across the mess hall was another male, glanced at the snake man for a second, before returning to his own business.

The snake tailed man returned to reality once and saw one of the guards that primarily worked in the co-ed ward.

It was a male guard, dressed up in the same military guard uniform, however he was carrying a wooden stick that acted as a cane and had a black cloth that was wrapped around his eyes.

The guard that approached had slightly tanned skin and his somewhat spiky brown hair peaked out of from the confinement of the cap he wore.

His rectangular and smooth wooden stick hit the side of the table that the rattlesnake was sitting at. "Ah, it appears that I made it to the mess hall. How are you today...Inyoku-Yui Shiro? Ah, forgive me, I used your full name again."

Inyoku-Yui sat quietly at the table, half of his face hidden by his scarf. "It's fine, Mizaru." Inyoku-Yui replied, glancing back to the finished plate in front of him. "But how are you?" a shift from the cold reply was a much more cheerful one.

The guard Mizaru smiled. "I'm doing well."

"Are you at one hundred percent today?" the snake asked, leaning back in his chair.

The guard with no vision shrugged. "It depends really." the guard used his cane to move most the rattlesnake. "Stay out of trouble, Inyoku-Yui. You don't want to get kicked out of the co-ed ward." Inyoku-Yui was probably pouting under his scarf.

"I'm bored." he thought. "...there are new guys in prison, wonder if they'll be interesting?"

Inyoku-Yui then watched as Mizaru walked away. Mizaru Sarugaku, one of the Sanzaru within Styx, Mizaru worked specifically within the co-ed area. Inyoku-Yui stared at him for a while before he quickly shifted his attention elsewhere, standing from his seat and heading off to who knows where.

In another part of the co-ed area, a woman leaned against the wall.

She was a bit taller than most women her age with a slender frame and not much to speak of in terms of fat or muscle. She was also incredibly pale and if you looked, you could easily see her veins! Speaking about other features, her hair was thick and black, cut short to her neck in a flared bob hairstyle while her eyes were large and dark brown, incredibly so at that.

She was wearing a pants that had zippers on the legs which meant if it got too hot, she could change it into shorts, and even shorter than that if she really wanted to. However what was really eye catching was the hooded sweatshirt that she wore, being the same, having zippers at the elbows and shoulders, which meant she could have a short sleeved shirt or a sleeveless one and still retain the hood! Both her hooded sweatshirt and zipper pants in a navy blue as it gradient turned to white at the bottom of the pant legs and the sweatshirt sleeves. Strapped to her feet were some black-strapped gladiator sandals and her hands were covered by lavender-coloured mittens that looked like they could fold and judging from the usual get up, probably sported the ability to become fingerless gloves, last but not least, she had a white surgical mask tied around the back of her head.

The whole outfit screamed low-budget and low-effort in a way, but it gently whispered homemade, which gave it a much more lovely feel to it.

Currently, she was wearing it without any part of the outfit unzipped as she sat to the side. She glanced over to Inyoku-Yui.

Inyoku-Yui was oozing an aura that screamed 'stay away' and his get up only enhanced that, especially with how his scarf hid the bottom half of his head, not to mention his tail.

This didn't really stop Mizaru from approaching the inmate, and it wouldn't stop this woman either. She had approached him many times and now was no different.

"Hey, Snek."

The rattlesnake stopped as his tail grew stiff and shot up a bit, all the while as the snake hissed.

How he hated that nickname she gave him.

"Come on now, Hissy." the woman smiled, all she got was the rattling of Shiro's tail. "Okay, okay. Calm down."

The hissing and the rattling slowed down a bit. "Did you want something, Fushiko?" his tail began to way. "Perhaps—"

"Nah. Not feeling it." Fushiko responded.

Inyoku-Yui's eyes almost went into a deadpan. "That's no fun, Karakuri." the elegantly dressed prisoner walked away. "Maybe next time."

"Maybe." the woman shrugged. "If I feel like it at the time...probably not though."

"You know you won't." this caused Fushiko to glance to her side, a woman had been there.

This woman had a rather unique appearance. She had light green hair that had oleander flowers scattered throughout with matching light pink eyes with the eyelashes being made of oleander petals. Her skin was pale with light pink freckles adorned across her cheeks and even on her shoulders. She looked very delicate with her thin and slender build, she also possessed a tattoo sleeve on her left leg that consisted of oleanders in pale pink ink in a sketch style. It appeared she also had a tattoo sleeve on her right arm, but it was hidden by the long sleeves of her prisoner garbs.

Speaking of which...

Her prison garbs were dyed pink and the pant legs were shortened to that of shorts, the collar of the pink dyed jumpsuit was widened, giving it a off-the-shoulder look. She also sported a gold metal band choker with gold and pearl bracelets, and her footwear compared to the others were more on the lines of heels. This flower woman also had multiple ear piercings with both pearl earrings and bigger oleander ones on the lobe.

"How long have you been there, Yua?"

Yua Aoi had always been a curiosity to Fushiko. "I just got here." she calmly answered and from the looks of it, seemed she had just finished her own meal.

"Anyways, how you doing?"

"I'm doing quite well." the calm Yua replied, leaving Fushiko to look around a bit.

She then coughed into her hands, trying to hide the smile on her face. "So uh, you need a hand?" the smile on her face grew?

"There's nothing I need help with at the moment. Sorry."

The smile on Fushiko's face dimmed a little. "Still way to calm eh?"

"I must be off now, Fushiko." and the woman basically wearing zippers was left alone.

"I see. I see." a young looking woman said, before leaning back on her chair, deep in thought. "Hmm."

The young looking woman sitting at a table alone had dyed, wavy white hair with dark brown streaks in a messy medium-length bob cut. Her eyes were a striking, upturned light green colour while her skin was fairly tanned. She was also a small woman with quite a skinny build.

She wore the orange jumpsuit, with the upper part not being worn as it was tied around her waist as she wore the white short-sleeved t-shirt. She also had a pair of light brown ankle boots and both of her arms were covered in white bandages.

She didn't have much to time to gather her thoughts however.

"Ashita!" a new voice called out, Ashita almost braced herself as if she was going to get tackled as she looked as the person who called her out.

This woman had shoulder-length wavy light, bluish-green hair, pink eyes with a thin and slender build. The major part of her right forearm was covered in tattoos of constellations while on her left hand, specifically between her thumb and pointing finger, was a small, very simple, minimalistic compass tattoo.

She wore the orange jumpsuit with a white tank top underneath which looked a little rough, like it had sleeves ripped off at one point. The tank top took most of the show as she let the upper part of the jumpsuit fall behind her and tied it up around her waist, much like Ashita's own in a way.

"Chikuha." the woman called Ashita responded smoothly.

"Hey, hey, Ashita. You know about the three new prisoners, right? I want to see the new shitstains, wanna test em out too!"

Ashita smiled, "Of course I do. Nothing doesn't get by me here."

"Fuck yeah! Lay it on me!"

Ashita glanced over the woman. "Chikuha Ueno, age twenty two. Wanted for destruction of property and multiple cases of robbery. A few cases of manslaughter and a few assault cases, making it look like accidents to boot."

"Ashita? Ashita Insatsushi?" Chihuka poked the girl.

"You'll be disappointed. You can only meet one of them."

"Huh?"

Ashita pointed back to the female ward cells. "The only one you can meet for now is a girl wearing a mask named Demelza." she explained. "The other two are in the male ward."

Chikuha slumped. "That's shitty."

"It is what it is."

Chikuha grinned, perking herself right up. "Thanks, Ashita!"

"...She's going to do something stupid...isn't she?"

Demelza looked around the table she was sitting at once more, her light silver eyes glanced from person to person who sat at said table. The first was Nozomi, right next to her with Sora on the opposing side of Nozomi. Directly in front of Demelza herself was the cat girl, Koneko, hiding in her hoodie.

It was a small group, that was for sure.

The new prisoner had no real idea what they were talking about as they ate in the cafeteria of the female ward. Food was currently on her mind right now. However, it was cut short from what she heard from the table, turning her head to Sora.

Sora sighed loudly, looking over her shoulder. "Here comes trouble..." she mumbled, frowning a bit as she did.

Koneko dug a bit deeper into her hoodie, but not much as a new woman arrived at the table and immediately locked her eyes onto Demelza, silently singling her out.

This new woman silently staring at Demelza, sporting a sultry smile was tall and fit, sorta curvy but very attractive with a very dark and sharp look to her. She had pale skin with no visible scars but did have earring piercings, but sadly no earrings at all. She also had a simple diamond shape with only three sides, leaving it uncomplete in a V-shape behind her ear next to her hairlines, only shown when she flicked her hair back for a brief moment.

She was wearing the normal black and white striped prisoner uniform, but the only addition to this...was the dark green guard jacket that she wore over top.

She silently walked around over to the new girl. "Hello there~" her tone carried a sultry tune to it. "I hear you're the new girl in these parts."

Demelza raised an eyebrow behind her mask. "Yeah?" In fluid motion, the woman removed the masked girl's mask, enough to see her face.

"A face of a cutie~ What's your name?"

"Is she….flirting with me?" it was hard for Demelza to truly know, but it had to be. Right? "Demelza." she spoke carefully as the woman's finger pressed against her lips.

"It's really nice to meet you, Demelza~" she cooed. "I'm Akita." she leaned in closer towards the goth girl.

"It's good to see a new face in here. I hope we get along, I'll be counting on you from now on." that confused Demelza greatly as Akita's breath tickled her ears, before a chill ran down her spine because of it. "Just remember, I'm the top bitch here in this prison. Everything that happens here is cause of me." her tone changed immensely, yet still retained a little bit of the sultry tone to it.

Akita leaned back, fixed Demelza's mask and waved, seemingly back to normal. "Catch you around, Demi~" with that, the guard jacket wearing girl left.

"Who...who was that?" Demelza asked, looking back at the table.

"Akita, that's her name." Sora huffed. "No last name, just Akita."

Demelza looked to the other two, causing Nozomi to sigh. "Akita, she believes we are all her underlings."

"Why?"

Demelza heard Sora huff, "maybe 'cause she has a screw loose..." that didn't really help...

Koneko shuffled in her seat. "S-She gets every girl in the female w-ward to answer to her."

"Does she really?" the goth asked. "I don't see it. Aren't the guards the ones in charge?"

Nozomi shrugged. "We don't know why, she believes that she runs the female ward, despite the warden for this ward and the guards that patrol here."

"But s-she doesn't abuse anyone t-though." the timid cat said as Sora gave her a 'really?' look.

"Not that we know." Sora countered back to the cat girl.

Demelza turned her attention back to where Akita left. "Just what's going on with that?"

Hey! Introduced some more characters, still have a bit more to go before everyone is introduced. Almost everyone is here. Anyways, I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas/Holiday and a great start to the New Year!

Soon, we can get the ball rolling once more characters are introduced. Don't got much else to say here, so see ya on the next update. Oh, any thoughts on how I should do future flashbacks? Keep them like the one with Inyoku here or split them up like the normal breaks?

Now, for some review replies:

Kive660: You might have to wait one more chapter for that best chapter, but glad you're enjoying yourself so far!

Sumpreme Kai of Booty: Li has the worst luck for his first day, who knows what would of happened if the guards didn't appear when they did.

gold crown dragon: that's a good kind of bump too, let's save the landmines for another day though.

Oblivious ninja IJ: Yep. Gotta keep that distance from Rin.

Kaolyn: Glad you enjoy reading, Kaolyn. Who knows what kind of fights are in store in this prison. Tai's your favourite? Thanks! It means a lot!

Nemris: While the bus scene wasn't addressed this chapter, maybe next chapter? Thanks for the review, I look forward to showing off everyone's quirks too!

Okay, that's it now. See ya next chapter! ^v^