An alarm pierces through the silence that was in Jax's dorm room. An arm reaches from under the covers trying to find the source of the noise. It fails the first few times but eventually the arm conquers the evil alarm. Jax pushes the covers off of his body and sits up. He lets out a yawn as he stretches his arms out to the sky to get the small amount of kinks that developed during his sleep. He looks at his alarm and sees that it reads five thirty in the morning.
Jax gets out of bed and proceeds to do a few stretches limbering up his body. Once he is done with his stretches he walks to his bathroom, turns on his sink and splashes water on his face to wake up. Once fully woken up he brushes his teeth cause no one likes to have to bad morning breath. Once that is all done he then dresses up in his academy uniform, locks the doors and starts walking to the cafeteria.
'Another day in paradise, just gotta keep that positive attitude up and all will be okay.' With a smile on his face Jax enters the cafeteria, gets his breakfast which he chose to have a simple meal of eggs and rice. He sits down in the same seat as yesterday wondering if any of his classmates will show up and have breakfast with him.
While Jax was lost in thought a short black haired girl in pigtails decided it would be a great prank idea by jumping onto his back. Jax proceeds to face plant right into his bowl of food and has a frown on his face trying to figure out who would do such an evil thing.
"Guess whooooo~" a sing songy voice comes from the girl who jumped off his back and onto the seat next to him. "you better not have forgotten my name already desu~."
"Hmmm, rmm, hrpmh" the sound of Jax's muffled voice comes from his food bowl. He places his hands on the table and pushes himself so his face was no longer in his food. "Please never do that again Deshiko, I feel I am going to need to go the chiropractor after that."
Deshiko lets out a gasp in shock "Jax, you aren't calling me fat or heavy now are you?" her voice laced with hurt.
Jax lets out a sigh, "No Deshiko, I just was not ready to be told hello like that. At least give a warning first so I can prepare for it." Let it be known that Jax is not a morning person. He may have the air of ready to take on the day but he at least likes to have breakfast with out any shenanigans happening first thing in the morning.
Deshiko tilts her head and gives a cheeky smile "can do. I will give warning next time desu~"
Jax shakes his head trying to wrap his mind around on how his first friend ended up this ball of hyper energy and also seems to be a bit of a prankster. At least the other two people he met yesterday seemed nice and sane enough and they could hopefully deal with the hyper ball of energy known as Deshiko.
Jax looks back down to his food to see there is at least some salvageable food, enough to hopefully get him through until lunch. He looks back up and sees Deshiko smiling with a content look on her face as she eats whatever she got for breakfast, Jax doesn't really know what it is. All he knows is that he would not eat whatever she was eating for breakfast.
The two are content with eating in their comfortable silence when said silence is broken by a sultry sounding voice.
"Hello Jax, I can hope you had a good rest of the evening last night. I know I did after getting to talk with you" Tamao says while setting down her breakfast in the seat in-front of him. "I hope you are enjoying the view this morning" she sits down and leans forward giving him a clear view of her cleavege.
"Oh, hey Tamao. The view this morning was pretty nice, shame I didn't have enough time to go to the cliffs to watch the sun rise. I bet that would have made the view even nicer. Were you able to get to the cliffs this morning?" He take another bite of his breakfast as he sees Deshiko trying to hide a laugh while Tamao has the most deadpan face. He looks around in confusion "was it something I said? I just asked a question?"
A small laugh interrupts the trio and when they all look up they see the Kahlua sitting down in the seat across from Deshiko. "It's nothing Jax, forget she said anything."
"But why would I do that? She asked a question so I answered and asked the same question back. Isn't that how talking with friends work?"
Kahlua lets out another giggle, "Yes, that is how talking with friends work"
"Yeah, sometimes you just gotta get the comedic affect of not understanding what someone says Desu~" Deshiko puffs up her body and sits up straight. "You did do that to give us a laugh right desu~?"
Jax looks at all three of them in confusion "What do you guys mean? I didn't do anything for comedy, I just answered a question and asked one back, its just simple social cues. C'mon guys, I may have been home schooled but even I'm not that dumb." Jax lets out a chuckle as he finishes up his breakfast. "Thanks for hanging out guys, I'll see y'all at lunch time" He excuses himself, puts on his backpack, throws away his trash and starts walking towards homeroom.
The three girls all look at each other in disbelief from what they just heard by the person they just met a few days ago. Each one having a slightly different reaction to the whole situation that happened right in front of their very eyes.
"He can't be serious right? I thought it was very obvious what view I was suggesting. Is he that socially inept, that dense, or just being polite? Cause now I'm just dumbfounded at what happened." Tamao has the most shocked expression.
Kahlua sweat drops "I think he was either being polite or dense. He was homeschooled after all, you can't really expect someone from a homeschool to be able to pick up on the signs of flirting or teasing. Do you even know what he did before he got here?"
Both Deshiko and Tamao shake their head. "See, none of us really know him, we've known him for a day. Get to know him before you start the advances."
Deshiko nods head "I agree desu, I kind of did something I wasn't sure he would be fine with. Im just happy he accepted the apology that I never do it again desu."
The other two girls look upon her with intrigue. "well, what are you waiting for, spit it out. What you do?"
She taker her two index fingers and presses them together and looks down in embarrassment. "heh, I kind of jumped on his back and accidently slammed his face into his food and the table." She chuckles quietly to herself. "It wasn't my brightest moment desu".
"Ahh, that would explain the food on his face. I thought he was just a messy eater but it seems I was mistaken, at least he forgave you and you learned your lesson. Shows that he is not hostile and patient" Kahlua explains.
"But I wanted to get a reaction out of him, shame too. It would've been hilarious. That just means I have to try even harder to get a reaction out of him. That's my goal" Tamao stands up with a fire in her eyes. "Well I am off to homeroom to figure out which is going to be the best way to get a reaction out of him. See ya guys" She throws away her trash and runs to her homeroom class.
"Well I guess this is good bye for now, we shall talk more at lunch and if we have class together we shall talk there" Kahlua curtsies and walks off leaving Deshiko alone at the table. She looks down at her food and back up at the empty table, trying to figure out what to do.
"Mou, desu" She eats the last bit of her food, saddened by all her friends leaving, and throws the trash away in the can. She then looks up with a smile on her face. "time for classes Desu~"
Jax takes his seat by the window just like yesterday. He opens his bad, takes out his notebook and pencil, closes his bag and let's it hang around the back of his chair. 'There we go, safe, secured and in a convenient place. What more can a guy ask for when hanging something up, besides a few nails and saying that it won't go anywhere like my dad does"
While waiting for Ms. Nekonome to arrive he opens up his notebook and starts to draw an outline of a marigold before he hears the cough of his teacher and a sounds almost like a yawn.
Jax closes his notebook and looks up to see it is indeed Ms. Nekonome at the teachers desk. She is holding a mug of coffee. Both of her ears are out and about with her tail on full display as well. "Good morning class, sorry I'm running a bit late" She takes a sip of her coffee and her tail disappears into her body and her ears fold down and become part of her hair.. She finishes her sip of coffee and sighs in relief. "There we go, now I can teach Nya~"
"As I stated yesterday and I'm by now this phrase is slowly being drilled into your head this school is a school for monsters run by monsters so that we can slowly integrate ourselves with the human culture that surrounds and swallows the monster culture, we have become nothing more but folklore, fairy tales and mythology." She starts walking around the classroom and continues her thought process. "Now I know some monsters out there are not quite the biggest fan of that idea that we should just fade into myth. Others are very willing to allow us to fade into the mythology so our survival rate goes upwards. However this brings up the problem known as reproduction, with monsters always hiding 24/7 it would be hard to find another monster to mate with and most humans would refuse to mate or be with a monster at all unless it fits in with what they enjoy."
Nekonome rubs her eyes after talking about that topic "let's just say that humans are into some interesting stuff and if you want to make a quick buck I say go for it, but you did not hear it from me. Understand class." She glares at the class which sends a shiver down everyone's spine so that the lesson of don't fuck with the teacher is made crystal clear.
"Alright, now that we all stand on the same page let us move on to the topic of blending in with the humans and what to do if said human sees you transform or sees an appendage sticking out of you. Now the first excuse, and usually the most reliable, one can always use is something called cosplay. It gives humans their own idea in their head and they will either ask for a picture and be on their merry way or they would ask to touch it. If they has to touch it you can usually say no and they get the hint. If they do not get the hint and try to touch you anyway you are allowed to use a small amount of force to get away."
One student raises their hand and Mr. Nekonome points at them. "Yes, what is your question sir"
"Ummm, what exactly is cosplay Ms? You kept talking about it but why is that excuse so good to use?"
"Cosplay is basically dressing up as your favorite fictional character, simple as that" The bell rings and signals the change of classes "oh? Nya~? thats the end of this class, tomorrow we will go over the second excuse to get away with transforming."
Jax puts away his note book, cracks his back on the chair, gets up takes his bag and heads onto his second class of the day
On his way to the door to exit the classroom he bumps into Deshiko
"Oh, hey Deshiko. I forgot we shared homeroom together, what did you think of class today"
"That was a snooze fest for me deshi~ I don't need any of those excuses, my monster form requires no explanation and it definitely doesn't need no excuses either"
"Ya know, that's a pretty fair assessment depending on what monster you are. I didn't really need the lesson either but I am always welcome to learn new thing everyday. Now c'mon times a wasting and so let us hop to it and get to our next classes"
Deshiko gives a salute "aye aye captain Deshi~"
And that statement Jax and Deshiko split paths in the hallway as they head off into their respective classes that they belong in.
Jax walks into history class without hesitation and takes his seat eager to learn more about the backstory of monsters and how they became ridiculed and banished from any form of thought to slowly fade into mythology and ancient legends.
The teacher clears his throat and waits for the second bell to ring which signals the start of the next period.
"Yesterday we discussed how the English and almost all other races of human banished monster kind from the human realm and into the monster realm we now exist in. What I forgot to mention was the fact that they were only able to do that with the help of witches and fake magic. Now witches are warlocks are a touchy subject since some monsters consider them not even a monster but a half breed, same concept with warlocks. That however is not true. Witches and Warlocks are monsters just like you and I, they are the only ones who have no defined ranking of how dangerous they can be. They have never ending potential with how much magic can they learn. The other reason why monsters see witches and warlocks as not monster is due to the fact that they helped the humans seal us up but in the end they were deserted and became outcasts and burned at the stake. When monsters tried to come back to the human world in their natural state humans would notice them and think they either hallucinated or that human would never be heard from again, and this trend continued for centuries upon centuries which lead to the creation of mythological creatures. Ten foot tall monsters and humans turning into hairy beasts on a full moon and even goats mysteriously disappearing. All the humans ever saw were glimpses of what truly lurks out there or if they saw the full thing they were never heard of again. But now humans have all their guns and weapons of mass destruction and all we have our transformations and that's it. Tomorrow shall be a lesson on the weakest tier of monsters, study up class so we can all be on the same page."
The bell rings once again signaling the end of 2nd period and the students pick their heads up from their nap. Jax however puts away his pen and notebook after writing down what he has to read up on, after all tomorrow is another day.
HOLY SHIT, I am so sorry this is coming out so late. The title of the document was update on June 1st and here we are on December 24th. I did not mean to keep you all waiting. I just got busy with work and school and life in general. I will hopefully update this story so much more often then I did this year. Either way I hope you guys enjoy this chapter. I had a blast writing the monologues. Next chapter will most likely revolve around lunch, PE and English class. I hope to add more characters into this mix but for now I should focus on the characters I have.
This is Atomizer, signing off and wishing everyone a happy holidays.