"AaaaaAAAHH" a boy in his pajamas jumps out from his bed, panting heavily. As if he was a part of the dream "Huff... huff… what was… huff... that…"
Still panting, confused if he's still in the dream, he quickly glances at his surroundings to see that he's in his bedroom, the massive bookshelf at the right, the alarm clock and a Collosse fantasy book on the table in front of him, and the windows at his back
"Cameron! Wake up already! It's 8:30 in the morning!"
A woman angrily yells from outside the room. Catching his breath, he lays back on his bed with his hand on his chest "Ah! Yeah… I still have to enroll… and that dream…."
Cameron quickly changes from his pajamas to a blue t-shirt and dark orange shorts, then lunging towards the bookshelf to grab a Collosse history book, and went back to his table. "Collossean landscapes have always been so bizarre.." he says to himself while looking through the pages of the history book, showing different biomes of the place, each with different kinds of flora and fauna. He closes the books and puts them in his bag then pauses for a while "Ah, that's it!" He says to himself, putting on his bag and going out of his room
"Where are you planning to go, young man?"
Cameron gets startled by his mom being just by the door. Crossing her arms, putting the spatula on the table beside her "I repeat, whERE are YOU going young man?"
"I'm going to enroll to a Collossean high school, mom" Cameron replies while walking to the dining table "and here's your spatula" he says while handing the spatula back to his mom
"Oh, well, you're not even a Collossean" his mom lowers her voice as she cracks 3 eggs on a hot pan
"You're dad wasn't even a Collossean.." she continues, trying to keep herself from tearing up
"Mom. I squeezed through tight situations, why not this? I'm sure that I'll be fine!" Cameron replies enthusiastically, his mom looks back at him to see him smiling at her, she smiles back at him with a sense of relief "all right then. Do what you want"
Upon hearing, Cameron pats himself on the back and whispers "Yyyyyess!"
Cameron looks up from his phone and suddenly feels discouraged from the sight "I'm sure it looks better inside, right? Not just this abysmally looking apartment?" He thinks to himself, trying to get to the door until he hears a woman's voice calling him from his right "Hey! You're planning to enroll for high school?" Cameron looks to his right to see a woman in a pink hoodie, blue jeans, wearing glasses and hair tied into a ponytail, waving at him with a large smile on her face. "Y-yeah, but seriously, is this the highschool?" Cameron asks the woman about it
"Oh, I forgot to introduce myself, I'm Cynthia!
And-yes this IS the highschool!"
"How is she so enthusiastic about this abysmally looking apartment…"
"How are you so enthusiastic about this… abysmally looking apartment..?" Cameron asks Cynthia, with which she replies
"Oh, don't judge a book by its cover!"
She opens the door a slight bit and green waves and particles start flowing out
"See that?" And as she pushes her glasses, she continues "Now experience magnificence!"
She slams the door away and everyone stops to glare at Cynthia and she lowers herself, whispering "oh.. yeah.. sorry.." then everyone continues to do what they're doing
"Magical flowers, dog-cats? Flying wizards? Sparring matches?"
"Still want to say that this is one abysmally looking apartment?"
Cameron glares at Cynthia and replies "well obviously! the apartment didn't even look clean!"
Cynthia scratches the back of her head, feeling slightly humiliated
"Well, let's go to the registrar then?" She shifts the topic, pointing open hands towards the left
Cameron moves a step backward and pauses for a moment "…. Cynthia, I'm only trusting you in this because you're a second year. This is nothing but an empty white room …."
"Yeah, this is the registrar"
Cynthia reaches out her hand and says: "Another person wants to be a part of the Collossean community, we ask for your presence"
Cynthia looks at Cameron and pats his shoulder
"Just wait for a little bit"
"Oka~y.."
Cameron glares at Cynthia "Hey, three minutes already passed, are you sure this is right?"
Cynthia sighs then reaches out her hand again
"AnOTHER PERson wANTS to bE A pART Of THE COLLOSSEAN commUNITY, WE. ASK. FOR YOUR PRESENCE"
Suddenly the room glows purple then magical waves flow everywhere, Cameron is amazed but is still wondering how he's going to enroll himself and then the magical waves form into a pen and paper on a table infront of Cameron. "But the words here are like.. runes..?"
Cynthia, admiring the magic happening around them snaps back to reality and apologized to Cameron because she got lost for a while
"That's Collossean language, we're not thought what the specific term for that is… But eh, just shade the first box above and it should translate to English!"
"Ah, don't worry, I can understand this.."
Cameron, being skeptical, is deciding whether he should shade the box or not. "H-a-v-i y-o-u… wait, that shouldn't be.." After realizing that he cannot really decrypt the Collossean language that well yet, he shades the box and it all formed into English words, his jaw drops with his eyes widening out of amazement.
Cynthia, seeing this, giggled
"he's just like me last year.." she says to herself while looking at Cameron slowly filling up the form
"Have you had experience in fighting?… I joined fighting classes here in Elyza.."
He looks back at Cynthia and Cynthia nods in approval so he writes a check mark on the box
"Are you a transferee or a returnee?.. what grade level are you?.. 1st year highschool.."
"Hurry it up, I'm being famished over he- ah!"
Cynthia gets slapped on the face by the registrar magic
"*Let him take his time*… all right.."
She says to herself in disappointment, glaring at Cameron "hurry up please"
"TOOK yoU LOng EnOUgh" Cynthia tells Cameron
"NoooOW LET'S EAT" she continues as she jumps in excitement
"It's to the right, right?" Cameron asks Cynthia, pointing to the building on their right
Cynthia waves her hands like an explosion while eye rolling Cameron "OBVIOUSLY, thErE's a SIGN OBVIOUSLY STATING that the canteen is OVER THERE"
"And there's a road path aLSO OBVIOUSLY leading to the canteen!" She continues pointing at the rocky path then towards the building
"So shall we?" Cameron asks Cynthia with a face asking for approval
Cynthia grabs Cameron's hand and she starts dragging Cameron towards the canteen
Cynthia and Cameron are eating at a table, Cynthia already finishing a plate of chicken, and a bowl of crab soup. While Cameron is still finishing his first omurice
"Hrey, Shintiya, how do you.." he swallows the food in his mouth
"Ah, that was great - well anyway! How do I order omurice again?"
Cameron looks down, seeing Cynthia happily laying on the whole chair with her hands on her stomach
"Uh Cynthia, how do I order omurice again?" He asks a second time
"Ahhhhhh yeah… soooo..." Cynthia raises her point finger
"Neeeever miiiiind" her hand falls and she starts snoring
Cameron looks down in sadness "well this is unfortunate" he says until a man calls him from the back
"hey! So Cynthia just ate, huh?"
Cameron looks back to see who he is. He has long hair, an unzipped jacket and what seems to be a dragon designed t-shirt under it, with a blue colour contrasted bottom
"Uh hey! Yes, she just did. Are you a friend of hers?"
The man sits beside Cameron and confirms Cameron's thought
"Obviously, yes I am"
Cameron shrugs "this man's facial expressions are top notch but damn the voice is so monotone"
He said to himself, Ryuku in the other hand has already asked Cameron to introduce himself thrice and Cameron sat there in confusion until Ryuku asked him the fourth time
"I repeat again, can you introduce yourself man?"
Startled Cameron is slowly panicking and doesn't know what to do so he replied with: "please start with you! Hehe.."
Ryuku coughs and glances to the right and then back at Cameron "oh, well, then why didn't you tell me earlier!"
"Sorry!.." Cameron replies while brushing his shoulder in embarrassment
"I'm Ryuku, a scythe wielder-"
"Wait, scythe wielders.."
"Everything is going downhill, we're losing.." Eliseo relays with barely any will to live in his voice while the Hol'Borns are doing a massacre
"#but my scythe wielders can!-#" Lie Jin tries to encourage Eliseo
"Your men and their skills are our best line of defence, you'll have to go down.."
"#…Ah, so the Limbo will be unrestrained, then?#"
"And Cynthia here is my classmate, and one of my best friends, the rest of my info will have to be explored later in the chapter, so, sorry!"
Is all that Cameron gets to hear from him after the recent thought
"Wait, what did you say again?"
"Cynthia is my friend, I'm Ryuku. Nice to meet you, Cameron" Ryuku replies, handing out a hand
Cameron shakes his hand while the left hand is used to scratch his nape
"I'm Cameron, I'm just new to this school so I might need some guidance!"
Ryuku glances at Cynthia and then gives a wide stare at Cameron "I'm reading the script, don't worry, I already know you"
Cameron quickly takes his hand away from Ryuku and asks "what do you mean?"
Ryuku turns 90° to the right, facing Cynthia
"Ah, it's nothing"
"Ok.." Cameron turns to Cynthia just waking up with a suspicious look on Ryuku, switching focus back and forth with Cameron
Cynthia squints her eyes while pointing back and forth with Ryuku and Cameron
"Are you guys… friends already?"
Cameron:"Well, I think we- eh what?"
Ryuku: "that's what the author considers, so, I guess"
Cynthia jumps in delight "that's great! Cameron, you have 2 friends now!"
"Like that is anything.." Cameron doubts
"Hmph.." Cynthia pushes her glasses and crosses her arms "well, you see.."
"Why does she have to explain?"
"Like seriously, she doesn't have to.."
"How can I tell her to stop?"
And suddenly someone bumps his right shoulder, making Cameron look right at Ryuku
"Gah, he wants me to listen, I guess I'll have to…"
Cameron could hear Ryuku utter some words
"Kid, you don't have to, it isn't like she's worth listening anyway"
Cameron jumps in shock
"Wait, he can hear me?"
Ryuku hits Cameron's shoulder again
"I told you I could read the script"
"What the heck is a script?" Cameron asks himself while looking at Cynthia, waving her hands about, explaining things
Ryuku says something to the reader
"Well, we'll be cutting now. There's nothing relevant happening really."
Cameron asks Cynthia by the entrance of the school
"Hey, Cynthia. Can you meet me here tomorrow? I still don't know this place and I might get lost!"
"Ah, don't worry, I will be"
She replies followed by a reassuring smile and a thumb towards Cameron