"I'm gonna be late!" Usagi Said as she screamed out her front door.
She ran down the sidewalk, nearly running into several people in the process. "Sorry! Excuse Me! Sorry!" She screamed as she knocked the people she ran past to the ground.
Her legs were on fire by the time she reached the school, and the air felt like ice with each breath she took.
"she's so sweaty" one of the more stuck up students commented to her group of friends.
"AT LEAST I'M ON TIME!" Usagi screamed at the group, failing to come up with anything better to say.
Nearly as soon as she stepped in the school's door, the bell began to ring. Usagi rushed to her first class, which was English. "alright class, we have big news today!" their teacher said excitedly "we have two new students! Our first is Amanda Charmine"
An unnaturally thin girl with long, strait pale blond hair walked up to the front of the class. "and our other student, whom some of you may have heard of, the teen-aged stunt cyclist, Johnny Blaze!"
Johnny Blaze walked out, a little awkwardly, not expecting the flashy introduction. "please, this is school, not the carnival. Don't over sell me" he said, not wanting to be aggrandized.
"sorry, can you tell us a little about yourself"
"Sure, as you know, I do motorcycle stunts at carnivals. Me and my dad originally jumped from state to state, but we decided to settle here since, with the California weather, there's a year round carnival. Go to school during the week and perform there during the weekend"
"Excellent, you can sit back down now, Blaze. Now Amanda, do you want to tell us about yourself?"
"do I have to?" Amanda asked.
"well, no, I guess not, but-"
"good" Amanda said before going to sit back down.
The class seemed to drag on for hours as Usagi's mind went numb. It was the biggest relief for her to hear the bell ring, signifying that it was lunch break. This came as a great relief to Usagi, as because of her being late, she hadn't been able to eat breakfast. There was something strange that happened at lunch, however. Amanda, who had been less than interested in telling anyone anything about her, was now aggressively flirting with the male students, specifically Robert Ketch. Usagi sat across the cafeteria watching the spectacle from a distance. She was alone at the table. That was, until, someone sat down at the table. "so, come here often?" Johnny Blaze said, clearly joking.
"oh, hi" Usagi said, startled by the fact that there was someone had sat down "uh, not over with Amanda?" she said, finishing her response awkwardly.
"no, there's something about her that rubs me the wrong way, but I can't place it"
"huh"
"you look familiar, have we met before?"
"oh, I was at your last show"
"no, it's something else, almost like I knew you before"
"well, I don't think we've met before"
"well, I must just be confusing you for someone else" Johnny said, rationalizing the situation.
The bell rang, signaling everyone to go to their next class, which was science. The class was sitting at their desks, waiting for their teacher. Their was a conversation outside the classroom, but no one could understand what they were saying. Just then, a man was basically shoved into the classroom, but it wasn't their teacher. It was an extremely thin, tall man with messy brown hair wearing a blue suit suit with a red tie, and over that a brown trench coat. "uh, hello class. I guess I'm your substitute, what type of science class is this?" he said in a thick British accent.
"biology" one of the students said hesitantly.
"ah, well then I might have something to teach. What do any of you think of the concept of souls?" he asked the class rhetorically "souls and the bodies they're connected to are not set in stone. If a soul survives after the body dies, then the soul can go on to posses another body. This can happen to ways. The most common is forced possession, which is pretty self explanatory. The soul invades the body, and the native soul, the one that's in the body at birth, fights back. The second type is very rare. Consensual possession is when the native soul actually allows the invading soul to remain in the body"
"should we really be learning about this in science class? We were learning about mollusks" Usagi asked.
"uh, well, I'm sure you'll be able to learn about that again. Anyway, in this type of possession, the souls actually take turns controlling the body. If the soul belongs to another human or an equivalent species, the body doesn't change. But if a demon is controlling the body consensually, it's flesh melts away, and the bones are engulfed in fire"
The principle walked into the classroom "excuse me sir, you have to leave"
"but I'm not done yet"
"Sir, you have to leave" the principle reiterated.
As the principle dealt with the substitute, he was also giving instructions to the class "you can all take science class off today. In fact, go ahead and go home. Enjoy your half day everybody"
Usagi sat in complete confusion, befuddled by the entire situation. Having come back to her senses, she began to pack up her books, chopping the last few minutes up to the rambling of a crazy man.
A/N
I apologize for the long wait, I've been busy with all my other fanfics, as well as my YouTube channel. Don't worry though, I am not, nor do I plan to, leaving this story behind.