Chapter 5: Transferring, Please Wait
A/N: I changed the format of the school. I based it of the high school I went to.
An alarm goes off in Nyx's room. It's followed by various thuds and other noises, and then finally emerges a not so awake Nyx. She woke up an extra thirty minutes early. She has everything she needs to get washed up and changed in the bathroom. She enters the bathroom and closes the door. Thirty minutes later Nyx comes out the bathroom dressed and clean and very awake. She goes back to her room to put on lotion and sunscreen. Afterwards she goes to Riku's door. She knocks twice.
"Hey are you up," She asks, "It's time to get ready to go. We leave in an hour." She hears a groggy moan and some shifting on the bed. Then silence. 'He's not a morning person.' She inwardly laughs to herself. "Hey, you better not fall asleep on me, we gotta go." Finally Riku gets up. He opens the door and reveals that he is in fact shirtless. Nyx is trying her hardest not to stare or look down to see what else she could find; his chest and muscles are very distracting. After a moment, Nyx snaps out of it. "Uhh the bathroom is on the right." She says this rapidly with a slight higher pitch of voice. Then she pretty much runs down the stairs without looking back.
Riku is confused since he's still half asleep. Then it hits him that he's only in boxers. Now he realizes why Nyx was acting weird suddenly with a faint blush on her cheeks. Her eye color also flashed. He smirks to himself. Riku may be modest, but knowing a girl is attracted to them would make any guy's day. He gets his things and heads to the bathroom to get ready. Twenty minutes later he's ready and leaves the bathroom to head downstairs to the kitchen. Once he reaches there, he sees Nyx sitting at the table with a bowl of mostly empty cereal. She's playing on her handheld device just like yesterday. There is an empty bowl on the table with a box of Frosted Flakes and half a gallon of milk. He sits down and prepares himself a bowl of cereal. He notes how invested Nyx is in her handheld. Feeling eyes on herself, Nyx looks up at Riku.
"Oh hey," she greets him, "I hope that the cereal is okay. We don't have much else."
Riku gives his approval. "It's alright. I eat these at home." He looks at her device. "What is that? I saw you on it yesterday."
"Oh this? It's a video game. It has two screens and the bottom screen is a touch screen." She shows him the device and how the touch screen works with her stylus. "You buy little cartridges and put them in the device. The cartridge is the game, without it there wouldn't be much to do with the system." She shows him where the cartridge goes. "The game I'm playing right now is about a character that goes off on a journey to capture and train monsters and defeat gym leaders. It's called Pocket Monsters."
Riku nods his head and gets the gist of the game, but doesn't see much interest in it. He finishes eating his cereal and puts his bowl in the sink. Nyx follows suit after him. At this point, Starlette has come down the stairs and entered the kitchen. "Are you guys ready to go?"
They say yes in unison. They walk to the Gummi ship hanger and board Starlette's dark blue and black Gummi ship named Shadow. They strap in and prepare for lift-off. The Gummi ship rockets into the air, leaving the atmosphere of Twilight Town. Within minutes, Sky High can be seen through the distance. They land on its surface softly. They disembark in the back of the school. The school is large, with three floors, a music and performing arts wing, and a wing for the Gym. There's a track surrounding a football field, bordered by bleachers and a fence. A press box faces the school. They enter a small vestibule before entering the Events Lobby of the school.
"This is where we part ways," Nyx says. "Bye Mom." She gives Starlette a hug. She turns to Riku to give a shy goodbye and a wave before she heads to where she needs to go. Riku waves back at her, then follows Starlette to a guidance counselor's office. After going up a flight of stairs and going down a hallway, they reach their destination. One side of the hallway is glass that overlooks the front lobby and some classrooms. The other side is sprinkled with classrooms and other rooms. The initial room for the guidance counselors is titled A-103 in the middle of the hallway. However, once inside there are multiple rooms each occupied by different counselors. Starlette makes a left and enters a room with a middle-aged woman with caramel skin, short black hair and soft eye. The room is small, with a chunky computer at the center of a messy desk. Various posters cover the walls. The plaque on her desk reads Ms. Key.
"Hello, how may I help you," Ms. Key asks without looking up from her computer.
Starlette replies kindly, "Hello, my name is Starlette Crescent. I'm here to transfer Riku here," she points to Riku, "to Sky High starting this fall. Along with two other students who'll transfer later."
Ms. Key takes a closer look at Riku. Then recognition flashes across her face. "Oh! You're Riku! You're the new Keyblade Master of this generation. We'd be happy to have you at our school!" At this point Ms. Key is adamantly shaking Riku's hand after standing up. "Your heroic deeds across the worlds are known throughout the school. You're quite popular."
Riku blushes a bit from the sudden attention and outburst. Ms. Key calms down a bit and stops shaking Riku's hand. She sits back down and clears her throat. "So we'll e transferring Master Riku to this school," Ms. Key comments. "May I ask what your last name is young man?"
Riku replies, "Tasogare."
"Tasogare you say? That's a nice last name. Okay, I'm putting you in the system. It'll take a minute. Do you have any questions about this school?"
Riku ponders for a bit. "What classes will I be taking?"
"Well seeing how you're already a Master you can take Master classes for training and you won't have to take an assessment for that. You'll also have to take some academic classes seeing how you've probably been away from school for a while. We'll give you an assessment to see where you're at."
'Great, I'll probably have to take math and stuff,' Riku thinks inwardly.
"Okay you're in the system. Now it's time to take your test. Follow me." Ms. Key gets up and leads the way out of the office. They make a right once out of the counselors' suites and go across the hall to a door. The sign next to the door says "Computer Lab".
Starlette taps Riku on the shoulder. "Hey, I'm going to watch the Marching Band practice. It's outside on the stadium. When you're done come find me. It's by where we came from in the back." Riku nods in understanding. Starlette waves and bids him good luck before heading down the hall. Riku goes into the room.
Once inside, he heads to the closet computer. Ms. Key has already set up the test. She instructs him on how to take the assessment on the computer. Then she sits on the opposite side of the room to give Riku some privacy during the test. It takes him 40 minutes to complete the test. Once done, the information of his performance is printed out on paper. Ms. Key takes the paper and heads to her office with Riku in tow.
Once Ms. Key returns to her desk, she analyzes the results of Riku's assessment. The wait makes Riku a little anxious. Finally, Ms. Key is done and starts to speak. "Your results are good so you'll be taking senior level academic classes. So you have Precalculus for Math, Literature, and History of the Worlds. Most seniors don't have to take a math and history class. However, because of past events you missed a year so you have to take them. Since you're a senior and your results were good, a science isn't really required, but I'll give you Anatomy to fill the requirement and to spare you. As for your electives, what do you have in mind? You can take up to two."
Riku makes a face, prompting Ms. Key to show him some of the options to chose from in the classes catalog. "The art electives are popular choices followed by music if you sing or play an instrument. You can also take another academic based class or become a student aid or get an extra training class."
Riku thinks about his choices. Finally, he picks Art II Honors. Ms. Key explained that the basic art classes are honor classes, as long as he could complete projects, he shouldn't have a problem. He also opts for a Training class focusing on magic and defense. "Okay your schedule is set," says Ms. Key. "You have Anatomy first, then Art, Math, Gym, Lunch, Literature, History and finally, Magic and Defense Training." Ms. Key prints out Riku's schedule and hands it to him. "You're all set. I look forward to seeing you in the fall. If you have any questions contact me through the e-mail on your schedule."
With that, Riku thanks the counselor and leaves the room. He remembers where he came in from with Starlette and goes back in that direction. He goes down the stairs and past the cafeteria and enters the events lobby. Once there, he heads out the doors to the vestibule and then to outside. Riku sees the stadium past the end of the parking lot. He walks the short distance to the field. There's a ramp to go up the bleachers. Once up the ramp, he sees a handful of adults. He spots Starlette and goes up to sit with her.
"How did it go," Starlette asks once Riku sat down.
"It went well, lengthy though," he replies with a polite smile. They watch the marching band move throughout the field with their instruments. There are people, mostly girls, marching with the band without instruments. Instead they held flag poles. Nyx was one of those people. Riku could spot her from the distance. It was if she were gliding across the field as she marched. The people with flags just held them in place. The same went with the band; they didn't play, they just held their instruments as they marched. The band director who was at the bottom of the bleachers was yelling at the students on the field. He then told them to start from the top. All the students scramble to their starting positions.
A female student with blonde hair is on a podium in front of the field. She starts waving her arms in four movements, then the band starts to play in place. The people with flags start moving their flags in graceful swipes, showing off the silk of the flags. Then everyone starts to move around the field. The band and flag spinners start to make intricate designs on the field with their movements. This must have been the first time they performed everything together; the performance as a whole was a little sloppy. But with a few more practices they could be come really good. Finally the song ended and everyone made their end pose. The director congratulates them on getting through it all for the first time, then dismissed the students. Everyone is high-fiving each other while they're packing up. The flag spinners make their way to two women on the side of the field. After a short moment the group disbands and pack up their equipment and head inside. They go inside a side door not too far from the vestibule.
As students trickle out the band room, they finally see Nyx emerge from the building. She's waving to people as she walks towards her mother and Riku. "Hey, you got everything," Starlette asks Nyx. She just nods in response. The trio makes their way to their Gummi ship with Riku and Nyx lagging behind Starlette.
"How did it go," Nyx asks Riku.
He replies with, "It was alright, got all senior classes."
"Ah that's good. Hopefully we get into the same classes." She gives him a smile Riku can't resist returning. They board the Gummi Ship to embark on a journey back home.
A/N: To my lone reviewer. Thank you for reviewing my story. I didn't think anyone was really reading this. This is my first fan fiction ever. I know it's a slow start and right now it's only at a K rating right now. I promise that the story will get more T rated. It might even go to the M rating. Just not right now. I'm still introducing some things. Expect the character to be a bit Mary Sue-ish but not without some major hardships.