Episode 1- Wednesday's Child Is Full of Woe and it may be she shall touch the Happy Isles.

"Coach she tripped me!"

"It was a fare hit, Rowan."

"Maybe if you whined less and practice more, you wouldn't suck."

Was the exchange that Wednesday heard as she entered the fencing club room, she could feel the eyes of others judging her as she walked through.

"That's not accurate, well it's halfway there." A familiar voice behind trigger once more the strange facial muscle contractions that plagued her, but only for a moment, as Lucas also made his way inside the room with two swords strapped to his back and carrying a gym bag.

"One by the way you squint I'd say that you wear glasses which you don't wear during practice, that's illegal and unfair even for organized sports. Two by the inhaler I'd say you have weak lungs and stamina which is key so to fencing so putting you here is not appropriate. 3…crocodiles." Lucas said as he opened the gym bag.

"Crocodiles?" Roman asked.

"Obviously he is referring to the fact that crocodiles are weak on land and invincible in water as such he is using a metaphor to compare you to a crocodile, fencing to land and judging by the equipment he brought kendo as the water." Wednesday said all of a sudden making Lucas snap his neck towards her.

"Thief! She stole my thunder!" Lucas said in a mock outraged voice.

"If you do not wish for me to outwit you then do not attempt to shine in my presence." Wednesday replied.

"Because you can't stand bright and shiny things, right?" Lucas said with a grin of the cat who caught the canary.

This time Wednesday was the one who was caught of guard.

"Well played."

"Thanks Diana, anyway let's get down to brass tax. Now Kendo is more about technique and matches are less physically demanding but more mentally taxing than fencing. Now I don't like the fact that you don't have any contacts so we'll start off light with foam swords and with your glasses on." Lucas said as he helped Rowan put on the protective gear for Kendo.

"What's a normie doing here?" Wednesday heard the boy that her….ugh….roommate and future unsolved murder mystery Enid describe as Xavier ask with disdain in his voice.

"My Beineke has joined Nevermore to participate in the fencing team and help us expand towards the other weapon based martial arts, he is quite talented and will serve as the captain for the non-fencing related teams." The coach replied.

"If he's so talented then why didn't he participate in this year's Olympics?" Xavier asked.

"I did. Two silvers for mace and axe, 3 bronze for crossbows, two gold for longsword and kendo." Lucas said back as he explained the basics of kendo to Rowan.

"Bull, I watched the games and you were not on the USA team!" Xavier shot back.

"I'm not on the USA team, I play for Poland. My great grandfather's polish and I spent my summers there." Lucas replied with a grin before he put on his mask and he and Rowan prepared for the first practice match.

It was a different beast from fencing altogether, kendo started with both opponents touching blades and then trying to bate the other into a weakness for an attack or counter. A second passed, then two, then three until suddenly Lucas struck at Rowan who managed to block the first blow but not the second.

"Good! Good! See! Crocodiles on land vs on water! Let's carry on. Come on Rowan!" Lucas said in encouragement as he continued the lesson.

"As fun as getting rid of dead weight is I still require a proper adversary? Anyone else want to challenge me?" Bianca asked with smug superiority

"I do." Wednesday said.

"Oh, you must be the psychopath they let in."

"And you must be the queen bee. Interesting thing about bees. Pull out their stingers, they drop dead." Wednesday replied which made Bianca's smug face disappear and her eyes go wide.

"OOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Lucas said all of a sudden which made Xavier shoot him a dirty look and Wednesday could fell another one of those strange muscle contractions coming onto her.

"Are we doing this or not?" Wednesday said not giving Bianca a moment to counter argue.

"En garde." The coach said as the two girls assumed positions.

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"It was a close match." Rowan said as Wednesday angrily stood in the hospital as the nurse put a bandage on her cut forehead.

"A loss is a loss." Wendsday replied.

"Don't take it so hard, things get better. They always do. I mean up until now I didn't fit in, not even with the fencing club…I've been an outcast, funny being an outcast in a school of outcast. And now, now I fit in with kendo, I mean if I could do it then you could definitely do it. I could never fight Bianca like you could." Rowan said to her.

"They say no good deed goes unpunished. So next time I shall fight her before she picks on others that way it will not be a good deed but a bad deed and I shall win." Wednesday said as she left the nurse's office and a grinning Rowan.

No less than ten minutes latter she found herself nearly getting crushed by a statue, pushed out of the way, unconscious and reconnecting with Xavier Thorpe, after they talked a bit and he refreshened her memory of him and the casket incident he left to let her recover.

"You can come out now."

"What gave me away?" Lucas said walking out of the shadows.

"The shadows hide you from eyes, but not from ears."

"So you heard my heartbeat?"

"No, just your weak attempts to smother your giggling."

"I'm sorry, but…..come on…..brooding artist, dated the queen, past connection. The guys a walking stereotype the only question is if he's the bad boy or the boy next door." Lucas.

"I agree, cliches are most troublesome, especially one's by a jock."

"Come on now Diana, I never brought up the weapons things when we talked in the forest. WHICH GIVES ME ANOTHER POINT AND PUTS ME IN THE LEAD! HA! THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR STEALING MY CROCODILE THUNDER!" Lucas said and got out his book puppet.

"And I will steal much more besides your crocodile thunder." Wednesday said with her own devil puppet.

"NOT IF YOU DON'T CATCH ME! BATMAN AWAY!" Lucas said in the exaggerated cookie monster like voice before he left the infirmary. He still had two swords strapped to his back, Wednesday found that it suited him. The face muscle contractions where acing up again, she should speak to the nurse about them before her mandatory therapy session.

With the help of thing that she concealed in her backpack she managed to escape trough her therapist's bathroom, and make her way to the coffee shop that the principle spoke of where she was currently helping the barista with his broken espresso machine.

"Grim Reaper Barbie, makes perfect sense."

"Pwaaghahahahahah! Oh that's a good one! Why didn't I think of it!" Lucas thought to himself as he had to smother his laughter to not give away his position. And when he saw that Wednesday's attempts to bribe him failed and she, Grim Reaper Barbie, was forced to wait until his shift was over Lucas almost keeled over in laughter in his booth. And when those idiots dressed as pilgrims came in Lucas had to use both hands to smother his laughter as a scene right out of a bad movie or tv show, so bad it was good was playing out before him

"Oh…must not comment. Must resist. Must enjoy how Wednesdays is about to rip them a new one." Lucas whispered to himself before the barista called Tyler Galpin came up to her to help.
"Oh…it's not so bad it's good, it's so bad it's God!Oh it's painful! THE CLICHEE!" Lucas said as in order to keep his presence hidden, he pulled out his puppet and had it talk while he covered its mouth as Wednesday beat up the pilgrims.
"Fatality Wednesday wins." Lucas whispered to his puppet after the last pilgrim went down, he decided to get away since he couldn't hold it in him so he snuck out while Wednesday talked to Tyler and managed to dodge the principle.

"Love triangle confirmed. Oh my…..this is so dumb….I LOVE IT!" Lucas said as he checked both boy's social media presence. At it confirmed that each one of them was a bland walking stereotype.

"IT'S SO NAUSIATING THAT I'M TALKING WITH MY PUPPETS VOICE WHEN WENDNSDAY ISN'T HERE!" Lucas said as he burst into laughter as he walked down the street.
To the residence of Jericho he seemed like a laughing madman, perhaps that was why Nevermore recruited him. Lucas was fairly certain that he used up his ability to laugh for the day.

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"Call me Grim Reaper Barbie and you will lose your tongue."

Wednesday said she took a break from practicing her cello on the balcony as Lucas walked around the edge of the gargoyles.

"Duly noted."

"Thank you for not intervening when the bullies attacked." Wendsday said with honesty, she was a greedy huntress.

"I'm not stupid enough to take your prey away Diana. Still…AHAHAHAHAHAHAAH! The barista guy, the poet boy, and sunshine lass? I CAN'T HOLD IT IN ANYMORE!" Lucas said as he apparently still had laughter inside of him.

"If you wish to have your throat remain unslit then you shall stop laughing." Wednesday said and pointed her knife at him, she always had knife on her person.

At that Lucas got his swiss knife out and placed in front of Wednesday and laughted even louder.

"Ugh. You take the fun out of homicide."

"I'm sorry, I'm being a jerk, it's so hilarious. Oh, thank heaven I don't have to deal with a roommate issue."

"Why is that? And more importantly how do I replicate it?"

"Don't know, I guess no one wants to share a room with a normie, they keep sending me roommates and the next day they keep asking to go to another room. Maybe I snore to loud in my sleep."

"Snoring loud, werewolf ears, it could work." Wednesday contemplated.

"By how you describe Enid she'd probably buy earplugs."

"She would and then I'd be in her debt….curses…she will be a most troublesome enemy."

"Aw, I'm so happy you made a friend." Lucas said in a teasing manner.

Wednesday immediately grabbed the other knife and put both of them in a cross position across his throat.

"Take…..that….back."

"Never….Also you're too high, you'll just be grazing my under chin you should go lower for the artery."

"Poor little Lucas, don't you know that some hunters like to play with their food before they kill it."

At that moment the bell for curfew rang.

"Saved by the bell….you live to die another day."

"Wednesday you may kill me, torture me to death and both, but you shall not use quotes from the worst James Bond movie on me!" Lucas threatened in a playfully outraged tone.

"Very well, even I am not that cruel."

"Good to know. Got to get back before curfew." Lucas said and moved to climb down from the outside of the school.

"You are a strange one Endymion, consider your poetic streak and wandering the forest I'd beg you for a rule breaker type. But it appears you are a boring goodie two shoes with not a bit or rebellious nature and spontaneity inside of him." Wednesday teased.

"Hey I can be spontaneous; I just have to think about it first." Lucas said as he parkoured his way back to his room.

A moment after that Enid came and they started talking as the two watched Lucas's descent trough the side of the building.

They talked about Enid's lack of werewolf powers, of Wednesday's pet scorpion Nero who was brutally killed by bullies and her revenge against them.

"I suppose you now have a new story for your blog."

"Not really. Lucas posted that he'd be starting a nighttime parkour club on the schoolboard and his route this morning." Enid replied.

"Ugh, how can that boy do something so rebellious and somehow be the safest kid around? Damn muscle spasms."

"Muscle spasms?" Enid asked.

"Yes, every time I spend moment with Lucas he provokes uncontrolled muscle contractions and spasms on me, perhaps he's a warlock, and maybe that is why I lost to Bianca. The spasms were distracting me. Ugh, it's happening again" Wednesday said as she caught a glimpse of Lucas reaching the ground safely.

Enid got to see the 'spasms'.

"What?" Wednesday said as Enid's eyes immediately grew hide and he covered her grinning mouth with both hands.

"What?"

"Nothing." Enid decided to keep to herself that Lucas wasn't causing her muscle pain, she was making her smile.

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Lucas used the opportunity of his parkour club to sneak out into the forest instead of returning to his room. It was cold and empty. And he obeyed his great grandfather's teachings of 'when you break the rules do not get caught or don't do them at all'. So he made his way to the forest.

The forest, especially ones filled with supernatural had always called to Lucas, both for his poetry and something in his blood. He sometimes felt half in the mortal world and half in the magical world when he was in the forest and it felt like an appropriate place to be for him.

And the forest of Nevermore had a strange tint to it.

"Something horrible has happened here and things will only get worse." Lucas said to himself as he discovered the crime scene. The body had been taken days ago but Lucas could feel the dark nature of where this horrible deed happened.

Lucas decided to return before curfew was in full effect and his excuse for sneaking out could not be used.

"Yes, things will only continue to get worse." Lucas said as he heard the howl of the werewolves, he made his way back trough the darkness, he had no trouble seeing at night for some reason. He should ask his grandfather about that.

Days passed and the Harvest Festival came. Lucas decided to take a breather and luck was a lady since he managed to spy on Wednesday interacting with Xavier and Tyler.

"Best telenovela around." Lucas said as he looked at them from the tip top of a high three at the edge of the forest. Lucas had good eyesight.

His smile faded when the 3 pilgrim idiots returned and this time with baseball bats. And when Wednesday chased Rowan into the forest Lucas knew something was up.

He moved and jumped across branches in order to keep up and help his friends both new and old.

Then Rowan went mad and used what looked to be telekinesis on Wednesday as he levitated her into a three and started monologuing about how Wednesday would destroy the school.

Lucas moved to where he could pounce and use them a growl was heard as s beast came from the darkness and grabbed Rowan, Lucas pounced there and then and kicked the beast right in the face forcing it to flee.

Lucas heard Wednesday come up besides him as they both kneeled down to a still Roman.

"He's still alive, but his rib cage is broken, so is his spine. He's in a coma." Wednesday said as the piece of paper that Rowan had flew down and Wednesday caught it.

"Well, looks like the cliches keep coming. You supposed to be some king of antichrist bringer of destruction?" Lucas asked.

"Don't know. What about you? Are you the old cliché of new student who came to a school with a hidden purpose?" Wednesday asked.

"No, I actually did come here on the Olympic weapons thing, the school is offering to pay my college tuition, that and it was an excuse to get out of Ohio." Lucas said and Wednesday nodded, finding what he said to be the truth.

As they both started to put together a stretcher in order to carry Rowan back to the school.

"But I did feel something in the forest. Something's wrong in this town and that thing confirms it."

"And I intend to find out what it is."

"Can I accompany you on the hunt Diana?"

"I thought you'd never ask Endymion." Wednesday said, perhaps Nevermore would not be so bad after all.

She didn't even notice herself smiling this time.

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After they brought a still unconscious Rowan to the infirmary Principle Weems looked at the two of them bellow from the window.

"The most dangerous one in all Nevermore. Hanging about with such company will do you no good, you will be at danger by this one's side. Trade carefully Miss Addams." Principle Weems said with her eyes on Lucas.

She hoped that including one of his kind, the first to be accepted back into the supernatural community in centuries, was not a mistake.