Chapter 2…
9:00 am… Luka's Room: Stage
This school started around 7:00 am, so it has been two hours since it started. At this time until 9:30, it is the morning break period for the students…and the teachers.
Unlike the regular break periods where nobody is allowed to go outside the school, the school allows students to roam around the Cyber City. Today, food from the stalls and shops are free for the humans but later, they will learn how to earn money in this world.
The Vocaloids are staying in the school building for their break and in the room where we are in right now, Luka looks contented with her two classes so far. She is now sitting down on the stage edge, looking through papers with the names of her students so far.
"A lot of students. All from different countries and different ages. However, so far, so good. If this keeps up, the school will be successful in no time!"
Wearing red rimmed glasses, Luka is looking through the list and she has looked at the list more than just one time.
"…Hehehe, I forgot about these…glasses. That song…where it made glasses…sexy." Luka chuckled at her thought of the song, "The breathing really made the feeling of the song…"
Instead of breathing, she heard her stomach grumble. Her thoughts about her current situation made her forget her hunger.
She stood up, leaving behind the list on the stage and walked to her golden bag, which is lying on the side of the stage. She picked it up and dug in her bag to look for her favourite snack. Unfortunately, something's wrong.
What she got isn't her can of tuna, but what she got is a big and fresh carrot. She knew who this belongs to…
"Gumi…why's your snack with me?"
Outside of the school…a random part of the city.
In a random part of the city filled with colourful buildings and the like, the twin Vocaloids Kagamine Rin and Len are walking around while chatting. So far, their chats concern about their dance lessons since they are the dance teachers after all.
"So far, the two classes that we encountered are successful." Rin stated, "I want to make this whole day successful!"
"We just need to do what we did in those two classes to the remaining classes today. That way, everyone will be on track unless certain events or mishaps happen."
"Why is he the slightly serious one? I'm the older twin! Well…Maybe I'm really the happy go lucky girl. I blame Miku-chan for giving me that trait."
"Rin-chan, what are you thinking about?" Len faced her with his serious face but at the same time, worried.
Len spent so much time with Rin throughout his life, he knows EVERYTHING about her. From her possessions to her facial expressions, he can detect what Rin currently has or what Rin is feeling right now.
"N-n-nothing!" Rin flailed her arms, "Nothing to think about, Len-kun!"
"Nothing huh?" Len raised his right eyebrow, "Then why are you so panicky when I asked you?"
He's much clever than Rin, using logical reasoning in all situations that he's involved in. His logic made the other Vocaloids think that he fits the role of a defence attorney or a detective.
Rin gave up, "Fine, why are you so serious? That's what I have been thinking about!"
"…Eh…this is actually embarrassing…" Len strangely blushed and faced away from Rin, "You know about the CV series that we are part of right?"
"Why? Is it because we both are number 2?" Rin asked.
"That's not what I'm really going to say. I enjoy being paired up with you Rin, along with working with the other Vocaloids but…people really have active imaginations…" He shivered, "They implanted those imaginations into songs and…you do know about the really strange songs producers make using my voice? Those songs make me think that no one takes me seriously. Especially the dying part, everybody keeps lamenting over my multiple deaths and with so many in popular songs that has my death in it, people make jokes and arguments over who died the most."
"People say me, people say you. But what do I know? There are endless songs!" Rin commented.
"True but my real problem lies in the fact that people don't take me that seriously. Is it because my voice originated from a woman? Am I going to remain the only boy in the CV series forever? Why do so many say that I'm a shota? I want to be taken seriously, so I made myself a serious personality."
"So basically, you are getting insecure." Rin crossed her arms, "But that's what made you so popular! Nowadays, producers use your voice for more serious projects! You know that producer who likes cats right? Nem is it? That producer likes using your voice for his cat themes songs! What about Lelele? That producer really knows how to project your character in different personalities."
"I-I guess your right…"Len smiled at her, "We are Vocaloids. We offer our voices for humans to use. We shouldn't complain, they are the ones who made us worldwide popular."
"More or less, that's how we all got here in the first place."
The twins stopped walking to see the green-haired Tetsuya walk towards them and from his word earlier; he listened to Rin and Len's conversation.
"You two are really loved by all of us and if we don't, then why are we here?" His voice is still groggily, "Even if it's a bit sudden that you guys took us from our world, just seeing the Vocaloids with our real eyes are what makes us happy."
Even though the twins can sense Tetsuya's sleepy face and voice, he does have a point.
"Sorry if I butted myself in others' business, I was trying to find my new friends. I already took my snack break from the free food that the stores are giving us. On a side note, what subject are you two teaching?"
"We both teach dance." Len directly said to him.
"Dance? That's my next class!" Tetsuya became happy, "See you two later!"
Tetsuya ran past them, on his way back to the school. Rin and Len looked at the running Tetsuya and then looked back at each other.
"That guy has a point!" Rin smiled, "Let's make the most of our next class!"
10:30 am… Rin and Len's Room: Dance Studio
It's already half-way through class and the twins are demonstrating simple dance moves that anyone could do quickly as the first day exercise. The Dance Studio is a large room with wooden floors, a mirror wall and loudspeakers.
"Alright!" Rin clapped twice and everyone stopped moving, "Nice work everyone! Not bad for your first dance class isn't it?"
"It's so awesome how we are getting dance lessons from Kagamine Rin and Len!"
"I know right?!"
Len and Rin face each other after hearing many murmurs about how cool it is to get dance lessons from them, this made the twins smile.
Soon after, the loud bell of the school rang and this means that this subject hour is over. This made the students stretch out from the tiring activities they did in this class then most of them walked out of the Studio.
Rin and Len sat down on the floor to take a break themselves and even if they are cyborg programs, they can still sweat like a human does.
"Whew! I feel like we did better than this morning!" Rin exclaimed, "Look how active everyone became!"
"Well of course. The basic moves are very vital and not to mention the base of all the cool moves we do."
"Well that gave me a wake-up call…"
Rin and Len stopped and faced the boy that they conversed with earlier, Tetsuya. He's still stretching his arms and he doesn't have that sleepy tone in his voice anymore.
"Hey, Tetsuya, "Len called his attention, "Thanks for what you said to us earlier. It gave us a boost."
"Well your lessons gave ME a boost! I'm only a little sleepy right now!"
Tetsuya is not the morning person definitely and his sleeping habit is made worse during night as he is a lot more active and awake during night, Burning the Midnight Oil is the most fitting idiomatic expression for him.
"Ok then, bye." Tetsuya bowed down to them and ran out of the studio.
Walking through the hallway that is crowded with humans, he checked his hologram schedule for his next class.
"…Music Theory? I wonder who teaches this…This is a vital lesson for professional musicians…"
His thoughts covered himself at the wrong moment. He bumped into a person in the head.
Tetsuya stepped back a bit and faced the person who he collided with, "S-s-sorry! I wasn't paying attention…"
"Um…It's no problem…faults on me."
Tetsuya is facing a beautiful girl with very long honey blonde hair and sky blue eyes. She is wearing a pink, white, and blue shirt that is sleeveless; It goes up to her neck and around it, is a glowing neon pink ribbon. The top half of her back is bare, but is crossed in a zig zag fashion with the same cyber glow pink ribbon. She then wears white shorts with 2 glowing blue hanging belts. Her shoes are white under knee length winter style boots with those small circular fuzzy balls, and a blue glowing line running down the side, or she is wearing her pink soccer cleats that glow down the sides, and at the cleat part. She then has a pair of lightly glowing white headphones with blue glowing stars in the middle.
Her looks can make a boy blush. However, Tetsuya only noticed her light guilt.
"Um…S-sorry…It's really my fault; I was looking at the schedule." Tetsuya's voice lowered don in tone.
"D-don't be! It's fine." The girl gave off a smile, "My name is Chiisana Akemi!"
"Nice to meet you, I'm Tetsuya Onoruri!" He paused for a bit, "What's your next class?"
"Music…Theory…"
"Hey, that means we both are in the next class!" Tetsuya smiled at her then he noticed someone walking towards them. A girl that he has met this morning.
"Hey, Patricia! I've been looking for you and Miyu!" He called out to her. He caught her attention and she hastily walked towards the duo.
"E-e-eh…Miyu dragged me…somewhere." Patricia gave off a shy smile.
"Hey, I want you two to meet each other! Patricia, this is Chiisana. Chiisana, this is Patricia."
"Nice to meet you." Patricia said to her.
"You too…So how did you two meet?" Chiisana asked.
"He was sleeping in the café. A…friend of mine spoke a bit too loud and woke him up." Tetsuya blushed a bit by that statement.
"He looks a bit sleepy right now…" Chiisana whispered to Patricia.
"Not the morning person…"
"Ok!" Tetsuya caught the attention of the girls, "Instead of talking about my sleeping habits, why don't we just go into class?"
"Oh? Music Theory?" Patricia sounded like she made a guess there, "…That's…my next class."
"Then we three go together!" Tetsuya declared.
The three started to walk through the hallway to find the classroom in charge of Music Theory. Tetsuya walked ahead of the two girls who kept whispering about Tetsuya's bad sleeping habit, and this is annoying him a bit.
"…Oh whoever watches me from above…why me?" He mentally got annoyed about the girls' whispers about him.
He shook his head like he gave up, and the reason is obvious: Its very true. He sighed after but heard a large group of students crowding a simple wooden door, looking through a window that the door has.
"OMG! Is that IA?!"
"N-no way! IA, THE IA?!"
"KYAAAAAH! The Aria on the Planetes?! KYAAAAH!"
"My first class was with her and she teaches Music Theory!"
The trio stopped in their tracks after they heard the statement that IA herself is the Music Theory teacher. Tetsuya became glad that they found the class with little trouble and he faced the two girls.
"Hey! The class is-" He stopped in his tracks after seeing that both girls froze.
Both Patricia and Chiisana are very fond of the new Vocaloid IA and hearing that she is their new teacher can make them happy with joy.
"N-no way…IA…"Patricia made a huge grin on her face.
"Y-yes way…It really is her herself…let's go."
The two girls walked past Tetsuya and pushed themselves through the crowd in front of IA's classroom, The Music Room. Tetsuya sweatdropped at how quickly the girls entered the classroom.
Tetsuya was about to get through the crowd as well but another guy started to shove himself in the crowd just minutes after the girls went through themselves but the boy has trouble, as the crowd became unbearable.
The boy is 5'6 in height; his hair is shoulder-length black with streaks of golden brown highlights. His right is blue like the ocean and his left eye is gold. He is wearing a black and light blue half sleeved v-neck t-shirt, with a gray sleeveless hoodie jacket, and the Vocaloid belt that has a black and gold triangle, a white long khaki, and a black leggings, and black combat boots. A long black glove with white linings at the edges, a cross necklace, a bunch of lining in his clothes that glows white on black parts of the clothes and black on the white parts and headphones that has a design of small wings, white on the right and black on the left.
The boy got pushed back slightly from the crowd and fell to the ground. Tetsuya approached him and offered his hand to help. The boy took it and stood up with the help of Tetsuya.
"Hey, you alright?" Tetsuya asked.
"…Yeah…thanks." The boy replied.
"My name is Tetsuya Onoruri. Who are you?"
"I'm Russel Keith Santos…just use my first name."
The boy, known as Russel, made Tetsuya think. This is the second person he met with a name that doesn't sound Japanese, with Patricia being the first he met.
"You're alone? You didn't meet anyone yet?" Tetsuya tilted his head in curiosity.
"No one yet. It feels…out of place to hear that the people I've seen so far have Japanese names. Including your name."
"Don't feel so intimidated. I have a friend who also has a foreign name…Her name is Patricia Zamora."
"Really? That surname…I read that surname a few times in my history lessons back in the Philippines…"
This made Tetsuya grin.
"This is your next class right? I can introduce you to her…if we can get through this-"
"ALRIGHT PEOPLE! Move aside! There are those who have a class in there!" A voice that sounded like it came out of a megaphone.
Soon, Gumi arrived next to the crowd, shooing them from the door to let the other students enter the classroom. Tetsuya and Russel just stared at the Megaphone-holding Gumi trying to chase away those who are crowding the entrance to IA's classroom.
Once the crowd dispersed themselves, Gumi faced the students who watched her. More noticeably both Tetsuya and Russel, who faced each other first then back to Gumi.
"Now that THAT is over, this girl better get back to her job as a reporter!" Gumi winked at the crowed, trying her best to be cute.
Gumi is always this way. She wants to be cute for the humans anytime, anywhere and her obsession with being cute made her love anything else that is cute, just like the Kagamine Twins.
"Gumi! My Megaphone!" A very familiar voice shouted from the distance. Gumi faced the right direction of the hall and ran through it, holding the Megaphone that is clearly not hers to begin with.
Soon, Miku ran through the students to catch up to Gumi through the hallway.
"Gumi! I NEED that Megaphone for my class!" Miku yelled at her.
"Get another one! You have lots right?" Gumi yelled back to her.
"That particular one is my FIRST one! Gumi?! GUMI, come back here you thief!"
The students who witnessed Miku and Gumi's chase scene for a Megaphone that originated from a very popular song just stared at the distance at this seemingly comedic act of the two Vocaloids.
"Can we just enter before we see any more crazy events?" Tetsuya said to Russel, who nodded.
Russel opened the door to IA's class and the two boys became awestruck at the gigantic size of this rich and classy Music Room. The room is Oval in shaped with cream marble floors, a wide variety of music instruments on the floor leaning against the wall, and fancy stone pillars. This is the room that IA was in this morning and what she did before classes start was to move the piano somewhere to a location that only she knows where. What she did is install a blackboard at the front of the oval room and placed school chairs in the middle of the room.
The two boys saw Chiisana and Patricia talking with each other at the front of the class. Tetsuya walked to them and Russel followed him slowly. Then they arrived near the girls, they looked at the boys.
"Took you time, Tetsuya." Patricia said.
"Sorry…that crowd…" Tetsuya scratched his head, "Oh! Right, this guy with me is Russel Santos."
"Nice to meet you…" Chiisana gave off a smile to him.
"Yeah…Nice to meet you…" Patricia calmly said to him.
"Russel, the blonde girl is Chiisana Akemi and the red-eyed girl is Patricia Zamora. Like you Russel, Patricia is also from the Philippines."
"Huh? Really?" Russel then immediately sat down on a seat next to Patricia, "Where in the Philippines?"
"Rizal…" She shyly said to him.
"My gosh...so far from where I'm from…I'm from Laguna."
"That is far…"
While the two Filipinos are talking, Tetsuya sat down on a seat next to Chiisana and started a conversation with her. He started with asking where she came from.
"I'm from England but I'm really Japanese and Korean. That's why I know how to speak English."
"I see, do you have any siblings?" He continued.
"Me and my two brothers are triplets. One is a flirt and one is a genius. Me…Not sure what I am though."
"Don't worry, you'll find out." He winked at her, "Maybe this is the perfect chance for you to discover your potential."
"That's what I'm hoping for…" Chiisana sounded sad.
Can I stop here? My writer's block battled me for weeks.
Ok for the two Ocs…
Chiisana Akemi is an Oc I received from an inbox message (And the last Oc that I received). If you know Parefura, then you know how Chiisana came to be in here.
Russel Keith Santos is an Oc I received from the reviews. His personality is quiet common (In my perspective) in the Philippines (Well, that's my opinion anyway)
I know that I received a lot of Ocs, which is why I'm stopping OC submission. Also, there are those I accept and those I reject.
Accepted (Doesn't list the ones already in the story)
Sora Haruki
Lana Harson
Ichiro Masoami
Adriana Liz Johnson
Juki Danaku
Sierra Evans
Kimi Hoshine (I've talk to the owner and I'll be the one to fix up this one.)
Skylen Liu
Shirogane Yuki
Avaron Ichihara
Natsume Fey
Un-sure (If you guys can fix up your Ocs, than accepted but if you guys can't, then I'm very sorry but to reject):
Lucxins Hakkins (Can you PLEASE follow the format?)
Alana (Surname?)
Shin(surname and a more detailed description?)
Hana Taylor (Can you pleas be more descriptive and in details with this Oc?)
Sachiyo Midorikawa (Can you please be more descriptive)
Rya'n (Surname?)
Ok, as for Riri Kurone…I'm very close to rejecting this Oc. Why? She's an angel (Literally) That would only make my story confusing (Unless you can make changes but if you refuse to make changes then I'm sorry)
I'm writing this list for everyone to see in one place.