I walked through the market, vendors shouting, customers haggling, the occasional theft, much to noisy. I walked up to a vendor who was selling boxed lunches. Fried rice with shrimp, and vegetables. It was reasonably priced and left me with some pocket money.
I put it securely into my single strap backpack, and zipped it up securely. I was never taking another chance with Baku's infinite appetite. The guy was constantly eating, I'm surprised he hasn't choked and needed CPR yet. I reached the escalators that led to school. I was just about to step on when a familiar voice called my name,
"Dante, hey wait up man!" I turned around to see my closest friend Gao. He was wearing his common sun shirt, and shorts, and that ridiculous hat he always wore.
"Dude, how's it hanging. What happened to you yesterday I looked for you everywhere and," I abruptly cut him off.
"I skipped yesterday no big deal," he looked at me like I was crazy.
"You do know Mr. Neginoyama will freak when he finds out you skipped on purpose!"
Classic Gao, worrying about me when he needs to buckle down and focus on raising his grades.
"What makes you think he's going to find out I skipped on purpose," I questioned the fiery eyed boy.
"Well... Um," I laughed at his ignorance.
"I'm gonna lie, and say I was sick, you idiot!" I, playfully, punched Gao on the arm. Then ruffled his dark hair.
"Gao, you need to stop worrying about me and worry about how you are going to..." He cut me off, "Boost my grades yeah yeah. But when you were tutoring me I understood everything perfectly!"
"Gao in those days all you wanted me to teach you was how to make paper air planes," Gao went red as a beet.
"No I didn't! I wanted to learn stuff," "Gao you seriously need to act your age and not like a 5 year old." Gao sighed in defeat.
"Come on, we are gonna be late," Gao and I stepped onto the escalator and we began to gradually ascend.
Baku and Kuguru met us on the escalator and I tuned out of their conversation. Something about the other worlds, wasn't that interesting. We had reached the top of the escalators and said our goodbyes. I headed to the 8th student classes.
The day went by fairly quickly, I had some homework that I had missed the day before when I played hookey. Other than that the day was fairly normal. During free time in one of my buddyfighting classes I gutted my deck, placing cards of the same type in small stacks. Aetherium, my Magic World deck, consisted of monsters, spells, items, and an impact or two. My main focus of my deck was offense. I had a few defensive monsters and spells, but other than that my deck was the first and last to attack hard. I decided to take a walk while I had time to think. I put my deck into my backpack, and while no one was looking snuck out of class.
I casually walked down the halls, contemplating life, pretty lame. Then all of the sudden the silence was broken by yells, then the strangest thing happened. A small light flashed past me and down the slides to the courtyard. And then Gao appeared out of nowhere running after the light. He went down the slide not giving me a second glance, intent on catching that light. I looked down from the window and saw something amazing, the light began to create a small vortex throwing the wind into chaos. My eyes went round, and I decided to go down the slide. Darkness in the tube, then light as I stopped. I stood next to Gao in awe, as there was a brilliant flash of light. And then there it was, an amazing looking orange and red dragon with steampunky armor and a crazy looking drill.
"Yes, it's a dragon!"
I turned to the sound of Gao's voice, his face was lit with excitement. This must be his new buddy monster, strangely I didn't feel any contempt, or envy just a cold emptiness.