Well, Elm and Arria are off to school! This is where it sort of coinsides with the game, but I'm going to be adding my own, special touches. Enjoy! ~Lichylichy
I sigh. School. How can these things be so... so... normal?
"Nya! Are you ready for a day of learning?"
"Are you ready for a day in the cold?"
"Nya!" She growled angrily, but hopped onto the ground, tail swishing. "Have a good day at school."
"Thanks." I say. Sometimes she wasn't so bad.
"Don't go looking up anyone's skirt!" Nevermind. I enter the small school building, looking for a Mr. Leslaie's class. A boy with a blue shirt and golden hair walks past me.
"Excuse me?" The boy stops and turns to me. "I'm new to St. Ivalice. Can you please point me to Mr. Leslaie's class?"
"..." He doesn't answer.
"..."
"..." He shrugs, before moving on.
"... Thanks!" I yell after him.
"Don't mind him. I haven't been able to get him to talk all morning." I turn to see a girl with long pink hair and bright green eyes. My cheeks turn a bright red. "I'm guessing your new here."
"Yeah. Name's Elm." I hold out a hand for her to shake.
"Ritz. Elm... you're in Mr. Leslaie's class, right?" Rit asked. I nod. "I'm in there too. Follow me." So we walk towards the class together.
(Arria's POV)
"... A pickin' his teeth with a carpet tack, polly wolly doodlong day." I sang, walking along the roof tops.
"Ow! What'd I do Guiness?" A voice asked below. There were the three bullies from before, arguing. The short one with the green jacket having just been whacked on the back of the head by the one with the blue cap, Guiness.
"It's your fault that we got beat up, Lyle." Guiness replied.
"Would you two shut up!" The leader yelled.
"Yes Colin." Guiness and Lyle responded quietly.
"We'll get him back. The weather man says it'll snow!" Colin yelled. Guiness and Lyle smile lopsidedly. They head off in the direction of the school. My eyes narrow. Something was going to happen, I just know it.
(Elm's POV)
I was seated in a rather isolated seat in the corner, most of the seats around the room were empty. A girl whose name was Prisya, a nice brunette that sat two seats to the right of me, and the girl that helped me earlier, Ritz, was sitting right behind me. It wasn't very big, just enough for eight people to sit comfortably. Of course, there was another desk at the back center. A different girl, a blonde this time, walked in, flustered.
"Sharline. You're on time." Mr. Leslaie said, surprised.
"Yeah." She looked around the classroom. "Though, I can't say that about the others." The bell rang overhead. She sat down right beside me. I was starting to get a little flustered. Now, when you live with Arria, waking up to a girl licking herself (naked, mind you), nothing will ever fluster you. Except, being in the room filled with girls. I'm just glad Mr. Leslaie wasn't. The boy that to speak to me when I asked him for directions barged in, his face red and he was panting heavily.
"You're late."
"Thcspbmefk." The blonde-haired boy mumbled unintelligibly.
"What?" Mr. Leslaie asked, confused. The boy was just silent as he sat down at a desk with a name plate made from blackboard that read Marche, but someone had thought it funny to write New Kid over it. He sighed loudly, before sitting down in the seat. next in, to my surprise, was Mewt, now teddyless. He sat down in the desk at the very back, right behind Marche. Right afterwards were a rather scuffed up bunch of bullies. In fact, the leader was still bleeding from the nose.
"You know, you shouldn't dwell on your defeats." I smirk, leaning back in the chair, putting my feet on the desk.
"Ahem. Mr. Tial." (pronounced shal.) "Can you please take your feet off the desk."
"No thanks Les." I respond. Ugggh. Really? Did I really have to do this? His eyebrow raised, and the three bullies, Guiness, Lyle, and Colin by the name on their plates were cackling. Ritz gave me a look. Like she couldn't believe how much I changed since I last opened my mouth.
"Alright. We're going to learn about long division today." Mr. Leslaie instructs us. "Please turn your book to page 357, and get your notebooks out." He then starts a lecture on something that I knew for a quite a while. Instead, I absentmindedly doodled. Until Guiness snatched the book from my hand.
"Hey look! Elm is just a prissy! Look at this!" He cackled, holding the notebook up. I gag as I see that I had unwittingly drawn Giza Plains, a lush place filled with flowers, giant bugs, and fairys. Fairy's with the power to make meteors fall from the heaven on top of their opponents, but fairies none of the less. To make it worse, despite my usage of doodling, it was a very detailed drawing. The three cackled loudly.
"What is this? A butterfly lady? Wahahahaha!" Lyle laughed.
"Hey. What's that?" Colin asked, pointing to the side. It was a fairy catching the blade of a really bulky warrior. To my surprise, they whistled. "That is hard core."
"True dat." Guiness said, pointing out new stuff that he found cool.
"Look at that!" Lyle went wide eyed as he saw in the bushes was a dead warrior, a Fairy feasting on his remains. Yeah, I just took everything you knew about Fairies, and then told you the truth. "That is awesome! Look! That one is holding a heart! And she took a bite out of it."
"Alright! That is it! Mr. Tial! You have detention after school!" Mr. Leslaie said, taking the book. I shrugged. I was trapped in Sprohm Prison for 4 days with nothing but toilet water to drink and moldy bread to eat. Their isn't much you can do to a guy after that. That was when Guiness yelled in joy.
"Snow!" Everyone ran outside, but me, Ritz, Mewt, and Marche. Mewt and Marche left together, talking quietly. Once they left, I headed towards the door.
"Now hold on a moment." Ritz said, grabbing my shoulder. I sigh, stopping in my tracks. "What happened to you before?"
"What are you talking about?" I asked, forcing a sneer. Ritz walked over and grabbed the notebook and started flipping through it. "Put that down!" I tried grabbing it from her, but I swear she was faster than a Viera. She kept dodging each of my grabs. She jumped onto a chair, and then a table, and then she pulled herself onto the top of a tall filing cabinet. She then started leafing through the notebook.
"Hey, these are pretty good. Is this a Viera?" She asked, showing a picture of an archer with large rabbit ears.
"Yeah." I say, a blush creeping to my cheeks. She turns over to the next page and her eyes widen.
"What's this." She shows me the tear stained page. It depicted me holding the book, holding it up high and saying my wish. Evangeline was standing there with a scared look on her face, darkness seeming to gather around her as my other clan members were fighting off the shadow creatures.
"Nothing." Idiot! Noone with half a wit in his head would have tried something. Anything! Say you saw it while beating a nerd to a pulp! Say you saw it in your dreams! You never say nothing! She was silent for a moment.
"You're a good actor. But I can see the truth." Ritz said, narrowing her eyes. Crap! She knows? "You're just acting like a bully so you won't get bullied!" I sigh. That's it?
"Yes. You got me." I lie.
"Why didn't you say so? Come on, or Mr. Leslaie's going to get impatient." I allow her to pull me outside of the six classroom school building and outside.
"Well, Mewt has to sit out! He is the weakest and we have an uneven amount of players!" Colin yelled, being as subtle as a herd of angry water buffalo.
"No one is sitting out." Mr. Leslaie said simply.
"It isn't going to be fair if we have to go 4 on 5!" Guiness spoke up.
"Then how about 5 on 5." I heard myself say. Mr. Leslaie stares over at me.
"I can't participate in this snowball fight." He said, bewildered.
"No, no! That isn't what I'm saying." I reply. I pull a phone the color of the snow that Lyle didn't pee in. I flip it open and call.
"Nya! Hello! This is Rooftop Cat!" Arria used her code name.
"Hello. Can you please come over? I was thinking snowball fight. 5 on 5. You game?"
"Nya! I haven't had an engagement in a while! Even if it is with balls of snow instead of magic. I'll be there. Rooftop Cat out! Nya!" And the phone goes silent. A minute later, Arria flips off of the school building, heading down to earth face first. Of course, at the last second she flipped onto her feet. That was a nice show of a Neko's skill. They cause blows to hurt less cause they will always land on their feet. No matter what you do, they will always land on their feet. They won't always land safetly, but they will always land on their feet. Luckily, Arria had changed clothes into a tight fitting pair of jeans and a thick shirt. She also had a snowcap to hide her ears. "Nya! Hear for duty!" She said, saluting.
"Nya?" Mewt asked.
"Nya bet!" She replied. "Now, how does this work." She stoops down and starts clawing at the snow.
"There's your tenth player. She's home-schooled." I tell him.
"Speaking of which, I gotta go soon. You know, I'm bad with long division." She smiled.
"Oh! I can help you!" Ritz offered. "We just happen to have just learned long division." Arria's eyes grew wide, as did mine.
"Oh there's no need for that." I chuckle.
"What are you, her father?" Ritz snapped. Me and Arria exchanged glances.
"Yes." The following laughter was contagious, and I grinned widely.
"Hey! Whatever happened to pegging each other with snowballs, nya?" Arria meowed.
"Yes. Of course." Mr. Leslaie said, wiping his brow. He blows his whistle loudly. Everyone heads to their sides. It was Guiness, Colin, Arria, Sharline, and Ritz on one side of the snow covered yard, and me, Lyle, Mewt, Marche, and Prisya on the other.
"Aww, man! Why do I get stuck on the weak team?" Lyle asked. "We're just gonna lose. Where's the fun in that?" Lyle walks over to Mewt. "Hey, Mewt. Where's your little bear today?" Mewt looks down, not answering.
Colin stepped in. "He didn't want his precious bear to get wet in the snow!" Colin poked fun of Mewt.
"Aww... Did your mommy give you that bear?" Guiness cackled. Marche stepped up.
"What's your problem, New Kid?" Lyle asked.
"Leave him alone. He's not going to say anything anyway. He's like a little girl!" Guiness chuckled. Needless to say, Arria and Ritz didn't take to kindly to that.
"Hey! That's gender discrimination! And I know some 'little girls' who can kick your butt!" Ritz then walked over to our side of the yard.
"Whoa, Ritz! What's your problem?" Lyle asked.
"You don't want to be on that team, right?" Ritz asked. "How about we switch? Would that be better? Let's start already!" Colin then walks over to the other side. "You should speak up." She whispered to Marche. "You can't be the 'new kid' forever."
"Sorry, Marche." Mewt apoligized.
"You don't have to apoligize, Mewt." Marche replied. "You haven't done anything wrong."
"OK Mr. Leslaie, we're ready to go!" Ritz yelled.
"Then let's get this snowball fight started! Ready?" Arria 'accidently' slipped, and the snowball struck Guiness in the back of the head. Guiness fell facefirst into the snow.
"Mr. Leslaie! She hit me with a snowball!" Guiness said, slightly muffled by the snow.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I just have the aim of a little girl." She smiled innocently, hands behind her back.
"Begin!" He let out a whistle and everyone got ready for the fight.
"Gotten used to the snow in St. Ivalice yet, you two?" He asked, pointing to me and Marche. "It's much warmer where you're from, isn't it?"
"Yes, sir. It never snowed. This is practically my first snowball fight."
"Same here. Phoenix, Arizona." A/N: Fifth biggest city in the USA. "You'd be lucky if it hit fifty in the winter time." Mr. Leslaie went over some stuff about snowball fights, I really just wasn't paying attention. I could jump onto the school roof without even trying. I could run the length of St. Ivalice without need of a break. Hell, I could make thunder fall from a blue sky.
"Good luck, Marche. Elm." She said, snapping me from my current thoughts (can you use ice magic to make ice cubes?) and prepared for the oncoming snowball fight.