Bleep! Bleep! Bleep!

"Bloody hell, nghhhh..." Arthur droned wearily as he slammed on his alarm clock, and yawning. Today was the first day of high school, and he wasn't sure if he was looking forward to it as much as he had stressed. The feeling from last night pushed itself to the front of his queue of thoughts, and made Arthur's spine feel cold. He had no idea what the impending doom was going to be, but... it seemed strangely... like it could make him happy in the end.

Shaking it off, after about 5 minutes he heard someone screaming from downstairs-

"WHO THE HELL'RE YOU? ARTHUR, IS ONE OF YOUR FRIENDS HERE?!" screeched someone, it was... Angus, his older brother who was already at uni. He came home often, the university was pretty close by. "HOLD UP.. IT'S FRANCIS! YOU DIDN'T SAY HE WAS COMING?"

"WHAT?!" Arthur fumbled on his shoes and went downstairs, to find his mate from France, Francis, holding out a croissant to his red-haired older brother, who gave Arthur a dark scowl as he trudged into the kitchen, his mop of messy hair even messier than when he tried to groom it. Damn frog, always so graceful... and a git.

"Francis, what in the name of hell are you doing here?" Arthur seethed. "It's only 6:30 and you're already preened like the bloody cockerel you are. Please tell me why you're here, you've got 30 seconds or I'll rip you to shreds!"

"Calm down mon cher ami! I came over simply to come with you, non? We shall meet the others, of course, but I just wanted to hang out until you leave, else I'll be stuck with my family who keep telling me do this, do that, and I've already heard it before!" Francis' family was nice enough, but they kept regaling you with the same story again and again, and they forced food down you if they though you looked too thin. Apparently Arthur was a twig.

"As long as you don't cause hell for me here, fine. Angus, has mum left for her business trip yet? Also, where the hell are Aisling and Awstin? They left last night and they didn't tell me where they were going." Aisling and Awstin were also university students, and they were doing the same course as Angus, namely Law. Angus looked at him pointedly, like you idiot, how don't you know? Francis stuck around, but got a call from his mother, and just talked to her.

"Aisling and Awstin went to go live with their potential other halves, they wouldn't shut up about it to me, they didn't tell you?" Angus drawled, and Arthur shook his head, hadn't heard a scrap of info from them. He would kill them if he ever saw them. "And yeah, mum left, like really early. She also wanted me to say from her the usual parental shit like stay safe, do well and have fun. And to also say that to be wary of anything supernatural. Have you seen anything yet?"

Their family, the Kirklands, were well-known for their magical abilities, though this generation round it had been proven only Arthur had the power out of all of his siblings, and to him, it was a total pain in the ass. He could see anything from fairies and sprites to angels and demons, though demons frequented earth a lot more than angels. They talked a lot about what was happening in Hell, and he heard recently the demon king had found a human partner, well, kind of, he was going to try and win his heart, the his heart part kind of scaring Arthur a little. He could also sense how potent magic was, whether magical spells or apparatus were being used on him, and could see through illusions, a thing he had taught himself to try not to do because those illusions served their purposes well, let's just say.

"Not exactly see, but felt? Bad feeling last night." Angus took one look at him before nodding. "Whatever. Francis? I heard the Vargas brothers were holding a party? Should I bring it?" Arthur hollered to Francis, who just hung up from his mother. The Vargas brothers were known for throwing the best parties, and Arthur knew that very well. He'd been to every single one his whole life, because he was always in their class, and the older one, Lovino, was a lot like him, so they kind of had a friendship. The last time he went, it was their graduation party, and people begged to hear him play guitar, since the younger one, Feliciano, was in the school band and heard him play electric guitar at practice, and told everyone how good he was, and now, everyone wanted to hear him. Francis smiled and raced up to his room. "GET MY SUITCASE WHILE YOU'RE UP THERE FROG!"

Francis was lugging his guitar (and his suitcase) down the stairs, and Angus kind of smiled a little. "So you presenting the thing you've been working on?" Angus laughed, and Arthur kind of smiled back. Since he heard DragonForce's Through the Fire and Flames, he'd been practicing a version for one guitar, and his strings broke whilst trying. He did manage it in the end though. "Cool. You two should go, it's 7:00. The bus comes at 7:10 at that stop right?"

"Yeah. See you at the end of the year you sack of crap!" Arthur sneered as he slammed the door, after Francis went in front, and heard Angus cussing him inside. "Thank god that's a boarding school. Makes life so much easier."

"Don't forget the lack of uniform~!" Francis trilled. Arthur wasn't going to deny it was so much better to wear casual clothes rather than uniform, but sometimes not being judged for what clothes you wore was sometimes nice. After they made it, with 3 minutes to spare, they heard a quiet voice call out to them-

"Arthur-san! Francis-san!" They both whipped their heads around to find their Japanese friend, Kiku, walk up to them, behind him... everyone.

There were the Vargas brothers, with Feliciano bouncing around the younger German brother, Ludwig, whilst he screamed at him, and was getting laughed at by the older one, Gilbert, and the Spaniard Antonio laughing as well, and trying to get Lovino to care, which was a failed attempt, whilst the Chinese Kid, Wang Yao was complaining to the Russian Ivan just how immature Westerners were, whilst he nodded, and Francis went to holler at Gilbert about how he'd been, whilst Arthur sighed. "What happened? Bargain sale?"

"Hahaha. I was going, and they decided to cross paths with me. Kind of nice, I guess?" Arthur nodded in agreement. The bus pulled in, and after putting his suitcase in the storage, along with everyone else's, they piled into the bus, and when the bus pulled away, students clamored over each other, excited for the year to come. Arthur was talking to everyone, asking what they thought they year would be like. He wasn't paying attention to much else.

But someone was staring at him from the back of the bus.

With piercing sky-blue eyes.

Angus is Scotland, Aisling Ireland and Awstin Wales, jtlyk. Glad I finally got this chapter up! tysm for reading! reviews would be noice!