"What do you think?" What? Who's talking?
"I'm not sure. It's too early to tell." Hello? Who's there?
"She can hear us." I can, but who am I hearing? Everything is muffled. I don't recognize the voices I'm hearing. Are my eyes open? I squeeze my eyelids. Nope, they're closed. I pull them open and my vision is blurry. I try to move. I bend a finger and get shooting pain up my arm. I try to focus on something. As my vision starts to clear I see something above me. I close my eyes and re-open them a few times to clear away the fog. When I open them the third time there's a face right over top of mine. I flinch, receiving more pain. I clench my fists and hiss then open my eyes again. Orange hair. Yellow cat-like eyes. The girl from class? She's so close I can feel her breath.
"She's awake." She says in her monotone voice. I hear hurried footsteps and someone puts their hand on the side of the girls face and pushes her away. The green haired girls face replaces hers. Her bright green eyes stare into my own.
"Hey! How you feeling?" She asks cheerily. Yosei. That was her name. I give her a small smile and open my mouth to talk, immediately closing it again. Even that small action gives me pain.
"Common you guys, give her some room to breath." Says a male voice. He sounds familiar. Yosei steps back, a slightly pouty look on her face.
"Awe I just wanted to see if she was ok!" She says to the guy. I hear footsteps as he comes closer. TJ? What's going on here? I strain to remember what happened and why I'm lying here. Hold up, where is here? I turn my head to look around. I'm in some kind of laboratory. Computer monitors line the walls and tables are littered with equipment of all shapes and sizes. I use my fingers to feel what I'm on. Some kind of examination table? I look back up and see that TJ looks a little different then he did at school. His hair is down. I like it. He comes closer and I feel him place a gentle hand on my shoulder.
"Are you ok? Can you move?"
"Awe common that's what I just asked! How come you're allowed to do that but I can't?!" Yosei complains. TJ chuckles. I blush at the sound of his laugh and how close he is. I move my arms in an attempt to get up and fall back down again.
"Owowowow...." I groan.
"Lemme help." He says and slides his hand behind my back. He slides his other hand under my waist on my left. I push up with my elbows and he pulls me and together we get me into a sitting position. Yosei sticks something behind my back so that I can keep sitting up. I look around again. The thing I'm on is actually a bed inside a small alcove in the wall. There are a few of these indented beds all along the walls of the lab.
"Where in the world are we?" Yosei is kneeling on the floor next to the bed, her arms folded on the edge and her head resting on them so only her eyes and nose are visible. The cat girl is sitting on a table near by eating something. TJ is standing next to the bed, arms crossed.
"Welcome to our home." He says.
"This is your home?" He nods.
"This is an underground lab under the biggest science centre in Tokyo. I live here with Yosei and Koneko over their." Koneko...that means cat girl. And Yosei means fairy.
"Ok so why am I here? What happened anyway? I'm sore all over." TJ looks at Yosei and frowns. She returns his look.
"We're too late." Too late? Didn't Ayano say something like that? Wait...
"Ayano! She did this! She stabbed me with a needle! What did she do to me?!" TJ breaths a sigh of relief.
"Oh good, you remember." He looks down at Yosei again. "She's progressing faster than I thought." Yosei nods enthusiastically.
"What are you talking about? Progressing? What did she inject into me?!" I yell at them while trying to move off the table. Once my feet hit the ground my knees buckle and I drop like a rock. I feel my shirt get tugged on and I stop falling. I look back to see Yosei holding on while...hovering? I shake myself loose and stumble forward. I manage to stand on wobbly legs and look at her fully. She's got wings! Well what amounts to wings. They looks more like a sparkly mist in a wing shape. And they don't flap, they just shimmer whenever she moves.
"Wha-wha-what are you?!" I say pointing. "You have wings?!" She looks at her back then at the ground. She gasps and throws her hands over her mouth, shooting a look to TJ.
"Oopsie..." She mumbles. TJ sighs and shakes his head.
"Well I guess its inevitable now. No use hiding it any longer."
"Hi-hiding what? What the heck is going on here?!" I see Yosei start to glow a soft, but bright, green. I hold my hand up to block my eyes from the light then take them away when it stops. Yosei is wearing a long green dress that flows around her small frame. It moves as though there is wind in the room, but there isn't. It splits into two halves at her knees so that I can see her bare legs and feet. Her hair is sparkling and adorned with flowers and two pigtails separated from the rest of it. I gawk at her in shocked amazement. She's beautiful and adorable at the same time. I hear a funny sound behind me and whip around. There's a boing sound and a puff of orange smoke before Koneko is revealed. With a tail and ears. She turns her head to look at me. Her eyes now look even more like cats, with the diamond shaped pupils and the yellow irises taking over what used to be the whites of her eyes. Ears have now sprouted from the top of her head, the fur blending with her hair. She is no longer wearing her school uniform skirt and is now in her own shorts with a hole in the butt so that her long orange tail can go through. I catch something out of the corner of my eye and turn around again. This is making me dizzy. I turn to see a black mist coming from under TJ's feet. The mist swirls around him like a tornado and moves up his legs. As it dissipates, starting at his feet and moving up, I see that his shoes have changed into black combat boots with silver pointed studs covering the toes and silver chains on a few different spots. His pants have turned into black leather. He has on a black belt with more pointed studs along it and a silver chain with skulls equal lengths apart leading around his waist, and he has on a black t shirt and a black leather jacket with ripped spots and silver buttons and zippers. Finally the mist clears from his face revealing jagged looking black hair, his eyes have changed to a glowing red, and erupting from his temples and poking through his hair are two curving horns. They curve around like a rams horns next to his ears which are now slightly pointed like Yosei's. The last thing I see is a black sheath with silver designs on it at his back. I look a little closer and see unearthly symbols all over it. He reaches up and grabs the handle poking out of it and slides out a black bladed sword with a satisfying shhhinng sound. The other side of the chain that is attached to his belt is attached to the handle of the sword. The eyes of the little skulls along the chain start to glow red one by one until it reaches the handle. The blade erupts into red flame, the heat from which I can feel from where I'm standing 8 feet away. I spin around and look at each of them again. I start to feel very dizzy and have to close my eyes. When I open them again I notice a mirror hanging on the wall next to my bed and see something strange. I walk up to it, still a little wobbly and now shaking from the shock of what just happened. I put my hands on either side of it and lean in to look at my eyes. My once bright green eyes have changed. As I watch they change again. I keep watching and see them go from green to blue to white to light blue to purple to red to one eye being black and one being silver and then it starts all over again. I feel a sharp pain in my head and fall against the wall holding my temples. When I open my eyes and look at them again they are light blue. I watch to see if they'll change again, but they don't. I turn to the others and stare at them.
"T-tell me w-whats going on here..." I manage to get out in a shaky voice. TJ walks closer, his sword now sheathed. He puts a hand on my shoulder.
"Congrats. You've survived The Change. Welcome to our world, fellow Anomaly." Anomaly? Our world? I am so unbelievably confused.
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Transfer Student
RandomMina Iyakashi is a second year highschool student from the farthest reaches of Kyoto. When her family moves to Tokyo because of her fathers work, her life takes an unexpected and rather strange turn.