Transfer Student

Who are you?

"Beep beep, beep beep, beep beep." I hear my alarm clock beeping at me through the fog of sleep. I turn over in my bed and simultaneously choke myself. I jolt up and try to untangle my neck from my headphones.
"Ouch!" I yell as my headphone is pulled painfully from my ear. I twist around some more trying to get untangled from my sheets now and don't realize how close I am to the edge of the bed. "Waaah!" I yell as I fall to the floor. I lay embedded in my furry mat with one leg on the bed and the other over my head, wrapped up even more than before in my headphones. Wonderful. I hear footsteps and a knock.
"Hey you ok in there? Sounds like you're tryin to wrestle a monster!" I let my other leg fall to the floor as my mom opens the door. She peeks in and starts to laugh. "Well that's not the ideal way to wake up! Why don't you try going feet first." I stare upside down at her and growl. She laughs even more and leaves the room. I get to my feet and instantly fall back onto the floor. I grab my head and fall to my knees. I bend over in pain, my head almost touching the floor. I squeeze my eyes so tight I see stars and hiss. I fall onto my side when the pain doesn't stop and struggle to crawl to the bathroom door. I manage to get on my knees and open the door. I fall in and hit the tiled floor and crawl to the sink. I grab the edge and pull myself up. I squint at my reflection in the mirror, my vision blurring. I stand as best I can and hiss against the pain again. I lean in and open my eyes as wide as I can. The colours are rapidly changing. I see all 7 or 8 colours go flashing by. I watch and watch and watch until they finally start to slow down. There's a flash of white in my vision and a sharp pain in my head and I fall back down to the floor. Then the pain subsides and my vision clears and I look at my eyes again. They stopped on bright red. Well shoot. My blue eyes may have slipped past my mom, but how the hell am I gonna hide bright red? I go back into my room and change into my school uniform. What does red mean again? Oh right, fire. Well I better learn how to control this thing before I set something on fire. I look around my room for something to hide my eyes with. I spy a pair of sunglasses. I go to put them on then hear a loud banging crashing sound and a flash of light. Well that's just great. A thunderstorm has started. I can't use the excuse that it's sunny anymore. Maybe a rain hat? I look around my room some more and my eyes land on my clock. Oh crap! If I don't hurry I'll miss my bus! Ugh I still don't know how to hide my eyes! Damn it! I jump at the sound of my moms voice.
"Hey you better run down here and grab your lunch before you miss your bus!" I sigh. I guess I'll just have to risk it. If I run by she may not notice. I grab my umbrella and my bag and run down the stairs. She holds out my lunch through the kitchen door as I run by and I swipe it from her. I slip my shoes on and throw open the door.
"Have a good day hun!" My mom calls.
"I will!" I yell back as I open my umbrella. Phew! That was way too close. I'll have to talk to the others today about a way to hide my eyes. I see my bus coming in the distance and make my way to the stop. I get on the bus and, as usual, sit right at the back and stick my headphones in.

"Well? What do you think?" TJ clicks off the little light he was shining in my eyes and stands back. Yosei pops up in my line of sight.
"It's a pretty red isn't it?" She says. Koneko sits on the table, freely showing her tail and ears. After school was over I went to my locker only to find TJ leaning on it. I told him my problem and he led me to the safe house/ headquarters where Yosei and Koneko were already waiting.
"Hmmm...." TJ leans back and strokes an imaginary beard. "How comfortable are you with wearing contacts?" I think about it for a second.
"I suppose I would be fine with them. I've worn them before for cosplay conventions."
"Great. Then let's go out and get you some-" he's cut off mid sentence by a strange high pitch squealing sound. Koneko hisses and covers her ears and hides under the table. Yosei and I grab our ears too. TJ looks in the direction it's coming from and changes form as he walks towards the security cameras. It amazes me that he can do that and walk at the same time. "Yosei! Get over here!" He yells, his voice taking on a rather scary harsh tone. She stands and does the same thing he did, transforming as she makes her way over to him. By the time she gets there she is hovering at his height. What's going on here? Yosei's fingers are whizzing over the keyboards of 3 different computers at once. I walk over once she stops. They're both staring at one screen. There's someone walking down the hallway. It's strange though, he seems to be struggling with something, but we can't see anything.
"Um...is it just me or is he wrestling with nothing?" I ask. TJ slams his hand on the desk, fist clenched. His hand starts to glow red and I start to get more freaked out. My whole body starts to feel hot and my heart is racing. Is this person a threat? Are they going to discover us? Suddenly the strange alarm sound stops. We all look around at the ceiling and to the door. TJ looks over at Yosei.
"There's only one person that can turn off those alarms, and one person that doesn't show up on our cameras." She nods. They start to walk and float over to the door. Koneko climbs out from under the table and shakes like she's a dog trying to get dry. She jumps back on the table, tail swishing back and forth. I move to the other side of the room, where the bed is that I was on yesterday. I'm staying a good distance away from whatever is about to go down. As the door swings open Yosei floats up and down in excitement, TJ growls. Someone is thrown in on to the hard floor with a thud and a grunt. I big staff of some sort follows and lands next to him.
"I found this piece of trash sneaking down the hallway." Says the boy that comes through the door next. He has bright green hair and is wearing a long red robe. I gasp in excitement. I'd know that robe anywhere! He flips his hair to one side, leaving the signature long piece of bang still hanging over his left eye. "I was too late to stop the alarm before he set it off. What should we do with him this time?" Yosei flys at him and hugs him from behind around his neck.
"Freed!! You're back!" He smiles and laughs.
"Hello Yosei! I missed you!" He changes his cheery smiles to a smug grin. "TJ." He says seriously and nods at him. TJ gives him the same look and nods back.
"Freed." He walks over to him and they do the bro handshake that all the guys do now. I watch curiously before hearing a moan from the person on the floor. They have long curly black hair that covers their face at the moment. They start to move and get up on their elbows.
"Would you mind stepping off my leg?!" The person I now can identify is a guy yells. TJ is standing right on the crook guys knee. Instead of getting off, he steps on it harder and scowls at him.
"Would you mind not yelling at me?" He growls. The guys flips his hair out of his face and rolls to one side trying to knock TJ off. TJ wobbles and tucks into a ball as he falls head first to the floor. I gasp thinking he's going to get hurt. He tilts his head so he lands on his shoulder and he rolls into a crouched position with no trouble. His tail flicks up into the air and he turns his head to glare at the guy. The long haired stranger gets up and dusts himself off, completely ignoring TJ. Instead he looks at Yosei who is still hanging on to Freed's neck.
"Good day my lady fairy. How are you this fine afternoon?" He asks bowing dramatically. She gulps and hides her head behind Freed's green hair.
"You dare speak to her?" Freed says with venom in his voice.
"Calm down there bro, I'm just making conversation!" He turns his back to go and search for his staff. Bad idea. TJ lunges at him, trying to tackle him to the ground. The new guy stops in his tracks and moves slightly to the left. TJ tumbles to the floor, back into his crouched position. He dodged him? How could he? TJ was totally silent! The new guy flips his hair and continues on to retrieve his staff. This time TJ doesn't move. Instead he extends his tail which wraps around the guys ankle without him noticing. When he reaches down to get his staff, TJ pulls. His feet slide out from under him and he falls flat on his face.
"Ha!" Shouts TJ as he gets up. He walks over to the flattened guy and puts one foot on his back with just enough pressure to hurt. He reaches over his head and grabs the handle of his sword. He pulls it out of its sheath slowly so that it makes that ominous, but also really cool sound. He lowers it to where the guy has turned his head so he can see. He puts it right next to his eye and it ignites with red fire. The guy flinches as the flames brush his cheek.
"Don't forget who you're dealing with. Know your place." Says TJ in a low voice that sends a chill down my spine. For some reason my cheeks start to heat up at that sound. He puts his sword back and steps away, returning to his human form. Yosei does the same and runs over to me.
"Who is that guy?" I ask her. The new guy stands up, at the same time picking up his staff and rubbing his now sore nose.
"That's Daku Seishin, but he likes people to just call him Sei. He uses Voodoo magic." She says a little nervously. I look back up and see him walking over to the table that Koneko is on top of. He places his staff down on it and makes eye contact with me. His eyes are bright blue and piercing. He gives me a strange kind of smile before looking behind me.
"Um, girl who I don't know yet? I'll introduce myself in a moment, but right now I think you should know that you're hair's on fire." Everyone in the room turns to me and I freeze. I look behind me. My own hair has suddenly grown longer and is now a red colour, and the tips of my hair are burning with a bright orange fire that doesn't seem to be moving up my hair. It just stays there. Oh great. What else could happen today?