The 28th Faction (SSB fanfic)

Sweet, intelligent, but naive Chloe has just enrolled in her first boarding school: SSB Academy. Tired of moving around and constantly being the social odd girl out, she looks forward to a year at the esteemed fighting school where, supposedly, only the best of the best are allowed to attend. (Whether or not she believes that rumor is besides the point.)

What she comes to realize, though, is that the Academy is so much more, in more ways than one. Gradually, she notices strange things that others almost specifically ignore - odd coincidences, peculiar people, and nonsensical dreams. But after even stranger events, a silver-haired man tells her to look for an item a new friend is hiding, and her worst fear comes true:

The dreams start to make sense.

Haunted by nightmares of fire, demons, robots, swords, stars, and death, Chloe worries that her new companions are hiding something from her - something very important - but she never could have imagined what the truth would lead to.

From a untrustworthy school board, to the missing former principal, to the mysterious Resistance, to Chloe's conflicting past, it all adds up to one thing:

The search for the 28th Faction.