Academy Solo Write!

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Academy Solo Write!

Academy Solo Write!

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As your parental figure calls you down, you raise your eyebrows in surprise. You then quickly hop out of your chair that is pulled up to a desk and quickly exit your room, bounding down the stairs to see what is happening and what is going on.

You then question your parental figure, asking what they’re calling you down for.

They reply with a short, simple answer, explaining that a letter in the mail had been addressed to you. You simply tilt your head in confusion and your parent slides the letter into your hand with a small smile. 

You eye the letter in confusion and end up going back to your room, sitting at the desk again and examining the letter. The outside has nothing but a nicely written statement that claims that it is for you. You turn the letter over and open the neatly done floral wax seal, pulling the two pieces of parchment out of the envelope.

Greetings, Future Pupil!

I hope this letter finds you in good health. We have the magnificent opportunity to invite you to our school. The school is simply named Lone Oak Academy, or LOA for short. The school specializes in the opportunities of every student to gain more knowledge on their enchanted capabilities, or to put it plainly, their magic abilities. 

You are allowed to arrive with a pet or a sibling. Your sibling should be above the age of eight, and under the age of thirteen. Fourteen is the age where your sibling may enroll in the academy. Your pet must be tamed, although it may be of any species. 

We accept anyone of any gender and pronouns, whether that be a non-binary person that uses any pronouns, you are accepted into this academy. Please specify your gender and pronouns on the form.

You may request dorming with other pupils. Please ask for permission to dorm with others. You may also come to the front desk at the school and ask there, and we will get your dorms situated. Please fill out this form to enroll in our academy, and I hope to see you there.

Signed,

Sol Martinez

School Headmistress

You then push the introductory page aside and find the form. You hastily dip a quill in an ink barrel and sign the enrollment form.

Name (First and last, please):

Age (14-18 for students):

Gender and Pronouns:

Appearance:

Personality:

Any Allergies?:

Magic Ability (You may not use time-travelling, mind-reading, future-telling, mind-control, or anything of the such. You may use teleportation, speed, controlling of certain elements, telekinesis, flying, et cetera. There can be repeats.):

Backstory (Make it as detailed as you would like. Put N/A if there is nothing you would like to add):

Luggage (You may bring as much as you need, but list it from most important to least important):

Would you like to ship your character? (Please ask other CBers if you'd like to ship your character with theirs. Please specify preferred genders):

Anything I should know of? (Anything important to the character, such as likes or certain classes you'd like them to attend?):

Dorming with another person? (Ask other CBers again):

Introductory? (Would you like a specific thing to happen when meeting your character? Or in a certain place? Put N/A if you don't mind):

Other: 

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For companions-

Name (First and last, please, unless if it is an animal):

Age:

Gender and Pronouns:

Breed and Species (Mark N/A if it is a human sibling. You may bring elves or anything of the such):

Appearance:

Personality:

How does this relate to the pupil?:

Other:

Once you finish writing everything out, the letter bursts into flames and turns into ashes. The ashes are then swept away and they scatter, exiting through an open window you have in your room.

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Hello! The name I’m going under is just an alias. I might not be the most guessable CBer on here, but here I am. Starting up a solo write.

Disclaimer I: I cannot guarantee that I will be 100 percent on here all the time and writing because I procrastinate a lot. I also write in the past tense. ALSO! Please specify to the best of your abilities. You don’t need to specify certain shades of colors, but go in depth with explaining the personality and more. 

Now that that is over, thank you for reading and if you partake in this solo write. I hope this will live up to your expectations. I accept 15 main characters at the max (I will add more if there is more characers than intended), but if anyone would like to partake later, you may join. You will just have to specify a lot more. The maximum to adding main characters is two (2). You may take a companion with those two main characters. I will inform people if they have more than two main character submissions.

Whoo, this is long. If you didn’t see anything within the beginning parts, I will accept anyone of any gender and any pronouns, either neopronouns or any other pronouns. Just specify.

Disclaimer II: I might be needing some teachers. You may simply put the main character sheet as the teacher, just with less specification. (This post is already long, I apologise.) I will post Sol’s form after this is posted. 

submitted by Sol Martinez, First Solo Write!
(June 18, 2021 - 1:40 pm)

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submitted by Tippity top, Topping
(July 2, 2021 - 10:41 am)

Good day or evening! This is the last call for anyone who wants last minute adjustments to their characters (I'm taking this short and complete radio silence as to no one wants to ship their characters or anything).

If you have requested dorming for your student, I will be putting them into a dorm with someone else unless I'm to be told otherwise. I will be mixing and matching either by age groups or by personality wise. More extroverted characters will be put with more introverted characters or the complete opposite, that being introverted characters with other introverted characters and vice versa for extroverted characters. I shall decide on that. Ages will hopefully be at least maybe a one year difference. 

I will not be shipping characters without anyone's consent to it, so your character might be single throughout the solo write unnless you request to ship.

You may request relationships (friendships or full ships) throughout the story, so that just means the relationship would be added into the story a bit later. You may also adjust your character to your liking while the story is being written (taking certain classes, likings, et cetera). If you change hair color while I'm writing, it will most likely be put in as a character dyeing their hair rather than having it natural.

If you're still interested in finding another character for your student to be shipped and/or share a dorm with, please look at my (somewhat) recent post, containing each character is still open to shipping and for dorming.

As said, you may make last minute adjustments to your characters, but other than that, I'm going to be jumping into the story quite quickly. I'm aiming to start on at least the 17th of July, which means that there's about 11 days, give or take.

Excuse grammar or spelling mistakes. I'm currently on a tight schedule, but I need to put this out here. Thank you, again, for joining! 

submitted by Sol M., Lone Oak Academy
(July 5, 2021 - 5:13 pm)
submitted by TOP
(July 17, 2021 - 7:57 am)

[Disclaimers: This is more-or-less going to play out as a full story, so character introductions will be slow. Sol (character) is going to be the "main character" for a few installments and then it will change to the students. I made up more background characters, such as students and teachers, to make the school seem more alive and bustling. The next installment will be posted later today. Do correct me if I'm wrong or I messed up any ages or anything.]

- Installment One -

Sol Martinez's room was filled with ash. She gave a small smile and got up from her chair, straightening out her skirt. She then walked over to the door to her office, exiting the large room and walking down the halls.

She gave small smiles to the staff of the school, just simply walking down every hallway of the school to exit the large building, her heels clacking against the polished marble floors. She then made it over to the massive wooden doors with gold hinges and handles. She then swung the doors open and gave a small smirk, watching various people of different ages and heights approach the school. Some people had previously gotten to the school, but were sitting down and talking to each other, most likely introducing themselves and asking for a roommate.

Sol then walked down the sizeable stairway that led to the front of the school with small shaded and grassy areas. She gave a larger and more welcoming smile. "Good morning. I hope your travels here weren’t too tedious and problematic," she greeted.

Every enrolled student's heads shot up, surprised to see the headmistress.

"I hope I did not keep you waiting out here for too long," Sol frowned. "Now come. Please enter the building in a controlled fashion. Bring your luggage."

She then walked up the stairs, walking back into the school building. A few female students exchanged glances with each other, but quickly walked up the stairs, trailing behind the woman. Everyone else followed after the few female students, carrying their various sized bags up the stairs.

There was a main front desk in the entrance of the school. Above all of the student's heads, there hung a large crystal chandelier. The front desk worker was typing out various things on their keyboard, finally looking up from the screen after a few beats of silence.

"Sol, are these the new students?" They asked, clicking on a few new pages of their computer.

Sol nodded, "They are. Please get their dorms situated and recorded. I shall get a few teachers to collect the luggage." She then turned to the students. "Did you put your names on your bags?"

The students nodded.

"Splendid," Sol smiled. She then walked off to go get more staff members to take the luggage to the different dorm rooms. 

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"Well," the front desk worker started, "my name is Valentina Barlowe. I use she/her pronouns. I take any concerns and questions pupils may be asking. I also organize scheduling for each individual student. For now, I'm taking names, ages, gender and pronouns, dorm requests, and allergy information. I am also here to record your companions to get their breed and species and names. You may take your companions with you while touring the school with Headmistress Martinez."

A student with white hair in the style of a pixie cut with pale skin and green eyes stepped up to the desk. They tapped their fingers on the desk in front of them, bracelets on both of their arms jingling against each other. They had rings all over their fingers. "My name is Lya Brike. I'm female and I use she/her pronouns and I'm fifteen years old. I'd like to dorm with someone, but I don't have anyone in mind. I'm allergic to pollen. My companion is named Deela and she is a large white dove," the white haired student said with a large smile across her face. As if it was on cue, the mentioned dove flew over to Lya and landed on her shoulder, flapping her wings happily.

Valentina nodded, typing in something on her keyboard, "We'll find you a roommate soon." She then looked up from her computer again. "Next, please."

Lya quickly nodded and stepped aside. Another student with long brown hair with big blue eyes and a few freckles dotted on her face walked up to the front desk. "My name is Rayana Hentil, and I'm female and use she/her pronouns. I'm seventeen years old. I'm deathly allergic to walnuts, and may I please request to have a dorm room alone?"

Valentina nodded again, beaming. "Of course you may request for a singular dorm room," she said, typing on her keyboard again. "Do you have a companion with you?"

Rayana shook her head and stepped aside, letting another student walk up to the desk. The next student who walked up to the front desk had black hair with streaks of yellow. Their hair was tied into a braid and had neat bangs framing their face. They spoke in a hushed tone, "My name is Coraline Winters, but I prefer 'Coral'. I'm genderfae and my pronouns switch between they/them and she/her. I'm fifteen years old and I'm vegetarian. I'd like to share a dorm with someone, but I don't have a roommate yet."

Valentina smiled, nodding, "We'll find you a roommate." She then typed onto her computer and then looked up, giving a soft smile. "Do you have a companion with you?"

Coraline nodded, "I have my Tabby cat named Storm. She's brown with black and darkish brown markings."

"Perfect, thank you," Valentina said.

Coraline softly smiled, stepping aside for another student to go to the front desk.

After everyone was recorded on the computer, Sol returned with a few teachers. The teachers gave small smiles and just quietly took each student's luggage, walking off to the dorm wing of the school.

"Shall we get to the tour, then?" Sol asked. She didn’t even bother to hear anyone's response, instead just walking off while each student was hurrying to follow her. 

submitted by Sol M., Lone Oak Academy
(July 17, 2021 - 9:32 am)

I love this so much! Your writing is amazing!!!!!! The wording flows and the sentences all have a special ring to it, making the reader want to read more. Sol Martinez, I love your writing style and everything about this solo write, and I can't wait to read more! 

submitted by Red Starlight
(July 17, 2021 - 10:43 am)

Excuse the long delay. Here's the second installment! I apologize if I got any of the characters wrong! I don't have a certain posting schedule currently, but I'm aiming for weekends.

Also, thank you, Red Starlight, for the sweet comment!

- Installment Two - 

“And those are the classrooms!” Sol announced, finally turning backwards to face the students again. “Any questions?”

A student with longish red-ish, brown hair with bright green eyes framed by wire framed glasses raised their hand. One quick glance at them and you could tell they had a sense of style. They were wearing a nice button up shirt and dress pants. On their feet, they sported a look of dress shoes. On their hands were multiple different rings. Their eyes were a mesmerizing green shade and their winged black eyeliner they were wearing tied it all together.

“Please state your name and your preferred pronouns when you are asking a question,” Sol commented, not particularly directing it towards a certain student.

The student then cleared their throat, “My name is Alexander Stewart, but preferably Alec. My pronouns are he/him. When are we getting our schedules and where are the dorms?”

“A pleasure to meet you, Mr. Stewart,” Sol greeted, beaming. “You’re getting your schedules during dinner. For now, I shall be taking you to the dorm wing of the school, but I need to retrieve the keys for each room. Some students have requested for a solo dorm, while others have requested to dorm with others. Please follow behind me.”

Every student nodded and trailed behind the headmistress. She led the students back to the front of the school, going behind the front desk and opening a key cabinet and plucking off multiple keys. She then closed and locked the cabinet, turning back to the students.

“I shall be handing these out and then we all shall proceed to the dorm wing of the school,” Sol announced, handing every student a key to their dorms.

Some of the students exchanged glances with each other and beamed, knowing the pairs were going to cause chaos in the dorm. Some other students just looked at their keys with a small smirk, letting out a small sigh of relief for not having to share a dorm room.

Sol then finished the task of handing out the keys and already started walking off to the dorm wing of the school, each student scurrying to make sure they keep at a consistent pace to follow Sol. She then stopped in front of another large pair of doors, being the same size and the same exact doors as the entrance of the school.

She swung the doors open and there revealed rows and rows of dorm room doors. There was a railing and excess floor for each student to get to their dorms. There were large staircases that led up to the multiple floors of dorms, and there was an elevator in the middle. On the ground floor, in the middle, was a large common area with couches, chairs, and tables with chairs. There were plants scattered throughout the room for decoration. Against the one wall were bookcases of thousands upon thousands of books. The bookcases were in a straight line and could easily be accessed by anyone. There was a small section of the common area that was closed off that had instruments in the room, and another closed off that had computers lined up on the desks.

Sol then turned to the students, “There are number plates on every door. Some rooms are larger than others seeing as some students are sharing dorm rooms. Each student gets their own individual room, bathroom, closet, and extra room. There is a balcony off of everyone’s room, and you may use it as you would like. The extra room may be used if needed, but if one does not need it, do not use it. You may store your things away in your closets. There is the common area. You must get along in the common area, and please do not start trouble. I will be leaving now. Please find your assigned dorms and please get along with your roommate. I’ll come back to collect you all at 4:45 in the evening for dinner. I will be handing out schedules while you are all eating.”

The students collectively thanked Sol, and she walked off.

-

Most of the students didn’t walk off to their dorm rooms, but instead just looked around in the common area. The students that had a dorm room all to themselves quietly slinked off, going to their rooms and started putting away their various things they brought, except one student in particular.

A student with messy black hair and brown eyes that had a dorm room to xemself, but had no apparent luggage with xem. Kal Korrigan was xyr name.

Kal then began just walking through the common area, poking xyr head through the two separated rooms. Xe then just headed to the bookshelf portion of the common area and bumped into another student that had a large book in their hands.

Xe then quickly raised their eyebrows in surprise, “I’m so sorry!”

The student let out a small laugh, their hot pinked tipped dark brown hair pulled into two messy buns being slightly jiggled with the sudden movement. They then smiled, their brown-ish hazel eyes, framed by pale brown glasses, shining. A few freckles scattered their fairly tan skin.

“It’s completely fine!” they replied, although a slightly sour tint to their voice was evident. They appeared to have lost their page in the book they were reading. They then closed the large book and looked up to Kal, “My name is Amelia-Sophia. Amelia-Sohpia Dusk. She/her. I’d prefer Amelia, Mimi, Sophia, Sophie, or Soph.”

She then held out her hand, Kal taking her hand quickly and giving it a small shake. “My name is Kal Korrigan. Xe/xyr.”

A cat at Amelia’s feet gave a small whirr, brushing against her leg. “Oh hello, Anoush!” Amelia greeted the cat.

“Is that your cat?” Kal asked, motioning down to the white fluff ball with ears.

“Yes,” Amelia replied, “she is named Anoush.”

“Oh, sorry,” Kal apologized.

Amelia shrugged, then pointing to a large couch near the middle of the common area, “I’m going to go read my book over there.”

She then turned the book over to the cover. Over the cover were large, bolded words that read The History of Telekinesis. She then waved a small farewell and walked off, going over to a couch and plopping down. Anoush, her cat, happily trotted right after her, jumping onto the couch and laying down beside Amelia.

Kal then shrugged and decided to go to xyr dorm room instead of trying to talk to more people and get xemself into even more awkward situations. 

submitted by Sol M., Lone Oak Academy
(July 17, 2021 - 7:53 pm)

This is amazing! I love it!!!! The characters are so life-like and the interactions are amazing! Great job Sol!

submitted by Skip, age she/her
(July 17, 2021 - 9:18 pm)

Ahhhh omg you wrote Kal sooo well!! I loved xyr conversation with Amelia and I adore your writing style :) Please keep it up, I'm very excited to see where this leads <333

submitted by Silver Crystal, age She/her, Milky Way
(July 18, 2021 - 11:40 am)

This is a shorter post for now, but I'll post another time tomorrow, which will be much longer. Excuse the large paragraphs. Thank you for the sweet comments so far and reading!

- Installment Three -

Sol returned at 4:45 in the evening, pushing the dramatically large wooden doors open and looking around. 

All students were sitting together on various couches or sitting at tables and talking, most of them being roommates. Sol then clapped her hands and gave a large smile, “Good evening. It is 4:45, and I have come here to retrieve you for dinner. All the other students that are returning for another semester are going to be at the cafeteria already. They already have their dorms sorted and have already gone through a week of classes.”

Everyone then stood up and walked over to the door, following the headmistress out of the dorm wing and heading for the largest cafeteria. While walking, Sol turned around and started walking backwards, “Everyone eats at communal times, but you may come to the cafeteria for snacks to your taste. The food possibilities are endless here, and to anyone who is vegan or vegetarian, we have those choices. We have multiple chefs preparing the various cuisines, so for anyone allergic to certain things, you will not get an allergic reaction. We do have multiple kitchens scattered all over the cafeteria, so find whatever suits you.”

Another large set of wooden doors stood in their way, Sol just pushing it open absentmindedly and walking inside. The cafeteria was scattered with tables and chairs everywhere. There were various kitchens that had large signs on them, indicating which one to go to if someone had a certain allergy. The room was already bustling with students, some of them standing with black plastic trays and waiting in a neat line. Others were sitting at tables, either eating their food or just having loud conversations with their friends. The room was loud due to the hundreds of students already there, some of them yelling across the large room, while others were just naturally talking louder.

A few students in the group looked uneasy, but others looked mesmerized by the large room.

“There is no seating arrangement for anyone, but for this first dinner, I shall be having you sitting at a table all together so I can go through basic things. The rules and things are quite simple, but if they are confusing, you may ask for clarification or just find out,” Sol said, pointing to a large round table.

The table was empty, being reserved for the fifteen new students. Most of the students just nodded or gave a small noise of acknowledgement. They all then walked off from the group in pairs of friends or roommates, going to get their various types of food and returning to the table.

The various students began to sit at the table, some of them beginning to eat while others were waiting a little bit. Sol then cleared her throat. “These are your schedules. They fit perfectly for each student individually. You may be sharing a class with your roommate, or you may not be. Some classes are of the same age group, while others are for any age group. The main ones for individual ages are mathematics or any branch of it, biology and chemistry, history, language arts, special magic abilities that need to be separated, and some that a legal guardian requested. There are many classes to take here, and you may ask to be put in a certain class of your liking,” Sol said, handing out a paper full of different time tables for each student. She then beamed, “The school is quite large, so if you need help around here, you may request help from a teacher or an older student. For the first week here for all of you, any student that has been here for more than a year has a small pin on their shirt, so go to them if you need help navigating.”

Sol then thought to herself for a moment and gave another smile, “We have a huge library for any avid readers, a garden with a class for it, a computer room, a typewriter class, various magic classes, an astronomy tower, an art room, an infirmary, an astronomy class that is held in both the astronomy tower and a separate room, a marine biology class, and more classes. We have a special class that is about mental strength, and I highly encourage everyone here to take at least a few classes. There are fighting classes and performing arts, and we have both a gymnasium and a decently sized work-out room. Mathematics or any branch off of it, biology or chemistry, history, language arts, and magic classes are permitted. Other classes your legal guardians have requested are also permitted. Otherwise, you may partake in any class, and yes, there are multiple history classes for the main magical abilities, otherwise you go to the library and read up on it. You may drop out of classes, but you need a good reason, and you need to speak to the subject teacher and myself before dropping the class. There are after school clubs, but please get that arranged with Miss Valentina Barlowe at the front desk. You may join as many clubs as you desire, but please don’t overwork yourself. Any questions?”

The students stayed quiet, most of them looking dazed from all the information thrown at them. Some of them just shook their heads and continued eating.

Sol clapped and happily tilted her head, smiling, “I do hope one of you students were paying attention from where you came. I’m going to be leaving now because I’m going to get a lot of complaints from legal guardians, I can just feel it. If you have any questions later, come to my office.”

She then happily smiled and walked off, walking out of the bustling cafeteria and heading to her office.

submitted by Sol M., Lone Oak Academy
(July 24, 2021 - 5:00 pm)

And the fourth installment! This is quite a long installment.

I apologize for the wait. For the students with he/they and she/they pronouns, it switches every paragraph. I'm most likely going to use a certain pronoun when a bunch of characters are present, just so no one is confused.

- Installment Four - 

The night was peaceful and the morning was lovely. Each student ate their breakfasts as they pleased and headed off to their various classes.

Flying was a bit of a bother to a certain new student. The certain student walked off to flying class, which took place outside so no one would accidentally run into a wall or hit the ceiling. They walked over to the teacher that taught the class, sticking out a hand and giving a welcoming smile, “My name is Xay Minrae, he/him pronouns.” He pushed his messy blonde hair out of his sight of his dark brown eyes.

“A pleasure to meet you, Xay,” the teacher greeted with a dry tone. The teacher then pointed to a large platform various students were standing on, some with wings, while others just relying on their magic ability. “Go over there and wait.”

Xay nodded and quickly ascended a few flights of stairs. It was dizzying to go up so many flights of stairs, but it wasn’t too bothersome to him. The teacher then came up around five minutes later and instructed every student to just jump off of the platform.

Xay hesitated for a moment but jumped off, his magic ability of flying thankfully catching him. Although, unfortunately, he wasn’t very good at controlling his flying, so instead he attempted to fly, but dove into a nearby bush covered in flowers.

After breakfast, another certain student walked off to go to the garden. They didn’t have any classes in the garden, but they’d probably ask a teacher to take a gardening class. A purple toned, glitching mess in the shape of a wolf with raven wings and a devil tail followed the student off to the garden.

The student sat down near a large flower bed with some huge bushes with flowers, just simply sitting on the ground and admiring the flowers. They then began to start sketching out the bushes of flowers, just taking in the morning sun. Thankfully it was still early fall, so it was still warm in the mornings.

The student was drawing and just in their own little bubble, but suddenly a large crashing noise flooded their ears. They looked around for anyone that might’ve thrown something at a plant in the garden, but most things looked unharmed. They then turned to the bush they were drawing and saw two legs sticking out of it.

“Um, hello?” they asked the person headfirst into the bush. The student pushed their black hair out of their eyes and readjusted their black cloak strung across their back. Atop of their head were a pair of wolf ears.

A mumbled and leafy reply came out of the other student’s mouth.

The black haired student’s companion seemed to be going into a defensive mode, beginning to make a low growling noise. The Wolven also seemed taken aback from the sudden crash and became defensive of their companion. The Wolven then began changing from their purple tone to a more orange-ish tone.

“Do you need help?” the unnamed student asked, getting up and leaving their things aside. Only the sounds of leaves being brushed against hair could be heard, but they took it as an agreement. The student grabbed the other student in the bush by their waist, lifting them out of the bush. The student that was recently in the bush had a sheepish grin on their face.

“Thank you,” they said.

The other student with the Wolven companion shrugged, “You’re welcome.”

“My name is Xay Minrae. He/him pronouns,” they said, offering their hand over to the other student.

The other student raised their eyebrow in suspicion, but also offered their hand out to the male, “Faye Arcane. She/they pronouns.” Her eyes seemed to be a lovely purple shade, which added to what they were wearing, but it was covered with a wolf mask.

Xay then took Faye’s hand, giving it a small shake, to which the non-binary student quickly released their grasp from his hand and started fidgeting with a vialed purple liquid that was strung around their neck.

She then sighed, going back over to her Wolven companion and giving them a small pet on the head, which seemed to calm the Wolven. The Wolven then changed from their orange tone, back to their purple tone.

“Is that your companion?” Xay asked, pointing to the now purple tinted Wolven.

Faye nodded, “Their name is CMC.”

“CMC?” Xay asked.

“It stands for Confusion_Misery_Chaos. Those three are CMC’s main modes,” Faye supplied. They gave a small sigh and looked over to a clock above an entrance to the school.

Xay nodded.

“Why did you decide that being in a bush was a good idea?”

“It wasn’t my idea. I just ended up flying into a bush at the wrong time.”

“Why were you flying in the first place? Isn’t flying banned inside the school building?”

“Flying class.”

Faye nodded, grabbing her drawing supplies and giving a small smile, “I need to head off to class. I only got twenty minutes of free time before my classes start.”

Xay nodded, waving a small farewell to the wolf mask wearing student, him deciding to also go back to the platform to talk to the teacher.

-

Another certain student slinked off in the hallways after breakfast. They then happily walked down the hall with their companion in their backpack. The mentioned companion was a bearded dragon with inky black splotches all over her and with dark gray eyes. They kept their head down, their black hair with uneven stripes of pink, a dull white, dark purple, an even somehow darker black, and navy blue, covering their black-blue eyes with dark circles under them. Over their eyes, they had nicely drawn black eyeliner.

Their clothes were a black leather jacket covered with pins and badges over a loose, cropped, short-sleeved shirt in a shade of deep purple. The purple was surprisingly a quite deep shade. They wore pink skinny jeans with ripped knees and deep blue hightops with chunky white laces. On their neck, they sported several chains, a short compass pendant, two chokers, and a gothic silver skeleton key on a black string.

Their pale skinned hands that had permanent marker doodles all over them, but it was covered with some black fingerless gloves, were stuffed into their jean pockets. On their ears, they sported several earrings.

A passing student, who was a student with white hair in the style of a pixie cut with pale skin and green eyes. While the white haired student walked pass, named Lya Brike, the goth-looking student also passed by. The bearded dragon in their bag popped her head out, scaring the passing student.

Lya let out a little yelp, clearly taken aback by the sudden bearded dragon head that popped out of the other student’s bag. She then quickened up her pace and headed to her class while the other student just assumed Lya was startled by something else.

The gothic-looking student walked into class, heading over to a seat right next to the window that was right by the school’s large courtyard so they could just peer out the window if the class got boring. More students started flooding in and the class was then full in about two minutes after they got in their seat.

A teacher walked into the room with a clipboard with a pen connected to it. The teacher then gave a smile, which clearly looked fake. “You will all be introducing yourself,” he announced to the class, sitting down at his desk. He then pointed to the chalkboard and whiteboard pair, then at a student in the front right corner.

The student hesitantly got out of their desk and introduced themself. As the students introduced themselves, the gothic-looking student got more bored. After a person to their right had sat back down, they dramatically got out of their seat and stood in the front of the class.

“Callisto Nikini Lukas McCove. She/they and he/they, but he/they currently. Not pleased to meet you,” they greeted, giving a bow. They then walked back to their seat.

After the rest of the class had finished their introductions, the teacher went on to explain classroom etiquette and how students should behave in his class. It had been shown on a smartboard with a slideshow of a bunch of bullet points. Callisto then peeked over to the window right next to him, looking at the locks. The window could be opened.

After around thirty minutes of the teacher giving a lecture about how everyone should behave in his class, Callisto finally was fed up with it. They quietly got out of their seat while the teacher had his back turned and they quickly unlocked the window, opening the window. They then eyed the teacher and then hopped out of the window, finally being relieved of the teacher’s lecture.

He landed right on top of someone, the person seeming to have a conversation with another student about the Ursa Minor.

“—traditionally important for navigation,” a student concluded, “and that’s what the Ursa Minor is!” Right after the carrot orange haired student with taupe eyes and rectangular, gold framed glasses with a chain attached to them finished their sentence, Callisto fell on top of the person they were talking to.

The student that was landed on, being a tall student with sea-blue eyes and long wavy red hair, had quickly yelped out. The two had begun to tumble down, but thankfully the carrot orange haired student quickly caught the red haired student and that also had coincidentally caught Callisto.

Callisto huffed, “Ow?”

“I’m so sorry,” the red haired student apologized.

“I don’t think you should be apologizing,” the orange haired student cut in, although still creasing their eyebrows in worry. “They jumped out of the window above us.”

“Oh, yeah,” Callisto admitted, “that was my bad.”

The red haired student also showed concern, “Are you alright?”

“Mostly. Can one of you carry me to the infirmary? I fell out of a window.” Callisto asked.

The red haired student shook their head, and so did the orange haired student.

“Should I go get another person?” the orange haired student asked. Before even being answered they quickly ran off and there appeared another student that seemed a lot stronger compared to the two students Callisto fell on.

The much stronger student hauled Callisto onto their shoulder and took them to the infirmary.

submitted by Sol M., Lone Oak Academy
(July 25, 2021 - 7:15 pm)

BEAUTIFUL. 

submitted by dreamiing, lost
(July 25, 2021 - 9:01 pm)

okay, this is beautiful-

i love how xay and faye just meet from xay crashing into a bush and faye helping him- 

AHAHAHAHHA-

and you portrayed faye and cmc wonderfully <3 cmc would definitely attack someone who even got close to faye as long as they didnt know them.  

submitted by th3mysticw0lf
(July 25, 2021 - 10:45 pm)

Oh my goooosh!! I love this so far!! Aster's short introduction is so beautiful!

Aaaa you portrayed Aster so perfectly! I love how they were just casually talking about the Ursa Minor! 

submitted by Hollyshock, You'll Never Know
(July 26, 2021 - 8:56 am)

lovely 100% <3333

submitted by Silver Crystal, age Infinity, Milky Way
(July 26, 2021 - 2:35 pm)

I love the story so far. I love your writing style, your really good at portraying the charactors personalities.

submitted by Lightning Girl, age 2,000,000, Bortron_7
(July 26, 2021 - 3:46 pm)