“Alright students we have three new faces today. Say hello to Usagi Tsukino, Ranko Meioh and… Draft, Drake… Drask Thorn?” The teacher asked and Drask nodded a little shyly uncomfortable at being stared at. “Must be European.” The teacher said to herself. “Now you three can take those desks over there.” She said pointing to an empty grouping of four desks. The whole classroom was covered in student art and had the desks in groups of four. The teacher herself was a tall willowy woman with long blond hair but obvious Asian features. She then led the class through some easy timetables. She was however watching a fuming Ranko like a hawk and regularly checking a small piece of paper with Setsuna’s handwriting on it.
This was how things went until gym class where they had to change into bathing suits for swimming lessons. “OH COOL!!” someone shouted from the boy’s change room. “CHECK IT OUT HE’S GOT A TATTOO!” sure enough a minute latter Drask rushed out and around his left arm was his familiar in tattoo form. It was a dark viper and had narrow glowing green eyes it had been well covered earlier by his jacket.
“Um… Mr. Thorn we don’t allow wet apply tattoos in the pool they taint the water.” The gym teacher said and Drask shook his head.
“It… it’s real.” He said and the teacher shook his head and motioned for Drask to walk up to him and started fingering in and his eyebrows leapt up.
“Why do you have a tattoo?” he asked.
“Sign of skill… normally with the family art it takes till you’re thirteen but I got it now instead.” Drask said fidgeting as he realized he had everyone’s complete and utter attention.
“Alright badge of accomplishment, I can understand that.” The teacher said and motioned him to sit down with the rest of the boys. He then started to lead them all through some stretching exercises.
“Hey did it hurt?” A guy asked Drask as they stretched.
“Did what hurt?” he replied.
“The tattoo dummy!” another guy hissed.
“No, but I got a pill before they put it on me.” He lied smoothly using the story Setsuna helped him come up with.
“Wimp.” A bigger guy said and Drask sighed.
Ranko for her part decided to have a little fun and ‘accidentally’ tripped the girl in front of her from the side causing her to collapse into another girl who collapsed into another then another like dominoes. “Oupss sorry!” she said without a drop of sincerity or sympathy in her voice.
“No horseplay! You Cherry Top sit on the edge for five.” The teacher said and Ranko grumbling sat against the fence and glared at the class as they piled into the water. Or in Drask’s case pushed.
“Hey! You leave him alone you jerk!” Usa shouted before knocking the guy that pushed Drask in into the water himself.
“No horseplay! You Takata sit over there, Pinky you’re with Cherry Top!” the teacher instructed and Pinky aka Usa walked over and sat beside Cherry Top aka Ranko. A few moments later Drask slumped down beside Usa.
“Why are you there kid? You haven’t done anything.” The teacher asked.
“She’s here cause of me so I should be too.” He said and the man shrugged.
“Whatever, your choice Tattoo just don’t make a fuss.” He said and Tattoo aka Drask nodded. At this moment Ranko got a chill down her back that always happened when her mother was about to embarrass her.
Time Gates
Setsuna giggled realizing that although she shouldn’t be using the gates to spy on her daughter it was oh so cuuuute moments like this that made it worth it. “Oh everyone’s going to love this.” She said taking out a camera and snapping a picture.
School
“Miss Meioh! You are not to pull student’s seats out from under them.” The teacher snapped roughly an hour after gym. Ranko had proven to be vindictive and pulled that Takata boy’s chair out from under him. “Now apologize to him.” The teacher ordered and Ranko snorted pulled her eyelid down and stuck her tongue out at Takata.
“Nuuuunh you jerk.” She said before turning back to Usa and Drask who wasn’t sure what to make out of being defended like this.
“Thanks…” he said quietly and both Usa and Ranko beamed at him.
“Hey what are friends for right?” Ranko said happily and Drask smiled and nodded.
About thirty minutes later they were released for recess and Ranko grinned before tapping Drask on the shoulder shouting “You’re it!” and running off with Usa right behind her.
“Ah!” he said in surprise but gave chase. Before they could actually play though there was a bellowing roar and a large creature that had the face like a bulldog the grace of a drunk and the body of an Oni crashed through the stone wall surrounding the schoolyard.
“Energy, small juicy energy.” It said staring hungrily out onto the schoolyard full of panicked kids and Drask caught up with Usa and Ranko and they ducked behind a tree. Usa and Ranko then transformed and Drask pulled out a shroud and bracers his mother had made him bring and put them on causing his form to blur and all his colour to be replaced with darkness and a glowing green light coming from his eyes. He breathed a long shuddering sigh as he felt some (but not all) of his fears and insecurities fade away like his skin tone, a side effect to becoming a Dark-Creature.
“I guess I’m Dark Prince now.” He said mostly to himself but Sol and Mini-Moon caught it.
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