1 Chapter 1
"Sweetie you can wake up now? Or do you want Mommy to wake you up with a kiss?" I groan aloud as a womanly voice sounds beside me. "Wake up dumbass or we'll be late, it's not like I'm waiting for you or anything." Another voice that sounds younger comes from the same place. "Wake up, or we'll be late." A disinterested voice says. "COME ON! THE DAY IS HERE! GET UP OR I'LL BEAT YOU UP!"
"Okay that's enough." I say as I turn off my alarm clock, and proceed to get back to sleep. This thing is great, worth every cent... only for my phone to start ringing out of nowhere. The caption of the alarm says 'You're late dumbass.' "Shit! Its 7 AM!" I get up from my bed running to the bathroom and take a shower as fast as I can, shaving from the ugly hairs mustache and beard that grows for no reason every 3 days. It's not even close to a beard which would be awesome, but I mean. Shit I rambled, grabbing the closest pants and shirt I get ready for school, good thing about living in Valoran City and attending Valoran High School is that if you have mana or abilities you can use them as long as you have the permit.
Taking the closest granola bars and shoving them into my bag followed by my keys I'm out the door in seconds. Looking down to my phone its 7:09 "Well... better safe than sorry." I say as I close the door to my house. Taking a few steps I focus on my passenger that lives on my skin. 'Oi wake up, dumbass.' I think as I feel that thing hum to life as my skin gets covered by purple shard like things. My muscles suddenly feel tenser and stronger, channeling mana into me molding it to the warm feeling I know closely. I'm off as I shot off from the ground, in a leap I let go of my magic making sure the light wings manifest on my back.
My descent comes makes it able for me to glide though the city, faster than I realize I reach my school a little too fast, waits this is too fast. Expanding my wings doesn't slow me down. "Oh come on, not again." I say as I wrap myself in magic this time my second magic barely helping me slow down. But not fast enough as I land in one of the three places that this school has dirt face first using my hands to try and not get hurt too much.
"Ouch." I say turning to lie on my back only to look at my phone and how it's now cracked. "Oh COME ON!" I hear the familiar snicker from my left. "Yup, laugh it off." I glare lightly as the girl with blue hair, pale white skin and bright blue eyes filled with mirth. "I am" She signs as she approaches me leans down extending her hand.
Today she's wearing a blue T-shirt with the icon she's using as for her remixes that she posts on spottily and YouTube. Which is the high tech mask that has red and yellow with the black helmet holding a red line frequency, but this one has cleavage. She extends her hand as s and I try my absolute hardest to not look at the cleavage that is popping out of her shirt. My gaze firmly on her face. "Thanks Sona." As I grab hear hand, she looks sort of disappointed at something. Maybe it's because I arrived late.
"Yes, I know I'm kinda late."
'I'm surprised you haven't failed the class for tardiness.' My mind receives the message like music. It's something that Sona and I have since we were kids. To the people outside of us two it looks like I can understand her micro expressions which I do. But it's me talking and she is not even using sign language which I know because I wanted to talk to her when we were kids.
"It's not like I like being late..." She gives me a deadpan stare. "Okay!" Raising both hands as if she was an officer. "But sleep was SOOO good and I didn't hear my alarm clock."
'You do know that your alarm clock sounds all the way to my room!' She says as she crossed both arms under her chest, which I am again, not looking. Sona looks annoyed now at how my eyes are diverting as we walk through the halls, while I pat my clothes getting rid of the dirt.
"In my defense, it has 20 different ways to wake you up, with over 15 lines per voice. Sona that thing is a collector's item."
'You do know collector items loose value if they're used, right?'
"WAIT WHAT?"
'Don't yell! Also yes, when you opened it from the box it became worthless.'
"... shit." We stop as my locker comes into view. "Wait, you were waiting for me... you knew I would be late and landing there?" She nodded with a smile on her face. "Sometimes I feel like you keep me around to make fun of me."
"You do that by yourself loser." The annoying voice of the resident egomaniac jock Draven says as he shoves me to the nearest locker.
"Sona." He raises his eyebrows twice as he steps between me and her. "You know, the glorious Draven has a party this weekend, and the party can't be complete without a beauty like you." Don't punch, don't punch, don't punch. Resist the urge to commit assault. "You do know that I don't understand your gang signs or whatever they are. Yes or yes?" Looking at the gestures.
"She says she's busy." I grab Draven by the shoulder using a bit of my secret purple host to pull him back. I can punch him right now and send him across the hall and be labeled a hero because I stood up to this jerk. But it would end up with me either expelled or in detention doing community service. Sona is now standing behind me.
"Come on So, leave this loser... or you know what? He can come; he has enough guts to face me. Later loser, see ya Sona." Did I get invited to a Draven party? That's actually really cool, his parties are wild.
'You did get invited and they are.'
"Right, forgot about loud thoughts, my bad Sona. I still can't believe you dated him." She makes a gag motion as she holds both hands to her neck.
'When will you let it go? It was half a school day and punched him in the face when he tried to grope me.' Tsch maybe I should've punched him.
'You would've ended up in detention or expelled.' She said as we made our way to class.
"What do you have in mind for today? I mean after class?" She touched her lip in deep thought.
'I was thinking of going to your house to record and maybe destroy your new alarm clock.' We took our seats.
"Don't you think it's a little excessive also, I didn't invite you over!" She grinned and made the motion for "I know."
'Oh also, a friend is coming over to your house.'
"You do know my house is not E for everyone?"
'Yes it is, because you have the best instruments for recording and a recording booth and good acoustics.'
"What do I get in exchange? You basically barge into my house daily." She looks at me wide eyed her cheeks redden a bit.
'You get...' She fidgets in her seat.'...me?' Is she stupid? That sounds way too wrong.
"PASS, I meant something food related, maybe you can cook something, I do lov- like, I like your cooking." I corrected myself last second. Sona looks hurt as the connection severs; I feel a little cold as the warmth of the voice only I can hear leaves me.
"Fine, asshole." She motions.
"That is no language a lady should use." She only glares at me as she gathers hits her desk like drum three times and fires a bolt of sound magic at my face. I block using my own sound magic but hers is strong enough to make me almost stumble. 'Shit she usually gets like this when I said something dumb... maybe it's because I said the L word.' Taking out my granola bar I begin to eat and hand the other that has chocolate to Sona, who reluctantly takes it.
After a day of cold shoulder from my only friend, I end up alone on the free hour that I have, I mean we share free hour but Sona is kinda mad at me for some reason, oh well you win some you lose most of the time. I lean back on the wall of the empty dance studio that no one uses at this hour, as I start playing with my magic, using sound to make music and light to make a dancer. This is how I learned to dance, or mostly, this helps me chill out as I train magic control. "Ah, what the hell." I say aloud as I'm now using more magic to make dance choreography of an idol I saw a long time ago.
The music is the same, as I focus on the dance moves. Four people dance as a girl in the center only accentuates the song. "You know she looks like someone I know." A voice comes from behind me; I jump to my feet as I'm greeted with the voice of Valoran High Siren. Evelynn Von something I can't remember.
"Uh... I-"
"What? Got caught doing something weird? Again?" She's covered in shadows as her form slowly takes... well form, her body is like a lethal road of endless curves in all the right places. She's wearing a short leather skirt that shows off her legs, heels that look too expensive to wear and earing with diamonds oh and let's not forget golden claws with jewelry on them.
"Wait, I'm the weird one? How? Have you seen Draven? He's an egomaniac."
"That guy, he is just a run of the mill egomaniac... that and you're. You on the other hand are an unknown, average beyond compare and mediocre to the bone."
"Okay Miss Siren of Valoran, if I'm completely honest. I don't give a shit about what you think just because you're pretty. Spread rumors or do whatever it is you do, you're not important." I begin to gather my things.
"What? You, think, I. Care what you think?" I just keep walking out the dance room only to feel an overwhelming desire but it's not targeted.
"Are you sure?" Something hits me like a truck, it's not physical, and in seconds the thing living in me absorbs that. In anger I use my magic to appear right beside her and push her to the wall my hand wraps around her throat.
"I don't know what you just did." Sound and light surround me as my host covers even my face. My wings are sharp as they turn to the siren, vibrating with sound magic. "Don't ever try to do that shit, I don't care if you're the most popular girl, or the prettiest, you're just some common girl with nothing but looks going for her. I may be mediocre, but it's because I hold back. Don't fuck with me." I say slamming two sharpened feathers above her head into the concrete. She flinches. "Am." SLAM "I" SLAM "CLEAR" SLAM. Each word accentuated by a pair of feathers embedding themselves into the wall, the last two near her neck, beside my hand which is holding her in place.
She begins to nod, her face is bright red, and her neck is slender and warm. I let her go as I dispel my magic and annoying thing living in me.
"This didn't happen." I said as I used my light magic to heal her, she only nods as she coughs.
My mood is worse as the day ends, Sona seemed to notice as she drives us to my house, we take our shoes off as she goes to the recording studio while I go to my room ignoring her and flopping to my bed. "Ugh, maybe a nap will help." Closing my eyes barely for a moment. Only to wake up fifteen minutes later as a the boom from the studio speakers wake me up, making me walk to the music studio on my house which is like half the house, the music is loud enough that the soundproofing is not working.
"Sona, you're my best friend and you're amazing but-" My eyes grow wide as I notice 2 people standing there beside my friend as a girl with long blonde hair and the last person I want to see. "Oh fuck me." WELP looks like my day is ruined.
