• THE NAMELESS
    By cccjjj3

    I don’t really know where to start the story so I will just start at the beginning. I am in high school but I am by no means a normal high school guy. I sit in the back left corner of my first period class usually watching out a window day dreaming or thinking. I am the outcast in this class so much so that the desks that are near mine are always empty the students that should be sitting in them would rather sit on the floor or share a cramped seat with a friend and the teacher allowed this. For many people this would bother them but not me, no one was ever close to me, no one ever tried to understand my problems what makes me different and no one ever cared about anything but themselves and after years of seeing this behavior I started to hate all people and creatures equally. but like I said I’m not normal and this class I sit in is by no means normal either this class isn’t made up of humans but of creatures people have nightmares about most of which are in a disguise the rest of the day but in this class of monsters we are allowed to rest and forget about trying so hard to act human. A charm is placed on the room so we all still look human but we can all see the real forms. But anyway this story starts one day in about the middle of October. It was ten minuets before class started and I was gazing intently out into the still starry sky directly at the moon “three more days” I sigh. Quietly someone walks behind me and grabs me by the neck lifting me off my seat and into the air “I told you that you don’t belong in this class!” he yells in a deep voice lifting his free hand above his head. “So what if I don’t belong in this class?” I say “I don’t belong any where else either.” He smiles and his hand changes form into a long skinny dagger “than let me fix that for you” he says before he stabs at my face stopping in front of my eye. I look behind him at the teacher that grabbed his arm stopping it from stabbing me. “We haven’t started fighting lessons yet that’s tomorrow cant you wait until then to kill him Shiv?” she says. “Yeah…thanks for the help Mrs. K” I say sarcastically. She glares at me and kicks me in the stomach so hard I fell to the floor and felt like I was going to puke. Then she lets go of his arm before saying “go sit in your seat.” With that she walks out into the hall and the student walks away sitting in a seat. “Why didn’t stop him? You know your stronger” I hear from in my head “I may be stronger but they don’t know that and if they did I wouldn’t just be alone I would be despised by everyone in this class, on top of that I would have people or things ganging up on me trying to prove that they are stronger.” I reply as I get up and sit back in my seat gazing back at the almost full moon.

    Soon after the moon becomes unseen and shrouded by the first rays of daylight and a few clouds that start to drift in while creatures in forms of people walk in some so full of confidence that they change their form to show what they really are the bell rings. A few minuets after the bell rings the short teacher walks in looking a little ticked off and with a sigh she says “well class it seems we have a new class mate….she is sort of new to this school her parents didn’t want her to get teased or hurt because of what she is and as you all well know no one will be harmed by other members of this class just because someone is different.” I couldn’t help but roll my eyes at that comment this coming from the teacher that kicked me for no reason. Then Mrs. K waved her hand to girl with black hair, black cat ears coming out of her head, a black tail coming out from under her skirt, and bright green eyes wearing a normal black shirt with a black jacket on over it rainbow socks on and her hair semi short some of it in her face. She walks in shaking just a little the smell of fear quickly filling the room “she is going to be killed if she cant hide fear or her emotions better especially in this class of weirdoes.” says the voice in my head. “Hello…nya” she says in a shaky voice as a pair of cat like ears twitch backwards on her head. “Well…go find a place to sit you can sit any place in this class but there are some places I would advise against sitting” Mrs. K says pointing to my corner of the room “like over there.” With that she looks over at me with a curious face obviously to me either thinking “he must be scary” or “he must be an outcast because of what he is.” Walking down a row of full seats her cat tail swaying back and forth. looking at all full seats one having two students in one desk and walking over one student she makes her way to the back of the room and to the seat beside mine “do you mind if I sit here?” she says quietly “there isn’t many open seats so I either sit in that one with no one around, the one next to it, or this one.” Look away from the window and look her in the eyes saying “suit your self.” Then I look back out the window. Smiling she sits in the seat beside me “nya! Thanks” she says. Putting her tail through the hole in the back of the seat. Seeing that I start to wonder if the chairs were made for people with tails and for that matter is that why skirts were invented or was it just for more perverted purposes quickly pushing the thoughts out of my head as the voice starts to laugh at my thoughts and I return to gazing out the window.

    In the time for the first period class to end I felt like the world would end before the class would end when the bell rang I got up and started to walk out of the door when the new cat girl walked in front of me “where are ya going?” she says with an curious look on her face “you aren’t supposed to leave the class…right?” after she says that the guy that tried to fight with me earlier walks up to her “don’t worry about him, he is a nobody and he doesn’t belong here so he leaves at almost every chance even if he has to stand around the humans” he says “oh by the way I am Shiv” she giggles at the name “that doesn’t sound like a normal name to me…but I don’t know what you are so I guess it could be” smiling he changes his arm into a sword and his other hand into a dagger “I am a lower shape shifter” he says. taking the opening to get away I walk by her and Shiv almost running out the door and out side breathing in the fresh air and sitting alone on a bench hearing the people walk by me whispering things but never listening to the conversations and about ten minuets after the next class starts I get back up and starts walking back to the class then stops outside the door thinking about going in or just skipping this class entirely knowing it is just staying hidden in human society and how to keep a disguise or in my case keeping my grip on reality. Looking through the window in the door I see the new girl falling asleep her ears well hidden in her hair. I just sigh and open the door and walk into class and to my seat accidently stepping on something “NNNYYYYAAA!!! MY TAIL!” she screams waking up quickly and jumping out of her seat making most of the class jump and the rest of the class laugh at the noise and reaction of their class mates. Lifting my foot up and getting off of her tail seeing her eyes tearing up I quickly apologize. She just hisses at me and sits back in her seat sighing I sit in my seat thinking “it was a ******** accident and I apologized for it but all she can do is his in my face” I think “she is just like all the other creatures unforgiving, untrusting and uncaring about anyone but themselves” looking out the window I start to blank out forgetting or ignoring the lesson for the entire class period. The bell rang telling everyone that its time to eat lunch, everybody getting up around me and moving into groups of friends then they all leave the room leaving me behind in what was always normal to me I have always chose not eat lunch or breakfast but because I am not normal these things that call themselves people are all nothing but beasts but because they don’t see themselves they look at me as a beast. Soon something interrupted my train of thought, a group of about 3 different creatures walked in the room laughing and goofing off one of them a cross breed between a cat and fox person with bright hair and a pair of ears poping out of his hair twitching to the loud hi-pitched music or techno coming out of a pair of DJ style headphones draped around his neck his big fluffy fox tail coming out of a pair of pants that were magically modified to hide the tail from sight unless they knew about magic a, commonly used spell that has many modifications to it allowing almost every one no matter the breed to use thair own variation of it like choosing what the humans see and it even comes in a liquid like form if you have no magical powers. After seeing who it was I ignored who the other two were and looked back out the window seeing a crow standing on a power line looking into the room like it was some what interested in something in the room. The crow soon seeing that it caught my eye it looks away hastily and starts to fly away. “someone is being watched” the voice in my head says “but who ever it is either isn’t good at spying or they wanted some one to know that they are watching some one here to tell who ever it is.” “I have to agree” I reply under my breath so no one hears me “I think it is either the new cat girl, one of those three, and the least likely of all, me. But lets just wait and see how this all plays out.” “aww you give your self to much credit” the voice chuckles.

    Lunch soon comes to an end and everyone walks into class some of the bigger beasts are still eating while they sit in thair desks or the equivalent of it depending on the person (like I said some sit on the floor or with someone). When the teacher walks in she looks a little hungry looking at the things that were eating then she snaps out of it and says “ok class if you didn’t know we have self training class all day in other words you will be pitted one agenst the other at random to train your own style. Also to tell me and yourself where you need the most training and what kinds of spells you will need to know…because your mostly all different breeds everyone’s own styles will be different, and we will have some one here to help judge and be a referee to make sure no one gets killed or hurt to bad.” As soon as she gets done talking someone raises a hand and says “who will the guest be?” Mrs. K looks at them and says “I don’t know who it will be…but due to the four classes that aren’t human there will be four others that will help. But not tomorrow but maybe later a class or two will be paired together then from that there will be a tournament to tell who is the strongest or who can think best on their feet.” Hearing that the class explodes with conversation and another person raises a hand before nearly yelling over the classes conversation “do we have to persipitate in the fighting or can we sit out?” “good question!” the teacher yells back “listen class you don’t have to fight but if you don’t your grade and the strength rating of your breed will drop drasticly. So in order to get a good rest and preparation time I will allow you to leave school early if you want.” With that every one stands up around me and tries to leave in a fast fashion when the cat girl turns around looking at me curiously before saying “aren’t you coming?” I look up at her wide brown eyes and say “why do you care? You don’t even know me!” she jumps when I snap at her and sighs before saying “did I make you feel bad when I hissed at you? I know it was an accident I just caught me of guard and hurt.” Looking away from her I say “a little” hearing that her ears drop and she replies “sorry” before walking away. After she walks out Mrs. K walks up in a bad mood and says in a harsh tone of voice “I don’t want any deaths in the fights tomorrow understood?” standing up I say “I don’t either but I don’t know what will happen yet” before standing up and walking down a street into a dark ally and sitting agenst a wall soon a Tabby/Siamese cat will run to me and jump into my lap purring as I start to pet it “how are you doing Bandit?” I say to it and out of no where I hear a “NYA!” looking up I see the new cat girl hiding her ears and tail quite well but the sound she made wasn’t good at hiding what she is “what?” I say to her “are you following me around” “no your following me” she giggles at me “you are taking care of a cute cat.” After a look at her I shake my head and say “No…. I’m not this cat isn’t my pet he is my…….friend” I look down at him and smile “he is the only thing that ever understands me even thought he technically doesn’t understand me, he knows how I feel just by the way I talk to him” she starts walking towards me and looks at the cat then scratches behind his ear “don’t underestimate a cat’s brain power just because you don’t understand the cat language” she says acting a bit annoyed before Bandit licks her hand and then rubs agenst her leg “he looks like he likes you” I say after he gets up and rubs agenst her leg. “no he just knows that we are of the same species and that I am of the royal family” she says quietly with out thinking. “Royal family?” I question her. Jumping some realizing what she said then replying “uuuhhh…. Yeah sort of, I am the princess and I was sent here to keep from being hurt by the enemies of the crown until I become the queen and I get a real guard” “oh really?” after saying this that weird something in my head tells me that it’s time to go I jump up and say “I’m sorry I forgot I gotta do something…I will see you tomorrow” standing up I start to walk away soon realizing that she was following me and she was being followed by Bandit. Looking behind me at her I slow down so I am walking beside her “Bandit is following you” I laugh some and she just nods her head before she says “cats are sort of protective creatures so I he is trying to protect me” with a sigh I shake my head not understanding the little cat tiring to protecting a larger cat that. I walk faster I soon walk a different way and go home

    When I got up the next morning I had made up my mind and knew what I was going to do when I got to school. So I got ready and walked back to school looking up at the moon again thinking “only two more days” and before I knew it I was in that same hell hole I spend most of my time but for some reason I was sort of exited to start the school day a feeling I never experienced before and I still don’t understand. Sitting in my desk I gaze deeply into the moon through the window before I knew it the cat girl had walked in and sits in her seat looking at me she says “you looking at the moon?” with an oddly cheery (at least to me) voice. I don’t break my gaze at the moon to look at her I just reply “I guess you could say that.” “So are you exited for the training class today?” she asks. “I don’t know…I think so” I say still confused. “How can you not know if your exited or not?” she says obviously confused too. I shake my head and turn to look at her before saying “never mind.” When the bell rings and the teacher walks in before saying “ok class lets go to the soundproof underground arena so the humans can’t hear us.” She then walks to a normal looking corner of the room before tapping a small spot on the wall and whispering a magic incantation under her breath then the floor flips open revealing about 100 feet of spiral staircase going under the ground then she turns around and says “ok now come on in” with this a tall guy with short hair cut into spikes walks in and says “hello I will help you in preventing ingery now if you will all come down to the arena we will set up the first fight” with this the class stands up and starts to walk to the staircase. I wait to go down the stairs being last in line right behind the cat girl who is talking to the person in front of her while I look around as I walk down the stone steps. Getting to the bottom of the staircase it starts to open up into a huge room with four football field sized fenced off arenas with some bench seats around each of them and in the wall around each of them you can barley see a hole in the wall where the staircase is that goes to each of the other monster classes. One of the other arenas were being used so far and a class was filing out of the stair case on the opposite side of the huge room. After every one from our class gathers around the teacher and the referee they start to explain the rules of each match. then they randomly select two random people who included me and a giant. I raise my hand and refuse to fight so I take a seat in the loser bench and doze off until some one sits beside me not paying attention to who it was I continued to let my thoughts wander as I continued to slip in and out of a light sleep until the same cat girl sits beside me and says “I won one fight…then I lost two so I had to move over here” I look up at her and at the arena seeing the catfox quickly run up a giant’s arm and scratching at the giant’s face. “but I won one fight and you didn’t” she giggles. I look over at her smiling face then I say “I chose not to fight but if I did fight I would probably win….maybe” but unknown to me the teacher was listening in while watching the current fight. soon the battle ends with the giant on bottom and both the teacher and the assistant decide its time for lunch but explain how no one can leave the arenas until the school day ends or the humans will start to ask questions and that we can take this time to talk to the other monster classes. A bunch of school food appears on a table for the people that didn’t pack lunch. With that said a lot of creatures decided to talk to friends or to just walk off and wander the cave that holds giant arenas but I chose to do nether I just sat thare eating away at my own thoughts while everyone else just eats.

    When the lunch ends almost everyone was ready for the next round when the teacher yells out “I think that we should have a two Vs. two match I will chose two from the loser side and my assistant will pick two from the winners side!” walking to me “do I even have to tell you that I pick you?” standing up with a firecly angry look on my face looking down at her face around my chest height “WHY DO YA GATTA PICK ON ME b***h!?!” I yell so loud it to echoed around the entire cave “what if I refuse to fight?” “well if you don’t fight you will not only fail but your partner in the fight will fail and she will still have to fight” she says pointing at the new girl who’s ears were laying flat back on her head after my explosion. Looking at my newly appointed fighting partner I sigh and say “I can drop my own grade but dropping someone else’s grade is agenst my own moral values and you know that don’t you Mrs. K” smiling some she replies “yup it comes with being a member of the courts” before sitting in her watchers seat. I look down at the cat girl again and reach out to her “lets go try…I don’t know how much help I will be” looking up into my eyes she stands up and nods. “Ok now that you have your own team picked may I pick mine?” says the assistant before pointing to a normal looking person then to Shiv “those two are mine…oh and Shiv I expect a win agenst them” “thanks bro…don’t worry I wont lose to them” Shiv says with an evil smile before walking into the arena. With that the assistant sits in the other referee seat knowing this will be either a quick and good battle or a really bloody one. “ok if both teams know the rules let the battle begin” yells Shiv’s brother. When the battle begins the person on the same team with Shiv spreds a pair of large angel like wings covered in pitch black feathers throwing a feather at me making it stab into the ground at me feet. With out a flinch I look up at him and say “you need some work on your aim” while I close my left eye. “don’t close your eye you need to wach what your opponent does!” yells the cat before crouching down and running at our opponents on all fours her claws prepaired to strike. “that’s only how you were tought to fight.” speaks up the voice in my head but this time the words come out of my mouth. “What do you think your doing? This is my fight so stay out of it!” I yell in my head before backing away from the enemies and opening my eye. Looking around I realize I had lost track of Shiv while my partner was tackling the flying winged thing like a huge bird. I watch in amazement at the different fighting stiles between the cat and the bird like things before coming to my mind and jumping back away from an unseen strike at my neck a small trickle of blood comes out of a pinprick sized hole. “He is either hiding in a cloaking spell or is using some sort of speed ability to hide himself” I think to my self “but if it is an ability he will need to rest soon or a spell uses extra power… and knowing his breed uses that body as a weapon I can put a bet that he is using an ability given to him by his training” I come to this conclusion in a little over two seconds. But those two seconds were to slow, I got a gash acrost my face and then a long knife shaped hand stabbed through my chest twisted and removed leaving a large hole gushing blood as I fall to the ground my last sight is the end of the fight, hear a small cheer and the cat girl’s cute but worried/horrified face as I close my eyes. Soon I started to see the well known tunnel or path leading to some unknown place all I can say as I walk down the path is “it’s about time.” Then out of no whare a huge claw like hand grabs me around my chest and whips me around so fast I cant see anything but a bright white blur then the blur darkens until it is pitch black soon I come to a complete stop as soon as my eyes stop spinning I find myself in a little room with someone or a better way to put it something chained to two huge posts the head of this monster to put it lightly stretching past the top of the posts the chains having glowing letterings in an unreadable language a pair of dragon like wings also chained together and pressed hard agenst his body, a large tail chained to the floor, and a large pair of claws on the ends of his large arms. I am droped on to the ground hitting it hard putting me face down on the ground. “it isn’t time for you to die” he says in that fumillier deep voice that I hear in my head “look I have taken control of the body we share.” Before a large mirror bigger than my body comes out of no whare landing at my feet standing up with no help. Looking into the mirror I see what had alredy happened while I wasn’t in control. The teacher had walked up to my body looking for a pulse then she shakes her head saying “well he is dead.” Looking through the mirror I see my blood spilling onto the ground then out of no whare the bleeding stops surprising the five people around me including Mrs. K, the princess, shiv’s brother, shiv and his fighting partner as the hole in my chest starts to heal rapidly. Feeling the energy coming out of my body the princess, Mrs. K and the winged creature backs off leaving shiv and his brother still looking at my healing body befor I knew it my body was moving on its own a little until the hole closed up then my body got up and raised its hand in a fist opening it in Shiv’s face releasing a huge amount of energy in a fast burst pushing him into the air about 50 feet landing on his back at the edge of the arena. The aura surrounding my body grows and becomes visable soon in a black like flame grows to the size and shape of the thing in my mind. Then moving towards Shiv the tail whacks his brother in the chest sending him into a wall leaving a huge crater in the thick stone wall. When I get to Shiv laying on the ground his face is bleeding through the mouth and nose laughing some a giant foot is smashed onto his face. Trying despretly to get up Shiv stabs at the leg and the foot but none of this helped only makes the foot press harder onto his face. Then out of no whare my head turns to Mrs. K standing between me and the princess. Getting off of Shiv I slowly walk to them with every step everything shakes and I leave large crators in the ground.

    Walking up to them Mrs. K spreads her arms and screams “don’t lay a finger on my student” replying with a deep voice I say “this body was one of your students too Mrs. Krow” hearing her name she gets enraged her arms widening black feathers shooting out of her morphing skin her face contorts in pain as it changes covering itself in black feathers all accept a large wide beak with see able rows of sharp teeth saying “I left that name behind when I left the courts I am just Mrs. K” in a anger filled voice. Laughing as he hears this body says “no one leaves the courts alive. Even something as replaceable as a messenger pidgin!” Still standing behind the now transforming Mrs. Krow the princess backs herself into a corner watching frightened with her ears laying straight back on her head holding her tail in both of her hands sitting down wanting nothing more than to get out of the fight she curls up waiting for an opening to escape. As the feathers grow out of Mrs. K’s body some being pushed out as more come in and the ones that fall out they change shape into real crows. As I see this I nod “you were watching me then” I say smugly. Looking at me angry “well you are one of the original courts and a punisher so I had to watch you” she says with an angry voice “I knew that when I left the court I would get followed and possibly even killed…but I risked it all to come here and help the youth not make the same mistakes I made looking for respect and power.”

    TO BE CONTINUED...
    ((If you like it I would love to know and I will have more to add later))