Chapter 2 – Meet Your Friendly Staff
Liz sighed. Ava's highjinks were constant, and to be honest, pretty tiring. She and the Vez were on pretty good terms, and Archie didn't know the Vez yet so he wouldn't have insulted zer. But Ava was off like a shot, which would only provoke zer... and she was dragging Archie along as well. Liz sighed. Ava sure knew how to keep attention on herself.
Liz looked up at the Vez. "Sorry, Vez." she said. Val graciously accepted her apology, went off to get Ava and Archie, and everyone had tea and crumpets.
Or, that's what would have happened, but a form blurred through the air and gave the Vez a solid uppercut, blasting zer off zer feet. Someone punched Val Servius, and no less, this person actually did damage. Liz coughed up some bit of food from breakfast.
That someone was Fenris. Oh god, Fenris. He was burly, and pale, with black eyeshadow and hair that was obviously dyed into a blackness that Fenris would describe as inky as my soul. Fenris. Liz massaged her temples. Every day she spent in this place added another grey hair onto her head. When she left, Liz believed that she would qualify for senior citizenship.
The Vez roared with anger, and moved into a fighting position. Fenris literally spat on the floor in front of Val. "Hey, come get some, you... monstrous buffoon." Fenris tossed a cocksure grin Liz's way. The magnanimous creep.
Luckily, a familiar whistle blasted. Evan Hawkins, the school's hall monitor, was rushing towards the chaos. "Alright, alright, break it up," Evan ordered, getting between Fenris and Val.
"C'mon, man! I was just defending Ava and Liz and... someone," Fenris protested.
"I didn't need defending! Neither did Ava, or Archie!" Liz said.
"S'not like a being such as the Vez would attack mere freshman," declared Val. Evan put his head in his hands.
"Alright. Liz, get Ava and... Archie? Fenris, Val, you two are staying here until you apologize."
Liz scampered off, back up the stairs. "Ava, Archie, Val wasn't going to attack you but-" Liz stopped herself. It didn't matter, really, not to Ava. "Whatever. Just... you can come back down."
The two melted out of the shadows like gangly teenage ninjas. "That Vez guy was scary," Archie commented. Liz shook her head, and led the two back down.
Fenris and Val had disappeared, but Evan was still there, so Ava introduced Archie. Ava and Archie went down to the West Wing of the third floor. Liz went to the East. The lights were off– they always were, in the Third East Wing. One of the lights flickered on, and standing there was a friend of Liz's. Although Liz, at times, wanted them to be more.
The boy was medium height, with hair that he had rebelliously dyed white last year, along with putting in red contacts. He was a freshman, like Liz, but always hung out here.
Felix.
"Is Ava still giving you trouble?" he asked. "I really think you should break off with her, she's too... you know what I mean."
"I do, but we've been friends so long, it's like... I'd be betraying her, or something."
Felix nodded sagely. He'd betrayed a friend once, too. "So who is Ava tag-along?"
"This kid Archie Kathig-whatever. A new kid."
"A new kid?" Felix was surprised, which was strange, because he didn't surprise easily. Once, during seventh grade, Liz and... someone else... had held a suprise birthday party for Felix. He didn't even flinch when he walked into his dorm and saw the streamers. "This late in the year? What's the deal with that?"
"Yeah, I thought it was weird too. And E–" Liz coughed. "And everyone else was caught off guard, too, a little."
"Thanks for the heads-up," Felix said. Liz nodded to him, and went to the West Wing, to check on Ava.
"Yeah," she was saying to Archie. "Rebecca is awesome. Just, whatever you do, in the future, don't call her by her last name. Or say it anywhere near her."
"You mean... Joh-"
"SHHHHHHHH!" Ava covered Archie's mouth with her hand. Maybe one of the few smart choices she'd made.
A door swung open, and Josh stumbled out, hair messed up. Giggling, Ben shuffled out after him, giggling. "–was right, you are a good kisser," Ben was teasing. His eyes locked onto Archie. "Ooh, who is this? Fresh meat, huh?"
Archie sputtered, ears turning red.
"Oh, he's cute," Ben continued. "What's your name, sweetie?"
Ava stomped up to Ben, and shoved him. "You stay away from him, you... words fail me. Josh, I thought you were better than this."
Josh grinned, and then stage whispered to Ava, "Any port in a storm... and I sure am we–"
"You brute!" Ben screamed in mock agony, running a hand through his blonde hair. "Ava, you must be a great baseball player."
"I... what?" She was confused.
"Look at all the guys you've struck out trying to get to first base." With a wink, Ben dragged Josh back into the room.
"Who... were they...?" Archie managed, after a valiant effort to speak while speechless.
"Ben Anana," Liz said, "And Josh Llewyln. Ava was right, Josh really is better than Ben. The door's to Ben's room are practically revolving, at this point... He's been with just about everyone."
"Remember when he tried to get with the spicemaster?" Ava said, laughing.
"If I recall correctly," Liz said, "You shipped Felix and Ben."
"I ship everyone," Ava returned. Archie could only nod.
"Well, it's time for lunch," Ava said, "So let's get going!"
"The cafeteria's on the ground floor, I remember," Archie said, trying to be helpful. If it was any other day, or any other person, Ava would have given a whithering sarcastic response, but she simply nodded. Best to be nice to the new kid, get 'em to warm up to you.
Liz followed the other two down to the ground floor, and into the cafeteria. Ava found them a table, and ran off to procure some sort of norriture for the two of them.
Then, the two most beloved people in the school walked into the room.
One was an asian girl, although to describe Crysha Xiu as an asian girl would be like calling Napoleon Bonaparte a short dead dude. She was beautiful enough that she was practically growing angel wings, and people practically fell on their faces to keep her out of harm's way. It was universally agreed that she was the cutest cinnamon roll, and that was just a fact.
Zachary Fellsome was beautiful in a different way. Athletic but not musclebound, powerful but not power-hungry. His blonde hair, which had a single black streak going through it, was perfectly combed, and he wore the most stylish of clothes. Always warm colors, though, Zachary would never be caught dead wearing blue.
"Who are they?" Archie asked, starstruck.
Ava sat down, with three trays of what could only be generously described as food. "Zachary Fellsome and Crysha Xiu. Congratulations, you've seen a god."
Only a couple more kids to go until everyone's been introduced!
Also, don't read into a lot of this. I can't see into other people's minds, I don't know what they really think about anyone here. This is just me, shipping the living heck out of everything and anything.
If you haven't seen it, I've got a Dangnaronpa Spinoff story on Wattpad that I'm working on. You can find it here.
Thanks for reading!