Golden Oaks High... One of the most elite schools in the world. People say that anyone who graduates is guaranteed to get a good job.. Only the best of the best get into this school...
And here I am, at the gates, going to this school.
My name is Scarlet Mazuka, and I am the Ultimate Hacker. I hack many things everyday, such as accounts, online games, and more. I even create exploits for games. Haha, I love hacking, it’s very fun. Sucks that I’m IP banned from a bunch of stuff, though.
I believe it’s time I step into this school once and for all, and start my semester. I’m nervous and excited, but I should fit right in. I mean, I hope. You know, some of these people are kind of scary, like Maiya Rikatt, the ultimate blackmailer.
As I step into the school, a horrendous stench fills my nostrils, and I feel like I’m gonna vomit. And just like that, I’m blacked out.
I wake up in a gymnasium, next to a girl with dark brown hair and bangs, wearing a gray, blue and red t-shirt, and jeans. I feel like I’ve seen her before, but where?
As I stare, her eyes begin to open, and soon enough she’s staring right back at me. Her neon red eyes seem to pierce my soul as she stares. “Who are you, why are we here? Ohh wait never mind. Just, who are you?” The girl asks me, after a minute of staring.
“My name is Scarlet Mazuka, and I’m the Ultimate Hacker. Who are you?” I ask her. As I say my name, her eyes widen a bit, as if she recognized it.
“You’re a hacker?? Oh my god, that’s awesome! Anyways, my name is Tori Matawhenua, the Ultimate Geography Prodigy.” Tori’s eyes seem to gleam as she responds, and I suddenly realize where I recognize her from.
“OH I KNOW! YOU’RE THAT GIRL WHO KEEPS WINNING ALL THOSE GEO BEES! I used to watch those in my spare time when I was younger. Remember that really arrogant guy, Jacob was his name?” I slam my fist down onto the floor.
“Oh yeah that guy, he tried to fight me behind the curtain after the show, I beat him to a pulp.” Tori looks away as she says that, and suddenly, the doors to the gymnasium opened.
As the doors open, around 12 people walk into the gymnasium. “WHO ARE YOU GUYS?!” I yell, as the people circle around us. “We’re students here. What do you think silly?” A boy wearing a sunflower crown says. “My name is Mano Hideo, and my ultimate is the Ultimate Birdwatcher.”
“I’m Misa Conased, the Ultimate Roleplayer.” A girl with blonde hair and red overalls says. She seemed quite shy, as her eyes darted around at us all a lot.
“Tori Matawhenua, Ultimate Geography Prodigy.” Tori re-introduces herself to the new people.
“Scarlet Mazuka, the Ultimate Hacker.” I say, as Misa shudders. “AHH DON’T HACK ME!” She cries out. What am I gonna hack? You? Get some common sense Misa.
“Name’s Teruya Kou, Ultimate Ninja.” A boy who has brown hair and a black mask covering his face mumbles. I could feel his eyeroll from under his mask. Quite sarcastic.
“Whatever, I’m Okawa Toshio, I don’t know my ultimate, just don’t get on my bad side.” A short boy with fluffy brown hair and a pink sweater snaps.
“Oh my god, you’re so tiny! I love your cat ears!!” Tori bends down in an exaggerated way to reach Okawa.
“What’s wrong with you, do you wanna fight?” Okawa snaps back.
“Sure you toddler.” Tori laughs.
“Guys, don’t fight. Anyways, I’m Addie Shinethrough, the Ultimate Cupid. Nice to meet you!” A girl with short, fluffy blonde hair, an eyepatch with blood leaking from it and a red crop top exclaims.
“S-Skyler Blossom’s my n-name.. I’m the U-ultimate Florist..” A girl with brown hair and a light pink crop top stutters.
“Sup! I’m Aito Hattori, the Ultimate Mukbanger!” A boy with black hair and a red jacket exclaims. He sort of walks a bit closer to a boy with dark blue hair. I wonder if they’re friends.
“I’m Tone Kichirou. Ultimate Traveler.” A boy with pink hair and a gray floppy hat says, looking down. He seems really chill, I mean that’s pretty cool.
“I’m Harumi Metluj, Ultimate Butterfly Catcher..” a girl with blue hair and a black beanie says quietly. Okay, now SHE seems shy, unlike Skyler.
“Morikawa Yoshiyuki. Ultimate Baker.” A boy with a tan jacket and blue hair says. Aito rests his head on him, and he looks away flustered. Addie was grinning very wide watching them.
“And I assume your name is Alex, as it says it on your shirt?” Tori says to a boy with brown hair and a black shirt that says “ALEX” on it.
“Actually, my name is Asher Kenta, and I’m the Ultimate Pyromaniac.” The boy says offendedly, as Tori suddenly bursts out laughing.
“BAGAHAHHAHAHAGDHJSJDNCNV ASHER?? WHY DOES YOUR SHIRT SAY ALEX THEN AHAHHAHAHAHA” Tori manages to say through laughter. Suddenly, we all hear a throat clear towards the front of the stage. I noticed a girl hadn’t said anything, but I shrugged it off.
“Ahem, students! I am your principal, Tigerkuma!” A bear that was half white, and half orange with tiger stripes yelled from the stage.
“IS THIS SOME KIND OF JOKE? THIS THING IS NOT OUR PRINCIPAL!” Okawa screams, pointing at Tigerkuma.
“... Anyways. Listen up students. You will live in this school for the rest of your lives, UNLESS..” Tigerkuma pauses. I can feel Tori grab my wrist and pull me slightly closer to her.
“...Unless you kill someone and get away with it...” Tigerkuma finally says. We all gasp in shock. “NOW WHY WOULD SOMEONE WANT TO DO THAT?” Tone yells out. “To escape, of course! You can’t trust these people you just met!” Tigerkuma exclaims. “You guys have some items waiting for you in your named rooms. Goodluck!”
“I have so many questions...” Addie mutters, as she walks off to find her room.
Tori looks over at me. “Well, guess I’m off to find my room, you should come with, it’s likely that the student dorms are close to eachother.”
“Yeah, I’ll come with.” I say, as Skyler slowly approaches us.
“C-can I come w-with you guys t-too?” She stutters.
“Well, sure.” Tori said, no emotion showing in her voice. I shudder, as the fact that her voice changed so fast is creepy.
“Do you guys think anyone is ACTUALLY gonna kill just to escape?” Tori says, strutting down the hallways, as if she knew what she was doing, even though she clearly didn’t. “I-I don’t know!!” Skyler cries out, rubbing her knuckles together. I’m already getting bad vibes from her, as if she’s faking this shy persona.
I feel a pair of eyes watching us, and I look behind us. My eyes are met with Morikawa watching us three, a strange look in his eyes. “WHAT ARE YOU DOING?” I scream at him, causing Tori and Skyler to turn around and for Skyler to run and hide behind Tori. He looks shocked and yells “NO SCREW OFF I WASN’T LOOKING AT YOU I WAS ZONING OFF AND THINKING ABOUT A- CRAP NO NEVERMIND” before running off. “Strange interaction, but okay.” Tori mutters, and we continue walking.
Eventually, we find our dorms, and as Tori predicted, they were all near eachother. “Thanks for letting me come with you guys!” Skyler says, her stutter disappearing. She hugs Tori, and I feel a pang of jealousy. Why am I jealous?
Skyler runs off to her dorm, and Tori approaches me. “I wonder why her stutter disappeared so suddenly.” She says. “Yeah, maybe it’s because she trusts us?” I respond confused.
“Hmm... Or maybe she’s faking being shy?” Tori theorizes. “Well, I’m going to my dorm. See you later!” I say, and Tori waves, as we part ways. Tori doesn’t even go to her dorm, and sits outside Addie’s room.
I have some free time, maybe I should spend it with some people and try to get to know them?
I walk around the hallways, looking for anyone to talk to, and I suddenly find Misa, she jolts a bit, before saying “Oh, hi Scarlet...” “Hey.” I respond back to her, and we spend a while just chatting, and eventually I remembered that I wanted to give her this little maple leaf hairclip I bought before I got here, as I felt she might like it.
“Woah, this.. This is beautiful Scarlet! I love it!” She smiles as she puts the hairclip in her hair. “It really reminds me of my sibling Mousi, they were kicked out of my home by my dad, and I really miss them.” Misa began, tearing up as she continued to speak.
“I can’t imagine how that would feel, Misa. I’m really sorry..”
“It’s not your fault. I’m really happy you let me talk to you about that. You have showed me so much kindness, I want to give you a gift in return.” She reaches into her bag and pulls out a circle with a bunch of buttons on it, and a purple tube with a ball in it. “Here.” She hands me the circle. “It’s a pop-it. You seem really nervous so I wanted to give you it to help you calm down.”
I look down at the pop-it. I pressed one of the buttons down and it made a soft pop sound.
“Wow, thanks Misa! Where did you get this?”
“I found them off of Amazon, I need to use them often because I have really bad anxiety and ADHD. They’re really hard to find in store because of the stupid attention kids who hog them all to themselves. If I die, give them to Harumi for me, okay?” Misa replied back, not looking at me and looking down at the purple tube.
“I will, thanks Misa.”
“You’re welcome, now if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna look around for Harumi. Bye Scarlet!”
“Bye Misa!”
Well she was super nice, I’m glad I met her. I still have some time, maybe I should look for someone else to talk to.
I hear static from seemingly nowhere suddenly, and Tigerkuma’s voice just blares through the hallways
“ATTENTION STUDENTS IT’S 10PM, GO TO BED.”
Dang, aggressive. Anyways, I should head to bed, maybe tomorrow will be better.
As I wake up, I hear an aggressive knock on my door, I jump a bit, as whoever was at the door sounded like they were in a bad mood.
I open my door, and I am met with 2 very energetic girls, both smiling. Okay I need to stop being so “intense” or whatever it was Addie and Tori.
“SCARLET WE FOUND A SHIP HEHEHEHHEHE!” Addie yelled, waving her arms around while pacing in the hallway.
“I’m only excited because Addie is!!” Tori added on.
“Wait hold on, what’s happening? What ship are we getting all excited about?” I respond, I mean this is confusing.
Addie hands me an image of Aito and Morikawa like, cuddling or something. Tori is just standing there while Addie runs in circles screeching happily. I’m a bit concerned.
I decide that today I should spend some of my free time with Okawa. I go to look for him and I see him spying on Harumi and Misa. I am now very concerned.
Maybe I’ll go find the bird guy, he seems pretty nice. What was his name again? I think it was Mano? Yeah, I think it was. I’m gonna go find him.
As I walk over to find Mano, I hear an announcement come on telling us to meet in the gym. I go to the gym and everyone is just standing there.
“What’s this about now.” I hear someone say from the crowd. You know what random voice, I agree! What is this about?
Suddenly, Tigerkuma appears seemingly out of nowhere, like always.
“Huh?!”
“Y-YIKES!!”
“æ”
Those were the reactions to Tigerkuma appearing.
“Students, I kinda realized you aren’t going to kill anyone without a motive, so I decided to give you all a motive! If you kill someone and get away with it, you get to bring one person from here to escape with you! Also watch out, one person among you all is a mastermind, meaning that they started this killing game! Anyways, you are all dismissed!”
Well, that’s kind of useless. Who am I gonna bring, I barely know anyone here! But, why would Tigerkuma mention a mastermind at that exact moment? I think I’m overthinking this, I need to calm down. Alright. Whoever I see first is who I spend my extra free time with. I am going to reopen my eyes in 3, 2, ⒈..
Questions: any predictions? Any ships?