Zeke Lighton's Story

The males eyes only flickered up from his game when the alarm clock went at exactly 5:59am. He only pulled his eyes away from the two computers then. Playing two games at once had gotten fairly easy for him now, he could even do three though began to struggle at four. Since the first video game had been released he had become addicted to them. His personal favourite, and the ones he was just paling were MMORPGs. He was mostly farming and in a higher level of area than he really should have been in. Though he had not lost once.
“Ugh, morning already?” he sighed, though not in annoyance, just sort of surprise upon hearing the alarm,”Geez, guess I gotta go to school.”

He was sort of disappointed that he had to leave his game, quickly clicking both his accounts offline before getting up and stretching. Zeke had been up all night playing games. The last time he had slept was… two days ago? Wait…maybe it was three… He didn’t really care, he had stayed up for a lot longer before, he just wanted to make sure he was ready for school and he knew he had to sleep at some point.

“Wonder if I’ll make it in time?” he chuckled.
A few thoughts crossed his mind. As he had been wearing his uniform since yesterday he wondered if it smelled. A quick sniff told him he was good for at least today. No smell… Uniform… What else? He was pretty sure he was forgetting something but not that that really mattered. He now had 57 seconds to get to school… Plenty of time! He even had time for a quick game. He pulled his PSP from his pocket, walking out of the house he was staying without even having to look up. At this rate he wouldn’t be that late, maybe just not exactly on time.

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Blair had gotten up early that morning and donned her white uniform. Being the disciplinary committee she had wanted to be early, or course knowing her luck she wasn’t. She had rushed to get break fast, rushed to get ready and rushed out the door to still be late. Normally she would be annoyed by this but at the minute she didn’t even have time to do that. It was only the beginning of the school year and she already had a lot of work to do, mainly babysitting the other vampires. Most of their kind were generally quite easy to keep from the humans, then there were the few that didn’t. They had always been a problem for Blair and the rest of the disciplinary committee.

Upon entering the school Blair had noticed she was the last member of the committee to arrive. With a slight sigh she grudgingly walked over to her comrades. Personally it was far to early in the morning for this, she needed her beauty sleep and she was giving it up to make sure no humans or vampires got into trouble. Humans were reliable, they couldn’t really do much but the rest of her kind were the real problem. A few had a difficulty staying away from the vampires.
“So…” she muttered in a deadpan tone, "I’m assuming everyone is as tired as me and wants this to run smoothly, so let’s not fuck this up.”

Blair wasn’t sure how much she could endure this morning before her patience snapped and she wasn’t willing to put up with either humans or vampires stepping out of line.

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Zeke didn’t even notice he was in the school grounds before looking up from his game. He must have walked subconsciously, or maybe just memorised the path, either way he had gotten here without walking into anyone or anything. There was when he slightly stumbled on the kerb but that didn’t distract him too much. With a slight sigh he paused his game and slipped it into his bag, which was more of a suitcase saying he had to transport his clothes and gaming devices to his dorm.

Only now did he notice all the humans around and of course a girl from the Discilinary Committee pointing a few vampires who had arrived through to their dorm and steering them well away from the day class. She didn’t look all too happy about it though. As he neared her he realised it was Blair.

‘Eh, she’s on the Committee?’ he frowned a little. He never recalled her mentioning it… then again he didn’t recall a lot of things. Besides she didn’t talk to him much, or he just didn’t talk to her much, he didn’t talk to anyone much.

“Go through to the dorms, don’t come out to bother with any humans,” she muttered with a slight sigh as he walked past before turning back to a group of girls, and the odd male.

“Don’t you have anything better to do?” she snapped angrily as Zeke looked around her, giving a slight friendly wave before continuing on to the dorm, dragging his suitcase behind him.

Zeke wan’t exactly glad to be back in the dormitory, he had left his best computers behind. Obviously it would be hard to get them here, the size they were. He knew for sure he defiantly wasn’t glad to be back at school, it just took away from his gaming time. Though maybe he would actually learn something this year.

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She shook her head. Obviously, seeming to be the only responsible member of the Committee everything was going to be up to her. Normally having to get up wouldn’t exactly annoy her but having to get up from the little sleep she actually got just to babysit some misbehaving vampires and lovestruck humans is what got her. There would be no need for this if those stupid sacks of blood who were attracted to people merely by how good looking they were, could actually control themselves and do what they were told for one god damned hour.

Seeing the human girl, Angel wave made her think this was possibly the best time to go and sort out those outside.
“Yeah, bye,” she muttered, turning on her heel and walking out of the office, planning on directing the vampires to their dorms and the humans away from the vampires.

Shortly after vampires began arriving and Blair ended up having to tell them to keep walking and ignore the goggling group of humans that was quickly forming behind her, despite the fact she had to them numerous times to leave, none of them really listening.

Threatening them didn’t seem to work as they left before returning a few seconds later with their little friends. They seemed to think that if the whole day class turned up she wouldn’t be able to put them all in for dentition, well they weren’t wrong. There simply wasn’t enough to put the crowd that had began forming to see all the night class students. She was beginning to think that it would be better to threaten them with violence.

Then the weirdo showed up. Thankfully he didn’t cause much trouble, there was that time he tripped right into a couple of day class students because he wasn’t looking where he was going.

“Go through to the dorms, don’t come out to bother with any humans,”she said in exasperation before feeling a slight push from behind, turning to find a girl had been pushed right into her, her friends obviously trying to get her to talk to Zeke.


“Don’t you have anything better to do?”she almost yelled, anger spreading across her face. The girl quickly backed away, apologising incessantly.

"I can’t cope with this,” she muttered, preparing herself for the next night class student to walk through the gates.

Sera's Pov
Sera smiled down at her sister as she took hold of her hand, trying to hide herself from other view. "Don't worry no one will hurt you" She told her with a smile trying to reassure her sister. 'Not on my watch anyway She thought bitterly.

After a short walk towards the academy they finally arrived at the entrance, there seemed to be a lot of students there waiting to receive their schedules and room assignments. Fortunately the Night class students shared the same schedule so they basically knew what classes they were taking it was only the dorm rooms that needed assigning, not like she would share a room with anyone. She would go mental if she were to share a room. And none would argue with her.

Sera's thoughts were interrupted by the sound of hysterical laughter and it sounded like it was coming from Akira, she couldn't help but tilt her head in annoyance at the lack of control he had. "Compose yourself" She told him with irritation. Sera looked back towards her sister to notice her starring intently at a boy with fiery red hair.
Causing her to smirk. Scanning her eyes across the entrance, noticing there weren't as many night class students as she expected, but it seemed the Disciplinary committee had everything under control though.

Drake's Pov
Drake caught the skittles with a smile on his face, immediately opening the packet and tucking in. "This is why you're my best friend" He continued smiling. Anyone that knew Drake knew he was a massive fan of food especially sweets, mainly skittles to be exact, probably being a massive weakness of his.

"You know I rather not attend class" He spoke with a sigh, just the thought of going to class after being up at the crack of dawn did not interest him in the slightest. "If I fall asleep, you cover me got it?" He told Angel with a serious voice.

The sound of Blair's voice directing the students mainly the Night student irritated him, he didn't particularly care for the Night class students, nor did he agree with them attending the Academy. But no matter how many times he's discussed it with the headmaster, it was never listened to, so he had no choice but to do his job. Unfortunately.

He was about to make his way towards class, but three people caught his attention. Three vampires to be specific. Two female's and one male. The two girls looked quite similar both with long silver hair and red eyes, one looked slightly older than other but they were most likely siblings. The male had blonde hair and red eyes. But he knew who they were without them even introducing themselves.

Looking towards the other committee members he couldn't help but be annoyed. "The Tenshi is here" He grumbled.

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Zeke basically collapsed a couch, not bothering to unpack, or even find which room he would be in, as he opened his PSP again. Really he should get back to the MMORPG from earlier but laziness had taken over him and he couldn’t be bothered unpacking everything. Maybe later…

Really he should be ouside socialising but his game was more important at that point in time. Hey, it was easier to wait until all the vampires were in the dorms anyway, no humans to bother with. It wasn’t that humans actually bothered him. Zeke found them quite fascinating. They had invented many amazing things anyway, including all of his favourite games.

Right of course, back to his game. Gaming was like breathing to Zeke. He often did it without thinking and it was very difficult to live without. If he went without it for to long he found the only thing he could think of was playing another game, often imagining it in his head. He wasn’t that weird… was he?

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Blair nearly jumped ten feet in the air upon hearing Tak speak, not really expecting it. She was just about to lecture him about what would happen if they weren’t here to make sure everything ran smoothly before an audible sight escaped her lips.

“Right… You’re right,” she muttered, it was a rare occasion having Blair admit someone else was right but she was being awfully tense for no reason.

She had only finished wit a group of vampires before hearing loud laughter from nearby. She turned to see a blonde, looking quite ridiculous rolling around on the ground. Now she had noticed people, and not all vampires staring at him.

“Will you shut it and get up,” she sighed as she walked over, pinching the bridge of her nose,”If you haven’t noticed you’re making a scene.”

She didn’t seem to be the first to tell him of, the older pure blood, Sera, didn’t seem all to pleased with him either. The male on the ground, Akira she knew him as, seemed to find something very funny as he seemed unable to control himself. It wasn’t exactly annoying Blair but she found the stares quite irritating, stoping people in their tracks just to look at the madman on the floor. It would’ve been fine any other day but it was just Blair’s tension that made it seem worse. Normally she would’ve been a little more laid back about this whole situation, maybe even stopping to flirt with a few humans.

It didn’t take her long to see the younger Tenshi behind Sera. She seemed to be staring at… Tak, with a quick glance at her fellow Disciplinary Committee Member she gave him a slight nudge with a small nod at the younger one, gesturing at her quite inconspicuously.

Ritsuka took her first eager steps out of the vehicle, her parasol springing to life over her head to shield her from the sudden light. With a gloved hand, she tugged gently at its handle, urging her chauffeur to pass it to her. The man slipped the parasol into her palm and shuffled from her side to the boot of the black car, opening it and retrieving her belongings as she opened her tired eyes and took in the sight of the Academy.

There it was, nestled up on its perch. It looked majestic as always, a castle surrounded by lush green forests under a clear blue sky - and a whole heap of stairs to climb to its silver gates. Ritsuka stared at the open gates, watching the last of the students file in. She was late, of course, as her flight from London had been delayed. She had missed the Academy with its clean air and open spaces and... God forbid, the glare of the blinding sun was even making her feel nostalgic. Her chauffeur returned with her large travelling bag and she raised her hand to stop him without even blinking or looking in his direction. She remained focused on the gates as he set the bag down by her side and she pulled up the handle, forcing the bag onto its wheels. She stood still, her chin slightly raised, as though diligently awaiting permission to continue.

"Your father wishes you good luck with your year," the man said at her side, bowing his head slightly. Ritsuka's icy eyes slid over to him and she gave a little nod to portray her understanding, then she refocused on the gates she had worked so hard to reach. She began to climb the stairs, not even paying attention to the car's engine starting up and fading away behind her. She walked with dignity, a sort of grace you would expect of a vampire from a higher class. Her small heels slowly clicked and clacked their way up to meet the gates and when she reached her destination, she found herself with no disciplinary committee to greet her and/or glare at her and only a few confused Day Class first years wondering where to go. At the sight of their uniforms, Ritsuka dipped her chin to look at her own dress and wondered whether she should have worn hers. Instead of dwelling on it, she continued her journey to the Moon Dorms, ignoring the gawking Day Class students who saw her but appreciating the attention.

She arrived at the dorms not too much later, all the while thoroughly enjoying the familiar scenery and the silence. In the courtyard of the dorms she twirled as she walked, looking at the fountain, the garden, the flowers, the sky, the sun... Ritsuka immediately lowered her gaze, blinded by the spots in her eyes. She stopped twirling and her skirts settled down, gathering back at her knees. She internally cursed the sun for ruining her vision and stepped up to the doors of the dorm, closing her parasol up with a finality.

With both of her hands, she opened the doors with ease and looked inside at the Night Class gathered inside awaiting for further instructions... all wearing their uniforms. Ritsuka stared at them through her fringe as the doors swung shut behind her with a bang then toted her bag along with her to the furthest seat away from everyone else by the window. She sat down and crossed her legs, looking over everyone in the entrance hall. They were mostly all faces she remembered, but none she knew. They chatted to each other with idle small talk, reuniting with friends or just hanging low and standing about, waiting. Obviously she wasn't too late as the dorms hadn't been assigned as of yet. Ritsuka remembered how her last dorm room mate had been caught trying to sneak into the Day Class dorms and was expelled from the school, leaving her all by herself. She hadn't minded and hoped that some circumstances would grant her a dorm to herself this year as well. She was not giving up on the possibility. Ritsuka clenched her fists and held them against her chest and looked up into the open air with a sudden determined aura, as though chance was something that she could control with enough wishful thinking. Then she took out a book from her bag and began to read with the same intense attitude as she waited for fate to do her job.

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As Blair was sifting through her own timetable Tak spoke.
“Uh, yeah,” though she hadn’t really registered what he had said yet as her gaze dropped to the dorm assignment. She had hoped maybe, since she was in the disciplinary committee and needed to get up relier than most of the Night class she would be on her own, so as not to disturb anyone but apparently that wasn’t the case. In fact what was worse was that she was sharing it with…Ritsuka.

Not that she hated the girl of course, she didn’t exactly like her. The strange vampire had always seemed to dapen the mood, so to say and seemed to carry melancholy aura around her, not in the literal sense as the girl seemed to be happy enough, her aura had always seemed to be pretty happy. It was more in the sense of… effecting those around her. Well, she effected Blair at least, always making her feel slightly awkward and even a little… well freaked out. Ritsuka, from Blair’s experience had always seemed to pop up from almost nowhere. Though that wasn’t the whole reason Blair didn’t want to share a room with her, and she didn’t exactly want to admit it to herself as it seemed rather harsh even by her standards. The thought that crossed Blair’s mind was that maybe, and just maybe, that being even seen with the girl would lower her social status. Her feelings were obviously conflicted but she quickly shook her head and that thought from her mind. She had more things to deal with at the minute.

“Right, I’ll head to the dorms too, gotta give these out anyway,” she said after a while of silence, handing Tak his timetable and dorm arrangements before striding off, still glaring down at her timetable.

Soon enough Blair had reached the dorm, having to go through crowds of humans to even get there, though once she was past that it became relatively easy to get there.

There was no way Blair was going through every single person to give the timetables out, instead she set them on what seemed like a coffee table while declaring in a rather loud voice that whoever didn’t have one had better get theirs now.
As she stepped back her eyes scanned across the room, briefly glancing her new room mate, alone as usual and looking rather strange alone with a book while al the others, aside from Zeke, seemed to be socializing. Suddenly she became very thankful she wasn’t sharing a room with him, who knew what he did on his own.

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Zeke wasn’t even concentrating on his game, he had gotten bored of first person shooters and ended up playing Tetris. He wasn’t even fully focused on the game anymore, he just ended up people watching, most came and went, a few remained such as the couple in the corner and a girl who seemed oddly familiar, also sitting alone and reading. He had considered speaking to her though perhaps she wouldn’t want to be disturbed. Zeke, when focused, hated being distracted from his game, so she was possibly the same.

He was pulled from his thoughts when Blair had entered, setting the timetables down. With a slight sigh of effort as Zeke prized himself from his comfortable position and trudging rather lazily over to the table shuffling through the timetables until he came across his own and his dorm room. This year he would be sharing with someone named Kurosawa Akira… Never heard of him before.

Ritsuka's blue eyes snapped up as she heard the commotion of the dorm inhabitants all flooding to... something? She stood up silently and closed her book, trying to peer at what caused the small gathering. She stayed still for a little while more, unsure of whether to go ahead or just wait it out. The people ended up peeling off before she made her decision and she saw a couple sheets of paper left on a coffee table, the top one with her name on it.

"Oh," she breathed and a girl beside her jumped a little, then whipped her head around and, upon realisation of who she was, backed slowly away to her friends. Ritsuka ignored it and walked slowly over to the table, looking left and right before taking the paper. She stared down at it with the same determined face as she had before. Now, it was the moment of truth! She flipped it over eagerly and held it right up close to her face, her eyes furiously scanning the page until she found it. ... When she did find it, she accidentally whined under her breath and her shoulders sunk.

Blair Kendrick... she had heard that name before. Who was Blair Kendrick? She glanced sideways and found a face she recognised as Blair's. Oh... the disciplinary committee girl? Ritsuka continued to look at her as she attached a personality to her room mate. Blair... snappy and outspoken, right? Yes, that was her. She was often battling it out with Ritsuka for the top position in their class, as well as with a couple of others. They had some real geniuses in this school. Ritsuka pouted behind her timetable, then got over herself. It could have been much worse, after all. Besides, it wasn't that bad...? Blair was smart... and ... smart, so she wouldn't be doing anything stupid or annoying, really. Ritsuka nodded in agreement to the little chipper voice in her head and turned back to her seat to fetch her bag and book, accidentally disturbing the group that now resided there. She tugged her bag along with her up the stairs as she made her way up to the dorm she had been assigned to.