~*Mirka POV*~

"That really happened?" Juliette screeches when she hears what happened before History class.

"Yup." I just look at Juliette and Sekia. Juliette looks ready to fight off whoever this girl really is, but Sekia is simply taking it all in with a concerned look. "I think I'm gonna go make some dinner in the cafeteria. You guys want anything?"

"Sure! I'll take a cake pop from the bakery!" Juliette squeals.

"That's a nice offer but I have like 20 pages of Math homework already so I don't have time to eat more than a snack." Sekia says and grabs her scarlet backpack.

"Alright. One cake pop. I'll be back in an hour at most." I escape out the door and instead of going to the cafeteria, I head downstairs to the gym. Really, I'm not hungry. I just need time alone to think. I don't particularly like Juliette, she's just a bit too hyper. But she really tries to be friendly, and she does. Just in a slightly irritating way. As for Sekia, she's really never in our dorm. She's always up and doing something. And when she is there, she is really independent and goes to her bed and doesn't really notice me. I'm completely fine with that. If she chooses to ignore me, then I'll let her ignore me. But Juliette... I'll just try to be nice to her.

I look around the gym and it's pretty cool. I immediately see a pile of wood and two cinder blocks and want to try out how good I really am with martial arts. I pick up a piece of wood and notice two things-- 1-that it's African Blackwood- it weighs a lot and it will be hard to break.

2- That there's a sign saying that if you're able to break the boards, then to call a certain phone number.

Of course, when I get ready to break the boards, I get interrupted by some voice behind me. "Woah, you're gonna try tah break those burds? Sweetie, ya ain't gonna be able tah. Ya'd be betta goin' an' buying meh somin'. Here's 5 bucks, sweetie. Buy meh somin' good whal I break these burds."

I spin around and breath a burst of flames in this dude's face. His voice and language are stupid and just pitiful. And, worst of all, he's treating me like a little kid. 

"Well sweetie? Whay aw ya still hea? Now moove asiide an' I'll show ya wut I can do." Then he pushes me.

"Dude! What'cha doing?" An eerily familiar voice yells out. The girl from the hallway storms in and looks expectantly at me. Well come on! Let's set this doofus straight! You ready? On three.... THREE!" She shocks him with a Thunderbolt while I ram into him with my Megahorn.

Then we both stride out of the gym and walk upstairs. "What a jerk." She spits with a disgusted look.

"No kidding. So, uh, who are you exactly?" I reply.

"Oh sorry. I never formally introduced myself. I'm Akiko. Nice to meet 'cha." Akiko grins and holds out a hand and I shake it.

"I'm Mirka. So do you know who that freak was?"

"Oh. Him. That's Kyrillos, a Greek Scrafty boy. He thinks he's so amazing because his name means 'Lord'." She rolls her eyes. "And he hits on every pretty girl he sees. So you should actually take it as a compliment that he was doing... I guess you could call it flirting with you. How I know all of this you might ask? Well it's because I must have done something bad in the life before this because I'm stuck with being his neighbor. That's why I came here and guess what."

"He joined also." We say in unison. "But I just have one question." I tell her.

"What?"

"Why were you just looking at me like that earlier?"

"Oh. Because I was looking for some new friends and I saw you. But I just watched you from a distance."

"Oh. Cool! Well this is my dorm so see you around the halls!" I call and dig around for my key.

"See ya later!" Akiko waves and runs down the hallway.

I open the door and grin, flopping on my bed. Sekia's fast asleep on her bed but Juliette is sitting on her bed with her socked feet hanging off the edge. It looks like she's on her laptop and wearing headphones. she notices me and somehow swings down so that she's hanging on her bed frame by her feet. "Did you bring me a cake pop?"

"No I forgot... I wanna sleep and you should too." I mumble and pull my blankets over my head.

I hear a muffled "Fine." from above.

Hmmm. I'm actually sorta glad I met Akiko. I think she's actually my age and we seem to have common likes and dislikes- likes being battling and dislikes being Kyrillos. I fall asleep smiling.

LightningClawedSky and Shinyshinx, even though this isn't dedicated to either of you, still I want to THANK YOU SO MUNCH for the characters! XD I'm not sure where this chapter came from, but I like it! Okay, also, just saying, my sister just caught a SHINY FORTRESS and I'm so jelous cuz I don't  have a single shiny and I'm a sad nova. :( Well I'm gonna go pout.