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Akko woke up in an empty room. It was dark and looked nothing like her dorm. She felt around for a light, but couldn’t find one. She walked over to feel around the walls to find a window and she did, a curtain covered it, she opened it, revealing a dark blue sky with orange clouds.
“Where the hell am I?”
Suddenly, she heard footsteps from the corridor. She felt her breath catch.
“Luz? Is that you?” an unfamiliar voice asked, groggily.
“Who’s Luz? There’s no one named Luz at Luna Nova.”
“I guess not.”
She poured herself a cup of coffee and Akko stepped cautiously out of the room, tiptoeing out of the house to avoid suspicion from the silver and white-haired lady. When she shut the door, however, she was surprised by an owl head right smack dab in the middle of it.
“Hoot! Hoot! Who are you?”
“Huh? You’re not just a decoration?”
“Hoot! What disrespect, I’m just as real as you, Luz, or Eda, Hoot!”
“What kind of place is this?”
“This is the Boiling Isles, Hoot!”
“And you are?”
“Hoot! I should ask you that question, I’m Hooty, Hoot!”
“My name is Atsuko Kagari, call me Akko.”
“Why do you have a training wand?”
Akko felt at her side and grabbed a hold of her wand. She was still wearing her uniform.
“A training wand? This is a real wand.”
Suddenly, a girl pushed open the door, jarring Hooty. She looked like she was a couple of years younger than Akko, but she was taller than her.
“Oh crap, I’m late!” she said, slinging her backpack on, running out the door, not even bothering to acknowledge the confused girl beside her as she ran through the forest to get to school.
“No good morning Hooty, or good to see you Hooty? I’m literally the house, can’t people give me more respect around here? Hoot!”
“I’m sorry, Hooty.”
“It’s okay, Akko, at least some people respect me.”
“So where’s Luna Nova? Can you point me in the right direction?”
“Luna Nova? What’s Luna Nova?”
“It’s a school.”
“Oh, school, I know, Hoot!”
“Great! Can you point me there?”
Hooty extended his neck and pointed it in the school's direction. Akko thanked him and ran towards the school, waving back to him as he did. She reached the school, but it looked nothing like Luna Nova.
“Hexside School?”
“Yep! This is Hexside School for Witchcraft and Demonics,” a student wearing a gray dress shirt with a black half cloak and yellow sleeves and pants said.
“So not Luna Nova got it.”
She observed the students walking in, all wearing different sleeves and pants, but all the same shirt and half cloak. She wondered why that is, is it like the ribbons she wore around her waist and witch hat, signifying different teams?
That couldn’t be it though, more than three students have the same color.
“Luz! There you are!” an unknown voice said, slamming her hand into Akko’s back, pushing her forward, jolting her from her thoughts.
Akko turned around, crossing her arms, very unimpressed, to see a girl wearing the same shirt and half cloak but with green sleeves and pants.
She also wore glasses and had black hair, but something else stood out to her though, her ears. Now that she thought about it, all the students had oddly shaped ears.
“Oh my gosh, I’m so sorry! You’re not Luz.”
“No, I’m not.”
“Thought so. The uniform is not multicolored like hers. Are you on the bard track?”
“Bard track? No, I’m on the red team.”
A shorter, dark-skinned guy walked up to them. He had cyan sleeves and pants.
“Willow? Who’s this?”
“I don’t know, she claims she’s on the red team,” The girl, apparently named Willow, responded.
“I’m definitely not at Luna Nova.”
“Wait, are you a human? I thought Luz was the only one.”
Akko instinctively covered her ears.
“Oh my gosh, Luz did the same thing when we first met.”
“I’m a witch!”
“I can see that, your training wand is right there,” Willow said, pointing to it.
“Why does everyone keep saying this is a training wand? It’s real!”
“We normally do magic with our hands, we only need wands when we have trouble learning a new spell.”
“You can do magic with your hands?”
“You can’t?”
“No, I don’t think even Diana could do that and she’s the top student.”
“Who’s that? And more so, who are you?”
“I’m Atsuko Kagari, you can call me Akko.”
“I’m Willow, but I guess you already heard that.”
“And I’m Augustus, call me Gus.”
“Can anyone please tell me how to get to Luna Nova?”
“I’m sorry, I’m afraid I don’t know of any places named Luna Nova,” Willow said.
“So I’m not in England? I thought the Boiling Isles was just some other remote part of England, I have no idea how I got here though.”
“England? Is that a place on Earth? Never heard of it, have you, Gus? You know more about this stuff than I do.”
“Yes, I have, they talk in an accent like this.”
He attempted to say ‘this’ in an English accent.
“Why don’t you talk like that, Akko?” Willow asked.
“Oh, I’m actually not English, I’m Japanese.”
“Humans are so cool!” Gus exclaimed, writing something in his notebook.
“So wait, the Boiling Isles is a whole other world?” Akko asked.
“Yep! The Boiling Isles is a very different place to wherever you come from,” Willow said.
“So who’s this Luz person I keep hearing about?”
“She actually kind of looks like you, just with shorter hair, a darker complexion, different colored eyes, and is a few inches taller.”
“I think I saw her.”
“What? When?”
“I was talking with this weird owl head on a door and she ran out of the house.”
“That must be Hooty, you were at The Owl House.”
“The Owl House? Cool name.”
“Yeah, Luz lives there with Eda The Owl Lady.”
“That must’ve been the lady I saw as I left the house.”
“Probably. So is your uniform from that Luna Nova place?”
“Yes, it’s my uniform, that’s why I said I’m on the red team, my teammates are Lotte Jansson and Sucy Manbavaran.”
“Oh, that makes sense.”
“Your school has teams? Ours has tracks,” Gus said.
“Is that what those different colors represent?”
“Yeah, that’s why I asked if you were in the bard track, the color for it is red,” Willow said.
“I’m in the illusion track and Willow is in the plant track, she used to be in the abomination track though,” Gus said.
“How many are there?”
“There are nine,” Gus said.
“Oh, cool.”
“Do you want to see the school? No use standing out here,” Willow said.
“Sure, why not.”
So they all walked inside.