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TotM: Prologue
Long ago, in a land now forgotten in history, there was a lone island known as Zenith. For centuries, it was a place filled with strange creatures: pure black beings with bright yellow eyes that took on various shapes and sizes. The island was considered dangerous to other great nations like Egypt, Rome, and Greece. Soon, a kingdom began to arise from fellow Egyptians, Romans, and Greeks who migrated towards Zenith to try and find a better way of life.
The kingdom became known as Atlantis.
For a few decades, Atlantis was a great and powerful kingdom… That is, until a corrupt king came into power, who was set on destroying and conquering the kingdoms and lands outside of Atlantis by trying to utilize the dark monsters that dwelled outside the kingdom's walls. The king then began to try another experiment to test his new dark magic; he ordered the general of his army and his two highest-ranking soldiers to bring him three women who knew magic, not telling the knights why he wanted to see them. The knights picked three women with whom they had relationships, which was the wrong move. The evil king cursed and transformed these three women into powerful dragons to do his evil bidding.
Fire and earth… Wind and lightning… Water and ice… These were the elements that the three dragons possessed.
But the king's plan backfired. The three knights he entrusted to find the women for him started to revolt after witnessing their transformation, seeing that they were being played for fools by obeying their king. Their ruler had cursed the ones they loved.
The three knights began to fight with their king, with only the king's general having the skills to defend himself and his comrades, thanks to a new power he obtained just days before. Sadly, they were no match for the king and his three new dragons, who were now under the king's control when they transformed. But when the king decided to call forth his ultimate attack alongside his dragons, something happened that helped the three dragons come to their senses to save the three knights from the king's attack. Unfortunately, the ultimate attack summoned by the king backfired on him as it destroyed the kingdom of Atlantis, leaving behind a crater that would eventually be covered by earth and stone over the millennia, a mountain on Zenith. The three knights and dragons all flew away onto the horizon; as far as we know, no one knew what happened to them when they flew away.
And the rest, as you can say, is history… Or is it?
TotM: Chapter 1
It was a somewhat quiet, peaceful day here in the little community of Peach Creek, as we soon came across one of the few schools in the community, Peach Creek High School. It is here that we could see about twenty or so students walking towards the school's front double doors, either from their cars, from the bus, or from the sidewalks. We soon zoomed in on a group of teens walking down the sidewalk together to the right side of the school; they were three teenage boys, to be exact. One was tall with red hair and brown eyes (he is 15), the other boy was short with dark blue hair and dark blue eyes (he is 14), and the other boy was of an in-between height between his two friends; he had light blonde hair and bright green eyes (he is 15). Everyone should know these three by now, right? They were Ed, Edd (or "Double D", as he was known around his friends), and Eddy. Ed was tall, Eddy was short, and Double D was in between.
"Isn't today going to be a riveting day, gentlemen?" questioned Double D with a hint of excitement as the three of them continued to trek towards the high school. "Today is officially our first day as freshmen in high school!"
"But you know school is bad for my health, Double D!" whimpered Ed with a sigh. "And I miss summer already…"
"I'm gonna have to agree with Double D on this one, Lumpy," Eddy said as he raised his arms to put his hands behind his head. "High school is going to be better than middle school by a long shot; there's gonna be a lot of things to do…"
"Like pulling off your scams on new people?" Ed interjected with a chuckle.
"… I was going to say, 'like take a cooking class', but that works too," replied Eddy with a cheeky grin.
Both Ed and Double D were genuinely surprised to hear this. "Why, Eddy! I didn't know you were interested in culinary arts that much!"
"Well, you guys do know I can make an awesome omelet!" Eddy gloated, "So I was thinking about making other things like it. Then we would be rolling in cash!"
"Yeah, you really do make a good breakfast!" Ed complimented him with a big grin.
Double D only chuckled at them. 'It seems that some things never change, even with the arrival of high school,' he thought.
It took another minute for the three Eds to arrive at the front area of the school. But as they were approaching the stairs leading up to the school's double doors, Eddy heard a sound that got his attention; it sounded a bit like a yelp, with a small thud afterward. When Eddy turned to his left, he saw something that widened his dark blue eyes.
It was three older teens, obviously sophomores, who had just turned into seniors, judging by their football jackets, with one of them looking like he was stunned by something or someone. They were staring down at a girl who was the same age as him; apparently, she had run into the stunned senior, since she was now sitting on the ground in a disheveled manner.
The teen girl wore a simple light blue V-neck T-shirt over a long-sleeved white shirt, a pair of dark blue denim jeans, and white tennis shoes. Her long, silky white hair covered most of her face when she had her head lowered. Eddy could see that she wore very thick, black-framed glasses.
"Hey! What do you think you're doing, running into me like that?!" growled the senior, who was hit as he turned to the girl, who only stayed there on the ground, glancing away from them in sadness.
The second senior started to laugh as he noticed something. "Clearly, she couldn't see us! Look at those glasses; they're so thick-looking, you can see the other side of the moon with them!"
"Hey, you're right! And look at all the white hair! There's so much of it!" pointed out the last senior. "It's white like a grandma!" They all began to laugh at the girl. "Did you try to put those blue highlights in your granny hair to make it normal? It's not gonna work that way!"
"… Oh dear, she needs assistance," Double D muttered with a small gasp as he turned to Ed and Eddy. "We need to go and report them!"
Eddy, in the meantime, was fuming at the jocks for what they were saying to her, losing his patience increasingly as they continued their onslaught of insults. A strange feeling soon snapped inside him; he had to help her somehow.
"Yeah, you and Ed go ahead and find someone inside," Eddy growled as he narrowed his eyes in anger. "I'm gonna give them a piece of my mind!"
Double D widened his eyes at his statement. "B-But…?!"
"We'll do as you say, Eddy!" Ed replied with a firm nod of his head as he picked up Double D and ran off inside, but not without Double D yelping at Ed to put him down.
Eddy turned his attention back towards the three jocks and the girl, only to see one of the jocks pulling her up by her arm and wrist to make her hang in the air a little, not even putting her feet back on the ground. Suddenly, one of the jocks reached out to the girl and snatched the glasses she wore off her face, surprising both the girl and Eddy.
"H-Hey! Give me back my glasses, please!" the girl finally spoke, yelling to them as she weakly tried to free herself from the senior's clutches.
The jocks only laughed. "Why should we? You couldn't see anything with them anyway!" cackled the senior she ran into.
That was when Eddy made up his mind. Before anything else could go wrong for the girl, Eddy ran up to the jock, who took her glasses and hit him in the back with his backpack in an overhead swing, which stunned the jock. The blow also made him drop the girl's glasses to the ground.
"Hey!" yelled the jocks as they turned towards Eddy. "Who the hell do you think you are, hitting our bro like that?!" demanded one of the jocks.
"I should be asking you jerks the same thing!" Eddy retorted to the jocks, folding his arms across his chest, "What gives you bastards the right to treat her like that?!"
The girl widened her eyes a little at Eddy's voice in pure shock as the jocks only growled, "What'd you call us?!"
Eddy furrowed his eyebrows even more. "You heard what I said," he replied.
The jocks were now fuming with anger. "We're not letting you get away with trash-talking us like that!" the jocks growled as they started to walk over to Eddy. The jock who had the girl in his grip tossed her aside so he could join his friends. This made the girl fall back to the ground, making her land on the grass beside the sidewalk.
Eddy now had the three jocks up close to him, with all three of them pissed off at him. "There's nowhere for you to run now!" said one of the jocks.
"You'd better start saying your prayers before we beat you to a pulp!" another jock said as he began to crack his knuckles.
"I don't think so," Eddy dryly replied to the three jocks who were breathing down his neck, looking up at them with an angry face. "I've dealt with bigger jerks that were worse than you three combined; I'm pretty sure I can handle it."
"Grr…! You've asked for it, dammit!" yelled out the jocks as they were about to punch Eddy.
Before they could hit him, the sound of a whistle had been blown from behind their backs. The jocks widened their eyes in horror; they knew that whistle!
"You three! That's ENOUGH!" boomed a male voice nearby.
It was the school's football coach who was running over to the commotion. Right behind him were Ed and Double D, with Double D looking like he was about to pass out from all the running they had to do to get the coach's attention.
"C-Coach!" whimpered the three jocks as their coach came up to them. "Umm, uh…"
"No need to say anything at all, you three. These boys saw what you did to this young lady," the coach stated firmly to the jocks. "Follow me to the principal's office! NOW!"
The three jocks walked off with their coach, glaring daggers at the three Eds and the girl as they did.
"Eddy!" gasped both Ed and Double D as they ran over to him. "Did they hurt you?" asked Double D with a sense of worry as Ed made a pouty face.
"Nah, I'm fine, Sockhead," Eddy replied before turning back towards the girl. "But…"
The girl was still sitting where the jock had pushed her aside, a bit stunned by what had happened.
"Umm…" muttered the three Eds as they came up to the girl. "Are you okay?" asked Double D.
"… Y-Yes, I'm fine," the girl replied as she turned to look at them; she had heavy gloss clouding her bright blue eyes, almost making them completely white. "I just need to find my glasses, that's all…"
"Oh!" Ed gasped as he turned to see her glasses on the ground. He went over to them and picked them up. "You mean these?" he asked. "They look way too big for me to wear!"
The girl smiled a little as Ed handed the glasses back to her. "Thank you," she said, putting them back on. "Now I can, umm… see better."
She then got a good look at the three Eds as best as she could, looking at Ed, then Double D, and finally Eddy. She widened her eyes slightly at Eddy; a sudden feeling of familiarity washed over her, even if she could not see him. It was the same feeling she felt when he spoke up to help her earlier: 'It can't be…' She thought to herself in disbelief, looking away for a moment to regain her composure.
Eddy arched an eyebrow at her. "So, uh, what's your name?" he asked.
"… My name's Katrina; Katrina Tress," the girl replied with a bit of nervousness in her voice. She glanced back at Eddy a little before timidly asking him, "Umm, is your name Alex?"
"Huh?" Eddy muttered in confusion, "No, my name's Eddy; Eddy McGee."
"Oh, I see," Katrina meekly stated back, shaking her head from side to side a bit. "Sorry, I confused you with… s-someone else."
"Oh! My name is Ed; Ed Wendell!" Ed interjected with a slightly cheesy smile.
"And my name is Eddward Johnson, but everyone just calls me Double D." Double D finished off, "It's nice to meet you, Katrina."
"Y-Yeah…" Katrina replied with a small smile that started to grow on her face, "Nice to meet you three."
Suddenly, they could hear a bell ring inside the school. "Oh no! We need to hurry and get to class, o-or we will be late!" Double D gasped.
Eddy only rolled his eyes. "Geez, that's all Sockhead thinks about sometimes," he muttered.
The four of them soon dashed off inside the school so as not to run late, but not before stopping at the front office to get their schedules. They soon saw that all four of them had the same homeroom and the same class for 3rd Period, with Ed being the happiest about it. After getting a crushing Ed-Hug out of the way, the four of them soon rushed off towards homeroom, with only thirty seconds to spare!
The four of them let out a sigh of relief as they walked through the door, the teacher looking at them with a bit of a cautious eye. The Eds could see some familiar faces in this class: Kevin, Nazz, and Rolf. They then saw some empty seats around; luckily, they were close together for them to all sit in one area. As the four of them went to sit down, the bell rang loudly in the hallway. It was after the bell rang that the classroom door slammed open, and two students rushed into the room quickly. Two people were late for class: two girls, to be exact.
The first girl was about Ed's height, if not a little bit shorter. She had long, wavy, jet-black hair with dark red highlights. Her eyes were brown but had a tint of bright red in them. She wore a dark red T-shirt with two horizontal white stripes on her short sleeves, a pair of tight, black leggings, and a pair of black, white, and red Converse shoes.
The second girl was about Double D's height, if not a tad bit taller. She had dark blond hair that was short in length and had mint green highlights. Her eyes were very dark green, almost close to the color of emeralds. She wore a long-sleeved, light green shirt, a pair of beige shorts that went to her knees, and a pair of green, beige, and dark yellow tennis shoes with some light-yellow socks.
The homeroom teacher sighed a little. "You two ladies didn't need to rush in like that."
"B-But the bell rang, and we got lost!" the blond-haired girl said as the black-haired girl nodded her head in agreement. "We're sorry if we caused a ruckus!"
"It's alright, you two," the homeroom teacher said. "I wasn't counting today as a day for tardy counts, since it's the beginning of school; just don't be late again."
"Yes, sir! Of course!" the black-haired girl replied as the two of them went to sit down. The black-haired girl sat across from Ed, and the blond-haired girl sat across from Double D.
The homeroom teacher made a little cough to get the class's attention. "Since the bell has rung, I'll take up the roll call now."
It was during the homeroom teacher's roll call that the two girls revealed their names; the black-haired girl was named Ebony Holland, and the blond-haired girl was named Shayla Anniston.
'Good, everyone is here for the first day,' the homeroom teacher thought to himself as he turned back to his whiteboard. 'It looks like this year will be a splendid one!'
Meanwhile, in a not-too-far-away building…
"… The wheels of fate," echoed a male voice from within a dark room, "… have started turning."