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I am as depressed as the next person and joke about wanting to die just as often but that does not mean I want to wake up in a fucking coffin. What the hell. Laying there pondering how I got into this situation when I heard noise from outside my coffin. I quieted my breathing to see if I could hear what was being said but I was unpleasantly surprised at the heat turning up in my coffin. I got really hot and I kicked my lid off because I’m not trying to be killed by fire like a witch in Salem. I rejoice in my victory internally until I feel someone or something tug on my sleeve. I am shocked to see a raccoon, no, a cat-like thing pulling on it saying something in a foreign language. Wait. The thing speaks. I immediately smack it and retract my hand from a creature that should not be speaking any language. It starts yelling and I’m walking backward, away from it when I see fire head towards and I dodge it before bolting to the closest door.
I run until my legs and lungs hurt and as I catch my breath I look around and I quickly realize that I am in a gothic-looking school. I would hate to be caught by the fire-throwing cat thing so I head to the biggest building. As I enter my eyes widen to the most gothic-looking library of my bookworm dreams. I quickly walk to the nearest bookshelf and start looking at spines and to my pleasure, I can read them. I chose the book “Collective History of Night Raven College” and I skim the book looking at the pictures that seem to move if you look at them for long enough. Enjoying the pictures and the occasional paragraphs I’m attacked by the screeching fire-throwing creature that arrived destroying my peace. I stared at the creature dumbly as it continued to rant about something and I could see the exact moment when it reached peak agitation and I felt myself break out in a cold sweat. It yelled something again before it started getting ready to fry my ass but before he could the words “Lash of Love” echoed in the library as a whip bound the creature. I looked up to my Savior and I felt my relief immediately leave my body. I would rather not deal with whatever the hell this man is but he did save me so I forced myself to stay still as he rambled.
I stare at the most flamboyant man I have ever seen in real life with his cape covered with feathers, a top hat, and a mask that looks like a bird. I stare at his face, absolutely terrified of his glowing eyes because that is absolutely not normal. He continues talking and with the occasional nod from me, it seems like he won’t stop any time soon, so to pass the time I finally take the time to look at my clothes. It dawns on me that they are not my clothes, they look like some sort of cult robes but before I can panic about someone changing my clothes my wrist is grabbed and I am dragged from the library with a squeak.
My savior, now a kidnapper, drags me while talking about something while the bound creature makes noises from its binds. We arrive with a very loud entrance to a ceremony of sorts and as I feel stares from the now very obvious cult I panic on the inside which only worsens when I am dragged in front of a mirror by my savior/ kidnapper. The mirror manifests a face that reminds me of snow white and then speaks, what the hell is this place?
“ I don’t understand,” I say timidly and the people behind me begin to whisper.
“What is your name?” the mirror responds in English.
“Oh, it's Y/N L/N,” as I finish saying my name there are audible gasps. The mirror then something else in a foreign language and all hell breaks loose in the form of the fire-throwing creature. Fire and yells are everywhere and I just stand there dumbly at the chaos and am only brought back by my pained yells. I look toward the screaming and realize a poor cult boy had an actual fire under his ass. I run to his side and use my cult sleeves to smack the fire out and once it is done he looks and smiles at me as he says thank you in Japanese. I widen my eyes at being able to recognize the language before I pet his head with the softest smile I can muster with my giddiness.
My attention is caught by my savior trying to hand me the fire hell-spawn, and I shake my head. My savior says something and I shake my head and say “I don’t understand a couple of times ' before his glowy eyes widen with realization. He turns away towards the people by the fire-butt boy and the people begin to file out of the room. Then for the second time that day, I am dragged out by my savior. We enter what is obviously an office and he offers me a seat before sitting down himself. He stares at me from his desk and says something and I just stare back, so he shakes his head while waving his hand before a soft poof sounds and a box replaces the smoke. He opens and rummages through it before bringing out blue crystals. He approaches me as the box disappears and puts the crystals in my hands before miming putting his hand to his earlobe. I follow suit because why not and then he speaks again and I understand him.
“Can you understand me now” I nod “ Good now let’s get to business. You can place one stone on your bottom lip to speak to me, so who are you?”
“ I am Y/N L/N” the crystal translates in an eerie voice which causes me to shiver.
“How did you get here?”
“I have no idea and judging by your questioning you don’t either.”
“That’s right. Where are you from?
“Texas in the USA”
“I do not know where this “Texas” is?”
“What?!” I feel panic start to set in.
“Do not worry I will get you home because I am gracious and you clearly do not belong here being a magicless human”
“What do you mean magicless? No one I know has magic except for the hell-spawn creature from earlier”
“ This is Night Raven College a prestigious school for magic students from all over the world-”
“Not in my world creepy bird dude”
“Creepy bird dude- Pardon it seems I forgot to re-introduce myself. I am Dire Crowley, the Headmage of this institute. Follow me back to the mirror from before to send you back home,” He holds out his hand to help me up from the couch I was on. I take my hand back as he starts the trek back to the mirror room. I follow with my hands switching the three crystals from ear to ear and occasionally mouth as Crowley rambles about this world and the carriage and the mirror. We arrive and he asks the mirror to send me home and I feel tears well when it says I have nowhere where I belong. I hug myself bending over as I feel a panic attack coming on when I feel a hand rubbing my back. I shakily place my hand that has a crystal on my earlobe and I hear Crowley comfort me.
“Do not fret for I will graciously allow you to stay here at Night Raven until I can send you home,” I look at him with unshed tears and he continues,” The place you shall be staying at is abandoned but it should suffice. Now follow me to your new temporary home for I am ever so kind.”
I shuffle behind the ever-talkative Crowley which at this point I elected to ignore. We arrive at an obviously abandoned dorm with gravestones. Wait are those gravestones? Before I can ask I am ushered into the just as run down inside of the building. I quickly put a crystal on my earlobe and my bottom lip before speaking.
“Mr. Crowley I refuse to sleep in this disease-ridden building unless you use your voodoo or magic to make it at least liveable”
“But if you are to stay here you must earn-”
“I’m gonna stop you right there. I. Am. Not. In. The. Mood. You will make it livable so clean the kitchen, the bathroom, and a room so I can actually rest in this disgusting place. I hope I don’t have to remind you that I was kidnapped from my home under your administration.”
“I will do it for I am gracious and kind,” he waves his hand and the kitchen is cleaned and noise is heard upstairs and somewhere down the hall before saying, “Now I am sure you are hungry so I shall procure you some food,” after speaking Crowley quickly exits.
I huff and go to sit at the newly cleaned table slamming my head on it in frustration. I sit there unmoving with my thoughts running wild when I hear the rain. I wanted to ignore it when I felt a drop of what and I groaned before standing up. I look for some pots to place under the water falling from the ceiling when I hear a familiar screeching voice. I place the crystals to their locations to hear the little hell-spawn complain about the rain.
"So we meet again fire cat"
"Hey you're the magicless student, what are you doing here? And why is your voice all weird?"
"I could say the same thing and it doesn't matter. At least now I can understand and speak. Speaking of which I have a bone to pick with you," I step closer to the cat before it screeches.
"THAT'S COLD. Who attacked the great Grimm." Grimm must be its name. How curious.
"Grimm the roof is leaking. No one attacked you," I had a great idea, "Hey, if you help me place pots and pans under the leaks I'll let you stay and I'll ask Crowley to let you stay too. How 'bout it?"
"The great Grimm helping a human. A magicless human. I would-"
"I'll give you some tuna~"
"What are you waiting for, human let's do this" I giggle and follow the little demon cat.
After placing pots and pans under the leaks we went to the second which was eerie just like the rest of the dorm. As we look for more leaks the room becomes cold and I hear whispers but before I can ask Grimm screeches, thus becoming both very common and very annoying. Grimm grabs my leg to hide. I look at him before looking at where he came from and needless to say this day just got worse. I tremble while placing my crystals in their positions just in time to hear the Ghosts want company. Undead company. Grimm flies from behind my left before throwing fire, supposedly, at the Ghosts with his eyes close.
"Grimm shoot where I tell you to" I call out to him and he just continues to throw fire. I direct him and eventually begins to aim accurately. It takes a while but they finally leave and both Grimm and I slump onto the dirty floor. Eventually, Grimm cheers about our victory and I listen through the crystal on my earlobe.
Our little victory party is cut short when Crowley shows up asking about why Grimm was heard again and I honestly let the two of them argue for a bit before butting in. This crystal placing is getting very annoying.
"Crowley, sir, Grimm helped me with the Ghosts that appeared out of nowhere. Can he please stay having him here would be a comfort since, you know," I purposely stop and make my voice small, "I'm magicless."
"I will decide after I have seen how you two work together"
"But I, the amazing Grimm, got rid of your ghost problem. Your welcome"
"Fret not you will be fighting me"
"Hold up we just fought can't-"
"Get ready students"
"Grimm let's do this"
"I better get fancy tuna from this fight"
I directed Grimm in the fight on where to aim his blasts and as the fight seemed to drag on Crowley finally changed back and agreed to let Grimm stay. Grimm cheered in the background as Crowley got hit by some water and fixed the leaks. I felt agitated that it was so easy for him to fix things. He told us to rest and let me know that he left food, clothes, and toiletries in the kitchen as he left.
I drag my feet downstairs and put away some of the food except two sandwiches, a ham one for me and obviously a tuna one for Grimm. I give the sandwich to Grimm who happily eats it as I eat mine slowly looking through the clothes. There's a gym uniform, a lab one, and a regular one. I see a small bag that has underwear. Men's underwear. Does that son of a bitch think I'm a BOY? I'm so offended I throw the bag very hard at the wall across from me and Grimm stares intensely at me. I raise my hand in softly with a sheepish smile. I take a breath before going to pick up the bag. I grab the clothes including the underwear before getting the bag with the toiletries and heading towards where I heard a noise in what I assume is the bathroom. I enter and the light flickers on when I touch the light switch. I place the items on the counter by the sinks before looking for towels. I find them and get the shampoo, conditioner, body soap, and scrub before placing it in a shower with no curtain. I place the towel dropped over the shower curtain pole for my own modesty and peace of mind. Finally, I entered a well-deserving shower after today and as I finished showering I was excited and felt upset at having to wear the same undergarments. As I changed into them I made a mental note to wash them tomorrow. I started putting on my gym shirt when my blood ran cold and when I looked into the mirror the Ghosts were back and staring at me. I tried to hide myself with my shirt tugging it down as I reached for a crystal placing it on my earlobe to hear one ghost say.
"You're a girl"