Chapter 1
If you had asked Jo Yuri if she believed in the supernatural a week ago she probably would have laughed and made a joke about her favorite childhood movie being Halloween town, that would have been a week ago. Today she stands at the gates of what she can only explain to be a mini version of that school from x-men or something, she wouldn’t know the name of it, she's not a nerd.
Yuri’s mom all but pushed her out of the car while it was still running and left her with nothing but a “Goodbye” and an orange suitcase as she drove off leaving her only daughter to stand at the gates of an entirely new world. She felt her breath get caught in her throat and the air in her lungs suddenly became solid as the gates in front of her opened with an obnoxious creaking sound.
Yuri took several strides into the property before being met with two girls who seemed to have appeared from the air itself, “Hello! I’m Kwon Eunbi, head witch here at Enozi School for the Supernatural” the slightly shorter of the two said kindly but authoritatively.
“And I’m Lee Chaeyeon, the second, but just as skilled, representative witch!” The second girl seemed much more energetic as she took Yuri’s hand and began pulling her towards the large building farther down the driveway. Yuri turned around to grab her suitcase only to find it floating behind her, of course, she inwardly rolled her eyes, magic.
“So your transfer papers say that you are a newly realized witch? That’s a little odd for your age, most witches start to show signs during early childhood” Eunbi spoke aloud mostly to herself, Yuri quickly looked down after hearing what the experienced witch had said, suddenly feeling self-conscious.
Chaeyeon smacked the back of Eunbi’s head giving her a glare, “BUT! That just makes you special!” Chaeyeon continued talking to Yuri about all sorts of relatively normal things for the next few minutes, only to be cut off by Eunbi when they had finally made it to the front of the school.
“This is Enozi school for the supernatural, here you will find students from all the main species” Eunbi led the other two through the maze of halls towards a giant common area filled with all sorts of students.
“Of course there are us, witches like you” Yuri flinched at the mention of her newfound identity “There are also the vampires, don’t mind them they think they are cooler than the rest of us because they are immortal” Eunbi waved at a group of students, eyes flashing red at the smell of a new student.
“Oh give it up Hyewon! No one thinks you're scary!” Chaeyeon yelled over her shoulder as the trio moved through the common area and out the back door.
“On the field over there you will see what looks to be a bunch of wild animals” Chaeyeon chucked at her own joke while Eunbi let out an unamused sigh “Get it Eunbi! Cause they’re werewolves! Animals!” Eunbi just shook her head and continued on with the tour.
About 30 minutes later and several confusing hallways the small group made it back to the front entrance where a rather small girl was waiting for them, “Hi! I’m Hitomi and I’ll be your roommate! We normally try to keep roommates grouped by species so they can help each other out with classwork and stuff!” Hitomi continued with a hushed tone “I mean of course unless you’re-”
“Ok, Hitomi that’s enough!” Eunbi cut off the younger witch “Please show Yuri to her room, without gossiping about other students!” she emphasized.
“Okay fine!” Hitomi said as she motioned for Yuri to follow her. After heading up two flights of stairs Hitomi finally stopped in front of a random door “Welcome to your new home!” the smaller girl said cheerfully.
The room was cozy, not too cramped but not too large either. There were two twin-sized mattresses on either side of the room, Yuri assumed the messy bed and the already decorated side of the room belonged to Hitomi.
Hitomi jumped onto her bed full of excitement “So! How did you show?” she asked, motioning Yuri to sit next to her. The newcomer had no idea what her roommate was talking about and only raised her eyebrows in confusion, “Ugh, how did you show your powers?” Hitomi explained as if it was obvious.
Yuri’s face turned pale, and she started to get nervous, she was worried about being asked this question. “Ummmm-“ Yuri was quickly cut off by Hitomi “Hey, if it’s personal that’s ok, I hope one day you get comfortable enough to tell me but until then I won’t pressure you.” Hitomi smiled softly “Now! Time for all the gossip that I have to catch you up on before your first day!”
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Yuri was exhausted, Hitomi had been pointing at random people in last year’s yearbook and basically giving a play-by-play of their entire life for the past 3 hours. She doesn’t remember when she started to look out the window and daydream, but she guessed it was around the time when Hitomi started talking about Eunbi’s election campaign and how Chaeyeon had hexed all of her posters.
Suddenly two figures laughing at the edge of the woods caught Yuri’s attention. Sure, Hitomi had told her all about the campus woods. She had told her that they were tens of acres and filled with cool places to party at night, but Yuri never thought people would be out there during the middle of the day.
“Hey, who are those two girls” Yuri spoke, interrupting one of Hitomi’s wild stories about her new classmates. The other girl peeked out the window and let out an evil laugh “Finally, we can talk about the good stuff! Remember earlier when Eunbi told me not to gossip about other students?” Yuri nodded. “Well she really only meant two students, Yena and Chaewon, they’re roommates but like it’s weird.”
Yuri glanced back down at the two girls who seemed relatively normal “Why is it weird?” she asked innocently. “Because Yena is a werewolf, the school pack’s alpha, and head representative to be exact, and Chaewon is the second vampire representative. Normally species don’t room together but apparently they are some sort of special case.”
Hitomi continued, “So normally the vampires and werewolves kinda stay away from each other, ya know with the whole one wolf bite can kill a vampire thing” Yuri nodded acting like she knew exactly what Hitomi was talking about, Yuri, however, didn’t know about that at all. She had thought vampires were mostly immortal, but apparently they can get taken out by a dog bite? seems kinda weak.
Hitomi continued “Now take that information and add it to the Yena Chaewon roommate situation, it doesn’t make sense right? Well, that’s because they are together, like together together.” Hitomi then referenced the window.
Surely enough when Yuri peaked out to get another look at the two she saw Yena pinning Chaewon up against a tree leaving kisses down the vampire’s neck. Chaewon smirked, tilting her head up to give the wolf more access and looked directly into Yuri’s eyes.
She looked at Yuri almost as if she knew she was being talked about, but that would have been impossible. Yuri and Hitomi were on the third story of the building, whereas Chaewon was outside, two fields lengths away, and several feet into the forest. There was no way she could have heard what they were talking about, right?