Alright, this is my first story! Please review!

Edit (15/4/2016): Hmm, even after extensions the chapter's only 1.5k words long... Well, hopefully the other reworks will be longer. See you!


In Ellinia, the city above the trees, the sun had just started to rise. The morning's atmosphere was peaceful, filled with the chirping of cicadas.

"Hey, Ascion! We're gonna be late if you don't wake up! ASCION!"

In front of a house suspended rather precariously from a giant tree, a young, female archer could be seen yelling at said house. Thankfully, the house was located at the edge of Ellinia and it was still early in the morning, so there was nobody around to hear her yell, apart from the resident of the house she was yelling at.

Which was good thing, because she had quite the set of lungs.

A thump sounded out from inside the house, followed by a muffled reply and the sound of bare feet running across wood. Five minutes later, the door was thrown open.

A boy rushed out of the house, nearly slipping on the grass-like leaves of the branch that has become his front lawn. His black hair was sticking up in all directions, and it was evident that he only had time for a very rushed shower, if the dampness of his hair and clothes were anything to go by. In fact, he was still buttoning his shirt when he flung open the door.

"Sorry I'm late, Kaede, how much time do we have left?" the boy named Ascion Wolf asked, slightly out of breath.

The archer, Kaede Hayashi, just raised an eyebrow. "Have you had breakfast yet?"

Ascion nodded. "Yeah, I did-"

*growl~*

"... Okay, I didn't." Ascion admitted. "But whatever, didn't you say we're going to be late-"

"Ascion, you do have a clock in your house, don't you?" The orange haired archer interrupted.

"Yeah, why?"

"Did you even look at it?"

Seeing how suspiciously calm his friend was, Ascion turned his head towards the clock hanging on the wall.

It read 7.20 a.m.

School starts at 8 a.m.

Given that it only takes ten minutes to walk to school and another five to reach the classroom, he still had twenty five minutes before school started.

Ascion turned back to Kaede and glared at the orange haired girl, his shoulders slumping and a sigh escaping his lips as the adrenaline rush faded. "You are such an ass sometimes." He groused, walking back into his house.

Kaede snickered as she followed him in. "I'm actually surprised you fell for it again. How many times does this make now?"

"One hundred and fifty two." Ascion grumbled as they reached his small kitchen. "And I only started counting last year."

"It's not my fault that you keep getting tricked by the same old thing for three years straight. Besides, you really do need to start getting up early."

"But I don't wanna..." Ascion whined, his tiredness settling back in as he started pulling things out of the fridge. "I hate mornings..."

Kaede rolled her eyes. "Given that you're aspiring to be an Adventurer, you'll have to start making it a habit to wake up early someday."

"And that someday won't be today. Or any day for the rest of middle school, probably." Ascion grumbled as he rubbed his eyes tiredly. He slowly assembled a sandwich and got himself a glass of orange juice. He slid another glass to Kaede.

"Thanks." Kaede chirped before she downed her glass of juice in one shot.

Ascion sleepily munched on his sandwich, keeping an eye on the clock as he slumped into a chair. He yawned again. "I really am not a morning person." He muttered, rubbing his heavy eyelids.


Kaede sighed, getting up from her seat. It was already 7.35, which meant that it was about time for them to go. Pity, she really did enjoy quiet mornings like this. The silence was strangely comfortable.

"Ascion, we should get going." She said as she got up from her seat to deposit her empty glass into the sink.

Ascion didn't reply.

Kaede frowned, turning around. Ascion was still slumped in a sitting position, and his hand was still gripping on to his almost empty glass.

"Ascion?" Kaede walked over to her best friend, her frown giving way to exasperation when she realised something she probably should have noticed earlier. She slapped her palm over her face and groaned.

Ascion's eyes were closed.

Dammit! I forgot this idiot can fall asleep while sitting upright!


"-ion! Ascion, we're really gonna be late! Get up!"

"Go 'way..." Ascion mumbled. "Not ge'ing tricked 'gain..."

"Ascion! It's 7.50! Get UP!"

Ascion mumbled something incoherent. Before he could do anything else, he felt a pull on his collar as ice was dumped into his shirt.

"BLOODY FUCKING SON OF A BITCH!" He screamed as he jumped to his feet, sleepiness forgotten as he tried to get rid of the ice. "WHAT THE BLOODY FUCK!"

Finally managing to untuck his shirt and let all the ice slide out, Ascion glared at Kaede, who was just closing the door of his fridge. "Kaede! What was that for?!"

Kaede grabbed his hand. "We're late." She hissed.

Without waiting for a response, Kaede took off, dragging Ascion behind her. This left the boy spluttering and stumbling as he tried to keep up with his best friend.

Though Ascion was abnormally fit for a mage, he still couldn't match up to Kaede's speed. Which was to be expected, given that Archers are regarded as one of the most dexterous classes.

Quickly pulling out his staff, Ascion started to cast [Teleport], allowing both Kaede and himself to move faster. Kaede didn't even slow down when she was suddenly teleported, continuing to rush down the thick tree branches that formed Ellinia's footpaths.

As they neared the twin metal gateways that were located right beside the mayor's tree-house, Kaede shouted "Maple Middle School!" Immediately, a hum was heard as a swirling purple portal formed in the center of the gateway on the right.

The metal gateways were known as the Mirrors of Dimension. It was just large enough for an average adult to comfortably walk through, and it allows for instantaneous travel between two Mirrors. They come in pairs, one for departing and the other for arriving, and there was a set in almost every town. Several schools have them as well.

The school our two protagonists are attending happen to be one of them.

Kaede jumped through the portal, dragging Ascion along. She landed on the dirt of the school grounds gracefully, although Ascion nearly fell flat on his face. She immediately took off again, still dragging the poor magician along.

"Where's the classroom, Ascion?!" Kaede shouted her question.

"What?!"

"Directions to the classroom, please!" Kaede replied as they dashed into the school building.

Ascion started belting out instructions as Kaede careened through the almost empty corridors. More than once, Ascion had to cast [Teleport] to stop Kaede, and by extension himself, from crashing into someone else.

Kaede glanced at her watch as they continued their running/teleportation. "Five minutes!" She called as she made a sharp turn, almost slamming the black haired mage into a wall.

"Watch it!"

"Sorry!"

Before long, the two teenagers reached their classroom, Kaede skidding to a halt right outside. Carried by the momentum, Ascion was flung several meters away, landing unceremoniously on his face.

"Couldn't you have slowed down more... gracefully?" Ascion grumbled as he got up, carefully rubbing his nose.

"Why didn't you just [Teleport] before you hit the ground?"

"I'm out of mana. I already cast more than twenty [Teleports]. If we had encountered another person and you didn't managed to swerve in time, we would be spending our first day of school at the infirmary."

"Oh. Sorry." Kaede apologised. "On the bright side, we're here now!" She glanced at her watch. "With three minute to spare!"

"Good. I need to sleep." Ascion said tiredly.

Kaede rolled her eyes. "You're always sleeping in class."

"I'll be paying attention if the teachers actually teaches something I don't know." Ascion shot back as the two of them made their way through their new, and very, very loud classroom. "Until then, you can't make me not sleep."

"At least stay awake till homeroom's over."

Ascion dropped into a seat by the window, Kaede sitting beside him. "No promises." He replied, smiling cheekily.

"It's in, like, two minutes."

"In my opinion, that's two extra minutes that could be spent sleeping."

"Ascion!"

Ascion stifled a laugh. "I'm kidding, kidding! Oh, the teacher's here."

A man with dark blue hair and fair skin stalked into the classroom. "Oi brats! Settle down! NOW!" The man roared at the noisy students. The commanding and threatening tone of his voice instantly caused the classroom to fall silent.

Ascion instantly liked that man.

The man nodded in satisfaction. "Good. My name is Benjamin Lee, and I'm your new homeroom teacher. I don't particularly give a damn about what you want to call me, but it better not be anything stupid. Self-intros can wait till tomorrow, but I'll be taking roll call now."

"I like this guy." Ascion muttered to Kaede.

"Why, because of his 'no fucks given' and 'I don't have time for bullshit' attitude?"

"You know me too well."

"Alright!" The new homeroom teacher shouted, closing the class register with a snap. "Everyone's been accounted for! Well then, welcome back to school, hope you'll study hard, yada yada yada. Personally, I think all of you can make do without a welcome back speech, so I'll just save you all the boredom. Oh, and if any of you happen to be facing any issues, feel free to look for me to work something out. Now, free period, but keep the noise down!"

The students cheered as they resumed their mingling. Benjamin simply sat down and got comfortable.

Kaede blinked. "Wow, this guy is really frank. And blunt. It's kinda refreshing."

"Tell me about it." Ascion mumbled, his head already on his table. "Shake me awake if anything interesting happens, Kaede..."

"Ascion?!"

"G'night."

And on that happy note, Ascion was out like a light.


Um, so is this good? Bad? Again, please review, but don't flame! Thank you!

15/7/2018 Edit: Grammar mistakes fixed