Chapter 1, New Beginnings

In the midst of a long hard battle 404 was facing off against the mighty Sol!

“ It’s over Sol! This is the end for you!” 404 shouted as he held Error and Infected’s souls in his hand, Sol looked down at his opponent ready to settle the final battle! Ready to end the battle of all-

Suddenly however the car brakes stopped near the end of the neighborhood, Wendy looked back at her Son with a annoyed look as her son was seen talking on his phone with a friend.

“Kris, if you are going to keep talking to yourself in the car then I can drop you off here and you wan walk your autistic ass all the way to school!. I only had 4 hours of sleep last night and I have…a long day to say the least, so if you could shut up my dear that would be great…I love you" Wendy smiled as she fixed her green hoodie and kept driving. As they did Wendy drove past a post with two adults stapling a piece of paper with a kids face and a phone number attached to it the female amount the two in tears as they left. Kris looked out the window and then looked down towards his notebook which was filled with drawings and scribbles, he crossed out a few words as he then turned the page to a old drawing of weird deer-like monster. For a moment he had forgotten that it was his older sister’s old book before she left for college. He remembered his sister, she was cold collected and yet kind in her ways as well a true friend and honest person…he missed her greatly. As Wendy continued to drive she turned on the radio to a 90s channel where the song “Life could be a dream" began to play.

Kris didn’t enjoy 90s music, but he also didn’t mind it since most songs nowadays were just about sex and money nothing good anymore. Wendy tapped on the stirring wheel as she continued to drive her way down the road making necessary turns and stopping when needed. They eventually began to make into the town of “Wensmar" where Kris looked out his window and saw old faces like Berdly walking with the sweet Noelle towards school and he could barley make a purple figure loitering near the back of a restaurant.

“Now Kris your just getting back from that 2 week suspension, which by the way SHOULDN’T HAVE HAPPENED!. But its in the past and I’m willing to slide if you make it up to me" Wendy said as she pulled in front of the school building. Kris looked outside his window again and looked at “Academia Academy” the school was large and had two floors to it, Kris then looked at the barley visible football field. His stomach churned at the sight and he got back to messing with his notebook.

“I don’t know mom, I don’t think I’m gonna fit in as well as I use to" Kris said as he looked to see Berdly and Noelle walk inside with Noelle turning slightly to look at Kris for a brief moment before entering the building. Kris looked down and grabbed his wrist only for Wendy to put her hand on his, he looked up to see her face was soft and caring a lot different from her firm tone before.

“Look at me my little pudding cup, you don’t have to worry about people liking you, just make sure you like yourself first. That’s what’s important, don’t forget that “ Wendy said as she got his backpack from the front seat and put it in his lap.

“GOODNESS! Work starts in 25 minutes! JESUS! Anyway I packed you a lunch since that school shit is killing kids now a days, I also added some chocolate chip cookies in there for you to eat too. Have a nice day sweety!” Wendy said kissing him on the forehead and pretty much shoving him out the van as she sped away. Kris watched his mom speed away waving back at him as he waved back to her, he turned around only to get a large hug from a large skeleton fellow.

“Hello there Kris! It’s a pleasure to see you!” said the large friendly skeleton, he wore a brown scarf and a nice big sweater.

“Hey Delios, its nice to see you.” Kris replied as he looked inside to see a couple of girls looking at him, Kris took a few steps back only for Delios to rest his hand on Kris's back.

“Don’t worry little guy, you’ll be fine. What happened was…well, it’ll blow over hopefully” Delios said as he was sweating a bit.

“Heh sure it will” said a sarcastic voice a bit away, Delios and Kris looked over to see another smaller skeleton leaning against a car, he wore a leather jacket and had a long tattoo of a butterfly on his shoulder.

“William you’re here? Thought you were still hanging out with your friends" Delios said as Kris looked at William too.

“Eh band practice got cut a bit short today, guess our drummer just decided to “branch” out towards other opportunities” William said shrugging as he walked over and patted Kris on the head.

“How ya been Kiddo? Heard about what happened, I just want you to know that…no. Nevermind buddy forget I said anything hehe everything is gonna be okay" William said as he smiled at Kris who didn’t give much emotion back.

“Everything…is fine" Kris thought to himself as he walked into the school building leaving Delios and William outside. School had yet started so Kris went to the cafeteria for some brunch, Kris got himself some french toast and a carton of strawberry milk, he sat down and opened up his journal and started writing.

“Come on, when did writing get so complicated and so demanding…I wish I knew what to write next. I’m so tired of the same thing, I feel like my work is dry and my creativity…well its like a desert right now…” Kris thought to himself only for someone to plant themselves next to him, Kris looked over and saw a blue figure looking at him smug and smiling they were wearing a sweater with a tee-shirt that had the phrase “Gamer" on it.

“Heeeey Christopher!” said the blue figure

“Kris and what do you want Berdly?” Kris replied as he looked over to him, Berdly got his phone out and looked at what Kris was doing.

“What are you doing back? I thought you had a college friend you were visiting or something” Kris said as he closed his book and began eating his brunch.

“Complications came up, heard about what happened…is she ok? That sounded…crazy uhhhn I’ve heard something too, about what happened and that you were involved” Berdly said looking at Kris a bit worried

“I reckon you’ve heard the drama around it all, so what do you believe?” Kris asked

“…Well, I just hope we can continue to chill bro without having it brought" Berdly said

“You literally just brought it up" Kris remarked

“Alright alright geez, anyway thought I’d like try and talk to you now that I’m back in Himmenberg. Also I got the new game Bloodborne 2, do you wanna play online with me?” Berdly asked

“No, my mother has been on me since I got back and I can’t afford to fail this is my junior year and the last thing I need is to get in trouble for video games" Kris said as he looked at his journal until suddenly he was tapped on the shoulder from behind causing him and Berdly to turn around to see a black harmed gothic girl that wore a black veil and large black boots..

“Hey" the goth girl said

“um hi?” Kris said as he looked to Berdly to which then the goth girl gave Kris a black heart shaped envelope

“please accept this as a token of our appreciation to you” she said as she walked away, Kris opened it and found it written in purple marker as it said “We side with you on the whole matter, stay dark and strong, love Cassandra”. Kris and Berdly looked at the note and then to the goth girl who was hanging around a few others like her.

“Seems you’ve got fans" Berdly joked as he looked at Kris beginning to pack up and leave.

“Later Berdly” Kris said as the bell rang and all the students started moving out towards they’re classes. Berdly watched a bit sorrowful as he got up and made his way to his own classroom, Kris arrived to the door to his class where he could hear tons of noise and all his classmates. As Kris entered he could hear the classroom go dead quiet as everyone saw his face, he could make out Susie in the far back leaning back and Noelle at the front with a few students near by her.

“Welcome home Kris" said a sweet and uplifting voice, Kris looked over and made eye contact with his homeroom teacher, a large goat like women wearing a beautiful red rose shirt with a nice black skirt to bring your attention to the rest of her and black glasses to match and of course her notable black horns.

“Thanks Mrs.Doe" Kris said as he looked st his classmates who all looked at him with less than pleasing eyes.

“Now everyone let’s welcome Kris back to school with joyful and leveling round of applause!” Doe said as she smiled and began to clap, however nobody clapped besides her and Noelle who was looking at him as joyfully as she could. Kris looked down as he walked to his desk, he went over to it and put his hand on it realizing that there were words written all over it, some smudged, probably due to someone trying to clean it off.

It all read “Rapist, You should kill yourself, monster, your ugly in and out, the devil is waiting for you and …You are no Knight". Kris signed as he sat down and used his spiral book to cover the words as he got ready for class.