Gakuen Alice - SS501/OCs
Chapter 1
“Yah! Bridgit! Slow down!” I yelled at the slowly disappearing figure ahead of me. When she showed no signs of slowing, I put on a burst of speed and managed to step on her shadow, which seemed to be reaching out to me. She was forced to stop, and since it was sudden and without warning, she lost her balance and fell forward. I walked over to her.
She looked up and pouted at me. “No fair.. using your Alice..” I simply grinned and held out my hand to help her up. After helping her to her feet, she shot a devilish look towards me and went sliding down the path. Dumbfounded, I looked down and saw that she had frozen a patch on the ground and was sliding along it. Shaking my head, I quickly jumped onto the ice as well and had the shadows keep me steady.
Alice Academy in Korea was one of the most prestigious schools there. Many people wanted to enrol, but little did they know that you had to have an “Alice” to enter. An Alice was something like a superpower you could say. But yeah, that’s the one thing you needed to have to even have the slightest chance of getting into Alice Academy.
-
I had been in Alice Academy as long as I could remember. Since I was about 3, I had been showing signs of shadow manipulation, although I didn’t know it then, but it landed me in the Academy when I was 4. My parents were provided with lifelong amounts of money, but I was to remain at the school until I was 20! And I was only 16. I had never met my parents because one, I didn’t have the marks to, and two, I was a troublemaker. I ditched class often, since everything was extremely easy, and I loved to play tricks and pull pranks on unsuspecting seniors, which got me my Alice controlling earrings and a punishment tattoo in the shape of a star, right underneath my left eye. I had also been demoted from a special star (I had amazing control over my Alice, and could bend it to my will) to a triple star because of my punishment mark, and down to a double star because of my attitude and skipping, but with slight benefits of course (only because I helped the school out on missions and such, but we'll get to that later); I still had a Special Star allowance.
The gentle autumn breeze blew my dark chestnut locks from my face as I strolled down one of my favourite paths in the Northern Woods. As usual, I had skipped history again. Sure Yunho sunsaengnim was hot, but honestly his classes were so boooooring. I really didn’t care about the history of Alice Academy. Like, when would I ever use that knowledge in my life? I already had all the maps and secret entrances memorized.
Climbing up my favourite pear tree, I settled into my favourite little nook, made up of three branches, and was all set to take a short snooze when I heard some shouting from down the path. Peeking out from between a few sprigs of leaves, I saw where the ruckus was coming from.
Aah, why was I not surprised? It was Park Jungmin and Kim Kyujong, infamous partners that were always trying to rebel against the school board. Always getting in fights, always skipping class, always trying to break out of the school, etc.
I jumped lightly down from my branch, scratching my head slightly. So much for that nap, I sighed. Making my way over to where they were all fighting, I yawned and then grinned when I saw that they were fighting in a shadowy area behind the school.
This will be easy. I whispered a few well spoken words to the shadows, and the effect was instantaneous. The 5 troublemakers were frozen in place, not able to move a muscle. I yawned again, honestly, the school should pay me for all the fight stopping I’d been doing lately. Sadly, Jungmin and Kyujong had been part of every single one of those fights.
“You again,” a low voice snarled. I knew instantly who had said it, and who it was addressed to.
I turned and faced the culprit. “Me?” I voiced innocently, as I pointed to my face. “Oh I’m sorry, I wasn’t aware that I was supposed to let you burn down the Northern Woods, Jungmin-sshi.” I walked straight up and stopped right in front of him.
“Hmmm, what should I make you do this time? Push-ups? Or Indian crouches again?” I tapped on my lip as I pretended to think. “Oh that’s right, I was supposed to make you do burpees!” Grinning as his eyes widened in anger, I leaned forward and smiled right in his face. And knowing what would piss him off most, I kissed him lightly on the nose and bounced off, after writing ‘burpees 1 hour’ in the shadows where they wouldn’t be able to reach it.
“ARRRRRRRGH I HATE YOU!”
Jungmin and I.. how do I explain it? We’ve had a history of many fights. He has the Fire Alice, which explains his fiery temper, his crimson hair and scarlet eyes. I have the Shadow Manipulation Alice, black hair, indigo eyes, calm and mischievous. We were complete and utter opposites. I guess you could say our Alice shows our personalities and such. Many Alice's dye their hair and wear contacts, as most of them are quite unnatural colors. Well, when we were 13 - I was 13, he was 14 - we dated for a bit. He calmed down and you could consider him nice. We got along fine, with the occasional bickering from the complete opposites. It was a normal relationship, until one day he came into class late, his eyes hard and voice cold. He just ignored me and pushed me away, and in the middle of it broke up with me. I honestly don’t know who was more hurt, me or him. But I know, to this day we’ve never gotten along again. It’s too bad that my best friend, Bridgit, had an uber crush on Kyujong, or I would’ve gladly pushed Jungmin out of my heart and mind. But that was impossible. I had to keep him in check to make sure he wouldn’t lash out at my bestie.
Bridgit has the Ice Alice. Double Star ranking, which is a lot to be said, since when she entered at the age of 10 she couldn’t control her Alice at all. I remember she would continually freeze everything she looked at, or touched. (There’s a very colourful memory of me being treated for frostbite when Bridgit hugged me and froze half of my body.) The way she got over the freezing was Kyujong. Kyujong had the Nullification Alice, which fit with his calm and soothing personality. He volunteered to help her out, since my Alice didn't seem to be very helpful against ice. Along the way, we all became close friends. Kyujong, the quiet, kind, charismatic one out of all of us. I could see why anyone could fall for his charms.. but why would he stick with Jungmin? It made sense that Kyujong could nullify Jungmin’s flames if he ever had a rage blackout, but I didn’t understand why they were best friends.
Sighing, I walked back into campus and saw Yunho sunsaengnim on his way out. Before he could scold me about skipping his class, I told him.
“I caught Jungmin-sshi and Kyujong-ah fighting with Junsu-sshi, Junho-sshi and Jaebum-sshi. They are all currently doing burpees for about another half hour.” Looking dumbfounded, he stared at me, mouth agape. I walked by him and into the school, with my hands behind my head. It was lunch time.
-
“Lee HyeEun! Yah!” I froze at the familiar voice. I haven’t been addressed by that person for a while now. Turning around slowly, I crossed my arms and tried to put my cool façade back up, not wanting him to see how much he effected me.
“Y-yes Jungmin-sshi?” I cursed at myself when I heard how shaky my voice was. Why could he still get to me so easily?
His eyes softened a bit, and suddenly I was staring at the same guy who I had loved more than anyone. The guy who used to laugh and joke around with me and my friends. The guy who I used to sneak out to see at night. But then the moment was suddenly over, and his eyes were back to their hard, angry crimson.
“Don’t go meddling in things that you have no reason to be.” He stalked past me and shouldered me hard, causing me skid down the gravel path a bit and fall forward hard onto my hands and knees.
I crouched and stared at his slowly disappearing figure. What was his problem?! Aish.. rubbing my knees, I turned to walk back into the dorms - I needed to go to the infirmary to get bandages, or the cuts on my knees and hands might get infected. On the way in, I caught Kyujong walking out.
“O-oh! HyeEun-sshi,” he stammered, breaking eye contact. Don’t get me wrong, Kyujong and I had gotten along amazingly.. until Jungmin broke up with me because everything had gone downhill from that moment.
I nodded respectfully, he was of course, a year older than me. “Kyujong-ah, long time no talk.” Grinning, I held my hand out for our old group handshake.
Looking slightly startled, he also held out his hand and we sidefived, slid our hands back, snapped and fist bumped. Satisfied I smiled and waved at him. Walking past, I stopped as I felt a hand on my shoulder.
“HyeEun-ah.. what happened to your hands?”
I stalled, wracking my brain to find an excuse, not wanting to fully blame it on Jungmin. "I.. uh.. -"
“Mochi?” I turned to see the school nurse beckoning. Only people who were close to me knew that nickname of mine. I had been to the infirmary so many times during my stay at Alice Academy that me and the school nurse were on very good terms. Seohyun, the nurse, looked at me expectantly before glancing towards Kyujong.
I glanced at Kyujong and mouthed a quick 'sorry' to him before bowing and entering the room.
"What is it this time?" I showed her the cuts on my hands and my knees. Seohyun tutted at me before shaking her head and grabbing the first-aid kit. There were many Alice-made remedies within that kit, but I only needed bandages.
"Let me see." I gave her my hand, and suddenly a blinding pain shot through my arm.
"OMO! What the f*ck was that?" She smiled softly at me.
"It's just an Alice-made antiseptic, it cleans and heals the wound almost 10 times faster than a normal one would."
I glared at her. "Kindly tell me before you do something like that!"
...
"Please."
She put my other hand down, all nicely bandaged, and motioned for me to hop up onto the stool she had just vacated. I sat down, all the while pouting and shooting daggers at her with my eyes.
"All done, and you can stop glaring at me now. Don't take the bandages off for 2 days, then come see me again, alright?"
I jumped off the stool and stuck my tongue out at her, but nodded nonetheless. My knees felt tighter since they were bound with bandages. I did a quick examine over my knees and my hands. They actually did feel a lot better. Waving, I quickly left the room and headed back to my dorm. All the while, my mind was on Jungmin.
Why did he suddenly talk to me today? Why today of all days? I had been stopping his fights and stuff for years, it couldn't be that he suddenly realized it was me. Why did his eyes soften when I sounded so fragile? Why did it seem like he hated me so much? Why was I still in love with someone who so obviously hated me?
“Yah! Bridgit! Slow down!” I yelled at the slowly disappearing figure ahead of me. When she showed no signs of slowing, I put on a burst of speed and managed to step on her shadow, which seemed to be reaching out to me. She was forced to stop, and since it was sudden and without warning, she lost her balance and fell forward. I walked over to her.
She looked up and pouted at me. “No fair.. using your Alice..” I simply grinned and held out my hand to help her up. After helping her to her feet, she shot a devilish look towards me and went sliding down the path. Dumbfounded, I looked down and saw that she had frozen a patch on the ground and was sliding along it. Shaking my head, I quickly jumped onto the ice as well and had the shadows keep me steady.
Alice Academy in Korea was one of the most prestigious schools there. Many people wanted to enrol, but little did they know that you had to have an “Alice” to enter. An Alice was something like a superpower you could say. But yeah, that’s the one thing you needed to have to even have the slightest chance of getting into Alice Academy.
-
I had been in Alice Academy as long as I could remember. Since I was about 3, I had been showing signs of shadow manipulation, although I didn’t know it then, but it landed me in the Academy when I was 4. My parents were provided with lifelong amounts of money, but I was to remain at the school until I was 20! And I was only 16. I had never met my parents because one, I didn’t have the marks to, and two, I was a troublemaker. I ditched class often, since everything was extremely easy, and I loved to play tricks and pull pranks on unsuspecting seniors, which got me my Alice controlling earrings and a punishment tattoo in the shape of a star, right underneath my left eye. I had also been demoted from a special star (I had amazing control over my Alice, and could bend it to my will) to a triple star because of my punishment mark, and down to a double star because of my attitude and skipping, but with slight benefits of course (only because I helped the school out on missions and such, but we'll get to that later); I still had a Special Star allowance.
The gentle autumn breeze blew my dark chestnut locks from my face as I strolled down one of my favourite paths in the Northern Woods. As usual, I had skipped history again. Sure Yunho sunsaengnim was hot, but honestly his classes were so boooooring. I really didn’t care about the history of Alice Academy. Like, when would I ever use that knowledge in my life? I already had all the maps and secret entrances memorized.
Climbing up my favourite pear tree, I settled into my favourite little nook, made up of three branches, and was all set to take a short snooze when I heard some shouting from down the path. Peeking out from between a few sprigs of leaves, I saw where the ruckus was coming from.
Aah, why was I not surprised? It was Park Jungmin and Kim Kyujong, infamous partners that were always trying to rebel against the school board. Always getting in fights, always skipping class, always trying to break out of the school, etc.
I jumped lightly down from my branch, scratching my head slightly. So much for that nap, I sighed. Making my way over to where they were all fighting, I yawned and then grinned when I saw that they were fighting in a shadowy area behind the school.
This will be easy. I whispered a few well spoken words to the shadows, and the effect was instantaneous. The 5 troublemakers were frozen in place, not able to move a muscle. I yawned again, honestly, the school should pay me for all the fight stopping I’d been doing lately. Sadly, Jungmin and Kyujong had been part of every single one of those fights.
“You again,” a low voice snarled. I knew instantly who had said it, and who it was addressed to.
I turned and faced the culprit. “Me?” I voiced innocently, as I pointed to my face. “Oh I’m sorry, I wasn’t aware that I was supposed to let you burn down the Northern Woods, Jungmin-sshi.” I walked straight up and stopped right in front of him.
“Hmmm, what should I make you do this time? Push-ups? Or Indian crouches again?” I tapped on my lip as I pretended to think. “Oh that’s right, I was supposed to make you do burpees!” Grinning as his eyes widened in anger, I leaned forward and smiled right in his face. And knowing what would piss him off most, I kissed him lightly on the nose and bounced off, after writing ‘burpees 1 hour’ in the shadows where they wouldn’t be able to reach it.
“ARRRRRRRGH I HATE YOU!”
Jungmin and I.. how do I explain it? We’ve had a history of many fights. He has the Fire Alice, which explains his fiery temper, his crimson hair and scarlet eyes. I have the Shadow Manipulation Alice, black hair, indigo eyes, calm and mischievous. We were complete and utter opposites. I guess you could say our Alice shows our personalities and such. Many Alice's dye their hair and wear contacts, as most of them are quite unnatural colors. Well, when we were 13 - I was 13, he was 14 - we dated for a bit. He calmed down and you could consider him nice. We got along fine, with the occasional bickering from the complete opposites. It was a normal relationship, until one day he came into class late, his eyes hard and voice cold. He just ignored me and pushed me away, and in the middle of it broke up with me. I honestly don’t know who was more hurt, me or him. But I know, to this day we’ve never gotten along again. It’s too bad that my best friend, Bridgit, had an uber crush on Kyujong, or I would’ve gladly pushed Jungmin out of my heart and mind. But that was impossible. I had to keep him in check to make sure he wouldn’t lash out at my bestie.
Bridgit has the Ice Alice. Double Star ranking, which is a lot to be said, since when she entered at the age of 10 she couldn’t control her Alice at all. I remember she would continually freeze everything she looked at, or touched. (There’s a very colourful memory of me being treated for frostbite when Bridgit hugged me and froze half of my body.) The way she got over the freezing was Kyujong. Kyujong had the Nullification Alice, which fit with his calm and soothing personality. He volunteered to help her out, since my Alice didn't seem to be very helpful against ice. Along the way, we all became close friends. Kyujong, the quiet, kind, charismatic one out of all of us. I could see why anyone could fall for his charms.. but why would he stick with Jungmin? It made sense that Kyujong could nullify Jungmin’s flames if he ever had a rage blackout, but I didn’t understand why they were best friends.
Sighing, I walked back into campus and saw Yunho sunsaengnim on his way out. Before he could scold me about skipping his class, I told him.
“I caught Jungmin-sshi and Kyujong-ah fighting with Junsu-sshi, Junho-sshi and Jaebum-sshi. They are all currently doing burpees for about another half hour.” Looking dumbfounded, he stared at me, mouth agape. I walked by him and into the school, with my hands behind my head. It was lunch time.
-
“Lee HyeEun! Yah!” I froze at the familiar voice. I haven’t been addressed by that person for a while now. Turning around slowly, I crossed my arms and tried to put my cool façade back up, not wanting him to see how much he effected me.
“Y-yes Jungmin-sshi?” I cursed at myself when I heard how shaky my voice was. Why could he still get to me so easily?
His eyes softened a bit, and suddenly I was staring at the same guy who I had loved more than anyone. The guy who used to laugh and joke around with me and my friends. The guy who I used to sneak out to see at night. But then the moment was suddenly over, and his eyes were back to their hard, angry crimson.
“Don’t go meddling in things that you have no reason to be.” He stalked past me and shouldered me hard, causing me skid down the gravel path a bit and fall forward hard onto my hands and knees.
I crouched and stared at his slowly disappearing figure. What was his problem?! Aish.. rubbing my knees, I turned to walk back into the dorms - I needed to go to the infirmary to get bandages, or the cuts on my knees and hands might get infected. On the way in, I caught Kyujong walking out.
“O-oh! HyeEun-sshi,” he stammered, breaking eye contact. Don’t get me wrong, Kyujong and I had gotten along amazingly.. until Jungmin broke up with me because everything had gone downhill from that moment.
I nodded respectfully, he was of course, a year older than me. “Kyujong-ah, long time no talk.” Grinning, I held my hand out for our old group handshake.
Looking slightly startled, he also held out his hand and we sidefived, slid our hands back, snapped and fist bumped. Satisfied I smiled and waved at him. Walking past, I stopped as I felt a hand on my shoulder.
“HyeEun-ah.. what happened to your hands?”
I stalled, wracking my brain to find an excuse, not wanting to fully blame it on Jungmin. "I.. uh.. -"
“Mochi?” I turned to see the school nurse beckoning. Only people who were close to me knew that nickname of mine. I had been to the infirmary so many times during my stay at Alice Academy that me and the school nurse were on very good terms. Seohyun, the nurse, looked at me expectantly before glancing towards Kyujong.
I glanced at Kyujong and mouthed a quick 'sorry' to him before bowing and entering the room.
"What is it this time?" I showed her the cuts on my hands and my knees. Seohyun tutted at me before shaking her head and grabbing the first-aid kit. There were many Alice-made remedies within that kit, but I only needed bandages.
"Let me see." I gave her my hand, and suddenly a blinding pain shot through my arm.
"OMO! What the f*ck was that?" She smiled softly at me.
"It's just an Alice-made antiseptic, it cleans and heals the wound almost 10 times faster than a normal one would."
I glared at her. "Kindly tell me before you do something like that!"
...
"Please."
She put my other hand down, all nicely bandaged, and motioned for me to hop up onto the stool she had just vacated. I sat down, all the while pouting and shooting daggers at her with my eyes.
"All done, and you can stop glaring at me now. Don't take the bandages off for 2 days, then come see me again, alright?"
I jumped off the stool and stuck my tongue out at her, but nodded nonetheless. My knees felt tighter since they were bound with bandages. I did a quick examine over my knees and my hands. They actually did feel a lot better. Waving, I quickly left the room and headed back to my dorm. All the while, my mind was on Jungmin.
Why did he suddenly talk to me today? Why today of all days? I had been stopping his fights and stuff for years, it couldn't be that he suddenly realized it was me. Why did his eyes soften when I sounded so fragile? Why did it seem like he hated me so much? Why was I still in love with someone who so obviously hated me?