Long ago, in a time where kings still ruled the land, there was a knight. Legend has it that this knight served under no Lord but himself. He fought for the safety of everyone for he saw them as his people. The legend goes on to say that he even invaded hell itself and slayed demon after demon. It wasn't until he got to the demon king himself, did he fall weak. The demon King approached the knight and lifted his sword. He then laid upon waste and ruin on....

"POMPADOUR!"

Theodore "Ted" Yelawolf shot up from his bed as Peterson "Pip" Romero crashed feet first through his bedroom window. Pip rocketed past his face and slammed feet first into his sliding closet door, bashing it open and crushing everything inside. Pip stood atop the pile of rubble triumphantly, as if he didn't just cause a couple hundred dollars in property damage.

Ted was used to his best friend waking him up early every morning, but he could never understand his absolute refusal to walk in the front door like a regular human being. In the past he had been woken up via trapdoors, collapsing ceilings, and even a giant hole in his wall, and that was just this week. Stranger still was that, somehow, any damage Pip caused was miraculously fixed before his dad came home.

Sighing Ted stretched out before slowly sliding out of bed. "Seriously man," he said with a tired yawn "All of my shit was in that closet." Pip seemed unphased and kept grinning his usual stupid grin "I think you'll be able to survive without your comic books and pornographic magazines for a few days, now dress yourself lest we be late for the first day of school." To others it might seem that Pip was a little odd in his speech and most definitely in his mannerisms, but Ted knew that overall Pip was a stand-up guy. Although...

"I might have a little trouble with that seeing as all my clothes were in my closet too."

Pip grinned wider before holding up a neatly folded pile of clothes, complete with boxers and socks. It was his favorite outfit too.

"Sometimes you scare me Pip. How do you pull shit like that?" Ted said as he changed out of his pajamas.

"Weeks of meticulous preplanning and observation" Pip replied as if it were the most obvious answer in the world.

Ted knew better than to try to get a better response from his blonde friend and made his way into the hallway and downstairs into the kitchen. To his surprise, His dad was gone and neither Josephine nor Oscar was in the kitchen. He figured that they finally grew used to Pip and were able to sleep through his wake-up calls. He noticed a note on the fridge and pulled it off; Pip had helped himself to the bread and placed two slices in the toaster. The note was from his adoptive father and was one of his usual notes.

"Dear Kids,

I had to leave early for work today; lord knows why they need me at such an ungodly hour. Make sure you get to school on time; I'm not spending that obscene amount of money for private school only for you to get kicked out for being tardy on the first day.

Also, I'll be home a little late as I'm working overtime. Don't know why, it's not like it's enough to get me promoted out of this miserable position. Dinner's in the fridge or you can order out, it's not like I care if you eat my cooking or anything.

Sincerely,

Dad

P.S. Ted please make sure Pip doesn't break anything."

Ted sighed, he loved his adoptive father, Ketter Yelawolf, and would always be grateful that he took him in, but did he always have to be so...crestfallen. Today was the day Ted started attending West Wood Academy aka WWA. He was a freshman finally and was not ready at all for what was to come.

The toaster popped and Pip took the two pieces, nibbling on one as he handed the other one to Ted. Ted bit into the crunchy toast and began to wolf it down, still wondering why his siblings weren't up yet. Then he looked at the clock...

It was 7:25.

They had to be at school for 7:30

Josephine and Oscar weren't still asleep, they had already gone.

Tes's mind took a second to process this before the realization hit him.

"SHIT MAN," he cried out leaping to his feet, grabbing Pip who was still eating, and bolting for the door.

"WE'RE GONNA BE LATE!"

Ted and Pip burst out the front door and bolted down the street. Luckily, Firelink road wasn't too far from school. As they ran, they were soon joined by another student dashing just as quickly as them.

"Hey Jim."

"Good morning James."

"Mornin' gents." James "Jim" Carim replied. He was a junior at West Wood Academy and had been friends with Ted and Pip for a couple of years. The boys liked him and almost everyone considered him "cool", but he had a reputation for being a delinquent. Rumor had it that he had a secret girlfriend that gave him a special ring. Why is this important? Because neither Ted not Pip knew if this was true. No one did.

"Did you wake up late too, Jim?" Ted asked casually, despite the speed they were moving.

"Nah," came the equally casual reply, "I just like to push my luck and piss off Ol' Principle Chesty."

"Jim," Pip admonished, "try to show some respect." Jim just laughed and sped up. The three boys reached the school gates and darted through just before they slammed shut. Ms. Vel, the Dean of Discipline glared at them.

"You're pushing your luck, Mr. Carim!" she shouted behind them. Jim threw his hands up incredulously.

"Why do they always go after me!?"

The three screeched to a halt in the lobby and began to catch their breaths. After that, Jim slapped their backs and they marched into the gymnasium. There was going to be an opening ceremony conducted by the administration, then students would proceed to homeroom for class orientation. After that, they would receive their schedules and head to their classes to meet their teachers. They would then break for lunch, and after would proceed to another ceremony where the freshmen would receive their uniforms and the senior student council would give a closing speech. Ted scanned the throng of students until he found who he was looking for. He then walked up and smacked his adoptive brother upside the head. Oscar yelped and clutched his skull, Josephine just looked bored.

"That's for not waking me up, doofus." Ted explained pointedly to the ginger. He then glared at his sister, "You too." Oscar gave him an annoyed glare. "Why didn't you slap her too?" He complained. Ted just shot him an unamused look, and responded with a simple "I don't hit girls." Oscar mumbled something under his breath and Ted sighed. Josephine simply continued staring, until Jim sauntered over, then the brunette shot him a dirty look and made a point of turning away from him. She had always hated him for some reason. No one seemed to know why. Jim just scratched the back of his head and sighed.

"Morning to you too, sweetheart." He then bumped fists with Oscar, a fellow junior, and turned towards the stage. "Should start any second now." He remarked "The annual mind-numbing 'don't-be-a-shithead-or-else speech." Pip broke off from the group of other sophomores he was conversing with and rejoined them. Then, just as Jim predicted, Principal Gwyn Angels took the stage.

"Good morning, students. To sophomores, juniors, and seniors, welcome back, and to the freshmen I say welcome to your new home. Allow me to introduce myself, I am Ms. Angels, the headmaster here at WWA, but you may refer to me as the principal. Now then, I'll be blunt, as students of such an honored and prestigious school, we fully expect you to...blahblablahdontbeashitheadorelseblahblahblah."

Ted tried as hard as he could to pay attention to the speech, but he just...couldn't. It wasn't his fault really, they were just so...round. You'd have to two-hand them just to...

"AHEM!" He was snapped out of his thoughts by someone loudly clearing their throat. He glanced over his shoulder and noticed the owner of that throat glaring at him. However, instead of getting intimidated, he could only recall certain lyrics from a certain song.

'Dude looks like a lady.'

William Angels was not an intimidating figure, and while Ted was sure that he didn't appreciate the fact that his sister was being ogled at by every single guy in the room (sans Pip and Jim) he wouldn't pose a threat, so Ted just turned back to the (thankfully ending) speech.

"Now you will be directed to homeroom, where you will be given your individual schedules. You will then proceed to go to all your classes for 15 minute periods in order to meet your teachers, with a 30 minute break for lunch. Please listen closely, as homerooms will be called by the last names."

Ted waited patiently until his homeroom was called, he was always last, before he then filed out the door and strode down the hallway with the rest of them. He didn't bother to talk to any of them. They were all nameless, faceless people for all he cared. It wasn't until he felt someone pulling at his sleeve did he start paying attention. He looked to his side and found Steph Izalith standing next to him, smiling shyly.

"Good morning, BBF." she greeted softly. Ted grinned awkwardly. Steph was an awkward girl. When she was young, she was diagnosed with a severe disease that left her near death. As a result, she was forced to stay hospitalized for most her life. However, she was also a super genius and was allowed to skip a grade to attend WWA. Steph was also a super huge nerd and loved anime, something Ted begrudgingly liked as well. As for the BBF thing, it was something she started calling him back in middle school when he had to visit her for some school project. She didn't really interact with anyone besides her sister and parents so he became her first male friend. BBF stands for 'Best Boy Friend'. Notice the space. Look at it and notice it. Notice it damnit!

"Now, now dear sister, try not to bother 'BBF' too much. Less people find out what that term means." A piercing cackle shook Ted from his thoughts, his mood darkened considerably.

"Hello, chaos witch." He greeted in a monotone voice.

Lilith Izalith shot him a cocky smirk and flipped her hair.

"Oh come on Yelawolf, you know you love me." She giggled as he rolled his eyes and turned away from her, hiding his grin. Ted was one of the few boys that didn't see Lilith as a quick fix and was pretty good friends with her. She had a reputation for being, popular with the boys and psychotic but Ted knew she cared deeply for her little sister. Besides, he knew better than to fall for her traps as most boys that messed with them ended up burned, literally. The Izaliths were known playing with fire, which made sense since they owned a fireworks store, but it wasn't always...let's say, "Seen admirable by the law".

The group made idle chit-chat (mainly Ted listening to anime recaps and innuendos) until the sisters reached their homeroom. Ted then entered his own homeroom and slipped back into his own little world until the proctor arrived.

"Good morning, everybody. I am Mr. Stone, the head life education teacher here at WWA. I am also your homeroom proctor. Now I'm just going to take attendance and then we'll-REDMOND AND WHITETTE YOU STOP THAT THIS INSTANT!" Mr. Stone stomped over to two students, who happened to be his twin son and daughter, who were bickering and pulled them apart. "I swear, if that condom never broke, my life would be far easier. Now then class, let's introduce ourselves. Please state your name, an interesting fact about yourselves, and a quick greeting. For example, my name is Orange James Stone, or O.J, and I'm the raddest teacher in this school. How's it hanging?" He smiled at the students who stared blankly back. Ted wasn't quite sure what to make of him. He wore a Hawaiian shirt and some wrinkled khaki shorts. Combined with his shoulder length perm, chin strap, obvious cigarettes in his shirt pocket, and sunglasses resting atop his head, he painted the perfect picture of somebody trying too hard to be the cool teacher. There was an uncomfortable silence that lasted far too long before somebody stood up and mumbled out "My name is Priscilla and I like books." before quickly sitting down. This apparently broke the ice and Redmond Stone shot out of his seat and chucked up some weird hand sign. "Yo, whaddap bitches? My name's Redmond and I like boobs and women of all kinds! Y'all bitches best not even try to mess with me, ya heard!" He was then promptly hit in the forehead by a marker thrown by his father who screamed "DON'T BOTHER SPEAKING IF YOU HAVE NOTHING INTELLIGENT TO SAY, YOU MORON!" Redmond dropped back into his seat, clutching his forehead, and his sister rose, pushed up her glasses, and cleared her throat, "Hello, my name is Whitette and I enjoy doing chores, homework, and...other things. Please excuse my idiot brother. He's a moron who will never be able to experience joys like I have." She then shot a sultry glance over at most of the boys in the room, however, this was not noticed by her father, who began incessantly fawning over her. "Oh, my dear Whitette, you're such an angel! You bring so much joy into the dark void of Daddy's life. Unlike your waste-of-space brother. Oh please, Whitey, never grow up and leave your poor, poor daddy!" Ted was more than a tad creeped out by this display and decided to tune out for the rest of the period. Various other students went, but he paid them no mind. He was perfectly content to sit at his desk and stare out the window. That was until the psycho homeroom proctor decided to single him out.

"How about you, young man? Who are you?"

Ted didn't even bother looking at him and simply said "I'm Ted."

"That's...not really following the rules."

"Do expect me to get all chipper, jump out of my seat, and say 'hi my name is Theodore Yelawolf and my dream is to make friends with everyone in the world. Space is awesome'?"

...

"Sort of..."

"Yeah, not gonna happen." Ted leaned back in his seat, placed his feet on his desk, and rested his head on his fist. Mr. Stone shrugged and moved on. Eventually all but a few people had gone when Eve Baldwin stood up. Ted didn't know much about her, only that she was crazy rich, crazy popular, and crazy hot. She brushed a lock of red hair from her eyes and spoke "My name's Eve Baldwin and I love Jesus and making friends." She then pointed right at Ted "And I'm going to befriend the hell outta you." She stated with much confidence and a small smirk. Ted glared at her from the corners of his eyes. They stared each other down for a few moments before Ted glanced away with a grunt of "Tch, whatever." Eve seemed satisfied and sat back down. Ted decided that he didn't mind her so much, but he felt people glaring at him. He figured it was probably her fan club consisting of Steven and Daniel, her two best friends, and George, a fat boy who obviously hated her, but took advantage of her kindness. He paid them no mind.

Soon, Mr. Stone released them and Ted prepared to go to his classes. Before lunch he had to go to his Algebra, Chemistry, Computer Applications, and Literature classes.