Rose tore her gaze away from the passing scenery. The bus was starting to fill up with poeple and their familiars, although it was still pretty empty, considering the size of the bus. She studied them and decided she was the youngest on the bus. Kingfisher had lifted her head and was watching the other familiars. She eyed the other foxes with curiousity, and growled quietly at a few of the other familiars. Rose looked at the familiars. She had seen many different creatures at her parents' rundown vet-clinic-type building, but had never seen most of the creatures that were on the bus. Wow, I thought there would be more students than just this. I wonder what elements they are. Rose thought. She tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ear and stuffed her hands in her hoodie pockets. She avoided eye conact with everyone and looked back out the window. I bet I can go through the entire school year without any friends. Rose thought as she watched a squirrel leap across a branch outside. Kingfisher had begun twitching the tip of her tail. She rested her head on her paws, still gazing at the other familiars.

Glitch: M: everyone loosely.open (so I'm on my phone so sorry for any mistypes,)

glitch kept to herself as the bus slowly filled with people, each one having a unique and cool looking familiar "hopefully they don't notice me." She thought to herself, glitch wasn't the most social person in the world and hatted small talk.
she turned back to her window, seeing the landscape fly by.
once she was board with that SR dug through her bag pulling out a small sewing needle and pricked her first finger on her right hand drawing a small droplet of blood. She than Proceeded to manipulate the droplet making it hover in the air, she slowly twisted its shape makeing a flower, then a star. She continued this for a few hours, Manipulating the blood into different shapes, eventually landing on an African wild dog, granted it was small but insanely Accurate.

Alora/Female/M: Glitch

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Alora smiled as Jamie sat in the front of the buss. Weirdo. She said to herself. She sat in the seat across from a tan girl and saw her starting to play with some blood. Ares also noticed it and but mainly stared at the African wild dog that was with the girl. Alora smiled. "Could I try?" she said optimistically. She then lightly stabbed herself with a pencil she had found on the ground. A few drops of blood fell but she scooped them in her hand. She smiled as she formed a figure of Ares that ran toward the blood dog that the girl had. She chuckled at the look on the wolfs face but still kept enough focus on the blobby version of him to hold it's wobbly form. She knew that she wasn't as good as she'd like to be but she felt that it was good enough.

Glitch: M:alora

Without thinking she looked at the girl who asked her a question which made her blood figure lose its shape and when back to a perfect sphere, "um ya, I just got board. Sorry" ves stood up at the and walked over to the wolf, he two hated socializing but knew he had to at some point, so he lied down next to the wolf.

Jamie/Female/M: Alora, Glitch

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Jamie looked back at Alora she seemed to be talking to a girl who appeared to have the same element as her. Jamie grimaced. So Alora's going to start out with a friend. Great. She didn't want to be like her sister but she knew that good friends were something valuable and rare. She then looked back and saw that the girl was startled by Alora. At least I'm not the only one that's scared of her. Of course she'd never tell that to Alora's face but it was a lingering thought.

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Alora/Female/ M: Glitch

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"Sorry if I scared you," She said guiltily. She then let the blood fall to the ground and wiped the remaining blood off of her finger with her shirt. "I didn't mean to," she murmured genuinely. She then offered her hand out. "I'm Alora. It might be weird to randomly talk to someone on a bus so if you don't reply then I perfectly understand." She then paused and replied to the girl," Nothing's wrong. I can't blame you if you get bored it's just part of nature.

Glitch: M: alora, Jamie.

Glitch began violently shook her head "um no sorry. You didn't scare me I just wasn't expecting someone to actually talk to me." She looked at alora's creation and replicated it, saying "the names glitch. Hi" she said this with a little hesitation and uncertainty.
mage knew someone was looking at her but desided not to Acknowledge her because if she reacted ves would get Protective and she didn't want to have that be her first day.

holly: M: everyone on the bus Briefly.

She watched as the bus came to a stop in front of her house, she frantically grabbed her bag, surfboard, and skateboard and ran out the door, and ran onto the bus. Guppy fallowing close behind her.

she picked a seat in the front. sitting down she set everything below her arranged in a order that made sure nothing fell over. For the first time she looked around the bus at everyone.

Mallory: M:

Mallory stood their quietly while the bus came to a complete stop. Once if finally did she tried to grab her bag but prince got to them first. He nosed his owner softly and Guided Mallory to a seat which she thought was rather close to a blond boy with a coyote.
the huge snow leopard climbed up onto the seat and lied down half over Mallory half takeingbup the rest of the seat, and began to fall asleep.

Dallas had gotten pretty comfy on the bus by the time a majority of the people began boarding the bus. The relief he had about making it on the bus on time was overwhelming so this relaxing bus time was really what he needed. Dallas had watched Benji finish his last sausage when they had boarded the bus but now he seemed to look way more energetic. "Don't go getting me in trouble now. You stay in this seat. With me till we get to school." Dallas said pointing his finger at Benjamin who playfully tried to bite his finger. Gosh sometimes rescuing Benji was a blessing and a curse.

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Dallas looked out the window as he watched them pull up to another person's house. He was rather curious to see everyone's magic considering he hadn't seen any other than his own. Another thing that facinated him was everyones unique familiars. "Hey maybe we'll run into some fox familiars for you to play with." mumbled to Benji to make conversation.. With an animal that couldn't talk. Dallas turned to look at Benji's facial expressions but all he saw was his fluffy tail slipping underneath the seat infront of them. "Benji!" Dallas groaned as he rolled his eyes, he peaked his head down the alleyway of the bus. Searching for where his familar was going.

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Benji must have gotten bored because he didn't listen to a word Dallas had said about staying put. Benji crawled under the first seat peering up at some random dude but he kept going. Probably too close where Dallas could easily catch him. Benji weaved across the ally to the otherside of the bus where he continued to crawl under the seats. Benji snacked on a few bus scraps scattered around the ground before popping his head up from the seats to look at a girl with a bird.

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Benji hopped up onto the girls seat and crawled over her lap peering down the isle before backing up and sitting down next to the girl looking at her with curiosity. Meanwhile Dallas was still trying to figure out if he could get his familiar under control without having to like. Leave his seat. Dammit Benji. Benjamin was always getting into trouble when he wasn't busy getting Dallas out of trouble. The bus ride. Prime example.

Hope woke up at 6am with a slight groan. She quickly got out of bed and began to get ready. She got changed into a black t-shirt, black leather jacket, black jeans, and black hightops, slipping her leather bracelet onto her left wrist. She reached out and gently stroked the midnight scales of Noctis, who slept at the foot of her bed, and he woke with a start, a small stream of smoke coming from his nostrils. The small dragon then stretched and yawned and flew up to her shoulders, where he perched, his claws digging into her shoulder slightly. Hope then combed out her hair and put in a braid over her shoulder. She had gotten her things together the night before, her mom checking and rechecking that she'd have everything she'd need. Before she knew it, Hope was outside, waiting for the bus. She waited while it came to a complete stop, and then got on, seeing the bus full of people. She chose a seat near the back of the bus, trying not to make eye contact. She placed her bag down in front of her, and Noctis woke up, then flew up and perched on the top of the seat, eyeing all the people around them. "Noctis!" she hissed, trying to get him back down again, but the black pygmy dragon just ignored her. She noticed many interesting familiars, including a winged blue and white fox, and some people playing with blood. She made a small ball of wind in her palm, playing with it a bit before Noctis reached down and playfully swatted the orb out of her hand. "Noctiiiis!" she groaned, to which the dragon gave a small purring nois of amusement. She was glad that whichever person got hit with it would only feel a burst of wind.

Luke groaned, waking up to Pride screeching in his ear. "Pride! Just a few more minutes!" he said groggily, to which he got a pull on his hair from the eagle's powerful beak. "Not the hair!" he said, quickly getting up and running a hand through it. He glared slightly at the eagle, then remembered. "Hawkwing! I'm gonna be late!" he said, and quickly changed into a black t-shirt and sweatshirt, jeans, and white hightops. He got his bag and raced out the door to the bus stop a few meters down from his house. Just a few seconds later, the bus pulled around the corner and stopped. He got on the bus and found a seat in the back, and Pride swooped over and perched on his shoulder. He began to play with a ball of fire, tossing it from hand to hand while watching everyone else have their conversations and play with their elements. He had to say, he got a bit freaked out when people played with blood.

Holly: M: bengi.(guppy was put in his cage, on the floor by hollys feet)

"Oh, hello you startled me" she whispered to the small fox. She than booped the small animal on the nose "my name is holly. What is your little one?" She knew the fox wouldn't answer but that never stoped her from asking questions.

Jude Chance/17/Wind/deer fox/M: Open

Jude jumped into a mud puddle, splattering their nearby surroundings with mud. A nearby frog ran away from their boots, probably screaming in its little froggie language. Huffing, they swung a drawstring bag onto their shoulder and exited the patch of woods Jude called “The Enchanted Forest”. Who said fantasies couldn’t be real? Besides, it sure did hide a tree house well.

Upon entering the campground area they had to run by multiple campers, trailers, and half-abandoned boats. It wasn’t called a trailer graveyard for nothing. Eventually they neared the shortcut route and swerved into the forest again, stopping to blow the spiderwebs out of their face. “Gotta get home...Gotta get home…” This phrase was repeated over and over again under their breath during the hike through the woods. Jude wasn’t able to sleep so grabbed a drawstring bag and a flashlight to head through a midnight hike. They had lost track of time and were now going to miss the bus.

The end of the shortcut route came to an end and they were now in their backyard. Since they’ve been out here all of their life they ended up with all of the trails memorized and knew the overgrown parts like the back of their hand. Usually they’d end up finding lost campers and would have to guide them back. Most of the year they had the whole place to themselves, though. Sometimes they’d have to close the whole place down because the lake ended up with too many runoff products from old fields and so everyone would end up leaving. During the winter and school seasons it was pretty calm as well. The summer was the only time when they had to watch out for human beings. Luckily, Jude’s room was the closest to the back door so they could sneak out and explore whenever they wanted.

Now that they were back indoors it was time to unload their drawstring bag and finish packing for school. Most of it had been completed the night before, but the laundry still needed to be folded. The contents of their bag ended up on their bed. Some oddly sewn mushroom man, odd looking rocks, some wooden mask, and other odd trinkets were found. To be honest, Jude might’ve made both the mask and the mushroom man a year or two ago as an art project and hid them in the woods, only to forget about them a day later. Well, now they could honestly say the objects were mysteriously found in the woods.

All of the previous objects were thrown into Jude’s school bags. They began the grueling task of laundry folding. Gosh, that always took forever.

“Zuri, Get out here already!”

“Yeah, I’m coming.”

“I said get out here! If you aren’t here in five minutes I’m giving this rat thing to the neighbors!”

Jude was honestly glad their brain filtered out everything their family said for the sake of their sanity. In order to save Spruce, they shoved the laundry straight from the basket into their bags. It would probably all end up wrinkled by the time they got to school, but it’s better than losing a life-long friend, and probably one of the only ones that understood them at that. First they needed to establish that a deer fox was obviously not a rat.

Both of their duffle bags ended up on the floor of the living room as Jude struggled to run with a backpack on their back. The bag ended up falling on the floor as they fell into a sprint, sliding towards Sprice’s pet bed. “Spruce, we’re leaving.” The animal was a little slow to get up so they pulled him away from his bed. It probably would’ve been better to leave than argue about species differences anyways.

Spruce struggled to climb onto Jude’s shoulder. He sat there, teeth bared at their mother. To him, that woman could just go live with anteaters.

Collecting their bags, Jude began to head out the door. It shut with a loud slam, to signal their displeasure. The bus was all the way down the lane from here so they began to walk down in that direction. Since the rest of their road was a dead end full of old people, they would be pretty much the only person crazy enough to be walking through here at this time of the day.

When they reached the bus, they struggled to make it up the stairs since their knees decided not to like them. Jude chose a seat near the back with a window. They set their bags at their feet and slumped against the window, watching as their cursed lane disappeared from their vision. The farther away and the less connections they had to that place, the better.

Spruce decided to run around and bother people. He was either head-butting them with their horns or trying to get other animals to play with him. Well, more likely bothering them till they ended up with disney princess songs stuck in their heads. Isn’t that lovely?

Seeing how there was no stopping him, Jude sighed and returned to watching the passing scenery outside the windows. They felt bad for some of the other familiars already.