Title: A Stroke of Luck Status: Complete Characters: Rating: SFW Classification: One-Shot Author: Mister_Dark_Dust Summary: Fate is capricious, complex and often pulls our middle finger out, but perhaps not always. A small change, as minuscule as the flutter of a butterfly could cause a hurricane on the other side of the world. How much could a boy's fate be changed by something as simple as not seeing a girl for a few seconds on a school day? Who knows, only the tarot could give us a clue. [NOTES] this is the translated version of this history, the original version is "Un golpe de suerte" on wattpat [/NOTES] Shitposter log Year 2020 Volcadera Highs Weather: Cold as Lysandra's asshole A new day began and with it, my active quest to spend as missing as possible at a new school, it's just another day, I wish I could say that. It took me just one day to want to change schools and three weeks to make it permanent, between my father deigning to send me to another school... Why the fuck did it have to be on the other fucking side of the country? Oh... I remembered "Your cousin's been living there for a few months, my sister will be able to keep her eye on you, but remember Anon, after this, it's either service or college, it's time for you to stand on your own." My father's words drill into me as I walked to my new school... does Inco know I'll be seeing him to begin with? I lost contact with him a few years ago and I haven't really given myself the task of looking up his profiles, he always changes them every time he moves and I'd rather up my game with Jinx than find which of his 700 accounts is the current one. He gave me an ultimatum, he would only pay rent and utilities for a year, he left me 1,000 dollars to survive this month and that's it, the rest is going to have to be on my own, I really hate the idea of working and studying at the same time, but it's not like I have much of a choice, that or I get cancer and grow a beard. As I approached the view of the place was filled with students of all shapes and sizes, it was a stupid amount of students, even in such a massive building I doubt there would be enough chairs or classrooms. I'm sure if everyone was a miniature I could play a small game of Wharhammer 40k as a variant of the Tyranids. As I approached the entrance what I expected happened, hundreds of stares were pointed at me like a bloody deadly laser beam, although, there weren't as many as I assumed, it was still too much attention for my liking. I just walked up the stairs deep in thought, though eventually I had to look up to avoid bumping into someone. I think I caught a glimpse of a goth girl in the crowd, I could only spot her because she was the only Dino-monochromatic in the place, but I didn't even catch a glance with her. "AAAAH!" "HAY CABRÓN!, STELLA!" I managed to hear a couple of screams before I felt something send me to the ground and knocked my lights out for a few moments. Fortunately it was only from the daze of the blow, something had landed on my chest and now I was short of breath, it was like.... Having another person on top of me "It hurts... uh... sorry..." SPAGHETTI ALERT! SPAGHETTI ALERT! DEFCON LEVEL 5! INTENSE PHYSICAL CONTACT WITH A FEMALE ENTITY! WE HAD AN ANIME ACCIDENT! THIS IS NOT A DRILL! WE HAVE A GIRL ON TOP OF US! Alarm bells immediately went off in my head, the first thing I saw was a lime-green stegosaurus girl right on my chest, quickly a tidal wave of thoughts came to me so massive I could barely babble, I guess something complaining about the pain "Holy raptor Jesus, help! "Damn, she's really beautiful" "DontwakeupDontwakeupDontwakeupDontwakeupDontwakeupDontwakeup" "Is this the beginning of my teenage romantic comedy?" "Thank god she doesn't have spines...I don't want to imagine what would have happened if I got hit with them" "She smells really good" "Uh, I think I applied an Infinite Void from the hit" When I could wake up a bit I saw her slapping me in the face... That was a reference? "Air..." It was the only thing I managed to mutter, and fortunately she heard it and moved aside. Right away another girl arrived, the stereotypical "sexy dino-latina" but noticeably furious looking all around balling her fists "Wey, are you ok?! Who in the name of the holy virgin was this much of an idiot! I swear on my mother que le voy a romper la suya!" She immediately came to pick up the green-lime girl, she simply picked her up with one hand and me with the other, she didn't waste much time on me either because she started examining her friend like a concerned mother. Although she also helped me dust myself off, honestly, I barely understood a few words in Spanish, and in general most of them are insults, honestly, if I tried to speak Spanish, I would probably sound like a drawer racist saying poorly pronounced random words. "Are you okay? Sorry about that" Again, the lime-green girl snapped me out of my thoughts. "Uh, yeah, I'm fine, I mean, it was an accident anyway" I was still sore certainly, but it was like falling out of bed. "I'm Stella Park, nice to meet you new guy." Oh shit.... First boss ever.... Personal introductions.... I had to take some courage to speak properly, partly that and I was still short of breath "I'm Anon Mous, nice to meet you too" I shook her hand politely, alarms went off immediately but I had to calm them down. Soon after, the other girl came rummaging through a purple bag with rose prints and a picture of a human with a strange unibrow, I must have seen it in some class sometime but I don't remember exactly where, it will be some famous figure from Rexico I guess. "Finally I found it!" she pulled out a list of unusual things from her bag, a cream, wet wipes and band-aids, just now I realized that I had scraped it from my elbows to my hands by stopping the fall unconsciously, it didn't hurt yet, but it did burn quite a bit. "With this it should stop hurting boy, Oh right, where are my manners?" she handed me the cream and helped me clean myself after attending to Stella "I'm Rosa Guadalupe Martinez Sanchez" She shook my hand with a grip that, in another situation, would have caused me to scream loud enough to be heard in Las Vegas. I knew that dinos are overwhelmingly stronger than humans, but, seriously, this girl is stupidly strong to look "normal." I had to swallow the pain "Un... gusto Rosa" fortunately, she seemed to notice and let go of me rubbing my hand hoping it would stop hurting. After that and finishing treating my wounds I looked at my phone, fortunately it wasn't broken or crashed, Jesus Raptor knows my parents would kill me if I broke another one. I saw the time 6:30am "I was that early?" I honestly had no idea why I had arrived so early to begin with, I mean, Skin Row is about 20 min from school and normally I always arrive a healthy 3 minutes early so I don't have to live with anyone. Fate thing I guess. "Uh... Anon?" a tap on my shoulder snapped me out of my thoughts "Are you okay?" Stella and Rosa stared at me somewhat concerned, stupid family habit of rambling. "Yeah, I'm just too early apparently, I really don't know what to do with half an hour to spare." Any thoughts I might have formulated like, I don't know, check out the new LoL patch, they were gone with a simple blink. "What do you say we give you a tour of the school?!" Stella took me by the shoulders and started to shake me, I tried to look for help from Rosa, who seemed the rational one between the two of them, but she seemed excited about it anyway. Did I wake up today with the holy corpse of Jesus Raptor on my side? My original plan was, in short, to introduce myself as an NPC on the first day and then become such a background character that the background characters would ignore my existence. But, let's be honest, I'm a sinus-retired shitposter, otaku and LoL player, plus I haven't yet reached that level of social recluse, I mean absolutely refuse any dialogue with another living being and just now apparently two girls are offering me kindness... I'd have to have half a brain cell to refuse the offer. Maybe I could have two female friends for a change? I mean, might as well keep me from wanting to fuck Willson out of social isolation. "Yeah, why not?" was what came out of my mouth, and after a sonic blast from Stella, I was led through the building, they began by showing me a trophy case, two dinos especially prominent among them, a brunette pterosaur with an injured wing that dominated the sports trophy area and an orange parasaur with glasses that, likewise hogged almost the entirety of the trophies, albeit academic in her case. Something tells me I wouldn't get along particularly well with either of them. The tour went on for a while longer, they both took me through basically the whole campus, the three buildings were bursting with students, there were art rooms, labs (heavily guarded) several nurseries, residence buildings, two sports areas... So that's why my dad gives me so little money, more than a high school this place looks like a fucking generic movie college. All that's missing is some bully putting a nerd in a locker or some shit like that. "How do you like the place Anon?" Stella snapped me out of my thoughts for maybe the tenth time that day, though I was mostly talking to her and Rosa during the walk. "It's great, although it looks like it's going to blew up with students" And it was true, most hallways were so crowded that the three of us could barely walk the three of us without standing in line. "Ah, that" Rosa seemed to realize that she probably forgot to explain something important "A few weeks ago in an near arts high school... I forget what it's called, well, some asshole played the teacher with cancer and blew up half the place, since it was the weekend nobody got hurt, but apparently Principal Spears made some kind of deal with the principal of that school and now the students are going to take classes here for the rest of the year" She seemed a little upset, would she have something against those from that school or something like that? "I'm sorry your last few months in Volcano are so... well, tight" Stella seemed to be trying to comfort me. "Don't worry, I'll survive" I tried to sound enthusiastic, if I didn't die crushed in a crowd of dimos, I'd probably be killed by my diet of instant soups. Rosa and Stella started talking to each other so I took the opportunity to check my phone without sounding so rude... I may be a LoL player but I still have some degree of manners if you can call it that. 6:55 am Shit. "Damn, Professor Mystral's class is about to start!" "¡Puta madre! ¡Vámonos en chinga!" I have absolutely no idea what the hell Rosa said but from her tone and what Stella said, they were apparently running late. "Can we ch?-". "WE'RE LOOKING FOR YOU AT LUNCH, HERBIVORE ZONE!". Stella had pulled out her phone just as Rosa grabbed her by the wrist and took off running like she was in a marathon, luckily I caught up with the phone before it fell to the ground. I guess I will wait for them to call, for now I have to look for my room too. I had to run a little, room 12 building A, luckily I arrived half a minute early, the teacher saw me between eyebrows with a sigh, I can't really identify what kind of dino he is but he looked like a walking Japanese stereotype. "U' al-most reito sturent, donto letu it happa again" "Hai!" That he raised an eyebrow gave me to understand that my joke was not to his liking, I just happened to take a seat while practically the entire class looked at me like I was a weirdo or something. Although I did manage to recognize the orange parasaurus from the pictures, my conversation with her was limited to the fact that she was the school board president and that I could go to her with any questions I had being the new guy, which I declined in the nicest way I could improvise. She didn't put me off particularly badly, she seems like the kind of namby-pamby I could tolerate, but she really rubs me the wrong way. Best to keep my distance from her. The rest of the day was, exactly what I imagined, arrive to a class, introduce myself as a robot "I'm Anon Mous, I'm 18, my hobbies are video games and series, I transferred for personal reasons, I hope to get along with you for the rest of the year" Yep, an introduction so bland and generic that, beyond the professors, everyone lost interest in me immediately. The plan to go moderately unnoticed was going perfectly. The highlight of the day was running into the dino-goth in Professor Fensworth's science class, our interaction was limited to an awkward glance and lending me her book because I hadn't gotten mine yet. Beyond that, and knowing his name was Fang, we didn't talk anymore. Anyway, I don't think we could get along, just with his look alone he seemed to want to rip my face off. After surviving the 4 periods of classes, the long awaited recess finally arrived, I didn't have too much money with me but at least I could buy some snacks or something like that so I wouldn't suffer from anemia the following hours. Although I almost died crushed in the mob that was created when the bell rang, I was saved by a voice so loud that it almost burst my eardrums and I'm sure it didn't even use the speakers. "LISTEN UP EVERYONE, IT'S FUCKING LUNCHTIME NOT A PITCHED BATTLE, SO KEEP YOUR COMPOSURE OR I'M GOING TO TAKE IT UPON MYSELF TO HANG EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU ON MY WALL AS HUNTING TROPHIES!" Although I'm absolutely certain that threatening students with death is illegal in at least a couple of ways, I'm thankful that the principal calmed them down... Although I'm now considerably terrified that I'll have to talk to him. As I walked towards one of the cafeterias a familiar sound caught my attention, it was coming from my backpack, Stella's phone. "Do the impossible, see the invisible, ROW, ROW, FIGHT THE POWER!" "Do the impossible, see the invisible, ROW, ROW, FIGHT THE POWER!" "Do the impossible, see the invisible, ROW, ROW, FIGHT THE POWER!" His ringtone is...? It didn't matter for now, I took the call and Rosa's voice apparently sounded relieved. "Anon, you're finally answering!" Looking at the notification bar I was surprised to see the amount of missed calls I had accumulated. "Yes, sorry about that, Fensworth played a video at full volume and I couldn't even hear my thoughts, where do I see them?" "Mira no más" the voice on the other end of the phone seemed to have found something to be amused with "So excited to see us already?" he let out another laugh as who appeared to be Stella tried to take the phone away from him. For my part I almost went into cardiac arrest, it was obvious it was a joke, but it took me by surprise and I almost had a heart attack. That was too much intense social interaction for the rest of the day. "Obviously I'm kidding, we're at the entrance to dining room A, you better hurry because I'm not going to be able to set aside a seat for much longer" In addition to both girls' voices there is a considerable din, and I definitely wasn't going to eat sitting next to the garbage on my first day. "I'm almost there" was all I managed to say with my little quietness before hanging up the call. As I put the phone away and walked, I noticed that the sleeve was a "Jojos Blizarre Adventure" themed tarot card specifically the world card. It's kind of obvious at this point, but I definitely refuse to show my power level just yet. I eventually arrived after dodging a crowd of dinos on my way to the same place. I quickly found both girls, especially since Rosa was fighting with another girl for the free seat, I feel that if I had arrived a little later it would have ended with the other girl in the infirmary. Why the hell are all triceratops crazy? I don't want to sound racist but seriously they are. "Thanks for the spot" As soon as I could take a seat I pulled out Stella's phone and handed it to her, as soon as I did she almost jumped up to hug me. "Thanks a lot Anon!". DEFCON LEVEL 5! INTENSE PHYSICAL CONTACT WITH A FEMALE ENTITY! The alarms sounded as soon as she touched me, I know it was only half a minute at most, maybe a little more, but for me it was an eternity, I could smell her hair, it was like a fresh breeze, strawberries and I don't know what else, it was... warm and comforting to hug her, even if her scales were a little cold, it was when she let go that I came back to reality. «Uy uy uy, miren na’ más, se puso todo tieso el pelón, que tierno» Again I didn't understand a hell of what Rosa was telling me, I should have paid more attention to the classes of that Chilean teacher in high school "By the way Anon, did you bring something to eat?" Stella looked at me curiously while she herself took out a kind of tupper from her backpack, it had a particular shape... That was a fucking Japanese bento. "N... not really, I just thought I'd look around for something... but with the tide of people I doubt I'd make it to the line alive" I had to swallow my nerves to answer without looking like a delay. Both girls looked at each other for a bit, as if they had some sort of telepathic communication and after that Stella pulled another bento out of her backpack. "I brought another lunch for the garden club, but you can have it, Rosa always prepares something delicious for everyone anyway" Rosa died to me strangely while uncovering some food that looked (and smelled) extremely spicy. I don't know why, but I feel that now I owe her one. Although I considered refusing her gesture, my hunger simply overcame my pride. I accepted Stella's meal, rice with vegetables, a little omelette and some iced tea, I must admit it was a million times better than my plan to subsist on Dinoritos and VolcanDew indefinitely. This was fucking delicious. "Oh, thank you, I'm glad to hear you like my cooking." Stellasar used . It's super effective! Pelanon is now confused! By sheer miracle I wasn't blinded, hell, as socially withdrawn as I am I have to admit, she was seriously cute. "Did I say that out loud? Sorry about that, sometimes I get lost in my thoughts" I tried to excuse myself even though it didn't seem to be the issue. "Not at all, but I'm glad you thought about it" Her tail was wagging from side to side excitedly, it was, cute in a way "But I got an idea watching you eat so fast" With her words I realized that in just under ten minutes I had wiped out the food, partly it was because the night before I had only eaten instant soup, but something deep inside me was screaming "Don't even think about saying that" and well, I felt it was better to listen to her. "I think it really tastes amazing." After another blinding grenade that was Stella's smile and listening to Rosa hold back her laughter behind me. Shortly before the end of the recess hour, I exchanged numbers with both of them, according to Rosa, a friend named Judee had invited her to the auditorium after class, apparently a school band would give a presentation and the attendees could take pizza boxes of those that would be available. I accepted without thinking too much about it. Let's recap, I'm a socially withdrawn person who barely talks to two people on the internet, out of nowhere I get two friends (or at least acquaintances) with whom I already exchanged numbers, now they are inviting me to a concert where there will be free pizza that I'm going to take home obviously. I already got the quadrakill, I will definitely go for the pentakill. Although on the way back to school they both fervently tried to get me to join the gardening club after school, I really value my playing time and especially my weekends of ranking up to Elo, if things go well, this Saturday I will move up to Grand Master V or if luck smiles on me, GM III. In any case, I turned down the offers with a "for now I'm getting to know the school, but it will definitely be my first choice" although the fact that I could have no homework being in a club was extremely tempting to tell you the truth. =========================== The last four periods went by especially fast, same strategy of not calling attention to myself, although, apparently, I share Foreign History class with Rosa right after recess and Math hour with Stella and Rosa, outside of them, the most interesting was a pink raptor with whom I share the last hour of Monday, I didn't really talk to him but it was more than obvious that this guy was totally stoned during the whole time, especially after he was almost twenty minutes nibbling the tip of his tail as if it was some kind of food. Although for some reason he left early. At the end of the last class I went to meet Stella and Rosa, both seemed excited about the concert, although none of us knew exactly what kind of concert it would be, Stella and I were thinking about the free pizza and Rosa that it was a good opportunity to support our classmates with their personal projects. As we reached the doors of the auditorium I saw something that almost made me want to back out of any bad decision I had made. A man, no, he was definitely a full-fledged neanderthal, guessing I would say he was around 2.50m tall, broad shouldered, muscular in general, probably one of his arms alone was as wide as my entire thorax, his face was serious, stern but extremely fatherly as well? Like a stern father but fair at the same time, more than I could say for my own father. He looked at me with a raised eyebrow as I passed and instinctively I stopped in front of him (apparently Rosa and Stella did the same). "Mr. Mous" Just his first words were enough to make my blood run cold "I'm Principal Spears, although my instruction about you seeing me first thing today was overlooked, I'm glad to see you're already living properly with your classmates, could I say you already have two friends?" At that, I swallowed saliva as Stella and Rosa nodded nervously next to me. "S... sorry about that sir, I had a rushed night and forgot the document the school sent me" Spears raised an eyebrow but only let out a tired sigh as he put a hand on my shoulder. "Maybe you don't know it yet young Mous, but you will soon enough, we all fight our own battles, so make sure you are there for others, just as others will be there for you, for now, enjoy the event and I will see you first thing tomorrow." After those words he gave me a pat on the back that almost gave me a Fatality, but, being in front of two girls I couldn't afford to scream more than an "ugh" as I lost the air in my lungs. After that the three of us entered the auditorium, the first to receive us was that dino in the photos, apparently his name was Naser and he was organizing this for a family member. Contrary to what I saw in the pictures, he seemed like a nice guy, he even offered to help me with sports and stuff. I think I could get on well with him Anyway, Stella and I took five full pizza boxes while Rosa only took two, according to her she was on a diet. Regardless, we took our seats thanks to Rosa's friends who had arranged seats for us. When the band came on stage I didn't know whether to laugh or just stand there with my head turned to the side, the drummer was the same pink raptor from last class, the bass player was the Trigga from lunch and the guitar player was the goth dino from science class... Wait a second, that's a double bass? I honestly don't know too much about music, but I know it's like watching two supports on the botlane, it looks good but it's going to end horribly wrong. Just as I predicted, as soon as "Wrum Drama" started playing a cacophony of horrible sounds were present, both bass players were each in their own world, as if they were two different songs and the bass player was totally out of tune. Soon the jeers and boos were present, most of the people laughed at the band, I admit that I found it slightly comical, but seeing Stella's worried face and some guilt and Rosa's anger about people making fun of the passion of others, I decided to shut up by myself. After that, Fang, I think that was the name of the main bassist, simply told everyone to go to hell and the members left each one on their own. So did the students. I just don't know how to feel about it, I would probably act just like them if they made fun of me in some tournament, I guess that's the main reason why I have rejected the possibility of joining some regional teams. After that Stella and Rosa said goodbye to me because they had to go to the gardening club, of course I said goodbye to both of them equally excited to see them the next day since apparently we shared most of the day's classes. After avoiding a few muggings in my now Skin Row home thanks to the first thief stealing my pizza, the second one got mad about what other one stealing in his area and gave me back 3 of the 5 pizza boxes, I said nothing more to him and went to my little 10 square meter house. After doing the few chores I had immediately (I'll be lazy but not irresponsible) I spent some time checking my phone for any sign of life from any member of my squad, seeing that no one was particularly active, it would be another day of playing alone I guess. Strangely though.... Today I didn't feel so lonely in front of my laptop.... Was today some kind of good luck or fate taking pity on my soul for once in my life? [NOTES] You have just read: 4,400 words of history tnks 4 read