"Now what do y'all reckon this could be?" A man picks up a brochure from the mail slot on his home.

"Well it looks like a brochure for something but for who?" A woman looks over the shoulder of the man and starts to read the words on it.

'Hello Demetri family, it seems your son Jax was hand picked from a lottery to attend the prestigious school of Yokai Academy. He may have been home-schooled but when you mailed his grades in to be evaluated we saw he excelled in almost every category we teach here. We hope you send your son to our school, it would be a great honor to us and to him. If you do decide to send him to our school we will offer a full paid tuition for his education and he will be living on campus as well. You have until the end of the week to send a letter back saying if he'll attend or not. Just put the letter in the brochure and and send it through the mail slot and we shall receive it. We hope your son will be attending our school.'

Both of the parents are a little skeptical of this. A brochure just appearing out of nowhere to accept their son in a school they haven't heard of. Something must be going on.

"Now I reckon there is something going on here Hannah, we just sent his grades out to be tested. I don't think they'd get here this fast."

"I agree, but with the little money we make from farming I think it'd be a great opportunity. He doesn't have many friends and this can help him with his social skills as well. Plus he'd be getting a better education if this school is a prestigious school."

"Hmmm, you make some good points but don't know how Rose will take, you know how much she loves her brother."

"I know James, but I do believe this is for the best. Let's call him down. HEY JAX, CAN YOU COME DOWN FOR A SEC?"

"COMIN MA" a voice that sounds no older than a seventeen year old comes from up stairs and someone coming downstairs. The boy has golden blond hair with green emerald eyes. He normally wears jean overalls and a green flannel as well with some black work boots.

"What do y'all need from me?" Jax takes a seat at the dinner table as his parents take the seats next to him.

"Come take a look at this, it's a brochure to a school and it seems you've been invited to attend it. You would get the tuition paid and you'll be living in campus but you'll only be able to come home for vacations. How does it sound?" His mother told him while handing him the brochure.

"Both your father and I have talked about it, and we do think it'd be for the best. I know you aren't the beat with social skills and haven't really left the house at all. But we both think this would help you develop yourself and maybe find who you are as well."

Jax is reading over the brochure and contemplating if generally wants to go or not. "Well this does look suspicious and I trust both my parents with my life to realize this as well. But with how our money situation I think I agree with you Ma. I'll go back up and get ready to leave." He hugs both his parents "I love you guys"

His father and mother hug back " We love you too Jax. Now go pack up and make sure to break the news to your sister gently."

"I will Ma"

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A week passed and a bus pulled up by their house. The whole family is waiting outside with Jax. He has all his bags and he is ready to go. Rose is holding onto his pant leg not wanting him to go. His parents have a hand on each of his shoulders wishing him luck.

The door opens and inside is the bus driver. He looks like a tall Caucasian man in a bus driver outfit, although he is smoking a cigar in a bus which is a little weird.

"Welcome aboard, I've heard a lot about you Jax. I'm sure you'll fit right in with the rest of the students. Take a seat anywhere, you're the last one I had to pick up and it was easier to take two trips that make one giant one. Hope you enjoy a bus all to yourself."

Jax hops on the bus and takes a window seat around the middle of the bus. As the bus takes off he waves goodbye to his family and shows them his smile one last time.

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Jax stepped off the bus and took in the scenery not really paying attention to what the bus driver was saying. He looked around and saw he was near a cliff with dead trees everywhere and a gothic design for the signs. When he looked over the cliff he saw water as red as blood.

'Huh, must be algae season round these parts. No swimming in the water nearby. And with those thoughts Jax took his first steps into his new highschool life of Yokai Academy.

During his walk he took some time to mull things over. This is his first time actually going to a school that wasn't home. He'll be living in a dormitory and won't see his family for a while. He is gonna miss all his animal friends, especially Waddles his pet pig. But on the bright side he is going to spread out his very short metaphorical wings and start to fly from out of the nest and into the world. Make some new friends and get to experience new cultures all meshing together.

Taking in one last deep breath and started to lightly jog to his destination, the student dormitories. While jogging he passed by a few students, nodded his head and kept on jogging. Once there he went up to the receptionist, told them his name, got his room key, climbed the stairs to the 3rd floor and unlocked his door and went into his room.

He threw his bag on the floor, sat on his bed and let out a sigh. He looked around and saw the room was painted with a beige color on the walls, wooden floor that has a small grey rug on it, has a few shelves, a dresser, a double sized bed and his own bathroom which has ceramic on the floor with the beige walls, a shower, sink, and a toilet.

He layer down on his bed and looked at the clock and saw it was around 11am. The speech from the Headmaster will take place around noon. From there he looked out the window and saw the woman's dormitory across the courtyard and the courtyard itself which has a few trees, a fountain in the middle of it and a few benches to relax on.

He took the forty five minutes he had to unpack his clothes, toiletries, a small pot, some soil and a seed. He put the soil in the pot and then the seed in the soil and watered it with water from the sink. He then placed it on the window sill. Once done with that he walked out of the room and locked the door behind him. Carrying his key in his back pocket he made his way down the stairs and walked towards the auditorium where the speech will take place.

While on his walk down he saw some more students making their way down as well. Some were running others had a light jog and others just walked calmly. No one really stood out in his opinion, just normal students trying to get to the Headmaster's speech.

Once he arrived on the auditorium he saw it was quite spacious enough to hold about 450 students. He took a seat on one of the bleachers in the back. So there he sat for the next few minutes listening to aimless chatter of the students waiting until the Headmaster arrived. He looked around as well and saw a student with what looked like horns or a tail. He stopped and took a double look and saw nothing on the student's body.

'Huh, must not have gotten enough sleep or I'm just going crazy. Either or could happen really.' He started to nod off until he heard the coughing of a deep voice into a microphone.

"Testing testing, can everyone hear me? Yes? Good. Welcome to Yokai Academy, everyone here was invited or hand picked to come to this school. So you all should feel proud to be invited here. Now as the name suggests this is a school for monsters and this school will teach you how to live peacefully with humans outside…"

Jax stopped listening after he heard this school was about monsters. He looked around once more but with more worry and anxiety and saw no one really looked phased from that statement. He decided to tune back into the speech only to wish he didn't.

"...if found out that a human or a human snuck their way into this school they will be killed on sight and be disposed of immediately…"

From there Jax started to hyperventilate to himself quietly to not draw attention of others.

'This is a prank...Yeah a prank, by this time tomorrow I'll wake up in my dorm room and see this is all a prank, hehe.' He just wishes he could convince himself that easily as he did with his thought process.

The rest of the speech was more about how humans are too strong with their guns and weapons and too plentiful and how monsters must deal with staying in human form. Nothing he didn't really want to listen to while trying to calm himself down. He tuned in at the end to hear where he had to go tomorrow.

"...in your mailbox at the dorms you will receive your school schedule and what homeroom you will be in for the rest of the year. And with this I dismiss you all. Be ready for class tomorrow."

Jax was the first one out of the auditorium and once he was out he took off in a fast jog to get away from everyone. Once he got into the dorms, be went to his mailbox and got his schedule. He then just fell down onto his bed and had a crisis in his head.

'This can't be happening, it's all a bad dream or a prank. Ya know what, I'll unpack everything else and then I'll head to bed. Yeah that sounds like a good plan. Once I wake up everything will become normal and I'll wake up in my bed at home.'

Jax proceeds to unpack the rest of his clothes, small gardening tools, and a book with pencils to draw in.

He then takes a seat at the desk and starts to draw to help calm him down. He draws for a few hours making pictures of different types of plants and once down he starts to make a list of things he'll enjoy here.

'I hope they either have a gardening or swim club, I miss swimming and maybe now will be a chance to get back into it.'

With that as his last thought his changes into his pajamas and heads to bed hoping this is all a bad dream.

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