A school into the woods
Hello everyone. My assigned creature for Hq!! Fantasy exchange 2018 is the wonderful nymph who inhabits the woods, the so called “dryad.” I obviously added a lot of other creatures: fairies, shapeshifters and wizards. You will find all my giftee’s fav ships: Kyouhaba, Daisuga, Kagehina, Terushou and Kageasu. However, I could not disregard my fav ships, which luckily my giftee seems to like as well: Iwaoi, Kurootsukki, Matsuhana. All right, let’s go down to business, folks. We are dealing with a mystery short story: will you be able to tell who’s the culprit? Enjoy your reading :) P.s.: the chapters from 1 to 4 are really short, but they become much longer starting from chapter 5 - Overwhelming.
@ymanimon I hope you’ll like it (stay tuned for the next chapters).
P.p.s.: I wanted to take part to @haikyuuhalloweek as well with this fic, but I didn’t make it in time. This is for day 1 and day 3 @novocaine-sea and @emotabek
As always, as thank you for the constant support: @mitrr and @eroismpro
Chapter 1 - The welcoming speech
Yahaba prided himself on always paying attention to others, on always being polite. He felt awful as he noticed that his distraction was spotted by the student right in front of him. Even worse, the guy clearly was forced to give the welcoming speech, given his perpetual scowl, which, by the way, only deepened every time he glanced at Yahaba.
But Yahaba just couldn’t focus on words when a whirlwind of needles had been prickling underneath his skin for ages, when admiring the vines which decorated the main building of the school wasn’t going to slow down the fading sun. His head slumped down, he tried to slow his breaths.
A hand squeezed his shoulder, “Shige-chan?” “I-” the usual pain rattled him. All went black. “We’ve got you,” someone lifted him and water gave relief to his nocturnal feathers.
Admittedly, it was mainly Suga’s fault. He should have picked the signs of discomfort of his students. Even better, he should have listened to Daishou, at least this time, and let them rest at a local inn so that they could arrive with the sun high in the sky instead of low on the horizon. A bunch of young shapeshifters could not take such a risk, no matter how much trained they were. Moreover, the sinking feeling associated with Tanaka and Noya’s disappearance furtherly impaired the control over their powers and curses.
Chapter 2 - Apologies
“I’m extremely sorry, Sugawara-san.” The headmaster of the “Creatures of the Forest Academy” bowed deeply. "Please, Sawamura-san, this is totally my fault.” Suga flailed his arms in an attempt to break the headmaster’s submissive pose. “ Of course it isn’t. I should have escorted you to your rooms as soon as-” “As soon as we arrived?” Suga’s tone was so soft that Sawamura finally straightened his back. “I suppose we are teachers who aren’t happy to change accurately planned schedules, isn’t it?” “Strangely enough, I agree with my colleague, Sawamura-san,” Daishou snickered. The headmaster didn’t acknowledge Daishou’s remark and addressed Suga once more, “Then, as a sign of newborn friendship, please, call me Daichi.” Both Daichi and Suga’s cheeks grew warm “Of course, Daichi, but only if you call me Suga.”
“All right, you punctuality freaks wouldn’t want to be late to our rescheduled dinner, would you?” Daishou had the rare mercy to interrupt the awkward silence. “Don’t make me choke on your honey, Suga,” he added in a whisper into Suga’s ear.
