Asher Romanov

At the assembly hall introductions

"I wish this stupid assembly would end already, I just want to get back to work. I don't understand why I had to be picked for this mission in the first place." Asher’s thoughts were interrupted by the headmaster calling all of the new students up to the stage.

"Oh great, we're being turned into a spectacle for the other students. Goddess, I hate school!" Asher grumbled under my breath.

"Alright, I would like to introduce all of our new students to the school. First, Mr. Asher Romanov, please do us the honor of introducing yourself to your new schoolmates." Asher heard the headmaster call for him.

Unsure of what exactly everyone expected him to say and wanting to end this torment as soon as possible he spoke flatly, "um, hi, my name is Asher Romanov, I just moved here from Russia during summer vacation, I like motorcycles and fire. Nice to meet you, I guess." He then walked off the stage and moved to the back of the room, as close to the exit doors as possible.

Asher yawned as he watched the rest of the new students take their time to do full introductions. Asher thought to himself.

‘Okay, Harriet, you can stop yapping now, nobody actually cares that your favorite color is cotton candy purple and not violet purple.’ When the headmaster suddenly grabbed Asher’s full attention with his next words.

"Now everyone, I'm very honored to introduce our last student to all of you. Without further ado, please welcome our very own princess of Kayanadia, Miss Kir Bastet!"

"Now, that's an interesting topic!" Asher thought aloud. The poor blonde seemed to be mortified by the headmaster's words, however, Asher was ecstatic as he just made my job a whole lot easier.

Asher continued to watch with interest as the blonde composed herself and took the mic, simply saying, "yes, I'm Kir Bastet, however I didn't come to this academy to get special treatment, I simply wish to make friends and learn, just like every other student. Thank you."

‘Well, that's an interesting thing for a princess to say, knowing that she could easily get whatever she wants, including numerous friends, just for having such an important title.’ Asher watched as the girl walked out of the assembly hall quietly, obviously ignoring all of the people calling for her to come back.

‘Makes sense that she would be upset, if her goal was to keep her title a secret.’ Asher almost feels pity for the poor blonde, ALMOST. After another 15 minutes of the nonstop introductions of excited students, he decided to take his leave and take a walk until classes start, besides he could use this time to make a call.

"No boss, I'm not saying that I can't do this job, I'm saying that I don't WANT to do this mission. I don't see why you couldn't just send someone else for this one? I'm sure that you have plenty of more important missions available that you could use me for."

He continued to argue with his boss, however, seeing that he had no chance of winning this time, Asher decides to quit fighting before his boss decides to fire him altogether.

"Yes boss, I understand, I will not complain anymore, thank you for entrusting me with this mission. Yes. Have a good day. Bye." He hung up the phone and realized that he's in the middle of….some kind of forest? Asher looks around and decides to just keep walking.

"Maybe I'll be lucky and get lost all day and miss the rest of school."

Just as this thought crosses his mind, Asher feels something bump into his chest. Instinctively he grabs, what now appears to be, a girl. The girl suddenly looks up at him and Asher can't help but stare back at those midnight eyes....

‘Midnight eyes? That can't be right, I swear the file said that her eyes were an icy light blue?’ He blinks his eyes a few times to see if he was imagining things, but by the time he opens his eyes again, the girl managed to get behind Asher.

"What are you doing here?! Who are you?! Were you following me?? What did you see?!?" The blonde started yelling at him while looking around frantically.

"Hi, I'm Asher, nice to meet you too." Asher cleared his throat. "To answer your questions, I actually got lost while waiting for the assembly to end. So no, I wasn't following you princess, though you don't look as though you will believe anything I say. And lastly, let me answer with a question of my own, what exactly are you worried that I might've seen?" He asked with one eyebrow raised.

"Was the princess running naked through the forest behind her new school on her first day?" Asher added that last part with a smirk and a wink.

Before either of them gets another word out, a guy with orange hair steps between them, glaring at Asher angrily. The orange haired guy looks back at Kir and asks her, "Kir, who is thi-"

The man stops mid-sentence as a shadow appears and tackles Asher to the ground. "What the hell is going on?" he opens his eyes to see a white-haired guy snarling in his face.

After a second Asher starts to feel blood dripping from his neck as the unknown man continues to snarl and pin him down.

"Roo! Stop it!" Kir yelled at the man. Asher attempted to look at her, but to no avail, as the man had him by the throat. "What the hell man, calm down. You're obviously upsetting the princess."

Asher quickly realized that talking about Kir to this guy wasn't a very good idea as he grabbed his throat tighter, digging his claws deeper into Asher's flesh, the moment the words left his mouth.

"Roo, I said STOP!" Kir screamed, though the man doesn't seem to care that she's talking to him.

In a flash the man is yanked off of Asher by a mysterious force, as he sat up, Asher is startled to see a large cat fighting the man. Kir, was nowhere to be seen.

"You should get out of here, this is going to get ugly." The orange-haired man said as he helped Asher up.

"What the hell is that thing?!" He asked while watching the man try to fight off the giant cat-like creature.

"That thing? Ha! Try that person. And you should know who that is. But I'll give you a hint, she was just defending you a moment ago." The man pointed out to Asher.

He looked over at the huge cat with the sudden realization that Kir, our mysterious princess, is actually the demonic beast in front of him, currently fighting with the man that was attempting to tear his throat out moments ago.

‘Alright, so our princess is some kind of shifter, I bet the boss will love to hear this info.’ He thought to himself.

The fight continued until two more men entered the forest, one tackling Kir and the other tackling the man. The man that Kir referred to as Roo settled down first and walked over to Kir, whispering something into her ear before she also seemed to settle down.

"Alright, come on guys, Kir needs to shift back, she will meet up with us once she's done." Roo announced as he leads the way out of the forest.

"Dang, Roo, I haven't seen the two of you go at it like that since you told her that she couldn't buy another horse." One of the black-haired men chuckled.

Asher clears his throat as he feels extremely confused by these people and how they are all acting so casually after the intensity of the fight that occurred just minutes before.

"Oh...right, sorry, I forgot that we had a stranger in our midst." The other black-haired male, who looked identical to the first, said as he looked Asher up and down.

"Can one of you just tell me what the hell just happened? First the princ-I mean Kir," Asher corrected himself after seeing Roo’s glare, "bumps into me, literally by the way, then this guy," he points to the orange-haired man, "shows up and tries to act like I'm going to jump on Kir." he takes a breath before finishing.

"Then that guy. Roo, I guess? Shows up out of nowhere, tackles me to the ground and tries to rip my throat out. And Kir turned into a giant cat?!"

Asher pauses for a moment, "then you two," he pointed to the two black-haired men "showed up and everything is fine and dandy and ya'll just walk away acting like none of it even happened?!" He questioned the four men in a louder voice than he had meant to.