Bad luck. It might just look like two short words, but are more than enough to scare any human being. It has endless possibilities unlike the opposite of it, it can turn a billionaire to a homeless man in seconds or make a homeless man go through even worse. And apparently, Sara was a walking bad luck charm.
'*Sigh*Seriously, out of all possibilities.....'
A week had passed since that day. Sara was back in her human form. It wasn't that hard to transform back as it happened simultaneously as she exhaled in relaxation just as Sally instructed her to.
It wasn't really confirmed whether Sara really has bad luck or not, it was just an assumption made by Sally pencil made of so called hardest material in the world broke while noting down her details and also the fact that there exist a few inhumans who possess the superstitions related to their animal type.
"Move away girl!" a loud voice came from behind which made her move five steps away almost instantly.
It was a huge man with arms covered in brown fur and a brown tail sticking out from his behind. He was carrying five huge trees on his shoulders.
Sara was speechless, 'This really is, a different world.' She had entered the world of inhumans, and this was her first day.
Sara looked around herself, huge buildings, taller than every tree around them, almost everywhere which almost looked normal until she noticed the people around her. Almost every single person around her had a unique body, some had fur, some had feathers, some even had scales and some had things she had never even seen before.
But the most noticeable thing here was that every person was smiling. Sara remembered the sight of every morning in the train she took to go to school, the faces she saw were exhausted, dried and frustrated. But here? They're full of life.
Sara remembered what Sally said before leaving her with the location of the main inhuman city, "Your brother left you a gift, and I don't think he would like you to waste it by grieving for him non stop. So smile, that's what being an inhuman is about. To have the smile which you couldn't when you were a human."
"So this is it", Sara looked straight up at a huge gate with the name 'Faunatica Academy of Inhumans' engraved on it, and smiled, "My new life!"
Sara started walking towards the gate, and while walking she closed her eyes thinking of every good memory she had spent with Sam and the gift he left for her, 'Thank you Sam, I won't let you dow.–.' Just as she was about to set her foot into the academy gates, she ran into a tall man who she didn't see was walking in the opposite direction because of her eyes closed .
'Are you serious?' Sara was furious, but she was a girl with manners, she turned around and looked the man in the face, " I'm sorry!"
Sara froze. The man's face, it has three big claw marks on it, but that was not the scariest part, his face had.....no expression? He wasn't angry, not sad but.... nothing, and was still able to give Sara goosebumps. The man looked at Sara for a second then turned around and walked away.'Guess every world has its own exceptions.'
Sara was not really happy with the start of her new life so far but, 'It's not over yet', she was not the one to give up that easily.
She entered the gates and walked towards the small red building with the name 'Registration' written on it.
She registered herself using the registration slip she had gotten from Sally, while the man on the counter was working on the registration Sara took a moment to take a good look at the academy's campus. It has a lot of trees everywhere, "The greenery here is insane".
The man on the counter chuckled, "The people of Faunatica treat trees like they are citizens as well. Whether a new building is constructed the trees in that area aren't chopped, instead but lifted and planted in a whole new place." Sara immediately remembered the man carrying five trees on his shoulders when she was entering the academy and smiled.
Sara was then handed two big suitcase which belonged to her and along with them, a keycard of her dorm room with the number '304' written on it.
The dorm building was a lot bigger than the registration building, it looked more like those sci-fi futuristic buildings she had seen in movies, but the more interesting thing about it was that apparently, this place strongly believed in gender equality as there were no male or female dorms, there were just dorms.
Sara took the elevator to the third floor as that was where her room was, as soon as the elevator doors opened she heard a commotion. She exited the elevator with her two suitcases and instantly found the source of the commotion. At the end of the hallway in the corner.
Sara frowned, 'Are we deadass?' the commotion was near room '305', right next to her room.
There were like 10 people cornering one guy. Among them the one in the front yelled at him, "Seriously? YOU'RE gonna live next to us?"
"This is insane!" a girl from the back said.
"I'm gonna call the authorities, I'm not gonna live next to a scum like him!" said another one.
Sara didn't know what this was about, nor she was very interested in it, so she silently walked past the commotion without paying any attention and got to her room. She pulled the keycard out from her pocket and pressed it against a scanner on the door. With a click sound the gate was unlocked and just as she grabbed the door knob to open it she heard someone from the crowd yell, "What if he turns just like his father James Cooper?"
Sara's eyes widened, she immediately turned her head to look at the cornered boy and started walking towards the crowd she avoided a second ago.
"Did you say James Cooper?" Sara's eyes were still wide. A girl from the crowd turned around to look at her and said, "Yes! That infamous killer, James Cooper!"
Sara pointed towards the boy in the corner, "And he is his son?"
"Yes!" said the girl.
"Please excuse me" Sara pushed past the crowd to reach the corner of the hallway where the boy was being held. He was the same height as her.
"Are you really James Cooper's son?" Sara looked at him dead in the eyes.
"Y–Yes" the boy hesitated.
Sara lifted her right hand and brushed his blonde hair, "What's your name, buddy?"
"Harry Cooper", his bright blue eyes looking right at Sara.
Sara's right hand slid from his hair to his right cheek while she lifted her left hand to grab the other one.
Sara with her eyes still wide smiled, "Listen up very carefully Harry Cooper!" Her soft hands were cupping Harry's face.
"You are mine!"