I watched the fire burning away,the only thing keeping it from burning the nearby forest being the rocks I left around it.
I watched how the severed limbs I lost before quickly only became bone,which I left alone after also leaving the truck there.
After a thought,I really didn't know what to do with these,I only brought a luggage and a suitcase with all the things I needed.
I smiled happily at the fire.
"Now I'm not project Cain ok?" I said to no one but myself.
I turned around,the smile still on my lips as I couldn't hold the emotion I was feeling,everything was going just better after leaving those assholes.
"My name is Dante,and whoever finds thar funny means I'm funny."
I walked outside the forest in direction to nevermore academy,the path clear on my mind while I thought over my name.
"Divine comedy, is a book about the travel Dante had over all the levels of hell, or that's what I think, and the comedy stands for the opposite of tragedy,things going well and better at the end of the book, I believe..."
Exactly my life,only thing happening to me can mean I'm going uphill,in that place I was kept as an experiment,a lab rat and even used sometimes to try experimental drugs,which later I got used to and they thought they work.
They didn't,but only because I was able to reverse the effects,not because they were useless.
"Now Dante! Show them what you're made off!" I said walking inside the complex of buildings.
I saw a lot of teenagers around,all of them in a indigo stripped blazer,underneath a purple sweater and underneath it a white shirt with a black tie over it.
Girls had a skirt with the same characteristics as the blazer and boys had just black pants.
"Ugh..."
"I hope I can change it... maybe something that doesn't stains a lot with blood."
"Well I read navy blue and black works for the trick..." I whispered before walking over to a group of teenagers.
"Excuse me." I said politely while putting my luggage next to me.
They all turned around,the only important looking faces being a black girl who had aside of her two girls,one who looked from Asia and another one with a more caucasian looking one.
"Girls look,someone from Jericho got lost..." The black girl said with a high royalty tone,her demeanor laced with a sensation of highness.
"I'm looking for the principal here." I said,my face unbothered by her comment,I haven't even set a foot in Jericho by now.
"Well you can look around the main building there... but only outcasts are allowed without permission." The Asian looking one said pointing at a broad building like a big house made of stone.
"Thank you." I said and before I fully turned around I was stopped.
"Wait." The black girl said and somehow my body only stopped.
She turned to be in front of me putting a collar inside around her neck again and looked me straight to the eyes,her pale blue eyes piercing unto my head.
"What are you..."
And before anyone reacted a stiletto knife was between my two eyes.
A small string of blood passed on my nose and let a small drop on the ground,only then I took the knife out for the disgust of everyone in looking,the girl being the worst as she watched cut closing from the inside to the outside.
With that I stepped aside of her and walked to the building.
I walked inside the building,even more students inside, all walking around the place with something on their minds,each one looked similar yet different,the only ones with an actual difference being ones without a face.
"Creepy..." I said under my breath as I walked up the stairs,and only then I was stopped by a hand on my shoulder.
"Excuse me, what are you doing here?" A tall,like really tall lady asked me,her perfect white hair and red lipstick making her look like a perfect statue made by an angry sculptor.
"I'm looking for the principal..."
"And may I know why you're looking for me?" She said,her straight demeanor calming for a much softer one,but still it was obvious her sharp personality.
"I'd like to enroll here in Nevermore..., a friend said this is the only place where someone like me could be accepted..." I said half the truth,she said it'd be a place for me to find a life;never the only one.
"Mmmmm,well follow me into my office ok?" She said and walked upstairs.
I only nodded briefly and started following her.
We entered a cozy room,two chairs in front of a desk where she sat straight on her seat,aside there was a fireplace with what looked like a sculpture of a gorgon with it's mouth open,inside a fireplace.
Everything else being as strange as everything around in and out of the place.
"So tell me, who are you and who told you about this incredible academy." She said opening a palm to one of the chairs in front of her,I left my suitcase on one before sitting on the other.
"Well my friend is a mysterious case, I only know her a bit but she's the most trustworthy person existing,and also an outcast."
"Then about me..." I said going over the list of names before saying it,thinking if I may repent later.
"Im Dante,just Dante."
"Mmm..." The lady let out a small sound,I didn't know what emotion it was supposed to recreate with her face being the same.
"Well hi Dante and welcome to Nevermore academy, I'm the principal of this lovely place and my name's Larissa Weems."
"Why don't you tell me something about your family and where you come from?"
"Well I don't have any sort of family or people who took care of me, I'm here to the promide this is a place where no one would think I'm a freak of nature or try to use me." I said,my last words maybe slipping more about me than I wanted.
"Well Dante I can assure that everyone here is treated equally no matter how special they're, why don't you tell me?"
"Tell you what?" I said,my mind already thinking I have to pull the same crop again.
"What are you? Every outcast here has a place you know, if want to put you in one I'll have to know what would fit you best."
"I'm able to reverse things or phenomenon,like if I got wounded I would immediately reverse it to a healed state,likely as I can see in your eyes already thinking about,yes I'm immortal,and no I can't reverse life."
"Well I admit I was thinking the immortality but not the life one,care to explain why you thought I did?"
"Well I don't want anyone thinking I could just 'pop' and they're on the floor lifeless ok...?"
"Of course." She said,her tone not so sure but enough to not poke the matter anymore.
"Well Dante the year just started a month ago so I believe I can find you a spot easily, maybe one near the 'quieter' outcast since you fill that requirement."
"Quieter?"
"Well there's a rule putting werewolves to a side of Nevermore when a full moon happens their howls won't be so loud."
"Ah..."
"Well I think I'd like that."
"And before I let you in here, You know the school needs a lot of equipment and stuff for every student no?"
"Well I-"
"Don't worry,there's a fund for special cases like these,any outcasts helps other outcasts,afterall our motto is 'unity is invincible'".
"I was going to say I can pay for it,all the travel I've done left me with enough cash to."
"Well even so I must accompany you for most of these things,I assume you don't have a legal guardian,so I can assume that until-"
"I can live totally fine by myself Principal Weems,I don't need food nor sleep to be alive." I said grabbing my suitcase.
"And trust me. I got money." My face went from calm happy demeanor to a straight one,almost like a dead body moving on it's own.
"Well then." She said,her tone also flat as mine before she handed my a paper from under her desk.
"How old are you?" She asked before I turned around.
I looked at her face not really knowing why even she would need an answer.
"I'm fifteen I believe very well, and I was made I mean born in october 31." I didn't just slip I was created,and obviously I didn't know when I was made neither I knew my actual age.
"Very well Dante here's the list for the second year, the tailor is outside in Jericho."
"I can drive you there if you want." She said offering a ride which seemed more like the opportunity to see me interact with humans.
"Don't worry I've been already there,I can find my way." I said going to the door with a small nod of respect towards her before leaving.
"You must come before dusk okay?" She said like a mother trying to remember a kid a single rule.
"Don't worry I'll be here before sun even thinks of sleeping." I said leaving the room.