"Have you heard the news?!" Heads snapped upwards to the boy standing in the doorway with a phone within one hand and a grin spread across his face. "Card Captor did it again!" He seemed almost giddy at the prospect as many student's pulled out their phones and began typing away.

"What happened?" Asked another male as the first boy moved towards them with his screen pointed out. "She was seen on a security camera from last night! It looks like at the Penguin Park she was fighting off some kind of lightning thunder cat thing! It explains why we had such intense lightning and thunder last night!" He chattered quicker and quicker as quite a few of the students huddled around the phone.

"Oh Card Captor is so cooooool!" Exclaimed one of the girls with stars in her eyes. Another, "Her costumes are so cool too! She's so cute and so awesome! Kyaaaaa~!" The pair of girls blushing and sighing together.

"How many does that make this week?"
"She's at three this week!"
"Oh, it would be so cool to be saved by her!" Many voices chattered together in agreeance.

A snicker came from a pair of girls sitting together as they observed the gathering and listened to the chattering filling the classroom in the early morning. One with blonde hair pulled into a folded hair do on the back of her head with two braids leading back to it. Her eyes a deep green color and sharp as can be. Her kept a wicked smile on her face- some would say that it was almost a pointed smile.

The other was a female with tawny hair pulled back into a tight ponytail, pieces of her hair on either side of her face. She, too, had green eyes though hers were far brighter than the blonde's. Her eyes held a bit of amusement in the as they lowered to the phone in her own hands where the same clip played over and over.

A girl with long wavy, almost curly, hair coming into view just a moment before a bolt of lighting crashes down in front of her. The camera white screens for a moment before focusing in again on the pair as they stood facing one another-both of them ready to pounce. The girl, Card Captor, was clad in a rather adorable outfit of pink and back and what looked to be like matching black cat ears atop of head and a pink star staff in her hands. The girl moved quick enough as a circle appeared around her feet and wings sprouting from her ankles. She jumped out of screen for a moment as the beast unleashed a wicked bolt of lightning upwards.

There was a few seconds of stillness as the beast, too, jumped upwards. Light seemed to brighten and dim until the moment when the cat eared girl landed once more with the Star Staff in her hands and another summoning circle appearing. Her hand moved forward as one of her signature cards was used. Shadows slipped out from under her feet only to shoot outward and ensnare the Thunder beast that landed across the way. It seemed to roar loud enough to vibrate the camera just enough to cause it to un-focus while the beast began to disappear.

The Shadows and Thunder Beast disappeared into two dark rectangles on the screen before the earred girl's fist shot into the air and a little jump with happiness. She turned so that she was facing somewhat towards the camera- it now very clear that her face wasn't going to be seen anytime soon as her eyes were covered by a reflective black strip of glass or plastic. She moved away rather quickly before going off screen completely- the video repeating itself.

"If I didn't believe it I'd think that this whole thing was a really well done piece of Photoshop." The brunette quietly commented as she snapped her phone shut while the blonde across from her chuckled, "Yeah, if only it were Photoshop." There was something behind her words but the brunette didn't think too much upon it...at least for now. It wasn't the time or the place to be worrying about the slowly growing deck in her bag or the talking plush toy back in her home.

"Alright, enough, enough!" Their older male teacher chirped as he walked into the room as he rather forcefully told everyone to take their seats. "Today we have been graced by a new student." The teacher suddenly was shifting papers on his desk, seemingly unable to find the paper that he was looking for.

Slowly a guy that was close to six foot tall seemingly just appeared from behind the teacher, with a lot of kids being kinda stunned that he just seemed to appear without anyone noticing. His blue hair was pulled into a ponytail, but he was using his hair to wrap it instead of a hair tie. His eyes seemed to hold a certain mischievous look to them, as he held up the exact paper the teacher had been looking for.

"I assume you are looking for these. Sorry, my name was misspelled. Had to correct it." Slowly he moved up to the board and wrote his name in perfect kanji, then followed with English underneath it.

いくと チェシャーチーズ
Ikuto Cheshire

Turning towards the other students, he gave a soft bow as he stood back up to full height. The teacher looked him over and pointed towards an empty seat by two girls. He understood exactly what the teacher had meant, except no one saw him move as everyone's attention had been turned towards said two students. Of course small little whispers started to happen, such as students would do.

"Why is everyone pointing and staring?" Ikuto whispered towards the other two girls, now in the seat behind them.

Both of the girls separated from one another to sit in their respective seats next to one another. While the blonde was interested in what was going on at the front of the classroom the brunette, not really being a morning person and exhausted from the prior nights adventures, put her chin on her elbow and looked out of the window on her left hand side.

What did catch her attention was a name. She snapped her head forward to see a tall boy with an odd smile on his face. She eyes flickered away from his face to the name on the board- Ikuto Cheshire. As he came closer to them, likely taking the seat behind her, she heard him whisper about why every one is staring. She realized that he was right, most of the class was watching both herself and Ikuto as he took his seat.

The brunette ignored the looks as best she could, putting on a little bit of a frown or even a scowl as she continued to look back out of the window until the teacher really did begin to teach something mildly interesting. She could quietly hear her blonde friend whispering, "It seems we're all a bit mad here."



No sooner than the lunch bell ringing and their teacher leaving the classroom did Ikuto find himself surrounded by both males and females asking him a million and one questions about where he was from and how he got such an odd name. He'd answer then in his odd little way but many dispursed when a wicked blonde turned in her seat one row over and ahead of him and began to speak to him.

"So, Cheshire, it's nice to meet you. I'm Yoichi Daidouji, Captain of the Volleyball team." A sly look came across her features as she brunette next to her glared daggers at the board ahead of her- of course already knowing what her best friend was going to do. "And this is Alice Kinomoto~"

Alice exhaled with a slight groan as she turned in her seat to face the blue haired boy. She avoided looking at his eyes for the most part while calmly going, "Welcome to the class." Simple really. Some where deep inside she hoped that he wasn't interested in the Wonderland story and that the jokes could end before they started...especially when he was named after her favorite character.

Ikuto was definitely use to the hounding of random esoteric questions of his life, stuff that he would never been asked at any other school he had been to, yet seemed to be the most important thing to ever happen in this school. He was infinitely thankful when the blond had seemingly ran everyone else off by turning to talk to him.

"Volleyball captain, eh? I plan to take over Basketball and Soccer within the week." Without blinking, the moment she introduced her friend as someone named Alice, his lips broke into a smile that seemed disproportionate to his face, while it almost seemed like he had cat-like ears for a single moment, before they were gone.

"And a very welcome to Wonderland to you, dear Alice." Though tapping his finger towards his chin, he chuckled softly as he slowly lean back in his seat. "Now are you 'the' Alice I wonder?" He opened his eyes and gave her a rather charming wink, as he turned his attention back towards Yoichi. "It's a pleasure to meet you both." He truly meant those words as he allowed the breath to escape his lips that he had been holding in for the moment.

Yoichi choked back a laugh at Ikuto's comment to taking over Basketball and Soccer. Though that smile upon her face only grew into something of being entertained as the kind smile on Alice's face fell and her eyes rounded. Yoichi could easily see the blush creeping up her friends face as her mouth fell open just a bit.

Alice's hand covered her face as a groan escaped her. She was done for. Her love for the story won out as she quietly responded, "There has been some debate about that." Of course it was from the cinematic verse she quoted but perhaps he would understand despite the sour look on her face that gave just the slightest hint of a smile.

"So Cheshire, how are you liking the school so far,hm?" Yoichi questioned as she pulled out a protein bar and began to nibble on it. Alice pulled out her own bento box and placed it in her lap, eyes watching it while listening to the pair. "Hopefully it's not to Wonderland-y~?" Alice groaned again, "Yoyo please stoooooop." She quietly begged.

Yoichi gave another bright smile, "Nope~!" She popped the P on her word before turning to Ikuto again. "So, since you're new here you're going to hear about her. Card Captor is apparently some local magical girl whose been fighting off monsters and beasts and freaky things that have been happening around the city lately. So if anything weird happens...well it's normal for these parts."

The gleeful smile only seemed to get larger as he looked over Alice after making the comment about such a debate. "I never get involved with gossip." Of course he had modified the quote a bit, but it would make more sense in the setting they were in. Looking between the two of them, he shrugged his shoulders slightly. "I can't help it. It just comes natural when your last name is Cheshire."

"But of course I come from Wonderland High!" Of course he couldn't resist, as he just watched Alice, enjoying the fact that he wasn't going to be the only one that kept getting these references from now on. "At least we can share the pain of always having random things said to us about our wonderous adventures in Wonderland, my dear." He gave her a slight wink as he turned his attention back to Yoichi.

"I don't do normal, it's very overrated. Where I use to live we had a Queen, and there was this madman. Not to mention this cat that kept talking in riddles. It got very confusing at times." Maybe he was playing it all up way too much, and Alice was going to eventually just snap. "Sorry. I'm just some kid that has some inheritance and needed a change in scenery is all." A little bit of sadness sunk into the words as he spoke, but he shook it off immediately.

"So Magical Girls live here, or just the one?" He asked, now curious as to what the hell was going on in this town.

Alice simply gave him a bit of side eye as she continued off of her response to him. "Oh I'm sure." She simply responded with before eating a bit more of her food. There was a water bottle pulled from her bag, popped opened and being sipped on now as he tried her best not to groan again and roll her eyes at his winking at her.

However, as he continued Alice simply turned to him and rose her brows at him with a hellish glare. "Please stop." She simply said as she death glared him a bit more. Some students that were watching them from across the room let out 'eeps' of fear before whispering away to one another. Alice promptly dropped the glare and looked away entirely, Yoichi giving her a sympathetic look.

"So far there is only one magical girl. Card Captor popped out of the blue a few weeks ago when weird things and beast started appearing. She fights them in cute outfits and has a staff wand thing." Yoichi nodded as she finished off her protein bar before she continued, "She seems pretty legit. I've seen her in person- I don't think there is a way to take magic circle or being able to sprout wings from your ankles and jump impossibly high into the sky." The blonde shrugged. "She wears a mask though so no one knows who she really is. Probably afraid to hurt her family or something."