The Slacker Trifecta: The Brute, The Wimp and The Comedian

Day 1 - Ryūgamine's Admission
"Listen up!" the proctor yelled so his voice would carry all the way to the back of the large group of prospective cadets standing before him. "You will be called up one at a time to come into the gym! Once inside we will instruct you further!"

A few minutes of silence and the proctor seemed satisfied that everyone understood the instructions.

"Now, first up..." Ryūgamine Shindo had zoned out on the proctor, he knew they were going to go in alphabetical order and with the last name of Shindo he knew it would be a while until they called him. Shifting and feeling overall uncomfortable, they had taken his sword, Oni Ken, from him, some safety precaution they had said. Ryūgamine did watch, uninterestedly, as one by one kids went into the indicated gym and various sounds came from within. From the rumbling of something large moving, or falling, to the screams of pain and anguish as someone got injured.

"Tolbert Boese!" for some reason that name cut into his daydreaming, he had been remembering the trouble he had been having with his tie that morning. Ryūgamine saw a young man with white hair and of average height move foreward from the slowly shrinking group, some having been called up others chickening out and leaving, he saw that the guy seemed terrified as he entered the gym.

'Another flunky?' Ryūgamine thought, scratching his face absent mindedly. The sounds of something crashing and crushing resounded from the gym. 'He must be getting slaughtered...'

After a few minutes there was a definite silence and then Ryūgamine noticed a side door where he assumed those who passed came out of because it led straight into the main building of the Fiore Regal Academy of the Combat Arts. He was shocked when he saw the guy he thought was getting slaughtered come through that door and into the main building. It wasn't so much that he had passed, it was that the white haired guy didn't seem to be injured at all.

'How the hell did he survive?' Ryūgamine thought, then he began wondering how tuff the exam was. If a scrawny guy like him could make it with so little damage it must be pretty easy...then again what if the exam is actually really difficult and that guy is actually really strong?

His head began to ache from all the conflicting thoughts now swarming in his head. Several more people had been called up while he had been distracted with his thoughts.

"Miki Hirosen!" again a name cut through his thoughts and his attention was drawn to the front of the group, even smaller than he had realized, and saw a young man with blonde and blue hair. Before entering the gym this guy turned to face the abated crowd.

"Behold!" the blonde called to the crowd. "A future hero of legend takes his first step into history!"

'Is he being arrogant? Or is he trying to be funny?' Ryūgamine thought with a sigh. He noticed that this guy, Miki, seemed a little put off by the lack of response from the crowd. He scratched the back of his head and entered the gym.

Again Ryūgamine stared at the gym walls as again the sounds of something smashing into the walls and floor. Then there was a strange noise, like all the sounds from before all repeating all at once, then the sound of an explosion.

'What the hell is going on in there?' Ryūgamine thought. The side door opened again and that blonde guy walked triumphantly into the main building. Ryūgamine sighed again. 'That guy...'

He then looked around and saw that there were maybe ten people who hadn't snuck off by now still standing around. The proctor turned to the remaining people and sighed.

"Why do I always get the groups with the most fleers?" he groaned. "I swear the others don't tell me about having nearling this many drop outs...Anyways...next up is...Ryūgamine Shindo."

"I prefer Ryūga." he said as he went foreward.

"Whatever," the proctor said handing him his sword. "here's your blade and get in there."

Ryūgamine gripped his blade and entered the gym. It was dark except for what Ryūgamine assumed was the testing area.

"Ryūgamine Shindo?" a voice asked, it sounded more like a statement but he still nodded to confirm that that was his name. "Good."

"Now," another voice began abruptly. "How would you like to prove yourself? Through strength or magic?"

"Uh..." Ryūgamine froze, he expected to just be told what he needed to do, all he could think to do was hold his sword infront of him.

"Strength." the second voice said. "If you would, Ju."

"Of course." a third voice said, then what sounded like a cat meowing as it was set down. "Wood Make: Man!"

A humanoid creature made of wood, and had an 18 on its chest, appeared out of the ground infront Ryūgamine. It looked like a wooden dummy he had used in sword training. A sudden surge of confidence filled his body and he smirked.

"Easy. Now wake up Ao no Honō, we have work to do." he said as he drew his sword. The voiced, he assumed, probably thought he was talking to his sword, but he was actually talking to the Familiar Spirit fused with him. Oni Ken glowed with a bright blue light and then blue flames lept from his body.

"He can clearly use magic." the first voice said. "But can he control it?"

Ryūgamine continued to smirk.

"You're going down toothpick." he said then lept foreward and prepared to cut down the Wood-Make spell. Suddenly there was an impact at his gut, he glanced down and saw that the wooden dummy had swiftly moved foreward and delivered an uppercut to his gut. Ryūgamine flew higher into the air, all the wind knocked violently from his lungs. He slammed into the ceiling and stuck for a moment. Ryūgamine took a deep and sharp intake of air and glared down at the wooden creature. "Now you're gonna get it."

He pushed off from the ceiling and shot down at the wooden man.

"Ao no Honō Slash!" he roared, the blue flames wrapping around his blade and he swung the blade as the dummy went to punch him again. His flame clad blade connected with the wooden fist. For a second Ryūgamine thought he was going to get thown into the wall again, then he felt Ao no Honō get pissed. The flames increased in heat and luminosity and he felt Oni Ken begin to bit into the wood. Then, almost all at once, the flames engulfed the rest of the Wood Make: Man and it swiftly turned into a pile of ash and cinders.

"Congradulations." the second voice said. "You have passed the admission test. Go through that door and into the main building."

When the second voice said "that door" another light came on illuminating a door that Ryūgamine assumed was that side door he had been seeing people coming out of. He resheathed Oni Ken, the flames disappeared and Ao no Honō went back to sleep. Ryūgamine went through the door and on into the main building.