Fearless

Chapter 1

"Freak! Get away from us!" A young boy shouted.

"B-But, I just wanted to see if I could, maybe—" A young girl started, gripping onto a bright red ball with a desperate look in her eyes.

"Play with us? We've said it before. Monsters aren't allowed to play with humans." A girl added, sticking out her tongue and scrunching up her nose, the other kids around her following suite.

"Come on guys, let's not waste anymore of our time, the freak doesn't deserve it. We can get another ball, this ones been contaminated anyways." The boy said, and with that, the group of kids ran away from the young girl, leaving her standing there holding the bright red ball watching as the other orphans played at a further end of the field.

"I-I just wanted to play wi-with them." The girl said, tears starting to roll down her cheeks.

"Dear Kiara, why are you crying?" Someone said, and the young girl, Kiara, turned and looked up to see a rather eccentrically dressed man standing just behind her. She recognized him as Mephisto Pheles, the one man that has never looked at her with fear or disgust.

"Nobody wants to play with me. They run a-away and ca-call me a freak and a m-m-monster." She blabbered. "Daddy, why do they do it?"

Mephisto smirked at what Kiara called him, "Why do they run away?" He asked, watching as Kiara nodded, wiping the tears from her face.

"The kids here are scared of you, my dear."

"Scared? What's that?"

"How do I explain this? Well, it's what happens when something you really don't like happens, and you automatically want to fight it or run away from it."

"Does everyone have this feeling?"

"Of course. Fear is a very common emotion."

Kiara looked from him to the crowd of kids, "If everyone has that... then why don't I feel it?"

Kiara was pulled from her thoughts as the car she was in halted to a screeching stop, causing Kiara to lurch forwards. Looking outside, she could see that people were staring at the car she was in, though she didn't blame them, it wasn't everyday you saw a hot pink limo. To say she was embarrassed when it arrived to pick her up was an understatement. The kids at the orphanage crowded around it, and when they found out that Kiara was the one that the limo was for, they all started to whisper.

"I bet she's going to the asylum. Serves her right for a freak."

"Last time in a car before never seeing the light of day again. Have to make it enjoyable for the monster."

"She'll finally be gone. The orphanage is going to be a much better place without her here."

The phrases hurt but it hadn't been anything she wasn't used to. She was always alone at the orphanage and had been the scapegoat for anything bad that happened. If you asked her, she was glad to finally be out of there.

She stretched and looked at the building out the window. True Cross Academy. It wasn't her choice to attend this school, it was the decision of none other than Mephisto Pheles, the director of the famed academy. He thought she should attend his school due to her not being completely human. Being the child of a full demon and a half demon made her quite the threat in the eyes of the exorcists around the world— of course they would have to know of her existence for her to be considered dangerous. She also wanted to become an exorcist, which meant True Cross Academy was the best school for her to go to since they had their own Exorcist cram school.