Janice woke to the sound of the alarm on her watch. She panicked for a moment, then realized the time she had set it for to wake the previous day was enough for her to get ready. Showering quickly she dried herself and got dressed, discouraged at the shortness of the uniform skirt. Sighing, she pulled on a pair of white stockings that went just past her knee, then grabbed her bag after putting on her shoes.<br/><br/>Six thirty in the morning, outside the entrance to the boys dorm, her eyes scanning the crowd of students as they came down the stairs, looking for Nydran's signature blue hair. When the crowd started to thin, she got worried and approached the entrance, gaining the attention of a short boy.<br/><br/>"Excuse me?" she asked, shyly, "Have you seen Nydran? Do you know him?"<br/><br/>"Sorry, no." he said.<br/><br/>"A boy with blue hair." She insisted, stopping the boy once more.<br/><br/>"Oh. I think I saw him lumbering into the room next to mine." he said, "His alarm has been going off all morning." he paused for a moment, "He did look like crap when he went in last night. Might be dead for all I know."<br/><br/>With that he shrugged and continued on leaving Janice in a panic. With no more boys coming down the stairs, she bolted up to the second floor and began searching. She didn't know which room was his, but she did hear the quiet beeping of an alarm. She followed it to the source and knocked on the door.<br/><br/>"Nydran? Are you awake?" She asked, then swallowed a lump in her throat, "Are you alright?" Looking up and down the hall to make sure no one saw her, she turned the knob and pushed the door open.<br/><br/>The blaring of the alarm clock was the most annoying thing she heard now that the volume was full heard. She turned it off, then noticed the covers on his bed weren't turned down, just wrinkled as if someone slept on top of them. Looking around she saw the door to the bathroom slightly open and heard water dripping now that the alarm had stopped.<br/><br/>"Nydran? Are you in the bathroom?" she asked, approaching the door, "You're going to be late if you don't hurry." she inched closer so she was beside the door, "Are you alright? Are you decent?"<br/><br/>No answer.<br/><br/>She became very nervous now. She inched closer, trying to peek inside to see if he was alright, then she caught the smell of humid air and the ocean, or rather, fish. Pushing the door open all the way, she gasped when she saw the claw footed bathtub, and the large, blue fish tail hanging out over one side. Stepping closer, she tip toed until she could see into the tub, finally seeing his blue hair floating around his head. Tears began to well in her eyes and she panicked, rushing forward to pull him out of the water.<br/><br/>"Nydran! Don't drown! Breathe!" she yelled, trying to hold him up, her arms around his chest. Nydran woke with a start, starting to thrash because he had no idea what was going on, sputtering while trying to switch from his gills to breathing straight air with no warning. Water went flying in all directions splashing on the walls and floor. Janice slipped on the water running over the floor and while still holding Nydran from behind around his chest, pulled him out of the tub to the floor as well.<br/><br/>"Gah! What's going on?!" he sputtered, trying to right himself on the floor, but looked like a fish out of water, flapping uselessly on the floor. Finally able to push his wet hair from his face, he looked up to see Janice lying on the floor in front of him, soaked from head to toe. Janice winced and sat up, rubbing her backside.<br/><br/>"Ow." she muttered, then saw Nydran on his hands and knees (Well, hands and tail) his mouth hanging open as he stared at her, his cheeks flushed a deep red. It took her a moment to realize and she looked down at her soaked clothing, her white shirt now somewhat transparent and stuck to her skin leaving nothing to the imagination...<br/><br/>"Um..." the words caught in his throat, unsure of what to say. She suddenly screamed and scrambled to her feet, slipping on the slick floor to scramble out of the bathroom.<br/><br/>"I'm, um,.....sorry?" he called after her, then blinked trying to make sense of things, "Wait, what time is it?"<br/><br/>The bathtub was nearly empty when he stood up straight on the end of his tail. It was good exercise to do this while trying to focus his mind and helped build muscles in his tail for faster swimming. Using his powers he lifted the water from the floor and walls to flow neatly back into the bath tub, then changed back into his Human form, pulling a dry towel around his naked body to exit the bathroom. His heart sank when he saw Janice sitting on his bed, now shivering from being wet.<br/><br/>"Sorry about that." he said, handing her a towel, "I must have scared you there. You aren't used to seeing monsters."<br/><br/>"I thought you tried to kill yourself." She muttered pulling the towel around her shoulders, "What was I supposed to think when I saw you with your eyes closed and sunk to the bottom of a tub?"<br/><br/>"I was sleeping. It's hard to hear things above the surface when I'm under." he said, "Which is why I missed the alarm. Remember, I can breathe just fine underwater."<br/><br/>"I panicked, alright?!" she snapped.<br/><br/>"I know. I'm sorry I slept in." he said, "Here let me help you. You probably don't have time to go back and change." Closing his eyes, he reached out a hand towards her and she stared at it, then she started to feel odd. It looked like he was really struggling to concentrate and his hand began to shake slightly, but then her clothes suddenly lifted slightly from her skin, the water in the fabric pulled forward, then finally out of her clothes. Nydran stood up, a large orb of water floating gently above his hand which he carried back into the bathroom to throw in the bathtub, leaving her dry as before. It was now her turn to stare at him, his hair hanging loosely around his body, lean and muscular, framing a face that seemed distinguished and almost porcelain. Only when he spoke did she realize she was staring and turned away.<br/><br/>"Perhaps you should wait outside while I change." he said, "I doubt a towel alone would be up to the dress code."<br/><br/>"Yes! Right! Outside." she said, hopping up. Closing the door behind her, she waited and he wasted no time putting on his uniform. They barely spoke on the way to class and both took their seats without a word, both too embarrassed to talk about it. Nydran was worried he had scared Janice this morning, this being her first day in a school of Monsters.<br/><br/>The rest of the class slowly started to trickle in. Charon was obviously a morning person. Eury was hard to tell if he was any different than normal. Then Ziel walked in, the boy who already killed one monster even before school started. He definitely wasn't a morning person and seemed to slump in his chair. Nydran wasn't normally chipper in the morning, but this morning's 'incident' had woken him up like a full pot of coffee.