Chapter 1: Hoshi's Enterance

The picture above is me, in my comfortable clothes. They are my clothes from home, where I haven't been since I was five years old, since I go to the Alice Academy. The Alice Academy is a school for people with special gifts, powers. They are sorted into five catagories, Active Ability, Predisposition, Technology, S.A. (Special Ability-for the odd ones[but seriously, they're way cooler]), and Dangerous Ability. I'm in the S.A. group, with my sister. I'll start with my, Hoshi's, point of view. My story will start when I was five years old, and I got my Alice.


Tsuki and I were twins (faternal), and the best of friends. When Alice Academy called, I left the money they offered to my family, and I left. It was so hard.
"Hoshi-Chan, I don't want those men to take you away." Tsuki said as we layed beside each other in the darkness. We shared a room.
"I know, Tsuki-Chan, but Mama and Papa need that money."
"Hoshi-Chan! I don't want you to go!" Tsuki-Chan whimpered. Tears started to well in my eyes.
"I don't want to go either." I said. Tsuki rolled over.
"Ts-tsuki-Chan?" I whimpered. Would she not want anything to do with me because the Alice people were coming to take me away? She rolled back over, her teddy bear wrapped in her arms.
"Hoshi-Chan...I want you to have Beary." She said. My eyes went wide.
"Tsuki-Chan, you can't sleep without beary! I can't take him, you won't be able to sleep!"
"It won't matter, I can't sleep without you here, anyway. It'll be too quiet. And...Hoshi-Chan...I want you to come back! I don't want you to leave!" Tsuki sniffled. I gave her a hug.
"Tsuki-Chan, I want you to have Snowy," I said, pulling my stuffed animal bunny over my shoulder and pushing it into her hands, "If you are giving me beary, I don't want you to forget me." Tsuki's eyes opened wide and were filled with tears.
"Hoshi-Chan..." She whispered. I reached over and brushed the hair out of her face.
"It's okay, I'll write to you. Everyday."
"But you leave tomorrow!" Tsuki cried.
"I know, Tsuki-Chan. Let's go to sleep now."
"No! I want to stay up all night with you! It's the last night I'll see you till Christmas."
"Tsuki-Chan, the Alice people probably won't be happy if iI'm tired in the morning." I said. Tsuki sniffed and wiped her eyes.
"I know," She sniffed, "but I'm really going to miss you!"
"Tsuki-Chan..." I breathed, trying not to cry. I had to be strong for my Onee-Chan (Onee-Chan means sister or for a close sister-like figure.)
"I'll miss you, too."



That next morning was the worst morning of my life. My parents and Onee-Chan were very upset. Tears fell from me, too, and I cried harder when Tsuki clung to me. But when the Alice people had had enough, they took me into their black car, and I watched out the back window as my family dissapeared.


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Now, I'm fifteen, and I'm in the middle school division of the Alice Academy. There are certain forms of containment for Alice use if the person is bad, like the star Tsubasa-Andou-Kun has, well, I have two. Ever since I'd been taken from my family, I've been trying to escape. This place was like a prison to me. It wasn't fair that they just took me like that. Even the mother robot wasn't any help. She just yelled and told me to keep my room clean. There was something strange about it, though. My Alice, I mean. I wasn't that great of a student -I always got into trouble, but I always kept good grades -and somehow I have a special star. Even though I've kept good grades for the ten years I've called this place home, I've never gotten to see my parents or sister since the day the Alice people took me away. I was taken when I was five; when I turned thirteen, I got one of the biggest surprises of my life. They found out Tsuki had an Alice! We were both classified in the S.A. types, and we were very close. Harada Misaki was one of my best friends; she had been my friend through elementary, and she is only a year ahead of me. Now I'm fifteen and Tsuki and I are closer than ever, since we were denied the time to spend our childhood together.

Oh yeah! I almost forgot to tell you my Alice, I can turn invisible.

You must be wondering why I have two stars on my left cheek. When I first came here, it was almost easy to escape the first time. I actually almost made it home. When I was returned, I was punished, and given one star. This star didn't work very well, you see, because for some reason I could tolerate the shocks it gave me when I was invisible. So when they caught me the second time, they gave me another star. That one stopped me, because when activated, the pain made me loose my breathe and I would fall to the ground. Some say this is cruel; I'm one of them. That's just not right! Anyway, when one of the teachers (Narumi) found out what the second star did, he had the chairman make the power level go down so that I wouldn't fall over evertime it was activated. Narumi was almost like an older brother to me, but he wasn't exactly like one. He always helped me, but so did my friends. My friends were the ones in the S.A. class. They were, in many ways, my family. But not the same.