A chronicle of Fire

"Oh come on Blaine, try to smile. A new place, new start, and you get cooking duty!" Blaine's cousin Marquel mused as she drove Blaine from the airport. She was a senior in High school now. Eighteen years old and a tall husky women. Broad shouldered, athletic, and stood at six feet tall with a basketball players build. She had long dark brown hair that came down to her lower back and was pretty in her own way, but her smile was what sealed the deal.

"You can't be that cruel," Blaine replied in a calm tone as he turned and gazed at his cousin with his obsidian black eyes.

"Pffft you know you make grilled cheese better than we do Blaine," Marquel replied with a laugh as she pulled into their apartment.
It was several brick buildings inside a brick fence with a gate that had a keypad. The code was 4737 for them, which Blaine memorized on the car ride to his new home.

"Nice place sis," Blaine remarked as he popped the trunk from the glove compartment button.

"Thanks, Kaleb and I both work part time to pay for it, so get a job so we can start living like big players," Marquel told him teasingly as Blaine went to the back to grab his things.

"What other things does this place have?" Blaine asked with the barest hint of a smile on his face. His cousin's cheery attitude was getting to him little by little. But she always knew just how to make him smile since they were babies.

"Glad you asked. Okay we have a workout room, a hottub, a swimming pool, and a sauna in the main building. Other than that, we have WiFi and Direct TV so you wouldn't be bored. And if I hadn't mentioned, Kaleb and I made the basket ball team," Marquel boasted with a smile.

"You guys carry the team?" Blaine asked as he slung a duffle bag over his back and pulled out a grey suitcase.

"Strangely no, there's this girl named Rainbow Dash who's the Captain. She's even better than we are," Marquel admitted.

"Really? And here I didn't think that was possible," Blaine replied as he began walking with his cousin towards the sidewalk.

"Not by much, but enough where she best Kaleb one on one at 21," Marquel said asshe walked with him.

"She beat Kaleb at 21?" Blaine asked while looking at her incredulously.

"It was 20 to 21, but the Rainbow haired girl won," Marquel said dourly.

"Now who's the one being dour?" Blaine asked seemingly amused at his cousin's reaction

"Oh shush you," She replied as another girl appeared at the glass doors that led into the apartment. Immediatly Blaine's usually calm expression broke into a wide grin as he repeated the action he did when he saw Marquel at the airport.

"Kaleb!" He shouted as he quickened his pace towards his seventeen year old cousin.

"How you doing stud?!" She asked as she met him halfway and gave him a bear hug. Like Marquel she was tall. Being just a inch under six feet while Blaine was a inch above. But her build was similar to Blaine's rather than Marquels. The was lean and athletic with a slender frame, and was more quick and and graceful rather than being strong and fast like Marquel. She shared her sisters traits of having dark brown hair, and dark brown eyes with long thick eyelashes. A trait all three of them shared. But shared Blaine's sun kissed skin, high sharp cheekbones, and hair hair came to her mid back while Blaine's was medium length coal black hair that came down to his eyes. But they shared the unique trait of being left handed.

"So lets go inside, I'm hungry and Marquel says your on cooking duty," Blaine told her as he broke away from the hug.

"Oh did she now?" Kaleb asked while glancing at her sister. "Well then, if that's how it's going to be. The we're going to Pizza hut," she declared.

"Fine with me," Marquel said.

"Then let's go, I haven't eaten since before I got on the plane," Blaine grumbled.

"Alright, let's take my car. The AC actually works," Kaleb remarked.

"Hey, first off. Don't diss the car. And second, let's unpack Blaine's things first," The eldest of the three said.

Inside was the apartment was impressive even for Blaine. There was a black leather couch, a glass coffee table, a flat screen on top of a T.V. stand, and a shelf with scores of movies.

"Nice place you got sister Kaleb and sister Marquel," Blaine remarked as he put his bags down and entered the kitchen to see a large wooden table.

"Thanks, we spent all our money and managed to win a scratch ticket when Marquel turned eighteen," Kaleb said as she pulled his bags into a back room past the hallway.

"Oh really? How much?" Blaine asked.

"Twenty-seven hundred," Marquel answered.

"Nice," said Blaine turning he followed Kaleb to the back and entered what would be his room. Once inside he saw Kaleb unloading his clothes into a wooden drawer inside the closet which was the most expensive piece of furniture in the room. In the corner was a queen sized futon mattress with two white pillows and a grey blanket. Next to it was a lamp, but other than that, the place was bare.

"Huh, my room not in the budget?" Blaine asked calmly.

"Don't get your panties in a wad, we barely had time to prepare for you," Kaleb said as she began folding his pants.

Blaine merely scoffed at that and crouched next to her. Taking clothes and helping her put his stuff away. Which wasn't much. Three pairs of means. A dozen pairs of boxers, half a dozen dark colored T-shirts, many pairs of socks, and two jackets. One being a winter jacket that was on the thinner side and wasn't puffy. And the other one being a hooded slim fit leather jacket.

"There he's unpacked! Lets go!" Kaleb called as she left Blaine's room and then the apartment

"Hold your horses," Marquel called as she and Blaine followed.

The Pizza Hut was a simple delicious house of sin. Or at least that's what Blaine thought as he followed Kaleb inside with his other cousin following.

"Okay what do you want Blaine?" Kaleb asked as she began ordering the Pizzas for them.

"Hmmmm well I really wanted a Pizza," Blaine remarked bluntly.

"Haha very funny, what kind?"

"I'll take a supreme pizza,"

"Two large Pizzas, one pepperoni, and one supreme," Kaleb ordered.

"And what would you like to drink?" The blue haired worker with the nametag written Flash Sentry on it asked.

"Three Dr. Peppers," Kaleb responded as Blaine went and sat next to Marquel.

"So what'd she get us to drink?"

"Something liquid that's probably unhealthy for us,"

"Alright Mr. Sassy pants, but keep this up and well put you to dishwater duty,"

"Your right, your dishwasher has been making strange noises lately,"

"What do you mean?"

"Well recently I heard them ordering pizza," Blaine replied in the same calm tone he always used his eldest cousin stared at him for several seconds before she burst out into laughter.

Not long after Kaleb brought their pops. "Alright child, here's how it's going to go. We take you to school in the morning. We ditch you at the office. Then depending on how things go, we make our way to the lunch room and we sit at the cool kids table," Kaleb instructed.

"Okay, and who are the cool kids?" Blaine asked innocently.

"For that I'm stealing your fries," Kaleb shot back. "And once you're official student at Canderlot High school, home of the wondercolts. You'll be given a tour and a group of girls might give you a pair of plastic pony ears and a tail. We expect you to destroy them," she added.

"Fine, anything else?" Blaine asked.

"Yes, try to smile a bit Mr. Gloomy,"

".......don't you think that's asking. Too much?"

Before they could continue longer Flash Sentry brought their pizzas. "Here you guys go. Enjoy, and have a wonderful night," He told them before going back to work. Once he was gone, the three cousins began eating and continued their sassy remarks to each other.

The next morning Blaine rode with Marquel to Canderlot High. She led him through the halls towards the office and Blaine knew one thung. All these kids were crazy! They dressed in flashy colors, and took up the weirdest fashion designs. Like this 6'6 heavily muscular kid had a dumbbell on his shirt. And this with greed dreadlocks was a eco maniac.

Once at the front office, his eldest cousin took her leave and left Blaine to a women with blue hair.

"Hello Mr. High-Elk. On behalf of Canderlot High, I would like to be welcome you to our school," Vice Principal Luna told him.

"Thanks," Blaine replied lowly.

"Now, in order to begin your classes. We'll have to see where you stand as of now," She said while turning to her computer and pulling up his file. "Now out of the 22 credits you need to graduate you have..... 17.5 credits?" Vice Principal Luna asked clearly surprised.

"Yeah, I took summer school to speed things along," Blaine remarked.

"I must say Mr. High-Elk, there are only two other students with that kind of ambition that attend this school. One being your cousin Kaleb,"

"Yeah she and I were always called the prodigies in our family. It's a endless competition who's smarter and yet we're always helping the other catch up," Blaine remarked.

"Interesting, well I can put you into into our advanced Math class, seeing as you still need a credit and a half of that. You'll need a foreign language class, history is also required to graduate in this school district. We also require three years of physical education so I'll give you a choice of our standard Gym class, cardio, or weight training,"

"I'll take the weight training please,"

"Okay, and that leaves foreign language. We have Spanish, German, French, and Greek," She told him.
"Well I already know some Spanish so I'll take... French,"

"Perfect, now adding in History, you still have two open periods. And you still need at least one more credit in science,"

"Do you have Biology 2?"

"In fact we do, now we have one last period to fill. Which would be your third. But why don't we fill it with a elective so you won't be bored all day?"

"Sure, what kind of art classes do you have?"

"We have 2-D drawing, clay, advanced clay, and advanced art which pretty much a painting class,"

"I'll take advanced art please,"

"Great, and that will be it," Vice Principal Luna said while printing off his schedule. "We have open lunch, but our school lunch is free, and is officially the best one the east coast. Our lunch attendants always prepare fresh home cooked meals, and have a variety of foods that suit for all. So while you may leave if you wish, more than likely our cafeteria will suit your needs just fine," she finished and handed him his schedule.

1. Advanced Math 1 R113
2. History 2 R322
3. Advanced Art R221
4. Lunch
5. French 1 R317
6. Weights G101
7. Biology 2 R308

"Great now that you're officially enrolled. We'll have someone give you a tour. And your timing couldn't have been any better. We also have three girls who also enrolled today. So you'll be taking the tour with them," She told him while motioning towards the front hall.

Blaine after saying goodbye walked outside the main office. Glancing at the time as he walked out. Wow, that took longer than I thought. It's almost lunchtime Blaine thought as he glanced around.

"Sunset Shimmer please report to the front office," a voice sounds on the intercom.

"Hey look! Another new student!" A cheery voice practically shouted somewhere to his left. And like right next to his left.

"Gwaaaaaia!" Blaine shouted as he jumped away while spinning towards the source of the voice. What he saw were three of the most beautiful girls Blaine had ever laid his eyes on. They stood in a group, the center one was a tall haughty looking blonde girl with a curvy body that Blaine immediatly had to stop from looking at. She dressed in a pink and purple outfit that complimented her figure and finished with a golden belt.
The next was a tall slender blue haired girl that was a inch or so taller than the blonde girl, but she wore a pink skirt that wasn't to short, but wasn't exactly long either. On her shoulders was a pink button up short with her sleeves rolled up. The last was a short purple haired girl with green highlights. Like the blue haired girl, she was slender, but had more of a punk rocker look about her.

"Oh I'm sorry, did I scare you?" The voice asked sounding concerned. Blaine replied with silence.

"Oh no! I scared him speechless!" The blue haired girl exclaimed looking horrified which earned groans from the other two.

"Sonota, you didn't scare him speechless, he just isn't responding," The blonde girl stated.

"But don't be surprised if he just doesn't want to talk to you," The short one said coldly

"Nuh uh! Maybe he doesn't want to speak to you either Aria!" The one called Sonota shot back.

"Would you two stop bickering? Your giving our guest the wrong impression,"

"Why Adagio? It's not like he can even talk," Aria stated.

"I can talk,"

"Well that answers that," Adagio said.

"Hi! I'm Sonota, what's your name?" Sonota asked to which Blaine responded with silence.

"See he doesn't like speaking to you, let me ask. Hey Punk, what's your name?"

Blaine stayed silent which earned a bone chilling scowl from Aria. But Blaine kept his calm expression even then.

"My my, quiet one aren't you?" Adagio asked as she walked towards him with her hips taking a natural swing with each step. Blaine's heart sped up as she got closer, but he held his ground.

"Why you really know how to break a girl's heart you know. Not answering even when we asked nicely," Adagio said while gently stroking his chin as she circled him. Blaine's immediate reaction would have been to slap it away, but seeing as she wasn't doing any actual harm. He held his hand in check.

"Would you please tell us your name?" She requested in a honeyed voice. Blaine once again answered with silence. Sonota seemed put down by that, but Aria seemed to grow even more irritated at the prospect. Yet Adagio's appearance didn't seem dissuaded in the slightest. In fact it seemed to be even more intrigued at Blaine's silence.

"My my you're interesting," She said as her dainty arms gently rubbed her shoulders. "I'll make you a deal. I'll tell you something about me and then you tell us your name," she said in that same honeyed voice Marqel would warn not to trust. But if it got them to stop caressing a guy she just met. He'd do it. Slowly Blaine nodded

"Alright, ladies first. My name is Adagio Dazzle, and these two idiots are part my of singing group known as the Dazzlings," She told him

"My name is Blaine High-Elk," Blaine said calmly.

"Well Blaine, was that so hard?" Adagio asked while she walked back to her two friends who shot her dirty looks for calling them idiots. Thankfully, before any of them could ask anymore pointless questions. A new voice rang out.

"Excuse me, are you four the people I'm supposed to show around?" A fiery haired girl asked as she approached them.

"We are," Adagio said with a grin as a turned to face them. This new girl looks like a biker chick, which Blaine didn't mind, but he retreated back into his silence as he studied the four girls around him.

The tour ended up being mildly interesting. Blaine noticed there was plenty of dimly lit hallways, vending machines, and a lot of empty band rooms. The girl that was called Sunset Shimmer was a pretty nice girl. But any idiot could tell something was off with how she avoided the topic of the past. Which was fine with Blaine. He didn't plan on giving a single detail about his past. What really intrigued Bliane the most was the athletic wing. The weight room was the best Blaine had ever seen. Despite being pretty lean, Blaine had neglected his daily pushups and sit ups since Halloween. Three months later he went from being as fit as Kaleb to being more bony than muscle. So along average in terms of physical health. But with this weight room with machines he never even knew existed, he could change that.

As the tour began finishing up, Blaine slowly tuned out. Only focusing when he heard Adagio give a embarrassed laugh while letting Sunset Shimmer's hand go. "These gems mean so much to us, and we'd hate to see them get broken," Adagio said while making a hasty retreat with Aria leaving as well. Only to come back and drag Sonota who had just been standing there.

"Well that was strange," Blaine remarked.

"You think so?" Sunset Shimmer asked

"Pretty much, she nearly broke your wrist, but those amulets were pretty nice looking," Blaine replied as he heard the shuffle of feat behind him.

"There you are! I've been looking all over for you! Marquel went out to eat, but I've elected to stay here," Kaleb's voice said as she appeared next to them. When she saw Sunset Shimmer she seemed to turn several shades colder and glared at the girl as Sunset Shimmer looked away in..... shame? "Lets go," Kaleb said before dragging him into the lunchroom.

"So what was that about?" Blaine asked as they grabbed tacos and went to their seats.

"We've had uh.... bad history,"

"Was it bad enough for me to hate her?"

"No, just enough for me to not like her. You can have a fresh opinion,"

"Good because that girl was pretty damn hot,"

"Oh come on Blaine, you could do better than that,"

"I doubt I could, but man did you see how hot she was?"

"Please explain then,"

"I mean, that skirt was up to her knees and that a-" Blaine began before his cousin smacked him on the back of his head hard.

"I didn't actually mean it you dolt!"

"You're the one who asked!"

"I don't care about that!"

"Your fault Kaleb!"

As the two cousins continued to bicker with each other the doors burst open and the sound of vocalizing came as he saw the Dazzlings enter... singing?

"Okay what's this about?" Kaleb asked.

"High school musical?" Blaine suggested.

"Please! With your weak ass bars! You'd be lucky to even make it past the first round Snips!" Kaleb said angrily as she and Blaine fuming with ambition argued with Snips and Snails. Which Blaine wasn't sure why, but it felt right at the moment.

"I'm still a better rapper than you Low-Elk!" Snails shot back.

"It's High-Elk you stupid genius, and if you're better than us. Why don't we have a little rap battle right here right now?" Blaine suggested.

"You're on! They call me MC Snails... yo!"

"Alright, let's get it on then! Snails head or tails," Kaleb asked as she pulled out a coin. By now they assembled a small crowd who were shifting their gazes back and forth.

"I'll take heads!" Snails declared. After Kaleb flipped the coin she turned back to Snails. "Alright you win, you who do you want to go first?"

"I'll go first!" Snails declared which caused Kaleb to stare at him for several seconds.

"Alright, you know the rules, but because I'm not sure dumb and dumber know them, I'll repeat them. You each get forty five seconds, anything goes. Once we're finished the crowd decides," Kaleb said before saying "Go!"

"Alright uh. My my name is Snails and my reign hails!
And I'm here to win his battle, so be prepared to be herded like a.... a cattle!
Now when it comes down to this you look a fool.
But not me because I like um... go to this school!
Now when you stand there in that fake leather jacket.
You start to look a little ridiculous, almost like you're holding a tennis racket
Now with that said, quit trying to act so cool.
Because in this rap battle, MC Snails is the one to rule!" Snails spat out with a satisfied smirk on his face.

"Okay okay, you did good. Still weak ass bars, but you at least rhymed. Now your up Cuz!"

"Okay that was low key terrible Mr. MC. In fact I feel sorry about who your wife'll be
Now if that's all you got MC Bob. Then take my advice and keep your day job.
And stop making fun of my jacket alright? Because by obviously you're not to bright.
Its obvious you don't look in the mirror you see. Because you look like you're a product reject of the dollar tree.
Now that this is over, please give me back my tennis racket, and do what you do best which is go home and whack it," Blaine finished with a lot of laughter. When Kaleb asked who won, most of them motioned towards Blaine.

"Finally that's over," Blaine muttered to himself as he turned and made his way out of the crowd. Once outside of the lunchroom he rested against the locker and let out a sigh. He hated crowds.

"So, Mr. High-Elk does speak. And even more so, he can rap," A familiar voice said. Turning Blaine watched as Adagio sauntered towards him.

"Of course I can, but it's freestyling for your information,"

"Such a smart one aren't we? But anyways, how did you like our little song?" She asked as she approached him.

"It was better than my freestyling I'll give you that, now if you'll excuse me. I need to get to French class,"

"Perfect, that's actually my next class as well. You can be my escort?" She asked while wrapping her arm through his.

"Do I have a choice?"

"Of course not, not after you're under my spell,"

French Class ended up being more interesting than Blaine initially thought. Sure he wasn't learning as fast as he liked, but the worksheet was almost fun to do. Despite being three weeks behind everyone else in the semester.

Unfortunately for him, two boys were still bickering about the now Battle of the Bands. Flash Sentry and someone named Sandalwood. Which Blaine wouldn't have cared, except it made it hard to focus. Adagio on the other hand, purposely sat right in front of him. Leaning generously forward on her desk and sitting on her knees. Quietly vocalizing as the two boys bickered.

Blaine glanced up from his paper slightly and saw that she had now began arching her back. Quickly he looked down from the incredible view to not look like a pervert, but within a few moments his eyes began trailing up again. After starring for several seconds he looked down again. By now Adagio finished her worksheet and turned it in to the teacher before returning to her seat. Once she did, she pulled out a nail file and began working on her nails. But what bothered Blaine was the smirk she shot Blaine as she sat down. Making him wonder if she gave him a show on purpose... Or accident.

Weights.... that's what his favorite class so far was. Why? Three reasons, no endless writing, his cousin Marquel was his workout partner, and Sunset Shimmer was there as well.

"So those three girls just sang a song and everyone started fighting?" Marquel asked while she spotted Blaine at the bench press.

"Like High school musical," Blaine as he lifted 135lbs. Once he finished his we he sat up. "It was wierd, Kaleb and I were at the throats of these two weirdos named Snips and Snails. Now cme on, let's use that weird machine that'll give me a six pack," Blaine remarked while moving towards the machine. To which Marquel pulled him towards the dumbbells instead.

"You're working on arms first,"

At the dumbbells Blaine selected two 20lb dumbbells and began lifting them as instructed. As he did so be looked I the mirror at himself. He was about as Kaleb at the moment despite being two inches taller. Something he planned on changing very soon. But at the moment, he thought he looked pretty ripped with his muscles buldging at the moment.

"Quit flexing, you still are a scrawny little twig with Kaleb," Marquel teased.

"Still better looking than you," Blaine retorted.

"In which reality is this?"

"This one," Blaine replied while flexing his arms.

"My my, what big arms you have," Sunset Shimmer said encouragingly.

"What do you want Shimmer?" Marquel said while taking on a hostile demeanor.

"I... I just came by t say hi," Sunset Shimmer said while taking a step back.

"Well you said it,"

"Geeze, calm down Marqel, she just said hi," Blaine scolded.

"Blaine you don't know who she-" Marquel began.

"And I won't if you keep chasing her away with Kaleb,"

"Fine, it's getting late anyways. I'm hitting the showers," Marquel said while she walked off.

"Sorry about that, what's up?" Blaine asked.

"I was just coming to see how your first day was going,"

"Its been going... well it's school,"

Sunset replied with a laugh. "I guess that's the most honest answer I've heard," she stated.

"Probably, and I've heard that musical showcase turned into a battle of the Bands,"

"Unfortunately so, will you be participating?"

"Not likely, I need to find a job or I'll be phoneless,"

"Good luck with that. And by the way if you ever want to hang out just give me a text and we'll do it,"

Blaine paused at that. Wondering what I respond with. Sunset Shimmer, a 10/10 rating in looks... wants to hang out with him? "I'll need your number,"

"Well that was a sucky school. The women were beautiful, but the bullies aren't up to the task of a challenge, and half the school is abandoned," Blaine said while he got into the pasanger seat of Marquels car.

"I know, like two thirds if the classrooms aren't even in use," She mused before pulling out of the parkinglot. Surprisingly only a few cars were doing so. Of the roughly hundred cars that weren't staff. Most stayed, and even all the kids without a car were staying. Must have to do with that battle of the Bands thing.

"So what was your deal with Sunset Shimmer anyways? After I left,"

"She's pretty hot, and I have her number,"

"Wow.... Mr. Player huh?"

"Of course I am! And don't you forget it!"

"As you wish Sir player, text Kaleb, were going to a movie. I've had enough of school for the week," Marquel said as they drove off.