Earth,

Year: 220 A.B.

1st April,

Alvish's POV,

New sessions of schools have started as it is the first day of April. And I'm standing here right before the room which has a name displaying over its entrance, saying 'CLASS 9'A'.

This is my new classroom… of my new school, Aragona Knowledge Lake Middle+Junior highschool.

Actually my family just moved here yesterday from our previous hometown, because of a sudden shiftment in my dad's work department. But thankfully we were told a little beforehand so we were able to take care of my admission and stuff regarding my school in time. And since I had scored well in my entrance exam, I got a seat in section A.

Aragona is a middle school plus junior highschool so it has standards up to 10, which means I'll be studying here for another year after this year. 

Anyways, let's see what kind of people it has…

I pushed the door open and took my first step in. And what came in front of my vision left me stunned. Actually to be honest I was kind of excited to meet new people but the whole classroom was empty.

Not even a single soul was there!

Inside, the classroom had 4 rows of desks with each row having 5 seats. And all of them were empty. But the room was clean, which was good. The desks and chairs were clean too, specially mirror polished, so much that literally the sunlight was being reflected into my eyes. 

Yes, the entrance was on the West side of the room, more specifically on the South West. The classroom had huge windows on its East side's wall and large curtains covering them. So the little bit of light rays which were managing to pass through were being reflected by the polished desks and hitting me.

There were some minutes left until 7 when I left home, and the time of arrival is between 7 to 7:30. So I guess it's just me who is early. My home really ain't much far from the school. It's just around some hundred metres which takes like 7 to 10 minutes to walk, 15 if you walk like a sloth. So I think it really is the reason.

There was also a chair and table, being paired separately in front of the class. They also had a different design than the rest of the desks and chairs. Believably they were for the teacher.

While ignoring all that I went ahead and took a seat. I took the first seat of the second row from the entrance, third from the window side. While sitting there I saw a large green board hanging on the wall in front of me. It looked like a normal writing board at first, like any usual school has but it had something noticeable on it. On its top right corner there was time written on it in digital format, saying, "07:09 AM". It seemed like someone had written it on it with chalk. But who would write time on a green board?

Beside time it even had today's date and weather report written on it. 

It felt quite suspicious.

I was confused for a moment but then suddenly I remembered something which explained it all to me. I took out my phone and lifted it up, putting it side by side with the time on the board, in my vision. And I saw the minute digits turn from '09' to '10' on both my phone and the board at the same time. 

I knew that it was that thing!!

I immediately stood up and went to the board.

When seeing it from close here it doesn't look any different from an ordinary green board. The same can be said from afar. It has the same little rough surface to create friction to make it easy to write with chalk, the same texture of deep green colour and etcetera.

But this is exactly what the speciality of this thing is.

I pulled up my arm and placed one of my fingers on the board, and moved it, drawing a wavy line on it. And what happened was exactly what I was expecting. As I started moving my finger a mark that looked like a full stop made by a chalk appeared on the board, on the same spot where my finger was before and it even started following my finger while being dragged, leaving a line behind on the path it had just run on.

Yes, it's not an ordinary writing board.

But a ZeadaR's screen.

A ZeadaR's screen, or commonly called a Chameleon screen by people. It's a special type of screen that uses a different method for projecting or displaying graphics on itself, from normal screens. While a normal screen emits RGB lights from it's pixels to draw or present a graphic, a ZeadaR's screen actually changes it's pixels' colours by absorbing the other wavelengths of light. And since they change colour people call them chameleon screen. Also this is why it's so hard to tell them apart from normal objects when they aren't playing a film on themselves.

They are considered the best to be used in educational institutes. Because unlike any other writing board or projector they don't have any flaws rather than just being expensive and not working in the dark. I mean neither other writing boards work in the dark and about the projectors or monitors then they don't work well in light. So it doesn't really make any difference. 

My previous school didn't have any but it seems like Aragona has one for each of its classrooms.

Suddenly I started hearing footsteps while I was beheld by the ZeadaR's screen. They were coming from the entrance. I turned around to the sound and saw a boy walking straight towards me. He had yet to enter the classroom but he was very tall and to be honest quite handsome too, also he was wearing the school uniform. 

"Good morning!" He greeted me while marching directly to me after he entered the classroom and asked, "Are you a newcomer?" 

I was surprised because I wasn't expecting him to say anything to me and it was very direct. But I got a hold on myself and replied, "Y-ya… yes, I am"

"That's good, by the way I'm Rem. Nice to meet you!!" He introduced himself as he stopped in front of me and moved forward his hand for a handshake.

Now that I look at him from up close here, he isn't as tall as I had assumed. His height is the same as mine, maybe just a few centimetres apart, which is weird. Maybe he is one of those people who just look tall from afar but when you stand next to them, you realise they actually are not that tall at all. But it doesn't mean that I'm saying he is not tall, he is tall. It's just me who is a taller girl than average. Also it doesn't change the fact that he is handsome. 

"My name is Alvish. Nice to meet you too!" I introduced myself while shaking hands with him.

Rem has brown eyes and short light brown hair. Coincidentally, I have brown hair too. But mine are longer than my shoulder length and are dark, so dark that they are often mistaken for black. I even had to dye their ends with a lighter variant of brown because of that. It helps people recognise the right colour as they see it change deeper to lighter. So yes, the brown in my hair gets lighter as it gets down. Also, my eyes are brown too.

"Alvish??" He repeated as if he was confirming if he pronounced it correctly.

"Yes!"

"Have you changed your name?" He asked while still holding onto my hand.

Actually what he's talking about, is a law here. It gives people the right to change their name to anything that they want, if they don't like their given name. Also it doesn't have anything to do with your parents being upset or your elders denying it. No one has the right to stop you from changing your name if you want to. You can even remove your family name from it if you wish and have a single worded name. But still it doesn't change the fact that a person will only call you by what they want to. For example if they want to call you 'Idiot' then they will, it doesn't matter even if you're Adolf Hitler.

And about my name? Then…

"Yes I have," I answered.

"That's a nice name you have picked, hope we'll have a good year." He finally let go of my hand and walked off, probably to take his seat, while I watched him go.

But while going he suddenly turned around to me and said, "By the way I'm a veteran. So if there's anything you have doubts about then feel free to ask me!"

Oh, so he's a veteran. Well, it was guessable since mostly new students get seats in lower sections. Also, he looked very confident while he walked into the classroom so it's not very surprising.

But about doubts then I do have one.

"Aa- then, This is a Chameleon screen, right?" I asked while pointing at the board beside.

"Yes, it's a Chameleon screen. Actually all the technologies that our school uses are mentioned in the school's website, also in the admission papers that you might have got before, while admitting" Rem replied.

Now that he said that I'm feeling like I just asked something stupid. It all 'cause as I said before I was busy preparing for the shiftment, so I didn't get much time to read it in detail or you can say I forgot.

I know, it sounds stupid but in truth it's embarrassing too.

"Actually in my previous school they didn't have one so I was a little excited to see it work!" I just said whatever came to my mind.

Of course, I would've sounded stupid if I had said I forgot to read.

"Oh! Well I am glad that I could be of any help. Is there anything else that you have any doubts about?" 

"Oh no no, it was just this one. Also, thank you for helping me!!" I said. After that I went back to my seat and Rem also went to the seat he was about to take. He took the front seat of the row beside the window. 

After talking to him I believe he's a nice guy since his words are humble and also he even helped me so he really is kind.

Sooner other students started to appear too. And after like 10 more minutes finally the class teacher came.

"Hello everyone, I'm Remon Targil. You all can call me Mr. Targil. I'm going to be your class teacher and maths teacher for this year." Our class teacher, Mr. Targil said while putting the attendance book on the table. "Okay, so let's do the attendance first then we'll continue with your introductions."

Then Mr. Targil simply started calling the roll number of everyone one by one, while sitting on the chair in front of the class, facing towards us.

"Roll no. 1?"

"Present sir!" Rem said while raising his right arm.

Okay that was surprising, I hadn't thought that Rem would actually be the class topper. But now that I think about it, the way he's so disciplined he actually deserves it.

"Roll no. 2?"

"Absent!" A girl sitting between me and Rem answered.

"Roll no. 3?"

"Yes sir!" That girl answered again.

And soon after some students my roll number came too, which was 10 and I gave my attendance.

After attendance we all started giving our introductions one by one. The first one to introduce himself was Rem since he was sitting on the front seat of the row by the window, after him the one sitting behind him gave his intro and the line went like that.

I didn't give much attention to others' introductions because I was lost in some thoughts. Actually I was looking at those empty seats which were of the students who were absent. They were like 5. But I did hear Rem's, not very clearly though.

He introduced himself simply. He told his roll number and name along with his surname, which I couldn't hear clearly. But it sounded to be ending with something like 'Er'. And then he ended his introduction with a good luck message for the whole year to everyone.

And after 2 rows finally my turn came too.

"Hello everyone, my name's Alvish." I said as I stood up. "I know my name might sound a bit strange but I had picked this name cause I had thought it would sound cool when I become the greatest lord of all time!"

A LORD, Huh? 

I know some might ask…

Although so many years have passed since the betrayal war, the other civilizations still attack and declare wars against us. But they mostly take place among the stars, in outer space. 

And the people who protect us by fighting in those wars, against them are called LORDS.

Lords are expert in using their shades and with them they fight in wars and do outer space missions. They are also ranked by their performances and so the higher ranked lords are considered to be more stronger than lower. The top 14 lords are the most popular ones and so they are called THE FOURTEEN LORDS. And since of their strength they are specially assigned for protecting Earth during the wars. They are like celebrities here since they're so cool, wearing long overcoats of different colours which float in the air like clothes do in the weightlessness of outer space and doing overpowered things. But their identities are kept hidden from the normal civilians and that is why they are called by their ranks. 

Even though wars mostly take place in outer space and don't reach us, sometimes they do. And despite being so young, there's a war that even I have witnessed, the Alliance war. And that was the day when I met the person that I want to be like, One.