The Cat and The Shark

Today was a normal day like the others. Butan looked at the gate of his "beloved" school, entering it together with the crowd as the bell rang.

The students around him were very varied, you could see two dog students laughing at something on their phones, a crowd of catgirls chatting with each other, a wolf boy wearing all black hearing music on headphones, all sorts of animal people.

"Hey, get down here Tom! I already told you you can't fly over the school!!" The school doorman yelled at the bird boy flying over the school gate, who pretended to not hear anything and just flew over them while laughing.

Butan simply look at all of this with a deadeye, this was his second year and this was normal everyday occurrence.

'Can't wait for the summer vacation.' He thought as he walked to his class with his hands on his pocket, his right cat ear twitching a bit. They were 2 weeks away from summer vacation.

As he walked through the school hallways, he stopped at a door that had a sign named A-2, that was his class. He went to his seat, and took out his phone to pass time, he arrived early.

The teacher silently organized his stuff as he looked at the clock. The teacher was a white mouse wearing glasses. 10 minutes later, students started coming constantly. Butan silently judged them for arriving late as he played strategy games on his phone.

'This game sucks, I want to go back home and play hearts of iron already.' He played with his phone, looking bored.

"Okay students, put away your phones. Its time to begin." The teacher adjusted his rounded, black glasses.

Everyone stopped chatting with each other and put their phones on their backpacks, class was about to begin. The teacher took the chalk off the table was about to write something on the blackboard, no one would be arriving this late-

"WAIT A SECOND!!" A loud sound came from the door as all the students stared surprised. Who the hell was coming this late?

A shark girl, apparently panting from exhaustion, was at the door.

"I'm Sorry! I'm late again!" She scratched the back of her head from apparent embarrassment, with a awkward smile on her face.

"Miss Woofer, this is the third time this week already." The teacher sighed and shook his head. He simply pointed at a vacant seat and went back to writing something on the blackboard.

"Thanks teacher!!" She gave a slight bow with a praying gesture, then hurriedly went off to her seat.

'What's up with this woman...' Butan looked at her with a bit of interest with his lazy cat eyes, before looking back at the teacher giving the lecture.

After that abnormality, the class went on as normal. The same boring lectures that Butan, as a genius young boy, already knew. He sighed as he looked at the clock, waiting for it to end.

The shark girls on the other hand was having some trouble, she nervously looked at her notebook, then at the blackboard. She was apparently having trouble figuring something out as she started biting her pen out of anxiety, but when she took the pen out of her mouth, half of it was missing.

She looked at her now destroyed pen with worry, wondering how she was going to continue writing on her notebook.

'What a genius!' Butan looked at the shark girl with some amusement, a slight smile on his face. He silently left his seat with a pen on hand and walked towards her seat.

"Hey, woman, do you need a pen?"

"Hm? Yes, Thank you so much- Huh?" The shark girl looked behind her,but then had a face of confusion as she didn't find anyone.

"W-Who? Where are you? Are you some sort of kind ghost...?"

"Below you." Butan looked visibly irritated as he said that, obvious anger on his tone.

Woofer then finally looked at him, a short, white cat wearing a student uniform with straight black hair, holding out a pen. He looked somewhat annoyed at the shark girl.

"Oh thanks, Butan right? You are really cute." She lifted him up like a baby and looked at him. Her strength was surprising.

"Put me down woman!" Butan looked flustered as she giggled and put him back on the ground.

"Really, thanks for the help!"

"Just give the pen back once class is over." He turned around, annoyed, and went back to his seat. He didn't want to interact with her anymore.

Class went on as people kept writing on their notebooks, some very seriously while others very obviously didn't care about it. Butan, now curious to see how the shark girl was doing looked at her.

Woofer, who somehow sensed his gaze, looked back at him and waved with a smile. Butan looked away and pretended to have not seen it, as the shark girl giggled at his reaction.

The lecture ended, and the teacher started talking about giving a group assignment to them. The students made groans of dissatisfaction, clearly not keen on it.

"This assignment is important to your final grades this year, so you better treat it seriously!" Warned the teacher.

He then said the groups would be handpicked by him, to the students's disapproval. He started calling out names.

"Student Howard."

"Yes sir?"

"You will be forming a group with Likar."

"Okay."Answered the wolf boy named Howard, the one who was wearing all black at the school gate.

The teacher kept forming groups with different students one by one, until, Butan's turn finally was there.

"Student Butan."

"Yes teacher?" Butan looked bored as always.

"You will be forming a group with Woofer." The teacher calmly said.

"WHAT?"

And that was the start of their story.