{an1}[distant siren wailing]
{an1}It's a whole new ball game.
{an1}We're on a trajectory that will define the rest of our lives.
{an1}I have no trajectory.
{an1}on all I am, all I know. I have turned my back
{an1}That's a little dramatic. It's just high school.
{an1}Monstra vel Mixta venatur, Homo qui non Mythica,
inanis est concha!
- Our family motto. - What?
{an1}"A man who doesn't hunt Mythics, Monsters or Blendeds
{an1}"is not a man, but rather... rather an empty shell."
I am that shell.
{an1}Void of purpose, hopes and dreams.
{an1}Wow. A shooting star!
Move!
[loud whooshing]
[rumbling, crashing]
[creaking]
[tense music]
[rustling]
[panting] Whoa!
{an1}- Gotta work on landings, - [sighs]
{an1}but did you see that speed?
{an1}I think my powers are getting stronger.
- Carmie! - Sick!
{an1}You could have been killed.
{an1}Now who's being dramatic?
{an1}But there is a slight chance of that.
{an1}Remember, she has super strength.
{an1}Tomorrow is important. Whatever.
{an1}just to get through the day. We all need to be 100%
{an1}And you still have to be careful.
{an1}my shrinking nunchucks, Just because I hung up
{an1}throwing fans, and assorted grappling hooks,
{an1}doesn't mean that other hunters, not to mention your mother...
My mother is Aasha,
{an1}and She lives with me at 324 Sheridan Drive.
{an1}That other person is just someone
{an1}that the comic book lady says is my mother.
{an1}I will not hear or speak of her again.
Got it?
Good.
{an1}This year, no Blended drama
that I didn't see ♪ ♪ Don't you wish
♪ All of those eyes staring at me ♪
Aasha: There you go.
for your first day. Fresh nails
{an1}Are you nervous, honey?
{an1}Maybe. A little more excited, I think.
{an1}I'm gonna leave the past behind and start with a clean slate.
{an1}A brand new beginning.
{an1}Most of the people there don't know even who I am,
{an1}so I can be whatever and whoever I want to be.
{an1}All that is going through your head?
{an1}Well, a few other things, but that's most of it.
{an1}What was high school like for you, Mom?
It was exciting.
A little scary.
Everyone but me knew who they were.
I, uh, I met a boy.
- Dad? - No.
Mom!
{an1}Uh, but mostly I just started to think about
{an1}what I wanted in life.
Who I wanted to be.
{an1}That's what I'm gonna do.
Except the boy part. Not interested.
I'm gonna choose who want to be.
You have no choice.
{an1}- You will be a mythic. - Mom?
Shapeshifter?
{an1}And destroy all humankind.
No!
{an1}Destroy all humankind Shapeshifter [laughs]
[sighs]
[theme music plays]
{an1}[school bell ringing]
[hip hop music]
♪ Hey, ya, hey, ya ♪
{an1}I walk in the building ♪ ♪ Feel that energy when
{an1}copping inches on a million ♪ ♪ Turned up to the max,
{an1}♪ Headed to the top ♪
{an8}♪ 'Cause I'm able and I'm willing ♪
{an7}[boy in green] Sorry.
{an8}- Class 3B. - Whoops.
{an8}- Which room? - Watch it.
{an7}there's no room number. There's no...
{an7}We made it. High school.
{an7}New people, new experiences.
{an7}[boy in blue] watch out!
{an8}Am I invisible here?
{an7}Do you people walk with your eyes closed?
{an7}And the first step is finding the perfect thing to join.
{an8}No, not me.
{an1}I'm playing this high school game under the radar.
{an1}Be that person nobody notices until years later
{an1}when I'm so super famous,
{an1}they'll all say they hung out at the cafeteria with me.
{an1}You have a dark side.
{an1}But we need to find the perfect club, team,
{an1}extracurricular activity that connects us
{an1}to the high school stream.
{an1}[Leanna] Get your friendship bracelet!
{an1}Which means you have to follow me, smash that like,
{an1}and make sure to re-share every one of my posts.
[boy] [scoffs] Leanna!
I remember you. Christoph!
{an1}No, friends is out of the question.
{an1}Or you can be so strange that we become outsiders
{an1}for the rest of high school
and beyond.
♪
Hey, wait up!
- [bell ringing] - Watch it.
Don't mind me.
{an1}[chuckling nervously]
Move, kid.
- Excuse me. - Excuse you!
Human down below. Ouch!
{an1}Eight hundred and fifty-eight, Eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Here we go.
[grunts]
No! No, no, no, no!
- [kids laughing] - [Kev] Hello?!
{an1}- Anyone hear me? A little help! - [banging]
{an1}- Fourth period, social science. - Hello?!
- Room twe... - [grunting]
[shouting]
- [thudding] - [groaning]
[breathing shakily]
Oh, I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to!
{an1}I this is all my fault.
Wow.
{an1}- You pack quite a punch. - I didn't mean to.
{an1}I mean, how much can I pack? I'm not a suitcase.
{an1}I should've been watching where I was going
instead of checking my schedule.
{an1}[chuckling nervously]
{an1}Did you just get taller?
It's my forehead.
{an1}It makes me look taller than I am.
- Watch out! - What?
Sorry,
{an1}I thought that those skater kids were coming our way.
Some forehead. I'm Tristan.
Carmie. Lost.
- Of course you are. - I mean, freshman.
{an1}I know I would have met you, if you were here last year.
{an1}I would have liked to have met you too
{an1}if I was here last year, which I wasn't,
{an1}because I'm a freshman. obviously,
{an1}- You can stop me anytime. - No, not at all.
{an1}I hope you knock me down again soon.
{an1}But only if you want to. No pressure.
Good. No pressure.
{an1}I hope I knock you down soon too.
[giggles] Yeah.
Okay.
Look back.
[squealing]
[humming]
{an1}- [Kev] Anyone out there? Hello! - [banging]
My legs are starting to lock up!
{an1}Who you ride with determines who you dine with.
{an1}Leanna Live, it's great. Are you following?
{an1}Not on the 'gram. I prefer to keep a low profile.
{an1}Have you signed up for anything yet?
{an1}Three different clubs. Yes, duh.
{an1}It's a great way to expand my high school network.
What are you into?
{an1}Well, the old me was about truth.
[grunting] Justice.
[grunting]
Saving the world from monsters.
The new me
[sighs]
Searching.
{an1}Yeah, whatever that means, the computer club
{an1}has "you" written all over it.
{an1}Go! You'll thank me when your start-up
{an1}makes you a billionaire.
{an1}How many times do I have to tell you?
{an1}These are not the Jeweled Eyes of Isis.
It is too!
I have the paperwork to prove it.
{an1}Really, wow, this is very interesting.
Wow. Well
{an1}- My hammer proves it's not! - [glass smashing]
{an1}But if you hear of any Gorgon Blended running about,
let me know.
{an1}I'll make it worth your while.
Blended.
harder to keep. Hard to catch,
Worth a lot.
But is it worth it?
[chuckling]
[belching]
{an1}[shop bells jingling]
[belching]
{an1}Phew! That guy have rotten eggs in his pockets?
{an1}No, they just smell like that.
{an1}- Ah, you look terrible. - They?
{an1}How was your first day of high school?
Not good.
I was seen as aloof, In middle school,
{an1}mysterious, intelligent.
In high school, I'm nothing.
- Unseen and unheard. - Aww, Kev.
{an1}You were none of those things in middle school.
{an1}But I wouldn't worry about it.
{an1}is where dreams go to die. You see, high school
{an1}The best one can hope for is to get through it
{an1}with as little emotional scar tissue as possible,
{an1}and then onto a bigger world of broken dreams
and shattered hopes.
{an1}pathway to the great adventure I was told high school was a
called "life".
{an1}[scoffs] Well, who knows.
{an1}It's all pretty much random anyway.
{an1}Oh. This came for you.
{an1}And, uh, boxes don't move themselves.
It stinks like eggs.
[growling]
[giggling]
- I'm telling you, - Who are you?
{an1}the forest is all about having the freedom of not hiding
who I am, what I am.
{an1}I'm glad we moved here.
Looks good on you.
My time is coming, I can feel it.
{an1}My powers are getting stronger every day.
{an1}So, have you made the decision?
{an1}More and more, I'm thinking Mythic.
Why not?
{an1}We're more powerful and way more fun than human.
{an1}- True on both counts. - We're of nature.
We're necessary.
{an1}Humans still have a long way to go. What about you?
{an1}I haven't thought about it.
{an1}I just want to see what high school has for me.
I have time.
{an1}You do until you don't. Talk later.
Bye!
Hey!
Quite a punch girl!
{an1}Really? You forgot my name?
Never. Carmie.
Of course you do. You run track?
{an1}I mean, shorts, shoes, the fact that you were just running
{an1}pretty much gives it away. around the track
{an1}Yes, I am on the team. A decathlete.
{an1}What else would you be?
{an1}You thinking of joining? Don't hate.
{an1}Not to see you or anything. Yeah, that's why I'm here.
{an1}No, for the team joining thing.
{an1}You should, you'd only make it better.
{an1}Aren't you a good decathlete?
{an1}Oh, jokes. She has jokes.
[giggling]
{an1}Hey, Tristan, champions keep working when others stop.
Let's go! Let's go!
[giggles]
{an1}- All right, nice seeing you. - You too.
[phone chiming]
{an1}Another chapter of Leanna Live wrapping up my first day
of high school.
{an1}And I must tell my followers that honestly,
I am crushing it.
They love me here, and why not?
{an1}I'm setting fashion trends. Love the hat.
{an1}And I'm excelling in all my classes.
{an1}I've joined the cooking club, the Get Out and Vote club,
{an1}and, obvs, my favourite, the debate club.
{an1}'Cause, really, who is going to argue with this?
[whooshing]
Ugh!
Not inside, Carmie.
So, let's see it.
{an1}What took you so long?
{an1}I'm trying to ease up on the flying because
{an1}my landings have been brutal lately.
{an1}You need to compensate for getting stronger.
{an1}Really? You're still keeping all the Blended facts to yourself?
{an1}my intelligent, creative, Come on, let's see what
{an1}best friend has accomplished. and incredibly secret
{an1}You are correct on all points.
{an1}Let me present to you
{an1}the first comic from the artist "Kev, just Kev."
"Carmela: Half Vamp, Half Human."
{an1}Book one. "I Don't Bite Yet."
How sick is this?
Are you kidding me?
{an1}You wrote a comic about me?
What? No way!
Not at all.
{an1}Kev, you've finished it! Oh my, word!
- This is brilliant! - Thank you.
- Congratulations! - Thank you.
{an1}- You did this all by yourself? - Mm-hmm.
- [scoffs] - Oh
{an1}How do you come up with this stuff?
- Hello? - Wow
the similarities? You don't see
To who?
[both] No.
{an1}- [Collector] Oh, is it, um - Uh-uh.
- I don't - [Kev] No.
Good work, my boy. Good work.
{an1}- [Madison] Track team? - Yeah.
{an1}I should be able to do something on that team.
{an1}You have super speed, can fly,
{an1}and have ten times the strength of kids your age.
{an1}Girl, you can be an Olympian.
{an1}No, I'm not using my powers. That wouldn't be fair.
{an1}You know, one day we won't have to hold ourselves back
{an1}to fit in with humans.
{an1}One day, but not today.
Meet anyone cute?
{an1}You sound like my mother.
- [giggling] - Not really.
{an1}"Not really" means yes. Who?
{an1}Don't lie, your fangs are showing.
[giggling]
[Dylan] Where's Kev?
{an1}I'm debating if I'm speaking to him or not,
{an1}we needed a time out. so I told him
{an1}You spoke to him to tell him you're not speaking to him?
{an1}How else would he know?
{an1}And you should definitely ask somebody before
{an1}you put their entire life on blast.
{an1}Even if it is about you, which it's not,
it only covered the entire year.
Detail.
{an1}But he totally exposed me as a Blended
{an1}- to anyone who reads the comics. - Don't worry.
{an1}Who's gonna believe it except other hunters,
Blendeds, Mythics, The Shapeshifter.
I get it.
So, that happened on my first day.
- What about you? - Complicated.
{an1}I decided to expand my world, meet new people,
{an1}so I joined the computer club. try new things,
{an1}Wouldn't have called that, but okay.
Yeah, it was going really well.
{an1}I was playing Medieval Mayhem, battling for the castle,
fighting wizards.
- Yeah, it was. - So, good?
{an1}Until I heard a voice behind me yell out
{an1}It's gonna crush you! [girl]
{an1}So I went into action. [Dylan]
[grunting]
- [electricity zaps] - [panting]
{an1}may not be the best fit for me. [Dylan] They told me computers
[Carmie] I agree.
Too techy.
{an1}Maybe try something more from the heart.
[hip hop music]
♪
{an1}[boy] Doing the slo-mo!
{an1}Why are people staring at me and walking in slow motion?
Carmie! Whoa!
{an1}And yet, she keeps going.
Resilient.
{an1}The school really needs to let people know
{an1}when they polish the floors! [sighing]
{an1}well, really me, I posted Carmie so, you and I
went viral!
{an1}I pressed the slo-mo button, and
{an1}[no audible dialogue]
[whooshing]
{an1}Kev's comic book isn't your problem.
This is.
[sighs]
[sighing]
Guess who's speaking to you again.
{an1}That makes one person.
{an1}- [kids] Doing the slo-mo! - Ah, nice guys.
- Kev, you okay? - No.
{an1}I blew it in my social studies class.
{an1}They were talking about rising oceans,
{an1}and I brought up Atlantillians.
{an1}[Carmie] You did not say that.
[Kev]Yes, I did.
{an1}Everybody knows Atlantis is rising.
{an1}I'm not built for high school. But they just laughed at me.
{an1}No one knows or cares that I'm even here.
{an1}- Yes, but you have to. - I do.
{an1}Even when you're not talking to me.
Carmie Henley!?
{an1}Do you know that a day without sports is a day lost?
I'm Coach C.
{an1}I saw you running yesterday. Eh.
I mean I saw a video of you running.
{an1}But it showed me that your next game starts here.
{an1}As slow as that girl was talking and seeing you move
made me wonder, how fast is she?
{an1}Very fast, and strong.
{an1}You know, I bet she could do the long and the high jumps.
[Coach C] Great. Well, you know,
{an1}without the will to prepare. the will to win is nothing
Try-outs Friday!
Dare to be great!
- He talks weird. - That he does.
{an1}I'll see you on the track, Carmie.
{an1}Does everybody know you?
{an1}What is she thinking?
{an1}Carmie can't go to track try-outs.
{an1}People watching, parents recording.
{an1}She may slip into her powers, who knows who will see her?
{an1}Are you even listening to me?
{an1}Who gets banned from art club?
{an1}Not the ten people who make origami swans. No way.
{an1}But someone makes paper m;ch 10th century fortification,
- oh, out they go! - [smashing]
{an1}At least you're being noticed, no matter how weird a way.
{an1}I can't do four years of being invisible.
[groaning]
{an1}Hello! Human being here!
{an1}- What is she thinking? - Gosh.
{an1}This looks nothing like her!
{an1}The character's name is Carmela. She is Carmie.
{an1}You can't claim a name you hate.
{an1}Right. Her hair, purple. Totally different story.
Thank you.
{an1}Hey, man, can I take a look?
Me?
Sure.
{an1}- [boy] Yo, Benny, what you got? - Hey, guys.
You make this?
{an1}Wrote and drew every panel.
[talking quietly]
What's your name?
Kev.
Well, Kev,
keep at it.
{an1}Can't wait to see the next edition.
Very cool.
See you around.
{an1}♪ Oh, I'm feeling something, what's coming over me ♪
He said it was cool! Did you hear that?
{an1}- And they're really cool! - Well, obvs!
{an1}Big, strong, popular, perfect teeth
{an1}And they like your comic book
that is definitely not about Carmie.
{an1}I'm cool now. Visibly cool! Dylan.
Can't deny it.
[grunting]
[whooshing]
[glass shattering]
[car alarm blaring]
[tense music]
You are the one.
{an1}I found you, Vampling.
[wings flapping]
[theme music]