This is a story idea that was actually inspired by watching High Guardian Spice and me being interested in the potential the show had but wasn't able to express.
This story is about four students attending a fantasy academy, each one with different skills and abilities, their adventures would consist of dealing with school life, their peers, expectations from the adults in their lives, and a magical plague infecting the world.
The story takes place in a fantasy world called Eladore (WIP, might change this) full of magic, monsters, and all the classic fantasy medieval stuff. But currently, this is a plague of dark magic infecting the world called The Corruption, which infects living things and while it does sometimes kill, it mostly just infects living beings, turning them into more primal, monstrous versions of themselves, giving them the title of Corrupted Beings. While it infects beings different, the markings of being corrupted is very visible and and even has it's own form of magic known as Corrupted Magic. Knowledge of the Corruption is limited as people don't know much about it, but it often met with fear and disgust and Corrupted Beings are considered outcasts and dangers to the world.
The school is called Dreamlocke Academy, where the main characters attend. It is not necessarily just a magic school as it does teach magic, but that's not all there is. It offers four different tracks:
The Warrior Track: Teaches common combat and teaches students to be swordsmen, archers, hunters, rogues, and martial artists.
The Magic Track: Teaches magic such as elemental, celestial, fortunetelling, bard magic, and even necromancy.
The Crafting Track: Teaches various forms of crafting such as potion brewing, blacksmithing, rune smithing, carpentry, and tailoring.
The Caretaker Track: Teaches students to become healers, beast masters, horticulturists, historians, and grave keepers. Considered by some as the lesser track.
Students are placed in one track and primarily take classes in those tracks, but it is possible to take classes offered in the other tracks, like a person in the magic track can also take classes offered in the warrior track.
It's basically an American high school where students can enter at age 14, they attend school for four years.
Orion: Orion is a student in the Caretaker Track, training to become a beast master. Orion is a corrupted being, thus marking him as an outcast by others, making him a target of bullying and suspicion. Orion has a natural affinity for animals and finds it easier to talk to them than to humans. His corruption gives him challenges, but also advantages that he learns to use. He is more or less the 'main' main character as his story is about self-love and learning more about his corruption.
Presley: Presley is a student in the Magic Track, training to be a bard, and Orion's best friend since childhood, and his only friend for a long time. Presley is much more extroverted than Orion and wants to learn all types of magic and learn how to combine it with his bard magic. As Orion's friend, he is loyal, protective, and tries to encourage Orion to come out of his shell. He is a guy that has a thirst for knowledge and wants learn all he can, even about the corruption, which can result in him being in over his head at times and needed to learn to restrain himself at times.
Seraphina: Seraphina is a student in the Warrior Track, training to be an archer. She doesn't start out as a friend of Orion or Presley as she is suspicious of Orion due to being corrupted and thinks Presley is endangering himself by being around Orion. But overtime, she learns that Orion isn't bad and much of her character development is learning that corrupted beings are not entirely evil and goes from seeing Orion as just an exception to that mindset and to that not all corrupted beings are evil.
Bianca: Bianca is a student in the Crafting Track, training to be a potion brewer, Seraphina's best friend, and Orion's love interest. Bianca is a skilled potion brewer, considered a prodigy, and also studies horticulture and elemental magic, having an affinity for plants. Despite her skill, Bianca is shy and often the target of bullies, often being protected by Seraphina. She learns to be more confident in herself and being proud of her skills and knowledge. Orion sees her as beautiful, intelligent, and kind, and often gets tongue-tied when around her.
Nyx: Nyx is a hatchling Shadow Dragon and Orion's pet/familiar. She is a baby dragon Orion found as a lonely egg and raised her, forming a close and affectionate bond. Orion adores and often spoils Nyx, treating her like his baby. Nyx loves Orion and is very affectionate, protective, and often possessive of him. She doesn't like other humans, but likes Presley and is affectionate to him as well, just not as much as she is to Orion, and she learns to like Seraphina and Bianca.
They are all 14 and first-year students at Dreamlocke Academy.
I'll get into more details about these things later in the future, but this is the basic information about my story idea. And I might edit some of my ideas later. If anyone has questions, don't hesitate to ask and I'll answer the best I can.