A/N: First fanfic! This is edited, since I got a little irritated on my writing style on the first few chapters. This story contains various pairings, but these parings here are straight. I'm sorry; I can't handle Yaoi and Yuri…
For the manas, I don't use "Mana of Wind" and stuff like that. I gave them proper names, actually. Velvet is the Mana of Wind (Jess's), Alhitus is the mana of Gold (Flay's), Lucresia is the mana of Life (Pamela's), Azterion is the mana of Light (Roxis's), and Alicia is the mana of Illusion (Anna's). I got lazy typing them all over again, so I decided to give them names to make it easier.
Enjoy and please review!
Disclaimer: of course, I don't own MK.
Synthesis 1: Start of it All (Vayne/Jess)
"So, what's that contraption on the plastic jar?" Roxis looked at Jess's newly conducted experiment. It was colored white, and liquid.
"Uh… I don't… know?" Jess smiled, shaking the jar. The jelly (?) did not move from its position. "Does that help?" Roxis rolled his eyes and adjusted his glasses.
"It doesn't look like food…" Pamela looked at it.
"Obviously. Did Jess even attempt to synthesize decent food?" said Roxis.
"No! Ask Velvet! I bet she never tried! And I hope she won't!" shouted Nikki, who was forced to drink Jess' daily dosage of throat "medicine" and was now lying on the couch.
Flay poked the jelly. He immediately removed his finger from the jelly. "Jess, did you make glue, quicksand, or something like that?"
"Why would I make that?" exclaimed Jess, moving the jar away from Flay.
"Should we be scared?" Anna muttered while slowly edging away from her pink-haired sempai.
"What kind of question is that? Of course we should be scared." said Roxis. "Anything made by Jess is equivalent to trouble."
"Roxis! You're so mean!" Jess shouted. "Do you know what this does? Who knows, it might be useful or something."
"Might," Roxis muttered. "Do you have any idea what it is, Vayne?"
"No," Vayne replied. "But we should be careful…"
"What is that supposed to mean, Vayne?" Jess nailed a look on Vayne.
"Uhm… It might explode or…"Before Vayne could continue his sentence, Jess's white contraption slightly shook.
"Is it me or did the jelly shake…?" Jess said.
"I thought it was just me," Anna replied, but she backed off even more.
It shook once more.
"Uh-oh." Flay also proceeded to back off.
It shook again. Until…
"Duck!" Flay shouted. "It might explode!" Everyone ducked, except for Vayne, who threw the jar away immediately to the ground, and grabbed Jess in time.
Boom! Big glops of white liquid scattered over them like rain. After a while, Anna stood up from her hiding place (which was near the couch), her hat and hair smothered with…
"Bleagh!" Nikki rose from the couch, spitting out some white liquid from her mouth and swatting her hair like there were spiders on it. "Ugh Jess! Your contraption… It tastes like glue! Horrible, horrible glue!"
"Oh no!" Anna ignored her own-glue stained self and checked the workshop. "The workshop's a complete mess!"
"Of all of the things in the world…!" Roxis scowled. His coat, hair and eyeglasses stained with glue. Flay was also stained, but his sword took more of a toll, since he used it as a shield. Pamela's teddy bear took a great helping of glue, and she, herself, didn't take any damage.
"Jess, are you alright?" said Vayne. His white hair was smothered with glue, so was his uniform. "Jess? Why are you turning red? Are you alright?"
"No, no, no!" Jess turned into "Panic!" mode. "I'm alright, really!"
Vayne, being dense as he is, didn't know that he was too close to Jess, too close for comfort.
"Oh my gosh, Vayne!" exclaimed Nikki. "What are you doing to Jess?"
Vayne turned red, understanding Nikki's words He stood up immediately.
"Jess! I'm sorry! Are you okay? Vayne said, helping her up.
"Yeah! Don't worry! I'm fine, really!" said immediately Jess, still a bit red.
"Now, can you think of a solution to get us out of this glue? I have classes to skip!" Flay paused. "On second thought, never mind. Let's think over this slowly and…"
"Flay-sempai!" Anna's voice scolded. "We can't just leave the workshop untidy!"
"So your first concern is the workshop?" Flay asked. "Good job! I'm glad you don't care about your academics."
Anna narrowed her eyes on her red-haired sempai.
"What if we place water on ourselves?" suggested Pamela, who was grinning. They all looked at the ghost-girl.
"Oh, so you think this glue is washable now?" Roxis said, irritated, as he tended to his coat.
Pamela frowned. She got a pail of clearwater from the faucet and poured it down on Roxis's head. "Hey, what do you think you're doing?" shouted Roxis, shaking off the water on his glasses. Pamela stuck her tongue at him and vanished.
"Hey… The glue's wearing off a bit!" exclaimed Nikki, pointing at the floor below Roxis. Glue and water were flowing down his coat, and was making puddles on the floor.
"Really?" Anna said, removing her hat. "You're right, it really is!"
"So Jess's contraption is washable after all!" Flay grabbed a pail and went over to the faucet.
Everyone stared at Roxis. He sighed. "I'll apologize to her later."
Flay grinned. "Does that sound promising, everyone?"
"Oh, shut up," Roxis rubbed the remaining glue off him.
"Now that we have a solution to this mess, why don't we all clean up the workshop?" Anna suggested, sounding a little too enthusiastic.
Everyone groaned as they brought out some cloths.
"Finally!" Anna sighed after a few minutes, seeing the room spick and span. "That took a while."
"Yeah," moaned Nikki, lying down on the floor. "All the glue's gone now."
All eyes turned to Jess. She frowned, and apologized.
"As punishment, you get to collect items for us for a day!" Flay declared.
"Eh? No fair!" Jess frowned. Vayne sweat dropped.
"I'll help, if it's okay…" Vayne stared at Jess intently. "Hey Jess?"
"What…?" Jess muttered, feeling uncomfortable.
"There's some glue on your lips. Here, let me do it." Vayne dipped his fingers into the water and wiped Jess's lips.
"There, all gone!" said Vayne. "Uhm… Jess? You're turning red again… Are you really alright?"
"Huh? Oh ye-yeah, I'm alright… Sorry…" Jess said looking flustered and turning red again.
"Vayne, you really do some lady-killer moves without you noticing it, don't you?" Flay laughed.
"L-lady killer…?" Vayne blushed. "I really don't…"
"Uhm… Vayne…?" Jess looked away and played with her fingers.
"Yes?" Vayne looked at Jess.
"Thanks for today. I really appreciate it." Jess smiled.
"No problem, Jess. If you need help with your synthesis, just call me! I can help you, if you want."
Jess smiled once again. "You're underestimating me! Someday, I can make a perfect synthesis! Just you wait! I'll show you! Hey, I can even start now!"
Velvet suddenly appeared and signaled them to go away. "When she's motivated, she's dangerous… And you know what that means…"
All of them exchanged looks.
"Um, I have to do my practice now…" Anna said, grabbing her stuff immediately and running out to the door.
"Hey, maybe it's a good time to sing again… See you guys later!" Nikki dashed off, suddenly energized.
"Hey, I wonder what's the Mook squad doing right now?" Flay muterred as he rushed off the door. A familiar-looking fairy-like mana entered the workshop. Once she entered, she pointed a finger on Roxis.
"You eye-glassed dork, what did you do to Pamela-hime again?" Lucresia emphasized the again word.
Roxis rolled his eyes. "Nothing, really. Believe me." Every word was drowned in sarcasm.
"Oh, yeah, Roxis weren't you supposed to apologize to Pamela?" Jess pointed out.
"She's practically moping now," Lucresia sighed. "And she hasn't cleaned her teddy bear yet."
"I think you should apologize now…" Vayne checked the cupboards in case that some of the glue touched the ingredients.
"Right…" replied an obviously uncaring Roxis.
Ah. That doesn't have that much Vayne/Jess moments… I might need to make a new one. Yeah, I'll make a new fic. When I feel like it. Yes, I lack motivation. Thanks for the reviews, people! Who knows, reviews might make me motivated for once. And I use some of the Japanese name insertions, so get used to it.