A/N: Replaying MK in the PSP, and got new ideas!

I finally made a fic about these two, and I'm happy. They're my favorite pair in the game, and now that I'm playing MK again, I love these two even more.

I don't know if I should make this fic only two chapters or three. I'll think about it later.

I hope you enjoy reading!

Roxis should've really considered his mana's personality before contracting with him.

His mana, Azterion, was indeed a one-of-a-kind mana. He was powerful, and he did show him some skills to use in battle. His mana was also intelligent and calculating, which really helped him at times of battle, and not to mention during syntheses.

Although being an intelligent and calculating mana has a downside.

Roxis, until now, was still puzzled at his mana's efforts (with some of Flay's efforts as well) to make him and Vayne friends. It's either: a.) the darned mana was gay, b.) the mana was bored and needed amusement or c.) The mana has a soft spot for friendship.

Letter A was impossible, letter C was definitely out of the question. Obviously, the only answer would be letter B: his mana was bored. He should've known.

As much as he'd like to kill himself or throw himself to the deepest parts of the Old Schoolhouse, Roxis forced himself to get along with his accursed rival just to keep his mana with him. Heck, a handshake and a couple of co-op syntheses were just minor and irrelevant to him.

But he wasn't really expecting his mana to drag a certain female into one of his convoluted schemes.

O0O

Roxis stared at the female hovering over the cauldron. He knew he should be running the hell away from the workshop before he was seen as a test subject for her newest so-called 'medicine', but instead he stared and remembered the last time he saw the female fiddling with the cauldron, making something that would taste like Poison Puni Gummy with a tint of Plosion, and not to mention some hints of Blowfish-X.

He cursed as he remembered another scene; a scene wherein he was straight-down rejected by the same female who caused him to lie in the infirmary for about a week.

Her name wasn't as sweet as her actions, wasn't it?

Pamela Ibis.

Heck, he had reason why'd they'd end up murdering each other instead of liking each other.

| He would never get used to her occasional scares.|

"Roxis?"

"…?" The blonde looked up at the ghost girl, a questioning look on his face.

"Are you okay?" Pamela asked with a smile.

Wrong question. Roxis gritted his teeth as he tried to weave an answer.

The two were at the Resource Center, gathering. Flay persisted that Roxis should get over his fear of scary places, so he screwed Roxis's schedule up and let him gather at the Resource Center. To add up his already augmented fear, Flay assigned the ghost girl to the same location. "She'll help you get over your fear of ghosts," The redhead explained. "Now get moving!"

That wasn't exactly reassuring, since his companion was a ghost. Roxis swore someday that he would tie Flay in a sack and hand him over to Anna for some punishment.

He never had a trauma with anything like ghosts, but Pamela just had to come along and give him a trauma. Damn that female.

"…I'm fine." Roxis picked up a brownie mask and stuffed it into his pouch. Pamela slightly shrugged as she proceeded to the stairs.

I wouldn't call turning a little pale okay, Pamela thought. But if that's what he says… She floated upwards as Roxis proceeded to gather some materials left on the floor.

When he noticed that his companion was gone, he slightly shivered, but he immediately regained composure. He walked up the stairs, each step causing echoes in the dark place. A sudden air blew around Roxis's ear. He stopped dead, and slowly turned his head around…

"Boo." Pamela whispered into Roxis's ear as she placed a bloody hand on his shoulder.

"Aaagh!" Roxis ran straight ahead into a wall. He dropped cold on the floor, his face as white as flour. Pamela hovered over to the blonde.

"Oh my," Pamela laughed slightly as she wiped off red ink from her hand. "It's like our first meeting all over again." She laughed as she just floated around. "Now what should I do while waiting…?"

Yup, he'd never get used to her scares.

|They'd never have the same taste of color.|

"…I think blue suits that better."

"It does not! White looks much better."

Who knew that scarf colors would be serious business? It's like arguing over the color of Princess Aurora's dress from Sleeping Beauty.

Nemu, who was deciding to make a scarf for Riggs, was confused in what color the scarf should be. By some sheer coincidence, Pamela Ibis was reading at the Resource Center, and Roxis Rozenkrantz just happened to enter the Resource Center. Since the two were the only ones familiar to her in the place, Nemu asked help about the scarf. By much persuading, she was able to hear a response from the blonde.

"…If it's a scarf color, wouldn't red be the first choice…?" Roxis mumbled. Nemu agreed that a scarf's basic color was red, but she wanted another color. Red was so not Riggs's color.

"How about pink?" The ghost smiled.

"…Pamela. Riggs is a guy." Roxis pointed out.

"Oh my, so you're saying that men can't wear pink?"

"… I didn't imply that, but of all of the colors in the color wheel, a guy would choose pink as his least favorite color."

Pamela frowned, but she reconsidered. Nemu smirked as she thought of Riggs wearing a pink wool scarf. That would be so gay, Ronnie would go after him. Then again, having a gay guy going after your boyfriend wasn't so fun, wasn't it?

She shrugged off her thoughts and looked at the two. "Well… Have you thought about it…?"

She never expected them to give them their answers both at the same time.

"…Blue would do, won't it?" Roxis said.

"...White would look good," Pamela smiled.

Roxis gave a sideways glance to Pamela. "It's kind of ironic that a ghost has a strange liking to white."

Pamela almost considered throwing her teddy bear at the blonde, but she remembered that the steel claws were attached to it. "What's the problem with that? Besides, Roxis-kun, isn't blue too common? I mean, look at you, and even Vayne-kun, Jess-chan, and the others… They all have a shade of blue in their clothing! Isn't it too boring…?"

"…You forgot that you, yourself, have shades of blue in your clothing," Roxis frowned. "I do agree with you that blue is a rather common color here, but it's certainly a much better color than pink."

"Oh…!" Pamela's frown got deeper. She seriously needed to throw her teddy. And to throw more reasoning back at Roxis.

Nemu sweat dropped as she watched the two quarrel about color tastes. "So… What's the color you two decided on…?"

"Blue," Roxis snapped.

"White!" Pamela insisted. She glared at Roxis, and then started arguing with him again. "Oh…! Don't you know that…?" Nemu sighed as she started listening to Pamela explaining that white is a lucky color and stuff like that. Then she remembered something…

"Hey Riggs, what's your favorite color?" Nemu asked to him one day.

"Oh? Blue and white." He replied.

Blue and white! An idea popped up on her head.

She'd make a scarf of two colors! Blue and white! She turned to the two. "Thanks, you two!" With that, she went off to knit in the dorm.

"Blue!" The two still continued, not knowing that Nemu already had gone and knit.

"White!' At last, Pamela threw her teddy straight into Roxis's face.

|He'd never ever let her get a hand of his hair.|

"Good morning."

"Good mor-geh!"

"Oh, good morn... Ah!"

"…?" Roxis furrowed his brow as he watched Jess and Nikki suddenly giggling.

"Oh, sempai, good morn-"Anna suddenly placed a hand over her mouth.

"Good morn-Gah!" Vayne had a shocked look on his face.

What is wrong with these people…? Roxis thought. They can't even say a proper good morning… And why are they laughing…?

"Oh? What's the commotion?" Flay suddenly appeared out of nowhere. He looked at Roxis, and then started laughing. "Gahahaha! Roxis, you never struck to me as the fashion type of person!"

"…What…?" Roxis frowned.

"I can't take this anymore…!" Nikki burst out laughing and laughing, and so did the others.

"H-h-here!" Jess took out a mirror from her bag then handed it to Roxis. She resumed laughing afterwards. Roxis grabbed the mirror and looked at himself.

"…What the…? Since when…!"

Roxis stared at himself. Glasses check. Scowl, check. Hair… Oh boy.

His hair was braided, tied with his white ribbon. In some parts of the braids, there were flowers, fruits, berries… And at the start of the braid was a large Yubana flower. Heck, there were even dried fruits braided around his hair! It's like a couple of grand hairstylists suddenly took a great interest in his hair…

How could've he not noticed that his hair was messed with? He cursed as he stared at his hair. He would kill the person who did this if he knew who…

"Everyone sounds so happy…" Pamela appeared. "What's…? Oh my…!" Pamela looked at Roxis.

She started to look at the braid. She smiled at the sight of the large Yubana flower. After awhile, she said: "Do you like it?" Roxis turned to her. The workshop laughter died down.

"…You… made… this…?" Roxis seethed.

"Oh yes." Pamela smiled. "You were sleeping around the forests, and then I looked at your hair. Your hair has lovely smoothness, and then you tie it only like that! I've been longing to make it cute! So I took some fruits and flowers, then I braided your hair! Doesn't it look cute?"

Roxis looked like he was going to commit bloody murder. He took out his Trauer Tarot. Pamela sweat dropped. Everyone sweat dropped.

"Uh-oh," Nikki muttered.

"Oh my," Pamela gave a hasty smile. "I guess that's a yes, so… Tata!" Pamela vanished into thin air.

"Pamela!" Roxis shouted.

"N-no! Roxis, don't murder Pamela!" Jess looked worried.

"How can he? She's already…" Vayne mumbled.

"Whatever, we have to stop him before he makes Pamela disappear for good!" Nikki shouted. "Aagh! Roxis, for heaven's sake, don't use your Lunar Drive!"

"I-I thought you couldn't use your skills in school!"

"Roxis-sempai, you're not allowed to use your skills here!"

"It looks like everything's getting good. Vayne, fix this problem! I have patrol duties!"

"E-eh? Sempai, you can't just-"

"Aah! Cards incoming!"

"Anna-chan, run! The Lunar Drive's gonna hit you!"

"Ack! Bomb Ice on the way!"

"Ahhh! Sempai! Please, you're messing up the workshop!"

"Ahhh, my bag! Vayne-kun, do something!"

"W-what do you want me to do…?"

"Talk to him! What else?"

"Find Pamela and throw her to Roxis!"

"E-eh? But I couldn't possibly…"

"Nikki-sempai, that's such a bad idea! Wouldn't Roxis-sempai get angrier?"

"Card volley! Duck for your lives!"

"Roxis-sempai, stop before we have to resort to violence!"

"A-Ah! Anna, you d-don't have to bring out your sword…"

"Aah, Anna-chan! Not the Blue Dragon!"

"Yeah! Use the Ben Breaker! The Blue Dragon's old school!"

"Nikki-chan!"

… And it turned that way the whole afternoon. In the end, they were able to soothe Roxis's murder intent… And they finally persuaded Pamela to apologize to Roxis. Although it did take some time to restrict Roxis not to tackle Pamela…

And from that day forth, Roxis avoided sleeping in the forests.

And from that day forth, Pamela's urge to mess with Roxis's hair stopped.

And from that day forth, Roxis and Pamela were forced to intense workshop cleaning.

With Anna's supervision, of course.

|If they end up fighting, would Roxis swallow up his pride and apologize? Of course…|

"Stop being such a brat! Go and apologize!"

"…I'm not being a brat, Flay! Don't tell me what to do!"

"Oof! Stop arguing already!"

Roxis gave a nasty glare towards Flay. Just awhile ago, Roxis accidentally cut a lock of Pamela's hair using his cards. He'd never expected the girl to suddenly appear in front of the darts board! He was able to adjust his aim at the last minute, but it was still too late, and the card cut off some of Pamela's hair. Realizing that her hair was cut slightly, she cried and disappeared. Heck, he didn't know that her hair could be even cut.

And right now, the witnesses; Flay, Anna, Nikki, Jess, and Vayne, were trying to convince him to apologize to Pamela. He scowled. Why should he apologize when she was the one at fault, suddenly appearing like that? And it was just hair, for goodness sake! It would grow back eventually, no big deal!

But nooo, Pamela had an attachment to her hair just like she had to her teddy bear.

"Oh Roxis," Jess started. "Come on! Just apologize to Pamela!"

"Sempai!" Anna almost reached for her katana. "It's shameful that you made Pamela-san cry like that! Please go apologize to her!"

"She's needed in battle," Flay frowned. "And she's your battle partner! You can't afford not having a battle partner, can't you?"

"Since when was she my battle partner?" Roxis snarled.

"Oooh… Just go apologize so that we won't bother you already!" Nikki growled.

"Come on, Roxis… You just only have to apologize…" Vayne mumbled.

Roxis still stood firm, refusing to move and go to the Resource Center and get the issue over with.

Not until his mana appeared.

The wolf seemed to grinning. "Come on, Roxis. You just have to say sorry to the girl."

"It wasn't even my fault to start with."

"Oho? Is that how you want it? Oh well… I guess I'd better go back and rest in the Millennium Tree…"

Roxis flinched. "You wouldn't…."

"Of course I would. Unless you apologize to the lovely maiden."

Roxis scowled. "I told you, it wasn't my…"

"Oh, okay then. I'll guess I'll see you later." The wolf started to walk out the door.

"Oh…" Jess watched the mana starting to walk off.

"Your mana's leaving you, Roxis," Flay started in a corny advertisement like voice. "Will you lose your mana or apologize to Pamela?" Roxis clenched his fists as he watched his mana heading for the door.

"Ugh." Roxis sauntered towards the door, and then slammed it upon leaving. The wolf stopped walking, and a grin seemed to form on his face.

"Uh… What just happened?" Vayne asked.

"Who cares? At least the problem's resolved! We'll just see what happens when they come back," Nikki said as she started to play with her tail.

"Oh no you don't," Flay started to pull Vayne's collar. "We're going to see what happens! Come on!" He dragged Vayne towards the Library.

"A-ah! Vayne-kun! Sempai!" Jess started to follow them, and so did the others.

O0O

As Roxis entered the Library, he started cursing himself. Was he really going to apologize to Pamela?

Speak of the devil… As if the devil was playing with him, he saw the girl around the bookshelves. He looked around. No one was there, except him and the ghost. He didn't know if he should curse his timing, but it was better that no one was around.

He approached Pamela, who seemed to be clutching her bear tightly. Sign that she's upset.

"Pamela."

The ghost turned around, and at the sight of the blonde, she abruptly frowned. "W-what do you want?" She said as she muffled herself using her teddy bear.

"Look…" Roxis started. "I… I…"

Pamela still muffled herself with her teddy.

Get on with it, Roxis… After this you can hide yourself in your room… Roxis thought to himself. It's just two words, for heaven's sake!

"…?" Pamela watched as the blonde was mumbling to himself. He suddenly looked up at her. She flinched.

"I'm… I'm… I'm sorry." He mumbled softy. Pamela seemed to slightly relax.

"It's just that you just suddenly had to appear, and…"

Pamela frowned. "Are you saying it's my fault?"

"Well, in a way, yes. You just suddenly appeared in front of the darts board…"

"I didn't appear around the darts board, I appeared at the edge of the board!"

"But still you appeared near the darts board, and you are very aware that I test my weapon there!"

"Ooh…! How should I know you're practicing there today?"

"You shouldn't appear out of random places in the first place!"

"Ooh… Roxis, you jerk! Are you saying that…?" The two continued to argue.

O0O

"Uh… all's well… end's well…?" Jess muttered.

"I had a feeling that wouldn't work out well…" Anna mumbled as she watched the two argue.

"I thought they made up, but they started to fight again…" Vayne sighed.

"Ohoho… Just as I expected…" The light mana smiled.

If they end up fighting, would Roxis swallow up his pride and apologize? Of course….

…Not. He'd only end up making it worse.

|If they ever have their first dinner date and Pamela cooked, Roxis would end up being like her in his first bite of her cooking.|

"Hm… Like this…?"

"Yes, that way… Then you do this…"

"Oh, okay…"

Pamela, who was simply just wandering around, managed to catch Bernard Tieck make one of his oh-so-delicious cakes. Curious, Pamela watched him for awhile, and then she decided to ask him to teach her how to make cakes. He happily obliged.

"Oh… We're not going to use alchemy?" Pamela looked around for a cauldron.

"No, no," Bernard replied as he got some extra ingredients from his cupboard. "You know Pamela, alchemy may make tasty cakes in only a few minutes, but if you do it by hand, you'll be happy since you know you've made it yourself, without alchemy. It makes me happy knowing that I can make cakes like these without alchemy." Bernard smiled as he arranged the ingredients on the counter.

"Hm…" Pamela smiled. "You sure love baking a lot, Bernard!"

"Oh, it's nothing," Bernard blushed slightly. "So… Shall we begin?"

"Okay!" Pamela placed her teddy on a counter, and then proceeded to learn how to make cakes manually.

O0O

"Ah…" Pamela took out her cake from the oven. "It looks lovely! And smells great, too!" She admired her custard cake.

"They do look lovely," Bernard took out his own cake from another oven. "Good job, Pamela." The ghost smiled as she grabbed her teddy bear and clutched her plate of custard cake.

"Thank you Bernard! I'll see you later then!" Pamela smiled at her friend as she vanished into thin air, her teddy bear and custard cake with her.

O0O

"Oh my, isn't that… Roxis!"

"Hm…?" Roxis turned to see Pamela floating towards him. He tried to focus on the other thing she was holding besides her teddy bear. "Pamela…"

"I'm so glad to see you!" She smiled. Roxis had a bad feeling something was going to happen to him again. Why is it that whenever the phantom maiden called out to him, he would get that feeling?

"…You are…?" Roxis frowned. She's up to something…

"I wanted you to try this," The girl handed something to Roxis.

"…Cheesecake…?" Roxis stared at the piece of cake presented to him. She slightly frowned.

"Um, no… It's custard!" Pamela smiled. "I made it. Won't you try it?"

Roxis paled. "You made it by alchemy….?"

"Oh, no, no," She smiled. "Bernard helped me make it manually."

Roxis swallowed. If Pamela was terrible at alchemy, what more about her cooking? Then again… She did mention the Principal helping her out, so the custard cake mightturn out to be… edible.

"... You don't have a fork." Roxis pointed out reluctantly.

"Oh, here you go," Pamela handed him a fork which she retrieved from her teddy. "Tell me if it's good, okay?" He shrugged as he slowly took the plate from Pamela.

He sliced a small piece. It was soft and fluffy, easily cut, not hard and bulky. It smelt good, since it was freshly baked. The smell of custard and honey slightly decreased Roxis's fears of Pamela's cooking. Finally, he took a bite. Pamela stared at him eagerly, expecting a reaction.

Roxis stood still like a rock. Pamela was getting uneasy. "Well…?"

"…" Roxis fainted, dropping the cake to the floor.

"O-oh no!" Pamela shook Roxis. "R-Roxis? R-Roxis! W-was it that good that you had to faint…?"

O0O

Bernard was cleaning his baking place, happy that he was able to teach someone baking and making them happy. He took a glass vial from around where Pamela was making her cake and reluctantly observed it.

"Oh my, isn't this…viper venom? Oh no, I must've thought it was vanilla! Pamela even used almost half of the vial for her cake!"

How viper venom ended up in a nice baking cupboard… We'll never know.

And how Pamela's cake should've originally tasted if vanilla was placed… We'll also never know.

Everything is such a mystery, yes?

It's just so fun to mess with Roxis via Pamela, yes?

What do you think? Should I add a chapter? I'm not sure if I should.

Please review if you like it! Reviews are very much appreciated, and so are suggestions, if ever!