Just Another Day at School
Chapter 1: The New Kid
Disclaimer: I don't own anything Sailor Moon related, including Sailor Mercury, Juuban, or any of the Senshi. If I did, you wouldn't be reading this disclaimer.
Xavior rushed through the halls, determined not to be late on his first day of school. It had happened to him before, twice in fact during his many moves, and both times the school year had ended up a disaster. It was as if some higher power had said, "Late on the first day of school?" and then flicked a switch that set the school against him. So at the moment the only thing on his mind was getting to his class before the bell rang... and just as it did that and he looked up at the nearest speaker as if to tell it to stop making that noise, it was going to make him miserable, he ran into a girl still entering her class, looking pretty upset likely for the same reason. They both went sprawling, and he quickly picked up his scattered books, determined not to be any later than he had to. He gave a quick, mumbled sorry, she said it was no problem, introduced herself as Ami, and after he had given his own name Xavior was sprinting down the hall.
As soon as he entered his class his feeling of inevitable doom was confirmed. The teacher gave him a sharp look, pointed him to his seat, and then began scribbling on his sheet in a way that was inevitably known to Xavior to be one of the first things that had happened every other time he had been late on the first day. He sat back in his seat and tried to ignore the somewhat droning voice of the teacher. He was just beginning to doze off when he was awoken by a sharp poke in the back of his head. He whirled around in his chair and his glare fell on a face with short black hair and green eyes. "Welcome back to the land of the living. The name is Roger. And the guy over next to me here is Chris." Roger nodded vaguely in the direction of a brown eyed, brown haired kid, who immediately groaned and punched Roger in the shoulder. "Ow! You probably just killed my arm! It's going numb!"
"I can introduce myself, you know, Roger."
"No reason to try and kill me, buddy!"
Xavior suddenly broke in. "I'm going to kill you both if you don't explain to me why you felt the need to poke me in the back of the head hard enough to drill a hole in my skull just to say hello."
"Well, you were so dead asleep we had to in order to get you to pay attention. Anyway, get your books together, it's about time for the next period."
Xavior didn't see any of them until his period after lunch. During lunch he had nearly gotten into a fight, but luckily the guy who was starting trouble apparently didn't want to have anything on his record this early on the year. So Xavior walked into his next class, found a seat next to Chris and noticed that he and Roger apparently found something pretty funny. "Hey, how about letting me in on the joke, guys?"
"Eh... well... Hey Xav. We're just seeing what it would take to get Ami Mizuno to stop studying... seems to us, short of knocking her out, nothing works. She starts reading and she doesn't pay any attention at all to anything going on around her. We were going to see if tossing a baseball we snuck out of the field at her might work."
"Well... make some other plans. Number one, we don't need people unconscious, and number two, that's just ignorant. Toss it here and I'll come up with some use for it." Roger did, sort of unwillingly, then burst out laughing when said ball bounced off Chris's head.
"What'd you do that for?!"
Xavior grinned. "I said I'd find some use for it, and I figured rattling your numb skull was good enough. Now can we try to avoid plans that leave people unconscious? I'm all for kicking ass that deserves it, but otherwise, guys, it's probably not a good idea."
"I get it..." The two nodded sagely. "Yep, first day of school and he's already after Ami Mizuno. What a weird taste in chicks."
"I did say I was for kicking ass that deserved it, guys."
They shut up pretty quickly.
About a half an hour later and a few pencil-biting questions later, the peace of the classroom was interrupted by a man crashing through the door, hair messy and filled with pure fright. "There's some sort of demon or something! It's huge! Probably 8 feet tall, nothing but a pillar of flame with arms and legs! GET OUT OF HERE!"
Everyone scattered out of the classroom and headed towards the exit. Xavior kept up with them for a while, until he saw Ami duck away and go the other way, towards the inside of the school. Worried, he took off after her. She spun around, and Xavior dived behind a locker. Then there was a bright flash and as he poked his head out from behind the locker, and he was nearly blinded by a blue flash... and then Ami ended up in a whole new outfit and seemingly a little taller. Xavior flattened himself against the wall and tried his best to hide as she rushed past him.
And I thought it would be just another day at school...
A/N: For those of you who read the first chapter and left a review ages ago asking for more, fear not! This updated Chapter 1 is only the beginning of a plan to really get back into the swing of things! For those of you who have no clue what I'm rambling on about, MORE COMING! I hope you liked it!