Lina Inverse had never felt more appalled than she is now. She looked at
the woman in front of her in horror and glanced around her friend
desperately. "You're kidding, right?"
"On the contrary, Miss Inverse, no, I'm absolutely serious," the woman in glasses said, smiling serenely. She took her glasses off and sets it on the table. "I think you should enroll in school along with your friends."
"Iie…" Lina said, sweatdrop appearing on her head. "How could this be?" she wailed. "I'm the powerful, beautiful sorceress, Lina Inverse! Why should I resort to this kind of thing?"
"Iie, Lina-san, it might be fun," Xelloss says, holding his forefinger up.
Lina glared at Xelloss. "You're the only person who will find it fun, Xelloss…"
Amelia sobs. "How could I, Princess of Seyruun, enroll in school back again?!" she wailed. "Oh, the humility!"
Gourry looked around, bewildered. "Eh, Lina-san, what's a school?"
Lina's eyebrow twitched dangerously and she began locking Gourry in a headlock and knocking him on the head. "Why, you!" she shouted angrily.
Zelgadis just laughed at the situation. "You have to be kidding me; my knowledge exceeds school, thank you very much!" he said, turning his nose up at the offer.
Filia nodded. "I'm a Ryuzoku!!! I can't possibly end up in a school! This is not the intended story, Headmistress-chan!"
Martina's eyes shone. "Of course, if I ever got enroll into school, I will be the ever so popular girl!" she said, smiling evilly. She pointed to Lina. "And I will make sure to pulverize you with my new power! Ahahaha!"
Zangulus smiles wearily. "Don't be too popular to ignore me…"
"A school!" Sylphiel said, smiling. "How…different."
Xelloss appeared quite interested. "Eh…it would be fun to be in school. By the way, what is school?"
"Aargh!" Lina shouted. "I'm surrounded by idiots!"
Sweatdrop appears on Headmistress-chan's head…
***
"I can't believe I let them do this to me!!!" Lina wailed to Gourry.
Gourry looked down on his uniform; a blue shirt with matching blue crisp pants. "I kinda like my new get-up…" Gourry said sheepishly. Knowing what's coming, he ducked before Lina's fist hit his head.
Lina looked down on her uniform. "This is an outrageous outfit!!!" she said. "Who would have enough sense not to wear these? Me!!!" Her outfit consists of a blue shirt and a matching blue skirt too. She has to wear socks that reach up to her knee.
"Eh, be proud you're not wearing something else," Zelgadis said, appearing down in the kitchen, wearing the same uniform Gourry is wearing.
Lina stuffed her face with Cheerios and grabbed two bagels, stuffing them all in her face at the same time. "It's bad enough I have to wear a skirt!"
"Lina-chan!" Amelia called out, coming down to the kitchen too. "Aren't the outfit just adorable?!" Amelia's outfit was the same as Lina's, but in Lina's opinion, it looked better on Amelia than her.
Zelgadis takes one look at Amelia and hurried to the bathroom, appearing to have nosebleed.
"Yare, yare…" the too-familiar annoying voice said. Xelloss appeared out of thin air (literally ^_~), wearing the boys' uniform. "It seems like all of you are ready."
"How dare you ignore us!" The rest of them looked at the stairs and watched as Zangulus and Martina, followed shyly by Sylphiel and Filia, appeared in the kitchen. "Ah, Lina-san, you look like your usual self in those get- ups…" Martina commented scathingly.
"Shut up, Martina," Lina said grudgingly, stuffing her face with more doughnuts.
"Ah, Filia-san!" Xellos said, grinning his head off. "You look stunning in your uniform!"
"Namagomi!!!" Filia cried, taking mace-sama out of her short-skirt (hmmm, how is that possible?) and swinging it at Xellos. Xelloss, of course, disappeared and appear again. Filia began crying. "How could a Ryuzoku no Miko like me go to school?!"
"I still don't know what school is," Gourry said blankly.
Zelgadis returned from the bathroom. "I still don't see the point on trying to explain to you what it is…" he said.
As fight erupted in the kitchen, Sylphiel looked at Amelia and both said, "Yare yare."
***
"So this is school," Lina grumbled, trying to get her lock to open. "Aargh!!! Get this thing to open!" She knocked it a few times and tried to pull it.
"Uh, Lina, I don't think that's how you do it," Gourry said. "You have to turn it twice to the right to number 9, and then once to number 30, and then once to number 22." With that, Gourry opened his locker. "Ah! That does the trick!"
Zelgadis sighed. "Great. Being taught how to open locker by a jelly-fished brain," he said.
Lina's already crying. "Why me, L-sama? Why?!" she cried.
"Oh, Lina! Don't be such a crybaby!" Martina said. "You're being an embarrassment to us! And if any of the popular kids saw you, we won't be able to be popular!"
Lina side-glared at Martina. "Shut up."
Filia, like Lina, still doesn't get the hang of opening her lock. "I…I don't get this," she said on the verge of crying. "Why does everything have to be so hard?" she wailed.
Lina agreed. "Twice to the number… left once, and another left once…" she muttered to herself while opening her locker. Pulling it, it's still locked. Lina's patience was tested enough. Her face going red, fire in her eyes, she glared at the lock.
"Fine!" she spat out. "You know what? I give up. Who gives a damn care if it's school property or not?!" She thrust her hand out and shouted, "Fireball!!!"
Zelgadis, Filia and all of the Slayers cast surrounding the lockers because their lockers are near to each other are burnt to crisp, except for Xelloss. "Oy, Lina!" Zelgadis said. "Try to be careful there!"
Lina grinned. "What? I'm just trying to open my locker!!!"
Martina wailed. "No! My uniform is dirty! I won't ever forgive you, Lina Inverse!!!"
The explosion from Lina's fireball, of course, attracted attention from other students. Lina gave them her "friendly" glare. "What? Hmm? Hmm?" she said to the students.
The students just sweatdropped and run from Lina.
Lina got her geometry books and sighed. "A Junior at a high school," she sighed. "Why do I have to sink so low?"
"Lina-chan, this is a good opportunity," Sylphiel said, smiling. "I've always dreamt of going to school… Of course, magic's far more interesting from this, so I quit school…"
"Iya!" Xelloss said, smiling as he popped his locker open. "I'm beginning to really like school!"
Glaring at Xelloss, she puts him in a headlock and knocked him on the head. "Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up!!!" she shouted.
***
Their first lessons are geometry, and all of them are seated in the same classes as they were new and their…um, levels aren't determined yet. ("Eh?! What level?!" Lina shouted.)
"So, as you all know the equations of the quadratic formula, we will be moving to a new topic," Mrs. Merrit, the geometry teacher, said. She eyed the Slayers gang and glared at them. *Sweatdrop* "I'll expect no less from you."
Lina looked at Mrs. Merrit wearily. "Why am I punished this way? Is it because I destroyed Lord Shabranigdu? Or is it Hellmaster Phibrizzo? Or is it Dark Star? Why?!"
"Eh, Lina-san, what's geometry?" Gourry asked, looking perplexed.
Lina sighed. "It's a mathematical thingie."
"What's a mathematical thingie?"
"You know what, Gourry, one of these days I'm sure you'll reply if someone calls your name," Lina said sarcastically. This, of course, was not noticed by Gourry.
"What are you talking about, Lina?" Gourry said, scratching his head.
Lina buried her face in the desk. "Shut up, shut up, shut up!!!" she yelled, her voice muffled.
"Iie, this stuff is hard…" Amelia said, looking at the blackboard as the teacher proceeded to write the quad literal formula. "I don't know how normal people cope with this…"
"Tell me about it," a girl nearby said. She smiles kindly at the group and grinned. "If you must know, screech on your table to annoy Merrit."
Lina brightens up, her eyes on fire. "Oh trust me, I will use that to my advantage!" she said, smiling evilly as she eyed Mrs. Merrit.
The girl laughed. "So where are you guys from, anyway?" she asked.
"Tokyo," Lina said, shrugging.
Sweatdrop. "Never mind. Pretend I didn't ask."
"Iie…" Xelloss drawls on. "This stuff is easy!"
All of the gang turns to Xelloss, eyes wide. "Nanii?!" they said in unison.
Xelloss looked around. "What?" he said. "Zelas-sama bullies me into memorizing this just because I don't want to eat durian one day. After all, she wants her 'mazoku to be bright, not blonde'."
"Eh?" Gourry said, unusually bright for that moment, looking crossed. "What does that supposed to mean?!"
Zelgadis sighed. "This stuff is so easy, I bet I'll pass with flying colors," he said. "This is all essential for my calculation, anyway."
"Eh, Zel, nobody asked," Lina said wisely.
Amelia gasped. "That's so mean of you!"
"Give me a break," Lina said, rolling her eyes.
Martina sighed. "Oh, Zangulus, how do I do this?!" she wailed.
Zangulus grins. "Ah, that—"
"Yes, yes, yes?" All of the Slayers gang had turned to Zangulus except for Xelloss and Zelgadis.
"—you should ask Vrumugun." Everyone did a facefault.
The girl who sat in front of Zelgadis laughed. "You guys are so funny!"
"Hmmm… I guess we should take that as a compliment?" Lina asked the rest.
"She's very nice…" Sylphiel said, blushing. "She reminds me of my mother…"
Lina groaned. "I have no time for this… Why do you insist on doing this to me, L-sama?!"
"Eh, Lina-san, what's a formula?"
***Author's Note***
Hehehe, that's my first installment for this story! Was that bad or what? Anywayz, feels free to read and review on it. :p I'll be writing more, trust me on that. But of course, if you guys don't want to, I'll still write more. :D Ohohohohohohohohoho!
"On the contrary, Miss Inverse, no, I'm absolutely serious," the woman in glasses said, smiling serenely. She took her glasses off and sets it on the table. "I think you should enroll in school along with your friends."
"Iie…" Lina said, sweatdrop appearing on her head. "How could this be?" she wailed. "I'm the powerful, beautiful sorceress, Lina Inverse! Why should I resort to this kind of thing?"
"Iie, Lina-san, it might be fun," Xelloss says, holding his forefinger up.
Lina glared at Xelloss. "You're the only person who will find it fun, Xelloss…"
Amelia sobs. "How could I, Princess of Seyruun, enroll in school back again?!" she wailed. "Oh, the humility!"
Gourry looked around, bewildered. "Eh, Lina-san, what's a school?"
Lina's eyebrow twitched dangerously and she began locking Gourry in a headlock and knocking him on the head. "Why, you!" she shouted angrily.
Zelgadis just laughed at the situation. "You have to be kidding me; my knowledge exceeds school, thank you very much!" he said, turning his nose up at the offer.
Filia nodded. "I'm a Ryuzoku!!! I can't possibly end up in a school! This is not the intended story, Headmistress-chan!"
Martina's eyes shone. "Of course, if I ever got enroll into school, I will be the ever so popular girl!" she said, smiling evilly. She pointed to Lina. "And I will make sure to pulverize you with my new power! Ahahaha!"
Zangulus smiles wearily. "Don't be too popular to ignore me…"
"A school!" Sylphiel said, smiling. "How…different."
Xelloss appeared quite interested. "Eh…it would be fun to be in school. By the way, what is school?"
"Aargh!" Lina shouted. "I'm surrounded by idiots!"
Sweatdrop appears on Headmistress-chan's head…
***
"I can't believe I let them do this to me!!!" Lina wailed to Gourry.
Gourry looked down on his uniform; a blue shirt with matching blue crisp pants. "I kinda like my new get-up…" Gourry said sheepishly. Knowing what's coming, he ducked before Lina's fist hit his head.
Lina looked down on her uniform. "This is an outrageous outfit!!!" she said. "Who would have enough sense not to wear these? Me!!!" Her outfit consists of a blue shirt and a matching blue skirt too. She has to wear socks that reach up to her knee.
"Eh, be proud you're not wearing something else," Zelgadis said, appearing down in the kitchen, wearing the same uniform Gourry is wearing.
Lina stuffed her face with Cheerios and grabbed two bagels, stuffing them all in her face at the same time. "It's bad enough I have to wear a skirt!"
"Lina-chan!" Amelia called out, coming down to the kitchen too. "Aren't the outfit just adorable?!" Amelia's outfit was the same as Lina's, but in Lina's opinion, it looked better on Amelia than her.
Zelgadis takes one look at Amelia and hurried to the bathroom, appearing to have nosebleed.
"Yare, yare…" the too-familiar annoying voice said. Xelloss appeared out of thin air (literally ^_~), wearing the boys' uniform. "It seems like all of you are ready."
"How dare you ignore us!" The rest of them looked at the stairs and watched as Zangulus and Martina, followed shyly by Sylphiel and Filia, appeared in the kitchen. "Ah, Lina-san, you look like your usual self in those get- ups…" Martina commented scathingly.
"Shut up, Martina," Lina said grudgingly, stuffing her face with more doughnuts.
"Ah, Filia-san!" Xellos said, grinning his head off. "You look stunning in your uniform!"
"Namagomi!!!" Filia cried, taking mace-sama out of her short-skirt (hmmm, how is that possible?) and swinging it at Xellos. Xelloss, of course, disappeared and appear again. Filia began crying. "How could a Ryuzoku no Miko like me go to school?!"
"I still don't know what school is," Gourry said blankly.
Zelgadis returned from the bathroom. "I still don't see the point on trying to explain to you what it is…" he said.
As fight erupted in the kitchen, Sylphiel looked at Amelia and both said, "Yare yare."
***
"So this is school," Lina grumbled, trying to get her lock to open. "Aargh!!! Get this thing to open!" She knocked it a few times and tried to pull it.
"Uh, Lina, I don't think that's how you do it," Gourry said. "You have to turn it twice to the right to number 9, and then once to number 30, and then once to number 22." With that, Gourry opened his locker. "Ah! That does the trick!"
Zelgadis sighed. "Great. Being taught how to open locker by a jelly-fished brain," he said.
Lina's already crying. "Why me, L-sama? Why?!" she cried.
"Oh, Lina! Don't be such a crybaby!" Martina said. "You're being an embarrassment to us! And if any of the popular kids saw you, we won't be able to be popular!"
Lina side-glared at Martina. "Shut up."
Filia, like Lina, still doesn't get the hang of opening her lock. "I…I don't get this," she said on the verge of crying. "Why does everything have to be so hard?" she wailed.
Lina agreed. "Twice to the number… left once, and another left once…" she muttered to herself while opening her locker. Pulling it, it's still locked. Lina's patience was tested enough. Her face going red, fire in her eyes, she glared at the lock.
"Fine!" she spat out. "You know what? I give up. Who gives a damn care if it's school property or not?!" She thrust her hand out and shouted, "Fireball!!!"
Zelgadis, Filia and all of the Slayers cast surrounding the lockers because their lockers are near to each other are burnt to crisp, except for Xelloss. "Oy, Lina!" Zelgadis said. "Try to be careful there!"
Lina grinned. "What? I'm just trying to open my locker!!!"
Martina wailed. "No! My uniform is dirty! I won't ever forgive you, Lina Inverse!!!"
The explosion from Lina's fireball, of course, attracted attention from other students. Lina gave them her "friendly" glare. "What? Hmm? Hmm?" she said to the students.
The students just sweatdropped and run from Lina.
Lina got her geometry books and sighed. "A Junior at a high school," she sighed. "Why do I have to sink so low?"
"Lina-chan, this is a good opportunity," Sylphiel said, smiling. "I've always dreamt of going to school… Of course, magic's far more interesting from this, so I quit school…"
"Iya!" Xelloss said, smiling as he popped his locker open. "I'm beginning to really like school!"
Glaring at Xelloss, she puts him in a headlock and knocked him on the head. "Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up!!!" she shouted.
***
Their first lessons are geometry, and all of them are seated in the same classes as they were new and their…um, levels aren't determined yet. ("Eh?! What level?!" Lina shouted.)
"So, as you all know the equations of the quadratic formula, we will be moving to a new topic," Mrs. Merrit, the geometry teacher, said. She eyed the Slayers gang and glared at them. *Sweatdrop* "I'll expect no less from you."
Lina looked at Mrs. Merrit wearily. "Why am I punished this way? Is it because I destroyed Lord Shabranigdu? Or is it Hellmaster Phibrizzo? Or is it Dark Star? Why?!"
"Eh, Lina-san, what's geometry?" Gourry asked, looking perplexed.
Lina sighed. "It's a mathematical thingie."
"What's a mathematical thingie?"
"You know what, Gourry, one of these days I'm sure you'll reply if someone calls your name," Lina said sarcastically. This, of course, was not noticed by Gourry.
"What are you talking about, Lina?" Gourry said, scratching his head.
Lina buried her face in the desk. "Shut up, shut up, shut up!!!" she yelled, her voice muffled.
"Iie, this stuff is hard…" Amelia said, looking at the blackboard as the teacher proceeded to write the quad literal formula. "I don't know how normal people cope with this…"
"Tell me about it," a girl nearby said. She smiles kindly at the group and grinned. "If you must know, screech on your table to annoy Merrit."
Lina brightens up, her eyes on fire. "Oh trust me, I will use that to my advantage!" she said, smiling evilly as she eyed Mrs. Merrit.
The girl laughed. "So where are you guys from, anyway?" she asked.
"Tokyo," Lina said, shrugging.
Sweatdrop. "Never mind. Pretend I didn't ask."
"Iie…" Xelloss drawls on. "This stuff is easy!"
All of the gang turns to Xelloss, eyes wide. "Nanii?!" they said in unison.
Xelloss looked around. "What?" he said. "Zelas-sama bullies me into memorizing this just because I don't want to eat durian one day. After all, she wants her 'mazoku to be bright, not blonde'."
"Eh?" Gourry said, unusually bright for that moment, looking crossed. "What does that supposed to mean?!"
Zelgadis sighed. "This stuff is so easy, I bet I'll pass with flying colors," he said. "This is all essential for my calculation, anyway."
"Eh, Zel, nobody asked," Lina said wisely.
Amelia gasped. "That's so mean of you!"
"Give me a break," Lina said, rolling her eyes.
Martina sighed. "Oh, Zangulus, how do I do this?!" she wailed.
Zangulus grins. "Ah, that—"
"Yes, yes, yes?" All of the Slayers gang had turned to Zangulus except for Xelloss and Zelgadis.
"—you should ask Vrumugun." Everyone did a facefault.
The girl who sat in front of Zelgadis laughed. "You guys are so funny!"
"Hmmm… I guess we should take that as a compliment?" Lina asked the rest.
"She's very nice…" Sylphiel said, blushing. "She reminds me of my mother…"
Lina groaned. "I have no time for this… Why do you insist on doing this to me, L-sama?!"
"Eh, Lina-san, what's a formula?"
***Author's Note***
Hehehe, that's my first installment for this story! Was that bad or what? Anywayz, feels free to read and review on it. :p I'll be writing more, trust me on that. But of course, if you guys don't want to, I'll still write more. :D Ohohohohohohohohoho!