"What's up with Patty?" Black Star asked as they watched the girl sit quietly and behaving for once. Soul shrugged and turned to see the rest of them catching up. "Maybe Kid's episode was really contagious after all."
"I doubt it." Soul said and turned around to them. "Liz, something's up with your sister."
"What?" Liz said walking past them and sitting down next to Patty. "Hey, Patty, what's wrong? It's such a beautiful day, don't you want to go find someone to chase or something?"
Patty shook her head and stood up. "Come on, we have to get to school."
The group stopped and let Patty through as she calmly walked up towards the school. Liz sighed, "oh great, it's just one catastrophe after another today isn't it?"
"I think it might help us in our symmetry. If Patty is thinking more linear, she may not mess our stance up!" Death the Kid said happily. Maka quickly chopped him with her book.
"When a friend is in trouble you help them, not hope that it'll make them more 'symmetrical', Kid." Maka said angrily. "Soul! Let's go!"
"Uh, yea sure." Soul said following as they took off after the depressed gun. Black Star began to follow after and Tsubaki quickly caught up after him. Kid turned to the eldest Thompson gun, "did I say something stupid?"
"For you, not really." Liz said and began to walk away. "Come one let's get to school before you realize that something in the house is off."
"Like the…" Before the young Shimigami could finish his sentence Liz had grabbed the back of his collar and began dragging him away.
They sat around and kept a carefully watch on Patty as much as they could who was acting very calmly and confidently. Liz sat horribly close to her sister and tried to get her reactions back to normal. Patty was oblivious to her and just fiddled with her shoe. "What's wrong with your shoes?"
"It's just bothering me." Patty said quietly.
"Why don't you take it off, Stein won't mind." Liz said and grabbed her sister's foot and removed the shoe. Suddenly Patty looked up and smiled. "Um, Patty?"
"Hey Liz, I found my crayons!" Patty said excitedly taking the box out of the shoe and sticking the shoe back on. Patty excitedly pulled out one of the mashed crayons and began to draw all over her homework.
"You were upset because there was something in your shoe?" Liz said and shrugged patting Patty on the head.
"She's back to normal!" Maka whispered excitedly over to Liz. They gave each other thumbs up and turned to hear something being dragged into the room. The class looked over to see Stein, Death Scythe and Sid tugging on ropes with a giant cloth covered cage. The beast inside moaned.
Stein stopped as the cage was inside the room and pulled the cloth off revealing a Giant Panda. "Today's special lesson is the live dissection of the Giant Panda!"
"Stein-Sensai!" Maka yelled standing. "The Giant Panda's another endangered species! Why can't we do chickens or frogs?"
"But they're not nearly as dangerous, anyway…"
"Stein." Death Scythe said commandingly. 'This is it, Maka will love papa if he takes her side!' "Shouldn't you at least kill the poor thing before dissecting it?"
"Daddy shut up! You're not helping!" Maka yelled. "I demand the panda goes back to the wild or I'll complain to Shimigami-sama!"
"But it's never been in the wild. We're borrowing it from the Zoo." Stein said quickly. He sighed, "Fine, Sid, would you return the creature to the Zoo?" Sid nodded and he and Death Scythe who was somewhat crying pushed the cage back out. "Since we're not doing a dissection, you can do a ten page essay on the anatomy of a Giant Panda."
The class moaned and Maka sat down, somewhat satisfied with herself. Soul and Black Star leaned down from the row above her and whispered together, "you're writing our papers."