Chapter 2: Crazy Kids

"Man, my head still hurts!" Natsu whined.

Kasai rolled her eyes, "Oh, you poor baby."

Natsu's eyes darted toward Kasai then shifted back. "Seriously, maybe I have a concussion." he groaned. "I know." Natsu said cheerfully. "Kasai! Kiss it and make it feel better." Natsu said leaning toward her.

Kasai punched the top of his head. "Not in front of others, idiot."

Natsu recoiled then pouted rubbing his head, "You meanie."

"Jeez Natsu, I got hit just as hard as you, you don't see me complaining." Gray said as he set his stuff on his desk.

"Then what's with the pack of ice on your head, tough guy?" Jem laughed.

"I said that I wasn't complaining, not that it didn't hurt." Gray snarled.

The girls laughed as Natsu and Gray pouted with large bumps still on their heads. The class was getting started; students were writing down notes and the teacher was talking about a whole bunch of stuff that not a single student would remember by next week.

Suddenly something hit the window causing it to shatter. The students all reacted in shock as shards of glass fell all over the floor. Natsu and Gray where the first to jump up and head for the window.

Kasai walked over and found the object that was the culprit. "It's a baseball." she held it up to Natsu.

Natsu laughed, "Hey, Elfman! HOMERUN!" Natsu threw his hands up.

"Elfman, next time aim for the brick not the glass!" Gray shouted down to the baseball field.

A large man with pure white hair looked up to the boys and called back, "Real men aim for the sky!"

Then a girl with pink hair placed a hand on his arm. "But real students don't want to be showered with glass during their lessons."

"Yeah, well that's what they have janitors for, Sugar." Elfman chuckled.

Elfman Strauss was the middle child of three siblings. Sugar Moonrox was a long time family friend and Elfman's girlfriend. Those two were as different as night and day, but it was their differences that balanced them out as a couple.

"True, but you forgot who the janitor is today." Sugar smiled.

"Oops."

The students began to calm down from the baseball incident. Just as the noise died down the classroom door slammed open to reveal a large shadowed figure.

"Out of the way." the voice growled.

With a broom in one hand and dustpan in the other, Gajeel Redfox, stomped his way to the glass and collected it up. He then threw it in the trash bin that was attached to the janitor cart. He then walked over to the window and looked out of it.

"Who did this?" he asked Lucy.

"It just came from no where." Lucy said with a nervous chuckle.

"I don't believe you." Gajeel glared. "Salamander, who did it?"

"Elfman." Natsu answered.

"Again! That is the third window this season!" Gajeel snapped. He then looked out the window and spotted Elfman. "HEY, STRAUSS. I TOLD YOU TO BECAREFUL OF THE WINDOWS! PRINCIPLE MAKAROV SAID THE NEXT ONE WAS COMING OUT OF MY CHECK! I'D LIKE TO EAT THIS WEEK YOU KNOW!"

"I can't help where the ball goes! I can only give it the power to move!" Elfman called back with a laugh.

"That's it, you are dead!" Gajeel shouted as he jumped out the third floor window. He landed on the ground and ran for Elfman.

Gajeel was always like this. He had a small amount of money and an even smaller grade point average. He worked as a janitor for punishment because he always got into fights, but now it was the only job he could hold down. Principle Macarov told Gajeel if he continued to work as a janitor then he would pass him, that way Gajeel would have a diploma and not end up homeless … pretty much.

"There are a few screws loose in that one." Kasai said with a weird look toward the broken window.

"It's seems like it's just the boys really." Lucy chuckled.

"Your forgetting Erza, Lucy." Natsu said.

"Yeah, she's the most ruthless person in this school." Gray nodded.

"Nothing is more scarier then when Natsu and Gray agree." Jem shook her head.

"It's the truth though, Erza is the scariest person in this school." Natsu nodded.

"Natsu!"

The pink haired boy's eyes widened as a shadow came up behind him. "What happened to the window and who is responsible?!"

Standing behind Natsu with hair as bright as the fire the was practically visible behind her, was Erza Scarlet, the class president. She was strict and uptight about the rules of the school and she made sure to keep the school in line so that the Principle didn't have to worry much. That in consideration, she, at times, can be even nice.

"Erza, calm down, it had nothing to do with Natsu." Kasai said as Natsu held on to her, crying in fear.

"Then what?" Erza glared.

"Elfman and Gajeel did it." Jem said.

Erza's eyes darted to the cart. "I should've know when I saw the cart. This window will be coming out of Gajeel's paycheck."

"Come on, Prez, don't take it out on Gajeel. He didn't do anything really." Gray said.

"Right, what I meant was that Elfman smashed the window with a baseball. Gajeel was cleaning it then jumped out the window chasing down Elfman." Jem said.

"Fine, detention for Elfman. I'll talk to Principle Makarov about Gajeel." Erza said before leaving the room. She grabbed the janitor cart and wheeled it away.

"She really can jump the gun, huh?" Lucy chuckled.

"You have no idea." the others said in unison.

The day dragged on and everyone just wished for the day to end, but no one in Fairy Tail High would miss gym class. The boys loved that they could play games and get dirty, not to mention seeing the girls in their gym uniforms. Which was a plain white T-shirt and blue short that really only covered their butts … kinda.

Once they dressed for gym the boy rallied around the teacher, Alzack Colleen.

"Calm down, we're going to have the girls go first." he said. When the boys made depressed noises he said, "They don't destroy the field unlike you hooligans. Let them go then you can mess the field up all you want."

The girls lined up on the track and readied themselves to start running. In line was Jem, Lucy, Kasai, a girl with a purple ponytail and glasses, and Sugar. When Alzack told them to go Jem and Kasai left the others in the dust.

"Kasai has this in the bag!" Natsu laughed. "Go Kasai!" he cheered.

"Don't underestimate Jem, she may surprise you." Gray said.

"Since when do you like Jem?" Natsu snorted.

"I'm just saying." Gray shrugged. "Want to make it interesting?"

"Your on."

Jem and Kasai had mere inches difference in distance. Kasai was getting further and further away. Jem had never lost to Kasai. This little time in gym as the chance for these two girls to test their skills against each other. Jem was not about to lose.

Jem kept running but she closed her eyes. With Sugar on her tail she thought about the one thing that could make her run faster. Jem picture the red eyed death stare of a thin girl, about her age, wearing black with two dark blonde pigtails. Before Jem knew it she had passed up the end line and almost hit a stadium light pole. She stopped just short of it.

"Damn, Jem you really speed up at that last moment." Kasai said in awe.

"It looked like you were going to hit that pole." Sugar said in concern.

"No it's okay. I'm fine." Jem said wiping the sweat from her brow.

That sweat wasn't from running, it was from fear. The fear those eyes put in Jem was enough to make her move even if she had both of her legs broken.

"I knew you'd win." Gray said as the boys approached them.

"I lost the bet. Man!" Natsu whined.

Jem just smiled. She didn't have to worry about any of that now. Where she was no one was going to hurt her. She knew she could live peacefully here in Magnolia, with all her friends.

"Alright!" Alzack called. "Girls to the benches! Boys on the track!"

Natsu and Gray were always the easiest choice for the win but the outcome differed every time.

"Alright, GO!" Alzack shouted.

The boys were off and like always Natsu and Gray were neck and neck. They started shoving and tried to trip each other.

"NATSU! IF YOU WIN I'LL PAY FOR THE MAKE UP DATE! ALL YOU CAN EAT!" Kasai exclaimed to Natsu. She knew just what to say to get the boy going.

"Alright! I'm fired up now!" Natsu began to pick up speed. "Free food!"

"Poor Gray. He just can't compete with Natsu's stomach." Lucy laughed.

Jem thought for a moment, Gray bet on me and won. He knew I'd win. I wonder how?

"I know!" Jem exclaimed. "GRAY! WIN AND I'LL DO YOUR HOMEWORK FOR A MONTH!"

"Why in the hell are you cheering for Gray?" Kasai asked.

"Cause he cheered for me." Jem blushed slightly.

"Is that red cheeks on your face?" came a voice.

The girls turned to see Mirajane Strauss the oldest of the Strauss siblings and Principle Makarovs' assistant. She was a kind girl with long white hair. She had a sense of intuition that was always right on the dot. She could always tell when people were hiding things from others, and she knew exactly what it was too.

"I'm not blushing it's just hot out here and I just got finished running." Jem stated.

"Hi Mira, what's up." Sugar smiled.

"Nothing I got bored so I came to see how things were going here." she smiled back.

"Did you hear Elfman got detention for breaking the window in the East Hall?" Kasai asked.

"Yeah, it's nothing new really."

The girls laughed then turned to see how the boys fared in their race. Natsu was two steps behind Gray. It looked like victory for the black haired boy when a solid metal object came from the sky and hit the earth with enough force to shake the whole school.

It was tall and cylindrical in shape. The sun glared off its smooth frame blinding some of the student temporally. Then a hole opened in the middle and two claws came out and headed straight for the girls.