Dib sighed, class was sooooo boring. It was like he could feel his brains liquefy, and not in the good way. He glanced over at Zim who, like the rest of the class, was doing nothing. He reached into his bag and pulled out the old book once more and opened the yellow pages.
That weird girl that I am investigating is named Amalthia and she's friends with AXIS! Why am I not surprised that the two people that annoy me the most are good buddies? She is also friends with some kid named Zen. He has really blue hair and wears a different pair of sun glasses every day, none of them normal of course. I have also noticed that Amalthia has unnaturally golden eyes. I would have taken more notes at the time, but Axis hit me over the head with a book. I never had known how heavy the geometry textbooks were until that day. So I had to get him back and it all happened during Science class three days after school started.
"Hey Doc," Axis sneered, "how's that inventing thing going for you?" He asked with a smirk and tinkering with his weird back pack thing. The back pack has all these robotic parts in it. He treats this invention of his like a child and frankly I'm sick it. "Are you still working on that toaster from fifth grade?"
"I'm doing just fine. I've had some setbacks but it's almost done."
"So what's it gonna' do? Make super toast or something?" Axis stated sarcastically, in all honesty I have no idea what it's going to do. I just want the silly thing to work without causing a power outage or bursting into flames.
"Something like that, but not right now I'm busy."
"What could you possibly be doing?"
"I'm observing Amalthia for any erratic behaviors." Why he couldn't have left me alone I'll never know.
"Uhh… What?"Axis looked at me like I had a moose on my head. "I'm sorry but it sounded like you said you were watching Amalthia."
"Yah I guess you could say that." I looked over at Axis, I couldn't quite figure out what was bothering him about that.
"So… how long have you been doing this?" Axis asked mildly concerned, he tried to work on his Portable Kit or whatever he called that thing, but apparently I was distracting him.
"Three days, four hour, twenty-three minutes, and two seconds."
"Nice," He shouted wide eyed, "You're just as bad as that chick that was following Tom Cruise." He had abandoned working on his thing for the moment.
"No I'm not, she was a stalker." I looked at the broken toaster in my hands and formed an idea. Oh how he would pay, the nerve of calling me a stalker! It didn't help that he started singing The Police song I'll be Watching You. "Hey isn't that Junior girl looking you over?" I asked; Axis immediately darted over. I went to work putting the toasting device from my disassembled toaster into his device and toke our some large laser or something and hooked it up to my toaster.
"You were wrong, as always-," he stared at my lame attempt to act casual, "why are you hiding you toaster behind your back?" I stumbled looking for an answer.
"I finished it; you wouldn't understand its brilliance." I attempted desperately, I really hoped that that would satisfy him.
"O.K. then let us see it toast. I want to watch you fail again." I was kind of at a loss. In hind sight I probably shouldn't have plugged it in, but I did. So it kind of exploded, I ran from the smoke filled classroom certain that he would find out. I dashed over to the English class and briefly stopped in the door way.
"That was little misshape in the Science lab no need to panic," I turned to see Axis running down the hall angrily, he definitely found out what I did, "unless you're me." Once again I ran down the halls out to the court yard.
"Doc! Get your ass back here!" I tripped and fell onto the hard dirt; this was not going to end well. At least that's what I thought, as Axis neared me I heard Amalthia bark a command.
"STOP!" she screamed, "AND EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT ON EARTH IS GOING ON!"
"Why should I listen to-"
"I said quite!" she growled sinisterly, I had no idea how menacing she could be before. "Now Defense Officer Axis, explain what happened here!" I have no idea what she was talking about, only that she was addressing Axis at this point.
"That thing put a toaster in my pack!" Axis recited at her authority.
"And what are you going to do?"She shouted.
"Remove it with as much malice as possible mam!" Axis saluted.
"Good, you are excused." Amalthia said, finally pacified, "As for you Doc!" she came uncomfortably close to me. "I pray for your own safety that you stay out of the affairs of me and the other members of the Paranormal Club." Amalthia turned and stormed off, I know that it's probably a bad idea but I have to check out this club of theirs. If I can find out where it is held I can put cameras in the room. That way I can spy on their activities and improve my chance of proving once and for all that Amalthia is mental disturbed. Who knows I might even be able to ship Axis off in the same boat. After all the saying goes that birds of a feather flock together.
Dib snickered at the entry. Finally some action was happening in this book, he might even be able to avoid any mistakes the author makes in his endeavor. He put the book back in his bag, even though he never did find that evidence in the attic he had made quite a find, a find that also caught the attention of his enemy. Zim had watched Dib pull out the book during class, a book that the Dib-worm seemed to be enjoying instead of watching Zim. What could be in that book, the makings of a super weapon, all the knowledge of Irk, or worse the answer keys to all the upcoming tests? He had to get his hands on that book. Or at least trick the Dib into telling him what was inside. Lunch came around and the Dib was once again reading that stupid book!
I have noted that Amalthia has a habit of using the lunch tables as her own personal stage, I can only begin to fathom how often she has done it before. This brings me to the events of today, club initiation day. Many clubs have their own kinds of initiations some make you pay, a few others have a test, but the Paranormal Club had something far from ordinary. Amalthia got up onto the tables during lunch in a costume that you might have seen in an old science fiction movie. I actually managed to get my camera out in time to capture her doing a musical number on the lunch tables. Axis had hacked into the light system and Zen worked on pumping background music in the intercom. What's more is that rather than laugh or mutter in confusion when she went to get on the table, they just moved their lunch off the table like it happened every day. Naturally when I showed the tape to the principal he said that it was perfectly normal for the Paranormal Club to do strange stunts to see if the new members can tolerate having that kind of attention thrusted on them. Normal? What is normal about dancing on a table during lunch?
It looks like I'm going to have to try harder to get that… thing out of the school. I just wish that there was some concrete evidence that I could get my hands on, evidence that can't be swatted away with bogus excuses. Even that seems a little too much to ask for. I asked Rain to hang out with Amalthia after school today. He's going to tell me if they do anything that could help my cause. I'd do it myself but Axis has been on edge since the toaster fiasco. The last thing I need is to be chased off of my own personal project by him. I have been looking more into the afternoon class uniforms just in case there might be another reason for there being that sort of class and I think I might have found something. I have seen the afternoon students wearing arm bands; I have seen three different kinds so far. If only I can find out what they mean.
On the page below the entry there were three symbols. One had the Greek symbol for Earth in a triangle like shape; under neither it was Amalthia's name and the colors navy and black. A different symbol, which looked like half a gear, had Axis's name under it and the colors red copper. The last symbol looked like an elaborate trident with the colors sky blue and purple along with Zen's name. Dib was so absorbed in the book that he didn't hear Zim sneak up on him.
"So Dib thing, what are you reading?" Dib jumped at the sound of Zim's voice.
"It's a book Zim, but that's not important right now." Dib replied, "Why you behind be, when usually you're over there spazing… Are you up to something?"
"Of course not," Zim said in disgustingly sweet voice, "why should I be up to something to want to talk to you?"
"So you're not up to something?" Dib asked, setting down the book to look at the confusing alien. Zim never acted like this, ever. Something defiantly was up.
"No I am just trying to be civil Dib-breath." Zim said inching a little closer, he was almost there. A few more seconds and he could swap Dib's book with the waffle recipe book behind his back. "Is that not socially acceptable in human society?"
"In society maybe," Dib said as he put the book back into his bag, "but not in elementary school." Dib walked through the double doors of the cafeteria. Zim waited until Dib had left, then jumped on the table.
"I was so close!" he screamed with ferocity, fellow students moved out of Zim's way as he stormed across the wood surface. "Why couldn't I get it? I AM ZIM!"
