Hello again! Welcome back to Into the Ashes :'3 Oh! I forgot to mention in the last author's note (thank Guardian Soul for reminding me) that the timeline for this fic is slightly altered. Basically it's a rewrite of the show (aside from the obvious character inserts). Also, updates will become slower because of the evil life-sucking monster known as school. (shudders)
Whelp, since GS wrote the last chapter, it was my turn to write for this one!
Disclaimer: If Guardian Soul and I owned GX, would we be writing fanfic? No, we would be sitting at the 4Kids headquaters with pitchforks, forcing them to dub the fourth season.
"GOOD MOOORNIIIING~" Thwack! "Ow! Ace, you bitch, that hurt!"
"So does you shouting in my eardrum at 7:00 AM."
Spade threw her roommate's pillow across the room. "Yeah, well, wakey-wakey, eggs and bakey~ It's the start of a fabulous new daaay~"
"Stop being optimistic. Besides," Lacey grumbled, slowly moving herself up off her nice, warm mattress and glaring at the girl on the top bunk, "aren't I the one who had to literally drag your sleeping bag around the room to get up whenever you slept over my house?"
Spade shifted her blue eyes to the side. "Maaaaaybe."
"I hate you," Lacey grumbled. She stumbled out of the bed and shook her head a little. "I have sex hair, don't I?"
"Yep." Spade crawled over to the ladder and began to descend as she answered.
"How bad?" Lacey asked, running through the closet for her clothes.
"20-dollar whore bad."
"Crap!" Lacey glanced at the time. "Spade, you blind bat, it says 8:00 AM, not 7!"
"Woah, does it really?" Spade nearly shouted. She jumped off the ladder and ran to the closet, nearly tripping herself in the process.
"No, I'm lying- Yes, really!" Lacey hastily pulled out her Silfer skirt and uniform, along with a black tank top to go under the shirt. As she quickly changed, she grumbled, "God, you can never trust the blind kid!"
"Hey! It's not my fault my vision is crap!" her companion shot back, squirming into the too-short (in her opinion, at least) skirt and throwing on a gray short-sleeved turtleneck. "Ugh, I hate these uniforms!" she moaned, throwing on the shirt.
"I know, Spade. You've been whining about them since we got here."
"And I shall keep complaining!" the pale girl responded indignantly. "You want the bathroom first?"
"You go, you're faster," Lacey offered kindly.
"Because I don't sit there for forever doing my hair and putting on makeup?" Spade challenged playfully.
"Well if you're gonna be a butt I'm not letting you go at all," her friend threatened, much to the other's horror.
"No! Wait! I have hygienic neeeeeds!" Spade called as Lacey ran into the bathroom, closing the door behind her. "You bitch!"
"You love me~" Lacey called from the cramped room.
"Oh, that I could stop, it would make my life so much easier…"
When all matters of hygiene were tended to, the two girls left the room and walked (Spade skipped) to the Slifer cafeteria. It was small, but it was clean enough for Spade to be able to eat in there. She was very particular about certain things, much to Lacey's amusement.
"So, are you gonna straighten all the salt and pepper shakers on all the tables again?" the darker blonde asked her with a mischievous grin.
"No, just the ones on our table," Spade replied casually. "But I swear to God, they're all so crooked all the time!"
They stopped in their tracks when they heard a somewhat familiar voice call out, "Hey, it's you guys!" The two girls turned their heads in almost perfect unison to see the two boys from the dance last night, accompanied by a large, koala-like boy, and a boy dressed in all gray and spiky black hair.
"Hi!" Spade chirped. She leaned over and whispered in Lacey's ear, "I have no idea what their names are, help me."
Lacey sighed a bit and then looked back at the table and smiled brightly. "Hey, Jaden, Syrus," she responded politely. "Got room for two more?"
"Yeah, sure!" Jaden responded with a happy nod. Syrus waved shyly, still apparently not quite used to them. The one in gray just grunted, while the bear-like one moved a bit to make room for some extra chairs. "Oh, I almost forgot!" he exclaimed. He turned to the two other boys. "Guys, these two are Ace and Spade," he said, gesturing to each of them in turn. "And ladies, these two gentlemen are Chumley Huffington," he added, pointing at the bear-boy, "and Chazz Princeton, the world's biggest grouch," he finished, elaborately extending his arm at the one in gray.
"Shut up, Jaden," Chazz growled.
Spade snickered a bit, sitting across from Lacey. "So what classes do you guys have now?"
"Syrus here and I have Basic Dueling 101 in an hour," Jaden responded.
"I've got Traps and Spells with Crowler," Chumley groaned. "Sucks."
Chazz sniffed. "Advanced Summoning 102."
Spade's eyes widened. "Woah, how'd you get into that if you're in Slifer?"
"He used to be an Obelisk," Jaden explained while Chazz let his head fall against his chest at the mention of the Red Dorm. "But he transferred for a while. He actually came back pretty recently!"
"If I had known I was gonna be stuck in a dorm with you two, I wouldn't have left."
"Aw, cheer up, emo kid!" Lacey chided playfully, crossing her legs and grinning.
"Wha- Hey! I am not emo!" Chazz defended, clenching one hand into a fist, only causing Lacey to laugh in response. Spade mumbled something that sounded like, "Lace, you're gonna get your butt kicked," but no one was really paying attention.
"Aaaanyway," Jaden interrupted, leaning back and spreading his arms as if to keep them apart, "what'd you guys think of the dance last night? I don't know about you, but I had a blast!"
"It was f-fun," Syrus stammered, before rubbing the back of his head anxiously. "I guess." His eyes widened and he turned to the girls. "N-not to be any insult to you, of course, I mean, you guys are awesome, I-I mean-" He stopped as both girls began to laugh and Spade put a comforting hand on his shoulder.
"Dude, chill, it's fine," Spade told him, smiling. She shrugged. "It was okay I guess. I'm not really one for dances. But at least I got to wear pants!" she added, sounding triumphant and raising a fist in the air dramatically.
"Pants?" Jaden repeated. "What's so special about pants?"
"Because pants are infinitely better than these hand towels this school calls a skirt!" Spade explained. "I mean, I don't know about you, but I'm really not a fan of an article of clothing that just barely covers my ass, thankya very much~" The "thank you" was rushed and said at a low tone, but then gradually rose, as if she was singing. It was an odd manner of speaking, to say the least.
Syrus blinked. "Um…what…?"
"Forgive her, she babbles on and on and doesn't turn off," Lacey said, raising a hand to cover Spade's mouth, which only resulted in her getting bitten. "Ow! That hurt, you butt!"
"I do not babb- … Wait. Never mind. I do. I take my bite back."
Lacey blinked, then promptly slapped her face with her palm. "Tell me why I am surprised. I've known you for years. How does something like this surprise me?"
"Because I've never tried to take a bite back?"
"…True."
Jaden coughed, somewhat uncomfortable by the strangeness of his new classmates. "So, Chazz, Chumley, why weren't you guys at the party last night?" he asked, trying to change the subject…and prevent more biting.
"Dude, they didn't have any grilled cheese at the party," Chumley responded.
"How would you know that? You weren't there," Syrus asked.
"I could smell it. No grilled cheese. At all."
The blue-haired boy sighed. "Sometimes I think you're more passionate about food then you are dueling."
"Fair enough," Jaden said, nodding and not questioning his friend's super food-smelling ability, as he didn't doubt it for a second. "Chazz?"
"Why would I want to go to a dumb party and be seen with some Slifer slackers?" the gray-clad one spat. "I'll pass."
"But…you're in Slifer too," Jaden responded.
"…Shut up, Jaden."
"Aw, come on, have a little dorm pride!" Lacey encouraged, patting her red skirt.
"Hey, wait, I just realized something," Spade interrupted.
"Uh-oh," Lacey responded, earning her a glare from Spade before the paler girl continued.
"Chazz, if you're in Slifer, how come you aren't wearing a uniform for it?"
"Because I'd like to keep my dignity. Or rather what's left of it."
"…Well, you sure sound like a ray of freaking sunshine."
"Hmph," was Chazz's intellectual response.
Spade rolled her eyes and glanced down at her watch. "Aw, crap, it's 8:46, we should get moving," she said to Lacey, tugging on her friend's arm. "Come oooonnnn," she urged about three seconds later when her friend refused to leap out of her chair as she did, in the manner of a rabbit on crack cocaine.
"All right, jeez, let me breathe first!" Lacey said, swatting at her friend. "I will slap you!"
Jaden grinned. "What do you guys have now?"
"Um…" Spade pulled a folded up piece of paper out of the tiny pocket the skirt provided and opened it. "Oh, what do you know? Basic Dueling 101!' She smiled. "Looks like we have class together!"
"Well, great! We'll go there with you! Right, Sy?"
His blue-haired friend blinked silver eyes, astonished. "Jaden? Are you sick? You want to be on time to class?"
"Well, not really, but it'd be cool to hang with new classmates, right?"
"…I-I-" Syrus stammered dumbly.
"Does he do this often?" Spade asked the brown-and-orange-haired one.
"Only on Tuesdays."
"But it's Wednesday."
"Exactly."
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~Winty