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Mystical Creature Care 101 had to be the most pointless class around, Jay thought. Coincidentally, it was also happened to be his worst class.

It wasn't his fault he'd grown up without any animals around him, yet now he was paying the price for it. Try as he might, he couldn't seem to get the class animals to like him or his classmates to help him. He'd even tried bribing one of the girls with promises of getting her a date with one of his teammates, yet even that wasn't enough, everyone else much too busy trying to keep their own creatures alive and happy. Oh, how he regretted the day he allowed Carlos to persuade him to sign up with him.

They were currently raising lucky rabbits, but Jay only felt unluckiness. He couldn't seem to care for his rabbit, which he'd named Demon because it was apparently possessed, scratching and biting him whenever he so much as opened it's cage to feed her.

Miss Nakoma had warned him twice now that if he couldn't get his grade in the class to at least a C, he wouldn't be able to play in the next tourney game and this deadline was making him desperate for assistance.

In his panic to get Demon to behave as Miss Nakoma walked around the room to check the animals' measurements and appearance, he hadn't noticed that they had a new student in the class. Well, new to him. The tiny little girl he'd met only a few periods before was in this class as well, making rounds around the room along with Miss Nakoma. He realized he'd get his chance to ask her about what he'd overheard sooner than he thought, with Allie walking up to him, an amused look in her honey-brown eyes as he scrambled to keep Demon from escaping his grasp, feeling the evil fur ball bite into his index finger.

"Oh no!" He shouted and was about to run after it when it hopped a few feet away, right into Allie's open arms.

"Aw, aren't you the cutest little thing? Yes, you are." She cooed to the Demon, petting it behind its floppy ears. "You should really learn the proper holding technique for your rabbit." She commented to Jay, showing him how to position his arms before handing the snow-white creature back.

"Thanks, but I don't need you to tell me how to hold a silly rabbit." Jay grumbled as he took the animal back, finding that this was the calmest it'd ever been in his arms. Maybe she had a point after all.

"Yeah, but apparently you do need me to tell you that your rabbit is sick." She noted as she inspected the animal, gesturing for him to put it down on the table behind him. "She has Enchanted wood-mites." She stated, moving over to let Jay see. Sure enough, he saw the faintly glowing white specks near the base of the rabbit's fur.

"We're going to have to put some drops of iverpotion in her water every other week and you have to comb her fur with a bewitched brush." She instructed as Jay nodded along dumbly. "I'll talk to Miss Nakoma so she can move your rabbit to an isolated cage and hopefully the rest of the rabbits won't catch it."

"T-thanks. For your help." Jay mumbled before she walked away, earning a small nod from her before she went to find Miss Nakoma. As she walked away, he decided that he would put off digging deeper into the snippets of conversation he'd heard for now, not wanting to scare Allie off when she'd been nice enough to help him with his animal and more importantly, actually seemed to know what she was doing.

Besides, maybe Allie wasn't as much of a brat as he'd originally thought, after all.

Allie couldn't help but glance across at Jay's paper in hopes of making herself feel better about her own disappointingly low score. It seemed that no matter how hard she tried or how many hours she spent cramming for Alchemistry class, she couldn't seem to grasp the material at all, which was reflected by her meager score of a 38 on their latest test. Leaving school for a month could do that to a person.

Still, Jay- who she recorded spent an average of three-quarters of class time asleep- couldn't have done all that better than her. Or at least that's what she assumed.

Her jaw dropped when she saw the perfect three digit score glaring back at her. "You got a hundred percent?" She questioned incredulously, eyeing him skeptically. "But you sleep every class." She reasoned, waiting for his reply.

"Well yeah. That's exactly why I can sleep every class without Mr. Hatter expelling me. I know this stuff like the back of my hand." He related with a confident smirk on his face. "My father taught me everything I needed to know about alchemy and curses growing up and this isn't all that different." He explained, their eyes locking for a moment before Allie spoke up.

"What do you say we team up?" She offered, watching his expression before continuing. "I'll help you pass Mystical Creature Care, and in exchange, you help me pass Alchemistry. Do we have a deal?"

Jay easily nodded his head at the proposition, extending his hand for her to shake. "You've got a deal."

This would be the start of a very interesting friendship.

So that's it for this chapter! I hope you enjoyed and please leave me a review letting me know what you think. I've still got space for one OC who plays Allie's boy best friend and is a hero- so please submit potential characters! Just give a name, gender, royal parent(s), physical appearance- if you have an actor in mind give their name too- and any talents.