Woot, another chapter out! Good thing I got this out before finals started or this wouldn't be coming out until during summer. Well enjoy! BlueNovaBunny
BNB: Let's see, after finals….SUMMER! WAHOO!
Ken: Calm down. This just means you have to start driving school soon, which means you'll run over an old lady…
Phoenix: As the old saying goes, 'Asians behind a wheel…'
BNB: That absolutely has nothing to do with me! I'll be the greatest driver ever!
Phoenix/Ken: Delusional!
BNB: Whatever
Disclaimer: Sailor Moon is owned by Naoko Takeuchi
Story Signs:
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'thoughts'
Serena Tsukino-14
Darien Chiba-17
Andrew/Andy Furuhata-18
Reika Nishimura-18
Reese Hoshi-18 (author character)
Nathan/Nephrite Stanton-18
Amy Mizuno-14
Raye Hino-14
Jean/Jadeite Chokichi-16
Kyle Tauro-18
Mina Anio-14
Kaidou-20
Chapter 4: Feeling The Freeze
Zeke stretched his shoulders before closing the laptop. He worked the kinks out of his muscles and gave a hearty yawn. His bleary eyes looked at the clock. The clock's red digits blared out 7:40; twenty minutes to reach school. Once again he had pulled an all-nighter. He shook himself awake and decided on a cold shower to wake himself up.
He made it on time for his first day at his new school. The name of the school matched the name on the paper, Crossroads Jr. High. He just hoped the school wouldn't give him some lame-ass kid to show him around. He was about to step inside the building when a flurry of wind pushed him aside.
"What the hell?" A few seconds later an obviously tired girl came running up. Her red curls bobbed up and down as she gasped for more air.
"Damn that Serena. She wasn't even late this time," the girl vehemently muttered to herself. The girl seemed to finally realize that a stranger was still standing there looking amazed at her.
"Oh, you must be another newbie. Geez, my head is still spinning from all the new students transferring in."
"Oh really?" Zeke gave her a curious look. "Who else transferred in?"
"This really smart girl named Ami Mizuno. And I hear some other girl is also going to come later in the school year. Oh excuse me, I didn't introduce myself."
"That's quite alright."
"No, no. My mama taught me to be proper. I'm Molly Osaka."
"I'm Zeke Lanker." They briefly shook hands.
"Do you want me to show you where the main office is? We have five minutes before my first class start."
"Sure." He followed the petite woman down the hallway.
"So what made you chose Crossroads?" Molly glanced back at Zeke.
"Well actually, my transcripts were mixed up in the transition. I was supposed to go to
Azabu Jr. High and ended up here instead. The school board offered to fix the problem, but I decided to try here. If I don't like it, then I'll just switch to Azabu next semester."
"Wow, Azabu accepted you. I heard that Azabu Jr. High was hard to get into and its prep high school is even harder."
"Yeah, that's true. Later this month, I'm going to talk to a student from the high school about the requirements to get in and what programs they can offer me." Molly's eyes rounded even more. This kid had to be super smart. Maybe he was even smarter than Miss Mizuno. Her face crunched as if she tastes something bitter. I hope he's smarter than miss pain-in-the-ass. She acts so superior than everyone else.
"Well here's the office. I would—ohff!" A certain blonde had attached herself to Molly's side. "Serena! Where have you been?" The person in question just rolled her eyes.
"Sammy messed with my alarm clock and I ended rising early," at this point the girl pouted, "so I thought I was late and rushed to school. I'll teach that brat some day, I swear." Molly just giggled at her friend's antics. Serena finally seemed to notice the mysterious guy standing behind Molly.
"Hi! Are you new?"
"Yes. Zeke Lanker."
"Serena Tuskino, Crossroads' most lovable student."
"And the dumbest underachiever." The small group's head swiveled to meet the cold cobalt eyes of another female student of Crossroads. Molly's face crumbled into anger while Serena still had a stunned surprised look.
"Look Miss Mizuno, you may be the top student, but that doesn't give you a right to insult Serena. Enjoy the rest of your school year alone!" Molly turned her face away so she didn't have to look at Amy's face. This brought her to face the amused Zeke. "Serena and I eat lunch in the shaded area behind the school. I'd be pleased if you join us."
Zeke gave her the briefest nod. His eyes were more concentrated on the snobbish Miss Mizuno. A wry grin formed on his lips.
"Let me guess, you're my guide?" Amy gave a pained sigh.
"Yes. Obviously this school doesn't respect that I have other things to do." Whoa, major bitch queen…though I have to say I kind of like it. Well two can play at that game. Seems Queen B needs a dose of her own medicine.
"So aren't you supposed to show me to somewhere," Zeke quirked an eyebrow before coldly walking off. For a second Amy was stunned. She had never ever let anyone have the last say. A vicious scowl emerged on her face. And this time it wouldn't be different.
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Today our known super heroes were doing something very heroic…aw hell, they were sleeping during class. A certain dark-haired boy was taking a break in his dreams and kept murmuring Furbies and clenching his fist. The other red head was kicking in his sleep and muttering about food.
Ms. Sonoma growled and snapped her chalk in two. She had never met a student so cocky, prideful, and a bad egg all rolled in one before. Well now she had Nathaniel Stanton in her class and he was even corrupting her best student.
"Chiba! Stanton! Please wake up!"
Darien's eyes shot open. "Furbies! Ahhh, get them off me." Darien tried to get his bearings back to reality while the other kids snickered at him. "Damn Furbies," he muttered before standing attention. To his right, Nathan was smiling smugly. Ms. Sonoma narrowed her eyes.
"Mr. Stanton, what symbol would you use in this equation?"
"Ohms, Ms. Sonoma." Ms. Sonoma gave an aggravated sigh as she returned back to board. She would never get a wrong answer from him.
"So how did you know the symbol to use? You were sleeping right?" Nathan gave him a pitying tone.
"This is my second time taking this class. I should have remembered something from the first time when I failed it." Darien just shook his head in disbelief. It's really me who should pity him. The bell rang and both of them headed for lunch.
Nathan checked his sack and shriveled his nose in disgust. The cook at his house made another inedible meal. His glanced and Darien's lunch and saw he was happily munching away at a Bento box. Now how did he get that? I thought only girls made those.
"Hey Chiba, willing to share?" Darien rolled his eyes and offered Nathan some food. Nathan was always mooching off of his lunch. The guy should really tell his cook off and get some edible food from home. But then Nathan was the only one to suffer the cook's creations because his father was always out.
Both of them were surprised when Kyle walked over to them.
"Chiba, just the person I was looking for. I need you to come with me and introduce you to another student since you'll student Body President next year."
"Sure. Where is he?"
"At Crossroads Jr. High."
"Jr. High? Why is it so important that we meet him?"
"Supposedly he's some great genius. We want him to know that the school extends their arm out to him and welcomes him for next year."
Darien arched an eyebrow, "this must be some student then."
"Yes, he is."
"Can I come along?" Kyle massaged his temple as if he felt a headache was forming. There was no harm in bringing Stanton because he was a celebrity and would promote the school's fame, but his grades said otherwise.
"Fine." Nathan was about to do a victor dance. "But I don't want you to be a bad influence on him. Heaven knows Chiba's grades are slipping when you came around."
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Serena opened her lunchbox and practically inhaled her food. Molly elbowed Serena as Zeke stared in amazement.
"At this rate, she should be choking," Zeke commented dryly. Molly only nodded and giggled nervously. They finally had a totally cute guy come to their school and Serena was embarrassing the hell out of her.
"Are you Zeke Lanker?"
"Yes I am." Molly's eyes rounded as she saw the most handsome guys concentrated around her. Serena paused in her eating and looked up.
"Darien?"
"Serena? What are you doing here?" She gave him a strange look and dusted off her skirt as she stood up.
"I go to this school. Why do you want to talk to Zeke?"
"Well, uh…I don't remember." He pondered and scratched his head. "Now what was it?" Behind him, you could see a vein throbbing in Kyle's forehead. The guy muttered something like idiots under his breathe.
Serena smiled up at Darien. "Well since you're here, it's time to pay up for the ice cream cone you made me drop at the beach party!"
"Ice cream cone? What? When did that happen?" Serena turned around and giggled into her hand. She gave Nathan a saucy wink before turning back to Darien. Nathan couldn't help and grin. He wouldn't be surprised if this little girl had Darien wrapped around her pinky at the end of the week, after running a few circles around him. "Oh Darien you have such a bad short term memory." She tugged on his arm and dragged him away and catching Molly by the collar and dragging her off too.
"So what are you doing here?" Zeke questioned.
"We're from Azabu. I think you knew that we were coming."
"Yeah—"
"Mr. Lanker, you left your folder with me. Next time, if you're going to drop something, drop it in someone else's hands." Amy gave him a frosty glare as she threw the folder at his feet.
"It's you!" Zeke observed a shocked expression appear on Amy's face until quickly slipped it under her expressionless mask.
"Why yes Mr. Stanton, I do believe we have met. I must be going now." Dust flirted behind her as she ran off in the other direction.
"Hey!" Nathan trailed closely behind as he ran off after her. Zeke raised a quizzical brow. Either the ice queen did something really bad or the two were in some kind of a relationship. An image of Amy's scowl popped into his head. 'Nah couldn't be the latter. She's too cold.'
"So what was your name again?
"Kyle Tauro. I'm currently the study body president at Azabu High School. I'm thinking maybe this should be rescheduled because my two classmates seemed to have run off."
"Yeah, I guess so." Zeke chuckled.
"Maybe that's the best planned." Kyle shook Zeke's hand before walking off to gather his idiot classmates.
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Nathan gasped and leaned on his knees. 'Where the hell did she go? And how can she run so fast?' He groaned and collapsed on a nearby bench. A shadow fell over his features. "If you move to the left, then you can block that sweltering sunlight.
"Geez, what happened to you?" Nathan glared up at Darien.
"I'm just taking a pleasant run in this heat. What happened to you? You have a pained expression Did you injury yourself?" Darien grimaced.
"No, more like my wallet. Serena insisted I buy four cones of ice cream."
"So, that's only two cones for you and two for her."
"It appears that way, but it was actually one cone for her friend Molly and three cones for herself." Nathan whistled in appreciation.
"That girl can hold down her meals."
"Yeah, and my wallet." They both broke out laughing.
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Amy rolled her eyes as the two guys walked off. A hand clamped down on her shoulder. She sweat dropped and turned slowly around.
"Oh, Mina." The blonde could hear the relief voiced in the blue-haired student, but she noticed the girl's guard was still up. It was always good to keep your underling's on their feet.
"Have anything new to report?"
"Yes, actually. I spotted the guy that could've possible defeated Titus. He may be in league with Tuxedo Mask and that Sailor Moon."
"Fine then, I want you to follow him." She was about to protest, but a look from Mina silenced her. "Our plan is too close to being complete. You fail me, you fail Queen Beryl. And you know what that means…" Amy pulled back all of her emotions. She hated this, following orders, but thinking like this could get her terminated.
"Understood Venus. I'll report to you in a week."
"Good."
Mina grabbed her purse and walked towards the gate. She glanced sideways and noticed a certain silver-haired man dragging two people behind him. Her glanced moved back forward as the guy looked up to stare at her. She told him the next time they met; they'd have to kill each other. But her heart told her this wouldn't be the day
BNB: Tough chapter to get out or more like not enough
Ken: More like you were lazy :P
BNB: Annoying brat
Ken: Yah yah, you can't catch me
BNB: Duh I can, we're in the same mind.
Ken: Oh yeah…
BNB: Now for reviews
Whatever: Thanks that you like it. Now stop poking me in class or patting my shoulder. ;D
Phoenix: REviEw!