"Queen Beryl!" yelled Jadeite. "I found a new source of energy!"
"Ye?" replied Queen Beryl.
"Well, the humans have this thing called school. Can I go to school? I never got an education because I was placed on your doorstep as a baby and you never registered me with the school system."
"Ah, yes," recalled Beryl. "That was a long time ago. 1018 years to this day. I'm surprised I even remember something from 1,000 years ago. Well, I guess since I was dead for most of those years…"
"Beryl," said Jadeite. "Can I go to school?" he repeated.
Beryl looked at him, but all she saw was that baby that was placed on her doorstep so long ago. "Sure," said Beryl. "Go on ahead and live your dream."
"WAHOOOO!" cheered Jadeite, legging it before she remembered he had a job to do.
"What do you mean, there's no class open!?" cried Jadeite.
"I'm sorry," said the principal. "But all the classes are full. If you were to register, we would have to make a whole new class, a class 3."
"Can ya?" asked Jadeite desperately.
"We don't have enough kids for a whole new class," the principle said sadly. "And also you look too old for school."
"No," said Jadeite.
He left it at that.
"Well…" said the vice-principal, thinking for a moment. "If you were to recruit like 20 more kids, we could hire a new teacher and start a whole new class. But there's no way…"
"I'LL BE BACK!" howled Jadeite leaping out the window.
20 minutes later, Jadeite returned with 20 kids and a teacher.
"Wow," said the vice-principal. "I just said that to get rid of you. Our school doesn't have the funds to pay another teacher."
"Don't worry," said Grandpa. "I'll do it for free."
"Ehhh, I guess it's okay then," decided the principal. "You guys will be class 3, and-"
The vice-principal gasped. "You can't… not class 3!"
"Shit!" remembered the principal. "It all started 47 years ago…"
"What did?" asked Jadeite.
"THE CURSE!" howled the principal.
"WHAT CURSE?!" yelled Jadeite getting frantic.
The principal packed all his things, put on his cap, and left. He never returned.
"That was odd," said Jadeite.
The vice-principal, who was now the principal, was shaking in her boots. "I wish you the best of luck," she said.
"Umm… okay," said Jadeite.
Him and his crowed entered classroom 3.
There were cobwebs everywhere, but Kunzite used his powers to get rid of them.
"I'm glad you're here," said Zoisite. "Usually you don't go along with these things."
Kunzite shrugged. "When Jadeite offered me a free education, I'd be a fool to decline."
They all took their seats.
Grandpa-sensei began to teach them math. "So this is the number 2…" he began.
"I have a question!" yelled Jadeite.
But Grandpa ignored him and kept talking.
"HEY!" yelled Jadeite. "OVER HERE!"
Grandpa did not reply.
Jadeite tapped Nephrite who was sitting in front of him.
"Do you see what's going on?!"
Nephrite went to turn around, but stopped himself.
"NEPHRITE?!" screamed Jadeite.
He was getting mad.
He threw his notebook on the floor.
"WHY IS EVERYONE IGNORING ME!?
Everyone ignored him.
"AHHHHHHHHHHH!" he screamed.
An anonymous paper airplane flew to his desk, and Jed unfolded it.
"I'll explain everything after class," it read.
"Hmm," said Jadeite.
Class ended four hours later.
Jadeite walked out into the hall.
"Hey," said Melvin. "I left you the note."
"Okay," said Jadeite. "I figured, since you were the one who approached me after class."
"Yes," said Melvin. "I'll explain everything. You see, 47 years ago, there was a curse."
"Why?" said Jadeite.
"I'm getting there," said Melvin. "You see, in class 3, some kid died of unknown causes, and everyone was sad. So they pretended he still existed. Then, at the end of the year, when they took the class photo, the kid was in it!"
"Jeepers creepers," said Jadeite. "But wait, I thought you said he died!"
"He did die," said Melvin.
"What was his name?" asked Jadeite.
"I don't know," said Melvin. "But anyway, after this occurred, kids in class 3 would start dying rapidly. So they decided the only way to prevent the curse was to treat one kid like they don't exist-"
"How did they figure that out?" asked Jadeite.
"I don't know," said Melvin. "I wasn't there. I'm just quoting my Pa. But anyway,"
"Oh I get it," said Jadeite. "It's to balance out what happened 47 years ago!"
"No," said Melvin. "It's because there's an extra desk every year, because one kid in the class is dead!"
"Wouldn't they notice the dead body sitting there?" asked Jadeite.
"NOOOO!" yelled Melvin. "They're a ghost! But they just look like a normal kid."
"How does that relate to what happened 47 years ago?" questioned Jadeite. "Nothing really adds up in this story! Could you explain it again, but slower?"
Melvin was angry. "I shouldn't be talking to you anyway. You're the kid who doesn't exist!"
"I think I exist," said Jadeite. "And also I'm not a ghost!"
"NO!" cried Melvin. "The ghost doesn't have to do with the non-existent kid!"
"So what does ignoring someone accomplish, if they have to get rid of the ghost?!" asked Jadeite in confusion.
Melvin shook his head, and started to walk away.
"I said too much," he stated. "I hope I didn't say too much…"
Melvin started down the staircase, but his first step never landed. He started to tumble.
However, as he fell down the stairs, he died of unknown causes, and was dead before he hit the ground.
"OH NO!" cried Jadeite. "Melvin just died right after he explained the curse to me! And it was of unknown causes!"
No one rushed to Melvin's corpse, because they had to ignore Jadeite and thus had to pretend that they didn't hear that someone died.
Jadeite ran up and grabbed Shingo by the shirt, picking him up off the ground.
"TELL ME ABOUT THE CALAMITY OF CLASS 3, FROM 47 YEARS AGO!"
"Oh my god!" cried Ami Mizuno. "Shingo is floating!"
"What, no way?!" yelled Makoto.
"What's going on!?" yelled Shingo. "Why am I floating!?"
Jadeite was furious, and started shaking Shingo rapidly.
"NOTICE ME!" he yelled.
He shook Shingo so fast it looked like he was vibrating.
"HEEELP!" yelled Shingo. "Alright, Jadeite, I'll tell you what happened!"
"NO!" yelled Nephrite. But it was too late.
Shingo's shirt collar tore, and he was launched out of Jadeite's hand and out the window.
He died before he hit the ground.
"NO!" repeated Nephrite.
"Rip," said Zoisite.
Grandpa just shook his head sadly.
"We are gathered here today to mourn the passing of our old classmate, Melvin Gurio," stated Boxy the priest.
Jadeite arrived at the funeral, and everyone turned to him angrily. Jadeite gave a thumb's up.
They all turned the other way.
Jadeite went to take a seat, but there was none for him, so he sat down criss-cross applesauce on the ground.
"Oy Maylvin," said Molly sadly. "He was too young to die."
She watched as they lowered his coffin into the ground.
"Maaaylvin!" she wailed. She leaned over to get one last look at coffin.
"Wait, Molly!" cried Nephrite. "The curse!"
Molly was leaning over the fence, but suddenly lost her balance.
"OYYYYY!" she yelled. She fell in the grave right as the dirt was poured in. She was buried alive, and was dead before she died.
"MOOOOOOOOLLLLLLY!" boomed Nephrite. "NOOOOO! DAMMIT JADEITE!"
"We are gathered here today to mourn the passing of our old classmate, Molly Osaka."
Jadeite arrived at the funeral.
Everyone turned to him. He frowned, and they all turned away.
Nephrite wanted to mourn next to Molly's coffin, but did not want to suffer a similar fate.
"Let's wrap this funeral up quickly," said Zoisite. "We don't know what's gonna happen."
"That was just a fluke," assured Kunzite. "There's no curse, and no one else is going to die."
Suddenly, a rogue meteor shot out of the atmosphere and landed on Makoto.
She died before the impact.
"MAKOOOO!" cried Ami.
She went to shove the meteor off Makoto, but pulled her back out and died.
She dropped to the ground, but was dead before she hit the ground.
"We are gathered here today to mourn the passing of our old classmates… ah, what's the point," groaned Boxy.
He went to leave, but wasn't looking where he was going and fell into Ami's tomb, right as the dirt poured in.
"We should stop going to these funerals," said Kunzite.
The remaining classmates nodded.
Right as Zoisite went to leave, Grandpa grabbed him.
"Zoisite!" he yelled.
"Yes, Sensei," said Zoisite.
"I'm putting you as the head of counter-measures."
"Counter-measures of what?" asked Zoisite.
Grandpa just gave him a nod and headed on his way.
"I wish I knew what was going on," said Zoisite. "I don't even know why we're ignoring Jadeite."
The next day, Sensei did not show up to class on time.
He looked very upset when he arrived.
"Umm… Sensei?" asked Usagi's tubby friend from season 1 nervously.
"I hope you all graduate this year."
"Okay…" said Zoisite slowly.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!" yelled Grandpa.
He threw himself at the students, and they were forced to put him down.
"D'ah," said the students.
"What would cause him to act like this?" asked Zoisite. "I talked to him at the funeral, and he seemed normal."
"What's the date?" asked Nephrite.
Zoisite checked the class calendar that was now stained with blood. "It's July 1st."
"SHIT!" cried Nephrite. He dashed from the classroom.
"I DON'T WANNA DIE!" howled Usagi, following suit.
But as she opened the door, Nephrite had a change of heart and decided to stick it out.
He slammed it open in the other direction, knocking her to the floor and ending her.
"Ooops!" said Nephrite. "AHHH!"
The class started to freak out.
"Alright, Jadeite," said Zoisite, as they stood on the roof of the school. "As the head of counter-measures, whatever that means, I've decided that you can exist again."
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" asked Nephrite.
"Yes," said Zoisite. "Clearly, ignoring him has not helped."
"I don't know," said Nephrite. "I haven't died yet, and I've been in some pretty sticky situations since the start of the school year. It's almost like I have too much personality to die."
"Yeah right," said Zoisite. "We're all in danger!"
"I have to warn Beryl," decided Jadeite.
"Wait, don't teleport!" yelled Nephrite. "You know what happens if you try to leave town!"
But Jadeite was a nervous wreck and didn't listen.
He started to teleport, but something was off.
Halfway through his teleportation stream, something interrupted it, and he was launched in a different direction.
He was soon teleported to the core of an active volcano.
"AHHHHHH!" he cried.
He was dead before he hit the ground.
"This isn't good," said Zoisite after ten minutes had passed. "Jadeite hasn't returned yet."
Suddenly his corpse appeared next to them badly burnt.
"I'm having flashbacks to the manga," said Nephrite as chills went down his spine.
"AHHHHHHHH!" screamed Zoisite.
"What's all the hub-bub?" asked Kunzite stepping out onto the roof.
"No Kunzite, get away from me! Everyone around me dies! Except for me who has plot armor!" cried Nephrite.
Kunzite frowned. "I did some digging, and I found out that the curse ended one year."
"It did?!" cried Zoisite. "How?!"
"Well, they all went on a field trip. That's all I know."
"Let's go on a field trip," suggested Zoisite.
"But to where?" wondered Nephrite.
"It doesn't matter," said Zoisite. "As head of counter-measures, I can't sit here idly."
"Alright then," said Kunzite. "Let's go to the mountain resort!"
"Which?" asked Zoisite.
"Remember that time I had that ski plot?" said Kunzite.
"No," said Zoisite sadly.
"Well not that mountain," said Kunzite.
"Okay."
"I don't like the looks of this mountain," said Nephrite. Behind him was the remaining students of class 3. There weren't many left.
A dark storm cloud followed above only them.
"Hmm," said Kunzite. "I don't like this one bit. But this is how they figured out who the dead kid was last time presumably, so it's the only chance we've got!"
They started up the long winding staircase to the mountain resort.
Suddenly, Yaten stepped on the wrong stair, and was sent rolling off the mountain.
No one tried to save him, because there was nothing more they could do.
In a last ditch effort, Yaten transformed into Sailor Star Healer. But it was too late.
He rolled for another couple frames, and was dead before anything fatal actually happened to him.
"Poor guy, died from rolling," said Zoisite, carefully watching his steps.
Kunzite floated behind, not making Yaten's same mistake.
They all arrived at the mansion on the hill.
They stepped inside.
"Well, since we're here, we might as well try to relax," said Nephrite. "Since we're all gonna die soon anyway, except for me because I have plot armor!"
Mamoru Chiba had a brief moment where he wondered if he too had any plot armor. He hoped being the opposite of Nephrite was good enough – being so irrelevant to the story that no one cared to animate a death scene for him. He headed to bed early that night, hoping to stay alive.
Everyone put on their pajamas and unpacked some of their things.
"Where's Mamoru Chiba?" wondered Nephrite. "I should go check on him, not that I care about him or anything. I just want to make sure no one else has died yet."
He stepped into Mamoru's bedroom, startling him out of his sleep.
"Huh?" asked Mamo.
That's when the entire floor above them collapsed, killing both Mamoru and Chad, who had been sound asleep on the floor above.
"NOOO!" screamed Nephrite, bracing himself for the great beyond.
However, he was just out of range of the collapsed floor, and was not injured.
"Huh," said Nephrite.
He went to bed and slept soundly, knowing he was invincible.
A few of the students stayed awake, mainly because they couldn't sleep.
"Hey guys!" said Motoki. "I filled the hot tub, anyone wanna go for a dunk?"
Everyone was too scared to move, except for Motoki's sister, who trusted her brother.
"I'll take a dip," she decided. "It might relax my nerves."
She stripped and leapt into the tub, head-first.
Unfortunately, Motoki accidentally made the water a little too hot.
Motoki's sister was dead before she the water.
"NOOO!" cried Motoki as her corpse floated to the surface. He was filled with blood-lust, and was just waiting for a reason to express it.
Suddenly there was an announcement over the loud speaker.
"There's a way to stop the curse!" the voice said. "Take out the dead kid!"
"Who's the dead kid?!" yelled Motoki.
"You might be wondering who the dead kid is," said the voice. "Well, it's none other than the head of counter-measures, Zoisite!"
"WHAT?!" cried Zoisite. "I didn't even want this job!"
Everyone turned to Zoisite with blood-lust.
Motoki went in for his infamous punch on Zoisite, but Zoisite took off faster than light.
A chandelier fell right where he had been standing, blocking off the door.
"Drat!" said Motoki. "Everyone split up!"
"Hehehe," snickered Greg, turning off the loud speaker. "That oughtta shake things up."
Suddenly the loud speaker blew up, lighting the mansion on fire and killing Greg. He was dead before the fire reached his body.
Zoisite was dashing down the hall.
Suddenly someone appeared next to him, and Zoisite swung.
Kunzite dodged with ease. "Don't worry, I know you're not dead!" said Kunzite.
"How?" asked Zoisite.
"I can see it with my eyes," he stated.
"Okay," said Zoisite. "Weirder things have happened today."
"I won't let them get to you," promised Kunzite.
Suddenly their first opponent entered the hall.
Momoko readied her broom.
"Step aside, Kunzite. I have to take out the dead kid."
"No," said Kunzite.
Momoko growled. She charged with her broom. The camera panned to the ceiling, and there was a shriek.
Kunzite was down, but not out.
"That's a strong broom," he admitted.
Momoko charged Zoisite. But Zoisite swung, taking out Momoko with a single punch.
She was tossed out the window and fell off the mountain, dying before she made it to the window.
Zoisite had to keep running, but he wasn't sure where.
"The kitchen!" he thought. "There's gotta be some knives in there I could use for defense."
Suddenly the light flicked on.
"AHA!" said Motoki.
"NO!" said Zoisite. He knew he was outmatched.
"THIS IS FOR MY SISTER!" howled Motoki charging.
Zoisite leapt wildly out of the way, and Motoki couldn't stop his charge in time.
He tripped and tumbled into the oven, and it slammed shut and turned on.
He was dead before he was cooked alive.
Zoisite hesitantly opened the oven, but there was no one inside.
"Huh…" said Zoisite.
Zoisite didn't have time to ponder on this, and trudged on. He headed down the hall, but it was blocked by flames.
"Damn!" he said. "If only I had plot armor like Nephrite!"
He turned and ran the other direction, trying to make it out of the burning mansion.
Nephrite woke up to the smell of flames. "Is someone cooking Motoki?" he wondered.
He got up and was surrounded by fire.
"SHIT!" he yelled, jumping out the window. He didn't even look down, knowing his plot armor would save him.
He landed casually outside on the ground, despite other people having died from much shorter falls that day.
He strolled out to the front. "Does this plot armor know no bounds?!"
He wanted to test his theory, so he decided to run back in the burning mansion.
He spotted Hotaru, Michiru, and Haruka making a mad dash towards the exit.
"Speed it up!" he yelled. "You might die!"
Suddenly a chandelier fell and killed all three.
"Awwwwwwwwwwwwww," said Nephrite sadly. "So close!"
But to his amazement, Hotaru crawled out from under the chandelier.
"Wow, good work!" he said. "What are the odds?"
She continued to crawl towards the exit. But then a lone pillar fell on her, ending her story before it even hit her.
"WHAT ARE THE ODDS?!" repeated Nephrite.
Suddenly the entire mansion collapsed.
"AHHHHHHHHHH!" screamed Nephrite. But he wasn't too worried.
When the smoke clear, he stood amongst the rubble unscathed.
He saw the corpses of Minako and Rei, and pitied them.
Zoisite climbed out of the rubble, very wounded.
Suddenly, Crane Machine Joe reached out of the debris and grabbed Zoisite's foot.
He attempted to pull Zoisite into the rubble and down into hell with him.
But Kunzite blasted his arm to bits and Joe died from blood loss.
"Don't worry," said Kunzite. "I told you I'd keep you alive!"
Kyuusuke leapt up behind Kunzite and took him out.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" cried Zoisite.
It appeared Kunzite had been stabbed.
"Alright, let's go lil' boy!" screamed Zoisite blood-lusted. "I'm not afraid of you!"
Suddenly a giant cheese grater flew out from the kitchen rubble, and Zoisite was shredded like Swiss cheese.
"NO!" yelled Zoisite being ended.
"Huh," said Nephrite. "It seems like he and Jadeite both died the same way they did in the manga. Good thing I have plot armor…"
But Kyuusuke was still alive and blood-lusted for no reason. He had learned what it was like to kill and decided to go on a rampage.
He leapt at Nephrite, and Nephrite crossed his arms.
Before Kyuusuke reached Nephrite, he was struck down by lightning. His knife had only been inches from Nephrite's throat, and went flying directly at him.
However, the magnetic powers of the giant cheese grater launched the knife backwards, ending Setsuna Meiyo who was climbing out of the rubble.
"Wow," said Nephrite. "That lightning… it was close. Too close for comfort."
Nephrite started to go insane standing amongst the dead bodies.
"This plot armor can't be real… I know it's only luck! I knew it all along!"
He picked up a huge metal rod and stood in the middle of the lightning storm.
"PLOT ARMOR, IF YOU ARE REAL, SHOW YOURSELF!"
But suddenly the storm ended and a rainbow formed.
"Huh," said Nephrite. "Thanks plot armor."
"Don't mention it," said plot armor.
Nephrite returned to class the next day, and sat down in the classroom.
"I wonder who the dead kid was. I guess now we'll never know."
Nephrite decided he still needed to take a class photo for the yearbook, since he concluded this would be his last day of class.
He pulled out his camera and took a selfie.
He looked at the selfie. Standing behind him in the photo, were all his dead friends.
And standing right beside him, leaning on his shoulder… was the dead kid.
"Huh!" he said. "So that's who it was!"
"Queen Beryl!" yelled Nephrite. He turned on the lights in the Negaverse.
"Queen Beryl?"
She was dead on her throne, stabbed by none other than Grandpa's signature dagger.
"Wow," said Nephrite.
FIN
Authors' Note: Entire plot taken from the horror light novel, and its anime adaption, "Another."
