Lina looked around the school. Everyone's been talking about the prom right now, and Lina had no real interest in it, to tell you guys the truth. Even in classes, the teachers don't bother to tell people off for talking anymore, because all of the subjects are the same: prom.

"Oh, honestly!" Lina huffed. "Don't you guys have anything better to talk about?"

"Lina-san!" Amelia chided. "This is a one-time chance on going to a dance! And it's so romantic! So this is what high school crushes felt like…" She sighed.

"What?!" Zelgadis cried, looking horrified, attracting attention from the rest of the students. "But—but, but!" he sputtered. "I thought you said you loved me! High school crush?!"

Amelia laughed. "I only told you that for practice because I wanted to audition for that play!" she said.

Lina rolled her eyes.

Gourry, as usual, was paying attention to the geometry teacher. "Ssh!" he cried. "This is interesting! Wow… the things you can do with numbers!"

Lina, again, rolled her eyes. "Yes, you can count them."

Sylphiel puts a supporting hand on Gourry's back. "Don't worry, Gourry," she said softly. "Geniuses are often misunderstood when they're still fresh."

Lina glared at them both when she heard Martina laughing and smooching noises. Well, there's no real need to ask or turn to see what Martina and Zangulus are doing… *sigh* Sometimes Lina thinks she's the only person sane in their group. She looked at Filia and Xelloss, who are, of course, bickering. But this time, the situation is a little bit…uh, different.

"No, Xelloss!!!" Filia cried, sounding distressed. "You're doing the crosstitch all wrong!"

"Then…how?" Xelloss answered, looking mildly confused.

"Let me have that!" Filia said, snatching the crosstitch out of Xelloss' hand. "Now this is how a professional do it, look very, very closely." She began doing some expert complicated sewing that's not supposed to be watched by a kid under 13 years old for fearing that they will follow the stunt and bleed themselves.

"Ooh," Xelloss said.

Lina blinked. Once. Twice. Wow. Xelloss and Filia are getting along—Amelia just told her dad to shut up about justice, Zelgadis just said he loved being a golem, Sylphiel just swear. "Ano…is everyone else except me sane here?" she questions herself. *More kissing noises can be heard*

"Miss Inverse!"

Lina turned around sharply to the teacher with her horrible horn-rimmed glasses, looking as innocent as she can. And failing. "Yes, teacher- sannnn?" she drawled.

"Would you kindly pay attention to my lesson, please?" Mrs. Merrit said, looking at Lina as though Lina's a germ…

Lina nodded. When Mrs. Merrit turns her back towards Lina, Lina began grinning. "Oh no, you don't," she whispered. She began putting her claws on her table and dragged it along the surface of the table. Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeecccccchhhhhh.

All the time Lina did that everyone shuddered.

She looked at Mrs. Merrit evilly. "Never, ever cross my path," she said darkly. "Ohohohohohohoho!"

The class shuddered even more. "Ano, Lina-san…" Filia said, shivering, sweatdrop. "Please don't do that…"

Lina, embarrassed that she'd actually laughed like Naga, said sorry to the rest of them and turned to her notebook, her face red in embarrassment.

"Ohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohoho!"

"Lina-san!!!"

"Nanii ten yo?!" Lina shrieked. "I didn't say that!" Realizing what she'd shouted… "Oh no!!! Run everyone! Run for your lives! She's coming!"

"Who's coming?" Sylphiel said, looking confused.

"Ohoho! Lina Inverse!" The classroom's door opened with a bang. Everyone turned to look at the mysterious shadow casted by a person who's bust is bustier than any bust there is in the world. "I've finally found you!"

"Na-nanii?" Lina fell of her chair, looking at the one and only—Naga. "Naga! What are you doing here?"

"Aaarggghhh!" Amelia shrieked. Everyone turned to her. "Onee—oneechan!"

"Nandeste?!" Lina said, turning to Amelia. "Doko, doko?"

"She's—Lina-san, how did you know her? Who's Naga?" Amelia said, pale- looking.

"She's—she's my companion from a long time ago!"

Everyone looked at Naga, sweatdropping all the time. "Ohohoho! Lina Inverse! I've finally found you! How dare you come to this school to steal the spotlight once again! Ohohohoho!"

"Steal the spotlight?" Facefault from Lina. "Nanii ten yo?!"

"Ohohoho!" Naga laughed. "Don't give me that innocent look! Don't you know I'm the most popular girl here?" And it's clear why. "Of course, I've been so swarmed by people asking for my photographs and whatsoever!"

"Ano…Lina-san!" Gourry said, looking confused, back in his jellyfish-brain- mode. "Who's Naga?"

"Jellyfish! That's her!" Lina said, pointing to Naga, who, even by wearing the uniform, can't hide her bust.

"Lina!" Naga said. "Now that I've found you, I could leave all of my popular friends and travel with you once again!"

Lina fell to the floor. "Nanii?!" she cried. "No way! Go back to your popular life!"

"Oneechan!" Amelia said, tears in her eyes, hugging Naga in a sisterly way. "I've missed you so much! Wait till Otou-san heard about me meeting you!"

"Eh, ano, about that, Amelia…" Naga said, sweatdropping. "I'll appreciate it if you say nothing about that to otou-san…"

Lina buried her face in her hands. "No…this has got to be another nightmare… Yes, that's it… Another nightmare… Okay, think about Britney Spears performing…no, that's making it worse. Argh! No! Now I can't get that out of my head!"

"Lina-san, daijobu desu ka?" Sylphiel said, concerned.

"Oya, oya, what a fine specimen of a, uh, woman," Xelloss said.

"This can not get worse."

"Detention for all of you Oriental people!"

"Nooooo…"

***

At lunch, the Slayers gang had sat at their usual table (which Lina had gained by threatening everyone who would sit there that she would Fireball them) with Naga the White Serpent. "Oneechan, what are you doing here?" Amelia asked, looking at Naga.

"Eh…sore wa…" Naga said. "Well, you see, I've been trying to gather up the ten Nagas from that Chimera plan. But I think I'd rather stop here first—who knows? They might be here… Unfortunately, they have a law that a girl who's 16 years old has to go to school! How ridiculous. So here I am. I quite honestly liked school. As you can see, I'm very popular."

Stars shone in Martina's eyes. "Oh, Naga the White Serpent! I, Martina, princess of the kingdom Xoana, need a few pointers from you on how to be popular!" she cried indignantly, bamming her fist on the table.

Sweatdrop. "Uh, I guess I could." You could probably tell Naga looked haughty and flattered when Martina said that. "Eh? What's that thing around your neck?"

"No, no don't ask!" Lina said, waving her hands around.

"Oh!" Martina blushed. "This is my creation, Zoamelgustar! He's a God, I tell you! He saved us several times during the fight with Gaav!"

"I told you not to ask her…" Lina said, facefaulting.

Meanwhile, Naga blushed… "Ooh! What an exquisite creation!" she said furiously. "Lina-san! How could you not see the exquisiteness of this creation Zoamelgustar! It's just like you to turn down good ideas—including the Chimera plan!"

"Chimera plan?" Zelgadis asked, curious.

"Ehehe…" Lina laughed nervously. "That's an overly ambitious thing you got there…"

"Tell me about that!" Zelgadis demanded, holding Naga by the collar of her uniform, immediately bumping into one of her…uh, God's creations. Zelgadis, embarrassed, lets go of Naga and said more calmly. "Tell me about that."

Amelia looked at Zelgadis. "Zelgadis-san!" she cried. "How could you?! And with my oneechan?!"

"Oh, no one could resist my beauty!" Naga said. Immediately her laugh erupted and could be heard in the whole school. The whole school clears out of the cafeteria, leaving the lunch lady and the Slayers gang alone. "Anyway, it was this amazing creation and old man did, and he puts Lina's head with a dragon and a snake's body! It was utterly amazing! Of course, Lina blew us away…" She sighed. "That was rotten luck! And we could've been paid!"

"Oooh," Gourry said, nodding. "I see, I see. So Lina's originally a Chimera and then she was human by accident?"

*Twitch, twitch* "Gourryyyyy!!!"

***

By Theatre Arts class, Gourry had a severe injury, and Sylphiel's still casting a healing spell on him, Amelia had turned up her nose up at Zelgadis, Martina and Zangulus had make out, with the exception when Martina asked Naga for tips, Filia had been teaching Xelloss how to do a crosstitch and Lina and Naga talked among themselves.

"Another new student?" Alison asked, sneering at Naga.

"Be nice," Lina said, snickering.

"What's that supposed to mean, Lina Inverse?" Naga asked, her eyes blazing.

"Never mind," Lina said, waving Naga off. "So are you guys really going to audition?"

Gina looked at Lina grimly. "The audition and the play is cancelled off."

Lina gasped. "Why?" she wailed.

"Because—" Alison started, but was interrupted by Mrs. Fraser.

"I've an announcement to make," Mrs. Fraser said grimly. "The play is going to be cancelled due to a *wonderful* even occurring next week! Guess what that is?! The prom!" There was a definite sarcastic note in her voice.

"Nanii?!" Lina exclaimed. "But, but—!"

"Unfortunately, Miss Inverse, it's true, and there's nothing I can do about it. Now, let's return to class lesson."

It's hard to see who had the most heartbreak—Lina or Mrs. Fraser. "Aaaahhhhhh," she cried. "Why is everyone trying to be mean to me?!"

Sweatdrop.

"Iie…what's that smell?" Xelloss exclaimed, sniffing around them.

"Oh," Gina said, blushing. "That's me. It's a new perfume called Baby Rose Jeans… Tell me the truth, is it too much?"

Filia glared at Xelloss, as if to dare him to comment anything hentai to Gina. Her mace is already showing under her short skirt. We still haven't uncovered the mystery on how it fits down there… Hmmm, could the lunch lady have the answer? This case is worth investigating by X-Files.

"Ano, a perfume?" Gourry said, sitting up straight.

"You know what a perfume is?" Lina asked skeptically.

Gourry grinned. "Talking about perfume!" he said. Holding up one finger, he said, "Did you guys know that a perfume is made out of a whale's vomit?!"

Gina's face turns blue. "W-what?"

"Yep. Heard about it in biology."

"Aaaargggghhhhhhh!" Martina wailed. "I'm wearing one now!!!"

Gina looked as if she's going to vomit and made a perfume out of it. Filia chuckled. Sylphiel's mouth hangs open. Lina snickered. Naga tried to rub off her perfume from her. Zangulus tried to calm Martina down. Alison laughed. Mrs. Fraser glared at them. The other students sweatdropped. Xelloss looked around.

"So?" Xelloss said. "What's wrong with that?"

"You don't have anything to worry about!" Martina spat out. "You mazoku!"

"What do you mean?!" Xelloss said. "I'm wearing a perfume right now."

All of them looked at Xelloss, sweatdrop. "What? It's a basketball player's thing… You don't want your favorite men to stink now, do you?" Xelloss said, snickering and winking. "And whale makes a good soup!"

"Of course, I kept forgetting you're a mazoku…" Lina said, sighing.

As if just noticing that, Filia hand Xelloss back his crosstitch. "Ano, Xelloss, you'll never learn unless you do it yourself!" she said hastily.

"Iie!" Xelloss said, sweatdropping. "So, since the play is being cancelled, are you guys going to the prom?"

"Hell, no." Lina snorts.

"Of course." Naga said.

"In the name of justice, of course!"

"I'm going with Amelia, so…"

"Gourry-sama and I are going…"

"That is, if it doesn't clash with my clubs."

"The prom is a perfect make out spot!"

"We'll be sure to find a dark corner."

"Ano…Valgarv-san asked me to prom a few days ago."

"Gina and I had a date, so we're going."

They looked around at each other. "Okay…" Lina muttered. "I don't know why they're making the prom such a big deal!"

"You're telling me," a student at the back said.

"I know!" Lina huffed. "And I can't believe all of you, who are never going to be caught dead in a ball before, are going!"

Amelia blushed. "It's a one-time thing, Lina-san…"

"Yeah, after all, I have the perfect outfit for it!" Naga said.

"See?!" Amelia said, grinning. "Oneechan agrees with me!"

"And now!" All of them turn to Mrs. Fraser, who's glaring at them. "We'll be clapping and welcoming a professional actor who's schooled here before! He's decided to grace our class by attending today! Please welcome—"

Lina yawned. Gourry and Sylphiel are talking together. Amelia's telling Zelgadis something about justice (as usual). Naga's filing her nails. Xelloss is pleading Filia to continue his crosstitch for him. Martina and Zangulus went back to making out.

"—Milgasia!"

All of them fell from their chairs.