The alarm went off, with it's insistent beep, beep, beep! "Ugh, why is it so LOUD?!" I cried out in frustration, "It's too damn early for this!"

"No one forces you to get up this early on weekends," the small kitty laying next to my head said. "you choose to."

"Thanks, Gourry, but it doesn't help much." I managed to drag my carcass out of bed. "Besides, I need to work on the Anime Club banner…"

"Mmph. Morning already?" the lump of red hair near the end of my bed lifted her head. "I guess you're gonna be working again?"

"Yeah. But I might need help." I winked at Lina. "Magical help."

"Finally! What d'ya need to do?" Lina nearly bowled me over in exitement, even though she (and the rest of my friends) was the size of a kitten.

"I need to hang the banner up on the third story of the building. About thirty feet up." Lina was always willing to help, especialy if any magic was involved.

"You better get ready. I'll get breakfast." Gourry ran out of the room, Lina hot on his heels. I sighed. Life was always hectic when the Slayers lived with you. A sudden shriek woke everyone up. "Xellos!!!" Filia was aparently on the rampage downstars.

"FILIA!" I yelled, "NO TRANSFORMING!" It seemed that if I didn't warn her, my furniture always got burned. Xellos apeared on my sholder. "Geez! You'd think I'd threatened her!" He had trouble written all over his face.

In big neon letters.

"What'd you do this time?" I knew he'd done something.

"Just woke her up." Xel gave me a sweet look.

"With what?"

"Hot water."

I groaned. "Why does this always happed in the mornings?"

"Because Xellos is an asshole." A very ruffled looking Zelgadis wriggled out from under my landfill of a desk (I had suspicions that shings had evolved in there…).

"Any luck finding a cure?" I asked. Ever since the slayers had been cursed into neko-jins, Zel and I had beel loking for a cure.

"No. The curse is very strong, so I doubt even Lina could break it…if the curse was a spell." Zelgadis sighed. "We may never find a cure…"