Rated PG for Xellos' memories of doing not-nice Mazoku things
Author's notes: Yet another chapter of Slayers in College. Here, the Slayers take on a class of art history taught by Eris. And I don't own Slayers, so don't bother trying to sue. Read and review, but if you flame me, I will laugh. And then you will get a Justice Speech (TM). And what little information about art history that is in here comes from a semester of attempting to pay attention in class.
Lina grumbled. She hated going to classes. And now she had to sit through art history. There was no way that that class could be interesting.
Lina and her friends filed into the classroom. This time, Dr. Eris was the professor. Zelgadis grumbled to Amelia, "Why does one of them always have to teach? Is it only because they want to torture me?"
"I don't know, Zelgadis-san. But it certainly isn't very nice, though," Amelia replied.
Throughout the class, everyone but Xellos was bored stiff. Dr. Eris was not the most dynamic professor, and no one really cared that much about the art.
Lina asked a lot of questions. However, the only thing she ever wanted to know was how much money she could get for the art. Dr. Eris quickly got annoyed with her. However, Lina being Lina did not care one bit. She was interested in money and nothing but money. And food.
Gourry wondered about things during the lectures. He wondered how all the pictures could fit into the two small black boxes. It just didn't make sense. He also wondered how the artists made all of the colored paints. Sometimes he wondered about other things. Sometimes he wondered about food. Especially pickles. Pickles were his favorite food that was not a meat. He usually wondered about where he and Lina would go get food once the lecture ended.
Zelgadis was just plain bored. He wanted to be searching for his cure. He didn't care about Manet and Monet. All the pictures looked the same to him. He didn't care about the differences in the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists.
Filia was bored, too. She drank tea to stay awake in class. The only thing that interested her was the brief section on pottery. She sat through that one class with a big smile on her face. Filia only wished that she could own that pottery. It would go in the store she ran when she wasn't in class. Of course, it would be not for sale.
Amelia already knew a lot of the artwork. Seyruun had a large art museum. Not only that, but there were a number of paintings in the palace. She didn't care about art, though. She wanted to learn about useful subjects. Art history was not useful. If she wanted to study art, she would go back home and study it there. But she had to study and do well because if she didn't do well enough, her dad would make her come home. At home, she would have to do all sorts of boring, tedious palace stuff. She didn't like trying to decide what proposals to sign, especially while she was being watched.
Xellos actually had fun in class. Not only did he get a good meal from his miserable classmates, but some of the pictures brought back memories. He remembered how he had tortured some of the artists. He had even killed a few of the artists. That brought back memories. Killing was fun. It was a gourmet meal to him.
Eris could tell the attitudes of her students. She knew that attitudes affected test scores. She also believed in grading on a bell curve.
The final grades were:
Xellos - A
Amelia - B
Zelgadis - C
Filia - C
Lina - D
Gourry - F