L.O.N. High: Being Young is Go Hung Dragon Slave



Chapter 2: That Namagomi From Yesterday!



BEEP! "Helloooo Giga Tokyo! It is now 7:30 am! Sorry to all the chibi-chans out there but today's the first day off schoo..."the announcer emitting from Filia's clock radio came to a shattering halt as she slammed her mace on top of the object as it hissed and wheezed from being crushed by a large and heavy weapon. The dragon lowered her blunt and spiky object to the floor and scratched her blonde head, small tears formed at the corners of her sapphire eyes from her prudent awakening. Golden strands of hair smeared all over her face that made her look like a bearded lady insinuated at a festival or carnival. Filia threw off her blankets and slid off her bed as she slumped down to the floor, her touché landing solemnly on the carpet.

"I can't believe school is here alr..ahhh..." Filia failed to suppress her heavy yawn as she covered her mouth with her slender fingers and rubbed her azure eyes as she planted her two stiff legs to stand up on the floor. The ryuuzoku undid one button on her pyjama top as she took another glance at the damaged and deformed clock and her eyes widened in appal. Her tail had already popped out from her back going into an irritated swish as her pink bow oscillated as she grabbed the mangled object with her two trembling hands and inspected it's frayed contents.

"Did you say 7:30...iya I must have set it for the wrong time, I'm going to be late!" the dragon shrieked to the item like it was it's fault instead of hers; her tail beating the floor with small thumps! Filia flung the clock onto her bed as it made a small poof sound as she jetted towards the bathroom to do her daily toilette except at a more rapid and destructive pace than usual.

"Got to hurry," she mumbled putting toothpaste on the frayed bristles of her blue toothbrush and shoved it into her mouth. The ryuuzoku rasped the brush hard against her teeth, white foam emerging from her mouth as she spat into the sink and turned on the tap for the cold water. The water came spurting out as Filia cupped her hands and placed it under the fast running liquid. She then splashed the fluid into her mouth and spit and hurled more water this time onto her face to wash it clean. After buzzing around in the bathroom like a mosquito looking for a bloody feast the dragon dashed back towards her room and slammed the door shut.

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"Ah! Where did I place my uniform?" the dragon pondered looking into the depths of her crowded and jam-packed closet that seemed like it would burst if one more item would be persuaded to fit inside of it's content. Filia pushed against hangers and other articles of clothing as she searched frantically for her high school attire.

"Yattah! Thank heavens I found it," she cheered as she pulled the stubborn piece of clothing from her closet and sailed it to lay on top of her undone and rumpled bed. The dragon tugged off her sky blue pyjamas and picked up the black skirt for her school garb. She pulled it up against her legs to rest at her hips and it seemed that skirt left most off her legs exposed and was just a few millimetres below mid-thigh. Filia walked over to her dresser and pulled out a pair of white socks that went up to her knees. She yanked them on and returned to her bed. The ryuuzoku grabbed her white- sleeved shirt and placed it on doing up all the buttons as she tucked her shirt into her skirt for a more formal appearance.

"Now the tie." she murmured to herself as she wrapped the silky piece of fabric around her neck and made a few intricate knots and did the fabric up, giving it a small tug to straighten it against her collar. Finally Filia reached for her navy blue school jacket and placed her arms inside. With a small jerk she straightened the wrinkles on the jacket and buttoned up all the buttons. The dragon roved over the floor to where she last placed her beloved mace-sama and she saw half it sticking out from beneath her bed. The dragon kneeled down and reached for the mace and pressed her other hand under the bed feeling around for a narrow strip of leather.

"Got it," she exclaimed as she drew out her reliable weapon and black leather strap. Filia returned to her former position and hooked the two ends of the strip to a small oval shaped metal link on the mace's handle creating a circular strap. The blonde stuck her head and shoulder through the leather until the mace was dangling from her back in a loose fashion.

"Better tighten it," she mumbled as she tugged on the leather and the mace came to a slight titled but nonetheless straight position. You could see a small preview of the sharpened spikes of the weapon just behind the dragons back. With slight satisfaction and sanctifying relief mace-sama emitted to the girl, Filia briskly stroked a piece of white lint off her skirt and reached for the handle of her briefcase lying beside her dresser.

"Done." the girl announced as she clutched the doorknob and swung open the door. The blonde stepped out of her boudoir and went to the bathroom to check over her outfit and comb her golden locks.

"I really got to get my vanity mirror up," the dragon whined as she brushed back her staticy hair and squinted her cerulean eyes at the left breast pocket on her jacket as she adjusted the strap out of the way to enrich her gaze, "What's that.....a golden shovel." she said in a soft voice as she placed her comb down and saw that there was indeed a minute golden shovel on her left pocket, gleaming with an anomalous glow.

"A golden shovel is the insignia of my new school, how very odd." she replied in a curious voice trying to decipher the reason why out of all the symbols they would choose a golden shovel as she brushed a golden strand of hair behind her elfish ears. The dragon stepped out of the bathroom and teleported downstairs, in her rush she landed smack bottom on a chair.

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Filia noticed that she had materialized on her regular chair when she ate at the breakfast table. In front of her was a meal off eggs, toast and bacon with a steaming cup of camomile tea on the side. The dragon inched her rear forward from the chair because her mace was clanking against the back and it began to crack as she tossed her head from side to side to say good morning to her grandfather but he was nowhere in sight.

"I sense that Saichuro-ojisama is here, but where? Maybe he's in his room or outside...oh well better hurry." she chirped in a naggy voice as she picked up a fork and began chomping on her eggs and with her free hand she grabbed the handle of her pink tea cup and drank the contents in one large gulp.

"Ah, this tea is so relaxing." the dragon soothed as she shot up from her chair and crammed the toast in her mouth. While chewing her toasty morsel she began to waltz towards the door, her briefcase hanging loosely in her right hand. Filia checked her briefcase and noticed that the same symbol on her breast pocket was on the opening clasp of her briefcase. The dragon raised a yellow brow as she devoured the last bit of her toast and checked that she had her keys and money for lunch since she was too preoccupied with this morning's activity to make one herself. "All here."

The dragon clutched the doorknob as she shoved her feet into her black shoes and turned the knob a cool breeze of the morning rushed in and rifled her skirt so it flipped up a few centimetres giving a nice show of her legs. Filia emitted a heavy groan and pressed her skirt down as far as possible as she stepped out her front door and closed it behind her. The blonde could already see the silhouette figures of kids of all ages hustling to get to school and she was about to join them as she placed her left foot on the path and teleported just outside her gates.

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"Better, get the address." the girl mumbled as she muddled her hand into her briefcase to find a small piece of parchment containing the information of the location to L.O.N. High. Filia surveyed downward at the paper and then at the street post she was standing by. She nodded her head and began to march her way down the sidewalk passing young beast and human children as they chatted about their summer holiday, their faces still shone with innocence and harmless mischievousness.

"Kawaii," she cooed as she took glances at the small children who were now roaring with giggles and tiny laughter after a young human told a joke about how he placed about five frogs in his sister's bed when she was sleeping in it. Filia sweatdropped and thought perhaps she was wrong about the cute thing and began to take diverse perspectives of the people her age as she continued her way to school. A group of young elf girls dressed in the Maguna High uniforms passed and gave her sheepish smiles as they eyed the large and heavy object attached on her back.

"Hmm what's wrong with them, do I have something on my face?" she wondered to herself giving the girls a questioning look. The elves began to sweat and briskly walk up ahead. The dragon sighed and crossed her arms. "I wonder what's up with them?" she questioned as she straightened the strap against her chest, the morning sun reflecting a malicious glint off the mace as it sparkled in it's own light.

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A few blocks down three companions talked excitedly about what they've done during their summer vacation. The leader of the three brushed her fiery red bangs that lay still on her black headband from her crimson eyes as she took on a tighter grip of her briefcase and pulled it up to chest level.

"So, Amelia what did you do during summer break?" the girl questioned as she adjusted her gaze from the blonde male of the group to a short raven coloured hair girl. The red head's hands fumbled around the clasp of the case as she opened it and took out a prostrate and rectangular shaped item wrapped in red fabric with small jellyfishes imprinted on it and two crimson chopsticks.

"Well Lina-san, me, my Oneechan, and Oto-san went to the....Lina-san should you really be eating your lunch now!" the girl demanded as Lina stopped her tirade on her box lunch and looked questionably at Amelia not noticing the blonde beside her cautiously inching his blue chopsticks towards her box lunch.

"Nothing wrongs with a morning, snack...plus I'm sure your noble enough to lend me a few yen to buy another lunch." Lina replied in a haughty voice as the raven-haired girl sweatdropped and took out a pink pocket purse and opened it. Her face dropped nearly to the ground as she saw a small white moth flutter out of it and then glide off into the distance.

"Empty." the girl sniffed, her ears quirking to a munching sound and both she and Lina turned to the blonde haired boy gorging himself on Lina's lunch. The red-haired narrowed her crimson eyes dangerously at the boy, his blonde hair shifting to the right in the wind as apiece of rice splattered on his navy jacket and dripped onto his black pants.

"My...my...lunch. Jellyfish brains. FIREBALL!" Lina yelled as orange reddish sparks and embers emerged from her hands and an ample flame launched itself at the disgruntled blonde, incinerating him to a nice and fine toasty crisp. The two girls continued to walk away from the twitching boy as smoke drafted up from his stirring corpse.

"Anou...Lina-san don't you think that was a bit much, to inflict on Gourry- san?" Amelia asked as she took a backward glance at Gourry who was wobbly standing up and jogging back towards his associates. Lina huffed and scarfed down the rest of her lunch and crammed the box and eating utensil back into her bag.

"He deserved it...that jellyfish, how dare he eat some of my lunch." she hissed as the blonde caught up to them and gave her a clueless grin as a light bulb appeared over his head when he obtained a brilliant idea, which is usually a very rare thing.

"Oi, Lina how about I give you some of my lunch today." Gourry stated as he clutched his collar trying to tighten his tie and saw the girl's red eyes brighten and her usual smile evolved on her visage.

"Hmm...nice proposal Gourry I'm impressed, but not only today's lunch but a whole months worth of....ehhh." Lina quirked an eyebrow as she saw that the blonde was strangling himself with his tie and his face was now turning purpler than a certain mazoku's hair as he sunk to the ground and continued to tug at his tie making it worse.

"Ah, Gourry-san is choking, in the name of justice you must help him Lina- san!" Amelia yelled pointing her right index finger at the redhead her pink bracelet trimmed with the blue orb trembled with her sudden movement. Lina merely rolled her eyes and yanked at the tie loosening it for Gourry so he would be able to breathe again.

"How, do you choke yourself with a clip-on tie, jellyfish." she mumbled the words to herself as she and her companions both turned their heads behind them when they heard an ear-shattering screams and saw two figures approaching them at Mach speed. One was on foot and the other was peddling on a black mountain bike with a lot of dust trailing behind them. Lina narrowed her eyes in thread-like manner trying to analyze who those to figures were until they came into full view.

"Isn't that Zelgadis-san and Xellos-san?" Amelia pondered as she saw the furious chimera hounding after the giddy mazoku who was on top of the black mountain bike. One hand securely on the handle and the other hand were holding a thin, diminutive and square piece of paper that seemed to be the source of all the commotion. Unfortunately people that were in the way of the duo were either trampled by the mountain bike or incinerated by Zelgadis' fiery FLARE ARROWS! including Lina and the others.

"What is going on here?!" Lina screamed her fangs showing as she tried to smooth out her frayed hair and glared murderously at the two who stopped their rampage and stood stationary. Xellos tilted his head to the right his bangs going to a more slanted position as he gave Lina and the others a grin as they dusted off their charred and tinted clothing.

"Oh, Lina-san how's it going, fancy meeting you all here." he chirped in a surprised voice as he waved the square object in front of the chimera's face causing him to grab for it but only to have the item to be drawn back into Xellos' grasps. Zelgadis narrowed his eyes and raised his arm to cast another spell.

"Give it to me or else you fruitcake." the chimera growled as Amelia walked over to the mazoku who was still supporting himself on the bike and took a quick peak at the item. Amelia erupted into a tiny fit of giggles attracting Gourry and Lina.

"Zelgadis-san this is nothing to get upset about." Amelia gushed her face flushing to a pinker colour as both Lina and Gourry peered at the item and started to laugh themselves. Lina turned herself to face the brooding chimera and gave him a cute wink.

"Come on Zel, nothing to brood about your ears were so cute on you." she giggled as Zelgadis began to clench and unclench his fists in annoyance, causing the sleeves of his navy blue jacket to get ruffled and strained. Xellos smiled and started to circle the group on his bike all the while waving the item in Zelgadis' face, his face turning slightly pink as he tried to grab the picture that was causing him all this grief. The chimera's face got even redder when the picture was practically dancing in front of his nose, he cold see; himself in a very silly usagi costume and his cheeks were all rosy from drinking to much punch or perhaps it was the factor that Amelia was standing beside him in the image, but that's Lina's birthday party for you. Does something like ruining a certain chimera's mysterious and heartless reputation as a sulking and depressed teenager who's attending high school all the while trying to find a cure for his accursed body.

"Yare, yare Usagi-chan you seemed to blushing a lot more than usual in this photo from Lina's birthday. Did you have to much wine or were you interested in something else, ne, Usagi-chan?" the mazoku mocked opening one amethyst eye at his victim. Gourry along with Lina and Amelia began to back up from the quarrelling duo and noticed that Zelgadis was muttering something his eyes glued to the pavement and his shoulders heaving up and down until his head shot up his eyes crimson and dancing with inner fire.

"GIVE THAT BACK DAMNIT!" He bellowed as he lunged towards the mazoku who easily backed up on his bike causing the chimera to miss his target and stumble slightly off balance. Xellos tsked and shook his head; his hair flouncing from side to side as the photograph slowly disappeared from the palm of his hands and out of sight.

"Oya, oya Usagi-chan I can't let you have this, you've been a naughty usagi, but if you want it you'll have to take it back," the purple haired monster chirped as he began to peddle ahead creating a cloud of dust behind him. The chimera grit his teeth and contracted his eyes as he chased after him, muttering another flare arrow spell, which was emerging just below his fingertips. Gourry's visage was a little confused as he turned to his two companions until his mind seemed to decipher the sudden scenarios and he slammed his left fist on his right palm.

"Ah, I understand now Zelgadis was the chimera in the usagi suit. Did you two figure that out?" he questioned casting his steel blue gaze over Lina and Amelia who currently collapsed on the ground. There faces practically kissing the pavement as two sweatdrops lingered over their heads. Amelia shakily stood up first and turned towards the directions her two associates sped off into noticing they were almost out of sight and the dust travelling at their heels had almost settled.

"You two better hurry or you'll be late and how do you plan to fight for justice without a proper education!" she yelled as she, Lina and Gourry began turned left and waited for the group of cars to pass so they could cross the street taking the shortcut to L.O.N. High.

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"I don't see where Cherry Avenue is." Filia muttered to herself as she squinted her eyes at a lamppost trying to figure out where she was and if she was heading in the right direction. The ryuuzoku sagged her shoulders in defeat and ran up towards a boy with short brown hair and was dressed in a black uniform that had gold trimmings. Filia tapped his shoulder and he whirled around his black eyes looked her up and down and almost bulged out when he saw the mace on her back.

"Um...Ha..hai..." the boy stammered never taking his gaze off the weapon that lay dormant on the back off the blonde haired girl. Filia smiled and gave a small bow as she raised herself to a straighter position looking at he boy with pleading eyes hoping he would be able to help her with her direction dilemma.

"Excuse me, but could you tell me where I can find Cherry Avenue? I'm new to this city and I don't know my bearings quite yet," she said in a feathery voice as the boy gulped. His teeth began to cease its chattering as he took another large gulp, he caste his gaze to look at the blonde. Other than the mace that was supported against her back she seemed like a pleasant girl, so the boy calmly regained his composure and raised his arm to show the dragon the way to her destination.

"Sure, Cherry Avenue is just ove...ehh!" he screeched as he saw just behind the blonde haired girl a large cloud of dust coming there way which seemed to be knocking over people or blasting them to another neighbourhood. The corners of the boy's eyes twitched as he backed up and pressed his back up towards the side as the two people who were causing all the ruckus purged into view; a guy who was on top of a bike and a chimera who was chasing after him.

"Hmm, what's wrong?" Filia asked as she saw the boy slink to the side his eyes wide with...fear. The ryuuzoku turned around and grimaced when she noticed a very recognizable face. It was the mazoku boy from yesterday and it looked like a chimera was chasing him. The dragon raised her arm and was about to reach fro her mace, but gasped and started to back up as the two quarrellers were coming her way. Maybe they didn't see her or just didn't care because the one on the bike steamrolled her and the chimera stepped on her leaving a brown footprint as a souvenir. As Filia lay sprawled on the ground, swirls danced in her azure eyes as she could hear the faintest sounds of a chuckle and a few curses emitting from the two as they went on their way.

The boy that was spread against the side blinked and turned his gaze back towards the now trampled girl who was shaking quite irregularly and a strong aura was resonating from her as a golden tail poked out from under her skirt giving an alluring view of her pink and teddy bears undergarment. The teen backed up slightly as the girl got to her feet her eyes red and it seemed as though she was on fire as she beat her tail on the cement making it crack in several places as her ribbon bounced up and down in the motion.

"How dare they!" Filia shrieked as she glared in the direction her assaulters sped off into and turned her view to the cowering boy who was stealthily backing away from her. "Grrr...Where is Cherry Avenue?" she demanded in a more tough and angrier voice as the boy's black eyes widened and pointed his hand in a northwest course. The dragon made a grunting noise as she swiped her briefcase off the ground and stomped her way towards the direction the boy pointed in. All the while mumbling words: "Namagomi Mazoku and who was that chimera that was chasing him."

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Lina peered around her homeroom class, which was rapidly beginning to be replenished with kids she already met from the previous year. She turned her gaze to Gourry who was sitting in the desk in front of her and Amelia who was chose to sit in the desk to the right of her. Lina leaned casually against her chair and thankful smile etched on her face.

"I can't believe where all in the same class again, I even checked the class list and I think Xellos and Zel are in this room too." she stated as she took a glance outside the window that was right beside her desk as she saw teachers and kids scrambling there way into the school trying avoiding to be shut off by the closing gates and not to get crushed or trampled in the carnal crowd. Amelia tapped her finger on the desk as she look towards the door of her classroom.

"Those two better hurry before the teacher comes." she murmured as the door opened and there stepped in their new homeroom teacher carrying a brown briefcase in one hand and a brown jacket in the other, Amelia sweatdropped as she lowered her head. "I think I jinxed it, didn't I?" she mumbled as both Gourry and Lina gave her a solemn nod.

"Isn't that Milgazia-sensei from last year's History class?" Lina asked as the teacher placed his belongings on his desk at the front of the class and turned his view onto the students who were bustling to find their seats and simmered down from his stern gaze. The teacher's yellows eyes scanned over his classroom as he observed three empty desks towards the back windows. Milgazia closed his eyes in concentration and soon opened them as he raised his fist to him mouth and cleared his throat.

"Konnichiwa, I as all of you know from last year am Milgazia, your new homeroom teacher. I will be teaching you English that includes Romanised idioms and proper nouns and verbs." He stated ignoring monotonous groans coming from his students. "I shall also be teaching you Japanese with many different and unique new kana and kanji terms and symbols." He explained as another group of his students groaned in protest and turned slightly blue to the subjects they would participate in. Milgazia reached into his desk and took out a sheet of paper as he looked it over and looked at his class who were staring at him in curiosity.

"Hmm, it seems like were missing three students. I shall conduct a role call: Trish Aiyana!" he called as a girl with pink ponytails and bright blue eyes as she rose from her desk and called a rapid 'hai' and quickly sat down to chat with the rest of her friends. Amelia turned towards Lina and ignored the blonde who was currently, secretly nibbling on his box lunch that he said he would share with Lina.

"If we have three students missing and Zelgadis-san and Xellos-san are two of the three who do you think the third person is, Lina-san?" Amelia asked as she saw the redhead bash Gourry in the head for eating his lunch and not sharing one morsel for her. Lina quickly scooped the box lunch off his desk and glared at the pouting blonde.

"Oh.hai, hai!" Gourry called as he stood up and sat down oblivious to the glare his teacher was giving for not answering him for about a minute because he was too busy consuming his lunch. The blonde quickly turned to Lina who was almost done the remaining of his lunch. His blue fabric wrapping with tiny fireballs on the tips lay still at the side of her desk. "Ah! My lunch, Lina." He whined as she finished off the last octopus ball and patted her stomach as she pushed back the empty box into his hands.

"That's for eating without me...now, I have new clue who the third person is Amelia. Maybe it's a new student because everyone in our class resembles the same faces from last year. Hai!" The redhead hollered as she stood up and sat back down as the raven-haired girl looked and noticed the girl's words were correct there was no new face among the mass of students.

"Ha.Hai." Amelia said as she stood up and quickly sat down as Milgazia- sensei called her name breaking her train of thought. The teacher was just about to finish off his list with: Tezuka Zan, who stood up with a small bow and sat back down in his desk. The teacher placed his list down and tapped his chin in thought.

"It seems that we are missing students are Zelgadis Greywers, Xellos Metallium, and Filia UI Copt." He announced as people began to whisper and converse about who this Filia UI Copt girl was and what she was like. The sea of whispers began to get more carnal and feverish as people gossiped amongst themselves. Lina peeked outside the window again and saw the old oak tree's branches and evergreen leaves sway in the midsummer breeze.

"Filia...I wonder who she is?" the girl ponders out loud as a small hissing and wheezy sound is heard amongst the three as a boy with thick horned- rimmed glassed appears in front of them his mousy black hair sagging to the right side of his face. Lina sighed and arched her shoulders in annoyance as the boy took a seat behind her. "Hey, Jiro...I didn't know you were in this class." Lina stated already aware that boy was definitely not in their class and somehow managed to slink his greasy self inside the classroom undetected. The boy gave Lina a sly grin as he took a small black book from his pants pocket and pushed his glasses further up the bridge of his nose.

"Ah, Lina-san you're as witty as ever, but I have the answer to your question. I have data on that Filia girl." He said as he opened his book to page fifty-eight and the three teens scooted out of their desks and gazed upon his data book. A picture of a cute blonde girl with, sapphire eyes and long elfish ears stared back at them. "Don't let her picture fool you that's her human guise, it seems that she's part of the ryuuzoku race." He read as the other strained their ears to listen to his words.

"Ryuuzoku...are you saying ryuuzoku's look exactly like elves?" Gourry chirped not compromising the situation clearly as Jiro's glasses slanted off the bridge of his nose and Amelia and Lina only shook their heads and ignored the blonde's comments. The redhead circled her left hand for Jiro to continue and plainly just tune out the jellyfish brain.

"As I was saying her natural form is a dragon. It says she's a very peaceful, kind, sophisticated, cultured, and artistic girl with a love for tea and classical musical...eh, Jiro said his eyes widening behind his glasses as he read the next part, "It seems that in her rage she blew up ninety percent of her elementary school, just because some kid insulted her and yanked her tail." The boy said as he placed his book back inside his jacket and began to slink off yet again since his task was done and answered their questions. Both of Gourry and Amelia's eyes twitched and they looked at the redhead's clueless face as she tapped a pencil on her desk.

"That Filia must be a real nutcase or needs anger management I mean blowing up her elementary school just because of that." Lina nagged shaking her head from side to side in disapproval her crimson hair shimmering from left to right. Both Gourry and Amelia frowned at her comment, the raven-haired girl quirked her eyebrow for she was about to add her two scents.

"Honestly, Lina-san you of all people making that comment. Remember when you caste a Dragon Slave in our Junior High School just because someone took your lunch and that happened two years ago, remember, hmm." Amelia replied in an edgy voice as Lina rustled her fiery red mane trying to recall the memory.

"Ah, Lina did you forget...well not only did you blow up the school, but you blew us up as well and everything in a twenty meter radius. People even made a chant for that fateful day...now how did it go, oh yeah. For the love of God stop, please stop!" the blonde added as Lina's eyebrows gave a shocking twitch the memory suddenly dawning on her.

"Oh, well....what did you expect me to do, let that jerk get away with taking my lunch. It was self-defence how dare he steal the lunch of an innocent maiden." Lina cried fake tears welling up at her eyes as the other two dully rolled their eyes and turned their heads to the door when a knock was heard.

"Wonder who that is? Maybe Zelgadis-san and Xellos-san finally showed or perhaps it's the new girl." Amelia stated as the door began to creak open and a faced poked in.

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Filia brushed a golden strand out of her eyes and stared at the group of eyes that were gazing at her with solemn, and intrigued expressions as the some students gazed over the object that was hefted behind the blonde's back. The dragon cleared her throat and stepped in completely as she turned her gaze towards the teacher.

"Anou., is this room 11-D, Milgazia-sensei's class?" she asked dusting off her sooted skirt. The blonde teacher nodded his head and stood, walking towards the younger ryuuzoku. He ushered her to the centre part of the front.

"I take it your Filia UI Copt." Milgazia stated as he went to sit back down in his chair and looked at his new student with curiosity a long with the rest of his class. His golden eyebrow arched as he noticed she had slung a mace behind her back and supported it with the greatest amount of ease. "Well Filia since you are the only new student we have received for our humble little class why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself." He ordered in a gentle yet firm voice as the dragon nodded her head.

"Hai, Milgazia-sensei. Well I just moved here to Giga Tokyo from Sayo..." The girl was cut off as a familiar chimera burst through the door a hateful grimace was etched all over his face as he found a seat near the back windows and slammed his briefcase on his desk, some kids at the back suddenly began to start whispering to him and mentioned a person named Xellos. Filia blinks her azure eyes and realizes it was the same chimera that trampled her on her way to school. The dragon wheeled her head towards the door when she heard another voice that she only knew to resent.

"Ma, ma Zelgadis-san I was only playing." A voice chuckled as the violet- haired mazoku stepped in the class. His eyes were closed and a bright grin was plastered on his face as he slung his briefcase over his shoulders. Filia's eyes widened and her pupils shrunk as the boy from yesterday sauntered past her not even paying her any attention, but that was the least of her worries at the moment. How was it the same person to annoy the heck out of her ends up in the same school, in the same grade, and even worse in the same homeroom?!

"I just can't believe it, that NAMAGOMI MAZOKU FROM YESTERADY!" Filia bellowed as she pointed her index finger at him. The mazoku's shoulders twitched as he turned at a ninety-degree angle and faced the blonde in surprise, while everyone else in the room raised their eyebrows and looked back and forth at the two in confusion and curiosity.

"And it's the SELFISH Little Dragon from yesterday, who foolishly challenged me." The boy replied as he strained to keep his grin, the corners of his mouth going into small twitch every few seconds. The girl stamped her feet her shoes making a clack! clack! sound on the finely polished floor as her tail popped out adorned with a cute little pink bow. By now everyone's eyes were glued to the pair and even more to the golden tail swishing from left to right in front of their eyes. The dragon blushed as she hid her unique appendage and unhooked her mace from her leather strap with a small click!

"That's right and the challenge wasn't consummated." She growled as she raised her weapon and swung at the mazoku's head missing him by a minute fraction. It seemed the mazoku was quite experienced with split teleporting from the astral plane and back to the normal plane. Filia narrowed her eyes as the boy teleported right beside her as if were merely playing with her and not taking her duel seriously. "Stand still and fight me for real!"

The mazoku grinned at her, which was soon replaced with a rather silly facial expression as he stuck out his pink tongue and hooked his bottom eyelid with his finger and yanked it down. "Neeeh," he gurgled as he released the eyelid and placed his tongue back to it's former position, "Not only are you selfish but you're a very violent Little Dragon, aren't you?" the mazoku teased as blanch fume puffed out the girl's ears and she swung her mace again almost smashing him in the face but she only managed to swap at the air as she heard a soft chuckle from behind, tempting her to swing towards her back. Everyone in the classroom had either their eyes bugged out and their jaws slacked to the ground or had numerous amounts of sweatdrops, sweating down the back of their heads.

"Did you know that Xellos knew the new girl?" Lina asked the sulking chimera who was sitting just in front of Amelia and to the right of Gourry. Zelgadis shook his head his wiry cobalt blue hair bouncing from side to side as he viewed the alluring spectacle. Amelia squinted her eyes as she saw Xellos' shoulder twitch in a spasm manor.

"I've never seen Xellos-san like that. He's usually so calm but look that girl is making him all twitchy like he's annoyed." Amelia stated as everyone took a look at the mazoku who was still mindlessly teleporting away from the dragon's lethal swings. Everyone raised a brow that Amelia's conclusion was right the mazoku was actually tasting his own medicine and it seemed to taste bitter.

"Hmph, any person that can ruffle that fruitcake's feathers must be a very interesting character." Zelgadis added as he saw the dragon take another swing missing her real target but almost slamming a red fox girl in her podgy snout. The adult of the classroom was getting a little annoyed with the destructive spectacle he was viewing and cleared his throat to get the class' attention once more, but got no response as the two continued to play their deformed style of cat and mouse, which one was really the cat was up to you to decide. In his irritation Milgazia slammed his palms on his desk; small woodchips flew up into the air as the two stopped and everyone glued their gaze on their teacher. Filia flushed as she hooked her mace back to her strap and avoided her teachers' stern gaze.

"You two take your seats now. This behaviour shall not be permitted in the future!" He barked as Filia begrudgingly scanned the room for an empty seat and saw one beside the back window just behind a redhead girl. The dragon quickly scooted over to her seat and sat down as she saw the mazoku boy continue to stand even when his teacher bore his gaze down at him. The mazoku merely faced his teacher in an unreadable expression as he opened his amethyst eyes and glared at his sensei. "Take your seat Mr. Metallium, or shall I have to give you after school detention." Milgazia said again. No one seemed to notice the drop of sweat that slid sluggishly slid down Milgazia's ear to his cheekbone as the mazoku continued to pierce his amethyst gaze into his teachers golden eyes. After what seemed like eternity the tension thick, Xellos closed his eyes and placed on a jolly smile.

"Hai, Milgazia-sensei." he chirped with a hundred percent of feigned obedience as he went to take the last empty seat, which was behind Amelia and sadly enough in his opinion to the right of Filia. The two hot heads both gave each other silent glares and with two arrogant hmph and then began to ignore each other and retuned their gaze to the front of the class. Milgazia crossed his arms over his wrinkled dress shirt and narrowed his eyes at his class.

"For those who missed my announcement at the beginning of the class, I will be teaching you English and Japanese classes." he said giving Xellos, Filia and Zelgadis a stern look. The older ryuuzoku sat down at his desk and took out a few sheets of tiny paper. "Also those of you who have not received your timetables please come and retrieve them. After that we shall wait for the announcement for us to be called down to the auditorium for the Beginning of Year ceremony, so you have free time right now."

With that said and done an ogre and few other classmates stood up to go and retrieve their schedules from the teacher while others returned to chatting about their holidays or the latest music. As the teacher was handing out timetables he gave Filia another look and took a glance at the redhead in front of her in.

"Miss Inverse would you be able to show Miss Copt around?" he asked wondering if this was a smart choice or a completely idiotic one that would end up in some sort of travesty. Lina turned around and looked at the wide- eyed dragon and she nodded.

"Hai." the redhead called as she tuned completely around to face the blonde blocking out the small groan Xellos emitted to Lina's acceptance of the proposal. Filia smiled at Lina and fidgeted in her seat trying to get comfy as she removed her mace from her back and placed it gently on the ground. Lina eyed the weapon and smiled to see that it was going on the ground and wasn't staying in the dragon's grasp.

"Thank you, Lina-san I hope I'm not intruding." Filia said as she looked sheepishly at the girl who raised her hand and gave a little swipe in the air.

"No problem, Filia, I mean a kind and generous person like me helping others is something that comes natural to a person of my stature." the girl boasted her head getting a little bigger as Amelia frowned that was the biggest understatement of the century...no of the millennium. Lina cleared her throat and ushered her arms in a gesture for Filia to get acquainted to her friends. "Well Filia you might as well meet the gang. As you know my name is Lina Inverse the school destroyer and teacher killer." The red head grinned as she pointed her index finger to the blonde boy behind her. "That jellyfish over there is Gourry Gabriev." The blonde gave a nod and a cheerful smile-indicating hello as Lina pointed to the girl sitting beside her. "That's Amelia Wil Tesla Seyrunn."

"Konnichiwa, Filia-san, the shining star of justice will surely dawn upon this righteous day so no need to worry." She cheered as she made a small pose with a small yet clumsy twirl almost landing on her face as she dragged herself back into her desk. Lina shook her head, her crimson mane bouncing back and forth and lurched forward as she jerked her head towards the chimera that was removing his tie from his collar and tucking it inside his pocket.

"That pouting Thomas over there is Zelgadis Greywers." The girl chirped as the chimera gave a silent nod and Lina continued with her introduction as she pointed to the one and only mazoku in their lives. "And that over there is," Lina laughed as both the dragon and mazoku glared at each other, "...well I guess you already know Xellos Metallium." She coughed. Filia's eyes widened as she took a closer look at the violet-haired monster, her glare softening just a bit with her curiosity.

"Xellos...Xellos Metallium. Metallium, I've heard that name somewhere before." Filia thought as she began to rearrange his name to the inner puzzle she was facing, but continued to frown at the mazoku who was also frowning back at her. The young ryuuzoku deepened her frown as she concentrated harder where she had heard that family name Metallium, from and what was theme of the discussion, but in her deep thoughts Filia didn't notice she lost a bit of control over her human guise.

"Sn...snake, Lina look out!" Gourry bellowed as he saw a small streak of golden scales swish past Lina desk leg and coil itself around Filia's leg. "Now the scaly reptile has coiled itself around Filia!" he shouted as everyone looked down and saw her tail swishing from back and forth in a drugged motion. The others merely shook their heads and soft words of idiot and jellyfish brains were heard in the air.

"Since you have golden scales I take it you're a Golden Dragon right, Filia- san the same type as Milgazia-sensei?" Amelia asked as the blonde nodded her head and pushed her current thoughts away to assure the girls question.

"A Golden Dragon is the strongest race of Ryuuzoku's right other than the Ancients at least." Lina stated not noticing the blonde make a small flinch when she said the word Ancients. Xellos emitted a loud hmph and chuckled to himself prompting the others attention to him.

"It seems like a different story for that Little Dragon over there, she's obviously not strong at all if she can't conceal her human form without fault." He replied with a smirk glaring one amethyst eye at the twitching dragon. Filia bit her lip from choking out a venomous retort to the mazoku as she took a deep breath and took out her tea set and set it up on her desk, from where I have no clue. Do you? Filia serenely pours herself some peppermint tea inside a white teacup with a small picture of two swans; their necks entwined together in a sweet embrace, tuning out the others oblivious sweatdrops. The dragon brought the cup to her lips and took a sip and let out a downy sigh as she turned to others with a cheery smile.

"Ara, would you care to try some of my tea, there's cookies here as well." The ryuuzoku added bringing out a pink plate layered with golden brown shortbread cookies. Both Gourry's and Lina's eyes took on a twinkling glint as they reached for the teacups and the biscuits.

"Don't mind if we do." They announced as they took large gulps of their tea and took large bites out of the shortbread cookies, crumby grins were pasted all over their faces. Amelia strained as smile as she reached for two teacups and passed one to Zelgadis and reached for two cookies for herself.

"Thank you." Both the chimera and raven-haired girl stated as they sipped at their tea. Filia beamed another smiled and her eyes trailed over to Xellos' desk, her eyes ticked as she saw him calmly munching on a cookie and casually picked up his teacup with poise and took a well-mannered sip.

"Who said you were allowed to have some?" she questioned as her tranquil smile twisted into a hateful grimace. Xellos turned to her with a grin and took another sip while revealing his eerie peepers. Filia winced at the way he was looking at her, with that trustworthy yet all the while masked predatory smile.

"No one." He replied closing his eyes, his grin widening each time the dragon's eyes twitched and her mouth was curling up in a more rage filled frown. "You know Filia-san, you make exceptional tea for such a violent and selfish dragon, but I guess we can't fight who we are, ne." he chuckled as the dragon fumed her face was getting more red each second as her fists clenched and unclenched.

"How dare a Namagomi like you call me violent and selfish, it would be more logical that all those attributes reflect off of your personality!" She shrieked as Xellos placed his cup down as his shoulders gave a lurch.

"Namagomi. Namagomi. Namagomi, how in the hell do I resemble raw garbage in anyway?" He snapped as the others watched the scene they were now viewing and chuckled amongst themselves.

"My, they fight like a married. They're so compatible." Lina murmured as Filia turned around to face the redhead and opened her mouth for a comment but was silenced by the intercom. Everyone strained his or her ears for the crackling buzz from the intercom to clear up and report the announcement.

"ALL CLASSES ARE REQUIRED TO ASSEMBLE AT THE AUDITORIUM FOR THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR CEREMONY. THANK YOU."

Milgazia clapped his palms together twice to get the attention of his class and once again held the invisible leash so to speak. "We shall line up now, and please try to be respectful we don't want any misfortunes to happen during the ceremony. All right let's go." He said as his students rose from their desks and sashayed towards the door in single file. Filia blinked and wondered what he had meant by misfortunes.

"Filia-san, hurry up or you'll be left behind." Amelia chirped as she tapped the blonde on the shoulder pulling her out of her thoughts. The dragon nodded her head and leaned in towards the girl's ear.

"What did Milgazia-sensei mean by misfortunes?" the ryuuzoku asked as Amelia opened her mouth but was interrupted by her teacher.

"Miss Copt and Miss Seyrunn there shall be plenty of time to chat but let's hurry up shall we!" He barked as they joined the line with a quick whisper of "I'll tell you later" from Amelia. Filia tapped her foot impatiently as her class slowly emptied out of their classroom and into the hall in single file.

"What could possibly happen at a beginning of the Year Ceremony?" Filia wondered out loud as a familiar violet-haired ryuuzoku turned around and faced her and annoying grin was on his face then was sketched into an arrogant smirk.

"I'll tell you Filia-san," he smiled as he saw her face brighten a little as she slapped on an I-don't care-face on her visage but quirked her long ears for him to continue. "Well I'm not going to tell you actually but I will give you a hint." He said as he watched her face fault and her eyes twitch. Filia could already hear Xellos' mental laugh ringing in her ears. "Well the so called misfortunes have to do with the soul orb collecting and the appearance of our school principal Lon." He chirped as he turned around and took another step towards the door. Filia blinked and knitted her brows together.

"That's it, but what in the world is the soul orb collecting and what's the so horrid about the principal other than the oblivious parent meetings." The blonde whispered as the boy emitted a soft chuckled and turned around. One of his eyes was opened and his index finger was raised to face level.

"Now that my dear Filia-san is a secret." He grinned as he waved the index finger from left and tight in front of her face and hopped out of the door leaving the dragon confused and baffled in the doorway as she too stepped out of the classroom and into the hall drawing herself nearer to the auditorium.



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A/N: Oh, this document was too large to put on Notepad; hopefully the entire font could be shone. I'd like to say thank you for the reviews for telling me if Xellos and Filia were in characters and also thank you to Nova for helping me with this fanfic. Read and Review people tell me what you think of it so far and about the other Slayers members like Lina and company. Bye.