Author's note : This fic was actually written out of total depression, so if I wasn't in this much despair, I wouldn't have written this fic! Thanks to my stupidity and illogical thinking, I'm up with a new short fic! Dedicated to the second chlorine question in the first science assessment test, I officially name this fic : DO NOT DRINK.
SHINGU ATSUZEN 26/3/2003
I rolled up my sleeves and put on my goggles. I walked to the other side of the room where everyone else was. Hakkai handed me a pair of gloves.
"Put these on, you'll need it," he said.
I hate plastic gloves. What the heck, I might make a hole in my hands if I throw them aside.
So I put them on and got my measuring cylinder ready with exactly 12ml of acid. Gojyo handed me the mercury in a burette carefully.
"Hakkai said three drops only," he told me. "Anymore and it'll explode."
Yea, yea, I know that.
I slowly twisted the handle, not wanting anything more than a tiny drop to come out of it. I nearly had it at the right point to get the right amount when –
BAM!
Atsuzen burst into the lab, slamming the door open. I jerked and twisted the handle just a bit too much.
Shit.
KABOOM!
It instantly reacted and exploded right in front of my face. The glass broke, the acid and mercury spilled on the floor. I swore loudly.
"ATSUZEN!!!" I shouted.
Atsuzen was actually running towards us, so she couldn't stop in time to avoid the puddle of acid and mercury.
"Bwaaaaah!" she cried.
Hakkai and Gojyo immediately ran away with their chemicals to another table. They knew what was coming. But I was too busy shouting and cursing at Atsuzen to move.
CRASH!!! … KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
It all happened so quickly, I just remember falling to the floor and breaking my goggles.
(Scene pauses, chibi Sanzo appears with a projector and an OHP screen)
So here's how it happened in slow motion:
a) Atsuzen slipped on the puddle and crashed into the table.
b) All the apparatus shook, dropped and broke, spilling chemicals everywhere.
c) Of course, they reacted against one another and – you know what I mean.
d) This hasn't happened yet, but it will in a few seconds.
"Man, that was cool!" Atsuzen exclaimed. Her face was charcoal black, and so was mine, but mine had a bit of red in it, because I was losing my temper.
Hakkai rushed to us, looking worried.
"Are you two alright?" he asked. "Your faces are bleeding …"
I grabbed Atsuzen by her blackened overcoat and started hitting her hard with my crushed paper fan.
"DON'T YOU BLOODY KNOW THAT YOU CAN'T RUN IN A LABORATORY?!" I yelled, hitting her head. "AND FOR GOD'S SAKE, DON'T SLAM THE DOOR!"
"Stop it! My face hurts already and you're hurting it even more!" she whined. It was true that her face was scratched much more than mine, but I never cared.
Then, as Gojyo was passing by with a dangerous-looking amount of alkali, Atsuzen accidentally bumped into him while trying to avoid my hits. He stumbled and dropped the test tube on Atsuzen, somehow spilling some into her mouth.
"BWAH! Atsuzen!" Gojyo panicked. "Sorry!"
"It's burning!" her eyes were tearing. "So … hot …"
Yeesh, this girl causes so much trouble.
Hakkai rushed to the refrigerator and took out a giant bottle of Sunkist orange juice and poured all 1500ml of it into her mouth. I had to grasp her hands to restrain her from pushing the bottle away. She hates orange juice.
So, after a moment of panic and worry, Hakkai capped the empty bottle and let out a sign of relief. The acidic orange juice neutralized the alkali, stopping it from eating up her stomach.
"Idiotic girl," I said, pulling her up. "I guess you'd like to have a taste of some mercury next time, huh?"
"You wish," Atsuzen let out a burp.
I showed her a bottle of chlorine and pointed out an 'X' mark on its label.
"Do you know what signs like this on chemicals mean?" I asked her.
"Do not drink?"
