Chapter 6

Hey! Okay, for those of you who read R&F, you already know that I'm going to be slow on the updates for a while, but I will try to keep up. By the way, most voted for choice #1! So I'm going start leaning towards a big problem! Ok! Here we go!

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            The weekend was over, so much for being lazy. Now there was school, lost papers, tests and exams, awful cafeteria food, preps, jocks, and teachers to worry about. Yep, that just spelled out Atlas High.

            Lina sighed as she walked down the hall towards her first class. She was early, as usual, but she wanted to get a good few minutes of chat time with Filia and Sylphiel. Filia was her coach, but they had gone to the same school since pre-school. She winced when she walked by the preps, one extremely annoying one by the name of Nahga had started laughing after saying something about out of date clothes.

            Lina entered her classroom, science with Rezo. Rezo had always insisted that they call him by his first name; everyone agreed that he was the weirdest, and possibly the most crazy, teacher in the school.

            "At least he doesn't assign homework," Lina mumbled as she took her usual place beside Filia, who was struggling with papers, probably the weekend's homework. That was another good thing about Rezo, he let them sit where ever they wanted.

            The classroom was large, with around twenty tables that could sit three people. The tables were set up in columns of five and rows of four. There was soft blue carpeting and a giant chalkboard in front of the room. In the back there were three doors. One led to inventory, as Rezo called it, another led to the lab, and the last was another way into the hallway.

            "Morning Lina," Sylphiel leaned her elbows on Lina and Filia's shoulder and popped her head between them.

            "Morning Syl," Lina said, yawning slightly. She glanced at Sylphiel through the corner of her eyes, and noticed that she was extremely happy. She smiled. "Lemme guess, Gourry asked you out?"

            Sylphiel's expression brightened, if possible. "Yes! And I'm so happy!"

            "Hey, did you guys hear about the new student?" Filia said, marking something on one of her papers.

            "New student?" Both Lina and Sylphiel chorused.

            "Yeah," Gourry said, taking a seat beside Sylphiel. "He came from that one high school that burned down, you guys saw it on the news, right?"

            Line thought back to the previous nights new cast. Some kid had gotten mad at one of his teachers, so he came back later and tried to burn down the school. (AN I did this for my friend Maria, she has this obsession with trying to burn down the school. Luckily, she has never actually tried, thank god!) The fire was huge, and spreading. Several people were evacuated. Lina wasn't surprised that they had new student, she expected more. They were the closest school to the one that burned down.

            "I heard he's the grandson of Professor over there," Filia said, jerking her head towards the chalkboard, where Rezo was standing. He was busy writing this huge formula on the board.

            "Really? He must be smart," Gourry said, and then he caught sight of the formula.

            "Don't count on it," A voice from behind them said, causing Lina to jump. She turned and came face to face with one of the richest kids in the school, Amelia Wil Tesla Sailune. She was usually a sweet and kind girl, but today she was glaring daggers at Lina.

            "Hey Amelia," Lina said, slightly nervous.

            "Hello Gourry, Sylphiel, Filia," With that, Amelia turned and walked over to a seat that on the far right of the room, just as the late bell rang.

            "Alright, class, calm down and take your seats," Rezo said, putting down his chalk. "Today we have a new student attending our class. He has experienced a little shock from the fire last night, but he is fine. Everyone, meet my grandson Zelgadis Greywords." With that, the stony chimera entered with a less than pleased look. Lina nearly fell over, Sylphiel waved, Filia glanced up, Gourry was to busy trying to run from the formula, and Amelia turned her nose up.

            "Hey Zel!" Lina jumped up from her chair, smiling happily. She walked up and grabbed him by the arm. "You can sit with us!"

            "What? Lina, what are you doing here?" Zel asked as Lina pushed him into a seat.

            "This is my school, silly!" She said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

            "Oh," Zelgadis said, still a little surprised. Then he caught sight of Amelia. "Uh, Lina?"

            "Take your seats! Lunch is in another three periods, you can talk then!" Rezo demanded, and then began to explain the formula, much to Gourry's dismay.

            Lunch came slowly, though I'm sure you all know that after lunch the day breezes by, it's getting there that's the problem. Well, Zelgadis found himself standing in the cafeteria, not entirely sure what to do. He had found out earlier that this school was insane, even the principle had gone off the deep end.

            "This place is insane," He mumbled as he looked around. The cafeteria was packed; almost every seat was taken. And as if being new wasn't enough, people were cowering at the sight of him. "Well, that's what I get for agreeing to help Rezo with one of his experiments."

            Just then he thought he heard music. He followed the sound, and came upon a group of students. They were crowded around some others, who, from what he could see, were dancing. He worked his way through the crowd, and was surprised to find Lina.

            She was sitting on the big steps that the school had in the courtyard. Beside her she had a boom box, Gourry, and another girl whom he hadn't seen before. The song that was playing he hadn't heard before, but Lina was singing along to, as was the other girl. In the center of the circle of people, Filia and Sylphiel were dancing to the fast pace of the song.

            Lina caught sight of Zel and smiled. "Hey Zel! Over here!" She waved him over. He walked pasted the crowd ad took a seat beside Lina.

            "What's going on?" He asked as Sylphiel and Filia finished.

            "The school won't pay for an official dance team, so we have to work on our routines, go to competitions, get our equipment and stuff on our own." Lina smiled as Filia took control of the boom box.

            "Your turn, Lina!" She said as she began to go through a couple of CDs. "Syl and I will help out, hi Zel."

            Lina and Sylphiel headed towards the center as Filia put in a CD. Soon a quick paced song began.

            "Come, shake your body baby, do that conga! I know you can't control you self any longer," This was a song Zel knew; he had heard it on the radio before. The girls began to move together, in perfect sink as if they had practiced it a million times to perfection.

            "Feel the rhythm of the music getting stronger, don't fight it till you've tried it, do the conga beat!" As they danced, the girls sang along with the song. They were laughing and all had ear-to-ear smiles.

            "Everybody, gather round now, let your body feel the heat, don't you worry, if you can't dance, let the music move your feet!" They continued until they all fell over with laughter. Zelgadis couldn't help but smile. As they had danced, they looked like had when they were on the ice.

            "That was great!" The girl Zelgadis had noticed cheered, smiling happily. "Man, you guys are smooth!"

            "Smooth?" Zelgadis echoed, leaning towards the fallen Lina.

            "Means great," Lina explained, getting off the cement. The bell rang, and everyone began to scramble to get his or hers things. "Zel, meet me here after school!" Lina said as she left for her next period.

            "Uh, okay,"