Kasek: Time for chapter two! How about… Vivian, you're doing the disclaimer this time.

Vivian: (angles down her book and glares) What did you say?

Kasek: Who, me? Nothing, nothing… Ahem, I don't own Zatch Bell, so if anyone sues me, I'll authorize Faudo's twin brother into existence. Got it? Good.

Chapter 2: Fun time!

Iulia smiled. "Why don't I just show you instead? Hey, Vivian!" Vivian angled her book down a little bit. "Can you please cast that spell?" Vivian let out a sigh, and opened her spellbook.

"Really, that's not necessary; you don't have to do this, you two."

"Faruk!"

A familiar song started playing. Kiyo looked around. Where was that music coming from? But no matter where he looked, he didn't see any possible sources. Iulia moved a bit to the side, and started to sing and dance.

"Hey, hey, let's dance all day! Boing, boing!"

Kiyo didn't realize just what was going on. What kind of spell is this? Iulia started singing and dancing as soon as Vivian called the spell. As soon as that thought passed through his head, Zatch, Tia, and Peerin got into formation behind Iulia, and started dancing as well. Noticeably, Tia's movements were rather stiff.

Tia had a look of worry on her face. "W-what's going on?"

Peerin's movements were more fluid, but not as natural as Zatch and Iulia's; his face held a look of deep annoyance. "Grr… this is one of my sister's spells. Just go with it; it hurts to resist." As if on cue, a look of pain came over Tia's face.

"Ow! Should've mentioned that bit sooner!" All four Mamodo were now dancing to the music, with Tia and Peerin only slightly less natural than Iulia. Zatch looked like he had his heart into it.

"Hey, hey, let's dance all day! Boing, boing!"

At this, Vivian closed the spellbook. Peerin and Tia, now free from their curse, looked like they were going to kill Iulia. Zatch and Iulia continued to dance, blissfully unaware of the terrors behind them…

It was at this moment that Suzy Mizuno just happened to walk by. "Oh, hey Kiyo what are you doing out here?" She then noticed the goth girl sitting next to him. (A/N: She technically isn't sitting next to him, but since there's only three people there…) If she had had a fruit in her hand right then, it would be no more…

"Oh, hey Suzy, I'm spending some time with my new friends. What are you doing here?"

Suzy's eyes darted this way and that. "Um, uh… the author put me here."

The group stared at her. "… Huh?"

"Oh, nothing, nothing…" (Girl's smarter than she looks…) "Hi there! My name's Suzy! Who are you?" (To Nathan and Vivian)

Vivian simply ignored her, so Nathan decided to answer for her. "My name's Nathan, and this is Vivian. We're from out of town, and we bumped into Zatch. Turns out he's an old friend of Peerin and Iulia's."

Suzy looked over at the four children standing off to the side. Tia was strangling some poor girl, while Zatch was laying on the floor, a big bump on his head, and another boy behind him, a bow raised over his head. Suzy walked over to the small group. Tia stopped strangling Iulia to talk to her. "Hi, Suzy! Nice to see you!"

"Hi, Tia!" (A/N: I don't think Suzy really knows Tia, but since Tia hangs out with Zatch so much…) Suzy looked at the two kids she didn't know. She pointed to Peerin first, then Iulia. "So, you're Pee-Wee, and you're Julian, right?" I think we all know what happens next…

"THE NAME'S PEERIN!"

"THE NAME'S IULIA!"

Suzy was thinking to herself, (yes, she can do that) Why are they yelling? That's not nice…

Zatch was getting up, having recovered from his nasty bump. "Ow… what happened?"

Flashback

Zatch was still dancing, completely oblivious to the fact that the music had stopped. Peerin sneaked behind him, bow raised over his head. "Sorry Zatch, but we need to bring you back to reality."

End Flashback

While Zatch pondered what could've hit him, Iulia was praising the heavens for the blessing that is air. "I'll never take it granted again! Honestly!" However, a few seconds later, she was taking it for granted again. "Grr… how I would love to just use my best spells on Tia…" She started chuckling, thinking of the things she would do once the time for their battle came. "… Unfortunately, we can't have a battle today. Nathan made me promise I wouldn't do that. Oh, well. There's always next time…"

Vivian, at this time, had stopped reading 101 Ways to Torture the Soul. She took out a small pencil and wrote a small note in the back. One can only presume that she was writing down what she had just done to Iulia for future reference… When she was done writing, she resumed reading her little black book. Suzy then made the mistake of trying to start a conversation with her.

"Hey, whatcha reading?" Vivian angled the book so that Suzy could read the title. Upon seeing it, Suzy started shaking. "O-oh, I've never heard of t-that before. I-is it interesting?" Vivian angled the book down a bit so that Suzy could see her eyes.

"Yes, very. You never know when this kind of thing will come in… handy."

Now officially creeped out, Suzy decided it was time to go.

"Bye, Kiyo, see you later!" She then dashed off as fast as she could.

"Uh, bye, Suzy…?" That's weird; she normally hangs around for a while. What's gotten into her? As Kiyo pondered the riddle that is Suzy, everyone decided that the café was boring, and started to leave without him.

"Hey, guys, wait for me!"

Kasek: This was so lame; it took me too long, too. Anyways, if you guys/girls could give me suggestions on where they could go next, I'd appreciate it. As always, please review, and don't hesitate to point out what I did wrong.