The Whispered Serenade Phase 2: Schooltime Panic.

Jer here again. Just so you know, this chapter is where the story truly begins. Also, the next 3 chapters after this each introduce some new characters. All of those characters are not owned by anyone. Just a bunch of OC's

Disclaimer: I don't own Azumanga Daioh™. That is property of Kiyohiko Azuma. I do own Jer, The Black Dragon, and The Matadore dragons. I still wish I owned Ayumu "Osaka" Kasuga™, though.

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is still for a different language, in this case, English.

$Text$, 'text', and 'text' are all people having a mind conversation.

Jer, sweetie, it's time to get up. You need to get ready for school. Don't want to be late on your first day, do you? Jer's mother called to him.

Mom, it's still 0200 hours. Give me a break. Jer snapped back.1

You're on a different time here. This is Japan, remember?

"Kuso! Baka2 alarm clock. I knew I should have updated my fucking clock last night. Jer was cycling through expletives in about 27 different languages. Just get ready for school, dammit. Fine, fine. As a matter of fact, I'm ready, so I'm just going to leave now. "ki o tsukero na"3 "Hai."4

Home room & 1st period: English, Miss Yukari Tanizaki.

"Well, It looks like we have a new student today. What was your name again?" Miss Yukari asked. Miss Yukari was a young teacher, in her early 20's with long brown hair and brown eyes. She was wearing her usual red and yellow sweater with a brown skirt (Don't ask, okay?)

"I'll introduce myself, if you don't mind. My name is Jeremy Williams, but it would probably be easier to call me Jer. I must warn you, I can be a little ... instinctively violent. Oh, and if you can't pronounce my English name, just call me by my original name, Katsuya5. My interests include anime, manga, and video games. Don't mind me too much."Jer said.

"Well, I think there's an empty chair between Osaka and Kaorin."6 Miss Yukari said. "Affirmative, madam." Jer replied. "Uhh, you don't need to be all militaristic. You remind me a lot of a guy I used to go to school with. Your hair looks like his, too." "That's certainly possible, Tanizaki-sensei." "You can just call me Yukari-sensei. It makes me seem younger." "Very well then, Tanizak... err, Yukari-Sensei." Jer caught himself in mid-sentence.

"Well then why don't you tell us a bit more about yourself, Jeru?"7 Miss Yukari asked. "Well, I was originally born in Kyoto but my parents were kind of famous for a while and they moved to America not too long after I was born. Actually, since I was able to walk, I have been trained in many different arts and I have seen many different countries. From America to Russia, France to Australia, even Antarctica, I've been all over the world doing all kinds of different things." His classmates began ooh'ing and ahh'ing. "It's not really that impressive. My father's been to far more places than I have, and is also much more proficient in arts that involve standard military equipment. Too bad he always carries twice his body's weight worth of weapons." Jer said, sarcasm dripping from his voice in the last sentence.

Class begins.

"Now who can read this phrase on the board? Chiyo-chan, how about you?" Yukari asked the class. "I before E except after C, right?" Chiyo responded. "Good." "I don't mean to interject, Yukari-sensei, but I believe the whole saying is 'I before E except after C, or when it sounds like an A as in neighbor and weigh' and then there are special exceptions to keep in mind, like Science." Jer replied. "Umm, well, yeah. I was getting to that... eventually." "No need to worry, Yukari-sensei, just making sure you knew..." Jer began to say, but someone dropped a book right behind him. Jer then turned around, pulled a gun from his school jacket, and fired. He missed, but everyone was startled. "I... I missed? Me?" Kaorin took this opportunity to beat him upside the head with a hammer. "That's not what you should be surprised about! Who the hell carries a gun to school!" "Well, my father always had a gun on him at all times. Several, in fact. There were no injuries, so just take that as a good thing." Jer replied. "A good thing? YOU FIRED A FUCKING GUN IN THE MIDDLE OF CLASS! WHAT KIND OF A GOOD THING IS THAT?" Kaorin yelled. "Where have I seen this before?" Yukari thought out loud. ding ding ding ding ding "Oh, class is over. Well, get the hell out of here, all of you."

passing

"I'm watching you, you gun-toting pervert!" Kaorin warned Jer. "Pervert? What are you talking about?"Jer responded. "You men are all alike. All you want is to get into our panties." "Have you ever stopped to think that maybe, just maybe, not all men are like that?" "Yes, and then one grabs my chest or flips my skirt. And then, there's Kimura. I really hate him." "Kimura? I have him next. So, what's with this guy that you hate?" "You'll see."

Second period, Classical Literature, Mr. Kimura.

"So, does anyone have a couple of lines from a favorite poem they'd like to recite?" Kimura asked. "I guess I could, If you don't mind it being in English, I know quite a bit of a really dark poem." "Hmm, very well then." not too much later.

"Then, ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling/ by the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore/ 'Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, though' I said, 'art sure no craven/ Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly Shore-/ Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian Shore'/ Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore'"8

"Wow, he wasn't kidding about that whole "dark" thing." Tomo called. "I wonder how it ends, though?" Kagura asked. "Basically, the narrator is slowly becoming less and less mentally stable until he finally goes completely insane and falls into a depression." Jer replied. "Um, Katsuya, could you come up here for a moment." Kimura asked. "Affirmative." Jer called. "Do you think I have a chance of ever getting to stick to Kaorin? You look like you get a lot of you-know what." Kimura asked, and then noticed a disgusted look on Jer's face. "First off, let me just say that it's not only disgusting of you to ask something like that. Second, I estimate your chances at less than a snowball's in hell. Third, I am still a virgin, thank you very much." "Oh." bells go off

Third period, Gym, Mr. Torimachi

"All right, you fucking maggots. If none of you can run this obstacle course in less than 2 minutes, you're all staying after-school until one of you does." The teacher yelled in an sergeant-like tone. The obstacle course, just so you know, makes pretty much anything else look pussy. "Now go, all of you." "Affirmative." Jer yelled as he ran on top of the mine filled pool, while everyone else look on in awe. "Finish." he yelled mere seconds later. "What the fuck?" Everyone watching yelled. "Maybe I should take the weights off next time, so I finish faster." Jer then removed the weights from his arms and legs. "There we go. Now then, let me try that again. No sooner did Mr. Torimachi say go than Jer finished the obstacle course. "Easy enough, now I'll just put these back on," Jer said as he began to put his weights back on. "Wait a minute, just how heavy are these things, anyway?" About 4 million pounds each9, why?" Mr. Torimachi fainted after hearing that. The girls' gym class came running when they saw Torimachi faint. "What happened here?"The girls' gym teacher, Miss Kurosawa, asked. "All I did was tell Torimachi-sensei how heavy the weights on my arms and legs are." "How much." "Four million pounds apiece." "NO WONDER HE FAINTED, WHO COULD POSSIBLY CARRY THAT MUCH WEIGHT?" The question was answered by the weight Jer hasn't put back on yet going flying into part of the obstacle course, annihilating it. "And who are you who commands such power." A student from another gym class asked. "Give me your name, and I shall give you mine." "Very well, my name is Ryu." "Call me Katsuya. You and I should spar sometime." "Yes I would enjoy that." bells

Lunch

Jer sits on the roof by himself, obviously lost in thought. 'Hmm, I guess people around here aren't accustomed to the military lifestyle, just as Dad said. I should try to tone it down a bit around here. I've felt some powerful and familiar energies, but I'll figure that out later. This Ryu guy seems like a decent sort. I think he'd be one of the best people to go to if I need any help. We need to be more careful with our mission. You know that Jer. $Shut up, Katsuya, if there are any Psychics among the enemy force that was mentioned, you'll be the one who gets us caught.$ Why don't you shut up and go fuck yourself. $I'm just saying, what if either of them begins to awaken. They'll hear you.$ Why would I care, they'll just thing their crazy. Or that we are.$'

"Did you guys hear something?" Osaka asked. "Nope, I didn't." Tomo replied. "No." "Sorry." "Uh-uh" "Well, I heard something." Kaorin said. "Yeah, me too. What about you, Chihiro?"Yomi replied. "I think you three are nuts, I didn't hear anything." Chihiro said. "Oh, okay then." Osaka said. $I told you to be careful.$ Shut the fuck up, Jer.' bell $too close.$ Come on, we should have some fun with them.' 'You really need to be more careful, you two.' $Tell that to him.$ Shut it, dork. $Dork? do you even know what that means.$ 'You two really need to stop talking to each other, it's time for class.' $Thanks for covering by the way, Mizuki.$ 'No problem.'

Period 4 science Ms. Fuyumi

"Now we add some carbon to the mixture and blow this place straight to hell." "WOO-HOO" "Psyche! Haha." Sure enough though, there was an explosion coming from outside instead of class. "Let's find out what that was."

Outside

"Attention, Soramimi High, we are the Matadore Dragons. If you don't want to die, you will hand over to us every female in the school under the age of 35." What seemed to be there leader said. "What's all this about? I won't let you take my students. At least not the teenage girls like Kaorin and Kagura." Sweat drops all around. "Prepare to die then." Just as the thug was about to fire, the barrel of his gun was chopped off. "If you think I'm going to stand around and let a bunch of losers like you do whatever you want, you'd better think again." Jer stepped out of the crowd, with a sword drawn. "What do you think you can do against us with just a sword?" one of the thugs began to taunt him. "I suggest you shut the hell up or else I'll separate your head from your shoulders before you can even blink." Jer replied in an ice-cold voice, with a stare to match. "Weren't this kids eyes green when he stepped out of the crowd? Why are they blue now?" " It's because you fools pissed me off." "Shoot him! Kill that little bastard." The thugs all began firing and a dust cloud kicked up.

"If you value your lives, I suggest you run now." When the dust cleared, Jer was not only still standing, but unharmed. They did, however, break his headband with their shots. They also noticed his eyes changed again. They were black instead of blue now. Jer quickly destroyed all of the Dragons' guns and knocked them all to the ground. "I hope you're all ready to die at the hands of the Black Dragon." "Boss, I've heard of this guy. He's a member of the Elemental Assassins. This guy is the leader and wind master of the deadliest group of all time. We're all gonna die!"

"T-t-the Black Dragon?" Yomi yelled. "The Element Squadron is made up of four members, all of them around our age." Chihiro began. "The members each have control of one of the four elements of Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water. There's the Flaming Finisher, with mastery of fire, the Iron Maiden, who has the Earth at her command, the Tundra Titan, Master of Water and Ice, and their leader, the Black Dragon, the most vicious member of the group, and the Wind master." "How do we stop him, then?" "The headband, it's what keeps him sane. Give it to me, I'll put it back on his head." "Here you go." Osaka replied as she handed Chihiro the parts of Jer's headband. "Here it goes." 'Spirits of Earth, here my call. restore the power limiter to it's rightful place.' The headband in Chihiro's hands started to glow, and then flew onto Jer's head. "What ha...ppened?" Jer passed out after asking what had just happened.

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1. Jer doesn't have a good relationship with his mom.

2.Kuso! Baka: The two main swearwords in Japan. They can mean pretty much anything as far as cursing goes.

3. Japanese for "take care."

4. Japanese for yes, or in this case okay.

5. Sound familiar?

6. They're the ones you'll need to watch as the story progresses.

7. The only consonant in Japan that isn't always followed by a vowel, so a U is added to all English letters except t and d which get o.

8. I don't own that, that's a part of Edgar Allen Poe's classic poem, "The Raven."

9. Or a ton tons.

Chihiro: Next time on The Whispered Serenade, Jer awakens in the hospital of no memory of what just happened, and Katsuya doesn't know either. When Kaorin brings up the voices she heard during lunch yesterday, Jer and I change the subject and we all head to the arcade. Afterwards, though, we're both put on the spot. I hope we get out of this, or else they'll find out who I really am, next time, on Whispered Serenade.

Jer: The password is Iron Dragon Breaker.

Chihiro: THERE ISN'T A PASSWORD!