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The Debate

In a generic home town during generic high school hours, a debate class was just chatting and messing around before the actual class started. The substitute teacher for this class (since the regular teacher was on leave due to drinking problems) entered in and stood right behind her desk. She coughed in order to get their attention. But when that didn't work and the talking was getting on her nerves, she went with a more harsh method.

"BE QUIET!"

The class instantly shut up and stared at the teacher, who was smirking proudly. "Thank you." She then proceeded to write her name on the board. "As you all know, my name is Filia and I am the history teacher. However, due to… Zelas' fixations, I am now substituting for debate class." After she was finished with the introduction, there was still silence in the room. "… Now, I have been reviewing your debate topics and find them troubling." She then began to write those topics on the board. "Lina Inverse v. endangered dragons, Lina Inverse v. small puppies, Lina Inverse v. the orphans-"

"YEA! Why am I the bad guy in those debates?" shouted out the most dangerous person at school, Lina Inverse. And in case you couldn't tell, she was pretty mad at being the one who was always opposed.

"Because you're a selfish person with no honor," answered Harrier. Twitch.

"Because you're a dangerous and can destroy the entire world with your black magic," replied Stork. Twitch twitch.

"Because you're not as full-chested as the other girls here?" questioned Gourry Gabriev. Urk! And with that remark, Lina had her dim-witted boyfriend in a headlock.

The class just watched the torment of the blond before the teacher coughed again. "And as much as those could be true, I think debate should be about important issues of the community." That's when she took out papers from her briefcase. "So, I arrange a debate for you that will be due in a week. And to make it a good lesson on community and teamwork, I arrange the two sides and the teams that will be defending them." That caused the whole class to groan, with the exception of a hand being raised. "Yes, Dark Ace?"

The black-haired man (or teen in the story) coughed before asking, "If you are going to teach us about teamwork, then maybe you should set up an example between you and Mr. Xellos."

"Don't mention his name in my class!" Filia raged at the mention of her enemy. Yes, the dragon had issues with her colleague. The main reason was the fact that he was a Mazoku, the exact opposite of her kind. And even the mentioning of his name sends her into a fit of anger.

"Did someone call me?" Speaking of the devil, Xellos poked his head out of the class room. The sub turned her head to glare at him, flames marking her high rage meter. The students already experiencing this scenario a million times quickly put their desks in a barrier and quickly hid behind them.

Filia tried to calm herself down and asked the Mazoku, "What do you want now, Mr. Xellos?" She now remembered that she needed to show an example to her students. After all, she was the teacher for this class.

Xellos smirked his classic smirk before entering the door. "Well, Miss Filia, since I am the Sexual Educational teacher, I was wondering if someone could help me… "demonstrate" a little something." All the girls behind the desks vomited a little inside while Filia glared at him.

"There is no way I'm going to give one of my students to you for your sick fantasies!" She hoped that her response would get him out of here. But instead, he still stayed with that wise smirk.

"Why, Filia dear," he cooed, "There is no way I would do that to a young student." Then, he grabbed her hands in a romantic way. "I was thinking of you since you probably done it a few times."

The very unwell dragon quickly removed her hands, took out Mace-Sama (The school did believe in that old saying), and shot it straight at Xelloss. "OUT!" Luckily for him, the Mazoku teleported out of there before Mace-Sama hit. Unfortunately for the door, Mace-Sama left a huge hole in it.

The students quickly popped their heads up and looked at the teachers, some scared for their lives. A few seconds later, the teacher noticed their looks and went into being bashful about the whole ordeal. She fiddled with her hair while saying, "Well, you better start reading those papers."

The class instantly set back their desks up before reading their papers. For the first team, it was Lina, Gourry, Aerrow, Zelgaldis, Stork, Starling, Snipe, Cyclonis, and Sylphiel (Dang, a lot of S-names). For the second team, it was Dark Ace, Ravess, Amelia, Piper, Finn, Harrier, Junko, Martina, Zangulus, and Carver. Everyone was disappointed, especially Amelia. Not only would she be away from her friends, but she was in a crowd with some unruly characters.

After the groaning session was done, Filia decided to start class again. "Now, as you may notice, I haven't chosen the two leaders for each team. Well, I'm going to leave that up to you. If you want to be the debate leader, please raise your hand. Team One?" Both Gourry and Zelgadis raised their hands. "Good, Team One's leaders are Gourry Gabriev and Zelgadis Greywords. Now, team two?"

Suddenly, Amelia brimmed at the sound of that. Maybe if she was one of the debate leaders, she could steer them towards justice and victory. The righteousness in her was boiling as she raised her hand. Hopefully, she didn't raise her hand too late.

"Well, it seemed that Team Two's leaders are Dark Ace and Amelia," announced Filia, causing the blackette to open her eyes in shock. Did the teacher say that she was going to be with Dark Ace? She looked over at his desk to really confirm that he did raise his hand. He also looked at her with a nonchalant look, not wanting to be partners with her. All the happiness in her being leader was now gone. She was dead.

After school, the two debate teams went to the library to dig up sources for the topic. In order not to clash with each other (the students here can be violent and fights break out almost hourly), they had agreed to set up a line in the middle of the library to define the border between then. After that, the two teams went their separate ways, ready to tackle the project. And right now, Team Two was getting a pep talk from their team leader Amelia.

It wasn't anything new.

"Alright, team! Now, that we have this side of the library to ourselves, it is now time to dig deep into our righteous souls and find the justice in our subject! We must be vigilant in our duty to prove that our idea is for fairness and righteousness! For it is a just idea and we must defend it!"

There was silence amongst the group. No words could describe what they were feeling. Most of them seemed distance from the speech while Harrier was the only one jolting down notes from the speech (justice equals honor equals Code equals Harrier). The only one who probably appreciated the speech was the person who was clapping. And that person clapping was none other than the Dark Ace.

"Congratulations, Miss Amelia," he said, "Not only did you assume that we are the good guys, but you contradicted yourself by breaking the library's most important rule." She panicked when she had described what she had done. She didn't mean to break the "Be Quiet" rule. It was just that her daddy taught her that when doing a justice speech, it should be spoken with a full loud voice.

She just then shook it off since the debate was much more important. "So… Do any of you have ideas?" She had also learned that a good leader would always listen to his or hers teammates for suggestions. And since the assignment was about community and teamwork, she was sure to get everyone a good grade.

It was a few seconds later when Ravess decided to add in her two cents. "I think we should spy on our opponents to find ways to counter our arguments."

"… I don't think that's very justice-like," Amelia replied, a little bit worried about the suggested, "Besides, I don't think Zelgadis and the others have any arguments to counter anyway."

Ravess didn't say anything for a while, just glared at her. "Of course, I didn't mean now. I meant later before our debate." Then, she snobbily said, "It's just perfect strategy. Of course, you should probably know that if you were a good leader."

The young girl started to panicked again when her teammate had said that. The first suggestion and she shot it down because she felt it was unjust. A good leader is always opened minded to all ideas. However, she then became shock when she heard the Dark Ace say, "Ravess, stop being pouty that she raised her hand up before you did… Though, we should keep in mind on that spying idea."

"I disagree on the spying part. Everyone knows that spying and cheating are against the school rules." Amelia sighed a breath of relief for Harrier's opinion. At least, there was someone who had agreed with her.

Actually, it was two people when Junko spoke, "I agree. It doesn't seem nice."

"Yea, yea…" Carver lay back in his chair. "And I guess that the other team isn't going to do that either and that the world is filled with sunshine, rainbows, and unicorns." Then, he sat up and looked at the group. "You guys do know that the other team probably thought of that too, right?"

Amelia sighed about the whole idea. It was because that it was righteous or not. It was because everyone seemed to be getting overly excited over the subject. Before a riot (possible one-sided) could break out, she spoke worrisomely, "Ummm, maybe we should forget about the spying. Anyone else has any other suggestions?"

It was a while before Martina shouted at the top of her lungs. "I say we should all make a sacrifice to Lord Zoamelgustav for victory against Line Inverse and her cronies!" Everyone stared at her with complete silence. They all knew that was a stupid idea.

Dark Ace coughed before looking at the group. "All in favor of not sacrificing something to Zoamelgustav, say aye."

"Aye."

Martina was shocked by this turn of events and started to cry like a big baby. "Waaaahhh, you're all mean!" The others watched her whined about how they were being unfair. Only Zangulus, her boyfriend, comforted her… Even though he was one of the people who disagree with her sacrifice scheme.

Amelia sweatdropped at the scene. "… Okay, then. I guess this ends the idea session for now. I guess you guys can try to get information and evidence on our subject. I think Dark Ace would be glad to supervise you." As much as she knew they had to work together, being with Dark Ace made her uneasy. Besides, she can find a just main point all by herself.

Before she could walk away, Piper grabbed her and whispered, "Are you sure that's a good idea?"

And before the black-haired girl could answer, Finn intruded, "Yea, do you remember the other times when he showed "evidence"?" Amelia paled when she remembered that. Apparently, Dark Ace showed some "photoshopped" pictures of Lina "stealing lollipops" innocent kids. With that in mind, she panicked, quickly grabbed her partner and ran away from the group. Everyone just watched, being very confused.

"… What was that about?"

"Hey, Zel?"

"Hm?"

"Are you okay with Amelia?"

Zelgadis sighed before turning to Gourry. "Gourry, even though that is the fifth time you ask me that, I am still fine with Amelia." Apparently, he was annoyed by how much his partner had asked that. "Amelia may be naïve and a bit over-radical, but it's not like she'll go overboard or anything."

"Well, I think Gourry meant if you were okay with Amelia being with Dark Ace," Lina said as she intruded on the conversation, "I would if I knew she was going to be working with that creep."

The chimera twitched in annoyance. "Why are you asking me if I'm worry about that? It's not like I'm her babysitter. Besides, I doubt there will be any complications with those two. She needs to learn how to take care of herself. "

"Okay, Zel, just saying. After all, he has a pretty bad reputation of being Cyclonis' right-hand man," she said, before turning to Cyclonis. "Which reminds me, why didn't you want to be debate leader anyway? Don't you like to boss people around?"

Cyclonis didn't look up from her book, turning a page in it. "Why be captain of a sinking ship?"

"Eh?" Lina was confused by her answer. She thought Cyclonis would have a better explanation than that, something like Zelgadis and Gourry raised their hands first.

Seeing her confused face, the black-haired girl decided to clarify her reasons. "After checking over the list, I can tell that the other team has the upper hand, even having my two brightest minions and my rival in crystal mastery. All we have is two idiots, a bad-tempered loudmouth, a chimera with problems, a paranoid merb, and a polite stalker. No offense, really."

"… None taken," Slyphiel quietly said, peeking out from behind a bookshelf. Everyone else muttered in agreement while deep down, they were really offended. Zelgadis was the only one silent, really shocked that he was the one who had "problems".

"Besides," she then took out map and looked at it, "I have taken this time to do better things, like my plans for taking over the world." Everyone just laughed a little. Of course, she would do that instead of researching with them. Her ultimate goal was world domination after all.

Everyone just went back to what they were doing, except for Gourry who couldn't do research even if his life depended on it. Instead, he was examining something that was much more worthwhile than any old debate. He watched two subjects with precise vision and dedication. But after hours (it was five minutes by normal time standards), he decided he needed help with this one and turned to Snipe.

"Hey, Snipe." The burly man blinked, before turning to the blonde. "Who has the flatter chest? Lina or Cyclonis?"

Snipe blinked again before looking at both Cyclonis and Lina. After a few seconds, he finally came to a conclusion. "Lina."

"Oh." Gourry blinked before looking back at the two girls. "But… They kinda look the same from this distance. Are you sure?"

Snipe looked back at the blonde and said, "I'm sure. Lina Inverse has the flattest chest here."

"And what makes you say that?" Gourry was curious behind his logic. There were times when he also questioned who the real idiot here was. Of course, he had a slight lead above Snipe in that category.

"Because there is no way that Cyclonis would have a flatter chest than your flat-chested girlfriend!" Snipe shouted loudly that the whole school could hear him. Unluckily for him, only one cared about that statement.

"… What was that, you Grade-A morons?" The two guys turned and then cowered at the sight of a raging Lina holding a steel spiked bat. If there was something scarier than that, then it definitely hadn't met Lina yet.

She would have pummeled the two too if Cyclonis hadn't spoken up. "Now, before you beat them into dust, I have to say that I have been curious about that too…" The red head turned her head slowly and creepily at her. "And after some observation and calculation, I discovered that my breasts are an eighth of an inch bigger than yours."

Lina examined Cyclonis for a moment and saw that her chest was an eighth of an inch bigger than hers. This annoyed the red head to great extent. And Lina being Lina, she decided to get to the bottom of this… And that was by checking out forcefully for herself while dragging Gourry and Snipe with her.

"Okay! Where are they?"

"Where's what?"

"The pads! Take those off right now!"

"You're insisting that I wear pads to enhance my chest size?"

"Well, I can't see any other way! Take them off or else I'll fireball you!"

"Ow! Lina, can you please stop? You're hurting me!"

"Hey! That's my nose!"

Zelgadis watched the brawl and sighed. "… Leave it to those two to start a riot." He then looked over at those who were at least helping out and said, "At least you guys are on task."

"Well, it is a team project," replied Starling, looking up at him from her book.

"Yea… Even if the team does have a disadvantage," Stork continued, "Though it might be even worse if we all had mind worms…" Despite the merb's paranoia ranting, there was no way of denying that there was going to be some difficulty against the other team from what Cyclonis had said. However, they might have a chance to win this if there weren't any more distractions today.

"Hello, Filia's class!"

… Spoke too soon.

The chimera sighed before turning his attention to Xellos. "What are you doing here? Don't you have anything else better to do?" It seemed that the Mazoku teachers at this school tried to make the students miserable during their free time. And Xellos' favorite target was none other than Zelgadis himself (with the occasion of Stork and Filia at times).

"Oh, Zelly…" The Mazoku acted surprise. "I just thought I should help you. After all as a teacher, it is my job to help students." Now, if he had been a saint, there would wings and a halo on him. But he wasn't a saint since he stole those items from a real one.

The chimera was about to tell the trickster teacher to buzz off, before Aerrow said, "Xellos, I think we are pretty good. I think the other team is fine too, even though they have Amelia and Dark Ace as leaders."

"Amelia and Dark Ace, hm?" Xellos began to pondered, his mind hatching a devious scheme. "… Maybe I should see this for myself. After all, this might be an interesting sight to see," and with that said, he teleported out of there.

"… Aerrow, why did you answer him?" Zelgadis sweatdropped at the fact that Aerrow told the teacher about Amelia was with Dark Ace as partners.

Aerrow looked over at the chimera. "Well, I don't know. Just sincerity, I guess. Why? You worried about the Amelia and Dark Ace thing?" Oh no, Zelgadis wasn't worried about that. He was beyond worried now. If Xellos is involved in something, nothing good can come out of it.

The next day, everyone was doing their best to find and research for the bed. Team One had gotten their teammates back on task (Zelgadis promised Lina, Gourry, and Snipe that he would paid for their meals for a week, while Cyclonis gets to studied his body for her own diabolitical needs). As for Team Two, they still needed a main argument for their topic. Amelia wanted an argument that was Just while Dark Ace wanted one that was at least rational. And as much as that sounded easy, logic and justice sometimes don't mix when it comes to the grey issues.

"Again, Miss Amelia," groaned Dark Ace as he rubbed his temples, "We are not doing the one you have chosen. It may sound that it is right, but it contradicts itself in the second paragraph." Right now, he was on the edge. Who knew working with this young lady could be so difficult?

"It may contradict itself, but it still shows the light of justice!" Amelia yelled in a quiet, yet dramatic voice, "Besides, it is still better than the one you chose. It may have some logic but it still didn't tell about the righteousness of our topic!"

He groaned again, feeling a migraine coming on. "We're not here to talk about what's right and wrong. We're here to explain in simple terms why this is needed, justice or no justice." He then sighed, knowing that he should level with her. "Look, you know that stealing is wrong." Amelia nodded. "Do you know why it is wrong?"

After some thinking, she shook her head. After all the lectures her father had told, none of them clearly didn't say why stealing was wrong.

Upon reading her expression, Dark Ace explained, "Though stealing is celebrated in countries, in actuality, it's not better for society. If stealing was okay, then everyone is going to do it. Thieves will become victims, and victims will become thieves. And all their possessions will be moved from place to place with no actual origin. Understand?"

Once hearing about that, Amelia nodded slowly. It did make sense if you really think about it. It even amazed her more that he almost sounded like a hero of justice.

While she was pondering this, he browsed through the book before showing a particular page to her. "Here, not only is this rational, but it talks about why it's right too." Amelia blinked, before skimming the argument. It seemed that it did pose a compromise between them. She was about to thank Dark Ace, before seeing him packing up. "Now, if you excuse me, I have better things to do."

"Wait, what about working-!" Her complaint was cut short when she heard something move behind her. She turned around to see the bookcase coming down on her. She freaked, knowing that she couldn't get out of the way before the splat. But before she could get crushed by a thousand classic titles, someone quickly jumped, grabbed her, and moved her out of the way of the falling bookshelf. Amelia had her eyes closed when she was being saved. So, when she opened them, she saw that her savior was none other than Dark Ace.

He blinked before dropping her to the ground. "This means nothing. I only saved you because having you killed will mean a bad grade, got it?"

Still dazed by the whole experience, she replied, "Y-yes…" And with that, he left her there while she was still confused by that event.

Meanwhile in the shadows, someone was watching the two. "My my, this is working better than expected."

Amelia was frolicking through a field of flowers, enjoying life and the things that came with it. She was in a white dress, matching her figure almost perfectly with modesty. Why she was wearing a dress and doing in a field of flowers, she didn't care. She was enjoying this dream.

She fell back into a bed of flowers, laughing before relaxing. She stared at the sky for a few moments until hearing the sound of horseshoes. The girl quickly turned to the source to see a white horse coming to her. The horse stopped a foot away from here. The rider on the horse got off and approached her with grace and dignity. Who was this mysterious rider? Why, he was none other than Dark Ace in a prince outfit.

"Hello, princess," he said before leaning close to the girl, "Mind if I kiss your lips?" Then, he leaned close to her before…

Amelia woke up dripping in cold sweat. She just had the most horrifying dream in her life. Her… With Dark Ace, kissing, she was in shock on how she could think that. Sure, she could understand if it was her with Zelgadis since she had a crush on him. But with Dark Ace… How could she even think about that?

Of course, she couldn't blame herself since for the past few days she learned a lot about them. Despite being opposites on the good-evil scale, they pretty much had a lot of things in common. They ate Oreos the same way (though mostly everyone splits them before licking the cream), they were both knowledgeable, and they even had very abusive leaders. However, even though she liked Dark Ace, she still had Zelgadis on her mind and in her heart.

"What am I going to do?" she asked herself, scared of what was happening to her. She could tell her father about this. No, he would have made a big speech and ignored the real issue here. There was always her sister, but she might have blabbed it to her friends at college when she's drunk. There only seemed to be one person to help her. And hopefully, she wouldn't fireball her for waking her up.

"Okay, Amelia, what's so important that you have to bribe me with cookies?" Lina was currently munching on some snacks that her friend had offered. Currently, she didn't like being awake on a Sunday morning. But by the tone of Amelia's voice and an offering of food, she might as well hear her.

"Well…" began Amelia, "I have someone I like… But lately, I have been getting feelings for someone else…"

"Is it Dark Ace?" Lina replied, causing her friend to pale, "Relax, some of us knew it was going to happen. Now, did he give you some sort of love potion or did you see him naked?"

"M-Miss Lina!" Amelia was now blushing a very deep red. "We had some friendly banter for a while… And after that, I got to know him a little more and…" She then put her hands on her head in a dread fashion. "I don't know what to do. I love Mister Zelgadis, but now, I'm falling for Dark Ace. And what's worse, I can't focus on our assignment when I'm with him."

The redhead took a gulp of water before saying, "Relax, it's just tension. Usually, it happens when two people work together on something for too long." Her explanation did help, but Amelia was still worried. "It happened to me too. Remember when I had to work with Domiwick on our history project? Well during that time, I started to develop an attraction to him too, and I probably would have dumped Gourry for him."

Amelia listened before gulping. "… So, what happened?"

A vein popped up on Lina's forehead. "He tried to take credit for all of my hard work. So, I fireballed him." Amelia sweatdropped at that statement. Leave it to Lina to get angry at something involving her. "However for your case, I think you should kiss Dark Ace. Not that I'm scared of him or anything, but any attacks on him will probably get you killed."

"But," Amelia panicked as she turned white, "The debate is tomorrow. How am I supposed to kiss him before it?" She was now definitely in a dilemma. If someone saw them kiss, it might lead to something worse, like blackmail.

"Well, you better think of some way to do it. If it's not done, you might haunt you for the last of your life." Lina added some scary effects to scare Amelia a bit. And with that, she finished off the last of the pantry supplies.

On the day of the debate, the entire school was packed into the auditorium to see what the class had come up with. From teachers to students to class pets, they were all here against their own wills and they didn't like it one bit. Filia, on the other hand, was nervous. As much as she wanted this job, she never thought that the principal would go this far for her to prove it.

"Is everything ready?" asked a familiar voice as the teacher jumped and turned to see Lord of Nightmares behind her. Filia gulped when she saw that her boss was looking pretty scary at the moment, drumming her fingers along her arm.

Before Filia could answer, Xellos popped up next to them. "Why, yes, everyone is here and is ready to start."

"DIE!" The dragon quickly swung her mace at the monster. He dodged it like always, smiling as he fed on her anger. She then turned back to the principal and said, "Everything is ready, ma'm. All the students will begin shortly."

"Good… I was hoping to see something special." The principal then turned to the stage as all the debate students were sitting at their respective tables. They all seemed very collective, except for Amelia. She couldn't find a perfect time to kiss Dark Ace and soon, she would be going up first to speak.

A few minutes later, the auditorium quiet down and turned their attention to the stage. "Alright, students, you are now here for a special presentation from the debate team. First up, will be Amelia from Team Two." Amelia gulped before getting up and walking to the podium. She looked at all people as she began to sweat. Between that, her confused feelings, and the pressure, she was definitely on edge.

"W-w-well, y-you see… Ummm…" she stuttered, shifting her gaze from the audience to Zelgadis to Dark Ace. She twiddled her thumbs, stopping only to make some other hand gesture. Everyone took noticed of this and started to whisper among themselves. Now, she was really worried.

"… Would you excuse me for a moment?" Amelia hopped off the podium and walked back to her table, over to Dark Ace. He blinked at this behavior, about to say something before she grabbed him and kissed him on the lips. Everyone stared at the ten second kiss, amazed that she would actually do something like this. Finn just groaned. Now he owed five bucks to Carver.

After that, Amelia walked back to the podium and began her grand speech on the justice and logic of her topic. Of course, no one was listening to her. They were still in shock of the kiss, especially Zelgadis. His bluish-green skin was now white with horror.

Once the speech was done, she joyfully walked off the podium and back to the table. Now, it was Team A's turn to speak up. However, the chimera was still shock by the whole ordeal. So it was Gourry, who still didn't know what was going on, to deliver the speech for them. While he was walking up there, Zelgadis' expression soon turned to fury as he noticed Dark Ace waving to him with a smug look on his face.

"Why, you son of a-!"

There was no other way to say it but Zelgadis lunged himself at Dark Ace and pretty soon, they were fighting each other on stage. Everyone was now excited to see some action instead of hearing boring lectures. Amelia panicked, now knowing the damage her kiss onstage had caused. Filia was also panicking about the whole situation.

"Principal, I am so sorry. This wasn't supposed to happen, I swear." She hoped her pleads would helped with keeping her job. But she was shocked to see that the principal wasn't angry but actually smiling at the whole ordeal.

"Miss Filia, this has been the most interesting debate I have ever seen. And though unorthodox, it had satisfied my expectations. Congratulations, you got the job." The dragon brimmed with brightness before the principal turned to Xellos. "And Xellos, stop being so modest. I know you had a hand in all of this."

Filia twitched and her anger meter rose when she heard the Mazoku said, "Oh no, principal. I may have got Amelia to have fondness for Dark Ace. But all the credit goes to Miss Filia." The dragon was now beyond a forgiving nature to thank Xellos for her new job. No one messes with her project and gets away with it.

"Xellos, you bastard!" She soon transformed into her dragon form and started to blast at the teacher, with no hits at him. Seeing this, everyone in the auditorium took the scene as a sign to evacuate before things could get worse. The only person who stayed to watch this was the principal herself, smiling as ever.

"Well, this is a nice little spat, isn't it?" the Lord of Nightmares said while watching, "Though I guess it is my duty to pass out punishment for fighting on school grounds. Being a principal is really tough sometimes…"

The next day pretty much went back to normal. Even though Filia got the job, she declined the offer due to debate being much more stressful than expected. Amelia's feelings for Dark Ace completely disappeared, now replaced with guilt. She was now trying to make it up by apologizing and explaining the situation.

"I'm so sorry about that, Mister Zelgadis," she said as she walked down the hallway with him, "I told Miss Lina about thinking about Dark Ace and she said that it was tension. Then, she told me all about Domiwick and how I should kiss Dark Ace, and well, I'm very sorry. I hope that you don't think of me any less."

After hearing the whole situation, he replied, "It's fine, really. I guess it was tough with the tension and all. Besides, having stone skin is a blessing with bare-fisted fights." Oh yes, Dark Ace was covered in bandages while Zelgadis only had a black eye. "But next time… Please don't listen to Lina's advice. Ever."

"HEY! My advice was just fine!" The sorceress was also walking next to them with Gourry in tow. "Though I have to admit, that could have been executed better than that. But hey, just be glad you did it instead of waiting after the debate, okay?"

"What I still can't believe is the detentions the principal gave out," Gourry said as he thought. Yes, not only did Zelgadis and Dark Ace have detention, but Filia and Xellos had to attend them, along with Carver. "I mean I know Carver is a bad guy and all. But he didn't do anything and he still got detention."

"Carver always gets detention, whether he did something or not," replied Lina, also curious as to why Carver always got detention. "However, all's well that ends well, I guess. Zelas will be back soon, Amelia doesn't like Dark Ace anymore, and we are now back to normal."

Gourry looked at Lina with a smile on his face. "Okay, Lina, but I kinda have one question. That Domiwick guy…" The red-haired girl started to panicked, hoping that he would bury the subject before something bad happens. "Is he… Your brother?" She slapped her head before walking over to the next class. "Oh, then is he an uncle?"

"No."

"Your cousin?"

"No, Gourry."

"Oh, then some relative that I never met?"

Amelia and Zelgadis watched as Aerrow departed for his class too. It seemed that some things will never change for them, one of them being Lina and Gourry's interesting relationship. And now that reality was back to normalcy, it was a good time to just relax and worried about the same stuff.

However, once entering Xellos' class, they saw the teacher giving a lecture on kisses with a very familiar picture on the projector. "And this recent photo is of Amelia kissing Dark Ace right on the lips. Furthermore if you look closely, you can almost make out her tongue going into his mouth."

"Oooooohhhh…"

Amelia groaned while Zelgadis glared at him with fury. That incident was going to haunt them for the rest of their lives.

Author's Notes:

Oh man, the sick mind bug strikes again. Oh man, if the Dark Ace fangirls don't kill me for this, then it's going to be the Amelia/Zelgadis shippers.

Now, don't get me wrong, I support the Amelia/Zelgadis pairing. It's one of the few than I support now without going into a rant about it. However if there might be a Storm Hawks/Slayers crossover, I can see Amelia falling for the Dark Ace (possibly her being under hypnosis or something like that). I won't explain the reasoning, just… take it in for a while. Also, do not listen to Lady Gaga's Bad Romance while thinking about one or more fandoms. You'll thank me later.

With that said, I don't own anything you might find familiar that I haven't written. And if you have any questions about any scenes, I'll try to explain it to my best abilities.

So, please Read and Review!