E5: School Daze

"So let me get this straight," You had set down your pen. "Grim and Kurama are working together."

"Yep," Fayt was tossing the Kurama plushie up and down in a bored manner.

"And Hiei is working with or for Dib and Zim?"

"Seems so."

"But what does Billy, Grim, Dib and Zim have to do with each other?"

"Well to start Billy, Dib, and Zim go to the same school," Fayt wasn't paying attention to where she was throwing the plushie. It went out of her range of grabbing and fell to the floor. She looked at it, shrugged, and had her attention back to you.

"So?"

"And Kurama and Hiei are on the same team," she folded her hands on the desk. "Well sort of."

"What do you mean 'sort of'?"

-

"He's calm, cool and pretty. Although I don't know if you can call a guy pretty," Billy was rambling on about his new 'buddy' to a girl with her hair drawn back by a headband to resemble horns. She had dark color eyes that it was to hard to tell whether they were a color or just black. She was wearing a pink dress with a yellow flower on it.

"Honestly Billy," she shut her locker. "I want to meet him."

"You do, Mandy!" Billy asked enthusiastically.

"Yes, I do. Anyone else that can survive you for half a day is certainly someone I have to meet."

"Great! 'Cause I got him to pick me up after school. We can walk home together."

They began to walk to class when they saw a kid with curly hair in a light grey hoodie come out of their classroom. He looked relieved to be out of there.

"Whatcha doin', Pud'n?" Billy said catching the boy by surprise.

"Oh it's just you Billy," there was a sigh of relief in his voice. "I'm getting transferred out of this class."

"Why?"

"Because our new teacher is scary."

"Pud'n," Mandy chimed in. "You think rabbits are scary."

"Don't remind me," Pud'n winced. "Well see you guys later."

Pud'n walked away.

"It's sorta sad not having the whole class together," Billy sniffed.

"Sure," Mandy rolled her eyes. "We just have to get rid of Irwin."

They walked into the classroom. When they got inside, they noticed three people were already in the front of the class. One was a girl with oragne-ish hair and a haughty demeanor; the next was a boy with black hair and eerie green eyes behind thick rimmed glasses; last but not least there was another boy with glasses, a yellow shirt, red bow tie and green pants. The last waved energetically to Billy and Mandy.

"Hi Mandy," he said cheerfully.

"Hello Irwin," growled Mandy.

"Hiya Junior," Billy began to transverse with the other boy. "I'm glad we got in the same class again.

"Yes cousin so am I," Junior replied.

"Ugh," the girl appeared disgusted. "Why do I have to be in the same class with you losers."

"Calm down Mindy," there came a cold voice from behind the group making everyone except Mandy jump. "You are all losers in my sight."

Mindy gasped and was about to retort until she saw the shadow of a teacher emerge from her hide away. She appeared to be an older woman with an arched back and the look of a hawk about to catch it's prey, and an attitude that suited her name.

"Now class," she went on. "We have five new additions of nothing to this class, because of Ms. Butterbean taking an insanity leave. Mandy you can sit next to Zim. Billy behind Dib. It's behind the empty desk in the front as he's not here yet. Junior middle desk and for the other two in the back will do. As I can see that you'll learn nothing if you sit in the front anyways."

The five went to their seats.

"Open you books to pag-" the teacher was interrupted by Dib who had just came into the classroom. "What's your excuse this time?"

"Sorry, Ms. Bitters," Dib walked to his desk. "There was a skeleton on campus."

"There's a lot of skeletons in the science wing," the girl who sat behind Zim pointed out.

"But this one was wearing a black cloak and moving," Dib sat down in his desk.

"Was he carrying a scythe?" Billy asked.

"Yes, actually he was."

"Oh that's just Grim. He walked me to school today."

"Grim?"

"Yeah, you know THE Grim Reaper."

"Really?" Billy had Dib baffled.

"Yup," Billy gloated. "We're friends."

"Amazing! So you're friends with the Grim Reaper?"

"Yup."

"What's it like?"

"Well..." Billy began to go through the daily life of Grim and himself as leering eyes were watching them from acrossed the room.

"What is the Dib-worm plotting now?" Zim thought aloud.

"You know I can't ignore you if you talk," Mandy pointed out.

"Just what is he up to...I must KNOW!" Zim stopped noticing that Mandy was giving him a strange glare. "I'm normal."

"Listen," Mandy threatened while grabbing Zim's shirt collar. "If you want to get through this class year alive I want to make one thing clear. I don't like you. So just shut up and stay out of my way."

"You're a very forceful Earth-larva," Zim choked.

"Do as I say and you might make it through the year," Mandy repeated the threat.

"You don't like too many people do you?"

"What's your point?" Mandy was at her nerve's end with him.

"Perhaps we could come to an agreement."

"What part of leave me alone do you not understand."

"Come now we can work out some sort of agreement, can't we?"

Zim could not hear her statement due to the sudden pain that bursted about the area on his face where his nose would be.

after school...

As the bell rang to let out all of the elementary school hellions- students- there were two awaiting their on going torture before them.

"Hiei?" Kurama had just arrived at the school and just happened to have taken a quick glance up a certain tree. "What are you doing here?"

"Can I ask you the same?" Hiei jumped down out of the tree and answered carefully.

"Remember the letter I had last week," Kurama needed not to say anymore.

"My predicament is worse than yours it would seem," Hiei could not shake off the causes which be. He gave a brief description of the situation.

"Summoned?" Kurama stood awestruck. "By an elementary student at that. I thought that Spirit World had banned that."

"So did I," Hiei couldn't deny it any longer.

"Is that him?" Kurama pointed out Dib and Gaz who had just come out of the building. Hiei nodded due to the fail of words he had then.

"And that's the other," Hiei gestured towards Zim who was already half way down the block.

"I feel sorry for you," Kurama tried to act sympathic. Yet he would much rather be in his own situation than that of Hiei's. Until...

"HEY SETH!" came the voice of Kurama's demise. Kurama turned around quick to see Billy standing next to Mandy.

"And I thought my problem was bad," Hiei felt at least somewhat relived. Kurama was about to retort as Hiei quickly left the scene.

"Hey Seth," Billy had come to him. "Who was that?"

"No one," Kurama was quick to answer.

"He didn't look like no one to me," Mandy gave her cold-hearted reply.

"Hiei," the name had slipped out of Kurama before he could stop himself.

"Oh," Billy cut in. "Seth this is Mandy."

Kurama had heard about her from Grim the other day...

"Now it's Mandy you have ta look out for," Grim spoke quickly in the brief moment when Billy had gone to get his scythe. "She's has the worse attitude that I've ever seen in a human child. It's mainly the fact that she always has her way. Under whatever circumstance. She is to be feared Kurama. And if she can scare the Grim Reaper, then no demon stands in her way."

Kurama pondered on how it could be that this human had held such controll over them, yet he felt that he would fall to her soon.

"Now," Mandy crossed her arms and watched him like a cobra. "Let me make one thing perfectly clear, I'm the one in charge here. You step over the line and your gone, understand?"

"Mandy," Kurama said kneeling to her level. "Now why would I do that?"

"Good," Mandy turned to leave as Kurama got ready to follow. "I'll show the ropes then with dealing with Billy."

"Oooooohh," that brought Billy's attention away from the slug on the sidewalk. "What are we dealing with? Aliens?"

Meanwhile...

"Gaz," Dib spoke in an important tone. "There's someone I'd like you to meet."

"If it's one of your dorky friends," Gaz sighed as she went on playing her game. "I'll make you both pay."

"Oh no no Gaz," Dib reassured. "He'll be helping me defeat Zim."

"As I said, you both will-"

"And this is?" Hiei stepped out of the shadows taking Gaz a bit by surprise. She looked away from her game to see him. Something about the way he looked and acted made her gasp. Not truly out of shock, but of something that she couldn't describe.

"Hiei I'd like you to meet-" Dib began before he was violently shoved aside.

"Gaz," Gaz spoke a little out of her character. "I'm Gaz, and unfortunately I'm related to this she indicated to Dib idiot."

"Yes," Hiei said uneasily. "Unfortunately."

"C'mon," Gaz said while grabbing Hiei's hand. "I'll show you the way to my house."

- Fin: E5: Scool Daze-