Chapter 5 Security

"Lucy," D whined, "why, oh why, out of everything you could have chosen did you pick dance?" Lucy was currently stretching in the dance studio after having changed into sweats, while D leaned against the wall in her uniform whining with her hands in her pockets. They were the only ones there.

"What are you complaining about? You love dance," Lucy asked.

"I love dancing," D corrected. "I don't like dance classes. They're too easy and seriously bore me."

"Is that so?" a voice called from the door. They turned and saw who they presumed to be the dance teacher, Laki, standing in the doorway. "Then I guess I should warn you now. This isn't a normal class. All the dances we do, I learned from videos I got off a certain website. Most of these dances are hard-core and extremely difficult." Two girls entered then. "Ah! Ultear, Meredy, perfect timing," Laki said with a smile. "Would you be so kind as to demonstrate what kind of dances we do in this class?" Meredy looked at Ultear.

"Sure," Ultear decided. Meredy nodded.

"Okay then, how about 'Jai Ho' the Pussycat Dolls version?" Laki offered. The girls nodded. The music started and the girls danced beautifully. During the chorus, realization hit Lucy like a brick.

"Hey D," she whispered, "isn't that-" she trailed off.

"Yep," D answered, "and they're doing it wrong." Lucy fell silent after that and the two girls watched in silence. Once the dance was finished, Laki turned to them with a smile.

"What do you think?" she asked. Ultear and Meredy looked at them expectantly.

"It was great," Lucy commented with after a slight pause. "Your moments were beautiful." Ultear and Meredy grinned. Laki gave the pair a proud smile.

"What about you?" she asked D.

"I take back what I said," D began earning her a victorious grin from Laki. "This class won't bore me." She paused and Laki seemed to be extremely excited. The woman was about to say something when D spoke again. "No, it won't bore me. I think it'll be entertaining to watch you mess up while trying to do my dances. That is, if it doesn't piss me off," D concluded with a grin. At the end of this, Lucy once again found herself shouting her cousin's name in reprimand.

"Your dance, you say?" Laki asked at the same time Meredy shouted:

"What do you mean 'mess up'? We didn't mess up! We did it exactly as the girl taught it in the video!" and Ultear whispered:

"D?" questioningly.

"Yes, my name is D, and I'm the one who choreographed the dance. When I said 'mess up', I only meant you did it wrong," D replied calmly, finally stepping away from the wall. Lucy sighed and looked down with her hand over her eyes.

Here we go, she thought.

"First of all, this dance should be done by a minimum of three people, and go up in odd numbers from there. Second, do your pose for 'Jai Ho'," D demanded looking at Ultear. The girl didn't say anything and moved so she was facing the mirror, standing straight up, right hand above her head, left at her stomach, and her legs apart leaning her weight on her left leg. "This is wrong," D stated gesturing to Ultear's entire position. "Your hand shouldn't be up like that." D walked over and lightly bent Ultear's right arm down into a curve out to the side, her elbow was bent level with her eyes, and her hand was above her head lined up with her right eye. "Your last three fingers should be together with your middle finger touching your thumb." D moved Ultear's hand the way she described. "Your index points up. Your right hand is always equal with your right eye." D looked at Ultear's legs. "Shift your weight to your right leg." Ultear shifted. "Bring your legs together. Lift you heels 3 inches off the ground. Turn your body slightly right, but keep facing forward. Bring your left leg forward and shift out your hip." Ultear did as D told her without hesitation. "Finally, your left hand should be on your hip, not in the middle of your stomach." Ultear moved. D adjusted her fingers so her last three fingers were together, thumb touching the middle finger, index following the other fingers' curve without touching the middle finger, and all of her fingers pointing upwards. "That's the position you should be in if you do it right." Ultear tried out the pose on her own, and then mirrored it with her left hand above her head this time. Once satisfied, she turned to D.

"So you're D?" she asked. "You're the one who made the website?" D nodded.

"So it really is you!" Laki shouted. D's head snapped in her direction. Lucy, who had been watching in silence along with Meredy, smirked as her cousin was suddenly being fondled over by the ecstatic dance teacher. "I simply love your site. The music teacher, Lyra, is the one who showed it to me. I wonder…did you choreograph all of the dances on the site?" D nodded.

"Pretty much," she replied. "They're a few that the other ones made." Laki nodded as Lucy watched the scene in amusement; Meredy, in curiosity.

"Does the money really go to charity?" Ultear asked joining the conversation. D glanced at her before making her way back to her spot against the wall next to Lucy, who was still sitting on the floor, as she answered the question.

"80% of the money goes to charity, 10% goes to funding, 5% goes to taking care of those annoying people that follow me around and work on the website for free, and the remaining 5% goes to me. Even though it's just 5%, I still make a lot of money." Ultear nodded in understanding. "Now then, I would appreciate it if you'd tell me exactly how many people you told about my site and their names." She turned to Lucy. "You know I'm not good with names, so remember them for me." Lucy sighed and nodded.

"You should really work on that," Lucy commented.

"I am. It's just that I'm not making much progress, so I need someone else to remember for me," D explained. Only those who really knew her could tell she was actually complaining, angry at herself for not being able to remember on her own. To everyone else, it sounded like she was just making excuses. Lucy gave D a look full of pity. As amazing as the girl was, she could not, for the life of her, remember names. Be it the names of people, places, or things, D's brain simply refused to remember them. It was an eternal war between D and her memory, a war that D was losing.

"Let's see," Laki thought out loud, "all the students in this class. This is the only dance class I have."

"Their names, grades, and parent's occupation please," D demanded. Lucy sighed, but remained silent as she prepared to absorb the information they were about to receive.

At least she said 'please', she thought.

"Ultear, grade 12, daughter of Ul's Ice Sculpture Emporium," Ultear introduced herself. D nodded at her.

"Meredy, grade 9, adopted by Ultear," Meredy said following Ultear's lead and introducing herself. D raised an eyebrow at this but remained silent. She gave Lucy a look before turning to Laki. Lucy followed her cousin's silent command and turned to Laki listening for the rest of the names.

"Cana, grade 11, daughter of the Alberona Card Company and Clive Demolition. Wendy, grade 9, only daughter of Sky Dragon Airways. Then there's Evergreen, grade 12, daughter of Fairy Inc.," Laki listed. After listening to a few more students, she said a name that surprised the two girls. "Levy, grade 11, daughter of the Garden Book Company."

Levy-chan? Lucy wondered.

Shortness huh? D thought. Laki continued listing names.

"Finally, there's Lisanna, grade 11, 2nd daughter, 3rd child of Strauss Inc. You could say she's a little…obsessed with your site," Laki warned.

"Did you get all that, Lucy?" D asked. Lucy nodded. D turned back to Laki. "That last one…could you point her out to me when class starts?"

"I think Lisanna is helping Mirajane with something Erza asked her to do. Levy as well," Meredy suddenly spoke up.

"Mirajane is Lisanna's big sister, and Erza is the Student Council President," Ultear elaborated.

Erza and Mira? Lucy thought.

"Okay then," D turned her attention to Laki, "onto more important matters. Will you give me permission to use this studio whenever I want before, during, and after school?"

"Gladly!" Laki exclaimed.

"You can watch if you stay quiet," D added. Laki seemed excited at this. "Well then, Miss Teacher Lady, (I call my teacher's that all the time, the male's get called Mr. Teacher Person) I believe lunch is about to end." Just then, almost as though it had heard her, the bell officially ending lunch and starting the period rang. Ultear, Meredy, Laki, and Lucy got ready for class while D slowly made her way to the corner of the room, realizing there was a chair there, and sat down. (Their classmates are changing in the locker room.)

Soon, students started to come into the classroom. When they did, Laki, Ultear, Meredy and Lucy were warming up. A song D didn't recognize came on. It had no words, but it did have a strong beat. D leaned back and watched as they began to warm up. She looked at her watch and sighed.

This is going to be a long 30 minutes, she thought.

"Okay class!" Laki shouted when there were 5 minutes left and everyone had built up a decent sweat. "Before you go to Gym, they're two new students, one of whom is someone you've all been dying to meet." Everyone started whispering to each other, trying to see who she was talking about. "The first one, I think you've all noticed by now, is Lucy standing over there." (Lucy introduced herself while they were setting up.) Lucy waved. Some of the students waved back. "Now, the one you've all wanted to meet is her cousin." Laki looked around the room to locate D, who was still in the corner, but was listening to music and not paying attention. Lucy walked over to her cousin, waved her hand in front of the girl's face to get her attention and, when they girl looked up, pointed at her ear. D took out a headphone and walked over to the class. "Ah!" Laki exclaimed finally seeing her. The class followed her gaze and saw D. A few gasped in recognition. "I'm sure some of you recognize her. This is D, creator of the charitable website we all love, and choreographer of almost all the dances on that website." All the girls and the one boy gasped.

"Out of curiosity," D began, "how many of you have access to my site?" Everyone raised their hands. "How many of you have your own membership?" All hands stayed up. "How many have advanced memberships?" 3 hands went down. "Premium?" Half of the hands are now down. "Gold?" A fourth of the remaining hands went down. "Platinum?" Three hands remained. "Diamond?" All hands were down. "So I'm guessing there were no Exclusive members?" D chuckled a little. (On D's website, you can't see anything on it until you have a membership and each membership level allows you to see more material. This is so the website stays relatively secret. The Exclusive members can see everything the website has to offer. The website itself will be explained more in future chapters when it becomes important. For now it's just being used to help D make connections at the school.)

"I think Lisanna-san has an Exclusive membership," Wendy, a little girl with long blue hair tied up behind her head, answered. D raised an eyebrow.

"Oh really?" she mused with a smirk.

"Like I said before," Laki cut in, "Lisanna is a little obsessed. I'm amazed she was able to keep the silence policy with how much she talks about it with those who know." The class murmured their agreement.

"She's hasn't even told Mirajane, and she tells her sister everything," Cana, a girl who has long brown hair and reeks of alcohol, added.

"Ladies, it's time for gym," a male voice called from the doorway. The girls turned and some squealed:

"Loki-sama!" and "Loki-sensei!"

"Loki," a familiar male voice called, "I thought I told you to make sure the students in the weight room put the equipment away properly while I got the dance class." D watched the door in interest as La'har stepped into view. "Not to mention, I asked you to set up the gym for class today."

"Mr. La'har?!" Lucy nearly shouted in shock. La'har's head snapped in her direction. D smacked Lucy upside the head as lightly as she could. It still almost knocked Lucy over though. "Why is the head of security in charge of gym class?" she whispered holding the back of her head. D simply gave the girl a dangerous smile and said:

"Well, you're about to find out."

"You know?!" Lucy hissed in irritation. D's face lit up in evil glee.

"I have a guess," she stated before turning back to La'har, who had finally located the source of the outburst and was looking at them, with a smirk. La'har paled when he saw D. "From the look on his face, I think I'm right." The dance class students were ushered into the gym.

"Okay class," La'har said as he walked back and forth in front of the students, "for today's gym/self-defense class we will learn the flip. Now the flip is not about strength. It's about-" La'har was cut off when 11 students ran into the room. It was Erza, Levy, Gajeel, Mira, a girl they assumed to be her sister, a big male student with spiky white hair, a boy with black hair, two girls with blue hair, a boy with blue hair and a read tattoo going down his face, and a boy with pink hair. Lucy blinked.

Pink hair…on a boy…now that's interesting, she thought. She blinked again. And what's with the scarf?

"Sorry we're late," Erza apologized, "we had to finish setting up something." La'har nodded. Erza and company joined the group.

"Now then," La'har continued, "as I was saying, the flip is not about strength. It's about using your opponents force against them. Is there a volunteer who would like to demonstrate?"

"I would!" D shouted raising her hand.

"Wha-" Lucy's protest was cut short as D moved to the front of the class. (They had been standing in the back. Shocker.) Erza, noticing Lucy, took D's place.

"What's she doing?" she hissed to Lucy. "Has she had some kind of training?"

"No training, but she's a good fighter. As for what she's doing…let's just say I don't think D likes Mr. La'har very much, and leave it at that," Lucy answered. She saw the smirk on D's face and looked down using one hand to block D and La'har from her sight. "Oh, I can't watch this." D and La'har were standing apart from each other.

"Alright then," La'har said. "Thank you for volunteering. Now, I'm going to come at you and I want you to use the momentum of my attack to flip me." D nodded. Oh, she was so going to enjoy this. Lucy looked up and peaked through her fingers. La'har took a deep breath before dramatically charging at D with his fist raised. D simply grabbed his fist with one arm and flipped him sideways so he landed on his back. La'har had the wind knocked out of him. D knelt beside his head.

"Was that okay?" she asked with an amused look on her face. La'har still unable to speak simply nodded. D smirked and, surprisingly, helped him up. La'har moved behind her.

"This is a more common flip," he announced wrapping his arm around D's neck. "Do this slowly, step by step, so they can see how to do it properly," he whispered so only D could hear. She rolled her eyes but nodded nonetheless. D used both of her hands to grab his arm, before stomping unnecessarily hard on his foot causing his grip to loosen. She then pulled his arm away from her neck, ducked under it and flipped him in one smooth movement so La'har, once again, landed on his back on the mat. He was once again winded. La'har lied there as he tried to catch his breath. D kneeled by his head again.

"Was that slow enough for you?" she asked. La'har took a deep breath before standing up.

"Now did everyone understand the second flip?" he asked dusting himself off. The entire class nodded. "Alright, get in pairs and spar for the rest of the period. Loki, make sure they all do the flip at least once. You," he said pointing at D, "may I speak with you for a moment?" D raised an eyebrow, but followed him to the gym office nonetheless. Lucy watched worriedly until she was interrupted by, who she assumed to be, Lisanna.

"You're Lucy, right?" she asked.

"That's me," Lucy answered. "I'm guessing you're Lisanna?"

"Yes," Lisanna confirmed before tilting her head to the side in confusion, "but how do you know me?" Lucy chuckled.

"I heard you're obsessed with my cousin's site and that you're Mirajane's sister," Lucy explained with a smile jerking her head in D's direction when she said 'my cousin'. "You look alike." Lisanna blushed before her eyes got wide when she realized what Lucy just said. She snapped her gaze in D's direction.

"Ladies!" Loki suddenly called out. "Get to work." Lucy looked around and saw that everyone was sparring except for them.

"I guess you're my sparring partner?" Lucy asked yanking Lisanna out of her own little world.

"Huh?" she asked turning to Lucy. She looked around. "Oh. Yeah, let's spar."

When D and La'har reached the gym office, La'har sat down at the desk, while D shut the door and leaned against the wall. There was silence as D stood there, waiting.

"I don't understand," La'har suddenly said. D blinked.

"Understand what?" she asked.

"Why are you here?" he asked.

"You asked me to follow you," D stated with a smirk. La'har gave her a pointed look.

"That's not what I meant, and you know it," he stated. D sighed.

"I believe Makarov already explained that," D answered.

"Yes, he said you were 'A student, who has already graduated college and is only here to be around people her age and protect her cousin.' He also said you had a higher education than he did," La'har confirmed.

"Wow. Word for word. Well, there you have it," D said stepping away from her position against the wall. "Now if you don't mind. I need to get back to class." She started for the door.

"He said you're here to 'protect' your cousin," La'har said. D froze with her hand on the knob. "You're extremely cautious about security, won't allow Lucy to be alone, and don't allow yourself to get emotionally attached to people. What, or who, are you protecting her from? As the head of security for this school, I need to know what I'm guarding against to be able to best prevent danger. I don't want the students in danger, so please, I beg of you, tell me!" D could tell La'har was sincere. The girl looked back and saw desperation on La'har's face and fear in his eyes. She sighed.

"I'm sorry, Mr. La'har," D apologized (If Lucy was there she would be thinking: Gasp! She not only apologized, but called him by his name?! The world must be ending!), "but I don't know you. I don't know the people you'll tell even part of the story to just to get them to cooperate. I don't know what measures you'll take. I don't know if you'll panic. Therefore, I can't tell you right now. However, I will tell you this. The main thing you should be afraid of is someone discovering Lucy is here. That information cannot escape. If it does, nothing you do can protect this school from the hell that will ensue, and Lucy and I will be forced to leave. People's lives depend on us staying a secret. I'm sorry, but that's all I can tell you for now." With that, D exited the room leaving La'har to think about what was just said. You could practically see and hear the gears turning in La'har's head.

The main thing you should be afraid of is someone discovering Lucy is here. If it does, nothing you do can protect this school… People's lives depend on us staying a secret…

After replaying D's words in his head, La'har finally understood the hidden message that D had given him. To wrap it up, basically what she had said was if a certain someone, not that he knows who that someone is, was to find out Lucy was in this school, then that someone would attack the school to get to her and nothing he could do could stop it. It was also apparent that in this attack innocent people might be killed. La'har got out of his seat and grabbed the maps that displayed the location of every security measure they had in the school and various measuring and marking tools before exiting the office prepared to call D back over.

"I'm guessing you're planning on taking my advice seriously now?" D asked causing La'har to jump. She had been leaning on the wall to the left of the door-frame waiting for him to put the pieces together. La'har nodded. D nodded in approval. "Good." She glanced at the class, just in time to see Lucy get kicked in the stomach by her sparring partner and fall over in pain, before smirking in amusement, most likely at her cousin's expense, and gesturing to the wood floor. "We've got ten minutes. Let's get started."

What are they doing? Erza wondered as she watched La'har spreading papers that looked suspiciously like maps on the floor. Mira, her sparring partner, noticed her unease. They were both in an offensive position. Mira dropped her guard and tilted her head to the side in curiosity.

"What's the matter, Erza?" she asked. Erza glanced at her before dropping her stance as well.

"What do you suppose they're doing?" she asked. Mira followed her line of sight and saw D and La'har sitting on the floor while D pointed at spots on a large piece of paper. From the way it rolled up on the sides, Mira supposed it was a map.

"Looking at a map?" Mira suggested. Erza nodded.

"That's what I thought," she explained, "but the only maps in that office are of the school's security systems." Mira gave her a confused look.

"Why would La'har show those to a student?" she questioned in bewilderment.

"That's what I'd like to know," Erza stated. They both turned back to D and La'har.

"That's all I can do right now," D stated. "I'll finish later." La'har nodded.

"Why don't you take them with you?" La'har suggested. "You can finish when you have time." D nodded. She glanced at Lucy before turning back to La'har.

"I'll be right back," she said before running for the locker room and grabbing both her and Lucy's things, including Lucy's uniform. She can change in the bathroom or something, she reasoned in her mind. La'har had all of the maps and equipment ready to be packed up. "I should be done by tomorrow." La'har nodded and began packing the maps into D's practically empty bag.

"Be careful. Don't let anyone see these," La'har said. "I know you don't need me to tell you. I just thought I should say something." D nodded.

"No one will see them…except maybe Lucy," D managed to answer only sounding slightly irritated.

Erza and Mirajane were shocked. Was La'har giving D the maps for the school's security system? This was unprecedented. Class was unofficially over and while the other students went to go change, Erza and Mira were frozen in place while staring at D and La'har.

"Ladies!" Loki called. "You should go change. The bell's going to ring." Erza and Mira snapped out of their shocked states and went to the locker room to change and think about what they just witnessed.

Lucy walked over to D and La'har once Lisanna had gone into the locker room. La'har had just finished packing, what Lucy assumed to be, maps with all the information on this schools security, and the tools needed to make changes to the plans in D's bag, when she finally reached them. D stood up and handed Lucy her stuff.

"Let's go," was all she said before walking off towards their next class. They stopped at a bathroom so Lucy could change. The bell rang after the door shut when she came out. D, once again, led the way to the classroom. Soon enough they arrived at the music room. From what they could see from the hallway, it had instruments everywhere, and there seemed to be seven sound booths. They were each equipped like a professionals. There were two in each wall with a single big one at the front of the room. (You could see into it through the window in the hallway.)

"Music," Lucy stated.

"I heard that the dance, music, and drama classes mostly have all the same students because they all work together," D informed.

"Welcome!" a cheery, childish voice called out. "You must be the new students. I'm Lyra!" D and Lucy looked at the childlike woman. (She looks like she does in the anime.)

"Nice to meet you, Mrs. Lyra," Lucy greeted her. "I'm Lucy and this is D."

"The dance teacher told me you're a fan of my site," D added. Lyra squealed.

"So it is you!" she shouted. Lucy recoiled. "When-I-heard-your-name,-I-totally-thought-it-was-you-I-mean-how-many-people-actually-have-the-name-D-right?" Lyra was speaking at an extremely fast pace and gasped before continuing. "Anyway-I-love-your-site-and-I-read-on-your-bio-warning-thing-that-was-put-on-there-that-you're-violent-strong-and-very-dangerous-in-the-morning.-So-when-Makarov-sent-out-the-warning-about-you-I-immediately-knew-it-was-you." Lyra gasped and tried to catch her breath. Lucy looked hopelessly confused.

"Huh?" she asked her head dropping a few inches as she did so.

"I'm glad you were able to put that together," D stated. Lucy's head snapped to her cousin, and she looked at the girl like she had grown a second head.

SHE UNDERSTOOD THAT?! Lucy screamed in her mind.

"Do you mind if I use your recording studio whenever I want?" D asked.

"Sure!" Lyra agreed.

"Lucy! D!" Erza called. The two girls turned to the red-head to see both her and the group of people who had been late with her to gym, except Lisanna. "You're in this class too?"

"No," D answered with a straight face. "We're just standing outside the classroom. If we walked through the door, then we'd be in the class." D's expression didn't falter. Gajeel, Laxus, Mira and the pink-haired boy shook as they tried to hold their laughter while Lucy actually had to turn away and bend over to try to smother the sound of her laughter.

"Ha, ha, very funny," Erza grumbled as Lyra moved out of the way and they entered the room. "Why did La'har give you the details on the school's security system?" she suddenly asked. Everyone but D and Lucy froze. D sat in the back of the room with Lucy before answering. D sat leaning back on the chair with her right arm hanging behind the chair, wrist on top of the back of the chair, and the other hand resting on the knee of her left leg which was crossed over the other. Lucy simply leaned back with her arms crossed over her chest and her legs crossed.

"I'm looking for holes in the security system," D stated. When Erza opened her mouth D continued. "I have experience in…dealing with security…Makarov asked me to take a look when I told him about a few holes I spotted when I got here." Everyone looked at D in shock.

"Oh," Erza said. Lucy simply stared at her cousin suspiciously. How D could lie so easily was beyond her understanding.

Seriously, she said she had experience in "dealing" with security? More like experience in defeating it for fun…Lucy thought for a moment. You know…there is something seriously wrong with D…she's such a suspicious person…and dangerous…and a little crazy…

Almost as if she had heard her, D suddenly glared at Lucy from the corner of her eye. Lucy raised an eyebrow at the girl. They continued their silent stare-off. To the others it seemed as though D was still looking at them since she was still facing forward, and that Lucy was simply surprised like them that D was asked to look at the security. (The entire thing lasted only a few seconds after Erza said 'Oh'.)

"You're pretty smart, ain'tcha?" a raven-haired boy asked leaning forward and causing D's attention to turn back to the group. Lucy mentally sighed with relief. She may put up a brave front, but the truth was she was absolutely terrified of her cousin…not that she'd ever admit it. D stared at the boy before responding.

"Maybe…who are you?" she asked. Lucy blinked and looked at the boy who had asked the question and her eyes nearly bugged out of her head when she saw him. Erza noticed this and followed Lucy's gaze. She froze with a silent:

"Gah!" Idiot! she thought. You just had to go and do this now?!

"Oh!" he exclaimed with a nice yet mischievous smirk. "I'm Gray, Gray Fullbuster." He stretched out his hand for her to shake. D ignored it and nodded.

"And you're in your underwear, why?" she asked. That's right. The boy in front of them was clothed only in a pair of dark blue underwear. (You can guess the reason behind Lucy and Erza's reaction now correct?) Gray looked down and cursed.

"Shit! When'd this happen?!" he shouted before running off, presumably to find his clothes. Everyone watched him go. D raised an eyebrow.

So he didn't know he was missing his clothes? she thought, while Lucy simply gave an adorable confused look.

What just happened? she wondered.

Erza sighed and put a hand on her forehead.

"Gray," she hissed under her breath. Great, she thought, now they'll have a bad impression of the kind of friends we have. Mira, catching onto Erza's negative state of mind, spoke up.

"Sorry," she apologized. "He has a bad habit of stripping unconsciously." Lucy and D turned their attention back to the people in front of them. There was a moment of silence where the girls just stared at them until Lucy finally gave in and asked:

"Why?" Mira froze. She looked up and blinked a few times before tilting her head to the side and striking a thinking pose. Her eyebrows drew together, her right index finger touched her chin, and her right elbow rested in her left hand. D found watching all this incredibly entertaining.

"You know…I have no idea," she finally consented in a thoughtful tone. She pulled her face away from her finger, her arms still in their thinking position, to look at her friends. "Does anyone know really?" she asked.

"It's because he's a pervert!" the pink-haired boy shouted with a snicker. Gajeel and Laxus smirked at the comment. D looked at him. Her eyes immediately glued themselves to his hair. Lucy tried her hardest not to look at it.

"Hello," she greeted him. "I'm Lucy and this is D. Who are you?"

"I'm Natsu, Natsu Dragneel," the boy introduced himself with a giant, goofy, fang-toothed grin. "It's nice to meet you."

"It's nice to meet you too," Lucy said with a smile.

"Do you have any food?" he suddenly asked. Everyone stared at him. Erza had the sudden urge to smack him.

That gluttonous idiot! she thought. However, before she even got the chance, D suddenly pulled out a giant bag of chips from God-knows-where without breaking her eye-contact with his hair, and held it up with her left hand. (Her right one was still in its original position on the back of the chair. In fact, she didn't even move to get the chips.) Everyone's eyes nearly bugged out of their sockets as they stared at the mysterious chips in shock.

How the hell does she do that?! Lucy shouted in her mind.

"Yay!" Natsu shouted in victory before reaching for the chips. D suddenly yanked her hand back. "Hey!" Natsu pouted and crossed his arms over his chest. He hid his face in his scarf to, unsuccessfully, try and hide his disappointment. "I thought you were gonna give it to me," he grumbled. Lucy giggled at his childishness. Natsu looked at her and blushed in embarrassment. (Almost no one saw it because his head was in his scarf…Almost…You guessed it. D saw that!) D raised an eyebrow at him, for two very different reasons. A moment of silence passed before D spoke.

"What color do you think your hair is?" she suddenly asked catching everyone off guard. Natsu blinked, his blush disappearing, and pulled his face out of his scarf to look at her. No one had ever asked him that. Usually it was: 'Why did you dye your hair pink?' or 'Why is your hair pink?' There was even the occasional: 'Are you gay or something?' and 'What kind of man would dye his hair pink?' But never, not once, did anyone ask what color he thought his hair was.

"Salmon," he answered. D tossed him the chips. He gladly caught them and immediately ripped the bag open before beginning to shove them into his mouth. D sighed.

"Poor boy," she stated with pure pity in her voice. "Your hair is naturally pink, huh?" Natsu choked and looked at her in disbelief. "You must've gotten teased a lot, huh, Pinky?"

You mean like you're doing now? everyone but D and Natsu thought. Speaking of Natsu, he was flabbergasted. Was she actually pitying him for getting teased about his hair, while teasing him about his hair?! Gray, who had conveniently returned, with his clothes on, in time to hear D's contradictory statement, started laughing. Erza cleared her throat and launched into the introductions.

"This is Elfman," she began gesturing to the big guy with spiky, white hair. "He's Mirajane's, little brother."

"Man!" the boy (?) shouted. Lucy blinked while D simply watched with a bored expression.

"This is Juvia," Erza continued gesturing to the blue-haired girl.

"Juvia is happy to meet you," Juvia said with a bow.

Why is she speaking in 3rd person? Lucy wondered.

"And this is Jellal," Erza finished placing a hand on the boy with blue hair and the red tattoo down his face's arm with a smile. The boy looked at her and smiled before turning back to D. Erza's face had softened up considerably when she said Jellal's name.

"It's a pleasure to meet you," Jellal greeted with a kind smile.

"Am I correct in assuming you two are dating?" Lucy asked with a smile. Erza blushed and nodded.

"Well this has been nice," D interjected finally speaking up, "but class is about to start. So I suggest finding a seat before all the good ones are taken." D pointed at the empty seats that were currently being filled at an alarming rate for anyone who wanted to sit together in a large group. The group left D and Lucy in order to grab some seats. The seats near D and Lucy had filled to the point that only a few of them could hope to sit next to them. Lucy gave D a 'You-Did-Not-Just-Do-That' look. "What?" D asked innocently with a slight smirk.

"You did that on purpose," Lucy stated.

"What-so-ever could you mean?" D asked with a grin.

"You waited until there weren't enough seats for them to sit next to us before warning them about the seating issue," Lucy accused in a voice that showed she really didn't care that her cousin had done that. D shrugged.

"Maybe I did, maybe I didn't. We'll never know will we?" D stated calmly. Lucy sighed in defeat. She looked at the group that just left them.

"Well…they seemed like interesting people," Lucy commented. "What do you think?"

"They seem like the kind of people who shouldn't come in contact with me when I'm in DTTM mode," D answered, "especially Pinky and Stripper." That reminded Lucy of the conversation she had had with Mira and Erza before they left last night.

-FLASHBACK-

"Don't talk to her during school if you see her in the morning," Lucy stated suddenly. "She might kill you."

"What?!" Mira asked.

"Explain," Erza demanded.

"She's not a morning person," Lucy answered. "In fact, she's a demon in the morning. If you bug her she won't hesitate to hurt you. So if you have any friends that you know have a tendency to bug people, ask a lot of questions, or would do anything to annoy her, could you warn them before they meet her? Until at least 10:30 am, do not bug her. Do you know of anyone that needs to be warned?" Mira and Erza shared a knowing glance.

"Yeah," Erza stated.

"Pretty much every one of our friends," Mira answered.

"Especially Natsu and Gray," Erza finished. "We've got work to do," she stated taking out her phone and speed-walking out the door and down the corridor.

"Thanks for the meal! See you tomorrow!" Mira shouted running after the red-haired beauty. Lucy closed the door and sighed.

-END FLASHBACK-

"Now that you mention it," Lucy muttered. D looked at her. "Erza and Mira said the same thing when I asked if they knew anyone they needed to warn about your morning…evilness." D threw her head back and let out a bark of laughter.

"Then I was dead-on, huh?" she commented with a smirk. Lucy looked at her and smiled.

"Yeah I guess so," she said with a laugh before giving D a smirk. D looked at her cousin in curiosity. "Twenty bucks says you'll hit one of them by the end of school tomorrow." D raised an eyebrow.

"Reason?" she asked.

"They annoy you," Lucy answered. D nodded.

"I say fifty and the reason is because I wanna hit something or I just feel like it," D said. "Whichever reason happens first is the winner." Lucy smirked.

"First?" she questioned. D looked at her.

"Oh, come on, we both know I'll do both before the end of school tomorrow…we'd both win and lose if it wasn't this way," D stated.

"True," Lucy agreed.

"So it's a bet?" D asked. Lucy nodded and they shook hands.

"It's a bet," she agreed. They looked at each other for a moment and burst out laughing. It just seemed funny that no matter what…those boys were going to get hit.

"What do you suppose is so funny?" Gray asked Natsu, Levy, Mira, Laxus, Erza, Gajeel, Elfman, Juvia, and Jellal from their seats near the door.

"Juvia doesn't know," Juvia stated. Everyone else shrugged.

"I'm gonna go sit with Lu-chan," Levy suddenly decided getting up and moving back over to the two girls. Taking a seat next to Lucy, Levy began interrogating the girl about the books in her room and her favorite authors. D ignored the conversation and started watching something on her galaxy. This gained Laxus' attention. When D smirked while trying not to laugh, Laxus stood as well.

"I'm going to sit next to D," he declared before making his way over to the girl. When he was almost there D looked up and said:

"The Key of Awesome!" Laxus smiled and sat next to her pulling the chair as close as he could. D handed him a headphone and moved closer so the headphones wouldn't stretch. They both watched her galaxy, nodding their heads to some inaudible beat and laughing occasionally.

"What are you watching?" Lucy asked trying to peer over D's shoulder.

"Uh," D said shifting Lucy's attention to her while she turned her Galaxy's screen away so the girl couldn't see it, "don't be getting into my business. Get back to your book talk." D moved her hand in a shooing motion. Laxus reached around her copying the motion before they turned their attention back to the screen. Laxus kept his arm around D to help keep the screen out of sight. Lucy coughed to gain Laxus' attention before quickly raising her eyebrows twice. Laxus rolled his eyes and looked back at the screen, but not before he removed his arm from around D. Lucy laughed and turned back to Levy.

"What was that about, Lu-chan?" Levy asked. The girl had been quietly watching the exchange in curiosity.

"Nothing~," Lucy sang before asking Levy about her favorite mystery author successfully changing the subject.

"What the hell was that?" Gray asked.

"Gray-sama seems to have a lot of interest in those two," Juvia commented. There was an underlying tone of jealousy in her voice.

"I'm just curious because they're new," Gray responded. "Anyway, what do you think that was?"

"Do you think they like each other?" Mira, ever the match-maker, asked.

"They were at each other's throats before lunch," Gajeel reminded her. "D even threatened to poison him."

"But afterwards they seemed to have called a truce," Erza added. "What could have happened to make them act so close?"

"I don't know, but I did see them looking at that thing during lunch as well," Gajeel observed.

"Do you think it has something to do with it? That whatever they're looking at is what made them play nice?" Mira asked.

"Seems like it," Gajeel answered. "Now onto something more important…D…" he trailed off. This gained everyone's attention. There was a moment of silence. "Do you think we can get ourselves invited for dinner at her and Lucy's place?" Everyone nearly fell over in shock, except Mira, who giggled, and Erza, who nodded seriously. "I wanna eat her food again so bad."

"Lucy wasn't kidding when she said D 'makes the best food in the world. Period,'" Erza agreed.

"Is it really that good?" Natsu asked in excitement.

"Her strawberry cheesecake made Mira's seem amateur," Erza stated with a nod. Natsu, Gray, Juvia, and Jellal turned to Mira for conformation. Mira giggled and raised her hands in defeat.

"I can't compete with her," she consented. Their eyes went wide and they turned to D in shock.

"She said it was the first time she made it, but she didn't get any because she served us and Erza ate it all," Gajeel all but accused. Erza blushed and looked down. "Levy offered to give hers to D, but she said it was fine and started putting the leftovers away." Gajeel looked up. "Oh, how I would have loved to take those leftovers."

"D said she doesn't like strawberries," Erza muttered defending herself. "She said she'd make me a giant one since I liked it so much," She added with a smile.

"She seems nice," Natsu said with a grin.

"Yes, because threatening to poison someone is something a nice person would do," Gray stated. Natsu's face dropped. They all turned to look at D. As though feeling their gazes, D suddenly looked at them. "She wouldn't actually poison someone right?" As though to answer Gray's question, an evil grin spread itself across D's face sending shivers down the group's spines. D turned back to the screen after Laxus nudged her. They both laughed. "Yep," Gray decided, "she'd poison someone alright. No doubt about it." Everyone nodded.

"Poisoning is not manly!" Elfman suddenly interjected. Everyone had forgotten he was there.

"She's a woman," Mira corrected him.

"Speaking of which, Juvia would like to know why D is wearing the male uniform pants," Juvia wondered aloud.

"Did she not like the girl's uniform," Mira asked.

"My guess is she doesn't want to wear a skirt," Erza answered. Mira thought about it.

"You're probably right," she decided. Everyone nodded. Lisanna ran into the room a second before the bell rang.

"Lisanna!" Mira called. The girl saw her sister and smiled before walking over to her panting for breath.

"Hey Mira-nee," she greeted sitting next to the older white-haired girl.

"What took you so long?" Mira asked.

"You were almost late," Erza scolded her.

"I was looking for D and Lucy," Lisanna answered. "I wanted to ask them something."

"They're over there," Natsu stated pointing at where Lucy was talking to Levy, and D was laughing with Laxus. The look of annoyed disbelief that crossed Lisanna's face was enough to get everyone, even Erza, to laugh.

D and Laxus were watching parodies.

"Okay class! Let's get started!" the overly-excited Lyra called causing the class to fall silent. The video D and Laxus were currently watching made both of their eyes go wide before they burst out laughing. Everyone turned their attention to the pair. D fell sideways off her chair causing Laxus' ear-bud to come out, and Laxus fell forward because they were laughing so hard. The video itself wasn't so funny as to warrant such an extreme reaction, but it had caught them off guard. They couldn't help it. D managed to peel herself off the floor and leaned over her chair while laughing. Laxus braced his hand on his chair as the both of them recovered from their laughing episode. They both were just catching their breath when Lyra, suddenly in teacher-mode, cleared her throat. D and Laxus looked at her.

"Would you two mind sharing what's so funny?" she asked. D and Laxus looked at each other and shrugged before sitting down.

"Well," D began returning to her original posture from when she first sat down, "we were watching parodies. We were currently watching The Key of Awesome #6. It's a parody of Lady Gaga's song Bad Romance. Something in the video caught us off guard and caused us to laugh like that. Do you wanna hear it?" Lyra thought about it for a moment before nodding. D took her headphones out of her Galaxy and turned the volume up so everyone could hear it.

(This is the video:

watch?v=LWxTGJ3TK1U)

Lady Gaga:

Lady Gaga (Gaga)

Lord Gaga:

And Lord Gaga (Gaga)

Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga (Gaga)

Lord Gaga:

And Lord Gaga (Gaga)

Lady Gaga:

It's the future and everything is weird.

Check out this guy, he's got a metal beard.

I give good headache, I'll make you scream.

Is this reality or just a fever dream?

I like to jerk and twitch this is how I dance.

It's cold in here may I please put on some pants?

NOOO!

Lord:

Chic freak sista fierce work those bitchy gowns

Those were just some words that only gay men understand.

Lord and Lady:

Blah, blah, blah hoo, hoo he

Everybody look at me.

Random stuff random stuff

Tell me have you had enough?

Chorus:

If I love you and you love me, then baby how can we go wrong?

This chorus doesn't have anything to do with the rest of this song.

Lord:

Completely unrelated

Lady Gaga:

I'm Lady Gaga

Lord Gaga:

And I'm Lord Gaga

Lord and Lady:

Sometimes we like to sing like we are underwater.

Lord:

You think your weird girl, but I'm weirder than you.

Let me tell of the weird things that I like to do.

Yesterday I went to church and made out with a nun (Oh!)

Then I went up to the roof and stared into the sun. Ouch!

Lady:

That is pretty weird but I think I got you beat

I like to wear a bathing suits made out of raw meat.

Lord:

I put on a tuxedo before I go to bed

I send out birthday cards to people who are dead

Lady:

I like to eat billow pads that's how I got this voice.

Lord:*whispering*

Sometimes I like to cut myself but it's a fashion choice.

Lord and Lady:

If I love you and you love me, then baby how can we go wrong?

We're totally making this shit up, as we go along.

Lord:

I might have overdone it.

Everyone was laughing as the video ended, even Lyra.

"If you think that's funny, then you should see the actual video," Laxus commented.

"Well," Lyra said while giggling, "that was funny, but please, pay attention." D nodded and put her Galaxy away. "Now then, let's begin."