Ghara reclined at the table, letting Naga slid across his arm and onto the table. Having been used to carrying him around forever, he hadn't left the little corn snake in the room with the others.

"Are not," Rouge contradicted firmly.

"Am too," Ghara shot her a smirk. "Ladies flock to me. They can't resist me"

"I haven't seen a single lady look at you," Rouge rolled her eyes.

"Neither have I," Cloud added.

Ghara started to protest, then Cloud's remark processed fully and he gave her a long look. Rojo snorted, almost choking on his sip of soda.

"Good one, Cloud," Rouge laughed.

Ghara looked around, "Oh see her? The cutie in the red skirt. She can't take her eyes off me."

Rouge glanced over at the other table, "Well…"

"She's coming over," Ghara puffed up. "Watch this."

"Oh I'm watching," Rouge rolled her eyes.

"Hey…" Ghara turned to the girl with a suave smile

"Oh my goodness you are so beautiful, what's your name?" the girl gushed.

"Ghara Mizuchi," he said, ignoring Rouge's sudden outburst of laughter. "And what's yours, lovely?"

"Oh," the girl looked up. "I was talking to your snake. He is your snake, right? May I pick him up?"

Ghara's mouth fell open and the rest of the team nearly fell off their seats laughing.

"I'm going to go check on Mochi, do you want to come?" Moegi asked Cally when Sakura left the table to say hello to another team's pet.

"Sure!" Cally bounded up. "Last one there is a rotten egg!"

Jazpeer opened his mouth, but snapped it shut as the two disappeared from the table in the blink of an eye. He glanced down at his half empty lunch plate. He didn't feel like eating much, especially before a combat class. He definitely didn't want to end up retching on the floor from heat or over working.

He glanced over to where Sakura was, admiring a snake. His eyes narrowed as he noticed the team laughing, but it seemed to be pointed at their scowling companion and not Sakura. Watching for a while, he glanced up at a clock. They still had fifteen minutes before class.

Sliding off the bench he took his lunch tray over to the trash.

Sakura gave the snake back, noticing the strange reactions of that team. Had she done or said something wrong? Oh well. Their table was empty when she returned and she looked around for the others. Cally and Moegi were nowhere in sight, but Jazpeer was trying to find a trashcan not too far away.

"Hey," a girl slid into the seat next to her.

"Hi," Sakura turned shyly towards her.

"I saw you over there," the girl jerked her head towards the table where she had seen the snake. "I'm Galena by the way."

"Sakura," she nodded, gulping down a breath.

"Were you talking to that snake?" Galena asked, something sparkling in her eye.

"Yes," Sakura nodded, hoping that Galena wouldn't think she was weird.

"Can they understand you?" Galena's eyes widened.

"Yes, it's my semblance you see…" Sakura explained.

"Hey," Galena pushed her shoulder. "There is this dog that craps all over my family's lawn. Think you can convince it to go drown itself in a lake?"

Sakura's face fell and she scrambled to her feet, "I would never!"

Galena stood up, "Hey, there are a bunch of idiotic faunas hanging around here. Can you talk to them too? Ooh even better, can you control them? Make them wriggle their tails? Make them do your command? You know what I would like is for you to convince every faunas to go shoot themselves and end our misery."

Sakura backed away, almost tripping as her skirt caught on the bench, She tugged it free, but backed into the chest of a tall dark-haired student. He laughed and whirled her around to face Galena again.

"I wonder what goes on in their animal brains?" Galena smiled cruelly. "Are faunas more human or animal? Wait. Don't answer that, I know. Tell me what they think, little girl."

"Stop!" Sakura said, tears forming in her eyes. "It's not right!"

"It's not right to call animals animals?" Galena snorted.

"Faunas aren't animals, they are living beings just like you and me," Sakura clenched her fists.

"No they aren't," Galena pushed her back into her teammate, Navajo.

Sakura looked around desperately. All the teams with Faunas had left for class and the remaining students stared, some with smiles others with a compassionate but unhelpful look. She was surrounded.

"Leave her alone."

Galena's eyes and cruel smile turned from her up to Jazpeer's serious face. A sigh of relief shuddered through her. She didn't know how to respond to this sort of attack. Weapons, she could handle, but she hadn't been prepared for an attack of words.

"What are you going to do if I don't?" Galena look Jazpeer up and down. "Fight me?"

"If it comes down to it," Jazpeer stepped between Galena and Sakura.

"Go on then, pretty boy," Galena sniffed. "Because I mean what I said."

"I don't throw the first punch," Jazpeer glanced around at the other three members of her team.

"Fine," Galena smiled, leaning in close.

Her fist contacted with his middle and he doubled over. "Glad to see you like letting ladies go first. Keep living by that rule, pretty boy. It will get you beaten up by the best."

Jazpeer grabbed her hand and straightened, twisting her arm around her and throwing her against the table. Her teammates cursed, rushing over to her and helping her stand. She stood up and brushed them away, rolling her shoulder.

"You're going to pay for that," she snarled.

"Maybe," Jazpeer stood beside Sakura, who had recomposed herself and was angry. "Next time you want a person to stay down, hit them in the solar plexis. And maybe hit the gym a little more often, that was a weak blow."

Galena turned a fiery red and she glared at them, "Four against two, isn't hard."

"But four against four isn't," Cally looked serious as she wound her way over to stand on the other side of Jazpeer.

Moegi stood by her side, their weapons already in hand, having picked them up from the lockers on the way back.

A loud bell screamed from the ceiling, a last reminder for everyone to return to class. Galena hesitated at the additional numbers of her foes then straightened, sniffing snobbishly.

"Later," she smiled. "I don't have time to whip your butts."

Cally huffed a little laugh, "I look forward to it. Don't leave me out!"

"Come on," Jazpeer motioned to his team. "We have to get to class."

Team Galena looked triumphant as Team Jasmine backed away first, walking through the empty lunchroom and through double doors that led outside.

Hehe so I got a sudden burst of inspiration. I was going to do Lunch, Combat, and Semblance together, but not Lunch has a chapter to itself. Enjoy!