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Previously:

"Laugh all you want, bozos, but don't forget that smile you're so happy to see on your sister…I PUT IT THERE! So suck it up, because…now, you're guests, at Bear's den." Carl snarled.

"Well, at least he's accepting the entire 'Bear' thing." Gray shrugged and said.

Meredy gave a peal of infectious laughter and Gray joined in.

Carl just huffed and went back to moving stuff in. One of the men helping him came up to him and asked "Say, where do these zebra-print cushions go?"
"They're zebra-print cushions! They go everywhere!" Carl spat on the man.

Gray and Meredy looked at each other with faces which said clearly 'we-are-truly-guests-at-Bear's-den'.

Jellal was teaching his class biology. After that, he asked "Any questions? Guys, don't worry, I won't kill you if you have a doubt so please let me know if you have any queries."

No one replied; Cana was on her phone, Lyon was sitting with a bored expression on his face, Gray was creating a new character in his book. Basically, everyone was in their own world, except one. He was fidgeting continuously in his seat.

"Oh Gajeel! You had some problem understanding the food chain, am I right?" Jellal asked.

Gajeel stopped fidgeting and opened his mouth, but no words came out.

"Gajeel, are you having trauma?"

"Umm…no sir, I am not."

"Then why are you so tensed? Why don't we as a class put our heads together at this problem? Gray, are you listening?"

Gray was in some other world. He was creating another character, one inspired from his school. His current school.

She had wavy blue locks, deep blue eyes, and was dressed in a blue dress and cap, with boots to be envied. She had water coming out of her hands, and part of her body looked like it was made of water.

He was thinking of what to name her, when a voice interrupted him.

"Gray, why don't you come up and draw us a food chain?"

"Huh?" Gray asked with a puzzled expression.

"You're forever drawing in that diary, so why don't you come here and draw us a food chain on the board." Jellal asked with a dangerous smile.

"Uh…I'm sorry, but I work only with this kind of ink." Gray said clicking his pen.

"Um…that's not true…I have checked your homework, and it has been exclusively done in invisible ink. So, come up and draw us a food chain." Jellal said, with a smile very similar to that of someone who has won a battle.

Gray sighed in defeat and came out of his desk. He took the chalk from Jellal's hand and started drawing.

He drew the sun first and some grass.

"Okay, so the sun shines down on the grass. Then comes along a cow."
He drew a cow. It hopped towards the grass and sniffed it and said "Mm…delicious smell." And it started chewing it.

"Yeah…that's the first consumer. And the grass is the producer." Jellal added, looking very interested.

Then, Gray drew the cow receiving an invitation. "Moo…An invitation to a party!" The cow then hopped towards a factory smiling at him, which turns out to be a bacon factory which devours it and produces bacon burgers.

Then, Gray drew a boxer with white spiky hair, looking very similar to someone sitting behind him, who loved to kick his butt.

"Then, this guy comes along, and eats so many bacon burgers, that he bursts into all this…mess."
The boxer now looked like a pile of goo which many maggots seemed to be enjoying. "WOW! Bully bagels!"

"And that was the second consumer and those maggots, were they? Yeah, they are decomposers which decompose the goo into nutrients which are absorbed by the soil, thus helping the grass grow." Jellal explained.

Gray nodded and continued. "And then, the sun shines down again on the grass, and another cow comes along eating grass…" He drew a cow munching grass. "…and ends having the same invitation as the cow before him. And the food chain repeats itself." In the end the cow was going into the devious bacon factory which smiled innocently at it.

Gray then turned to face the class. All of them had awed expressions on their faces, including Jellal who looked impressed. Lyon, on the other hand, was shaking his fist in Gray's direction.

"That was good…really good! Thank you Gray and I hope you guys got your concepts cleared!" Jellal exclaimed.

The entire class clapped. Gajeel mouthed to Gray "Thanks."

"Anytime." Gray mouthed back.

Just then, the bell rang. It was time for lunch. The class poured out of the classroom. Except three people.

Lyon came up to Gray flexing his fists. Gray gulped.

"That was some drawing. But, now it's Lyon time. I could wallow your guts right here and now. Want a kick in the face, huh? That wasn't funny, the way you described me in the food chain." Lyon said menacingly.

"Well, go ahead." A new voice interrupted him. It was Jellal and stood right beside Gray. Lyon was paralysed in his tracks.

"W-what?" Lyon stammered.

"Go ahead. But I can tell you, it's physically impossible for you to kick Gray on the face from where you are standing. So come closer and do the deed." Jellal said with a smile that sent shivers down both Gray's as well as Lyon's back. Lyon stepped back.

"Y-yeah. W-whatever. Later, shit-buster."

Lyon scurried out of the class. Jellal heaved a sigh. "Bullies are such pussies, right?" Gray nodded and went out of the classroom to get his lunch.

"So, all I'm saying is Alzack, if Bisca wants some time to think over it, let her, okay? I'm experienced in all these things, having 5 girlfriends in your past helps a lot." Jellal explained to a blushing 14-year-old. He nodded back.

Suddenly, Jellal noticed Gray coming down the stairs of the floor of the hallway above.
"Oh, hey Gray! A word with you!" Jellal called out.

Gray turned and saw it was Jellal. "Yes, sir?" Gray asked.

"Don't call me that. I already feel old, and I ride an ancient car to top it all off even though I am 20." Jellal said with a groan.

Gray chuckled.

"That was some food chain back in class." Jellal complimented.

"Oh, it was nothing." Gray said humbly. They had started walking in the hallway and stopped near the trophy case.

"No, it was pretty much something. I wanted to ask you this: What's a bright chap like you doing in the class of remedials?"

Gray gulped. It was the same question one of his teachers asked him in his previous school before he got expelled. That time he had responded by spilling concentrated acid on his chemistry paper on purpose, and it had resulted in him getting expelled. The question he had refused to answer for the past eight months. The answer to it was the reason why he broke rules and got expelled.

"Um...these past few months have been tough for me. I lost my brother…" Gray said in a low voice, letting out all that he had been holding back these months.

Jellal gave a wistful smile and patted Gray's head. Gray continued. "Cancer…you see…and he was like my best friend…and things never have been the same for me after that…I lost my mind…I would lose it very easily and got expelled out of two schools…he was just 13, and…" Gray lost his voice for a moment. Jellal gave him a side hug and said "It's okay…even I have lost a good friend of mine…Simon he was called...so I know what you have been through…"

"After my mom passed away, he was the only bright light to cheer us all up. My older sister was too busy looking after us, and my younger sister was too young. After he was gone, all of us…" Gray stopped speaking. Keyes had chosen that moment to enter and make things worse.

"I see that the two of you are near the trophy case. I hope that you know what rule no: 34 is?"

Gray took a deep breath and said "No touching the trophy case?"

"Correct! I'm glad my code of conduct is knocking some good senses in you! And watch that attitude of yours, okay? The next thing that may be get destroyed is your track record of being expelled from 2 schools. It will become 3!" Keyes exclaimed and went away cackling.

Jellal and Gray had matching expressions on their faces. The expressions of utmost dislike.

At night, Gray and Natsu sneaked into the school. They had climbed on top of the trophy case and filled it with something liquid.

Then, Natsu started passing stuff to Gray. "Here you go. This beauty is my personal favorite!"

"I know. It's because it looks like a salamander that's why you like it! Idiot!"

"Forget about that!" Natsu said. He climbed onto the top of the trophy case. Gray did the same. He put the salamander-like-thing in the trophy case. "Somebody better update Wikipedia because dude, we're making history!"

"Yeah right!" Gray exclaimed.

After their job was done, they jumped down and fled home.

When school started, and Keyes entered the hallway, he was surprised to see students grinning at him and laughing. They were also on that annoying thing called mobiles.

When he reached the main hallway, everything was explained.

The trophy case was filled different kinds of fish and water. The one which looked like a salamander roamed swam around the biggest trophy.

Keyes let out a roar of anger. "Taurus!"

"Yes, sir?" Taurus said. When he took one look at the trophy case, he said "Whoever did this, was in love with fishes!"

"You fool! That person behind all this business is in love with breaking rules! Get a net now!"

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~Tia