(How's it going everybody, now Negi and Dustin must further prove their worth as teachers otherwise they'll be out of jobs.)

One day Negi and Dustin were walking their way to class looking forward to today as Negi spoke, "Well Dustin the finals are under way I sure hope the girls will be prepared for them."

"Well half of them have been improving their grades, and despite how some are still slackers I have faith, besides it's not like their grades will be our downfall." Dustin chuckled as they entered the class.

"Morning senseis." The girls greeted.

"Good morning ladies." Negi greeted.

"Looking sharp as always." Dustin added.

"Today we shall prepare for finals and help you achieve passing grades." Negi began until they heard snoring.

They turned seeing it coming from Asuna who was zonked out. Dustin frowned reaching into his pocket pulling out a die and flicked it at Asuna's forehead bolting her up from her seat. "I'm up what's happening?" she asked groggily.

"Nice of you to join us for class today Asuna." Negi said as the girls laughed at her leaving her embarrassed.

Before the teachers could continue there was a knock at the door, "Come in." Dustin called.

The door opened revealing Shizuna, "Negi-kun, Dustin-kun, the dean asked me to give this to you." She handed them a letter.

"Thank you Shizuna-san." Negi said as he opened the letter and the boys read it with wide eyes.

Negi and Dustin, for your final test to become official teachers at Mahora, you boys must ensure that 2A is not the worst scoring class in placements this year.

'Oh boy.' Negi thought.

'Me and my big mouth.' Dustin thought.

"Senseis is something wrong?" Ayaka asked concerned.

"Yes Iincho everything's fine." Negi replied.

"But what's the letter sensei?" Fumika asked curiously.

"Your paychecks?" Sakurako asked hopefully.

"A letter of recommendation?" Haruna eyed mischievously.

"It's nothing you girls need to worry about." Negi replied.

"That's right; you just need to focus on preparations for your finals, and that includes you baka rangers." Dustin eyed the worse students.

By the end of the day Kaede, Mana, and Zazie were still out doing their club activities leaving the boys alone in Dustin's room, "So we gotta make sure the girls don't end up in last place." Dustin pondered.

"That's the way it is." Negi replied as he laid out the students rankings of 2A.

"Well, we do have some good shots with Chao and Satomi, then there's Ayaka, Kazumi, Konoka, and Nodoka, they'll help with our chances." Dustin explained.

"The rest of the class is about average and then there's the Baka rangers." Negi added.

"Even with their improved grades I still don't like the odds." Dustin said.

"I know, I'll use my magic to boost their intellects temporarily." Negi suggests.

"What?" Dustin gasped.

"It's perfect, it'll make them smart for twenty four hours, but the downside is they'll become dumb as doorknobs for a week." Negi explained.

"Negi I'm all for keeping this job but is the risk worth it?" Dustin asked.

"What do you mean?"

"I get you're suppose to learn and hone your magic, but if you keep using it like that aimlessly you'll learn nothing."

Negi pondered, "You're right I can't keep relying on my magic, and I know what to do to being tempted to use it." Dustin raised a brow as Negi held his staff up muttering in Latin as three ring tattoos appear on his arm.

"What'd you do?" Dustin asked.

"I've sealed off my own magic for three days, these rings represent the number of days I have without magic."

"And you actually did that?" Dustin asked.

"I didn't want to be tempted to use magic." Negi answered.

Dustin thought about it, "Hey think you can do that to my spirit energy?"

"Dustin?"

"Well I figured if you can use it as insurance to avoid temptation I feel like it could be for me too in case I need to use my spirit energy for temptation."

"Well not that you can use spirit energy to make the girls smarter, I suppose you could, just grab onto the ring tattoos on my arm." Negi explained.

So Dustin grasped the part of his friend's arm where the tattoo rings were and felt three magical rings form around his arm. Dustin held up his ring tattooed arm to Negi's, "So for the next three days we are normal humans."

"Yes now let's plan to help our students." Negi added.

Meanwhile Konoka was on her way to her grandfather's office until she heard voices inside belonging to her grandfather and Shizuna. "Don't you think it's too much of a challenge for the boys dean?"

"I admit it seems a little harsh, but if they can meet this challenge then they will be officially recognized as teachers." The old man explained.

"But if they fail in pulling their class out of last place they'll be sent home." Shizuna replied making Konoka gasp.

"I know, but I have faith in them." The Dean said as Konoka bolted.

Meanwhile in the bathhouse the girls were washing up until Konoka ran in draped in a towel, "Girls! Girls!"

"Konoka what's up?" Haruna asked.

"We got big trouble if our class comes in last place!"

This got just about every girl in the class crowing around wondering what would be so bad, "What do you mean Konoka?" Yue asked.

"Yeah what's the buzz?" Kazumi asked.

"Ok I overheard my grandfather talking with Shizuna-sensei about Negi-kun and Dustin-kun. If 2A doesn't come out of last place they'll both be fired!" she shrieked.

While some girls thought it was overreacting over half of them took her words to heart. They've been enjoying the two young professors ever since they arrived making learning more fun than Takahata made it, and the thought of the two being fired was too much for them to take, or some.

"So the brats get sent packing? This is like a dream come true, I'll finally have Takahata sensei back!" Asuna cheered stupidly happy until Ayaka grabbed a giant paddle.

"PADDLE!" she swatted it sending Asuna out of there.

"Why didn't they tell us any of this?" Makie asked confused.

"Maybe because they didn't wanna worry us." Konoka suggested.

"Well that sucks." Kazumi said.

"Yeah why should they pay price for our mistake?" Ku asked feeling it wasn't right.

"Agreed I'll have a talk with Dean Konoe." Ayaka was ready to leave but Sakurako blocked her.

"Iincho no, if you talk to their superiors it might get them in trouble."

"But…" Ayaka tried to protest until Mana spoke.

"Shiina-san's right Iincho, for this case we'll have to take matters into our own hands."

Yue stood up, "Then we got no choice but to use 'it'."

"It?" Ako asked.

"Rumor has it that in the depths of Library Island there is a magical book that if read will make you super smart." Yue explained while sipping a weird drink.

"Will it work?" Yuna asked curiously.

"It should, we just need to find it." Yue responded with a nod.

"Alright then, let's go to Library Island!" Ku called happily.

Kaede thought, 'It might be dangerous there, Negi and Dustin might be able to help us if something happens there.'

The very next night after explaining what they were planning on doing Negi and Dustin decided to come but still found it very hard to believe there was a magic book but nevertheless decided to join. Soon the Baka Rangers, Konoka, Sayo, and the senseis made their way to Library Island.

Yue started explaining the layout, "Library Island was built at the same time the academy was founded in the mid-Meiji Period, and is the largest library in the world. Books of all kind from around the globe are collected here. The library was extended underground as shelves grew in numbers."

Negi looked all around seeing so many shelves of books and looked astounded, "Very rapturous."

"Yes in fact no one truly knows how far it really goes," Yue said as they were using flashlights to light there way. "So to investigate this place further we formed the Library Exploration club."

"Very clever Yue," Dustin said and thought, 'If only you could use that kind of thinking to your studies.'

"This place is enormous, it's like a dungeon." Makie said looking around.

"Yeah and creepy." Sayo added.

Suddenly Yue's cell rang and she answered it, "Hello this is ground team!" Haruna said on the other line. As it turned out Haruna and Nodoka, were back at the dorms holding a map on their end to guide the explorers through the library.

"Yue here, we've just reached the third basement floor."

"Roger that keep going until the eleventh floor, then we'll guide you from there." Haruna responded.

"Understood stay in touch." Yue answered.

"Hmm, very interesting." Negi said pulling a Physics book from a shelf.

"Sensei!" Yue called as an arrow was launched right at Negi but was caught in midair by Kaede's hand.

"Close one huh?" Kaede asked snapping the arrow in half.

"Sorry but there are traps everywhere you know in case of thieves." Yue explained.

"WHAT?" Asuna, Makie, and Sayo cried in fright.

"What kind of library has booby traps?" Dustin asked.

"Well this is a famous library sensei, and this is forbidden grounds." Yue added as they continued on.

Dustin suddenly stepped on one tile causing more to cave in and he was about to fall into a pit, "Hold on Dustin-kun!" Makie called using her ribbon to catch his hand and pulled him back up.

"Makie you're a lifesaver." Dustin panted.

"No problem." Makie gave a peace sign as they continued on with Kaede walking with the boys.

"I don't understand why you two haven't been using your powers to avoid these traps?"

"Well Kaede…" Negi whispered into her ear and she froze.

"You two what?"

"We didn't want to resort to using any powers for helping you girls." Dustin explained.

Kaede thought, 'With them powerless there's no way they could survive down here.'

"Kaede!" Ku called, "come on or we'll leave you all behind!"

"Uh right coming de gozaru!" Kaede called as the three picked up the pace.

They continued on avoiding several more traps including falling books, and swinging maces, while Dustin was starting to think maybe losing this job wouldn't be all bad, but realized that he's never backed down from a challenge before and wasn't about to let this be his first failure.

Soon enough they were crawling through a narrow tunnel, "How much further?" Asuna asked as she crawled behind Kaede.

Yue who was leading answered, "Shouldn't be far now," She then saw a tile outlined signaling it was a secret entry, "There it should be right above."

So the tile was lifted up and they peaked through seeing a new room designed like a dark dungeon in some video game with two giant statues guarding a pedestal with a book on it. "We're here." Yue said.

"This room looks like something out of some kids video game when you reach the last level." Makei observed.

"I got a bad feeling about this place guys." Sayo said.

"Hey look-aru!" Ku pointed ahead to a book on the pedestal.

"Is that?" Kaede asked.

"Yup the legendary book of sorcery." Yue nodded.

"Amazing I've never seen such an object." Negi gasped in nostalgia.

"This is awesome." Dustin admitted.

"Come on let's go!" Asuna called as the girls raced to retrieve the book.

"Wait for me!" Makie cheered.

"Girls don't you know rare objects always have traps protecting it?" Dustin called.

As the boys tried to race after them the bridge connecting the two pieces of land opened and they all started falling until they landed on a stone mat with tiles on them with words. And the stone mat was titled 'English vocab Twister'.

"What the, a twister game?" Asuna asked.

Suddenly they heard a large laugh as one of the statues of a guard came to life and looked down on them, "If you desire this book, you will answer my questions."

"It's not really a statue, it's a golem." Negi deduced what it was.

"Thank you Captain Obvious." Dustin replied dryly.

The Golem spoke, "Question one, what is the Japanese word for 'Difficult'?"

"What, how do we do that?" Makie cried in fright.

Negi looked down at the board and realized, "Girls you must spell it out using the board."

"Easier said than done!" Asuna called.

"Don't worry it's…" Negi started but was interrupted by the Golem, "Tell them and they fail."

Negi thought of something else, "It's the opposite of 'easy'."

Makie started pondering, "Easy… The opposite of 'katan'.

Kaede got it and clicked on the tile, "Mu!" she called.

"Zu!" Makie clicked on another.

"I!" Asuna finished clicking on another.

"Muzui, correct!" The golem said, "Question two, 'cut'!"

About ten questions later the group looked as their bodies were all tangled due to it being like a game of twister, and were having difficulty trying to reach the other spots without moving their other body parts.

"Final question, what is 'dish' in Japanese?" the golem asked.

"I know Osara!" Asuna called hitting the 'O'

"Sa!" Ku got the tile.

"Ra!" Asuna and Makie called as they both hit the tile at the same time which turned out to be a big mistake.

"Osaru?" Dustin asked seeing that they spelt the Japanese word for Monkey.

"Incorrect!" The golem called, as he grabbed his mallet and slammed it down on the board. The group jumped clear away without getting hit.

However the smash ended up opening a hole in the ground and the group started falling in screaming.

Suddenly Asuna woke up seeing the sun shine down on her. "Ugh what?" she sat up seeing they were on some kind of beach area surrounded by water, trees, and bookshelves with books on them.

"Where are?" she looked around and spotted the boys and the girls lying down passed out, "Guys!" she rushed over waking the girls up.

"What happened?" Konoka asked until they saw their senseis.

"Negi-kun Dustin-kun!" Makie cried as the girls shook them awake.

"You guys ok?" Asuna asked.

"That was frightening." Negi shuddered.

"I never want to experience that again." Dustin answered.

"Thank goodness." Kaede felt relieved they weren't hurt.

Everyone looked all around, "Where are we now?" Asuna looked around.

Yue answered, "We're in the basement which is designed to give a feeling or warmth and serenity."

"Look at all the books," Negi looked around, "Must be like a readers paradise."

"If you want to call it that." Kaede said.

Yue then gave a sinister look, "It is said whoever lays eyes on this room will never again past beyond these walls."

This got the others scared until Makie asked, "Wait then how would you know about it?"

"Never mind that point is leaving here may very well be impossible." Yue said.

Ku jumped up, "But what do we do we have our final exams-aru!" she cried.

Yue motioned upward, "I'd say that was our point of entry, it's as good a start as any."

"Oh great anybody bring a giant ladder or a jetpack?" Makie asked in sarcasm.

Dustin and Negi sighed wishing they could fly now until Asuna turned to them, "Hey you guys are the profs what do we do?"

"It's dangerous to look about." Negi answered.

"He's right, our best bet is to wait for someone to find us." Dustin added.

Asuna looked outraged, "So that's it, well start packing your bags because you will be fired when we fail!"

Negi and Dustin gasped wondering how she knew about this and soon the other girls looked at them.

"It's true professor we heard all about it from Konoka." Makie explained.

"What?" Dustin asked.

"I overheard my grandfather talking about you two." Konoka replied.

"That's why we came here to help improve our IQ's, we don't wanna lose you as our professors." Yue added.

"Girls." Negi and Dustin gasped and turned to Asuna, "Even you Asuna?" Negi asked.

"Yeah whatever." Asuna looked away with a petit blush.

Kaede placed a hand on Negi's shoulder, "If we can pull our score out of last place we get to keep you as our teacher right?"

"That sums it up." Negi answered.

"The magic book it could help us." Makie added.

"No question it could help improve our scores, however it won't do us any good if we can't get out of here." Yue explained until her cell rang, "Yes?"

Haruna spoke from the other line, "Yue is everything all right we've been worried sick, you're going to give us wrinkles!"

"Sorry but we ran into some trouble, everyone's fine but we'll be late getting back." Yue explained.

Suddenly Negi's voice was heard, "Girls listen up we're sending Sayo back to you to explain the situation, and tell Mana and Zazie Dustin won't be back soon than he hoped."

"We'll do that sensei." Nodoka replied.

"Good, and remember you must be…prepared for…" Negi's voice was fizzing up.

"Sensei, are you ok?" Nodoka gasped until the tone went dead.

"It cut off." Yue said.

"What do we do now-aru?" Ku asked.

"Well one thing's for sure, Sayo get going." Negi ordered.

"I'm on it!" Sayo said flying through the roof and out of the library, "I can't let them down Negi-sensei and Dustin-sensei were the first teachers to have noticed me, and I won't lose any of them." She took off heading back for the dorms.

"So now what?" Dustin asked.

"It wouldn't hurt to start looking for the book." Makie suggested.

"Well the laws of physics say otherwise." Asuna said looking up at the hole in the roof.

"Girls let's not panic, we'll find a way out of here," Negi started, "I'm not sure how, but we have three days to find an exit. However don't forget the reason we came down here was for a chance to improve your grades."

The girls nodded, "Right three days should be plenty of time to get some work done." Asuna said.

"Can't we go swimming first, I'm filthy." Makie said.

Later back at the student lounge Sayo, Haruna, and Nodoka were with the rest of the students who just discovered some horrifying news concerning their teacher.

"What? Negi-sensei, Dustin-sensei, and the Bakas are trapped in Library Island?" Ayaka shouted.

"Yes, I'm so sorry we weren't prepared for what was actually down there." Sayo apologized.

"If they don't make it back in time we'll be pulled down at the bottom." Yuna gasped.

"And Negi-kun and Dustin-kun will be out of here." Ako added.

"But I don't want them to go." Fuka cried.

"Yeah they make learning fun." Fumika added.

The girls continued pondering on what to do until Nodoka spoke up, "Well we could all stop whining," She said getting their attention, "We're asking ourselves what can we do to help Negi-sensei and Dustin-sensei? The answer's the same as it's always been 'studying', we're supposed to be studying and yet we've haven't done enough. That's why they're risking their lives out there on Library Island, they wouldn't have to find some special book if we all had done as we were told. Are we willing to roll up our sleeves and do some hard work to save their jobs? I hope the answer is yes because we're the only ones who can."

This lecture ended up getting through to everyone and Ayaka replied, "Arigato Nodoka that was wonderfully put. And she's right for the next three days we need to study like never before! Negi and Dustin need out help and help is what they're gonna get!"

"Alright we're gonna study!" Sakurako cheered.

"Girls let's get busy!" Ayaka called.

This got all of the girls hyped up to study and were already making plans on what methods to use for study sessions. Nodoka was taking breaths knowing she'd never had made a speech like that in her life.

"Nodoka," Haruna got her friends attention, "Good job." She smiled giving her a thumbs up.

Nodoka smiled back and thought, 'Don't worry senseis we'll save you your job.'

Mana and Zazie walked off with Mana speaking, "Alright Zazie we got work to do, we're not letting Dustin lose his job this early."

Zazie nodded not wanting to lose Dustin either, since he became hers and Mana's dorm buddy he's been able to talk to her when Mana couldn't.

Meanwhile back in Library Island's basement the girls were swimming around in the waters wearing their school shirts Daisy Duke style. Negi and Dustin meanwhile were pondering about how to get out.

"Hey sensei come on, jump in!" Makie called.

"Yeah you two look as filthy as we do." Asuna added.

"No thanks, I'll pass." Negi replied.

"Suit yourself because you'll have to bathe when we get back. Me at least I'm not gonna let being stranded here ruin my hygiene," Dustin said throwing his shirt, socks, and shoes off, "Geronimo!" he jumped into the water and emerged shaking the water off his head, "Whoa it's cold!" he shivered making the girls chuckle and Negi giggled before looking up at where they fell from.

'Three days mine and Dustin's powers will return then maybe we can get the girls out of here. Until then we just have to make sure they study hard and pass with flying colors.'

(And that's the chapter, if they don't make it back in time the boys will be out of a job and sent back home. Will they succeed or fail don't miss next time.)