Slayers Fan Fiction ❯ Another chance ❯ A question of pride ( Chapter 10 )

Another chance

By: Dark fire angel

DFA: I'm back!! I've got inspiration! ^0^ *Dances around the room while Val sweatdrops* I didn't take that long for me to update, now has it? *Waits for Val to make a sarcastic comment, but he doesn't* Val-chan? Hey, Val-chan!!

Val: -.- *Holds up a sign at DFA* [Sorry, Angel-san, but I'm not talking to you. I'm on strike till you do a fic in which I have the leading role….]

DFA: *Sweatdrop* But Val-chaaaaaaan!!

Val: >.> *Holds another sign* [Angel-san, you've got lots of fics you should be updating, not to mention fanart, so what are you still doing here?]

DFA: O.o True!! *Runs off to finish said things*

Val: *Smirks and throws away his signs* It seems I'm in charge now!!! Mua ha ha ha ha!!!! I'll change this fic so that I have the leading role!!!!

Filia: *Teleports in and glares at Val* You'll do nothing of the sort, Valteria Ul Copt!! *Grabs him by his clothes and drags him away*

Val: *Sweatdrops and goes back to holding a sign* [No fair…. Angel-san doesn't own the Slayers and I can get the leading role!! T-T So unfair….]

~ - ~ - ~ - ~ - ~ ( Class time!! How about Chemistry? I hate chemical equations! ^-^)

A little time after Mitsy and Filia had seated in their shared table, Xellos opened the class room door and sleepily walked over to his own desk which was situated directly in front of the girls' one.

"…. Mmmm," was all he managed to say as he plopped down and let his head rest on the hard surface, closing his eyes completely, "Stupid egg…. If it hadn't been for the fact that our grade depended on the fact that it had to come back in one whole piece, then I would blasted it to bits!" growled the ex-mazoku as he used his arms to cover his face up.

Filia stared at the little white egg that lay on her table and sweatdroped, "Come on Xel-kun," she said as she poked his back, "You should stay awake. Chemistry is about to start, for Cepheid's sake!" she continued to poke till the purple haired boy, raised his head from the desk to faintly glare at her.

"Yeah well, easy for you to say, Fi-chan…. When you came to my house yesterday after having had a sleepless night, you used my bed to recover yourself!!" he waved his arms, voice barely above a whispered hiss, "And I don't see a bed for me to use here!!! Damn stupid egg!!"

The sound of the door opening again gained both the ex-dragon's and the ex-mazoku's attention as they watched their tutor walk merrily in, holding the box where the waling eggs had been two days ago, "Well well," he said as he sat said box on his desk, "Before we start Chemistry, I'll pick up each group's egg to examine later." This said, he called up group by group to his desk and recollected egg by egg. Fi and Xel where last to be called up and they handed Lil whilst glaring daggers at egg and tutor, then turned and returned to their respective seats.

Chemistry went on smoothly for everyone…. Or almost everyone, though the blond as she sweatdroped at her old companion who was trying his very best to not let his eyelids fall, but failing miserably ending up half asleep. Up to a point, that he didn't even notice when the teacher called for him to solve the equation that was written on the black board.

"Xellos!! Xellos, wake up!!" hissed Filia from behind, only to be rewarded with a half hearted moan of protest from the purple haired boy, "Damn it, Xellos!! The teacher's asking you to go to the front!! Get up, you lazy mazoku!!"

That last phrase seemed to make Xellos snap out of it, "I'm not a mazoku anymore, Fi-chan!!!" he yelled at her as he twitched, "Got it?! I'm NOT a mazoku!!" he glared through his sleepiness at her, oblivious to the fact that the rest of the pupils, not to mention the teacher, were all sweatdroping and staring in disbelief at the sudden outburst.

"I'm glad you're not a…. mazoku, Xellos," said the teacher when he regained control, "Now will you please come up here and balance this equation if it's not much trouble?"

The poor boy turned towards his teacher and blinked, "I…. err…. Yeah, sure!" he said with fake cheerfulness as he walked up to the black board, only to stare at the chemical symbols and number dizzily, `Stupid numbers and letters,' he thought to himself, `They won't stop moving around,' straining his sight all he could, he used his piece of chalk to write on the board. Once he finished writing, he turned towards the teacher and smiled.

"I'm, afraid…. That the answer is not correct, Xellos," said the tutor as he shook his head, "Pick someone from the class to help you out if you want."

At this, the ex-mazoku smirked, "Sure!" he turned towards the class and stared directly at Filia, who was trying her best to pass unnoticed for once, "I think I'll choose Fi-chan," he said brightly, forgetting the sleepiness he was feeling for a moment as he watched the blond give a little sigh and walk towards him.

"Watch and learn, lil mazoku," she whispered as she snatched the chalk from him, solving the intricate equation in seconds, "Poor, poor Xel-chan is too sleepy to do a petite equation?" she whispered again as she winked an eye at him and tossed back to chalk she had used.

Xellos shook his head in defeat for once as they both walked back to their seats, "Yare yare, Fi-chan…." He whispered to her as the reached the desks, "You can't expect me to be able to answer back at the moment being, ne? You'll have to wait till I feel awake for our little game to continue, ok?" and with that, he plopped down again to continue his half-sleep as Filia shrug and smiled from behind.

~ - ~ - ~ - ~ - ~ (Later on during the day English class ^0^)

It took poor Xel quite a while to be able to keep awake and forget about his sleepiness, but anyhow, by that afternoon in English class, he felt good enough to even participate and answer when the teacher asked a question. However, that afternoon their teacher had decided that the students would do a written exercise, and is how Filia found herself bent over a blank piece of paper, trying desperately to find a way to arrange some words so that they would look like a poem…. But was failing miserably.

`Damn it!' she thought to herself as she ordered her pen to move around the page, `Why a poem? Why not an essay? I can't think up anything!!!' she took the opportunity to stare at the ex-mazoku sitting in front of her, only to see him happily writing, with no problem what so ever, `This is so unfair! How come he can think up a poem and I can't?'

The blond shifted from her stare-and-glare-at-the-piece-of-paper plan to her stare-and-glare-at-the-mazoku's-back plan, still trying to make the words she had around her brain form something that could resemble a poem…

"Filia?" the teacher's voice made poor Fi jump in her seat, and she turned to find that the teacher had decided to peek over her shoulder to see how her work was going, "Filia, you better get to work, for I will like you to read your poem to the class later on…"

"What?!" asked the blond as her eyes went wide, "But sir!! I can't think up anything!!" she wailed, "Don't make me read out loud!!"

Another voice made Filia turn, "My, my… seems that the poor dragon has forgotten how to do a poem, while the mazoku still knows ne?" Xellos was smirking at her from his seat as he continued, "It seems that I WAS better than you, even at something as simple as doing a poem!" he was rewarded when his target girl twitched visibly, growled in a low voice and began writing on her piece of paper at Mac2 speed.

"…." Was all that the poor teacher was able to say as he shook his head and went back to patrolling the classroom, sweatdroping a little at what he had seen.

And so came the moment when Filia proudly stepped up to the front to read, taking her time to glare at a smiling Xellos before she coughed and began read, "Come and join me, I'll take you far away from those nightmares," she said, eyes fixed on her piece of paper, "Our love will never feel fear again, we will fly together once again."

The rest of the students blinked, the blonde's piece didn't sound like a poem, and still, it had something to it…. Maybe her voice? They weren't sure, but it had something.

"I've walked so many miles without you, and finally our roads cross again," she said, voice low but full of feeling, "I'll be a kid who forgot to grow and I'll dances with you once more…. Who knows? Maybe I'll be able to shout those words I couldn't even whisper before," by now, even though Filia herself didn't notice it, she smiled, reading from her paper still, "Will find a light that will be able to illuminate a world that will be small compared to our love!"

The teacher smiled, he knew that his student would not let him down, that was why he had wanted her to read her poem out loud. `Yeah, well,' he thought as he watched Filia continue, `It doesn't rime, but…. I think that piece of writing is beautiful enough to rime with words that can't be thought up if not by the heart.'

Oblivious to her surroundings, the ex-dragon kept on reading, "I will keep on dreaming about yesterday, in hopes of being the one I used to be long ago, so…. Come and join me, I'll take you far away from those nightmares," she raised her sight from the paper and began reciting by heart, "Our love will never feel fear again, take my hand for there is always a reason to smile…. Will you find that reason by my side?" her smile never left her face as she closed her eyes and finished off her piece, "Come and join me, I'll take you far away from those nightmares, and together, will shall fly…."

The moment Filia finished, she bowed and returned to her seat, a smile of triumph on her face when she noticed Xellos had his eyes open and was blinking in disbelief, "Serves you right, Xel-KUN!" she hissed under her breath to him as she seated, "Next time you will keep your mouth shut!!"

However, instead of wincing under her triumph, the purple haired boy closed his eyes once more and chuckled quietly, "Actually, two can play that game, Fi-chan," he whispered as he raised from his seat and went to the front, "May I read my poem too?" asked the ex-mazoku sweetly at the teacher, who nodded and smiled.

"Wait till after patio, Xellos, when we all come in, ok?" and with that, the class was dismissed for a while….

DFA: *Turns into a lil blue kitty and smiles* Miu, miau miu!! MEW miu…. *Translation- Well, I'm going!! HOT here…* *Runs off to the swimming pool even though she's a kitty now O.o*