Tales of Academy

Zane slid to a seat, "Zane Godfried."

cool.

what are we supposed to be doing .___.

kinda my first day here.

"ELEGANCE." Natalia growled. "And being late is not very elegant now is it?"

"Elegance in what," Zane said leaning back in his chair.

I'm sorry professor.

Didn't mean to offend...

"In current culture man believe that stoicism is the complete lack of emotions or emotional responses and tat all stoic character's are to reflect that philosophy. This is true to a degree but it is also a misconception." Adel sat in class and listened intently to the instructor's lecture. The instructor was a man named Kratos Aurion, a quiet yet strong voiced swordsman with redish brown hair. "The true appeal of stoic characters lies in the rare moments when they show their emotions. It carries more weight when a character who in a previous scene did not respond to a brutal raid on a village confronts a mad scientist with great emotion. Of course this all depends on how the character and scene are executed, but that goes without saying."

Adel diligently took notes as Kratos continued.

"ZZZzzzzz" Lucy snored loudly in her class. Fortunately for her, it was theme music class, so her snores were drowned out by the noise.

***

"Hmm...Cooking class..." Aaron walked in, behind a few other students, all of them looking around confused. "I should be good at this...But where's the professor?" Aaron sat down in a chair.

"POOF!! YOU FOUND ME!" The chair Aaron sat down on exploded into a cloud of dust, and a man in a chef's hat and spatula spear appeared. Aaron jumped 10 feet in the air, making a noise between a sheep being torn apart, and a hawk getting plucked. He hung to one of the light fixtures. His heart beat at superhuman speeds. "Now I shall teach you all one of my fabulous recipes!!"

Tears welled up in Aaron's eyes, clinging to the fixture. "O-o-on second thought....M-m-ma-aybe I should have taken something else..."

"Basic elegance. This is the first day of school after all." Natalia gracefully said.
"Today will be a mock scene of that point on the journey when the party has to meet with very important political members. Usually a King and Queen. Extra credit, can anyone list possible complications that would impede this?"

"An unruly party member!" a girl shouted

"Excellent. There tends to always be that one party member who cant seem to keep his or her act together long enough in the audience of royalty." Natalia said. "Theres something else."

"That one asshole who keeps trying to feed the king and queen bullshit about the group, their efforts and what they've done to get here!!!" Kenta shouted.

".........correct, but you must work on the brutish way you answered the question in the future." Natalia said.

"And how would I go about that?" Kenta asked seemingly into the class now.

"You would say "The scheming villain who is feeding the King and Queen lies about the efforts of the party just so their own schemes are not unveiled." Natalia said striking a pose, spreading her arms wide towards the class.

"Teacher.......whats with the pose?" a boy asked.

"Ah. Forgive me, its a habit I picked up from one of my idols, Tijou Sakane." Natalia said chuckling.

"......even her laugh..........." a girl said.

"Nice catch. Excellent." Natalia said. "For females, even their laugh can be elegant. The best way is to go with a simple "Fufu". Try it."

"Ah.......Foo Foo........" the girl said blushing.

"Practice exists for a reason." Natalia said smiling.

"Who laughs like that," Zane blurted out, "Sounds almost something a villian would do."

"Its nice to know somebody isn't listening. I said FEMALES." Natalia angrily retorted. "Whats your name anyways?" she asked pulling out her attendance sheet

"Zane Godfried," he said, "I am still pointing out that even from a female it sounds kinda evil."

It doesn't have to mean she's evil. It could just mean she's a tramp

"Exactly, nice to see someone here sees where I am coming from," Zane said.

Natalia snapped the pen that was in her hand in half.

"I'll have you know, theres a different laugh for........"tramps"." she said. "I cant recreate it correctly, but im sure a certain pointy eared teacher will do it at some point." she said. "Also, you two smartasses aren't even on the class roster! But then again you need elegance training so desperately that im willing to-"

The bell rang indicating class was over.

"I look forward to class tomorrow teacher. I was expecting this to blow but it was surprisingly fun!" Kenta said as he bowed.

"Ah. Well have a good day class." Natalia said as she plopped down into her chair. "Why did I listen to a suggestion from Jade of all people?" she said massaging her forehead.


"And now we have........lunch! Sweet!" he said as he ran down the hallway.

"Hold it." Rika said grabbing him by the arm. "Im going to stick around you. The textbook says i'll understand the value of human life more if I do."

"....what exactly is human life to you at the moment?" Kenta asked.

"cockroaches." Rika said with a smile.

"Eh?" Kenta said

"Its like a cockroach infestation. No matter how many of them you kill they just don't go away! So then I keep killing and killing and killing and-!"

"Ooooooooookay then I get it!" Kenta said. Why are the good looking ones always crazy?

"And I am out of here," Zane began to head for the door, "Maybe I can find a roster around here I can use to avoid the crazy teachers."

"Aha! Now you know how to make strawberry shortcake!" The Wonder Chef said, his hands on his hips, and his chest thrust outward. "Now, you all have your little baggie of ingredients too! Until next time, Farwell!" Another large poof and the teacher disappeared, leaving the class with the perplexed students.

"...As much as I love strawberry shortcakes...when are we ever gonna have the time to bake this in the field of battle...? And with what oven?" Aaron thought aloud.

*doesn't know what to do*

Guess I'll just walk around for now.

"Hey Meryl right," Zane said noticing their lost expression, "Are you lacking a schedule like me?"

Yeah. The flat chested lady in the main office forgot to give me one.

"Hah," Zane laughed at the similar situations, "I never ran into her since I arrived here so late, should probably try and track her down before we do anything else, what tier of schooling are you on."

"Alright." Kenta said sitting down with his plate of Mabo Curry. "Lets wait for Aaron and Lucy to show up before begining info exchange."

"Okay." Rika said poking at her food. "Why am I being subjected to inschool lunch?" she grumbled.

"It's gonna be worse on an adventure, unless somebody in the group can cook. Maybe-" Kenta started.

"Looks like its time to modify our schedules." Rika said laughing evily

"Er. Hello Kenta-sir!" Aaron sat down hesitantly with his bagged lunch. "How have your classes been?"

Madoras wrote:"Hah," Zane laughed at the similar situations, "I never ran into her since I arrived here so late, should probably try and track her down before we do anything else, what tier of schooling are you on."

Tier?

Wasara walks through the crowded lunch room. tch. noisy. forgot my lunch at home. just gotta get something to go and get out of this dump.

"Incoming!" someone shouts. A ball flies through the air and hits the head of a very large student knocking his face into his food. Everyone nearby scatters except Wasara. The big guy stands up angrily waving his bowl around his face covered in sauce.

"WHO THE HELL RUINED MY SPAGHETTI? NOW THERES CHOCOLATE PUDDING IN MY SPAGHETTI!" he shouts. "YOU!" he says noticing Wasara. "YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY?!"

With a disinterested look Wasara dips his finger into the bowl and tastes it.
"...I think it needs hot sauce."

"RRRRRRRRAAAAAAAW!" the big guy takes a swing at Wasara with a giant hammer. There is a flurry of movement and suddenly the big guy stops mid swing looking down the barrel of an ornate looking gun.

"I hate noisy people..." Wasara says coldly and looking totally badass as he pulls the trigger..... but the gun clicks empty.
"Ara?" Wasara pulls back his gun examining it and tapping it against the nearby table, as the big guy stares in confusion. Wasara points the gun at the big guy again.
Click. Click. Click. Click.
When nothing happens the big guy gets angry again.
"RRRAAAAA!"

CRACKOOOM! Suddenly a very large blast of lightning strikes the table that Wasara had tapped his gun on. The big guy drops his hammer in surprise and then runs away crying.

"Shit. Forgot I loaded that one ages ago." Wasara mutters to himself walking away. At first there are silent stares but a few seconds later the lunchroom is as noisy as ever.

Wasara buys some bread and then pulls some smudged pages from his pocket walking towards the exit. "I... call upon thee... in the... hand?...brand?...land of the dread?...no... dead, to untie? unbind? unleash?...." he reads while trying to hold his gun, the bread and the paper at the same time. "Dammit this isn't gonna work. Maybe an easier one... Fuck. How do you cast fireball again?" Looking up from his notes he notices Kenta and his group having lunch.

"Hey you." he says interrupting Kenta. "Scrawny dude like you just screams mage. Can I borrow your notes?"

"Your grade," Zane corrected himself, mentally slapping himself in the face, "Might actually see each other if our grades are close."