Tales of Academy

"I get my beauty rest when I can." She flicked her hair back.

"Oww...." Aaron groaned, rubbing his back, moaning as he approached.

"I see." Adel said, "Well then I'd best be off." He then took off for his next class.

"Toodles." She waved. "Hmm...He may be a hard sell." She folded her arms. "...I'll manage."

"M-miss Lucy, what do you mean? A-are you planning mal-intent things?" Aaron protested.

"...." Lucy stared at Aaron. Her eye twitched.
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"THERE. NOW KEEP QUIET TWIRP!" Lucy slammed the locker door on a horrified, bound and gagged Aaron. She clapped her hands, ignoring the muffled cries for help.

"Hah." Kenta exhaled as he scribbled in his tome. "When's this end?" he asked Kratos.

"Whenever." he said crossing his arms. "If you do not desire to be here, I will not stop you from excusing yourself." he said as Kenta quietly left the room. I'll have to talk to the staff about this later.



"Ehehehehehe." Rika giggled as she gathered her materials. "We need to grind!" she happily said. "It'll be so much fun watching everyone writhe in pain from taking damage~" she said skipping down the hallway

Adel tilted his head and raised an eyebrow a the scene in front of him. The entire class had been silent waiting for the teacher, a man with long brown hair and glasses wearing a labcoat, to speak. Ten minutes had gone by but he had not said anything. No roll call, no introduction, nothing. Finally one student had enough and snapped, "I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! SAY SOMETHING ALREADY!"

"Hm? Is something wrong?" the teacher asked unfazed by the student's frantic tone.

"YES SOMETHING'S WRONG," the student shot back, "YOU'VE BARELY SAID TWO WORDS SINCE CLASS STARTED! YOU HAVEN'T EVEN INTRODUCED YOURSELF OR SAID WHAT CLASS THIS IS!"

"Oh is that it? I see," the teacher said in a way that made it unclear if he was serious or joking before writing on the chalkboard, "well then, my name is Jade Curtis, and this is..." He suddenly stopped writing and gave a pained expression.

"...Well?"

"It's nothing." The class fell over in their seats.

What kind of class am I in? Adel thought as he sat back up.

"Well now that the demonstration is over, let's begin the class. This is 'Witholding Vital Information 101.' As I said my name is Jade Curtis and this class will teach you the subtle art of keeping secrets from your party. Now if I could get some volunteers to pass out these syllabi," A few students raised their hand, "Yes, you three." The students stepped forward and recieved the papers. They happily walked accross the room and passed out papers and once the final sheet was passed out Jade immediately said, "You fail."

"EH?"

"It should have been obvious. This class is about hiding information so how can you expect to pass when you so easily give out information?"

"..." He's joking...isn't he? The class all thought in unison.

"Adelllllllllllllllllll~" Rika sang as she swung open the door to Jade's class. "We need to go-" she started till she glared at Jade.

"Yes?" Jade said giving an odd smile.

"Nothing." she said grabbing Adel and pulling him out of class.

"Ahhhh. You would most definitely pass this class." Jade said with a chuckle.

"W-wait! What's going on?" asked Adel as he was pulled through the hallway.

"Training! We gotta train for later today!" she said happily while humming

Adel asked in surprise, "Now? But class is still-"

"Mine got canceled. A last boss showed up and tried brainwashing the class. Im sure the teachers are gonna cancel the rest of class for the students' saftey!" she said while still dragging Adel

"Eh? What are you two doing?" Lucy asked as she waltzed past Adel and Rika.

"That special thing adolescent boys and girls enjoy doing together~" she said with a wink

"We are not!" shouted Adel rather quickly.

"...If it were anyone else, I might have believed you Rika. ....Then again, he probably wouldn't get to do it with anyone else on the first day." She shrugged.

"Whaaaat? Theres always training segments in the shonen comics tve seen." Rika whined. "You coulnd possibly have been thinking........y'know?" giving Adel an creepy look. ".......You hear something banging on a locker?"

Adel blushed and turned away from Rika, "O-of course not. Anyway could you please let go of me?"

"...Here. I'll save you Adel. Hoy, Rika, your boy toy is bound and gagged in the locker. Show him a good time." She said, pointing with her thumb where she shoved Aaron in.

"Hmmm......I dunno......two is always better than one." she said as she opened the locker while still clinging to Adel. "Hi hi~" she sang to Aaron

"Mmmphg?!"Aaron stared wide eyed, struggling back and forth.

"...Well, maybe I want Adel." Lucy said, grabbing his other arm and tugging. "It's not fair that you get two. And I left you quite an offering."

"Fiiiiine." she said letting go of Adel. "You look like you could use some help Aaron~" she said kneeling down in front of him

"Um, don't I get a say in this?" asked Adel weakly.

"If you're a man you'd assert yourself." Rika said untying Aaron, and then proceeding to smother his face

"What was that? Are you saying I'm-" Adel stopped himself and took a deep breath, "No. Sorry, you're right. I should speak up in moments like this. All of you, from what I understand a teacher from Miss Rika the villain's campus has infiltrated the school. Not only that but it was a Final Boss. Due to this turn of events later classes will most likely be called off. Miss Rika believes we should use the time we would be in class to train with the others. Am I correct so far?"

"Mmhm." Rika said getting serious. "We should find Kenta and those little girls. And their lazy brother, they'll be of good help. Worse than that, what if boss brought minions with her?" she asked worried. "Well! Thats what we have healer aaron here for right!?"

"...Not if you suffocate him in your bosom." Lucy said. She looked down seeing that she was still holding onto Adel's hand. "...." She let go of his hand.

"MPH!" Aaron's stuggles were getting frailer as his face was turning blue.