Chapter 8: Script

Going along with his older sister's suggestion of a play, Hakuryuu isn't sure that this is exactly what he'd call 'bonding.'

"I said, 'The Little Mermaid!'" Yamuraiha yells at her tanned friend.

"Who cares about some stupid fish woman turning to bubbles! My idea's way better than sappy love story between a fish and a man." Sharrkan argues back.

"Like anyone wants to see a play about stupid fights and sword play! No one's a sword obsessed freak like you!"

"I am not! And you aren't one to talk! You're always holed up in some room and working some magic mumbo jumbo!"

The blue haired magician and white haired swords master continue to argue over who's idea is better.

So far things haven't progressed any better if not things have just gotten worse.

Hakuryuu wonders what should he do to calm things down. He is their teacher after all.

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Now that he things about it. Didn't his younger cousins once told him that they never saw him as a teacher on his first day of teaching their class?

"Hakuryuu-sensei, are you alright?" Morgiana asks.

"Don't worry. I'm just fine..." Hakuryuu assures his red haired student.

However the monotone in Hakuryuu's voice wasn't convincing the finalist girl especially the distant look in her teacher's eyes.

"Then why are you crying?" Aladdin points out the streams of tears running down Hakuryuu's face.

"Are you hurt? Did someone bully you, Hakuryuu-sensei?" Alibaba asked concerned about his scarred teacher.

"In a way, yes..." Hakuryuu answered honestly still crying with that distant look on his face.

Having left her seat, Morgiana walks over to Hakuryuu and pats him on the leg since she's too small to reach his back.

"There, there..."

Hakuryuu kneels down to Morgiana's height although he's still taller than her.

"You're such a good, little girl. I know you'll grow up to be a strong woman like my sister." Hakuryuu gently rubs Morgiana's hair.

He was so glad to have such a nice student among his class of misfits.

"Hey, you stupid, ugly woman! What do you think you're doing seducing my Hakuryuu!" Judal flies over to Hakuryuu's side clinging onto his wife(?).

"Seducing?" Having absolutely no idea what the word meant, Morgiana has no clue as to how to respond to Judal's ridiculous declaration.

"Hakuryuu, don't go around getting all caught in some woman's wild charms! Your heart is only supposed to go all doki doki for me! Not some wild beast woman!" Judal glares at Morgiana as he clings onto Hakuryuu.

Hakuryuu really wants to tell Judal he's wrong about so many things. But knowing him, he won't listen at all or he'll just interpret it as usual.

"Hakuryuu..."

Hearing his name being called, Hakuryuu diverts his attention to the direction of the voice.

"Brother Hakuyuu wishes to speak to you about something important in his office."

The voice belonged to his older sister, Hakuei, who stood at the classroom entrance.

"Understood. Then Sister, may you watch over my students in the meantime." Hakuryuu asks his sister as he gently removes Judal's grip around his neck.

"Unfortunately, I have to attend to my students after this. I just finished my talk with Brother Hakuyuu so I can't leave them too long." Hakuei informs Hakuryuu.

"But Sister, you know that I can't leave them unsupervised for as little as a minute."

Hakuryuu makes a pained expression as he remembers that day he left his students alone for 15 minutes during their music lessons to get some drinks for his students as a reward for their hard work. By the time he returned, he found the class a mess. Not just the usual broken windows or scattered toys, it was much worse.

The room no longer resembled that of a classroom more like a barren wasteland.

The smell of burnt wood and charcoal still lingers in his mind.

The worst part was that they fought over who would get first pick at the drinks.

"It's only for a short while. They can think of what to do in the meantime. If it bothers you that much, then I'll bake some cookies for them. I'm sure they won't misbehave after one bite." Hakuei happily explains unaware of the terror of her cooking.

'I'm now more concerned about something else.' Hakuryuu hopes no one ends up with food poisoning by the time he returns. 'Well at least, that will get them to behave for awhile.'

Hakuryuu feels reassured after seeing the terrified looks on his students. For they too knew how horrendous Hakuei's cooking is. It's even infamous around the whole school. They felt especially bad for Hakuei's class as they could not escape the poisonous substance known as Hakuei's cooking. They probably guessed that was why the Kouga class's students had such tough bodies.

"I'll be gone for a short while, but I expect everyone to be on their best behavior while I'm away. And I better not see a classroom that looked like it was just nuked."

With that said, Hakuryuu makes his way to the principal's office accompanied by his sister whose class was in the same direction.

"Sister, do you know what Brother wants to discuss with me?" Hakuryuu asks Hakuei.

"Probably the same thing he told me." Hakuei answered.

"What did tell you?" Hakuryuu inquires.

"Not much just a letter from Uncle."

"Uncle!"

Before Hakuryuu could ask any further, they had reached Hakuei's class.

"You'll find out more when you see Brother Hakuyuu."

Hakuei tells Hakuryuu just before she leaves to tend to her students.

Leaving Hakuryuu left to ponder on her words, Hakuei closes the door to her classroom.

Hakuryuu wonders what his eldest brother could have to say to him. Was it about his class? Did they possible destroy private property outside of the school?

Oh well, he'll find out when he meets him.

'I wonder what Brother has to say...'

*sigh*

This day couldn't get any worse. Hakuryuu just hopes the classroom is in one piece. But if it's his students, he wouldn't be surprised if he found half of the classroom destroyed.

Might as well brace for the worst.

"Hey, let's include food too!" Aladdin suggested.

"I want a scene with lots of magic!" Yamuraiha added.

"Alright we got food and magic down." Jafar writes down.

This was surprising. Not only is the class just as how he left it when he went out but everyone is actually working together.

'This has got to be a hallucination. The stress must be finally getting to me.' That could be the only logical conclusion Hakuryuu could come up with.

"Hey Hakuryuu, what are you standing around for! You should be here helping us out with the play. We already chose what to do. All we need is the cast and the script. We're currently brainstorming for ideas to add." Judal's tugs on Hakuryuu's apron pulling inside the classroom.

Now Hakuryuu is certain that he had entered some alternative dimension. There was absolutely no way Judal of all people would actually cooperate with anyone. He's normally the one to start fights rather than go along with the flow.

"Judal..."

"Yes?"

"What's going on?"

"We're deciding what to add for the script."

"How did this happen?"

"Everyone had different ideas and didn't like the plays the others chose so they had us four magi gather and talk things out with each other. Then we came up with the idea of doing our own original play. Everyone cooperated after that and now we're deciding the what to add for the script. We asked Hakuei to write the script for us after we finished deciding what to add to the play. And when she hands us the script, we'll decide the cast on who plays which part. Once that's done, we'll be starting rehearsals immediately." Judal explained to a dumbstruck Hakuryuu.

"And you quietly cooperated with everyone?"

"Yeah..."

"You didn't argue or pick a fight?"

"No, why would I?"

"Alright..." Hakuryuu clears his throat. "Judal, please go to the infirmary."

"You find something wrong with me cooperating with everyone?!"

"It seems that the numerous of hits to the head finally got to you. I suggest a mental hospital if the school nurse can't fix it."

"My head is 120% fine!" Judal didn't see why Hakuryuu was saying such things. To make things worse, he wasn't even joking.

"That's 20% too much." Kouha retorts.

"Then it's only 20% fine while the rest is brain dead." Jafar added.

"I always thought it was 100% dead." Kassim commented.

"I understand that Judal's sudden cooperative nature may disturb you as that is only the normal reaction." Koumei continues on ignoring Judal's 'Shut it, Pimples!' remark on the side. "But I assure you that we had taken Judal's personality into account and made some adjustments to the play where he has nothing to complain about. In fact, it worked so well that he's all for it now."

"Should I ask what condition you made to get to cooperate?"

"I'm sure you wouldn't want to know until we start rehearsals."

"It's not anything rated R, is it?"

"Don't worry we're making it as child friendly as possible although I won't make any promises that there won't be any bloodshed."

Well that's good enough for him.

He's just satisfied to see his students working so hard on something together. It's rare for them to sit still without trying to kill each other even more so on agreeing with each other.

"So what play have you decided on?" Hakuryuu wonders what sort of play they chose especially considering the various opinions he heard previously.

"We're going with our own original play with all of the fairy tales combined together!" Alibaba answered all excited.

"Oh that's certainly interesting and original." Hakuryuu is glad to see his students getting along so well.

"Right!"

"What is your play about so far?" Hakuryuu couldn't help but be intrigued by what his students thought of together... On second thought, if it's them, he might have something to worry about. Exactly what sort of play did they collaborate with together...

"It's about a princess born with beautiful snow white skin."

'So they're using Snow White...' Hakuryuu doesn't see any wrong with that. He just hopes it stays like that.

"She has an evil, ugly stepmother who tries to kill her, but the assassin sent by the evil queen doesn't want to kill her so he let's her go. However she can never return back to her kingdom. And then she gets lost and finds a house with 7 tiny beds. Soon the owners come back. The owners are dwarves."

Hakuryuu quietly listens to Alibaba explaining

"The dwarves let the princess live with them after she tells them her circumstances."

"Let me guess one day the queen found out that she was alive and poisoned her with an apple until she woke up from a kiss by a prince." Hakuryuu found it cute that his students chose to perform Snow White.

"Wrong, Hakuryuu-sensei."

"Eh?" He was wrong?

"After they let Snow White live with them, they meet a boy and girl who live in a candy house! And... And they meet lots of other people too!"

"W-Well that sounds interesting. I can't wait to see you kids perform."

As long as they're happy and they don't do anything illegal, he's fine with it.

"What are you talking about Hakuryuu-sensei? You're in it too."

"Is that so... Wait, what?!" Last time Hakuryuu checked, his students were the ones performing.

"Yeah, you got the biggest role! You're the princess!"

"I'm the what?!"

He knew he was going to regret something after all.

Omake

While Hakuryuu was out with Hakuei, Sindria and Kou were having a heated discussion on what play they wanted to try out.

"How about we do some practice runs to see which ones are better?" Yunan suggested.

"That sounds like a good idea!" Aladdin agrees with Yunan.

"Aladdin, don't be tricked by that shady guy! Who knows what he's planning." Sinbad refutes. As usual, he can't get along with Yunan.

"How mean..." Yunan starts crying. "I was just trying to help everyone get along."

"Leaving Yunan aside, it is a good idea." Mu comments.

"And once we start acting we'll prove to all you losers that our's is way better." Judal smugly remarks purposely provoking the others.

And so war began.

First performance is Hansel and Gretal.

Hansel: Aladdin

Gretal: Alibaba

Witch: Morgiana

Having been abandoned by their father, Hansel and Gretal were left in the middle of the forest with no home. All they had was just a loaf of bread given to them by their father. So that they wouldn't get lost, they used their bread to make a trail of crumbs.

"Oh no, the animals ate our trail!" Alibaba/ Gretal yelled out. "How will we find our way now?"

"I don't know, but this bread is tasty." Aladdin/ Hansel responded with a mouth full of bread as he was eating the last of their bread.

"Aladdin, you're supposed to say 'Look there's a candy house over there!' And don't go out of character either!" Alibaba retorts.

Unfortunately, Aladdin paid no heed to Alibaba as the sight of the delicious gingerbread house had occupied most of Aladdin's attention. Aladdin drooled over the lovely gingerbread house decorated in candy and frosting.

"Ooo, candy!"

Aladdin runs over to where the candy house which was held in the hands of Morgiana/ the witch. Since they didn't have real life sized candy house, they had to use a substitute.

"Wait for me, Aladdin I mean Hansel!" Alibaba chases after Aladdin.

"Hello, I'm the witch of this house." Morgiana introduces herself.

"Wow, you made this house yourself! I didn't know you could cook this good, Mor!"

"Aladdin, you aren't supposed to use Morgiana's name. We're rehearsing." Alibaba reminds his friend that they were in the middle of performing Hansel and Gretal.

Not paying any mind to Alibaba's retort, Aladdin and Morgiana continue on doing their own thing.

"No, I didn't make it. Hakuryuu-sensei made it." Morgiana responds to Aladdin's remark.

"That explains why it's so pretty and tasty looking."

Neither of his two friends are following the story and continued on without taking in his feedback.

"Ne, can I eat it!" Aladdin asks his redheaded friend.

Morgiana nods as she didn't mind giving the gingerbread house to her friend.

And so without reservation, Aladdin proceeded to devour the gingerbread house as Morgiana just watched him eat her 'house.'

Alibaba really wasn't sure what to say but he definitely knew their play wasn't going to be picked.