The Substitute

By Hyperion

Disclaimer: I do not own FFX or DBZ.

A/N: This is my first FFX fic, so the character might be OOC, but hopefully it should be funny. Also this idea came up when I was talking with my friend Hime Maxwell. Actually it seems that most of the ideas for my fan fics come from conversations with her. I'm gonna shut up now. On with the story.

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It was a typical day at RBHS. Which usually meant very boring. I had already been through a geometry class that was half-rant & half-teaching. Well actually, it was more rant than teaching but entertaining

none-the-less. The main highlight so far in the day was at lunch when I saw my fellow fan fic authoress Megami Merquise. We talked about what happened during her trig. class, which was right after mine, where she and Hime had fun teasing the teacher. Typical.

After a spastic lunch, I saw my friend Hime during the between-class periods. I asked her if she had done her English homework. I hadn't done mine yet (which was typical). Usually I did it the class period before English. But it all counted on luck. And while luck is usually with me, today it had abandoned me completely. Which meant that I couldn't finish my homework. So I was really screwed and Mr. Hawthorn (our English teacher) would have a fit when he found out.

As I walked through the English door, Hime immediately asked me if I had done my homework or not. When I told her I didn't, she immediately started laughing her ass off. I was about to start ranting at her when I realized that Mr. Hawthorn wasn't at his desk. Usually if he wasn't at his desk when I came in, her would be right on m heels as I came through the door.

"Hey Hime, Where's Hawthorn?" I asked.

"Ya know what, I don't know." She answered. The two of us immediately started to ask the other students where he was. The teacher that was in the room before our class realized that we were asking about Mr. Hawthorn.

"Hey, didn't he tell you?" She asked us.

"Tell us what?" We both asked almost at the same time.

"He was going to some English seminar somewhere and that you guys have a sub."

"Cool!" Hime shrieked.

"I hope we don't have that one sub from hell. I hated him!" I said.

"Yea, he was such an ass."

"I wonder who our sub will be if it isn't him?" I wondered.

"I don't know, but we better get into our seats before the bell rings and the sub come in." Hime pointed out. The bell rang as soon as she finished.

"Damn it!" I exclaimed. Hime looked at me and laughed as she went to her seat. Everybody else went to their seats and waited, wondering where the sub was. I felt so sorry for Hime. She was stuck by three very moronic guys, Jason and 2 of his friends. Those three were so moronic it was pathetic. There was a line that Vejiita had said during an episode of DBZ about another moron. It fit Jason perfectly. The line was something like "His ignorance is painful." It was so true. They were always bugging her about different things that they had no business bugging her about.

Out in the hall there was suddenly an argument. It ended as abruptly as it started. Most of the class stopped what they were doing to listen, but the words were muffled so you really couldn't understand what the argument was about. I heard a voice that sounded familiar, but I dismissed it as a figment of my bored imagination. When the argument ended, everybody went back to what they were doing. In Hime's case, she looked like she was about to tear something and/or somebody to shreds when the sub finally walked. It had been only been about 5 min. after the bell rang when he walked in so the class wasn't too rowdy. It was still pretty loud but as soon as he walked in everybody went silent, even Jason shut up (miracles do happen). I had been trying not to laugh at Hime's situation when I realized that everything was quiet. I looked at Hime to see what was up and was surprised to see that she looked like she was ready to either faint (which wouldn't happen) or start yelling. I looked around to see what was wrong when I really *looked* at our sub. I almost had a heart attack. The man standing in front of the class was so familiar.

The first thing that I noticed was his long scarlet coat, the wide belt, and the jug hanging on his right hip. As my eyes traveled up to his face, I saw one of his arms in the sleeve and the other tucked against his stomach. I finally got to his face, most of which was hidden by the tall collar. He had only one bronze-colored eye, the other was shut by a long scar traveling from the top of his forehead, across his right eye and down to about his jaw. The last thing that only confirmed what I had already guessed, was the dark sunglasses and the dark graying hair.

'Holy Shit!' I thought to myself 'What the hell is Auron doing here and why is he our sub???' Not that I was complaining or anything but it sure was one hell of a surprise. He just stood there looking at the class, his eye passing over each of us with a kind of bored indifference. When he spoke, everybody jumped, though Hime and I didn't jump as much.

"I have been fully warned by your teacher that this class is absolute hell." He growled out. That was the only way I could think of it. "I was the only substitute available for this period. So that is the only reason that I am here. I really doubt that this class is worse that some of the things I have been through. And I have been through much." Jason took this speech in his usual moronic way and started talking to his friends and chuckling. Auron looked sharply at him.

"Mr. Scott. If whatever you have to say is so important that you have to interrupt me while I'm speaking. Then you must share it with the rest of the class." Jason turned bright red and muttered something along the lines of no and shut up. Both me and Hime tried not to crack up.

"If you are done, then I'll continue." I had a feeling that I was going to enjoy this class period.

"I am going to take attendance. Acknowledge that you are here when your name is called." Everybody was here except Noah, which was a small blessing. Actually Noah wasn't that bad. He wasn't anywhere near as annoying as Jason, of course nobody could be as annoying as Jason. I was thinking about different things when I heard my name being called.

"Hyperion Alamasy."

"Here." I said, lifting my hand up so he could see who I was. He gave a short nod of acknowledgement and mover onto the next name.

"Hime Maxwell."

"Here." She called out, also raising her hand. Auron nodded to her as well.

"Jason Scott." All Auron got as an answer was a grunt. "Mr. Scott, are we trying to become a pig? If you are, it is a most convincing act." Jason turned red again. "Next time answer here or present. Thank you." Auron looked at the list and said, "It seems that everybody is here except Mr. Wiza. Since I'm done with attendance, I'm going to read what Mr. Hawthorn has written here for you to do today. You are to read up to page 178 in The Liberty Campaign during this period. If you do not finish it during class then you will be expected to finish it for homework. I will give you all a choice. You can either do your homework for this class or you can talk quietly among yourselves. Either way, I expect the noise level in this room to stay at a minimum level. If it gets to loud, all other activities will stop and you will be expected to do and homework you have. That is all." After he had finished speaking, he strode to Mr. Hawthorn's desk and sat down, staring off into the distance. Everyone just sat there trying to figure out if there was some kind of catch in what the sub had just said. Also they were trying to figure out what they should call him, because he had never told them his name. I think that me and Hime were the only ones that knew his name in this class. I raised my hand and spoke out because I wanted to ask him something.

"Sir Auron? I was wondering if we could move around?"

"Of course. Just don't move any of the desks around." He answered. Everyone seemed to snap out of some kind of trance when I spoke and started to talk and move around. Jason and his friends moved to the back of the room and I moved up to the front near Hime, which also happened to be near where Auron was sitting now. The space around me and Hime were empty. It seemed that nobody wanted to sit near the sub. As soon as I sat down next to her, she started to rant on something that happened to her in chemistry, apparently something blew up in her face and it wasn't supposed to. I could care less, though the image of something blowing up in her face was quite amusing. She seemed to be very into what she was ranting about, so I let her rant on. Actually, I don't think I could stop her once she's in rant mode. Nothing could stop her, short of knocking her unconscious, and I don't think she'd be very happy afterward if I did that. I looked around the room to see if anything interesting was going on when I saw Jason laughing about something. I strained my hearing so I could listen in. I caught some of what they were saying and I realized that they were talking about our sub. I nudged Hime and told her to listen in.

"Can you believe this sub? What a moron." Jason said. His friends nodded. "I mean, what kind of idiot would wear clothes like that? It's almost a bad as the way Hyperion dresses." I started to get up to go beat the crap out of Jason, but Hime pulled me back down and motioned at Auron. I looked over at him to see if he was listening in and sure enough, he was. And he looked really pissed off. Me and Hime looked at each other and both of us knew what the other was thinking. 'Jason's gonna get the crap beat outta him' Jason, meanwhile, was still talking about Auron, completely ignoring anything else.

"And what kind of name is 'Auron'? Actually it kinda rhymes with moron. Ha! Wait till I tell the rest of my friends about our sub. Auron the moron." Jason laughed and so did the rest of his friends. I looked at Auron and saw him getting up.

"Here it comes, the demise of Jason." I whispered to Hime. Hime just nodded and grinned. As Auron was crossing to the other side of the room, Jason's friends realized that the sub was coming toward them. One by one they went silent. Jason, though, didn't realize that Auron was coming toward him. He just kept laughing and insulting Auron. When Auron was behind Jason, he tapped Jason on the shoulder. The look on Jason's face must have been priceless. But me and Hime couldn't see his face because his back was to us.

"Mr. Scott, please join me in the hall for a minute." Auron said. Jason got up from his seat and walked out of the room with Auron right behind him. He closed the door as he went out.

"Damn it!" I exclaimed. "Now how are we supposed to know what they're talking about out there if the door's closed?"

"Hyperion, you're so nosey." Hime laughed.

"Shut up. You shouldn't be talking. I think you're about as nosey as I am." I pointed out.

"Nani?"

"It's true."

"It is not."

"Is too."

"Is not."

"Wait a minute, they're coming back in." I said.

Everybody looked up as the door opened. Jason was the first one to walk with Auron following behind, one hand on Jason's shoulder. I looked at Jason's face and noticed that his eyes were out of focus and distant- looking. It was almost as if he was blind. I turned back to Hime and pointed my observations out to her.

"What do you thinks wrong with him?" I asked her.

"I'm not sure. Maybe you should ask the sub?" She answered.

"I think I'll do that, after he sits down." I said. Jason meanwhile was lead to his desk. By now, most of the class figured out something was wrong. Exactly what was something they couldn't figure out. After leading Jason to his desk, Auron turned around, went back to Mr. Hawthorn's desk and sat down.

"Now is as good a time as any to ask him what happened." Hime pointed out.

"I guess you're right." I sighed. I didn't wanna get up, so I turned around in my seat to ask him.

"Sir Auron? What did you do to him?" I asked. Auron looked up at me when I spoke.

"I taught him a lesson." He answered.

"And how did you do that?" Hime asked, repeating my previous question.

"I cast darkness and silence on him." He said.

"You can do that?? Wait a minute, I thought silence prevented somebody from casting magic." I said. Auron looked at me with a surprised look on his face.

"That is correct, but it can be used for other things." He pointed out.

"If Jason's blind and mute, then how come he's just standing there?" Hime asked.

"I also cast a slight paralysis spell on him." said Auron. "Actually that should be wearing off in less that a minute."

"This should be interesting." Hime said. I nodded my head in agreement. Nobody else had been listening to our conversation with Auron, so they didn't know what was going on. They were still watching Jason and trying to figure out what was wrong with him. They even started poking him with their pens and throwing balls of paper at him. Me and Hime sat there waiting and laughing at Jason because he was covered with pieces of paper by now.

About a minute later, the paralysis spell wore off. Jason started looking from side to side, dislodging most of the paper balls. Then he started flailing his arms around. Everybody jumped when he started to move around. Me and Hime looked at each other and grinned. I looked back at Jason and saw him looking wildly from side to side, his mouth moving but nothing coming out. He walked foreward only to run right into his desk. Everybody laughed. Jason jumped slightly, like he was startled.

"Hey Jason, you baka, turn around." I yelled. He spun around and ran. He must have expected me to be right behind him, but the only thing he found was the T.V. He smashed right into it.

"What a baka. Hey Jason, you should really watch where you're going." Hime yelled. Even Jason should have been able to detect the sarcasm in Hime's voice. He turned around and I saw that his face was bright red. Everybody was laughing so hard by then, the class was chaotic. He turned left and ran into the door. From there on, his sense of direction must have been completely shot, because he started turning and running into random things. Me and Hime were laughing so hard we couldn't breath.

"Lord and Lady, this is one of the funniest things I've ever seen." I said, trying to catch my breath. Hime couldn't comment, she was also trying to catch her breath. Jason, meanwhile, had been running into everything; desks, the T.V. again, the walls, and even the door a few more times. Every time he ran into something else, it started the class into another fit of laughter. Finally, Jason fell to the ground with a loud thud.

"He must have hit the wall one to many times." Hime said. I started laughing again. Then I promptly fell out of my chair. Hime broke into laughter again.

"You baka." she laughed.

"Ouch! That hurt." I complained.

"No shit." Hime replied. I got back up and sat into my seat, my face red with embarrassment. I looked over at Auron. He looked quite pleased with himself.

"Hey Auron, this class wasn't that bad now was it?" I asked him.

"No, it wasn't that bad." He answered. Then the bell rang, signaling the end of the period. Everybody packed up and left, stepping over Jason as they went out the door.

"That was one of the best class periods I ever had." I said to Hime.

"Yea, I wonder if we'll ever have Auron as a sub again?" Hime wondered.

"Who knows, maybe we'll have another fun sub the next time Mr. Hawthorn isn't here." I said.

Both of us started laughing again as we remembered what happened in English.

"Don't forget to tell Megami what happened when you're in German." I told her.

"Don't worry, I won't." She replied as she walked into her next class. I sighed and started walking downstairs to my next class, thinking about English and also wondering who our next sub really *will* be.

~Fin~

A/N: Sorry about the lame ending, but I can't seem to write good endings. . I'm gonna try to write a couple more fanfics where other FFX characters sub for our class, though it might not be for English.

I didn't mean to anger any Auron fans with my insults about him. Auron is my absolute favorite character, so I didn't really mean any of the insults. If you have any suggestions on who the next sub will be please tell me and I'll try to write it. But I cannot write Kimahri into any fics. Sorry. I bet I'm boring you all with this A/N so…. Please R&R and no, I repeat NO flames! Thanks. Ja ne minna.