Chapter 1: 2 sides crossed paths.
Flower/Bronk House:
“Zexal, we need to get ready for school!” says Flower. Zexal swiftly runs down the stairs, “Okay, be right there.” “Mom and Dad, have you heard what Aqua did? She broke up a huge fight against the rich and the poor,” exposes Zane. “Aw yes I heard of that,” said Bronk.
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The Royal Palace:
“Psst, Nailah and Shamar come here. I want you to spy on my daughter so she can be safe,” Zuku whispers. Shamar gives him a confused look. “Uh, why are we whispering, Sir?”
“Because if my daughter hears this, I will hear a 10-hour speech about why she needs to be like every other kid,” responds Zuku.
“WOah Woah WoAh, YeAh YaH,” sings Izzy. Aqua automatically covers her ears while her friend Izzy starts singing. “Your singing is so horrible. Jeezy weezy…Okay I'm never saying that again. Your singing is so bad it sounds like a cat getting choked to death,” explains Malaika. “Well your drumming is so bad I'd rather hear bees in my ear.” responds Izzy. Aqua wraps her arms around both Izzy and Malaika. “Today is gonna be our first day back at school. I can’t wait for the new school year and new opportunities.” “This is going to be our final year. I can’t wait for the year to begin,” giggles Malaika. Izzy nods, “Agreed sis. We really need to go crazy this year.” Aqua rolls her eyes as she chuckles, “I suppose but it's hard for me to do so when. There is always a fight breaking out between the rich and the poor almost every day. Then there is this program there allowing students from the other side to join in with us. I just hope it really goes well.” Malaika looks at her with a smile, “Relax everything is going to be alright. Don’t worry so much.” Izzy takes out a magical item that works exactly like a phone, “It's the first day of school. Let's take this picture.”
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Flower/Bronk House:
Zexal grabs his katana. Zane looks at him, “You are not serious.” Zexal looks at him, “Don’t be like that.” Zane gives him a confusing look, “Dude you can’t bring a whole ass katana to school.” Zexal takes out the blade then takes a swing. Zane's eyes widens, “No sword play in the house.” Zexal rolls his eyes, “Relax dude.” “Zexal put that sword down NOW,” says Flower. She looks at both of them. “Ok fine, I will,” agrees Zexal. “Guys come, we're going to be late,” Flower says while looking at the clock.
30 minutes later…
Flower beings sign up Zexal and Zane at the front desk in the front of the school. Zexal looks around, “Damn this school is really for the rich ass kids.” Zane smiles, “I hope Aqua is in the same class as us. She is so hot, so smart…” Zexal rolls his eyes, “...What is wrong with you and this Aqua girl? It makes no sense. It sucks that Zoey, Jamal, and Conner can’t come.” Zane shrugs, “Yeah you're kinda right. But they are running you know jobs. So they won’t be in school for a while.” Suddenly an angry woman storms towards the duo. She was old with white hair. Her name was principal Jones who has a hatred and disdain for trouble makers. “I don’t like you, little boy. Your kind is full of poor and dirty people who attract too much trouble, get out of my sight,” said Jones. Zexal and Zane gave her a confusing look. Both of them soon turn to look at each other. Zane's eyes widen given a silent signal to not go off. Astral looks at her, “What the hell did you say, granny...I dare you to say that shi…” “Woah there, we don’t want to get into a fight now. Hi, I am their mother, my name is Flower.” Flower automatically rubs her hand on Zexal and Zane. “Nice to meet you, Flower, glad to see someone here who is civilized.” greets Jones. “Nice to meet you. I hope we have a great year,” says Flower with an awkward smile.
Meanwhile: (Front gate of the school.)
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Aqua walks with confidence with Malaika and Izzy. Every eye linger towards her. She drew attention like a rare gemstone. Her aqua blue eyes with her hair left people at awe. Suddenly a bunch of people start to surround her in praises and cheers. Malaika looks at Aqua, “Oh my gosh. You're so popular with the boys.” Aqua nods, “I know, isn't it great.” Malaika side eyes her, “Great huh?” Izzy yawns, "I'm really tired.” Aqua gives her a confusing look, “how. You're like, like, just how. You spent well over 8 hours.” She turns her head as people start to get in her way to the building, “One at a time everyone. Please, one at a time.” “Lady Aqua, can you sign my autograph?” says one guy. “Wow, she has looks, body, brains, and personality.” “Tell Aqua I’m trying to indulge in that,” yells a different dude “OMG, please marry me,” says a random guy. Aqua rolls her eyes, “CAN YOU PLEASE…” The bell rings. Everyone starts to move to their classes. Aqua shrugs, “well damn.” Malaika pulls Aqua, “Lets get to class.”
The trio enters the building. Aqua looks around, “Where the hell do we even go?” Malaika shrugs, “I think it's this way but I don’t know.” Zane turns his head, “Holy shit. Holy shit. It's AQUA. HAHAHAA.” Zexal looks at him, “What the hell is wrong with you.” Zane looks at him, “You're such a novice. Aqua is like a queen, a goddess and all you have to say is that she is like every other rich person. She's so perfect. The queen that is trying to break the difference. I need to put a ring on that.” Zexal side eyes him, “Who the hell do you think you are? THe only thing you could afford is cardboard dude.” Zane's head drops down, “Shit your right. Cardboard. Not even the good kind. We're poor as shit. Unless we could sell your…” Zexal eyes widens, “I know you lost your damn mind.” Zane nods, “Yeah I have because she is out of this world.” Astral looks around, “where is even ?” “Do you even pay attention to any relevance of anything political that happens. We live in the great enlightenment era,” explains Zane. Zexal shrugs, “dude I really don’t know man.” Zexal’s eyes wander around and so does Aqua. Suddenly their eyes lock together.
An imaginary black void was created in Aqua's eyes, the only thing she saw was Zexal. She looks at Zexal without saying a thing. All Zexal saw was her. As his eyes wanders nowhere else but to her eyes. Aqua blushes, and her heart starts to pump faster than ever before. ‘This feeling again, this is the second time I felt it. I feel butterflies in my stomach. Is this love at first sight?’ Zexal stares at her, not a thought comes to his mind. Like he wasn’t able to process a thought.
Suddenly sense came to their minds. Zexal looks away trying to act nonchalant. Aqua blushes intensely as she covers her face. “Oh, my god. Who is that?” Malaika looks at her, “OH wait. Them. I don’t know if I've ever seen them before.” Aqua looks at her, “What time it is.” Malaika looks at the clock, “It's time for class.” Aqua glances at Zexal, “have he noticed me.” Malaika shrugs, “Can we please get to class.” Aqua sighs, “Fine.” Zane looks at Aqua, “She glanced at us, we are so in.” Zexal gives her a confused look, “What?” Zane smiles, “my bad dude. I mean I am so in.” Zexal shrugs, “You are truly hopeless.”
As Shamar and Nailah were still spying on Aqua. They heard a rumbling sound. “Shamar, are you hungry? Because I don’t wanna take any risks since you're always hungry!” said Nailah. “Fine, I am hungry, let's get something to eat.” While Nailah and Shamar were getting a snack:
“Hmm, we are missing a few more students. Has anyone seen 2 people called Zexal and Zane?” asks Ms Happy. People looked confused hearing their names. Aqua smiles at Malaika, “maybe it's the two boys. Maybe the black haired one is in our class.” Malaiak looks at her, “Damn girl you really have bad for him. But let's try to keep it in Pg13.” Aqua mouth opens, “Okay, but I do keep it PG 13.”
All of a sudden voices from the hallway. “DAMN IT ZEXAL, YOU GOT US LOST,” yells Zane. “How is it my fault? This school is damn big for no reason and these class numbers are annoying and stupid,” angers Zexal. “Dude they literally just have a N, S, E, W to tell which side are you on and then just a number for the class room. It can’t be that hard," angers Zane. “You followed me?” points Astral. “I only followed you because we did rock paper scissors and the winner had to lead the way,” counters Zane. Zane and Astral enter the classroom. Everyone's eyes were directed towards them. Zane gets close to Zexal ear. “I think they heard our convo.” Zexal nods, “read the room dude.”
Ms Happy looks at them, “Well here are our other 2 students in the classroom everyone. Zexal and Zane. Please take your seats.” Her smile brightens the classroom. Zexal yawns as both of them walk to the window side of the classroom and take their seats. Zexal looks at Zane, “Damn that lady is very excited.” Zane shrugs, “yeah, wonder what so cheerful.”
Ms Happy brought up stacks upon stacks of tests, “The first day there will be a quiz to see where everyone is at, 100 questions in 10 minutes. We will see your average of how much you could answer correctly in 10 minutes. Don't rush and take your time. You don’t need to finish it, we just need to find where you are at this point in your academic career."
The first class was math. Zexal got an 80, Zane got an 92, and Izzy got a 1. “Aw man” said Izzy from a distance, and Malaika had a 95. Aqua was the only person that had a 100. Math was good for most people.
The second class was History and everybody got a 100, but Zexal because he got a zero because he sucks at it.
The third class was reading where everybody just read a book silently so no testing.
The fourth class was science where everybody got a 100%. Everybody was shocked but relieved. During the class, Aqua was staring at Zexal but she turned her eyes away when the teacher caught her, but she didn't say anything.
The fifth and sixth class was supposed to be lunch and recess. Because it was half a day they didn't have those. So the seventh class was art/warrior, warrior class helps people who want to go to a special knight program to be a knight for the kingdom.
The eighth class was sports. Everybody starts to play a game called dodgeball. Zane and Zexal were from the opposite team from the girls Malaika, Izzy, and Aqua. Zexal jumps up and down getting ready. The gym teacher was Mr. Thinkerburg. Aqua threw a dodgeball, getting 5 people out. 10 balls were thrown at Zexal. Zexal easily dodges the first 8. He then caught the following 2 getting 2 randoms out. Zexal looks at Zane, “This game is stupid easy.” Zane looks at Zexal, “Say that for yourself. I'm getting targeted.” Zane stares at Aqua knocking another person out. Zexal moves Zane, “Keep your head in the game. I am not trying to lose to any Royal.” Zane looks at Zexal, “My bad.” Zane and Zexal pick up a dodgeball. Both of them fry one hitting Izzy. Izzy drops to the ground. “HEY WATCH IT,” says Malaika. Malaika helps up Izzy, “Are you okay.” Izzy's eyes start to wonder as her head spinning, “I am, okay. It just got hot and hard.” Zexal dodges two dodge balls. He performs a backflip as a dodgeball perfectly goes under him. Zane looks at Zexal, “Really dude. I'm trying to impress Aqua.” He dodges a dodge ball then fires one to a random. Zexal looks at Aqua, "Fresh food.” Zane looks at Zexal, “Do not.” Zexal looks at Zane, “What are they going to do to jump me.” Zexal takes a step as he throws a dodgeball at incredible speed. Aqua eyes widens as she drops to the floor. Malaika looks at Aqua, “Are you okay?” Aqua nods, “Yes I will be fine. My head hurts so much.” Then everybody turns to face Zexal with savage eyes. They all have hatred covering their facial expressions. “How about a classwide man hunt.” “What?” questions Zexal. “Yeah I like that. What do we say.” Zane and Zexal look at each other. A few people get incredibly close.
“Zane, why am I getting chased by all of these people?'' says Zexal in a confusion. “Because you threw the ball at Aqua’s face very hard, also she is the smartest and most popular kid in school. Just being in the class with her is a blessing, let alone talking to her. As well you literally said. -OH wHat ArE yAll goNna Do nOw-,” replies Zane. Zexal looks at everyone, “CAN WE STOP CAN WE STOP.” Zane looks to the left and right, “Where do we even go?” Suddenly the bell rings. People starts to calm down and stop chasing Zexal and Zane. Both boys stop. Zane gives off a confusing look, “We got saved by the bell.” Zexal yawns, “Damn. It's club 9th period right?” Zane nods in agreement, “Yeah we need to find a club fast.”
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“Shamar this is your 100th pancake, come we need to go back” says Nailah “Fine but 1 more,” says Shamar in a sad voice. “NO NOW,” screams Naliah. Shamar took a deep breath and took one more pancake and swallowed it whole.
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School Nurses office:
Shamar smiles, “We are here to pick you up, Aqua.” Nailah side eyes Shamar, “We are late.” Aqua turns around, “Hi guys.” Shamar and Nailah give off shocking looks. Aqua had a black eye, “It can’t be that bad right?” Nailah's eyes widens, “Sure it can’t be that bad.” Shamar shakes his head in disagreement, “What happened?” Aqua shrugs, “Dodge ball.” Nailah takes a deep breath. Her face changes with confusion, “Wait. Who the hell is able to throw that ball that hard? That is some incredible strength.” Aqua looks at them, “Can we just go home.” Shamar smiles, “Sure, let's go home.”
