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1. Sharing is not caring
Zero was minding his own business reading over a book Balam recommended to him when Clara suddenly barged into the library.
"RAWIYA SAID IT'S MY TURN WITH IRUMA CHAN!" She yelled at the top of her lungs.
"SQUARE UP STUPID CLARA!" Asmodeus screamed back standing up onto a table and lighting his hands on fire.
"And that's my cue to leave." Zero muttered as he hurriedly closed the book he was reading and rushed out of the library, barely missing a stray fireball being thrown in his direction.
2. Try me
"Remind me what you are again?" Zero asked Rawiya.
"Excuse me?" They asked, slightly confused.
"Are you a boy or a girl?"
"Um, I define myself as a threat." They said, pulling out a knife they were using as a bookmark and stabbing it into the wooden table. "My pronouns are try and me."
3. Adjectives
"What are your adjectives?!" Clara shouted at Zero.
"Uh... he/him?" Zero answered unsure of what she meant. "Did you mean my pronouns?"
"NO!" She yelled again, startling Zero once more. "I want your adjectives!"
"I-I don't know? What are yours?"
"NOISY AND CHAOTIC!"
"... I have never had anything go from making no sense to complete sense so fast in my entire life."
4. Cereal
"I crave the crunchy lactose soup." Rawiya said as they entered the classroom.
"Please just say cereal like every normal person." Zero pleaded.
5. Curse
Iruma was working on some extra homework in Zero's office since he was the only teacher still there after hours. Suddenly Iruma knocked over the ink jar he was using and black liquid stained a majority of his paper.
"Ah fiddlesticks! This really ruffles my feathers!" He exclaimed, still somehow in a sweet voice.
Zero stared at him for a moment thinking about all the other times he heard students of the Misfit Class scream out profanities over the smallest of things. He though for a minute, and, yeah, he was going to have to teach this kid how to curse.
6. Navigator
"Left."
"What?"
"Left!"
"Rawiya what do you mean?" Zero asked as he continued to walk forwards with the fallen angel trailing behind.
"I'm being your navigator. Like the ones you described back in your realm." Rawiya simply stated.
"Rawiya that's not how navigators work. And I'm pretty sure I know where I-"
Bonk
Zero yelped as he walked straight into a wall.
"I warned you to take a left."
7. Fly
"Hey mister Zero? Can you fly?" Clara asked.
"Not in this armor no." Zero replied, looking up and seeing the Misfits' expressions turn into mischievous ones. "What're you guys doing- wait- no- Let go!"
In a split second Zero found himself being grabbed by Jazz and Sabro before being hoisted into the air as they pulled him farther and farther into the sky. While the rest of the Misfit class flew after him, with Asmodeus carrying Iruma. He watched as the ground got smaller until the mountains that surrounded the school looked like purple spikes, which brought back bad memories.
"Put me down!" He ordered.
Sabro and Jazz looked at each other, then grinned.
"Nah." They both said, before flying faster into the horizon still carrying the red maverick hunter by his arms.
They were going to get the scolding of a lifetime when they let him down, but to the Misfit class, it was worth it.
8. Trust
"Do you trust me?" Rawiya asked sticking out their hand, startling Zero.
"Um what?"
"Do you trust me?!" They asked again, this time more persistently.
"Uh... sure." Zero said still hesitant taking their hand, only to be shocked with a powerful force of electricity and falling out of his seat. "Gah!"
"Wrong choice!" Rawiya exclaimed before running out of the classroom cackling.
"RAWIYA!" Zero shouted, racing after them.
9. Spaghetti
"Alright I was currently gifted an empty chest." Zero stated to the class. "What should I put in it? Suggestions?"
"Put spaghetti in it." Jazz said.
"I'm currently taking suggestions from everyone except you." Zero said.
"Put spaghetti in it." Shax suggested immediately after Jazz did.
"I'm currently taking suggestions from everyone except the two of you."
"Put spaghetti in it!" Sabro exclaimed.
"I'm no longer taking suggestions."
"Put a dead body in it." Rawiya said.
"Did you not hear what I just said?!"
10. Boyfriend
"Does your boyfriend have to be here?" Zero asked exasperatedly pointing at Garu who gave a small wave from the back of the room.
"At least mine is physically here with me unlike yours who's stuck in your realm with no knowledge of your whereabouts." Rawiya replied.
Zero denies all claims that he tried to strangle Rawiya that day.
11. Secret
Zero watched as Asmodeus and Iruma walked together, both happily chatting away and laughing together, while holding hands. It was sweet really, but one thing that confused Zero is why no one referred to the two students as a couple.
"Hey Elizabetta?" Zero asked, causing the blonde demoness to look at him. "Is Iruma and Asmodeus's relationship supposed to be secret?"
"Hardly." Elizabetta replied. "The only people who don't know about Iruma and Asmodeus. Are Iruma and Asmodeus."
"That... makes a lot of sense actually." Zero concluded.
12. Stabby
"Alright Rawiya now that you have a sword I want you to repeat after me: I will not stab anybody." Zero instructed carefully.
"I will stab everybody." Rawiya repeated.
"No. Say: I will not stab anybody."
"I will stab somebody."
"Rawiya! I'm serious! I can't let you go around the school carrying a sword knowing that you're probably going to stab someone!" Zero exclaimed, and Rawiya nodded in understanding. "No, let's try this again. I will not stab anybody."
"I will not stab you specifically."
Zero vented in deeply before sighing.
"Y'know what kid? I'll take it. At least you won't be my problem." Zero said watching as Rawiya ran into the school building, katana in hand.
13. Bird
"Rawiya is a bird." Jazz said out of the blue.
"What?" Zero asked, wondering if he heard him correctly.
"Rawiya is a bird." Jazz repeated.
"That's not how it works." Zero said.
Yes, Rawiya did have feathery wings but that didn't mean they were a bird, they were an angel, two completely different things. The closest resemblance he's seen to a bird in any of the Misfit class was Kamui and he was quite literally a bird-demon. And sure, Rawiya did have quirks such as perching in high places or on desks, or screeching when they wanted attention, or occasionally eating seeds when hungry, and also being attracted to shiny objects, and- Oh. Zero had a moment to himself where he felt like the world had stopped for a minute. He was silent for a few seconds before speaking:
"Rawiya is a bird."
"Rawiya is indeed a bird." Jazz agreed, patting Zero on the back as he left the red reploid alone with this newfound information.