Threas Mingdok High[1: a school well known for producing students with unusual talents and firey personalities. That, is what the pamplet says. And, while it is true that many with unusual talents come to this school, it is truly the "firey personalities" that are well known. These students are the ones expelled from their schools for their "firey" behavior, and stuck in Threas Mingdok. The rest, the ones who had talents that the stricter normal schools could not nurture were called the Morgans, while the delinquets were the Fires. And one Fire, Axel Opry[2, took the term seriously as he burned various items happily.

After one of his many fire exploits, Axel dashed to his group of friends. Demyx Retawr[3 leaned casually against a low wall, his stiar propped up against his knee as he tuned it. While Demyx had the potential to be the most Morgan of Morgans with his skills, his tendency to ditch classes and insult teachers labeled him as a Fire. Not that he complained.

On top of that wall was Axel's closest friend, Roxas Daylekeb[4, was laying down. He had his arms above his head, with his palms serving as a pillow as he lazily watched the clouds. Roxas was a Fire through and through, but was mostly known as Axel's sidekick. Truth was, for a bit he was known as Axel's bitch, but that was only until the idiots were threatened with having all of their hair burned off.

Roxas's girlfriend, Namine Rawgind[5, sat on the wall next to her boyfriend, drawing some sketches for the upcoming art contest. She was the only Morgan of the group, but was only admitted into it after she and Roxas went steady. She was still very shy and reserved around the other two, but she was like that with everyone except Roxas.

Axel ran up and threw himself against the wall next to Demyx, "I was here the whole time." Demyx nodded, not looking away from his sitar. Seconds later, a teacher approached the group, ashes of what used to be the pop quizzes for the day.

"Mr. Opry, what in the world posessed you to BURN ALL OF TODAY'S QUIZZES!!!???"

Roxas lazily replied, "Axel was with us all day, Teach. Must have been some other fire-obsessed teen."

The teacher glared at Roxas, "Mr. Daylekeb, you have been known for covering up for you friend here. However," the teacher turned sweetly to Namine, " I can trust Miss Rawgind here to be honest and tell me what happened." Namine remained silent, acting as though her concentration on her drawing blocked out anything else in the world. "MISS RAWGIND!"

Namine looked up, "Oh, I'm sorry. Were you talking to me?"

The teacher forced a smile, "Yes Miss Rawgind. Was Mr. Opry here with you all day?"

Namine shrugged, "He was here before I started drawing. I didn't really pay attention afterwards." The teacher glared at Axel, but with no proof she had no choice but believe he was innocent. She walked off, grumbling.

Axel immediately tackled Namine in a bone-crushing hug. "Who woulda thought? A Morgan lying to a teacher? We're rubbing off on ya!"

Namine blushed lightly, "I wasn't really lying... you were here when I started drawing, and I didn't pay much attention while I was drawing."

Roxas smiled and sat up, "You payed enough attention to know Axel left," he pointed out fondly, wrapping an arm around her. Naime remained silent, blushing still.

Demyx chuckled, "Shouldn't we be thanking her and not embarassing her?" He ran a finger down all of his sitar's strings, nodding at the perfect tune they were now in. "So Axel," Demyx looked up at his friend, "why did you burn the quizzes?"

Axel laughed, stretching, "That teacher was gonna quiz us all on some ridiculous stuff about laws and all that."

Roxas rolled his eyes, "Right, becuase in real life we don't need to know about laws." Namine was now leaning against his shoulder, and he stroked her hair absent-mindedly.

"Exactly," Axel agreed, "as long as we can count money and know about sex, we're set for life."

"If you're a pimp," Roxas argued. Namine giggled, showing one her potential sketches for the contest, where Axel was drawn very well, wearing a pimp's hat. Everyone, including Axel, laughed at this.

After laughing, Axel stretched again, turning his head before looking at his friends again. Then, his head snapped back at what he saw before. There, sitting alone, was the hottest girl he'd ever seen. She was well toned, wearing a the uniform of a black T-shirt with a blue plaid skirt and knee high socks with loafers. Her blonde hair was short, just reaching the back of her neck. Two strands of hair stubbornly stuck out, giving her a somewhat buggy appearance. She was reading a book, ignoring the people walking past her. Her blue-green eyes were large, but gave no illusion of innocence. But, that might have been because of her ever-present scowl. While there wasn't anything especially sexy about this girl, she definately sparked in intrest in Axel.

Roxas noticed his friend's distraction and followed Axel's eyes. He furrowed his brow, thinking he must be mistaken, but no. Axel was staring at who Roxas thought he was staring at. "Are you... checking Larxene out?" Both Demyx's and Namine's head snapped up, staring at Axel is disbelief.

"Oh, so her name's Larxene." Axel looked at Larxene thoughtfully.

"Axel, trust me, she isn't your type." Demyx said seriously, "Let it go."

"Why? Is she a Morgan?"

"Nooo, she's a Fire. But, she's a total bitch. She makes you look like a nerd. She kicked every gang leaders' ass without breaking a sweat."

Axel gave a low whistle, "Nice."

Roxas sighed, taking over, "Every guy that's asked her out dropped out of Threas Mingdok, and no one's seen them since."

"Nicer. She's single then."

Namine stated bluntly, "She's too smart for you."

This one made Axel think for a second, "So's every other girl in the school," he replied. No one disagreed with him. "Then it's decided, I'm gonna ask her out."

"Axel, when you die... can I have your video games?" Roxas asked seriously. Axel laughed, walking over towards Larxene.

"Hello," Axel looked down at Larxene sexily, "have we met before?"

Larxene didn't look up from her book, "Obviously not. If we did, you'd have the common sense to leave me be."

Axel tried again, "Well, when someone as interesting as you sits before me, I feel the need to make her aquaintence."

"Stop trying to sound like a smartass. It makes you sound like a regular ass."

Axel tried once more, "Soo, are you doing anything Saturday night?"

"Brushing my teeth," Larxene responded, never looking up.

Three strikes, Axel's out.