Hi folks! I'm so sorry for not posting anything lately! I've been having issues lately with my family and our house, but I'm still trying to push through it all! Here's the next chapter to An Alien as a Student as a special holiday present for you all! It's a filler chapter, but it leads right into the heartslabyul arc! Enjoy!
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As the new members of NRC entered their dorm through their own respective mirror, our protagonist stretched out her limbs to relax a bit from the fight she went through to protect the boys that had nearly been expelled. The small grey feline hopping up to the kitchen counter to be somewhat at eye level with her new owner. "Hey, boss, I got something to ask you." This statement caught the alien woman's attention, turning to face him a moment before she picked him up and brought her into her room that she had already planned to share with him.

"What's on your mind, Grim?" The small grey demon feline cuddled into her arms more, purring in content without his own knowledge as he smiled up at her. "Do ya really think some of the guys here are gonna transfer to our dorm?" Giggling at his question, the black haired female gave him a few pets between his ears before placing him down on her bed, turning and heading to her closet and began to dig around for some of her old technology that she used when she still worked for Frieza. "Of course I think that. Did you see the crowds around us on my first day of teaching? I saw quite a few students here with a lot of raw potential for the training I have in store for them. Ah, here it is."

as she turned back around, Grim noticed the device in her hand was some type of headphone, just with a pink piece of glass and buttons on it. Tilting his head in a bit of curiosity at what the thing was, the action made the girl bite her lip to hide her laugh that tried to slip out. Placing her old scouter on her desk and pulling out a tool box as she began to try and adjust the mechanism inside it to fit with the technology that this world has already, once she's able to learn more about it in her own classes.

"Before I ask my question on that device you pulled out, how does one have potential with just a glance!" "Huh. I guess that's a bit hard to say..." She replied, stopping what she was doing to turn and face her little feline friend. She then smiled at him before continuing her thought, "...I guess that's can be the first lesson when the time comes. Also, since I know you're curious about this device I'm working with, I have another one. They're both tools to show a person's power level before sensing a person's energy."

Grim, his eyes now widened in disbelief and possible amazement, felt as if his mind had just been blown. This woman, this... alien woman, was able to sense a person's energy and power? He has never heard of a feat like that being done fefore in all of his existence. "Hold the canned tuna!! You can sense a person's energy?! What?!" (Y/n) could only laugh at his shocked expression. She's never met someone who did not know how to sense energy, but then again... this was a whole different world than her own. "Yup! Hehehe! Let's see if I can just find my other one, and then I'll see what I need to get, to make the newer scouters for you and the other students here."

The duo now moving over to their shared room, the old model scouter in the female's hand, (Y/n) soon walked over to her closet and looked through her older uniforms from when she still worked for Frieza. The memories of her past haunting her a bit from all the lives that she had hurt under his reign, before putting them in the back of her mind and continuing to look for the second scouter that she had. "Where the heck is that thing...?"

Grim jumping onto the bed in the room, looked over to his favorite person, his little furry paws kneeding at the blankets and sheets as he made himself comfortable. "You still looking for that device that can read power levels?" "I am, Grim. I can't find it right now. I might have better luck after dinner. You getting hungry at all?" At the mere mention of food, the grey feline jumped down from his spot on the bed and began to bound towards the door again. "Food! Food!! What amazing dish are you making this time??"

"Well, since you seemed to me like a canned tuna kind of cat-" "I'm not a cat!!" Grim cut her off, a little upset at being called a cat, "okay, okay. Sorry. Creature. How about I make us a cheesy tuna casserole with a cream of mushroom soup?" At the sound of the dinner idea, Grim could help but drool at how it sounded, his excitement at hearing the dinner suggestion being all the acceptance that (Y/n) needed to hear to get started on it.

As soon as the food was prepared, Grim helped out by setting the table with two plates, some napkins and forks. The girl working on her dish with the canned tuna that she had stashed in her cupboards, and working on making the food from the memory of what her sister-in-law, Chichi, had taught her.

As soon as the food was ready and set up on the table, our heroine noticed how her furry companion was still looking over her old scouter, letting out a small chuckle as she let out a small whistle to get his attention. "Okay, Grim. Dinner is ready." "Myah-hah!! Tuna!!"

Now one would think that dinner would have been a nice and relaxing time, especially with a new friend in a strange world. However, it was anything but relaxing once the saiyan female noticed how Grim had practically scarfed down the food on his plate, almost exactly like how her brother and her would after Chichi would cook so much for her family. "Grim, chill. The food isn't going anywhere."

"Sorry boss," Grim said, his response a bit muffled from the food in his mouth, "but your cooking is just so good. It's like something out of a five star restaurant or something...!" "Hahaha! I'm glad you enjoy it so much."

Ghost A- "Yee-hee-hee! So you're the newbies to NRC, huh?"

At the sound of the newer voices, our saiyan warrior quickly put her plate down and stood from her seat, turning quickly to face her foe but looked at the entity with a surprised shock. The intruder to her home... was a ghost... a genuine, ghost...

Ghost B- "If you want, you can always joinnus at ramshackle. We got plenty of space."

"Gyaaaahhh! G-g-g-g-ghoooossts!" Grim screamed, jumping to the edge of the table and ending up falling off, quickly recovering from the impact and hiding behind his owner/friend. "I know that dead people can visit the living in my world, but I never saw a genuine ghost before. How did you guys get in here?" As two of the spectres silently laughed at the poor feline's fearful reaction, the largest of the three had to float over to the girl to get a better look at her.

Ghost C- "We work here also, so we just decided to drop by and say 'hello'. We're sorry if we scared ya, little lady."

"Well, I'm not scared, actually. But I'm pretty sure you scared the living daylights out of my friend over there." She then points over to the poor little ball of gray and white fluff, who was currently shaking at the ghosts in fear for his life, even though his owner could tell that they meant no harm to either of them.

Ghost A- "Oops! Sorry 'bout that little guy."

While Grim was quick to break out of his initial fear, he bounded over to (Y/n) to stay safe in case his original thought of the ghosts being dangerous was true. "Hmph! Don't do that again, and I'll see if I can forgive you!" "Calm down, Grim. They don't mean any harm. My name is (Y/n), by the way. Do you guys have names?"

Ghost C- "We used to have names, but it's just been so long since we heard them that we kind of forgot what they were."

Ghost B- "Maybe you guys can pick out new names for us!"

Feeling pity for the poor spectral figures, the young Saiyan woman smiled at the chance to think of giving her new friends a new set of names. Taking this as a chance to remember her Saiyan origins and trying to think up a list of Saiyan names that she could use in her lessons for her lessons on the students in the school. "Hmm... I know of a few good Saiyan names that you can use. Would that work?"

Ghost A- "um...... what's a saiyan?"

"I can tell ya what a Saiyan is!!" Grim exclaimed loudly, jumping up to rest on the shoulder of the woman he befriended and now sat on the right side of her on top of her martial arts gi. "A 'Saiyan' is actually what my boss, here, is. She's an alien who can turn into a great ape thanks to her own tail and the presence of the full moon!" At the brief down of what the black hair female was, the ghosts that were floating in front of the new duo stared at her with blank expression... the reality of her species only registering to them as she unwrapped her tail from her waist and moved it around gently with an innocent smile on her face.

Ghosts (all)- "EEEEEEHHH?!"

"Hahaha! He's right. That's exactly what I am. My Saiyan name is Ginga, so that's why you probably heard the students call me 'miss Ginga'."

Ghost C- "That's actually a really cool name. Now I kinda want one like that!"

As the three specters started to chat among themselves and wonder how they would get their new Saiyan names, the alien warrior walked over to the counter and grabbed a piece of scrap paper and a pen. Grim looking down at the paper, he smiled at seeing his friend/boss writing down the names of Saiyans she knew of in her past years growing up, and even the ones she still knew and loved in her home world. "Hmm... let's see..." once her list was done, a few names actually stuck out to her for her new friends, pointing them out to the three pale and translucent figures as they floated behind her to see the list. "You, my little specter friend, will be called Shugesh."

Ghost B (Shugesh)- "ooh! 'Shugesh'... I like it."

"You, my friend..." Pointing over to the ghost that was a bit skinnier than his friends, (Y/n) already came up with his name right off the bat. "You're now Vasabi." She stated, causing the thin spectre to fall backwards mid air in laughter.

Ghost A (Vasabi)- "Hee hee hee! My new name kinda sounds like "wasabi". That's really cool!"

"And finally..." she points over to the large ghost, the spectre putting his hand behind him as he tried to sneak up behind Grim again, "You are now Paragus. A name I remember from another Saiyan elite from my home planet."

Ghost C (Paragus)- "Nice!"

Grim, now getting excited at hearing these alien names, bounced onto the top of the table that his 'boss' was making the list of saiyan names on. His eyes going over the many names and thinking about how he wanted one himself now, hoping to have some way of connecting himself with his new friend to remain by her side more. "All those names sound so cool! I wish I had a cool saiyan name now..." Sensing his slight distress, the female warrior walked over at began to pet her little furry friend between his ears, making him purr in delight from the scritches she was currently giving him. "Why? I think your name is plenty cool, Grim."

"But then why do some saiyan names sound better than others?!" He asked, his voice getting louder as he felt a bit of anger growing inside him. "Because Grim,... saiyan names are more puns on actual fruits, vegetables and other such foods. Take my saiyan name for example - it's just a play on the ginger root, but shortened and replaces the '-er' with an 'a' to sound similar." "Mrah?! Seriously?! So it's just shortened food names and puns on actual stuff?!"

Giggling at his surprise, and scratching under his chin to try and cheer him up from his slight disappointment, (Y/n) gave him a reassuring smile to let him know that everything was alright. "Yup. But, if you still want a saiyan name, I'm already writing out a list of names. So once it's done, you can pick out which one speaks to you." "Mrah..." he meowed, even though he would soon always claim that he isn't a cat, "boss...! You're the best!!"

The two friends then shared a hug as the feline's tail swung happily behind him, the two eventually waving bye to their new ghost friends from the old ramshackle dorm on the campus grounds. As they walked into the bedroom, the female saiyan placing the list on the refrigerator in her kitchen to hold onto the names she had remembered so far, and switching into her night clothes as her gray and white furry companion noticed his own little bed beside hers and climbed into the sheets... the two falling asleep in an instant, but the girl soon having a strange dream that she remembered from her own world.

[DREAM WORLD]

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As (Y/n) had drifted off in the real world, she soon found herself waking up in a giant hedge maze that seemed to go on forever and ever, twists and turns everywhere that she could find herself getting lost in if she wasn't careful. "Huh? Where am- wait..." As she felt her mind clearing up more, she took quick notice of the young blonde girl talking with ace of clubs, the two of clubs and the three of clubs, "...Alice? The card guards?! Why am I dreaming of Alice in Wonderland?!"

As she looked around more, the saiyan female walked closer to the familiar scene and tried to listen in, hearing the familiar tune she would sing along to with her youngest nephew whenever he wanted to watch TV while visiting her.

"... 🎶bum bum bum bum, oh! Painting the roses red. We're painting the roses red . We dare not stop or waste a drop, so let the paint be spread! We're painting the roses red... we're painting the roses red!"

"I know that song..." she said softly, her figure translucent enough so that she could see them... but the british girl and the cards could not see her.

"🎶Painting the roses red. We're painting the roses red." "🎶Oh, pardon me, but mister three, why must you paint them red?" Hearing the song progress, the alien warrior crosses her arms over her chest in thought. "This is when Alice is about to meet the... *gasp*" she gasped, a realization crossing her mind that this was probably not a dream, but a part of history to the world that she found herself in, "The Queen of Hearts!! So those figures were real in this universe?!"

"Huh? Oh!" The three of clubs, who was working on one side of the rose bush being painted, bent down to Alice to explain why the three of them were painting the white roses red. "Well, the fact is miss... we planted the white roses by mistake. And..." the song then continued as the saiyan woman remembers, "🎶The queen, she likes them red. If she saw white instead..." "🎶She'd raise a fuss," "🎶and each of us..." "🎶would quickly lose his head." At this point, Alice grabs her throat in concern, while (Y/n) grimaces at the reminder of that bloody foreshadowing that the film she would watch would represent. "Goodness." "🎶Since this is the part we dread,... we're painting the roses red."

Seeing that the scene before her was starting to fade away, the onyx eyes of the warrior female widened as she realized that she was fading out of the reality that was shown before her. "Looks like I'm waking up... I guess I'll wait until the next night to see what happens."
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A/N- OH! MY! GOD!! This took me forever to finish up!! I am so sorry for the long wait, but I was having issues with my family in my house, my mom just recently dumped her toxic boyfriend for good, (thank god), and I was also busy with work that I could not find the time to write in my own home! But aside from my personal problems...
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WE ARE ALREADY NEARING 18k READS!!! WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL?! I NEVER THOUGHT MY BOOK WOULD MAKE IT THIS FAR!! THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR YOUR CONTINUED LOVE AND SUPPORT!! IT MEANS SO MUCH TO ME THAT YOU ENJOY THIS STORY, DESPITE THE GRAMMAR ERRORS I WAS UNABLE TO NOTICE!! YOU ALL ARE THE ABSOLUTE BEST AND I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!! Next chapter is the official start to the Red Rose Tyrant arc, so be prepared to meet Cater and finding out that we'll be able to use magic thanks to our ki energy being similar to what Ace and Deuce use! I'll see you all as soon as I get the chapter written out! Bye folks!!