Chapter 1: Just another Newbie
"So this is the place?" A sixteen year old questions as she stands in the desert looking up at the skull covered black, red and white city before her. The girl wore regular black converse that has checkered purpled lacing. Her dark, jean shorts reached over her knees with a folded ending. Her top was a regular white tank that had a tear to her left-front, and she had a black leather jacket over it with the bottom torn like a fire's flames. She had long, black hair with a thick braid to her right, two small braids from both sides of her head tied back and dropped down into one, and an odd purple star on her bangs. Her purple scarf wrapped twice around her neck and dropped down above her knee. Her skin was mildly tanned, and the most intriguing thing was the icy tipped, turquoise eyes and cat like pupils in her stare.
"I hope this place won't be boring. Except, the skulls shown around this town look promising." She chuckled, thinking about what could make this place look so strange. She confidently strolled into town, seeing nice people smiling and going on with their busy lives. "This place seems okay, I just hope more exciting stuff comes along." She grinned at this thought, hoping to kill every pre-Kishin with her own blade.
"Hey guys check it out!" A man whispers to a group of guys huddled in the corner of an alley, each of them having a tattoo on either neck or face and long, dark cloaks over their shoulders. "Look, that chick over there with the purple star! She's a cute one eh?" "Your right!" One of the men walks up and catches a glimpse of her, "She's actually the one we've been looking for…" An evil smile curves upon each of their faces as they stare at the teen walking by.
The girl soon reaches the middle of the town and approaches a large number of steps. "Just my luck…" She gave a sigh and runs up the stairs fast. She stops as soon as she got on the last step, and stared at the huge building in front of her. "Here goes nothing." She thought as she closed her eyes and took a deep breath, approaching the front doors.
"HAHAH THE GREAT GOD HAS WON YET AGAIN ANOTHER BATTLE HAHAHAHAHA!" Blackstar bragged to no one in particular as he walked the hallways of DWMA to his class with Pr. Stein. His hands fold behind his head as he thought of another victory to his claim. He then turned a corner and bumped into someone, making them fall back.
"Ouch!" She rubbed her forehead at the impact with Blackstar. "Watch where your-"The girl looks up at Blackstar, and their eyes connect. "Hey, are you alright?" Blackstar holds out his hand and she grabs it to stand. "BECAUSE YOUR GREAT GOD IS HERE TO HELP YOU HAHAHA!" The girl rolled her eyes thinking, "Oh boy, a great hot head I've run into…" Blackstar breaks her thoughts, "Hey I haven't seen you here before. You new?" She looks up and smiles, happy to find someone who went here. "Yes, I need help finding a place called the 'Death Room'…?" "Oh, well… A GREAT GOD LIKE ME WILL BE HAPPY TO SHOW YOU!" She smiled with a drop of sweat on her head, "Okay…" "This guy is hard to get used too…" She thought as she followed him down the black and white checkered hallways. The trip over seemed long, covered by uncomfortable silence. Then, they came upon a long hallway with stands of blades at the top that looked like they might slice their heads off. In between the stands showed the halls turning into a place with clouds in the sky and crosses placed on the ground. The girl looked around, amazed by the change everywhere as she walked. Blackstar took a glance at her amazement and grinned. Soon, they came to the end where she saw a guy in a black outfit standing in front of a mirror.
"YO LORD DEATH! A GIRL SAYS SHE'S NEW HERE!" The guy in the black outfit turns around with a skeleton mask shown as his face. "Oh! Hello, Hello, Hello! Looks like our new student has finally arrived!" Out of his sleeves popped out two large hands that seemed like each finger was as thick as a 35 chapter book. The girl stepped up as Lord Death spoke again in his cheery, silly voice. "Hello hello! What might your name be, missy?" He studied her curiously as she spoke. "I am Hoshiko Ni-Buki. I'm honored to meet you, Lord Death." She took a bow and looked up, smiling. "Oh ho-ho! A descendent of the two-weapon family! It is an honor to meet you as well." He took his own bow and followed her smile.
Blackstar, still on the sidelines, seemed to be taken aback by Lord Death's welcoming. As Death got back up, a man in a black suit with red hair stepped out from behind him. "She looks like a smart girl..." He confidently walks up to her and bends down to stare into her eyes. "I have one thing to say to you…" Hoshiko gulped, nervous and somewhat weirded off by this man who was inches away from her face. "YOU MUST BE NICE TO MY LITTLE GIRL, MAKA ALBARN! I AM HER FATHER AND I WILL SEE AND PROTECT HER AT ALL-""REAPER CHOP!" Shinigama gave a hard blow to Spirit's head, and he collapsed to the floor, unconscious. "I'm really sorry. Spirit is protective of his daughter, Maka." "Maka huh?" Hoshiko thought as Spirit was regaining consciousness with a trail of blood coming down his face. "WHY DID YOU DO THAT FOR?!" "You're scaring our new student, Spirit." Spirit stuffed his hands in his pockets and looked to the ground, mad. "Well, miss Hoshiko…" Death turned his attention towards her. "Please, call me Hoshi if you would." "Hoshi, Blackstar here will escort you to his class which he should be in right now…" Blackstar rubbed his head and smiled goofily. "Please, if you need anything, don't hesitate to ask us." "Thank you Lord Death." She bowed again and followed Blackstar down the hall. "Welcome to DWMA!" Death waved until they were out of ear-shot. "Every time… you really have to stop scaring new people…" Shinigami-sama looked down at his Death Sythe as he yelled, "I WILL PROTECT MA-" He was knocked out cold again with another, "REAPER CHOP!"
Down the hallway toward Stein's class, Blackstar wondered. "Two-weaponed? Death bowed? What's that all about?" He curiously stared at Hoshiko who noticed out of the corner of her eye and looked back, smiling at him. His cheeks turns pink, but kept his cool. "So, your name is Blackstar?" "YES I AM! THE GREAT GOD WHO WILL SURPASS GOD HAHAHAHA!" Blackstar pointed to himself with both his thumbs. She turned the other way, "Oh brother…"
"Whats with this guy? Conceded much? But then again… He is pretty cute… ah, no. You're here for progress not to find a guy." Hoshiko thought as she stared out the windows.
They arrived at Stein's classroom and Blackstar walked in first, seeing Stein about to dissect a snake. A scalpel was thrown near Blackstar's head, letting itself be lodged into the wall. "Late again, Blackstar…" Blackstar quickly took his seat, looking back at Stein with a huff. Stein sighed and noticed Hoshiko, scared, looking at the other scalpel in his hand as she waited at the door. "Hello there, please come in." Stein smiled as Hoshiko walked into the classroom, hearing whispers at every step she took towards Stein's desk.
She could feel the eyes burning through her soul from every student in the classroom. "U-um… Hello…" She shyly looked at the teacher, and he gave her an encouraging smile. "What's your name?" She took a quick breath and said, "I am Hoshiko Ni-Buki. It's a pleasure to meet you Mr.-." Stein interrupted her, "Professor Frankenstein, but please, call me Stein. So, what are you, Hoshiko?" Stein looked at her curiously, studying her wavelengths. "I am a weapon looking for a meister." Hoshiko heard more whispers going on in the classroom and Stein raised a scalpel, silencing them all. "Will you please demonstrate for us?" "Happy to…"
She grinned as a dark purple light engulfed her. She transformed into a heavy, thick, black sword with sharp designs, linen wrapped at the handle, and a purple star in the center at the guard. There were some oohs and pfts among the students, mostly the other weapon students taking no interest. Stein studied her structure and was quite pleased with her perfection. "I haven't seen this type of metal nor design since…" He thought back to her name. He swung her a few times and noticed her slashes reached the walls he faced to, giving them clean cuts all the way through. All of the students quickly took interest in her attacks, representing this with silence. Hoshiko's reflection gleamed on the blade with her smirking, "That's not all I can do."
She quickly transforms into a deep voilet boomerang, its inner edges sharp with spikes, the outer clean and thin, and had a spot cut in the middle, shaped into a star. "I'm quite amazed…" He threw her out above the students, giving them a surprise. They were fascinated as she gleamed, passing the light which shone through the back windows. She quickly returned to Stein and she transformed back into herself. "I have got to say, your transformations are very… unique." He leaned back and started to clap with a familiar grin. The rest of the class joined in also as they too were amused. Hoshiko blushed with embarrassment and rubbed her arm as she looks down. "It was nothing really…" The bell rung and the students headed out to lunch.
Hoshiko stood where she was and noticed Blackstar waving at her from outside the doorway. She took a step towards him until Stein stopped her. "Hoshiko, may I have a word with you?" She gulped and noticed Blackstar with a questioning look on his face as he left with Tsubaki.
The whole gang sat down in their usual spot inside the forest for lunch, except for Chrona because he was out sick today. Kid spoke first, "Anyone wonder about that new girl in class?" "Yeah, she doesn't have a flat chest like this bookworm over here…" Soul nodded to Maka's direction, instantly receiving her famous "MAKA-CHOP!" Soul rubbed his head as Liz spoke. "She looks like a girl who can handle herself well. I like that." Tsubaki joined in. "She sounds really nice, and she is very pretty, too."
Patty jumped up and pointed to Kid. "I love the star on her head! It reminds me of how unsymmetrical Kid is with those three stripes!" Kid was behind them all, head-first down on the ground and gloom surrounding him. "She is right, I am asymmetrical trash…" "Patty not again…" Liz went to go help Kid back into his symmetrical self as Maka questioned. "I wonder why Stein said he had never seen something like her before. It sounded like he knew something else…" The whole time, Blackstar didn't say a word and was looking down.
He stood up, "I know what Stein must have felt towards her…" Everyone curiously looked at Blackstar, even Kid was broken out of his thoughts of himself being asymmetrical. Maka asked, "What do you know, Blackstar?" He kept on looking down like he was bothered. "Her last name, Ni-Buki, means 'Two-weaponed'. When I showed her to Death, he said it was an honor to meet a descendent from that family. He even bowed, just by hearing her last name!" Blackstar's voice grew in sound as he felt jealousy towards Hoshiko. He didn't like the fact that someone could outshine him, even though he's the biggest star of all. Everyone stared at him in shock, taking in the new information. Lord Death never bowed to anyone unless they were very important…
"And all this time I thought…" Maka thought back to when Hoshiko entered the classroom…
"Hello there, please come in." Maka looked to her right as a strange looking girl walked in. She took note at how her star as she approached Stein. "What's your name?" "I am Hoshiko Ni-Buki." Maka's eyes widened to her full name. She knew she had heard those last two words from somewhere, but she couldn't put her finger on it.
Hoshiko transforms into a thick looking sword that surprised Maka. She looked in awe as Stein studied her. "I haven't seen this sort of metal nor design since…" "What? What was he gonna say?" Maka thought as she took a deeper interest into this new girl. Stein swung her around making Maka scared when her clean cuts sliced into the walls. "That's not all I can do…" She quickly changed into a boomerang and Stein studied her once again. "I haven't ever seen a boomerang one…" Maka stared at her curiously, and she was soon thrown above her head into the sun's rays from the windows. Maka snickered, "Show-off…"as Hoshiko returned to Stein.
"She must be very important then…" Maka said when silence followed. "Well, important or not, did you guys get a look at her eyes? Very cool." Soul grinned as everyone broke the silence with their opinions. "I like them! They look so mysterious... ooooo…" "Patty, please don't creep me out." "She is right, I feel like if she stared at me, my soul would freeze." "Oh come on Kid. They are not that bad. They looked pretty sexy." "MAKA CHOP!" Soul lay on the floor with eyes spinning and blood trickling down his forehead. "Soul's right. I love her eyes. They are like Blair's but different color." Tsubaki smiled thinking of the furry cat. Blackstar sat down again. "BUT SHE WILL NEVER SURPASS A GOD LIKE ME HAHAHA!"
Everyone laughed as the bell rang. They all went back to class, and Kid noticed Hoshiko throwing away the core of an apple after sitting down in the shade by herself. "I wish she could have eaten with us…" Kid looked back to his friends and approaches Hoshiko before she opens the door. "Allow me." Kid opens it for her, and she blushes with embarrassment as she passes him to go inside. "It's okay… I would have gotten it…" Kid walks along side her in an uncomfortable silence. "Your name is Hoshiko right?" She nods, "But you can call me Hoshi for short." "You have an amazing design by the way. VERY symmetrical." "Thank you?" She rubs her arm, feeling uncomfortable with this weird boy next to her. "Man, this school does have its hots and cutes…" She thought as Kid asked, "Might I ask, why do you have a star on your head?" He pointed to her star in her hair. "Um… It's personal…" Kid looks at her curiously and decided he wouldn't lead on. Hoshiko turns the other way, thinking, "Whew… I hope I dodged that one… Unlike Mr. Stein…"
"Hoshiko, may I have a word with you?" She gulped and turned around to face Stein. "Y-yes?" "Please, I won't hurt you…" She let out a sigh of relief and withdrew a quick breath back as Stein added, "Yet…" "The reason I pulled you behind is because I am curious about you, miss Ni-Buki." "Please call me Hoshi, if you would." Stein sat down and offered her to sit on his desk. Unusual as it was, she took the offer anyways from standing and walking so long from her trip here. Stein took off his glasses and rubbed them with his lab coat as he spoke. "As I said before, I was amazed by your talent. I sensed great wavelengths from you, but could feel somewhat of a wavelength you're trying to hide. "Hoshiko rubbed her arm, now feeling nervous. "I don't like to show that I'm nervous in front of people…" "No, no… It wasn't that that I had sensed… Do you have a secret you won't tell me, Hoshi?" "I have no secrets! What you see is what you see. Now may I please go to lunch? The smell of food is making my stomach growl." Stein stared into her cat-like eyes, and nodded as she popped off the desk and out the door. "I will find out. I know everything…" Stein rolled backwards out the door and fell back… again…
Kid and Hoshiko made it back to class in time before Stein pulled out another scalpel. Hoshiko just stood next to his desk, looking at him patiently. Stein noticed and looked around the class in front of him. "Well, until I can figure this out, Hoshi, you can sit on the desk right here or would you prefer my seat?" Hoshiko looked at her two options, "Um…" She looks at his mobile chair, noticing some weird screws underneath. "I'll take the desk." She hops up on the hard wood and leaves her legs hanging as Stein starts class again.
The rest of the day went well, and Hoshiko was the first one out the door when all of it was over. "I got to find a new job… and fast…" She was just about to jump down the long stairs when she heard someone calling her. "HOSHI! YOUR GREAT GOD IS TELLING YOU TO WAIT!" Hoshiko turns around to see Blackstar running with the rest of the crew at his heels. "Oh, hey Blackstar." She smiled and her right foot tapped upright with anticipation. Everyone else caught up to them. "Damn it, Blackstar." Soul sighed as all of them were trying to catch their breath. Blackstar asked, "Why are you in a rush?" Hoshiko looked to the left and leaned on her tapping foot. "I just had to get out of that classroom. Stein is scary with those scalpels…"
"You're telling me…" Liz said with a horrified look when she remembers all those times Stein threw a scalpel at her when she was late or misbehaved. "Hoshi, would you like to hang out with us today?" Tsubaki asks with a sweet smile. Hoshiko looks up at the nice girl, "Oh… um…" "Yeah, we could play basketball by the park not too far from here. Unless you're not up for the challenge…" Hoshiko gave Soul a playful, hard punch to his left arm. "Who says I suck at basketball?" She grinned and Blackstar cheered, "YAHOO!" "But…" Blackstar looked at her with a 'WTF' face. "I have to get somewhere right now… so… maybe tomorrow or something kay? Bye guys!" She took a big leap down the stairs.
"HOSHI?!" Everyone yelled and stared with shock in their eyes as they saw her fall. Her left arm turns into half of the boomerang they saw from earlier, and she catches herself by grinding down the rails. She gets to the bottom and front-flips into the air, landing safely on the concrete floor. Her arm transforms back, and she runs down the streets until she was out of sight. "What was that?" Maka asks. Soul replies with a shrug, "I don't know." Blackstar yells out, "I HAVE GOT TO TRY THAT! SHE'S GOT STYLE!"
