"Hoooooooooot!" Ayla whined. Sweat dripping down her sunburnt face. She was not used to the unfiltered heat of the desert. Desert sand blew straight into the weapon and meister's faces. The air was too dry for the two girls, both had tomato red faces, even though they were both in just tank tops and shorts.
"You know, this school better be worth it, walking from Alaska to Nevada is a killer on the legs" the auburn hair girl's attitude became serious. She didn't want to make this tiring trek for a bunch of second rate meister's.
The weapon pushed her dirty blonde hair out of her eyes, and sighed. Sometimes she thought her sister was a whiner, but she did speak the truth. Her legs were killing her too.
"I lost the feeling in my legs a long time ago." she mumbled.
"Well, we are within running distance, at least for me. If you transform I can get us to death city." Ayla's hazel eyes shined at her little sister. She was always the quiet one. Well, she did have her moments.
The blonde looked at her older sister, looked down, and nodded. Shae turned into her trench knife form.
"Well, we'd better hurry; the person who's going to show us around is expecting us soon." Shae said with a yawn.
"Yeah yeah..." gripping on to the warm metal of her trench knives Ayla's smirk became wicked. "Let's do this" taking in a deep breath, she pushed off the ground at full speed, laughing like crazy. "I should've done track and field! I would've been awesome!"
"Yeah, you're way better running long distance than me." Her little sister chimed in. Shae laughed a little. She always thought her older sister had the most personality out of the two. Shae didn't like to admit it but she didn't have a very fun personality. "Hey, Ayla! I can see it! Death city is just up ahead! It's beautiful!" Shae shouted joyfully.
Looking up from her weapon Ayla saw that Shae was right. Although it was too far away to see all the details she could make the DWMA from here.
'Hmm, my legs are so tired. But maybe I can push myself just a little bit more and we can get there faster' Ayla pondered. "Here goes nothing" gripping tighter to the electric blue and black patterned metal of her sister's weapon form. Focusing all her energy into running faster. The sand went flying in their wake.
Adrenalin was racing through Ayla; Shae could feel it because her sister was gripping on to her so tight.
"Ayla, you're gonna wear yourself out if you run any faster." Shae pointed out.
"Nonsense poopy pants!" Ayla laughed
The black and red architecture of the DWMA was becoming clear to the two teenagers. Pretty soon Ayla's foot touched the cobble stone street of Death City. Transforming back into her original form, Shae felt so tired. But, at the same time overly excited. Looking at the DWMA Shae noticed something.
"It's huge!" Shae thought out loud. She did that sometimes. "Oh, where's that person who's gonna show us around?" She asked her sister.
Then she heard footsteps behind her. Shae's heart rate quickened a bit, she didn't like strangers. Turning, she saw a boy with black hair and stripes on one side. She thought he looked nice, but still didn't talk, just stood behind Ayla. Ayla's hazel eyes examined the curious kid with the weird stripes on his head as she stood defensively in front of her sister before deeming him safe in her mind.
"So, you two must be Shae and Ayla?" he rather stated more than asked; looking back and forth between them.
"Yeah, I'm Shae and this is my older sister, Ayla." Shae said quietly.
"So it seems." The boy eyed them.
Shae noticed that he was looking at her with weird eyes. "Um, is there something wrong?" Shae asked.
The boy pointed to her bangs. "Your hair."
Ayla stepped in before she had to beat the crap out of him for saying something negative about her sister. "Your hair" she stated. 'That's the best you could come up with? Your hair?' Ayla yelled in her mind but held her calm demeanor.
The boy's face went blank for a second. Then he crumpled into a fetal position on the ground. "IM NOTHING BUT ASYMMETRICAL GARBAGE!" he cried
Both sisters were shocked.
"Uh oh... I think I broke him Shae," Ayla said moving closer to the boy starting to pat his back.
Shae thought for a moment, her side bangs.
"Oh, my bangs only to go one side!" Shae realized out loud. Her light blue eyes went to Ayla. "How are we gonna get him to stop having a heart attack?" Shae asked while looking at the boy with pity.
"Don't worry, he does this all the time," another male voice spoke behind Shae. "Just keep patting him on the back ginger; he'll come round sooner or later."
The two girls nodded at the boy that had bleach blonde hair and reddish eyes.
"The name is Soul. That boy on the ground is Death the Kid." Soul informed the sisters holding his hand out to Shae
Shae was a bit freaked out at first when she saw the guy with the white hair and sharp teeth, but she just shook his hand anyway.
"You a weapon, or a meister?" Soul asked.
"I'm a weapon, trench knifes." Shae replied with a smile.
"There, there kid. You are perfectly... Uhhh, symmetrical?" Ayla said comforting the crippled the boy.
Soul just smirked, "You new here then? What are you names?" he looked back to Shae.
"Over there is my older sister, Ayla." Shae told him while pointing to her sister who was patting the cripples head.
"And your name?" Soul asked.
"I'm Shae."
There was a long awkward silence, other than the cripple crying. "Y-you really think I'm symmetrical?" Kid whined, whipping the tears from his eyes and straightening up more.
Ayla smiled inside she was think 'Hahaha no, no you're not.'
"Yes! You're like the Mary Poppins of symmetry, practically perfect in every way" Ayla stood up and brushed off her pants then held out her hand to kid with a smile.
Shae smiled and laughed. She admired how her sister could get along with strangers so easily.
"Well then, now that that's over, we'll show you two round." Soul said with a smirk.
"Can we do this tomorrow? Or at least for me... My legs feel a bit wobbly." Ayla asked the two boys.
Shae was a bit disappointed, the two boys were nice. But she didn't complain and said bye to soul.
"C'ya, Shae and Ayla!" Soul shouted when Shae and her sister were down the steps.
Kid marched along with the two girls. His hands shoved in the pockets of his pants. "You two will be staying at my place until my father can figure out proper living arrangements for you."
"Oh, thank you very much!" Ayla smiled at Kid.
Shae nodded. "Thanks, Kid." She said while yawning.
Death the kid kept quiet most of the way, but the sometimes chatting it up with Ayla.
"So, where are you two from?" Kid questioned.
"We are from a pretty small town in Alaska." Ayla answered linking arms with Shae. "We moved here because the only school there was had about 20 people all together and we got bored of it. We needed a challenge."
"Hmm what do you two think of it so far?"
Shae didn't really know how to respond, she hadn't even seen the school yet. Kid and Ayla watched as Shae looked down and searched for an answer.
"Well we haven't seen much if the city to be honest," Ayla said giving her sister a knowing smile, then turning to face Kid. "But it looks more beautiful from anything I have seen, even if it is insufferably hot."
Kid chuckled at the statement. "Well hopefully you two will enjoy you stay at my perfectly symmetrical house."
The two girls exchanged glances and smiled.
'This Kid is weird, in a good way.' Shae laughed to herself.
"How far away is your house?" she asked Kid. Shae's legs already hurt as it was but now she could really feel it.
"It's about 5 blocks more," he said eyeing Shae. Both the girls could tell he was refraining from starting a conversation about her asymmetrical bangs.
"Did you want to transform again? I could carry you the rest of the way if you want." Ayla questioned
"No, I'm strong enough." Shae mumbled as her head went down. She felt like she was a baby, always having to be taken care of. It bothered her sometimes, but she never really said much about it.
Shae was a bit tired of awkwardness so she decided to make this Death the Kid feel awkward too. She started eyeing his "asymmetrical" hair. Kid didn't know what she was looking at so he started to move closer to Ayla.
"Just trying to do my big sister... Whoa!" Ayla stopped in her tracks when the group rounded the corner to see a tall, pristine building in their midst. "Haha I should've known the son of lord Death wouldn't live in a little old house." she laughed at her foolishness.
Still trying to stare down each other, Shae and Kid finally quit bugging each other to face the castle that Death's son calls home. Shae stood in front of the 'house' with her mouth open. It was amazing.
"This is your house?" Shae managed to say.
"Huh? Oh yes, Gallows Manor! It has perfect symmetry!" Kid shouted with shining eyes.
Shae and Ayla raised an eyebrow at his obsession.
Kid coughed and straightened himself, "Shall we go in?"
Both girls nodded. Ayla and Shae couldn't help but oohing and aahing at everything.
"Maybe symmetry is handy" Ayla said aloud.
It put a smile on Kids face. "Well Liz and Patti should've made a room up for you two by now. LIZ! PATTI!" he called out for the girls.
"So you live with a bunch of girls?" Ayla smiled and whispered in Shae's ear. "Totally a player."
Shae laughed, Kid turned around and glared at her. She looked back at him, her eyes looked really shocked.
"What?" Shae asked nervously.
"What did you want kid?" a tall blonde girl came down the stairs.
"Did you finish our guests room Liz?" he turned to her.
"Oh... Uhhhmmmmm." she sputtered out.
"We put the beds in but then I made a giraffe and Liz broke a nail." a shorter blonde girl came out holding a giant origami giraffe.
"The only task I give you guys and," kid started.
"That's fine," Ayla interrupted. "Personally just a bed sounds nice after walking for so long, and it will give us a chance to put our stuff the way we like. Thank you again for your hospitality." she smiled and bowed her head.
Shae also bowed, her legs almost gave out under her, until Ayla grabbed her arm and dragged her to where Liz told them their room was.
"Wow, this place is huge!" Shae exclaimed in awe.
The only thing was that the halls looked exactly the same; Shae didn't know where they were going. She started to panic a bit, but she tried to put on a brave face. Ayla still led the way.
"Symmetry is boring after a while. There's nothing interesting about something that always looks the same," Ayla mumbled, the fatigue clearly showing now. "As soon as I find this room I'm passing out on the floor."
After a couple more doors there was an obvious sign that this was their room. A childish and misspelled "Welkome" sign hung around a door. Letting go of Shae and pushing the door open the girls walked into a ginormous room that had two halves that way it sort of looked like two rooms and each had their own king sized bed. It was more like a ballroom to the two girls.
Shae looked around and smiled, she looked over at her sister.
"Huh? Ayla, where did you go?" Shae only heard snoring which lead to Ayla who wasn't standing, she was telling the truth when she said she was going to pass out on the floor. Shae laughed and walked over to the bed, flopped down on it. She fell asleep after about ten seconds of lying down.
Kid walked into the girl's room after a while to see what they thought of their room. Upon entering the room he saw Ayla sprawled on the floor, her red hair spread wildly around her. He tried to keep a calm face even though he wanted to fix the hair so it was perfect. Instead he sighed and lifted her off the ground and set her down on the bed that didn't have Shae snoozing soundly in it.
"Well looks like tomorrow you two will get the tour around death city." Kid whispered to himself when he was back at the door.