First Impressions, First Suspicions
I don't own Soul Eater or Wolf's Rain.
Okay! To end a lot of confusion I'll explain a few things first. *Something* happened in Kiba, Tsume, Hige and Toboe's second life to teleport hem to another dimension. They've been traveling for a while now and wind up in the Nevada desert. I wonder who they run into? *cough* *cough* This takes place sometime after the end of Wolf's Rain and no real date in Soul Eater.
In a wide everlasting desert, four wolves carried their bodies beneath the grinning moon. The howls they cried would not echo, nor travel far, but sink into the sand and grounds of the land. It was a windless night in a world far from Paradise.
"Kiba! Can we please stop now?" whined a bronze wolf- Hige. His nose was touching the desert's sand. Kiba didn't answer, but instead halted in his run. This made Toboe bump into him.
"Kiba?" said Toboe apprehensively. The white wolf didn't respond.
"We have to find shelter now. The moon in this dimension won't give us the strength we need," said a grey wolf behind him with a glance at the bloody yellow moon above. It was perhaps the vilest thing any of the wolves had seen and to know it was a replacement for their familiar blood-red moon was just too much.
Still no answer from the white wolf, but Tsume persisted. "Kiba! We'll all die at this rate! I won't throw away my second chance at life!"
This caught his attention. He lifted his head up high and sniffed the air searching for a scent. His head drooped low again. "There's no scent. You try, Hige," he muttered. The other wolves tensed. Kiba had let go of his determination after they lost Cheza a second time and unbeknownst to him, this resulted in losing his real authority as Alpha. Tsume would snap him out of his stubborn silences and lead the pack quietly if Kiba didn't attempt to break free from his… thoughts. No one dared complain.
Hige lifted his head and sniffed just as Kiba had… but this time there was a scent. With a new energy flowing through his body, the wolf charged eastward, soon to be followed by his packmates.
"Hige... please... just... stop," cried Toboe to Hige. They had been running flat-out for ten minutes now and each wolf was feeling the toll, but most of all Toboe.
"Shut up, runt! There's food and shelter up there!" replied Hige excitedly. Toboe snorted but said no more.
It was another ten minutes before they caught sight of their destination and another thirty before they reached it. The four wolves gaped at the scene before them.
Hundreds of houses, one large mansion, and one sign saying 'Death city.' Each wolf felt the presence of great power within the city and smelled the blunt danger in the air. Add the moon and the entire place looked like a twisted graveyard. Tsume growled faintly.
"Humans live here," he murmured.
"Well of course, dumb ass!" chuckled Hige, already running toward the gates with drool slipping from his fangs.
"Wait! Guys, we have to change into our human forms!" said Toboe, who had already taken the appearance of a young fifteen year old boy. Kiba, Tsume, and Hige did the same. Kiba pushed Hige aside and entered the gates first. Tsume went after him as did Toboe, leaving Hige staring at his companions.
"Wait for me!" he yelled after them.
When Hige caught up to the the three, they were all forced to stop. A younger girl stood with a scythe in her hands. She was glowering at them with her fearsome eyes- all wolves sensed her power. They also sensed another individual right next to her, which meant they were trapped. It was nighttime, the time wolves were best but under such an evil moon, they felt almost none of the power they usually felt.
"Stop there, strangers," the girl growled. Out of nowhere, a second voice came, "Maka, let's just finish them already!" The girl, Maka, hissed and gripped her weapon tighter, "They're not on the list! We'll bring them in to Lord Death." The second voice snorted, "Whatever. This is just uncool."
Tsume stood with Kiba protecting Toboe and Hige from any possible sudden attacks. Both lead wolves were racking their brains for a quick and easy plan that would leave them free and unwanted for arrest. It looked like they'd have to either run away or kill her, but they were starved and hurting an innocent girl was different from killing a faceless Noble's soldier.
"Who are you?" she asked. Kiba narrowed his eyes. "We're travelers." The girl examined them all individually for a moment.
"What do you want from us?" she asked, either ignoring or accepting their previous answer.
"We don't want to hurt you! We just want a place to stay and some food to eat!" said Toboe desperately. This made Maka question her suspicions.
"Then what are you?" she finished. All was silent for a moment.
"Never mind. We should get going now," muttered Tsume to his pack, but Kiba shook his head. "We came all this way across the desert and we're starved. We can't turn back now." Tsume was quiet.
"What are you?" echoed Maka. The wolves were silent. Then Kiba spoke up.
"We're not human." Maka's eyes narrowed even further. "Follow me please."
The wolves reacted quickly. Tsume dived for her first, attempting to punch her shoulder but she jumped away easily. Hige and Kiba followed but each of their blows were dodged. Suddenly, Toboe rushed between his pack and Maka.
"Guys! Please don't fight! She only wanted us to follow her!" he said. Both sides retracted and looked with surprise at the boy.
"Toboe..." began Kiba but was interrupted by him once again. "Please!"
Kiba sighed. "Lead the way."
The four wolves and Maka stood in the Death Room with Lord Death and Spirit. Soul, to the wolves's astonishment, was in fact Maka's scythe.
"... I noticed there were very strong and powerful souls close to Death City, but when I laid eyes on them, they had souls like nothing I had seen before. They're not humans but they're not witches either," Maka reported to Lord Death, who was listening intently.
"Well, that's interesting! Good job, Maka, Soul!" he said comically, much to the wolves's surprise. Spirit was bursting with joy at this announcement and immediately took it upon himself to tell each and everyone that his daughter was the most perfect thing in the entire world- which he would have had he not been Maka-chopped.
"Now then! Introductions first! I'm Lord Death, head of the Death Weapon Meister Academy! And this my Death Scythe, Spirit!" he said, pulling his hands up and waving them in the air. He ignored the fact that Spirit was lying on the floor with blood flowing from his head.
Everyone just stared. Maka tried to fill it in. "I'm Maka, student of DWMA, and this is my Scythe, Soul," she said, pointing to her partner. That didn't do much.
Silence...
"Uh... well...I'm Toboe... and... this is Hige, Kiba, and Tsume," said the youngest of the pack, pointing to the three other wolves in order.
Silence...
"Then you'll need rooms! Maka, please give them the guest rooms!" said Lord Death. "That's all for now!"
The wolves didn't miss the 'for now' part. They tensed slightly but didn't show it. Maka and Soul led them down the guillotine exit, looking back at Lord Death. She wondered what he had planned for the strangers.
By the time they reached the guest rooms, Hige and Soul were laughing their heads off and saying things like 'cool,' 'chicks,' 'food,' and 'dude.' Everyone else was silently wishing they'd shut up.
"These are your guest rooms. I'll come by later to give you a tour of the school," said Maka, slightly sleepy.
"Actually, we could use with some food first! Bacon's just fine!" said Hige suddenly.
"Now you just shut your mouth, Porky!" snapped Tsume, who just wanted to sleep. Toboe and Kiba had to agree on that.
"No! It's fine! You can come by our apartment right now!" said Maka quickly, not wanting to upset the strangers. She got a good glare from Soul.
"Think of it this way; you'll get to miss Stein's dissections tomorrow!" she hissed in his ear. The wolves heard it, however, and stared at her in confusion.
"Er... well here's the key to the room! Our apartment isn't actually in the school so... you'll have to follow us outside again."
She handed Toboe the key, who gave it to Kiba, who gave it to Tsume, who gave it back to Kiba. Maka was well aware of the awkward situation but did not know why they acted like this.
"You," she said, looking at Kiba, "I will show around the Guest Room. Soul will lead the others to our apartment. I'll catch up." Soul groaned at her suggestion. He exited the room with Hige trailing behind, still cracking the jokes. Tsume and Toboe looked apologetically at kiba and left with Soul as well.
Once they were gone, Maka opened the guest room door with her key.
"So what's your name anyway?" she asked, closing the door behind them.
"I'm Kiba," he replied in a tone that suggested he was not used to meeting new people.
"What are the names of the others?" she continued. She was searching the guest room for any food but found none, noting the fridge stank of dry cheese. Kiba tried not to wrinkle his nose.
"Hige is the one who asked for the bacon, Toboe is the smallest one, and Tsume is the one with the earrings," he said. Maka nodded. She counted the number of beds in the guest room and found six. Were the guests entitled to no privacy?
"Ok. I'll give you back the keys. We'd better get going now," she said, giving Kiba the keys. Kiba looked out the window and closed the curtains sadly, making Maka wonder.
"Has the moon always been like that?" he asked when they were outside of the school and walking down the steps of the academy.
"Hm? Er... yeah!" she said, distracted by the time on her watch. They'd definitely sleep in on the lecture. The others wouldn't be very happy.
Kiba was thinking that wolves definitely did not live this dimension. What was a wolf without a moon?
They soon reached the apartment. Kiba could smell Soul's and his pack's scent here. Maka opened the door and led up the stairs. She took out another set of keys and opened the door before her. It swung open anyway.
"You know, Maka, that you could just knock," said Soul with his hand on the door knob. The two entered the room of the apartment. A fresh wave of scents overcame Kiba's nose: perfume, water, rust, meat, chips, dust, books- you name it. When he looked around with his eyes, he first noticed his packmates. Tsume was leaning on the wall in what might be called a cool fashion, Hige was on the couch stuffing chips (and not bacon) down his mouth, and Toboe was sitting beside him. When Kiba entered, they all looked in his direction.
"How did it go?" asked Hige with his mouth full.
"Hm?" Kiba looked at him, startled.
"You know... all alone with Maka in the guests' room," he grinned cheekily. Maka craned her head toward Soul.
"Did you help him build up this story?" Soul shrugged. "Not my fault."
"In that case... MAKA CHOOOP~!" she yowled, chopping both Soul and Hige on the head. Soul fell to the ground and Hige wavered on is feet. When she hit Hige on the head, her chop almost bounced back. Luckily, no one noticed this.
"Jeez, Maka... could you calm down a little?" muttered Soul from his spot on the floor.
"Hmph! Then don't make up nonsense!" she snorted, placing the book Top 100 funniest Soul-Eating Jokes back into its shelf. The three wolves not Maka-chopped stared in awe at the relationship between Maka and Soul. Tsume, being the guy that he is, saw subtle romance and snickered to himself.
"Anyway, we should explain a few things before we all go to sleep," said Maka as though nothing happened. "Sit down and let us explain."
The wolves sat on the couch opposite Maka and Soul, who were sitting on the chip-covered couch Hige had left.
"So do you guys know what Weapons and Meisters are?" asked Maka. The four wolves stared at her blankly.
"Meisters are people who are special and can properly use a Weapon. Weapons are people who have the power to turn into one weapon, for example, Soul, who is my Weapon. I am his Meister," she said. It was obvious she was breaking it down as much as possible.
"The school, DWMA, collects these students and pairs meisters to weapons to go on missions. The goal of the mission is to kill those who cause discord in this world to even the amount of good and bad. The ultimate aim for every student in DWMA is to make their weapon a Death Scythe. The weapon must eat 99 evil human souls and one witch soul to become one. I;m going to make soul a Death Scythe."
There was another silence. Finally, Toboe asked the question on all their minds. "What do you mean by soul?"
Maka and Soul's spirits plummeted. This was going to be a whole lot harder than they thought.
What can I say? I'm sorry for making so much happen in this first chapter, I just wanted it really long. I hope you understood most of what happened in there. I'm also sorry if I messed some characters or grammar up, I would REALLY appreciate it if you told me. Please review! :) And any questions will be answered (if they don't spoil too much).
By the way... I want to hit myself for writing this -_- I've apparently never heard the phrase 'one at a time.' Sorry about that.