Hello, all so I have recently fallen in love with Soul Eater. Just to let you all know two things. 1) I OWN NOTHING! 2) This is a very dark story, and I do mean dark. This story is not for everyone. The main character is tortured. There is mention of self harm done. I need to apologize for this because this is not lighthearted at all. So I hope that I have properly warned you. THIS IS DARK. I just need to get it out. Sorry in advance.
"Alright, class settle down. Today we will be going over Soul Resonance, and how to activate, and hold it. Everyone, split up into your pairs. Chiba, where is your weapon" Dr. Stein asked one of the students.
Chiba, the boy in question was originally from Japan. He had black shoulder length hair that was pulled back into a more modern looking warrior's knot. Instead of it being on the top of his head it sat in the base of his skull. With a dark brown duster like jacket that was more cowboy then samurai. Especially when you consider the fact that he always wore blue jeans. His light brown eyes looking apologetically to the teacher in front of him with sadness, and a head shake.
"Alright then just watch the others, and make sure to observe their wavelengths as they do it. I should go to the office for a bit. Continue on with the lesson" the man with the screw in his head said. He hunched over the small rolling chair that had seen better days, and then out the door he went.
In the office was Stein's new girlfriend Marie. She smiled as he came in to the office, and even though it was a serious reason as to why he left his class. Seeing his girlfriend smile lightened his heart.
"What are you doing here? Don't you have a class right now? Did you come to see me" she asked with a flirty smile.
"As much as I would love to, no. This is about a student. She has missed most of the classes this month alone, and her meister hasn't seen her either. Even when she does show up her participation in class is minimal. At this point, Black Star is a better student then her. When she changes lately she looks nicked, and dull coloring has appeared. I think something is going on with her. I have been making inquiries for a while now" the teacher said in a concerned voice.
"Well I haven't been here long, but that does sound troubling. Would you like me to go see her when I get a chance? Maybe talking weapon to weapon would help her out" Marie said with a hopeful look.
"Normally, I would say that it sounds like a great idea, but no one in the school knows where she is living anymore. She never filled out a change of address form when she left the girls dorms. It's almost like she has turned into a ghost. I don't know what to do" he said sounding dejected.
"What, is the name of this student? Which year is she in" she questioned.
"Hera Alderman, and she's a second year. Her weapon form is that of a trident. When she is in her human form she is only 5'2" she was always quite small, but in weapon form she stands well over 7 feet in length. Her original color was a polished silver, but it has changed into a dull iron color. I don't know what has caused the change in her. I know that depression can cause changes to a weapons' color, but this seems like it's a bit more to it than just that" his face and voice showing his concern.
"I heard about her from some of the other teachers. Mostly Sid and Naigus talk about her" Marie confirmed Stein's fears. If the other teachers were noticing the disturbing behavior then Lord Death would know soon too. Hera might just be on her way out if this kept up.
Something was defiantly going on with this girl a total of four teachers were showing concern, and no one knew where to locate her. Stein was making his way to the computer to look up any information that they might have on her. Even if it was old it may help. First off, he should at the very least call the girls' parents to see what they know about the developing situation. Locating her file was the easy part. As Stein was looking for the phone number for Hera's parents Sid walked into the office.
"Stein, do you have a class right now? What, are you in here for? The NOT Classes are just as important as the EAT ones so they still need to be taught" the undead teacher said.
"Hera is missing I was here to get some info for her" he replied barely looking back.
"If you are going to try the number on file it's pointless. I tried that months ago. Either she gave us a bad number, or it got disconnected in the two years that she's been here. I have some people working on tracking down her family. They have been at it for a week now, but no results as of right now. I will keep you updated if you would like" the deceased teacher said with a sigh. If it was possible for a zombie to look exhausted then at that moment Sid did it.
"Yes, I would like to know about anything that you, and your team find. I guess that I'm a little bit late on the uptake with this. How long have you known" the mad doctor asked?
"I know that she's been hiding something for about a year now, but it never affected her to much till about 3 months ago. Since then it has gotten even worse. She was never a big girl, but the weight loss has gotten bad. Not to mention the dark bags under her eyes, and the clothes getting longer like she either wants to disappear, or hiding something. The skipping school, and ignoring her meister is new though. The poor boy knows nothing. They stopped resonating about 6 months ago" the whole room grew quite to listen to the teacher. Slowly Stein started leaving the room to head back to class. The teachers started staring into space thinking about what they had just heard. All of them thinking along the same lines. All the signs were pointing to something being wrong, and only getting worse.
Finally, Naigus got up someone had to tell Lord Death. If the teachers were at a loss of what to do then maybe their leader would. It would also be better than sitting around, and doing nothing. It was hard just listening to that let alone living it. Thinking back on the past 2 years Naigus had seen, talked, and worked with the girl many times before. She had was a shy thing when they first meet, but that was easy to explain. Most students go thru that as well. They leave their homes, and families. Start a new school, and in a new town. Many of them live in the dorms till graduation. Even though they get an allowance almost all of them at some point or another get jobs. The students that attend DWMA have the tendency to grow up fast. Even the ones that are in the NOT classes grow up fast.
Naigus ran back into the teachers' lounge finding that not much had changed in the short time that she was gone. "Has anyone check if Hera has been receiving her allowance" she asked in a hurry. Everyone looked up with the new question hanging in the air. With a new lead in their heads looked at each other to see if anyone had checked. Everyone shook their heads. It was such a simple thing that no one had bothered to check on this small thing. Sid rushed to go, and check the records. This might just lead to a location for the girl. They all waited for Sid to come back with the record book of student allowances. NOT students received a smaller allowance the EAT ones, and it increased the more stars you get, as well as the grade that you are in.
Sid came back a little bit later with a thick binder that had seen better days. He was looking toward the back of the book to see the student records from further back. He was looking near the back of the binder.
"From our records, it looks like she hasn't picked up her allowance for at least 5 months, and it seems like it's going to the girls' dorm room that she has had from the beginning of the year. So, either she never moved out, or she never updated any records that may have been needed" Sid said with even more questions.
It was about a week later that any of the teachers had new information concerning the missing student. It came in the form of a phone call that came back from a police department from her home town in California. They informed the school that Hera's parents had been killed in a car accident, and the farm that they had owned had been seized by the bank. After a call to the bank they found out that even with the property sold there was still a sustainable amount debt that Hera still had to make to the bank. Even with the allowance money that she had saved up over the past months it was only enough to pay the interest that had accumulated within the last few months. She still owned about 5 thousand to clear the dept. Without Hera's ok they couldn't give the money that she had earned to the bank so all that was happening was the bank was just going to be increasing the interest of the remaining loan. As it stands it looks like she wasn't eating, or if it was she wasn't buying the food.
It also seemed that she never left the girls' dorm, but maybe she just sold what little she had. Probably at the Death Bazaar so there would be no records, or way to trace it. The lack of records on Hera was so small that it is disturbing. The one thing that the teachers needed was a location for her. It was the one thing that could solve a lot of problems. They could release the back allowance to the bank, and make sure that she was still attending the DWMA. After all the whole point of weapons coming here was to learn to control their weapon form so that no one in the future will get hurt by accident. If a weapon has no control over how, and when they transform people could get really hurt.