Hi, NorthernMage here! And this is my very first fan fiction that I've been thinking about for ages. Through that time I've made it endlessly confusing and now, simple compared to what it could have been. Anyway, I hope you enjoy!

Lord Death: NorthernMage doesn't own anything here, because if she did, she would have put herself in the DWMA!

Chapter 1

I looked up at the towering red spikes of the DWMA. The Death Weapon Meister Academy. The skull mask on it with the three red spikes sticking out of each hole. A skull mask on either side of the main one. The giant candles. I would be starting here tomorrow. I had the uniform and I knew what type of person to look for. A weapon. I began to walk back to the apartment I had been given when I enrolled. You heard a lot about the DWMA. How the students were strange, how they could kill in a single swipe. How none of them could be trusted. Well, there was a lot that normal people didn't hear. Like how you met a partner who'd fight with you to destroy Kishin. That you had to collect 99 Kishin souls and a soul of a witch to help you or your partner become a Death Scythe, a weapon of Lord Death himself. How you could trust the students, provided you weren't a witch or Kishin, in which case you wanted to be as far away from the city as possible. But, even then you stood little chance. With the trained meisters and weapons, you might as well try to hold back the sea as try to beat the might of the DWMA. If you killed many of their meisters, they'd start sending the powerful ones. Like the rumoured son of Lord Death: Death the Kid. And, if you really managed to stop all of them, you might be a legend amongst Kishin, but you'd be up against him. Lord Death himself. Now I was here, I was nervous about starting at the DWMA. After all, who knew who I'd be paired with? Even though I'd heard about the school, I wasn't sure what I'd be learning. I arrived at my door and as I reached for the key, I thought about Daena. Off killing hordes of Kishin. I opened the door. She was a Shadowhunter, a meister who had abandoned the ways of the DWMA. I had to act like she didn't exist. Shadowhunters weren't exactly...welcome in Death City. Being practically a rebel meister had its downsides. Yet she was my sister. She was the reason I was even here. She had learnt from the Academy, and so would I. I ate some salad and went to bed, nervous but crazily excited.

My eyes shot open. I turned to my bedside clock. 6am. Good, I had an hour until school started. I hurried to my wardrobe and quickly put on my uniform. Black shoes, white socks, a purple skirt and a deep blue shirt. I grabbed a fruit bar from the table, picked up my books and started heading to the DWMA.

I walked up the mountain of steps for the second time in 12 hours. Lots of kids around me were hurrying up as well. When I reached the top there was a zombie handing out name tags with "Meister" and "Weapon" on them.

'What are you?' 'A meister.' He handed me a meister name tag. Everyone except the people without name tags went into a room.

'Hello. My name is Professor Stein.' said an ever so slightly creepy man with a screw through his head. 'You are weapons and meisters. Does anyone not know what that is?' A few hands went up. He sighed. 'Why can't you learn what you are before you come here...anyway. Weapons have the ability to transform into various weapons and meisters wield weapons in the endless fight against Kishin. Kishin are humans that have strayed from the path of humanity and have become evil and devour human souls.'

'Because I'm a god you should all bow down to me! I'm so much more awesome than you ever can be! Ha ha ha!' yelled a boy from the corridor. 'Get to your class, Black Star.' Stein said without even looking in his direction. As Black Star went to class, Stein continued. 'Now, it's time for you to find your partner. Weapons, you're looking for a meister. Meisters, you look for a weapon.'

I looked around. I wandered around and around. I asked a few people if they wanted to be my weapon, but they all snorted and refused. Eventually almost everyone was taken. There was a boy in the corner who looked way too weird for me, a girl who looked like she had had her makeup done just for today, and another girl in the corner. She seemed normal, like me. Better yet, she had a weapon name tag. I walked up to her. 'Hi. Do you want to be my weapon?'

'I'm a scythe. Are you sure you want a scythe as a partner?' 'Of course! That was the weapon I was hoping I'd get!' She got up. 'Well, I'll be your partner then. My name's Spiara.' We shook hands. In that moment I felt her soul radiate through mine. Her soul was a healthy pink for the weapon, with happiness, excitement and nervousness moving throughout her soul. 'Hi Spiara. My name's Angel.' We walked up to Stein. 'Well, Spiara and Angel. What are your last names?' 'Evans.' Spiara said. 'Soul has a sister?' asked Stein, visibly confused. 'No, he doesn't. I'm his cousin.' 'And yours?' Stein asked me. 'Scythita.' Stein paused for a moment. Did he recognise my last name? 'Scythita?' 'Yes Professor, Scythita.' He nodded. 'Your class is Crescent Moon.' As we left Spiara said excitedly 'Isn't this great? We're at the DWMA! Soul told me about this place. Maybe we'll run into him at break.' Suddenly a bell went and everyone crashed into the corridor, making a run for the door so they could eat and consequently causing a meister and weapon traffic jam.

I and Spiara got our lunch, I with a salad and Spiara with a sandwich. As we walked to an empty table, a boy with white hair, pointed teeth and red eyes ran up to Spiara. 'Soul!'

'Spiara! How are you?' 'Great, now I have a meister.' 'Hey Maka!' A girl with light brown hair in two pigtails, one on each side of her head, looked up. 'Can Spiara sit with us? I haven't seen her in ages!'

'Sure, Soul.' I followed Spiara and Soul to their table. When we sat down, there was a rude 'Hey, who are you?' from Soul. 'Soul! Don't talk to people like that!' Maka admonished. 'She just wanted to be near the great Black Star! Ha ha ha!' 'Maka Chop!' A few seconds later there was a book spine imprinted in Black Star's head.

'So, who are you?' asked a girl with long black hair. 'Angel.' 'I'm Tsubaki.' 'Black Star's meister?' 'No, his weapon.' So, what are you?' 'Spiara's meister.' I got a healthy portion of my salad down. 'So, how did you find out you were a meister?' I shrugged. 'My sister was a meister as well, so she noticed I was a meister before I did.' 'And your parents?' I ate a bit of my salad, trying to remember. 'I don't remember my parents. I mean, maybe I met them when I was young, but I don't remember. My sister always told me they died years ago.' 'Well, did she ever tell you about the DWMA?' 'Yeah. With everything I had heard about the DWMA from people who weren't meisters or weapons, I was kind of scared. One night I was terrified a student would turn up at our house. Then she came and told me about her time at the DWMA and it calmed me right down.' A bell went, signalling the return of classes and yet another meister and weapon traffic jam. Suddenly, I was accidentally pushed into a boy with gold eyes and three white stripes in his hair. I turned to apologise and realised who it was. Death the Kid. I had heard he was an extremely powerful meister. 'Sorry.' I mumbled. But he didn't look annoyed, instead he was mumbling something.

'Would you like to join I, Liz and Patty at next break?' By this point everyone was gathered around the young grim reaper and the poor kid who had bumped into him. 'Happily.' I responded, knowing that was my only option. He smiled. 'Good. Maka, Soul, Black Star, Tsubaki are coming as well.' Everyone wandered off to class. 'He's a bit...different, isn't he?' I said to Spiara. 'I know. But he seems nice.' 'Yeah.'

'So this is Crescent Moon.' I looked at the sign. 'Well, let's get inside.' Inside I saw a few other students, including Maka, Soul, Black Star, Tsubaki, Death the Kid and two almost perfectly matching girls. Stein walked in. 'Hello class. Today we will be dissecting...' Everyone groaned. 'It's not even an interesting dissection...' muttered Maka. 'What's wrong with a dissection?' I whispered to her. 'What's wrong?! Oh, you only just got here today. Professor Stein always does them. He does nothing else! Not to mention he tried to dissect an endangered species once.' Stein started poking at the dog with his scalpel. I resigned myself to a boring life in Crescent Moon.

I tried not to look at the place where the dissection was taking place. Only a few more minutes and it would be second break, and I'd be able to eat, although it would be a miracle if I still had an appetite after this. I watched without watching, looking in the direction of the dissection. I tensed. It was only a few seconds more. The bell went and everyone shot out of the class.

'That, Maka said, 'was the most boring dissection ever.' Spiara wasn't eating. 'You ok, Spiara?' asked Soul. 'Remember Kilshie?' 'Oh...yeah.' 'Who's Kilshie?' I asked. 'She had a dog called Kilshie. It died years ago. I guess the dissection must have brought back bad memories.' And just like that, the bell rang and we all hurried towards class.

'Follow me.' said Maka. 'I know where class is.' I replied. She laughed. 'You really are new, aren't you? You don't go back to class for the rest of the day.' Curious, I and Spiara followed her. In our little group was Death the Kid, those two almost perfectly matching girls, Tsubaki, Black Star and Soul. We arrived at a massive board. 'This is the missions board. This is where you sign up to go kill Kishin. Soul, what about that mission?' She pointed to a mission that had three Kishin souls. 'Sure. That seems perfect.' They went off to go sign up. And slowly, everyone else left as well. 'Should we sign up for a mission?' asked Spiara. I shook my head. 'Given we've never even fought before, we should probably train first. If we don't, we'll probably get ourselves killed in the first five minutes.' 'Yeah.' I heard another bell. 'The DWMA likes lots of bells, doesn't it?' Spiara laughed. 'Yeah.' We picked up our books and followed the steady stream of students leaving. 'Well, nice to meet you two.' said Death the Kid. 'I, Liz and Patty are going on a mission tomorrow. We'll be back at the end of the week, hopefully.' 'Good luck.' called Spiara as we left the school. 'I'll just go get my stuff, okay?' 'Sure.' Spiara hurried off to get her stuff.

A few minutes later she returned with a massive bag. 'Let's go to your apartment, I was just living in Soul and Maka's apartment until school started.'

I unlocked the door. 'Which room can I have?' asked Spiara. 'Room furthest down on the left.' She hurried to put her stuff away. I tossed my bag on the floor in my room and collapsed on my bed. In the way of first days of school, today had gone pretty well.

So, Angel went to the DWMA because her sister went there and Soul has a cousin! Spiara Evans seemed much better than anything else, like Spiara Lightwood or something, given she's a weapon and probably won't be involved in the Mortal Instruments side of things. I can't promise an upload schedule yet but I'll try hard to get chapters uploaded. By the way, there's this thing. It's called a review. I love them. So, if you could just leave one for me, it'd be awesome.