Chapter 1
Tap, tap, tap, tap tap tap taptaptaptap, a walk broke into a run, hard soles on a fine cobble stone alley way. The laughing moon light dimmed by the many passing clouds caught a glimpse of long perfectly silver hair. Running with her hands strait behind her, something glinted in the little light there was, a shine of some kind of metal on each arm. Taptaptap tap tap, tap. The laughing moon burst out of the grey clouds, hard to see against the nearly black sky of the Nevada desert. A 12 year old girl posed perfectly in one of the many alley ways of Death City, standing with her legs crossed and hands in fists at her side. On both fore arms just before her wrist started a slick pure silver sword blade, ending just before her elbow but the point went on. She got the idea from the famous Death Scythe Justin Law. She took his idea of weapons as meisters, into her own more sleek and stylish design. Dressed in a dark blue tux tailed coat with white bell bottom pants. Her long silver hair reaching her waist lie un styled and plain, but still with a glow of silver, her grey sparkling eyes hardly visible in the bleeding moons light. A very skilled meister. She knew Lord Death himself, and he knew her. He was like the father she didn't hate. She was on a mission to find her 96th kishin soul, "Ugh…. Where did he go….."
Fallen Heaven Evans, adopted by the Evans family after Lord Death saved her as an infant. He found her about to be killed by a witch, when he finally beaten the witch he found the infant with a piece of wood that had "my fallen heaven" into it. Attached was an extremely detailed black dragon keychain, no bigger than a baseball, curdled up as if it was sleeping. The small dragon was held so tightly be the child, if you tried to take it by force she would bleed from holding it so tight. So the kind Shinigami took of his mask to ask her for it. She is the only one who know what his face looks like, and that is her very first memory. He had experts tell him the piece of wood was cursed, but she could keep the keychain. It had traces of magic, but only positive ones.
After the Evans family adopted her, there youngest son and there newly adopted daughter instantly became friends. That's probably because there both looked at as mutant freaks in their home. Two misfit demon weapons stranded in a house of older judgmental sticks in the mud. They stood up for each other. But one day Fallen couldn't take it anymore.[Soul and Fallen: Age 6] "Soul, I hate this place. And I know you do to! There's a place for people like us. It's pretty far away but I can get us there! It's called Death City, I heard some of the older kids talking about it. I listened in because it sounds so familiar… but I have a way to get us there…." "Fallen! That's unthinkable! We could die on our way there!" "NEVER! I mean it's possible, but he wouldn't let us get hurt!" "Who is-?" Mrs. Evans stepped into the room interrupting them. "You children are so noisy! Now be quite or I'll send you to your rooms!" and stomped out. Fallen gave Soul a look and walked out of the elegant room filled with rules.
After the conversation between them, the two seemed awkward towered each other. Hardly even exchanging a word. After about 4 days of this Soul woke up to find Fallen gone. The parents called in and reported their daughter was missing. It seems she ran away because all that was missing was her black dragon key chain and a change of clothes. Soul started to tear up, but he hid it behind a face that says good riddance. Their mom and dad seemed to be acting there concern, but no one pointed it out.
The darkest night she can remember. A new moon. But at least the stars showed even brighter this way. Wind messing up the silver strands. But she didn't care, it was like magic. In fact as far as she knew, it was. Riding through the night on a jet black, full sized dragon. "Too Death City Hell Bound!" she screamed through the wind pressure as the dragon sped up. Soon surrounded by nothing but sky and sand, the two flew on threw the night. Only 2 hours before sunrise Fallen Heaven and Hell Bound landed on the outskirts of Death City. Suddenly the great jet black dragon started to curl up into a sleeping position, as he did this he shrank into a small detailed black dragon key chain.
Just outside of Death City the young girl started towards the biggest building, symmetrically placed at the very top of Death City looking over everything. A sudden memory of a room with clouds moving on the walls and on the ground struck her with shock. A desert ground with simple wooden crosses in many styles surrounded a stone platform with a tall single floor mirror after you entered through a hall way of red and black guillotines. A stranger's face also appeared in her mind, a kind face. Asking for something…. She couldn't remember, so she ignored this feeling of annoyance and continued walking into the city.
After 2 hours getting distracted by every little thing she hasn't seen before, she finally made it to the DWMA. She was sent to the office of someone they called "Lord Death". She looks around at an empty room, but she's been here before, and she knows it. The red and black guillotines struck her memory instantly. She got up to the stone platform to the single mirror. She examined it. Looking at the same old design she remembered. "Hey there!" a friendly odd sounding man's voice said. Jumping back form the mirror looking behind her and seeing no one she slowly turned around to see, instead of her own reflection, a zigzaggedy figure all in black with an odd mask that resembled a skull, only perfectly round with perfectly round eyes and nose and instead of teeth 3 long spikes. "Hello there!" the figure said without moving. Terrified on first, then collecting herself to give a reply, "H-hi." starting to straighten up a bit. "I am Lord Death. And you must be Fallen Heaven." "Y-yes sir." "Oh how I've missed you…" "Wait wha-?" he interrupted her, "now let's get you enrolled and a place to say. I'll let your family know you're safe." "NO! I mean that's not necessary. They don't care. But I would like to send a letter to my older brother." (Only by a few months)
She ended up in one of the really nice apartments for the school only the richer kids could afford (it was pretty empty) but it was nice and she liked it there. She started school almost the next week, it was confusing but she was top in her class before long. She quickly became friends with a Sara Stine Summers. Long red hair and she always had in a spiked head band. She wore red and black a lot but she is a lot of fun. Two weapons so they couldn't partner up. But even if she was a meister, she had her own style of fighting so she wouldn't be partnering up with anyone (Justin wasn't a Death Scythe yet but he was still a legend around the school)
Dear Soul,
I want you to ditch our family and come live with me. You hate it there and I know it. Plus I really miss you. I have my own giant apartment and everything. Plus it's AMAZING here! Everything's so unreal! I even made a few friends already. I think you would like it here.
-Fallen Heaven-
Not long after she caught her first kishin soul, word spread of Fallen's style of fighting, and how fast she got her first soul. [Age 10] she was unstoppable. Before she turned 11, she set a record for how many souls anyone's caught before their first year ended (43). [Age 12] "Ugh…. Where did he go….."The trail went cold so she set towards her large apartment. Exhausted, she breathed onto a window on the way so it would fog up, she sighed, and using her finger scribbled, 42-42-564 "whenever you want to knock on deaths door." Suddenly the glass turned to a lit up screen with Lord Death on it. "Hey Fallen! How's it going?" in the goofy voice he uses. "Sorry Lord Death, put I'm calling it a night." "Well that's too bad. Try harder next time okayyy?" "Yes sir." And the screen turned into glass once more.
She went back to the nice apartment and collapsed on her bed. Exhausted she found her dragon key chain and gave it a kiss, than she said in a loud clear voice, "size 1!" And the little keychain transformed as if it was waking up into a real dragon the size of a football. "Hell Bound, I'm sick of this life. I know I'm so close to reaching my goal but…" the dragon understood her tired boredom.
Dear Soul….… -Fallen Heaven-
[Age 13] "I've read this a thousand times. And I've decided I want to go live with my little sister. Please let me go to were the return address says." "This place called 'Death City' sounds like it's for delinquents. But, if you're living somewhere else then I can turn your room into another office space…. Very well, I shall contact this 'DWMA', so you can be with you own freakish kind." said the strict mother. In only a couple of weeks, Soul Eater Evans would be in Death City.
[Age 13] kishin soul count: 98, Fallen Heaven was in a rut for a year, only collecting 3 souls. She couldn't take it anymore. She left a note in her apartment, took everything and left in the middle of the night with all of her belongings. She kissed the dragon once outside of Death City. The small keychain turned into a full sized dragon. "Hell Bound, you said you would take me to a happier place once I turned 13. So take me there. You even said it was a whole different world." The dragon nodded and said using his mind not his voice, I did promise you so I will. And yes, you will be entering a complete new world, only humans riding on my back can get there. But I can't come back for a little while, it takes magic so I have to wait for my energy to restore itself. "Fine. I want to leave for a while anyways." And they flew off into an unknown area to every single person except the dragon.
"I need to see the head master!" "Oh? you mean Lord Death? Sure, go ahead and let yourself in." the startled secretary said. Soul ran into the great doors leading to the red and black guillotines, he slowed down to take in what he was seeing. when he got to the platform made of stone, instead of the Shinigami's reflection he saw Lord Death himself standing at least 8 feet tall from pointy foot thing to his crazy hat point in his gravity defying zigzaggedy way. "Yo! What's up?" "I heard about a Fallen Heaven who went here, WHERE IS SHE?" said Soul still panting from running all the way through the school. "It's funny you should mention her, she went missing a little while ago. It seems she ran away. We have no idea where she is. Why do you ask?" Soul looked like he had just been told they found her dead. "Sh-shes my sister…" grief stricken he dropped to his knees saying this. "Well…. I'm not supposed to tell anyone this but she did leave a note…" "Please, let me see it." Suddenly a shaky hope came to his voice. Suddenly an oversized hand with a white glove impossibly came from the Shinigami, he unfolded the silly looking fingers to revel a note.
Dear person who finds this,
Please get this to Lord Death before you read on. Sir, I am very grateful for your kindness and I hope that me growing up means can see you as my senpai. Don't bother looking for me, because where I am no one can possibly find me. Tell Sara Stine Summers that I am fine, and if a Soul Eater Evans comes looking for me, tell him I died in an accident, and my ashes were sent else were. Farwell Senpai.
–Fallen Heaven-
"She… wanted to make me think….. That she was…... Dead?" he swallowed before he said the word "dead". "It would seem that way. And we can't detect her soul wavelength within the country." Soul felt like dying, when they lived together they were very close. "Okay, thanks anyways." He took the note and left the room in a daze.
After reading the letter he went to see Sara, he's herd of her before and because she was in her letter he figured she must've been close to Fallen. He came up to her during passing time with a pained look on his face clutching the letter tight in a fist. "Are you Sara Summers?" he said almost forcing the words out. "Uh yes, who are you?" he turned away from her but holding his arm out with a piece of folded paper sitting in his palm. "Read it, but I want it back." He said coldly. She took the crumbled up piece of paper out of his hand and read it. "She's okay, good. But do they know where she is!" "No one knows where she is..." the two looked away from each other in concern. It was a little awkward so Soul introduced himself. "Hey, I'm Soul." "Oh, so you're the Soul Fallen's always talked about!" after that they became friends.
"So Hell Bound, where are you taking me?" I'm taking you to a place that you thought could only be a fairy tale. "That's not very specific." You'll hate it at first. "That doesn't count as a detail." And suddenly a great big pink clock tower came into view as they burst out of the clouds.