A/N: I am using the manga not the anime (I like the manga better) as my reference and will try to keep up with it. Also in my story the character Crona is female and the character Hero (forget if he is in manga or not so if not sorry) is kind of a perv (think miroku from inuyasha only slightly worse XP).

Spoilers: Anyone not up to date on the manga (will try to keep up)

Disclaimer: _ I don't have the money to own this stuff.

The Tales of Taria

Chapter 1: A Hero Appears (and then gets slapped)

The slim figured girl ambled slowly through the desert her thigh length silver hair swaying as she slowly approached the city that stood so tall in the middle of the desolate sea of sand. The city was called Death City home of the special academy that trained weapons and meisters. As Taria approached the city the sand began to stir under her feet.

"So this thing's finally making its move huh?" Taria thought as the sand began to rise and she stepped back.

Taria had sensed something following her through the desert from the moment she had entered it, but apparently the beast had wanted to let her get within reach of her goal before it tried to eliminate her. And in her head Taria put much emphasis on the word tried because she doubted the thing would actually succeed. The reason for this belief was that Taria was unique, she felt her fighting skills were most similar to that of Justin Law, the Deathscythe who achieved that status on his own without the aid of a meister. Taria was also a weapon who could fight on her own without a partner. She was disgusted with Justin's betrayal of Shinigami-Sama and the citizens of Death City, but she did admire his skills as a weapon.

As soon as Taria finished that thought the beast that had been chasing her burst from the sand, it was a large scorpion about the same size as a full-grown buffalo. The sudden gust of wind made Taria's short skirt flutter in the breeze as she grinned, her small extraordinarily sharp teeth making her look like a piranha.

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Hero was on a casual stroll through the desert when he noticed a rather attractive looking girl with long silver hair. She appeared to be about 14 and was standing about a mile from the city staring down a vicious looking monster that appeared to be a scorpion. But Hero didn't care about the beast, he only noticed the girl's skirt fluttering in the wind and immediately began to run toward the girl hoping to be her "hero" so to speak and save her from the monster. Little did Hero know she would be done with the monster before he even got there.

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Taria looked at the monster waiting to see what it would do, she knew if it wasn't careful, its first move in this fight would be its last in this life.

"Bring it you overgrown fly", Taria spat at the monster before her.

Apparently the creature had ears because the moment she said that the beast charged at her swinging at her with its claws and trying to stab her with its long segmented poisonous tail. The clicking of the beasts claws and swooshing of its tail as it jabbed at Taria seemed rhythmic to her as she stood and waited for the perfect time to strike.

When the perfect moment came Taria jumped into the air and in one swift fluid movement her left foot became a shimmering sword-like blade. She swung the blade at the creature's tail slicing it off between the third and fourth segments, exactly where she had been aiming for she noted proudly, in midair before landing on the beast's back with her right foot. She then slammed the blade, now glistening a sickly yellowish-green from the thing's blood, into the creature's head stabbing through its brain with a loud squishing sound as brain matter spewed from its head. The creature let out a loud screech, the last noise it would ever make in this lifetime.

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Hero dashed towards the girl even faster after seeing her incredible display of fighting prowess. Hero wanted this elegant and powerful girl to be his weapon partner although he figured she would reject him like every other weapon had. Still more than that Hero wanted to get close to this girl, he finally reached the girl just as she jumped off the back of the now dead scorpion monster and stopped, he started panting realizing how out of breath he was.

"Oh, hello, are you a student of the D.W.M.A.?" The girl asked using the acronym for Death Weapon Meister Academy.

Hero regained his composure when he heard her melodious voice and immediately walked toward the girl stepping behind her almost like a snake coiling around what it believed was its prey. Hero thought that even though she was a great fighter the girl might be emotionally vulnerable.

"Why yes I am as a matter of fact, I'm one of the greatest students the academy has ever seen" Hero falsely bragged as he put his arms around the girl putting his hands around her breasts and squeezing them.

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Taria shrieked and spun immediately slapping the boy hard across his face leaving a bright red handprint on his cheek.

"HOW DARE YOU?" Taria screamed at the boy who had so casually touched her in such an inappropriate place.

"No luck there I guess." The boy sighed as he rubbed his cheek then held out his hand with a look of embarrassment and shame on his face. "My name's Hero," he said introducing himself to the girl.

"Taria," she replied bluntly without extending her hand feeling he should have introduced himself first rather than attempting to violate her. "Now," Taria began, "why don't you repay me for your rude behavior by leading me to the academy, and if possible to the weapon known as Soul Evans."

A/N: Sorry, the chapter was short, if it was too short let me know I am going to make the chapters longer I just felt this was like a short introduction chapter so yeah.