A/N: Just a heads up, I'm basing terms off of the anime series for both Fairy Tail and Soul Eater. I'll be using terms from both dubbed and subbed versions.
Maka Albarn sat on the ground, twirling one of her pigtails around her finger. She couldn't help but feel anxious about what kind of punishment Soul and Black Star would receive this time. Staring at the wall across the hallway, she unconsciously counted the minutes which seemed to drag on forever. Finally, the door to the Death Room slid open and her Weapon partner, Soul Eater stepped out along with their friend, the Dark Assassin, Black Star.
"Oh, hey, Maka," Black Star greeted her with a wave while her partner sulked behind him. "What're you doing sitting out here?"
"What do you think I'm doing? I was waiting for you two. So, how long do you have detention for this time?" asked the scythe Technician, getting to her feet.
Black Star only laughed. "Detention? I'm way too big a man for detention!"
That sure didn't stop Stein from giving you detention the last fifty times you guys blew up a part of the school, Maka thought to herself.
"It's something way cooler than detention," Soul finally said, still sulking.
"What is it, then?"
"Well, we made a deal with Stein. If we participated in one of his experiments, he'd let us off the hook this time," grinned Black Star. "Oh, and our partners are gonna be in it too. I'm sure Tsubaki won't have a problem."
"You can go ask her yourself. She's wallowing in sorrow on the roof," Maka told him, grimacing.
Once the assassin had disappeared up the stairwell, she turned to her Weapon partner, shaking her head. "How many times do I have to tell you not to get involved in stupid fights, Soul? It's not cool."
Soul sighed. "I'm sorry. It's cool if you don't want to be in the experiment. I'll accept detention."
His partner just gave him a disappointed look before shrugging. "Hey, you've saved my life time and time again. I at least owe you this much. But I've got to ask you, do you have a death wish, starting a fight with a Shinigami again after getting your butt kicked last time?"
He grinned, putting his hands behind his head as they walked back to class. "Yeah, maybe. I think we'd be better off if Kid had actually killed me."
Tsubaki sat on the roof of the DWMA looking out over Death City.
Oh, Black Star. Why do you insist on always getting in trouble?
Just as she was about to head back to class, the door burst open and her partner made his usual grand entrance.
"There's no need to be gloomy for Black Star is here. The sun has come out from behind the clouds!" the boy grinned, giving his partner a thumbs-up.
Tsubaki just gazed at him for a second before looking back over the city.
"C'mon, Tsubaki. Don't tell me you're mad," he said, sitting down next to her. "I didn't even get detention this time!"
"Oh? Is Stein giving us a remedial lesson?" she asked. At the DWMA, if your partner screwed up or caused trouble, you were usually dragged into the punishment, especially if it was a remedial lesson.
Soul and Black Star got in way too much trouble to get remedial lessons every time, so they just got detention.
"Nah. But we have to be in an experiment of his," Black Star replied.
"Oh... Wait, what?" demanded Tsubaki. "You're going to let him dissect us?"
Black Star just laughed. "No, it's not like that. I think he's using us to test some device he's been working on or something."
Tsubaki sighed in relief as she got up. "Okay. Well, next time you fight Kid, you should at least take me with you. You might have a better chance fighting with a weapon you can hold, you know?"
He looked at her with big eyes. For a second, the girl thought he might start crying.
"You got it, Tsubaki," he grinned. "Next time, we'll definitely beat Kid. I can't wait."
"Yep," smiled the Weapon. "Let's head back to class before Stein actually decides to give us both detention."
...
Later on that day, Tsubaki, Black Star, Soul Eater and Maka headed down to Professor Stein's lab on the other side of the city. The man was a more than a little insane and had a screw sticking out of the side of his head, but he was a scientific genius, not to mention the school's best Technician, besides Lord Death himself.
Maka was glaring irritably at Black Star and Kid who were bickering about nothing, as usual. Black Star was always set on outdoing the reaper at anything and everything, and Kid was always fretting about how loud, obnoxious, and asymmetrical the assassin was about anything and everything. In conclusion, it was a miracle they were even friends.
"I actually thought you'd pick detention over risking becoming asymmetrical in one of Stein's experiments," said Maka, interrupting the two's argument.
"Well, I had nothing better to do, and detention definitely sounds boring," mused Kid, adjusting his collar as they passed by a reflective window. "Besides, how can I let my team do something risky without me?"
He's definitely grown since we first met, thought Maka as they arrived at Stein's place.
"Here's goes nothing," muttered Soul, ringing the doorbell.
Miss Marie, one of the Death Scythes, and Professor Stein's current partner, opened the door and greeted them all with a smile. "Good afternoon, everyone. How're you all doing?"
They all mumbled halfhearted answers as they entered the lab. Miss Marie directed them back to where Professor Stein was waiting and they all gaped in awe at the machine that towered in front of them. It was cylinder-shaped, big enough to fit all seven of the students with room to spare and it reached all the way up to the ceiling.
"It's a Matter Teleportation Device. MTD for short," said Stein, his glasses ominously reflecting the light. "And you're all going to test it out for me."
"That's it? That's our punishment?" asked Kid, still gawking at the machine.
Liz elbowed him lightly. "Don't convince him to give us more!"
"I won't. This is all I need from you and then you're off the hook and free to go," the professor assured them with a wide grin as he lit a cigarette.
"Cool. The faster we get this over with, the faster we get home," said Soul, pulling open the door of the MTD. "I'm hungry."
"When are you not hungry?" grumbled his Technician, stepping in after him.
"When I'm sleeping," he replied as everyone else got in and Stein came to stand in the doorway.
"This will be considered a remedial lesson. You'll have to adapt to changes and different obstacles whileyou're in Fiore. Be prepared." He closed the door and the seven were standing in pitch darkness until Stein's voice came on through a speaker. "Oh, and it'll be a while until I'll be able to collect enough souls to power this back up and bring you all back. Until then, you're excused from classes."
With that, the seven unfortunate, and slightly panicking students were enveloped in whiteness and sent away from Death City.
"Could you guys at least give me a heads up before you break into my house uninvited?" demanded Lucy Heartfilia, boiling with anger.
It shouldn't have been a surprise to see Natsu Dragneil and his blue flying cat, Happy, sitting on her bed when she got out of the shower. For some reason, they never ceased to drop by her house almost everyday ever since she first moved in.
"I'm starving," groaned Natsu, ignoring Lucy's question. "Do you have any food?"
"When are you not hungry?" she sighed, pulling on some clothes and walking to the kitchen to get her two friends some food.
"Do you have any fish, Lucy?" asked Happy, hovering next to her head as she opened the fridge.
"Sure. Here," she grumbled, giving him one of the fish she was saving to make a stew with later. "Natsu, what do you want?"
"Anything's fine," replied the pink-haired dragon slayer.
She tossed him a bag of chips and sat down next to him on her bed.
"Thanks a ton," grinned Natsu, eating up.
"Is something wrong?" Happy questioned. "You seem down."
"It's nothing. I just feel like something strange is happening... Like there's some sort of portal opening up," murmured the Celestial Wizard as she played with her hair. "But I can't put my finger on it..."
"It's probably Loke going to see one of his girlfriends again," said Gray Fullbuster, climbing through the window, shirtless.
"If you're gonna break into my house, too, at least have the decency to wear some clothes while you're at it," Lucy pointed out.
The boy looked down and seemed surprise to see that he was only in his underwear. "Sorry. I don't really do it on purpose sometimes."
"So other times you strip on purpose?" growled Natsu, still stuffing his mouth with chips.
"You got a problem, pyro?" demanded the Ice Wizard.
"Yeah. I got a problem with your face, stripper," Natsu retorted.
"Is it just me, or are they running out of good insults?" Lucy asked Happy.
"Their insults were never very good to begin with," the cat replied, biting into his fish.
A yellow glow silenced the room as one of Lucy's celestial spirits, and a fellow member of Fairy Tail, Loke, appeared through a worldly gate.
"Hey, guys," he smiled charmingly as he stepped out of the Celestial World.
"Hey, Loke! Long time no see," grinned Natsu, high-fiving his friend.
"Good to see you too, bro, but I'm not here for a casual visit," he added. "Lucy, I'm sure you felt it."
"Yeah. But I don't know exactly what it was," she confessed.
"What're you guys talking about?" Natsu asked, giving them both a curious look.
"A Gate was opened. It wasn't anyone from the Celestial World, though," said Lucy.
"I know where it is," Loke added. "You think we should go check it out?"
"Yeah. Let's go," agreed Lucy. "You guys coming?"
Gray was already snoring on her bed and Happy claimed to be too stuffed to move. Natsu happily agreed though.
Loke led the way into Southgate park. Under the big tree, there lay a group of teenagers who looked worse for wear.
"Hey... Maka, you mind getting off me?" grunted a white haired boy.
"Sorry," groaned the girl with blonde hair and green eyes as she sat up.. "Oh, I feel sick..."
"Ow... Liz, Patty, next time, transform so it doesn't hurt so much when you land on me," said a boy with black hair with white stripes on one half of his head.
"Sorry, Kid-kun," laughed a girl with short blonde hair and sparkling blue eyes as she hopped to her feet.
"Give me a hand, would you, Patty?" asked the other girl who had landed on top of the boy.
"You got it, sis," smiled Patty as she pulled the girl who must have been Liz to her feet.
A few feet away, a boy with spiky blue hair and a star tattooed on his arm lay unconscious while a girl with long black hair was worriedly watching over him.
"You think they get motion sickness too?" asked Natsu, getting everyone's attention unintentionally.
For a few seconds, the three Fairy Tail members and the six DWMA students (Black Star is still out cold) stared at each other before each got ready to fight.
"Alright, start explaining," said Natsu, his hands lighting on fire. "Who are you and how'd you get here?"
"Calm down, Natsu," said Lucy, placing a hand on his shoulder.
"Maybe we should listen to what they have to say before you start throwing flaming punches," added Loke, eyeing Maka's group wearily.
Kid glanced at Maka with a raised eyebrow as if saying, "Should I start shooting or...?"
Maka shook her head and turned to the three wizards. "We're students from the DWMA. We were teleported here from some sort of machine. You're using magic, aren't you? Are you Witches?"
The three gawked at her, dumbfounded.
"DWM...what?" asked Natsu.
"We prefer the term Wizards," said Lucy. "And Loke's a Celestial Spirit."
The scythe Technician blinked at her cluelessly.
"Where are you guys from?" asked Loki, adjusting his glasses.
"Nevada," Kid answered. "Though, I'd like to know where we are."
"You're in the town of Magnolia," said Lucy. "Wait, so you're telling me you have no idea where you are or how to get back to...Nevada?"
They all nodded yes and Natsu and Lucy glanced at each other before Natsu said, "Well, how about you come to our guild and we can ask Master if he knows anything."
"By the way, I'm Lucy, and these two are Natsu and Loki," Lucy introduced, remembering her manners.
"I guess we don't have much of a choice," mused Maka, glancing at her Weapon.
Soul nodded and went over to pull Black Star off the ground.
They all headed back to the Fairy Tail guild hall. Lucy decided to find our a little bit more about these strangers.
"Well, I suppose we would relate most to what you call Holder type wizards. Technicians like me, Maka, and Black Star rely on our Weapons, Liz, Patty, Soul, and Tsubaki to help us fight," Kid explained as he walked alongside Lucy.
"Weapons?" she questioned. "Can they use magic or something?"
"Actually, the term Weapon is quite literal when it comes to our partners. They're magic Weapons created by witches. They're humans who are able to turn into forms of weaponry. For instance, Patty, transform..."
"Kk," cheered Patty, transforming into a pistol.
"Patty here can turn into a gun identical to her sister," said Kid, twirling Patty between his fingers before tossing her into the air and having her transform back into human form. "And Soul can turn into a scythe."
Lucy gaped in amazement as Soul grunted, adjusting Black Star's weight over his shoulders.
"Damn, what do you feed this guy, Tsubaki?" asked Soul, trying to drag Black Star who still hadn't woken up.
"Well, considering how much he works out, he's hungry most of the time," said the assassin's weapon.
"So this DWMA you mentioned, what does it stand for?" asked Lucy.
"Death Weapon Meister Academy," replied Maka. "Run by Lord Death."
"Wait, as in the Shinigami himself?" asked Natsu. "Dude, that rocks! I bet he's a scary headmaster."
"He's actually really nice. And he's Kid's father," said Maka.
"What?! You're a Shinigami too? No way!" exclaimed the dragon slayer Mage in awe, stopping in his tracks.
"It's the truth," shrugged Kid. "Why'd you stop?"
Natsu was giving him an intense glare as Kid trailed to a stop and turned to face him, raising an eyebrow.
Before Natsu could answer, he got knocked upside the head by a girl with scarlet hair dressed in upper body armor along with a navy blue skirt.
"Oh, hey, Erza," said Lucy, waving at her.
"What's going on here? Who are they?" asked Erza.
"They're from out of town," Lucy answered quickly. "It's a long story, but they need to see the Master as soon as possible."
"Is he injured?" Etza gestured at Black Star.
"Nah, he's just sleeping," chuckled Soul.
"What? You're carrying him because he's napping?" asked Loki incredulously.
"Trust me, it'd be a lot louder if he were awake. It's worth carrying the guy for a little peace and quiet," said Maka.
"Speak for yourself, Maka. I'm dying here," complained Soul.
"Well, Master's still at the guild hall so we should hurry there if you want to catch him," said Erza.
"Hey, you guys!"
They all turned to see Gray sliding on the frozen river toward them, still shirtless.
"Put some clothes on, Gray," Erza sighed.
"Yes, ma'am," he said, joining the group hiking through Magnolia in the middle of the night.
"We didn't want to wake you up," Lucy told him. "So we left to go see what was up without you. We found Maka's group in the park."
"Hey, welcome to Magnolia," grinned Gray.
"Is it that hot?" asked Patty, wondering why the boy was only in shorts.
"It's just a habit of his," said Erza, shaking her head as she turned and walked toward the guild hall.
Shrugging, everyone followed her.
They arrived in front of the guild hall, which didn't especially impress the DWMA students, but they had to admit, it was pretty big.
"Welcome to Fairy Tail," grinned Natsu, pushing the door open.