Part One: Soul and Maka
1) First Meeting
"Papa, do you think I could one day become as great of a meister as mama once one?" my mom was out of town at the time so I was with my father but even as a kid I was determined to be as great as my mother, who had trained my father into one of the strongest weapons that Lord Death has ever possessed, and with the help of my dad, the Death Scythe, I joined the DWMA, which is where I find myself now
"Of course, you can Maka, you can do whatever you put your mind to, but this is where I let you go, be a good girl while you are at the academy and I will see you tonight" he kissed me on the head, bending down so he could reach me, since at the time I was much shorter
I looked through the crowds and saw two lines being formed between all the new students, I followed some of the kids who had 'new meister' on their name tag to avoid being placed in the weapon side of the school. When I got into place, I remember looking around the large room, filled to the brim with hundreds of new students when my eyes caught on a boy who looked much different from the rest. I didn't know at the time but this boy standing across the room from me would be one of my best friends, and the best weapon I could ever ask for, all I knew then when looking at him for the very first time was the fact that he had bright red eyes and razor sharp teeth was what had caught my attention. What I had also noticed was the fact that he was not talking alongside the other weapons surrounding us, he appeared as though he had no intention of staying in the place, which is why I thought that he would drop out before ever finding a meister to fight alongside him
Being the kid natured child I was, I immediately wanted to become his friend, because no one deserves to be lonely during school. Unfortunately, before I could have called over to the strange boy, one of the professors came in and ushered us to our designated sides of the school where we would train separately during the day until it came time for us to find our weapons at the end of the year. I met plenty of people during the first day of being at the DWMA but all I really wanted was to find the boy and see if he wanted to become friends. When lunch time arrives, I walk over to the lunchroom (which we shared with the weapons) with some of my new friends, as quickly as I could, I had looked around the room and spotted the boy sitting at one of the tables, accompanied by a kid with bright blue hair and a star tattoo on his shoulder. After saying goodbye to my new friends, I remember running over to the table, the two boys stopped their conversation to look at me and I gave them a rather big smile, which might have looked creepy now that I think about it.
"Hi, I'm Maka, could I sit?" I asked, the blue haired kid, which I had later found out was called Black Star had nodded, pulling out a chair for me while the red eyed boy simply stared down at his food.
"I'm Black Star, but I'm sure everyone has been talking about my amazing performance this morning before classes began" he shouts confidently, and even though I had never heard of this performance that he was talking about, I really wanted to make some friends so I went along with it
"This is Soul by the way, he doesn't really talk too much until you get to know him" Black Star was never one to break focus from himself, this is one of the only times I can remember him moving the conversation away from himself
"I didn't see you in any of my classes Soul, are you a weapon?" I smiled towards him and he looked almost embarrassed when we had made eye contact with each other
"Yeah" he mumbled, before staring at his food once again
"And what weapon do you turn into?" I ask and without answering my question he raised him arm, allowing for it to transform into the blade of his scythe, I immediately smiled, because he was the same kind of weapon as my dad
"My papa is a scythe too, he's one of Lord Death's weapons" I say and I remember feeling so happy when Soul had looked at me giving me a half smile
"You know I'm sure if you need any help with your training we can go to him for some help" I offered and he nods
"Sure, thing Maka, that's very cool of you"
From that day forward, a great friendship was formed, one that would last for years to come, even through the tragedy that was the kishin attack on the school 10 years after the day that I had met my partner.