Mephisto Pheles sat in his office at the True Cross Academy, playing with a pen. He was told three new students would be arriving at his school to learn how to be exorcists.
"When will I get to play?" Amaimon asked as he chewed on his thumb.
Mephisto ignored his younger brother and took a sip of tea.
If his little game of chess was to continue the way he wanted, he had to make sure neither of his brothers messed up.
The demon sighed.
The King of Earth and the big-headed Rin were a pain to control.
There was a knock at his door then.
Amaimon dove into the bathroom.
"Come in!" Mephisto called out in a sing-song voice.
Three girls strode into the room.
Mephisto sat up out of his slouching position.
"You're our three new students? Yippee!"
The girls exchanged weird looks.
The one with pink hair stepped forward.
"My name is Ameri. These are my two siblings Myuki," she gestured to a girl with black hair. "And this is Erin." She indicated the other girl with bright red hair. "Are you Mephisto?"
"I am. You three here to be exorcists?" he purred.
"You could say that," Erin responded with a catlike grin.
Mephisto saw Amaimon peek out of the bathroom out of the corner of his eye.
"Myuki! Stop that!"
He glanced at the pink haired girl as she scolded her sister.
"Something wrong?" he asked. Then he noticed the mask around Myuki's mouth.
There were metal slits over her mouth to allow her to breathe, speak, and drink.
Ameri shook her head.
"She keeps eating her fingers…."
Amaimon smiled from the bathroom.
Ameri smiled ruefully.
"Could be worse, I guess. Oooh! Is that tea?"
"Yes, care for a spot?"
Myuki and Erin made faces as Ameri dumped a crap load of sugar into her cup.
"Our Teacher Yukio should be with us shortly to take you to your classes."
"Where do we crash?" Erin asked making a gag face as Ameri sipped her tea.
Mephisto ran through his mental stacks of data.
What rooms should they stay in? Their only two female students didn't share a room, but what about the third girl? Where could he put her?
"Myuki you'll room with Shiemi. Ameri with Kamiki. Erin you get your own room."
He paused.
"Ah, here comes Yukio now." He smiled as the teacher walked into the room.
Yukio studied the new students for a few moments before nodding.
"Follow me to class. After cram school your roommates will show you to your rooms." Yukio headed out the door with the three girls following as he spoke.
Mephisto waved at them with a pink fan as they left.
Amaimon walked over to his big brother after the door closed.
"Step. Step. Step. Step." He said as he went.
"Tell me King of Earth, did you notice anything strange about them?" Mephisto asked resting his chin on his hand.
Amaimon started eating his thumb.
"They looked like they would enjoy a game."
Mephisto shook his head.
"They're Demons." He stated, not bothering to as what 'game' his brother was referring to.
"Oh." Blood began to drip off the green cone-haired boy's lower lip.
Mephisto smiled lazily, showing his pointy teeth.
"More demons in our school, learning to become exorcists." He began to laugh. "Oh, this should be a tingly year!"
Amaimon paused in chewing.
"Tingly?"
His older brother didn't respond. Just kept laughing with random 'yippees' thrown in.
Yukio walked angrily to room 1106 where first year lessons were being taught. He could practically hear their thoughts about his glasses and his multitude of moles. He stopped at a doorway before turning around to face them. One was chewing on her thumb, another was digging in her ear, and the brightly colored one was sucking on a sucker.
"Welcome to Demonology. Introduce yourselves then grab a seat," the girls started heading into the room. "And one more thing," he took the sucker out of Ameri's mouth. "I don't allow eating in my classroom."
She grumbled something in response before walking over to her friends.
The small class looked at the new arrivals strangely. Only two wore smiles on their faces, a girl with a tiny green man on her shoulder and a boy with brown and pink hair.
The others wore looks of surprise, grouch, and stupidity.
Erin scanned the classroom. "My name is Erin and I like girls."
She walked forward and sat beside a figure in a hoodie playing a PSP.
"I'm Ameri," the girl with pink hair said "I like pie, but not that kind.' She added with a wink at a tall boy who was glaring until that moment.
He looked startled. She sat by the boy with pink hair.
The last girl stepped forward.
"My name is Myuki. I like plants." She said around the finger she was chewing on.
She plunked down by the girl with the greenman baby.
The boy with pink hair scooched closer to Ameri.
"Hey. My name's Renzo Shimei, but you can call me the Erotic Demon." He smiled at her.
She pulled a new sucker out of her pocket.
"You have a lady bug on your shoulder."
"A bug!" he fell out of his chair.
The class laughed as he scrambled to his feet, wiping frantically at his shoulders.
"Alright settle down." Yukio leaned against his desk. "Take out your books and flip to page thirty-seven." Yukio paused. The new students didn't have textbooks and the school was out.
"Any of you who don't have a book share with someone close by."
After that the hour went by slowly. Yukio droned on about dekalps or demons that possess plants and trees.
Erin spent the class watching the EminEm look-a-like play on the PSP while Myuki freaked out the quiet girl next to her. Ameri had gotten thirteen more suckers taken away along with a bag of jelly beans.
Soon they were dismissed and sent off to Magic Circles and Seals. The students stood off to the side while the new tried their hand at summoning a familiar.
Ameri went first. She dripped her blood onto a sheet of paper. "Tea, cupcake, smut come 'ere!"
The other students snickered. No way would that work! Suddenly, there was a flash of smoke and then a white Scottie appeared. The teacher looked slightly puzzled.
Ameri stared at the dog. It lunged forward suddenly. Ameri fell onto her back as it licked her face once before running out of the room.
"What just happened?" she asked.
Myuki went next. She summoned a goblin for a split second before her paper burst into flames.
Erin sighed after her turn. "I got bubkiss."
The other students looked at her quizzically.
"It means nuttin'," she said grouchily.
The teacher waved his hand dismissively. "Not all exorcists can be tamers. Kamiki, why don't you summon the white foxes for a demonstration?"
After that, he showed what to do our heart wavers or your conviction fails you, which, in other words, meant tearing up your paper.
The rest of the classes passed in a blur, at least until P.E., or physical training.
Their teacher, or 'coach', tried the Exwires' hands at fighting ghouls. It hadn't ended well. Bon managed to defeat most of them while Renzo beat them with his staff. The remaining ghouls started to treading toward Myuki.
She let out an 'eep!'
"Don't worry fair maiden! I'll protect you!" Renzo ran towards the ghouls with his staff raised. In a flash, they were defeated.
Renzo stopped and stared as Myuki lowered her machete.
"Where did that come from?" he questioned.
She shrugged in response and resumed chewing on her thumb. The students were released after that.
"Rin, Ameri, may I have a word?"
The demon and rainbow bright on crack reluctantly stayed behind as their fellow Exwires left.
"Whatever it is I didn't do it…" Ameri paused "I thought about it though…"
The teacher gave them a weary smile.
"You two didn't do anything wrong. Rin, Shura is waiting for you in the training room. Ameri you're to practice-"The teacher was cut off by Ameri yelping.
She had been knocked onto the ground again by the white Scottie.
Rin did a double take. He had recognized that dog!
"Hey that's Me- I mean…" Suddenly Rin burst into flames.
Ameri and the teacher stared at him.
"What happened?"
"I sneezed…bye!"
Rin ran out of the room.
The Scottie hopped off Ameri and chased after him.
The teacher shook his head slowly and looked over at the pink-haired girl.
"Our headmaster wants me to teach you three girls separately so that you can catch up to the others."
Ameri frowned.
"Then why am I the only one here?"
"I said separately didn't I?" Now take out your weapon."
Ameri pulled out a knife.
"Good. Let's begin…."