(Notes: this is set after the incident with the Kishin but not much beyond that. This is my first fan-fic so I know it's not perfect)
This life is hell...
That's what I thought anyway. I was living on the streets, selling myself in weapon form off as a 'weapon for hire' sort of deal. I'm not your average weapon either, the ones who don't know my name just call me the soul drainer. Stupid name, I know, but it's true. My weapon form, besides being outside the norm for other reasons, drains and absorbs bits of a soul with each slash and stab that I do. Oh, but for whatever reason I hadn't become a Kishin egg. My real name you ask? I forgot it long ago, after the...incident I changed it to a simple name 'The Fallen Reaper'. Yes I was being a bit pretentious, comparing myself by that name to lord death and his son but hey, I didn't care about anything anymore. Anyway, there I was sitting in my little corner in the city when I heard some rustling from around the corner. I grimaced and concentrated to form part of my weapon form. I flexed my left hand, which was now a main-gauche, or parrying dagger, and slid into the shadows. I heard whoever it was approaching at a run. I focused on the sounds carefully...one...two...three...three pairs of footsteps. I gulped and controlled my breathing. As they were almost near me I started to hear fairly loud music. I blinked a few times and thought to myself quickly,
"Not trying to be to quiet I guess. Man, what the hell are these guys doing? There's nothing interesting back here, save me and nobody knows that I live here..."
They got closer now and I saw their faces, then I swore in my thoughts, still making no real noise. The people in front of me were Azusa Yumi, the death scythe that turned into a crossbow, Sid Barrett, the zombie meister, and Justin Law, the meister-less death scythe. If those three were here then they must be looking for me. I looked behind me but there was garbage in my way so I couldn't back out quietly. I heard Sid speak softly to the other two then say out loud,
"Come on out, Fallen, we came to speak to you."
Hah, like they think I'm not prepared for this sort of thing? I pulled down the opening in my pipe system, which made it so my voice came from six directions.
"I have no business with the DWMA. Tell me what you want of me and I'll come out, or hide forever depending."
My voice was hollow, emotionless, cold. I even saw Sid tense a bit at the sound of it, good, my training had been working. He spoke softly with the other two again before replying.
"We came to bring you to the DWMA. Lord Death wanted to talk to you."
"If that's true then why bring two death scythes and one of the top misters? You could have come yourself, Sid Barrett."
"We were not sure if you'd attack and with your power we wanted to make sure that you felt threatened enough not to attack."
"Fine, I'll come out if I see Justin Law shut off his damned headphones and see hands in the air."
They did as I asked, Sid had to kick Justin to get the headphones out, which I laughed at. I came out and finally revealed myself. I haven't actually described myself have I? Well I'm a bit tall, about 5'10". Doesn't sound tall, but for a woman it is, though nobody can tell. I always wear a hood, keep my long silver hair up, and wear a wrap to make my body look more masculine, holding down my chest. I raised up my left had and it went back to normal. I nodded and they nodded back. Oh, as to my voice, I bought a minor device that alters it for me, so that it sounds as if I am male, not female, but I rarely speak anyway. They took me to a car and we drove off. I made no conversation during the trip no matter how many times they tried to get me to speak. I only said one thing on the trip, "I will only speak to lord death." And that was it. We got to the academy, apparently I was more famous then I knew. As they escorted me to Lord Death's room I heard a lot of the kids there whispering things like "Oh my god, it's The Fallen Reaper" and "How is fallen not a Kishin egg if he steals souls?" I sighed and Sid chuckled whispering near me,
"You can't blame them, you are one of a kind."
I shrugged a bit and stayed silent. We kept walking and I noticed a few famous people like Maka Albarn and Black Star, but I didn't care about fame. I kept walking with them and ignored the mumbling. We eventually got to Lord Death's room. I was confused when I didn't see anything but a mirror, but Sid wrote on the mirror and Lord Death appeared. He was silly, stupid, inefficient. I didn't understand why people would follow such a man, but I shrugged mentally and looked at him, I spoke softly so that the voice changer could catch it and amplify it.
"They said you wanted to see me. What is it you want?"
"Ya hia, how's it going? Well, we kinda heard you have an interesting ability."
"And if I do? Why do you care?"
"Well we'd like to lean more about you and your powers."
I laughed at that, good gods this guy can't be Lord Death. His silly voice and mask were just so...child like! I couldn't believe it! I spoke softly again, hoping the laughing hadn't revealed my gender.
"You going to get Stein to experiment on me? Make me into a test subject?"
"No no, we want you to train here at the academy! You're only eighteen, yet you've got amazing skill!"
Was he being serious? I looked over at Sid and the Death Scythes who seemed just as surprised as I was at this offer. He couldn't be serious. I had killed and therefore absorbed the souls of normal humans, and he wanted to let me in? I started to ask slowly,
"And who am I supposed to be paired with? I can work with anybody, I just don't know who you'd want me with."
"Hmmm...for now you'll work alone, we know you can."
I nodded and held up my right arm, which turned into a long thin blade, in fact it was the blade of a rapier. I transformed it back and raised an eyebrow. He kept on speaking as I did this though,
"We'll have you join the same class as Maka, Soul, Kid, Patty, Liz, Black Star, and Tsubaki."
I glared at him and gave him my coldest and most empty voice as I asked a couple questions.
"Can I wear this jacket and hood, aka covering my face and hair as is my mark? What will I do for housing and can I be guaranteed privacy in my room?"
He held up those huge hand things and spoke slowly,
"You can wear what you want. We should be able to find single housing for you, and we guarantee your privacy. Sid, Justin, Azusa, I'd like some time alone with Fallen."
The three of them looked at each other and walked out. He waited until we heard the door close before saying,
"Fallen, go ahead and remove that device and hood. I want to talk truly. I know that you're not male, but I'm going to keep it secret for now."
I gasped a bit and looked at him dumbfounded, asking myself how he knew, but he said simply,
"I can always tell. The real reaper sees all in front of him."
His voice had changed to the low pitched deep voice that I expected. I sighed and clicked the device off and lowered my hood, now showing my face to him. My pitch black eyes staring at him carefully. There was only one thing I hated about my face, and that was the scar. I had a scar that ran from the middle of my left eyebrow straight down to the level of my lower lip. I looked at him curiously, still wondering but he said something odd.
"Look, we know what you do, what makes you different, but we don't know why you have those things, and unfortunately you're too important to go be living in the streets. If you decide not to take classes or try and run from here, then I will stop you and you will be living in a jail cell, understood?"
I nodded and spoke normally for the first time to anybody from the DWMA. My voice you ask? It's soft, flowing, with a massive amount of shyness to it. I always get much more shy once I take my hood off.
"U-U-Understood sir. When do I-I-I begin c-c-c-class?"
He went on back to his normal voice, that is his silly voice, and explained that as soon as they got me a residence inside Death City they would have me start classes. I'd be given a slightly different training regimen then the other students, which he was still deciding upon. I sighed and went off after we got my room settled, and slept.