"Ugh, why did you make me come to this stupid school?" I say to my partner, Mem. She rolls her eyes. "Because you need to get stronger in order to beat all those kishins you're always going after!" she responds, snapping her book shut. "Plus, we can't go on for much longer like this. The DWMA is our only chance at finally mastering soul resonance"

She walked over to the mini fridge that comes with our dorm room. Grabbing two water bottles, she tosses one to me and opened the other. Taking a sip, she checks her watch. "Hey, get off your lazy butt or we're gonna be late!" She grabs our bags and opens the door. I groan and reluctantly take my bag.

We arrive at the academy and the other students are just filing in. nobody seems to notice our presence. "Hey, do you think we should check with Lord Death to make sure he knows we're here?" I ask Mem. She nods.

The second we walk in the door she screams. I slap my hand over her mouth. "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU? YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE US SEEM UNCOOL! WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM!" I yell at her. I notice a few kids staring at us. I ignore them.

She blushes and point to a zombie talking to a few students across the hall. Oh, did I forget to mention she's terrified of zombies? I'm about to reassure her that if the rest of the students aren't freaked out, she shouldn't be when a kid with spikey blue hair walks up to us.

"Hiya there! In case you haven't noticed, I'm the great Black Star! I happened to notice that you seem new and I just wanted to grant you the pleasure of me being your first new friend here! Does that sound great? Of course it sounds great! Who wouldn't want to be my friend? I'm the great assassin BLACK STAR! YAHOOO!" He practically screams at us. This kid's ego is way to big.

I notice a girl with black hair standing behind him. She notices me looking at her and smiles. "Sorry about him." She says to us as he rambles on about his own greatness. "I'm Tsubaki. You're new here, I assume?" she waves.

"I'm Ginger and this is Mem." Mem waves. "Can you show us to Lord Deaths office or whatever?" I ask her. She seems nice enough. They're probably partners.

"Oh, you mean the Death room? Of course!" She leads us into this strange room that seems to go on forever and has these red arches. We get to a platform with a body mirror on it and she breathes on the glass. I see her write in the numbers "42-42-564" and step back. Then I see Lord Death appear in the mirror.

"Weapon Tsubaki and meister Black Star reporting with some new students, Lord Death." She tells him. "Hmm, You must be Ginger McAllister and Memory Rise, I presume?" He says in a funny voice. Tsubaki drags Black Star out and waves goodbye to us. "Good luck!" She whispers to us.

"Umm, Yeah! That's us!" Mem says nervously. "But you can call me Mem!"

"Ah, Mem. That sounds more fitting. So which one of you is weapon and meister?" he asks us. We look at each other. "Uh, I would be the meister, sir." I say, waving. "And I'm her weapon!" Mem adds.

"What kind?" he asks. Gosh, he has a lot of questions. "A bow and arrow, sir." She says. I notice her fiddling with her shirt. Stay cool, Mem. We'll be fine. I send her a message and hope she gets it. I know she won't, but it's worth a try.

He asks us a few more questions and then calls in someone named Maka. A few minutes later, a flat chested girl with light brown hair and green eyes comes into the death room. I know, I know. It's bad to judge a girl by her chest, but she's even flatter than Mem. And that's saying something; cause Mem's flat as a pancake.

"Scythe meister Maka reporting, sir!" she says with a salute. Should I have saluted? Crap, I so should have saluted! What if I forget to salute the next time I talk to Lord Death? I'll be dead for sure!

Keep your cool, Ginge! I tell myself. I let out a deep breath and refocus. Her and Mem are talking. They seem to have a lot in common. I join in.

"Yeah, My weapon is Soul Eater. He's kind of an idiot, but he's given his life for me before." Maka is saying. Mem nods. "Wow. That's so sweet of him. Hmm, I'm not sure if I would do that for Ginger…" She says. I nudge her with my elbow. Maka laughs and leads us outside.

After showing us around, we walk into a classroom. It's Kind of like the kind of college classrooms you see in movies, with a chalkboard down in the front and big risers that stretch across the room. I notice the teacher. He has stiches on his clothes and face and a giant screw through his head. He is currently dissecting what looks like a mouse. I throw up in my mouth a little.

"You're late." He says to Maka. He turns around in his chair and rolls it over to us. "Sorry, Professor Stein! Lord Death wanted me to show around the new students." She says, gesturing to us. We wave at him. eHeHHpdhfhfhg;hekgjhe;ghgHHeHe looks us up and down. "Well, you to look like you'd be fun to dissect, but sadly, I cannot experiment on students, so it will have to wait." He says. I take a big step away from him. "Go to your seats and I will proceed." He says, shooing us away. We follow Maka to seats in the middle row, where Tsubaki, Black Star, and a guy I haven't met yet are sitting. I walk in first, so I end up sitting next to him.

"I'm Soul. Who are you?" he says in a surprisingly deep voice. "Oh, you must be Maka's weapon." Mem says to him. He nods. "She told us about you." She adds.

"I'm Ginger, and this is my weapon, Mem." I say to him. "Cool." He replies, putting his hands in the pockets of his sweatshirt right as I put my hands in mine. Weird.

After I'm finished trying not to throw up during Stein's lesson, we walk out of the classroom and down the hall to a big message board with a bunch of bookmarks on it.

"What's all of this?" I ask. Some of the bookmarks have stamps on them, while others have little white signs or pink marks. "These are all the assignments for the students. Lord Death assigns them to us and the red marks mean they've been completed." Maka explains. Then I see a guy with black hair with three white stripes on one side walk up to our little group along with two girls, one taller and checking her nails and the other looking a lot ditsier.

"Oh, hey Kid!" Tsubaki says to him. I look questioningly at Maka and Soul. "That's Death The Kid, he's Lord Death's son." Soul explains.

"Lord Death has a son?" Mem asks. "Yeah, and those two girls are his weapons, Liz and Patty. They're sisters." Maka tells us. "Oh," Mem and I say together.

"And you would be?" Death The Kid asks us. Liz and Patty are talking to each other and don't seem to know we're here. "I'm Ginger," I say, taking a hand out of my pocket to wave. "And I'm Memory! But you can call me Mem!" She says to him. "Are you really the Grim Reaper's son?" She asks him, her eyes getting wide. He nods.

"That is so… AWESOME!" She says excitedly, jumping up and down. I put my hand on her shoulder to calm her down. She stops and blushes. "Sorry…" she looks down at her feet.

"It's fine. You can call me Kid if you like." He says to us. "I'm Liz. This is Patty," Liz says, pointing to Patty, who waves way to happily. "Nice to meet you." I say. "Is there anyone else we should meet?" Mem asks sarcastically.

"Well, there is-" Maka starts, but Soul cuts her off. "Nope. I think you're good!" he nudges Maka with his foot.

"So what kinds of assignments are there?" I ask, looking at the board. "Well, mostly to battle kishins or witches and stuff like that." Maka says. I notice that Tsubaki, Black Star, Kid, Liz and Patty have mysteriously disappeared. I mentally shrug.

"Sounds like something Ginger would want to do. But why do they have you do that kind of stuff?" Mem says to them.

"Oh, right. You probably don't know this stuff." Soul says. "Any meister and weapon that captures ninety-nine kishins souls and one witch soul becomes a death scythe, like Maka's dad. If you mess up, all the souls will be taken away and you'll have to start all over." He cringes. I get the feeling he learned that the hard way.

But me? I'll get Mem to be a Death Scythe by the end of the week! This is gonna be a piece of cake!