A Ride Through Heaven and Hell

A/N Hello everyone.

This is my first story that I'm going to publish on this site, I like criticism but it has to be constructive so no flames please. If you have any questions feel free to ask and I'll try to awnser them in a way that doesn't spoil the plot.

Now, on with the story!

Monday ,a new day ,in a new week of school at the DWMA. Maka unlike most people her age, enjoyed school to a certain degree and reading and all the things that are considered " nerdy". But she was also one of the few that didn't really care and just Maka-chopped people with books. So today it was no surprise that 5 minutes into the first lesson Soul and Black*star had already been Maka-chopped, for what reason you ask? The usual ; laughing at her lack of a chest and book loving. So now Maka sat in the 3rd row of benches watching Professor Stein wheel in a cage.

"Now class, I'm sure your all very excited to find out what's in this cage" Stein grinned crazily and got unimpressed grumbles and mumbles from the class. As usual they where getting another dissection instead of lessons that actually mattered like soul wave lengths and resonating as a team. In the back row people where complaining about exactly that : the lack of actual important lessons. And because of that several scalpels went flying towards their heads, luckily the people they had been thrown at managed to dodge them … this time.

"Well seeing as your all so excited I'll reveal what is in this cage." Stein flung the cloth covering the cage on the floor and they where shocked to see a panda, a breathing ,living, endangered panda.

Screeches and cries that Stein had finally lost it rattled round the room and bounced of the ceilings, Stein not hearing them as he turned the screw in his head , grabbed a scalpel and wheeled over to the panda cage. The kids being in their moment of shock and being able to screech and chatter without having sharp scalpels flung at them didn't notice the fact … all but 1 of course.

Maka seeing what was going to happen jumped off and ran down the steps to the panda cage, she reached Stein just in time and grabbed the back of his chair and pulled him away from the cage.

"Professor that's a endangered species you can't dissect that!" she hauled Stein away from the panda cage and thank fully caught the attention of the young Shinigami in the class who jumped up , grabbed the panda cage and began pushing it away.

"I'm going to go bring this to my father to have it brought to a zoo or some place to have it taken care off." the young Shinigami sighed and with a heave pushed the thing out of the door and around the corner.

"Well after that rude interruption by Miss Albarn and Death the kid, I'll give you some homework instead, I want a 3 page essay on when demon weapons and meister where first used to ride the evil, why they where needed so badly and why Death formed this school. I want this to go into a lot of detail and if I find that any of this is plagiarized I will make you do it over, but make is slightly longer and graded stricter. And yes ladies and gentleman, this is for a grade. I want it by next week Monday." Stein eyed them all crazily and none of them said a word they just glared as Maka as the bell went and they all left.

For the rest of the day all she got was glare and nasty whispers through the halls and in class. Maka, who was someone who didn't easily give up, ignored it and got on with the rest of her day, but little did she know that things where going to get a lot worse.

It was the end of the day, everyone was going home, including Maka who didn't feel like going to the library and starting on the essay for Stein. She trudged to her locker, to get her coat and books she'd stored there when she felt felt people crowding around her by her locker. She turned around and noticed that they where all from her class.

"Do you need something? Help with something or is it something else?" Maka who figured that they just needed help with something kept her back turned as she grabbed her books.

"We don't need help, we need you to stop interfering with lessons so we don't get more essay's from Stein." at this she turned around and noticed that everyone was glaring at her, some even moving forward at that remark. She narrowed her eyes at them, not believing that she was being corned for saving a panda's life.

"Saving that innocent panda's life from being dissected is more important than some stupid essay which won't even be too hard." she snapped she reached her arm back inside her locker to grab her jacket when she felt her locker door being slammed shut and herself being pushed up against it.

"Won't be too hard? Won't be too hard? Well pardon us that we aren't in the Spartoi and have to go hunt kishen souls. And just because it won't be hard for you doesn't mean it won't be hard for others, some people have lives and don't study so much that they know everything about the DWMA being a meister, weapon and witch and then some!" The boy which I know recognize as David, ( OC only used in first 2 chapters and briefly mentioned in others. I couldn't think of any of the characters from the anime to use) shouted. I was speechless normally I was only teased by my friends but this was just … insults thrown at me for no reason.

More people had gathered around, most of them from others classes to see what was going on. Some of them where smiling at me, conveying to me the message that they thought that I was getting what I deserved and others where frowning, like they didn't agree but couldn't do anything about what was happening.

The others from my class stepped forward some more and I was now fully surrounded and I had no way of escape.

"You're so full of yourself as well, stopping a teacher for crying out loud from continuing his lesson because he wanted to dissect and animal, just because it endangered. If it weren't for you we would have so much less homework, but no being the little stuck up ass that you are you had to make sure we got more homework." David spat all this out and others just nodded in agreement, they agreed with this? But … I always just did my best …

"You Maka, are a stuck up, flat-chested annoying, bookworm of a bitch, you should go and rot in hell, this school would be much better without you, stop being such a goody-two-shoes and get a grip, you can't go through live following all the rules and ruining stuff for others. I hate you , we hate you. Just get lost and don't come back!" David slapped me across the face and backed off, he had finished and said what he wanted to say, and now he and the others made a path for me.

My flight or fight instinct took hold of me and I ran as fast as I could down the corridor , other the school grounds, down the stairs and all the way home, crying and holding my check as I went. I probably looked like a wild animal but I didn't care.

Once I got home I went straight into the bathroom, I splashed water on my face and took some deep breaths. I had ran, I had given up, I had stood there and taken the insults and the slap, I had given up. Fresh tears came to my eyes, I never gave up, never not even against kishen Asura. I took some more deep breaths and thought about what they had said, basically they wanted me to , if its change they want, its change they'll get. It'll take some time though, I'll need to leave.

I walked through to my bedroom and sat at my desk, I grabbed a pen and a piece of paper, I wrote a note to Soul and the others, letting them know I was leaving, but that I'd be coming back soon. Satisfied with my letter , I sealed it away in an envelope, on the front of it I wrote , To Soul and the gang.I grabbed my duffel bag from under my bed and stuffed it with some clothes and grabbed a few books, but I stopped myself, I put all my books back but one, The City of Bones.(the first one of The Mortal Instruments

) If I was going to change I needed to lose some of the books, at least in public. I hoisted my duffel bag up over my shoulder by its strap and went to the living room, I grabbed Souls motorbike key's knowing that he'd gone out with Black*star for Pizza night, and with one last look I stepped outside, walked down the porch steps and got on the bike, I revved it up. And then I took off, the moon my only companion.

A/N

A quick note,

First ; the reason I chose the City of Bones is because its partly about adapting to something that your not used to and learning to deal with that. Spoiler (if your going to read the books that is) Its also later on in the series about the hardships of relationships and dealing with it.

Second ; I know Maka would normally just Maka-chop them and carry on, but for this story this works just roll with it please :P

Thirdly ; Please review, I like them and it might make me get the chapters out faster :)

Remember this is my first published story no flames please!