Love Triangle: Live - Chapter 1: Search

Apparently my fathers were master warriors that could kill anything. However, they still got killed the day I was born. It was like the world was trying to tell me I shouldn't be here. Their names were Soul Eater Evans and Death the Kidd, and my name is Live Evans. No this isn't going to be one of those sappy stories about how I complain everything is horrible in my life. This is going to be the story about how I took the place of my father, Kidd, as Lord Death at age nine. Of course, I had loads of help from their old friends. The woman that had adopted and raised me was named Maka, and the guy that was like a dad to me was named Black*Star. And now, that I'm eighteen, I've finally decided to go out in search of the men that killed my fathers.

I stepped out of my bathroom, pulling my white hair into a ponytail. For some odd reason I had three black stripes around the right side of my head. Maka told me Kidd had the same marking around the left side of his, but once his father died it became complete. The story rose a question in the back of my mind, but I was young enough that I could ignore it. Once I got dressed in a simple black dress, I slid my feet in some boots and put on an old redone coat that my mom said one of my dad's wore as a teenager. Everything I did revolved around the things that their old friends knew about them. Apparently I was a combination of the two.

Once outside my red eyes gleamed in the sunlight. I had let so many things go, but not their deaths. My hands slid into the coat pockets. I'd meet with everyone before I left and then head out with my meister. My meister is a charming guy of the age fourteen that seemed to be slightly insane. His bright red hair brought attention to him, but people said his hair went with my eyes. Of course, he also had white eyes. It amazed me when I thought about how we were basically the exact opposite of each other.

A smile spread across my face at seeing Shepard. He waved joyously at seeing me and I flashed him a toothy grin, my tongue sliding quickly over my sharp teeth. His voice slipped into the air, it was still high like he hadn't gone through puberty, "Live, my lady, always a pleasure to see you." We quickly locked hands as we grew close enough. "So we'll be leaving today?" I gave him a nod as we made our way to the academy. The fourteen year old began to skip beside her as they got closer. Once inside the walls of the place Maka appeared beside her. Her long blonde hair brushing over her shoulders and sweeping over my back as she looked at me. "When will you leave?" I glanced at her and shrugged, unsure of the exact time. Shepard chuckled, "soon ma'am. Please don't worry so much." Maka glanced at the boy before disappearing from Live's side.

There were so many people discussing my grand quest for vengeance, and a lot of them were seeing me off today. One way or another, I was going to get what I had been desiring for so long. Black*Star fell from the ceiling and landed in front of us. Whipping his hair around, he finally stood before us calmly. Anybody could clearly see his half shaved blue head once he stopped moving around so much. Tsubaki shifted from her weapon form and leaned into him. One of his beat up fist shot out and grabbed my shoulder, "you two look out for each other. I believe that you can do whatever you goal is out there. If you find out that their killers are dead… You come back. If you get hurt, you come back too." He was always so serious when he wasn't fidgeting. Maka said he wasn't always like that. Sometimes I wondered what changed him. Nobody ever told me much, they just sometimes spoke of small things from the past.

Squeezing Shepard's hand, I nodded. "Don't worry. I have my guard with me. We'll be there for one another no matter what." It wasn't a good time for Shepard to laugh like a crazy person, but it happened. My nails dug into his palm to silence him, which back fired on me. He laughed more. Insanity is insanity after all. The only one he ever acted slightly normal around was me. That might have been why I liked him though. He could scare his opponent so badly they'd pee themselves. It was funny and horrible at the same time. "Anyways, before I go I want to stop by their graves. I need to tell them today is the day." Star nodded and I quickly made my way along. Everything was going to change.

When I was finished at their graves, I left and met back up with Shepard. He had his shirt pulled up over his face and was spinning around in circles. Not asking questions and assuming the reason behind his action was for entertainment, I took his hand. He returned to me and removed his shirt from his face. "You have the location Maka gave you?" I nodded. It would be the first place I looked. She said suspicious people who wanted to be lost to the world gathered here and disappeared. Pulling out the piece of paper, I flipped it around in my fingers. This would be it.

It was finally time to head out. Shepard and I had rented a vehicle for our quest. I, of course, got the pleasure of driving us. Maka had packed so much that I left like we could've taken two vehicles and still had barely any room. Driving fast across the desert, I put the location into our GPS and cut across the map by going through a jungle. After about five hours of driving after the first two hours, I got to own destination.

Shepard leapt from the car and ran around to my side. "This is the place where people come to disappear. Maybe they'll be here." Sadly, I wasn't too sure how to find the guys. We mostly spent our time wondering about the town asking questions. Apparently not a lot of people showed up here out of the blue, but about sixteen years ago two guys did appear. However, they left after a blonde came around asking questions about the place. I assumed the blonde was Maka, but I had to figure out who the men were and where they went.

Parking the car at the place Shepard and I would be staying, I climbed out. This was going to be a hell of a lot harder than I originally believed it would be. My eyes narrowed as I wondered around the building in thought.

"Ouch!" A guy spun around and snarled at me. In shock I froze up. I wasn't use to this type of responsive.

Blushing softly, I glanced away from the male. "Sorry. I didn't mean to…." My words trailed off as I stared at him now. He seemed to be doing quite a bit of staring himself as well though. The stranger wore a nice black suit. The fabric looked super silky and the person in the clothing looked to be very cool. Although, his head was shaved it made him look even cooler for some reason. What made me stop and stare so much though were those eyes. Those were definitely my eyes!

At hearing more footsteps, I froze. Black lock fell around a slim woman's waist as he appeared behind the man. Her dress was lovely and her golden eyes were gorgeous. The dress she wore suited her features perfectly. They looked like a perfect couple, but I had one question come to mind. What the hell were they doing in this place?

"Soul." Not a female voice! My eyes went wide as the voice came out in such a masculine manner. "Can I take this off now? I feel ridiculous. We aren't even…" His words trailed off as his gaze shifted to me. The look on his face was one of absolute horror, not one someone would look at a stranger with.

Flinching out of my trance, I realized something else. "Did you just call him Soul? Is your name Soul Evans by chance?" They glanced at each other before gulping.

Asking at the same time, "Who are you?" Did I just accidentally find my dead dads?