Chapter 1

Calm and Cool

The world is paired in twos , there's a match for everything . North has South , East has west , the sun has the moon , heaven has hell , cold has hot , dark has light , male has female , Silence has sound , so its only right then , that someone like me , who enjoys pairs so much , happens to be a part of a pair myself .

Im a weapon named Calm , and my Meister is Francis Craft who has been friends with me since I fist came to the Academy.

While my main goal is to stay calm and keep all my anger and anxiety's in ,Francis on the other hand has trouble getting emotional at all , he always complains that hes bored .

This particular trait seems to bother most people apparently , but its never bothered me. In fact Ive always admired his calm personality , he never gets anxious or angry and he doesn't flip when he sees a horrible creature with more then four legs. ( I cannot tolerate insects )

And he puts up with my anxiety , my anger , my fears and tells me they amuse him.

Francis is seen as a friendly and social guy , he seems to get along with everyone .

...Me though...

"Hey watch it " I lost my footing and ended up on the floor , unfortunately right in someones way on my way to class . It was embarrassing that much was by all means true since my skirt ended up sort of flipping when I fell.

I blushed dumbfounded and quickly rearranged myself.

"I ..I ..Imm...Im s.."

"Yeah yeah I'm sorry , I get it . Maybe you should learn sign language the whole talking thing never works out very well for you does it?" There was some quiet laughter that muted quickly as I looked around , no one particularly liked the idea of being caught laughing at me.

"I...I..." I stopped. She was right ...this girl looking at me she was so right. I was furious and I wanted to punch her for a slight minuet when I saw her smirking...But I quickly remembered again who I was .

Be calm.

I nodded my head after taking a breath.

"Your right." I said this smoothly , the uncaring mode taking over and turned heel and walked out.

To her it probably only caught her off guard for the slightest minuet. She would forget that gesture in less then five. Me on the other hand , I felt proud of myself and kept that walk in my mind all day .

I'm Calm . I'm going to stay that way. No one will break this cool reserve. No anger will devour me , my obsessions will stay back , my passions , my tears ...my fear even. Everything will be held back , cooled down till not a single flame is left. I would destroy all of my petty and weak self , and mold a new self until I was a statue all could admire . I would be the perfect weapon , and Francis would be the perfect Mister .

Francis would feed off the passions of the world and use them to his advantage , while I would be the cool and collected metal I was meant to be.

Or at least at that time that's what I truly believed with all my heart.

Plans are more often then not completely destroyed by unseen circumstances , But I continued with these train of thoughts back then.

I had almost mastered ignoring the rude girls and there immature ways , all though my stuttering issue was still pretty prominent at times.

If only people could hear me talk like I think...

Well no matter , that would be gone soon enough.

I entered the classroom and noticed Francis was already there . He calmly half waved at me and motioned me to sit down. I walked over and happily sat next to him aware that a girl far behind us was shooting deadly glares at me. The girl was march and for whatever reason , she was pretty much obsessed with Francis. Honestly I totally loved Francis , he was my best friend , and like family to me , but I could never be ,...well...I could never DATE Francis...the concept seemed so weird to me.

I do suppose once I had imagined it.

Francis was tall and lanky sure , he had these really sweet droopy eyes the color of a dark forest and Sandy colored hair. He looked bored more often then he did sweet though. I wont lie , an attention span was not at all that great. Oh and there was Francis's name.

He hated his own name with a passion. I had met him before he had taken on a new name , so he yelled at me if I called him that . Oh heavens no , I was supposed to call him Cool. Yeah you got that we were a team , Calm and Cool .

Way Corny right? Well God knows Francis liked to say it to an enemy right before battle.

"Hey whats your name? Oh yeah I don't care , this is my weapon here and together we are calm and cool"

He was ...well he was kind of a moron sometimes. BUT he was a sweet moron and It was kind of cute when he did that .

Though I will admit ...I am pretty cool, when I'm in weapon form anyway.

Professor. Stine was in front of the classroom this time , the teachers would move to the classroom in turns rather then us going to different classrooms which is something I found puzzling when I first came to go to school here. Being an American we did things different , but apparently this style was more common in most parts of the world .

"Ok class , today were going to do things a bit different , now basically your all covered for the most part with your study's , some of you are actually even almost reapers , the remaining of you in this class group though , are not and I wont lie im running out of topics to cover...

We could always dissect things I suppose..." He started rambling about some rare and interesting lizard and I suppressed a shudder.

I mean yeah we had to kill evil people all the time but...What did that lizard ever do to us?

"Anyway once again my resources are tapped out and my idea wasn't approved , though...never mind , what I have today is demonstration on dual weapon merging ! By none-other then our next lord death , Death...the kid ...or young adult if you want to be precise really...well never mind."

In the back of the classroom miss march herself waved her arm back and forth.

"Um Sir , didn't we already cover this ? I mean you had us in groups already and we merged all out souls..! And not only that , a few of us actually have dual weapons! "

Professor Stine sort of just stared at her for a minuet like she was some sort of weird creature he wanted to cut into pieces and examine. Something that I always imagined he actually would rather do to us then teach us anything.

" Like I said Im running out of ideas. Hey your groups pretty much almost adults and you STILL have to get a witches soul , and your telling me how to run my class now? What am I supposed to cover more? I did special classes for most of you , and STILL you haven't gotten a witches soul. Hey I know Its hard and all , but you guys get your acts together , I'll have one less class group to teach and you can all learn new and better stuff . Till then Im just gonna go over the same stuff over and over till it actually stays in your little brains. " He at this point grabbed a cigarette out of is pocket and lit it . He must have been pretty pissed off Mrs. Marie had pretty much banned him from smoking in the classrooms.

I know I was red , totally embarrassing! So where the other ...well nine students left in the room.

Ok ...so I admit ...neither Cool or me had been very lucky at the whole witch hunt yet , but THAT WAS NOT OUR FAULT! No ..I mean when your in an entire class full of people who are after witches sometimes your options are ...well LIMITED. That...and we sort of sucked for awhile.

But all that was different now...DIFFERENT! I was Calm now and collected ..HE was COOL now and more organized.

Our luck was totally going to change.

I really hoped.

When Kid walked into the room , I admit I had chills. I had seen him only a few times on school events , he was always so calm and knew exactly what he was going to say. He would talk in this organized fashion that got to the point .And mostly what gave me chills was how he looked. He was only black and white save for his eyes which almost looked like glowing lanterns in the dark , not simply one shade of gold but two.

Two shades of gold , and two colors to dress in .

He seemed so perfect. It was like he wasn't even human.

Oh wait...never mind.

I almost feel like that was the day that everything changed . Was it?