"So you're going to take the job then?" asked the shadowy being in front of me with a mask on. The mask was all white and resembled a skull. It wasn't a scary looking skull; it was a lot cartoonier.

I replied, "Sure, I don't see why not."

The shaded creature in front of me exclaimed, "Splendid!" He then took a massive hand that was not proportionate to his body and used it to ruffle my already messy blonde hair. He then continued, "You'll need a weapon then. Let's see, I have many of them available for you to choose from." He then led me down a hall to a room full of people. "Choose anyone you like!" the shadow said as he left.

I wandered around the room creating small talk with the people in the room. One person in particular caught my attention. He was a boy, about my age with fire red hair. The hair wasn't what got my attention; it was the way he stood there. Whereas most of the people in the room were excited about being there or telling people how awesome they were, this guy stood in the back against a wall as if he didn't give two shits about what was going on.

I decided to start a conversation with, "What got you so down in the dumps?"

He responded with a low, "Nothin"

"So why are you so gloomy?"

"No reason."

"Come on there's got to be something."

"Well you see, this is a complete waste of my time."

"How is that?"

"Oh, who am I kidding? I don't even want to talk to you."

"Why is it a waste of time?"

"Just leave me alone."

"Alright then, Nice talking to you."

"Yea whatever." I made my way back to the front of the room where the door was. I found the shady creature there.

He asked, "Did you find someone you like?'

I replied, "Yea that guy over there. The one with fire red hair."

"You sure about that? He's kind of odd."

"Why not?"

"Okay, his name is Rouge." The shadow gestured for the boy to come over.

With a depressing tone he said, "What now Death?"

The masked creature replied, "This Meister here has chosen you."

The boy responded, "Why?"

Deaths answer was, "I don't know why. Why don't you ask him yourself?"

The red haired boy turned to me and repeated his question. My reply was, "I got a good feeling about you."

"You do know about me right?"

"What do you mean?"

"I can't transform into my weapon form yet."

I flatly replied, "Well that just made things a lot harder."

At this point you are probably completely lost. So here is the story of how I got here. I was walking back to my house from the store. As I turned around I found a person standing in front of me. She had dark blue hair and was wearing a robe with a hood. The robe had on a cresting moon and stars dotted around it.

She looked up at me with a crooked smile and said, "You look like a good contestant."

I replied, "What do you mean contestant?" She then grabbed both my wrists. I tried to pull away, but I couldn't. When I finally broke her restraint by backing up I hit a wall. I looked around to see a completely different area than where I had been. I asked, "Where are we?" Her reply was to do this weird dance while teleporting up and down the street we were on.

After about a minute of this she teleported in my face, scaring the crap out of me saying, "Because I want this to be fun."

I asked, "What do you want to be fun?"

She simply replied, "You'll find out." And with that she teleported away.

I decided to take a look around to see that the moon above me had a scarier ass smile on it with blood dripping from it. The buildings around me were all dark and gloomy. There seemed to be a theme of skulls on everything. Most of the buildings around me were two stories. The uptown part literally went higher that the part I was at. On top of the hill of buildings was a single building. I decided that I should go over to it and inspect it. Once in front of it I had a long stairway leading up to it. The center had three skulls next to each other. Coming out of the center one were three red spikes. To the sides coming off at an angle where two candle sticks that were lit, on top of the skulls where four towers. The middle two were significantly shorter than the two ones behind it. Floating in the air was three black balls in a triangle formation pointing at the building. Off of the main builder where two towers that went higher than the small ones on the main building. This was the wackiest build I have ever seen. The thing defied all laws of gravity. Needless to say, I was intrigued. I walked into the building looking for someone to help me. The hallways were filled with kids, students actually. I tried to ask a few where I was, but they ignored me.

Finally I found someone to help me. It was an adult, with a big ass screw coming out of his head. He was sitting in an office chair. I asked where I was and he laughed at me. Then he turned his screw and told me to follow. As he led me down the hall full of bustling kids he told me that I was in a city called, "Death City." The building I was in is apparently a school to teach the kids here how to fight these things called "Kishin." When I asked him what they where he told me that a "Kishin" is somebody who had given into darkness and had their souls consumed. They then became "Kishin" who have a thirst for blood and only want to kill people for no reason.

When he finished we had arrived at the room we were headed for. Inside the room was a long hall with arches. The arches were actually guillotines, freaking guillotines! The man with the screw went under them without hesitation. I swiftly walked underneath them, making sure not to stand under one of them. At the end of the hallway there was a mirror and a shadowy figure looking into it. When the shadow turned around a mask of a skull was visible. The man with the screw took his exit. The shadow figure, as you learned earlier is Death, began to explain to me that he had no idea how I got here, but he will do his best to try and get me home. He said that in the meantime I could hang around here.

Days had gone by and no word of my returning home. In that time I met a few people. One of them was a girl named Maka whose weapon was a scythe. The scythe's name was Soul. Another was a boy my age with blue hair named Black Star, his weapon was named Tsubaki. She could change into a variety of different weapons, all of them resembling ninja weapons. Another boy was Death the Kid; he had two weapons named Elizabeth and Patricia. His weapons were actually sisters who could each turn into a pistol.

As more days went by I began to hang out with these people more and more. I found out that Death the Kid had a problem about symmetry, Black Star was an arrogant as hell and Soul wanted to be as cool as possible. Death the Kid had black hair with three strips horizontally on his left side. He normally dressed in a suit. Black Star had this weird bluish green hair. His everyday clothes were a pair of shorts and a black t shirt. Soul always had on a hair band. Maka had on a coat like jacket with a skirt. Elizabeth and Patricia wore the exact same thing that look like cowboy clothes.

More and more days went by. I mainly spent them going to some classes with the other kids, there wasn't much else in the town to do. Surprisingly I was one of the top kids in the class. The days we spent going to class, while nights my friends would go out and do missions. I wasn't allowed to go on them, because I don't have a weapon. After a while I got annoyed at how I kept on getting left behind, so I went to Death's room, the one that I originally met him in and asked if I could help. He knew that I had been attending classes, so I already had an idea of what to expect. He told me something I didn't know however, that the weapons that the students used were all trying to become Death's next weapon. This took me by surprise. How could people give up their friends like that? They would grow to become friends and then have to give them up to Death. He then went on to explain that they already had a bunch of Minsters to take care of the Kishins around here. He understood my wanting to help and gave me a special job. Whereas I could still help out around Death City, I would be sent on special missions that would take me off of this world, hell even out of this dimension to take out the Kishins that had managed to get away.

Don't ask me how that work, all I know is that is what Death told me. And that is where we are now.