Hello everyone. Just as quick as I finish two stories, I get two more.
This is my newest AU for Soul Eater, but I'm also collaborating with raelynn gross to bring you all a Soul Eater mystery. Go to her profile to find the story and don't forget to review or I'll be sending Maka to take your soul!
Anyhoo, I don't own Soul Eater, but I'm quite sure I own the songs mentioned in this chapter, Kamisama and First Light, seeing that I wrote them both over this past year.
And, congrats to me, this is one of the first stories I've written in present tense! Yay for me as a growing writer!
Enjoy and Review!
Semi-Legal
Prologue
Soul Evans runs a hand through his gravity defying white hair as he sits down by Maka on the white couch. She is a thin and flatchested girl that Soul hates to admit is very beautiful. She has pale blond hair that she often wears up in pigtails, but sometimes wears down, which Soul believes looks better as it frames her pale, green eyed face. Upon his weight hitting the couch, Maka jumps and looks up from the book she is reading.
"Ah! Soul, you idiot! You scared me!" She screams, striking him in the head with her novel.
"Ow...What are we singing tonight anyway? And where are the others?" Soul asks.
"They went out to get tonight's meal. As for what to perform, I have no idea."
Soul, Maka, and their friends live at and perform songs for a special hangout in Death City. The group of teenagers are like a family by themselves, which makes sense since they don't really have much to do with their families anyway. It is an interesting group and they always stick together, no matter what stupid arguments they have. Maka stands and stretches herself. She is clothed in a pink tank top and a below knee black leather skirt. She also wears short black boots that reach just above her ankles and a short sleeved black velvet vest over her tank top that has a single pink heart-shaped button on it. Another thing Soul knows and doesn't want to admit is that Maka looks damn good in that outfit.
"Okay, we could sing Kamisama or maybe First Light? God, now I know why it takes you forever to choose just one particular song; it's so hard!"
"We haven't done First Light in awhile, so maybe that one would be best," Maka muses.
"Maybe we should let the 'godly' Black Star choose."
Maka laughs brightly. Soul is often the only one who can conjure a laugh from her, even when he does annoy her sometimes. It is hard to laugh sometimes around here, since singing is only the easy part of their job, not the only part. If singing was the only thing they had to do, it would be an easier life. But the easy life is just too boring and being a group of seven teenagers who have connections, smart minds, not many personal things to worry about, or multiple of the aforementioned makes them decent candidates for the other job they do.
This second job all started because of Kid, the son of Death City's mayor. He had been a friend of the other teenagers who had no family and no real honest place to go. Soul and Maka were friends who could date themselves as being friends since day one that had ended up on the streets when tragedy had stricken both families. Tsubaki and Black Star were nearly the same way, although they hadn't known one another before hand and Tsubaki had been disowned. Black Star, like Soul and Maka, had been orphaned. Lastly in this musical ragtime group were Liz and Patty, a twin pair of once feared street terrorizing women. Kid had met Liz and Patty first before coming into contact with the others, somehow quickly befriending them and connecting them with each other somewhere beneath his symmetrically obsessed OCD. Kid noticed that each one was smart and skilled in their own right and that they deserved a chance to do something with it, so he asked some help of his father.
Maka still remembers the day Kid showed up at the hotel he was having them all put up at and told them that he got them all an amazing job they could all do together. That was the day they received the offer that would change their lives forever. The proposal was for them to become an extension of the Death City Police Department, an extension that would be known as 'Semi-Legal Restoration,' otherwise known as SLR. SLR would take on cases that the police department could no longer advance on, cases too touchy for police, or cases the police just simply won't take on for whatever reason. Another part of the job was to get another job in a place where other people who needed help could be found, so that SLR could function like a private detective agency as well. So now Maka and her friends, except Kid, live in the office-hangout-apartment building hybrid building. There were only four apartments from the apartment part in the first place and all had gone unused until the hangout opened.
The owner of the place needed one for herself, her husband, and their daughter, so that left three. All are spacious and have two bedrooms if necessary, so Soul and Maka share one, Black Star and Tsubaki share another, and the Thompson sisters share the last one. The owner, Marie, had been proud to share her public hangout with such a worthy business, so there had been no protests whatsoever. The apartments and the SLR office, the room Maka and Soul are currently lounging in, are all located upstairs, leaving the gigantic downstairs area for the hangout area where many games could be played, people could talk, and people could eat. Marie's public hangout, Living Cavern, was one of the most successful businesses in Death City, perfect for SLR to find spare customers besides their police assignments.
The SLR office is quite decently furnished thanks to Kid. It is perfectly symmetrical and beautifully organized. The floor is white colored, smoothly cut wood, with the letters 'SLR' painted on it in big red letters with a white circle around it. The main couch, a long white one, sits against the wall opposite from the red double doored entrance, the North wall. One red medium couch with golden trim sits perfectly symmetrically against the East and West walls, the two other opposite walls, one per wall. Against the wall with the door, the South wall, are silver symmetrical filing cabinets and red oak bookshelves, two of each for either side of the door, which made the line of symmetry from it's own vertical line of symmetry. At the very center, arranged very symmetrically, is a large white table used for everything from song writing to case working to drink placing.
"Where the hell are those guys?" Soul inquires.
"I have no idea," Maka responds, "-but they best hurry. I'm hungry and we're on in an hour."
Suddenly, the red double doors burst open and in parades a blue haired egomaniac Soul and Maka know as Black Star. He is followed by the sleek, developed, black haired, and indigo eyed Tsubaki. Both are carrying bags from Death Takeout and they sit it on the table as Kid, Liz, and Patty walk into the office, Kid carrying a file under his arm and drinks in his hands.
"Sorry we're late, but Black Star was being indecisive," grumps Kid.
"I, the amazing Black Star, deserve the godliest meal and I couldn't figure out which one that would be!"
"Black Star, I'm sure either one would have been fine!" protests Liz.
"Oh come on guys, its over now," sighs Tsubaki.
Kid has short black hair and gold eyes with three white stripes on one side of his head, leaving him to be asymmetrical as well. Liz and Patty both have blond hair and blue eyes, although Patty is shorter and has larger eyes.
"It's fine. We need help selecting a song; the choices are at Kamisama and First Light," Maka tells her friends.
Soul and Maka are the main vocalists, although Soul plays piano as well and the others sometimes do vocal parts. Maka also plays guitar along with her vocalist job. Tsubaki plays either keyboard or harp, depending on the song while Black Star always plays drums and Kid plays saxophone. Liz plays clarinet and Patty plays tuba, which surprisingly never crushes her small stature.
"I like both, Maka's voice makes them both so pretty," Tsubaki sighs indecisively.
"Blah, the drum part of both of those is boring!" protests Black Star.
"I like First Light. We haven't done it in awhile and its been some time since Soul and Maka have done a duet," Liz votes.
"Yeah, I want First Light!" cries Patty.
"Sounds great to me," Kid responds.
Kid then sits the small file on the table with a slight clap of sound, "There's our assignment to begin when we're done tonight."
Maka and the others nod firmly with understanding. The group settles down to eat dinner before heading downstairs to do their music act of the night. Then it would be back upstairs to the SLR office to start on their secondary line of work that most 15-17 year olds didn't do.