When Souls Collide
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11:45pm, the red numbers illuminated against the black alarm clock, as a girl with light blue hair lay across the floor, holding a book in the air.
"So… Much… Homework." She dropped the book to her face, jumping up, suddenly enthusiastic. "Gotta do it!" She put the pencil to paper, and wrote nothing. At all. Zoi couldn't think of a single word to describe the book she had just read.
"NO!" She screamed and fell atop her book. "I hate romance novels! I don't wanna do the report! Why Marie-Sensei~?!"
A room and a half over, Ana jumped in shock at Zoi's yell. Her violet eyes blinked, running every possible outcome of entering Zoi's room. Putting her pen down, she pushed herself away from her desk.
Book report over a romance novel… Not Zoi's idea of fun.
Without hesitation, she made her way to her own room, where Zoi was currently doing her homework. Standing at the door, she could hear tearing noises, she lightly knocked before opening the door.
"Zoi… Are you-"
She gaped at the sight before her. Zoi was in the process of trying to tear the books straight down the middle.
"I'm not doing this! I REFUSE! Marie-Sensei can take her fantasies and shove it!" Zoi screamed, trying to rip the book, and failing miserably until her hand transformed into a double bladed axe and chopped the book into pieces. Ana let her arms fall to her sides, as pieces of paper floated all around the room. She stared right at Zoi, who had JUST noticed her appearance. She waved with her hand still in axe form, a stupid grin on her lips. "Yeah, I'm JUST fine."
Ana frowned. Her partner had to be the WORST liar of all time.
"Zoi… Again. You did it AGAIN." This wasn't the first time, not the second, but the third time Zoi had destroyed a book due for homework. "What am I gonna do with you…?" Her childish features tightened, turning her into the mature one Zoi hardly saw.
"Help me clean up?" Zoi asked, hopefully. Pieces of the "vampire shit book", as she called it, were now littered all over her dorm floor. Sighing, she reverted her axe back into a hand, and started scuffing the pieces into a pile. Sure, she would be in trouble tomorrow in class, but Zoi had made up her mind. She was not reading that book, and definitely not doing the report.
Ana stood in the doorway, watching her partner clean up her own mess. She had nearly zoned out, tired. It WAS midnight. On a school night. Ana needed her sleep, but Zoi hardly let her have it. Especially on report days.
"Ana~ Have you done your paper yet?" Shock wrote itself across Ana's face. She had just finished her paper nearly a half hour ago. Vampires that 'sparkle'. Of course she gave it a "fail" as her grade, Marie-Sensei would understand. She folded her arms over her nonexistent chest and frowned. She was not about to let Zoi copy hers, again.
"Not this time, Zoi…" Following suit, Ana bent down and scooped up a few destroyed pieces of bad literature. Reading it, she rolled her eyes. "Ean's eyes-" That's all the pieces said and Zoi scoffed.
"His eyes SUCK!" She pushed the papers into the trashcan, hoping to never have to see them again. "This person cant write- What does Marie-Sensei see in it?! I can't say I really understand it, it's torture to read." She remained completely calm while saying this. The books were terrible. Purely terrible. They made her never want to read again.
Once all the random papers were thrown out, Ana settled her self down on the floor, pulling her skirt over her knees and wriggled her toe-socked toes in amusement.
"So. What are you going to do now that you tore it up?" She nodded toward the trashcan. Knowing Zoi didn't even have a word written, worry poked at the back of her brain. Zoi shrugged.
"I don't know… Hope she forgets about it. I'm not about to run all over campus looking for someone to copy offa." She raised a thin eyebrow at the overflowing trashcan. "She gives us these things constantly. I think my grades can handle a 50 pointer gone missing." She tried to look calm, but Ana noticed the twitch in her left eye. Her grades were falling enough already.
Glancing at the clock, Zoi sighed. Ten after midnight, way past the time they went to bed. Even if she DID have the book, there was no way she could get through it and write the report in just a few days. She dropped her head in anguish.
"I'm going to bed! I FAIL." She yelled, and stalked off to her own room. Ana had no choice but to giggle. Moving the trashcan over to the corner, she barely noticed the shadow that cast it's self across her floor. In shock she glanced up at the window, a boy with raven hair hanging from the floor above. He grinned at her.
"Hi Ana~!" With a high pitched scream, Ana fell over. In direct response, Zoi rushed in, eyes full of worry and anger.
"What happened-" Her eyes fell on the boy in hanging in the window. "RAY?!" She hollered, flinging the window open to cast a glare at him.
"Hey Ray! Is she doin' that weird eye thing that she always does?" A younger sounding voice came from above, and Zoi's face filled with blush from anger and embarrassment. He was making fun of her blind eye, again. She resorted to a simple glare as a boy with spiky blond hair jumped from the roof. She stared as he fell, silently calling him a dumbass. They were on the third floor.
Ray's aqua eyes widened as his partner fell past him. In an instant, his free arm transformed into a whip and wrapped around the boy's torso.
"Cable! Are you stupid!? What are you thinking?!" Pain shot through his muscles from the strain of hanging by one arm, and holding on to Cable with the other. At least he had caught Cable before he had killed himself on accident.
Ana sighed vocally, sitting down on her bed, after the near heart attack. She smiled, glad that it was Ray and Cable, and not anyone dangerous. They may try to be bullies, but failed really badly at it.
"It's only Ray and Cable, Zoi." Zoi's shoulders twitched in response.
"They're annoying." She blurted, still glaring at the struggling Ray.
"Do you think you're tough, Zoi!? HUH? ME AND RAY OWN YO ASS! Ha!" Cable hollered from the second story 'area' where he hung freely.
"If you own me SO much, why are you hanging 30 feet off the ground?! BY YOUR WEAPON?!" Zoi yelled back, causing Ray to furrow his eyebrows. Her words may have been true, but they were also hurtful.
"Because… BECAUSE I CAN!" Cable screamed, trying to face her, despite his blushing.
"No… You're STUPID. You and Ray are stupid as CRAP!"
"You wanna fight, LAZY EYE?!"
"If you have the spine to, BLONDIE!" She couldn't come up with a better comeback or insult, but her eyes, even her blind one, blazed with an angry fire. Ana heart skipped a beat. Zoi never backed down from a fight, so this meant they were fighting. Again.
"A fight?! When? WHY?" Her words where unheard as Ray's whip slipped from the roof's edge and Cable's body was staring to pull them down.
"GAH! Cable! I can't hold out any longer." With a loud grunt, Ana and Zoi watched as a pained look struck Ray's face and he fell. The sound the boy's made as they hit the ground sounded like it hurt. A lot. Zoi stuck her head out the window, looking down at the twitching team below. Ray had landed right on Cable, unconscious. She frowned.
"Still want to fight!?" She yelled down at them, and Cable's arm stuck out from underneath Ray and pointed up at her. His point was very accurate too.
"You're ON. First period. Tomorrow, Marie-Sensei as the supervisor!" His voice was muffled by Ray's limp body, but Zoi heard it loud and clear.
"Me and Ana will be there!" She yelled and slammed the window shut. Despite the window being closed, Zoi and Ana could hear Cable yelling at Ray to wake up. Zoi pulled back the curtains and turned to her tech. "Ready for bed?" Ana blinked. Days with Zoi were never quiet. Ever.
"Are we going to skip the entire period tomorrow?" She was more worried about failing Marie's class, than winning a battle she didn't want to fight in the first place. Zoi waved her hand
"Well, not all of it. We have Marie-Sensei as supervisor. Right after role-call we'll go out and fight." She smirked. "It won't take long anyway." She said happily. "Zoi go axe~ Zoi go axe~" She sang happily to herself. Ana giggled. When in a fight, Ana and Zoi where unstoppable. Except for one flaw. They were unable to resonate.
Rivals had learned to overlook their personalities, because both of them changed completely when in battle. With Ana being an expert axe wielder, and Zoi being a double edged light axe, they were perfect. Even their souls bonded perfectly. Ana just never understood why they couldn't resonate. Her thoughts where stopped when Zoi giggled.
"Night Ana~!" Zoi was glowing with happiness. She was happiest as an axe, in Ana's hands. There was a certain rush from not being in control of yourself. Being controlled and putting all of your trust into someone else. It was great
Ana waved at her partner as she treated to her own room, and crawled into her bed, not bothering to change into pajamas. Snuggling under her covers, a surge of excitement and fear flowed through her veins. Tomorrow would be their first fight in a long while. As soon as she began to wonder if they would win, she fell asleep.
Zoi flopped face first onto her unmade bed and lay there for a second before she curled up into a ball and fell promptly to sleep. Not even three hours later, she sat up and frowned. Silently, she made her way to Ana's room, where her tech lay, sleeping. Zoi smiled, Ana had such a childish face. No one believed them when they said she was 14. Her mind was something beyond that, though. As naïve as she was, Ana held a maturity. Zoi furrowed her eyebrows slightly as she watched Ana sleep.
If she were any younger looking… Me watching her sleep could be seen as pedo- Wait! I don't… No…
She shook her head wildly but a dark red blush still filled her face. She started towards Ana's bed very quietly and stared down at her.
She's so cute…
On a whim, she leaned over and lightly kissed her tech's cheek. After doing so, she ran back to her room, her face an even brighter red. It took her a bit longer this time, but she finally fell asleep a couple minutes later.
- End ZxA 1 -
A/N: This is a very old story, its about 4 years old now. It was an experiment done by my friend and myself, through RP. I took that RP and transcribed it into a novel version. This was originally on my old account, but that one was disabled due to issues, so I moved it here. Ive been wanting to write more for this, but I haven't been able to get ahold of my friend for a while now. If you would like to see more, let me know and Ill get to trying to write it! Ive got her characters down and a bit of a plot in my head.
Oh. Ray and Ana belong to me, Cable and Zoi belong to Pachi. Thanks~