~Chapter 2~

-The Newest Exorcists-

A car engine hummed before dying down to a silence. Sloane stepped from the jet black hummer, gazing at the complex ahead. Wizzy stepped out from the driver's side and moved over to Sloane.

"Ready?' he asked her.

"No." Sloane replied. Wizzy chuckled and put his arm around Sloane's shoulders.

"Relax. Both of us know plenty of exorcists, now it's time for us to join their ranks." Wizzy said, a smile broadening on his face in an attempt to reassure his cousin. Sloane sideways glanced at Wizzy and shoved off his arm.

"You are such a flirt!" she said. Wizzy gave her an offended look.

"I am not! Come on! Flirt with my own cousin!" Sloane just shook her head before walking down the path before them.

The duo traveled in silence, the only sound reverberating through the air was the crunch of gravel under the sneakers of the two. They slowly made their way past the busy complex and onward toward a small field.

"Are we there yet?" Wizzy complained.

"You sound like you're eight." Sloane replied.

"You're six mentally." He retorted.

"Only when taking medication!" Sloane snarled.

"It's still being six!" Wizzy returned.

"Well at least I'm not named Wisdom yet I don't know anything!" Sloane spat at Wizzy.

"Well I-" Wizzy started but couldn't think of anything.

"Aha! Gotcha!" Sloane said. Wizzy crossed his arms angrily but said nothing in return.

The dyad soon reached the top of a small hill. Down below them a small schoolhouse came into view. The place looked almost completely deserted and the building seemed to be falling into pieces. The paint was peeling from the building, and in some places the edifice looked as if it had been bleached. The roof was missing in places and two of the visible windows were broken.

"Are you sure this is the right place?" Sloane asked.

"Positive." Wizzy said, ""But it's not like I would know anything." He added. Sloane shot him a look and he just shrugged in reply.

They treaded carefully down the slope, much steeper on this side than the other, towards the schoolhouse. It was soon noticeable that a sign was nailed to the door. Wizzy stared at the sentence scratched into the wood as if they were Greek.

"It's Latin." Sloane said.

"What?"

"The words are Latin. Latin was the official language of the Roman Catholic Church until roughly the 1960s." She explained. Sloane squinted at the words, reading them over and over in her head.

"Can you translate it?"

"SH! Give me a second ok?" Sloane continued to read the sentence, attempting to read it. Wizzy waited impatiently, trying to stay quiet. However, before long he could not take it anymore and spoke.

"Are you done yet?"

"No. Please be quiet."

"Are you done yet?"

"No."

"Are you done yet?"

"No!" Sloane shouted at Wizzy, "Now shut up before I make you!" This time Wizzy remained silent until Sloane was finished translating.

"Ok it reads, 'Aperientur, portae animae purissium.' That means, 'The door will open to the purest soul.'" A lock clicked and the door opened revealing a long corridor. Wizzy gaped at the hallway, remembering the size of the building they had seen on the hill.

"But, wha-hu-how?" Wizzy stuttered.

"Don't question it, just go with it." Sloane said entering the building. Wizzy sighed and followed after her. 'I will never understand this place.' He thought.

The hallway was similar to being on the inside of a convent. Stained glass windows were the only source of light inside the entire dull building. All colors seemed to have been washed from the place and replaced with white, black, and gray. Doors lined the hallway in between the windows, but none of them looked as if they have been recently had been used. Dust floated through the air as if it were snowing. Both cousins coughed and pulled up their cloaks over their mouths.

"It's so dusty!" Wizzy exclaimed.

"No dip Wisdom." Sloane replied hoarsely.

"You ok?"

"Yeah. I'll be fine."

The two continued to make their way down the grubby hallway. The rooms had numbers on them, but most of them were worn of the doors, barely visible, or too dusty to see. Several hours seemed to pass for before the young adults rested.

"Do you think they will figure it out sir?"

"We will just have to wait and see. The one known as Wisdom does not seem to be very wise in the religious arts. However, the one known as Guardian is much more wise than expected. Maybe she will figure it out."

Sloane huffed heavily, resting against a wall, cloak still over her nose and mouth.

"What room are we going to again?" she asked.

"40." Wizzy replied. Sloane just about strangled her cousin right then.

"Dude! You're supposed to be Wisdom! You should know about the Biblical qualities of that number!" Wizzy only cocked his head in reply. "Ugh!" Sloane groaned. She glanced around looking around the empty hallway

"In the Bible, 40 is often used as an exaggeration number. For example, no one is really sure how long the ark sailed for, but they know it sailed for a large amount of time, therefore they say that he was in there for 40 days and 40 nights!"

"So room number 40 doesn't exist?' Wizzy asked.

"Precisely! So there is no room 40 to the regular eye," Sloane put her hand on a door knob, "this is the room we are looking for."

"The door opened and whatever illusions they had seen before faded away. All of the dark and dull walls vanished and were replaced with brighter colors. Dust became replaced with students and everything became more alive.

Now the students, and the teachers that were mingled in with them, stared at Wizzy and Sloane, as if they had just shimmered into existence, which they had. Then, one after the other, the crowd's occupants began to clap.

A young man stepped forward from the crowd towards the two confused teenagers. He had short brown hair and black glasses. He wore an exorcist robe and had one pistol in hand.

(The pistol probably gave away who this is.)

"Congratulations young exorcists. You have just passed your first test. I am your first teacher, Mr. Yukio Okumura."

Me: Yes, yes I know, it's Yukio! No he's not really a main character, more of a secondary or tertiary. Now if you're wondering where Rin or any of the others are, they probably won't show up much, if at all. Although Sloane will mention Rin a lot for… various reasons. Anyway, I am not using many of the actual characters from Blue Exorcist for a few reasons. First, when I write a fanfiction, or even roleplay, I prefer to use my own characters rather than the ones that show up in the anime or manga. Second, many people I know have characters they prefer not to show up in a fanfiction. The only reason Yukio made an appearance is because I prefer him as a teacher. Lastly, I am basing this story off of what I remember from Blue Exorcist. I plan to rewatch/continue the anime someday, but even summer may not allow me the time to do so.