Chapter 1: Enter Ryoha & Christina! Assassination Occurances?!
Nice Friday morning...Clouds are out...sun is shining (while breathing hard)...and then...BOOM!
"Ow! Maka what the hell was that for!?" Soul said as his face was rammed into a door.
"You burned my mouth with your cooking! You can't do anything right!" Maka yelled as her mouth was on fire.
"Hey you're the one who asked me to cook!" Soul shot back. "Why won't you stop being lazy and cook GOOD food!?"
"You don't do ANYTHING!" Maka shouted and pointed. "It's about time I took a break for once!" As they continued yelling at each other, Blair was asleep in the bathtub, talking in her sleep.
Meanwhile, Blackstar was running around Death City with Tsubaki. They were having a friendly race...with Blackstar losing.
"Hey no fair! I should be ahead! I won't let you take my spotlight!" Blackstar said shouting.
Tsubaki calmly looked back and smiled. "You keep screaming like that and it'll weigh you down. You should know the basic rules of assassins."
"Yeah yeah whatever! There's no need to be silent at a time like this! Just SLOW DOWN!"
Tsubaki shook her head. "Nah...I think I like seeing you behind me. It's fun." Tsubaki she said with a smile.
Blackstar growled with motivation. "You're not going to win Tsubaki!" He said as he began speeding up.
At Kid's place, Liz and Patti were doing their nails and hair...ya know...girl stuff. Kid was just now getting out of bed. He walks into the bathroom...not realizing that the girls were in there.
Liz was surprised, so she threw her hair stuff in the air. "Ahhh! Kid?! What are you doing in here?" A brush landed on her head.
Patti continued without paying any attention to Kid or Liz, she was a humming nursery rhyme. Kid, half asleep, walks to the toilet and before he even tries to take leak, Liz pushes him out of the bathroom.
"USE THE OTHER BATHROOM!" She slammed the door. Kid then walked to the other bathroom and done his business. Brushed his teeth, hair, took a shower and splashed water on his face to wake himself up. He shook his head and looked closely at the bathroom because of his OCD of symmetry. Everything was fine.
"Perfect...just perfect." He walked out of the bathroom and went to the kitchen, getting breakfast ready. He walked in and froze. The kitchen table was beautiful, four plates on one side of the table going horizontally and vertically. (one on left, one on right, one at the bottom, one at the top.) The candle was brightly lit, and it looked gorgeous. BUT...the forks between the top plate and bottom plate were on two different sides. The fork was on the right for the top plate, and vice versa of the other. Kid...flipped.
"DISGUSTING! DISGUSTING! DISGUSTINNNNNNGGGGG! HOW CAN WE EVEN LIVE IN THIS FILTH!? IT'S RIDICULOUS!" He quickly moved the bottom fork to the right to match the top. He sighed. "Much better."
"What are you yelling about now?" Liz asked as she walked in the kitchen. She had cut her hair. One side was short behind her neck, while the other was in a bang covering her left eye. Kid...flipped.
"WHY DID YOU CUT YOUR HAIR IN THAT STUPID WAY! PUT IT BACK!" Kid chased her around the kitchen with a pair scissors trying to cut the bang to match the shorter hair.
Liz ran and ran screaming. "Kid go away! It's just a hairstyle!"
"It's a disgusting one! It's not SYMMETRICAL!"
"So what?! You're not going to cut it!" Liz shouted. Liz...being clumsy, tripped over her foot. She landed on her face and turned holding her nose. When she opened her eyes, Kid was over her with a sadistic smile on his face.
"Must...be...symmetrical." Kid said...then he snipped the scissors twice. Next thing you know..."AHHHHHHH!" Liz screamed...her hair was being cut more.
Lively morning don't ya think? What? You thought there would be peace in the morning? Nah!
About an hour later, they were all walking to Shibusen together, Maka and Soul were still angry about breakfast. Blackstar who was in a foul mood because he lost to Tsubaki in race, was pouting. Kid and Patti walked as if nothing was wrong, but Liz was a wreck, her hair was short like Patti's and her nose was hurting.
Tsubaki spoke up, breaking the silence. "So how was everyone's morn..."
Maka, Soul, Blackstar, and Liz cut her off saying simultaneously, "HOW DO YOU THINK IT WENT!?"
Tsubaki eyes widened and said. "Well I guess everyone's rowdy today..." She then sighed. No other words were said until they reached Shibusen.
In class, Stein, in his rolling chair, said, "Today...we're going to dissect...A SNAIL!" He sid raising a snail from his hand. The class murmured, "Oh man. dissecting again?" "And this time a snail?" "EWWWW!"
"Everyone's a critic..." Stein said to himself. Suddenly the classroom door opened. It was Sid.
"Stein! It's an emergency! There's been another incident! They're in need of medical attention now!" Sid said urgently as he left out the room in a hurry.
Stein looked at his students. "Class dismissed. I'll see you tomorrow." He quickly followed Sid to the emergency room.
Maka, Soul, and Blackstar were confused about what just happened.
"What's going on?" Maka asked them. "What happened?"
"Your guess is as good as mine." Soul said.
"Same here." Blackstar added. "Whatever is going on its weird."
"Maybe another Meister and Weapon were almost killed..." Kid said with his arms folded.
"What?!" The three said together. "Killed?"
"Yes." Kid started explaining. "In the past two weeks, Meister and Weapons have been found dead on their missions. So far only 4 have been killed, and 3 were injured."
"Were they kishin?" Blackstar asked.
"That's the only thing...there souls haven't been eaten. Once they find them, their souls are still there. Untouched."
"That's weird. How do you know about this kid?" Maka asked.
"Two days ago, I was sent to investigate a situation concerning the death of a Meister and Weapon. They both were dead, but their souls were still there."
"Whoa...then if its not a kishin, then what is it?" Maka asked again.
"That's another thing, there have been no traces of enemy activity regarding the issues. Some are saying the culprits are kishin and we're not looking hard enough."
"Well maybe that's what it is." Soul remarked. "You guys are being lazy."
"Soul, you know we don't slack."
"Just a suggestion."
"But it justs makes no sense...no traces or evidence? It's all very weird." Kid began thinking.
As they went into the hallway on their way to infirmary, there was some talking amongst the other students.
"Hey did you realize that some Meisters have been skipping? I mean they do all their work afterwards but still." One student said to another.
"Yeah me too. i mean who would've thought that Travis would skip? He's our class' genius. I haven't been able to copy off of him lately." The other replied.
"Huh. Students skipping?" Soul said with his hands behind his head. "Seems natural. School does get kinda boring after awhile."
"You said it." Blackstar replied. They both gave each other a high five.
"You two are idiots." Maka responded. "What's the point of skipping if you have to come back another day? It's just pointless."
"Coming from brainiac slave over here." Soul responded. next thing you know, "Maka Chop!" Soul was hit by a book and fell face first to the ground.
"You look better laying there lifelesss jerk."
"What...did i do...wrong?" Soul said, with a headache and face into the ground.
They reached the infirmary, Stein and Spirit were there helping the two injured.
"What happened?" Kid said.
"They showed up today at the front of Shibusen all beat up." Spirit said. "Their both unconscious, so we won't know the details until they wake up."
"I see. I'll stay here until they awaken. You guys can go home or help if you want." Kid said.
Tsubaki and Maka decided to stay while Blackstar and Soul went out to eat. After there dinner, it was getting dark. They were on there back to the infirmary.
"So what do you think is going on?" Blackstar asked Soul.
"I don't know yet. Maybe its kishin that aren't hungry"
"That's dumb. Kishin that aren't hungry?"
"Coming from the guy that got caught cheating."
Blackstar looked at him. "At least i wasn't stripped down to boxers."
"Oh you had to bring that part up!?"
"You brought it up first jackass!"
"Oh yeah!?"
"Yeah!" Both of them began arguing the entire way back. No wonder they're not compatible.
Suddenly, Blackstar sensed something. Something bad. "Hey Soul, we've got company. Two of them. Behind us. Be cautious."
"You sure its not someone we know?" Soul asked as he began to turn around. Blackstar jerked back forward.
"I'm serious Soul. This could be trouble..."
Soul then nodded as they continued walking back to the school. Five minutes had passed and they reached the school, the two figres Blackstar sensed were gone.
"I guess they bailed Soul. i don't feel their presence."
"Told ya. It was nothing."
Out of nowhere, a dagger appeared in between them, there was burning paper on it. Blackstar knew.
"A Bomb! Soul get out of the..." Then boom. Blackstar flew into the school while Soul flew to a wall at a house. Blackstar fell down and hit the ground, he slowly got up. Both of them could not prepare for the blast. Soul was unconcious, then two figures appeared in front of Blackstar. One was tall and muscular and the other was slim. It was too dark to see their faces, so Blackstar couldn't identify them.
"Who are you?! What do you want?!" Blackstar said.
"We want you dead. All of you Meisters. Without you, we could have anything we want." The figure said, it was a boy, sounded around 17. Then the other figure turned into two swords. A Meister and Weapon. Blackstar didn't have Tsubaki, nor enough strength to fight them. I've got to think...I have to get Soul and get out of here! Blackstar thought. The figure then attacked with the right sword, Blackstar jumped over and began running to Soul. he started to feel pain in his abdomen, bt he shook it off and kept running. The figure was not so far behind him.
"There's no use in running!" the boy said chasing Blackstar. "We're going to kill you anyway! Just die peacefully!"
"Kiss my ass!" Blackstar responded. "You wanna kill me? You're going to work for it!" Blackstar then saw Soul on the ground, he ran up to him but was blocked by the boy. They were in light but the boy had on a face covering mask.
"Get out of my way!" Blackstar yelled, breathing heavily.
"Not until you die!" The boy then charged Blackstar. Blackstar and dodged the first swing but was hit by the second, he got cut in his right arm, blood began to go down his arm. The boy continued his assault on Blackstar, who was slowly running out of breath. I'm not gonna make it at this rate, I need to get Soul and get back to the Academy. The boy then tried to take out Blackstar's legs, but he jumped on his head and ran to Soul. Blackstar picked him up and threw him on his back. Blackstar ran the opposite way of the school.
"Ok, I need to lose these guys and fast! Or else we won't make it." Blackstar said to himself. The attackers were on their trail and gaining fast. Blackstar had cut into an alley and waited. The attackers ran past the alley and kept going. Blackstar took a deep breath of relief and began running back to school. The attackers turned around and saw him run away, but did not go after him.
"There's always a next time..." The boy said as he then disappeared into the darkness.
Maka and Tsubaki were still helping the two unconcious students from earlier. The Thompson sisters were asleep, Kid, Stein and Spirit were still trying to analyze the situation. Then Blackstar appeared, injured with Soul unconcious. Blackstar's right arm was covered with blood and he was all bruised up.
"Oh my, Blackstar what happened!?" Tsubaki said running to his aid. "What happened to you two?!"
Blackstar was breathing heavily, he was about to pass out. "Two...people...attacked. One...was a...meister..." Blackstar then passed out, dropping Soul in the process.
"Blackstar!" Tsubaki had picked him up and put him on one of the beds while Maka did the same for Soul.
"A Meister attacked them? What the hell is going on here?!" Kid questioned angrily.
"Luckily they came back alive." Stein said. "They should be up by morning, they weren't hurt too extremely. Soul is in shock and Blackstar just lost a lot of blood. They're better than the other two...sadly." Stein said.
"You guys shold all go home." Spirit said. "We'll take it from here."
"No!" Maka said. "I'm not going to leave them!" Spirit then looked at Maka more serious than he ever has.
"Maka, Tsubaki. We'll handle this. Go home. Take the Thompson sisters with you as well."
"But..." Maka said.
"Go! I'm not going to tell you again!" Spirit said. Maka was surprised...her father yelled at her. They did what they were told and went home.
"That was a good one..." Stein said. "Where did that ball of rage come from Spirit?"
"I don't want my daughter getting hurt. If she finds out anything, she will stop at nothing until the problem is solved." Spirit said. "I just...don't want my daughter to be like the other incidents...or even worse."
Stein smiled. "Hmp...you're actually sounding like a father...like when we fought Medusa for the first time."
Spirit chuckled. "You're right."
"I think we should ask Ryoha and Christina to come join in on the investigation...what do you say?"
Kid was confused. "Ryoha? Who is he and what does he have to do with this?"
Stein replied. "He could us understand what's going on. The more the merrier...the stronger the better."
"Want me to get them now Stein?" Spirit asked.
"Yeah. 'She' might be mad because she likes to sleep. But she'll get over it."
"Hmph...you know them all too well." Spirit said as he left the room.
20 minutes passed...Kid wanted to know who this Ryoha was.
"Professor...this Ryoha ...in what way can he help us on this?" Kid asked.
"The kid is almost as smart as me. Only thing is he's not a scientist. I taught him almost everything he knows. He even taught me a couple tricks. He's almost like you Kid...just without the obsession." Stein responded.
"Almost like me? And what about his Weapon?"
"Why don't you wait until they get here to ask them yourself?"
The door then opened, Spirit walked in first with two others.
"Speak of the devil...here they are."
Kid looked and saw a guy and girl. The boy was tall, while the girl was about Kid's height. They looked like a wreck considering they just got out of bed. To Kid...they didn't look like much.
"So this Ryoha and his weapon?" Kid asked Stein.
Stein nodded. "Yup, Ryoha Mutsumi and his Weapon, Christina Blackhart. Both students at DWMA, and are one year away from graduating."
Ryoha yawned. "I'm tired Sensei...what's up?" His voice sounded intimidating, even while he was tired.
Stein explained the situation to Ryoha and Christina and they agreed to help.
"This seems bad. A meister and weapon attacking other meisters and weapons? This could be bad..."
"It is. We just have to figure their motive...because there's not just one meister...there's a few more to count." Spirit said.
"That's terrible." Christina said, her voice sounded high-pitched. "It's almost like a civil war is about to break out."
"Hopefully...that isn't the case." Spirit said. "Tomorrow we set out to find out whats going on."
"Ok." Ryoha said. "We'll keep watch on the streets while you two stay at the academy?" Stein and Spirit nodded.
Kid didn't trust Ryoha...he thought Ryoha seemed too calm for a situation like this. And also...a pupil of Stein? That I haven't heard about? Kid kept Ryoha under suspicion.
Ryoha and Christina went back home to get rest for tomorrow's late night mission, while Kid told Stein, "I don't trust them."
"I understand completely Kid, but you don't know Ryoha...he takes some getting used to." Stein told him.
"He seems too calm."
"That's his way of thinking." He began quoting Ryoha. "'Keep a calm, stable mind in excrustiating situation. If you overthink, or panic, you'll lose your cool and you'll end up losing your life.' Those are Ryoha's words."
"I'll keep an eye on him."
The next day, there was a rumor going around school, Blackstar and Soul were fine and they didn't know anything more than a meister attacked them. They went on to class, and in the hallway, they heard two students talking about the rumor.
"Hey you realize the Steele Duo has been skipping lately?" A student asked.
"Yeah me too. But who would mess with them? They're the best pair of this school year."
Kid overheard the conversation and the put the Steele Duo in his head. "The next time I scout the streets...I'll ask about the Steele Duo.."
"What did you say Kid?" Liz asked.
"Nothing...talking to myself." Kid said.
"Are you having your moments again?" Liz said slowly backing away from him.
End of Chapter 1: Enter Ryoha & Christina! Assassination Occurances?!