Chapter 2: The Beginning

It's been about a year since my father died, mother always found it difficult to take care of a daughter who isn't a witch. Instead I am like my father, I'm a weapon. He always worked alongside with my Lord Death so he was rarely home, yet he would always find time to teach me all he knows. Sadly when I was 13 he was killed by a witch, I don't know who exactly, but I will get revenge someday.

"Mother, I'm heading off to school now!" I grabbed my bags and headed towards the door. She just yawned and waved me on.

I go to school at the DWMA, and as a weapon today is the day we get to choose our meisters. Even though I'm only 14 I'm graduating this year, I just turned out to be really smart and really talented. This means I'm going to be put with a stronger meister, but I like a good challenge.

The room was packed, but all I could see where meisters. There were only a handful of weapons this year. It didn't matter to me though because I will get chosen and not be the chooser. That means some people won't get a weapon this year.

I have heard of the process of getting a meister, but I doubt like anything I can think of. I watch the beginning process as each meister would come up to a weapon and shake their hand. I didn't understand till one of them came to me. He shook my hand, but nothing happened. The girl next to me however had sparks fly when they touched. I was so intrigued; I didn't even relies that I was shaking hands with more people. More and more meisters came by to shake my hand, but none them matched my soul's wavelengths. I began to lose hope until I felt a surge of warmth go up my arm; steam went up in the air between me and this person. I looked up to see the face of this person, and when I did I saw a face smiling down on me. He had long black hair that hung in his face. Cut right above his shoulders. I smiled back and released his hand.

"Well my name is Artemis. Artemis Koumori." I said through my smile.

"Rakio Dusk, at your service." He scanned me from top to bottom. He opened his mouth but I cut him off.

"I'm 14 I swear!"

"What are you doing with a bunch of seniors then?" he looked puzzled.

"I have the highest scores in all the school so they bumped me up, I'm kind of super smart." I laughed.

"Can you fight?" he asked.

"Pfft!" I sneered. "Well of course, I got a 100% in that class!"

We went on to talk for an hour while everyone was getting acquainted. He told how he lost his parents in a tragic accident, and how he got here. I told him about my life, leaving the part out about me being the daughter of a witch of course, and he seemed thoroughly interested. There was one thing that kept bothering me though, whenever he talked about his parents, his eyes would darken, like they were turning black, but then he would snap back up and change the subject. I started to stare at him without noticing and he poked my cheek.

"What are you staring at?" he asked.

"Oh I was just admiring your eyes; they are a very pretty shade of green." I blushed.

"Well," he lifted my head into the light, "you've got some amazing eyes yourself."

"Thanks I get them from my dad. He passed away though, but its ok, I'm doing much better than I was a few months ago." I sighed.

"I'm sorry to hear that, how about we make him really proud?" he smiled

"I would love that!" I grinned back.

We got up and went over to the teacher and told him we were ready for the next lesson. He told us to go stand in the middle of the room and try to connect our soul wavelengths. I had no idea why we would do this so early on, but I guess that's how they do things around here.

Rakio and I walked into the middle of the class room. He took my hand and hugged me tightly. I transformed into an ax in his hands. He chuckled about how light I was and I told him to shut up. We began to go into soul resonance but something went wrong. I began to get super-hot, as if my skin was on fire; Rakio dropped me after he realized that I was burning his hands. I transformed back but I had lost all my clothes. The whole class, especially the guys, looked up in excitement. Rakio took off his hoody and wrapped it around my body. He then picked me up and ran off with me in his arms.

"Where do you want to go?" he asked.

"Take me home…"I started to cry.

As I gave him the directions to my house he never once looked at me. His face had a pink tint to it, but I could tell it was only because he had a naked chick in his arms. I didn't care because he was saving my ass from complete humiliation.

"Thank you," I mumbled.

"You're welcome." He said back, "we are here"

He set me down and I scurried inside, I ran straight to my room and threw on a pair of clothes. As I tried to sneak back outside I heard my mother clear her throat.

"Who is that boy outside?" she glanced out the window

"He's my meister!" I smiled! "There was an accident when we tried to go into soul resonance and we-"

"Let me guess, you lost all your clothes that way?" she interrupted.

"Yes, but how did you know?" I asked

"Same thing happened to your father." She laughed. I haven't heard her laugh in a while.

"Oh okay, well since I've already left school I'm going to go practice with Rakio now." I headed towards the door.

"Be careful with that boy, he is not who he seems." She warned me.

"Yes mother" I promised.

She gave me a kiss on the forehead and sent me on my way.

"Are you in trouble?" Rakio asked.

"Nah, she's just being a mom." I grinned.

"So, you want to try again?" he looked at me from the corner of his eye.

"Hell yeah" I said as I grabbed his hand and transformed.

Who knew that I would become one of the world's most powerful weapons in about 3 years, I would be known as, THE HUNTRESS