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Chapter One
A young girl squeezed her through the cafeteria. She carefully balanced her tray. Since she was so focused on not dropping her lunch, she ended up bumping into a much larger person.
"Watch where you're going." The bigger boy scowled.
He looked down at the petite girl and a flash of recognition appeared on his face.
"Oh, I'm sorry Aoi." He apologized and walked away.
As the boy hurried away, he kept his down with embarrassment. As Aoi Goto watched him walk away, she could one think of one thing. What the heck? She furrowed her eyebrows and held onto her tray tightly. When she made her way through the crowd, she immediately found her friends at their usual table.
Aoi headed over to the lunch table. When she got there, they were either bickering over small matters or laughing over stupid things. Usual.
"Hey," she greeted, "have you noticed that people have been treating us differently lately?"
Her friends looked up at the sound of her voice. Well, it was about time that she showed up. As for her question, they all felt the same way.
The boy, sitting next to her, nodded.
"It's because people see us on the same level as them." he pointed toward two tables in the center of the lunchroom.
Despite being a world-renowned school, Shibusen was still like any other education building. It had drama, romance, cliques, anything you name it. Especially during lunch, any clichés a person has heard about the dreaded period will come true. Groups of friends stuck together and ate at the same table everyday for the rest of the year. If you didn't have any friends, too bad, you were sitting by yourself for the mean time.
Although not having any friends at the Death Meister Weapon Academy was extremely rare, as students were often separated into teams for training purposes. It is especially important to have some sort of a mutual trust with your teammates since you would learn chain soul resonance, or better known as team soul resonance.
If a student didn't like their team, they always had their partner. It was impossible to not be friendly with your meister or weapon since you were always with them and the compatible wavelength thing helped too. Even some pairs lived together off school campus.
Aoi looked over to where the boy was pointing. At the two tables sat the two most powerful teams in all the Shibusen. They were two star meisters and weapons who were also apart of the elite team of students called Spartoi created by Shinigami-sama.
She turned back to her friend and gave him a look of disbelief.
"The same level as them?" she asked.
He nodded. "Yeah, we're in the same class as them. They're EATers and now we are too."
It was true that Aoi and the rest of her team had been moved up to the EAT class, or the Especially Advantaged Talent, from the NOT class, Normally Overcome Target. The EAT class was a category in the school for the students with combat abilities who did missions for the DWMA. While those advanced students were doing missions, the students in the NOT class were learning how to control their powers.
"Tom, we're one-star students." she told him. "They've been in the EAT class ever since the school year started. There's even a Death Scythe among them."
Tom Johnson shrugged.
"It's their decision to respect us in this way now." he told his meister.
Being former NOT students, both of them knew exactly what they were thinking. The EAT class was very well respected among the lower students.
She sighed and glanced at the two tables of the Spartoi students. They were considered the best students in all of Shibusen.
Although the advanced group of students consisted of two teams, one of the teams stood out quite well within the school. All the other students respected them and were considered the strongest in all of Shibusen. This team was made up of three meisters. One of them being the kind and friendly Maka Albarn. Her father was a Death Scythe and currently was being used by Shinigami-sama. Apparently her mother was a gifted meister and had passed down this trait to her daughter. This was shown when she turned her partner, Soul Eater, in a Death Scythe. He also came from an amazing lineage as one of the sons of the famous Evans family.
Black Star and Tsubaki Nakatsuka were another pair that made up this well known team. The meister, Black Star, had come from the notorious Star Clan, but was taken in and raised in Shibusen. Tsubaki was able to change into multiple weapons due to the fact that she was born into a well-respected weapon clan.
Death the Kid and his two weapons the Thompson sisters, Liz and Patti, were also apart of the group. Liz and Patti were probably the most average of the team. They were found living on the streets and were picked up by their meister. But, it was fact well known by many that he was a special guy being the Shinigami's son and all.
Aoi pursed her lips. Most of them came from a special family and had worked to earn their strength. There was no way that she would ever stand with them on the same level.
"Aoi, don't worry about it." another one of her friends said.
She and her weapon looked up in the direction of voice.
"They're normal kids too." the girl stated. "Maka's a bookworm, Black Star is always talking about surpassing God, and don't get me started with Symmetry Boy."
Tom grinned and turned toward his meister.
"See." he said.
"That's so rude though, Ayame." Aoi muttered.
"But it's true." Ayame Higa told her rolling her eyes. "Stop being so formal around them. They're our age, if you didn't notice."
She looked over her shoulder at the table. Even from far away, their antics could be seen. As she turned around to face her friends, she could have sworn she heard someone yell, 'Maka Chop.'
Maybe her friends were right. Perhaps, she was a little too formal.
"We now share classes with them, so you've seen how they act right?" Ayame asked her.
Before Aoi could answer, she prodded the girl next to her, who was her meister.
"Hey, Mai." she said. "Remember when Ox proclaimed his love to Kim yesterday in the middle of class?"
Mai Ito, Ayame's meister, rolled her eyes.
"Yes, Ayame. I do remember." she stated. "You kept me up talking about it last night."
"Oh. Sorry, about that." Ayame apologized. "But you know I'm an insomniac. That's why we need separate rooms."
Mai rubbed her temples. The only reason why they had to share a room was because they couldn't afford a two-bedroom apartment like Aoi and Tom. She sighed. It was hard to believe that she and her weapon had compatible soul wavelengths even with their contrasting personalities.
"Hey, you guys heard that Shinigami-sama wanted to talk to us after lunch right?"
Her thoughts were interrupted by a voice at the end of their table. Mai looked up at the trio at the end of their table. Those three were the remaining part of their team, Tony Rivera and his twin weapons Lei and Yuan Yang.
The female twin, Lei, was the one who had spoken.
"Yeah," Aoi answered. "I think he wants to give us our first mission."
She grinned with excitement. They, being former NOT students, had never experienced a mission before. Their team soul resonance was one of the best in the NOT class. She couldn't wait to see the poor soul they first use it on.
Glancing at Tom, she realized that they had never used their soul resonance outside of practice. Since they had never gone on a mission before, her weapon partner had not consumed a soul before. Being moved up to the EAT class presented many opportunities, creating a Death Scythe being one of them.
Each of the three meisters sitting at the table knew that their weapons were very eager to receive their first soul.
"But you know how Shinigami-sama is." Mai stated. "He'll probably give us something that we'd least expect."
All of her friends turned and glared at her. She was right though.
"You just had to ruin the moment Mai." Tony shouted to her from the opposite end of the table. "We were all excited, and-"
He was cut off by the sound of the bell ringing.
"Lunch is over!" Aoi squealed.
She grabbed her partner by the wrist and ran out of the cafeteria. "Let's go to Shinigami-sama's room." she said loudly over her shoulder.
The rest of her friends sighed at the scene. Other students passing by seemed to glance their way.
"She brings attention to us, and she doesn't bother cleaning up her stuff." Mai muttered as she resisted the urge to slap her forehead.
"Whatever, let's go." Tony said.
He stood up and followed Aoi out the door with his weapons trailing behind them. Mai turned to her partner and saw that she too had left. She looked at the table and groaned. They had all left her without cleaning up the remainder of their lunch.
"I hate you guys." she growled through gritted teeth.
A/N: In my opinion, not much happened in this chapter sadly. But it's just the first chapter introducing the characters and what not. Don't worry, this isn't a non-canon fanfic. The canons we all know and love will be coming up in the next chapter.
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