Chapter 2

Demonstrating Perfect symmetry

Calm

The classroom was silent ...well more silent than usual, when Kid walked in. I felt myself take a breath, I was actually excited! I looked over quickly at Francis...or well "Cool" to see how he was doing. Instead of his usual bored expression he actually had a raised eyebrow.

This had to be interesting!

He was once in our shoes...a student here. And now he was this amazing soul reaper , probably the very best of them all. He actually had a small fan club...but I never really paid much attention to it. After all Cool was always saying fan-clubs over guys and girls are "Not cool".

But looking at him I felt myself blush and wonder if ...well maybe I wasn't so cool.

He seemed to be in his very late teens , maybe eighteen but perhaps he was even twenty! Walking behind him were two stunningly beautiful girls though. As they entered I actually felt Francis shift in his seat.

I held back a quiet giggle. Poor Francis didn't have a chance at one of them, I looked at him with a grin as if to tell him so.

"Oh?" He whispered reading my mind. "Saw you looking to...Why Calm, I never saw you as a fan girl.." My jaw dropped horrified and I stomped on his foot as hard as I effective since I was wearing heels. (I'm scrawny I need all the height I can get)

"Cool" made a very uncool noise, the noise one makes when they hold there screams back by biting as hard as they can on their own arm. I grinned.

Yeah Heels hurt like hell but I'm starting to think I'll wear them more often.

This seemed to catch the attention of March who glared at me even worse than before.

I chose to ignore her and watch Kid instead.

"Before I begin! Everyone needs to...!" Kid began to say

"Kid don't please "Liz interrupted, while her sister cackled

"SIT IN PROPER SEMETRY."

Dr. Stein's cigarette fell out of his mouth as his expression darkened.

"Just do it ..." For the next five minutes we were arranged in our seats so we each were exactly five seat lengths apart and in rows of three . I was really curious to see exactly what this had to do with anything.

Apparently nothing.

It seemed like the room began to darken almost though, and the ever motionless candles began to shiver with anticipation, there flames and Liz quickly soul transferred and with a violet light, they turned into two shinning guns.

I watched curiously. How it was their weapon form could be so perfectly identical when they weren't a pair? They were sisters but they weren't twins. If they were twins they certainly weren't Identical twins anyway.

He showed us a series of moves and we were instructed by stein to note down anything interesting we saw about the Meister and the weapons.

After the lesson was over.

"This is so boring, let's get a witches soul tonight, I can't dare repeat these lessons anymore. " It was cool saying this and I nodded and realized this was probably Dr. Steins plan anyway. Bore us to-death or make us eager to risk our necks after a witch ...in either case making us not his responsibility. Of course it wasn't entirely boring to watch pretty-boy do awesome tricks for thirty minutes; I wasn't expecting to have this sort of luck again.

Then I realized I was nodding and stopped horrified.

Um a witch? I had heard horror story's …about witches like Arachne and Medusa...

"It's cool, most witches aren't like that at all Calm, we will be OK, trust me, were too awesome to loose" He smiled and I smiled back. I was grateful that Francis always knew what I was feeling, I really sucked at talking.

We went to the bulletin board and looked around.

"Hey there's a witch who's been seen on the parched plains." I managed to say out-loud busy reading." The paper actually seemed pretty old and kind of hidden away from the others. In fact I was pretty sure I had glimpsed it several times, though I never really noticed it before.

"Seems like she doesn't have a picture and not much is stated about her... or for that matter what she looks like...Just a witch and lots of disappearances in that area. Is that a valid enough claim on here? "He muttered out loud.

"Every other time we've hunted a witch someone's beat us to it, no one has even attempted finding this one. If she isn't there then we've simply made a long trip for nothing and caught some scenery, and if she is..."

"Yeah that's true enough, by the way nice to hear your voice for a change." Francis "soul" said. I felt a warm flush to my face.

"No one's around but you and your ..."

"Cool..." He said.

"Um...well that's not what I had in mind ..."

Death the Kid

"Kid why we to do that …did" Liz complained. Kid turned and looked at liz .

"Cause patty volunteered "He explained simply.

"YUP!" She pronounced cheerfully.

"Patty why ...what was the point..."

"Cause it was fun, we got to show off!" Patty smiled. Kid smiled. She was so odd.

Liz and Patti had been with him for several years now, and he found they were like oxygen , he simply didn't know what it was like to live without them , just like he didn't know what it was like not to breath. They had all grown over the years and it was no surprise to anyone that he was taller, and more mature looking. He liked to think even more symmetrical looking as-well. Patties hair was longer too and styled in the same way as her sisters so he was happier then ever! So symmetrical. And Patti had even grown taller! He started thinking about perhaps designing new outfits ...and caught himself and forced himself to push such thoughts aside.

Summitry was beautiful ...amazing ...beyond words...

But to let your mind wander, into the world of

Perfectionism...

was surely a way to go crazy.

He had to stop thinking about this ...Now!

"Your having perverted thoughts again aren't you Kid?

"No! I'm not I'm having perfectly symmetrical thoughts! "

"Same thing….." Patti quickly said stretching while she did so carelessly.

"LIZ! "he pointed .

She stared.

"Yeah Kid?"

"We are supposed to wait in the conference room for stein , lets get moving."

"Any reason you pointed at me?"

He slowly glared at her.

"Ok ...never mind then..."

The hallway was dark and chilly like usual, they made their way to the conference room, and kid took note that the room looked like it hadn't been used in a-while. But then again why would it? When people needed to have a meeting at the school they usually went to the death room.

He was grateful they didn't have to go there right now. He hated that room. All the crosses were terribly crooked and he remembered trying to straighten them out one time. Naturally it completely backfired and he accidentally tore off the skin from his toddler fingers.

"Well what are you doing there? " His father asked looking puzzled and concerned.

He cried.

That asymmetrical room.

They took their seats and kid let out a deep sigh holding his head in his hands, his elbows propped up on the table.

Hearing the sound of clicking boots he looked up to see stein still smoking his cigarette and entering the room.

"You called me here about something you wanted to discuss in private stein."

"That's about right..." The room they were in seemed almost darker than it had before as a puff of smoke exited his mouth.

" I'm concerned about one of my students … I figure you can help me out. "

Kid was terribly confused now. One of his students? Why on earth would he call him out here for that? He was a terribly busy man; he had his own things to do. Like correct the alignment of his house not to mention the evil souls.

"It's a very special student...she's ...I have reason to believe she's been holding herself back, and by that I mean in every sense of the way. Her soul has always been well ...chained down. I talked to Lord Death about it in the beginning and he said she would unbind herself in time, but there hasn't been any sign of it, not at all. In fact I'm concerned that it's not even her doing.

"And this involves me how? "Kid demanded.

"I don't want to bother Lord Death with this. Not yet, not until I'm completely sure.

"You still haven't answered my question stein."

"I need someone strong to confirm this...I need a reaper ...but I think she has the bound soul of a witch. That or a witch is involved with binding it."

Pattie who had been kicking her legs in the air in the chair on his right stopped kicking her legs and tilted her head, Liz stopped filing her already perfect nails and they both stared at stein as-well.

"How's a thing like that, even possible? I would get it if it was that her powers simply haven't awakened ...but what exactly do you mean by bound?"

"It's a hunch. I don't even have any evidence, besides the fact that she's a weapon. It doesn't seem necessary likely that she could be one…but still…if there's a possibility I want evidence that she very well isn't one before I can take it easy. Sometimes I worry that there's more of medusas tricks lying around, dead or not.

It was a strange request that was for sure. Wasn't even a hard one really, what did he have to do exactly just stalk around some other teens for a bit?.

"So who is this student?" He asked accepting the challenge.

"They go by the name, Calm and Cool. Cool is the Meister he's pretty random if it comes down to his fights, but if you noticed him in my class he was the blond bored looking kid. The girl with him with the Aqua blue hair and pink highlights was his weapon Calm. Honestly she's anything but calm. "Stein sighed. "She stutters almost every time she talks, as far as I can tell it's got to be nerves or a speech disorder. "

He paused and Death looked at him.

"Do you mean the girl with the streaks? Perfectly aligned to one another. In the front.? Wearing long fingerless gloves, two matching earrings and heels. Not to mention she had shorts on …they were black …and the pockets were square shaped …even siting down the hems in her pants were so …aligned. The shirt was off a stiffer fabric , the and skin tight so it's the perfect outfit to avoid odd wrinkles. The girl behind her had very good symmetry I thought with the exception of that hair…all a mess of curls in different directions. ..

"Um Kid…your starting to worry me with this symmetrical creeping you're doing lately…I mean don't get me wrong, I have no issues with symmetry …but…" Liz's voice was drowned out by patties laughing.

"Your sounding like a pervert creepier! " She said loud as she could.

Stein had a blank look on his face and his cigarette was sort of just dangling out of his mouth in a very distracting manner.

"I AM NOT A CREEPER! IT JUST! So many band shirts lately! With horrible random patterns that cant even be called patterns, and…what's wrong if I noticed? She was so SYMMETRICAL! Its not like I was checking her out! Besides your always saying Its weird I don't! This is nonsense! Anyway Stein ... sorry about that. " Kid paused to calm down , attempt to destroy whatever blush was on his face and straighten out his collar .

"Please continue telling me about your request."

Stein had a rather grim expression on his face. The very room seemed even stuffier and darker than normal . His throat tightened as he stared at Stein's face, a look with all intensity reaching those intelligent judgmental eyes of his. The Light seemed to reflect eerily off his glasses for a moment and all emotion became a mystery .

Then as of out of nowhere Stein began to laugh , sinking calmly into the back of his chair.

"You know …there's nothing to be ashamed off…I often used my obsessive compulsive disorder as an excuse to look at girls when I was your age…I would sit and stare, and when asked what I was looking for , I would defend myself by telling them I wanted to cut them open and see what their heart looked like. It scared most of them off but one or two thought it was a pretty smooth line, liked bad boys I guess…."

Death looked at Stein horrified.

What was worse was he kept on talking…

"And I am on second note a doctor. I have always talk to you about your feelings…Your probably pretty stressed out , surrounded by two pretty gorgeous weapons who follow you everywhere , all the pressure of being Lord Deaths son , having all these new responsibility's. Hormones are bound to be …"

He was going to kill this man one day.

"Stuff it with the coming of age speech and please tell me exactly what you would like me to do."

He leaned forward in his chair and rested his elbows on the table and smiled.

"Well, actually your friend Liz there gave me an idea. "

Liz looked a bit shocked by this.

"Huh? Me what did I say?"

"Kid , I think you should start asking out girls your age on dates…"

"WAIT WHAT? No …I'm not sinking to some new low level…"Kid tightened his knuckles and took a deep breath ."

"You know…I HAVE been talking to your father recently…I do think a topic came up about your future…Lord Death didn't seem to think very much about girls dating you, but has been worried about your more obsessive compulsive attitude lately…as a doctor I could always explain that it has my observation that you have been looking quite a lot at the girls…these days . That it might be a great idea to set you up on a few blind dates so you could have some fun and not feel so depressed about the absence of a love life…might help you brush up on some of those social skills to.."

"You can't do that! You're mad! My father will never believe you! Pattie and Liz will completely side with me, and confirm this as black mail! Wont you Liz and Pattie?" He looked at them pitifully.

Liz had a small frown on her face and Pattie had a smile on hers. They turned to look at one another and in an instant continuous laughter poured out the both of them.

He was going to kill this man one day.

(To be continued ...end of chapter 2)

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