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"Come in!" Lord Death called as Spirit and Stein moved to stand by his side.
"Father. What are they and why are they here?" Death the Kid walked in unhappily, Patty and Liz on his heels and silent.
"Ah, Kid! Well, the school they attend contacted us hoping they could be enrolled here. We've had many students from Aurora come here in the past, they shouldn't cause any trouble. Is everything okay, son?"
"Maka described their souls to us. One's aggressive, one's depressed, and the other is ridiculously dark; do we really need students like that when we've already got plenty of those here? Also, none of them seem to be normal weapons, not in the slightest. What are they really, father." Kid's arms were crossed unhappily over his chest now, and both Patty and Liz looked ridiculously curious.
Lord Death sighed, trying to find the right response for his son. Thankfully, Stein took a step forward, readjusting his glasses and then speaking. "The three of them are beings we've never dealt with in the past, Kid, and we plan on assigning two of them to you and Maka. Lilla, the blonde, has no need for a meister at this point, and it could be dangerous to put her with one. We're assigning Espeo, the brunette, to you and Xandra to Ma-"
Kid cut the professor off. "No, I want Xandra. I want the darker one."
Liz's eyes went wide, "Wh-what?!" Patty began giggling happily beside her and clapping in excitement, but Liz chose to ignore it. "Kid, why?!"
Kid clasped his hands together and closed his eyes a moment, before looking up with a determined look in his eyes. "She will be useful, and I feel like it would be good to have a change of pace with our little group we have here. Someone darker and quiet will be interesting."
Liz shook her head a little, trying to hide the fact that the orange haired girl scared her. "But you didn't even give the shy one a chance!"
Kid laughed a little and turned to face his twin pistols. "Don't worry, Liz, we'll all still be working together as a team I'm sure, so we'll just have to wait and see what happens."
A sigh. "If you say so, Kid."
Xandra leaned backwards in her seat, glancing around the room. The only other student in the classroom was a blonde with her nose stuck in a book. The girl must have felt Xandra's eyes on her though, as she looked up and smiled over at her. Xandra looked away quietly, feeling bad for disturbing the girl's reading. Next thing she knew, she was being spoken to.
"Xandra, right?" Maka held her hand out to the girl and smiled sweetly. "I'm Maka, it's really nice to meet you finally."
Xandra glanced at the girl's hand and then up at her gentle expression. The smile, the happiness, it was genuine, which eased Xandra's thoughts a bit. The orange haired mage shook the meister's hand firmly and gave her a small smile. "You too," she muttered.
Maka sat down beside the girl and went back to reading. Xandra watched her for a moment and Maka looked over at her again. "We have a quiz in here today, hopefully Stein won't make you and your friends take it though since you haven't even had a class yet. Would you like to read up with me though, just in case?"
"You're being awfully nice to me," Xandra muttered and pulled herself forward in the chair, leaning over to get a better look at the book. She shoved her hands into the pockets of her jacket and sighed lightly as she began to read the paragraphs about witches.
Maka laughed and pushed the book closer to the girl, silently reading as well. After what felt like a few hours, but was really only a few minutes, the seats around them were finally beginning to be filled. Maka's team's members started filling in the seats around her and the new girl, and she smiled as Soul sat beside her, eyeing Xandra silently.
The mage was holding the book in her lap now, having continued on to other material and completely zoned in to her reading, so she didn't even notice that the room was full of other people now. On her other side sat Death the Kid and his twin pistols while Tsubaki and Black Star were in the seats behind Maka and Soul. Espeo and Lilla had somehow managed to grab the two seats in front of Xandra and Kid. Xandra looked up when she heard the squeaky wheels of a rolling chair enter the room, and smiled as she recognized the man with a screw in his head. She finally looked around her, recognizing her friends from Aurora in front of her, the blue haired boy Lilla had fought with diagonally behind her, and the kid with the stripes in his hair beside her. She glanced at the white-haired boy beside Maka and blinked, eyeing his jacket, and chuckling to herself.
Soul looked over at the new girl and raised a brow as she seemed to be laughing at him. "Something funny?"
Xandra blinked a few times, eyes widened a bit, and turned her head forward as she placed Maka's book back on the table and pushed it towards the meister. "Thank you for letting me read your book, Maka," she said quietly, voice almost sounding a bit nervous.
Maka narrowed her eyes at Soul and then smiled at Xandra. "Of course, you can borrow it whenever you need to. Do you like reading?" She only got a nod in response, but that was enough for her. "I've got some actual books you might like, you should come home with Soul and I after class is over so I can show you."
Xandra looked over at Maka blankly. She opened her mouth to say something, but Black Star cut her off when he leaned in and poked Maka's head.
"Basketball, duh. If you don't show up again, we'll force you to hang out with your dad."
The girl beside Black Star, his weapon Tsubaki, giggled and nodded. "Unfortunately, that's true, Maka! You promised."
"So we are playing today then? I think we could all use it, we haven't played in a few weeks." Kid smiled as he looked from Tsubaki and Black Star to Soul and Maka. "Do you play, Xandra?"
"Hah! I'm not sure I've ever seen her play a sport, actually." Lilla had chimed in now, as she and Espeo were both turned in their seats and focusing on the group behind them. "I'm down, though." The Hellcat grinned happily and looked at Espeo. "What about you, Wolfgirl?"
Espeo rolled her eyes and then smiled, "If they want another player, than I don't see why not. I played my first year at Aurora, but that was a while ago so I'm a bit rusty."
Kid smiled at the two of them, "Good to know we've got more recruits!" That earned him pleased chuckles from his pistols.
Soul glanced at Xandra, who'd leaned backwards in her chair silently. "Well, what about you?"
Xandra looked over at him and shrugged. "Uh, sure."
Kid smiled now and put a hand on her shoulder, "Good. Also, I've been assigned as your meister, if you'll have me that is."
Xandra blinked and stared at the boy for a few moments. "I've already been assigned to someone? But," she paused, confusion spreading across her face. "But, no one knows what I am yet. Well, no one from this school does."
Kid chuckled and turned in his seat to face the front of the room, where Stein was pulling out a stack of papers from his bag. "Well, quite frankly, even though I'm not sure I'll actually be able to bring myself to use you since you aren't compatible with my symmetrical weapons Liz and Patty, I can tell you're strong and would like to at least have you on my part of the team so you can become a better weapon. That's what the three of you are here for, yes? To train yourselves?"
Xandra laughed a little and sighed contently. "I don't really need a meister to be used, anyways, but sure, I'll be on your team." She gave him a small smile and then eyed the teacher, secretly hoping he'd let her take the quiz.
Espeo and Lilla had turned to face forward again, but the brunette glanced over her shoulder at the reaper who'd asked them a question and smiled. "Yes, we're here for training purposes."
"Oh, Espeo!" Maka whispered quickly before Stein began handing out quizzes, "I'm your meister, by the way."
Espeo smiled and nodded, "I look forward to working with you and Soul. Should be fun!"
"Quizzes are out, new students try your best. No cheating!" Stein called and sat back down at his desk, scribbling down something on some papers as the students took their quizzes.
Lilla glanced backwards at Black Star and narrowed her eyes. "I better not be assigned to him."
The boy caught the comment and laughed as he looked up, "I wouldn't want you anyways, you couldn't handle a meister as big as I am!"
Lilla rolled her eyes but laughed as she looked down at the paper in front of her. Xandra and Espeo were actually taking the quiz but she had no clue as to what she was looking at. Instead, she flipped the paper over and started doodling some creepy, tiger-like creature with curled, ram horns.
After class, Xandra walked silently beside Soul and Maka, following them to the basketball court while Espeo and Lilla walked with the rest of the group. Xandra watched as Black Star was shoved to the side by Lilla and couldn't help but laugh. The boy grumbled something about how he was going to show her what happens when you mess with 'the great Black Star.'
"Poor Black Star, the pretty new girl already hates him," Soul said with a heavy chuckle.
"Serves him right," Maka grumbled and glanced at Xandra. "Hey, we have the same skirt on. And you and Soul both sorta' have on the same jacket. That's weird, it's like you should be my weapon instead."
Xandra laughed and looked over at the girl with a smile.
"Ah, so that's what you must have been laughing about, right? The jackets?" Soul asked as he held a door that led outside open for the two girls. "Only the coolest kids wear jackets like ours," he said as he threw a toothy grin and a wink Xandra's way.
Xandra nodded at him and muttered a gentle thank you to him as she walked by. She tugged uncomfortably at the skirt, now that she knew it'd been noticed, and forced herself not to blush at the boy's wink.
"Not a fan of skirts?" Maka asked with a laugh as she sat on the bench and watched the others gather on the court.
"No, and definitely not short ones like this one," Xandra hissed and sighed.
As Soul walked by them and onto the court, he shrugged. "It looks good on you, I wouldn't worry too much."
Xandra blinked and watched him curiously. Was he being serious? She rolled her eyes. No, he definitely was not, not with the narrowed eyes and smirk he was throwing her way.
Maka rolled her eyes and opened up a book, but it was quickly pulled from her hands by an overly-eager Black Star and soon enough the two girls in red skirts were forced onto the court. "But we're wearing skirts!"
Espeo laughed and pointed at her own skirt. "No excuses! Besides, we play lacrosse in skirts all the time!"
Xandra sighed and Kid approached her with the basketball as she took her jacket off, revealing a black tank top. "Have you ever played before, Xandra?" She shook her head and he smiled, handing her the ball and walking her towards the hoop on the opposite side of the court. Standing behind her, he helped her angle herself and set her arms properly, "Alright, well, let me show you how to shoot real quick."
As Kid explained basketball, managing to drag symmetry into his explanation somehow, Black Star caught Lilla grinning at him. "What?!"
The blonde only laughed and narrowed her eyes. "Just be happy I'm on your team and can't crush you like I wanted to."
"Hah!" Black Star threw his head back, cracking up maniacally. Tsubaki shook her head and sighed, but knew nothing she would say to him would be listened to at this point.
Soul, Maka, Liz, Tsubaki, and Espeo were on one side of the court, while Patty, Black Star, Lilla, Kid, and Xandra were gathered on the other. Kid had finished teaching Xandra all the basic things he felt she needed to know, but the girl still looked ridiculously unsure of herself.
Maka glanced around, noticing her father and Stein had come outside to chaperone, and sighed. She'd hoped the adults would have forgotten and she could have found a way to postpone the game even longer.
The game began, and lasted for much longer than expected, but the laughing and playful jabs that came from each student provided decent rushes of adrenaline to keep them going. Even Maka and Xandra had really gotten into the game, slowly but surely bringing Xandra out of her quiet state and showing that she really was quite happy and athletic.
"Last shot! Make it count!" Black Star yelled to the girl with the ball who looked like she was about to take the final shot of the game in an effort to win for their team.
Xandra: How in the crap did you get me to play a sport in front of Lilla?
Author: -grins-Espeo: Please leave a comment/review!