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Beta: June Dune


Chapter 2

Leaving into New


A sound soul dwells within a sound mind and a sound body.

Gallows Mansion, Death City, Nevada, United States

Friday, June 3, 20XX

10:00 A.M.

It never occurred to me that when I was called by Father so suddenly that I would change my fate. I actually left that prison of mine after Big Brother came bursting in so suddenly. He stopped for a moment, a surprised look on his face to the sudden before getting a serious look.

"Where's the tape measure?" He asked seriously, his eyes dead on me. I sweat drop; it must be his obsession with symmetry going again. I saw his eye twitch at my appearance. Ah... I did this to torment him~! I never did dress symmetrical. "Where is it?" he hissed out this time, eyes narrowing.

I let my passive eyes wander over to the shelf where he placed it last. "Where it's always been Big Brother." I spun on my heel, rounding behind him when he got a little closer. He turned around, facing my back. "Father called me so I must be on my way." I walked out of that dreaded place before he could say another word to me.

Big Brother was finally talking to me after so long, but he never called me by my name nor thought of me as a sister, just someone who he knew. Even if it was barely, it felt nice but not much. His weapons were friendlier though; they talked to me from time to time, but it was usually when Big Brother wasn't around and even that was rare. But I guess it was someone to talk to. I liked them both. Patty was the playful one while her older sister, Liz, was the more serious one, but both deeply cared for each other. Sometimes I envied them for having such a close relationship between siblings- one that, deep down, I wanted to have with Big Brother- and even cared for Big Brother deeply even with respect as their Meister.


Death Weapon Meister Academy, Death City, Nevada, United States

Friday, June, 20XX

11:00 A.M.

Ah... My head turned upward to the sky as I made my way of the very long stair case to DWMA. The sun was hot as always. Oh, how I wish I has my little friends with me again, but alas, they would never come back. Not after that night.

I jumped, landing on the final step, and looked up at the school. At first glance, the Academy could be said to have a rather eccentric appearance, looking a bit like a large fun house rather than a school. Standing on a large platform, the school was comprised of a collection of large black towers and spires patterned with white lines and the occasional Shinigami mask. The roofs of the towers were conical and bright red in color. Enormous candles poked out of shafts along the circumference of the building. At the entrance, there was three large Reaper Masks with the middle being the largest and sporting three blood red spikes going through its eye and nose holes. The skulls on the side were smaller and had slanted eyes, and they were used at the school's main entrances. At the very top of the school were three hovering black orbs.

I walked inside the school, passing students of both Meisters and Demon Weapons alike, as I made my way to the Death Room. I paced myself though the maze-like hallways until I came upon a large door marked with a skull and the plate, 'Death Room.' The door opened by itself to a tunnel of torii gates. I walked through them, the door closing behind me. As I did, my eyes looked over the area of the blue-colored walls with clouds floating around.

Why would Father call me now of all times? He never really did it before...

After I walked a while, I came to the Death room that was dome-shaped with a bright blue sky filled with white clouds. I walked onto a large, round platform with a vast desert-like expanse, which looked like it stretched on for eternity, around me. The entire ground around the platform was filled with thin, black cross-like figures raised from the ground. In the center of the platform was a large mirror with a brass frame with a Shinigami mask on top.

My eyes wonder upward to the white cartoonish skull mask that belonged to my one and only Father. I stared into his black hole eyes while he stared at my golden-red eyes.

"Father," I finally said through the tense silence.

"How have you been, Cheshire?" He asked, his voice the same goofy style as it was from the last time he asked me that question. He seemed to want me to open up to him and Big Brother. Yet how could I do that when they were the ones who pushed me away in the first place?

"I'm fine," I muttered before asking him. "Why was I called here, Father?"

"Straight to the point as always, I see," Father laughed out before he fell silent, seemingly to think about something. Finally he spoke that very reason. "I've enrolled you into DWMA with your brother."

"Oh..." That's what he called me over here so quickly? Just to tell me this... Deep down, a small voice whispered 'Maybe he really cares about me... He enrolled me into his own school...' but I paid no heed to them as I kept my poker face on.

"Eh?! Nothing to say? Not one word?! Aren't you happy? Mad? Sad?!" Father friskily moved his large white hands around. He had changed a lot from when I was little to the age I was now, but still, our relationship was strained over the years from not interacting so much as he did with Big Brother. However, he was trying to fix that. Though you know the saying 'A little too late for that'... yeah... But I was willing to give it a chance to see if Father (maybe even Big Brother) had changed, even if slowly, over the years.

I shook my head, giving him a small glint to show I was 'happy' about his decision. "I am fine with that decision, Father."

"Don't be such a stiff stick, call me Papa~!"

Okay, now it was just getting creepy...

I kept my poker face, my eyes turning ice cold and deadpan to him, "No." He pouted - or at least tried to - but got right back up, clapping his hands.

"Have you found anyone yet~?" he asked, seemingly happy about this. Something was up; I just knew it! I knew what he meant. He was asking me if I found someone who I was compatible to be partners with, a Weapon. I shook my head. He clapped his hands together again. Okay, now this was just getting weird. "Hopefully, you'll find someone soon. Now, it seems your Brother is here~! Kid-kun!" He waved his hand high like a child high on sugar. "Over here~!"

I turned around, seeing Big Brother come in with Patty and Liz following behind him. Kid glanced at me before walking up to Father and spoke to him, which I turned out in favor of walking over to the Thompson Sisters.

"Chessy~!" Patty giggled out, her hand in the air as she grinned. I gave her a deadpan look.

"Why must you call me that?"

"Because I know it annoys you~," she said, a glint in her eyes showing the amusement she got from annoying me. Patty was smarter then she looked, not academically per say but when it comes to wisecracks and street smarts she's the one I would go to.

I turned my head and looked at a smiling Liz. I gave her a nod. "How was the mission? Collect any souls?" Her face began to sweat a little, avoiding my eyes to glancing in favor to the side. Oh~! My eyes turn half-lidded, amusement gaining in them before a devious smile came on my lips. "Destroy any really famous monuments that need to hold a Pharaoh lately?" I leaned forward, inching closer to Liz's face. "Hmmm~?"

Her blue eyes looked to where Big Brother and Father were talking.

"As punishment for ruining the pyramid I'm confiscating all of your 'soul collection'," Father finally said, his tone happy but serious.

Big Brother was on the ground in seconds as he wailed, banging his hand against the floor all while muttering. "Damnit! Depressed! Die!"

"Big Brother is a baka..." I muttered, poking him in the side. He jumped in surprised from the sudden nearness from me. He didn't even hear me walk over (that took years to master!) to his side. I could head Patty parrot behind me 'Baka~!' 'Baka~!' over and over. Liz just face-palmed.

I stood, turning my back to everyone. I stuck my hands into the pockets of my dark red sleeveless hoodie that was zipped up halfway over a black sleeveless crop top. Also, I wore black baggy shorts that have two loose belts that hang on both sides of my pants and had black and red sneakers. On my arms were white bandages that wrap up to my elbows and have a shackle, the cuff and a short chain of three links, on my right wrist to keep. In my black, mid-back length, hair was a small clip of the Shinigami make clipped on the left side while a single stand on white framed my right side.

"I'll be back at the house..." I mumbled while my head cast down as I made my way out of the Death Room. I could hear distantly Big Brother's voice saying he was going to be home late... "Whatever," I muttered, continuing my walking and decided to explore the school. I figured that I might as well since I was going to go here.


Death Weapon Meister Academy, Death City, Nevada, United States

Friday, June 3, 20XX

3:00 P.M.

"This place is a maze! A maze I tell you!" I shouted in the empty hallway, my voice echoing all around me. I kept on getting lost and I didn't even know how long I had been here. An hour? Two hours? I didn't even want to know...

I was taking one hallway and turned, looking in rooms that had doors unlocked such as classrooms and the library and cafeteria, but then I would take another turn and then get lost. This happened more than once today. Looking around, I took a right then a left and another right before I FINALLY found the front entrance to get out of this blasted school.

There were more important things to worry about now then this school... A good example was how was I going to choose a partner when they would find out about my witch side as soon as we would try to sync our soul wavelengths together...

I wondered if Big Brother was home yet.


I hope you enjoyed this chapter and PLEASE REVIEW, I'd like to hear what you have to say.

A/N: Should I make an OC Weapon for Cheshire or make one of the characters in the actual Anime/Manga her Weapon? I'm taking suggestions for anything but mainly this at the moment.