Chapter 2
Maka wandered through the entrance and looked around with her eyes wide in amazement at the beautiful place that would serve as her home and school for the next few years. A tall, kind looking woman walked over to the new arrival
"Are you Maka Albarn?" She asked kindly
"Yes," She gulped
"Welcome to the Academy," She handed Maka a timetable "I'm Miss Marie follow me to your room," Maka followed her through the castle, taking note of various features along the way until she reached a long corridor
"Showers are gender separated just so you know but dormitories are shared," Marie showed her to room number 36. I open the door and see my new room. There was a fire crackling merrily in the fireplace and two comfy looking bunk beds. In the room there were a pair of twins unpacking their bags,
"Patty, Liz," Marie says "This is Maka," The twins greeted her without much enthusiasm.
"I'll leave you to unpack dinner is at half five," Marie walked off with her boot heels clicking against the stone floor.
"Hello," Maka smiled at the pair, they ignored her. Maka shrugged it off and went to unpack her bag. After she had finished, she fished out a book on magic and began to read. When it was time for dinner she headed downstairs until she reached the dining hall. It was a large room divided into tables big enough to seat eight people and people were already seated and eating,chatting and laughing. Maka went to the queue and sat back down by herself in the corner of the hall with a plate of fish fingers and chips, after she'd finished she sat and surveyed the hall, there were people everywhere and Maka was astonished about how many people there were. After they'd all finished a tall man, clad in black robes with a heavily scarred face stood up from his seat on the raised teachers platform and stood up at a lectern.
"Good evening I am Death as some of you may know!" He spoke softly but his words reached everyone "For those of you who have just joined I welcome you and to those of you who are returning it is good to see you all," A few cheers broke out from the crowd
"I however have some sad news," The slight chatter stopped "Sadly our main doctor was attacked by demons and killed I would like to introduce our new doctor Medusa!" Applause and cheers break out from the crowd as a blonde woman stands and bows to us.
"Now you all have lessons tomorrow so off to bed!" Everyone rose and started towards the dormitories, there must have been more than one because some went off in other directions. Maka bent down to fish her pyjamas from her bag when she felt a force behind her head and suddenly a wooden pole rushed towards her face. She cried out as her head smacked against the ladder to the bunk above hers,
"I didn't do anything to you," She cried out looking into Liz's grinning face.
"We don't like you~" Patty trilled sadistically as Liz slammed her face first against another rung. Liz let her go and she slumped to the floor in pain.
"Good night tiny tits!" She cackled and got into her bed. Maka groaned and hefted herself into bed, she lay there as the pain slowly receded, Maka felt like crying but no tears came, she had to be strong for her mother, her father and Bill. She wouldn't cry, she wouldn't satisfy them. In the morning Maka held her head high and didn't so much as bristle when Liz tried to trip her over and Patty commented on her breasts. Maka wasn't necessarily embarrassed by her breast size but she wasn't exactly indifferent to it either. When she entered the hall she went to where she had sat for dinner and found a girl sitting there by herself,
"Hello," Maka greeted
"Hello!" The girl greeted back
"You mind if I sit here?"
"Of course I don't mind," Maka balanced an apple and bowl of cereal on her tray and laid it down
"My names Tsubaki," The raven haired girl introduced herself
"I'm Maka," Across the hall Liz and Patty were talking animatedly to a group of their friends and then Liz turned and pointed straight at Maka. She felt like the vile girl had taken a knife and carved out her insides, all her friends looked straight at her and began laughing as Liz carried on her story.
"Is Liz being horrible?" Tsubaki enquired in her quiet voice
"Yep," Maka swallowed
"Just ignore her," Tsubaki advised "All those kids over there wouldn't be with her if they weren't afraid of her or her little shit of a sister," The way Tsubaki spat the last bit out is the kind of thing she wouldn't have expected from someone like Tsubaki.
"Do you know what your first lesson is?" Tsubaki went into her bag
"Something called "A study of magic," Maka slapped her face with her hand,
"Your probably in my class then," Maka's new friend showed her to a large classroom where there was a tall man with blue skin waiting in front of a blackboard.
"Hello Tsubaki who's this?" The teacher asked
"Hello Mr Sid this is Maka she's one of the new students,"
"Ah Maka Albarn our resident mage," He shook her hand, his hands were inredibly cold and tough
"Everyone knows?" She asked nervously
"Nah just the staff," He smiled "There's a spare desk next to Tsubaki," By now a few students had arrived and where setting there things down by their desks
"Liz isn't in this class," Tsubaki whispered to her, Maka smiled happily as Sid went into a speech about magic. Maka left the classroom with Tsubaki, everything Sid had said she already knew but it didn't matter to her. Maka was taking her place in her next lesson when a boy with spiky white hair and red eyes came into the room
"You think Liz is bad," Tsubaki whispered "Soul Evans is what you define as a psycho!" Their eyes met and in those moments Maka realised it, his eyes weren't hard and sharp like Liz's. His were softer and wider than Liz's shark like ones. As he went by he nodded at the pair and took his seat,
"Good day everyone!" Marie stood at the front of the class, glaring at us all with her golden eyes
"Welcome to chemistry," After a long lecture Marie gives us equipment and we spread ourselves around the science lab. Soul comes and works next to us,
"Maka," He says in greeting
"Soul," Maka replied, she could feel some sort of buzzing in her chest. But Maka ignored it and focused on the experiment
"Is Liz being a bitch?" He enquires
"Yes,"
"Just igno-"
"I've been given that advice before," Maka snapped at him, he didn't reply just raised one eyebrow at her. Maka spent the rest of the lesson in angered silence, fed up of the useless advice. The rest of the day passed with little more than a few insults from Liz and Patty along with her cronies. Maka settled down and started doing some of her homework when the door unceremoniously flew open, the twins swaggered in. Maka carried on finishing her worksheet on the great war between mages and demons. When there was a knock at the already open door
"This is your new room mate!"
