Chapter 3: Naomi meets Shihero and Okami Zero:
A/N: The beginning of the chapter is dedicated to Nasu-chan luvs tomatoes and xprussiaxawesomex I love you guys like sisters! Towards the end I might have tons of typos and yeah…I really don't care -_- also the "beast" at the end, I had no idea what to call it so I'm calling it a keshain (sp? Again I probably spelled that wrong XP) So enjoy! Thxs!
Slowly I fluttered my eyes open, and sat up from a dark soundless sleep. Yawning I stood up and looked over at the alarm clock. 8:30a.m. I growled with disappointment and decided that today was gonna be a long day. Being to lazy for my own good, I used a spell to get ready. When I was all done and ready to face the day,I peeked a look in Akio's room, naughty, naughty me. I laughed to myself and saw that he was still asleep. Gah, my face turned red with embarrassment as I saw him stir. I ushered myself out the door and walked down the steps. Contemplating for quite some time, decided to go see my cousins.
I walked up the black steps and knocked on the door, but before I could it opened by it's self. Of course. I thought to myself. I walked in and called their names. "Okami…" I waited for a second, "Shihero…" No answer. I growled to myself, and then saw a dark figure emerge from the depths of the shadowed walls. It was hard to see everything in their house since it was so dark, but I already knew where all their victorian furniture was, and what the extravagant rooms looked like, decorated to a gloomy perfection. Damn their lucky, their mom is way nicer than mine. Why couldn't I have been born into their family?
"Hello dearest cousin," A girl dressed in purple and black came into my view and into the light. She had fluffy black hair and she wore gloves as well.
"Hello Shihero, have I come at a bad time?" She looked down and started moving her shoe across the floor, and playing nervously with her hands. "Well, did I?"
"Um…" She replied, obviously wanting not to answer. She looked back and I saw a taller, darker figure with a dress like spider webs walking towards us. She put her hand on Shihero's shoulder, and looked at her with a emotionless expression. She slowly turned her head and looked at me with penetrating eyes. I knew not to make eye-contact or else she would rip my throat out. I shuddered at the thought of her baring her fangs ready to take my life and whispering scaring words to me. I curtsied and nodded my head in her direction.
"Greetings daughter of my slithering sister." What the hell, that sounds so stupid. I laughed silently.She probably thought that it would sound way more majestic in her mind. Ha ha ha. I remembered where I was and replied to her stupid greeting.
"Lady Arachne, it's a pleasure to see you again." I managed to choke the lat few words out. I had to be polite for Shihero's sake. I glanced over to my cousin and gave her a look of sympathy. She was shaking. If she keeps this up she's gonna transform without knowing it. Lady Arachne looked away from me and then turned away to leave. I was silent till she left, then I ran up and hugged my cousin. She was tense and I could tell she was angry as hell.
"Damn I hate her," she whispered under her breath. If I hadn't had great hearing, I wouldn't have been able to hear her.
"I know, I do too." I reminded her, "She's not as bad as my mom though," in fact my mom was probably the worst parent ever! My siblings Kiyomi and Crona didn't agree with me at all. Kiyomi, over all thought that our mom, Medusa, was the greatest person in the world, she decided to stay with her instead of coming to the DWMA with me. Crona, ah poor Crona, he was manipulated by Medusa and he came with me to school but as her personal spy. I tried to tell him about her wrong doings but he never seems to listen. I looked over at my now calmed down cousin. "Should I come over another time when the Wicked Witch isn't here?" I inquired. Shihero nodded and quickly hugged me. "Tell Okami that I said hello, okay?" Again she nodded and then walked away quietly. I left the house and by that time it was already getting late. So, I headed back home.
Sighing after an uneventful, tense, gloomy day, I put all of my things down in the white counter and looked over to couch was. I saw Akio reading a book and then smiled quickly, my hair covering my face. I walked up behind the furniture he was sitting on as quietly as I could, put my arms on the back of the couch and my hands holding my chin up. I smiled and laughed mildly. I paced around the couch and sat next to him. Looking up I saw his face was concentrated on the book. His intense light blue eyes lightened my spirits. As soon as I thought that, his intense gaze shattered as he looked over to me. I squeaked and moved away from him. "I-I'm sorry!" I managed to say. My face was really hot and I could tell that I was blushing, which made it worse of course. Akio laughed and put his book down on the coffee table in front of us.
"Don't be, I'm actually glad that you came, or else I would have been up all night reading and I wouldn't get any sleep," He smiled and put this arm behind his head. I moved closer to him, put my head on his shoulder, and put my feet to the side of me. I closed my eyes and smiled at this moment. His expression was shocked at first, but then he grinned and put his hand on my head. Petting me? I stifled a laugh and soon it all went black.
My eyes opened and the first thing I saw was the over cast day from outside my window. I took a deep breath and smiled. "Perfect weather," I said quietly. I stretched my arms and got ready for school. Slinging my backpack over my arm I walked out the apartment door with Akio. The day was a bit colder than usual and the air was crisp and smelled of the coming rain. It had been three months since I had started classes at the DWMA. Me and Akio had already collected 36 keshain souls. Life was good. I went class all dandy. Dandy? A small giggle escaped my lips. What a funny word. In the three months that had passed, Kiyomi, Okami, and Shihero all started classes at the DWMA. Shihero had a weapon named Kayo. He was cool, but he acts sort of girly. Shihero and I laugh about it sometimes, but it's good for her because she had the hots for Soul. Okami was a meister was well, but since we all had something in common about our families, her fingers can turn into shadow claw blades, kind of like me except I have demon claws. And Kiyomi…well…she was trying her hardest to become one of Kid's weapons. The poor fool. -As I was sitting in class, Akio on my left and Shihero on my right, Akio got called out of class by Lord Death himself! My mind was racing with terrible thoughts. Had somebody seen me using magic? Crap! As I was thinking this. Okami and Kiyomi were in a cat fight, over Kid…again. I was distracted by this hilarious outburst and actually cheered Okami on. When the small cat fight turned into something big, all hell broke loose. Kids were talking over one another, each voice exceeding the volume of each other. Papers went flying and pens flew across the room. I saw everything in slow motion it seemed and then all of a sudden, a red and blue glow started occurring around Okami and Kiyomi. Oh no, this is bad this is really bad! I went on my first instinct and jumped between the wolf witch and the husky witch. Okami's fangs were barred and her claw blades were ready to kill. Kiyomi was growling in a deep key. I tackled my sister and held her hands down to the concrete floor on either side of her head. She was trying to break free and was hurting me in the process. "Damn it Kiyomi! STOP!" I yelled trying to overcome the noise of the class an succeeded only too well. The room fell into complete silence and all pairs of eyes were on me. My face turned bright red and I let Kiyomi up from the cold gray ground. Okami sat back down as if nothing happened. Professor Stein sighed and took me and Kiyomi outside the class room.
"Girls, I have no clue what just happened just now but settle it." He had a very monotonous voice. I growled as soon as he closed the door behind him.
"Don't do that! Alright. My voice became hushed after this. "If you are on mom's side, don't let anybody find out that we are witches. First of all she will hate you, and I know how heart breaking that will be if the happens. Second, we will be kicked out of the DWMA for good. and possibly killed. You know that in order to become a death scythe, weapons need one witch soul. If people find out. Those soulless, dead witches, could be us, and," I emphasized the last word before I paused for a second, "and Shihero and Okami could end up that way with us." She scoffed and replied.
"So, I don't like Okami, or you or Shihero! I'm only here on mom's orders okay?" My expression must have been complete rejection because she wouldn't make eye contact with me after this. "So I seriously don't care!" She walked back into class without another word, me following closely behind. Of course she tired to sit next to Kid. I sighed and sat back in my seat. Professor Stein was saying something but I wasn't paying attention. I just figured it was another dissection. We did dissections every day it seemed. After about fifteen minutes Akio walked back into class silently and took his seat next to me. He wrote something down on a scrap piece of paper and placed it on top of all my work. "We have another keshain to massacre,"
It was a cloudy night, but occasionally the moon came out of hiding and peeked around the clouds. Akio and I were walking around the lighted streets looking for the keshian we were supposed to kill. Apparently Lord Death said that this keshain soul was quite a challenge and he wanted to test our skills. Ready for a river of scarlet hate, I held my head up high as I walked. Our eyes darted to the same direction as we heard the chilling sound of somebody's flesh being torn apart. I cringed slightly and changed into my weapon form. Akio quickly and stealthily turned around the corner where the sound was coming from. In the shadows was a huge silhouette of, none other the keshain we were supposed to fight. Which each of his steps I could feel Akios trembling as we got closer to it. Eventually it sensed us and looked at us with piercing white eyes with no pupils. The beast snarled and barred its blood dripping fangs. Akio took a teasing step towards it and backed away almost instantly. He smiled with a wicked look in his eyes. A sensation of glee suddenly overwhelmed me. W-what is this feeling? Why am I so happy? I should be focused on getting the keshain soul right now! I scolded myself and went back to the task at hand. Akio brought my blade upon the demons head, but the beast moved just a little and only a gash on his shoulder. "Dammit!" Akio screamed. Akio repeated this move a few times, but after a while the keshain caught along. When Akio was about to wound him once again, the keshain moved quick enough and clawed Akio on the arm, me of course, I was strewn across the pavement. The keshains fangs were nearly seconds away from killing Akio. I turned back into my human form and growled. Blue and black flames swirled around me. The keshain was distracted from this. Good thing too cause in this time Akio got to safety. My short already existing fangs in my human form. Which were easy to ignore if you didn't really notice. My fangs grew larger and as this was happening the flames rose higher, and I could tell that out of my sheer rage I was transforming into my witch form. My hands changed to paws and my claws extended and electricity flowed through them. I could feel my bones fusing and dis-connecting, Before I knew it I was standing there growling, with flames around me and even around my paws and tail. There I was, a huge saber-toothed white cat. Ready for my dose of a crimson lullaby. I hissed and pounced at him. Fangs digging into his neck and claws shredding and injecting volts of electricity into him. Did he fight back? Hell fricking yes! He tore me off him and slammed me to the ground and continued to try to rip me apart. No way was I going to let this bastard get the best of me. I was already feeling the after shock of being thrown so violently towards the ground, Wincing in pain, I gathered up all of my strength and went through his neck once more. Blood gushed out every where, Drenching my fur and staining the ground. He fell back and lay on the red ground twitching. I hissed once more and then a red soul appeared in-front of me. I ate it. Laughing in a cat-like way from the silliness of how my demon saber cat form ate the soul, I slowly changed back into my human self. I heard a faint whimpering of somebody in the shadows. I looked in the direction and was a shivering Akio. His normally ice blue eyes were wide with fright, dull and had dark circles under them.
"Y-you…" He was sort of pointing to the spot where I changed. "What are you? What the hell was that that you just did? Am I just slowly going insane?" His expression was so confused and lost. "Were you not going to tell me about this?" By this time he was just asking random questions and going on about the same thing. I felt bad and looked at him with concern.
"Well…I-I'm a witch,"
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