Dragon: it'd be so helpful if people would review more often. Just one review isn't gonna cut it.
Fajita: Yeah we want to know what you think!
Savikatze: Do it or we'll eat your soul... Literally
JayMan551: Souls don't actually taste that good. I would know
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Naomi: Yummy.
Savikatze: Jaaaaaaaaaaaay! And Naomi and Fate, stop breaking the Fourth wall.
Naomi: Sorry...
Fate: what's a fourth wall...?
Savikatze: the wall that's between the creators and the characters.
Savikatze: and dragon why do you wanna kill off Cheiko's momma?
Dragon: well if you
Savikatze: read it you'd understand blah blah blah
Dragon: ...
JayMan551: You all have OC's, why do I have to be cannon?
Dragon: Ask the readers, you've let them down by dying/sleeping for the first three chapters.
JayMan551: I was tired!
Dragon: Don't make up excuses.
JayMan551: I can't write in this chapter either. Now I need to learn more about my character.
Dragon: Don't mess with the sleeping dragon.( *`
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Cheiko's POV:
"Do you want tea?" Fate asks from the kitchen. I was almost asleep, but then he had to go and wake me up. What a jerk.
"I'm sleeping." I say rolling over on the couch. I can practically hear him rolling his eyes.
"Okay I'll make you some then." He's says, clearly not understanding what sleep is. I threw a pillow at him, it missed by quite a few feet.
"You really need to work on your aim." He says without turning around. How did he know I threw it then?
"You need to work on letting people sleep." I mumble.
"Oh come on, it was time for you to wake up anyways." He says, setting down a cup in front of me, then looks out the window. "Damn we aren't gonna walk in all this rain today, are we?"
"Rain isn't a good reason to skip school." I say, sitting up and drinking from the tea cup.
"I know." Fate sighs and sits on the floor across from me.
Silence.
"I hate rain." Fate says.
"Hating's not good for your soul." I say, standing and taking the tray of tea to the kitchen.
"Strongly dislike." He corrects himself.
"Alright Fate, let's go to school." I say, grabbing an umbrella that was leaning against the wall beside the door.

We walk quietly with only the sound of constant rain fall. Fate looks irritated, I can hardly resist from making fun of him. The rain didn't seem like it would let up anytime soon, maybe only get worse.

"It looks like the sky is almost black." Fate says, looking out of the cafeteria window.
"I believe you have your colors confused, that's a grayish purple." I tap his nose.
"Whatever." He grumbles. He didn't take well to the rain. I walk around the cafeteria and see those two sitting in the far back corner. I never understood them, I don't think anyone did.
"Don't you ever feel bad for them?" I ask, looking over at Rito and Naomi. Maybe we should go sit by them.
Fate crosses his arms and outs his head down, then looks up slightly, "Why should I? They seem pretty happy together." I pat his back, Maybe tomorrow when he's not so grumpy.
Later that night...

"It's still raining. What the hell is this!?" Fate hisses standing in from of the window. There's a flash of lightning and his silhouette glows for a moment.
"I don't see what the big deal is. It's just rain." I say, knitting a scarf.
"It's so consistent though." He growls. He continues searching for something about the rain to seem fishy.
My eyes drift up to the paper sitting on the glass coffee table.
"Fate...?"
"Hmph?"
"What is this...?" I ask daintily moving my fingers toward the paper.
"Huh? It's just my report I- no don't touch that!" He cries as I grab the paper and start looking over it. He watches in silent horror as I read. When I'm finished, I calmly set it down.
"HOW THE HELL COULD YOU WRITE SOMETHING SO AWFUL AND DISGUSTING?!"
"I'm sorry please forgive me!" He cries.
"YOU DIDN'T EVEN CAPITALIZE YOUR NAME! YOU FORGOT A PERIOD IN THE THIRD SENTENCE OF THE FOURTH PARAGRAPH! YOU HAVE TO ITALICIZE WHEN WRITING THE NAME OF ANOTHER SOURCE! YOU USE QUOTATION MARKS WHEN USING QUOTES!" I yell, waving my fists in the air frantically.
"I'm sorry I won't ever do it again! Please stop! You get so scary when you're like this..."
"THIS WORD IS SPELLED WRONG! THAT'S UNFORGIVABLE! MAYBE I'D FORGIVE YOU IF I WERE A MORON!" I say, pounding my fists into him. I then proceed to fix all of the mistakes on his paper.
About two hours later...

"Feel better?" He asks.
I fix one more mistake. My eyes start to water. I hold my work up to him, "It's...perfect." I grin.
"Wow, thanks Cheiko. It really is good. I'll be sure to get an A on it now." He snatches it and puts it in his backpack.

Fate's POV:
"Wow, thanks Cheiko. It really is good. I'll be sure to get an A on it now." I say, snatching the paper from her before she can take it back and zip it into my backpack. But there was no response. "Chi?" I ask, turning around. She was fast asleep on the couch. I sigh, picking her up and putting her on her bed in her room. The lightning flashed again outside, then thunder rumbled. I point at the window, "If you wake her up, it is the last straw. If you wake up the sleeping dragon... I'm coming after you." Another flash of lightning and I swear I can make out a face in the sky. It must've been my imagination, because it disappeared moments later. "Sleep safely, Cheiko." I say before shutting the door behind me.

The next day it continued to rain. Thankfully the thunder didn't wake up Cheiko, so she was somewhat a pleasant person. But something was a little off about her.
"Okay," I say finally in the middle of History. "What's up?"
"Nothing." She mumbles, laying her head on her arms.
"Come on, I think I can tell when something's bothering you." I nudge her arm with my elbow.
"I had a dream last night..." She says. I wait. "It was about my mom." I wait for her to continue but she doesn't.
"Don't worry about it." I pat her head. "It was just a dream."
"Thanks." She says. A loud boom filled the air.
"That's strange." The teacher says. "Stop interrupting my class, filthy weather." Then she looks up. "Oh yes, speaking of interruptions, Fate." I look up startled. What did I do? "Lord Death would like to see you and Cheiko in his office."
"Fine by me." I shrug and get up. At least the windows aren't so close in there, I'm sick of all this rain.
"What do you think he wants?" Chi asks as we walk down the hallway.
"I don't know." I respond. We walk in and Death is busy looking into his mirror.
"Lord Death?" Chi says softly.
"Huh? Oh hello there! Sorry about that, my hearing hasn't been as good lately as it used to be." He says, bouncing over to us. "Have you noticed how much it's been raining lately?"
I ball my hands into fists, Great, so that's what this is about. I really don't want to talk about this, but it's worth it if he has some answers and knows how to stop it.
"Yes, we have." Cheiko answers for me.
"Good. Then you should know we have a very powerful witch on our hands."
"Wha!" Cheiko gasps.
"Another one? Figures..." I say remembering the face in the window I saw last night. But what was she doing by our apartment? Unless...
Cheiko looks up, eager. Death continues, "It's Procella, the storm witch." Cheiko and I share glances. Could this be it?
"So what do we have to do with this?" I ask.
"I want you to be the ones who go after her." Death answers. "I've put together a team for you. I think I'll give them a call."
"Woah, woah, hold on a sec there buddy. A team?" I ask, surprised. No he can't be serious. I don't do teams. Just Chi and me.
"I know you two are strong but you can't get too cocky, Fate. This witch is very dangerous." Death advises. He then proceeds to call into our teacher to retrieve the others. We wait patiently until Rito, Naomi, Ryder, and Rai enter the room.
"Not these guys." I mumble, crossing my arms.
"Oh look it's our best friends." Ryder looks cautiously at Rai like she was going to blow up or something.
"Yay strangers!" Naomi cheers as she enters the room. Rito does nothing but stare at the crowd next to her side.
Cheiko and Rai begin to glare at each other. Tension fills the air.
"Eheh um... Nice to meetcha all." Naomi says, trying to break the ice.
"Alright well go and have fun out there!" Death says.

Rito's POV (Flashback):
The following afternoon Naomi and I walked out onto the field behind the academy.
"So I'll ask one more time, are you sure about this?" I ask reluctantly.
"Positive." Naomi replies. I nod my head and set up the test dummies. "Let's get started."
Naomi transforms before my eyes into her scythe-self. I should be giving her more encouragement, what kind of friend am I?

Naomi turns back human and collapses on the grass after we finish off the last dummy.
"Damn... Are you okay?" I concernly ask.
Naomi sits up and looks up at the sky. "Never been better!" A huge grin spreads across her face. I really should've given more hope in her in the first place.
"So, we're sticking with three hours from now on?"
"Yup! Hehehe, I feel like I'm getting stronger already!" How a weapon can feel like that is beyond me, but whatever makes her happy.
I smile lightly. "Good."
Naomi giggles more. "I love it when you smile, Rito!"
I automatically stop smiling.
"Hey! What's with you?!" Naomi spazzes like always when I do that. She shouldn't bring it up, it just makes me feel like a wuss. A strong fighter should always have their most committed and serious facial expression.
Oh, what the hell am I even talking about.

"KFC! KFC!" Naomi chants as I bring back a bag from the greasy fast food place. Dinner's at my place today- and it's cheap.
Naomi rummages through the bag and takes out her container of food. I will never understand how she can eat so unhealthy yet never gain a pound... Maybe it's all the energy she has to burn up...
"Maybe we should get some studying in for tomorrow's quiz in Stein's class." I suggest as I pick at my overly crispy chicken leg. I really don't want to eat this...
"Nah, his quizzes usually have three to four questions maximum, and most of it is just review," Naomi responds with crumbs all over her face. I roll my eyes.
"Y'know what I want? To be assigned a mission." She adds.
"Those are only for the advanced, I doubt we'll be getting one for a while..." There I go being Mr. Pessimist again.
"You never know! Stay positive, will ya?!" Naomi barks as she polishes off her second wing.
She's right.

Naomi's POV (Also flashback):
"Mr. Mori and Ms. Heart, will you please come here?" Dr. Stein announces after class when almost everyone else has left.
"Yes?" I reply for both of us.
Dr. Stein smiles. "Today is your lucky day, your team is being assigned a mission~!"
Rito's eyes are mega wide, and I'm glowing with joy!
"Thank you, thank you sir!" I chirp. Dr. Stein pulls out a several pieces of paper held together by a staple and hands to me. "Everything you need to know is in this- But I must warn you, it is mildly dangerous- and it is with two other strong teams, but I have faith in both of you that you can get it done with them." He ends his sentence with a wink. I bow and skip off with Rito to lunch period.
"This looks pretty tough," Rito flips through the small packet. "I wonder why he's giving it to us..."
"Who cares why! Just be grateful we got ourselves a mission!" I gloat. "Lemme read it now!" I snatch the papers from him and begin to read.
"A witch, eh? Oh man, this is so frickin' exciting!" I throw the papers in the air and lean back in my chair.
"You do know we could possibly get ourselves killed, right?" Rito asks me. I click my tongue.
"That's very unlikely."
"Whatever." Rito says.

Ryder's POV
"Now we can prove to them how good we are!"Rai was a bit too excited. "I could tell she was intimidated there. She was about to give up. But no that wouldn't make her a worthy opponent. But they are so scared. I know it. I could see it in their eyes."
Most of the time Rai is good at reading people. Maybe the the fact that she didn't like those particular people made her unable to read them.
"Don't you think that I'm wrong Ryder." She stopped her speech to yell at me. "I'm right."
I nodded my head and she bopped me on the head before going back to bragging about how we would beat Cheiko and Fate.
"What about Rito and Naomi?" I asked curious as to what she might say.
"...I don't know." She stops. "I've definitely noticed them before."
"Really I haven't." I say leaning back. She just continues.
"They are always in the back. No one really knows who they are or what they do. They are just there. Though Naomi seemed happy to meet new people. Rito seemed to be holding her back. But I guess she doesn't mind. I wonder..." Rai suddenly got quieter.
"I think we should team up with them and just leave Cheiko and Fate." Rai suddenly decided. "Let's just leave them. We don't really need them anyway."
I just stared at her with wide eyes. How could she be so reckless? Especially at a time like this with a really powerful witch. What would Lord Death say?

Rai's POV
Now we have to train as much as possible before we leave. Of course the only way I could get Ryder to do that was with ice cream. Then I would also have to tell Naomi and Rito our plan. I wonder where they live..
*Thank you Savikatze for writing dialog for meh*
"Hey Rai, guess what!" Ryder walked up to me later that day with a ice cream filled popsicle in his hand.
I sigh. "What is it?"
"I found out where Rito and Naomi live!" My jaw dropped.
"What are you, a stalker?!" I shriek. Ryder shrugs, avoiding answering my question. "Do you want to know or not?"
"Fine. But I'm still gonna think you're a stalker." I reply.
Ryder tells me where each of their houses (apartment in Rito's case) are at and their usual after school hangout: The field behind the academy.
I nod. "Then after school is when we tell them."