Yay, second chapter. Still working on the cover. But we get a few more characters in this chapter. Also horrible news right. I just got word that SOPA is back and trying to get passed again. For those of you that don't know what it is, it's a world wide law that will keep anything fanbased off the internet due to copyright issue. It was meant to stop bootleg copies of trademarked merchandise, but it also affects Fanart, Parody Videos, and Fanfiction. Meaning that this site, Devianart, and even YouTube will no longer be allowed. This is very stupid, but we need people to sign a petition to stop it again. I don't have a link up for it, but my friend Runie-Sama has one on her Bio. Please, Fanfiction has done so much for me and I don't want to see it go. I have too many fond memories in here, and it's the only place where I can speak with the love of my life. There's not much time left, so please spread the word and sign. So now that I explained that, enjoy the chapter.
Disclaimer: Disclaimer? I don't even know her...
"Oh my Death, that was exhausting." A blonde girl complained as she fell straight to her bed.
"C'mon, Jo. It wasn't that hard." Her partner remarked as she sat at her bed opposite to the other. The blonde, Josephine or Jo, turned her body around and looked at her partner.
"Lux, you're just as tired as me, I can see you struggling to stay up right." The green haired girl began to break in a cold sweat. She hated showing how easily tired out she gets.
"No I'm not." Lux had replied dully. Her partner glared.
"I hate it when you act tough, I know full well that your exhausted and trying to hide it."
"It's not my fault the academy has been giving us tougher missions to train us, what happened to excelling at our own pace?" Lux blamed her tired body on the DMWA. Though it was a true claim, the academy has been pushing their lower class students in hopes to help them achieve greater heights.
"You're a great meister, you just need to learn to do a Resonance and we can move up to the EAT class." Jo had brought up an issue they had. No matter how hard Lux would try, she couldn't grasp a simple Soul Resonance. But she made up for that with her fighting abilities, despite wearing herself out from pushing herself.
"Thanks Jo, but I can't take all the credit. What's a meister without her weapon?" The two smiled at each other at their small bond. Now that they're were at better moods, Lux found it to be a great moment to fall back in her bed and fall asleep.
During the morning, Nico sighed in relief as Death City came into view. After an agreement to the plan she proposed to gathering new members, she had to face her last interrupted challenge. She was completing her Death Valley trip to the academy, though yesterday was more than enough of a walk, she couldn't help but feel that she needed to take this on again with no distractions.
Of course the walk wouldn't be just for another shot at personal glory. She was going to the DMWA to pose as a new student to find any others that wanted in on their independent group. She strolled through the winding streets of the city and made her way up the long steps of the academy. She looked up at the laughing sun to guess that the time was around 3 or so. She watched as a couple students passed her on their way down the steps.
Nico assessed the students, but found that none of them seemed to stand out to her. The black haired woman decided to sit by the entrance and scout the potential in one spot.
"Lux, we shouldn't go on that mission, I've heard terrible things about it." Nico watched as a blonde girl with a low ponytail that was thrown over her shoulder begged her partner to not take a mission. The partner was a green haired girl wearing a beanie a darker shade from her hair and a blue tank top under a green military jacket. From what she could tell, this girl really liked the color green.
"We need to take it, Jo. This one is required." Lux explained. Nico couldn't help but think her search was over.
"Excuse me ladies, but may I ask what is troubling you?"
"We got assigned a dangerous mission for our required assessment, we don't succeed, we get expelled." The green haired girl explained. All three women stared at each other with different shades of blue with different intents behind them. Lux being a dark shade of blue, thinking about the mission ahead of her. Josephine worrying a bit for her meister and the intention of this stranger, her eyes being a light blue tinted with kindness. Nico on the other had was formulating a plan to guarantee these two as part of their group, all while her blue eyes kept a watchful eye on them, her eyes giving a sense that they could see past any deceit.
"I may be able to help you, but if only you would be willing to give me something in return." The black haired woman proposed an offer. Lux smiled and felt determination flood her being.
"We'll do it, any thing to help us stay and get stronger." Although she knew it was bad that she agreed without hearing the terms, Lux was ready to get back on top with a bit of help. Jo on the other hand was skeptical about it, but she would stick by her meister's side through thick or thin no matter what. 'They're only taking my offer to stay at the academy... Maybe this is a good thing.'
Nico began to formulate other plans to go along with keeping the two at the DWMA. 'They can be our means for mission searches. Perfect.'
The black haired boy sighed as he walked through a forest. He was glad that he was given the chance to have some privacy, sharing a room with another guy is great... If he wasn't so antisocial and quiet. Roy craved a bit of conversation, and clearly Salem isn't all for words. Which wasn't really a problem if the Gun Blade didn't forget he was in the room.
"Seriously, I need to put a bell on him..." He muttered to himself, thinking about the somewhat ninja boy. "Great, I'm talking to myself, the first sign of Madness. Next I'll be hearing and chasing music that isn't there..." Realizing the irony of the moment, Roy heard a wind instrument in the distance. "Might as well become crazy voluntarily." The boy began to hum to along with the music and put a little spring in each step, chuckling a bit at his stupidity.
When the music seemed the loudest, he entered into a clearing with a lone figure playing the music. From what he could see at his position, it was a blonde women. Her hair being like golden sunrays that reached to shoulder length. Roy slowly approached her, hoping not to interrupt her playing. After reaching her, the woman seemed to be playing an Ocarina, being a fan of the Legend of Zelda series, Roy began to smile at the similarities between that Ocarina and the Ocarina of Time.
As she played, the blonde kept her eyes closed and swayed a bit as she played each note. Not a single thought of why this woman was playing music out of the middle of the forest ever occurred to him. Though he couldn't help but clap when she finished her performance. Her eyes opened to reveal very unnaturally bright pink eyes.
"That was amazing, can't believe of how much of a dedicated fan of Zelda you are."
"I love the series, though it makes me wish I was the Master Sword and Fi." Roy tilted his head at her little statement.
"What do you mean?"
"I'm a weapon, and I wish that I was the Master Sword, but frankly I'm a knife." The black haired weapon smiled at his own luck.
"So uh... You wanna join a group I'm forming, we're trying to be a bit like the DWMA but a bit more free."
"Sure why not, also, I'm Melody."
"Awesome. Name's Roy by the way, c'mon, let's go, I need to see one of our members in town." He felt that her name was very fitting. 'Wonder if Salem and Nico are doing this well.'
The snow haired boy feinted to the left while anticipating the next strike. He was wondering what was wrong with his opponent, just seconds before he was idling chatting with this possible recruit, now he was dodging a knife from him.
"C'mon, it won't hurt as bad if you accept the pain." The man hissed as he lick the blade. His eyes being demonic red with black lining the crimson hair was a dark black, like if someone had poured ink that dripped down his face, even being pulled back in a low ponytail.
Salem glared at him, but knew that he was possibly a great candidate now that he was seeing his skills. The masked boy was having a difficult time evading, which was slightly impressing him. Though he was trying to restrict having to use Soul Force on him since they were in public, and the cops were currently on their way. The crazed attacker faked a left hook and landed a cut a cut on Salem's shoulder.
The white haired boy felt the sting melt away from the adrenaline. He promised himself he wouldn't slip up after getting hit first. Predicting that his attacks were created from the spur of the moment and not planned, Salem decided to try that as well. He dashed out towards his foe and lowered himself to dodge a kick, in retaliation he swept the black haired man's legs and uppercutted his spine on the fall, adding a bit of his Black Electricity to the force of the blow.
The man cried out in pain only to begin laughing maniacally. Thinking quick, Salem restrained him by holding him to the ground and pinning him. Taking away his weapon as well. He watched as he thrashed under his weight and struggled to break free, still well in the Madness.
"What the hell is going on here?!" A voice called, the white haired boy looked up to his comrade along with a woman.
"Found a new recruit." He stated to him.
"You're not supposed to scare the people in a restaurant. What happened to keeping a low profile?" Roy asked, the woman he was with walked over to the crazed man.
"He began to attack the second I accidentally spilled his soda." Salem briefed. Melody held the cheek of the man and he immediately stopped thrashing. His eyes seemed to soften as he became sane.
"Hey there, I'm Melody, nice to meet you." She greeted the previously mad man. The man smiled at her and spoke in a regular tone.
"I'm Damien Cruise, it's nice to meet you too."
It was like Melody was oblivious to the chaos that was unleashed here, disregarding that he was in a rampage. Roy sighed as he looked at the similarities at the way both the two dressed. Damien was in a black leather jacket with a red t-shirt under and black jeans. Even wearing steel toe boots. Whereas Melody wore a half leather jacket that covered only her chest with a white tank top under. A pair of heeled boots and skinny jeans was what really pulled the look together.
"He actually possesses Soul Perception, which will help balance our team out." Salem added.
"Is he a meister or weapon?"
"Meister." Roy smiled at the two bellow Salem, Damien still being restrained while Melody kneeled in front of him to speak.
"We got another pair to add."
Hurray, I manged to add two more pairs of characters. But seriously, help out with stopping SOPA. I was freaking out the moment I heard about it, but I'm pretty sure it won't get passed for many reasons.
First, it's against the freedom of Speech and Expression. We as Fanfiction writers want nothing more than to express our ideas and plots with each other without fear of consequence and with knowledge that our ideas will never be more than a written story. But with the copyright piracy law, it completely takes away our second amendment and our hard work of hours spent on writing and creating plots with a few OC creations.
Second, Copyrighted things online. I know of an actual Copyrighted series that does it's own share of parodies. So in a way, that piracy law has to get rid of something that is still protected by it's own law. Contradictory my dear Watson.
Final reason, the most obvious and possibly important. YouTube... SOPA is really going to try and get rid of that? That's been around forever, no way are the many viewers of it are going to let it pass by. Besides, when the most subscribed person on there gets his viewers by playing games that have copyrights, people are gonna be pissed when they can't see their favorite Youtuber and throw a fucking chair.
So even with my valid reasons of why it won't get passed, we still need a safety net. Please sign that petition.