AN: The republican hath returned! Happy singles awareness day guys! Keep in mind the single people on your travels today. Remember, together we can overcome being single. No, literally, you can't be unsingle without someone else helping... wait, I lost my train of thought. OH YEAH! Hope you enjoy the chapter and stuff.


"No. . .no. . .get away, GET AWAY!" Darkstar screamed at the top of his lungs, the blankets soaked with perspiration. His breathing was just going back to its normal pace when he noticed his room. The pillows and mattress were destroyed, feathers everywhere. Darkstar looked down to see his hands were in their weapon form. What WAS that? Darkstar thought, remembering the strange dream. "Could it have been-" His thought was cut short as the door flew off its hinges with a loud bang.

"Prepare to die you sonsabitches!" Natasha shouted, two spoons in her hands and her face still full of sleep. A feather fell from the fan before being impaled into the wall inches from his face. "Where are they!?" She asked, spinning around to look into all the corners of the tiny room. When he didn't respond she walked over to the bed, visibly relaxing but stopped when she saw the huge gashes in the bed. "You did all this?" She asked, less surprised than he thought she should have been. "Uhm... maybe." He replied sheepishly, looking down.

"Nightmares?" She asked. "Yeah..." Darkstar said, embarrassed and angry at himself. He almost expected her to laugh or call him a baby. As usual she surprised him by pulling him closer and hugging him tightly. "You wanna talk about it, bro?" She asked cautiously. "No it wasn't anything serious, sis, one of those naked at school dreams." He lied with a grin, not wanting her to worry. "Okay, but you know I'm always here if you change your mind." She said, not mentioning his obvious deception. "Yeah I know, sis, thanks. If I ever need to talk or take down any rogue feathers you'll be the first person I go to." He chuckled, pulling the spoon from the wall. "Uhm...sorry about that." She said, blushing slightly.

"Get back to bed, sis, we have an important lesson with Stein tomorrow." Darkstar ordered, hugging her again. "Okay, goonigh bwo." She said yawning before walking out of his room, her feet sliding tiredly. "Sowwy abou your door."

"Haha it's okay, I'll fix it tomorrow." He yelled after her.


"Okay, settle down class, who can tell me what soul resonance is?" Stein asked. Several hands shot up, only the gang's row remained still. The row consisted of Darkstar, Natasha, Jay, Christie, Michael and Joey. They all knew about resonating, so they left the first part of the lesson to the rest of the class. The lesson seemed to crawl on forever.

"Okay, enough theoretical work, time for a practical demonstration." Stein finally said, putting down his chalk. The other students started muttering quietly, some of them had never even heard of soul resonance never mind attempted it before today. Darkstar and the gang perked up at these words however, Jay cracking the bones in his neck loudly. "I wish you would stop doing that, man." Joey said with a shudder. "Ah it seems mister's Valentine and Cleaver has volunteered to go first." Stein said.

"With pleasure!" Joey said, jumping up excitedly. "Ugh, nice one, Joey." Michael said limply. He preferred remaining anonymous. "Oh just get down here and change into weapon form!" Joey called from the front. Michael did as he was asked and soon Joey was standing with a long black-handled sledge hammer resting in his hands. "Ready when you are, man." Michael said. Joey glanced at Stein who nodded his approval, giving Joey the go-ahead. "Okay let's do this!" Joey yelled.

"Soul resonance!" They yelled in unison.

Some of the meisters gasped as they saw the pair's soul area expanding, the weapons however only saw the physical changes the hammer was experiencing. "Impact mode!" Joey screamed. The hammer glowed brightly as its staff grew longer, its head tripling in size. "Very good you two, A's for both of you." Stein said monotonously. "Anyone else want to try?" He added as Joey broke the resonance.

Natasha started getting up but Stein stopped her with a wave of his hand. "Not you two, I'd like the class to still be standing afterwards. We'll go outside when the rest of the class is done so you guys can get grades as well." He drawled. Natasha sat back down embarrassed at her dismissal, but the other students just stared in wonder at the girl and her mysterious weapon. "How about Jay and Christie? You have good control so the class should be safe." Stein said, sounding unsure. "Did he say SHOULD be?" A random voice in the back of the class asked. "This should be interesting." Darkstar said sitting up, he had been pretty vacant from the lesson so far.

"Fiiiiiinnneee..." Jay said making his way down with Christie. She was a shy girl and quickly transformed to hide the blush creeping up her face. "Ready, babe?" Jay whispered so only she would hear. "Uh-huh." She replied nervously. Jay opened the satchel that was his girlfriend to see what random ranged weapon Christie's soul would construct this time. He pulled out two tiny metal stars from its depths, smiling because he was familiar with shurikens. "Let's go soul resonance!" He yelled throwing one of the small stars. After leaving his hand it split into at least thirty more stars, imbedding themselves in the walls and some even cutting off strands of hairs. The students freaked out but were soon silenced by a loud voice.

"Damn it! I was hoping for something else, I've seen your shuriken soul resonance before. What a rip-off, Jay!" Darkstar shouted angrily at his friend. The other students seemed amazed that Darkstar would scream something like that to someone who still held another star in his hand, while resonating. Some of the less intelligent girls actually seemed impressed, mistaking Darkstar's arrogance and stupidity for bravery. Darkstar didn't even acknowledge their loving looks, only staring at Jay as if he had robbed him of something.

"Aaaanyway..." Stein interrupted the stare down. "The rest of the class shall also now attempt resonance, don't worry if you can't at the moment. It won't affect your grade just yet." Stein explained, pointing at a pair in the front row. "You first."

Slowly, one by one, the pairs came down to attempt resonance. Half of the class had tried and failed to resonate when the bell signalled the end of the lesson. "We'll carry on tomorrow, class, hopefully with some better results." Stein said walking out. Darkstar remained seated while his friends started packing up. "See you guys later, I've got a lesson for bladed weapons here now." He said, looking rather bored. "Okay cool see ya, bro." Natasha said, following the rest out of the class.

He had a feeling it was gonna be a VERY long day.


Jay Stein's notes:

Appearances:

Natasha Grim- Female, short, curvaceous. Dark black hair with three distinct white lines running down on the left, right and back of her head. Eyes are same golden-auburn colour as the father which suggests dominant gene from Reaper genealogy. Skin tone is suspected to be from the mother as it is quite darker than that of the father's, mother could be of Caribbean decent. Is suspiciously symmetrical in all ways imaginable (this apparently is a great source of jealousy for her father).

P.S. Well endowed according to general consensus.


AN: well since it's Valentine's day, let me know who you ship in a review (pretty please, I NEED reviews.). Secondly, a challenge: 7 OC's in this story are based on actual people, 5 are not. See if you can figure out which of them are real and which aren't. Lastly, thanks to Clara Firrgo for favouriting and following the story. She made some recommendations on how to improve on the story. So if the story sucks, you know who to blame. I joke! I actually planned on doing most of the things. Oh well, The republican out!