Okay, welcome back to NB!

First off, this chapter of New Beginnings to bridge out for the additions of Polka and Allegretto as well as Beat. So this NB chapter is tiny, quickly paced, and probably very OC and unrealistic but its trying to smooth the bumps so that Beat, Allegretto and Polka fall in smoothly.

New Notes!

Okay, Hikari is still a character based on me! Nene is still my best friend and Akizuki is still her sister in real life. I own Hikari and kind of own Akizuki and Nene. I also completely own Renaia and Gerald!

Linda still belongs to Sally White and Chihoro is still the property of leshamarieinuyasha as Toshiro is too.

Beat, Polka, Allegretto, Salsa, and March hail from Eternal Sonata. Conan is from Case Closed/Detective Conan. Inuyasha and Kagome are from Inuyasha and Rin and Hyoma hail from Chaos Wars. Soul, Maka, Kid, Liz, Patty, Tsubaki, and Black Star hail from Soul Eater. !I own none of these characters from any of these games/shows!

New Beginnings: The Music in Our Souls

Chapter 14: Oh Well, Welcome to the Party!

Blue eyes stared at Hikari as she gently lay the blond out on her bed, whose hair was in two pigtails. Both were partially braided before being tied off and allowing the very long and thin remainder of the pigtail to swirl down, nearly to her feet. The eight year old brown haired, green eyed child had long woken up and Hikari had explained the mystery to her father as well. He had told her she could make sure they were okay and try to figure out how to help them out, so she was now giving the girl an area to rest and being watched like a hawk by her silver haired friend.

"Is Polka okay lady?" asked the child.

"Wow, I thought my life was weird," grunted Conan, whom sighed in boredom as he played on Hikari's computer.

"Oh silence yourself Conan," Hikari snapped.

"Hey, we asked a question," pointed out the silver haired one.

"Yeah!" protested the child.

"Hikari never answers until she has an answer," calls Conan.

Hikari smiled at the silver haired one, "So, you must have a little crush here huh?"

The child burst into a fit of laughter as the boy turned red.

"Shush Beat!" he yelped, giving the child a knock on the head.

"Ow! Retto, that hurt!" cried Beat

"Retto? What a name."

"It's actually Allegretto," he coughed, still red as he adverted Hikari's eyes.

Hikari smiled and moved to the side before gently taking Allegretto by the shoulders and sitting him on the side of her bed; next to the one they called Polka.

"My name is Hikari. It's nice to meet you Allegretto, Beat. That one over there is Conan, he's new too. Any ideas how you got here? Where are you from?"

"Well, Beat and I are from Ritardando and Polka comes from Tenuto. All of us live in the kingdom of Forte though. Actually just finished a journey there before falling here, that's how we met Polka," explained Allegretto.

"Any way home?" asked Beat.

"Like I'd know. Never heard of those places in my life, so I'm guessing it's another world. Go figure," grumbles Hikari.

"Well, welcome to the party!" calls Conan playfully.

"Yeah, welcome to the party. I think you guys are stuck here," Hikari sighed.

"Are you serious?" cried Beat.

"Oh great…." muttered Allegretto.

"Hey, I have no ideas. Besides, this place is great. No icy winters and other stuff like that. I know it's probably no place like home for you guys, but….it's nice. I'm sorry," Hikari apologized.

Allegretto sighed, "I hope Polka doesn't mind. It's not like Beat and I have any parents, though we do have kids we help in the sewers…"

Hikari frowned sadly, "I don't think you'll be able to help them anymore…I'm really, really sorry, but I'll help you in this world as much as I possibly can; I swear!"

Allegretto smiled, "Thanks."

"Nhh?" moaned Polka.

"Polka!" calls Allegretto.

With the situation explained to Polka, who seems to find no issues with it herself aside from her Mom whom she sadly realizes and accepts that she'll never see again, Hikari and her father set the three of them up with an apartment in the same complex as Linda, Renaia, Gerald, and a few others. She also registers them in school, although she's forced to put Beat in the elementary school, and she places Allegretto and Polka with her in every class like she did with Conan.

"Never even been to a school," mutters Allegretto.

"I'll tutor you so you don't have to go to first grade or something. You'll be the only sixteen year old there and that would be bad. What of you Polka?"

"Oh, I've never been to school either. I suppose all of us will need a lot of help," Polka sighed.

"You guys can also join my school group, the Claddagh Assembly; I'll introduce you guys to that madness tomorrow. Haha, they're really going to freak over three new members."

"Great. What's the Claddagh Assembly?" asks Allegretto.

Hikari happily explains her group to her three new friends and to Conan, who stands silently next to her.

"W…wait….so magic….is normal here?" Polka asks.

"Yeah. I have like three magic users for friends. Magic is really cool, I enjoy seeing them use it. Why?"

"Well I…..so I….won't die if I have magic?"

Hikari laughs, "Not at all. Why would you say that?"

"In our world, magic users are people with a terminal illness. Polka has magic too and was shunned badly for it," Beat explained.

"And I always hated people for doing that to her," grumbled Allegretto moodily.

"Well, using magic here definitely does not mean death," Hikari stated.

"I wonder…..Orange Glow!" calls Polka.

An orange spot appears under her and swirls with light as it heals her.

"Yup, still a magic user," she stated.

Hikari smiles, "Welcome to the world."

"Wait, what?" yelped Miss Blake.

"From another world! Amazing!" exclaims Akizuki and Nene.

"Like me!" cheers Rin.

"Awesomeness!" proclaimed Renaia and Gerald in unison.

"So cool," Soul commented.

"Neat!" Tsubaki and Kagome smiled at the newcomers.

"Wow, I feel like chopped liver here," mutters Conan.

"Silence yourself Conan," hissed Hikari.

"Welcome to the party guys!" exclaimed almost everyone in complete unison.

Polka, Allegretto, and Conan stared at everyone blankly; Beat currently at the elementary school. Finally, Polka smiled brightly and cheered.

"Nice to meet you all!"

"Glad to be here!" Allegretto followed in his friend's steps.

"Yeah, sure," muttered Conan.

"Beat! You're here too!" exclaimed a voice.

Beat whirled, "Salsa! March!"

"You idiot, what did you do?" scolded Salsa, "I know this mess is all your fault!"

"Salsa, it can't be his fault," sighed March.

Beat huffed and took his...crush….and March to the side so he could explain what Hikari told him and the others. He was mostly just glad he wasn't going to be new to this school alone….and without Salsa…..

"Hey….Allegretto…are you asleep?" asks Polka.

Its late evening on Monday after their first day of school in their lives and Polka can't sleep. Salsa and March have moved into the apartment too, per Beat's plea and the fact that they all should stick together.

"Yeah. You alright?" he whispered.

"I just can't sleep. I'm still shellshocked I suppose."

"Well, this new world stuff is weird," Allegretto agreed.

"Do you think it'll turn out alright?" she wonders.

"Polka, I have no clue, but I'll be there for you no matter what. Okay? I think with Hikari and everyone, we'll be fine."

"Thank you Allegretto."

He rolls over on his floor futon to face her as she lays on her own next to him. He gives her a comforting hug, to which she replies by returning it happily.

"No problem."

She yawns as she rests against him in his arms.

"Try to sleep, okay?"

She didn't reply….

"Polka…?"

He looks down, only to find she has fallen to sleep in his arms. Sighing softly and turning ever so pink, Allegretto holds to her as he falls asleep as well.