AN: Last chapter! It's finally come to an end!
The Real Ginger: I don't know whether to be sad or excited...
Memory Rise: Even though I didn't write much, I still had fun writing!
Ginger: So did I! Even though I wrote most of it!
Memory: Well, without further ado...
Ginger: We give you...
Both: The final chapter of The (New?) Coolest Kid in School!!
I walk up to the doors to the part of the academy where the dance is being held. My dress is long and flowy and hugs my waist, flowing out at about mid-thigh. It's purple, the same shade as my eyes. It includes these pieces that go around my arms, starting at my elbow and flowing out like the dress. They go down past my hands. My hair is long and soft, the left side of my bangs clipped back to my head.
Mem stands next to me, frantically looking around for Alex. I didn't have the heart to tell her what had happened with him and me, so she still thinks he likes her. Her dress, all black as usual, is the kind that comes up and wraps around her neck, covering her chest. The skirt of the dress goes down to her knees, then stops.
We walk into the big room, which is filled with dancing academy students. They all wear dresses and suits even fancier than ours. Alex and Crystal stand by the punch bowl. When Mem finds him, she practically runs over to him. He's wearing a nice suit with a blue tie that matches the color of Crystal's dress.
Crystal, on the other hand, is wearing a mermaid-style strapless dress. Her eyelashes are beaded, making her eyes look wider and prettier than usual. Her hair is pulled back into a loose fishtail braid. She looks beautiful.
When Mem reaches Alex, he smiles and plants a kiss on her cheek. They are pretty cute, I think to myself. I see them chat for a while, but then Mem drags Alex out to the dance floor. Alex laughs and twirls her around. I look around the room.
My eyes fall on Soul and Maka. My shoulders slump a little. They're dancing together, Soul looking reluctant and annoyed, like Maka forced him to. Soul is wearing a normal suit with a black tie. Maka has a red strapless dress with a white sweater over it and her hair is curled in the front. She is saying something to him. She gestures in my direction, and Soul turns to look at me. I blush and look away. Damn Crystal, I could be dancing with him right now. Instead, I stand on the edge of the dance floor, all by myself.
I sit down in a chair at a table that looks like it was hand-decorated by Kid. It probably was, considering he is Shinigami's son. I take a sip of the punch I got before I sat down. I sigh. This is going to be the worst dance ever. My boyfriend hates me, my best friend is in love with the guy who caused him to, and I still don't have full proof that Crystal's a witch. I know she is, though.
I feel a hand on my back. I turn around, and to my surprise, see Soul, standing there, his cheeks flushed with annoyance. I make a small noise, kind of like an, "Eep!" but then I cover my mouth in embarrassment. Soul sighs.
"Will you… dance with me…?" He asks as the next song starts. I blush. "Umm… sure, Soul…!" I say quietly. I stand up slowly. He and I walk out to the dance floor. The song playing is a slow, romantic one. In any other situation, I would be totally in love with him and the idea of dancing with him, but right now all I can think about is why.
"Don't get your hopes up. Maka's making me do this." Soul says, answering my question. I look up at him. "Oh. You can, uh, lead." I tell him. He nods and takes one of my hands in his, placing his other on my hip. The hand holding mine is inside my sleeve, so I quickly scrunch it up to my wrist and rest my other hand on his shoulder. We dance for a while. I feel like I should explain everything to him, but I can't. I look down at our feet, my eyes drooping half closed.
"If you're going to say something, spit it out." He says. My eyes shoot open. That's the same thing I said to him when he asked me to the dance. I look up at him again. He looks back expectantly. I nod and sigh.
"I'm so sorry, Soul. I didn't cheat, I swear. It was Alex. Well, not Alex, but Crystal. I know she wasn't even there, but I think she may be a… umm," I say, realizing how stupid I must sound. Sure my theory makes sense to me, but how the hell am I supposed to explain it to someone who doesn't even want to listen? Soul rolls his eyes.
"I said spit it out." He says, egging me on. I close my eyes and take a deep breath.
"I think Crystal might be a witch!" I say quickly. Soul stops dead in his tracks and I accidentally step on his toe with my purple wedge heel. He cringes. "Omiglob, I'm sorry! I didn't know you were going to stop, are you-" He interrupts me, gripping my hand a little tighter.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. But what did you just say?!" He asks me, ignoring his foot. Does he actually believe me?
"I said I think Crystal is a witch." I say, more confident now. His eyes widen. "No way... seriously?" He asks. I nod. "A… witch? But, she has a weapon!" He says. I nod. "Yeah, I know." I say, sneaking a peek at Crystal, who's standing with her arms crossed on the other side of the room. "I don't know why she's here, but I know it can't be good." I tell him. He nods.
"Probably." He says. We stay silent for a while. I continue to dance with him. About halfway through the song, I decide I need to explain everything else.
"Soul?" I say. He looks at me. I stare into his gorgeous red eyes. His lips are open just slightly, letting me see part of his pointed teeth. I continue to look at him. "About… Alex. Like I said, he forced himself on me. I think he was being controlled by Crystal." I start.
"It was his eyes, they weren't his. They were Crystal's, no doubt. I read in this book that a giveaway that someone is being controlled by a witch is that their eyes change color to match the witch's, and they won't remember anything. Do you believe me? Please say you do!" I ask him. He looks at me, thinks, and nods finally. I let out a breath of relief.
"Oh, thank God!" I say, leaning my head on his chest. The song ends and the next one comes on. It's also a slow one, but I drag Soul off the dance floor. "Come on, we have to tell Lord Death! Or Stein! Or someone!" I tell him. He shakes his head.
"No. I believe you, and I swear to God Ginger, if you're lying I'm seriously going to kill you, but there's no way anyone else will. First we need to tell Alex. If my partner was secretly a witch, I would want to know about it." He says. I look at him and nod. "Yeah, I guess you're right." I say, turning around and walking toward Alex and Mem.
"Alex!" I say once I get to him and Mem. They look up at us. "We need to talk!" Soul says.
"WHAT?!" Alex says after Soul and I finish explaining. I nod. "I know it must be hard to believe, but I'm pretty sure she is." I tell him. Mem looks at me. Alex shakes his head. "My partner is a… witch?" He says. Soul nods and looks over at her. "Yes, isn't that what she just said?" He replies impatiently.
"Actually, I don't find that hard to believe… She's really secretive. And people are always accusing me of doing stuff I didn't do. Or can't remember I did, anyway." He says.
"So what are we going to do?" Mem asks. I take a deep breath. "We have to confront her." I say. Soul nods. "And no one can know about this, excepting us. Well, actually, should I tell Maka just in case we need to fight?" He asks, turning t me. I nod.
"Yeah, but make it quick. We don't have much time." I tell him. He nods and speed-walks over to Maka. I turn back to Alex and Mem. "Come on. Let's go figure out how the hell we're going to do this." I say as Maka and Soul walk back over to us.
After we have our plan, Mem and I walk up to Crystal. She looks at us, obviously disgusted. "Need something?" She asks us. I nod. "Yes, actually we do." I say, putting my hands on my hips. Crystal rolls her eyes.
"You wouldn't happen to know anything about, hmm, I don't know, witches?" I ask. She just laughs. "Ha! That's your question? If you want to know about witches, go look it up in a book!" She says. I smile.
"Really? Cause you would seem to be the expert, seeing as you're, well, a witch." Mem says. Crystal stops laughing and looks at us. "A witch? Me? You're joking, right?" She says. Mem and I say nothing. "Wow, you're even more dumb than I thought." She says. I shake my head.
"If we're so dumb, than how come we found you out? And you might as well tell the truth, we're not leaving until you do." I tell her. She smiles.
"Fine. You caught me. So what are you going to do now, Gingey? Huh?" She asks. I grin evilly. "Kick your ass." I say. "Mem! Now!" I tell her. She nods and in a flash of blue light becomes the bow I know so well. I pull back an arrow and aim it at her forehead. "Again, that is." I tell her. She laughs. Some people turn toward us, wondering what's going on.
"Bring it." She responds. She looks over to Alex, who's standing with Mem, Soul and Maka not too far away. "Alex! Come here!" She calls. He shakes his head. "No, Crystal. You're a witch, aren't you?" He tells her. She frowns. "Well, then I guess I'll just have to do this the old fashioned way!" She says, looking back to me.
"Release Soul Protect!" She says, holding out her arms. When she does, her soul emits huge waves and any meister with soul perception could easily tell she's a witch. Meisters all around the room notice, and they turn towards her.
"Come on, crystal! Show me what you can do!" I yell at her. She smiles, looking vaguely like some sort of fish. I crouch, pulling the arrow back even father and pointing it at the ground.
"Soul! Let's go!" I hear Maka yell to Soul. In a split second she appears next to me, holding Soul in her hands. It's going to be hard to fight with a dress on, but luckily Crystal has the same disadvantage. I lift the bow and arrow up and point it at her. I release and she grabs it out of the air, throwing it to the ground.
"You're going to have to try harder than that, human!" She says, laughing. Maka runs up and swings at her with Soul. Crystal dodges effortlessly. She laughs as blow after blow from us misses.
"Alright. Now it's my turn!" Crystal shouts. She holds her hands out in front of her, palms toward Maka and me. "Koi, Koi, Betta, Betta…" She mutters. Her eyes shoot open. "Tidal wave!" She shouts. Water shoots out of her hands. Maka and I try to jump out of the way, but I get hit with the blast.
"What the hell is going on?" Someone asks. I sit up slowly and look at whoever it is, and I see Kid, Liz, Patty, James and Melody.
"What do you think, Einstein? Can you just help us?" I say, standing up and pulling back another arrow. Kid looks at me, then Crystal, then Maka (who's currently running at Crystal with Soul), and then nods. "Liz! Patty!" He says. "Right!" They say, transforming into twin pistols. James looks at Melody and she transforms as well, becoming what looks like two hook swords.
I shoot another arrow at Crystal's back while Maka has her distracted. Crystal moves up at the last second and it flies into her bare heel. Her shoes fell off after she released soul protect.
Crystal screeches, then pulls the arrow out of her foot and throws it at me. I duck and pull it out of the ground behind me. Kid shoots at Crystal, but she dodges and starts chanting, "Koi, Koi, Betta, Betta…" kind of quiet, but we can still hear her. "Fish Tail!" She finishes. Water in the shape of a fish's tail blocks Kid's next set if blasts like a shield.
"Hey! Don't forget about me, dumb witch!" Black Star shouts, bringing a black sword that must be Tsubaki down on her head. Crystal puts out a hand, stopping the blade with her palm. She wraps her fingers around it, twists it, and slams it, along with Black Star, on the ground.
He jumps up and goes at her again. She shoots a tunnel of water at him and he falls back to the ground. Maka runs and swings at Crystal from the right as James does the same on her left. Crystal blocks Maka's blow but James manages to hit her shoulder cutting into her flesh.
"AAARRGGH!" She exclaims, her hand flying to her wound. While she doesn't notice, I run up to her and stab and arrow into her stomach. She grunts and pulls it out. She throws it over her shoulder. I run to get it and slip it into my pouch.
"Healing Stream…" Crystal says with a cough. Blood spurts out of her mouth. A band of water wraps around her stomach and shoulder, healing the wounds. A couple of other students join the fight, swinging and shooting and doing whatever it takes to defeat Crystal. Though she's outnumbered, Crystal is a really powerful witch and can hold back all of us, only sustaining a few scratches here and there. But she can't fight forever.
I run up to Crystal and hold my fist out to punch her. She turns around, grabs my fist, and twirls me around. She holds me suspended up in the air along with her, my hands behind my back. She wraps her arm around my neck.
"Ice Blade!" She says. A shard of ice shoots out of her fingertip and she holds it against my cheek, dragging it downward so it starts to bleed. "Ngh…" I mutter, trying to squirm free. "Scared yet, child?" She hisses into my ear. I clench my teeth. "Damn…" I say softly. She takes the ice shard and stabs it into my arm. I scream.
"I said are you SCARED?" She asks again. She grips my neck tighter so I can't breath. My hands try to pry hers off my throat, dropping Mem to the ground. I squeeze my eyes shut.
"LET HER GOOOO!" Someone screams. I open my eyes to see James, hooking the end of his right sword around Crystal's neck and the other into the end of my dress. I crane my neck and chomp down on Crystal's hand. She shrieks and lets go and James separates us. Crystal unhooks herself from the blade and tries to come after him, but Kid starts to shoot her from the other side. James lands on a nearby ledge, hooking his right sword on a curtain so he doesn't fall.
James still has his left sword hooked into my dress, leaving me hanging upside down. "Thanks, but can you put me down now?" I say, holding my dress up so I don't flash anyone. He nods and flicks his sword. "Yeah, sorry about that." He says.
I fall to the ground, landing on my feet and right hand. I stand up and look around for Mem. I spot her and run over, scooping her and the arrow bag up from the ground and shooting some arrows at Crystal, once barely missing Kim and Jacqueline. I duck behind a table as Crystal shoots another beam of water my way.
"Come on, why won't she die already?" I say to myself. Mem answers anyway. "Should we resonate?" She asks. I nod. "Yes. It's the only thing we have left." I tell her. I look at her reflection in the shaft, and she smiles at me. I smile back and stand up straight. "LET'S GO, SOUL RESONANCE!" We cry together.
"Cupid's Flame." I say quietly, grinning as Mem turns white and curls at the ends of the bow and my arrows catch on fire. The tips of my arrows are now in the shape of hearts, and the fire burns brighter and hotter than I've ever seen them. I take nine arrows and pull them back. I shoot them all at Crystal, who has her back turned. They shoot into her back and I run up to her, taking another fiery arrow out of the pouch.
"KYAAAAHHH!" I scream, thrusting the arrow into her heart. She inhales sharply and drops to her knees. Maka walks up next to me, holding Soul over her shoulder. Crystal coughs and wheezes. "Mark my words… this… this is only the beginning…" She says.
Maka swings Soul down on her head, and her body fades to black. She unravels and a pink soul that appears to be wearing a witch hat floats in front of us. Stein walks up and takes the soul in his hand. "Well, since none of you have your 99 kishin souls yet and we can't split a single soul evenly, this will be going to Lord Death." He says.
"You were here the whole time? Why the hell didn't you help?!" I say as he starts to walk away. He simply turns around and shrugs. He walks out of the room, probably heading toward the Death Room. I glare at him until he turns the corner and I can't see him anymore.
"Well, this has been fun." Maka says as Soul transforms back. Mem and all the other weapons in the room do the same. Kid says something to the instrumentalists and hushes the room. "Well, thank you to everyone who helped in this battle. But this struggle does not mean that the dance cannot continue." He says to all of us. Everyone cheers and starts dancing again. It's as if beating Crystal just gave everyone yet another reason to celebrate.
I turn to Soul. "I believe we have something to finish?" I ask him. He smiles with those sharp teeth of his and grabs my hand, pulling me back out onto the dance floor. I laugh and follow him.
"This is officially the best dance ever." I say to him. He nods. "Definitely." He responds. I smile and lean my head on his chest. "I love you, Ginger." He says after a while. I look up and smile. "You know, I think that's the first time you've ever said that to me," I say. He smiles back. "Oh, and I love you too." I add. He laughs.
We dance through the whole song. When it ends, everyone claps. I start to clap with them, but Soul pulls me closer to him and presses his lips to mine. I smile through his embrace and wrap my arms around his neck. It's like one of those movie scenes where the music starts playing and the credits start rolling. But I'm the main character, and Soul is the guy who swoops in and sweeps me off my feet.
"Hey, lovebirds, try not to get to close. We are still in public, you know." A voice that sounds like Mem says. Soul and I separate and see Mem, standing with Alex, Maka, Kid, Liz, Patty, Black Star, Tsubaki, Melody and James. I laugh. "Sorry," I say as Soul takes my hand in his. Maka laughs. "Watch out, Ginger," She says, putting her hand on her hips. "You take my partner and I'll take your soul!" She teases. Mem snickers. "Silly, don't you know?" I ask her with a chuckle. I turn back to Soul and smile. He smiles back.
"Gingers don't have souls!" I say to Maka, closing my eyes and kissing Soul again.
AN: Haha, as I write this authors note I'm playing my music and Gangnam Style just came on! Lolz! An epic song to match an epic ending! So who wants a sequel? I kind of have an idea, but I want to know whether you guys want one or not! Tell me pleeaase! Well, I hope you guys loved this as much as I did, so with that...
OPPAN GANGNAM STYLE!
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