Chapter two: Welcome to the DWMA. What's soul resonance?
Maka turns to the others. "Sorry about that. Light and L are on a mission to find a witch and kishins who have been coming around here. In case you don't know witches and kishin's are both evil. Witches use their powers for evil with a destructive nature and kishin's are those who have strayed from the path of humanity becoming evil human soul eaters. Though the kishin we are speaking of is actually evil human soul eaters that have souls that are kishin eggs, not actual kishins that are much more dangerous." She explains letting Soul transform into human form.
"What was soul shot?" Matsuda asks curiously.
Halle explains something in case the question confuses the two on why they don't know. "Well we aren't from this world you see."
"Soul shot is their weakest soul resonance." Soul tells them. "What you saw was a soul wave length created power that appeared when they did soul resonance. You were lucky that they didn't expand it since they were giving a warning instead of trying to kill you right away. They intended for it to miss just in case you weren't evil."
"Some Kishin's look more human than others." Maka adds. "But they are all evil."
"What's soul resonance?" Soichiro asks.
Maka takes a step back and explains. "Resonating Souls or soul resonance is the foundation of Meister and Weapon relationships. Resonation is the act of linking Soul Wavelengths. A meister matches his or her soul wavelength with their Weapon's wavelength. When the wavelength's are synched, this results in a Super-Technique unique to each weapon and meister pair. Everything about it depends on the weapons and meisters." She kindly smiles.
"A Meister and a weapon are like an electric guitar and an amp. The sound, soul wavelength, that comes from an electric guitar, the Meister, by itself is rather faint... But when you connect an amp, the Weapon, to it, the soul wavelength is amplified, giving it a lot of power." Soul says with a laid back looking posture. "As Lord Death puts it."
The team share a look between themselves thinking they may have been transported to some dream world.
"Come on. We'll take you to see Lord Death. You'll meet more weapons and meisters that are all different. Especially at the academy. Come on." Maka tells them and starts to head out of the cemetery.
"What kind of weapon was L? I mean I know he's a scythe but what kind of scythe?" Matsuda asks.
Maka stops and turns to them. "Well you see like you said there are different types of scythes. Like Soul is a demon scythe." She gestures to her weapon who grins. "L is what's known as a skeleton scythe at least to the humans. A skeleton scythe is said to be created by death itself. So it looks like it's made out of pieces of skeletons and has some sort of skull or skulls on it. However any weapon that has a human form and a weapon form is known as demon weapons despite what type of weapon they may be to humans. Demon weapons actually originated thanks to a witch that murdered other witches sacrificing the souls of her own kind to blend humans and weapons into one. This had consequences though and she had to run from not only Lord Death but also the other witches. These weapons can cause mass destruction or help rid the world of evil that could destroy it depending on how things play out. All weapons eat souls but it depends what kind of soul the weapons eat that can make them evil or good. So be glad that most of them are on our side, almost all of them are on our side actually." She looks to the team. "Do you understand?"
They nod and Matsuda looks to where the two had disappeared.
"Haha! How much time do you spend in the library more than that I know of?" Soul laughs as if it's the funniest thing he's heard.
Maka gets a slightly angry look and holds up a book. "Maka…. Chop!" She slams the book into Soul's head knocking him to the ground seemingly unconscious.
Matsuda takes a step back with a 'don't hit me!' face.
"Good then let's go." Maka says looking like her normal self again and takes the lead as they leave, even Soul follows grumbling about how his head still hurts a little.
"It's the opposite of cool." He growls to himself.
Awhile later…..
They finally make it to the DWMA.
The team stares wide eyed at all the stairs.
"We have to go up those!?" Matsuda swallows harshly.
Maka nods. "It helps strengthen your legs. Fighting kishins and witches is hard. If not careful you can easily lose your life. Especially with witches. Once you make it up there you'll be fine." She starts walking up the stairs with Soul following.
The team follow hoping the stairs will pass by quickly.
Half way up they start to get tired so much so that they feel like the stairs somehow got impossibly longer.
"Man this stinks!" Matsuda whines.
Maka and Soul are waiting just a little ways up the stairs not tired at all.
"Come on you can do it!" Maka cheers them on.
Footsteps are heard behind the team and they glance slightly back to see Mello, Near and Matt also walking up the stairs quickly as if it's nothing like Maka and Soul, the three pass by the surprised team as the team turn to look who is coming up the stairs.
The three of them are silent. Matt and Near are on either side of Mello as they walk up the stairs.
"Ah hello Mello, Near and Matt, I assume you were successful on your mission? You went to Egypt to take down the two kishins that were killing anyone visiting a pyramid. Right?" Soul greets them.
The three stop walking on three steps behind one another that are between Soul, Maka and the team but the team can still see Maka and Soul.
"Yeah." Mello nods as he's on the middle step with Near on the step below him and Matt on the step above him. "You got it right. The two kishins decided they'd get human souls by staying at a pyramid. Eating tourists. We took them out."
Maka nods with a smile. "That's good. Do you think you're close to turning your weapons into death scythes?"
"Death scythes?" Ide asks curiously.
Near, Matt, Mello, Maka and Soul turn to them.
"Death scythes are weapons who have eaten ninety nine kishin souls and one witch soul. They become weapons of Lord Death and they can fight without a meister or with a high level meister. They're the strongest weapons." Maka explains. "Every weapon that goes to this academy works together with a meister to try to become a death scythe one day. They do it by working together. Of course the rare time when a meister has two weapons then they need to collect double the amount. Ninety nine kishin souls and one witch soul for each weapon."
"Wow so even L could become one too then." Matsuda says with amazement.
Soul nods. "That's right any weapon can. As Maka said any weapon can become a death scythe. Once I become a death scythe I'll be the coolest guy in the academy." He points to himself with his thumb and smiles.
Mello tilts his head softly. "So is this group new students at the academy? They sure know little."
"They're new to this world. They may join the academy until they can go back to where they came from. It's undecided right now." Maka explains.
"I see." Near says bringing a hand up to twirl his hair.
Mello looks away back to Maka. "We are well on our way to answer your question." He tells her.
"Ah! This place is magical!" Matsuda swoons dreamily.
Mello glares at Matsuda. "Idiot." He turns away and keeps walking up. "Time to go."
Matt and Near follow Mello continuing up the stairs.
"Say what kind of weapons or weapon is with those three?" Halle asks as the team continues dragging themselves up the stairs.
"I think you'll see soon enough. They're going to be helping Sid with new students today if they got back and since they did you'll see them there." Soul waves off the question. "If that doesn't happen then I'll let you know."
The team try to hurry up the stairs and try to push aside the question but it doesn't go away.
Maka and Soul wait a moment once they have reached the entrance to the DWMA so the team can rest a moment.
"A student of the DWMA doesn't just go up and down these stairs every day. They also travel to many places to battle evil." Soul tells the tired team. "Of course they only travel if there's at least one weapon and one meister together. Though that is only for those in a certain class in the academy and you'll learn about that soon enough."
"I… see…." Soichiro pants.
"By the way you should turn around." Maka informs them.
The team blink then turn around to see the spectacular view with an amazed gasp.
Truly the view is worth climbing all those stairs.
Once the team had rested for a minute they continue on their way.
"Maka why don't you go ahead and get us permission to enter the death room." Soul states.
Maka nods and dashes on ahead disappearing from sight.
"We'll take our time getting there so Maka can get us in." Soul tells the team. "The death room is where Lord Death is. You'll meet him soon enough."
Suddenly BB walks by them stopping in front of them making them stop. He is carrying a light brown wooden bat with nails that are a mixture of straight and bent poking out of the wooden bat sharp ends poking out. He has the bat slung over his shoulder so the handle, that has black rubber grippers wrapped around said handle like you see on normal baseball bats, which doesn't have any nails sticking out of it is resting on his shoulder. He analyzes the team with his red eyes. "I've never seen them before. So you must be new here." He says directly at the team and looks above their heads.
This makes those that know about the shinigami eyes freeze in shock.
"You have the shinigami eyes don't you?" Soichiro asks.
B looks to his face. "Yes. I was born with them. You seem to know about them. Maybe you've seen them somewhere before? Or you studied up on them?"
"There was a case we worked on in our world and by possessing a death note you can make a deal with a shinigami to get shinigami eyes for giving up half your life span." Soichiro explains. "I've never heard of anyone being born with it though."
"I see." B shrugs but has an insane looking grin on his face.
"Beyond and Always. How have you two been?" Soul greets the two new comers.
"Great." B looks proudly. "We were about to head out for some practice."
"So that's why A is in his weapon form." Soul observes calmly. "That's cool. I thought he was a demon knife. Or did you switch partners?"
Beyond glares at Soul with a murderous look making Soul take a step back knowing that they could attack if you get on their bad side. "I would never switch partners. A is a spiked bat and a knife. He has two weapon forms." He explains.
"I see. I don't feel like picking a fight with you so forgive me for not knowing." Soul looks a little worried knowing that you'd have to be Black star to keep trying to provoke BB and A. He also knows he doesn't have a meister right now so what's the point of a non-death scythe weapon to head into battle without a meister at least one as foolish as this as it is highly not recommended for weapons to fight on their own.
It wouldn't be cool of him.
A voice that seems to come from nowhere but it's A's voice speaks up. "Beyond we have practice to do. No point in dawdling here. Besides Soul isn't with his meister he wouldn't be a formable opponent on his own."
B looks away from Soul. "Right. But before we go I want to say something to the new comers."
The spiked bat, which is A, glows red and A transforms into human form standing next to B holding hands with him. "I see. But don't take too long." His light brown hair goes down to just an inch below his ears and his sea blue eyes look bored but have a devilish gleam to them. He has on a navy blue pull over hoodie and slightly baggy jeans with black runners on his feet.
"I'll make it plain and simple." Beyond promises with a smile at his weapon who returns it. He then turns back to the team with a serious look. "Listen up. I don't care who you are but if you flirt with A I will kill you. If you hurt A or Near I'll kill you. You better watch yourselves around A and Near cause if you make a wrong move you're as good as dead."
With that A and BB walk away.
"Scary." Matsuda says from his hiding spot behind Mogi.
"He also mentioned Near. Why?" Rester asks.
"Near, Beyond and A are close friends. That's why. Near may be partnered with Mello and Matt but Beyond and A are still close friends of his." Soul tells them.
"Say there's something bugging me." Halle looks thoughtful. "Meisters and weapons are they teamed up by a teacher picking their partners or do they pick themselves?"
"Meisters and weapons don't get paired up by a teacher or anyone who are not them. It's their own choice of who they pair up with. If someone made you pair up with someone it doesn't work you see. In order to work together and be able to do soul resonance as well as be able to fight together meister and weapon must be able to not only match each other's soul wave lengths but have compatible personalities between each other as well. Without being able to do that a weapon and meister cannot fight together. If you can't match soul wave lengths and are on different pages to put it one way then a meister cannot wield the weapon. But if a weapon and meister stay on the same page the meister won't even need to put any strength into wielding the weapon for the weapon to move." Soul explains.
"I'm curious about what a demon knife looks like." Aizawa asks. "Do you think you can explain it to us?"
"A knife with a dark grey skull shape outlined with black and the eyes along with nose are also black on the blade. There's another skull hat's like the one on the blade but it's light grey and it's on the handle. The one on the handle has the teeth part facing the end of the handle where there's nothing after it and the one on the blade faces the tip of the blade. Both skulls are in the middle of the blade and handle. The handle has the part that separates the blade from the handle that's mahogany it stops the handle from going into someone with the blade. The dark grey with a black stripe that lines up with the sharp side of the blade but on the handle then above and below the skull on the handle there is a red stripe. Satisfied?" Soul tilts his head slightly.
Aizawa nods.
"Then let's keep going." Soul leads the way as they continue walking towards the death room.