Bring it on! I may be weaker than you, but I'll take whatever you throw at me!

-Maka Albarn


I spend a good deal of my downtime chatting and doing dungeon runs with Freya. Sometimes, it's nice to talk to her about things I couldn't tell others. I mean, it's not like I'll ever meet her. I never play more than two hours in a day, but we still managed to find some really awesome new items for our characters. I think we'll be able to run one of the hardest dungeons now! Her excitement was understood even with the limited medium of the written word. I think we'll be ready for the big end of year event that everyone's been talking about! I write back to reassure her of my enthusiasm. No one really knows what the end of the year event will be, but there's a female NPC in one of the towns that tells us something is coming and to be prepared.

Maka burst into my room after I had logged off, and explained that since it was Friday, we should do something fun. "I want to go hang out around town, and then Saturday night let's invite the girls over for a sleepover," She thoughtfully added, "You didn't really come here with much, so Sunday we could all go shopping when we wake up." "Hmmm, I hadn't really thought about it. That sounds like fun though, so I'm all for it." "Great! Want to leave in ten minutes and go grab lunch?" She ran off to get ready as soon as I said yes.

We had a nice day walking around town. We saw a movie and she showed me all of her favorite places to shop so that we could game plan for Sunday. On our way to a bookstore we spot a figure that I recognized from our brief meeting. It was Crona and it looked like he was on his way to the same bookstore. "Hi Crona!" Maka smiled as she greeted him. In turn, he looked nervous as he grabbed his arm and mumbled, "H-hello." "Good to see you again," I say politely. "Y-you too," he said looking at the ground. I'm pretty sure I heard him say something about not knowing how to handle situations like this, so I invited him to go into the bookstore with us. He turned a little pale and ran off saying that he was sorry and would see us in school.

We spent the rest of the time before the sleepover baking and freshening up the apartment. It was kind of nice that Blair was off doing Blair things and wouldn't be around to try to keep playing with my hair like a normal cat. I don't know why she likes it. Soul begrudgingly cleaned his bathroom in case someone needed to use it. "I don't want to hang around and be roped into seeing a chick flick, those are so uncool, so I'm going to chill with Black*Star at Ox's place. We are starting over on that poker game from last time," He explained to us as he finished wiping down everything. He left about ten minutes before everyone started showing up.

As Tsubaki, Liz, and Patty arrived, it became clear that there would be no chick flicks. We ate junk food and fooled around watching scary movies and mystery movies. The next morning we all went out shopping for new clothes and various school supplies. It was more fun than I thought I could have.

-First day of school

The first day of school came faster than I expected. Isn't that always how it is? I walk with Maka, who normally rides to school with Soul, and use her soul perception to avoid Black*Star. She didn't want me to have the same first day of school that Kid had with that duel. We walk into class and sit in the front row. Maka is in between me and Soul, with an empty seat next to me.

At least, the seat was empty. I look up and see a familiar set of violet eyes. "Well, we meet again," Terrance laughs, "I'm a new kid in Death City, and to think I already have some friends." Liz and Patty walked into the classroom and see the four of us together. They sit in the row behind us and start making conversation with Terrance. I glance at Patty and ask, "Where's Kid?" "Oh, he had to go back home real quick and check the toilet paper triangle, he'll be on time though," she smiled back at me. I remember hearing about Kid's symmetry obsession. I'm just glad he's been trying to get it under control. He walks through the door shortly and takes his place with Liz and Patty and sits directly behind me. I try to ignore the feeling that he's looking at me. I shouldn't be so paranoid, but I am very aware of his presence. Black*Star and Tsubaki stumble in a few minutes before class starts and sit in the only seats left near the back along with a very shy looking Crona.

Most of the students take notes throughout the lecture. I think Black*Star was sleeping though. He had painted eyes on his eyelids though, so I don't think the teacher noticed. Soon Professor Stein left class and that zombie man from before walked in. "Alright class, we are going to split up for a bit. Those with partners go to the South gym and those without go to the North. I wave my friends goodbye as I follow along with Terrance to the North gym.

We pair off on a rotation and spar. This gives us time to see if there is anyone we match well. Most of these people have been together since middle school. It was difficult for me to match up with them, especially since I didn't know them well. I tried my hardest, even though sometimes I got my ass kicked. At the end of the fighting I looked awful. My face and arms were scratched up and the school provided gym clothes had a few tears and rips in them. Most of us were sweating quite a bit since this exercise is not only physical but mental as well. "Last fight of the day," I think to myself. This time I'm up against some guy who is known to be a bit of a bully. I don't remember his name, and I don't think I care to, but I saw some of the damage he gave the others. The pervert always tries to tear the clothes of the girls in ways to expose things. I turn to who in the rotation I will be paired with. It's Terrance.

"Well hey there buddy," he says as he tussles my hair. He's at least 6'2, and if you ask me he kind of looks like a pole outside of his weapon form. I smirk a little and get ready to go. I face the husky build of the boy in front of me who has this creepy grin plastered on his face. The level of our fatigue is apparent. This scum only did the bare minimum to fight the guys and went all out to do gross things to the girls. I went all out every time.

The fight was intense. His weapon was a type of whip this time, so he didn't even have to run around like I had to. I was so busy blocking him from tearing the front of my shirt open that I didn't think about him pulling the whip back up. Smack! The tip tore open a bit of my cheek. It surprised me and I stumble back a bit. "Do you guys want to see panties or bra?" the jerk laughed to his two buddies. Most people on the side lines seemed disgusted at him. I was starting to get mad. I could feel in my hands that Terrance was upset as well. We fed off of the others anger and moved into action. I got in to close range as quickly as I could. He snapped the whip and it wrapped around the end of my staff. I took the free end and I whacked him across the face with it. He flinched and I was able to yank to staff from his grasp.

He moved quicker that I thought he would. He moved his arm back and tried to bring the whip down on my head. I move Terrance in front of me to take the blown. As the whip hit the wood, it did something weird. It snaked around it and reached for my shirt. Rip! The front of my shirt was torn, but just enough to reveal a little cleavage. I didn't know that the weapon he had was also a bit perverted. They seemed to feed off of each other. My face turned red from embarrassment and anger. I just…snapped.

Rage filled my head. I moved in quickly towards him and got behind him. Then I went for his neck. I had Terrance to his neck and was pulling up pretty hard. The jerk flailed around a bit, but he lost consciousness.

-Terrance's POV

I hate guys like this. I'm right on Mai's page when it comes to wanting to hurt this guy, but is she going to stop? He had already lost consciousness, I better talk her down. "Hey Mai, snap out of it, he's down. You won. Everything's alright now."

-Mai's POV

Normally, when something triggers the anger, I don't calm down very easily. There's just something about hearing the phrase "Everything's alright now" that just calmed me down. Terrance stayed calm the whole time. I wish I could have. I let go before the instructor, Sid, got to us. I think he thought I would kill the student. I think I might have tried.

After the fight it was time to shower and go off to lunch. As I step out of the girls locker room, I see Terrance waiting for me against the wall. "We seem to get along well together," he laughed. It was true, our wavelengths match and he helped to keep me calm when I normally would have lost it. "I'd like to partner up with the girl who helped save my sister," he said with a smile. "There's something I should tell you first," I say as I motion for him to follow me to the cafeteria.

I tell him the entire story of how I got into the top class.

After the search was called off for my parents, I was in denial. I got so angry. There was only one person who I could talk to, my best friend Makoto. He understood a lot about me. We lived next door to each other on the outskirts of town. He had lived with his grandmother, but she passed away a long time ago. My parents used to look after him to make sure he would be alright. We were even in the same class. He was alone, just like me. I finally reached his house and walked inside. It was normal for me to just burst into his house; he did the same thing at mine.

I stopped as I realized there were four people there. They looked like they were from the school. They were talking in the living room about the Kishin that was in the news, the one that was attacking houses along the edges of the town to target young weapons. It's not that it's a particularly strong kishin, but it's smart. That's even more dangerous.

They looked at me and one man said, "Hey there, you better get out of here, there was an accident." I ran to his room anyway and saw what was left of him. His entrails were everywhere and blood soaked the carpet, showing his last moves. The look on his face broke my heart. No one should look that terrified during their last moments. His bedroom window was smashed open and I could see a trail of blood leading off into the woods.

I was indignant in my anger. I ran after the trail of blood until it ended in the woods. It was like someone had stoked the fire burning in my gut and I just went mad. There were sharp pains in my palms. I remember waking up in the infirmary. I had tracked and killed the kishin by myself, only I don't remember how. Apparently, I was brilliant. People praised me and it felt so wrong. That's when I decided to move back to where I grew up.

After hearing my story, Terrance nodded his head and said, "Well, I calmed you down once, I can do it again. You remind me a lot of one of my younger sisters. If she were still around that is." I start to ask him about her but he hushed me and said, "Nope, no more of those types of stories to day. We have paper work to fill out and turn in, partner."


Notes:

Since this chapter is so much about Mai and Terrance, I've decided to do a double update to get back to the regular Soul Eater Characters. It'll be up before the end of tomorrow.

Does anyone get what I've been hinting at with Freya?