Hello! How's it going? Sorry I skipped a week, but oh well! Anyways, here is Chapter 7!
Chapter 7
The Secret Has Been Revealed-
Good or Bad?
Shonaku's P.O.V
I walk down the path to CrossTown Village after a visit from Zumo's house. It's fun to play with him when he has no chores to do. It really is. I notice that the air is becoming more clouded with with dark smoke hovering above. I smell burnt wood, ashes as I near towards my home. I finally reach the entrance to only find burnt houses and people dead. I stand there in shock, unable to move. The stench of dead corpses and smokes ashes didn't do any good to ease this shock. I walk slowly into the fire to my little wooden house. I clench tightly to Bubba as he is looking around as well. When I arrive at my home, I am in complete utter terror. Burnt. Dead. Both of my parents. They died. I collapse on the floor bursting into tears. I yell, a sharp pain in my heart. I cry like I never had before. Bubba tries to comfort me, but it will never do. How? How did this happen? Why? Why did it? Just then, my Mother's teacher comes, placing a hand on my shoulder. I look up to her. Her face grim, staring distantly into the flames. The look in her eyes seems off. I don't stop crying, the smoke chokes me, but I don't care. The only thing that is now and forever stuck in my mind is the death of my parents. Gone. Forever.
I suddenly sat up in my bed almost throwing Bubba across my room by accident. I breathed heavily as if I just ran a mile. Sweat was pouring over me, my bed wet from it. My clothes matted on me. It was only a nightmare. I wish that that's all it could've ever been. A nightmare. Something that never really happened...why? Why did I have to dream about it now? I hate that memory.. Real tears began to form in my eyes. That pain, it was just too real..their death was what lead me into a whole different life. I still wondered who did it. Who caused that fire. I'll never forgive whoever did it. Rather kill them. No, killing wasn't the answer..just won't forgive them. Ever. I hugged Bubba tightly, but he didn't move at all. I set him gently on the bed and fixed the sheets too, still in my what-I-wear-everyday clothes, I only go to the bathroom to brush my teeth and brush my hair. Those tears still streamed down my face, so I wiped them and washed my face. I didn't want to be sad. I never want to be sad, it doesn't do any good if it doesn't give me strength. I force a smile upon my face, then the smile becomes a real one, and it's glad to get over the memory so quickly. Like always.
With nothing to eat in my fridge I left my new home, empty stomached. I eventually arrived at school a little too early. But I wasn't the only one, Black Star and Tsubaki were there too. They were sitting in their seats talking and what not, so I decided to go join them when suddenly these two guys, one blonde and the other sort of bald but sort of not, come standing right in front of me. "Shonaku my love!" Says the blonde one. "I am your savior! Join me in the moonlight and we'll ride together forever and ever!" I stared at him confusedly. "Eh?"
"Oh Shonaku, such beautiful eyes! Let me be your knight in armor! I love you with all my heart!" I looked at the other guy disgusted. Then I suddenly realize in horror. These guys have been hitting on me! I hadn't known before, no clue about this. But I was their crush. Those two idiots. I made a nervous laugh and walked passed them, their eyes never leaving my sight. Okay, that is seriously fucked up.. I went to go sit next to Black Star and Tsubaki trying to forget that odd event. "Hya Shonaku!" yelled Black Star waving at me. "Good morning Shonaku." Tsubaki said as well. "Morning you guys! Uh hey, who are those two?" I asked them pointing at the two weirdos who were still staring at me. I tried not to look at them so much.
"Oh, the boy over there is Hiro, and the other one is Ox." Said Tsubaki. Black Star got up from his seat. "Speaking of which, hey Hiro!" Black Star yelled. He walked down the stairs to Hiro and patted him on the back. A little too hard for that matter. Hiro yelped a little.
"Oof! Oh hey Black Star..ow.." "Okay, so I needed your help to see where a person's pressure points are!" Hiro looked a little frightened, but then he reassured himself and closed his eyes. "Alright! Do what you need to do." Black Star grinned. "All right! Hey, Tsubaki you watching this?" Black Star turned around and looked up to Tsubaki. Tsubaki nodded. "Uhuh." "Okay, good!" Black Star said.
After a few minutes, Black Star finished his pressure point techniques, ones that I had known for a while now. And next thing you knew Hiro was unconscious on the floor, but like I cared. "Thanks Hiro! You were a lot of help today!" Black Star went back to his seat. Of course, Hiro didn't respond. Then, Maka and Soul came in through the classroom door. "Shonaku, there you are!" Maka came and ran up the stairs to me. "You didn't come say good morning to us! You just left without us, we could've gone to school together!"
Of course, no wonder I felt like I was missing something... I rubbed the back of my head. "Oh, I'm sorry Maka! I had something in mind that made me forget!" Maka gave me a look of curiosity. "Hm?" I then looked down at the desk, I fell silent. "N-nothing..." She stood there, I could feel her looking at me with concern. But seeing as it was, she didn't want to get in my business, so went to her seat across from me. Soul waved at me, then sat next to Maka. Death the Kid, Liz, and Patty entered the room as well. I greeted them with a smile and wave also. Crona came in last. I gave him a wide smile and big wave, gesturing him to come sit behind me. He only glance up at me, smiled, and went a different direction to a different seat. I pouted a little as I wanted him to sit next to me really badly. What the hell did I do wrong now? Geez..
In the whole school day, I couldn't help but lose myself in my thoughts. I couldn't help but come back to yesterday and the nightmare. They all busied me so much. I guess I was so focused on my train of thoughts because when the final bell rang, I lost balance and fell down three cases of stairs. My books sprawled everywhere, I winced at a pain in my knee. I lifted my left legging to find a cut wound now bleeding. It looked more painful than it had really felt. But something like this has at least happened to me a lot. Although, at the time, Nygus was there gathering some papers from Professor's Stein desk, who was no longer there, and noticed my fall. She came up to me.
"You better get that patched up, Shonaku." She told me. I got up dusting my self, and picking up my books. "Nah, it's okay. This is nothing, I can handle it. Nothing but a small scrape." Nygus put her hands on her hips and raised an eyebrow. "Just a scrape, huh? More like an open cut. You better go to the nurses office now, or else you'll hurt yourself even more. A cut like that will easily take in infections, then you'll be in big trouble with a form of some sort of virus or disease." She sounded so cautious with just one lame cut. Geez if you think it's that bad, then I'll go! I set down my books on a desk and left the classroom. I walked down the hall limping a little, realizing that Nygus had been a little right. Well this does hurt a little more now, ow.. I entered the nurses office to find Professor Stein at a desk examining some files. He was also taking notes.
Narrator's P.O.V
Professor Stein turned around to find Shonaku standing at the doorway, Her left Leg with a wounded knee. He stood and walked to Shonaku. "Got yourself pretty hurt there don't you think, Shonaku?" He told her, taking her to a bed to sit at. She only shrugged at him. "It's just a cut, nothing that I would care about. But Nygus was making a big deal out of it, so I just came anyways." "Uhuh." Said Professor Stein as he reached into a shelf for a box of bandaids. He took out one, and got a bottle of alcohol and some gouge. He walked to Shonaku and kneeled down, facing the wound in direct contact. The blood spilled down Shonaku's knee, but Shonaku sat there with a blank face wanting this to be done with already. "This may sting a little." Professor Stein told Shonaku. He poured some alcohol onto the gouge and dabbed it on Shonaku's knee. Shonaku flinched a little. Afterwards, he gently placed the bandaid on the wound. He reached for some paper towels, and wiped the blood from Shonaku's leg. He went back to the desk, where there was a trash can next to it, and threw away the leftover trash. As he did so, Shonaku rolled down her legging.
Professor Stein now stared at a certain file that was on a clipboard. "So, Shonaku." Shonaku stood up and looked at him, although his back was facing her. "Yeah?" She asked. He was silent for a bit, then he spoke. You're not from around here, are you?" Shonaku was a bit confused, but she saw it in his tone. "Uh-well no. I'm not. I haven't lived in Death City all my life." Stein said nothing, then asked her another question. "You're something different aren't you? You're not like everyone else. Something about you parts you from normal people." Shonaku looked down, her shadow hiding her eyes. She gulped nervously. Does he..know? She thought in her head. I can't tell..but.. "So Shonaku," Professor Stein began. Shonaku looked up to him. Her eyes showing that she was a little fearful now. They went a lighter green with her pupils like dots.
"That last move on Black Star in that duel, how did you do it?"
Shonaku stared in shock. Baffled and nervous, she couldn't talk. And he only stood there in silence. Staring. Staring at the file with Shonaku's last name. Letter M. Miwasaki. Shonaku put her hands out and laughed nervously. "Oh! That move, you mean that final blow I gave Black Star? Oh yes, I didn't want to give up just yet so I attacked him at the last minute..hehe.." Professor Stein pushed up his glasses. "Oh really?" Shonaku swallowed hard again. She slowly made her way to the door. "Look, Professor I really gotta go. I mean, I've gotten behind in m-my assignments, and I don't want to turn in any late work. So, I best be going now.." And with that Shonaku left the office without another word. She soon left home, startled the whole way through.
When she opened the door, everything was left the same. Bubba laid on the bed still, just like in the morning. Except there was a book sitting next to him. The book was very old, bookmarks marked in various pages. It was a thick book too. Shonako laid her things on the floor and looked at Bubba. "Oh, so you want to do that? Well, if you say so buddy!"
"Maka, there's this problem that Professor Stein gave us and I can't solve it. Can you help me with it?" Soul asked as he entered a different kitchen that was not his, and to Maka who was cooking in a different stove that was not hers. "Soul, you always ask me that just so I can give you the answers. Go ask someone else." Maka told Soul in annoyance.
"I swear, this time I just want you to help! No answers, just help." Maka looked at Soul. "Hmph!" Soul pouted. "Fine..what are you cooking? It smells good."
"Oh, this? It's for Shonaku! You know she loves ramen so I made her some to eat! Hehe.." Soul looked at Maka skeptically. "Tell me the real reason."
Maka looked at Soul, then the boiling ramen, and sighed. "Okay, you got me. It's just that she seemed so bothered today, so I made ramen to take whatever was in her mind off. And I worry so much that..that what if I did something wrong?" Maka frowned. "What do you mean?" Soul asked her.
"I mean that what if I did something wrong to her? I put her in an environment that she's probably not use to. New people that's she's never seen before. What if I made her uncomfortable? What if I'm not being a good friend for her..?" That last statement got Soul to make Maka snap out of it.
"Maka hold it there. Listen to yourself. Look, Shonaku is fine as far as I know. She really likes the place, and everyone in it. I saw the look in her face too today. Maybe something from before had bothered her, and she couldn't stop thinking about it. Who knows. But you have been at least the best to her." Maka turned off the stove, and said nothing. "Why don't we go up to her room right now, and invite her to eat with us. She really does like ramen, she'll be happy to see that you made her some."
Maka turned to Soul and smiled. She was glad to have the best partner around, one that would cheer her up, like how any friend would. "Yeah, okay." She took a cup and poured water in it, this was for Shonaku. Maka and Soul headed upstairs. The two in front of Shonaku's door. Soul backed up a little, so he could let Maka talk to Shonaku first. Maka was about to knock on the door, win she saw that it was left a crack open . I don't think Shonaku will mind she thought. Maka opened the door. "Hey Shonaku! I made ramen downstairs for you, you looked a little bothered so I-"
Maka gasped and dropped the glass cup, the impact causing it to break and have water spill on the floor. Maka stared in shock. As for Shonaku she turned to her in surprise as well.
Shonaku sat there on her bed, the book now opened by her side. A box and a few other items were levitated in the air. Bubba, her teddy bear, Standing on the floor in a way that a normal one couldn't stand on its own that way. He also moved his head to Maka. And Shonaku's arms looked as though they were controlling the floating boxes.
"M-Maka!" She screamed.
Maka yelped, "S-Shonaku! You're a witch?!"