Alice: Okay! So i know first thing that pops into your head when you read the title of this story is, "Man that sounds corny." And I know, it does, and I like it that way. Embrace the corny-ness and embrace the greatness(hopefully) that is MY FIRST SOUL EATER FAN FIC!
Chapter 1: The "Thing" next Door
"You have four photo shoots tomorrow morning and afternoon, and an interview for a special in a magazine tomorrow afternoon. Nighttime dinner with other contractees and then the magazine interview results will be announced the next morning. Sound good to you?"
"Is it supposed to sound bad?"
"Well I just worry for you lately Maka!"
"Alright alright, I'll take it easy soon. I promise."
"You always say that but we keep on getting deals left and right so you're never able to."
"Isn't that supposed to be a good thing?"
"But-"
"Ah, is this it?"
"Hmm?"
A tall modern looking building stood in front of the two women, the sun rising just in front of the building brought out its brilliant look.
"Just like the pictures!"
The woman with blonde long hair, Marie, exclaimed excited for her partner.
"Uwaaa~"
The girl with two brown pigtails, Maka Albarn, stood amazed at the sight with her.
"Ooh! Let's go let's go! You're on the seventh floor Maka!" Marie ran in front of Maka and pulled her along up through the gates around the building and into the front glass ornate handled doors.
"What's the rush?" Maka almost tripped as Marie pulled her along.
"OO! Aren't you excited though?!" Marie stopped right in front of the elevator and pushed the button, all the while pouting.
"Yeah, it is kind of exciting." Maka chuckled softly and stepped onto the elevator when it arrived.
"Okay Maka! Hope you enjoy your room!" Marie tossed the key with the room number on it to Maka on the elevator and stepped off.
"Hey wait! Where are you going?!" Maka looked the keys confused. The doors of the elevator started to closing.
"Don't forget to say hello to your neighbors! Meeting with them for the first time tomorrow night will be awkward right? Promise me! Bye Bye Maka!" Marie had spoken quickly and left the doors of the elevator.
"Marie Wait!" Maka tried to chase after her but the doors closed before she could react.
"...
Oh well."
The elevator played a new hit song by a recently popular artist.
"Ah! Marie likes this song right? I think it was called 'Monster' by Something Eating…hmm who was it again?"
The elevator dinged onto Maka's floor.
"Oh!"
Maka stepped off the elevator and quickly walked off towards her new apartment.
The elevator playing the slow, powerful song closed. The singer of the song's strong, raspy voice echoed away.
Maka stopped in front of room number.
"Apartment number 707. Just like the key says," Maka used the silver key to open the door, and she took a big whiff of her new place, "Not bad."
The apartment featured a modern sort of look, with tan walls, wood flooring, a bathtub plus shower in the bathroom, a smaller than average sized living room and a full working kitchen with all utilities included.
"No bedroom?" Maka looked around the living room and found a sliding door closet with what looked like a futon inside. "A Japanese styled futon? Not bad at all." Maka grinned to herself and set her red duffle bag down. Her moving boxes were all in the closet as well; she pulled all five of the small boxes out and looked around the room.
"Makes me notice exactly how many things I don't have," Maka sighed, "At least it's less unpacking though." Something caught Maka's eye in the closet in the very back behind her last box. "A table?"
Maka reached in and pulled it out. It was a wooden, low to the ground, table.
"They still make these?" Maka put it down in the middle of the room and pulled out a floor pillow and sat down. "Feels like I'm in some kind of tea house." Maka laid head onto the table and stretched. A few moments of silence passed before Maka swung back up into sitting position. "Time to unpack!" She yelled.
She walked over to one of her boxes and started to tear off the tape when she remembered Marie's words.
"Greet the neighbors?
…
It won't take long right?"
Maka stood up hesitantly and paused before walking towards the door.
"I have a bad feeling about this…" She walked out of her room and didn't bother to lock the door; she thought maybe that would make it so that there would be an excuse if they tried to invite her in.
"Oh sorry, I didn't lock my door, I really must be going." Maka practiced.
First she tried Apartment 706. She rang the door bell and stood in front of the door for some moments.
Maka read the name under the room number on the wall, "Not here, Ox? Fine with me," Maka smiled and looked towards room 708. "One down, one to go." She walked to Apartment 709's door and though she was already feeling stupid, she rang the door bell.
Almost immediately, she heard a crash come from inside, followed by some bangs as the aftermath.
"Hmm?" Maka thought that meant they were coming but a few seconds passed and she heard nothing else. She shrugged and shifted her heel to walk back to her apartment when the door flung open.
"Yeah?"
Maka flinched as she stared at the person who opened the door.
A guy with white hair and deep red eyes, taller than her but just a little bigger than her slim physique, seeing as how he was well built.
This was not exactly what shocked Maka though, what shocked Maka was that he was both dripping wet and stark naked, except for the white towel around his waist that looked like it could fall off at anytime.
Maka deverted her eyes to the name plate under his room number.
"Soul…Eater?" She questioned it as if it wasn't true, though she knew it had to be.
"Yeah?" The guy grumbled, slightly annoyed. Maka couldn't answer, all she could do was try to make her mind assess the situation quickly before that towel slid off.
The guy, Soul Eater, stared at her now, leaning in slightly, gaining concentration.
"Soul! Hurry! The bubbles are popping and I'm getting impatient." A woman's voice, one would describe as sexy, yelled from inside the apartment, breaking Soul Eater's concentration. He tsked and turned his head towards the voice.
"I got it." He replied coolly.
Maka stood almost starstruck.
"I gotta go, try not to lose your way home little puppy." He smirked and shut the door in her face.
Maka stared at the door.
It was like her brain shut down completely in the short minute that he had opened and then closed the door.
She zombie-ly walked back towards her apartment door.
She raised her foot backwards and kicked the wall, making a loud bang vibrate through the wall.
"Argh! What was that?!" She huffed madly, yet cutely before opening her door and walking inside.
The door to room 708 opened again, slowly this time.
Soul Eater looked out towards apartment 707. He grinned…and shut the door.
Maka slumped down onto the floor, she had just finished unpacking, at last. The rain had gotten heavy and it was no longer bright outside, just a sea of darkness.
Maka took a shower and changed into a large t-shirt with shorts. Still wet, she dried off her hair and sat at the table for awhile. Eating noodles before putting the table back into the closet to make room for her futon. She layed it out, sighed and fell into bed.
A clash of thunder roared outside and woke her up.
"Thristy…" She mumbled as she slumped to the fridge and got some water from a water bottle she had brought with her in her duffle bag.
She took a gulp but as soon as she did, a large object seemed to hit her window and landed on her small sized patio.
The crash made her spit out her water that she was in the process of drinking.
She slowly looked towards the sliding window for movement.
A lightning bolt struck and lit up the window, reaveling the shadow of some kind of person outside the window.
"Soooouuullll~~~~~~~" The shadow growled wearily.
"A ghost, definitely a ghost, just ignore it Maka." Maka spoke to herself as she tried to take another drink of water.
"Sooooouuuullll~~~~~! Open the window or I'll just break in on my own!" The voice slurred and Maka spit out her water and ran towards the window, unlocking and sliding it open as fast as she could. "Helloooo~" The wet person fell onto Maka and she squirmed to keep him upright.
"Who are you?" Maka questioned.
"You don't remember me Soul? Why are you so mean?!" The guy stood up and swung his arms around wildly.
"Where did you come from?" Maka continued her questions.
"Apartment 808! You forgot?! You've been there a buncha times." The guy pouted.
"Right above mine huh?" Maka looked at her ceiling but was pulled to the ground when the guy grabbed onto her legs.
"I only had one drink! I swear! It wasn't even my fault! He slipped it to me! Tricked me! The great Black Star!" The guy started weeping now.
"Alright Alright!" Maka yelled, "Get off!"
"Soooouuulll~"
Maka couldn't stand it anymore, she used all her strength to drag him towards the door quickly, standing him up and placing him outside the door.
"Go home!" Maka ordered him before shutting the door.
She started to walk back to her bed when she heard a slam outside her door.
She looked towards the door and walked over to open it, the guy slumped in.
She sighed, "808 right?"
Maka trudged towards the elevator with one of the guy's arms slung over her shoulder. She pushed the elevator button and it opened right away, to her relief. She stepped on and pressed for floor eight. It would have been an easy trip if someone from a lower floor hadn't pressed to go to floor eight as well apparently, because the elevator started moving down, which rarely happens in elevators.
"Great." Maka mumbled.
The same song, 'Monster', started to play again.
"It's your song Soul!!!" The guy started grinning and jumping around.
"Okay Okay!" Maka tried to calm him down.
"It's such a good song! Of course the greaaaat Black Star will not admit defeat!" The guy pulled away from Maka and grinned.
Maka got a good look at his face now, tanish skin, same height as her, definitely worked out. Spikey blue hair and a weird colored pair of eyes.
"Yeah Yeah." Maka decided that now was not the time to stare at his figure.
The door dinged open and a guy with black hair and some odd white stripes on it was on the other side.
He stared at Maka and the wet boy slugged over her for a moment, emotionless in his black and white tux, before stepping on. He noticed that the button for floor eight was already lit up and looked back at Maka, eyeing her before saying, "Same floor?"
"Huh? Uh…Yeah." Maka awkwardly answered.
The song 'Monster' continued to play, the solo piano in the background of the song was the only thing Maka really noticed to be something she 'liked.'
The elevator reached floor 6 now.
The guy looked back, his pale face and golden eyes provided him with a fierce appearance that matched his words, "When you two get back to your room, I suggest you clean each other up before going to bed. You both smell like wet dog."
The elevator dinged onto floor 8. The boy walked off and right, towards the stairs.
Maka stared at him as he did so and she slugged off the elevator with guy in tow.
She yelled out, "Like this is what I had planned for today!"
She mumbled and grumbled the rest of the way towards apartment 808.
"Here I was trying to be a nice person.
I could've just left him out on the terrace."
She continued to comment until she arrived at her destination.
"Where's your key?" Maka asked her baggage.
"Just knock on the door, they should still be there. In fact, why don't you join us Soul?" He slurred.
"No thanks." Maka replied quickly.
Maka slumped back into her room, tired from the mess that just happened.
She had left the blue haired guy with his senior, supposedly, in his room.
"Black Star was his name huh? His friends said he comes down a lot from his room, onto room's below his. So this might happen again huh?"
Maka sat in silence.
And sighed.
"Blegh! Gotta take another shower." Maka trudged herself to the shower before going to sleep yet again.
Maka woke up to a ring of her phone.
"Hmm? Hello this is Maka speaking."
"Maka! Good Morning! Thought I'd wake you up an hour earlier than your usually time so get ready. I'm coming to get you right now."
It was Marie, Maka's Manager.
"Alright, I got it and good morning to you too."
Maka hung up the phone and got dressed before walking out the door. She locked her apartment door and made her way to the elevator; glancing at apartment 708 on the way.
Maka huffed at it before continuing on to the elevator.
"That's great Maka-baby!"
The photographer chanted while the clicking of his camera filled the room.
"Give me sassy! Give me sexy! Give me flirty!"
"What the hell does he want?" Maka mumbled to herself before doing exactly as he asked.
She was doing a monochrome shoot right now, the last one of the day.
Dressed in dark blue jeans, a white pinstripe elbow length sleeve shirt with frills coming from the collar, black suspenders and a long silver chain with a black key on it; Maka shifted her hand through her hair, it was combed back for the shoot, and with a few lose bang hairs, it gave her a more seductive look.
"Give me those lovely witty eyes!" The photographer cooed.
Maka followed his directions and narrowed her eyes, shifted her head to the side slightly and looked toward the camera from the edge of her eyes.
The photographer stood in shock for a moment before steadily holding up his camera and snapping one last photo.
"That's it Maka. You can stop now."
Maka stopped and walked over to the refreshment table. A pair of black heels walked up to her.
"Manager?"
"Wah! Maka! Stop!" Marie took the towel she had brought with her and patted the sweat from Maka's neck.
"Stop what?"
"You keep giving people the sexy eyes!" Marie signaled towards the group of workers who jumped when Maka looked over at them, fidgeting in anxiousness under her gaze. "You really can't get out of the zone when you've just stopped working huh?"
"The director says that's a good thing."
"Yes yes, I know Stein said that but still."
"It's Director when you're working, Manager." Maka was always the formal type when it dealt with her profession.
"Oh, right." Marie chuckled a bit but was a bit disappointed, "Anyway, I came to tell you that the interview was postponed for tomorrow instead. So we'll be heading out to dinner now."
"Okay, I'll change and I'll be right out." Maka walked towards the dressing room but turned around before she walked in. Giving Marie a grin and a thumbs up.
Marie flinched at the sudden action, but then grinned and did the same thing back. Maka headed into the dressing room.
"It's starting," Marie mumbled.
"Yes, we have a meeting here today. Key word," Marie looked around before whispering, "Cool."
"Key word?" Maka questioned the weird words Marie just used with the waitress at the entrance of the Restaurant: a classy place with a modern red and wood theme.
"Of course, we are meeting with a big star today after all," Marie whispered.
"We are?" Maka followed suit and whispered back.
"Yep, a huuuuge star! I can't wait to meet him!" Marie grinned as she followed the waitress through booths and table, up to the beginning of a staircase that seemed to lead to a loft looking over the whole restaurant with Maka close behind her of course.
"Enjoy." The waitress turned beet red before stumbling off.
"Enjoy? The food? I intend to." Maka confusingly stated.
"Come On Come On!" Marie tugged Maka up the stairs, almost making her trip in her black heels and dress. They reached the top of the stairs and Marie stopped right then so Maka wasn't able to see who she was saying, 'A pleasure to meet you, I am Marie, Maka's Manager,' too.
Marie stepped aside giddily and while Maka looked at her confused, she climbed the final step of the staircase and looked towards the two people sitting in the sitting area.
Maka flinched in surprise and once again stood like she had just stepped into a 'No Tresspassing' zone.
"Maka right? I'm the great Black Star! If you beg, I'll be willing to let you become my minion right here and now."
A hyper, blue-haired, weird eyed guy grinned at Maka, with a casual looking tank top with a various pattern and whitish tan dress pant. A shock that could drive Maka to drastic measures very quickly had appeared in front of her again.
And one more…
"Oh? Little Puppy? I see you found your way to more than just home."
There, in all his black and red suit glory, sat the resident of Apartment 708.
"Maka, this is Soul Eater."
Let the Nightmare begin.
Alice: That's it for now! Thanks for reading! Please do Review.