Ian felt like a hummingbird flying through the air while he skipped through the halls of Death Weapon Meister Academy. Walking ahead of him were the grumpy looking Soul and the stern looking Maka Albam. Both Soul and Maka sweat dropped hearing the flamboyant Ian sing.
" Lalalalalala. How proud I am too be me. Lalalalala."
" This kid is really energetic," Soul grumbled into Maka's ears. " I can't stand listening to him. Can't we just ditch him?"
" Absolutely not," Maka quickly brushed Soul off and held her hands on her hips. " If we let him go on his own, he embarrass someone else thinking they're boyfriends and girlfriends. At least by doing this he'll learn sooner."
" You've got a point there. But couldn't we just do something to shut him up? Maybe I can knock him out and we can carry him to Lord Death. It would be much quieter."
" We can't. You can't just hit a new student. You might actually hurt his brain."
" You sure don't care what happens to my brain when your pounding me."
" Yeah, well, I know there's nothing special in your brain too begin with."
" Lalalalala."
Ian, Maka, nor Soul knew that they were being watched. Standing upside down on the ceiling was the short blue haired assassin Death Star. He had his Meister Tsubaki Nakatsukasa in her Ninja Sword form. Black Star's was up to his newest antic. Seeing the new kid skipping through the halls of Death Weapon Meister Academy.
" Aren't you pushing yourself a little too far, Black Star?" Tsubaki said from her Ninja Sword form. " What if someone gets hurt."
" Relax, Tsubaki, I'm not going to hurt him," Black Star said boastfully without care about the dark-skinned boy below.
" Er, I was actually talking about you, Blac—"
Black Star dashed down and prepared to strike Ian. Black Star wasn't really going to hit him—or at least he planned he wasn't going to hit him—at the last second he would pull up and kick him behind his back. But Black Star, as boastful as he was, couldn't keep his big mouth shut.
" I am the great Black Star!"
" Hello!" Ian turned around and waved his hand to Black Star.
Black Star lost control of his landing. He dropped Tsubaki's Ninja Sword and she transformed back into her tall, slender, well-endowed teenage girl form. Both Black Star and Tsubaki were falling down and screamed along the way.
" Ahhhhhhhhh!"
Tsubaki was saved. Ian caught her by her legs and she grabbed onto the back of his neck before she hit the ground. Black Star however fell right on his face! He broke a few of his teeth ( though since this is anime they'll just grow back) and a large bump popped out of his head.
" Are you okay, miss?" Ian asked while he helped Tsubaki too her feet.
" Yes, I am." Unlike Black Star, Tsubaki had a magnanimous, polite and gentle personality. She smiled at Ian and bowed her head. " Thank you for saving me."
" Aw shucks." Ian blushed through his dark skin and braided his braided hair. " It was nothing much. I just saw you falling and didn't want to see you get hurt. Hahaha."
" EXCUSE ME!" Black Star shouted under both Ian and Tsubaki's feet. He stood up and ran up to Ian. Though Ian was taller than Black Star, he gave Ian a menacing look. " Why didn't you catch me?"
" Umm, I'm sorry, sir. You were just so tiny I couldn't see you."
" Tiny? Don't you know who I am?" Black Star got into his boastful pose and chuckled to himself. " I am the great Black Star! I am going to be the greatest assassin in the world!"
" Um, aren't assassins suppose to be secrete? You sure made a lot of noise on your way down."
" Just you wait. I'll be known throughout the world as Black Star, the greatest assassin in the world!"
" Um, why would an assassin want people to know who he is? Wouldn't that be bad for business?"
" Well, I think you told him enough about yourself, Black Star," Tsubaki said while she rubbed Black Star's spiky blue hair. Black Star didn't seem to like it as he growled while she rubbed him. Tsubaki then smiled at Ian again. " My name is Tsubaki. Tsubaki Nakatsukasa. I am a Meister of the great Black Star. And whom might you be?"
" Hello. My name is Ian. Ian Roguesaw. It's my dream to one day become a reverend to go—ow!" Ian had a sudden headache. He grabbed his head and squeezed it trying to stop the pain." Ow, my head! I think I just had a migraine!"
" Of course you did." Tsubaki gently rubbed Ian's head trying to soothe his pain. " Inside these walls we do not talk about priests, or god, or whatever holy thing you can think of. Even as I say it, I'm starting to have a sudden migraine, but I'm used to it being partnered with Black Star."
Ian's migraine suddenly went away. It was Tsubaki who helped him. Her gentle hands rubbed him so thoroughly, soothed each of his nerves, while he had his tongue-tied staring at Tsubaki's smooth, beautiful smiling face. All Ian could hear was the sound of his heart beating.
Thump-thump-thump-thump
" Well, it's nice to meet a lovely lady like—oh no, I just referred to you as a woman!" Ian hunched down pulling the back of his shirt up and took out a long piece of rope. Ian whipped his own back thinking about his sin. " OW! Ow! OW!"
Tsubaki didn't like people she considered her friends getting hurt. But she didn't want to stop Ian if he was punishing himself on purpose. Though watching him like that made her want to cry. Black Star however just laughed in his usual inconsiderate voice.
" Hahahahahaha!"
BONK!
Tsubaki was usually calm and collective, but when Black Star really got too her skin she'd bonk him on his head. She'd also throw a shuriken at him, which surprisingly didn't kill him, though she mostly did that when he peeked on her taking a bath.
" Hey, newbie, what's taking you so long?" Soul said as the sound of his and Maka's footsteps echoed through the halls. " We're waiting on you—" Soul stopped talking when he saw Tsubaki and Black Star. He ignored seeing Ian whip himself and walked over to Black Star, smiled. " Well, if it isn't Black Star."
Soul and Black Star were both on mutual understandings with each other. They both smiled and greeted each other by pounding their fists together. Maka walked past Ian and walked up to Tsubaki. Make and Tsubaki both smiled looking at each other.
" Hey Tsubaki. So how does it feel being partnered with the second biggest idiot in all of Weapon Meister Academy?"
" Er, whose the first?"
" Soul of course. That idiot doesn't even know where a library is."
" Hello, I do so know where the library is. Oh wait, I'm thinking about the cafeteria."
" Ow! Ow! Ow!" Ian screamed still whipping himself. " Ow! Ow! Every time a drop of blood spills, I know god is forgiving me. Ow! Ow!"
" Oh, right, have you met Ian," Tsubaki said.
" Of course we met him," Soul scoffed. " We were going to bring him to Lord Death."
" Really?" Tsubaki misinterpreted what Soul was saying. She had a scared, frightful look on her face and hide it with both her arms. " Did he do something wrong?"
"Pfffffffffft! Hell no. At least not yet. He's a new student here at the academy. We're bringing him to Lord Death so he can find out who his Meister is."
" Oh, well that makes perfect sense." Tsubaki's frightful face went away and she smiled. " Can me and Black Star come with you? I want to help him anyway that I can."
" Ow! Ow! Ow!"
XXX
" Yahoo!" Black Star shouted triumphantly as they finally reached the entrance to Lord Death's entrance. " We're finally here. Hahahahaha!"
Ian was confused. Him, Soul, Maka, Black Star and Tsubaki stood by a giant mirror. Ian expected to see a door or maybe even a stairwell that would lead them to the Lord Death fellow everyone was talking about, but a mirror just surprised him. What surprised him even more was how Maka was standing in front of it.
" Let's see…" Ian couldn't tell if Maka was writing or tapping on something behind her back. But he could hear her say the code 42-42-564, whenever you want to knock on Death's door" and the image in the window changed. A forest was seen in the background. Maka turned around and smiled at Ian. " Your chariot to Lord Death awaits."
" Huh? How did you do that?"
" Oh, once you're a student here, you'll understand. Now you better get going. Lord Death doesn't like to be waiting."
" Okay." In a flash, Ian pecked both Maka and Tsubaki on their cheeks. Soul's mouth dropped below his chin at the sight of Ian's lips touching Maka's cheeks, but Black Star just laughed. Ian then turned to Soul and Death Star, and he smiled. " See ya, Soul, Black Star."
Ian lifted Soul's left hand up and kissed it. Ian then touched Black Star's hand and kissed it. Both Maka and Tsubaki both gawked at Ian's bold act. Ian chuckled, ran to the front where the window was, waved good-bye, and jumped into the portal.
" What a weirdo," Soul muttered staring off where Ian ran off too.
" Who do you think his partner is going to be?" Tsubaki asked rubbing her cheeks.
" I think I might know," Maka said while she too rubbed her cheeks.
" Who? Who? Who?" Black Star said hyperactively standing close to Maka.
" I think his partner is…Ali Ore."
" ALI ORE!?" Soul and Tsubaki shouted together. Their eyes both turned white and their heads turned pale.
" Thee Ali Ore?" Soul gasped.
" The demon of Death Weapon Meister Academy?" Tsubaki gasped. " That Ali Ore?"
" Hey, hey, it's just a guess. Who knows. Maybe it's a new student as well."
" You better hope so," Soul said. " Because everyone who is paired with Ali Ore…they are in line for death row."
XXX
Just like the entrance and the corridors, Ian didn't know where he was. The walls around him were graffiti with blue as the color of the sky and small pictures of clouds. He stood on a stadium with a table in the center.
" Not really much of an office," Ian thought out loud looking at the table. " I wonder how this Lord Death is even able to get work done."
" Tsk," Ian heard a female say close to him. Ian looked at the other side of the table and saw a girl roughly his age and the same height. " This is so unfair."
" Hello," said Ian as he smiled and raised his hand for the girl to shake. " My name is Ian—" In a flash, the girl took out a kunai knife and threw it at Ian. The knife went past Ian's shoulder and struck into the wall."Roguesaw. Er, hello."
" Get lost, maggot," the girl took out more kunai knifes. One by one, she threw the knifes at Ian. Ian ducked, jumped, and rolled trying to get out of the way of her kunai knives. " Tsk. I wish I had a better target."
" I'M A TARGET!?"
" Oh well. I'll just have to settle with what I got." The girl took out a handful of small steel balls, tossed them, then flicked them at Ian. Ian desperately tried running away, but he was just hit by the balls while trying to run away. " The sound you boys make when you try cry is just so enjoyable to watch."
" W-why are you doing this?"
" Because I feel like it. Now be a good target and stand still."
" Ah!"