Chaos' POV

I followed quietly behind the rest, lighting my NEW favorite brand of cigarette, Death Smokes. They don't even taste like tar or smoke, just . . . strawberries and mints. Anyway, Soul doesn't like me to smoke. He says it's not good for me. I don't care though. It gets rid of stress and depression. So I kept walking, smoking my Death Smokes.

"M-Maka?" my cute little weapon stutters out in his quiet southern accent. "I don't feel comfortable actually having the Idea of eating a Soul. I've never eaten one, only fought for self defense." It's true. We never actually ate the souls we killed. We just did it to stay alive. Maka looks at me and I nod saying "Ya its true" through the puffs of my flavored cigarettes.

"Oh . . . Well if you're not comfortable we might have to talk to Lord Death about these things." Maka said gently and grabbing Soul's hand, who pulls away and says "Not in front of the kids" jokingly. What a jerk. That's his girlfriend. If she was mine I would totally not treat her like that. She did a "Humph" and moved towards me at the back. She grabbed my hand and my heart pounded. Did I like this meister, Maka? Was she and I meant to be? Did I love her, unlike he jerk boyfriend?

"Umm . . . Maka?" I said in my also cute southern accent. "You have a boyfriend. You shouldn't be grabbing my hand like this" She just smiled and whispered, so Soul couldn't hear up ahead "It's cool. Soul's being a jerk. Plus you're kind of cute." She blushed and then I blushed and looked away down at the ground. I can't believe she said that. Am I really cute? Does SHE like ME? Should I ask her out?

All these thoughts ran through my head and I didn't know what to do. We walked the rest of the way to the DWMA holding hands. When we got there we went to one class and they went to another. Soul grabbed her away from me and glared at me with this "stay-away-from-my-girl" kind of look. I just nodded, stomped on my cigarette and walked with my weapon to class.

"What was that about, O-Nii-Chan? (Big brother in Japanese)" Blank asked. I looked down at him, I was a bit taller, anyway, and just nodded "No" meaning not to ask. He said "OK" and we walked. I put my cigarette pack in my pocket of my flannel shirt and Blank chewed on the left sleeve of his long sleeve white shirt. I always wondered why he called me Big Brother, but never asked because I assume it's because we have been together since He was 3 and I was 4. He's a few months younger than me. I was born October 31 and he was born February 26. Our parents, his mom and my dad, were partners back in their day at the academy, but I never knew since they died when I was young.

Blank and I arrived at Class New moon and walked in, and didn't know where to sit. The room was rather large and decorated with posters, probably from the students. A young boy waved us over to 2 empty seats next to his friend and him. We moved over to there and sat down.

"Hi. My name is Brick, a weapon" Said the one with short, brown hair, sticking up in the middle, making a Mohawk, kind of. He stuck out his hand and I shook it. Then Blank did. "I'm Chaos, the meister, and this is my weapon, Blank." Brick blushed and his meister companion giggled. "What is it?" I asked, being completely serious.

"Well . . . You have a southern accent and it's cute!" he said honestly. Not this again, I thought. I just nodded and said "Thank you." His meister took his seat next to me and said "Hi" I nodded at him and the bells rang – DING DONG DONG DING.

"HI!" the energetic meister said again. "My name is Kazu. I am Bricks Meister. He's a claymore of ice. It's pretty epic!" He said. I looked at him and he looked at me. "I'm the meister" I said. "My weapon is a staff with a blade on one end of it. We specialize in memory Resonance, A special type of Soul Resonance. I guess your element is ice?" He nodded in agreement with me.

A girl looking the same age as Maka ran in. She dropped many papers and a book on her way in, stumbling over her own feet rushing in. I thought she was going to take a seat, and she did. In the Professors chair! I was in AWE. This girl is a Professor? I thought to myself.

"Hi. I am Eternal Feather, the senior substitute of the today's class until we find a new professor. I might even be a permanent sub for a few months." She smiled and the room brightened. She wore a gown and some sort of shawl at the shoulders. It was white. She wore square glasses at the tip of her nose and long black braided hair.

I blanked out the entire class. Then the bell finally rand and Kazu, longish green hair, cut uneven probably by him, and Brick waited for us. We caught up to them and started talking and walked out the door to see Maka and Soul waiting there for us.

"You four" Soul said abruptly "Need to go see Lord Death for Remedial classes for not catching any Souls." Kazu groaned and brick just shrugged. I lit a cigarette and walked with those two and Blank to the Death room. Brick stopped and turned to me. "Chaos." He stopped. "Would you . . . Do a soul resonance on this mission, please?" He asked gently and politely. I looked at Blank who nodded so I said "Of course, but why?"

Brick and Kazu glanced at each then back at me. "Well . . . We never did Soul Resonance and would like to know how to do it." Kazu explained not ashamed at all, since he was a freshman. It was even common for weapons to not even turn fully into a weapon. Brick can, they just can't use resonance yet.

We finally arrived at the Death room, Maka and Soul close behind, more than likely to watch our mission from the Death Room, since they were out mentors and it was part of their job. We all walked into the door and followed the long narrow path. I felt somebody' Soul above us so I looked up to see two girls jumping from the large blade-like pillars surrounding the hallways. It was seniors Kim Diehl and Jacqueline o'Lantern Dupree, Kazu and Brick's Mentors.

"Too slow! They said pulling the four of us along. I stopped and looked up. Maka and Soul walked up behind me. "Let's go!" Maka said gently yet excitedly.