a/n: ohoho…. ohoho… interaction between lie.. and a canon main character? ohoho…
Maka Albarn was waiting for the new girl outside Headmaster Death's office.
She didn't really like the thought of showing around a new student around, as she also had her own plans to do. Mainly train with Soul, spar with Crona and Ragnarok—and maybe if she's lucky—hang out with the swordsmaster afterwards too. Alas, this is one of the jobs of an honor student, though It didn't mean that she liked doing these kinds of things though.
After a few minutes of waiting, a short girl finally emerged from Lord Death's room with an unsavory and unamused expression on her face. If it were not the fact that Maka was a polite person, she would have laughed at the expression.
"Are you—" The girl spoke and Maka could hear a slight accent in her voice. The girl paused for a moment, using her parasol as a cane as she made weird gestures in the air as if trying to remember the word. "Ah! Are you my guide?"
"Oh! Yes, yes I am. Maka Albarn at your service, it's nice to meet you." Maka replied back after realizing the girl was talking to her. "I'm the one that's going to give you a tour. So shall we start?" (Better to get this over with so she can go back to the things she'd like to do.)
"Listen, Maka. I see in your eyes that you think this whole—" She waves her hand again, "Thing is completely not worth our time and I agree. Surprisingly. That's kinda hard you know? Wouldn't you say so Miss Sol?"
Maka is confused until she realized the girl was talking to the parasol in her hand. This got freaky quickly because Maka knew via Soul Perception that the parasol in her hand was not a Weapon nor a human being. Maka focuses more; perhaps she missed something with her Soul Perception? She hasn't mastered it yet and therefore she could've made a mistake.
"And it's kinda hard for me to agree with people! Mother says so, and—and—oh, you're not listening to me." This snaps Maka from her tuning out the other girl. She looks at the foreigner and was surprised to see that the rude girl had calmed down and looked almost wounded. "Oh, well—I understand."
"No, no! It wasn't that I was—I was merely thinking about the things you might enjoy in our school!" Maka nervously replies, trying to save the whole situation from blowing up in her face. Sure enough the girl buys in her white lie, looking happily surprised at the scythemeister. "Do you want to get going?"
"Well, I said before that wasn't needed…" The girl mutters as she grasps on her parasol tightly. "But Miss Sol and Mother did tell me I need to make new friends outside of work and books…" The girl looks conflicted for a moment before she looks at Maka. "Fine. I'll go on these school tour but can we start with the library first?"
"Well, sure. I guess. If that's what you'd like Miss…?" Maka smiled at her, a bit relieved that she somehow was able to avoid offending the new foreign student (actually, Maka wasn't even sure that the girl was a new student. She didn't look EAT student, nor NOT student).
"You can call me Lie." The girl smiles politely at Maka. "Forgive me for not saying my full name, but it's quite a handful and I share my name with my Mother and she's—ya know."
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Life the Mistress sneezed as She was in the process of watching over a particular police team in Brooklyn with her mirror. The police team was a ragtag bunch and Life the Mistress greatly enjoyed watching over them, but She was careful to not be attached to them as sooner or later She'd have to take their lives.
Life the Mistress rubbed her nose as She changed the lives she was watching to somewhere near Death City, the person nearest to her daughter, one Maka Albarn.
"It seems to me that my daughter has been bad mouthing me to this nice young lady." Life the Mistress said before She sneezes a second time. "Well, that one was because of the dust thank goodness."
)
"Ah, no worries Lie. I understand." Maka replied back, she didn't really understand but she felt it was too impolite to ask. "Shall we go to our first stop then?"
Lie grins widely as her eyes sparkled at the mention of the library. "To the library we go!"
The short girl then proceeded to go to the right, carrying her parasol as if a flag won in victory. Maka stared at the girl currently walking around the hall in a gallant manner attracting the attention of the students for a few seconds.
"Uh," She wasn't sure how to break this to her. "The library's the other way?"
Lie stopped in her tracks as she mechanically turns around, still holding her parasol in a flag-like manner. If Maka looked closely she could see traces of red in the other's cheeks. She continued walking down the hall towards the library yet there a noticeable lack of gallant in her walk.
"Let's get going then!" Lie exclaimed as Maka simply followed the girl.
"Oho… An incredible library you all have here!" Lie could not help but exclaim as she runs around the DWMA's library, looking at ancient books and being obviously more than a bit excited. She looked back at Maka, almost frowning. "Do you know what kind of system this library has? I mean if it follows the Dewey Decimal System?"
"Er…" Maka looks at her a bit hesitant. Oh, but perhaps hesitant would be quite wrong to describe how the scythemeister feels as she was sporting a look that was somehow the combination of being tired (of Lie's antics) and being curious (also of Lie's antics). "I'm not sure?"
"Oh! That's a bit disappointing to be honest; you should always know what kind of system your library always has." Lie stops running around and approaches Maka who is in the center of the room. There is a slight noticeable 'huffs' in her words. "I don't really know why I bother with running around in the library, when obviously it's very inefficient of me."
"Oh yeah, obviously." Maka mutters sarcastically to herself but if Lie notices that or anything, she does not make it known.
Lie simply puts down her parasol (Maka swears she hears the girl apologize to it) and faces the bookshelves, turning her back to Maka. She brings out her arms in a motion that's similar to preparing yourself to be hugged by someone, and before the scythemeister knows what's happening, Lie flicks her hands forwards to herself—
…
To the result of nothing.
Before Maka could ask what that was for, before Maka could exactly ask what the other girl was hoping to achieve, Lie stomps her feet. The scythemeister peers over to see the other frowning, and as quickly as she saw that frown, it turned into the look of understanding.
"Oh, I almost forgot. Sometimes I could be such an airhead!" Lie simply nervously giggles.
(Maka desperately wants to reply with a scathing remark like a 'you think so?' or something like that but she was raised properly by her mother and thus had the gall to restrain herself.)
"Soul release!" The girl simply exclaims and a white glow encompasses Lie, suddenly, the human soul Maka was seeing suddenly changed into something bigger—something not human nor meister nor weapon.
Something scarily close to a Witch yet also not like a Witch.
"Y-you're a witch." Maka says with a tinge of fear and nervousness. The last time she felt an unknown witch soul so dangerously close to her inside the Academy was so many moons ago and it still scares her.
The Death-Weapon and Meister Academy was a safe place, a place that Maka could always count on to not have any hostile witches and yet there was an unknown witch in front of her.
"Huh?" Lie looks at Maka amidst the many books she had summoned to her place. "What?"
"Don't play coy with me! You're a witch, aren't you?" Maka exclaims sharply as she tries to find a weapon she could use just in case.
"Me? A witch?" Lie suddenly then drops the countless of books she was holding. Her face contorts into an expression of displeasure. "Oh. Oh no. I completely forgot I was in Death Weapon-Meister territory."
"Yeah. This is Death Weapon-Meister territory, last time I checked." Maka replies vehemently as a book makes her way into her hands.
"I know! I can't believe I forgot! Don't attack me! This was the whole reason I had Soul Protect on in the first place!" Lie looks full on nervous now. She notices the book Maka was holding and the offensive position she had. "Don't attack me! Especially not with that rare book!"
"If you're not a witch explain your soul!" Maka says as she prepares to strike with her book. She then slightly hesitates as she finds out that the book she was holding was rare. "R-rare?"
With this, Lie quickly sees the opening and grabs the book from Maka's hands leaving the scythemeisther really surprised. Before Maka can strike back with another book or anything, she notices how Lie holds the book in her hands: as if it was her own offspring.
"Shh, shh. You'll never be back in her hands again where her only desire with you is to hit people." Lie hushes the book, making Maka slightly uncomfortable and offended. "I'll take care of you, read you, and maybe even repair you if I see any loose pages."
Then, an idea strikes Maka. The scythemeister quickly takes a book, something old and rare looking, from the pile that Lie had dropped and calls over the attention of the other.
"Hey! If you don't tell me the deal with your soul then this book will get it!" Maka exclaims as she readies to tear the book into two equal pieces.
"Ah! Wait no! That's The Secret History by, by, by—" The supposed not witch looks like she's about to cry. "Okay! Okay! I'll give, I'll tell you the deal with my soul, but I was about to tell you anyways! No need to torture an innocent book!"
Maka sets down the book, simply grateful that the girl was going to spill how she wasn't a witch like she claimed. Just on time too because, Professor Stein was just outside the door waiting for his time to come in and help Maka, or at least that's what her Soul Perception picked up on.
Hopefully, he'd get inside on time.
a/n: asfja i was struggling on how to portray lie here but I decided to like wing it.. asfjaf apologies if you see inconsistencies with how I write lie! I'm doing my best I Swear aslfjf… ;; v ;; )g . hopefully within time, lie will have a more? sturdy and stable personality + interactions with the main cast!