A.N: *eats leftover chips from Tatsu-Ah-Rei's mini celebration* Whoo hoo! I had to rewrite this whole thing all over again. I had an idea, then a better one popped up, but then a better one popped up again, so this is my 5th time writing the 4th chapter. Wow, who knew it would be so complex? I certainly didn't. The drawing part in my brain is slowly making room for writing, but wow its slow... I wonder if after writing this and posting it I'll have another better idea... that would stink so badly...

Chapter 4

We walk through the halls, heading towards the mission board. We were finally aloud to take on missions, and it was a big relief after a few weeks of just practicing. Since there was this bad accident with this one weapon, all missions have to be done with at least 2 groups. I stop in front of the brown mission board, examining the tags decorated with colorful signs and slips of paper.

"Hia, hia, HIA!" a voice pops out from behind me, startling me.

"Jazz! Don't sneak up on me like that! It's rude," I replied to her singing hello. We met a few days after I had moved in with Ato, when Ato and I went to investigate a screech coming from next door. Apparently, Jazz loves to sing, even though she's not that good. Her sisters, Harmony and Melody, don't have the heart to tell her, and I don't either.

"Sorrwie. I just wanna have fuwn..." She says with a pout. I look at her distractingly colorful dress. Today she was wearing a poofy pink knee length pink dress, lined with lace at the hems. Bright yellow socks made her pink ballet flats stand out even more, and a ribbon tied around her waist has the same effect. To top it all off, she was wearing a neon pink wig in pigtails that matched her eyes, crowned by fluffy yellow bunny ears. Ever since I met her about two weeks ago, she hasn't worn one thing twice, leading me to wonder how big her closet was.

I watch Ato high-five Melody, a tall black haired sporty girl with deep blue eyes. Her sister, Harmony, shies away from the crowd behind her. Harmony has long, shoulder length hair that she rarely removes from in front of her face. I've never heard her talk, as she's extremely shy.

"So, whatcha' wanna do? There's this one, but it might be a little too hard, seeing how this is your first mission and-" Melody explains, but is cut off by a whine from her sister.

"I wanna do THIS one, sis!" Jazz whines as she holds up a card in Melody's face.

"I don't really care which one we do," Ato tells Melody to avoid an argument between the two sisters. Shes just mumbles under her breath about how annoying and pushy Jazz can be.

"I don't really care, either," I add, hoping it'll clam down Melody.

"WHOOPIE! THEN ITS SETTLED! We'll take down this guy in nothing flat 'cause we's so AWESOME!" Jazz half sings, half screams as shes skips over to the counter to take the mission. All there of us just sigh as Harmony keeps her mouth shut.

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We pull up to the area the man, Chester-something, has been recently reported on Ato's green motorcycle. The Sisters came earlier than us, as they are already in the spot we picked to meet at.

"Okay, Okay, OKAY-" Jazz begins to shout as we cut her off with a loud shh. She blushes, then resumes her speech. "Okay, so he normally targets young women as his victims, all in this area. So how the heck are we supposed ta find hi-" Jazz begins but is cut short by a woman's screech from nearby. Jazz nods to her sisters, then jumps up and transforms into her weapon mode. Harmony catches a long pink (of course) bow, while Melody changes into a long, blue arrow.

I grasp Ato's hand, a motion that still feels weird to me, and transform. I feel my body changing, becoming a sharp, pointed sword. The handle looks like a purple vine, wrapped around and around, eventually coming to a tightly closed loop.

I watch the world flashing past me as Ato runs towards the screams origin. I watch the others flinch at a mangled, bloody body of a young blonde woman laying in the middle of the cobblestone street. I'm used to the sight of bloody beatings. Some kids wouldn't live if they were lucky. Those who weren't, however, were scared and deformed for life.

The thing that shocks me is the man that looms over her as a ally cat would stand over and protect it's prey. He looks relativity normal, but he has gray scars and stripes up and down his arms that lead to a completely mangled face. I can barely make out his eyes in the gray blob. He smiles and stares at Harmony, showing off rows of pointed yellow teeth. She backs away a bit in fear, but she quickly recovers and positions her bow to strike.

The creature jumps up and lands behind us, to take a surprise swipe at her with his massive claws that seem to have replaced his fingers. Ato quickly jumps in front of Harmony and uses me to block the powerful blow. I kneel over, grasping my stomach in pain. His claws had scraped over part of my blade, and now a long cut bleeds on my side. I hide the pain from Ato, knowing he would stop if he found out.

"Get... OFF!" Ato grunts as he kicks the monster's claws off me, while Harmony releases Jazz. She flies straight into where the demon's heart would me, and I watch in wonder as it poofs away into black gas. A single soul, scarlet dotted with red, appears where it was standing. Melody shimmers, and Jazz flies back to the bow. They both transform back into their human forms, while I do the same.

"You can have it, seeing how its your first mission. We really don't need it too badly" Melody speaks as I walk towards it, careful not to irritate my wound.

I feel the power flowing out of it, warming my body as I take the soul in my hands. I stand there for a second or two, absorbing the moment and adding it to my few good memories. I plop it into my mouth, finding to be very chewy. I swallow and cringe, the thought of eating it sickening me. That small action sets off a surge of pain in my side, and I collapse to the ground.

Ato helps me up with a very concerned expression on his face. "Are you okay? You should had told me! We would've been on the bike by now!" he exclaims, his worry lining his words. We hop over to the motorcycle and he helps me on, careful on to hurt me anymore than I am, and starts the engine. I wave bye to our friends as they run off to go home, knowing the cut wasn't too deep and I'll be fine. I grab a hold of Ato as we swerve onto the streets and smile, pride and victory overflowing out of me. Ato glances back at me, and I see a small but noticeable smile pop onto his face as we ride towards home.

A.N: Oh my gosh! My back is killing me! It hurts... and my eyes...ouch. I had to wing it in a few places. By just watching or reading the anime or manga, you don't get enough information! Like how the weapons feel in their weapon form, or how the soul tastes (yes I know there is that one part, but not much else). This was really, REALLY hard to write. I kept on messing up the tense, so I'm pretty sure there's a few bits I didn't catch. And the spelling. I'm finally trying to get better descriptive words in my vocab, so there should be improvement. Somewhat. I think I'm just gonna take a nap now...