Flonne was getting use to walking the school alone. The students even sometimes approached her, interested in starting a conversation. But the thing that bothered Flonne the most was the fact they all addressed her the same. Demon. Even Maka was slipping up.
It was becoming so annoying, Flonne couldn't stand hearing it. "Why is it so hard to call me by my name? My name is Flonne not Demon." Maka shrugged. "Demon...its just so catchy. I've never known a Demon personally before!" She giggled.
Flonne sighed. "Then you can call me Flo. That's even more catchy."
Maka contemplated it. "Yeah, it is! Flo then. Flo Creed!" She giggled again. 'Oi, humans are so strange...' Flonne, now Flo, thought.
On the roof of DWMA, sat a certain blue haired boy, deep in thought. There was something about Flonne that unsettled BlackStar. 'Is she truly stronger then me? Is she a bigger star then me?' BlackStar looked down on the people below him. 'Maybe I'm not as great a person as I thought I was..'
~BlackStar's doubts: A Demon with a Heart
It was the first day of school for Flonne and Crona. But much to her grief she was assigned to sit next to BlackStar. She set her books on the table, and looked down on the boy. "Hello Midget."
"Hello Blonde Demon." Flonne scowled. "Flo Creed.." She held out her hand, and after a pause BlackStar shook. "BlackStar~" She sat down. "Say Flo..how do you read your textbooks with those bandages covering your eyes?"
Flo opened a book. "Braille. The books are in Braille." To illustrate, Flonne took BlackStar's hand and moved his finger along with hers over the bumps. " 'a sound soul resides in a sound mind..'" She read aloud. Quickly BlackStar checked this in his own textbook. "Correct. But why would you go to the trouble to learn Braille, when you can see just fine."
"Its..complicated...A family thing my clan did before-" BlackStar quickly interrupted her. "I come from a clan to! The Star clan. What Clan do you come from? Are they cool? Whats your clan's name? What special things do you do? Are there any secret rituals or something? Whats it's history? Is your clan still alive today? Is it Big like mine was-"
Flonne covered BlackStars mouth. "Shut up, and listen. Unless you don't wanna know.."
"MHHPMM MHHPH!" He nodded furiously.
"I come from the Eternal Darkness Clan, other wise known as the Eternity Clan." Flonne's voice became very far away, as if lost in a dream.
"My clan was known for their warriors, often called 'Blinks'. From an early age we often blinded ourselves with bandages of some sorts like I do now. Being blind for long periods of time heightened our senses to extreme levels. So when we finally took off the bandages, our senses where very, very sharp. The blind stage usually lasts from ages 5 to 10, and during that period of time we train constantly. Usually the typical amount of sleep and rest you got was about a hour per a 24 hour time frame. I, however, am now about 17 years old. 7 years over due. I started early, around the age of 3 so I could stop at age 8. But that never happened. I grew accustomed to not seeing, and I now have no desire to do so. Actually, I rather not. Who knows what state the world is in."
BlackStar blinked. "So you've been blind for almost 15 years..." Flonne nodded. "Its quite sad actually. I don't even remember what I even look like. I'm probably not even all that pretty. But attractiveness is irrelevant since no one in their right minds for fall for a Demon." Flonne laid her head down on her book. "Sometimes I wish I could bring myself to just take them off...once my brother told me how much he wanted to 'rip the curtains from his eyes, and just see the damn sun already'. "
And at the moment, every bad feeling, every ounce of hatred for the Demon Girl left BlackStar's heart. 'I know Demons often play tricks like this with your mind but...I feel like shes not lieing."
"What about your clan?" BlackStar murmered. "The Clan always abandons their warriors when they're blinded. Something about spreading the power. I was abandoned in a house I've called home for a while. Is actually directly in front of DWMA." Flonne turned her head torwards the warm sunlight coming from a window. Across the street was a Black painted Manor. "That's where you live?" Flonne nodded. "Well, not since DWMA got me. I wish I could go back though. "
BlackStar only nodded.
"Okay, today we're not dissecting anything!" Dr. Stein announced. Shocking,
Instead, we're all going out to the training grounds to fight. Pick your partners." BlackStar immediately grabbed Flonne when he saw Soul advance towards her "Back up Soul, you've already had your chance, and got your ass kicked!" BlackStar laughed.
Flonne could feel the sun on her face. It was such a nuisance to have to fight on a daily basis. She could feel Dr. Stein's intent gaze on her, probably expecting some amazing attack, or display of energy from her.
"Hey Flo, where's your weapon huh?" Flonne held up a finger, and sucked in her breath. Slowly she plunged her hand through the depth of her soul, searching for a place to grab hold. BlackStar watched silently at the girl just sticking her hand in her chest as if it was made of mist. It looked awesome.
Flonne, finding the hilt of a sword, tugged on it bringing it to the surface. She reached down farther touching the blade, possibly cutting her fingers. Despite the pain she grabbed it and renched it out of her chest. In a streak of bright pink light it shot into the sky and fell down to the earth, sticking in the soil was a large sword that looked awfully big for a girl as small as Flonne. BlackStar clapped, and hand out Tsubaki as a ninja sword.
Clash, BlackStar swung at her as fast as possible, his movements blurring. But as fast as he was Flonne disappeared, then reappeared above him. She balanced the hilt of her sword on BlackStars shoulder, and used both BlackStar's shoulder and her sword, to dodge his attack. It was a very creative way to dodge fast attacks, he admitted. When she came down, she swung and kicked BlackStar in the back.
Many of the other students stopped their own battles to watch. The Demon had stuck her sword in the ground, then clutching to it's hilt, she swung her legs. This resulted in send BlackStar crashing into a tree.
Stein smirked. 'It seems Flonne doesn't use that sword as a cutting tool per say, but as a balancing mechanism. But why would she need one?' He watched Flonne and BlackStar angerly clashing at each other. Flonne still didn't make any advance to use her sword properly, but instead as a balancing mechanism and shield.
BlackStar advanced, pushing Flonne towards a deep crater in the ground. Finally Flonne reached the edge, and slipped. Everyone waited for the girl to slip over the edge, but her sword stuck in the ground just a inch from the edge. Flonne swung on it in a circle creating speed. Then released the sword from the ground and kicked BlackStar square in the head.
'Aw, I see. By the looks of the extra bandages on Flonne's left leg and how carefully she walks on it..I think Flonne has a weaker left leg then her right. Which would be the case for some sort of balancing object. Like a sword. She also typically holds the sword in her left hand, creating a closer balance for her body.' It impressed Stein how smart Flonne was. She knew perfectly well how to cope with a weak leg, and find many uses for a simple weapon like a sword.
Flonne stood perfectly still, concentrating. The noise had stopped, leaving her blind. No one was moving, were they? She clenched her sword. A sudden force struck her in the back of the head, then something kicked her left leg out from underneath her. She toppled down, it was too late to use her sword to counteract the damage. She lay on her back. When silence persisted, she considered taking off her bandages. 'Its necessary , everyone's watching. I can't lose to BlackStar.
Slowly she stood up, and untied the bandages around her eyes. BlackStar tensed, he hadn't expected this. Suddenly he realized everyone was watching them. "Well? Go fight your own battles, bastards!" He yelled. When they departed, Flonne continued untieing the bandages.
"I think 15 years is a good time to stop, don't you think?"
"Yeah." Flonne finished and tossed the bandages aside, disgusted. This revealed two brilliant orbs of a strange mix of pink and golden orange. 'Like apricots..' BlackStar noted. Flonne assessed BlackStar. "Damn, you are short little boy."
Her eyes flashed, realizing everyone was watching again. She lifted her sword lazily and pointed it as BlackStar. "Blind Resonance, Red Cross Burial." Black energy danced around her sword. Purple Circles of light surged up the sword , as if it was charging it. Flonne flicked her wrist sending the energy flying at BlackStar. Before he could dodge, he blacked out.
Flonne poked at the lifeless boy at her feet. Soul growled at her. "Don't touch him Demon!" Flonne's eyes flashed at Soul, and he saw darkness behind them. It chilled him to the bone, and almost made him wet his pants. The Darkness intensified, her pupils sharpened until all Soul could see was that beautiful, but sickening apricot color. The color deepened.
"Call me that again, and the last thing you'll see is my sword through your head, you got that?" Soul growled, but nodded. Her pupils grew to their normal size slowly, and the darkness in her eyes faded. They began to cloud over, and pain formed behind them. Flonne was much scarier when she could see.
Stein sighed and carted BlackStar, with a worried Tsubaki, to the infirmary. Flonne followed him, no longer touching the hallway walls to lead her. She knew where she was going.
She sat down next to BlackStar, reading something other then Braille. "Is that book good?" Stein mused. Flonne shrugged. "I dunno, I can't read anything other then Braille." Stein and Tsubaki laughed.
"Flonne, that battle..you were amazing." Tsubaki smiled. "I got that, at first I couldn't figure why everyone was watching us." Flonne watched Tsubaki pat BlackStar's forehead. "Flonne are you feeling ok? That was a high powered energy you did.." Stein examined Flonne carefully. "No, I'm fi-" Flonne's voice dropped off, and she clutched her side. "Here, let me see."
Carefully, lifting up the side of Flonne's shirt, he saw that her stomach was completely bandaged. On the side she had been clutching, a blossom of black colored blood was forming. When Stein's hand came near it, the Black Blood sprout out into needles, piercing his hand. "Hnn...seems like BlackStar isn't the only one spending some time here..."
The two laid there, Flonne and BlackStar, for what seemed like hours. Finally BlackStar looked over to see Flonne playing with a iPod touch. "Watcha listening to?"
"Fall For You by Secondhand Serenade" BlackStar's eyes lite up. "Can I listen.." Flonne shrugged and slide off her bed. She hopped up into BlackStar's bed and sat down next to him. She handed him a earphone.
When Maka walked into the infirmary, to find Flonne and BlackStar laying in a bed laughing. Flonne had one earphone in, and BlackStar had the other. She watched them smirking. When BlackStar looked up, a slight pink tinge came into his face. "Sup' Maka." Flonne's eyes suddenly darkened, all the light and laughter disappearing. "Hello Child." Maka couldn't help feeling pissed by being called Child. She knew Flonne was was referring to Maka's lack of a chest. But Maka had to admit, Flonne wasn't too busty herself. She just had a slight bigger chest then Maka. "Hello Flo. BlackStar. Tee-hee what were you doing~?" A slight pink tinge came into Flonne's face, but it disappeared unlike BlackStar's. His darkened.
Soul came in behind Maka. "Are you two feeling ok?" BlackStar nodded, but Flonne's eyes darkened. Out of the corner of Maka's eye, she saw Flonne touch her side. "Flo, something wrong with your side?"
"Nnn...N-no" She winced, and dug her fingers into her side. BlackStar poked her hand. "Watcha do to it?" Flonne shook her head. "I was stupid. It was raining, and I was walking through the woods alone. I slipped and fell on my own sword."
Maka frowned. "When was this..." Flonne's pupils grew bigger, and her eyes darkened. "Last week.."
"Why didn't you tell anyone? You could of died!" BlackStar's voice rose. Flonne flinched. "Medical care is one of the things I fear the most.."
Tsubaki, who had been watching, did a mental face palm. Flonne jumped up suddenly realizing. "Where is my sword?" She choked out, tried to open the hospital door. It was locked, so she turned and jumped out the window. "FLO!" Maka shouted as she watched Flonne fly down 3 stories. She landed and took off running.
Maka leaned out the window, and realized her hand was touching something wet. She lifted up into the light. It was Black.
'Flonne's blood...'
Flonne ran through the woods, back to the training area. There laid her sword. She staggered torwards it, but collapsed only a inch away from it. Desperately, she grabbed the blade of it, and held it to her chest. She held back a sob, as her side gushed blood. She could feel the soul fading, from her being away from it so long. She feel disconnected from it, and no matter how close she held it...she couldn't feel the warm and light it once gave her.
Her heart pounded, but slowed realizing it's body was becoming soulless. Flonne could hear her friend's feet pounding after her. "Flo!" They called out to her. Flonne made no sound, her eyes clouding.
When they reached her, it already looked too late. Flonne laid on her back staring up at the sky. Her sword laid across her chest, a hand clutching it's blade. The Blade cut through her hand from her holding it so tight. Her once beautiful golden pink eyes were clouded in a mist of oncoming death.
BlackStar held her in his arms, fighting back tears. "Hold on Flonne...A big star like you doesn't deserve to die..."
A strange wind blew over the girl, ruffling her fairytale blonde hair. The ringlets fluttered gently on the ground. Tsubaki was finally the one to move. She kneeled down and quietly closed Flonne's wide open eyes. Her voice rose bravely. "Flonne lived 15 years of darkness, and 3 years and a few hours of sight. I'm glad she got to spend the last hour of her life seeing the brilliance of the world."
Silently, Soul stared at the girl he had wished dead, not even a hour ago. He refused to give in to the tears that fell so easily from his companions eyes. This was a Demon. The death of a Demon was to be celebrated, not mourned.
From behind the clouds the sun came out, shining on the training area. Maka cleared her throat. "I don't think Flonne was ever a Demon..She was an angel."
'A angel..' These echoed in Flonne's far away mind. They bounced around, slowly awakening her. "Heh...D-did you really think I'd just die like that? Your so stupid.." Flonne opened her eyes, a bit annoyed by BlackStar's tears falling on her face.
"Welcome back." Soul smiled.