Chapter 5: To True Cross Academy
The entire group was on the plane while Rebecca was with a depressed Kid while Soul, Patty, and Black Star were running around, and Maka, Tsubaki, and Liz were trying to figure out where they were going to be going.
"Come on Kid, you can fix it when you get home, plus you can actually mix it up a bit." Rebecca was rubbing his back and trying to calm him down.
He grabbed the collar of her shirt and looked at her darkly, "'Mix things up' how? My room was horrid nothing was broken, but-"
"I meant rearrange the things in your room in a different, but comfortable way. You can plan it during the trip and if you forget anything then, well you'll just deal with it when it happens, Kay?"
"IT BOTHERS ME THAT MY ROOM IS NO LONGER PERFECT!"he shouted in a horrified tone.
"...Just remember it as it was before then or just do something to keep your mind off of it..."
"HOW?"
"I dunno, try and find a way to make the letter 'R' symmetrical." Kid fainted foaming at the mouth. Rebecca laughed nervously.
Rebecca just looked out the window in thought.
"Wow Rebecca that's a really good drawing. Are you going to be an artist?"
"Yep I'm going to Japan so I could become an official manga artist!"
Rebecca held her head, "Elle?" tears began to stream down her face, 'I was so excited about being in my favorite world, that I forgot my friends...' she used her sleeve to wipe away the tears, 'Elle, Allie, Amelie, and Elise... I wonder what happened?' Rebecca held her head and faintly remembered seeing her 3 friends look at her in worry before everything went black.
Rebecca's left eye throbbed slightly and her throat burned. She held the left side of her head and then felt a hand on her shoulder. She turned and saw Kid looking at her worriedly.
"Are you alright? You seem to be in pain." Soul and Maka looked over from their seats across the aisle.
Rebecca shook her head and took her hand away from her head, "I'm fine, really," she said, voice cracking a bit.
Kid gasped as he saw her eye. The Iris was red and the whites were turned to black. He cringed slightly and cupped her face to get a better look at it. He held up a mirror for her to look at, "You call that, alright?"
The mirror was in between them so he couldn't see her reaction but he heard a gasp. "Wow, the bags under my eyes have disappeared! Blair was right that cream of her's really worked!" He moved the mirror and saw her eye had gone back to it's sharp blue and white self.
Soul and Kid were confused her eye was just black and red a few minutes ago, but now she was back to normal. They decided not pay it a second thought and just sat in silence.
Getting off the plane was more difficult, the airport was bustling with people and they could hardly move. Kid was gripping Rebecca's hand, Rebecca had Soul's who had Maka's. Black Star and Patty held Tsubaki's belt while she held Maka's hand. Once they finally got out of the airport, it was much less crowded but Rebecca still collapsed onto the pavement. She was panting and red faced. She was mumbling about how stupid it is to be in a group. The others paid no mind to her phobia-induced rant and continued looking around for some sign that might show who they were supposed to meet with.
"So Kid, Shinigami-sama seemed pretty close with this Reborn guy, you know anything about him?" Liz asked only to have him shake his head. "figures."
Rebecca finally stopped her rant and looked over to see a limousine with a gold emblem across the side and a red, green, and white flag off the antennae. The emblem had a blue shield with a gold bullet on it from what she could see at that distance. She squealed and pointed to the limo.
"That's it! The Vongola Famiglia Emblem!" she dragged the closest person to her (Kid) over to the long black car.
"Rebecca I'm not familiar with 'Famiglia' but how do you know it's for us?" he asked.
"Famiglia translates to 'Family' and is a large form of gang. Reborn is involved with them!" she said excitedly.
The window rolled down to reveal a blonde man in a dark-green parka, he was smiling, "Seems you know alot about Reborn. May I ask how?" he asked.
Rebecca blushed a bit, "Sorry but right know I'll have to ask Mr. Faust when I see him. Are you here for us?"
Dino nodded in understanding, "Yes I am, get in and I'll tell of Reborn's plans for you and your friends."
Rebecca nodded and opened the door and sat on the far side. Kid was hesitant and the others were just getting there. "Come on Kid Romario is in here, Dino won't hurt you." Dino visibly flinched. While Romario chuckled at his boss.
"Whoa, Rebecca, who's that? " Soul said pointing to the blonde.
"Dino Chivarone, he's the Chivarone Decimo, he's a former student of Reborn and part of the Vongola Alliance. Though even as a really strong and kind boss, he has a sort of subordination complex, meaning at least one of his subordinates have to be around him or he's a terrible klutz." Rebecca said proudly. Dino's pervious assumption of this being a nice easy errand for Reborn, ended up being wrong.
Soul shrugged and sat down across from Rebecca. Kid took the seat beside her and Liz and Patty took beside Kid. Maka sat between Romario and Soul while Tsubaki and Black Star took the far seat that connected the two separate ends on the side.
"So, what are we doing, Chivarone?" Kid asked.
"Reborn told me to tell you that you'll all be staying at True Cross Academy as to help Ms. Shinemass here with her training. He also said that his student-"
"Sawada Tsunayoshi."
"Yeah, him, will also be in attendance. You all will be participating in Cram school." Dino began handing out school uniforms. Each accepted it but one voice rang out.
"Wait wasn't this just supposed to be an escort mission?" Liz asked.
"What? No Reborn told me that you were to help guard Rebecca here, while she is still training."
Kid fainted at the thought not going home to fix his room.
"Is he alright?" Dino asked.
"He'll be fine, heads up 1. don't mention the stripes, 2 if it's not symmetrical he'll flip out in one way or the other. " Rebecca poked Kid's face. Dino nodded.
The entire gang fell asleep on the way to True Cross except for Rebecca and Dino.
"So, how is it you know Reborn, Rebeka-chan?"
"I ... just do. I can't really tell you until Mr. Faust says I can."
"Hm. Well do you know this 'Mr. Faust' very well? Like is he your guardian or teacher?"
"No, I've never met him, but I know him the same way I know you and Reborn." Dino nodded and left the girl alone.
Soon after arriving to the gates of True Cross Rebecca woke the others. They all stared out the window at the large city-like academy.
"It's huge!"
"It looks a lot like Death City!"
"Yeah, an entire city based around a school."
"It's almost as big as me!"
"You mean your false ego?"
"SHUT UP! I'M THE MAN THAT IS GOING TO SURRPASS GOD!"
Dino smiled at the eight kid's reactions and looked out the window himself. The car soon stopped in front of the school itself. All of them piled out and saw a man dressed in a white-lavender suit with purple hair and a ratty old umbrella. Behind him stood eight people. Two of which had black hair and blue eyes similar to Rebecca, but the taller one with moles had a bit of green mixed in with it. A boy with brown hair and a blonde streak through it just stood there, annoyed next to a smaller male with glasses and a shaved head. Beside them was a tall lanky pink-haired boy, scooting away from the girl next to him with purple hair in pigtails and small eyebrows. At the end, a blonde girl and a scantly clad woman with red hair and blonde tips stood.
"Good Day to all of you." The first man said, "I'm Johann Faust the fifth."
Rebecca's fist hit her palm in realization, "That's what the 'V' meant."
All the other people there sweat- dropped. "Took you that long huh?" Kid said from behind her.
Rebecca glared at him, "Why don't you go dye that hair of yours?" Kid was in the Emo corner, ranting about how he can't.
Sweat- drop.
"Anyway, you must be Rebecca." The man got to one knee and kissed Rebecca's hand. She flinched and attempted to pull away but Faust had a grip on her hand. He stood and pulled back the sleeve of her jacket. What he saw was a burn that reached up her arm. Faust scowled and motioned for the blonde girl to come forward. "Where did this come from?"
"M-my first attempt at Oblivion."
"Remove the jacket. Shura," he said to the woman with red-blonde hair, "show the rest of these fine young people to their dorms. Moriyama can you go to your home to find some burn ointment, buckets of it if you can." The respective persons nodded.
Shura led Kid and the others away to the Okumura twin's dorm, while Moriyama ran in the opposite direction.
"Yukio, you and your students should probably take Rebecca here to the Cram school classrooms." Yukio, the mole-boy, nodded and held out a hand for Rebecca. She looked at him in confusion before grabbing the hand.
"Well this is an odd way to meet," the pink-haired boy said while walking along side Rebecca. She nodded. "I'm Shima Renzou. Mole-face is Okumura Yukio and his twin is Rin." He pulled the smaller boy in glasses closer, "This is Miwa Konekomaru, the angry bird back there is Suguro Ryuuji. And I trust you saw Moriyama and Shura already."
"Shima-san she's injured this isn't time for introductions!" the smaller boy scolded.
"I don't mind, Mephisto is overreacting I've already had it treated."
"Oh, Ok... Wait how'd you know Faust-sensei's real name?"
Rebecca looked over to them, "I just do. By the way, for future references I know a lot." She walked up closer to Mephisto. "Sir, just so you know it's already been treated."
The purple haired man looked at the girl, "How long ago?"
"About a day."
He sighed, "Yukio false alarm, call Shiemi and tell her." He held his head in his hand.
"I've never seen anyone freak out like that over something like that. So why?" Rebecca asked the older man.
The older man smirked, "Can't a principal worry about his students?"
Rebecca shrugged, "I never took a demon like you for one to worry about a mere human." She slowed down to walk with Bon so that Mephisto would just miss her smirk.
"So, Rebeka right? Anyway you'll be staying in the dorm with me and Yukio, it's mainly empty anyway. The other new students will be as well. And I'll be helping to train you. Kay?" Rin said from behind Bon.
"Thank you, Rin-kun" she smiled sweetly and Rin was blushing and rubbing the back of his head.
"Mephisto said that the other new group of students will also be staying there." Konekomaru said softly.
"Ok, can we go to the dorms? I'm sure my friends are trying to escape Shura-san right now."
Rin nodded and produced a key from his pocket. He stuck it into a random door's keyhole and opened it to reveal an old looking dorm room. Black Star was hanging from one of the windows by a rope tied around his foot.
"Hey! Rebecca, that shirtless witch hung me out here! Can you get Tsubaki so I can use her to get down?"
"I'll do ya one better!" Rebecca looked at Yukio, "May I use your gun?" Yukio just gave her a look that wondered how she knew about his guns before handing one to her. She smirked and ran to a certain point in front of Black Star. He started to panic.
"WAIT, I'M FINE I MEAN I AM GOING TO SURPASS GOD SO MAYBE I SHOULD STAY IN THE AIR. YA KNOW JUS-JUST TO GET USED TO THE FEELING!"
"Get off your high window, Black Star." She fired a shot that hit the rope but didn't break it.
"NO REALLY I'M FINE. BIG OL' ME CAN HANDLE ANYTHING."
Rebecca glared at him, "hold still or we'll find out if you can handle a bullet to the brain. I'm sure Kid and Maka would thank me for that." Mephisto walked up beside her and took the gun. She stared at him before pouting.
"This is a more... simple solution, Ein, Zwei, Drei!" the rope around Black Star's foot disappeared and he fell on his head. "Much less messy. See instead of having to clean the wall and hiding the body, you can just hide the body and be done with it." Mephisto handed the gun back to Yukio.
"I wasn't looking for simple, I was looking for a fun way." Rebecca pouted.
Black Star's head poked out of the bushes, "SO YOU WERE TRYING TO KILL ME!" Rebecca shrugged before grabbing a fistful of his hair and walking into the dorms. He was flailing and screaming, "HAVE MERCY ON ME!"
"Well she certainly has quite the character, right, Yukio?"
The others shook themselves out of their daze and Shima voiced what was on all of their minds, "Yeah seems like she'd get along with Shura really well." They all nodded slightly fearful of the future.