And after a week, I'm finally uploading the next chapter :D

"Name's Marla Stinger, nice to meet you." Marla walked past everyone and sat down.

"So…Marla…" Shima said. "You a demon..?"

"Only half," She answered, not bothered by the question.

"Three demons and three angels…" Bon muttered in disbelief. Marla, Kline, and Lily and Blossom swiveled toward him.

"You got a problem with that?!"

While they had been talking, the aria teacher had entered the room. "Okay, class, please turn to page 26."

. . .

Marla crossed her arms. "That guy was acting as if he'd never seen a half-demon before!"

"Well it's not like it's a common thing, but yeah." Blossom agreed.

"I still don't understand what you guys are so angry about." Rin commented. "It's not like half-demons and angels are exactly an everyday thing…."

The others didn't have a response.

"So Marla, you're half-demon, right?"

"Um, yeah."

"Cool-well I mean, it's not cool, but not like you're lame or anything, just…" Rin stuttered. "I'm one too."

Marla blinked, not understanding anything but the last sentence. "Yeah…"

"So…which parent is the demon?"

"Father, what 'about you?"

"Same. So, you live with your mother..?"

A pain-stricken look appeared on her face, but was gone a moment later. She looked away. "My mother was…she died when I was six."

Rin instantly felt terrible for bringing it up. "Oh…. I'm sorry…I shouldn't have said anything…"

"It's fine." Marla said. "So, you know who your father is?"

Kline snickered. "Yeah, everyone does." Rin sent a glare at Kline, and Blossom rolled her eyes.

"…?"

"His daddy is Satan." Kline snickered.

"I swear to God, I'm gonna send you to a hospital!"

Marla giggled. Then surprise ran across her face. "Satan..?"

Rin nodded. "Yep, and he's a total asshole."

"I bet he is, I mean, he's Satan." Marla replied.

"Yep. So, who's your dad?"

"Um…I don't know…" Marla lied. I'm not sure if I can trust these people yet. She thought.

"Well, if you've never randomly burst into blue flames before then I guess your father isn't Satan." Rin joked.

"Yeah…" Marla said. "Uh, I gotta go now." She walked past Rin and left the room. He stared after her.

"Was it something I said?"

Blossom punched his shoulder. "No, duh, dumbass!"

"Ow!" He whined. "I was just trying to being friendly!"

"Yeah, being friendly by asking her about her personal life as a demon." Blossom mocked. "Next time ask her about her interest as in exorcism or something!"

"Okay, okay, jeez!" Rin said.

"Where's the new girl?" Bon asked, walking up to them with the other exwires following.

"I dunno," Rin said, shrugging. "She said she had to go then walked off."

Bon crossed his arms. "You said something, didn't you."

Rin threw his arms into the air. "Why does everyone always think it was me?!"

"Because it always is you!" Bon answered.

"Heads up, teacher alert." Blossom said as Yukio walked into the room, Marla behind him.

"Oooh, Rin you're busted!" Blossom teased.

"Oh, shut up!"

"Today, instead of your normal classes, you're going to have exams."

"What?!" Rin exclaimed. "You're a beast…"

"You didn't let me finish," Yukio replied. "An exam on your fighting skills."

Rin's tail wagged back and forth with excitement. "Now that's what I'm talking about!"

"This will be a test to see who's the strongest, and this does not have anything to do with your skills as an exorcist or IQ." Yukio explained. "However, you will not be using actual weapons, familiars, or any special powers."

. . .

Turns out they had to use fake swords. They didn't want anyone getting badly injured, so they weren't allowed to use any real ones. They weren't allowed to use familiars, arias, or trickery. Just brute strength. Blossom understood why easily. Yukio and the other teachers wanted to know what your physical strength alone was. After all, you never know when you'll get stuck in a fight were you couldn't use anything but your own strength.

Blossom glanced around the gymnasium, thinking it was a weird place to hold fighting classes. Wouldn't someplace like a dojo be better? And safer? There was a rack of wooden swords and daggers at the sideline.

"Any exorcist should never go to an exorcism mission without a secret weapon," Shura had said.

"The first fight will be Rin versus Bon," Yukio announced. Rin grabbed a sword and walked to the middle of the gym, Bon following. "Remember Rin, no flames."

"Yeah, I know!" He snapped. "It's not like I didn't hear you the last five thousand times you said it!"

"Okay, pipsqueaks, get to it!" Shura interrupted.

. . .

After many battles, Yukio had a list of who was physically strongest to weakest. The results were:

Rin

Bon

Blossom and Lily tied

Marla

Shima

Izumo

Kline

Shima

Shiemi

Konekomaru

"Yeah, first place!" Rin did an air fist-pump.

"Next is the IQ test," Yukio said, adjusting his glasses.

Rin cursed.

. . .

"The results we got weren't exactly surprising." Yukio said, not looking very happy. "Some of you really need to step up your game."

Kline faked coughed. "Rin."

"Cough, cough, Kline." Rin replied.

"Cough, cough, both of you." Yukio interrupted. "Anyway, the list is: Bon, Konekomaru, Izumo, Shiemi, Lily, Marla, Blossom, Shima, Rin, and Kline."

"Ha! I did better than you, Kline!" Rin bragged.

"I wouldn't be too happy. You only beat him by half a point." Yukio added.

"I still beat him!"

Marla rolled her eyes, Lily did a facepalm, and Blossom burst out laughing. Kline glared at Rin, and Rin glared back. As usual.

"You two are gonna have to learn how to get along." Shura said.

"But I can't stand him!" Kline protested.

"Well you either learn to stand him or you're gonna die out in the field. Kline scowled.

After a few other tests, the group was sitting in the cram school classroom, taking a break.

"Hey, quick question-" Blossom asked. "Howcome you need to know all of our skills and stuff all of a sudden?"

Yukio glanced at Shura. She shrugged. He sighed and adjusted his glasses. "You may just be exwires, but I guess you all deserve to know more than anyone. Besides, you'd just find out later anyway."

Everyone waited curiously, wondering what was going on.

"Satan's on the move."

Everyone stood in shocked silence. They knew it would happen eventually, they just didn't expect it so soon.

"Already?!" Rin exclaimed, breaking the silence. "It's only been a few months since his last attack!"

"Apparently it was just enough time for him." Bon said, clenching his fists.

"We barely survived the last time he attacked…" Izumo mumbled. An unsettling silence fell over the teenagers as they remembered what had happened that horrid night. The newest students stood awkwardly, oblivious of what had happened to their friends. Blossom wanted to ask just what had gone down that night, but didn't want to arise any unwanted memories.

"Are you talking about the night demons attacked the streets and blue flames lit up the sky?" Lily whispered. They nodded. Blossom looked at her feet, remembering how hopelessly frightened she had been. Lily's expression showed she was having the same thoughts.

"Hey, don't go moping around about the past now." Shura said. "What you need to focus on is getting stronger. You need to improve all the skills you lack and excel in. Forget the past. All you need to do is learn from it. It's going to be harder on you guys cuz you saved Assiah last time."

Everyone stared at her.

"What? Don't believe me?" Shura asked. She pointed at Ryuji and the others. "You helped the citiziens and came up with a brilliant idea to get rid of the coaltar." She pointed at Rin and Yukio. "While you two destroyed the Gehenna Gate."

"Um…I can't help but ask but…" Blossom hesitated. "What exactly happened that night?"

"Well, a huge Gehenna Gate opened and Satan attacked and we fought against him and we won." Rin said.

"No, I know that, that's not what I meant … never-mind…" Blossom muttered.

"I think she meant what the full story was." Bon said.

"Oh…" Rin said.

"You don't have to tell us if you don't want to, I mean-!" Blossom interrupted. "It seems as if their unsettling memories…"

"Nah, don't worry about it!" Rin said. "Let's go out to eat and tell ya later?" The suggestion brightened the mood. Everyone nodded in agreement. Annddd I'm gonna end it here. My one friend said i should pull a Rick Riordan and end it somewhere else, but I'm very tired and want to go to sleep so I'm just gonna end it here. (Be glad. You'd probably shot me if i would've ended it where she wanted me to end it xD