Shibusen's Heartless Missions

Death City

Apart from Sora's fight with Black*Star, nothing else happened the rest of the day. That night, Sora decided to walk around, to see the part of the city he hasn't visited yet and to keep an eye just in case some Heartless attack.

"It looks quite peaceful tonight," said Sora. "It's getting late so I should go to my apartment."

Suddenly several Soldier and Armored Knight Heartless appeared, and then they surrounded Sora.

"I've got to learn to shut up…" muttered the Keybearer as he drew his blade. The Heartless jumped to get Sora from above, but Sora did a dodge roll in time and launched his Keyblade to the Heartless and destroyed them, however more of them appeared.

He kept killing Heartless, but when he destroyed one, another took its place. The fight was taking too long and Sora was getting tired.

"This is getting nowhere; I'll have to finish all of them at the same time," he thought. "Maybe some magic could work."

Sora took distance with the Heartless and pointed his Keyblade to the sky. "Thunder!" he shouted.

Suddenly blue thunders fell from the sky hitting half of the heartless, and then the thunders moved to the same spot causing a great explosion that destroyed the other ones. The explosion was big, Sora didn't expect that, so his spell sent him flying backwards and he landed in some boxes and rubbish bags.

"That's new…maybe that training was more effective than I expected," he said while trying to get out of the trash. He looked at his surroundings to see if the explosion damaged the city, thankfully all was intact but he made a lot of noise.

He stood up and wiped the dust from his clothes. "I should leave," he thought. "Hopefully no one saw the spell"

The next day, Sora was heading to Shibusen. Something was troubling his mind. "Why, now that I'm here, do they attack just in the night…" thought Sora while climbing the stairs to the academy.

"Hey Sora!" said someone interrupting the Keybearer from his thoughts, it was Maka and Soul.

"Hello Maka, Soul," said Sora to his new friends.

"What's up man?" greeted Soul while high-fiving Sora. "Hey, you look tired, some Heartless hunting last night?"

Sora yawned. "That's right."

As they entered the academy, Sora noticed that some students were looking at him and whispering. Maka and Soul noticed this too.

"You sure got popular fast," said Maka smiling at Sora.

"And how is that?" asked a puzzled Sora.

"Well," Soul began, "being the newest student and defeating Black*Star is something that doesn't happen every day."

Sora sighed; he thought that maybe he's meddling too much, but it was inevitable with his friendly and competitive nature.

"Anyway, what are you guys going to do today?" asked Sora.

"I was going to take a look at the Mission Board," said Maka.

"Mission Board?" asked Sora but then he realized what she was talking about. "Oh, is that board next to the receptionist lady."

"Yeah," answered Soul, "here in Shibusen, we do missions in order to get Kishin Eggs."

Before Sora could ask, Maka started to explain him what the Kishin egg is.

"They are souls of people who are close to become a Kishin or Demon. When someone eats a human soul, their soul starts to become a Kishin Egg. The more souls they eat, the closer they are to become a Kishin," explained her, and then Soul continued.

"But if a person with weapon blood eats a Kishin egg, he or she obtains more power. With ninety-nine Kishin eggs and a Witch's soul I could become a Death Scythe," he said with determination.

"Oh yeah, Kid told me yesterday, that one of the objective of some meisters were to create a Death Scythe to his father," commented Sora. "I take that you're a weapon then, right Soul?"

"Yup, I can transform into a scythe, and Maka is my meister," the boy said.

As they talked, they reached the Mission Board, and they found something strange in it, at least it was strange for Soul and Maka.

"Hey look," began Maka, "they divided a little part of the board."

"Maybe they're going to put a special mission or something," said Soul.

Sora kept looking at the big board. There were lots of missions to do, and they were classified by their difficulty from one to three stars, also part of the missions had a paper on them that said "Taken".

As Sora was taking a look at the missions, he noticed that someone was staring at him really close. It was a boy with a peculiar hairstyle and thick glasses which are fitted with side shields. Sora was starting to feel a little awkward.

"Ummm, can I help you?" asked Sora to the boy.

"I've never seen you here so you must be the new guy everyone is talking about, Sora if I'm not mistaken," said the boy while adjusting his glasses.

"Uh, yeah, that's me," said the Keybearer.

"I'm Ox Ford," said the boy with glasses. "I've got to say that you made yourself some reputation here."

Then another boy came from behind Ox, he had brown hair tied up in a spiky ponytail and a red visor covering his eyes.

"Hey Ox, who are you talking to?" he said with a serious tone.

"Ah, there you are Harvar," said Ox. "I'm talking to the guy who's in everyone lips in Shibusen lately."

"So this is the one who defeated Black*Star," said Harvar coldly. "I expected someone who looked more…intimidating."

Harvar's comment bothered Sora a little, but he brushed that aside. Soul heard them so he decided to take part of the chat.

"Watch your words Harvar," said Soul leaning his arm on Sora's shoulder. "This guy could kick your asses without even trying."

"You're giving me too much credit Soul," said Sora smiling at him. Then Maka joined the group too.

"Ox, when did you arrive from your mission?" asked her.

"We arrived yesterday at night, Maka," he answered. "I've got to say that we did a magnificent work. It was nothing that the Lightning King couldn't do."

"Then tell me, did you fight someone when you arrived?" asked Maka.

"No, we didn't, why do you ask?" asked Ox a little confused.

"Because Soul and I saw last night some huge lightning bolts from our apartment, and we thought that it could be you," the Scythe Meister explained. Sora gulped at hearing her.

"I didn't fight anyone yesterday, sorry," said Ox. Soul then looked at the Keybearer.

"Hey, Sora," he began, "you were dealing with the Heartless yesterday, right? Did you see something?"

"Well…" Sora was trying to come up with something but then someone came and interrupted their talking.

"Excuse me, are you Sora?" said the person addressing the Keyblade wielder. Sora looked at him; it was a tall, muscular man who had a blue tone in his skin.

"Yeah, why'd you ask?" said Sora.

"My name is Sid Barett, I'm a professor of Shibusen," the man answered. "Shinigami-sama sent me because he wanted me to explain you about that small section of the Mission Board."

The others were curious about that part of the board, so they listened to Sid too.

"Look," began Sid, "we've getting information about Heartless roaming other places." At hearing this, Sora's face turned serious. "Shinigami-sama thinks that it could be good to go to investigate, so he divided that section of the Mission Board for you." Sid explained. "When you have time, we'd like you to take a mission of there."

Sora looked concerned at the Mission Board, he thought that if heartless, were starting to appear in other places apart from the city, then his mission would take a little longer, but being who he is, he didn't mind. Besides, he was starting to think that maybe the Heartless weren't the only threat.

"Understood, "answered Sora, "and thanks for the clear explanation Professor Sid."

"No problem," said Sid, "I always like to make things clear, that's the kind of man I was. Oh and one more thing…"

"What is it?" asked Sora.

"Shinigami-sama said that if you want, you could take other students with you. Sometimes is better to have someone watching your back." he said, and then left waving his hand to the students.

As he left someone called the group from behind.

"Hey guys!" the person shouted. It was Black*Star followed by Tsubaki.

"Good morning everyone," said Tsubaki kindly. "What are you doing?"

"Professor Sid just explained us about that separated portion of the Mission Board," she said and then Black*Star and Tsubaki looked at the board.

"Oh yeah, what is it?" asked the girl.

"It looks like our pal Sora is going to have his own custom missions in that section," said Soul smiling at the Keybearer. "And he's allowed to take other students with him."

"WHAT?!" shouted Black*Star startling the others, then he looked at Sora. "I'll go with you then! With a Big Star like me at your side you won't have to worry about anything!"

"That's not up to you, Black*Star," Soul said, and then Ox spoke.

"Besides," he began, "I'm pretty sure that the Keyblade wielder will need someone more intelligent and logical at his side."

Black*Star got pissed at his comment. "What are you saying, Ox?! Do you want to die?!" shouted the ninja while Tsubaki tried to calm him.

"As much as I would like to fight with you now, I can't." said Ox. "I must go find my dear Kim and declare my love for her!" His face brightened with glee when he said that.

"Oh, sorry Ox, Kim didn't come back yet of his mission with Kilik," said Tsubaki when she heard Ox.

"No problem, I can wait for her. I'd wait forever!" he said, and then he left being followed by Harvar.

During this the only thing Sora did was to stare at the missions, also he was still thinking about why the Heartless didn't attack him frequently like always. There was a possibility that the Heartless were being controlled by someone, but he didn't even want to think about that someone. He was lost in his thoughts when suddenly Maka called him.

"Sora, you look worried, is everything okay?" she said.

"Uh, yeah, it's nothing Maka, don't worry," said Sora, but Maka was still concerned about what was troubling him so she decided to do something.

"Hey Sora, could Soul and I go with you in a mission?" asked her.

"I like the sound of that," Soul said smirking.

Then Black*Star stepped in. "Hey that's not fair guys, I said it first!"

"Yeah, but you fought with him yesterday," said Soul.

"And he went with Kid to watch over the city his first night here," added Maka. "So now it's our turn."

Sora raised an eyebrow and looked at them. "Hey, what do you think I am? A pet?" he said and made everyone laugh.

Maka stopped laughing and looked at the Keybearer. "So, what do you say, Sora?"

The Keybearer crossed his arms and thought about the offer. "Well, I don't see a reason for not letting you come and I'm curious to see your fighting style too," he said grinning and Soul and Maka did too.

Soul looked at the board. "Choose the mission, then. They're for you after all."

"Ok, let's see…" said Sora taking a look at his missions.

There wasn't much to choose, but one mission caught the Keybearer's attention. Sora took the paper, it said that some people have seen some strange things in a forest; one person assures that he saw a giant chameleon. Soul and Maka glanced at the mission information and both of them looked puzzled.

"Giant…" began Soul.

"…chameleon?" finished Maka.

Sora let out a little laugh. "It's a type of Heartless, or it should be…that's why we're going to go there, to find out."

And here's chapter 6. This was a little introduction to the other characters of Soul Eater, and a mention to the ones who will appear in later chapters.