"So, you're Crona?" I asked a pink-haired girl-boy?-as Kylie talked to Soul.

Cora nodded.

"It's good to meet you." I said.

(S)he nodded, blushing. Crona looked cute blushing...unless it was a He. 'Course, Crona'd still look cute then...and I'm doubting my sexuality. Damn it!

"Crona is a bit shy." Maka said.

"I understand. Still, nice to meet her." I said. I was hoping for a response, but Crona didn't do anything, and nobody else said anything. Crap. "Who's our teacher?"

"Dr. Stein." Soul said.

"Like Frankenstein?" I asked.

"A bit." Tsubaki admitted.

I looked out the corner of my eye and saw Kid looking still looking at me, but ignored him.

"So, Crona, are you a Meister or a Weapon?" I asked.

"I'm a Meister." Crona said. His/her voice seemed a bit like a girl's voice, but I couldn't be sure.

"Ah. Who's your Weapon?" I asked, and a black shadow came out of the back of her neck. "What the hell!?"

"That's Ragnarok. He's my Weapon." Crona said.

I looked at it closely. "How, eh, is it...coming out of you?"

"It's a long story." Crona said.

"Alright. No offense, but this thing is...freaky-looking." I said, and promptly received a surprising head-butt.

"Look who's talking, Irish!" Ragnarok said.

"That can talk?" I asked. "And why are you calling me Irish?"

"You smell like booze." Ragnarok said.

My eye twitched. "If you weren't connected to Crona, I'd wipe the floor with your shadow ass.

"I wish I wasn't connected to Crona." Ragnarok said, giving her a noogie.

"You're going to bruise my head!" Crona said.

"Hey, stop that!" I said, grabbing Ragnarok's wrists. Kylie, who I had still been holding, let go of my neck, landing perfectly on her feet. Though she didn't mind that I wasn't carrying her anymore, she did mind that everybody was too busy watching me fight with Ragnarok (Crona sitting on the ground, his/her hands over his/her head) to talk to her.

Suddenly, a scalpel stabbed the ground beside my foot, and the whole room went silent. "Next time," a man with a bolt in his head said, "I won't miss."

I pulled my hands away from Ragnarok and picked Kylie up again, and she jumped up onto my back again. "Hello, I'm Riley. This is Kylie. We're new here."

"Doesn't matter. No fighting." Stein said, looking at us with...a creepy look. "You two seem close."

"We're brother and sister." Kylie said.

"Ah, I see. You're the Weapon?" Stein asked.

"Y-yes." Kylie said, holding me closer.

"Hm. I'd like to see how you two work. You seem to be a good team." Stein said.

Though I wanted to say something, I was too busy trying to figure out why he sounded like he wanted to dissect us when he said 'I'd like to see how you two work', and when he told us to go to our seats, I happily obliged his request.