"Ahhh! It burns!"
I fell in a tangled mess, startled by a high pitched screech.
"Who, what ,where?"
I asked hurriedly jumping on the soft green bed with a baseball bat.
I failed to notice a roll of toilet paper flying towards my head.
My head was thumped forward slightly and I jumped to see the imposter.
It was Eira on the bathroom doorway, mouth red and puffy.
I flinched from the glare she sent me.
"Where the hell did you get this mouthwash? It's like I'm swishing fire in my mouth!" she threw the gallon of mouthwash out of the opened window, and seconds later we heard a loud crash and cat scream.
"Jeez calm down, I thought a burglar was here!" I sat on the bed and put the bat aside. "What time is it anyway?"
"Six forty-nine." she answered picking her grey outfit from the closet and changed in the bathroom.
"Ugh ,I hate school." I dropped my head in my hands, for a few seconds before walking to the closet.
Let's see, let's see, what to wear?
I picked the black jeans, the only pants that were from the real world and a white t-shirt with pastel colored stars on it.
As I was looking through the drawers of the desk, I saw something white coming from the pocket of my black pants.
I looked down and curiously pulled it out,revealing a small picture of my mother and a new born me.
I stared at it, and I felt involuntary tears burn my dry eyes.
I heard the bathroom door open, and Eira was ready for the day.
She looked at me and realized that I was crying,"What's wrong?" She walked over to me and then looked at the photo,"Is that...your mom?" I smiled through the tears and nodded ,I croaked a yeah.
"Adil." she looked at me, with a caring expression.
I looked at her blurry form, through all the unshed tears.
"Look. I know how you feel. Don't think you're alone, I know what it's like to lose a mother." she looked down angirly.
I stared at her shocked. She...Her mother died too?
Eira knew about my mother, but I lied about the coming here part.
I told her my aunt and uncle payed for a ticket for me to Nevada, to send me to this school, saying that I'll find good people here. I couldn't just tell her I ran away from the orphanage, and looked at this retarded snow globe, then all of a sudden I came here.
She'd think I'm crazy. I bet she'd ditch me hearing that story.
"Y-you do?" "Yeah, but now let's not think of that. Go get ready for school." she walked away her auburn ponytail swishing behind her.
I looked down at the wooden floor, then silently walked in the bathroom.
When I came out, I had my hair in a very small sideways tail, and my nose-length bangs covered my right eye.
Eira was sitting on the table drinking her coffee, without she'd be really cranky. I grabbed a green apple and took a big bite from it.
Eira looked up, her purple specked eyes gleaming,"Ready to go?" I nodded and stretched my arms high up in the air.
We got out, and I made sure we closed all the lights. I don't like wasting.
Eira locked the door, with her panda keychained key, and we climbed down the stairs and on to the noisy street below.
It was a very sunny day, a good time for swimming.
Kids were running off to school. Normal school.
And there were some academy students who were walking our path. "So Eira. I don't want to sound rude but, do you mind telling me your story?" asked her hopeful that she wouldn't kill me.
She sighed and looked up at the sky, all shadows in her face disappearing.
"In your defense, you told me yours, so I guess I have to tell mine. Well, I lived with my father practically my whole life. My mother left when I was born to go fight a war. That time, my father was so in love with her and she never returned the feelings, and that led for me to hate her and most women. But then I lived with her for a short while and came to love her. She owned a bar somewhere in the middle of this city. Anyways, she was a meister who was longing for her weapon. The bastard came back one night and she committed suicide. He ran away, much like my father and nobody saw them ever again." I looked at her with pity.
She's had it much much worse than me. She lost her mother and father, while I only lost my mother
"Sorry..."
"Don't be. It's not like you did it." she laughed quietly.
We finally reached the gigantic school.
We went to the locker rooms to get our books for the day. Eira already had her books and left to go get us ,well steal, a snack from the cafeteria. I easily found mine and twisted the number lock. After a few retries I did it. I gasped as a mountain of paper fell on me.
It wasn't enough force to let me fall, but I lost my balance for a few seconds.
I grabbed one and turned it over so I can read whatever was on it.
I saw a signature in black. It was the word Black and there was a star under it, the tip being the a in the word Black.
Black Star?
A shadow loomed over me and I turned around.
The said boy laughed and pointed," There you go Adil, now you have one thousand autographs from the awesome Black Star!" he flexed his arms, showing off his muscles.
Kids peered , curiously. I saw some roll their eyes and get back to what they were doing before.
"How did you even put these in here?"
"It's a secret only I know."
"What's all the noise?" Black Star and I turned to see Kid, in his usual black and white suit, crossing his hands and looking at the mess.
"Who's responsible for this?" he asked gazing at Black Star.
"Why the heck do you just assume that it's me?" the bluenette hollered, his voice echoing through the hallways.
"Well one, you always make messes. And two, that's your autographs."
"Oh." Black Star scratched his head.
I laughed when Kid told him to clean it up. "I have a better idea!" he grinned like the Cheshire cat. "Hear me people of Shibusen, I , The great and awesome Black Star will give you each an autograph. But only one per person, so don't freak out!" He opened his eyes, and saw noone,except Kid and me.
I burst out laughing and Kid had a nerve on his cheek ,twitching.
"Can't you just shut up for once?" we heard a feminine voice from our left.
We turned and saw a black hip length haired girl, with piercing ice blue eyes. She was tall, taller than all of us, maybe at Liz's height.
She wore a sleeveless black leather top, and matching shirts. She also wore steel toed white boots. Her ice blue eyes glared at us, through her eyelid length bangs.
"Eghh. It's her..." Kid mumbled.
"Who is she?"
She looked at me and crossed her arms over her chest.
"My name is Lucrezia Belladonna. It's not a pleasure to meet you."
"She's just jealous because I'm hanging out with you and not her Adil!" Black Star laughed and Lucrezia grimaced.
"There would never be the slightest feeling of happiness if you socialize with me." she said with a bored expression and a voice to match.
"Mind your own business, Lucrezia. Go with that loser, Ray." the bluenette yelled.
"My partner is quite busy at the moment." she then walked off, pushing past Eira, who came back, from the cafeteria.
She glared at her ," Belladonna..?"
"Yes." Kid replied "Anyways we have to get to class."
As the four if us walked away, heading for the class, we saw a poster for some dance party this weekend.
"Ah yes, I forgot to tell you. There will be a dance this Friday. Anyone can come but only if they're part of the school." Kid stated.
"Yahoo! There's gonna be an 'all you can eat buffet'!"
"Speaking of food, Eira did you find anything?" I turned to my friend. She laughed nervously.
" Yeah I found some brownies."
" where's mine?" I asked eyeing her suspiciously.
"Yeah and mine?" Black Star eyes her suspiciously too.
"Adil , I got hungry on the way back, Black Star I wouldn't even have got you if you told me so."
0o0
In class, we usually sat like this.
I would sit next to Kid and Maka.
Soul ,Black Star and Patti would above us.
Eira,Liz,and Tsubaki below us.
Tatsuo,Fuji,and this girl i don't know,I think her name is Arcania are at the right.
The class was busy talking, Maka was reading a book while Kid and I were naming things that were symmetrical.
I think Eira was braiding Tsubaki's ponytail and Soul and Black Star were having an arm wrestle,Patti being the referee.
Fuji was flirting with girls,while Tatsuo was laughing at the rejections Fuji got.
A red-haired man came in,and took notice of the noise.
"Yeah I just noticed number eight was symm-"
"You're never gonna win-"
"My future girl awaits-"
"QUIET! What's with all this noise?" he screeched.
We all stopped and turned to look at the fuming man.
"Now then. I will be substituting for today, because Professer Stein has something important to do." he tightened his tie and smiled.
I noticed he kept eyeing Maka.
"For today,we will be doing some excersizes,will any of you care to volunteer? How about you Maka?" he smiled and clasped his hands.
"No,Papa..." she growled.
This guy...That's her dad?
"Ya-hoo I'll do it! I'll show you all that you don't stand a chance against me!" the only person who would say that, jumped down by the teacher putting his fists on his hips and smirked smugly,nostrils flaring.
"Black Star please go sit down." Maka's dad said. "Anyways class I have something important to say.
We ,as in the teachers and Shinigami-sama, have noticed most of the students are becoming quite rusty...not literally, of course. So because of that you all will get a small piece of paper ,wrote your name down, and put it in this plastic box. We'll shake it and pick two papers.
The names of the people on it will battle against eachother, with their weapon, or meister, which ever one they are. Everyday there will be in total if five fights. There are about fifty of you ,so that will be approzimately ten class, get a paper out."
We all took a sheet and ripped a portion of it, writing down our names. We then went down to put it in the box.
"Okay is that everyone?" he asked
. "Uh, Kid's still writing his name." Soul stated.
Kid was sweating alot, and he was carefully writing his name.
Some people sighed at his usual habit.
"Kid hurry it up! Agh- you know what I'll just do it myself." he got small paper and wrote 'Kid'.
After throwing it in the box he shook it.
"Okay are you all ready?" He said over dramatically.
We all stayed quiet and he 'sweatdropped'.
"Okay here we go." he pulled two pieces of paper.
"Ray, the first one says. And the other one is Fuji. You two. Come down with your partners, and let's head outside for the match."
I saw that girl from earlier,Lucrezia, and a boy was next to her, shorter.
He had messy cinnamon colored hair, and dark brown eyes
. He wore a white cap,sideways, and a plain orange t-shirt, and dark brown pants. So that's Ray. Lucrezia's weapon.
We went outside,sat on the edge of the battle arena and watched. The teacher forced Maka to sit next to him and not her friends.
There was Tatsuo standing bored, hands in his black hoodie pockets. Fuji was by his side smirking at the opponent. Lucrezia snapped her French nailed fingers and Ray jumped ,with a smug smirk, and turned to a seven foot flail.
The spikes on it were long and they were branched with more spikes, like trees in winter.
"Pff, lame." Fuji said,grinning and then he transformed into a grey axe.
"Okay..begin!"
Lucrezia and Tatsuo had a staring contest, both of them not moving a muscle.
Wind blew making dust fly away dramatically. You would have missed seeing them run and clash their weapons together, if you blinked. Both of them had determined faces, and they jumped back.
"Heya,come on Lucrezia, let's beat these punks!" Ray laughed, the spike ball spun around.
Lucrezia ran forwards and jumped , smashed the head if the weapon in the ground, making it crack.
Tatsuo ,who would have been killed stared wide eyed at the damage. He twisted the axe and then ran Howard swiping the sharp part closely at his opponent's face. She egged quite good, but we saw some black strands falling on the ground.
As we continued to watch I became curious
"Hey...Tsubaki. Who are they? I've never seen then before."
"Lucrezia cane last year, to this school. She's a really good meister, and she isn't that bad when you get to meet her. Black Star told me about your encounter with her in the morning."
"Yeah, but why does she seem like she's always angry?"
"She's not angry. She just doesn't show emotion. Y'know you and her have almost the same life."
Yeah...if you only knew, Tsubaki.
"Her mother died, like yours. She seems so lonely and depressed but it's because of that event in her life caused her to be like that. But then she met Ray, her weapon."
"What about him?" I asked ,wincing when Tatsuo smashed the head of the axe on a pole, cutting it in half.
"He seems to make her happy." she smiled.
I stared wide eyed at Lucrezia.
Wow there's alot of people here that know how I feel.
"Dammit,Tatsuo. Were doing soul resonance now!" Fuji yelled.
"And so are we! Lucrezia!" Ray shouted.
"No Ray." She said, quietly.
"Why not? We're going to lose If we don't !" He said frustrated.
"Why doesn't she want to do it?" I asked, noone in particular.
"Oh I forgot to mention. In Shibusen she's known as the 'Meister who's afraid of Soul Resonance'" Tsubaki said gazing at the fight dramatically.
"Hey. Professor, can I quit now?" Lucrezia looked blankly at Tatsuo and Fuji.
"Why does this always happen to us Lucrezia? Why are you so afraid? Don't you trust me?"
Her weapon transformed back into his human form.
She smiled slightly and ruffled his hair, "Maybe next time."
He huffed and glared at the sky "But that's what you always say!"
Lucrezia laughed softly at that. Ray looked at her with a pout then grinned.
"Woohoo! You see that my lovely ladies? Was I awesome or what?" Fuji laughed and wiggled his eyebrows at the girls in the class.
"Oh my princess, don't worry , your prince is safe and sound!" he sat next to the angry Eira
. "Shut up, pervert."
I looked at Tatsuo and grinned giving him a thumbs up, "You did good Tatsuo."
"Yeah, way to go dude." Soul smirked.
He turned pink and scratched his head, "Thanks,guys."
0o0
It was time to head back home, and I went to the locket room to put back a book I forgot out.
Eira followed me ,without a word.
"So what do you want to eat today?" my room mate asked me.
"Can we just get some burgers on the way home? I hate doing the dishes." I grumbled.
She laughed and agreed,"So when do you wanna take cooking lessons?"
"I really -"
"You don't know how to cook?" a laugh was echoed through the dark, orange hallways.
We turned and saw Lucrezia and Ray.
"Yeah, so what?" I glared at Ray.
"Didn't your mom ever teach you or something? Most girls know how to cook at your age, right?" he laughed.
Lucrezia's eyes looked at him curiously. From the corner of my eyes I saw Eira tense.
"My mom's dead." I glared harshly at him and saw the shocked expression of Lucrezia before walking away.
Eira looked back at them then followed me. Hmph, idiot.
0o0
When we got home, we quickly ate the burgers and sat on our orange couches. We stared blankly at the tv. "You wanna go have a sleepover at Liz and Patti's?" she asked me.
"Yeah!"
0o0
How was that? I tried to make it as long as I could.
Thnx for the reviews, guys! You really think this is entertaining?
I find a bit boring. Sigh~
anyway one thing that's been taking up my mind Should I put chrona in this story?
And if I do I'm not going to make it like the original plot, I'm going to make it waaay different bit I still need time to think about how I'm going to do that.
Lucrezia belongs to Digimon Dreamer
Adil, the pervert Fuji,and Ray are mine
Arcania belongs to 80deaththekid08
Tatsuo is Kittyattack's
Eira is for Purple-eyed devil
I own this story, but I do not own soul eater.
One last thing, Adil is going to meet Excalibur. :3