A/N:Heyo! Long time no see! If you really think that congrats you're obsessed with my work! Nah, jk! But i'm so glad you guys are enjoying the story and I think your reviews are fucking awesome as always! So, this chapter is longer than the other two, so hopefully you'll enjoy! Most of the characters are intriduced here, and for my The End? readers there is a new charrie that is introduced so...love her OR DIE! Just kidding but i'mma shut up and you just read this piece of shit i call a story. Sound like a plan?
Just clearing thingies.
The porcuine witch is mine and so is the Nurse.
-Life After Death-
A teenage girl was sitting on a stool in the infirmary cabin. She was currently being treated by an African American nurse. The younger girl held her arm out so that the woman could wrap the bandages around her injury. The sight of the now stitched wound made her sigh in disapproval.
"Really, Raven. You know that a person of your size shouldn't participate in hand to hand to combat, especially with someone as violent as Scout." The nurse advised, wrapping the wound more carefully after the girl winced.
Raven looked up at the nurse and wearing her usual emotionless mask, she responded in monotone. "I realize that I'm short in stature, but that doesn't mean I'll become a coward and back down from a simple fight."
"Yes, but a wound that needs stitching is not what I consider a simple fight. Also, not to offend you, but your size would be equal to that of an elementary school student." Her tone was factual, but her words seemed teasing to the girl.
She looked down and pulled arm away when the woman was finished. She hated being called small, she knew her height and weight wasn't natural for a 16-year old but she honestly didn't need to be told of this every time she went to get patched up.
The nurse seemed to sense her frustration, because she lightly put a hand on her pale shoulder and smiled. "Of course, as many songs go, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Also, it gives Joan more practice with her herbal medicine." The topic had the nurse's brown eyes roaming the counter and seeing a lack of herbs she looked at the other girl in the cabin. She was much taller and tanner than Raven, and was currently humming to herself as she tidied up the medicine cabinet.
"Oh Joan, it seems that you are running low on your herbs again. Why don't you ask Raven's partner if you can lend you some more?"
Joan's freckled cheeks were covered by a light shade of red when she heard the nurse's question. It wasn't that she didn't like seeing the boy, it was just that she still wasn't comfortable talking to him yet. He didn't hold back on his thoughts, which made Joan nervous sometimes. It didn't really matter though, she wanted practice her studies, and borrowing his herbs was really the only way she could. He never seemed to mind when she asked, anyways.
"Y-Yes Mrs. Shannon." She said in her high-pitched tone of voice, which sounded nervous. Nodding her head, she exited the cabin after grabbing a small, wooden bowl.
The nurse smiled softly at the girl, before bringing her attention back to Raven.
She had her fists clenched on her black jeans in irritation, but her face still lacked emotion. Shannon sighed at the girl and noted not to bring up her size at all. It's not like she was going to die by fighting with the other former students, but still. She didn't like seeing children hurt, or encouraging fighting to get hurt. It all seemed silly to fight just for fun, or because of emotions. Of course, she couldn't understand everyone, especially the girl in front of her, and she just had to accept that.
"I'll be going now, thank you for stitching my wound." She nodded, before getting off of the stool and landing on her black sneakers.
Shannon's smile was small. "Anytime dear, now promise me you'll be safe next time."
Raven didn't respond, she just walked out of the door, trying to ignore the stinging pain running up and down her arm.
Once she left, Shannon put a finger to her lips and made a sound. "Looks like I need a refill on some medicine. I'll make a list for Conner and Samantha when they go on their little trip." She got out a paper and started writing down the medicine .
-Life After Death-
A blonde haired boy pushed his small shovel into a small patch of dirt, making a small hole to put a seed in. He then covered it with more dirt, before watering. He did this for the rest of the row of soil, and then resting on his knees that we covered by black jeans.
He clapped his big brown gloves together, trying to get off the dirt. He didn't care that much about getting dirty though, the stains on his blue short sleeved button down and black vest proved it.
His green eyes roamed over the bare dirt patch, and he smiled at his work. Now, all he had to do was water it and let the sun do the rest. When he reached for his watering bucket, he heard the boy's cabin door open, and then close. He looked up to see a boy with black hair that was styled so that one of his hazel eyes was covered, and when he recognized who it was he instinctively glared in disapproval.
"Tending to your pretty little garden again, Phillip?" The boy asked with a smirk. "God, you're gay."
"Really? Because I hate you." Phillip responded, before turning his attention back to his garden. His words amused the boy.
"Well if that's so, I guess you're not." He said, hinting that he was the best that Phillip could ever get. This made the blonde roll his eyes at his cocky behavior.
"You're not as special as you think, Bane." Phillip commented. "Actually I'm pretty sure all of the girls in this camp hate your perfect insides."
Bane rolled his eyes playfully, and kept his smirk as he walked down the porch's stairs. "Well, at least I'm not a virgin. Seriously, the only flower you're ever going to pick is from your garden."
It was now the blonde's turn to roll his eyes. "Clever,"
Bane just smirked and walked over to the other boy while fixing his loose black tie. He was about to make another comment but the sight of a girl in a green dress made him stop himself. His gazed up and down her small figure, from her curly brown hair tied back in a green bow to her gray converses. Liking what he saw, a flirtatious smirk he wore well appeared on his face.
"Well, well look what we have here." He said walking towards the girl before circling her, checking her out as if she was a new person. A blush appeared on her face as she realized what he was doing.
"G-Good morning," She said bowing her head in hello. Phillip looked at her and noticed the bowl in her hands. He raised an eyebrow before realizing that she probably wanted his plants again. He grabbed the greens that were in a bowl of his own and was going to hand it to her, but instead he just glared at the boy trying flirting with her.
"So, I guess you wanted to see me. I don't see another reason why you would be here." Bane grinned at her darkening face.
"A-Actually, w-while it is a pleasure to see you, Bane. I-I actually wanted to gather some of Phillip's herbs…" she then looked at the boy and added. "If that's okay with him,"
He nodded and pushed up his thin wire glasses before holding out the bowl farther. "Ask whenever you want, I don't mind. It's better to put them to use before a certain asshole stomps over them on purpose."
Bane just shrugged at the comment. "You shouldn't plant your pansy party where I walk."
Joan looked at both of the boys before smiling nervously. There always seemed to be tension between the two, she never really knew what had started this, but she was sure it was nothing more than personalities that didn't get along. Even if that was really the case, she didn't like it when her friends fought even if was just sarcastic comments here and there.
"Um, t-thank you." Joan took the bowl of herbs and put it in her empty one so it would be easier to carry. "W-Well I sh-"
The speakers interrupted her speech. She then heard Serissa's voice coming from a long wooden pole.
"We will be meeting in sector one in thirty minutes. I repeat, we will be meeting in sector one, in thirty minutes."
When the speakers clicked off they all looked at each other. Joan clutched the bowl tightly before looking at Bane's smirk.
"Well looks like that's our cue, let me walk you." Bane insisted in a calm tone. This made Phillip tighten his grip on the tool.
"Obviously she doesn't want to catch your disease or she would have fell for your idiotic tricks months ago. Now if you don't mind she has some herbs to return, without you." He said, telling the boy exactly what was on his mind.
Bane's hazel eyes narrowed at the boy and Joan could feel the rising tension. She saw that he was going to respond and cause an argument…again.
Deciding to intervene before this could happen she brought up a topic that always made Bane scatter.
"B-Bane? Doesn't Skyler come around here and h-hug you to the ground?" she asked in an innocent tone. This question made Bane sigh.
"Yeah, yeah. I'm going." He then shoved his hands into his black dress pants before walking off towards sector one.
Phillip smirked at the fact that he was gone, but then realized that he was alone with a girl… even though it was a female he had been living with for a year, she was still a girl. A cute girl too, the thought made his face heat up. He was never really good with the opposite gender, and this one was no exception.
"R-Right, so you wanted the h-herbs? Yeah, they're in your hand and you look kind of sweaty but in a way that would turn any man on. I mean, not in a creepy sort of way, but that sounded creepy. I know it did, so yeah. I didn't mean it's turning me on, because the smell of your order is really distracting to your beauty, no I mean-" he continued in his attempts to make sense, but failed.
Joan just blinked, unsure how to comment on his rant. This really wasn't unusual, whenever they were alone he became nervous, and when Phillip's nervous he tends to do… well, this. She didn't mind all that much, she thought it was sort of cute. It also reminded her that she needed to take a bath.
"And your butt seems soft, but I never really want to touch it, just I mean-" He was interrupted by the brunette's giggles.
"W-What's so funny?" he asked timidly.
She just shook her head slightly. "I-I just find you funny." She said, smiling softly.
The boy just blinked, before directing his attention back to his garden in an instant. He grabbed the water bucket and started pouring it on the earth. Joan blinked again before getting on her knees and sitting next to him.
"W-Would you like any help before we have to go?" Joan wondered.
Phillip looked at her, before looking away and handing her the bucket awkwardly. "Water it…" his tone came off as commanding, which made the girl nervous, but she started to do as he asked.
As they were doing this, Ehron walked in their direction, humming the tune of a pop song. She looked over and saw the two sitting, suspiciously close together. She raised an eyebrow at them, before seeing their hands touch for a second and then them shying away from each other.
'Aw, what a perfect little moment.' Ehron thought. 'Now who would ruin such a thing? I WOULD!'
Before either of the two knew it, Ehron had jumped on Joan's back, forcing her face in the now muddy earth. The multi-colored haired girl just laughed at Phillip's shocked expression.
"You're choking her!" The boy yelled as he saw Joan's head struggling to get out of the mud. Ehron looked down and sweat-dropped before jumping off. Not a second later Joan's now filth covered face popped up, gasping for air.
Ehron sweat-dropped while putting her hand on the back of her head. "Sorry!"
When Joan got her breath under control she wiped the mud out of her eyes and looked at the shorter girl. To Ehron, she looked like she was about to cry which made the girl feel worse. "Joan-" she was interrupted by mud flying into her face and the laughter of the brunette.
Ehron wiped the mud off of her face before smirking. "REBELLION!" she yelled, picking up a handful of dirt and shoving it on Joan's head.
Phillip's eyes widened at the scene. The two were now starting to fling mud at each other, ruining the seeds he had just planted and watered. This made his rage boil up inside him.
"Stop!" He yelled. At the moment, he didn't care that both of them were girls, this had to stop!
Both of the now mud-covered girls turned their heads to look at him. His teeth and fists were clenched with anger and the glare from his glasses was shielding his eyes. He looked like he was about to explode but took a deep calming breath and just glared at both of them.
"Leave." He said simply, not caring about their feelings right now. Why should he? They ruined his soon-to-be garden! Now he had to get more seeds and start the whole process over!
Joan looked ashamed and bowed her head. She didn't realize how much trouble she caused, until she looked at the messed up patch of dirt. She should know better not to let her childish antics get a hold of her. It was shameful…
She got up and looked at the ground. "I-I'm sorry…I promise I will help you clean it up."
Phillip just sighed. "No, you're absolutely filthy. Take a bath."
Joan nodded with a blush. The first time he said it, he was in his rant mode, so it didn't hurt that much, but he was being serious now, and it made her feel bad.
"R-Right…" she said, before turning around and walking off towards the bathes. They probably had around twenty minutes before they had to meet in sector one. So she should be okay if she hurried.
Phillip sighed again at the girl before realizing the situation he just caused. Great, now she probably hated him. He looked up to see the small girl still standing beside him with a smile on her face.
"You're a turtle. Snap!" She said jumping on his back. He nearly fell into the mud himself, but kept his balance. His eye twitched with annoyance towards the girl, and he was about to tell her off, but he decided to use Joan's tactics.
"Don't you have to find your partner before the training session? You know that idiot is always hiding in the forest."
Ehron groaned, before getting off of his back. Phillip was right, if she didn't force her partner to come out of his hiding place, he would stay there all day. Not caring if there was training going on or not, she sighed before roughly patting Phillip's head.
"He's probably making out with the squirrels again, that damn pervert. I should get him before they call the cops on him for harassment." Ehron then looked down at her clothing and saw mud. "Shit, literally! Now I gotta freaking wash up and hope Thomas' eyes don't catch my enormous cleavage!" she said, gesturing to her small chest.
Phillip just rolled his eyes, usually when a girl talked about her boobs he would be a lot less calm but this was Ehron. He wasn't that fond of her, so being a girl didn't really make a difference with him.
"Well, bye Philly! Don't rape squirrels or PETA will rape your soul! Bye!" She said, before going to look for her meister.
-Life After Death-
Joan took out the green ribbon out of her hair, letting curly brown locks fall to her shoulders. She slipped off her green dress and dipped a toe into the stream. When she decided that it was warm enough, she walked in and let the water surround her body.
Listening to the flow of the river, she didn't even realize that another girl had already taken this spot. The other female didn't seem to mind in the slightest, though.
"Oh hey, Joan. Feeling dirty too?" The girl asked as she walked closer to the brunette.
Joan blinked, before instinctively put her arms over her chest. Even though they were both the same gender, she was not comfortable with anyone else looking at her in her bathing suit.
The girl then backed up a few steps with a slight blush covering her cheeks. This made the older girl raise an eyebrow, then smirk playfully.
"What's the matter, Joanie?" Asked the bluenette. The eye that wasn't covered by blue hair was twinkling with mischief as the other female kept backing up.
The next thin that Joan was about to say was interrupted by a loud noise coming from the forest. Both girls turned around to see a teenage boy lying flat on his stomach, with his body sprawled out on the ground.
"Thomas?" Joan asked, recognizing the boy.
Said boy groaned softly, before slowly lifting his head up and looking at the two girls through a black bandanna. For a few moments, they just stayed there, looking at each other, before realization kicked in. Both Thomas and Joan instantly freaked out in embarrassment.
Thomas' reason for freaking out was because he was currently seeing two girls who were in the middle of bathing, and Joan's reason was because she was the one being watched. Joan tightened her grip over her chest and let out a high-pitched scream as Thomas started to scoot back.
Selina giggled softly at the two teens reactions, she felt so much embarrassment from a male seeing her this way. She wasn't even fully exposed, the girl was just in her swim suit. However, She didn't understand why Joan felt so shy about her body. In her mind, she should've been showing it off more than herself.
Ehron soon walked over to the three former students with a rock in one hand and a book in the other. She took in the scene, before showing a perverted grin.
"I missed all of the good shit!" The girl said, putting her hands out for emphasis. She then looked down at her meister, who was currently with his back against the tree he fell out of , and a blush spread across his seen features.
"Thomas! You already have porn!" She said, holding out the book towards him. "Now you're just spoiling yourself. You have to build up, first book porn, then real porn, then make your own porn. You have to climb the stairs of pornitude!"
Thomas had looked away in pure embarrassment. Why did his partner always have to pick on his innocent reading habits? Also, why the heck did she throw a rock at his head!? Of course, this really wasn't anything new. So, he shouldn't have been surprised by this.
Ehron chuckled at his reactions that she loved so much before looking at the river. She looked down at her mud-covered clothes, and shrugged.
"Cannonball!" The weapon yelled, before running and jumping in.
-Life And Death-
Serissa clicked her pen as she checked off attendance. Unlike what it used to be, the attendance was more for safety now than it was for grading. She went down the list and checked off the children that were there. Seemed like everyone was there except for…
"Has anyone seen, Selina, Joan, Thomas and Ehron?" The albino asked the small group.
"Ehron went to go look for Thomas, as usual." Phillip said, standing next to his weapon, Raven.
Serissa nodded at the expected excuse, and then looked at Selina's meister for her whereabouts.
A sigh was heard from Zero. She had her arms crossed over her black long sleeved shirt. It was really irritating when her partner didn't show up on time, because people expected her to go find the teaser.
"Why are you looking at me? It's not like I have a GPS in my head." The dark haired girl pointed out. Her normally sarcastic response made the albino roll her eyes.
"Of course not…" Serissa said. She then was about to ask Joan's weapon, Midas but the sight of four teenagers walking towards the group cut off Serissa's next question. "Oh there you are, you know I don't like it when my students are late."
Serissa then squinted her eyes at the three's soaked appearance. "Why are you all wet?"
The small girl smirked with a hint of perversion in her blue-green eyes. "I found Selina, Joan and Thomas reading porn, and I just couldn't help myself. Warning, the white stuff on the tree is not bird poop."
Selina giggled lightly at Joan and Thomas' reddening cheeks. "Oh, is that what you've been doing all alone? Practicing?" she then chuckled harder at Thomas' embarrassed expression as he put his head down in hopes of not being noticed by anyone else.
Any normal adult would either ignore or disapprove this kind of behavior, but Serissa had a childish nature to her, making it hard to contain her laughter. She put a hand over her mouth and closed her eyes before clearing her throat.
"R-Right…" She then looked at her clipboard as a way to get her mind back on track. "Alright, now today will be a simple training session. I will be in charge of the upper class while Emily will be in charge of the lower one."
She gestured her pen at the young woman beside her before putting her clipboard on a nearby tree stump. "Come on now, move into your groups." She directed which the students followed.
Joan, Irin and Skyler went to Emily's spot with their weapons following while Zero , Phillip, Sai and Thomas went to Serrissa's spot with their weapons.
The lower students training consisted of perfecting techniques, working on transformations and soul sensing strengthening. The upper class' was more advance and consisted on hand to hand combat, soul resonance level and one on one fighting.
When the regimen was done, the now tired students slowly walked back to their cabins. This day, was a full day and even the less advanced students were ready for a break.
"Shouldn't we have the same lessons? It's annoying being downgrated like this, for a whole year no less." A boy with maroon hair complained as he and the other students were on the girls porch.
"Stop complaing Midas, and take you and your meister's pathetic-ness like a bitch!" Scout said, currently swinging her legs on the railing. "You are a fucking, chain saw and you still can't get your shit together!"
When hearing this, Joan bowed her head in shame. It was true, she had what most people would call a powerful weapon but she was still in the same classes she was when she began. She sighed, she knew that the others probably felt the same way but it just made her feel weak.
Midas looked at Joan and put a comforting hand on her shoulder. "Thank you for that Scout, it was really necessary."
Scout gave a grin and a thumbs up. "Anytime!"
"Well…" A voice began, this made all of the students attract their attention to a woman who seemed to be in her mid-twenties.
"It's kind of funny you decided to bring this up." She said, walking closer to the group. "Serissa and the others decided that it would be a good idea to enhance your training. So, tomorrow there will be a showdown type of deal."
This made a blindfolded boy raise a black eyebrow. "What kind of showdown?"
"A simple one, an higher level student will be paired with a lower level student, and if they win they'll be able to take the more advanced lessons." The woman explained.
"And how the hell is that fair?" The boy growled, which made his partner, Irin, lay a hand on his shoulder.
"Is life fair?" The woman retorted. When the boy looked like he was about to get up, Irin intervened.
"It's okay, Sarith. We'll be fine." The meister whispered in a soothing tone. It seemed to work as Sarith muttered something before falling silent.
"Yeah, this is going to be fucking awesome! I need a brake from kicking dwarf ass!" Scout shouted, looking over at Raven. She just kept her emotionless face before turning back to the woman.
"Samantha!" Cooper called, waving his hand back and forth. "Get your tight butt over here! We ain't finished yet!"
Samantha sighed before pinching the bridge of her nose. "If he calls me that one more time…" she swore to herself before giving a small smile to the group.
"Be safe while we're gone, I hope to see new faces to teach when we get back!" She said before walking over to Cooper.
-Life And Death-
"Come on," Sai whispered. She was currently standing behind a tree, watching Samantha and Cooper exit a cabin.
Scout let out a groan. "Why the hell are we freaking here if they invited us? I knew I shouldn't have listened to you, you asshole!" the weapon said, rubbing an emerald colored eye and yawning.
"Sai is sure that they would want us to go with them! Sai knows it, and anyways, it should be fun!" The meister assured. Scout just shook her head.
"If you're wrong, I'm cutting your brain out and giving it to something that could actually use it. Like a sloth. Oh wait, then that would lessen the sloth's intelligence!" Scout yelled, causing Sai to put a hand over her mouth and 'shh' her.
"Sai thinks that they can hear." The girl then looked at the two adults starting to head out into the forest.
"Alright, Let's go!" Sai started to run after them, with Scout reluctantly following. When they felt that they were getting closer, they slowed their speed down to a quiet walk. After a while, they realized that they lost the two.
"Damn it, Sai! You woke me up for this shit!" The gray head scolded. "You know what!? Fuck it! I'm going back to bed! Who the hell wants to go with Cooper and his van full of penis anyways?" With that, she turned around and would've walked home, but the brunette grabbed her arm.
"Sai doesn't want you to go!" She whined. "Sai wants to go to the food place! Why won't you go with me? Why don't you believe in me?"
Scout's eye twitched before she snapped. "BECAUSE YOU'RE A FUCKING IDI-" a large sword blade to her neck cut off her sentence, as her back was pressed to Cooper's red duster jacket.
"Oh…it's just you." He said, sounding a bit disappointed. "Thought I was finally going to chop some kishin head off." He then removed the blade from Scout's neck, and let her turn around to face him.
"Why the hell would I be a kishin!? We're still inside the dome thingy!" Scout pointed out, angrily.
Cooper just shrugged as an answer. "How should I know?" he asked, as Samantha changed back into a human.
"You knew that it was a human soul to begin with." Samantha pointed out, before looking at the two girls. "Now, care to tell me why you were following us?"
Scout just rolled her eyes and pointed her thumb at Sai. "Ask Ms. boobs-no-brain over there."
"Sai wanted to come!" She answered simply, which made the other brunette close her eyes in frustration.
"That's not even close to a good reason. Now, if you don't mind, we have some wo-"
"I think that they should come." Cooper interrupted. Samantha raised an eyebrow at him, before shaking her head.
"Don't start, Cooper."
"Why? You afraid of some competition?" He asked, pointing to her chest. This made Samantha blush lightly before slapping him.
"No! They're students, and it's a dang-"
"Like hell it is; we ride in a jeep, go to a market and come back. The only thing dangerous is when you get jealous of a curvaceous tree that I happen to be staring at. Seriously, you have jealousy issues." He argued, rubbing his injured cheek.
Samantha scoffed in defense. "Jealousy issues!? Why the hell would I be jealous of someone like you? You're the mos-"
"Because you love me!" Cooper replied simply. Samantha just hung her head in exhaustion.
"Why couldn't I have someone else as a meister?" The sword asked herself. Cooper just grinned and patted her on the back.
"Alright, come children! Into my jeep of candies!" Cooper exclaimed, starting to walk towards the car.
Both of the girls smiled in delight before following him. Samantha, on the other hand, put her hand out in protest.
"I said that they could not come!" Samantha yelled at them, and when they didn't respond she kept yelling. "Cooper get back here! Cooper… Cooper!" the girl then cursed under her breath. "I'm going to kill him…" she said, before following the three
A/N: Oooh, not really a cliffhanger...or IS IT!? Yeah, I don't know. Love it, like it, hate it, want to eat it, because it's so delicious? I know you do! Don't deny your love for computer screen! Alright you've had enough of me for today, untill next time!