Okay everyone, thanks for being patient^_^ This is the first chapter of Bite Size that I've actually written, so don't be surprised to see a difference in style or anything.
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The concept and ideals of this chapter as well as the original storyline are blankdude's as well as chapters 1-4. And yes, I promise I'll stop reminding you of that and just tell you blankdude owns the original story period, just not quite yet.
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Bite Size
Chapter 5: Maka's Big Day at School
An aggressive ringing in Soul's ear woke him up and reminded him that he had set a mini alarm clock with headphones so he'd get up before Maka. He shut it off and sat up, wishing it wasn't Monday already. Soul let out a sigh and looked over to where Maka lay in her new bed, the doll bed they had just brought last night. She seemed to be resting comfortably, which satisfied him given the fact that he had gotten up before her specifically to prevent another near-death experience for his meister. He shuddered as he recalled how close to death she had come yesterday; he would make damned sure that would not happen again. Soul finally stood up and went to his closet, where he changed into his jeans and t-shirt. He stared out the window at the grinning sun shining down upon Death City and contemplated how the hell he was going to even begin to explain this mess to Lord Death or Maka's dad for that matter. He moaned and drooped when he realized that no matter what he said, Spirit was going to murder him.
"I'm going to die. Great, so freaking uncool," muttered Soul.
The other alarm clock Soul had set, the bigger one that went on his desk, shattered the air with an earsplitting ring. Maka snapped awake, nearly leaping out of her skin as she yelped.
"Ah! Oh crap, your clock is loud," gasped Maka.
Soul muttered something under his breath and slapped his hand over the 'Off' button to shut it up.
"To think an alarm clock would startle you," Soul chuckled.
"Shut up Soul! I was in a deep sleep, that's why!"
Maka grumbled unintelligibly and stood up. She now had her own basic home on Soul's desk, which gave her an area larger than the nightstand first off. A medium cardboard box missing a side and having no top held the doll furniture in something of a functional living area. She walked to her wardrobe and Soul went to figure out how she could brush her teeth. He came up with a little bottlecap of toothpaste, another cap of water, and a cotton swab cut in half. She could just spit into the trashcan and it would be fine. Satisfied, he brushed his own teeth and carried the items to Maka. She stood in her makeshift area wearing the black t-shirt with Death's skull on it in red with a simple below knee black skirt and was slipping her feet into a pair of black sandals when Soul approached.
"These feel so weird...but it'll work out," Maka muttered.
Soul presented her with how she'd brush her teeth and, once she got started with that, he walked off to comb his hair and put his thin black headband in it. Before the two knew it, Soul was walking to school with Maka perched on his shoulder, a soft wind wisping around them as he walked on. The streets of Death City were quiet and somewhat dim seeing as the laughing sun hadn't fully risen yet. The air was warm and calm as the few trees danced in the breeze softly.
"Maybe I should teach you the Maka chop in case if Papa tries to kill you...he is stupid like that," muttered Maka.
"I'll be fine Maka. You're the more helpless one here," Soul murmured.
"Hey! Don't call me helpless, that's just so uncool of you Soul!"
"Okay, sorry. Sheesh, let's just hope we don't die today!"
Maka sighed, unable to argue with that one, "Yeah, let's just hope for that."
Soul nodded, suddenly somber yet so serious and stern. Maka knew what was going on; he had definitely taken her falling from his nightstand way too hard.
'Great,' she thought to herself, '-Soul just doesn't understand sometimes...he doesn't see how much he already takes care of me.'
The instant Soul walked into the classroom of class Crescent Moon, Black Star greeted him.
"Welcome to my godly presence Soul!" Black Star yelled, slamming Soul in the back.
As his body jerked forward from impact, Soul's hand reached up and stopped Maka from flying forward by using his pale hand like a windshield.
"Ack!" squeaked Maka as his body straightened up and almost sent her in the other direction.
She quickly grasped one of his fingers and waited for herself to be level again before she sat herself back the way she was.
"Don't do that right now Black Star! Maka could get hurt," Soul stated as Kid, Tsubaki, Chrona, and the Thompson's headed up towards him.
Kid became quizzical, "Why would she get hurt? Where is Maka anyway?"
Soul inhaled heavily and sighed as he moved his hand, revealing Maka on his shoulder.
"What the hell? That is not Maka, how dare you try to fool a god? That's a toy!" bellowed Black Star.
Before Soul or Maka could say anything, Black Star plucked her from Soul's shoulder. He turned her upside down and then tossed her into the air. Soul heard her yelp and grew very fidgety.
"Black Star, stop it!" yelled Soul.
Maka plummeted back into Black Star's hands with another squeak. Soul's chest convulsed and he shuddered; Maka was going to die because of a so-called god! Yeah, a godly moron that is!
"It's cute that you would make a doll of your crush and meister Soul," teased Black Star.
"Black Star, you idiot! That is Maka! You're tossing around the real Maka!" screamed Soul
Black Star burst into maniac laughter as he threw Maka carelessly into the air.
"Ahh! Stop it, I'm going to puke!" cried Maka.
Soul's eyes widened immensely as his heart dropped. Kid, Tsubaki, Black Star, and the Thompsons were drawn to utter silence and complete shock as Soul quickly jumped forth and let Maka fall into his palm safely. She let out a relieved sigh and let herself drop to lay full length on his hand.
"Oh my goodness...that really is Maka," Tsubaki's voice quivered.
"What the hell?" shouted Black Star, "That's just messed up crap man!"
"I...I...I don't know how to deal with this stuff...M...Maka shrunk?" Chrona's voice quaked too and the poor pink haired girl collapsed to the floor.
Everyone looked down briefly as Maka sighed heavily at the sight of her fainted friend. Her other friends looked back at her as Soul placed her back upon the safety of his broad and pale shoulder.
"This makes no sense," muttered Liz.
"Shrunk! Shrunk!" sang Patty.
"What happened?" asked Kid, wearing a complete face of dumbfounded shock.
Soul groaned and tentatively told the story of how Blair misfired, hitting Maka with a shrinkage spell. He then explained that she would not be back to herself for about a week or so.
"It's been pretty harmless so far. But I also haven't told dad or Lord Death yet either," murmured Maka.
'Harmless?' thought Soul, 'You nearly plummeted to your death from my nightstand and you call that harmless?'
"Dude! Spirit is going to murder you!" laughed Black Star.
Chrona finally came conscious and looked back to where Maka sat upon Soul's shoulder. Maka quickly caught her up on the explanation she had missed. The pale pink haired gave a weak and quivering smile as she held a hand out.
"M...may I hold Maka?"
Soul shrugged and held his arm out to make Maka a path to walk down. With great care, Maka slowly stood herself up and walked down Soul's well built arm. The others watched in epic amazement and she soon reached Chrona's hand.
"Hey Chrona, you okay now?" Maka asked.
"I...I...I think so."
"How's the mini life there Maka? Not so ready to 'Maka chop' now are you?" teased Black Star.
"No, but I can bite your finger off!" yelled Maka, stamping her tiny foot.
Soul laughed at this and carefully tried to muffle his laughter, failing sorely as the others laughed in some form of good spirit.
"At least your still perfectly symmetrical!" cheered Kid.
Maka and the others groaned as Maka seated herself upon Chrona's hand. Suddenly Kid freaked out and pointed wildly at Soul.
"But now only one of your shoulders has an object on it! Wah! The horrible asymmetry! Now Soul is even more asymmetrical!" wailed Kid.
Kid was automatically ignored now as everyone turned from him and looked at Maka as she sat upon her current sanctuary.
"Poor Maka. I hope you get back to yourself soon," sighed Tsubaki.
"Yeah! Me too!" cheered Patty
"I'm sure she will. And she'll be fine too. Come on, we all know Soul won't let a sing thing happen to her," Liz stated, grinning meaningfully at Soul and Maka both.
Maka's cheeks became fire and Soul coughed, looking away quickly as his face tinted pink.
The bell chimed and the others began scattering.
"I'll take notes for you Maka. You want to stay with Chrona for class?" Soul asked.
"Sure thing. Thanks Soul," Maka replied.
Soul grinned and headed to his seat as Chrona wandered to her own seat with Maka in tow. She didn't stay there long because before class could begin, the intercom beeped loudly, shattering the air painfully.
"Will Soul Eater and Maka Albarn report to the Death Room immediately?"
Soul groaned and stood up before walking over to Chrona with his lazy gait. Something in his posture was straighter though as he placed Maka on his shoulder and made his walk to the hall of guillotines and then through that hallway, into the Death Room. Here stood Spirit and Stein by the mirror and Death was inside of the mirror. Soul gulped and Maka gave him reassuring pats to his shoulder, hoping her father didn't go crazy or something.
"Where's Maka?" asked Spirit automatically.
"Spirit said you called, so I decided I'd find out why," Death stated.
Soul lifted his hand to his shoulder and let Maka climb onto his hand.
"I called about Maka...she had an accident..."
Sighing heavily, Soul held Maka out to them all.
"Morning Death, morning Stein," Maka greeted.
The room fell to crashing silence as Death, Spirit, and Stein all stared at Maka. Soul's red eyes fell to glare at the floor below. Suddenly, Spirit burst into a flood of tears and swept Maka into his hand.
"SOUL! What have you done to my baby girl? You bastard, what did you do to her? I always knew you'd hurt her, I knew it! What have you done? You freaking bastard!" screamed Spirit as he sobbed, drenching Maka in tears as he held her in one hand.
He lifted the second hand to strike Soul, which Soul gladly braced himself to take. Perhaps this was his fault anyway. He had suggested to Blair that she shrink her burger even though he knew damed well that she had a terrible track record for actually succeeding with her spells. This was Soul's fault; it was his fault she had been shrunken in the first place. He slapped himself mentally; he just kept screwing up! Maka had been shrunk and had nearly plunged to her death because he hadn't been able to protect her! Just as Spirit's hand headed down, Maka screamed and leaped from Spirit's hand. She flew into his poised hand and bit into his finger. She held on before releasing her teeth from his skin.
"No! Dad don't you even do that! Don't you hit Soul! All you've done is drench me in pathetic tears! Don't hit Soul, none of this is his fault! It was Blair! She was trying to shrink her hamburger and she missed! It bounced around like crazy and finally hit me! Soul has been taking great care of me; better than you ever did! He would never hurt me, never!"
Maka maneuvered herself and reached to Soul, "Hold out your hand, I want back over to you."
Soul held out a quivering palm since he was quite shocked. She jumped back onto his palm and he lifted her to his shoulder as Spirit flung himself to the ground in tears.
"Blair is working on a potion to fix Maka, but it might take a while," Soul stated.
Death tilted his head, "I'm sorry, what now?"
Soul, Maka, and Stein facepalmed before Soul went back over the story and got it through Death's thick skull. Finally, they were sent back to class and all went on until lunch came. During lunch, Maka sat on Chrona's left shoulder with Soul on her other side. She was being hand-fed by both as both Soul and Chrona were tearing bite sized bits off of their sandwiches for Maka in order to compensate for her current size. Plus Soul had given her some soup using the cap from his bottled drink.
"Here Maka," Chrona gave her another piece of the sandwich.
"Thanks Chrona."
Maka felt so very loved at the moment as Soul refilled her bottle cap. Tsubaki, Black Star, Kid, and the Thompson sisters all sat with them too in the form of a completed circle. Tsubaki started giggling and everyone looked at her confusedly.
"It's just so cute, I'm sorry," Tsubaki sighed.
Soul felt a twinge of pink heat his face as Maka accepted the refilled bottlecap of soup from him. She drank a bit and let out an very appeased, cheerful sigh as she leaned back very slightly.
"It's really nice out," Maka stated.
"Agreed," responded Tsubaki, Chrona, and Liz.
"So symmetrically balanced," added Kid.
Maka just breathed deeply. She felt so refreshed now since the last shards of anger she held from the earlier argument slipped away into the wind. A soft and very weak wind danced through Death City as the yard where everyone ate blossomed with the sounds of other students chatting about randomized subjects. Soul still internally found him dissing the blame to himself, but seeing Maka happy kept him in a decent spirit. He just wondered how long fate would let her shrinkage be easy on them.