A/N By the way, if you like this read DroneDude's story Soul Eater: Pazzo. The format is a bit confusing at first, but it gets better. Plus, this is our first collab... and we were writing it via PM. No hating.
New Divide Part 1: Through the Looking Glass
She eyed the strange boy curiously. His skin was lightly tanned, his hair was neatly brushed and tidy-unlike hers-and he wore a checkered black-and-red shirt with jeans. He was peculiar indeed.
"What?" He asked. No answer. "What?" He tried again, still no answer. He got up and walked over to Alice and at looked her face. "Why the fuck are staring at me?"
Her response was to bite his hand.
"OW! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?" He yelled clutching his hand. Alice looked over at the busy school to make sure no-one heard them- er, him- before standing up and dragging him by his shirt behind the large set of stairs that led to the school. By this time she could tell the boy was annoyed.
"Why did you bite me?" The boy said angrily.
"You are mad." Alice stated.
"Fuck yeah, i'm mad!" The boy retorted.
"What's your name?"
"Brandon Pazzo, why?"
"Thats a nice name."
"Why not tell me your name?" 'Brandon' said, gesturing to Alice.
"My name? Is that necessary?" Brandon face-palmed.
"No, but its polite."
"My name is Alice."
"Your last name?"
"I don't have a surname.
"Well. That's wierd. What, are you royalty from England or something?" he asked, still rubbing his injured hand.
"No," she said explained why. Brandon listened intently.
"Why, i thought i was special. What your saying is that your a Looker, someone who can see unfortunate events in the future? And your the last one? What a coincidence. I'm a first and you're a last." he said, repeating aloud to himself.
"I guess so. I'm sorry for biting you though. I'm just not very good with strangers." she apologized
Normally, Alice wouldn't have apologised to him, but the Madness in his soul made her feel a kinship to him.
"Anything else I should know?" Brandon asked, intent on finding out anything he could about the strange girl.
"Nein." She replied, not sure if the adolecent needed to know every detail of her life. She'd already explained how her father had died and how she'd forgotten her name living alone since she was five. Wasn't that enough?
"Dude, you know German?"
"Yes. It took me two years to learn and fluently speak English."
"You're German? You don't look like it." Brandon queried.
"It is a long story that I'm not going to tell you."
"Why not?"
"I prefer if not many people know my past."
"But you just told me your Father is dead."
"That piece of information I am okay with sharing."
"What could possibly be worse?"
"I will tell you eventually, but now you are not ready."
"What do you mean?"
"If I told you, the students might hear. Then they would probably kill me on sight."
"Are you witch?" Brandon gasped.
"Nein. I am not a witch. Like I said you are not ready to know."
At that point, Brandon gave up on that topic. She had a normal human soul, why would an academy student want her dead?
"I give up. It's no use trying to pry something from a locked chest." he said, looking around.
"What?" she asked confused.
"nothing. I just come up with strange comparisons when I'm confused. Since you told a little about yourself, I might as well reveal a little about me." he started, only to be interrupted
"You have insanity in your soul." she said, cold and straight to the point.
"how did you..? Wait, let me guess, you can see souls too? Why the fuck can everybody but me do that?" he yelled, punching a nearby wall in anger.
"keep your voice down. I don't want to draw attention." she whispered, attempting to calm him down.
"Sorry. I just have some problems with my temper." he said, calming down.
"there isn't an argument there." she said, unintentionally hitting a nerve of his.
"rrrr..." he said, becoming more and more infurriated. The same familiar addition of power soon appeared, letting him know he was entering 'insane mode'.
The girl was taken aback, the sudden sight of the transformation shocking her.
Before her eyes, this odd boy had grown a demonic-looking wing and his left eye became a living fire, sharing the same color as hers.
At this point, Alice got a frying pan seemingly from nowhere and hit Brandon with it. Which automatically snapped him out of his rage.
"...Ow."
"Keep calm. I do not want you to give us away."
"...What do you mean?"
"We are not in our worlds. Who knows how hostile these people might be?"
"D*amn, really?"
"Yes."
"How can you tell?"
"Because in my world, the Lord of Death is dead and has been replaced by his son. In this world, I can sense the souls of two shinigami."
"But there are two shinigami in my universe too...wait, are we standing under the stairs?" he asked in confusion.
"Yes, why?" she responded confused.
"Now I know for a fact we aren't in my dimmension." he stated, looking around.
"how do you know?" she asked, now genuinely intrigued.
"Because in my dimmension, these stairs are completely filled with concrete. There's no way a gap could exist. Now, just one question. Where the fuck are we?" he asked, looking up.
"You're guess is as good as mine. But one thing is for certain. We aren't in our dimmensions anymore." she said.
"Oh one more thing before we leave." he added.
"what?" she asked, turning to acknowledge him.
"Could you keep hitting me n the head to a minimum? I'm pretty sure Maka already gave me some brain damage from that damn book of hers." he said, shuttering at the memory of the hard-cover concussion inducer.
Alice chuckled a bit. "No," She said, smiling innocently. "Your pain is funny."
"Thats just cruel!"
"At least I'm not hitting you with my sword." She slowly crept out from behind the stairs.
"What are you doing?" Brandon asked.
"I figure the best way to blend in is to become academy students."
"Have you even been to the academy before?"
"Yes, but the only reason I became a student at the academy is because those in charge wanted to keep an eye on me."
"Why?"
"That is classified information."
"I'll stop asking, then. I know you're not going to explain."
"Good, now could you please lead me to the Death Room? I've never been there before."
The two walked in silence into the academy. Students stared at them with funny looks, and the occasional whisper of "who are they?" would drift through their ears. Thankfully though, this alternate dimension had the same lay out of the academy as Pazzo's they quickly found their way to the death room, and a chill ran through their spines as they walked along the gullitiene path. When they reached lord death, he was in a deep discussion with Spirit, the resident death scythe. As they approached, he turned to greet them.
"Hiya, how are you two do-wait, who are you two?" he questioned.
"hello Lord Death, I'm Brandon Pazzo, and this is Alice." the boy said, bowing in salutations.
He righted himself back up, only to notice the girl showed no greeting.
"Have some manners, would you?" he whispered angrily.
A pan appeared again, coming down with enough force to break a concrete block. He felt ort of his skull practically fracture, but he remained calm.
"My sincerest apologies, Lord Death" Alice said, bowing. Lord Death looked them over carefully.
"You two aren't from around here are you?" Alice's face jerked up to meet Lord Death's, an alarmed look on her face. Had they been discovered? However Brandon remained calm. A small lie would fix everything.
"No, we aren't. I'm from North Carolina. Alice is from Germany."
"Oh, I see." Spirit said. "You two are new students aren't you?"
Brandon nodded, while Alice looked down shyly, fidgeting uncomfortably under their gazes.
"Oh~ Okay!" Lord Death spoke with his usual cheerfulness. "You both shall have Stein's class starting today! Have fun, students~!"
Brandon looked at the tall Reaper in disbelief while Alice looked somewhat annoyed.
They walked away in silence. When they reached a secluded spot where no one could hear them, Brandon burst.
"WHY THE FUCK AM I ALWAYS STUCK WITH STEIN?" he yelled, alarming Alice
"Who's Stein?" she asked, confused
"He will put a scalpel through your hand, yet somehow manage to not draw any blood." he explained, drawing back from persional experiences
"How does he manage that?" she asked, confused and slightly scared.
"I have no idea. And NEVER fall asleep around him. He will dissect you as soon as your unconscious. now that I possibly scared you shitless, we need to find shelter." he explained, looking around.
"Hmm, actually we should get to class. If we're late, he could hurt us." And before Brandon could say anything, Alice began to walk with Brandon relunctantly following.
After getting lost, Brandon finally decided to lead Alice to Class Crescent Moon. Alicepeered in, and immediately her face darkened.
"On second thought, maybe I do know that bastard..."
"Huh? Did he do something bad to you?"
"Again, classified information..." Alice was gripping the doorway so hard, part of it crumbled under the presure of her hands.
Stein, noticing this, walked over to the doorway. "I take it you two are the new students? Come in, Alice and Brandon."