"Oy!" Rin shouted from down the hall. "Kuro, it's food time!"
"That is one of the students that will be joining you in the camp, Rin Okumura," Mephisto said. "Well, down the hall you will find the kitchen where Rin is preparing dinner. Ms. Krigakure and Mr. Okumura will show you your sleeping arrangements later. Eins, zwei dre!" And a puff of smoke went up and Mephisto was gone.
"What's up with that guy, just dumping us at the front door," Soul muttered. Crona was huddled behind Maka and Black Star just started walking down the hall.
"Where are you going Black Star?" Maka asked.
"The clown said food was this way," he answered.
"FOOD?!" Soul yelled, and suddenly Black Star and Soul were racing down the hall. They realized they passed the kitchen and doubled back, and then they were gone. Maka sighed, 'those two are such boys,' she thought. Ragnorak materialized from Crona's back at the mention of food.
"Did he say food? Let's go you pansy I'm starving! Hopefully it's better than the cow's cooking," Ragnorak said, glaring at Maka with his wide white crossed eyes.
"You don't have to eat it you know!" Maka shouted in his face, waving her fist at the black form.
"At least Tsubaki's is filling. Still isn't very tasty though," Ragnorak commented.
"I guess we should head on then," Spirit said, taking the lead of the group and walking towards the kitchen. As they walked, a black cat ran underneath their feet and darted into the kitchen.
"What was that?" Liz asked.
"Kitty!" Patty shouted.
"It appeared to be a Cat Sidhe judging by it's split tail."
"Cat Sidhe?" Tsubaki asked.
"It's a demon that possesses cats. I suppose since we're in a exorcism school we'll be dealing with quite a few troublesome demons." Kid said. They all walked into the kitchen and took in the students already sitting about. A pink haired boy, a boy with a skunk stripe, a girl with small eyebrows and long purple pigtails, a little blonde girl with a little greenman on her shoulder, a bald child with glasses, the cat sidhe on the table eating from a plate, and a scantily clad pink hair woman drinking atop a table. Maka's eyebrow twitched angrily when she saw Soul and Black Star had fallen on the floor with nosebleeds.
"Really Soul?" Maka said critically.
"I just... wasn't prepared is all... I'm cool," Soul managed to get out.
"Oy!" The blue haired boy said as he emerged from the kitchen. Maka's back went ramrod straight when she saw the tail flicking behind him.
"What's wrong with that boy? I don't know how to deal with a boy with a tail... I wanna go home," Crona whined.
"Shut up you pansy they said we get food!" Ragnorak countered. Rin looked at his tail, not sure what all the fuss was about.
"Alright I guess introductions are in order," Spirit said.
"I'm Rin!" He said waving. He pointed to the skunk stripe man, "That's Bon, he looks grouchy but he's actually a pretty good guy," Bon waved his fist at Rin and he responded with a wink. "This is Konekomaru," he said gesturing to the bald child, "and the pink haired one is Shima, he can't stand insects, it's actually pretty funny when a moth flies in here and-"
"Rin!" Shima complained.
"Haha sorry.. This is Izumo, but we call her eyebrows."
"Only you do that Rin and I don't like weird nicknames!" The pigtailed girl scolded.
"This is Shiemi," he said pointing to the blonde girl, "and this is Nee," he said gesturing to the greenman on her shoulder.
"Nice to meet you," Shiemi said softly.
"And the one with the tattoos on her stomach and chest is Shura, she's not very nice," Rin whispered the last part.
"Only cause you're such a pain in my ass bwahaha!" Shura giggled drunkenly.
"Well, I'm Maka, and this is my partner Soul." She said as she helped up the boy with the white hair and nosebleed. "This little guy behind me is Crona, and this," she patted the black figure emerging from Crona's back, "is Ragnarok."
"I can introduce myself.. Cow."
"And I'm the great Black Star!" The blue haired child shouted from atop a table. "And this is my partner Tsubaki!" He pointed to the woman with the long ponytail.
"I'm Kid, a grim reaper, and these are my weapons Liz," he gestured to the taller girl in jeans, "and Patty," he gestured to the girl in shorts.
"The one with the screw through his head is Professor Stein," Maka said.
"And that's Maka's creepy dad Spirit," Soul finished.
"So where's the food?" Ragnorak said bluntly.
"I'm finishing it up right now," Rin said giving them a thumbs up. He walked back into the kitchen and the Academy students noticed the strange creature in there with him. Shima gravitated towards the girls and started doing their astrological predictions. Maka and Liz tuned out pretty quickly, but the good natured Tsubaki humored his antics and Patty was mystified by the fortune telling. Rin emerged with a ton of precariously balanced food.
"Rin you could've asked for help," Shima said.
"Well there's still plenty to get if you'd like! Has anybody seen Yukio?" Rin asked.
"He's on a mission," Shura piped in. "Oh... I was supposed to back him up on that. Ah well I'm sure he's got it handled!" She assumed childishly.
"Wait so you're a teacher?" Black Star asked.
"Yes I am. I'm Shura Krigakure and I'm 18!" Black Star stared at her a moment longer, processing that the goofy woman was a accomplished exorcist. 'Must not take a whole lot to become an exorcist here. I bet I could do it no problem!' Black Star thought to himself.
"Nii-san?" Someone shouted from down the hall.
"Oy Yukio, in here!" Rin shouted.
"Sorry I'm late. Shura didn't show up for the mission again, though who was really surprised about that. You need to do your assignment for my class that you-" Yukio stopped talking when he reached the kitchen. "Why's everyone here?" Shura threw a beer can at his head and hit precisely on his nose, knocking his glasses to the floor where they shattered.
"Cause the boot camp's in this dingy old dorm four eyes."
"Would you act your age and do your damn job for once in your life Shura?!" Yukio yelled. Everyone in the room stared in amazement at the cool headed boy screaming, and the Academy students were even more baffled when Shura's response was cackling laughter. "Shit," he muttered.
"You owe me five Rin! I told you I could make him mad on day one. It only took me fiiive minutes! He's mad he's mad!" She threw her arms up and waved side to side.
"Damn you Yukio." Rin muttered. Yukio went out of the room without another word. "And that's my kid brother Yukio. He's usually a lot nicer than that I guess he's pmsing or something."
"Yukio is a boy he doesn't pms idiot," Izumo commented.
"Oh.. Well I don't even know what that means," he said laughed with his hand on his head. Maka looked over to see why loud mouthed Soul and Black Star hadn't said anything, and it was because they were too busy stuffing their faces with Rin's cooking. Ragnorak grabbed a plate a took a hesitant bite.
"Wow you're a better girl than this cow!" Ragnorak announced pointing at Maka.
"Would you rather starve?" Maka growled. Ragnorak payed her no attention and just began scarfing down his food.
A few minutes later a much calmer Yukio no longer donning his exorcist coat returned with a new set of glasses.
"That seems kind of a disadvantage, why don't you wear contacts?" Kid asked the younger twin.
"Contacts bother my eyes."
"So how blind are you," Patty said reaching over the table and taking Yukio's glasses from him. "Wow! I can't see anything!"
"What, let me see!" Black Star yelled, taking the glasses from Patty.
"Black Star be careful," Tsubaki warned.
"Don't worry he has plenty of spares," Rin laughed.
"Well let me see how blind four eyes is," Shura cackled, shoving her chest in Black Star's face trying to get the glasses. Black Star fell over in a nose bleed and she snatched them from the air. "Holy shit four eyes. No wonder you don't wear contacts, you couldn't see where to even put them in!"
"Can I have my glasses back," Yukio asked calmly, though Rin and Shura could tell he was not amused by their antics.
When the girls were full and the boys had stomachs so full they looked pregnant Yukio stood.
"This afternoon will serve as a placement observation. We will set you up in sparring matches and judge your strengths and weaknesses, then you will all group up against a single teacher, myself or Ms. Kirgakure. Exorcist students will group up to fight Professor Stein wielding Spirit as a weapon. You have as much to learn here as the Academy students."
"They're gonna learn from us! We defeated the Kishin! We're such huge stars we'll beat either of your asses in a second!" Black Star shouted.
"Black Star that is no way to talk to a teacher," Tsubaki scolded. Yukio whispered something to Rin and Rin smiled mischievously in Black Star's direction.
"What are you looking at?" Black Star yelled. Tsubaki looked worried as Yukio announced the first match would be Black Star and Tsubaki dueling Rin Okumura in a swordsmanship skills test. Yukio led them to the roof, which would serve as a boundary for the fight.
"The first person to yield or a teacher deems needs to stop fighting loses." Yukio said simply.
"Don't go far teach. This won't be a long match. Tsubaki, enchanted sword mode," Black Star ordered.
"Right," she said compliantly, turning into a stream of light that flew to Black Star's hand and rematerialized as a sword and Black Star donned black tattoos coming up and crossing in an x on each cheek.
"Everyone please move to the back of the roof." The Academy students looked at the back of the roof where it looked as if a fox hole had been created for them to sit in. 'Is that really necessary for a sparring match?' Maka thought. There were sandbags piled high enough to fully hide behind, but Yukio and Shura stood to the front of the bags and instructed students to shield themselves behind the makeshift wall. Even Stein and Spirit were crouched beside the Academy instructors. As soon as Rin Okumura drew his sword it was obvious why these precautions were necessary. Blue flames emanated from the teen, his tail whipped around in the midst of the fire and the top of his head had horn shaped flames. Black Star was shocked and confused but did not show it.
"Black Star be careful." Tsubaki said.
"Fire or not he can't hurt a big star like me," Black Star muttered confidently to his weapon partner. "You're going down you freak!" Black Star screamed.
I already have the first 6 chapters all written up and I'm hard at work on completing this one. Hope you all enjoy!