Michael Meets May!

Michael was sitting alone in the class once more. The rest of the class was in pairs as they continued to study. His eyes moved from classmate to classmate trying to find a viable partner. His mind classified each kid as either a weapon or meister and from their whether or not they would be an acceptable weapon. Finally, there was the question of whether or not their personality would work out well with his. He couldn't find someone who he wanted to work with. It was hard to judge people just by their looks, but if you look at who they hang out with, combine that with their grades, along with your small interactions with them in the hall and their personality becomes pretty evident.

If you take the little weird guy, Shi, who was partnered with Melody as an example. You noticed who he constantly hung out with people like Melody, who complained about his rather annoying grabbing of their butts as well as his low marks, which seemed to have a max of twenty and Michael could tell that he definitely didn't want to be paired up with him.

Not to mention the insane amount of slackers in here. He looked back and noticed how half of the students in the room were asleep forcing their partners to do all the work. If they were to do that in battle, then Michael might as well not have a partner. He also noticed the guys and girls who had more then one partner. It would make sense for Michael to team up with one of those excess partners...but some of the girls only teamed up with a guy because of his looks rather then his skills. Same went for some of the guys, who picked a girl simply because of her looks. Michael would rather avoid that. A good-looking weapon is no replacement for just a good weapon.

The class continued without any more interference. The school had been pretty calm lately. The students had been taking missions and taking Kishins down without any real hitch. Even the classes became a bore. When the bell rang, all of the students got up and walked out. Michael shuffled out of there, he had only moved past a couple of classrooms when he realized he forgot his bag. He turned around and returned to the classroom.

He stopped just outside of it when he heard people inside. A girl and guy, he turned around and peeked in. He immediately noticed the partners. May and her partner, Luis. They were a surprising pair, they seemed to be very compatible as far as exams go, they always scored high, but whenever Michael bumped into them outside of class, they were never together. Luis was always with his own friends, the big boys on campus and the like, while May seemed to be either by herself or with fellow good-looking girls.

Despite their ability to work together and the fact that they seemed to get along during the exams, it sounded like they were fighting. Michael hung out in the hall and listened to their arguments. "You just can't handle it! I mean, seriously we are supposed to be one of the big and upcoming partners for this year. But we can't do the Soul Resonance, because of you!" shouted Luis as he paced about in the room "we've tried three times and you can't do a single thing! I mean, have you seen other people's Soul Resonance like that Ash kid's! A sharper blade, daggers made of blood, a lot of special effects as opposed to what you do! WHICH IS NOTHING!"

"Oh, really?" asked May with a contemptuous voice as she walked towards Luis, "I don't see you doing anything either. As far I'm concerned I'm the only one trying! Whenever we even try to do a Soul Resonance I feel your soul wavelength creep into me! Its like a slimy snake! Its repulsive!" May glared at Luis. He was definitely in a bad mood, he glared back with a frown.

Luis turned around and walked out of the classroom. "Just make sure you get it right the next time. I don't have the time nor the energy to keep covering up your mistakes." Luis left with a huff of breath. May sighed and quickly left after a few more seconds.

Michael snuck into the room after both of them left. If things had gotten any worse he would've interfered, but seeing fights between partners is pretty common stuff especially if they failed doing something like Soul Resonance. Partners always tended to blame each other, even though it appeared that Luis was taking it kind of far. Michael found his bag and quickly left for the gym.

The gym was often crowded with students. Many of them were practicing with their partners, getting prepared for any fights with a Kishin. However, today as empty, probably some big party was happening that got everybody's attention. That just meant that Michael got the whole place to himself. He went over to the normal weapon deposit and searched through it. Since he didn't know about what weapon he would use he was stuck training with all of them.

Michael was extremely talented when it came to long-ranged weapons. His father was a military man and was very skilled in guns and the like. He trained Michael in the same weapons since he was younger, so Michael had developed the skills to use guns, bows, even slingshots since he was young. He never had any training with with any close-ranged weaponry due to the fact that in the upcoming age of guns in the military, swords were considered obsolete.

Once more Michael returned to his practice with the bow. He pulled it back and quickly fired multiple shots without rest. They all hit their marks on the targets perfectly. His speed, technique, and accuracy were way above average, near perfection. And now he spent almost two hours a day practicing with long ranged weapons, those many hours quickly began accumulating and fine-tuning his skills. His aim was nearly automatic now. Michael prepared another shot.

"So, this is what a good archer looks like," said May as she walked in. Michael was stunned for a moment and let go of his bowstring, letting the shot fly. Even with his concentration gone for that one shot, it didn't miss the target. It wasn't as clean as the others one and it was off-center, but it hit the target nonetheless. "I suppose I should be impressed. Luis was the best archer at his old school and he definitely would've missed that shot."

Michael was stunned as he stared at May. Did she follow him here? No, he knew she left ahead of him, then why was she here? She was a weapon. Weapons really didn't need to practice to use other weapons. He remained quiet and just decided to ready another shot. He slid the arrow into the bow and took aim.

"Just going to ignore me?" asked May as she walked forward and watched Michael fire another shot. He really was much better then her stupid partner, Luis. He had been making shot after shot. "I was just wondering why you didn't come in and say hi when me and Luis were in the classroom." Michael wasn't prepared for that and the next shot missed despite his talents. "I saw you slip away and I was wondering what was up...I'm surprised you are this good though. Is your partner a bow?"

"No," said Michael as he dropped the bow back off and walked over to the targets. "I don't have a partner. I transferred in too late." He began to pull the arrows out of the targets, "So why did you follow me down here? Was it just to ask me why I didn't decide to make myself known during a fight?"

May ignored the last comment. "So you never used a Weapon?" she asked. Michael shook his head, "would you like to try?" May transformed into a bow and landed in Michael's hand. Ordinarily, he would've turned it down right then and there, but it was his first time in awhile holding a weapon. The rumors about it amplifying your Soul Wavelength was true. It really did feel completely different. It was like a rush of adrenaline. He brought the bow up and into the air and fired a shot. The arrow he fired was on a different level. The speed and power of the arrow was way past that of the ordinary arrows he usually fired. The arrow hit and pierced straight through the target.

"Wow," said Michael as he weighed the weapon on his hand, despite the power the weapon wielded it was light. Most weapons weren't anything like that. Usually with weapons the more power a weapon had, the bigger and heavier it was. The opposite was true for this weapon. Not only was it much stronger then the previous bow, it was also light.

"Well, as soon as my back is turned!" shouted Luis as he walked into the training room. He knew May's weapon form, hours of looking at the back of it throughout the sessions, he knew it from a simple glance! "Seriously, bro?" Luis came over and pushed Michael down onto the ground. He snatched May from him.

May returned back to her human form, "excuse me, what the heck do you think you are doing?" May shouted at Luis. Luis shrugged at her and returned his attention to Michael.

"I'm the best freaking archer in the school, remember that?" shouted Luis as he glared down at Michael. "And that girl right there only wants the best! You got that! Why? Because if you want to be the best, you have to be WITH the best! Right May?" Luis wrapped his arm around May.

"Right," said May as she pushed Luis' arm off of her, "which is why I'm switching partners. From now on, I'm going to be his partner."

(-Back with Michael and Melody-)

"The rest of the story isn't important," said Michael. "It was only up from there with me and her. We started to work hard and accomplish things. We only recently began doing missions due to our extremely late start, even our Soul Resonance is a work-in-progress. But we became pretty close friends due to those events."

"Is that really how you are going to end your story?" asked Ash as he caught up to the other two meisters. "Its not bad, but I highly doubt Luis would just allow you to take off with his partner." Melody nodded.

"Especially if his partner is as hot as May!" shouted Xander, his reflection on Ash's gauntlet had a smile on his face. The group gave Xander a leer, except for Shi who gave him a thumbs-up. "Hey, we were all thinking it. Right, Melody?" Melody turned her head away with huff.

"Luis did cause a little bit of a problem, but then we decided to have a short archery match," said Michael as the three of them continued to traipse through the city. "I won and he couldn't argue with the results...or Lord Death's interference." The three of them arrived at the wall within a few more minutes.

They looked out over the horizon, each of them scanning for something that stood out. All of their eyes rested on the same object. A few miles out, there was a small brown base. It was hard to see it due to its matching surroundings, but there was a slight difference in its tint. It was slightly darker then its surroundings. The three of them shared a smile and then turned around to talk about a battle plan.

Writer's block is terrible. This chapter took me awhile to mill through and finish it up...anyways, the attack shall begin next to.